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The Broken Lords Thank you as we continue our adventure in trying to escape the
Valley of the Lost Souls. When we last left off, something terrible had
happened. While our heroes were swimming across an open stretch of deep water,
Optamer felt a massive force of suction from below and was yanked immediately down into
the dark, murky water. So let's start dealing with the effects of that.
So let's start dealing with the effects of that. Also, to pull
back the curtain a tiny bit, There's been a long time since recording sessions
for us to maybe figure out the situation and come up with a plan of
this, And I wanted to let the audience, go, I got nothing.
I got less than fucking nothing. We are not just. It is
not here. I am right, I'm dead. The rest of us are
still in the water, right, yea as well. We are all in
the water. Awesome, love it, do you know? Okay, so
the first thing that I need to do is roll the damage for the initial
attack. I love your sucks. Yes, thank you. I'll see you
on the other side. Yeah, oh God, catch you later. And
you go, imagine this is the exit. Gee and sure bok you guys
being able to breathe and all. Hey, there's a lot of threes in
here. You might survive. Have you no faith in my dice? Luck?
Okay? What is your torso armor? So none? None? I
thought you had leather armor on. No, I didn't get any arm I've
never had any armor. I keep giving it a Hey, I'm not supposed
to be in melee combat. Oh that's your mistake right there, relying on
me to play by the rules of the character that you wilt. It's not
rely on you to play by the rules. It's more if I had to
get myself some armor, or the lady who keeps running in with a stick
to whack things. I'm gonna give it to the lady who keeps running in
with a stick. Yeah, I'm just busting your chops. Don't worry.
You're gonna take ten damage to you, figure pool. Cool, that's all
of it, now, that's all of it. Yeah, that's all ten.
Oh I've got bad news. Yeah, got bad fucking news for you.
I need you to give yourself three wounds please cool, mostly taen.
Oh my god, is it five wounds or three wounds? Okay, it's
five dead. You're gonna need to kick your boy out of this creature as
fast as possible. M I've hum up with a rudimentary plan, but the
real problem with it is that it probably ends up with me being inside the
creature. We're gonna find it first. You are also going to take one,
two three to your resolve pool from the fearsome quality. I'll have as
much resolved just because I got sucked out of the water and can't do anything
and I'm mostly dead. Yeah, that's you got it. You figured it
out, bullshit, that's what this is. Solved the problem. Shirt's fine.
Yeah, we're gonna proceed with normal combat rounds. Sure, I recall
that I was you just got ambushed, so it's it's a normal combat protocol
after this. So you all get to take your turns first, unless I
spend doom, got it? I guess my first. The water is murky
and muddy, right, can't like see in here, can we? I'll
tell you what. You can make a test to see if you can get
an idea where this thing is because it's pretty large that I'm assuming that's going
to be an observation to actually like like play out, because I know we're
jumping back in and it's awkwards. So so October, you get sucked down
and then there is just a massive crushing force that comes down around you.
You are inside of some sort of large creature's mouth, ye, and you
have very little movement capability. Yeah, you can. In a split second,
as you're drawing down, like your arms and your face turn upwards,
you can actually see a little crescent of light, which gives you the idea
that whatever this thing is, its mouth cannot fully close until it crushes you,
which would be its goal. That's pretty cool, but I can't really
move. When you take your turn, there will be some athletics tests involved
to see how much movement you can get out of this, so well,
I'm okay at athletics. I guess. Let's see, So mister Vega is
going to make a observation observation test. Yes, call him Ricardo. Mister
Vega was his father. I can be whatever you needed to be the difficulty
on this. Because of this thing's size, I would normally say it would
be like a D zero, but because of the murky water will increase it
will say it's a difficulty one observation test for you to place this thing.
It's momentum accurate because if it is, I'm willing to suspend a momentum.
Yeah, because that was the momentum while we were in the scene last session.
She got it, and I will spend one to roll an additional die
on this. I rolled one success, one success, and the difficulty was
one. So you can see if you tread water hard so that your head
is like clear above and you look down, you can see a shadowy shape
blending very well with the murky color of the water. It doesn't give you
an exact idea of the scale of this thing, but you would imagine it's
somewhere in the neighborhood of ten to fifteen feet long. Oh man, Ricardo
is stuck for a second. At the front end. It's probably about five
to six feet wide. Why wait, wait, wait, not long wide.
Okay, yeah, that's not the ends. That's not the one I
was looking for. Yeah. It tapers towards the back, almost like an
elongated triangle with rounded sides instead of straight sides. Harby wants to try and
hurt it, to get the other fish to like make smell of blood.
In fact it but I wonder if I can get there. Is it like
thrashing? It is not, and it looks like it's about It's hard to
judge the depth because it blends so well, but it is at least a
man's height, more than a little more than a man's height. Under the
water, you would say, Nicargo is going to do something foolish. Get
to the shore and then I'm gonna try to dive down. Fucking stick this
motherfucker. I do have a spear. Oh yeah, all right, would
that be have to lettuce? I would say, this thing is one zone
out from you, so you can move to it and still attack. Okay,
The water is not like churning or anything like that. It would be
a d zero test to swim down to it. So I'm not gonna make
you roll dice. Okay, I am regrettably spending a forty point on this.
Oh no, please don't spend fortune to save my dumb ass. I'm
also I'm going to spend one more momentum because I'm scared, cold and alone.
All right, so that'd be melee, right with three dice, and
I'm starting off two automatic successes because I've spent a portrait point. You get
one more, so we get three successes total, three successes that will hit.
This thing is big enough and clunky and slow moving, so it is
just a difficulty one to hit it. So you're two extra successes. You
could do whatever you'd like with. Uh, we're gonna I'm trying to get
I'm trying to market so that it want it gets hurt. And two maybe
the other fish if I can get to bleed the other official trying to bother
it. So yeah, we'll pump both the damage. Okay, I will
roll my stone tips spear and probably break it, so that's two ones.
Okay, we're close one second, so that's six damage and I get to
re roll those two zeros, right, yes, you do a three and
a six. I don't know. The three is a zero, right,
three is a zero. The six is a one with effect effect this one
effects so my spear, Yes you did, all right, So you swim
down and oh man, you're underwater, so it's very difficult for you to
put any force behind the blow. But the spear is quite jagged. As
you get within a few feet of this thing, you have a clear image
of this murky, massive creature. It has like tendrils coming off the front
of its face and it's a giant kind of wedge shape. Before I roll
the results, can you give me a quick nature check? Sure? What
second? Here? Just getting by a catfish? That'd be really fun.
A giant catfish would be funny as fun nature. Where are you? Is
that, Laura? It would be lower or survival, whichever is higher for
you. I was under the impression I got eaten by a crocodiles and both
are the same. That's funny as fun to me. All Right, we're
gonna go, Laura. One success, one success. This is indeed a
gigantic catfish shell. Yeah wow, all right, Oh my god, Octomber
got catfished. Octomer got catfish, octomer moist catfish, thorn dive damn it.
Let me update. You would estimate this thing, now that you're close
enough to actually see it, you would estimate it to be at least fifteen
feet long. You're near the head, so it's hard to tell. It
has to be close to a thousand pounds. This is a big all right.
This is like like we're beyond river Monster TV show level catfish, and
now you are impossible catfish. You could see its mouth is not quite able
to close because of something that's in it, and you are able to stick
the spear into a fleshy area right on the front of its snout. Nice
and seven damage total. All right, Now, this is the part I
want you to know. I rolled randomly to see who this would attack.
I'm gonna remind you that before I say the next part out loud, socks.
Since the creature has been hurt, it flinches. At this point,
you may spend one doom to be ejected from its mouth. Socks please,
socks please. Kind of sucks, does it? You sucks a bit of
a cash funny too. I got pretty good athletics. I think I can
get out of this. It is at this point that I would remind you,
with a vigor pool of zero in three wounds, you are exactly five
points of damage away from instant death. Some of us die by our principles.
You know that, right, Socks? Please, I need you,
buddy. Give him his petty victory so we can get the real dumb Yeah,
it's not even a petty victory. I don't want to sell it.
I'm gonna sell it. Part of me doesn't want it. I know this
is what's killing me on the side. Wow, fine, take your fucking
dune piece of ship. Well, last one you ever get out of me
combats over before you say that. No, if he does this again,
I'm just I'm fucking struggling for real. Fuck this, I'm gonna say right
now. Sucks that you get an extra fifty experience points at the end of
this sexual one. You can't buy me, hot dog man. He might
get it back. He might take it back, he might take that doom
back. Oh fuck h