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that? Do you hear something? Uh? The wind? Is it just
the wind? What am I listening for? I don't know. The same
wind that you heard five minutes ago and the same wind you heard five minutes
before that. Yeah, okay, but it does sound a little like men
healthy or young medicine. That's like just not like pot read read. I
hear it, right, Oh, I think I hear something. I think
he's right. Did you just make that with your mouth? Yeah? It
was the wind. Well, I don't hear anything now, no wait,
no, no, no, how I'm looking around into the darkness since we've
been fleeing from weather Top, and I guess I'm trying to see if or
one is the moon out. I can't remember if the moon was out this
night. I remember it being a particularly dark out every night. Yeah,
well, now wait a minute, is brightly out? But it could be
a new moon still out? Is it in? Uh? I think that
it was very faint, but it was there. I think it was like
a crescent moon if I'm not mistaken. Okay, So I know that I'm
looking back pretty often, specifically behind us, and I don't know about to
the left right of us as we're going, but I'm looking for movement as
hard as I can. Just to be clear, I have horses and ponies
for Strider or Piper, for REOs Lonton tottles. Are you bringing them with
you? M hm m hm. I let hope so it would make it
would help us make haste. I I think so, especially the way you
know, you know they want to be as far away from them as possible
before they realize who they're chasing. That's right. Then I want to know
the order of your Okay, follow up question, do the horses have plot
armor? I don't. I don't think I could handle my horse dying,
Okay, I guess find okay, Okay, And unless there was a different
reasoning for it. I still like to think that I ride to the left
of everything, whatever direction we go, I'm always on the left of the
traveling group, being one of the people doing a lookout. I would be
in front and the further ahead, obviously like the German scout, but I
would be leading the way as usual, very well, take up the rear.
I think I'm kind of the exception here in the sense that I don't
have a horse, but I am probably nonetheless leading the way, especially at
nighttime, where I get my extra senses to kick in, uh off the
beaten path slightly and scout I had actually and this one anyway. Actually,
Strider would probably be leading the way because he's the one who knows. For
now Strider is taking up the rear. Was he not leading the refugees spook
from the north? Uh? No, Strider directed them uh getting back to
breathe. But the idea was that all of you are trying to create a
distraction where there s works and lead them away. You've taken these people's clothes
to try and uh lead the scent away. Mm hmmm. I did give
the clothes back, just to be clear. Mhm. Okay, so is
it and win in the front, then Hi, Yeah, If Strider is
not over here leading the way, then I will be okay. So then
I got a question for that as well. Since you have those those night
eyes of yours and you're doing that sort of guiding of us, do we
have any torches out? Are we just going at a slow pace but trying
to do our best to follow you? This is dark business. We are
leading those away. I don't see why I would need a torch. However,
if we're trying to lead these goblins or whatever they are towards us,
it shouldn't matter. So if you would like a torch, you can.
I would not scold you this time. I agree. Normally I would say
we do not want a torch would get us spotted. But the goal here
is to be spotted, to serve as a distraction. So by all means
light a torch. Knowing that there's a beacon too. Our own possible demise,
which means don't light the torch. No, it means do light the
torch. We chose to take this risk when we sent those men the other
way. Okay, I lighted torch, being the one in the middle.
Wonderful Turtles has a torch? Anybody else have a tor Wait, I think
we have. We have lanterns. We got fancy lanterns, remember long.
That's right, we do have those. So I'll do that instead. Yeah,
I'll do the same, but I'll have it all spend week. Fine,
I needed for no reasons mine out. Fine. I do have it
fastened to bread just so I'm not holding it. I still have the reins,
but it's probably to the side, to the right. Sidem still shining.
Okay. Uh So Tattles and Lawton have torches or lanterns. Yeah,
okay, and Wins in the front, followed by Reel third Onunton Yeah yeah,
Sam Tart, Tottle's is fourth, Piper's fifth, and Strider is sixth.
Okay, very well. So, and you're leading the way? Are
you following the road somewhat? I will not stand out on it in the
open, but I will keep it inside to use as a marker. Very
well. I cannot stray too far from it. I think our horses benefit
from the road greatly. Very well. Uh and Win, I would like
you to please make a kah a travel roll. Travel I see I have
zero points in travel, so this will be amusing. Ok okay, well
me a D six please about three? Okay? H m hmmm umm,
Toddles and Lawton please make an awareness role. Oh no, it's gonna be
great. Oh extraordinary success. Okay, come on now, it's fine.
I'll throw you on a mine. If you fail, you'll be great.
Okay, you don't need it, uh London, please roly D twelve,
I D twelve? Oh no, this is how many? Right? How
much? Oh? Oh no? That? What makes that look like?
That was the worst role we could have made? Why does why does your
face look like that? Lormaster have the worst role that you could have made,
But it's the second worst role. You're welcome a big large troll.
What's bigger than a troll? Two trolls? All right? Troll square in
a trench coat, but on top of the other roll me D four please?
Lawton alright? D four one? Wow? Okay, it's only got
one on? What did I do? Ar trolls in here? I was
on a limb? Check? Right, he's only got one on And it's
easy. What It only takes about an hour or so from when you leave
Weathertop before you start to see maybe even here in the distance, familiar sounds.
You hear the sounds that you know we're coming. You weren't expecting them
so soon maybe, but you hear them nonetheless. Wargs in the distance.
You can hear them landon tittles, you make it the sounds. Oh no,
now I hear it. You hear it, you hear alright, there's
words? Oh oh that what that is? You jump so sure? I
just thought it was a very hungry like large animal. Do I it is?
Do I put the landron outer? What do we do? Mm?
Hmmm? What do you do on landing? Okay? I just immediately handed
him my lantern. Okay, and I fascinate to me. We must keep
moving. And if it sounds like they're getting close to where we must fight,
you need to find a better place to do it. Yeah, okay,
what are you doing the lantern? Are you just taking my lantern?
It's my Now, let's go. Strider speaks up, says, we are
still too close. We must draw their attention away. We must make great
haste. Pull them away from breede, pull them away from the others.
Okay, okay, okay, all right, all right, all right,
they clearly have our scent, all right, we're run. Does that mean
we should just make a lot of noise then call them to us? Noise
is not needed anymore. The works have our scent. They will follow us
forever. Okay. So when you say forever, forever until they under we
do okay, grief, just check them if we find a place that they
cannot cross, such as a river or a high cliff that when they cannot,
I'm perhaps we could lose them, but mostly they will follow us until
we kill them. And we need them to do right for the others.
Okay, right, okay, I lean down to bread and pot bread and
go, okay, all right, we're gonna do this. We're gonna go
fast. Now you can do that right here we go go. I'm gonna
spur bread on. Okay. Those of you on horse back can please make
me a travel check. Okay, and when you should make an athletics lord,
all right, give myself a hope here, just just one hope.
How about I give you one, which means you get two, and you
give me one, which means I get two. Yeah, her hold on
to the reins. Okay, thank you very much, it's perfect. Oh
all right, I'm going to go ahead and toss one of those straight over
to tottles, another failure for Piper as well. If you want to use
both, yeah, yeah, absolutely both of you. Here you go.
I think, yeah, I'm gripping my reins and I look at both of
them and I'm like, you'd gotta get low. The wind will knock you
off low. Yeah, okay, I'm like, I'm gonna saddle. I
don't know if this is right, Dorc let's go and then all right,
I am. I'll probably stand in the middle of the road for a second
to try and get like before all of the sprinting starts, trying to get
all the horses attention, and then because I want them to follow me and
not scattering spread up, like, once I have them all focused on me,
I will just take off sprinting. It is time to run. Put
my long legs to use. If this is going to be a long run,
like I'm going to have to pace myself and keep running. I'd like
to petition for inspiration using my distinctive feature of hardy. I can run a
long time. Absolutely got to use that for the like the whole event for
it all right, here we go. An athletics role from a hardy individual
will be Oh, my three six's very nice. He's the wind. Yes,
Andwin takes off and uh, strider h closes behind Piper. Maybe as
you're struggling in London is helping you feel another hand. As Strider helps helps
write you in your seat and in the saddle, as you rush with all
haste along the road. Not long into the ride, at a good clip,
you start to hear more owls in the distance, and Lawton toddles.
You start to see the pack orgs with a distinctive reddish hue to them goblins.
A stride you can see Lawton, I think you see at least eleven
cresting the edge of the hill in the distance. Oh, there's a lot
of them. There will be more behind whatever you see. Close to a
dozen. Oh okay, So are we trying to Are we trying to fight
them and kill them or are we just trying to keep them running? Because
I don't know if we can fight them. We must make all haste take
them away from this area. Okay, okay, the way it will be
good. We're going to die. Riding is already tough work. But I
am sprinting on foot. I am out of Revan huffing and puffing, so
I'm not responding as you call out to me. And let's do something special.
Okay, let's bring you over here. Oh lord, oh boy,
oh boy, whoa, oh my land, look at this? Oh look
at all that they're fucking moving? Yes they are well. No, they
have animated tokens. Now what have you done? All right? Wait?
What is this new artwork? I haven't seen this. You've got some special
We've got some special mechanics for this. I've gone ahead, and one of
those specially forget the sick for foret forget the mechanics. I haven't seen this
artwork before. This is really sick, fucking andolin. Okay, I'm gonna
make this visible to you all. Okay, you should now see chase as
a handout. We have some special mechanics to have happen right now. As
this Goblin org rider chases underway and you are out in front, I'm gonna
go ahead and just add a turn order here. This is just gonna help
us kind of keep track of where we are in these mechanics. But this
is gonna work different than regular combat. Okay, alrighty, So first things
first, and you are in front. I'm gonna need you. Oh,
I forgot to make a thing for this. Let's see. Players can roll
from this table. Okay, roll on bracket one tea bracket chase beest.
Does that work? Yes? It does? Okay, all right, and
to win? Uh and then the rest of you in your collection tab at
the top right of roll twenty, next to the gear there should be a
macro section at the top. You should see the chase macro hopefully. Oh
hold on, now you should it? Yeah, I see show macro,
show macro quickbar and then in bar. Make sure both of those are checked
off. Oh yeah, that little I see the button. Yep. Okay,
and you were in front. Sorry, please make a travel roll.
This is wonderful. By the way, I'm so excited. This is crazy.
No, that is the worst. A nice little sour ruin and go
ahead and make uh two chase rolls please from that macron test us. Don't
see if it works? There's one did it work? Huh? Road is
clear? Clear? If this is so? The way that this works is
uh the person that is leading the way, we'll get to determine what is
coming at you. So is clear because you failed, It's like sort of
like rolling twice and taking the worse option. So it's a little bit like
the advantage disadvantage in D and D. The road is clear, however,
there are no obstacles, so you have your chase actions that you can do.
The wargs are closing in they get to go at the end of the
round. You have several actions that you can partake in. What would you
like to do? What are my action options? So there is a chase
handout that you have, same page as the character sheets and stuffer on.
Ah, yes, I see it. Okay, I'll just go over those
for our audience. You can sprint, you can defend, you can catch
your breath, you can attack, you can improvise, you can fall back,
and you can evade. There are a total of fifty chase points that
need to be achieved for this chase to end, and there are five checkpoints
along the way. Wow, okay, okay. If you make it to
the next checkpoint, you get five chase points. If you defeat a Goblin
ward rider you gain two, and if you successfully evade you get one.
I already rolled fantastically well on my sprint. May I that was that the
same role here? Or is this a new role? Okay? From what
I see on sprint, it just moves me to the front. But I'm
already upfront, so this is pointless, yes, correct? Okay. In
that case, I suppose I'll just evade, like run and dodge debris and
try to speed through as fast as I can very well travel or athletics.
I am one the road success excellent fifteen. So I think we can go
in any order, except for the person that's in the front. They have
to go first. That makes sense. Yeah, we would like to go
next. Hmm, I'd like to improvise. Okay, what crazy cool thing
would you like to do? What I've written down here by the way for
them, everybody is do some cool stuff. Difficulty will be increased depending on
the action taken. Describe what you'd like to do mid chase, high risk,
high reward, right, Okay, So it's a little dependent on how
grouped up this this pack behind us is. Are they very spread across or
is it sort of a line with a few peppered here and there. Yeah,
they're kind of spread out a little bit, and they are some of
them are riding like two wides or three wide. Okay, so uh,
I want to essentially throw my lantern open backwards, hoping that the oil and
the fire will cause enough mayhem to do something. Don't know what, but
I want to try it. Okay, I think probably a battle roll a
battle roll? Okay? Can I get out there? Can I get some
hope? Chance for also just to interject here, hope will work as normal.
You also have another extra thing that you can do here. If you
roll badly before the outcome of the role has been decided, you can spend
a fatigue to reroll. Okay, okay, all right, here we go.
Don't don't get overly fatigued. It is very bad. I'm I'm well,
I'm not doing well anyway, but here we go. No. Okay,
but even with those two successes, this this this not still because I
got to two extra successes in there, well, it says you are weary.
So the one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine points were deducted from due to weariness. Do you
fail either way? Oh? I don't think we should be weary, though,
should we? We left? You and I got you had did we
fight and weather top right? We haven't rested? We left immediately. My
endurance was at five at the time. Okay, yeah, and my load
is seven so unless I would have Oh, I would have dropped stuff.
That's fine, but I I didn't realize. That's fine. I'll take the
fatigue to reroll. It's not the reroll I'm I would have taken off my
leather shirt. I would have made myself liked if I knew we were going
to have to go fast. You can totally retroactively do that if you'd like.
Well, if that's the case, then I'm no longer weary, which
means what for that role, we would have succeeded. You would have had
two extra successes, which one would negate right the seen run If that's even
necessary. I don't know if that's how that works or just I just get
it regardless, even with the sound. Just get it regardless. Oh,
the sar room stays all right. I have unclicked my shirt as well,
so if I get hit, I don't have it. So that's fun.
So if that succeeds, yeah, well I think I'll be sprinted next time,
but for this I'll get to the front. So yeah, I get
the lantern. I opened the little latch that's there and bend it so it's
not gonna close. And I, as best as I can try to figure
out when I throw this, I wanted to sort of tumble and throw the
oil around. That's gonna catch and I'll throw it in the biggest group that
I can see. That's that's what's my turn is for. Okay, biggest
cluster I should see? Did you just do a Molotov cocktail as best as
I could Molotov cocktail? You sort of throw it and you hear the glass
kind of shatter, and there's like a like a brief flash. You can
see maybe several war griders kind of like hold up their hands trying to avoid
the flash, and the fire maybe catches some fur a light as they trample
through. Okay, who's next me? I would like to make a ranged
attack. Hold on real quick, right, enroll a D two? Uh
right, try tract lip that coin? Oh goodness, okay, that's three
ones. Well, okay, you can see out of the two that seemed
to be temporary blinded, like one sort of veers off and there's a howl
is the war rider just kind of starts to lose pace? Okay, okay,
okay, I'm sorry, Who's next? B Okay, I'd like to
make a ranged attack. Okay, now you are currently on the back of
your pony. I'm gonna say you've got a minus one all right, he
can do. Okay. Do I need to click on it on them?
Yeah? The icon should should be able to still click on them, I
think. Okay, let's give it a try. Does it matter which one
I click on or not? Yeah? Minus one for bonus die Okay,
I didn't let me. H. There we go. A piercing blow.
Okay, that'll start things off right for you. Okay, very nice.
Okay, let's see m m no, I should have done it first and
use that now. Okay, and this is versus A fourteen. I need
to make a protection role that is another Gandalf, which is a fail for
them. Uh toddles, Yeah, you want an arrow? How do you
kill them? Wow? Okay? Uh? I think I hit the leg
of the wark and it looks it. Yeah, it goes tumbling and then
they you know, you hear the snapping of the neck and stuff as the
goblin falls down and the ward goes down. I don't know if the goblin
actually goes down with it. Yes, it does. Okay, all right,
awesome for your purposes, it does wonderfully. I got one good job.
Yeah, Okay, we're gonna add to chase points. Okay, we
kill all eleven of them. Yeah, this that end the chase. We'll
have to find out. Oh sure, Okay, who's next. I will
use my turn to fall back to the rear of the group. I don't
have anything range to throw, and I am not going to well I'm not
playing the hero, but at the same time, I'm not going to run
away ahead of the group. So Rusty and I are going to take the
rear. Okay, I'm gonna fall back. Gotcha strategy we'll find out in
a minute. Uh, Piper. Yeah, I'm thinking I don't think there's
anything that I can do to cause damage because I'm like a sword person and
I don't have any Molotov cocktails. So I think what I'm probably going to
do is sprint. I'm just gonna keep running, give them continue trying to
give them something to chase. Okay, you're gonna move to the front if
you sprint. I just want to be clear about that. Sprint is to
go to the front of the group. If you want to kind of just
stay where I am and then just yeah, yep. So you can defend
or you can evade, if you'd like to kind of say where you are,
Okay, evade, I'll give you some bonuses against the obstacles. Defend
will give you a bonus to your defense for the round. Sorry to interject,
Lord Master, I see that fall back and catch your breath. Do
the same thing, really as in they move you to the back. Now,
is that there's another thing that happens if you catch your breath? Okay,
well, in that case I shall just fall back and not try and
get any endurance back. Fair Enoch, you wouldn't be implying that there's a
hidden downside to some of these options, would you? Would I do?
I can say really, ever, what I did want to ask though,
since we sort of put this into motion with andwin in the front, he
has to do a travel roll every turn, right, of which he not
particularly good at. If Piper was good at travel, which I don't know
if you are, I'm not sure you're not all right? It says travel
or an athletics check oh when running yeah to the front to avoid obstacles.
I was just wondering if that because that's going to be its own problem.
But that's fine. Oh boy, okay, I think I'm going to try
to evade. Uh. They evade for now, and that's travel for ride
in yeah. Uh oh can I roll athletics to evade? Uh? So
I will take either athletics or travel. Yes, oh bless you. Okay,
look at that great success. All right, right, very well,
you are currently evading, and I'm weaving. M let's give you. I
can give you a green dot. There you go. Okay, anybody else
successfully evade? I feel like it was London you did oh and went okay,
thank you. I was sure. I wasn't really sure what else I
could actually do, so yeah, evading okay my character the only way to
fight would be to stop and be overrun by them. Yeah okay, Strider.
Uh, Strider sees you kind of like rushing along, and he yells
and can you ride beginning of my next turn. I was already going to
stop for a second anyway, So I'll just do that right now. If
you find a horse that can wield me. Yes, he's ponies will not.
Strider focuses his vision Pastoro and he says, maybe not a horse,
and he will he will take aim with his bow and fire. I'm sorry,
is he gonna put you on a work? I am here for I
win on a work. I've never been more here, I'll be honest.
I had this idea myself, but I thought it was too silly. Sweat
did never take us too sick. I never tried. Uh the arrows sales
passed and missus basically one of the like, it's so hard for Strider to
fail. I rolled an I a sarn. Oh yeah, is he he
on that? Like five points and sword five points? In bow five points.
He's a legendary NPC that gets all kinds of insane bonuses. Okay,
when he shoots his bowl, he just kind of look looks down at this
pathetic horse that was retrieved for him by uh the guy and Brie Bill.
Yeah, I can't amazing, Fernie, thank you. The war Griders turns,
okay, so they get to do some bullshit. Now they also get
to make a roll for the chase to see what's coming up first and foremost,
let's find out what's gonna happen. That's a very unlikely one. Okay,
somebody roll me a D four please, honest not, I can I
just say at the start of the show, we were like, it's gonna
be so was like, it's gonna be such a fun session. And I
just got this flash at that of like fall TPK or like character that this
episode it's gonna be so fun, But he didn't say for whom. Yes,
thank you wax over here writing his dissertation on why orcs need fun too.
Yes, okay. Warg emerges from the trees that kind of surround the
road. As you make your way eastward, you can see this war rider
headed your way. Uh. They will fire. Uh uh, it will
fire a bow. This should be with one more die. Oh that that's
not good? Uh for you god? Oh shit? Uh, that's definitely
a hit. First of all, it's a sourn run. I rolled in
an extra success. Uh. So let's see who are they aiming at.
Let's find out. Uh, Tottles sign all right, Uh, let's see
Tottles. I need you to please make a protection role as this is a
piercing below. All right, Now, I need to double check, because
don't we have bullshit? If they're bigger than us. One second, let
me just read that again. Ano, there is in melee range. I
think I have it already. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, tell
me again what I'm rolling? Protection role? Protection? The injury is going
to be fourteen? No one ever shoots at me. Where's my protection role?
Oh? There it is? Okay, injury rating is what fourteen?
Okay has finally been noticed. Can I give hope for this? Thank you?
Thank you? If I can give hope, I will yeah. Oh
Lord, as a success, you take three endurance stamache her tititles. All
right, Ah, I want to point out with a boat, I would
like to point out that that point of hope you gave her was literally the
making break it right on the money m hm alright. Yeah. So I
see the war writer, and I veer towards toddles, seeing them aim and
and they release. I don't think I was quite fast enough to avoid damage,
but maybe a killing blow. So I'm sorry I didn't do better.
What No, that was a kid. We save a lot of hearts.
Your heart. It's fine. I got like an arrow? Can I have
an arrow in my knee? I just took an arrow in the knee.
It's fine, Loton, I don't need a horse the time shut ship.
Okay, we have several warg attacks incoming. Uh, they are catching up
to you. Real, Okay, don't like this. My fire, My
fire did something to one of them, right, it's one of them veered
off and got pushed back, but I rolled maximum on. How many are
going to get within range? Oh no? Oh lord? Okay, uh,
reals, you've got several catching up to you right now. Uh.
They will be taking out spears to attack. Okay, it's gonna be five
attacks headed your way. Real, who fail on the first one? Oh?
Great? Success on the second one. That's an extra success. We're
gonna do extra dam damage and this will be a total of oh shit,
seven damage reel. Oh lord, uh, next one, I am concerned.
I am you should be salad one. Rioth has the lowest parry rating
in the group. Having all of the text target him is very bad for
us. That's another one, another seven damage reeld. Oh okay, let's
see this is the fourth of five. Ye Rial, you're knocking forward stance
on your sheet? Are you just tell chick? And I not sure if
they're supposed to have two or three dice on every roll? Yeah, so
uh it should be two, Yeah, it should be two. Let's do
some retroactive math because this will be important. Uh. Yeah, So for
the sakes of this, Uh, if you are caught in the back,
let's see here. I think if you were caught in the back, it
should be forward stance. That's fair, if that's how you want to rule
it. I just noticed that they had a plus three on their roles instead
of plus two like in the last fight. So I think if you are
in the in the last space, we're gonna say that that is forward stance.
Any of the sort of in between spaces would count as like kind of
whatever stance you want. And then, uh, the the one in the
front of the the uh set up, that's probably rear word. I'm gonna
say in this case. Okay, So anything in the middle it can be
kind of whatever you want, I would say, with the exception of forward
stance. And then if you're in the back, that's forward stance. And
then if you're in the very front where Andowin is, I would say that's
considered rear word. Okay. Uh so got two more war riders attacking a
rio. Oh no, you get dismounted from of course. Okay it Actually
I'll tell you what. Let's have a role for this. Make an athletics.
Check athletics check. Okay, hop hop hop Oh, dinky legs?
Are you giving me hope? I'm giving you hope. Okay, that will
give me one bone. Somebody can give him to unless someone can give him
to. Oh I can't. No, I forget. Does he need to
be our focus or do we need to be his? He needs to be
your yourcus is my fellowship focus? Take one of mine? Okay? Okay?
Two bonus guy wouldn't do any different school please, Weary failure from more
than oh no, gets knocked off the horse. Rusty continues moving and Rio
falls off the horse. That's okay. Dwarfs our natural sprinters. We know
for a fact, dwards their natural spend. Gimli said, so, so
he's okay for a minute. Ri Oath, you are currently dismounted. And
did that knock you below zero during a negative tool? Yes, you are
knocked unconscious and on the ground. Oh okay, there is one more war
Grider. It sails past Rioth and moves to Strider. I'm gonna move down
there. Okay. Strider yells the old has fallen new round and to win,
it's your turn. I would like you to please make a travel role
for me, right, So before you even say that, when when when
Strider called out to me before I just basically stopped. I'm letting Longton pass
me. Is it possible for him to do the travel role since I'm no
longer going to take the lead. Not for this one. I think it's
you're still in the front. I think you still have to do it all
right, So it takes two turns to change positions, just so I know
for a future No, he can change position. On the last turn.
He was running just kind of in character and he was just trying to stay
ahead because he didn't feel like there as much he could do. So you
have to be the one to like so London couldn't say on his turn,
I take the lead, you can you can take the sprint action and go
to the front. Okay, we both chose evade, Yeah, because we
didn't have a solid grasp of how this works. Now now I see what
is going on, but I have to make a travel roll which I cannot
pass unless Gandolf intervenes. So here we go. Nope, okay, a
right, make two chase roles? Please? Does a successful evasion give us
any advantage to this chasing stuff or no it does actually, yes, a
hiding spot and road is clear. I haven't explained what hiding spot is yet,
Okay, I think when you fail the travel role, I get to
pick between these two. I'm going to say the road is clear, okay,
all right, because it's the left sir of two evens right when it's
when it's a failure or no, it's a greater two ebuns. But and
the road is players, so hiding spot is good, all right, I
remember I don't remember that, okay, okay, what would you like to
do with your chase action here? Right? So at the top of the
round, I just kind of abruptly stop, which I was already going to
stop, and that was before Rio fell. Now it's even more urgent because
I started slowing down and now I just kind of plant my feet. And
I know Lonton is badly injured because I watched him get mulled by wargs.
I also know London uses a spear, or at least he carries one.
I do as as Lonton is passing me, I'm going to like nab the
spear from his saddle bag and just say ride swiftly and do not stop.
I understand, and I'm going to turn with that spear. And where's the
wark that appeared ahead of us with the ambush. Yeah, it's right in
near Tottles. God, I'm just going to throw it. I'm going to
javel in that sphere right through the one that great totablish us. No,
no, no, Lawton's spear. Oh okay, gotcha. Lanton carries a
normal sized spear and it's the only way I can really do a ranged attack
here. I will throw it. Okay, I'll just roll the orchestra one
because I've already got it programmed. Here. I'd like to point out I'm
aiming for the writer about the work. Okay, bump, God, wait,
hold on, it gave me hold on, No, no, no,
no, it gave me none of my success, Dice, something's not
right. I'll just roll it manually. Borne six. That is a great
success. Okay, how would you like to suspend your extra success? Since
I got to seven, I'll take the plus three for a piercing blow.
Okay, there is a yowl of pain and you manage to hit the rider,
probably right through the leg for a massive shot. You get an additional
what eight damage? How much how much is the damage on that spear?
I'm not sure. I don't have a regular sphere started on my sheet at
the moment. They damage is three on a sphere okay. And what's your
your strength rating? My strength rating is seven? Okay, so that is
an additional is that eight or nine? It would be eight because it's my
strength plus one because I we'll dance with both hands. But I had said,
I said piercing blow, not I'm not heavy blow. Oh I'm sorry,
piercing blow, I apologized. Okay, what is the injury rating on
that weapon? Fourteen? Mm hmm? How do you kill him right through
the neck with a spear? One by? Yes? Okay? One by?
Toddles falls and you just kind of like hear this wretched howl sort of
moan as this creature just kind of falls, this kind of roles as it's
sliding to a stop. I am not really sure how much of this I
can actually accomplish in one turn, but I am attempting to do exactly what
Strider implied. I want to hijack this war now that I've killed the rider.
Oh okay, you can do that on your next turn, all right,
I'd like to go I'm next. No no, no, no,
no, no, nope, out of my way. I'm sorry. Oh
hikay, Okay, I'm sorry. I trust you. It's fine. It's
important. Absolutely my head for re oath. Okay, are you trying to
grab ri oath? What I would like to do is I go back for
the oath and then I'm actually going to attack somebody, but I'm guarding him,
okay, and then I'll pick him up next turn on your turn,
I know so well. I mean, I'm still running, I'm just moving
in the other direction. I'm still firing, and I'm not going to pick
him up or doing it then until next turn. But I want to attack
this turn, but head in the opposite direction. So I'm breaking away from
the group. Okay, I will say, you don't. You could just
stop. If London and Piper keep going and the works keep going, then
all we really need to do is holt than we are. Okay, never
mind, I can't. If I can't, you know, turn around and
fire like I fired last time while I was riding, So I was just
assuming I can turn around. Definitely, I'm gonna stop and fire can definitely
attack. Ye yeah, okay, take an attack row. Okay, which
one is the closest to Ruth and I know this one Okay, piercing blood.
Okay, let's go. That's two kandal rooms for me. You're killing
it. Wow. Hopefully this one is not a kill shot. However,
it does manage you see it do the thing that like the arrow Gorn does
and it like knocks the arrow partially out of the air, but it only
sort of like chops the end off the other the other bit of the half
that gets stuck in the shoulder. The goblin howls and pain, and that's
not damage, I think. So it's like, yeah, because I have
two and then the one, but it has the great one Pierson blow.
So does that mean I can add an extra to it like a mighty blow
as well? You absolutely can? Yep. Then I do that, okay
unless I can do a second Pierson, but I don't think I can.
Can I? So what's your strength rating? A two? Okay? So
this is an extra free damage all right? His next launton? Yeah?
Okay, So as as as I doing was going to grab my spear,
I put my hand out to grab his horn, and I'm going to try
and uh do a battle roll to make them weary. This term I'm trying
to remember the name of that one's intimidate foe. Yeah, it's essentially that
first Sorry, I know, but I'm gonna let you do. You're saying,
right, yeah, that's good. I just so, Yeah, if
I can do that, okay, mm, I don't know if we can
do that in this chase. I think it's gonna be get bit harder to
do the intimidation during the chase. I'm gonna say no in this case normally,
let me try and do this kind of thing, unless you want to
get really crazid. May I suggest instead you rally your allies with a similar
role. Uh, it can't intimidate the enemy. But is that a battle
rolled as well? Because I can too. Well no, yeah, I'm
the inheartin he's the battle rule. Yeah. Yeah, Well, if that's
the case, then I'll take aim as best as I can as I ride
pass andwin, and and I'll try and shoot this one right next to Strider.
I'll give that a shot. Sorry, I forgot to add your chase
points. You're at four or fifty right now. We need to do better
than that. But we'll we'll, we'll get there. It's fine. No
bonus di semat. Oh, I shouldn't be weary, shouldn't you? No?
Oh, he's your shirt off? Yeah I should I should not.
Oh. And also I shouldn't be in rear stance either, apparently are you?
Are you not at like endurance five or something like that? I am,
but my load is four once you go. I thought that once you
go below fatigue plus your load, So then yes, yes I am.
There's nothing I can which means the other turn's wrong. That shouldn't The fire
shouldn't have worked, And I apologize I didn't realize together. Hiou Yeah,
I fire and shot just goes wide. You feel yourself getting tired, Lanton
and uh, it's just it's hard to aim. Uh maybe you catch Rio's
kind of like down on the ground, as rusty as just riding following the
rest of the ponies and the horses. All right, okay, who's next?
I think that would be me. But it's funny because I, like
Piper, kind of don't know what to do right now because Ruth is on
the ground, people are rushing back. I can't I'm very weary, so
I can't fire any arrows that will be of any use. I'm already pretty
injured, so if I jump in, I'm just putting myself at risk and
therefore putting everybody else at risk, because then I just make myself someone else
they have to save. I'm honestly, it's the worst thing I could do.
But I think I just what Strider doing. Uh is looking at you
hasn't gone yet, so you don't know. You look like Strider is looking
towards Rios. Yeah, I turn and I run towards Rioth, no knowing
that it's source. I'm just gonna probably end up getting hurt and then I'm
gonna make it even worse for everybody. But I can't leave him behind,
and I'm I'm with him, keep running by myself. Yeah, you attacked,
and you look like you are turning towards Rios. Oh, I'm just
I'm just running in the direction because it's like, I don't want to leave
him, but there's something that I can do. Unfortunately, I'm not strong
enough to pick him up. I can't hurt anybody, I guess. I
just draw my sword and I run towards where Youth is and I'm I'm just
reacting on instinct. Now, I'm not being logical. I'm just kind of
like, Okay, okay, this will be a travel role. Okay,
there is a role for defend. You can defend if you'd like exactly what
she's doing, Perhaps that might be your option. I'm gonna say in this
case, this would fall under the improvised category to try and get rios improvise.
Yeah, okay, I haven't ruled for injury, by the way,
I forgot. Yeah, why don't we do that? Now? Roll twelve?
Oh godness, if it's a twelve, I'm dead by the way.
For three, this is a severe injury. Oh it will take three days
to recover under safe normal conditions. Rioth. Okay, Piper, I would
like a travel role please, or or we can make this more difficult and
you can pull off some cool shit and try an athletics role. Yeah,
I'm down for that. I'm gonna call I'm gonna say this is gonna cost
you a bonus die. I'm minusing a bonus die for me. Okay,
one bonus die for me? Is anybody giving Piper hope? I mean,
I'll gladly to try and even that top. Yes, okay, uh,
you got hope coming from Lawnton is that one dive from Lawnton. Yeah,
it's fine, right, So this is just a flat roll then, okay,
no bonus diye a war That would have been so good. Okay,
Piper. Yeah, you swing back around to grab Rioth. He's too heavy.
You try to grab him by him by whatever, like piece of clothing
is sticking up or something. Yea, and you just try to like haul
him up and you just he falls right out of your grasp. And now
because of this you are in the back. Okay, Okay, Strider need
more dice or Strider. Uh okay, all right, okay, that is
one extra success for Strider. Uh. Strider will do exactly what you just
did, Piper, except he will pick up real and we already know he
can toss the dwarf. That's very true, thank you. Uh. Strider
has Rioth draped across his horse. He is now in the back with Rie.
Oh. Oh, can't getting left behind. Hobbits would never forgive me.
And uh, that is it for your turns war Riders. Let's make
a chase roll. The road is still clear. That's good. I waited
all of these entries in this table, so certain things have a higher percentage
chance to happen than others. Okay. Uh, that's two of the war
Riders are going to engage on them. Three will be firing bow and arrow
towards the rest of you. Okay, uh, First, the ones that
are on Strider after roll this ship manually spears towards Strider. Mmmm uhh.
That's a fail and a fail? Why did that roll that way? Still
a fail? But God or didn't see why that happened? Okay, uh,
yes, so that is two fails on Strider. Now we've got three
bow attacks. Let's see here where they aim in. Okay, first,
one is going to be towards Toddles or no, I'm sorry Lawton in case
in case you forgot Lawnton kept writing, so he and I have swapped positions,
so they might be targeting me. That's right, we technically swapped,
yes, yes, okay, yeah, yeah, fair enough. Okay.
We got one headed towards Lawton and two headed towards and Awin. Oh great,
even better something, Man, I'm going to roll this. It should
be the same role. I'm gonna roll this. It should be the same
role. It's my mind swamp. I'm sorry, what that's That's what I'm
expecting Uh. One arrow sails past you, uh and win. Second shot
another fail just barely. Uh, and then the last shot will aim towards
you Lawnton. Mm hmm that is an uh. Let's see, this is
gonna be for five damaged Lawnton sticks in like the back of your leg.
You feel this intensely sharp pain hit you as this arrow connects. But it
was enough because I'm out. Okay, you round? Do I need to
do anything now that I'm out? I need a travel roll? Oh?
God? Even the one knocked out? Oh you got knocked out? Yeah?
Oh ship, Yes, I'm sorry I didn't I didn't notice. Okay,
that will be an athletics check. Great, I'm super great at this.
It's just the past, you know, an athletics check from from London.
Yeah. To stay in the saddleite. Oh that this is a weary
failure. Aunton falls out of saddle. Okay, very well, and you're
stuck making the travel roll again. I am I still making a travel roll
If I'm not running, I stopped. I'm fighting. Uh, okay,
titles, you can make it travel Yeah, I mean I can make it
if you want me to it. So you took an attack action. You
can only choose like one of those options. And from what it sounded like,
you were doing the stopping thing this turn. That's kind of what I
got from that. No, I was picking up for youth this turn.
That was my intention anyway, was that I would attack last turn and then
pick them up this That would be like an improvised action on this turn.
But you haven't stopped yet. You made your attack first. All right,
Sure, I'll do a travel roll. I don't. I know they're probably
not your specialty either, but it could. There's no way you do to
make it make sense. You're out, yo, No, No, you
can give hope when you're out. We decided that way back. You're going
to be spurred on by my poor You're one of my folks, don't you
can take Here's the thing. I don't think I should. I have zero
in travel. I think it's waste in it. If you give it to
me, there's no way I can pass without. Actually not true, if
you have two, you could because your target number is like thirteen, right,
it's pretty low. Okay, your heart target. I'm giving you one.
I'm giving you and you still have better chances than I do. Yeah,
there you go. That's the success make a chase. Roll okay,
okay, roll the D four please hold on actually because I think, okay,
I was gonna say, I think I've only ever rolled one on that
okay, one D four three? Okay, three obstacles are headed your way
right because they're also there, That is correct, yes, okay, okay,
So obstacles are quickly rushing towards you. It could be like low tree
branches, or it could just be like like essentially a giant pothole or something
in the road, or a or a rock or some some debris or something
that's fallen in the road here. So Tottles, you are first up.
It's really bad. I need you to decide on what you'd like to do.
You said you were picking up re oath, but you can see the
real has been picked up by stryder. Lawton has fallen. Okay, then
I will attack. I attack, I attack. Lawton has fallen off of
his horse. I understand that, but I have to attack. I can't
be dead weight right now. Okay, that's my job. Sorry, I
just like we're gonna fucking die. Dude, go ahead and attack you extracesses
juicer, you can't get a piercing blow with this, but you can do
double heavy blow if you'd like. Can I hit the same one that I
attacked last time that I've already damaged? Absolutely? Okay, Okay, how
do you kill them? Uh? I think I just immediately fire three three
quick arrows and it's sloppy. I'm not because I Lnton's gone down, Reus
is down, and this is very bad, and so I'm just trying to
I'm thinking what Anderwyn would tell me to do, and it's I'm good at
doing this, so I'm gonna do it. Okay, fair enough? Uh,
Lawton, he's really twelve B twelve. I don't roll in a eight.
Oh noly, shit, that scared me. Eight is bad, but
it's not as bad as an eleven. Okay. An eight is still a
severe injury. If you're in normal circumstances, it would take you eight days
to heal from this injury. Okay, all right, who is next?
I think I will go next, because my turn is kind of going to
decide everything for the Yeah, next turn or two. I was running towards
this wark that I just speared the rider out of the saddle to try and
hijack the wark. But I have now seen both rioth and London knocked out
of their respective settles. I'm going to stop going towards the wark and instead
wait Rusty, because since I stopped moving, Rusty is now running right at
me. Here we go, and it's been years since I have actually rode.
But I was born to the saddle, a tribe of nomadic horseman.
I hope I can remember how to do this attempt to mount mount Rusty as
he runs past. Please, I will spend a point of hope. I
cannot afford to fail. Oh yeah, well, I'm still conscious and you
can have mine because you're also a focus. I tell you I'm greedy and
I like my hope. All right, so you get to here it is.
It's been a long time. Don't mean that, But you only get
that if you've taken that specific upgrade. Oh but they're connected, they're connected
by the Okay, but I'm just saying in general, like the focus comes
along with an actual upgrade that you had to get. Okay, just making
sure there was a reason why he became a focus for me. Okay,
I've rolled so incredibly hot, it would not matter one way or the other.
That is a perfect mount. His memory comes from you know, muscle
memory of mounting a horse as it runs past comes back from childhood. Go
do that bullshit where you grab the you know, the the belt of the
saddle and like little hop, you know that hop that they always do,
and then they swing the leg over like super fast, and you totally mount
Rusty. Do you mount forwards or backwards? Just out of curiosity? Uh?
Do you mean like facing forwards or facing backwards? I'm not legalless.
I'm not doing any stupid looking swing under it and land facing backwards. No,
if anything, I actually like take advantage of my sprinting speed and I
run with Rusty for a few You're just so tall, you just lift your
leg up and then there you are. Yeah. I just kind of sit
on him as he passes, like the riker move on the chair. You
just jump. I know, I know the ponies probably couldn't take my weight,
but Rusty is a full grown horse, so I'm hoping that this isn't
too much as I hop on to a Rusty and then urge him forward and
be line towards London, which I don't know if I have to wait till
next turn, but I am now galloping, you will have to wait till
next turn. All right, all right, it's my turn, Uh,
Piper, it's your turn. Yeah, take the lead back. So I'm
gonna yeah, I'm gonna sprint. Do I'm gonna sprint. I'm sprinting,
Okay, go ahead and make a travel roll, okay, or athletics,
athletics. If I'm running and running running, that's because i'm riding. Get
down. I'm going to use a hope for this. Now, when you're
using hope while weary on yourself, I believe you get too. Yeah because
bus special bullshit, because you're wary. Okay, sorry to vaccine, but
I'm worried we're gonna die. Okay. So uh, Basically, the way
that I have this situation set up with Sprint is every success moves you forward
one. So in the case here where you failed, uh, you kind
of just stay where you are. In this case, I'm just trying to
deal with all of the ship that's going on. It is difficult seeing London
fall off the horse, reels fall off the horse, and so many of
these ward riders chasing you. All. Okay, we actually had I'm sorry.
There's actually two more points here. Because you did successfully evade twice killed
one. That is correct, Well you killed killed three? No, I
mean this turn, I killed one. I was not sure of it.
Okay, what are we at now? Just out of curious? We have
fifty it's at the top. We marked with eleven wards and they're down to
four. So we've killed seven just from war killing points alone, we should
be at fourteen points. Right. Uh oh no, it's two points for
each work right, and we've killed seven of them, so that should be
at least fourteen. You haven't killed seven. We started with eleven, and
I see four now. I had the little info panel cover. I see
them now. Trouble how what what constitutes a check point? You'll find out?
Okay, okay, okay. So Piper that is a veiled Strider.
It's been rolling really badly because he can do something cool in this fight.
He do some really cool ship in this fight. Uh Andrew, and where
are you in the path? I think you're in the back because you went
back. I'm not sure now that I am on Rusty and I am riding
towards London, I'm not sure, how like whether I would get past Strider
or not. I may be in the back, or I may be second
to back. Yeah, okay, since both both Stryder and I both had
to turn around and go for a down individual, we're probably somewhat close together.
We'll say that you're second to last because I think, uh, since
Strider is also carrying Riov, that you would probably be second to you.
You would, you wouldn't be all the way in the back. Okay,
all right. Uh, Strider's kind of like looking around wildly. Uh and
he says he els, Uh, one of the Hobbits has fallen. I
see it. Can you get to him? I think Strider can clearly see
that's what I'm already doing. Uh. He he just takes a moment to
kind of like grasp what everybody's doing. You can see like the battlefield calculations
happening in Strider's eyes, quickly surmising what's going on. And uh, you
hear him like draw his sword and he sort of turns sharply and will engage
with all four war riders. No stop, this is a lot better okay.
Uh, okay, two of them immediately fall, don't call for another
four. Yeah, he was not riding well and he had to save Rio.
I was very scared. Yeah, it's still not good. Still not
good. To be clear, it's still not good. Yeah, but at
least it's not And you know, like before I thought, well this is
it, we're TPK, so now is such as I will admit, I
was never too worried. We have the future king in our party only could
die and he could write off until the you know, there's a reason he
never talks about this ship. Now obstacles. Okay, everybody that has one
evade point take that off. So let's see Piper and Andowin. We're going
to remove the green. You can also do this, by the way,
if you click on your token, you can just click on the gear and
then there's like, I don't think I ever knew I was supposed to add
a point somewhere in the first place I did it. It was okay,
okay, okay. And let's see Toddles. You had that red mark for
the lantern lntons is gone, Mine is gone. Took coin. Oh okay,
I'm sorry, I remember. Okay, So I'm going to say and
when uh the lanterns probably clipped to Rusty, I'm gonna say that you've got
that. Okay, And let's see obstacles. Okay, Piper and and Win.
You do not have to roll for this, uh, Tottles and I
have to roll for Strider and the war Riders. Okay, I'm gonna need
travel rolls. I'm going to give Turtles a hope that she has double are
two travelers? Are both all right? So was that a failure? You
just rolled? No, we still need pipers. Oh what I don't need
to roll, right she do? Oh? Oh that is correct. I'm
sorry you've naturally evaded Tittles. You also evade the obstacles, which means three
obstacles are headed towards the war Riders and they need to die. Can I
use my great success to widen influence or do something to make it harder?
Why not? Motherfuckers, Let's remove a bonus die. Let's take away a
die from them. Ha ha ha ha ha. And immediately gandalf roon uh
one is taken out out like taut m. Next one another gand I'm a
holy ship. I'm not joking. It's another fucking ghetto. Where did you
hide your pollanteer when you were rolling? Okay for another quick four chase points.
You can see this, this initial charge of these war riders, uh,
sort of get taken down. What do you imagine the obstacles are here,
toddles? Where are we again? You're on the road heading easd Yeah,
well, okay, there's trees that are starting to crop up and you
know, like on the edges of the road. Now, okay, I'm
going to use a real life example and say that a deer comes running out
and is terrified and trying to avoid everything. But obviously we avoid the deer,
but they do not. Okay, And the deer's fine, by the
way, and the works are not hungry. The works are not hungry.
They're focused. Immediately die upon touch, And like the deer just comes out
of nowhere and hits them and then keeps going, you know, dart way
off into the distances. Like that could be something. It could be a
bear, because something sturdy, it's got to be a deer. Well,
it's real life experience. The deer come out of nowhere, they're terrifying.
I guess it could be a bear. I was also speaking from real life
experience. Can it can it be a bear nowhere? And can it be
a bear chasing a deer? A very bear chasing a deer? It's a
deer and a bear. Yes, yeah, yeah, be regardless of which
you see. H several of these war riders sort of stumble and uh fall
still Okay, striders turn. Oh no, I'm sorry, Strider went already
the war riders. War Riders. Let's see what they're gonna do. Okay,
let's roll this, okay. Uh. So they're going to sort of
move forward to get closer. Uh and five of them will start to close
in range. So the uh five of them start to get close to Strider
and reov new round. All right, Toddles, you were in front.
No, no, Piper took the lead. Piper did not successfully take great
okay, one exactly alright. I'm going to give you a are you sure?
Yeah, we die if we don't say reminder, because I think some
people forgot. Just a reminder, and obviously this is fine, just a
reminder. If you want to make a reroll, you can spend fatigue.
Yeah, but she doesn't need to because she got great success. Okay.
Tattles to chase rolls, and I will allow you to choose which one you
get. Okay, obviously we want the Hiden spot, right, Is that
right? Or are we ambushing them. That's a joke. I'll take the
hiding spot. Please for hiding spot you have chosen? Well, thank you,
thank you very well. So here's what I'm going to need from everybody.
I'm going to need, uh travel rolls, I think from all three
of you. What about stealth? Can I argue that's a hiding spot?
Can I argue stealth for the you know what? God, thank you,
thank God. I'm so tired of travel? Can can my rag doll body
rolls? Can we all roll stuck? So are we all like automatically hiding
or how does this work? You'll find out it depends on our rolls?
Yeah? Yeah, okay, so yeah there we go on to win.
Whoa, what's the kind of we got three great successes? Paddles up ahead
out of the corner of your eye. Sorry, you see someplace that you
might be able to pull off? If you are able to get the group,
uh just to rush ahead just a little bit, you might be able
to confuse the wards for a time. Okay, what do you think this
looks like? Well, hold on double check and that we're not leaving anyone
behind like Lonton or an infant. This is just trying to run distract extra
successes. Okay in this situation, all right, I don't want to leave
London or anyone behind. Okay, So you're saying I can. This is
this my turn, though, this is is this just the travel rule?
This is your turn? Okay, I can't waste my turn trying to hide.
I think I have to attack. I don't think I I mean,
okay, I can. So what you're saying is I'm towards me. Up
ahead, you see a good spot to pull off the road and maybe confuse
the wargs for a time. Okay, I guess I'll do it. Okay.
I feel like that's not a good idea, but I'll do it anyway.
You signal rest, yeah, and you yell out what ah? I
yelled thank you to the deer because that distracted them and that allowed me to
find the little watch out. There's a deer. Wait to the left.
Look there's brush over there. Okay, Umm, Toddles rushes off into the
brush. You have three extra successes. I'm going to say with your extra
success one of you is able to grab Lawton Piper perfect. I'm literally yelling
out yeah, I'm literally yelling to Piper because she wasn't sure what to do.
Anyway, I need you to get London. Yes, I grab them.
You grab Lawton. Making your way into the brush, Strider follows the
three Oh it's silent, it was a cat. Oh, Lord in heaven,
you've reached one. Check. Oh jeez, just just one. Oh
boy. As you hear the trampling of the ground, the wargs uh calling
into the night trying to find you, they passed by. You were all
sort of in the brush waiting with your horses and ponies. Wargs pass by.
Okay, I know this was a stupid idea. I immediately run over
to London and Ruth, and I'm gonna do my healing checks on them.
Okay, medicine check for each of them. Ah. I will use a
hope ah on each of them. Each great success, So each success will
reduce the day you're required to actually one. So here's what I was saying.
I goofed before. You didn't have a piercing blow on you. You
didn't receive a wound. You just hid zero endurance. So you can come
back with one HP right now. Okay, you've got two extra successes your
titles. So I'm going to say that you are able to rouse them with
one h peach for one endurance each. Mm hmm, not again anytime soon?
Did Did we get them? Sort of? Some of them half of
well, they didn't shut us. You you got one in your in your
sleep. It was incredible. I mean that's only that thrill, you know.
I've just never seen it in person before, you know, went happen,
chopped its leg up. Sorry, you're far from safe. Wogs still
hunt. How much time do you think we have? Not much? Maybe
time for the shortest of risks. We have time to build a trap or
nothing. Alas, Okay, well, if you think of any ideas or
you know, just let me know. I'm doing relatively Okay, it's bread,
okay, my pony bread bread, all right, sir. Bread would
have been probably picked up my hand when I assume that was one of the
things I was going to mention, but you had me making a stealth roll
instead, so I just never brought it up. But I was going for
the horses because I know we need them. Yeah, you had you each
had one extra extra? Yeah, success is so you could you grab I've
got a leather shirt up there, and I think i'd rather put that or
thank you, And I go and I get the leather shirt out and bring
it back over there you go. Oh, I meant to get your spear
back London, but I failed. There were too many other things. But
I brought you this, and I'll have to see the reins to your own
horse. Hopefully this will do incident. Oh that's more than fine. Thank
you, just a spear, and I thought we were going to die,
same for you, for yours. This old friend would have never forgiven me.
I'll give you the reins to Rusty again. Oh hight, thank you.
Bye, p the rains of Rusty and try by getting back on.
But maybe maybe not just yet. Yeah, I slump off. It's just
maybe you and Monton especially take a minute and I I was running on foot
for most of that. I need to catch my breath. I cannot do
that again so soon. So I look over at Striter. It's like we
don't have a lot of time, right, because they're smelling for us.
Right, Yes, I'm closes one of they will spread out. We will
begin search patterns, probably in groups maybe two, maybe three. Huh,
that's a lot more manageable. Well, how how far are we like if
we smelled like a warg. What could we mask our sense? I know
we knock them down, but I don't know how far back, which you
mean like roll around in work blood. I don't know. I just not
smell like us. They will come around, it is their way. They
still have our scent. I do not believe safe to venture back from whence
we came trying to do great? You'll find any wid blood. Can't we
just ambush them? Can we reverse the chase mechanics? We can? However,
this is but one search party. I believe them. It's better than
nothing, right, the same veil of nature which protects those men from gond
Or I would call upon for us as well, behind our scent. But
the whole point was to draw the attention of the wards. Yeah. So
if they don't find us, they just go back in that direction. It's
quite possible we have not led them far enough away. Okay, okay,
okay. As rough as it is, we must hold their attention a bit
longer. All right, Take this time to bandage up your wounds, stop
the bleeding. This will count anything else to do ticket ready as a short
rest. Essentially, So what I will allow you to do is your fellowship
points, which I believe number eight or seven. Eight is what you have
to say. That is how much you can uh split to restore your endurance.
That would it wouldn't really matter for anything one h or four h P
or five these things. For seven you mean hope, right? No,
I mean endurance in this case? Oh is it different than the normal rule?
We're flipping the script here. I think special circumstances. I will,
I will. I will offer that I would much rather have a strong the
war for the ability to fight than a hobbit. Might not be a much,
but I'm at nine. You can take a little bit more. Does
that take you out of weary? By the way, Umm, no,
no, it wouldn't. My lord is nine. I could take my helm
off and then perhaps maybe, but no, my fatigues five, so definitely
not. I'd be at four. I need over fourteen to not be weary.
So oh like shitting Okay, So it's neither here nor there. I
will not be effective. So the normal rule for rest is to regain hit
points equal to your strength rating. But I think this ends up being more
if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I'd get I'd get two. My strength
fighting is seven, so it would be the same. It's actually one hit
point more if you do it that way than using all of our fellowship for
it. Yes, Matt, I think you're muted. We lose and one
well sorry, sorry my new audio setup. I have my mute button at
a different spot. Oh, I was saying that real strength at seven,
if he've regained seven, that's just alone. That's already more effective than spending
all eight fellowship points. Yeah, yeah, the whole party fellowship could do
your hope instead. Yeah, okay, we burned through a lot. Just
now, well I'm at are we using the fellowship points for the hope then
as well? During the short okay? Now yeah, so you can cover
up to your strength rating for your endurance? Everybody? Okay, I feel
so much better. There's a fiddle. Two health points is two health points?
Man, it's no, you're You're right. But I do love the
idea that I'm dying, so for I will say that my current hope is
relatable. Is my current hope is eight, So I still have a fair
amount to dole out here and there. I'm more concerned about and doing and
real than than mean it for purposes. I am at six out of a
possible nine, I've been very I take some, if that's okay, I
burned through a lot. Oh yeah, I mean, are you good?
Accidentally miserable? Also, so if I could get one of those, then
that then I would be miserable. Well, it's eight total, so yeah,
I'd say you can have more than one. We just need to know
how much you need. So the problem is my shadow is nine, which
makes it so that a lot. I have nine, But unfortunately if I
drop below that, how did your shadow get so high? Almost as if
I'm cursed? Yes, all right, that's my fault. She got my
curse. No, no, no, no, she made her choices.
I'm sorry she made her choices. I did. I own my choices,
and real, what are you at? Do you need some as well?
Just where I'm sen out of eleven? However, if I lose even but
one, I'm miserable. Okay, so you don't spend anymore. Let's stay,
let's let's just and and how much would you add titles? I'd like
to take two if if possible, but you know, okay, I don't
need to. I don't have to, so the rest can go to sounds
like we could all take about two each, and it's beneficial all the way
down right, Okay, I'll take one and then there's one left over.
M Piper, Yeah, Piper, okay, so how how how many am
I You're taking three? I'm taking three? Okay, twelve, okay,
perfect. So I've also taken off my leather corselet so that I am not
ah weary. So it's going two for Tottles, two for Launton, three
for Piper, and one for Rioth. Yes, okay, okay, amazing,
that's the best. Mhm huh is a scruple of buff wait? Ri
Oath? Is your shadow also at nine or ten? My shadow is uh
seven? What's animals? Shut the hell? My shadow was at five,
and then in the last session we removed two as a party and then removed
two more from my spell but actually put me down to only one for the
first time in the whole game. I've actually no longer encrusted with shadow.
Why don't you let you and I split the hope? You take a hope,
I'll take a hope. I'm at nine at that point, so then
you well, but my maximum is much lower. You are less than like
half your total. Yeah, but I'm more concerned about going out and not
being able to use it even though we can. It feels weird. So
that's that's a valid point. I am probably less likely to get chaot all
right, I'll take one. I just read that that's messed up. Okay,
which one of you would like to make a D four roll for me?
I mean, since I got twelve for them breaking down, I'd rather
not roll. I'll do it before before we start doing that. There's one
other thing I'd like to request, Lord Master, May I forego my like
regaining endurance? Who insteads like scout around and see if potentially there's like an
obstacle or something we could use. Because I'm only missing I've not really been
hit. I was only missing two endurance. So rather, if I don't
need to rest, perhaps I can scout for something we can use to throw
off the walks or rough terrain we could lure them in that might trip them
up. Yes, Strider is doing the same thing. Make a hunting role
hunting sorrow. It's not my day. That's the second son. Remember when
we were talking about how when you get to this point in the game,
everything's too easy or just kind of had that mind when I made this.
By the way, I mean, how many how many people did we fight
last time? It was a lot, like a lot of yeah, in
waves, and then the waves have essentially continued as you've been put in this
situation. It's been it's been extremely difficult on purpose. Yeah, okay,
Well that and I didn't spend any hope on the role. I feel like
once we start the hope stacking, that's where it like becomes almost impossible to
fail on a lot of things. Yeah, okay, so that four that
you rolled is actually really good. Riou and Win make a second hunting role.
Okay, maybe I should spend a whole point on it. Just no,
no, no, no, no, no. What are the odds
of getting sourn twice in a row? Exactly? Couldn't never happened and never
happen? Way do I run a thing? Oh my god twice this episode?
How has that happened twice? This episode? You know, he's really
concerned about his mates all hearts and stuff, so I can't really credit And
it's just like a recounting from your families about like how much they loved you.
And that's the end of the show. Netflix documentary had talking scene whereas
does someone comes and sits in a chair. Oh no, okay, well
recording there's there's the snake ice. Uh so for podcast listeners, double I
of sour On from andowin so for podcast listeners. When he said what are
the odds and then he made it happen, I will fully take the play.
I spoke this into existence. Yeah, Strider also it didn't roll great,
but didn't get sour on ruins. What is going to end up happening
here is you think you've got one trap kind of like rigged up decently before
you start to hear wargs getting closer again. And what we're going to do
now is Strider says, I've gotten one rigged up. It's a snare trap.
It should be enough to at least keep one occupied for some time.
I think, as Strider finds me attempting to set up traps, it turns
out sprinting on foot trying to keep up with horses for an extended period of
time is actually like humanly impossible. So he would find me just legs and
arms are just jelly, and I'm trying to put the trap together, and
with the double sour On runs pretty clear to him I'm too exhausted to do
this properly. Strider looks towards Riod and the Hobbits and suggest the Hobbits need
to double up. It's probably for the best. You will have to ride
a pony and one can ride Rusty, otherwise we will all fall behind.
Oh, I understand all. I am avoiding eye contact with Rio if I
know, I know he is furious at this moment, I'm starting hammers at
him right now, just the pitiful I understand. I'm looking everywhere except directly
Abrio. Turtles, Yeah you need you need to sit on the back of
one of ours. Yeah, with your eyesights King and yeah, that's you
can take the reins and I can so effectively. What will happen then is
if the Hobbit's doubloped, it's going to be tottle. Yeah, okay,
so uh, Lawnton, you're in control of the movement of the of the
pony in the situation, I'll put all night whatever points into that considered,
it's both of us. I'm happy to do them. Basically, you won't
be able to attack in this case. Turtles can do all the attacking and
you can essentially drive. You can sprint, you can fall back, you
can evade, you can do all those things. You just can't attacks can
just sit backwards with their bat exactly, Toles the reverse for you. Basically
you can attack, you can try some weird ship, but sprinting and falling
back and stuff you can't really do. Uh the master dwarf, Master dwarf.
Do you have that belt? Oh? Yeah? The horn? Mother
fuckers we should be using that. That gives botts party. I tried it
didn't work before I was going to but yeah, you know I need I
need the belt. As soon as you're back to back to me, tottle
some tying that around us so you can focus on firing and not falling off
backwards. Sure sounds good. It's like the time that we tried to get
into the you know, a wagon belt a larder. Okay, the wagon
belt. Yeah, I need it for this. I know it's not the
purpose. Yeah yeah, this is Yeah. So leaf my belt up and
I have like four belts, like you look amazing, such a badass.
Any of those belts belts and I give them to blonde. Which horse a
pony do I have? I would assume it'd be bread, right, Yeah,
I'll give you bread. I'll say on, I'll say on jam no
butter, butter. But as much, of course, as much as as
much as it hurts my inner min Maxer, I'm I'm adding a point of
fatigue to myself. A sprinting to keep up with horses for several minutes is
not something any even andoin cannot just shrug that off. Okay, very well,
Strider looks at all of you and he tries to assess where each of
you are kind of like mentally, what do you think he sees a dwarf?
What does he see of your mental state? Oh lord, he sees
essentially a man made stone in front of him right now. He's a bit
weary, otherwise fit for the road, and would not be able to deal
deeper even with his kingly eyes. But I am a dwarf, and he
is a king of man, not a king of He is not a king
yet, yes, chronologically speaking, no, however, regardless, it's don
and sees a dwarf. Okay, he puts a hand on your shoulder,
you might regret it. He looks towards the rest of you. That's what
does he see? I think, well, considering everybody was going around talking
about you know, their shadow points and whatnot, and considering where mine is.
I think I'm munching on some cheese. I think I'm like, I'm
nervous, but I don't. I don't know what else to uh, you
know, to do about it. It's like, I think I'm just keeping
myself busy. I'm thinking about, like, you know, I gotta eat
something before I decide to I'm gonna be a murder machine essentially, and I'm
trying to think about, like coming to terms with that, like how did
I get here? You know, I didn't even want to be here in
the first place, but here I am, And how did I get to
be so good at this? So I think I'm feeling you know, I
was a bee keeper. Oh, I'm just wrestling with that, I think.
But I don't even know if you can tell that. I think it
just looks like I'm nibbling on cheese like a mouse. Let's have some roles,
actually re ods. I will take an awe role or persuade or stealth.
Okay, you leave me no choice but to really failures. I was
off by one tattles. I'd say, awe, persuade or stealth. Kah,
oh, what to choose? What to choose, I'll go with stealth.
Okayon for those listening, h what does Strider see when he looks towards
you? I think he sees a child. If you want to make your
role first, you can do that too before you start to describe this.
Oh, I actually don't think I'm like hiding, hiding any of my expression
or anything. I think I'm just I think I'm like laid bare. Actually,
so what does Strider see, sir? Yeah, I think he sees
like a child. Like my eyes are wide and I'm so I'm small,
and I have two swords at my hips and one of them doesn't really fit
me, and the other one looks menacing and I'm tired. I'm pallid,
I have dark rings around my eyes, and I I think I'm just staring
off frozen lantern. I'll roll for this before I answer, and I'm all
stealth, all persuade her, stealth, okay, stealth, few extra successes.
On the stealth, he sees a hobbit, not in pain, but
filled with pure determination, face forward, ready to go. Masking uh absent
one hundred percent. I'm doing the same thing. While I eat my cheese,
so sure he uh, he sizes me up. I think, similar
to Piper, I'm not really projecting any kind of false image here. I
am an open book, not really hiding anything that I'm thinking. From my
posture and the way I keep looking back angrily, he probably senses there's like
a little bit of bloodlust just near the surface, like I'd rather turn and
kill them, But then I turn to the you know, look at the
Hobbits. I can't stand my ground or the Hobbits might get caught. But
if anything, it's it's not hard for him to sense that I am still
very much locked in. I am dialed in, I am focused, and
at the drop of a hat, probably I'll turn and fight them instead of
run. He also would have early scene towards the end of our last encounter
when he went back and had engaged on four of them. Toddles interrupted it
because she called out a hiding spot that forced me to change my plan.
But he saw me couching my spear like a lance, like I was going
to charge with Rusty and slam into them with him, like I will stand
and fight with you rather than run. He saw that for sure, that
probably tells him where my head space is at. Strider turns to each of
you, walks over to you, Piper, and he sort of like kneels
down, just very matter of factly adjust your armor, heightens your straps,
looks at you in my eyes, and says, we have a job to
do this night. It is not for us what we do tonight. We
do for others, to save their lives. This is the most noble of
deeds. And he starts to turn towards you, rio Oath. There are
those among you who know what is required, who know what must be done.
What we do tonight, what we do tonight may not go down in
history. We do tonight won't matter. You will give those those that have
suffered, those that have endured horrible sights, horrible pains and agonies. We'll
give them a chance. Get on your horses. We set out to give
them life. Will you ride with me? Hi? Yes, I hope
one's bready. Let's be on with it. Ah, I can feel my
legs again. We ride not for us, We ride for Gondor. Strider
leads the way out of the brush. Ride cause on, Hello, This
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