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slash discord. Thank you, joy, I step forward, place a hand
on my chest and begin to raid you a golden light as I cast bless
blessing Oursilia and Karun and ending my turn. Okay, that is a for
Yars turn. As this massive demon Hydra creature and al Kawasha has surprised our
group and is currently engaged in combat with them. They've taken a few hits.
They've also killed a few of the heads of this creature and battle continues.
We had a little bit of a technical difficulty last week at the end
of the episode, so we missed just a few actions that took place that
we're picking up right where we left off. Is Sakawachi's turn now after Yara
Sakawachi will increase the range of bless that she cowers behind this ruined column with
a rash talk, and she will take cover and that is it for her
turn a rash shock. Yes, I will do my best to keep this
hydra slow and by adding some sickness gobblin pox that is. I don't know
what happened between two. It's not a thirty six, that's twenty five,
twenty five. Yeah. I actually did some testing with this because I saw
I was trying some stuff out on your sheet and I saw that happen when
I did a test, and I was like, that does not seem correct.
It might be a condition thing. Maybe play around with the conditions and
it'll get fixed. It. I think I fixed it. Uh nope,
Okay, we'll see if we can get that fixed. But for now,
it's got to make a fortitude save all right, twenty five and it is
frightened as well at the moment. Frightened one. Okay, so it's got
a minus one with checks. That is a failure. It is goblin park
stage one. It is sickened. Next round it will be sickened and slowed
one. It's already slowed that won't actually change anything, but yes, okay,
I will also take cover next to Sakawachie and then my third fair enough
okay, and fraighted one. Alrighty okay, Zaiah will just take aim with
her crossbow, huddle down behind this column. There's not really a launch you
can do right now. Actually, she could do that. There's currently two
heads that are flacid at the moment, dangling. Nobody likes the flacid head.
Ye let's see. Well, I don't have an easy spell to cast
there, so I'm just not going to do that. She does have flaming
sphere. She's going to use one action to keep that going. And this
is a Each creature in that space must attempt a basic reflex save first time.
Each round you sustain the spell, you may leave the sphere in square,
roll to another square within range. Basically, it is staying within range
of the hydra head. It's gonna roll onto this flaccid hydra head trying to
cauterize it, and it needs to make a reflex save. Okay, that
is a fail. I am rolling like absolute shit for this thing. Uh,
that is a fail. Yes, yes, that is a fail.
Okay, So this head is cauterized straight here. That is gone, and
then she will take aim and fire with her crossbow. That's a natural one.
Wow. Okay, that is a mess. Uh sustain, fire a
crossbow and reload. That's it for Ziah the Alan Kowasha. A bunch of
stuff's gotta go on. Now, first things first, regen, let's see.
Okay, all right, So first it regends. You can see all
of the wounds and stuff that the body has taken begin to knit back together
quickly. And you can see that the creature, aside from these heads that
have been severed or taken damage, looks totally healthy. And then I need
to make a fortitude save. All right, that is another fail. Okay,
the head does not grow back, all right, And now let's see
it's gonna take It has two actions for its turn because it is currently slowed.
One. It will then use a focused assault on Let's see how smart
this thing is. Hmm, not so smart. It's gonna make a role
for it. Let's see one two three four five five people on two three
four five. It's gonna go after Dnigi with four of its head and this
is gonna be four four attacks basically for one attack. Role is gonna happen
here. That is the twenty nine. I think that is not a crit
but it is a hit. So when it hits with this attack, with
this focus attack, the necks and the heads of this creature move all around
and like snakes moving in the air. You can see they all like stand
ready to strike, and they all strike towards Danigi. And this will be
seventeen piercing plus oof another twenty five damage. Oh I'm sorry, hold on,
uh that's minus no twenty one damage. Sorry, I did one too
many die there. Okay, so that is thirty eight damage towards Danigi.
As the barbs on there, the necks and the weird flower petal like mouths
of this creature strike towards Danigi, and you can see like bile and all
kinds of whatever gastric juices are kind of puking out of some of the heads.
As a Rashtak's goblin pox has taken effect, the colors of the creature
start to change, almost a little bit chameleon like in the way that it
seems to be reacting to these goblin pos boils begin to grow. It's so
gross. Okay, Danigi yells, in pain, and that is it for
the al Kawasha's turn. Karun, I would like to light it on fire.
Okay, I will be So, do I have a bomb equipped or
use an action? I would use an action and take a bomb out of
my pouch. All right, I will throw the bomb. It's this one
at the creature that needs to be characterized. Okay, so you can specifically
like aim at the body of this creature. No, I want to get
one. Yeah, but that's how you do it. Oh, I see,
so Karin is a little confused. Do I need to quarterize it when
it's been chopped off? Yeah, when one of the heads has basically been
like killed. Essentially, none of them have have been doing that. Oh
there's one, Yeah, there's one right there. Then I would throw the
fire that one. Okay. Essentially this I have. I've added all of
these heads as separate tokens for you guys. But technically the body is like
where the creature really is? I see corright, Okay, A twenty three
to hit twenty four? Well, no, it's it's twenty three. It's
twenty oh it is twenty four. Plus the creature has two off from it's
a sea, right, now, which is a hit, and that will
cauterize the head and also do some damage to this creature. Very nice.
The napalm like substance inside the Alchemist's fire spreads across this creature and you can
see the head sort of like sizzle and bubble, and the head just kind
of like like crumbles away like ash like one of those snake firecrackers, you
know, one of those, one of those ones. You light them and
it just keeps growing and just oopsh Okay. I will take cover and that's
the end of my turn. Deni uh has been kind of fucked up from
this thing a few times now, and she uh, she's going to take
a five foot step and will then take aim with her bow mm where it's
her character she there's uh and use hunt prey for one action and then will
acquire a posit longbow arrow at this creature. Ah Jesus Christ, that's another
thirty from Danigie. Just an absolute monster of a companion. I should have
killed Denegie off with this thing last week. Okay, that is a hit.
It's not a crit, but it is a hit, and that will
be twelve plus D eight of precision damage full eight twenty damage from Danigi.
She takes aim probably at the closest head here, which will be this one.
Uh and yeah, that head. She sends it right through this creature's
neck and a massive amount of viscera shoots through the opposite side, splattering onto
the ground purple blood. This head just kind of like flops downwards. Okay,
that is it for DNI Eastern or Celia. Would I be able to
strike at the body? You can? You can technically take aim at any
of the heads from where you are as well. You don't have to be
like right next to those because they're they're moving around. I'll go for one
of the closest heads essentially. Okay. I think I was using my hatchets
thirty three That is a crit Hey, I get my KRIT specialization. Okay,
so it's seven plus what seven plus two plus the weakness? I think
it was five slashing right, yes, yeah, so the seven plus seven
basically or fourteen plus seven Okay, so twenty one damage from that, it's
very nice okay. Uh oh, and with an axe the Krit specialization,
she's a creature. It's already flopped down. Okay, are there any creatures
adjacent to it? There's still there's still two more heads that are moving around.
Okay. Would you say that this krit specialization would go off then because
it target's an adjacent creature? Yep, okay. It deals damage equal to
the result of the weapon damaged. I rolled, it's not double bold,
no bonuses, So another head would take seven damage is like cleave straight through
the first one. Okay, then I'll hit it with my second action twenty
two twenty two. You are blessed for Yara as well, so that is
just barely a hit. Okay. It takes eleven plus two plus five.
Another head falls, and my third action, I'll swing my hat shit again
for another twenty two bless Oh actually, blessed would have only gone off for
that first attack, right, Uh not that I I think it applies to
all. It doesn't say anything about that. It's all yes, oh yes,
it's two attack rolls. Guy, I think that's what you're thinking of.
This is also a hit. I just slash my hatchet back and forth,
leaving through heads and that's the end of my turn. Okay. How
much damage was this last one? Seven plus two plus five okay, so
fourteen. Yeah, you've left like a really big wound in this head like
it's pouring out blood. The neck is like you know, it's like hanging
open. You can see through the other side. Alvic, it's your turn.
M After seeing and the heads go down, I will continue the assault
myself as well. Okay, twenty see, all right, I will move.
I don't actually have to move to the head. I can be where
I am, so I will attack you. You just have to be in
range of the body. I made all those heads because it looks so much
cooler. M okay, uh right, I'll strike out the first one.
You are not blessed, so let me just double check here. I think
that is a miss. That is a miss. Okay, Oh, I'll
continue to result it's a miss, and that is a miss. Yeah.
The I think when you're trying to strike this creature, it's it's floundering.
It's got like one of these heads left, and it's just kind of like
moving about wild like it's probably stamping brow like. This creature's freaking out,
and as it does, you can't get a good shot on it. You
just can't make a good connection. Your sword probably clatters off some of the
barbs on its neck and those probably go flying like to the ground like send
my tone. Yarra. All right, did you darling? If you like
any healing, you should probably get over here because we need to take that
fucking head out. And with that, I'm going to summon forth light in
the palms of my hands as I cast searing light at the final head,
hopefully hitting litassy for a twenty nine to hit. Twenty nine to hit is
absolutely a hit, okay, and this is fire damage, indeed, sixteen
fire damage. Okay, let me see something, kah okay, yarrah,
how do you kill it? Oh? I'm will actually hold on, let
me I need to get because the wording is specific here the means of the
time. It's not dead. I'm sorry, I had nothing. I just
gave up my enemy blast already you do you do? Kill this head and
quarterize it though? Oh sick? Excellent? Yes, well that was effective,
all right, And with my final action, I'm just going to go
ahead and sustain a spell in order to extend bless his radius so that it
also hits Manavic. That's is my turn, okay, So you also,
I'm sorry it sounded like you also blast Malavic. Is that what? Yes?
I blasted Manovic and at the end of this turn, the creature takes
eleven mental damage due to the impending doom finally taking effect. Okay, there's
a horrific sound that's coming from this creature. It's like whatever kind of remnants
of any sort of roar it can make is being made through like dead heads
of this creatures. It's doing the thing where it's kind of it can't like
keep its balance right, like it's wobbling all around, and there's this horrific
muffled dream that comes from this creature. It's like the wounds are kind of
like bubbling and the goblin pox are spreading all over it. It's a horrific
experience for anybody in close range to it. Was that it for you?
Turn yarra, indeedit is okay, uh Sakawachi will continue to cower and expand
the range of bless Okay a rash talk. Yes, let's continue to make
it stay terrible rousstock. I h I breathe in heavily and put it from
afar with reach. It must make a DC twenty five with its minus two
to its DC checks. Okay, I'm frightened. I believe ended at the
end of my turn. Yes, unless you have an one excellent, it's
a natural one for its fortitude stave. It takes twelve damage and plus seventy
rolling. So bad for this creature I have. I have debuffed every round.
Yes, it takes twelve poison damage and six persistent poison damage. Very
nasty. I'm kind of chuckling to myself as I'm buying this column. Okay,
Yara has said that it is no longer flat footed and frightened, so
those are both gone already. Do do do do? Okay? U is
Siah's turned. Ziadia does have some shit, but it is not set up
on her character sheets. I'm just gonna do the easy thing because I got
ten more fucking windows open. Uh. Saya's gonna fire a crossbow that is
an eighteen that is a miss. Uh will reload and we'll then sustain flaming
sphere and we'll roll it on over to one of the other heads, and
we need to make a fortitude save right reflex. That might be a success
for Zaiah. Uh, that is a success. Okay. Creatures that succeed
at their saved take no damage. Would a nineteen fail because that's minus one
technically, oh, because it's sickened. Yes, uh no A nineteen well
yeah, nineteen would fail yes when he was the magic number for Zia.
M Okay, So this flaming sphere does more of this thing. It looks
a bit like a slug that has had salt poured on it, Like it
shrivels and turns to ash as one more of these heads caught her eyes.
Okay ya al kauwasha. Uh, it's not doing so hot, not doing
so hot. Um, all right, it's gonna try and regrow some heads.
It does not regenerate, but it will try and regrow these heads.
And it's got a beat of pretty fucking high fortitude save And I haven't rolled.
I haven't rolled one success for any of these heads to regrow during the
entire combat, which is fucking easy. There we go. That's a thirty
five. That's what I was actually expecting to happen during this fight. Why
I thought this was gonna be a tpk uh Okay, You just never know.
Sometimes the dice just don't go. Okay, one of the heads regrows.
You see the wounds on the head begin to close. The wounds on
the body are still there. Scorch marks, goblin pox all over it.
One of the heads regrows and and think gets that for free no action there,
it's gonna use it's a single head to do a focused assault. Uh
well, actually it's gonna use a fang attack twice. I think, yep,
it's gonna use things twice. And let's say this will be one,
two, three four on Malavik. Two fang attacks headed your way. One
is a twenty seven? Is it for? Fourteen? Piercing image? You
see the head like sprout back up and look around wildly sees malevic as.
Its first targeting like a whip cracked. It snaps towards you. It's barbed
shredding your flesh. You I still have life, Lincoln, and no are
right? Yes indeed, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
I take five damage for you darning so you would take me. Second attack
is a miss with a fifte. The head just kind of like whips around
violently. The creature is still like wobbling. You can see it's obviously very
hurt that all of these heads have basically been nearly hacked off. Prune,
it's your turn, well for the heads that the head that is still not
grown back I would throw a bomb, the fire bomb. This is my
last one. Yes, sorry, we won't get caught raised with the lightning,
will it. Zaiah said that it was u fire and acid. Oh
oh, don't have one of those either. Well, now you will endeavor
to make some. I should have thought about it. Twenty nine. Oh
boy, that is a hit over. It'll be amazing. Okay you Uh
the fire splashes onto the creature and uh the napalm begins to react. It
cauterizes another head, that one not growing back? Got one left? Um,
I would like to use I have a question. I have a new
feed. I'm not entirely sure how it works. Chemicals you create the fly
particularly potent, use quick alchemy to create and if used, alchemical item.
Oh and that's not it. Never mind, all right, never mind.
I think I'm all right. I will just take cover. No, yes,
I will take cover, and then that will be the end of my
turn. Oh. I still get one thing, right? Can I intimidate
it? Because I have killed all of its friends and family, you can
absolutely try. Why not tell it? I would like to tell it that
all of your friends and family are dead. The only ones who are closest
to you. We have all pairs wished at my hands, and soon you
will perish too. Okay, intimidation check twenty three. Uh that is a
success. Oh my god, incredible. Karun is very classe about the entire
thing. Really, this is not the first time she has consumed an enemy
in flame. This is I feel like what's happened here is Karun has like
said these things out loud at a volume that makes this creature believe that some
other horrific creature has joined the fight and terrified it. Okay, and I
would take cover, and that is my turn. Actually, let me just
let me just double your here, because I don't think it does speak any
language. Mmmm. Yeah, I bet it speaks a war. It doesn't.
It would totally have an effect if it did. Oh sorry, well
it it inspired me. You know, it's good. You gotta gotta find
your happiness wherever you can. I will. I will take what I can
of my job and take cover. And that is my turn exactly. Denis
will mmmm take aim at this head that has grown back, and we'll activate
hunt Prey and we'll take a shot with a little composite longbow again. Winds
up the shot, and that is a twenty seven, which is a hit,
and Hunt Prey activates as well ten plus one for eleven damage. The
arrow pierces this thing is it's bobbing and weaving around, still up, and
she has one more shot left that is also a hit. This time,
Denigi takes like a little bit longer aim finding the right way that this creature's
moving and you can see it sails probably through you can see like its veins,
I think now through its skin like the Goblin pox, like all these
boils and things have just kind of started to pulsate and oo's and stuff all
over this creature. And Dennis has like popped a big one. It's gross
and it falls falls, flashed again. That is it for Denise's turn.
Our Celia a little strike at its body, I suppose twenty twenty one is
unfortunately a miss. All right, I try again and instead of aiming for
the body, I tried to go for one of its legs. Yeah,
probably like making contact, but this thing is like moving and wobbling so much
that you can't make like a solid hit. All right for my final action
another and a miss sixteen is in fact a miss. Yes, malvic raight
get really upset and frustrate at the same time while try and hold back it's
annoying voice in my head. I will move directly in front of it to
block off Yarra from it, and then I will swing. Uh, let
me just check something. Yeah, you can do that, go for it.
Twenty nine. That is a hit. And as you strike it with
this, you slice off the last of this creature's heads and chlororize with the
fire on your blade. Malvic, how do you kill it? They believe.
As I'm trying to hold back the voice, I throw my sword out
to the side and enveloped some glue flames from the lay lines power, and
then I was slashing it, saying shut off and then lop off the head.
But the blade was thrown with so much force it had strike the ground,
didn't embed itself out of My head falls to the ground, and all
of the blood and festering wounds leaking all over the field of battle. As
things quiet down, wind cascades through and the stanch passes over you all.
I moved towards Malevic and I try to swing one of my arms over a
snow. I'll try to hug you. Mm did well, mhm m all
right, I will avoid eye contact now, I'm just gonna shrink into myself
and try to hold myself together. Is it dead? Is it? Is
it done together? Not quite? I will walk over and start scooping it
up into my wials. Okay, make a survival check, please, carreer
survive. It's a twenty eight sure. Um, what are you trying to
harvest from this thing? I will take it whatever I can get. Okay,
what's the first thing that you think I would think. I would think
that something involving the regenerative properties of the creature could be useful for a healing
reagent. And what strikes you is the thing that would do that, this
creature. I'm looking at all these little veins along the side of this vascular,
turgid neck of it and thinking to myself, that is a vascular and
turgid neck if I have ever seen one. Really want to make that the
episode title. I'm not gonna lie escular inturgent. Hello YouTube, Yeah you
feel on that and veiny, So Karun, you get get deep into that
neck and get there you start scooping over. Well, Ppe either just raw
dogging into that neck. That's right, fair enough, roll me a D
six. I don't hope I don't catch anything. Two okay, uh yeah,
you get two al kuwasha veines very good, so gross, like if
anybody's looking at Karoon, she's just like it's like if you've ever if you've
ever had the unfortunate luck of seeing somebody like remove a like large intestine or
small intestine from somebody. It's a little bit it looks a little bit like
that. It's a long, big, weird vein that I don't even know
where it ends. Just half my face is in the neck trying to get
it out. While you're in there, can you check its stomach contents?
Maybe it's seems something useful? M I think I think Kroon said, all
right, uh huh. Perhaps if anyone is injured, I will take care
of them whilst you want digging. I'm doing five. Fight was fun.
I haven't had that much enjoyment. Didn't find it a long time. Yes,
you all performed very well, very very well. M hm hm.
I'm going to treat wounds on Denigi and anyone else who has injuries. He's
like sort of hopping a little bit like on a on a on an injured
leg. What was that creature terrifying? Indeed, very similar to a hydra?
Apparently you think you could do something about these wounds? It got my
leg pretty well. Yes, let's sit down here, sit down here,
come, come do me missing a part of my my shoulder. I'll ease
Malevic down and then I'll head over towards Karoun. I'd like to see what
I can try to figure out about this creature, perhaps if I've read about
anything like it, Now that I have a closer look, Okay, yeah,
you can go ahead and make an esoterical Laurel. You are a world
to thirty five for the treat wounds? Is that was that for Danigi or
Malvic? That is a it's for both because I have Ward medic, So
it is forty four healing for Danidi and Malevik. Okay, so ten minutes
of treating their wounds, you can see them doing a lot better. Or
Celia twenty five, let's see you can gather from a twenty five. Okay,
So this thing is definitely related to a hydra. It is the demonic
version of a hydra. It is known as an al kaashia, and normally
hydras are sort of exactly what they appear a multi headed, foul tempered,
serpentine like beast with a voracious appetite, and it is widely feared mainly for
its regenerative abilities. This creature in particular is most likely, from what you
can tell, some kind of relative to this creature that has been infused with
demonic blood. It is potentially more dangerous than a standard hydra. You dealt
with it about as best as you could, and that's a very good thing,
because it can very easily kill any one person in a group. It
has the ability to focus all of its heads and fangs onto one creature,
similar to the way that a snake would attack, whipping its head in quick
motion to strike, and it can quite easily kill something the al Kawasha in
question. Let's see what else you might know, and I am relaying all
of this out loud, namely to Karun in case any of this information is
helpful and harvesting. Yeah, this creature in particular, this al quasha is
only like a rumored creature. You've never heard of one like existing. There's
always like rumors of stuff like this, especially like around Sarcorus, since this
was the main hub of demon activity in Galerian For quite some time, it's
always been a rumor that these things exist. But this is your first time
ever hearing of anybody actually running into one. So while you're in there,
perhaps that blood is worth looking at. I know you are mentioning seeking something
like it. Does this count as demon blood? It's probably not pure.
It's definitely not pure. It would not count as demon blood. No,
do I know? Does anyone know heart to purified demon blood? You keeps
it from a pure demon? The milk and demon now, I didn't know
they milk. Could I learn how to milk a demon? I bet I
could. I'm going to take a sample of this blood. If it's possible
to take some blood, or if it's all blooded, oubt, I'm definitely
behind. Can I scrape some off? Malevik, if you have blood?
No, not touching me with your milking ways. Don't understand it even means
just from the demon blood is a little light my my, I do not
even understand what is going on with my own body that alone. Someone prodding
in it now, I am sorry, but I do not give you consent
to do that. I will take a look at some of the others.
Is anyone else covered in demon blood. I will go up to Danigi and
be like, I know you from somewhere. You are covered in themon blood.
Would you mind if I scrape a little bit of that off of you
and up as part of the treat wounds Yara. They are life linked.
Perhaps Yara has them. I did take a little bit of damage, although
it's more like their life forces pouring out of me into them. Well,
I guess no one is getting milked today. Cob fob it from me from
denying the apologies to be milked. Absolutely not no apologizing to not be and
milk. She obviously very wanted to milk so one and I could not supply
just did the demon right. I look extremely thoughtful in the background, but
I don't say anything. Help. I'm going to walk around the battlefield and
in search of something that I was looking for the whole time privately. Anyway,
Yes, uh, let's see, I gotta go back up to find
your investigation roles because I think I guess had some really good roles for this.
I need to double check some stuff here. Uh. Okay, As
you begin to you see you all see Malvic sort of wander off. He
starts like checking various bits of the ruins and goes over to columns and things.
There's as I said, this is the site of many battles. Just
to reiterate some of the things that you learned last session while you were searching
this you learned that the armaments and remain scattered about all vary considerably in age.
There was clearly more than just one battle here, there were dozens over
many years. Iron trinkets bearing the symbol of Iomi Day are common amongst the
fallen, as are demonic sigils, but there aren't any remains to suggest the
presence of Sarkorean god callers. His battlefield was clearly used by demons and crusaders,
not demorans. The warhorse remains half buried here, many bare evidence of
having been mutilated, torn as under, or other otherwise defiled. The rampant
desecration appears to be most densely concentrated near the dried up lake bed of the
Hume Pool Malavik. The demonic sigils amongst some of the demon remains. As
you search through this place and you look through these demonic sigils, you here
in your head hyping and also wait, stop there, look at mass,
bring it closer. Yeah. Yes, it is a remnant of a battle.
Yes, and he carries the taints of your father. Yeah. Well,
goodness is to me but a remembrance. You said, power sinner to
find him. He still remains as he did. Can you not smell it?
Stinches all over the place. Concentrate Mm hmm. You saw me the
power. Now close my eyes and then perforce then it between the lay line
in my own mental fortitude, and starkly open my eyes and then look around.
Please make a perception check. Oh, I'm gonna reroller seventeen getting rerolled
thirty thirty. Okay, there's a familiar stench here, malvic. It took
concentration. There are many foul odors that come from this place, especially from
this creature that recently killed. There is a familiar scent to you, and
not just recognition, but also a stench may have smelled while you've been here.
You've connected this smell to this sigil that is in your hand. There's
something that smells similar here. You came across it as you were searching through
these ruins, maybe the first day, trying to remember where it's from.
Could have been from anywhere you traveled a lot through these different ruins, is
trying to find these places. But now you have something that can help you
track this smell mm hmm. Let me see. They will not leave this
place until I find them. Where's this power as you speak of through him?
We have yet to find it. Point me in the right direction I
have. Yeah, silence your insolence if you wish for my help. Fine,
Yeah, there's start looking and worrying if it don't get back. Mmm.
No, this time, I will realize how much of a force I'm
putting on this schedule that is making my hands bleed. That will stand up
m lay dormant. I will find this power, and I will tick backward
his mind, and then I'll slowly walk back to the group quietly. I
don't go directly back to them. I will still keep searching around, but
deep into my thought of resolve. There's definitely a look about malavic anger and
resentment playing on his face as he marches back towards the group. I think
you see Karen like stuffing veins into a bag of folding. Probably I don't
know. Yeah, Karun has not picked up on it. Just trying to
wrestle all of these veins together, seeing if I can coil them, but
they don't want to coil, and I'm trying to wrap them, but they're
slippery. How big are these hydra like heads? Oh? They're huge.
I mean this creature is over fifteen feet tall. So yeah, the heads
are each of the heads have to be like, I don't know, thirteen
feet. Maybe it's basically a kaiju. Yeah, like c some of the
teeth or bob if I can make a survival check, M hello here we
are, okay, twenty four, roll me a D four please one?
Okay? Uh yeah you have. I would say that you've gotten uh like
one one barb from these from these heads. What the problem here? A
rash talk is that this thing has reacted very poorly to death. It is
its body is like quickly decomposing, and whatever life force it had to regenerate
itself is it spended? And the body is quickly decomposing. All right,
hell'ay happy with one. I'm curious about it. I am looking around our
surroundings. Clearly this creature crept up on us, and I would like to
avoid a similar rate. Perhaps there might be scavengers hoping to get a quick
meal assuming it's picking up something. Just keeping an eye out. Okay,
you seem to have found anything that you're gonna find as you search the battlefield
here. Malvic has one of those demonic sigils. I don't know if he
hid that before he came back to the group or not. Okay, what
what was around that was like a cluster of horses that I found? You
mentioned that, but then we were attacked when I was looking at it.
You, I think your has it, but the lesser it was a lesser
sturdy shield. No, it was unrelated to that that was found under a
horse. You have told me I'd found remnants of a battlefield where there were
a lot of horses concentrated. Well, I said that the war horse remains
were half buried here, and many bared the evidence of having been mutilated,
torn as under it, or otherwise defiled, and that the it seemed like
there were there was more desecration concentrated by the dried up lake bed where your
camp is. Hmm, okay, okay, that was the summons. Thank
you. If we are done here, then we should probably head back,
agreed, we should already that time of day, it will get spent hours
late you, I would say, you spent half the day out here.
You can you can continue searching one of the other sites if you would like,
or you can head back to camp. I assume we do not wish
to be out at night, so perhaps we head back. You still have
half a day. Well, will we go back now? Because once we
find and look around the next place, we will be traveling back at night.
You also want to make sure the others are safe. Yeah. If
you look at these horses and other things, it does look as though out
of the desecration seems to originate from closer toward our camp. I did not
know what that means. Hm, neither do I. I would assume that
this this desecration is well, it's quite deliberate, Yes, it absolutely is.
Well Siah, you are the experts on this place. Oh do you
think it's best we return to camp then? Mhmm. I think that depends
on all of you and how how hurt you have been. I saw those
heads of this creature strike. Well several of you. Are you all right?
M fine? Here? Well, if you are up for more searching,
I suppose we can. We could always find the next location and then
return to camp. Oh, we know how to get to it quickly,
then we can tackle two at once the next day, so it is not
wasting time. I do agree the urgency with Malvic. Mm hmm. It's
just a tower. It's always a look at everything. As you said,
the bettlefield isn't as fruitful. There's also the Hall of Gods. As long
as we find one, I think it is fine. Just find it and
head back and then return the next day. Hm. Yes, and perhaps
if we do wish for this interaction with the entity that we seek to be
the last thing. If we find them, or we find where they are
housed at least or some evidence, then we can always look for the other
one instead next day night as well. Sakawachi speaks up and say, I
would very much like it if we could find the whole of Gods. But
I know the rest of you were speaking on the tower. Well, this
is so that we may gather more information prior to interacting with whatever it is
we are looking to speak with. You believe that this creature is at the
Hall of Gods. I do not know, but if it is known as
the whole of Gods, then it must be the center of spiritual life.
In this place, it would make sense to me, M, well,
let us see what we can find then, yes, all right, and
then go from there. Denigie, are you up for it? I will
protect you sucho, do not worry and who will protect you? Yarah he
I did a decent bit of that, a little bit. Thank you of
course. Whatever you need very well, and there can you show us where
we should attempt to go? Very well? We will look for both the
Hall of Gods and the tower. With that, we're gonna head into exploration
mode again. Yeah, what roles would everybody like to take? Here?
What would you like to do for your exploration mode activity? Mm? Because
half the day is gone, I think we will track again, potentially looking
for giant tracks this time mm hmmm something strong suit. But I would do
search, But I think investigator is more what I would want to be doing.
Okay, I think I would like to investigate identify alchemy if possible.
That is, to identify an al chemical item. So the assumption is the
God that you would have it already. You can do that on the veins
if you like, and figure out I think a wood. I'm going to
be very preoccupied with the veins for a while. Okay, I will be
in the corner playing with the veins. Okay, scientifically, everybody's walking a
lot, you're moving through. I would be lagging behind. Is it like
a little bit like a leash, like somebody's got a karon like a monkey
tailbackpeck. So we do not have anyone scouting. I can scout. We
have investigate search, No, not investigate. We have search from we have
we investigate, we have we have search for tracks. We have alchemy,
alchemy, and what is it you'd like to do? Or Celia said she
was going to scout scout excellent, all right, Well then I suppose I
will meticulously search to see if there are any sort of dangers lurking in the
shadows. Okay, very well, let's see a rash tak. Please make
a survival check. Yes, I'll keep the twenty two malvic. Investigate is
based on a recall knowledge, and in this case, we've got a few
different ways you can do recall knowledge. That ar kana. We've got crafting,
we've got lore of some kind, which I know you have legal lore
which is probably not going to help your I objecked medicine, nature, occultism,
religion, society. I have some. I'm actually trained in it.
Wow. Yeah, that's a boy. Okay, get to that in a
second. Are Celia, you are scouting, which gives everybody a plus one
circumstance bonus to initiative roles. Uh, we'll see how that goes. Yara,
you are searching for any hazards. Go ahead and make a perception check
for me. I would like to utilize the hero point in order to re
roll that natural one thirteen into something else twenty three. That's much better.
Yeah, okay, Karun, make a crafting check. You're identify alchemy.
It's eighteen. Okay, I'm going to re rose the eighteen. It's who
Karun is, Frank, this is what she does. This is my identity.
This is the most important thing for Karun on this entire trip. This
is thinking about the epilogue. It becomes the vein researcher of Gloria. Yeah,
so, Karun. The veins of this creature can be used a few
different ways. Oh, first and foremost, with a thirty, I will
say that this can be used potentially for armor crafting purposes. It could potentially
be used for potion, which could be very very much a good thing or
a bad thing. I would say it would be related to some sort of
like a rejuvenation kind of thing, or it would be related to probably like
a like some sort of like a regrowth kind of thing. Or it would
be related to like if perhaps someone were to lose an eye, they could
regenerate their eye potentially. Hmmm. It could also go really bad because this
is not a exactly a hydrant. This it has some demon blood in it,
so there's a chance that things could go very wrong. It's definitely like
a high risk, high reward ingredient. You can't do alchemy without breaking a
few eggs, all right, human eggs. All right, I'm now the
foremost expert on the demon hydrant veins inglarian. Yeah, like you know,
there's a difference between like regrowth and like rampant regrowth. Is the way that
I would classify bad in this scenario. Come, so you're saying I can
make a monster. Oh, I have no doubt that Karun can make a
monster. That's the end of my turn. Save that's better than a norm
with one head two heads, I can see, h amazing. Okay,
now, uh Malvik, you find the scent. There is a foul odor
that will put you off for a moment. It's one of those the stench
of death and decay. And you're familiar with the stench. It's not pleasant,
it's never pleasant, but you something that you have dealt with many times
previously. But this is extra foul, and there is something particularly familiar in
it. It is a it's buried this stench. It takes all of your
concentration to focus in on this scent that matches the sigil, that matches your
recollection. It is familiar somehow in the distance. After let's to have everybody
have one of you, sorry, one of you, please roll me a
D four ah Cilia, I know money to you. Three. After three
hours, you find what you believe to be the tower. Malvic, in
his own way, has sort of steered you this way, driven towards this
goal. Zaiah pipes up and says, there that tower is still mostly intact.
It does appear that it's taken some damage, but it is standing after
all these years. I wonder that must be it. Yes, yes,
that is it left done. I don't say anything, I'm just concentrating on
the scent. Is there anything that we might want to know about this tower
that you apprivate to you. I've only seen it once before. You can
see how easy it is to get lost amongst these ruins there are. But
did it looks so similar to most of the other dilapidated buildings here. It's
difficult to see, but yes, that is it. I didn't get close
the last time. I don't know much about it. Sorry, it is
all right, and I'm observing the sky. About what time of days it's
now? But it's past a few hours. Mm. Well, we have
found our desired location. We wish to return to camp and get rest then,
instead of trying our luck at the evening hours. What tracks did I
find by the way with the twenty two? Uh, let's see here,
hang on, I need to check. This is gonna be close. I
rolled kind of shit. Ooh, better than the very high rolling hydras sneaking
up on us. Yeah, but then I rolled like shit for everything else.
Well, yes, yes, yes, we were appreciative of Thank you.
Yes, did not mind that? Oh yeah, a rasch talk.
You find not only tracks. There's something really strange about these tracks. Mm
hmm. There's like rotten flesh with them. They're quite low charge. They
have to be close in size to the al Kawasha, except these are claude
talents. From what you can tell, there's they're quite big. There's evidence
that it is quadrupedal with a tail, you think, and I think definitely.
The viscera around the tracks, I think I know what that could be.
But is that enough information for us stuck to put together make a nature
check? Thank you? I don't want to meta a twenty sixth. You
don't know exactly what this is. I think you can tell it is most
likely related to a dragon. The only other follow up question the flesh.
Does that seem like it was flesh that was eaten or flesh that is,
say, falling off like an undead dragon? Perhaps have to say, okay,
now that's fair. That's why I was curious. Mostly rotten, so
it can't really ah yeah yeah, and if it's a scavenger, they could
be rotten flesh. Yeah for sure, for sure. Ah, everyone,
I have some maybe bad news. Ah these strucks. If I were to
take a guess, I think this would be dragonic in nature. Yes,
let's go to camp. It's not like a demon. No, dragon not
demon. No, though it has rotted flesh around so it could be a
scavenger, It could be undead, it could be fiendish and something else is
wrong. I do not know the kind. It could also be something similar
to a dragon and not actually a dragon at all. But at least this
quatupedal withal. You all go back. I will stay here, scout the
area prepared for tomorrow. No, Slevic, Yeah, then you all stay
with me, but I will not leave this area. Manak, you're putting
us in danger for no reason. Go back and I will stay. What
if we in danger? What if we could attack there with a concentration of
the defilement? Is that I've balance plenty of you are strong? Oh?
Please, I have to stay. Why. I thought we were being truthful
to each other. We are being truthful. You see what you see.
There's something here and I must find it and it will be there tomorrow.
It may not. I don't see anyone else fucking scavenging this place. Come
on, we're not going to leave you, so don't be foolish. I
have to stay your why no, you want to stay? Both wrecked?
I have to and I want to. I have to see something through.
Please, I'm not putting you in danger if you go back, I will
be here when you return, but I cannot leave. I'll walk up and
I'll wrap my arms around your sorry malevik and body that is it gets tired,
it gets exhausted. If you stay here, you are going to be
tired, and then you're going to not be as strong. You need your
rest as well. I do not understand. I have to stay here.
I will rest here. It'll be okay. You said you have to pursue
it. Are you resting or pursuing? I have tracked any things in my
life. I have survived a different world. I can do this places,
and that has dangerous, says Casherville. So I will find means of survival
until you return. I was alone for a very long time. I have
you here. Go back to camp. I'll prep this area if you return
tomorrow. If you were, you could return it earlier convenience. But I
will be fine. If anything, I'll send a mental link to our say
if possible, All right, do you have fun? Bye bye? Good
Karun understands now. Karen's already walking towards the camp. This isn't about lies,
This isn't about untrust. It is if you want to make it about
trust and trust me. What I am trying to understand is what you mean
by there is something there that you need to pursue. How do you know
this? What is going on? Is it a personal matter? You?
Ruh? A personal matter? Are you kidding? In the middle of these
ruins? After all that we've shared, after everything that I have told you
that I did not have to tell you, I grab your r by the
hand and take her off to a spot where it's a lightly concentrated stench.
There you see these marks? Do you smell there? Do I see the
marks or smell anything? Yes, Malvic has pointed this out to you.
And the stench is awful, smells like rotten meat. Cover my mouth,
my sleeve. Your senses may not be as sharp as mine, but this
is very familiar to me and I have to seek it out. Malevic,
Can we step away from the disgusting stench? Not that I have seen it.
I'll take her back towards sir, I say you all right, So
here is the logic. If you are to stay here all night preparing,
you're going to be exhausted. If you rest, we are going to be
too far to defend you. You are a strategist. You are a warrior,
are you not. This is not about being This is not about I
suppose cowardice or anything like that, or not wanting to approach the situation.
If signs of your sister was here, would you go back? Are there
signs of anyone you care of? My father? And why didn't you lead
with that? Because this is my fight, I have to figure out what
kind of what's here. I have to now look deep into Ursayer's eyes.
I have to look at ya. If there was any signs of your sister
being about anywhere here, I know deep down inside that you would do anything
to find out why, how some kind of answers. I've been searching for
these answers since I was a child. I cannot let it slip, not
anymore. And is this something that you need to do alone? I do
not want to put you all in danger. If this is this is not
a simple slaying of a dragon or anything of that nature. This is far
worse. You could lose your life, any of you can. I am
not worried about what I am throwing myself into right now because this is what
I need. I need answers. I need to know who I am what
I really am. I look over towards os Celia. I don't think I
can go back to camp without him. Then you are not putting me in
danger if I am choosing to be with you both. What about the others.
Rashack already thinks that I'm trying to do something with alternative motives? M
hm, he also has in all of us. That is your decision.
I appreciate your company, but I cannot guarantee the outcome. Very well.
I went too far. If you want to, I'm going to go ahead
and touch my crown, taking a small bow and using my crown and the
companion to play somewhat of a blessing on Malevik, where I will take half
damage for him. Go then. I don't understand why you go so far
from me, but I will take whatever help I can get without turning you
around, and I will look towards Arsa, and you know what I must
do. You won't have to do it alone, at least if it comes
down to danger, you leave me and you can go back to the others.
No, I certain condition, while I will accept you coming. I
lift up my wrist where the blood bond is carved into my flesh. If
you die, I die promise we made. We don't know how that works,
and I don't want to find out others, and I'll look towards your
I have feelings of love towards you as well, and I do not want
to be selfish to take that away and let us all get out after you're
done. How about that? There is nothing wrong with fleeing from a battle,
so we may come back stronger. I'll just smile and keep my thoughts
to myself, and none maybell. Not let the others know before what they
get too far away. I think they know right, and I'll continue.
I'll nod to both of them and lead the way towards the strongest to find
my goal. Okay, Zaia and Sakuwachi would have headed back to the camp
following Urashtak and through and Anigi as well. So the three of you begin
to approach this tower. Yes, m hmm, okay, how are you
approaching it? I'm probably a little bit din from them, but as much
as I want to run and boat through, I keep them in mind the
whole time, and I'm just maybe a step and a half in front.
The smell gets worse as you continue towards the tower. Rotten flesh and you
can see bits of it here and there. You can see like evidence of
creatures torn up as well. Did you begin to approach mhm, just take
notes of it. Are there any tracks smellic as is? And I look
closer around the caucases for any tracks, any patterns. Okay, there are
definitely tracks here and there. Malvic, make a survival check for me,
please, or nature take at fourteen? Okay, uh, I think with
a fourteen you can tell that this is definitely a large predator of some kind.
This evidence of some kills here and there. But beyond that, is
it recent? Kind of tell ifey's recent or old? You can't even tell.
There's like like viscera and rotten flesh here. The smells are throwing you
off. Not a lot you can tell just from visual. It seems like,
yes, pleasure in these skills. It's not like when they're trying to
feed off of the knee to feed more of the they can dominate feed.
I never really met him, and I'll keep walking forward. Okay, do
we notice any entryway? Is there anything that seemed like we might be able
to get into the tower. Yeah, there's like a third of the tower,
which is stone has kind of like broken down and collapsed. You can
see like you can probably kind of boulder your way along the debris to like
make your way inside through the opening that has kind of collapsed from this tower.
One of you roll me a D two please live at twenty do it
two? Okay? Interesting, who's leading away? I am very well?
Are you making your way up the collapse the wall? No? Whatever way
the tracks in the vistory and everything leads to yeah, I'm following that.
Okay, very well, Melwick. As you begin to make your way up
the collapse the wall, lots of stones fall. Like as you guys are
moving along this, you're kind of like it's one of those things. I
don't know how many of you have been bouldering before, like hiking up mountains
or anything along those lines. But it's loose. It's a loose ground.
There's stone here, there's bricks and things, so like as you move,
all the stone and rocks humble down this side and of this like hill that
you're kind of meandering your way up trying to find a purchase. I would
like you guys to make some balanced checks for me please, and that is
an acrobatics skill. Acrobatics, okay, tony, okay. That will also
be trying to assist as much as I can. You're you're leading the way,
are Celia and Yara. You're definitely like lagging behind a lot of slipping,
you know, you're kind of like half bent over, you know,
using your on your hands and your knees and your feet like whatever way you
can find some sort of way to scramble up this very annoying bit of debris.
Spitting out some of my hair because thing's getting in it. Yeah,
dust and stuff is all blowing in your face. It's not pleasant. Uh.
And it also smells like rotten meat, which is never fun. Uh.
Okay, Malvic, as you take some time to help our Cilia and
Yarra up the debris. There's sound coming from the town are yeah, yeah
right, that all right? Yeah, h m hmm. I'll look back
at the others, at the other two and try to get them balanced.
And I'm trying to control my ship Blastphord. But I am going to assess
the situation first. How do you do that? If we're calling up,
then I will be down on all fours. Uh, actually, one hand
on my great sword. But uh so, I guess on threes off my
feet and my arms are down. My tail is started for balance as well.
Yeah, and almost in the stealth manner. How were you crawling up
slowly to look to see what's in front of me or what's off in a
distance? Okay, make a perception check for me, please, Melovick,
Oh natural one only have one ear, o boy left. I don't think
it's smart to waste it. I'm just going to I mean, if it's
large, I'm gonna see you. I'll just leave that alone. Nothing.
You see nothing As you flamber up now at the edge of the tower,
making your way through the opening in this side wall, you can see again
as dusk has fallen here night is close behind. You can see what appears
to be the framework of the tower, sort of dilapidated and broken, scratch
marks around in the stone, and what remains of wood of the structure of
this place, broken and dilapidated, crumbling. There are beams that are you
know, half fallen out from this dilapidated interior of this tower, barely make
stuff out there. You think maybe you can crawl up one of the beams
get a better look. You don't see anything other than that. I'll just
signal to the other as if they're okay, and and I'll point up and
show that I want to get a better look. I will push forward enough
to try to get a look for myself. Okay, you see what appears
to be this broken down tower. There's bits of uh wood and stuff like
that has rotted and like collapsed. There's a beam that's kind of like half
on its side leaning upwards. You don't really see much else though. Mm
hmmm. I think I need to climb up because a better look at it.
A situation here, you want me to boost you, mhm, that
could be helpful. You're able to hold my weight? Yes? No,
well take assistance and climb the I will cast guidance upon Malavik. Okay,
go ahead and make an athletics check. Twenty seven. Yeah, no problem,
and that's me helping. Oh twenty eight, Absolutely no problem athletics,
easy peasy. You absolutely boost them up, No problem, our celia.
He finds a good foothold. There's probably like a spot where the beam is
touching part of the wall, and it's like very stable. You can easily
boost yourself up, grab on the edge of the the wood that has sort
of fallen off, and you begin to clamber up. Alvic, as you
do, I need you to make a stealth check for me. Good luck,
my friend, Alvic. As you begin to make your way up,
you're doing a good job in quiet climber up and there before you curled up
devouring some kind of goat creature. Wait a minute, you've seen one of
these before. This is one of those brimme racks that a large rotting black
dragon is eating. And it turns towards you even as you move quietly.
And I'm gonna need to bring you over here, and I'm gonna need you
all to roll the initiative please hmm. Can get a plus one from scouting?
Right? You do? Yes, good luck. I'm going to be
taking a nap twenty nine total, Malvic or, Celia and Yara. I'm
going to give you an extra hero point because you followed through on this,
and well, frankly, we're fucked. You're probably gonna need it. Wait.
Was this was me stealth or it was a stealth I mean adjust adjust
your roles accordingly. You don't get to reroll. I did perception of my
accent. Sorry, there we go thirty one. Oh, it was Stealth's
what do I have of Stealth's done? What is cheating? Nineteen seven?
M It won't let me. I keep trying to correct him, but it's
being there we go. Okay, Malvic, you're being quiet, but this
creature still like burns its head towards you as you barely make the whisper of
a noise and sounds like some Beverly Hills cop boss music. Uh, it
turns towards you and obviously sees you. Uh ar, Celia, you are
you know you've just seen Malvic like go up and then you can hear the
wood creek up above of some large creature moving on the wood above, and
then you hear Malvic, Oh shit, this is clearly a dragon, And
in your head you hear as the remains of a chromatic black dragon move and
turn its fetid eyes upon you. It will first and foremost use an action
to stand up. It was hurled up around its meal and now it's got
two actions left. Uh it will. Oh, I'm sorry, it's it's
a little slow. It's only got one action left. It's gonna clamber over.
Oh, Actually, it doesn't even have to fucking move never mind.
Uh. It turns towards you slowly, malvic and you can see viscera and
stuff just like falling off of it. As it turns towards you, it
will try to I think it's going to try to claw you. Since it's
turning, it can reach you from where it is. I'm thirty three to
hit. It's a hit. A great, that's good. Sorry, checking
some bullshit. Okay, it's you for twenty nine piercing damage. Okay,
I'll raise my ambulant to reduce that and find you need to see Malavik.
I just need to be within fifteen feet of him, okay, and I
also take half damage for him due to the crown of the companion. Oh
god, so you are this would be fourteen damage, and then are Celia,
you will reduce nine nine. I take that five damage yep mmm.
And as I get hit I'm asking, I will mentally as in my head
sat him. It is part of the answerde that you think riddle and more,
and with that's how they will stream out for riddles. This always lies
with you, and I will be enraged. I do not lie to you.
I never have five, and I will wait. I'm assuming that that
term is over for that their turn is over. Yes, I will,
I will go in. I'll go here, and it will be a sudden
charge. As I do this, whereas my sword comes to the slash,
blue flames will take over, and all the anger inside of my body towards
everything will be coming out. And each slash that I take twenty five,
you hit it, but you hit part of its horn, and it just
playing to your power. And that's the end of my turn. Rage.
Yep, I did a sudden yeah rage, sudden charge. Yeah, okay,
yeah, uh yara, ar Celia. You hear the sounds of this
horrible growl and roar, and then you hear on the wood above, what
do you, Dora? I am unable to see anything from here, Am
I not correct? I will take a deep breath and I will attempt to
climb on up and see if I can make my way up there. I'm
assuming I must make a check of some sort to climb. Yes, an
athletics check. I will re roll that nine, utilizing a hero point for
four. Oh okay, here, you do not climb up, damn it.
Try again. That's one of your turns one of your actions. I
am going to go ahead and guidance isn't going to do shit here. I'll
make another attempt or fifteen fifteen. Uh, I gotta check on the difficulty
on this one. Hang on, that's all right. I stabbed those still
lettles in there. Baby. Imagine if you are who's running around on stilettos
this whole time, some Bayonetta shit because this is right on the border here.
It's not that hard, but a fifteen and pathfiner and this situation is
not great. Uh, let's see here. I'll get there yet, Yeah,
dramatically help somehow? Uh you you can't. It's yours turn at the
moment, all right, Just focus on getting up there, darling. You
can climb me if it helps. Gulph, h oh. Let's see here,
boy, this is the I'm sorry I'm taking so long to do this,
but this is an important one. You're fine. You take your time
only plus one, so it's gonna take a while. This is also a
failure. Sorry, God damn it. I'm going to go ahead then with
my final action. And what am I going to do? Well, there's
not much else I can do from here other than attempt to heal myself and
act as a somewhat of a secondary tank for Malavik. So I will do
what is smart here, and I am going to go ahead and I will
use battle medicine upon myself, but I will do it at a an expert
level so that the DC is lower, and that is a critical, so
that should be full healing. That's twenty three plus thirteen for critical. So
that is thirty six on malvic on myself, yourself. Okay, it's battle
medicine, all right, applyingselves and covering up any of the scratches that I
got just from trying to climb Parsilia. I'll try next time. You just
have to make your way up with that. Get to him. Yes,
I about this, yeah, yah, you'd you'd probably like have fallen back
here? Yes, yes, apologies okay, or Celia, it's your turn.
Climb you make it all right. Second action, I'll move here,
okay, just so you no, I won't. Yeah, I'll show you
what the hell there you go. Gosh, this is it's like puff the
matter dragon. This creature is just kind of uh rotted and disgusting. But
there is evidence of this sort of blow Black Dragon beneath the rocks in ruin.
All right, what are you doing, ar Cilia. You can tell
that it's most awful, So I've moved to your second action. It is
now flat footed, yes yep, all right, third action, I will
swing at it with my hatchet twenty three. Okay, let's whatever, flat
footed? Yeah again, you hit it, or Cilia, but you don't
seem to break through its scales. They're just so tough, and just the
hatchet what is made to split logs and stuff just kind of clinkling like clatters
off at scales. Malovic, it's going to be hard to hit hard.
You just feel primal rage in your head. That's my turn, Oki Doki.
This creature will first, I think, try to use its upper jaw
to attack Malvic and good luck thirty one to hit. It's a hit.
Got a credit for nineteen piercing damage. Okay, so it takes off fourteen
of my temporary hit when so it's five yep, And I don't know how
this works. Are you still taking half damage? You are? I will
be taking holf damage for all that you all that you get hit for,
So you're taking too and I take three. I'm assuming I'll take the blunt
of it. It's an HOD number and you don't have to see, Malvic.
Is there a range on this It is without range since it is crowned
the companion. It is specified within the item itself. Okay, so it's
basically a shield other but it's unlimited range once it is cast. Gotcha all
right? Very well? Yeah, so the jaws come down on you,
Malvik. And that was for nineteen piercing damage and Yara you take I'm sorry
why because nineteen and then I had fourteen tipra hit points right, it's five
three and she took two. Yeah, gotcha right? Gotcha? All right?
Then with its tail, it will strike at you are Celia, that's
a thirty eight to hit. What's the crit Oh no, as the reaction,
I will take chad bud and everything is procking right now for me.
So I take half of the damage. Okay, uh so you will take
fourteen bludgeoning damage here and Arcilia and Malvic. This massive tail sort of like
unfurlzen Wolf. It catches you probably in your side. You can hear the
floorboards like like creak as Arcilia sort of like catches the tail still knocks the
wind out of you, ar Cilia. As I see it coming, I
raise my ambulance. So I take five damage. Okay, wait a minute.
Fourteen was the total damage that you took, yeah, Malvic, fourteen
as well, an that's eight nine. I need to plus one on mincause
I though I was eight on that. Alrighty uh Malvick, it's your turn,
and then I will creature is powerful, it's big, it's heavy,
it stinks, and it's also slow. I will then, instead of you
I normally wield my great sword with one hand leading, I will grab the
hilt of both hands, and I will broaden my back and start to pull
in the ni fire that I have, and I will strike out with theory
menus a right. Thirty three is a hit. Eight of that is fire,
okay. And this is slicing, splashing our piers. This will be
slashing, okay, yeah, Malvic. As you slice this thing, you
can see that your sword moves through like butter. It takes like a huge
chunk off this thing. With thirty three to hit and twenty four damage,
just blead like chunks of it fall off after your slice and hiding round stream.
And then I will strike again with the following the momentum of the first
one. You sorry, I hit number two. Here we go thirteen.
That is a miss, unfortunately, yeah, unfortunately this time. Yeah,
the creature is just moving. It's very slow, and it sort of just
turns its head slightly and uses its horn to block this attack. I'm going
to strike again. Twenty clang clang the sword. The great sword quickly meets
resistance against those horns can't slice through. Is that return? Ye? So
yara? All right, I think you're a think Do I get the idea
looking at the rocks here and how hard it has been to scramble up that
it might be easier if I am. If I'm to utilize my grappling hook
and rope, oh for sure, what it's made for it? All right,
I'm going to scramble in my bag and pull those out. I assume
that that will take one to two actions. How many does that take?
One action to take take out the grappling hook in the rope and then one
action to throat? All right, I'm going to go ahead, and I
will cast guidance upon myself in order to give myself a plus one for this
toss. Come on you rah and I will attempt to throw the rope and
hopefully latch it onto something the grappling hook, and that would be what an
athletics check. I will reroll that four for twelve okay, thirteen technically okay,
Clankland falls back down a buck and I stand there really agitated. You
hear fuck echoing throughout the chamber. Okay, Fortunately that is it for hours,
turn Celia. I would like to ext I would like to explain vulnerability.
Okay, esoterical lower role please twenty eight versus it's DC. That is
a success, all right. I learn its highest weakness positive and slashing are
the same, Okay. I will so essentially, I reach into my pouch
and I begin to use near this iridescent silvery powder onto my hatchet, making
it to magic coal. Now and then second action, I will swing with
the hatchet twenty three. Plang again the hatchet rickishe off the scales just kind
of slides along them. I swing again, this time swinging from the hips
twenty three. Again clank not just trying to like slice into its tail,
and it's just it's the scales. The angle of the tail is just kind
of glancing blows like sliding off of the scales. It's weak to positive magic,
and that's my turn. Got to know. You hear a little tiny
voice from down below? Okay the creature? Oh boy? Uh? Okay,
malvic, you start to hear this gurgling noise? Is the creature rears
back and will breathe a wave of fetid viscera towards you. I need to
reflex save twenty three. That's unfortunate. That is a fail. Oh boy,
footed affects anything. Okay, I need a refresh sense. Let me
refresh real quick. Okay, what's this lagging? Uh? You take eighteen
bludgeoning damage to us shoes eighteen poison damage? Okay? Do you take half
of your damage? Uh? Half of the total damage? Yes, after
your resistances and whatnot. Ok both of those hit. It's eighteen and eighteen
right yeah? Oh no, So you don't apply resistances for my damage.
So you would take the damage with your resistances and I would take it without.
Yeah. I don't have any resistances too, Okay, listening or that.
Unfortunately arian works differently in pathfiner God does it? All right? So
that's eighteen damage for your and me, my bag. You can see like
Malavich cuts and bruises like you know, this is fetid rotten viscera that is
laid all over him, and it like some of it gets in his eyes
and his mouth like it's horrible. Okay, that was two actions for its
breath weapon. It's your turn, Malvic. I'll shake off the pain grit
my teeth as I hear you ought to call out, and I will step
forward with one foot and swing my whole body weight into the upwards slash by
nineteen clang, you slice upwards, you like connect with one of its teeth,
and it just like come on another one thirteen again Malvic, this time
as it like rears back when you strike. This time it like raises up
a really like slow, but it's just a massive claw. So even though
it's slow, it's still like gets in the way of your attack. Yeah,
it will continue to swing. Twenty two Again, your sword like slashes
and connects with the scales too hard to penetrate. Yara, I attempt to
swing the grappling hook and throw it yet again for twenty That's good, Yara,
grappling hook plaindi forty. All right, I'm going to go ahead and
hmmm before I try to go up there. I think what I'm going to
do is preemptively cost bless I'm going to place a hand on my chest and
I will be surrounded by that golden aura casting bless upon myself. Oh yes,
it's always blessed, but it's a little extra. Now, I got
my grappling hook hooked onto something. I'll be up there in the moment.
No, that was three actions, athletic you threw it. That's one and
blessed two actions? Oh bless yes, indeed. Okay, and this is
five foot emanation. So let's put that on. So I don't forget all
right, there you go, uh, or Celia, it's your turn,
all right? I do what I do best. Swing thirty one. Thirty
one is a hit, right, I drive the hatchet towards one of its
legs, dealing ten slashing plus But what was the positive five? So you
learn that its weakness is positive and slashing. I learned of its highest weakness.
Yes, okay, well it's ten slashing plus two plus the weakness.
Okay, gotcha. You just cleave off a huge chunk of flesh. This
time, Arsilia, the hatchet connects with you managed to find the space in
between the scales. As you slice, a chunk of its tail falls onto
the ground right the hatchet in the same spot again thirty one Another hit eight
plus two plus weakness, gotcha just huge chunks of flesh come off as you
slice with the hatchet, this time Arceilia, finally finding purchase through scale and
a desperate third swing twenty one. This time it manages to move again.
It's slow, so you managed to get these too quick hatchet strikes in and
finally it moves its tail and batters you away. All right, sallion,
will I think we'll have it do a let's see it's going to again try
to bite you. Malevic with its upper jaw at the start is a hit.
Twenty five day is a hit due to range freak are of course,
twenty five piercing damage. I just have I would take twelve for you.
Yes, no, you took you took eleven. I'll take thirteen. No,
she was right, yes right, yeah, oh yeah I was.
I was automatically saying I'll take thirteen. Yeah, sorry, and then a
tail strike headed to you are Celia, okay, oh I'm sorry. That
is a twenty five twenty five all right him Okay, it hits for sixteen
bludgeoning damage or raise my amulet and minus nine off that another like heavy bruise,
this massive tail which is bigger, you know than you, and with
just clobbers you again, this time like heavy. It's like getting like a
heavy leg kick, like right into your eye, almost buckling you and sending
you to the ground. Malvick, it's your turn, Frustration, I scream
mouts even louder, and this time blue flames developed my hand as I swing
out again. What's with the twenty tombs as a mess again, I'll just
keep backing and slashing. Mm hmm, I need to check this is with
flat footed right check. I think this one is a hit. That is
a hit, and it's a slashing and if that is fired to this force,
and I will continue to slash the third time, Nate. Mm hmm.
You slice off a big chunk of meat that second time, and then
the creature just kind of will actually like uh like shove you back with its
claw as you go for the third attack. Okay, Yara, it's your
turn. It's no one ever. I will attempt to climb the rope.
I'm assuming that's an athletics check as well. My favorite, my favorite.
I love this. It's nine. It's nine, and I have one hero
point, so I'm not going to give a user. Yeah you do that,
you know you like making sure the rope is secure and slide right back
down. Why didn't I get to any of those workout sessions? All right,
I am going to go ahead and I will make a second attempt.
Come on your spit on my hands for twenty absolutely climb up to the top.
Oh fuck, isn't too late to climb back down? I will utilize
my last action. Then, how much you to peer my behind? About
two for my For my final action, I am going to go ahead and
I will place my hand on my chest once more, but only this time
it is different. I am channeling my curse, but it is not curse
it at all. Actually my cast lay on hands upon myself and that will
heal for twenty four points of healing. And I am also granted a two
AC bonus for the round. Very nice. Okay, that is my turn.
There you go, you get it? Two eight, all right,
ar Celia swing thirty one, oh thirty one? Very nice. That is
a hit seven plus two plus weakness for damage okay, another big chunk of
meat flies off of the tail. You can see the bone now again.
Twenty six. That is another hit, all right, twelve plus two plus
weakness to that one. Very nice, Our Cilia is just leaven chunks off
of this creature now with the hatchet. Sorry that I accidentally hit the wrong
weapon. For that, I did hit attack number two, but the damage
die should be smaller, so it's actually six plus four plus two. We
Oh, no, that's all right. You get you get the ten slashing
right D six? Oh they're both D six. Never mind, it's the
exact same thing. Never mind. Oh yeah, okay, okay, so
her to talk. It's a mess. Okay, that is definitely a mess,
all right. It is that you're doing the fun. The creature will
spin around and and use its breath weapon on you this time, our Celia.
You need a reflex save. Oh activate three. Whoa very nice.
That's good. I don't skip flag day. Okay, uh now for these
I believe you still take half. That's what we found out last week,
right, if it is a basic saving throw, yes, yeah, the
basic reflex save. Yeah, okay, so this is still gonna suck.
Sorry, it's all right. So first it's fifteen bludgeoning damage. That's gonna
be seven bludgeoning damage. And then this is poison damage, so another eight
poison damage. Okay. How much is that total? So eight and seven
so fifteen total total. Okay. I will use my reaction to raise my
ambulet, so that will be six damage. It uses up my reaction.
Okay, Malvic, it's your turn. After hearing yare uh make it up
distant in my head, I hear her voice along with I say it's pain.
When I hear loudly in my head, I know that I can go
all out and I will focus on damaging as much as possible. Twenty eight
Uh, yes, that is a hit. It's for thirty one dimension eight
of it, fire, two of it force. Oh, this is vicious,
Malvic. You care as wound in this creature. As I see the
wound a gape, I will get even more excited the blood loss and keep
slashing. Yes, twenty four that is unfortunately a miss you just you've already
seen like chunks of this tail has like been you know, hacked off by
our Celia's hatchet, and the tail is still moving around and whipping around,
and as you go for this other attack. Plang, you just hit it
obliquely d and from the reverberation off of horn bow and whatever it hits,
I will use what turn in the direction of that to swing overhead a bird
shrike seven that is a misss off the wood like creaks like like and uh,
there's just like your foot goes through a plank like this wood is old
and decrepit. Uh, your foot just goes through and you get thrown off
balance. Yara. All right, now that I'm up here, I must
be a little more cautious. I'm going to go ahead and with a wave
of my hand, I will cancel a lout the effects of my crown of
the companion, using an action to dismiss it. Malvik, you are healed
for eighteen points and I'm healed for nine. That's really quick. So that
is one action that mutter to be and from there I have two actions remaining.
I look between the two. I see that oars Cilia is hit.
I see that Malevic is hit. All right, I'm going to go ahead
and I will let me see how far this is here twenty feet. I
will move twenty feet so that oars Cilia is in my blessed radius, and
I'm going to go ahead with that using doctor's visitation so to move and to
use battle medicine on Oarsilia's one action. So this is my second action.
I will do battle medicine at an expert level here rather than master, and
that is going to be twenty five points of healing for oars Cilia. That
feels meta darling as I tightened the bandages around her wounds. All right,
and with my final action, I am going to go ahead and I will
channel my curse casting life link upon both Malevik and Arsilia. You are both
healed for six points of healing, and I will now take five damage for
both of you. All right, that is my turn. Ar Celia,
I keep going, invigorated by Yara at my side. Twenty six. That
is a hit eight plus two plus weakness. There kill uh. It has
just finished spewing viscera onto me. I hook one of my hands underneath a
plate. I grab its tongue. It's missing its lower jaw. Right,
I grab the tongue, I pull it towards me, and then I decapitate
the creature. Creature falls to the wooden planks, and as it does so,
I need you all make reflex saves for me. Please. Oh shit,
is this by any chance of spell dope? All right? I should
sure, I should Okay. As it hits the the the ground, the
wooden planks that are decrepit, they begin to collapse all around you. Crack,
crack, crack. The wood begins to crumple. And as it does,
h you see this look of panic for a second, like on you
are Celia's face or Cilia. You immediately uh grab onto one of the posts
of the railing of the staircase that's just nearby, and you hold on for
dear life. Yara, you see Arcilia doing this, and you quickly do
the same, Malavic. You try to reach out for anything as the wooden
planks collapse before you. You reach out to this this like table that's barely
still a table, and just it slides and you fall from these wooden planks.
And I need to see what the fall damage is because this is about
thirty feet. Oh I was gonna say, I say, Amulet as you
go flying y by, that's too far. Take bludgeoning damage equal to half
the distance you fell. So Malevic, you take fifteen bludgeoning damage as this
collapses and you fall would just falling with you. This horrific zombie dragon also
lands and creates a horrible pile of meat, ar Celia, you and Yara
are just like hanging on to these posts of the railing as the wood has
kind of like fallen and collapsed below you. All right, yes, you
know you probably didn't even need me. Hello, this is why Stephen from
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