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back into the dying world of merk Biore. Before we do, we'll hear
from all of our players. As always, Eric is back. Scar has
tagged out, although his character is not long for this world anyway, but
Scar will be back for our Patreon campaign in uh in August. If nothing
else, I'm sure he'll be back for the regular Channel two. So without
further ado, we will welcome Eric back from the land of Colorado. How's
it going, Hi, am Eric? It is going well? Yeah,
quick detour in Colorado. But what's that all beast in Texas? After all,
we're just kind of getting used to that, letting men realizations settling.
Yeah, yeah, that's kind of done with my boss and and everything,
so bucks, you know, well, we'll make it two. Yeah,
kinda kind of go where the money is sometimes you know. Yeah, yeah,
they convinced me. Well, I mean at least they tried, like
that's you know, that's true. I got more than I was expecting,
So that's good. Are you salary or hourly salary? Okay? All right?
Uh? And who are you playing tonight? It looks like my new
character is bull mob bum lum lug blum lugo lug. I don't know.
Yeah, I guess the v could be silent just out there there. I
got rid of the Dulu royalty the snake skin dagger. Oh cool? Yeah?
What were your two things you started with? Because Scar had the he
had the sword and the horse last week? Uh, look, dickhead horse.
The horse was awesome. He um, he has I guess his equipment
to the bear trap food life Flixer's short sword, snake skin dagger, and
the snakeskin gift. I don't water skin. That's gotta be it, all
right? Cool? Well we will let see how he holds a snake skinned
gift. That's gotta be it. Okay, cool, Well, we'll we'll
see how all that goes tonight. Who else do we have? We've got
Sean, what's going on? Man? I haven't seen you in like twenty
four hours. A. Yeah, I know, it's crazy. How you
doing. I'm Sean and I'm playing er Gush, the Heretical Priest. Still
he survives as a crossbow now and we leveled up last week, so at
least he's actually it's not bad. He's not bad. Yeah. The leveling
ope is surprisingly good in this game, and pretty quick at least when you
start. Yeah. So yeah, nothing really crazy and nothing any different than
what I was talking about yesterday, so not much to say. Okay,
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Thank you all for joining us. Darth Lucretius awesome, Thank you guys,
really appreciate it that we got more on the way to stay tuned. Cool,
all right, moving on, The Frog is back as well. Hello,
I'll be playing uh Henry Wright, also known as the Old Crabs,
way older than any of these other characters at this point, He's been gifted
question Mark the responsibility of hanging on to the Chaos Blade and we'll see how
that goes today. Yeah, that's right, I forgot about that. Cool.
And finally, Kyle the Red Beard. Hello, Yes, I'll be
playing. I'm once again playing a Dean, the sometimes naked, very creepy
be pale one who produced a bomb in the middle of the fight, which
reminds me I need to get another one, um and uh yeah, currently
tasked with figuring out that goblin shit and yeah yeah, uh that's about it,
all right, wonderful. Well, I am the Great Unclean One,
your host and GM as always, And what have I been up to?
Still painting those fucking chaos Nights, hoping to have them done this week.
Painting some chaos Warhounds as well. So I got a lot done this month
for tail gamers, playing lots of total war as throughout the Unclean. Got
a nice Stephen Stack amnstrosity slowly growing, about to wipe Cantarina off the map.
So Kis loves kisleft. City is under siege and about to fall,
and that'll pretty much be what's left to her. And what else. I've
been walking watching the original seasons of Walking Dead. I'm on season two now.
Really good shit there. And tenth edition forty K Rules dropped with the
free download this week, so got that to read through as well. Lots
of good stuff going on, and we're planning our next Tale of four Gamers,
which is going to be a forty K tale of gamers to ride that
hype train, get the you know, praise to the algorithm, all that
stuff probably be seeing that sometime in July, hopefully so stay tuned for more.
But you are here for some merk bore do metal RPG. Unless we
left our players. Members of the Guard of craven Ford, known as the
Blighted Bulkwark, had gotten but pretty much a whole new slate of recruits they
had joined. Henry Wright, the only survivor of Session one, went back
to the cave that the Drowned had made as their layer, and you managed
to have a much more successful time there, slaying all of the drowned and
only losing Torben's dog in the process, so that dog has joined the resting
place with the other dog. You looted all the corpses of your previous comrades,
and in a hidden alcove in the cave you found the Chaos Blade you
were sent to retrieve. You returned to craven Ford to give that back to
the Captain, which he in turn gave that to the Deacon. She then
held one of her bizarre ceremonies in the rotting Oak, and she eventually presented
the Chaos Blade to Henry to wield and safe keep for a time being as
a reward for returning it to its rightful place. Other than that, you
had a couple strangers visit the town, and after that goblin started appearing and
causing all sorts of trouble. Some outsiders were executed in a ritual to the
bec lure, as it was believed that they were bringing some terrible things down
upon the town. Eric, you missed not one, but three miseries occurred
last week, all in a row. Be sure you mark those off on
your character sheet. So the campaign's halfway over, folks, It's pretty awesome.
And what else happened? Oh, every time one of those miseries happened,
this terrible storm of black salt ripped through the town to varying degrees,
causing many people to get sick and or die, including Torben, who is
now basically infected with like a black lung type of disease, and he has
about a week to live to find a cure before he too joins the mass
grave pile. And other than that, you've been trying to find out what's
going on with these goblins. So these goblins have started appearing mostly on the
southern end of the plateau, and it turns out if they are able to
injure somebody. That person is then cursed and eventually, several days later,
they themselves turn into one of these wretched creatures. That's a problem. So
you have been tasked with getting to the bottom of it. Throughout all this
chaos, each of you, I think almost everybody kind of like had a
lead for a job. Sean's character, Ergush, had been hired by a
man named Nagel Green. He is the son of the Green family that owns
the mill in town. His father, Ervan, had recently died and he
inherited the mill. Now. Nagel is also a like alchemist of some sort,
and he seems to have developed a cure for the goblin curse, and
unfortunately he cannot make it fast enough. There's always a line at his shop,
and he is worried that some of the arguments and fights are going to
start causing even more problems. So he ended up hiring Ergush as a guard
to help watch over his shop when he's open and trying to sell the cure.
And then I believe, Matt Henry, I believe you had gone and
interviewed one of the farmers who has been inflicted by the goblin curse. Yeah,
yep, you're checking out his place. A gil Vug was his name,
great name there. And then someone else was hired by, like a
noble baroness to find out what was going on as well, Yeah, a
dean Okay, So she basically had come to town. She rules over a
duchy nearby, and she's worried that this goblin outbreak is going to spread to
her lands. And I believe she offered you two hundred silver with a deduction
of I think ten or twenty silver a day until you until you solve it.
I believe that's everything that happened. So Eric, why don't you explain
to us who your character is and what they look like? And they are
going to be assigned to help Henry and his new crew to try to deal
with this goblin incursion. Torben Scars character is way too sick with this black
lung rot to really be of any use. So he is he is out
of commission right now, and we need a replacement. So Mo Lug you're
up, all right? Yeah? Mo Lug is, I said, wretched
Royalty. So I guess what kind of developed that story? What is your
what is your character? What do you have as far as equipment powers,
any of the backstory stuff in your little description that it gives you. So
the backstory description for him is okay, bowed it down only by the memories
of your own lost glory. You could never submit to anyone else, not
you of noble blood. Not that you expect any of these peons understand that
death is your sorrow. They're probably pretty full of himself. Not really wanted
to take orders. Okay, he said, he has this snakeskin dagger which
has looks like it has poison weeping from the blade. Who he looks like
you didn't fight poison with poison here, all right? The snakeskin gift is
an expensive sandalwood box bounded snakeskin. It contains a seemingly ordinary dagger wrapped in
silk. Okay, so the so that daggers kept in the box, I
gotcha, okay, and you got negative three strength. Nice Jesus. Yeah,
I don't imagine royal Yeah, no other strength hereah, clearly not okay.
Well, h So the next day after you guys initially investigates some stuff
at the at the mill or at the mill, but in the southern part
of the the plateau, you guys eventually returned to the barracks, and the
next day Captain Graft assigns mo Lug to your group, Henry, So once
again, you guys are sitting together in the barracks eating your slop gruel for
breakfast, and Molug approaches and you guys can take it away. Oh also,
I need someone to roll me a misery guy already. Yeah, it's
it's a new day, so that's going to be a d or please all
right, I can do this one. I was out. Yeah, get
it, Derek too. Oh, let's not play all right, Okay,
So yeah, you guys can discuss amongst yourselves as your new your new companion
has joined the group, can'tfully they've served as garbage. I expected to eat
this well, yeah, that's what we're all eaten. If you know of
anything better, let me know. I'm not allowed to hear it. Seems
you could always just die. We did always in appom but we try not
to write. Yeah, we don't last long around here anyways. Nope,
where are y'all had it? Well? The farmer on the east end,
it seems to have a legitimate sort of issue with the goblins. I saw
some something of a nest in one of the undercroft of this barn, and
if we just want to have a row with them, it might be possible
to stake the area out and see where they're going in or coming from.
He also seemed very sweaty, which as a farmer is not unusual, but
he was also quite pale. You folks went down to the that was it
an alchemist? He doesn't happen to have any extra tinctures lying around, does
he. Well, we can go check. I mean, I'm technically working
for him, so yeah, we can check. Maybe he can get you
a discount or something. Sure, that might be practical if we think we're
going to stomp into a nest of infectious goblins. Right, yeah, I
think it's a good idea to maybe prepare ourselves like the rope we got last
time. Are you guys heading to Nagle's shop then, when you're finishing with
your breakfast? Yeah? I think so, right, sure, yeah,
let's do that. Okay, Well, once again I'll share Nagle's amazing art
with you guys. So you get to the shop as it is just about
to open. You can see a line of people beginning to form, and
when he sees you come in. He uh you know, it's happy to
see uh Sean and uh yeah he starts, you know, having people come
in and just about everybody, it seems, us here for his his miracle
here. All right, yeah yeah, start keeping people in an orderly line,
all of you. Please give me a present test. Fuck? Um,
that's a number. I'm going to use my omen to reroll for the
day. Now. This is a ship test. Naw, yeah, you
have you learned nothing from last night? Sean dark deal? There are no
dark deals in this game. Press. If there were, I would be
actively taken though. Use a dark deal to find then in a small village
that you just said is over there. Yep, love to see it.
Yeah, check out the patreon for that one. Folks. You'll you'll be
face palming as well. You can also see at the beginning Matt do something
very cool and then it take a mediate effect right after. Oh yeah,
yeah that's good ship unexpected but cool. All right? Who passed that?
Henry? I think it's the only one, right TC or do dr twelve
m Yeah I'm at fourteen on. That's a big old note for me.
All right, So Henry, you notice as you guys get here you see
leaving out of um like the back entrance, the back door of the the
shop. You see a very tall woman. She's got kind of dirty,
long black hair and looks a little gaunt. She's got big pair of gloves
that go up almost to her elbows on. And then she's got other than
that though. She has like kind of like working working person's clothes, basically
bank like overalls. They seem fairly dirty and unkempt. There's artwork for this
person as well, so I will show you, guys who you see.
Disregard the thing that she's carrying. I don't know if that's supposed to be
a body or skeleton or something, but that's the artwork that you see,
or that's the person that you see. You see that she's clearly was was
just here and is leaving as Nagle gets the shop open, Well, would
you like to introduce us or should we kee up? Okay, hey,
bust, these are my god buddies who are trying to stop this goblin get
you. They were wondering if you have any more why anything for sale that
we might be able to take when we go searching for guablins and not die.
He says, what are you What are you searching for goblins for?
That's classified, So just so I'm aware, like everybody knows, couplets are
an issue right now, right yeah, Okay, I'm gonna give him a
quizzical look. Okay. He returns it and looks kind of annoyed. Okay,
Well, the reports are that they're sneaking into homes and biting people and
stealing things, and I like to keep all of my possessions whenever possible and
limbs also, so we're going to hopefully eradicate them. I don't have high
hopes, but so far we've killed a few goblins and I'm hoping it'll only
be a few more and then I can get back to eating my terrible gruele.
Oh m, everybody can give me another presence test. This will be
DR fourteen. Uh, it's like only a thirteen for ergsh oh Adean with
a nineteen a Dean. When he comments that, you get the feeling that
he's he doesn't seem pleased at the idea of you guys like either going hunting
for goblins or maybe looking into it. There's something about it that he doesn't
seem too enthused about. And he says, um, uh, I don't
have enough of this to spare or gosh, I've got to keep it for
the people that actually need it, kind of kind of waves his hand at
the line of people eagerly awaiting um pretty much all of which you think seemed
to be displaying the symptoms of the early stages of the Goblin curse. Will
lads, I tried, so I got to know today unless you want to
get in line and try to pre produce. But I don't think we have
that conduct on. Well, I wasn't necessarily saying for myself. The farmer
on the east old Gills orpe that's probably not right anyway. He seems to
be in a bad way, and there's some creatures living under his shack.
I mean, you're welcome to wait in line. He won't say be from
doing that, and you can purchase one legitimately. Well, maybe we'll just
uh just recommend he do that. I see this is money issue. The
farmer right out elites or whatever is it? Man? Is that referring to
have the farmer come wait in line? Oh? Sure? Why not?
Well, remember because I'm asking because the farmer like head indicate when you talk
to him that he can't afford the cure. That's right, it's forty silver.
I don't have that on me either, So this is a money issue.
How much how much do we need for this? About sixty silver?
You guy, easy, I'll take care of it. Oh, I could
take the transaction. I know the boss. He'll be willing to give to
me. He trusts him more. Eric, are you getting in line?
Are you giving the money to Ergush? Give the money? Oh? No,
okay, Ergash, you have sixty silver. Yeah, I pocket the
twenty and I pay forty for the thing. Okay. Yeah, when you
when you go over there, you know, he he doesn't like question when
you're like, hey, I want to buy one. Um, so he
lets you. He lets you buy one. Okay, but you get the
feeling you don't want him to see that you're giving it to uh uh a
bulog right now? Yeah, I mean I'll just I'll pocket it. Yeah,
okay, once we get out, I'll just give it to Henry because
he was the one that talked to the farmer. Okay, what do you
guys do after that? M M, I go to the farmer guy?
Right, Yeah, I guess I could come, but run there unless anyone
now says leads are a hunch or just want to like wander out into the
forest see what happens. Not sure, I like an idea, Yeah,
let's go out there. Yeah farmer, well, yeah you were. You
returned to his his farm and uh gil Vogue is there. He's out in
the fields doing some work, looking even more stressed and uh and sweaty and
worn out than you would expect him too. It's kind of early in the
day, so you don't think he's been working for that long, but I
mean he's he's huffing and puffing and breathing really heavy when you when you get
there, and he's really struggling to uh to push the plow that he's working
on. Guess we can go up to him. And I don't know,
I didn't. You said that you hand the care to me, But I
think whoever ponied up for it should take the credit, all right, Yeah,
then I gave it to we can we can get it to ever Yeah,
okay, well you've got you've got them here, takes this. I
don't need it. Uh. He when he sees you guys approach, obviously
he recognizes you. Henry and he you know, he takes a he stops,
wipes his brow at the back of his hand, you know, kind
of patting his face and neck down with like a dirty rag or handkerchief.
And as he's like about to greet you guys, Mulug just produces the kre
and the guy's like mouth drops and his eyes go wide like this this is
for me. I has no use for it. What's up you silver?
And he looks at you, Henry, like, is this is this real?
Is this like a joke? Oh? Good news? H community is
scraped together some uh tint. Sure we must stand together in difficult times.
Oh, by the by the back lure, and he says you you have
my thanks. I can't believe this. He's like, he's like, my
my boiled still have a father. And he starts to get a little like
weepy eyed about it. And he takes it and quickly drinks the vial,
happy to hear that. I don't suppose you've you've seen any of the goblin
types and are out lately. No, I haven't seen that one since I
scared it out of the uh the seller two three days ago. A good
well, perhaps these types will have a keener eye than this old man.
Especially you new hello, and I clap my lug on the shoulder and say
you've done a good thing today and let's let's keep them comment you expect me
to work today too, And gil Vug is like, well, but by
all means, feel free to take a look around if that'll help. If
there's anything I can do or ask or answer, just let me know what
shall he he look, let's go take a look around the cellar again.
I think it might be good. Um. We should probably also take a
look around the walls near the field to see if there's any like breakage or
poles that they might be sneaking in through. You. Well, there's not
really a wall around the fields. These this is supposed to be signed like
road and sidewalk. Yeah, but like these these walls right well that's the
edge of the plateau. Oh so there's there's no wall. That's just where
the cliff faces. Yeah yeah. So um, okay, all of you
give me a presence test please, man Dad, I give plus three years
you do something good, fun time, okay, seventeen Well okay, right
there, all right, everyone, here we go boys, So all of
you do a pretty thorough search, not of gist of gil Vug's farm,
but some of the surrounding farms an area, checking anywhere you think that you
might find one of these things. Um, Ultimately, what you guys discover
you get a lot of similar stories for some of the other farmers here and
there. Um, you know, maybe one or two of them tells you
that they've seen goblins scurrying around, or they've scared one off, or head
to head to fight or kill one. Um, you don't really think that
the goblins would be able to make it up the cliff. It's just it's
really sheer, and I mean you you've never seen a goblin climb. You
don't know if they're good at that or not. But it seems really unlikely
to you that they're coming from outside the town. I should say, if
they're coming from outside the town, they're not coming up the cliff face.
You're pretty sure that that's just unfeasible. But you know, when you find
signs, like you know, maybe somebody points out another cubbyhole where they found
a goblin hiding or something like that. But um, you don't really get
anything more concrete. Do we see, like the tracks, Probably not of
the Goblin. Nothing, nothing that lasts for too long. Okay, all
folks are wandering around and we have a lull in the action, and I
think Henry is gonna like make sure that everybody has left the cellar, and
while he's got a moment of peace, pull up up his sleeve and the
bandaged arm on his left, and uh, He's decided that it would be
cooler and more holy than blasphemous to test the blade of Chaos on his own
army. Oh boy, I'm gonna give it, give it a little slice,
just to see how sharp it is and if it makes the runs light
up. Uh, it's uh sharp as shit? Man um nice? Uh
yeah, I mean you barely have to even touch it and it starts to
part your skin. Cool, replace the bandage and light up though, when
you just like cut yourself, that's good. Probably yeah, probably, I
mean, I guess I don't have any reason necessarily to believe that they would
do that, but uh an, I'll continue on after replacing the bandage.
Well, unless anybody's seen some Goblin tracks or leavings, maybe we'll just have
to continue searching around town. Wait you there, I don't suppose you recognize
that the early bird, the dark haired woman that was leaving the shop.
Do you suppose she gets extra doses of the cure from old alchemists before he
opens shop? Nagel, Well, the Fama wasn't there. I would supposed
to know. You're you're not sure who he's referring to, Urgush, because
Henry was the only one that saw that woman. You're not sure. You're
not sure? Yeah, when all three of you are like, what are
you talking about it, I haven't seen a woman. I'll give Urgosh a
brief description and be like you said, you work with him. So if
you've never run into her before, I mean, don't you don't recognize her?
It doesn't match anyone that you've seen. No, maybe I'll go back
and try to talk to it. Yeah, I mean you've only been working
there for like two or three days, but you've never seen her. So
right, No, we'll have to start talking to someone. So let's continue
around clockwise and just see if we can pick up any leads. Okay,
where where do you go? Um? Clockwise would bring us to the town's
player. Next right, just to Piking Square Bill and then continue on.
Take a gander. Well Town squares where you guys just came from. That's
where most of the shops are located around the town square, so that's where
most of the you know, business and trade goes on. There's a couple
of blocks that have you know, shops and things like that there, and
then there's the actual square itself with the big statue in the middle. Um,
what do you guys looking for? What are you doing when you're here?
I mean, I'll try to take a look for the woman he suscribed,
but it's been probably a little while. Yeah, you don't. You
don't see her? All right, go back to a Nagle's shop and make
sure that everything's going over smooth. Yeah, I mean you're probably gonna have
to be there for a little while because it is your your time to like
be on duty. So why don't we focus on the three characters. Why
don't each of you tell me what you'd like to do, and then we'll
let's see how that goes. So Henry, let's start with you. Uh,
yeah, I guess unless you guys want to discuss stuff first and then
make a decision up to you. Yeah, before we break, I didn't
have any better ideas than to just wander about and look for more leads for
goblin sightings. See if there is another nest in town. Um they must.
You know, the farmer wasn't the only one to be accosted by these
creatures, so we should be able to get somebody who could tell us more
information, right, Well, yeah, I don't know we really had was
that at at farmer? And I mean, I'll try talking to the people
while I'm working at Eagle shop, see if i can get any needs from
them. I mean, all those people who are probably suffering the curse.
I'm gonna look like I suppose while we're here, we could just go up
and down the line and see where they're from. Gonna take a quick survey,
and let's see whether the highest concentration is. Yeah, I'm sure sounds
great. I'm convinced, convinced that's a great idea. Let's let's shake those
people down, not not for money, but for their home addresses and phone
numbers and social security information. All right, Um, what about a dean
and molog What are you guys gonna do. I'm only here to pep up
appearances, So I'm gonna follow people around pretend like I know what I'm doing
and like I'm supposed to be there. Okay, excellent, Um, I
think a deane was he followed up with that old lady in the south end
of the map, correctly, right, Yeah, that's who you met with.
He met her last session. Yeah, So, um, I think
I just ended. When I stopped talking with her, I just kind of
left the area. So maybe I'll just search around more see if I can
pick anything up at that same area where you spoke with her. No,
I probably branch out. Um, I think what we're technically coming from the
east, so i'd move westward. And what exactly are you looking for?
Any sign of guy and Tom Poolery? All right, okay, well we'll
start with Henry and Ergush over at back at uh Nagle's shop. I'm also
going to pretend that I'm in charge, So anybody does somebody tells me that
what they're gonna do, I'm gonna repeat it back like there was my idea.
Okay, all right, So the three of you go to the shop,
and you know, there's a couple of people you know, still in
line here as Nagle is clearly raking in some money, and uh, you
know, he gives you a non when you come back, but it doesn't
really say much as he's helping somebody out. Um, you said you're gonna
start asking people in the line about if they have any information. Is that
what the plan was? Yeah, okay, Well, each of the people
in the line is in supposedly infected by the curse or afflicted by the curse,
and each of them tells you their own story of how they got attacked
or bit or clawed or whatever it is. Um. And basically what you
start to kind of piece together is that these goblins really like to just kind
of just hanging out everywhere like cockroaches. You know, they're inside basements,
cuverbs, uh, you know, alleyways, you know, little nooks and
crannies and cubby holes. And you know they're little spiteful, vicious creatures too
that you know, when they're when they think no one's looking, they're up
to no good. You know, they're breaking windows, they're throwing rocks at
small animals, you know, things like that and generally being a nuisance.
But they seem to be rather cowardly, especially when when someone tries to kind
of put up a fight or you drive them off, and they usually tend
to run away more often than not, and have most of their interactions occurred
more towards night or more towards day or is it more random? And there's
no desertable It doesn't seem any pattern. It just seems to be kind of
whatever. You get the feeling. The goblins probably like the dark better based
on all the places they're hiding. But it's like if they get disturbed,
then they get spooked in either attack or run, So time of day doesn't
matter. But you know, they clearly light the dark, right, and
these people are from all over town, so there's no like pattern as to
where they're necessarily coming from. I mean, like I said from last session,
it does seem like the attacks started and originated on the southern part of
the plateau, but at this point it's it's affecting the whole town. So
then we being like actual southern on the state picture right, Okay, yes,
okay, Um, do I know if Nagle's shop hats like a seller
that he's been into recently? It does not know. Okay, let's hope
we find one day. Now he's got like a back room where he keeps
all the supplies and like um up front it's kind of like, um,
kind of like a bakery where it's got like the uh I mean, they're
not like refrigerated coolers or anything like that, but like that where it's like
the glass on the fronts people can kind of look in and see the wares,
and then he's standing behind the counter and then he can open them from
the next so you're kind of like in a jewelry store like that, right,
and then he's got like a workbench in the back where he can actually
mix stuff up and work on his tinctures and everything. Right. Yeah,
it's just a small two room shop. Sorry. So I mean we could
start checking out places in the southern area. So I like the butcher,
the mill. I mean, we're out in the town square and we haven't
seen anything, but we haven't looked in like gank sellers. All right,
well you guys can start doing that. Meanwhile, Kyle, Um, why
don't you all give me presence test. As you guys are searching about trying
to find some some clues or ideas here, let's see if he was able
to douce anything. Go nine, I I fucked it. Kenry's out here
fucking killing it. Jeez. Twenty two. Huh, give me some of
that, so, Henry. It's not so much that somebody gives you like
an earth shattering clue or anything like that, but it pretty much takes the
whole day if you guys looking around, talking to people, interviewing, asking
questions, and you realize that it seems like the first reported Goblin attacks started
very shortly after Nagle's father died, probably within a couple of days at most.
That was the epicenter for the attacks, it seemed. Early reports are
from the southern end. The manner and the or the alchemist shop doesn't have
a seller, but does their manner have presumably a lot of you would imagine
their their actual like house to the family as um probably has a basement of
some sort and there, Well, that's fine. Was that I was thinking
out loud? But if you call that thinking? Sure? Wow, okay,
you know what feeling a little bit route today? Chris? What do
you do? What has gone on here? Just feel a little spicy?
That's all? Well? Can we snoop around? Should be good to the
captain and get awarded? Is that a real? Is that a thing?
Probably not? I think we just need to turn up and before. Let's
up to you. Whatever you guys want to do. You tell me.
Are you hearing this with the group? Are you just making a decision?
Well, yeah, sure, I mean what I will tell you is that
the family's home is not on the southern side of the plateau. Okay,
so if that changes your ideas, the mill is and the alchemist's shop is
in the town's square. Well, the mills in a separate section. It's
not part of the town square, right, big building? Correct? How
does that have a basement or is it just big? You don't know it
could um, none of you've ever been in it, so you don't know.
Sure, let's let's go check that out. If I had assumed the
manor and the mill were kind of together, but on the on the southern
end, but yeah, let's go there. I guess what I'm sharing is
like we know that no, from from questioning and earlier reports as we started
the job, that sort of the initial reports are from the southern end and
started right after the death of the Green the Green patron and they own like
the mill and they own that they own the mill ys Is everybody going to
the mill or just Henry? Well, I'm still working right, So yeah,
I mean, if he's gonna go now, then yeah, you would
still be working unless he wants to wait. It's up to you, guys.
Well I could stoop around a bit during the day, okay. Well,
the three of you then go to check out the mill, and when
you get there, as usual, the the wind part of it, the
you know, the part that spins, is moving as normal, and the
three of you are surprised at how loud the mill sounds. You mean,
you've never really checked this place out before, but it surprises you that it's
making as much noise as it is. Whatever equipment is inside this structure is
noticeable. It's audible from out here, kind of droning through the windows,
and you know, perhaps the walls too, don't seem loud. But I'm
no farmer, nor miller milliner. It's a milliner, a shoemaker. I
believe a milliner is the hat maker, a cobbler as a shoemakers. Are
there imposing guards or anything? Or can we just approach the building? There
is not There are no guards. Just like a lonely path that kind of
leads up to the front door, and it's it's on a bit of a
raised part of the plateau, so it kind of it's like a small hill
that overlooks most of the town. Well, let's let's go see who's home.
Okay, you drive the door. It is very clearly locked. It's
a very large, heavy door. It doesn't budge. I guess I'll knock
on it, so you open up. It's the city guard. There's no
response. No, I didn't expect that to work. Maybe we should look
around the building before kicking out, kicking down any doors. I think we
should look around the building before kicking down any doors after you. All right,
you guys, do a perimeter around the mill. There's really nothing else
around here other than the mill itself. You know, the nearest building is
probably a couple hundred feet away, and you circle the entire building. There
does not appear to be any other entrance, just that main front door.
There are windows, but they're all towards the top of the mill, kind
of like in my awesome picture here, those little white squares are the windows.
Okay, not to scale. Didn't we buy a ladder last time?
Oh? I don't know, you tell me, but we've got a lot
of rope. Someone may have picked up the grappling hook. I know that
was briefly seen on the list of items. I don't believe I took one.
Now, well, houddle up, boys, I think we have a
couple of options. So we could just kick down the door and see what's
in there, And if it's just a bunch of smashed wheat, then we'll
feel awfully sheepish and probably have to do a bunch of hard labor to make
up for the damage. Otherwise, we could stake the place out, if
any of you would be willing to wait in the dock and see if anybody
comes in we can question them. Or we could follow up with the Green
family and see if they'd be willing to let us inspect the premise premises premises,
I suppose since we have to pick up urger, I'll shot at some
point. Anyway, maybe we can make a third stop to the Stone Square
and see if Old Nagel as the keys to his family new what do you
think, bull, Look, he seemed to have a good head on your
shoulders. Well, I understand why you would come to me for such advice.
I believe we should just ask him for the keys. That's just collect
our group, all right, I think that's a majority. Okay, you
go back to the shop done when it's closing time? Yeah? Sure,
okay, Well, eventually you guys get there and it looks like they're getting
ready to close up for the night. Nagel Uh he's your your fee for
the day or gosh, and you see your friends approaching as you know,
he goes in back to uh finished cleaning up way? Yeah, how's going
boys? Oh, we need the keys the mill. Go putch them for
us. I'll see what I can do, and I'll go into the back.
Okay, hey, niggle loss. Yes, your family owns that mill,
right, they do. Well part of our investigation, we're gonna have
to take a quick gander round, dex. I kind of get the keys,
he says. Why do you need to look in the mill? I
don't ask questions like that. Oh well, I guess in that case you
don't need to look. Well, it was really gonna be my head if
I don't get those keys. I'll relay the message, go back out.
He doesn't want to give us keys? Did he say? Why? Very
suspicious? No? What he wants to know why he wants to go in?
Why doesn't you want us to go in. I didn't ask that.
Ah, well, maybe I could talk to him. I'm not gonna stop
you. It's right back the door you saw me go through thirty sevensdoe.
Yeah, I'm gonna do you want to take a presence test for that and
then spend a dark deal to know which door do you use? Yes?
I will, I will, absolutely, I rolled the five. I need
a dark deal. Okay, you go back there. Henry and Nagols know
where to be seen. Oh, I'm gonna Is he in the back room
or is or am I in the back room? Now? Yes, you
are in the back room. Okay, I'm gonna do I'm just gonna look
around. I'm gonna snoop. Okay, in a long time. What's going
up to give me a present stest? Sure? Oh hold on, I'm
gonna. I'm gonna take a dark deal natural one the what is the button
for that? There's no button. He's got to redo it like producer.
Oh Man's slightly better. Yeah, that's that's not bad. That's fourteen.
But you see that there's a there's uh, you know, there's there's shelves
back here with a bunch of his stock and you know stuff that else have
just want out there, you know, stuff that he might be actively be
using, um, things that he's already put together backstock. And you also
notice there is a door that leads out back. Uh, I'll attempt to
go through that door. Yeah, it leads outside. Yeah, nobody's out
here. Nope. Okay, so I like like to like the side of
the building basically, all right, I'll come back around front and ask if
anybody saw someone leave the building and any of our party. I suppose we're
all still inside. Oh sorry, Yeah, all of a sudden, Henry
comes in through the front door. Huh wait, although he seems to snuck
off. Hmmm, looks right. That's very suspicious. Oh well, I
don't think we need to let a little door stop us. Well, let's
set out. Uh, let's run back. Is there anything you know,
like shiny or any like tinctures or potions or anything he's gotten here? I
can just grab. There's no money. He takes the lockbox with with him
at night. But yeah, I mean there's there's stuff in here. Yeah.
I'm just gonna grab like three random aisles of stuff and take them.
Okay, just mark them off on your sheet. I'm sure there's a chart
we can roll somewhere to figure out what they could definitely has a chart.
Yeah, I'll start looking while you guys decide what's next. All right,
all right, so what's the next Let's let's the next move? Boss go
to the mill or maybe his house. I kind of want to just kick
down the door to the mill. There's no keys back there. Nope,
soon he took them, all right. Well, yeah, let's just go
break down the door to the mill. There's a big door or small door
or what's what's wrong with it's it's a big door, A big boy.
All right, there's quickly glancing at the party. How many of us look
strong? No? No, do we buy a lock picking set? I
don't know item. I believe it's an item. Yeah oh yeah, okay,
I have a toolbox. But that I think that would only fortify the
door. We could use it to remove the hinges. I think you can
never mind? How the money there? Yeah? Lockpicks are a nightma and
they cost five solver. That's it? Wo okay, Yeah, should get
a bunch. Now let me look at it. Look for a ladder.
Ladder? Okay, so you're somebody's buying lockpicks. Is that correct, right?
I guess yeah, lockpicks on a ladder total twelve silver. I'll use
that from the twenty I took from our friend. Or okay, you have
a ten foot ladder and a set of lock picks. Is the ten foot
ladder enough to get into a window or the windows glass? Leave the ladder?
Get that as we all walked down the street carrying a ladder. If
you want something, there's also fucking windmill. Dude, the land the windows
are at the top, like no, the ten foot ladder is nowhere near
tall enough to get to the window. This is why we use mechanical engineering
to attach four ladders together. Oh god, we've got ropes. So this
is how my character dies? All right, So we take our our lockpicks
and go to the mill. Okay, if you want to purchase something,
get a crowbar. Okay, okay, sounds good. I'll grab the crow
bar instead. I don't know what I'm use it for, but pix don't
work. Somebody can give me an agility test with the lock picks I'll give
you. I'll make it dr hold on, let me see what it is
here. Drop it down into DR twelve with the lock picks. I got
a plus the row boys, let's do for me, all right, Well
we'll give him to the depressed guy. Oh she, I'll give it a
shot. Killed it. Okay, So you see that a dean surprisingly with
quite deaft hands goes to work on the door, and after a few moments
you hear the click and the clank as the lock is open, and you're
able to get the door to swing open very ponderously. It creaks open.
Is it lint inside? No, it is quite dark, MREs. The
sound of machinery is much louder once the door opens, but it sounds like
it's coming from above. So this is like an old timy mill where there's
like a giant metal or giant wooden rod down the center and there's a stone
wheel going in a circle, just grinding stuff. Yes, well that's what
you're assuming on this floor when you guys walk in. Well, do you
have a light source? First off? Because it is quite dark. We
all bought torches last time. Okay, well, assuming you at least light
up one torch. Yeah, you see you guys see a blank map right
now? Yeah, okay, black square? All right, so I does
have a slight border. Yeah, that's the thing up which has all on
the map here. So what you see is ahead of you there is what
looks like basically a massive pile of detrius that has been piled up to make
like a wall or a barricade of some sort. There's like equipment, buckets,
wheelbarrels, shelves, a wood stone, just all sorts of stuff just
piled up making like a wall. And it's it's quite high. It looks
like it's over six feet tall, over two year. Right. You can
see that there is a bookshelf against the wall and there is an opening big
enough for maybe a person or two to walk through between the bookshelf in the
stuff the barricade. Okay, h taking a quick Listen, we only hear
that big loud machinery here, right, can't hear anything else. You can
give me another presence test here eleven. Get me out now with what combat
No. Eight it's not great. Oh, look on the very edge of
your hearing, you hear what sounds like the hiss of something burning like a
mh. You hear that snakes hissing sound. Yeah, it sounds kind of
like that, but it's it's constant. It doesn't. It's not like a
snake where you hear like it in bursts. It is one solid, continuing
sound. You catch that any sound, it sounds like it's coming from the
other side of the barricade, across from you guys over there. All right,
I'll check it out. I will try to sneak over and then peek
around the barricade. Okay, give me an agility test if you're trying to
be sneaky Minrold twenty, you manifested it, Yeah, with with surprising uh
stealth ergush creeps over uh ergush. You get to like here, right,
and as you come around the corner, you can see that there's a staircase
that leads up to the next floor, and off to your left you catch
the glimpse of a few shapes on the edge of your vision and you see
right here a large black shape. You can't quite tell what it is when
you look at It looks like, um, like something circular. Oh no,
I have a pretty good idea what I'm looking at here? Now?
What do you do? Uh? Either pointed like sort of at where I
would be. I mean, it looks like you're looking at a circle.
Yeah, okay, um I will peel back. There's some shapes over there
standing behind a circle keeps yeah, shapes. I'm gonna go take a look
bus sure. Oh rightby means you a look yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you will draw cross and just do like the cop entry breech, breach,
breach. Okay, just a moment here, all right? Uh what
is the marching roder here? Ergush? Obviously you were first because he went
through first. Yeah, and then what's the marching order after that? Uh?
Adan would probably want to go next. Okay, So Adan, you're
next to him. Then who's after a Dean? I don't know. Okay,
So you guys are, Then you guys are like this then okay,
so everybody in part of me? Okay? Um, so Ergush. As
you guys start to line up and you come around the corner, you can
see that the shapes on the edge of your vision are clearly interacting with the
big circle that you see, and you realize a second too late that they
are turning a fucking canon towards the door. And as you see that,
all of you finally hear the kissing sound stop, and then there is a
deafening explosion that goes off as the cannon fires, mo lug, I will
need a shit Oh shit, man, I need a d R What is
it here? A DR sixteen agility test cheats us? Did it? Cho
somehow? By some luck huge trip duck or are pushed out of the way
as the cannon goes off, ripping through the barricade and through the front door,
right where you were standing. And the cannon ball sails over and passed
you, smashing through the door. And I'll give you, guys vision now
because most of the barricade is destroyed. So let me just switch this up
and let me get rid of the wall that's there, okay, and you
can see go, you can see that there are three goblins hittering and laughing
who were manning the cannon. And it's time for initiative. Oh wait,
that's right, we just have to uh, we don't need initiative in this.
It's just you guys are them. I forgot somebody roll me that good
old D six Okay, I can throw that out. Five players go first,
sweet nice um, I will shoot this gobbling, this one on the
right. Okay, cross the boat the goblin da Remember they are Dr fourteen.
Oh yeah, it's rough and they have D two armor. Yep,
artie fellows. Oh Um, I will use a misery to drop the dr
by four sold a misery or not a misery? Okay, yeah, rule
it okay D eight six and then slash R one D two two so he
takes four. Okay, you strike him. He shrieks in pain. Next,
are you gonna move? Um? I will move back a little bit.
Okay, yeah, I mean they're still part of the barricade here,
but you guys can move through it now at this point. But there's stuff
to shake comer behind if you want. Okay, whoever wants go next?
You guys roll uh okay, Adene will rush the the guy or gush attacked
this one right yep, yep, okay, yeah, and he's got a
warhammer, so he'll be swinging it. Okay, let's see this works out.
They're fourteen roll baby, now, well that's an UPSI. Next,
must I do everything? Hem? Oh, there you go. Their armor
their the D two armor. So it says that the snakeskin dagger is great
times two damage, target armor reduced one tier. And then if I fumble,
my weapon breaks or I was lost. Okay, well you didn't fumble
her get a critz that doesn't matter. So it breaks his armor then,
so he doesn't have armor. She just takes the straight three damage and he's
not happy about that. Henry, Um, I'm going to I guess,
invoke power and cast blind your eye on a d did you roll for how
many powers you have today? Oh? Yeah, that's a whole new role,
isn't it from what I had before? Yeah? This money, but
the dagger is deep for damage. But on a one of the target dies
immediately of deadly poison. Amazing, that's awesome. Okay, cool, olay,
wheelding this long? What are we doing? What? So, Dean,
you are invisible for D six rounds or until damaged attacking defending with d
R six so five rounds unless you get hit, and hopefully you don't because
you're slightly better at defense. Okay, what is the bonus he gets,
because that goblin's gonna return the favor that you attack? Yeah, you attack
or defend with the R Is it six? Now it's not opening it?
Oh my gosh, you said the ars six. There it is six.
Yeah, okay, we'll make your defensive rule. These guys do defour damage.
He pulls out a rusty knife tries to stick it to you. All
right, oh wow, not twenty You get a free attack on that mofool
Harry reposed somebody? Attack is this attack he has? Attack is a six
two right, Matt, yeah, nice, wow, don't fuck it up?
Oh all right, okay, yeah he sucked it up. Zero damage.
You strike the goblin with your warhammer, but his ropey skin absorbs the
blow. Ross that leads us to goblin. This goblin comes over to you.
He's gonna attack you. Mo lug Dr fourteen and they do D four
damage. All you said Dr fourteen and then in coming attack us? How
much damage? D four? Yep? H goblin strikes and you take three
damage in a revenue armor. It doesn't look like it, know, all
right? You take three damage as he stabs you. The other one backs
off and you see that he pulls out a little bottle. He shakes it
up and he throws it over towards Ergush and Henry. Please both of you
give me a DR fourteen agility tests as he hucks this at you. I'm
an old man, I'm terrible at nine all right, So Ergush, you
manage to throw yourself behind some of the barricade. But Henry, you are
not fast enough. This bottle hits the floor close to where you're standing,
and there's a blast of fire that engulfs where you and Ergush were standing.
You take D eight damage and you are set on fire. Fire is not
good. D you see that's this one? Oh you look, you bastard.
And then I merely have to put out a fire. Yes, you
are on fire, and that is the monster's turn. You guys are on
I guess can I stop dropping roll? Yeah? Yeah, that's fine.
I don't think you need to do a test. Just give up your action.
Okay, cool, Ah, that's so hot. I'll peek back out
and shoot the one fighting a dean who has disappeared from my sight. Okay,
five damage A right, That goblin goes down with a thud. Fun
Why why would you do this? You shot a cannon at bee. He
didn't shoot the cannon. They communally shot it. It was a team effort.
They couldn't have moved it with one of them. That sounds like profiling
next h So a dean would then run around the cannon to fight the one
fighting molog. On the way he would he would step on the corpse.
Okay, all right warhammer, no, al right, shoot damage for two
damage. He is hurt and that leads mola gear up. Oh three from
your strength just hurts. Yep, all right, we got a knife fight
going on over here. It's not good though. All right, this goblin
is gonna rush up, and now he pulls out a knife to try to
attack you. Molog. The other one is attacking you. Add he's swinging
where he thinks you're standing. So both of you make your defensive roles please,
I think who oh oh oh wow ducked dove. Yeah the goblin swings
wildly kind of thing with nothing but open air. Okay, Eric, make
your defensive role. Oh four damage thought, that's fan zero. Oh no,
oh even worse, you're dead. No, you don't have any elements?
He can? I do have omens? Can I use one to reroll
or something might be time to use? Or you could also reduce use damage
yeah by a D something. Yeah, let's check the the omens. It's
lower damage by D six reroll or lower the dr of a test by four.
M h. Well, technically you could do the reroll and if you
feel then do the dzigs. You would use two. But I mean,
okay, so do I reroll how you want to do it? So I
rerolled the defend if you want, could you reduce damage twice? All right?
I imagine you can't do an omen for the same thing. Yeah,
it's it's once. Yeah, okay, so is it if he failed?
If he does the reroll and then takes the damage, can to use a
second omen? Yes? Okay, so you just can't use two omens to
reduce damage from one attacked voice? Right, you are not stabbed to death
in a dark corner of a mill that's half on fire. Heroes, you
are up. One goblin is dead, the other two are hurt, and
Molug is getting slowly shanked. I will no aim for the goblin prison shanking
Molug. Okay, the things we say seven seven damage and his armor gets
reduced. That's a critical hit, Boice. That is a fucking headshot.
As that goblin that dies a horrible, horrible death. You killed a guy.
I can fall out Flue Basque on my turn once for combat play the
bone flutes echoing Fugue deals with the fatal damage to a random enemy in the
vicinity. Oh, the other goblin drops down Dead's clutching his head and screaming
in pain. Why only good goblins? That dead goblin and the goblins are
dead? Well done? Yeah right, shooting gush. Yeah, well,
you know I learned from the best me mom. Okay, I won't dig
into that. Oh she shot me Paul when he was running away with all
life savings. It's okay. I am putting my hands over my ears.
I will not dig into that. I like your flute, and I'm still
invisible, so that's previous. Hell, and it's right next to your ear.
That's very creepy. Well that there's also a gift from my mother,
who I will not be speaking of again. Um shall we continue up onwards
and upwards? Yeah? What do you guys want to do next? Can
I grab my three crossbow bolts? Romy three D six on a four or
five or six? They're still good? I get too back all right?
Other one's broken or like went out a window or like you know, lost
in the fire or something. That's okay. I like, how would automatically
tracks my ammunition? That's so nice? Who does That's cool? Yeah?
Nice? How many bolts do you get, like in a quiver? I
think I bought two, so I was at twenty, gotcha? Okay,
dam I'm around fifteen after I get those two bags, So just load up
all my encumbrance with nothing but quivers. I want to drink one of my
life luxers. Okay, what does that do? It gives me h D
six HP and removes infections. Okay, what's what's your max health? How?
What are you at right now? I've got three and my max is
six? Okay, you're not a total chump. That's good A HPS delicious?
I have four oxers, So out the side lighter fell what? Okay?
All right? Just mark off that you you got three now? And
then all right? Is there anything else you guys do? Uh? I
guess we could just search around here see what if anything the goblins are keeping
in their pockets or on this first of all, or before we move on
up. Okay, well, if you're searching the room, give me a
presence test. You don't need to roll to search the corpses? Uh that
one? No? Fifteen? Pretty well tonight? Okay, so er gosh,
you do not find anything in the room. You even you can't even
find the fucking goblin bodies. You're not sure where they are However, your
friends discover two things. First of all, we can loot the goblins.
So let's do that and roll on ye old looting table. That's gonna be
I believe it's D sixty six. Here we go, corpse plundering D sixty
six. Please I need three of them? Won't be for me? Okay
you goblins? Oh yeah, and it's good to do two D six because
if you slash a roll sixty six. Okay, well that's Hanley crushing it.
So sixty six is that result in silver pieces? Do you find a
loaded ass goblin? I have so much cash back here? All right?
Anybody else if I guess if the other two players who are not shown one
role, since he rolled a one to find the bodies, you guys can
need to roll two D six as well. I have an orlan eight.
I'm sorry, what I only rollan eight? What's D sixty six? So
I need to know? Oh, I need to know the order that you
rolled for the dice. Oh forty two forty two? You find an unmarked
bottle with a liquid that shifts between red and green. Oh it's Christmas twenty
twenty. Um, now you have you have to roll two D six er,
because if you roll a D sixty six like you can't actually roll a
twenty with D sixty six, there you go, So fifteen the remains of
something worthless crumbles in your hands. Whatever it was, it was garbage,
all right. Also for those of you who rolled well, the two Dane
and Henry. As you're looking around, you realize that there is something behind
the bookcase. And when you move it you find a small hidden um like
trap door that leads down into a basement. It's got a small ladder that
looks like it goes down a couple of feet into the basement. Oh that's
range, and I think it's a good place to take our breaks. We're
on our halfway points. So as you loot the bodies and discover a hidden
passage into the depths, they will be back with doctor Pepper soon. So
take five seen in a minute. Oh look at this pile of cash.
Seems to be about fifteen pieces for each of us before I die, I
will drink this all right. Listeners were back, So our cretans have slain
the three goblins avoided getting blown up by the cannon. Which good thing you
made that Dodgerell Eric, Because if you fail that it's is um uh killing
any PC dumb enough to end up in the line of fire. So we'll
done on that damage. It's just roll for what direction your limbs flying exactly?
Yeah, roll for distance of corpse spread Yeah, scatter, scatter your
corpse body parts to inspire my amen. Okay, so what do you guys
do next? There's the staircase going up. Um, now that things have
died down, you can see that there's a trail of blood leading from the
front door of the stairs. You've found a secret passage behind the bookcase leading
to the basement, and you can hear the sound of this machinery from higher
up in the mill. It feels like the mill has gotten a little bit
warmer since you guys have gotten here, not just because of the the small
fire that started, but the it feels like like it's it's heating up a
bit. Oh, do you want to check upstairs and then nothing's up there?
Go down? Yeah, we might want to do that first. I
think the greater mystery lies below. But with this blood trail, maybe somebody
needs help up there, or some wounded goblin. We should finish off before
checking into a mysterious pit right, Yeah, makes sense. Okay, if
you're heading upstairs, I guess trying to sneak upstairs, I mean with the
sound of machine or I don't see, it's not too hard. But all
right, if you want to give me another a chilly test, you may
do so one. It's like my second one tonight. Oh it's a two
for we're just good wit What happens if I do this weird anyway? Oh?
You know what? I also, um, there was something here that
you guys found that I didn't. I missed. Hold on, so you
can see that there is a liquid of some sort that was spilled on the
floor in here as well over basically by this table by the cannon. There's
um, like a dark It's hard to tell if it's black or blue or
green, but it's a very dark liquid that is on the floor. Looks
like it spilled out or there was something that cracked, like a vial or
something that had its like in front of the bookshelf, in front of this
table over here on the north side of the wall. Okay, hmm cross.
Otherwise, you guys are free to proceed forward. Yeah, all right,
I mean, are we able to like look at it and to try
to determine what it is or take a sniffer, you know. I mean,
unless you have some sort of alchemy skills, then you're not sure what
it is. If you're the herbalist guy, then maybe. But the only
other way would be to, uh to taste test yourself. Had that not
quite something I want to do? You? Sure? Yeah, I'll give
you a ten silver. I mean, I'm not stupid, but ten silver
ten silver sounds tempting. Yeah, so we're not gonna do that. Okay,
I'm just gonna go upstairs. All right? What's the marchure? I
mean, I guess I'm going crossed again, probably say it was last Yeah,
am just light up behind Ergush? H huh okay, m works three?
Oh kay Rex map here? Okay, so Ergush, you are first
up the stairs, right, yep, Okay, I'm sorry. What was
the order? I wasn't gonna paying attention. I'm sorry me, Ordine.
Okay, there we go, like that? Is that the order? Something
like that? Yeah? Okay, great? Cool? Okay, Uh,
Ergush, you make your way up the stairs. You think you're being quiet,
but you're definitely not. But the sound of the machinery is quite loud
above from coming above. When you get up here, you before you can
really even notice what's going on in the room, you can tell that there
are there's three goblins here, one standing basically directly above you. Guys,
you come up the stairs, he moves to the edge as you come up
the stairs. He has like a bucket in his hand, and he hores
something onto you and with a splash, this black mucky oil just coats you
as you're as you're like coming up the stairs, he like splashes you with
it. Right. He then runs back like in that direction to the corner.
Looks he's going for another bucket. Meanwhile, you see the other two
goblins have bows drawn and they douse their bow was in this thing in front
of them is a big like brazier and they draw their bows and shoot at
you with flaming arrows. So cool. Yeah, the natural one did not
help there. Yeah. Um Also the cannon going off didn't help either.
So I need you to make two defensive rules at dr Ignore that I'm pressing
twenty buttons at once uh d R fourteen Please these do D six damage each
because of the flaming arrows. Because you're you know, coated in oil.
Right, obviously, if you get hit, you'll be Oh, no damage.
Okay one, we're still on fire. Yeah, there's no The only
way to avoid that does not get shot, gotcha. Okay, well you
only take one total damage from that. But you guys, see this happen
in Ergush burst into flames as these two arrows strike him. You also notice
ergush just as this goblin splash you. He has the word unlucky written in
like crooked shitty letters across his forehead. And it's initiative time. Someone roll
me the dice and I'll crank the music. It sunks so good, okay,
can throw d six. Three goblins go first, all right. Unlucky
grabs another bucket and he's gonna throw it at the next person in line.
So a dean runs over to the edge here and he tries to splash you.
Give me a dr fourteen. Please give you a chance to avoid this,
since they didn't catch a fly footed or anything here. Okay, dear
fourteen. Okay, all right, duck and the oil splashes the wall behind
you, and then he starts running back to get the last bucket. The
other two draw their bows and they'll each take a shot at one at Ergush
and one at a Dean because they don't see the other two guys yet.
Oh dear, so these are d D snap excuse me, D six damage,
you know, a natural one. I'm gonna use my last alemen to
reroll that. Okay, five damage, I'm gonna use that. I me,
yeah, I'm gonna use an omen at a moment that I take no
damage. Er Gush turns what was that? Three damage? Down to zero?
Nicely done? Yeah, thank you, thank you? All right,
come on now, oh my god, no rerolls into a one and takes
eleven damage. Is Oh no, I can't express how dead he is,
but he is so fucking dead. So Ergush, you this arrow comes whizzing
past you, and like for a moment you think it's gonna fuck it like
strike you in the eye, and you use your omen and it just like
nicks off your armor, you know, basically does nothing. You see the
goblin run up and tries to splash a Dean. A Dean ducks and the
oil hits the wall behind him, and then as a Dean pops his head
up, it's at the perfect moment, just as his head goes up past
the railing fucking arrow strikes him right between the eyes. He just falls back
dead and collapses back and rolls down the stairs into you, Henry, and
lands on his back. And as his head flops towards you, you see
there's an arrow sticking right out of his head. Rip. Let's add him
to the dad list. A damn it, big rip, as we say
in biz heroes, you're up. I'm gonna spend the turn patting myself down
and is there anywhere to grab cover and not really know? Yeah, spend
your action trying to put the fire out. So okay, Henry. You
see er gush putting himself out after having been lit on fire. And if
you go up the stairs, you can see these three goblins. This one
here is the one with the bucket. Oh, he's about to grab a
third bucket, you see. And then you can see there's there's another staircase
on the opposite side of the room leading up there's a couple of tables the
goblins are standing on to get like some height advantage with their bows. And
then the thing in the middle is uh, I'm sorry, it's actually a
container of oil. It's not a brazier. My bad. They have braziers
next to them, and yeah, this whole floor just has this acrid,
gassy stench and the mechanical noises from up above or even louder when you get
here. All right, Uh, well, I'm gonna give it a another
blind your eye. I'm gonna cast um, yeah, the blind your ayability
on myself. Okay, nicely done. All right, you may move if
you'd like. Yeah, I'm gonna get out of the stairwell at least.
Yeah. I mean they have no ide that you're there. I mean they
might hear you, but it's unlikely because it's so loud up here. So
and they didn't see you coming up the stairs, so you're totally invisible.
What happens if I do this whoa you token? I do not see him
at all? Okay, it's okay, it's cool, all right. Uh
mo lug Who's token refuses to change names for some reason despite how many times
I've changed it. I guess I'm just gonna go stab ats Goblin. Here
we go, all right? Ellie? Oh so close you miss? As
he bends down to pick up the bucket, you totally with with a zero.
Well done, okay, uh Goblins are up, and this one grabs
the bucket and tries to splash you, mo Lug, so please defend yourself,
um, and whether or not he hits you will determine what the other
two goblins do. He does, Okay, you don't take damage. It's
just he's splashing with the oil. It's just covered an oil. They don't
take any damage, however, or gosh luckily they turn their bows away from
you and point them both towards Molug and try to light him up. So
make your defensive rules here. These do d six damage Eric because they're on
fire. Oh noise, all right? Next one, oh king, look
at this motherfucker seventeen and an eighteen alright, matrix scotch dodging the bolts or
the arrows and Cretan's you are up? Is that us? Oh yeah,
I will target this one on the left. Yeah, the left, so
okay, crossbell of death go nope? Okay wang uh look makes swing?
Okay, yeah, you guys are tell me what's your rule? I'm not
remember I'm not always on the front page there. I'm gonna sneak up on
this guy and try to stab the dude at the bottom. All right,
since you are totally invisible and they have no idea there. As long as
you don't rule A one, you'll hit him. All right, let's go,
and I'll give you double damage too. Wait wait wait, wait now
I actually can't. Okay, Um, all right now, well it's it's
just d R. It's d R two basically. So you hit him,
um and uh, I'll give you double damage because he has no idea that
you're there, So uh, destroy him. Double the two d eh yep,
damn. Oh okay, yeah, you two D eight and double it
because if you roll remember if you roll max oh yeah, like destroy the
world or something. Yeah, that messes with the all right, okay for
to eight okay damage. You just cleave this guy in a half down the
center. All of a sudden, he's standing there and then this invisible force
just guillotines him in half. You know what that means. That's all of
our players goblins are up. Um unlucky. The goblin uh doesn't have any
other weapons, so he is going to attempt to run the funk away.
I'll give each of you an attack of opportunity because he's going to try to
run past you and jump down the stairs. No damage. Oh so close?
All right, he disappears down the stairs. Not so unlucky now,
am I? And this last album has been left alone, so he's gonna
take morale test first, which he crushes. I think, why don't he
flease? Okay, I don't know how morale works in this game or whatever.
All right, Well that albumin says fuck it and he goes running down
the stairs as well and disappears into the night. This song is getting messed
up for me for some reason. I don't know why. It's not good.
Guys, Well that's fine because that combat is over, mo lug.
You are on fire, though, so you put yourself out this round.
You don't take any more damage. And well he didn't get hit by any
the fire heros right, Oh that's right. He didn't know just the oil
but not the fire. That's right. Okay, Well you three are alive.
Um, but a dean is not ripe yep, big rip, all
right, because we should go check upstairs, right, be a little bit
more quiet this time. I liked him. Well, he was a little
depressing. It was a capable godspin that, I believe it. And also
we should conserve our resources. Take what he's got in his pockets. I
was just about to subjo you may do that. I don't know what she
hit on you show Kyle, uh one hundred and twenty five gold um a
war hammer, say sorry sorry, tailver hundred and twenty five tailver um a
war hammer and a light erear. Well don't you I mean you could strip
me naked? He would probably appreciate that. Yeah, um so yeah,
rip the armor off of his body. Um and a toolbox. He had
a toolbox okay, and four and four water skins. I'm just telling you
what I know. And then dried food. That's it. Wishes he had
that water right about now or about five minutes ago. Yeah, being hit
on fire, I was too busy getting an arrow between the ice. Oh
yeah, did you guys take the fifteen pieces from the first floor? I
was, I did not know, making a legitimate attempt to split split with
but thank you. M Yeah, so let's go upstairs. Let's say,
can we take a quick candor around this area? I thin if there's anything
yeah important? Yeah, give me presence tests please? Nineteen there you go?
Wow, Okay, well you don't find any hidden pastures or anything like
that, but you do discover in some of these tables and bookshelves they were
standing on there are a variety of tinctures and little potions and things like that.
Um, you do see that there are healing tinctures, which it says
see medical shop. It's labeled as a healing tincture, and then it says
see medical shop, as if that is a thing in the game because the
normal is life elics there. Yeah, it just could be like a misserprint.
Yeah, I don't even I've never seen the term medical shop in here.
So medical box, it's that medicine box stop bleeding and infection and uh
theres d six hp presence plus four uses. Oh maybe that's what it is.
Then, Okay, Well, just to make life simple, we'll say
there's a medical box worth of stuff. So if somebody wants to take that,
you can give it to Henry with this massive presence. Also Henry.
When you look in the box, there are instructions on how to actually create
and brew the healing tinctures. Oh that's quite a boon. Mm hmm uh.
Proceeding up the stairs again. Yeah, but stealthy, Wait all right
quickly, molok, did you how do you feel about hand me down.
Oh, I don't care. It's all yours, but the cheap price of
a dead friend. Yeah you can. You can take the light armor.
We won't. We won't worry about size, all right. It starts tripping
him and you're probably all very uh lanky and not very fit. Yeah what
size you need that in dying? Do you have that size carving? Yeah?
Popular size all the days. Yep, all right, so yeah,
enjoy your light armor. Pat Okay, moving on to the next floor.
If you want to give me stealth tests again, you may do so.
Hey went three up from last time, from a one to a four.
Also, if I didn't mention, the blood trail does continue up the stairs
here. You can see that on the map or also for Henry. All
right, well, you guys creep up the stairs not very quietly, and
the three of you make your way into what is clearly a laboratory, and
there there's another set of stairs that continue to you guys actually come from this
side. There's another set of stairs on the other side of the room that
continue to go up to another floor. It is even louder in here.
It's very obvious to you whatever's making all the racket is probably directly above you
on the next floor. In here, there are two huge tables covered in
all sorts of bottles, both broken and whole, reagents that are scattered about,
alchemical solutions, bubbling concoctions. Clearly, this is a lab of some
sort where somebody's been making all sorts of stuff and it's a mess. There's
a large puddle of what looks like an amber colored doo that's kind of foaming
beneath the tables, kind of like in between the tables here it's like bubbling,
and yeah, it looks like foam, like it's expanding a little bit.
There are three shelves you can see on the side of the walls here,
and you can see you instantly recognize them ergush as a massive supply of
uh nagles Goblin cure. Mm hmm. Over there's the goblin cure. Uh
And what was the marching order here? Again? Are you still in front?
Ursh? Probably? Okay, probably it's worked out so far, all
right? Like that? Okay, so ur gosh. As you guys make
your way up the steps, you kind of take a look around and then
you realize that the puddle of goo ripples and it then like skidders in your
direction. Uh yeah, it's um here, I've got an image of this
thing. It's just this bubbling, disgusting pile of orange goo that is kind
of tidal waving towards you. Um can I it's getting bigger as it moves.
Can I pull out my Teleconisa sprawl and use that? Uh? What
did you get on your stealth cuss of four? No? You cannot.
I guess you attack first? Wait do you know what that means? That
music again? Okay, e uh, you can defend yourself. It's only
DR ten. It's not a very quick pile of goo, but it does
D eight damage, right, kind of an acidic I failed five. I'm
dead. Uh? Can you don't have any elements? Presumably? No,
I'm out. Yeah. You can take one of mine if you want to
ear roll. Yeah, I'll just produce the damage by D six as long
as the one I'll be okay, Okay, it's remember it's always two plus.
You never say don't run, just don't roll one. Yeah? Well
okay, oh god, that's funny. Yeahikes, okay, so wheet okay,
you can roll the D six yeah, oh god, oh god,
oh ergsh But zero not not dead, man, you're just broken. Okay,
So now roll a D four. No, you're dead. That's a
far? Can you can anyone roll less than a far on the D broken?
Oh my god, that's too good, Ergos. She had a good
run, man, But you shouldn't have gone first, Henry. All you
see, because you're like halfway up the stairs, bullogs still behind you.
You see this this blob of ooze just bubbling in his direction, and when
it gets up to him, it like expands to his full height and just
like carpets him, and you just hear urgash screaming, and it's like it
then like shrinks almost like it absorbs him. And all you see are like
parts of his bones sticking out of this thing, and he's just been completely
acidified. Hell is that thing? You know what that means? Run away?
Oh? I got it? Birds, Okay, roll initiative please,
so the boys we're doing initiative. Oh the US goes again. Henry defends
Roll DR ten eight D eight damage hops. Oh well, all right,
you dodged. It splashes at you, but you are unhurt. Okay,
you guys may act all right. Well, I'm gonna go ahead and whip
out the time, locked pneumatoxin right away and slap him with a terrifying crack
tablet of course, poisonous powder. Oh yeah, okay, roll six again
or whatever it is we wield success. I hit him with a powder.
You're the way you're D twenty rolls. It looks like it's fucking like loaded
bounces to one side of them the other. Okay, this is your like
ten commandment tablet that you're cracking right, yeah, okay D six damage on
a six and took some dies, so I got them once. It takes
a damage all right, there's a bit of a puff. It seems to
have heard it obviously not much more. Lug. What would you like to
do? Um? I guess stab it? Okay, I don't poison the
thing. I don't know. Okay, you hit it? Does it have
armor? It has D two armor. It's gooey G two are right?
Ye? All right? It takes another point of damage and then it has
another ability. Whenever a PC damages the ooze, they must test strength d
R eight or their weapon becomes stuck to it. If not removed during the
next round strength DR ten, the weapon is destroyed. Franks DR eight that's
a zero. So your precious serpent venom heirloom dagger is stuck in this thing
and you can see it's acidic body is starting to consume it. It is
now the creature's turn. I'll roll a D four here on a one or
two, it'll go for Eric. Nope, it's going for Henry. Make
another defensive role, please? Which is in violence? Here? It is?
Let me say ten ten D eight damage? Oh my son, great
three damages or just to eat it, I guess? Or now all right
you're guys turn Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna risk it a biscuit and then
with the big knife, the chaoss blade. Oh yeah, probably probably really
regret it, probably destroy your church. What's what's his defense? He's a
ten also? Okay? Are three? Hi? Miss? Okay? Mo
Lug said, I can take my tagger back again. Dr Dr tens strength
test to get it back here other way? That loves it forever? Yep,
oh on your strength minus three hard Okay, you have the knife.
You can attack this round if you'd like. That's I'm gonna back that night,
said Dr Yep D two armor dam okay a second seeing the ten all
right, it attacks again, same thing one or two of be Eric.
Alright, it changes at the target this turn, so Eric dr ten D
eight damage as it tries to consume you. Okay, you pass. You
guys are up poison. No, well, I'll let your damage. Oh
but it's kind of armor, doesn't it? D two armor? Oh?
Man, it's some good armor. Block two takes one, I guess yep,
slowly slowly chipping away at it. It does seem to be having an
effect, But you guys feel like you're gonna be here a while if you
don't either get some better hits in or do something else. All right,
well, let's see what this knife does. Another miss? Wait, no,
there you go? Oh god, double ones on eight? Well it
couldn't have been double eights, right, but a DR eight strength test?
Unless you I didn't deal damage to him? Does it still count yes?
Because you hit it? Oh no, no, it says when you damage
you're right, yes, yes, damages. So it's too gooey even to
stick to my blade? You okay? Uh? The ouze, continuing it's
murderous rampage, decides to attack Henry this round, acid splashing everywhere you are.
Okay, though, what would you like to do. Oh wait,
no, I can't do that. Damn all right, I'm just gonna hit
him again. Yeah, all right, getting better? Eight damage. You
stab this thing with the chaos blade. The runes flare up, and the
ooze turns to a blackened, ashy shell and dies. Oh yeah, my
god, I didn't think we would make it there. Color's that I've never
seen anything like this before. You see anything up there there, it's the
coast clear, that's all. You don't see anything else up here, and
you just see the trail of blood continues up the stairs. I'm gonna,
I guess kind of like kick the ashy corpse of the ooze. I'm assuming
everything or gosh was holding is left is a charred skeleton. That's terrible.
Rest and Priests watch watch brother, and now his watch has ended. How
can I come back to spoilers for a little while though, so we'll roll
up your next character while we wait here. Sean, Yep, I just
did nice. Look you're so good at this because one HP that sound right?
Yeah, you tell bro, Big gilden Crats the one that is an
awesome name. Though, Holy shit, my man, can I just come
in now? Trip and die Leslie. Yeah, like my character will be
shown falling from the roof. Oh my god, that's amazing. One HP
Jesus man, this scheme is fucking right. Well, what are the two
of you want to do? Yeah, I guess an anticipation of whatever is
going on, I'm gonna go ahead and drink one of the life elixers that
I have. Oh wait, oh, I need to roll for this quick
reminder that uh a Dean's corpse had a potion that is shimmering red and green.
Oh yeah, the one of the mystery potions. Yeah. Nice.
Okay, so I'm back up to seven. Yeah, I'm gonna follow his
lead and take a trink of mine too. Okay, well we'll leave that
stuff there and get it on the way out. The miss deurious son and
incredible than who's your guy? He sounds like he might be a hack.
Oh, speaking of hacks, I'm gonna steal one of the a couple of
the cures from the shelf, I guess. Yeah, let's see if that
comes up again later. Being very skittish and could be watching over my shoulder.
Okay, what do you guys? Uh? Yes, we can continue
upwards. That's all. We'll do a quick look around first, but well,
you can go ahead and give me a presence test. I'm sorry,
I have a cat in my face that wants attention. Okay. Uh.
The only thing that seems of interest other than the goblin cures in the one
cupboard is maybe some of these things, these random concoctions on the table.
You don't know what any of them do, though, Um, so you're
unsure if they're worth taking or messing with. Yeah, we'll leave those there
for now. Okay. Um u, God, he's face he's face palming
the undertaker ornament? Should we get back up? Do we keep going?
I suppose it's been something blood bath here. The sound of the mechanical noise
is deafening, and the heat is definitely emanating from up above. Meat.
Wow. Yeah, it's gotten hotter and hotter as you got and like stuffier
the higher you guys have gotten. Uh, I mean, maybe it would
be better to get back up. It's not like they have anywhere to go.
The shop keep seemed nervous and ran off. Do we think he's upstairs?
Why are there cobblins all over his belt? Well? Hey, I
suppose I could try this one more time and sneak up there with like preemptively
casting blind your eye. Yeah, you cast ahead, all right, I'm
gonna give that a shot and sneak up. Wait, hold on, I'll
try to think of a signal. There's blood on the steps if you see,
if you see a break in it, like, I'll swipe my foot
too to cross the line of the fresh blood on the steps. If you
see that, come rushing up. Otherwise, in some amount of time,
say six rounds, go get help. I understood, And let's see if
I pull myself up right now, that will all be a bunch of nothing.
Yep, yep, yep, yep. Whoa the coin landed on its
side. Did you see that? I think that's weird. All right,
so your power doesn't go off and you take a point of damage, say
what happened? I think? So? Okay, Well what are you guys
doing? I get dizzy and fall to my knees and say, uh uh
uh, never mind, No, we should do what you said. Maybe
maybe get back up, unless, uh unless we can turn the cannon up
and just fire it directly upwards. Maybe that would be a better way to
solve this. Well, that sounds a good plan. You can try.
Um. I mean that sounds fun, but I feel like we'd probably I'm
going to try and slowly peek upstairs to see if there's anything up there that
we need to worry about. All right, give me a stuff. I
feel like we're that close matility. Oh my god, it wasn't nineteen Okay,
So mulug. You creep up the stairs, and as you do,
the sound is deafening. Um. It sounds like a piece of industrial machinery,
rumbling and smoking and belching, and it sounds like they're some sort of
grinding device. When you get up here, what you see is a room
that is like something out of a nightmare. The bloody trail ends not too
far from the top of the stairs against the northeastern wall. There is a
mound, a pile of corpses in all stages of decay and future faction.
In the middle of the room is this giant mechanical device that has an opening
on each end. In the middle there is a massive chimney, a big
pipe that is belching out smoke, and there's another one that is belching out
fire. You see standing near the end, closest to the staircase is Naggle
and he is accompanied by that woman that Henry saw. You recognize her as
well. The two of them are taking bodies from the pile and they are
slowly feeding them into this machine. And there's this disgusting grinding noise and it
sounds like a corpse being crunched and chopped to pieces. And on the other
end you see getting spat out, like at the end of a conveyor belt
sort of thing, is a what looks like newly born goblin, disgustingly small
and fleshy and wet, and it comes out of this thing screeching, like
a disgusting parody of a birth. You also see a very large goblin standing
at that end, waiting for the goblins to emerge. He's much larger than
the others, big muscular, and he's carrying a huge knife, and he's
got like spikes coming out of his shoulders and back, like these spiky bony
growths, and he's got the big floppy ears like a goblin, and just
a wicked mouthful of teeth. And in chat, I'm putting a picture of
the device. You see, Oh, that's pretty cool. Behold the goblin
grinder. Also, you see that there are sticks of these goblins up here,
the new ones, and it looks like they've got plenty of bodies here
to keep this going. A one to one, yes, yeah, one
body makes one goblin. It looks like the process takes, you know,
a couple of minutes to put the body through and have it do its thing.
It stinks up here of smoke and rotting bodies and blood and flesh and
sweat. It makes you want a gag. Harvard, he did roll a
natural one. So perhaps one of the goblin spots you, or you slip
on the blood as you're creeping up and someone sees you just at the top
of the stairs and they shout and let me roll initiative. You guys get
to go first. What do you do? I go back down the stairs?
Okay, until what I saw and we need to get out here.
Yeah, fuck that bail. I'm gonna put my barrack trap at the bottom
of the stairs as I'm as I'm running away, which one the staircase you
just came up or one of the other ones, the one I just came
back down. Okay, okay, all right, As you guys go running
down the stairs, you can hear clearly the sound of a pursuit being started
shouting from up above. And as you guys make your way back down to
the second floor and eventually out, you do hear the bear trap go off,
and you hear a goblin screaming in pain. You're able to make it
out. What do you do once you're outside? I guess one thing I
wanted to the attempt on my way out is tossing a torch into the the
black eye carpet on the floor below us. Okay, yeah, just roll
roll me a ring a test. Just don't roll a one. What started
test doesn't matter? Yeah, okay, yeah, you throw that and the
whole thing goes up in flames. There's a massive explosion that like engulfs the
room like a big fireball, and then there's like a pillar of fire in
the middle of the room. You're not sure like if it's an oil well
or something, but there's a burning flame going on quite intense. As you
run down and out of the mill, And I'm gonna fully explain like what
I saw, because I'm sure like Kylie partially got out fucking run Well,
you guys came here. There's clearly goblins coming down to chase after you,
guys, once you're outside. Uh, he's creating them with the dead,
collecting the bodies. How horrifying. There's at least two of them in there,
plus the terrifying were a. I guess, is there a guard post
close or should do we have to like run all the way to the barracks
to try to you'd have to go to the barracks b the alarm. Yeah,
I've like largely out of gas. Fantastic feats, so that would be
my vote. At this point, goblins come pouring out of the middle and
seeing you guys standing there discussing what to do the attack. Oh my god,
there looks like there's at least six of them. So would each of
you give me three defensive roles? Now, these are freshly made goblins,
so they have slightly shittier stay atsu. They do to D two damage.
They only do have D one armor, and they are DR twelve to defend.
They're not DR fourteen, and they have no weapons. They're trying to
claw and bite you. He said, three of these roles, yes,
ten D two h dr there DR twelve D two damage. That's the one
from me. Might as well keep the death music going. Okay nothing armor
blocks that one. A dodge another one uh armur blocks that one. Okay,
Oh, I see in that one oh three damage to Mologue from that
goblin actually hurt. All right, you're being swarmed by goblins? What do
you do? I guess you have to eat? I don't think we could
run away from six of them. They like make a sort of defensive retreat
like do a do a stab and back up slowly. I mean, if
that's what you want to, you tell me what you want to do,
and I'll tell you what you have to roll. All I'm gonna give that
a shot because their first gave of attacks aren't effective. And okay until the
huge one ship shows up, which I don't know of yet necessarily. Um,
but these guys they're fourteen a hit, they're twelve. They're also oh
they're the ones at twelve no armor, they have d one armor. So
they just it's basically you flip it. It's either zero or one. Okay,
well let's see if it it doesn't matter, I miss, Okay,
I just try and drink one of my books. Actually again, go ahead,
yeah, you know the test, Just go hi another another one while
three in a row, completely batch of potions. All right, at this
point, make another three defensive roles each, and you see the big guy
emerges in the doorway. Narts. Oh critical fail in that batch, only
two damage though, I think I need my armor though critical success as well.
Uh yeah, your armor goes down by a tier if you get a
critical failure. Yeah, I think I want to keep that and just three
roll or I guess I can. I can use a thing to neutralize a
critical right, and so that means I don't take the double damage nor armor.
Yeah, so oh hold on, hold on, last round, mo
lug. You roll the fumble, so your armor is destroyed. So this
round, if you took any hits, you don't have armor to reduce it.
Oh well, when you get a critical fumble, your armor drops down
by a tear, and if you're already at light armor, it gets broken.
You have no armor, So I don't know if that mattered. There's
a lot of roles here. Yes, I'm dead dad or yet zero?
No dead? Okay, and Henry, I dodged one. I'm using my
last omen to neutralize this critical failure and then I will oh at twenty all
right, slice and dice. We're attacking this guy. All right, Oh
yeah, that guy's fucking toast. Oh that guy gets skewered in half.
However, as you cut him in half, as his body separates, you
see right behind him, your companion gets swarmed by goblins and they drag him
to the ground as they claw and bite him to death, leaving you alone
against five of these things and the big guy. Are you doing anything with
your move? Uh? Yeah, I think at this point, I'm gonna
try to truck it as far away as possible towards the barracks. All right,
I'm just do one agility test here, see if they can catch you
or not. If they catch you, then you're still stuck in combat until
you can breakaway. So give me a Dr twelve agility test. Yep,
no dice there. Okay, Well, unfortunately got to go through another round
of attacks. Then there's five of them now swarming you, and then the
big guy is going to join the fight. Well that that was a reaction
for mine, so the I still have an action action? Oh sorry,
yeah, go ahead, go ahead. Then if if it's I'm sorry that
was you're right for defense. Okay, you can still we can attack this
round, but you already made your attempt to escape. Okay, I'm gonna
you would have run on your turn, right, yeah, okay, yeah,
so I'm gonna use the spooky pipe since somebody just died. Oh,
and blast another guy. Yeah, okay, roll me a D six.
You roll six. It strikes the leader. All right, here we go,
come on, all right, another goblin just explodes as you play the
flute, leaving you against four of them in the in the boss full bour
sprinting away playing this flute in fart of a bunch of goblins. All right.
They are hot on your heels though, so I will need four defensive
roles from the little ones, and then we'll get to the big guy.
Oh boy, okay, that's one. That's one real damage. Failed that
one. Here comes the chip damage. Okay, that's that's a successful dodge.
That is not successful. Another one damage, Oh no, old Henry,
and another dodge. So that's that was four? Ye right, okay,
and then the big guy comes in. Uh oh, whoops, I
totally missed something out here to the next round. He is DR sixteen to
block. Uh he only does D four damage though, he's just got a
big knife. Okay, okay, you notice as he joins the fight,
the other goblins seem inspired by his presence. Their eyes begin to glow a
little bit, and you feel like they are getting ready to tear you apart.
You may make an attack and then attempt to retreat. Yes, I'll
see what I can do against the big guy, a big target, big
sword. Maybe it'll work out, all right. Dr sixteen that's that's a
big number. But what is his armor situation? Four D mutant hide It
would look Oh my gosh, that would have been nice. Anyway. No,
I'm gonna break out all right. Here's probably the one that really matters.
Dr twelve agility agility, m hm no he all right, how many
points do you have left? Poor? Okay, one more drink, which
I could potentially take if I have one more round. You got four more
goblins swarming you, and now that the boss is here. Uh they okay,
just it increases their defense, does increase their offense. So they're still
DR twelve to dodge, but they are their DR sixteen to attack against.
Their defense goes up when he's nearby, brutal when he's fighting with them,
all right, to the first one bounces off of armor, second one dodge
okay. Third one bounces off of armor nice, fourth one, oh wow
okay, and then the boss DR sixteen D four damage ouch okay, not
not too big an ouch wow Okay. At this point there's a lot of
screaming and panicking coming from the southern part of the village as this is happening,
and goblins are pouring out of the the tower the mill. Eventually,
this ruckis gets down to where the barracks is at and our other characters are
all, you know, doing their thing. Um. So yeah, you
guys would all hear this, uh, and you are free to make your
way there. If not, Captain Graft probably orders you go find out what
the fuck's happening at the mill. Okay, so let's tell you what.
Um let's go all right back to Yield craven Ford. Okay, so we
got four goblins, we got the bastard, and then you guys. So
we'll say that's that's a dead token right there. Let's go over to that.
Uh. Each of you make an agility test d R twelve. If
you pass, then you may join the fight this round. Otherwise you'll be
next round. A twelve spiker. I don't know guilden Krantz is still my
favorite. That is awesome name. Yeah, I hope he lives with one
fuck HP. The Spiker is pretty good too, though. Is this pale
like the rules? All right? Okay, there you are, um,
and it is now the hero's turns of whoever passed can join the fight.
So gilden Kratz and Plee, I guess so that be pronounced. Oh go
with let's go pel Pe. All right. You see your champion, old
crab Henry Wright, fighting a horde of goblins single handedly. You see the
body of the latest recruit who just left earlier this morning on the ground next
to him, and Henry has a small trail of goblins bodies that he's left
behind, and there's a huge one that he is fighting as well. It
probably looks more like this. Yep, and Spiker, you're still joining,
so you two can join the fight. I have a crumpled monster mask which
says um strikes primitive fear into lesser creatures like goblins, gnomes and children.
Yea, check morel every round. Oh shit, they check morale every round.
Okay, so um yeah. Unfortunately the presence of the big guy makes
them immune to morale. Okay, well that's why I'm gonna shoot him.
Okay, this guy crossbow baby to crossbow too, okay, makes sense for
a guy with one HP. Yeah, at least I didn't get that fucked
right. He is G four armor, you said, Yep, it's incredible.
Nope, no, um, I've only got one HP. So I'm
just gonna use my newfound OMEN to re roll that. Okay. Uh you
know, no, I will save it in case I can give that OMEN
to Enry because Nry deserves it. So that's my turn, all right,
okay, Uh Credence, whoever else wants to go? H yeah, Pell
would um Pell would be entering the fight in his uh creature for him because
he is a cursed skin walker who okay, and uh, what what are
you? I am a bone skulled raven? Oh nice? Okay, so
I can swoop in and I am allowed to attacks two attacks per round with
my claws that are D four Oh cool okay, And since I'm fast,
my defense is DR ten Okay. These guys are DR sixteen to hit while
the big guy is here? Okay, what about hitting the big guy?
He's DR sixteen two DR sixteen okay, yeah, yeah, we're gonna we're
gonna go after the big guy. All right, he's got D four armor.
The other ones have D one armor. Okay, let's see what goes
down. Oh, I hit hit, I'm the big guy from the bird
devoid. No, it's it was a men because by stranger, a dumb
bird. Yeah, well he's got two, so we'll try another one.
Or actually, um, I'll take an omen to lower it. Okay,
so that means it would hit right, yes, okay, so that is
one D four damage. It's the goblin grinder versus the blighted bulkwork barracks grinder.
Yeah, okay, so well three so he just he just eats it,
right, how much armor? It's three, right, because it's one
D four minus his D four Arcy just have to hold the D four to
find out how much he's soaks. Yeah, we need another D four for
something. Another one okay, okay, stakes two damage, Okay, all
right, he is mortal, he bleeds, bleeds. We can kill it,
all right, Gonna do one more. Another guy, Oh so so
close, So Henry, this fucking raven comes out of nowhere and starts randomly
pecking at this guy's face. And clawing at him, and you see that
another one of the recruits is nearby, shooting with his crossbow, but he
missed. It is your turn, Henry. I will take any help I
can get. Be the hero you know we deserve. I'll try to stab
this big guy again. If you survive this, you're gonna be fucking god.
I'm really rooting for the NAT twenty here, just because I want to
see if you just explode this guy oh so close when you hear the noise
again, no more, no more omens. No, I'm not a gas
here with them, and you have my own. You have my omen when
you need it, tell me when you want to use it. It's yours.
I mean, if we just want to kick a little bit of damage
on it, that's a possibility. You could do it if you want.
Sure. Emboldened by the mighty gilden Cratz and pell the raven, Henry scores
a hits, roll damage, get the double aids. Bro, Nope,
these are tens. Don't want to do that. Just nuke the fucking oh
eight ten all right, T four armor? Oh yeah, never Okay,
A big hit though, he staggers as you cut him across the belly.
He lets out a big like ooh ah, and he looks mad. Um,
he's definitely gonna's thank you, Henry. So you can defend against the
h the big guy. Um. So Dr sixteen ouch h still up though,
okay uh? And then I think I think one of these guys would
go after gilden Krantz. Uh. Two of will probably after Pell and then
the other one I will attack Henry. So these guys are remember these guys
are only DR twelve and they do D two damage if it if it hits
me, I die. Well, don't get hit. Boh uh it's not
that any did I did da damage? But still, oh my god?
And are you just squeaks by a dodge? All right? All right,
so gilden Krantz, you triumphantly rush out, You shoot to defend your champion.
Your presence emboldens him. And then miss Goblin comes like running like a
gorilla on its hands and like knuckles, you know, charging across the lawn
and just tackles you and fucking mauls your face and you die screaming. So
cool. Wow, whoa. There's a medicine box on me though, so
you can use that to heal yourselves. Oh my god, add him to
the list. So they're dropping like flies. Uh pell hell he takes a
damage. Okay, so he's doing pretty good, I imagine. Yeah,
all right, next round, Spiker, you join the Fray and it is
time for you guys to act incredible use my intuitive power or okay what that
do? Um? Oh? So every day I intutably no one random power
and it changes every dawn. You know one? What randomly rolled power?
Okay? Oh are you a pale one? I am they have? Do
they have like a list of powers or is it like the scrolls? There's
a there, Yeah, so that's the scrolls. You do a rolla will
table roll to see which power you get like for the day. Oh,
you can do it, and then you can do it I think once?
Um is it it says I cannot use scrolls Instead you can intu one randomly
rob power. Okay, uh, well for you here you go. There
you go, palms open the Southern gate. I think you can drag that
onto your character sheet too, So okay, well do your thing whatever that
does. A qualifier hits D two creatures dealing D eight damage per creature all
sick. Okay, uh Henry. How does he do a power? Was
he after roll? Uh? Usually it's a twelve per presence test it's a
wheel to power. Well, then it's a nine, so you miscast and
take two damage. Can I use an alman to reroll it? Yes?
I can also use the omen to reduce the dr buy four which eight?
Oh, yeah, you could do that. That's probably better idea. Okay,
yea, I'll do that. Delete this okay, so your power goes
off. Was a D two random creatures or D two just says a bull
of fier hits D two creatures? Oh, I guess you picked the targets
then, so roll D two to see how many you hit, and then
you can pick which ones. They do have to be separate targets, you
can't if you get too you can't stack them too. Did the big guy
and just a random little guy? All right? Just roll one damage roll
You don't need a rollam separate D eight unless you want to roam separate.
I don't care, that's fine, all right, six damage. The bastard
goes down in a ball of fire, kicking and screaming, as does one
of the other goblins. Which goblin are you shooting? Can you eat this
one here? Ye? All right, Henry. All of a sudden the
foes you're fighting burst into flames and die, and you're alive. Seems more
of your companion have come to help you. At this rate, the goblins
see that they're gonna have to roll a morale, tess. They see the
big guy go down, and they break in every direction and run screaming in
panic. What do the three of you want to do? I guess at
this point, rilk you can join the phrase as well as you see they've
they're fighting like. There's a trail of fucking bodies leading up towards the mill.
I see a fellow panel one at night, Na scariots to him.
All right, those guys split. Oh oh he came just in time.
Thank you for your aid. In fact, I believe this is the greatest
of the beasts. But we maybe should mop up things by the mill if
it still stands. Oh yeah, it's still standing. I was hoping it
would burn down. We could just be like job done. Yeah, yeah,
that too, not quite. Let's go over there. I guess I'm
gonna yeah, search through a guilden Krant's dead body. Okay, CVS like
seventy silver over here and his medicine box and you know, distribute HP to
Henry. Okay, Oh, would I be able to fly up to the
top of the tower? You get one H back, Henry. I'm sorry.
Yeah. You can see through the window. You can see Nagel and
the woman continue to try to pile bodies into here. So far they've produced
another two goblins. Is there anything in the room I could sort of sabotage,
like, uh, like a lantern or something and set stuff on fire.
No, that there's the only real object in the room is the grinding
machine itself. Okay, is there anything? Is there anything on the apparatus
that I could like stick something in? I mean, yeah, do you
see the part the goblins are going into and coming out of, and then
you see the pipe on top that's belching smoke, another one that's belching flames.
Okay, so they're they're pretty much like where the opening is, correct,
I'll just like they're just they're just shoveling bodies in, Okay. And
these guys are coming out this end over here. Okay. So they're by
the hole pretty much. Okay, So I had the thought of um swooping
up to the ceiling of the of that inn chamber and doing a dive bomb
and transforming in midair. Okay, and basically drop kicking them into the the
hull. Okay, that's too cool to not let you do. You can
only hit one of them because they're they're basically they're they're grabbing a body between
them, like they're each on one side of the body, and then they're
like heath hoeing it face first into the grinders. So um. But yeah,
you could definitely try to knock one of them in. Um. Okay,
we're gonna all right, give me a well, I mean, they
probably don't even notice you because of all the noise and smoke and everything.
So give me. Oh, I don't mean to rull that. Give me
a he's angered. Give me a d R d R twelve. Either agility
or strength your choice. Okay, definitely agility, all right, Like agility
to time it or strength to actually knock him. Either. Either one is
fine. Okay, Oh, we're gonna reroll that my last one. Come
on on, buddy, even it was nineteen Okay. Well, you teleports
or not teleport you fly in change and land like on the pile of bodies
full initiative. All right, you guys see the bird go flying towards the
the windmill. You're up first, pal, all right, uh damn it.
Now I'm in Humi form. Uh. I got me a knife in
a heavy chain, so yeah, I'm gonna use the knife. Okay,
what is uh? What is Nagle at? Oh that's a great question.
Um, he's just Dr twelve and he doesn't he doesn't have any armor on.
He's got his like apron and clothes off him fancy, so that would
just be zero at armor yep. Okay, come on man, Oh all
right, you try to stab him, but you do not hit. What
are the rest of you doing? Running towards the charging towards the mill?
Where's the mill? Yeah? Each of you give me an agility test.
If you pass, you will arrive next turn. Otherwise it will take you
two turns to get up the tower. Oh look at these rolls. Nice
boys. You uh you had a long day, but yeah, you've killed
a lot of stuff. Son rearrest day. Guys, go out. We
gotta fix Rilke's token here. Gilding Cratz will never forget you. Godd name
man a great name. Okay, so h he'll just disappeared for some reason.
Okay. Um, So on their turn, they're both going to attack
you. Palnagel pulls out a knife and tries to stab you. So dr
twelve D four damage, and then the lady picks up a shovel nearby and
tries to crack you in the face with it. Well fuck, that's mean,
Oh my god? That one oh four damage? Okay, and I
give him an omen to uh sure hantle that out? Sure, okay?
So what is that? Just do you want me to reroll or is that
just take the damage. It's up to you. Uh well, whichever is
easier, because I would probably still roll a shit. So what that that
takes the damage down by four? I mean you can roll a D six
and reduce the damage by that amount if you. If you reduce the crypt,
it would just do the base damage, which in this case would be
two right, Okay, we'll do that then, and you also wouldn't lose
your armor if yeah. Okay, so just to two hp okay, and
armor is still good? Okay, all right? And then one more is
it the same with the shovel, but still still d d T d R
twelve to dodge okay, all right, all right, let's see block or
dodge. Next round, Spiker and Rilk start making their way up the stairs
and reach the top and join the fight. I grabbed the warhammer from one
of the dead humans who's been left through the body. These two goblins probably
a running to join the fight at this point, but they don't. They
don't reach the other side of the room, so you see them coming around
from the other side. Okay, Cretan's your turn. All right, Hell's
just gonna immediately go back to attacking Nagle. Okay, fighting in a pile
of dead bodies pretty cool, so so so metal, fucking metal, fucking
hell. Nope, no, all right, um yeah, I'm gonna use
my intuitive power this turn as well. I don't so what happens? You
roll a random unclean scroll? Uh? Sure do? Okay, I think
that's the invisibility one that Matt's been using. Yeah, and then if you
want to use it, you got to do your presence test cast it.
Oh shit. Okay, um, yeah, it's not gonna be good,
So I guess instead we're just gonna run up and start whacking people. Okay,
go for it. Um, I will go bash the brains out of
this woman. Okay, she's she's twelve as well. She's D two armor.
She has filthy furs. New um cool. I'm gonna use one of
my omens to reduce that by four. Okay, you strike her D six
damage four and then are one D two. She takes three damage. All
right. She seems like a pretty sturdy girl, but you do strike her
and draw some blood. She turns to face you terminator style and looks really
angry. I'm gonna smack her with my staff. They're stamps in the scheme.
That's the first DR fourteen for her. She's twelve. She's twelve twelve.
Everybody's running around with war hammers and crossbows in the nope. Okay,
all right, hell Megal attacks you D four damage. Quard attacks Rilke.
That's the woman. Her name's Quard. You take she does D four damage
and then the two goblins will join an attack. Spiker. Oh they are
D two damage. Uma, heel is dead. I will use another omen
to reduce it by one D six. God, I have one omen left.
Rule of D six. Kyle fucking twos man Pacy take one damage one
Okay, I'm fucking hanging out by a threat. That's better than that.
Oh did everybody make their defensive rules? Good? Mine? Yeah? D
R twelve D two damage goblins? Who that hurts? Yeah? Maybe not.
They have a lot of her armor. Oh but yeah, okay,
Oh that isn't that the shield? D two plus one is that? Oh?
I see the shield? I have light armor plus a shield. No,
it's like two to three points of armor and and just choose to break
the shield to ignore at tack two. Well, okay, it'd be even
better if you only had one hit point the tankiest guy with one HP.
Okay, well, you guys are up. They are rather ineffective in their
attacks. Nagle is screaming about who you guys ruining his plans. Well,
uh, LK is going to use an action and heal Pale with the medicine
box some potion on him. Yeah, okay six. Oh there we go.
I guess Baby and Henry you joined the fight at this point. I
was gonna say, can I also drink my last life a lecture offscreen while
you could have done that last turn? Yeah that's fine, awesome? Oh
oh altered beast fuck yeah, welcome to your dude. Okay, all right,
so Rilke. You heal him, that's your turn. Everybody else may
go. I appreciate it, and then I'll turn into a raven again.
Um and then goes after an eagle yet again as a raven. That makes
sense, right, I believe? I believe? Okay, so that's his
first attack. Okay, you start scratching his face. He's not happy about
that. Get off me. Noqualk noise? Another one and another one?
Quark do something? Uh? Okay, Other other player characters, I'm gonna
whack with my staff again. Are you who are you going for? Are
they gol okay or miss quarg yep quarg I'm also gonna hit the spooky lady
with the big knife. Spooky lady hopefully. Oh wait, I should be
on the violence. Say here, wait what's she? Sixteen? Whatever?
It doesn't matter. Ten is a miss okay, rather ineffective turn there,
okay, heroes, uh into this one Goblin on Spiker, one Goblin on
Henry Quard is going to attack Rilk and hell give me a DR fourteen presence
test. Okay, everybody else, make your offensive rolls? Oh sixteen?
Hey, no damage? All right? Another fail looks like another fail,
but the untouchable heroes. One damage to Henry. Okay, so the bad
guys are largely ineffective. Hell, what happens with you is you see that
Nagel looks rather nervous as more of your friends arrive. He pulls something out
of his pocket, some sort of orb shaped object, and he throws it
on the ground between you and him. It is a small bomb that goes
off, you know, puff of smoke, but it's not quite impressive,
or perhaps you're just too narrowed. They're too focused in on him, and
you can see that he's trying to run around the back here to escape.
But you see him in the smoke, so um, I mean you can
still see him trying to get around. You're not sure if the others noticed
him or not. They're probably not because they're they're busy defending themselves. But
you see he basically try to smoke bomb it. If failed, he still
loves him. So okay, you guys are all um. I'm gonna try
my my maneuver again to get close to the ceiling and dive bomb them.
Okay, I'm going to try an aim for like landing exactly on his head,
so in case I miss I overshoot rather than undershoot. Okay, so
uh we'll do it. What was it, agility? Oh Julior strengthen one
seventeen. Okay, roll me a D four for damage, I guess Okay,
actually no, it would be a D two because like some weapons do
D four, You're just like, do physical punching damage. Okay, okay,
you knock him to the ground. He is still alive, but he
looks very like dazed and stunned. After you do that, he's basically trying
to crawl away from you at this point, panting loudly. Okay, I'm
gonna attack on real or not really, that's me. I'm gonna yeah,
end it all. Yeah, we're running through herself, which paragram I again,
God damn um is she's DR twelve. Yeah, everything's d R twelve
Okay, dope, m hm hm Nope, okay, I'm gonna try to
Nope. You guys are good at this. Henry do something please her for
sure. Nope. I'm gonna use my my owmen and just make it hit.
Okay, kill her. We're like, well that's twelve. Roll the
doubles, like, let's see, Oh my gosh, all right here,
we god eight. All right, a big hit on Quark. She stumbles
back, bleeding profusely from her arm. She looks like she's deciding whether or
not she should stay in fight. Here. I'm gonna have her take morale
tests and she stands firm. I guess she's gonna stay in fight to the
end. The goblins, though they saw their moss, basically runs thereretic morale
as well, and they are calling it a day. The goblins flee,
Quarb will attack. We'll just do a D three here left to right,
attacking Spiker and Pel Nagel draws his knife again and he basically, you guys
are kind of rolling around the ground fighting each other, so he's trying to
stab you. Go ahead and make your role no damage to Spiker. He
blocks the shovel with his shields and Nagel stabs you for a point of damage,
and you guys are all kay, yeah, don't think, just keep
attacking her. Oh yeah, one damage. She had one health remaining.
How does she die? Just like hammer to the knee and then spin the
worn around so it's got the pixie him down through the skull. You know
what that means? Cool? Yeah, all right? Kind of trying knife
for the critical hit for two damage. However, he also only had one
health remaining. How do you kill Nagal Green? Um, so you said
we were rolling on the ground, so it's it's a total saving, private
riding thing of like I'm holding the knife over his face. He's like,
he's like no no, no, no no no no no no no no.
I'm like yes, yes, yes, yes, and yeah, that
is exactly the type of thing he would say too, because he's a fucking
Cretan. All right, Well, you slowly push the knife down and he
loses his the battle of strength and eventually you drive it into his skull and
Nagal Green and his diabolical plot of the Goblin Grinder has come to an end.
And Henry Serve five amazing the Champion VP. Wow, and I only
lost two characters. Yep, we've lost us remaining. It's gonna be at
some point I can lose like five one HP. I booted an asterisk next
to Gilden Kretz on the list. He fucking deserves it, you know.
So you know how in Major's mask it's like twenty eight hours remaining. Yeah,
It's like, yeah, that's how many guards we have. Yeah,
there's a counter. Yeah, holy shit, all right, Well to wrap
up tonight. Uh, there is a big chest that you guys find up
here that has two locks on it. On Nagel you find a pouch of
silver along with his knife, and then he's got like a belt of tools.
But more importantly you find a key on his belt. The key can
turn the goblin grinding machine off. It also appears to open one of the
locks on the chest. You guys can roll me D sixty six times two
and that'll be how much silver he has in his pouch from today's sales.
And then down in the basement, it's a very small room which I will
show you guys here really quick. There's a little ladder that goes down to
the basement. Down there you find the rotting, beaten and bloody corpse of
Nakel's father, Irvin green Um. On him you discover what is it thirty
silver? So okay, all right, so seventy two silver, that's not
bad. And in the basement on Irvin's body, Urvan Uh, there's a
bloody stained shovel next to him. You're assuming that's what he was beaten to
death with. Um you also find hidden in his boot is the other key
to hit the goblin grinder. It looks identical to the one that Nakel had,
so it opens. It can also activate the goblin grinder, and it
is the other key to unlock the other lock on the chest. Also,
you find a vial of our yellow liquid um that he has on him,
which somebody wants to take. You can mark that off. Finally, inside
the chest, should I assume you open? Uh? There is another d
sixty six times two silver? Someone else there's a trinket twenty six. Oh
I thought it was sixty two. Okay, twenty six times two? Nice?
So how much total silver do you guys find? Fifty two plus seventy
two is one four. It's nice pay day. Also you find inside uh
is this old looking, rusty metal lamp. And I have a picture here
I can show you guys as soon as I find it. Anyway, for
lack of a better term, it looks kind of like a genie's lamp.
That's the shape that it has, but it looks old and rusted. Land
hasn't been used or it's been misused for a while. It is called the
lamp of Zen. It is another artifact and what it does when rubbed shadow
tendrils creep from this rusty lamp. When they reach nostrils, the tentacles burrow.
Roll a DR fourteen presence test. On a success, the brain struggles
and breaks and you get minus one presence permanently. Otherwise, the tentacles take
root without resistance and you gain plus one presence. So if you fail the
test, you get infected by this thing, which increases your present basically.
Okay, so I will um, we'll just do this. We'll roll a
D three between the other characters that are not Henry. Okay, so Eric,
I'm gonna put this item on your character sheet. You guys can do
with it as you wish. Um, you're playing Spiker, right, yeah,
okay, there you go, the lamp of Zen. Well, so
I can actually put items in your backpack. Well that's cool, okay.
Uh. And finally, for saving the day and ending the Goblin Grinder,
you guys get better better, So I think they're is a thing for that.
Cool. Yeah, all right, let's listen. Well, real,
real, real, real went hard. He got four HP he's now at
ten, gained the strength, gained an agility, gained a presence and gained
the toughness. All right, boys, boy, yeah, and he found
thirteen Okay, yes, are you good? Henry the champion, Henry?
Oh my god, damn, Henry, I've thrown also an incredible role HP
A strength, agility, presence, and toughness. I guess I was at
minus one agility, so that one makes sense. It's fucking bonkers to get
another presence though, you're at four or five now five now ge wow wow,
Spiker two days or HP strength, agility, presence, and toughness and
an unclean scroll. Nine pilot signs on not storm produced D two lightning bolts,
stealing D six damage each. Okay, all right, oh shit,
Okay, pell gains three HP one strength, one agility and one presence,
but I lose a toughness and I didn't find anything, and I was already
at negative two strengths, so now I'm just a negative one. Okay,
that's good. Yeah, making my way significantly buffed party after that fucking fight.
So you've some fucking cobblem to do that to us next time? Yeah,
um, Henry, because you're the only I'm thinking here, Henry and
Biker, did either of you take damage from a physical attack from any goblins
at any point. Yes, numerous goblins. Okay, okay, time all
right, So Henry, you have been infect or you've been cursed by the
goblin curse. All right, so you know that in a few days you
will turn into a goblin. And here's the kicker. What you also discover,
after maybe a day or two of all this nonsense, is that people
who have bought Nagel's cure eventually still turn into goblins. And after raiding his
jop and going through all this stuff, you discover that the cure he has
is not a permanent cure. It's something he made that only temporarily halts the
curse for several days. And he was basically using this as a get rich
plan to make goblins to infect the town, and then people would come to
him trying to buy the cure. Well, I did stuff my pockets with
them, so maybe that's something. So you're gonna need to find something that
will cure you of the curse or lift the curse, I should say,
which, Well, we'll have to see what we do next week. So
I think that's a great place to end it right there on the money.
Well done, heroes, we only lost another four guards. You doubled the
amount of dead in one night. Well done. You've done it, lads.
You're real heroes. Now you're a real wizardry. Oh my god,
incredible. Well listeners, I hope you've enjoyed listening this nonsense as much as
I have had watching it unfold. Dodging cannon balls, getting cursed, showing
up with one HP. Man, this game's got it all, it really
does. I had rolled one more HP, he wouldn't have died instantly.
That's too big, you know. That's that's the legend of building skirts legally.
All Right, Well, thank you all listeners. We will see you
next week for more merk bore nonsense, same time, same place, ninety nights.