Due to some violent content. Brintal discretion is advised. In the year to
forty seven, in the Age of Judges, Fartan was summoned home after the
death of his father. Upon his return, Farten discovered something evil festering beneath
the city of Eterno. With the help of some very unlikely allies, Farten
works to uncover the mysteries of his hometown and put an end to the nightmares
of plagueist people. Welcome to Ethereal embrace. Hey, that's me Barten.
This deal is a lot. There has to be some kind of loophole metal
making very bad for us. Anyways, we need to hurry out of here.
I got a feeling I'm about to work up a mighty appetite. Day
four the Amphitheater. I'm gonna whisper to buy a very very quietly in our
head, say I signed this contract. We take the spear out, we
have it destroyed by Cody and maybe my death following that in the final spot
that Susan set up, and we close the magic that surrounds Eterno, and
that'll keep them from getting in. You really don't think we can make it
out of here without signing that contract. I don't think we can make it
out of here with the spear and sign or without signing the contract. That
spear has a lot of power. I mean I could just go for it
and throw. I mean it might be the only way. Can I can?
I roll? Like something? How big and bad does this guy look?
Am I terrified? Does he look like he could rip me to shreds?
I think my biggest concern is all the things that we don't see around
us. Yeah, when we were talking to torment Or earlier, we probably
should have asked him, like, how deadly this dude is? He's scared?
Yeah, you guys are level eight, right, Yeah, okay,
so he looks very scary. He's a he's a challenge rating eleven. That
means that a party of three to four characters at level eleven would be able
to fight this as a normal fight. If that gives you a vibe on
probably how you feel, Yeah, Bartan, I think that might be our
only option. Then. My other concern is that protects me, but it
doesn't protect the rest. CEO. That's a very good point. You could
have him promise that he'll let us at least get out of here. Hey,
Yagnala, say, I signed this contract. Can we add another clause
in there? I mean, I see you got a pen and you just
created this out of nothing, well or whatever. Can we add another clause
that until we like all my friends here, that they can leave with me
and they won't be killed by you. What isn't it for me? You
get to kill somebody once a year, your enemies. But without it,
that's already part of the deal. Yeah, but without me signing that,
you don't get it anyways, I will make a trade with you. You
and your friends can leave here without any issues. But the magic items that
you have powering the portal right now are to be left with me. I'm
sorry, Yagnoloth, but those are not vartans to bargain with. That is,
those are the property of the Church of Greyhawk. Your lives are not
is to bargain with either. There. I mean, I guess the alternative
could be I could just pick up this spear and kill you right now.
You could certainly try. I kind of just want to pick it up.
It just I know, fuck this contract, because he's not going to give
us. He's not going to give everybody the safety. Yeah, that was
such a good That was such a good comeback from him. Oh yeah,
well the wondering the things that are powering the portal right now, yeah,
yeah, he could use those to come out whenever, even if we kind
of close the magic. I don't know. I mean we could just I
mean, we could just waste some time and let them be spent. Then
they're useless. Then he gets useless items. I kind of want to grab
a spear, but do you know how to use it? I mean,
is it just a regular spear? I mean, oh, I am I
proficient. I'm a fighter. He really should have thrown that bag off the
edge of the cliff. Oh the whole How would you get these items?
I would accompany you to your realm, collect them and bring them back with
me. I don't know. If that portal's big enough to fit, we'll
make you. I'm sure I could fit through into your realm. In fact,
I look forward to it. He does know we're not going to let
that happen, right the one time I don't have like divine intervention or whatever.
I am proficient in spears, just say yeah, oh, that's not
an option for me, mister yaggy. I think I'm just going to take
my belongings and my friends and get out of here. Is this your final
decision? Let me give it, uh, let me give it one more
thought over. And I'm gonna walk towards the spear a little bit closer so
i can grab it. While I'm thinking, I'm going to kind of like
pace a little bit. You're like, oh no, I mean you're not
giving me any You're not giving me any viable options. And I'm gonna grab
the spear, and Baia's gonna yell run, all right, So you grab
the spear bya yells run. Torman already had turned around and is running back
up the stairs. He had come down several stairs to get a better look,
and hear you know, he's nosy. He's bolting it back up,
and the demon Yagnoloth says, how disappointing, and he scribbles something in the
air, and you hear a large sound of rumbling begins to fill the auditorium.
Yeah, and you hear footsteps and buzz and all sorts of different creatures
burst through the other multiple doors and start heading in your direction. So you
see zill you see chasms, you see imps, you see these creatures crawling
that are like millipedes that have sharp mandibles on them, and they are just
flooding into this auditorium to move at you. Nothing came from the direction you
came out of, but you can hear the doves are like shouting to retreat
as well. Yeah, Baia, Letza Bartan and Morgan to see if they're
like, yes, we run or if they're stand put. How why does
the room again, it's a big auditorium, so you're you're in like a
like a college style fully round in the center is where the speaker would be.
Auditorium with stadium styles eating that goes all the way up. There are
multiple doors that go around the top of this, and so the creatures are
all flooding in from those and running across, you know, down the stairs
of this auditorium in your direction. Though mm doesn't look like something we can
no, I think we should go. We should probably really go. Yeah,
yeah, let's uh, do we have any more of the portal stones
any more? Charges? Nope, Because you use one to take brass cane
back to the basement already, and you used one to come here. I
don't know if it would work in this room. I mean I could people.
So a couple things we're gonna do. We're gonna do a cool little
combat scene with you guys running all right, We're gonna do a Horde mentality
fight scene. I'm guessing the spear has to be a tune to The spear
is a standard spear as far as attack and stuff like that goes. It's
plus one two attack for your thing there. But if you throw the spear
at something, it does additional damage, kind of how you saw Susan throw
it and then it exploded and then she summoned it back to her. If
you throw it and it hits, it does ten D ten force damage and
then as a bonus action, you can summon it back to your hand.
Is that got limited uses? No? Right? No, it does not?
Wow? Nice, right, Okay, so it's normally uh, it's
normally one D eight. Okay, that works, all right, let's uh
roll initiative. Al right, Wow, Okay, the Horde got a seventeen
sixteen fourteen twelve. So the Horde right now, its first turn is spent
just rushing toward you, just blitzing towards you across this landscape. Down these
stairs they're stumbling over each other. The chasms shoot into the air, flying
at you. You even see a Marzier two, you know, big bloated,
gray, ghoulish looking creature lumbering down after you. And you see the
yagnolth is writing scripts out into the sky, looking like he's empowering them,
giving them some extra speed with his ability. And he does not move toward
you, though the Horde moves towards you, and that's going to be their
turn. But I mean they're super close to you at this point. Okay,
I see dude scribbling. I'm aiming for his hand. Oh yes,
that is a a twenty five to hit hits. Okay, that is plu
that is sixty two damage. Whoos, And I was aiming for his hand
that he's riding in the air with the crack that thing out of his hand.
Your attack hits and it's broke, and it does, it does some
damage. And his arm, his small arm, his normal arm, just
irrupts. Blood and gore come out everywhere, bone comes out. The Peng
goes flying and he screams in agony and throws back his cloak and you can
see that as a whole, his ears come out to have like these bat
like wing ears, and he's got a huge arm that like hangs down almost
to the ground, giant in comparison to his other normal looking arm. And
he starts powering up some kind of ability and this other arm maybe a healing
spell something can't quite tell, but it starts turning really really blood red as
the other arm begins to knit the wound closed. All right, I'm going
to use a bonus action to summon the spear back to me and catch it.
Okay, so you did that. Do you start running toward the door?
Yeah, I've been running. Yeah, I turned around and started running
with everybody. I'm using this to try and buy us some time. But
I used my bonus action to summon the spear back, and I am going
to fuck it. I'm gonna action search and I'm gonna chunk that motherfucker again
at him. It's twenty one to hit and I am aiming for his head.
Okay, that's fifty four damage. Yeah, So it explodes on his
face and he gets blasted back. His whole front torso had everything just falls
back, his feet go way up in the air. His giant arm,
the strong one, the one that's still there, grabs down toward the ground
to brace his fall, but he gets blasted the pedestal, the brazier,
all that stuff because of the forced impact, all blast in different directions.
He falls down to the ground and yeah, you lose him kind of in
the horde of creatures that are all now running over him to get to you.
All right, all right, Oh that's that's it. That's it for
my turn to come out of some time. Keep running. Our heroes will
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truly appreciate your support. Now back to the town of Eterno. Keep running.
Dove Winner goes first. She's like leading the way, running too the
point where where the different marks are on the wall, and so she's leading
that direction. Dove Sean grabs Torment and is like actually holding on to him
and their next in line, so she's like running almost borderline, dragging him,
keeping him on his feet. The other doves are ushering you through,
and they are a couple of bowl bow and arrows off their stuff and they
start shooting at the creatures that are behind you, trying to get you through
the door, and then they are ready to shut the doors behind you as
soon as you get through the doorway and then back into the hallway. So
they're laying down cover for you and Torman's running and that takes us to Baya's
turn. All right, So I'm going to cast at fourth level mind a
spike and they have to make a wisdom saving throw. Had a sixteen and
a twelve. The sixteen passes, so with the sixteen they get thirteen damage,
okay. The second one is a twenty four damage okay. So basically
what it looks like is two little balls of light flying around and attaching to
one of the I guess it would be the Zill's temples. One of its
it sticks there and it gives them a little shock, but it doesn't seem
to do that much damage. And the second one sticks there and gives the
zill a shock in it convulses and falls to the all right, And that
second one trips up a few behind it causes them to still, and that
takes us to more against her. I just I need to get the scene
in my head. So we've all been like just racing towards the door with
the Horde following us. Yes, yep, Okay, So I'm assuming I'm
bringing up the rear behind Vartan and Baia, and I'm going to let them
get further in front of me, and I'm going to turn. I'm going
to unfurl my spectral dragon wings and I am going to use Breath of the
Dragon, and I am going to exhale in a twenty foot cone lightning,
and anything in its path has to make a deck saving throw DC thirteen.
All right, So I'm going to say there are four creatures right there in
that path thirteen. Okay, So two of them make it. Two of
them don't, okay, So two of them take three points of damage and
the other two takes all. Right. Okay, so just a cone of
lightning is gonna come out, and as it strikes out at those four,
the two that are kind of on the edges are the ones that get hit
the least, so they're just kind of they're singe. They kind of step
back just a little bit, but not a whole lot. And then the
two that are right in their path just kind of you see them, You
see them singe, and you see them sees because they're just being electrocuted and
and I mean they it's not a lot of damage, so it's just kind
of enough to set them back and make them stop for a minute. And
then I'm and since I'm not in melee range of anything, I'm just gonna
go ahead and turn and run at that point, Okay, so you all
continue to run. You get through the door and back onto the hallway.
Just as you do, the doves close the door behind you. Dove Ca
takes her spear and shoves it in the door handle to try and create a
block from it. Does this spear have to fly to me or does it
just appear in my hand, it just appears okay, okay, cool.
So she blocks the door off for you as as you run, and then
you hear the Horde smashing into the door right behind you, just seconds after
it's closed and blocked you here it's smashing, but again the door opens toward
you in your direction, so it's not gonna be very long before they break
through this door and come after you. Also, you see Winter Torman and
Dove Sean up ahead, and the other doves are right in front of you.
But you hear scratching. Now in some of those rooms with closed doors,
it sounds like there might have been creatures in there that you may have
failed a perception check on earlier while you were walking through the hallways. Yes,
not creepy. So they're trying to get out at you from their closed
doors, so you assume maybe maybe some zill or maybe some chasms. Definitely
not a morazy because they could just open a door. But the Hord is
smashing into the wall as you guys run away. As you get a little
ways down the hall, you can hear them smash through the door and wood
shards come flying in. But you've got a good lead on them right now,
and they're going to spread to catch up. So Vartan, it is
your term. How far away are they? I mean you could probably see
maybe forty five feet. I'm gonna pull a javelin off my back, just
a regular javelin, and I'm going to just throw it back at the horde
coming down the hallway behind this. That's eleven piercing damage with one of the
centipede creatures. I just catch it. It's like raising up and just goes
straight through it. Acre splatters all over yep. And uh, I'm gonna
bonus action, summon the spear back into my hand, and I am I'm
gonna use my second attack and I'm going to yeah, I'm gonna throw the
I'm gonna throw the spear at the horde, aiming for the front of it.
It's fifty seven dammage. Just mom, Is it like you said,
it's like an explosion, so, like, is it like a radius thing?
Yeah, it's a it's a force explosion. So it hits in it
like a like a concussive grenade. Oh okay, cool. So it's just
like just took out the front the front ranks of that the wave coming at
us down the hallway. Mm hm cool, and so bits of demon starts
splattering everywhere, and then other ones come charging through in their wake. Yeah
all right, yeah, and that's that's it for my turn. All right.
So as you're running, you guys kind of stop to turn around to
do that, and the doves Winter and Sean and Torman are making good time
on you because they're not turn into fight, they're not doing anything, they're
not launching arrows. They're just sprinting to get back. And at this point
they've got a good amount of space on you all the way up to the
next intersection. They're just waiting for you to get to the next intersection so
you can see where to turn. But in between you and them, dove
Amethyst is running and she turns to shoot an arrow back over your heads toward
the demon Horde, and just as she does, one of the doors bursts
open and two chasms sting her, two of them back to back, one
in her neck and one in her back, and she screams as they launch
her into the room that they just came out of and pull her in and
steam and Amethyst dies. Yeah, Amethy, and it is bias turn,
all right? Can I still see the Horde coming at us like they're in
my yeah, yep. Baya turns around and points at them. Can you
burn in Hell if you're from Hell? And she casts fireball and that is
forty four damage and I'm gonna do twin spell one last time and the second
was twenty four damage. So you see Bia pointing finger gun, pointing at
these demons, and then she pulls out her other finger guns and points at
them and she's off the suck at fireball and there is just a huge explosion
fire right at the front lines. And then you still see some of the
stragglers and they're they're like burnt to a crisp and you can't see anything except
for fire. And then you see some of the uh rear board members just
like bursting through these flames, like still running, getting a little bit singed,
but jumping through the flames like a really bad as scene. Those those
two that can cussive grenade and then the two fireballs back to back have definitely
slowed them down. Morgan. Just as those things are happening, a third
chasm comes flying out of that room and it's in between you the three that
are in front. Winner Sean and torment and the and your party. So
a third chasm is right there as part of this part of this attack and
horde. That third chasm, how close is it to me? Fifteen feet?
I'm gonna go ahead and throw a dart towards the hord, but really
aiming for that particular chasm because it's closest. Nope, the chasm's not towards
the hord. It's oh it's the other way. Yeah, it's the other
it's like blocking retreat now, okay, Okay, Well, I'm still gonna
go after that one because it's chasing people, you know what. Switch that
to my crossbow. So that's ten piercing damage. Okay, see, and
then I have a second attack. I'm gonna go after that one again.
That one's a nineteen to hit and eleven points of damage this time. Okay.
So I see it burst out of the door, and I pull my
crossbow out and fire at it, and it hits it in kind of in
the shoulder near the neck, but not quite and then I immediately reload,
aim higher and I take it. I take it out by hitting it in
the eye with the second bolt, and it just crumples to the floor.
Thank you for listening to this episode of Ethereal Embrace, a Creative Typo production.
Vartan the Furbag Fighter is voiced and played by Adam Culbertson. Baya Rustin,
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you all, and stay foolish. Huh yeah, yeah, you saw it
in the vision, so you know that it works. I can't send you
this picture of this guy. I tried sending you a picture of what it
looks like, but it thinks that it's nudity. Yeah, so weird?
Is it that? Because it's not allowed in the Creative Typo server. Send
it in a DM to me or well, I guess all of us.
Does that work oh there, Yeah, DM's work so here, let me
send it to you and a oh man, hmmm, I mean I'll have
a bonus action next turn. A bonus action more like it. This is
why Discord doesn't let me send stuff.