Hello, ladies in Shellman, thank you so much for joining us. It
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Bore campaign Ventures in a Dying World. We actually have a title now.
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Eric will not be with us tonight. He has, as he said
last week, he's got a potential job offer that might be seeing him move
to another state, and so some of that stuff is kind of up in
the air and taking up a lot of his time. So he won't be
here this evening, but we will have a special guest joining us in a
little bit, our friends Scar from over on the Neon Swamp. You've seen
him here a couple of times playing Alien, and I've been over on his
channel the Twitch Dreams and some zombie side and Alien and Vampire the Masquerade and
all sorts of cool stuff. So he's gonna be joining us shortly. Hopefully
he should be here in a few minutes if plans come together, but we'll
get started and he will jump in when he gets here. So why don't
we hear from our lone survivor, the only man who made it back alive
last week, Henry. So. I'm Matt, also known as the Frog,
and I'll be playing Henry Wright, also known as Old Crab. He's
still hanging on. It's been an interesting week, I guess, not terribly
interesting, but so I said a bit ago. I was just wrapping up
dinner at I guess in my mind fairly we're well recommended Roman House, Shinchon
and around the corner. Just having you know, some Romans. That's all
I gotta say for today. I'm jealous, man, I wish I had
some good ramin around here. What does it feel like being the only survivor
from last week? I don't know how to I guess describe it. It's
like I'm mostly worried about just being murdered by the captain when I get back,
so I'll have more to say you about it when we resolved that portion
of adventures. That's a fair fear, I was telling the rest of the
guys. I finished finally putting all of the Final Girls stuff in the appropriate
boxes, and I finally opened the mystery boxes today and I was pleasantly surprised
with what they gave out. I don't know if you got those or not
when you backed it? Yeah? I got at least one of them.
Did you open it yet? Yeah? Which one did you get? I
have some kind of spooky mirror Okay, cool. The other one I guess
it's probably from season two then is it's the neck Anomicon. And then it's
got the two dice inside, which I thought was really cool. Okay,
very very classy, very very well thought guys. So maybe maybe I'll actually
get to play the game soon. We'll see. But good stuff anyway,
onto our next not survivor of last week? Kyle, how are you tonight?
I'm good, better than Grin, the guy I was playing. We
don't like bridges that fall damage man? Yeah? Shit, fat a pit
to hell, I'll do that to you. Yeah. So so now I'm
I will be playing Dane and my class is a pale one, so we'll
we'll find out more. Oh, I got the pale one. Tell us
about the pale one? What do they do? Let me get to the
classes? All right, you lurk on the fringes of settlement and observing,
perhaps judging, but rarely interacting. You are fundamentally other and belong nowhere.
You've had bouts of incoherent madness and self destructive rages, but mostly you simply
wait in solitary resignation for that which is inevitable. That sounds fucking awesome.
Yeah, okay, so you're like an other worldly creeper. I love it.
Yeah, not too far off from real life. So yeah, yeah,
I agree. Well, you can tell us more about a Dean if
that's what the game decided to aim you when we meet him or her,
so for sure. And finally, our other not survivor from last week,
Johnny Reliable, Johnny American. Yeah, that's me. I'm Sean. I
was playing someone else and they died being stabbed at as a lizard. So
now I'm playing Ergush, the heretical priest. Oh so priest. Yeah,
let's take a look at the class. I don't know a whole lot about
them. Hunted by the two headed basilists of the One True Faith, this
heretic can be found raving in ruins, trapsing endlessly down dusty roads, and
desecrating cathedrals by night. Um wow. So he's endlessly aggravated and unimaginative.
He has severe halitosis, and he makes jewelry from the teeth of the dead.
Wow, did you start with any powers or scrolls or anything? No
powers or scrolls. From what I can see, I did start with a
flail, a shepherd's are, a sacred shepherd's crook, a tent, a
needle in the waterskin, and he has a feat called armored castor so I
can I can I guess cast if I'm wearing armor excellent? Uh well great,
we will see uh gush in it deane soon. But we're going to
zoom back in to well last we left you, guys had been tasked by
the captain of the guards to retrieve an item that was stolen from the church
in your village, the Church of the beck Lure. The deacon kind of
runs the town and is the the religious figure in the village. She had
told the captain, Captain Graft, that a sword called the Chaos Blade had
been stolen by some creatures from your your village, and he sent the four
of you to go and get it back. You made your way in the
direction following the trail, only to be ambushed by a troll, which,
despite being a one shot you all, was one shot itself. When Frog
cast some crazy spell with his magic tablet and rolled the six and insta killed
it, which was incredible. And then you guys, you know, had
to deal with a dark tunnel, a small fall, and goblins and got
wrecked, everybody being brutally murdered, Sean getting murdered twice. It's pretty awesome,
pretty funny. Yeah, I bet you haven't done that an RPG before,
not the span of like an hour. Yeah, so uh yeah,
So we had a lot of character deaths. Everybody except Henry managed to die
or escape. Henry decided, fuck it, I'm running, and although he
was chased, he did manage to escape to the screams of his companions dying.
I mean, you guys did manage to kill one of the drowned.
The rest though not so much. We rolled so bad. Yeah, the
roles were awful, awful, sting, least so lucky. The small but
vicious dog was slain. Belfa Duck, the trader drowned, also died as
she was trying to show you guys where the sword was hidden. So,
Henry, you have made your way back to the village. By the time
you get back, it's nightfall and the forest has overgrown the path. You're
forced to camp out in the wilderness for the night, cold, desolate plateau
that you call home. And finally in the morning, the path opens up
and you find that you are able to enter craven Ford once more. And
it looks like scar just logged into Foundry, so let me make sure he
gets into our channel here at giving permissions. So what are you gonna do
here, Henry? You have made it well, I've returned. I might
as well eat the frog and tell them the bad news right off the bat,
and worry about buying some torches and ropes per potential burther adventures later.
Also, I've started keeping a counter of how many guards are left in the
town, so we're down to forty six out of fifty after one session,
which is fucking incredible. I'm loving the scheme so much already. So okay,
Well, you drag yourself back into craven Ford with many people giving you
stairs, realizing you are the only member of your party to return, and
you eventually find yourself standing at the gates of the barracks. I guess I'll
trud John in and see if I can find our captain. You do eventually
find him. He is up in his office and when you go inside.
He is basically sharpening one of his blades. He has a very disgruntled,
angry look on his face, as he often does, and he gives you
just a stare of like a thousand daggers. Terrible news, sir, It
was a blood bath out there. You see his grip on his blade.
Titans. We had covered upon the hideout that you pointed out to us,
and it was guarded by a great beast, a horned cyclops, the eyes
of which I'd never seen before. We managed to fill it with a quick
wit. But when we went through the hideout, we were ambushed by these
fish people there, maybe nearly a dozen of them. Where's the sword?
The sword lays beyond the bodies of our slain friends, and and still probably
eight or so of these fish people. I wouldn't recommend going back there without
at least ten men. You see, he gives you a very angry look
when you suggest that. He says, do you want to be the one
to tell the deacon that you do not have the sword? They're just as
likely to rip me in half as if I had walked back in there alone.
So about half dozen one way, six the other, he says,
grab your gear, get in the courtyard and wait while I get some more
fools to send with you. And you either come back with that blade or
you don't come back at all. It will nod nerve nervously but not speaking.
Stop off. Uh. You get out into the courtyard and u and
then scar hops into the call just like that. What's up, buddy,
Hey, sorry I'm late. Oh, welcome man. We're happy to have
you. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. Hell yeah, love
me. Excellent. Well we literally we literally just started so quick recap since
I didn't really tell you much about what's going on here. So you are
a member of the guard called the Blighted Bulkwark, and you live in a
village called craven Ford. Here's my awesome art that I made myself. And
it's a very superstigious religious kind of town. There's a church built into this
massive hollowed out oak tree called the Rotting Oak, and the church is called
the Church of the beck Lure. And your village is led by the deacon,
who is the religious figure that is the head of the church, and
then there is the town guard. There's about about five hundred people in this
village. And there's always around fifty people that are enlisted as guards of the
town. And the year captain is a man named Captain Graft, a very
big, brutal, angry man. And your village is up on a large
plateau on the wind swept eastern peninsula of the Dying World. And there's a
forest that blocks the path in and out of the plateau that overgrows during the
night and blocks the entrance to the village, and then during daylight hours the
path is open, so it kind of acts as a defense but also as
like a prison to the village in some regards. Anyway, you are finding
out that a group was sent out on some task that the deacon had asked
the captain about, and just moments ago, only one of the four men
that were sent out out to do this task have returned, a man by
the name of Henry Wright, an old, old man who carries around a
massive stone tablet, and he looks he looks a bit haunted when you see
him return, and eventually you find out that you are being sent to join
him on whatever task he has been sent out on, along with some others.
So Sean and Kyle, your characters as well are told to get in
the courtyard and to meet up with this Henry Wright and assist him with his
task. So one by one, the three of you join him in the
courtyard of the barracks and we'll let you guys describe which characters look like and
anything else that you want to explain, and then we can get started.
So we'll start off with er Gush. Yeah, so you see a very
average height but frail looking older man, balding with just little stringy straps of
hair. He's got like this circlet really tightly bound on his head, almost
cutting off the circulation. And he's covered in these dingy, dirty priests robes
that are in some places torn. The hems are all frayed and shit,
and he breathes pretty heavily, and he doesn't look like he takes care of
himself. His fingernails are real long, covered in dirt grime, and you
can actually smell his breath from a few feet away. Wonderful. And then
Kyle, we'll do we see joining the group, you would see the uncomfortable
image of Adine. Adine is a tall sort of it. He would be
lanky, except he does have a bit of a paunch, like I'm extended.
And he wears a sort of a scarf shall face covering with a crown
of metal around his head and the shall extends into a cloak. And that's
uh, that's all he likes to wear. And he he doesn't really he
doesn't really like interacting with anybody. He will begrudgingly and he's always drooling.
Wonderful and a scar Do you have access to your character sheet, Torment?
Yes? Yeah, you also have two companions. Yeah yeah, looking over
everything? All right, we did random for here. We did all of
our characters random. Uh and we've already had three character desks four session because
the dog died too. Oh yeah right, well we have another small but
vicious dog about to join you. So uh, Scar, introduce yourself,
man, tell the listeners who you are, who you're playing tonight. Anything
else you want to pump or promote. Um, I told the listeners you'd
be here. But uh, yeah, I've had it man. Yeah,
I'm Scar. I helped run the knee on swamp and I'm sorry I'm laid
again. Buddy mine gw worker. His last day was yesterday, so pros
I'd take him to dinner tonight and then my fun My son fought me the
whole way to bed. Um what uh did he what games workshop? Did
he work at the Royal Oaks in Houston, Texas? Well, I guess
it's yeah still technically Houston. It's like twenty minutes away from me. But
yeah, well yeah, it is a bittersweet kind of departure. But um
excited that he'll I'll actually be able to play with him now, so he
won't be all burnt out from work, you know, and not want to
mess with Warhammer. And I'm gonna be playing Torben Torben. He is dressed
and very nice, noble clothing, probably three layers, which strikes most maybe
may strikes odd. He's got a lot of layering on and although it's nice,
could have been silk at one time. It's clearly been on him and
the same like he clearly wears the same clothes every day for a long time.
They're the same set of fine clothes that has just become ragged and stinky
and dirt. Probably some kind of wealthy person who hit hard times and continues
to do so. On top of which Um he constantly dwells in the past,
probably because of his misfortune and has become very unfocused, and but it
retains his gluttonous ways of nobility. Um. He also has a serious case
of narcolepsy, and we'll um abruptly pass out on occasion, waking up with
a stir coughing fits coughing up flim as he wakes up and does so,
uh, snorting and spitting. Um. You know, he's never really learned
how to have good manners from his upbringing. Um. And that's and a's
torben with and the Torben is accompanied by his small but vicious dog that he
calls Chee Chee and his um. He has an incredible horse with him as
well, and we'll see how the relationship between him and his horse develops the
game goes on here. All right, I will rename Chee Chee here for
you, So Chee Chee the second and what I think might be a long
illustrious line of small but vicious dogs. Yeah, he's like a roache.
Every time Cheechee dies, he just gets another one and named him Cheechee.
All right, beautiful yep, Okay, Well, what a wretched crew you
have here. So you see Henry waiting for you guys, looking probably nervous
and a little worried before we go on, though, I forgot the most
important part of this game. Another day has passed another sunrise quote unquote,
which means we need someone and we'll let Scar roll our misery die for today.
We're doing a D six to start off here, scar as our world
is rapidly coming to an end. Okay, it's only a three, not
yet still right yet not yet? Okay, Well have had it? You
guys are in the u um the courtyard here? What what do you guys
do? Oh? That means I can roll omens now? Right? Yes,
yes, yes, new day awesome perfect only those they said every day?
Okay, interesting, um, yeah, I guess or gosh, we'll
kind of look around. What's happening? Why do we get called here?
Oh? My god, my kid is chasing my mouse cursor on the screen
right now? What is that anyway you were saying? I was just he
was just talking out loud to know and in particular, Oh, okay,
is it nighttime or daytime? It is daytime, although it is is a
terrible overcast gray. If any have you've been to this town before, I
wander through gagement. It's not my favorite, but it's the only place on
this Is it true your trapped hitter at night? I guess I don't about
at night? Were all little trapped? Oh okay, little criptic? Oh
yes, we're getting philosophical. It reminds me of a story call he's gone
or gosh will slowly reach out to you, and the stench probably wakes you
before his hand. Oh thank you. That will happen from time to time.
Oh okay, side effect of heavy drug use in my youth. At
least you're honest. Okay, do you have any with you? Now?
You know what it's mark Borg? I let me check my inventory right.
If somebody wants to go ahead and roll me a D twelve, please m
sure prot that out there. So nine nine okay. So this morning the
plateau is covered in a crackling frost that kind of shines and sparkles in the
gray light of the morning. You can see it hanging off of the edge
of the buildings, off the branches of the rotting oak, such like that
chili house. So are we I know you said we're on a like a
northern one of the northern peninsulas, But are we up in what is it?
Albius? What is it called? You aliens. Nope, you guys
are on the peninsula of grift. Grift, okay, gotcha up on a
big plateau that has fifty foot sheer cliffs on the other three sides. That's
not too bad. We can survive that fall, damn it, right,
which is cool. So so it's a bit chili right now though. Oh
yeah, yep, it's a good thing. I wore my third letter today.
Yeah, I bet this is all I have. God guides me to
my true destination, hopefully not Hell, even though it's chili like. Torben's
probably still kind of like got a bit of a sweat going. He's just
like so padded. Oh gross, Well, Henry, these are your new
recruits. Do you tell them anything? Uh? Yeah, you would,
rag tag bunch. Uh well, follow me. You'll need to listen very
carefully if you wish to live. Um, I still stomp. I like
try to gather them and pull them towards what there's like a general store in
the area, right yawn, where like all like the shops and stuff would
be. We did get a visit to the Blacksmith last time, and we
will probably want to go there again. But I am going to express the
importance of gathering torches and rope before we set out. First things first,
be prepared. What are we walking into here? Well, one thing is
that it's a cave, and so there will not be a lot of natural
light with then, and we must supply our own. Additionally, traversal might
be difficult, so rope or any sort of support equipment for climbing might also
come in Handy, okay, rope certainly? What happened your other guys?
Most of them were stabbed to death by horrible fish people, which would be
much like being stabbed to death by a horrible human. But where I imagine?
Uh, and you were standing in look skin deep water when it happens.
So yes, air assessment. It seems so good boots as well if
you can afford it. What's a good thing? I have all these layers?
Hopefully it will help these stabbing fish people. We yeah, need to
know how to swim. I can't swim. I came from water. What
does that be? See you guys to do some shopping. Then it sounds
like you guys gonna grab a few supplies before you go. That's that was
my idea anyway. All right, Well, you guys have the equipment list,
so whatever you like, everything's pretty much based price. Hello me,
I'm quite wealthy. If there's anything that's not on the list, just ask
you said rope rope is four silver for thirty feet. Dam that's pretty affordable.
Yeah, it's like it's in the miscellaneous folter. That's all like the
other gear. But if there's anything else you're looking for that's not on there
you think you might need, I'm looking over it right now myself. Yeah.
Um, I assume as a heretical priest, I can use scrolls to
cast powers. Right, anybody can use scrolls to cast powers. I actually
can't use scrolls except Kyle as a as a pale one. Oh okay,
yeah, yeah know yes a right. Grappling hook rice is twelve silver.
It's bear. As you guys pass through the town square, you see the
familiar form of Spendall, the beggar currently preaching and doom saying, as he
often is out here to anyone who will listen. Being a cold morning,
there's now many other people out here other than the few shop owners that have
their stalls and booths open. But you can hear his voice kind of rambling
on the wind when you pass by. I've gotten torch rope, just bought
some lock picks as well. Still going, that might be very good?
What else? Fog as someone can carry his sword and perhaps use one.
I mean, I've got this flail, so I'll probably be good. Yeah,
that's good. I have my sword passed down generation to generation in my
family for decades, centuries maybe even How long is a century? Oh?
I'm not sure? Okay, how long has it been? What is today?
I haven't seen this stung for so long I don't even know. Did
you did you get the blade of the Ancestors? What got awesome? Sick?
Cool? Okay? Anything else you guys need or is it time to
set out? Um? I guess one miscellaneous thing. I don't know if
this would be helpful. That's like, um, let's see if I can
remember what that damned fool set about the plants, some spores, neurotoxin or
something. Maybe a face covering would also be helpful. I'm sorry, right,
And neurotoxin it's a brain I don't understand they that's like a poison for
your mind. It makes you crazy. Yeah, you could. You could
get some sort of face covering for silver, all right? I will do
that. Um, and and and if you don't have armor, you may
try to pick some up at the blacksmiths. Uh, all right? Is
that it? That was it? I'm getting I'm picking up a torch too
much. Scrolls are not a cheap Yeah, yeah, oh there's there's the
most there's no scrolls for sale here? Come on? Oh okay, yeah.
If we can convince Barbarista to carry a wagon, a haul of wagon,
we could have more space. But he can be quite stubborn at times.
Two of the previous characters had wagons. But yeah, I do have
a wagon somewhere, so you do. Okay, Well did you bring it
with to the dungeon or no? I don't think so. I think it
would have just been a lot because stramp it up to the horse then if
you want, wasn't gonna drive it myself. We had to run away from
antrol. Probably we're not for a stroke of luck and our genius well be
going to attach a wagon to Barbarista. Just be sure to ask him first.
He could be quite ornery. And there he is, Barbarista, the
incredible horse. He could talk what what? Yeah? He is a magically
intelligent, arrogant asshole. Oh god, damn, well, holy shit,
that horse amazing. Do we have anything we want to carry, because otherwise
I think I'll leave the cart here unless we have some extra spelunking equipment or
whatnot. And perhaps food. I've got some dried food, but that's just
for me. M I have. I have a slice of troll meat left.
Wonderful. I mean the dungeons, like you know, you can get
there and back in about a day, so it's not terribly far. So
unless there's anything else to get, then we will assume that you guys depart
and make your way there. We want to try to buy armor. Would
a dean be able to get a shield? Is there a shield for sale?
I know the last shield was bought by the previous group ye armor except
the one he was making so and he didn't he didn't make a suit of
armor in a day unfortunately, So all right, could he could Adan go
in and request one? Yeah, put it in a ticket. Yeah.
The I mean the blacksmith will also say, you know, if you're if
you're gonna go where those guys went, just taking off his body, that's
the plan. Uh. Adan tilts his head nods and then just turns on
his heel and walks out. All right, does he have any ranged items
like a crossbow or a short bow? Or yes? Yes, yes he
has all of those. Is there no regular bow? Is it just a
short bow and a crossbow? I believe? So yeah, Okay, I'm
gonna buy a crossbow then all right, be sure you buy amo? Yes,
I would be awful as soon as I find out where that is.
It's in the weapons thing too, bolts. Oh, there's a bow,
just regular bows there too. It's a little bit better than the short bow.
You can buy a hook and are you gonna amazing? I'll commit to
the crossbow. Screw it? Pretty cool? Alight? All right, well
you guys load up your gear. Um, you're not taking the wagon?
Are you taking the horse and the dog? Oh? Yes? Oh wait?
I just had a thought. How strict are we with regard to burial?
Right? It's like gold? Should I be pushing to recover the bodies
of our fallen comrades? Um? And I mean even if I was kind
of a scavenger, an unscrupulous fellow, and I think it would be preferable
considering that the town guard is kind of a big deal here. Um,
maybe we should break the cart down. Yeah, it might not be a
bad idea. We could say you can load up the bodies there if you
get them, can we um speak with your horse? With the horse,
Barbara stir you behavior rself. Don't need any comments about my weight today either,
Yeah, whatever, fatty? Okay, what do you want? Well,
we need help pulling a cart. But do you now? Yes?
All right? What's in it for me? M hmmm, I'm gonna look
back to no. All would be like carrots. I don't grow carrots.
I nod. The horse stamps its foot in frustration and nays, very loudly,
you wanted to get fed, Barbarista, I suggest you co operate today.
Yeah, I don't want no carrots. Give me some of those sugarcubes
and oats, those honey flavored ones. Organ rolls his eyes, goes in
and buys him being extorted by your horse. Um. Yeah you see.
Uh. Barbarius looks quite proud of himself when he gobbles down one of the
sugarcubes and then h When he's done with that, he says, all right,
just uh, just took up the old thing to my face and we'll
go. I'll eat while we walk as you wish. Bob minister, all
right, and you see that he uh you always got the bag so he
can feed while you guys are walking attached to his reins. You strap up
the wagon and you make your way towards ye old dungeon. But before that,
where can I need some dice rolls? What do we need here?
Let me find my tables? Okay, I will need someone to please roll
me a D twenty. All right, okay, You continue down the same
path you went the day before leading the group Henry, and this road which
was once well maintained but has since fallen in a disrepair. You passed the
area where you obliterated the troll, its body now rotting on the side of
the path. But other than that, it is uneventful. Nothing particular happens,
nothing attacks you, no one tries to rob you. It's quiet other
than the crackling frost in the trees and on the path. And eventually you
make it back to that cave entrance that you were at the day before.
Although this place I don't suppose any of you are the subtle sort like what
can we may wish to try to remain quiet as we go through the cave.
Oh, I can be quite sneaky when the time calls for edge.
Why in the past, no time for sleeping. We must get to it.
Uh, there's a cave entrance, and under the sarcophagus is a stairwell.
To our first set of trials. I do have a plus one to
agility. Okay, a negative one. Oh you can cross the bridge first.
Oh no, not here we go, all right? So are you?
Um see, you guys are going through the comp offcus and you make
your way down this flight of stairs and eventually Henry points out the stairs just
kind of end, and at first it looks like it just goes down into
nothing. But that's where you guys can use your grappling hook and some of
your rope to climb down. And it's you know, maybe about a I
don't know the six seven foot drop. You can't see it at all unless
you've actually got your torch out and kind of lower it from up above.
It's like it's black. So everybody, please give me an agility test and
you can have a okay, so be d R with the rope. D
R eight. I failed change the thing. Oh no, I'm good for
those of you that fail, you take a point of damage, as even
with the rope and climbing gear you slip and fall. You find yourself in
that room where you met the naked crazy guy who I believe is now dead
and rotting on the floor. Very dead. Yep, it's a party.
Yep. There is a door across the room from the steps you just dropped
down from that leads towards the bridge that you crossed last time, Henry.
And then to your right is the staircase that goes down to the two lower
levels that's filled with the angelic choir, that creepy singing ship on the walls,
and the spores. Yes, it occurs to me arriving at this point
that we will likely not need to cross the bridge, so you're off the
hook on that one. However, if you do have something that could cover
mouth, then knows perhaps before we descend into these strange did everybody buy some
sort of face covering? I did? Yeah? I did not know?
All right, Well, if you did, this will be a d R
six presence test. If you did not, then this will be a d
ten. Hold on, let me check. Look at the right thing here.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that's for the singing my bad, so
the spores so scars, since you weren't here last week. You guys,
make your way down a flight of stairs which ends at a landing, and
then you continue down a second flight of stairs that brings you to a lower
level where there's kind of a stream running through this long tunnel that to your
right is kind of blocked off by a cave. Into your left, the
tunnel seems to stretch down a ways the pretty much entire way down this staircase.
The walls are filled with these vines that cover the floor, the stairs,
the ceiling, and within these vines are these bulbous flowers that when they
open, the inside of the flower looks like the face of an angel.
And they begin to sing this haunting wordless melody kind of humming, and you
know, just like what you'd hear in Acquire, not really words, just
noises and sounds. So everybody needs to give me a Dr ten presence test
when they hear the singing. If you pass, you are fine. If
you fail, you begin to hum and sing along with the song as if
you have heard it before and know it. Oh yeah, Torbin knows this
number all right, Er gosh passes. So Torben and Adan begin to hum
along. They roll the exact same thing, much to your dismay, Henry.
They are not being quiet, and then they have the face coverings,
right, so it'd be six. That's for the spores. The spores are
a different test, right, okay, So for the spores, Yeah,
I fucked this up kind of last week, but we're gonna do it right
this time. So the spores are normally a DR twelve toughness test. If
you have the mask, it'll be DR eight. I'm oh, I'm glad
I brought that. Then I'm not terribly tough. I guess we roll in
this now, yep. And if you fail, roll me a D four
failed, we wouldnt one for crapsake, wow, because this game? Did
you fail? I guess? Oh my god, the highest role was A
three. Oh boy, we're in for it tonight. I'm doing I'm doing
an omen for that one. Okay. I can't be blind to creatures again,
you know what? Yeah? I think for reminding me of that opening
exists. Been a minute for me. I'm gonna use one. Two?
Yeah, I think all right? We wait? How you thought it was
eight? Right? Damn yes, oh my god, I got number one.
Try it again, A right? Fifteen? Okay, sixteen? Another
one? Seven and deem what you got for us? Where's it going?
I clicked it once, so I don't want to Here we go, all
right? Six me? Okay? If you failed, please roll D four
mm hmm yeah. Everybody except our wretched noble Henry has no I use my
thing, so I passed sewn the past my bed. Yeah, okay,
okay. If you rolled a four, you are blinded. Living creatures are
invisible to you, and you hear strange voices for the person that rolled the
two. The world spins. You must use one hand to support yourself against
a wall or you fall prone, so your movement is kind of limited.
As you kind of get this nauseous feeling that comes over, you, can
we like use our torches and burn these fucking stupid flower things. Sure,
okay, go ahead, use the torch and to start burning them. And
okay, so er gosh is like had enough of this. You use your
torch to start to set some of these things blaze, and as you do,
you see the angel faces look like they're in pain and the humming and
haunting singing turns into screeches of pain and agony. Good, and pretty soon
that whole stairwell is on fire as the vines burn and char to nothing.
Let's see. I will let everybody who failed do the test again, the
toughness test. Oh come on, oh man, oh my god, bro
I love all right, so h Dean. After these things die, you
can feel that nauseous feeling kind of washes away from you as quickly as it
washed over you, and you eventually get your senses back. But for the
other two who failed, you are still you still really don't see any anything
else. Any living creatures to you are invisible, and you can kind of
hear the voices of your companions on the distance, kind of muffled and distorted.
Oh what is this? I can't see a thing that's happened to be
as well, But it's seems to affect only living creatures. You can navigate,
but you'll have to blind fight. Well, I shouldn't have a problem
with it anymore. We burned them, were good. Just think of it
like a bad drug trip. Okay? Is this permanent? Ye? Oh
God, Henry knows it's not. It's not, but I not. I
couldn't really tell you how long it lasts. Here's about an hour head led.
It's dreadfully disorienting. I don't like it. Okay, well, what
do you guys do next? Henry, you're the one of who's been here
before. Now you can't see anything, so what do you do? Well?
I guess i'd at least vaguely know the layout of like kind of going
north into the burial chamber chamber. Maybe not necessarily north, but so yeah,
to refresh your memory, this hallway goes in one direction, and a
little ways up the hallway on the right hand side is an opening that goes
into that big aerial chamber where there was an altar and one of these creatures
dead bodies was on it. If you continue down the hallway, there's an
opening on the left which goes to that big central chamber that leads down to
the fiery pit. You didn't really explore. You could just tell you guys
could see the glow of the fire from that pit at the end of that
hall, and just like on the floor above you, it's like the hall
just ends where you assume would be like a wall at the end of the
hall, and instead there's just no wall. At all, and it's just
right open to the shaft basically of the pit. If you continue beyond that,
the path winds around to the right and eventually leads into the chamber where
you fought the creatures in their like weird larval cocoons at the like the knee
high water. Well, we should proceed this way. Be sure to stay
as far away from the the opening of the heated pitch. Through this next
room, we'll see the halter of a dead body. We should not touch
it. Must proceed onward into another room there's a pit. Just avoid it,
and then likely we will face resistance there, although I suppose they may
have moved around. One of you can still see. Yes, please please
shout as much posicial information as you can. Oh. Okay, Oh,
shout as loud as I can. It doesn't need to be terribly loud.
It just needs to be just bursting loud. Got it us, No worries?
Yeah, as you you guys do pass the room that has the altar.
Uh, both of the two of you who are succumbing to the effects
of the spores, you do see the body on the altar? Who that's
not a five? Okay? Are you guys, just proceeding down the hall
to the h the chamber with the larva all in the lead. Yeah,
point guys, Sam right, I'm sorry, I'm I'm clarifying that man head
people said he wants us to like be quiet. You want us to like
try to sneak. Yeah, on once a fight breaks out, be descriptive,
no shouting until then if if you can avoid it. Okay, all
right, Well, everybody can give me a Dr twelve um agility test as
you attempt to sneak Nope, oh man, I actually got one last time.
All right, Well you're not nearly as loud as the last time you
were down here, but you guys have already made so much noise coming down
here that you don't know how how helpful that's going to be. So you've
hint to creep down the hall. Would everybody please give me a presence test
to be Dr fourteen? Nice? Another one, okay for the two of
you who passed you hear fatally on the edge of your hearing the sound of
something lightly slapping on the stone behind you, guys, as you get towards
the end of the hall, something that's still opening up against the stone whisper.
Yes, that's coming, guys, turn around, look what is it?
And he'll have his flail ready to bop it in the face. All
right, you see two of the creatures drowned. You see two of them
kind of creeping a long gallumn style on their hands and feet across the floor
towards you guys, trying to sneak up on you. And when they see
you, they hiss in their weird fish language. And we're gonna need some
initiative, and I'll put you guys here on the lord. Why is it
sacrin? Oh wait, that's because you're token. And somebody please roll me
a D six for initiative member lowe is bad? Oh do hey? So
again we don't have to worry too much about like positioning and stuff. Um.
But yeah, there's two of these things that are creeping towards you guys.
So I'll put tokens for them on the map. And what did we
get for initiative? All right, you guys get to go first. Crank
up the metal. All right. They try to get the drop on you,
but it appears you have the drop on them. You get to go
first. Nice goes. We'll just rush them all right, they are d
R twelve. Okay, miss nice okay, good start yep, uh kind
of shout Dan, where are you? And um try to buff all Assuming
there's some kind of response, I'll attempt to uh cast a mitzull blind your
eye on that creature, okay, to make them invisible. Okay, we
power. Oh wait, I was supposed to do how many do we got
today? Or okay? Cool? Um wield? Then that twenty was so
close? Oh my gosh, this is a real wait. Hold on.
Can I use an omen to reduce the DR by four and avoid the two
damage and dizzy? Yes? Absolutely, I will do that. Okay,
so, uh, Dane, you're invisible now until you're damaged. You attack
defend with DR six. Oh that's pretty good. Yeah, jeetz all right,
who's next? A dean will kill He'll rush up and go after this
drowned all right, just to refresh every his memories from this awesome artwork.
Just attack that head to a creature, little goon body. That's when I
envisioned these things look like, but they run around like Murlock's So I got
DR six now that's what he said, So we okay, here we go?
Oh what is there what is their armor? D two? Yes?
Okay? Oh my god, breaks? Do you want to use an I
do? Yeple fumble amazing, fucking real dude. That was all right,
We're gonna try one more time. Here we go, okay, yeah,
all right, so I hit that sucker. You got one damage? Nice?
Okay? And uh Torben your turn? Man? Are we didn't get
killed by two of these things? Um? So m Torbin has a huge
sword with him. Um. I can't remember this actor's name. Oh god,
I really wanted to situate this with his actor's name. He's dead.
He was an Harry Potter. He was the bad wizard teacher. What was
his actor's name, Alan Rickman? It sounds right right, it's actually bad
or in my best impersonation of him, he you hear that voice as Torven
pulls his sword out and here, oh you again, this ought to be
good and he attacks? What does your sword do? Um? He It's
clearly magical and talks. It's extremely foppish, unreliable, and quietly despises me.
It constantly taunts me at my failures and is continuously disappointed in me.
It will, in a one in six chance, accidentally attack me or you
guys instead of dealing damage to the enemy, a DR ten to hit oh
okay, oh shit? And defense and defense yeah okay, taking ship from
every direction. Uh oh well that's a five so it doesn't hit anything that's
hey. Yeah okay, So not a great round as the creatures are are
not impressed. One of them is going to attack a Dean because he actually
did damage, and the other one I'll roll between er Gosh and Torbin since
he tore up front. So four or five six, it'll be Torben.
It is so Torben and a Dean if you would each please uh roll me
defense? All right? These guys do D six damage with their spearsh okay,
and I'm on DR six because I'm invisible right as well? Yes,
okay, oh okay. Adam takes a damage. Oh my god, Tourban
takes four. Oh jeesus, Rover, I might want to use an omen
to produce that damage. God damn how much health he got? Tourben,
are your muted scar? Okay? Sorry, my son will cover um okay,
I I uh wow my armor. If that was a lot of damage,
I have four, so I'll use an olmen. Oh my god,
oh Jesus, this I'll use my last omen here. Wow okay, okay,
uh wow, all right, it's that what lowers the damage by D
six, So roll with D six. Oh nice six. Okay, So
these things are not messing around, and you guys don't even have to make
a test. You can hear shouts of more of these things coming from down
the hall, from the layer where you know that they were sleeping. You
don't see any yet though. Back to you guys, A Dean's mad and
we'll lash out again. Oh um, visibility end because you took m Yeah,
so what's the d R again? Ten? These guys are twelve?
Well okay, well that sucks. Oh fucking yeah, I missed. I
missed it. I'm missing very hard. That's a two two? Um,
god, damn it quick, very quick, A two, and I rolled
it three. You are are rolling the twenty side of dice, right,
just yeah, I just want to double check. I'm I'm trying to yeah,
doing my back. It doesn't it doesn't feel like it feels like Yeah,
it feels like I'm rolling a deeper actually a right, feels like I'm
rolling glory Henry Torbin. Anybody do they want to try to save the day
here, I'm gonna do kind of the opposite. Well, no, shoot,
no, I I what are the rules and work forward for backing out
of melee? I don't think I there's r rules. Yeah, you just
you can leave, I guess because everyone's engaged right now, so there's no
big deal. Dorman's gonna back off shield his sassy blade and then take a
shout at his crossbow instead. Okay, okay, so that's a presence um
I believe for ranged attacks yes, oh okay, yeah, I'll need I
thought it was agility. I need to ranged shit in this game. Oh
he hit? Oh my god too damage. Oh you have to roll for
their armor, their D two armor. Sorry, if you like target them,
it should automatically add that stuff in. Oh the armor rolls it too.
The just bounces off its scaled hide. But you did hit it.
Good job, Henry. Yeah, I'm way to save the day. I'm
gonna attempt the timelockneumatoxin and crush up my tablet and wafted in the direction of
the snarling beast next to me. Okay, hoping that it works. So
we have a thirteen. Hey, it's turn upon a creature. It takes
d six damage. Five. Wow, okay, it's acting up a lung
and coughing. It's not dead, but it is. It's very hurt.
Okay, well done. On their turn. At this point, at the
end of the hall, you can hear the sounds of them getting louder.
You can probably see them on your Edgier vision as the other five from last
time or the other three making a total of five are at the end of
the hall and they will be here next round. And these other two ones
are gonna attack you, Henry, so please make your role remember D six
damage and then the other one. We will roll between Sean and Kyle.
Sean, you'll be high. It's tacking you. Okay. Um defensive role
m hm m hmm. I passed. Oh no, I didn't DR fourteen
right, he gets me for one damage gets me for two. These guys
are DR twelve. Oh okay, I don't know why I auto did fourteen.
The bones were fourteen. These guys are twelve. H Okay. Then
I'm in the clear. It seems okay already uh and then Henry takes a
point of damage. Okay, next round, you better do something fast here
because those other guys are were cruising on him. Uh terrifying? Yeah not
great, your turn, go ahead. I have strategic reasons for sand bagging,
so somebody else go eat agree with him? Yes, okay, I'll
go so he can run away. Everybody dies. I hit and I do
one damage fuck me? Uh oh my god? Two D floor and you
still roll the one, bro, I can't control the foundry dies. My
my man, my guy, my my dude. Yep, okay, uh
oh my god? Above a ten? What was that D twenty four?
Are you need yeah doing stuff? Oh my bad, I'm talking to myself.
Um, that's for chee cheet. He doesn't have stats, So I
just did a roddey twenty rolls. Che che che Chee has his own thing.
And uh you're you're don't you have his character sheet? Yeah? Yeah,
no he has no stats uh under his description. Yeah, he just
attacks unless I just roll the bite the D Yeah. Oh I don't have
to roll for an attack. Well he stopped an attack. Yeah, but
he does D four damage. Okay, so what would I roll for his
attack? Same as you are. It's it's d R twelve to hit these
guys, um right, but he has no strength or presence or he has
no stats. Oh yeah, he doesn't get any bonuses. It's just he
does D four damage. Oh, he just does the damage. Okay,
well yes, but he has the effectively neutral to hit. It's a plus
zero that yeah, the standard DC of twelve or whatever it is. Okay,
yeah, that's so. That's yeah, that's what the D twenty role
was, just a flat D twenty role for his attack. Well, you
hit and we need damage please. I did damage first for some reason.
But it's right above Ergush's attack. Oh I see. Okay, so he
takes two damage. Which one is I should put him on the table,
ear on the board. Here we go. Sorry, if could do all
of this stuff raw. The armor roll is the last one. So he
blocked a point of damage. That's okay. Let me Chee Chee up here.
Okay, which one is Cheechee attacking this one right here? Okay,
good choice. Chee Chee dives into action and mauls this guy, grabbing it
by the leg and dragging him to the ground. And it is dead.
Oh awesome, he's dead. I'm I'm jumping in. I'm playing the flute
of task once per combat. When a creature dies, play the bone flutes
echoing fugue. This deals an echo of the fatal damage to random enemy in
the vicinity. Okay, roll me a D four. If you roll a
one, it'll hit the guy you guys are already fighting. Otherwise he'll hit
one of the guys who right full Okay, and he did what three damage?
Two damage because the armor? Okay, that was my grand strategy,
right, that's that's two points damage. Man, that's helpful. Man.
Yeah, damage is damage? Great for a blind guy? Yeah, anyone
else? There's everybody going, hasn't okay? Oh, go ahead, and
Dan Dan wordlessly uh takes out a bomb and throws it right in between all
three of these guys. Okay, Um, well that's a presence test.
Okay. Oh, it's just it just says ranged attack. Do I just
attack? Okay? Alright, come on out. Nope, that's a miss.
Do you have any um omens lab? Nope? Um? Can I
can I use my omen to let him reroll? Yes? Yeah, I
will, I will, I will use my omen. Okay, okay,
thank you? Than on me? Almost God damn it. Okay, we'll
roll damage because it'll catch one of them in the blast. I mean,
it's not a very big haul. So and you e only missed by one,
so it'll catch one of them. Okay, so damage is a deed
Oh shit D ten? Oh all right, massive explosion goes off, catching
the one at the back and he gets engulfed in flames as the other two
charged forward. I think that leaves torben. All right, another crossbow bolt
coming at you. What are you shooting it? The one directly in front
of me? Okay, you hit bot damage? Um, Harry, I
should probably target eh. Um, that's weird that it. Oh, I
just rolled the raw presence like an idiot. My bad, shaking off a
lot of rust here, sorry worries. So a D eight damage for the
crossbow, right, yeah, and I got your armor er gosh, the
bolt goes soaring over your shoulder and strikes this thing in the head and it
drops down dead, which means before these guys I's attack. I think they
need to make a morale test. When did they take a morale test?
That's the question. And probably at the end of the round. All right,
they will have a chance to attack as they charge in, but no,
they're seeing all their buddies get killed. Go ahead, let's see how
do we roll morale here, let's press this button. Stands firm, all
right, I'll roll the other one too. I guess they would both roll.
They love it. They're hardcore, fuck it, I don't care.
One of them is going to obviously go for a dean and the other one
is going to he's going to make a test to see if he can sneak
past you. Guys, Henry and Ergosh give me agility tests DR twelve.
If you pass, you get attack opportunity as this guy runs past you to
try to get to Torben. Tourban got the kill swinging a miss from Henry.
No, Sir Brom laid it on the nineteen, but it said three.
Yeah, I'm only rolling D six of the teams, all right,
Torben and Adan, you're being attacked right, all right, I can get
my deepan. Oh did a dodge urban? How about you? If we
lose the scar? Are you there lose? No? He's muted again.
No, I'm talking to you talking to myself again. Um right, chee
chee, going at the this guy and I will go out this guy and
then I got targeted here to the left to Henry. You need to be
a defensive role first. This guy's attacking you. Oh okay, all right,
he ran past your bros to get you. That's messed up, dude.
Um, well, so shooting his friend in the face. I mean,
I don't know. I feel like we're we're on the right side of
history on this one. They're invading their house, just you know, all
our land. Anyway, what does this manifest destiny get out of here?
They could do D six damage d R twelve normally, Well, it's DR
ten for you because your magic sword. Say, well, thinks I still
got hit, but you didn't. Okay, you're fine. Good thing too,
because he'd be dead. Okay, I give him one cheap on the
armor I could have easily bought met him. Oh you fool. Okay,
heroes quote unquote your turn. All right, So me and Dean are just
gonna gang up on this guy. Okay, do we do we get any
uh any bonus for fighting him? Like we're from the Bronx. Just two
team in him. Yeah, I'll give you a DR ten instead of twelve.
Okay, you guys outnumber them now, so by a lot. There
we go. Only shit, have hit fucking five damage resistant two takes three?
All right, I hit him with a fourteen, got that damage?
Okay, all right, and other other pecs I guess instead of swinging blind,
I'm gonna like slap myself on the head and be like all right this
and I'm gonna take another quaff of this life elixir U to restore one hit
point and here my disability. Okay, and that'll be my turn. All
right. You see there are two creatures left here in the tunnel, Chee
Chee and Torbin returns. Yeah, Chee Chee's going at him. Got rip
them apart, Cheechee. I believe oh my was a D four I think
on Chee Chee. Yeah, D four and yeah, well armory and I'm
gonna sling into the bolt okay, sure you keep tracking your AMMO as well.
Yeah, that's a D two armor right right this time? You got
it? Nope? Twin sad uh Okay, well er, gosh, you
hit this thing. Well, you both hit it, but you hit it
harder, so he's gonna tak your Then other critter, it's probably gonna attack
Chee Chee because Chechi actually hit it. So I need a defensive role for
your dog. It hits me for two damage. H oof, I'm down.
Past my half health mark. Oh no, cheech gets it? How
much Chechi takes? D six damage three? Is he dead or broken?
What's his hell of zero? Broken? So he's broken? Done? Roll
me a D four He's dead? A dang chee che no their dog to
add to the collection. Oh boy, okay, uh characters, you may
go or the dog noise? Oh very nice? Oh actually doing stuff?
Okay to play the game damage well done. Okay, we're gonna add add
him to the thing here, all right, go ahead. That guy is
toast. That'll kill him. Who right, I'm gonna turbot gang him.
Okay about gang love it? Fuck back to D six. Is I had
a nice role and then said you've had too much fun? Yep, I'm
gonna give this guy stab as well. Oh oh the mythical music. Oh
my god, crush this thing's skull with whatever you're using your knife? Oh
yeah, you fucking just jam it into his throat. He gurgles on his
blood as he dies, and you have finally killed all of the drowned.
Well done. Or drops to his knees and tears picks up his chihuahua's lifeless
body. Yeah he did. Bustards help. Good thing, they're dead.
The store was passed out of my family for generations. I don't think dogs
live that long, actually, But okay, wait, is its Thursday?
Sure? Yes, never mind it was only two a shame. Yeah,
it's all right. I avenged it. You have, indeed, and that
is a perfect time to take our break, as we're at our halfway point
here, so we will add Chee Chee the small but vicious dog to the
pile with Lucky the small vicious dog. All right, that's brutal, alright,
alright, folks, will take our break, grab some doctor pepper,
and we will be right back. Last all small vicious dogs. Got a
small vicious dog. Heaven got him? All right, take five, guys,
I'll be saying boys later. Well, listeners, we are back our
cretans. I've survived and only the dog died. Sorry about that, but
um, yes, you have finished killing all of the drowned. Ah what
do you do next? Do you go and actually investigate the layer that they
were in? Yeah? Check it out. I'm gonna search these fish people.
Okay, well, we've got charts for that too. Let me just
find them. I've got charts for everything in this game. Uh, let's
see, but do I have the charts in the foundryes the question? M
wait wait, gam screen down here, jam screen doesn't have no? No,
what doesn't Why why wouldn't have that? Okay, well, luckily I
think it's on the first page of the rule book. Also, I got
the other Markburg expansion today. Icon came. I got that this week.
They finally showed up. Not as impressive as the other three core products,
not gonna lie, a little underwhelming, but AnyWho. Okay, Scar,
if you'd like, there are five bodies here, please go ahead and roll
me five D sixty six is D six, he said, D sixty six
for each one of them. Oh okay, so five D sixty six and
tell me the individual roles please. I got a forty three. All right,
you found a bond a local potented owes the holder a sizeable amount.
Oh so like an actual like I guess you found like a paper fucking thing
crumpled up in this thing's bag or something. Okay, well, unfortunately I
got as another forty three after that? What okay? Uh, yeah,
I guess you find two of him on this guy? He this creature had
some sort of fucking Ponzi scheme going on after that is a sixteen the remains
of something worthless crumples in your hands, beautiful thirty three mm a metal cylinder
with gunpowder and fuse, so you can use this. Basically, it's pithedon.
I'm gonna stick a dynamite and when you throw it, you roll a
D six On a one or two, you lose your hand. On a
three through six, it does three D ten damage wherever it lands like that,
damn. Okay? And what was the last one? A thirty?
Um, you can't get a thirty on a D sixty six? How did
it get you a thirty? That's weird. I will sco up to a
thirty one, then a map to a week but wealthy family's house. Perhaps
it was this tribe's next target. Okay. And the dynamite was a one
to two or one to three. I blow my hand up one to two,
three through six it it detonates and it's arranged attack. Okay. Ah,
yes, because in in foundry, when you say D sixty six,
it rolls a sixty six sided die, which is not two ds. That
makes sense, Yeah, it tends. Yeah, I'm sure there's actually a
d sixty six out there. I've seen some some weird, weird dice out
there in the real world. D thirty D seven. Yeah, DCC has
got all sorts of weird dice make for that game. Okay. The D
one hundreds, which just looks like a big golf ball. Oh yeahs printed
in the divits. They never they never stopped rolling. Yeah, I love
them. Okay. Uh, that is what you find on these creatures when
you guys make your way into the layer. Henry was already here, but
for the rest of you, this area is this stinking, disgusting room.
Um. It is uh soaked in water about up to ankle or you know
about ankle shin height give or take knee height. Um. There are all
sorts of bits and pieces of things they've taken. There's parts of furniture,
some simple tools, torn up, ragged clothes, and there's the disgust sheet,
disgusting fleshy cocoons that you guys saw they were using for sleeping the first
time that you were down here, Henry. All of them are now empty.
In addition, you also see the body of Belfa Duck, the trader
drown who you guys had freed from the prison the last time you were here.
And you also see the bodies of the other your other companions, all
four of them, and the dog Lucky. They are all in states of
being looted, water logged, rotting, and some of them appear to have
been partially eaten as well. The stench down here is fucking disgusting, awful.
Well, I was said, the sword lies beyond this chamber. We
should continue on. Yeah, I need everybody to give me a d R
fourteen presence test, so you don't see any obvious place where to go.
This looks like an empty room. We'll almost had it. Oh noise,
oh dan. You see your your companions here fumbling around, looking confused,
and you're kind of staring, very slowly panning around, and then you see
basically kind of on the opposite side of the room. You notice that there
is part of the wall where you see something doesn't look quite natural, and
you realize there's an opening here and you're able to basically move part of the
wall aside, and it leads to a smaller little chamber which you realize is
got to be their treasure. Hoarde, please roll me two D four You
find this little muddy al clove. All sorts of shiny objects and other detritus
is piled back here. Okay, A three and a four. So what
you got? Okay, you find a ten foot copper rod, and you
also find a silver effigy of a three headed bassilisk, which you guys would
know would be quite heretical, as the two headed bassilisk is kind of the
primary deity in the dying world. But it's this uh, not the size
of a basketball, like a silver little statue. It's dirty because it's been
sitting like down here in this mud, but it looks like it's probably worth
a pretty penny because it is all silver. In addition, you see with
blade down stuffed basically into the dirt is a sword, a large two handed
blade, and I think I have an image of it as well. I
can show you I do. Go you realize this must be the chaos blade
that the captain sent you here to get. It's got this kind of almost
like a chaos star at the very palmel they at the end of the handle.
It's got a massive two handed grip, and then the crossbar, the
hilt the guard above that kind of has these two big spike that point up
almost like claws, and then about a third of the way and then half
the way down the blade there are two triangular spikes that stick out from the
blades to create even more weird killing miss and then the blade itself has all
sorts of strange inscriptions runes etched into the blade itself that seems to be it
the Deacon world. We pleased if we can carry this back, Well,
I'm not touching it sort of felt the same. I'm worn to curse with
one magical sword, don't need another. A dean would reach out and grab
It's quite heavy, but you are able to heft it, and uh yeah,
nothing strange or weird happens as you're expecting it does. It does feel
different than a normal blade, but you don't like, you know, you're
not possessed or have to take any tests or anything, but it definitely feels
like there's something special about this thing. There's also all the gear from your
previous characters that are down here, um so any of that. I know
there was a shield. I think there was armor suit or two of light
armor. There's probably a few swords, and there was also, um well,
whatever money you guys may have had and there was also, um there
was that other two handed swords you guys found there a spirl I remember somebody
that Kyle had unless yeah, oh yeah, yeah that's still here. Um
well you know what, that might have actually gotten a wet that that probably
might have actually gotten ruined. We'll roll for that. I'm trying to look
for the sword though. Okay, there was it was his yhnder that was
incredibly sharp. So it does D ten plus one damage. You found that
with the goblins. We're fighting over it. Oh yeah, that whole thing
Kyle high er low uh low exactly in the middle D A D one hundred
is one through one hundred, so fifty would be low. Oh okay,
just so the scroll is slightly damp but still readable and usable. Nice.
It just started taking on water, just like me. What was it the
scroll of death or whatever something like that. I think that was literally the
name of the Yeah, the death scroll, the death scroll, good old
Swedish death battle. Yeah, it's just death cool, okay, all right,
uh yeah, so you guys are feel free to give you that up.
I don't know how much money everybody had. I hit zero, I
remember, well, I don't me I don't know what Eric had, so
we'll assume it's lost. Very easy. So yeah, uh, well,
I guess a real sword is an upgrade from basically knife, so I might
grab that. No, honey of you guys wanted to shield, right,
you get DS on that? Well? Actually, no, you go ahead.
If I'm gonna, I might take the warhammer off of Griden's corpse.
Now a lot of people have two handed weapons here, it seems right.
Yeah, yeah, so it doesn't make sense for me to get a shield,
so I'm gonna be looking for like a fucking arranged weapon after this,
now that I don't use this presence instead of agility. Hey, Sean,
what were the names of your characters from last week? Um? The Deckham,
Delcram, Delica. Yeah, I honestly couldn't tell you. Okay,
we'll say Deckham and what was he doing with the other one? Was the
second guy? We could probably scroll up real far right, scroll up and
see that is true. I'm my sword is one handed. If no one
can use the shield, I'll definitely use it. Yeah, you can take
the shield dem proper one. I'll take one of the random two handed weapons
that are lying around Envier Envier Decraman Envier. We're making a complete list of
all of our casualties night, so we can have a memorium at the end
of this. What about Eric's Eric's character? What is his name? Borrow?
Borrow? Oh yeah, it's good. No one minds. I'd like
to get a snag. That a light armor that I purchased last time.
Yeah, take it? Say great, guys, Okay, well, when
you are done pilfering and looting, is there anything else you wish to do?
Can I take a look at that three headed um depiction of the bassilisk?
Yeah? Yeah, it's a It's a statue that appears to be made
primarily, if not entirely, out of silver, and it has a third
head rather than two. God damn, which is either meant you're assuming to
be a mockery of the two headed basilisk, or I believe perhaps a different
incarnation of it. You're not sure? Kay? Did somebody scoop up the
fancies? Why Hander? Or like the non quests? Why Hander? No?
No? I saw th man? Okay, now I'll waste you have
a very sharp Swhy Hander? All right? Do you guys eventually returned to
craven Ford or anything else you wish to do here other than claim the bodies
of the fallen. Uh. Well, we were asked to delve deeper into
these caves and destroy some sort of plant that might be the source of their
power or food. And it wasn't made clear to me. Um in memory
of the is that Belthuck we could carry out her wishes? I honestly would
prefer to be rid of this place. If we can collect our companions and
leave, I could. I've had enough thrilled for wonder, I think,
porici. Yeah, I'm kind of bleeding over here, so I'm good to
go home. It will only get emptier. What does that mean? All
right? Well, the group of you, uh, the group of you,
um, I realized supposed to roll D four. It out a D
six for for our misseries. My mistake, reroll at scar. Oh god,
it's also go D four, D three, D two. I'm looking
at my my notes here. That's a D six. Yeah. The plus
one cheaters so close. Chris had him rolled three times, couldn't get a
one. Keep rolling, keep rolling? Um? Okay. So you eventually
retrieve the bodies of the fallen, you load them up in the wagon.
Uh, your horse has finished his any flavored oats and is quite content.
It does not give you any problems when you all return with all your ill
gotten gains, and you make the trek back to the village. As we
walk all along the road, I forgot something now that I've picked up a
second sword. Henry as compelled to roll up the sleeve of his left arm,
which shows a knitting of various scars, and he presses the sharp swyhander
against it, towards the tip, testing its sharpness against his own flesh.
It is sharper than any blade you have ever wielded. Before he replaces the
bandage that is perennially permanently basically on that arm, and it's like this one's
And I feel like there's a more efficient way of doing that, old old
boy. Yeah, we gotta go trick over here some of his axe.
Okay, Well that happens, and you guys get back. Um, somebody
just high or low? I poor choice. You do not make it back
in the village in time. Before it is night. The forest path has
closed at leaving you guys to spend the night outside in the cold, frosty
dark. Oh, I have a ten, so I'm gonna pitch ten.
Okay, well that's good. I'm wearing a tent, sure, okay,
tucking roll onto the cart okay, okay, that's not raining right now,
but it is not. It's just really cold, really really cold. Okay.
Well, night falls and eventually dawn breaks, which means roll that D
four scarf. You'd like to continue our trend here, all right, it's
getting lower. I don't know that's how that works, all right, So
nothing ill befalls you, guys. And eventually you wake up and the forest
path has creeped and crawled back to an opening, letting you back into your
home. You're able to have the dead brought to the cemetery where they will
be buried. Yeah, and I assume you head back to the barracks.
Yeah, get some well deserved R and R after we turn this sword in.
Okay, well, you bring the sword back. Captain Graft is in
a bad mood as usual. He doesn't seem all that impressed for happy to
see you guys. He looks probably annoyed that it took two sets of people
to get this done, and he takes the blade. It says that he
will return it to the Deacon and leaves you guys back to your normal duties
until he used to call on you again. Is there anything in particular that
anybody does with a little bit of downtime? No? Uh, none,
this front now, okay, Matt Kyle, mm hmm no, alrighty,
well, you guys do get some good rests and the h that evening there
is a a sermon to be held, and as as usual with most of
these sermons, pretty much the entire town, entire village is in attendance,
crammed into the rotting oak or surrounding it outside for those that aren't able to
get a seat, and the temple inside is it's vast. The tree it's
self is gargantuan, and it seems even bigger when you're inside. The front
of it, where the doors are makes almost kind of like a triangle shape
that's kind of the walkway, and there's two big heavy doors that open up
with the symbol of the bec lure on the front of the door, and
when you open it, it's like the symbol gets like split in half.
Inside is a there's a stone floor that's been placed and the walls still are
the inside of the hollowed out tree see cvs, knotted gnarled sides of wood,
and above the open sky from where the supposed meteorite crashed through the top
of the tree can be seen. And what moonlight there is out right now,
it's kind of what's illuminating this area. And there are rows of pews
that have been set up in here facing the front where there's a large stone
altar, basically just a big block of stone, and over that is a
kind of crimson burgundy colored cloth that's finely embroidered that hangs over the front and
back, and then the deacon has her seat behind that, and then usually
a couple apparatus, you know, Chalice a goblet book that she reads from
candles that are there things of that nature. Carved in the back wall behind
her, actually carved into the wood is the symbol of the beck lure,
which matches the one on the doors. And all is quiet when the deacon
emerges. It seems almost from the shadows. You're not really sure how she
comes in and out of this area, but it seems like she just appears
from nowhere, and it's suddenly walking and all fall silent. When she arrives,
she makes her way up to the up to the temple or up to
the altar. Captain Graff is here as well, and you can see that
he has you guys know, it's the sword. It's wrapped up in a
cloth that kind of matches the one that's on the altar. And when she
gets behind the altar, she raises her two hands. It's kind of quiet
everyone, Everyone is pretty much instantly silent, and she speaks, and when
she speaks she has kind of this strange echoing voice. None of you have
ever seen her without her mask or vestments on. You don't know where she
lives. Everyone assumes she lives somewhere here in the temple, but you're not
sure where or how to get there where that would be. Her voice has
this weird, ethereal kind of echoing, haunting vibe to it. And she
speaks. She says, children of the Becclure, give thanks for our artifact
has been returned. And you see that Captain Graff walks forward and bows down
on one knee, holds out the package in both hands. This Paul is
upright, and she very gingerly, caringly unwraps it. And you see when
she lifts this sword, which all of you find very strange. She doesn't
seem a strain at all when she lifts this thing, and it's pretty much
as tall as she is. You know, she's not a very big built
woman. And she then turns, she holds the blade out above her head.
She's got her right hand on the handle, and then she's got the
blade in her left hand, so she's holding it so everybody can see the
flat side of the blade. She says, behold the chaos blade of the
beck Lure, returned to us from brave, brave members of our blighted bulkwork,
from vile creatures, vile thieves that have been punished and eradicated. Let
us give thanks. She eventually goes on with a typical sermon, this one
particularly kind of talking about these foul creatures and how they dare trespass and spit
in the face of the bech Lure. And you know, she does seem
to give you guys some some high praise, and as usual to see everybody
kind of nodding in agreement and really really kind of getting into this this sermon.
Eventually, the sermon ends, people begin to file out of the of
the temple, and as you guys are about to leave you. You can
see that the deacon and the captain are speaking, and you see that he
nods and he walks off, and you see that he walks past you,
guys, and as you're looking in his direction, you see the bech Lure.
She motions for the four of you to approach her. I approach,
yeah, are we yep be At this point, the blade is laying across
the altar and she's kind of standing to the side of it. She says,
children, you have my thanks that of the beck Lure, of her
returning their sacred blade, and she turns to you, Henry. She says,
I understand you're the only one from the original group that made it.
Full brave souls gave their lives to return this. It's that correct, That
is true. Well truly, the beck Lure looks down upon you with favor.
She says, come join me in a prayer, and she steps back
behind the altar and kind of motions for the four of you to kind of
make like a semicircle around the other side of the altar, and she leads
you, guys in a short prayer giving thanks for returning the blade, and
some sort of strange blessing. It feels like for the beck Lure to watch
over you, guys. She says, Henry, I will grant you an
honor for such a task, for such triumph. I will allow you to
wield the Chaos Blade in your next endeavor, so that you may continue to
uphold the beck Lures justice. Oh, thank you, I am honored you
honor us with your sacrifice. And she scoops the blade with both hands.
She puts her hands like underneath the blade and the paw of the handle,
and she lifts it up effortlessly and then kind of extends her arms over the
altar as if for you to take it from her, gingerly lifted from her,
And I guess just hold it in my two hands like pizza box.
Somewhat baffled. Yeah, all of you can see, and Henry, you
can feel. The blade is way heavier than she seems to even indicate or
let on. You know you're prized by it when she hands it to you,
But she says, go now, continue to protect our village from the
depredations of these outsiders. Hey, the beck Lure watch over you all,
Oh, thank you, and all of you. Now we'll get a chance
to as this game puts it get better, but big old air quotes,
because you definitely may not a bunch of bricks right now. So yeah,
leveling up in this game lets you, uh gain some stuff. I'm actually
gonna find it in the rules here, so we can follow along at home
as soon as I do. I know the game. I'm assuming foundry does
this all automatically for us. But for is there like a button on your
character sheet? I'm assuming yeah, OK, let's see what it's got to
find it. Here we go, getting better? Look at this, Look
at this one page? Love it getting better? Or in very small font
it says or worse? Oh no, okay. The gamemaster decides when a
character should be improved. This could be after completing a scenario, killing mighty
foes or bringing home treasure. When this happens, the following a cur more
HP roll six D ten. If the result is equal two or greater than
your current maximum HP, it increases by D six. Okay, so I
guess it did that for you. Torbin um ability changes roll a D six
against every ability results equal two or greater than the ability, increase it by
one to maximum of plus six results below the ability decrease it by one,
so when it's saying your ability, it's you know, whatever your plus one
minus one is. So, for example, if you have a presence of
two, you need to roll a three or higher and then it goes one
higher up to a maximum six, and if you roll below that, it
goes down by one. So it looks like it the game did it automatically
here, so torbin plus one strength agility and presence minus one toughness, and
then left in the debris you basically get to roll a D six to find
stuff. You found an unclean scroll that day. How does it feel?
Bro? Pretty good one too. Telekinesis can be fun unless you also could
add did it put one in your inventory? That's a good question if it
did it automatically? I don't think so. Did it automatically roll the telekinesis
for you when you did get better? It did? Yes? Okay?
Cool? Cool? Okay? So yeah, I basically, guys, you
finished a scenario here, you finished a mission, dungeon, you covered a
treasure, what have you? Um? So it'll be milestone type stuff.
There's no XP in this game, so it'll be a milestone type stuff.
When you guys, level up, enjoy it because you know you'd probably be
dead soon, So don't fuck it up. Everybody, go ahead, get
that button and let the listeners know what happens. I don't fuck it up
the game master, Yes, okay, thank you. Yeah, oh okay,
not a huge brick. Henry has gained three HP, one strength lost
in agility, so I'm now minus one there, but I did gain one
presence, which is not what I expected, and one toughness left in debris
nothing yay, plus four presents. Look at this goddamn um Urga got two
HP, so he's now at max HP A seven, gained a strength on
agility, one presence, and one toughness. He got one across the board,
um, and he found left in the debris. Okay it is also
telegonnesis nice all right? Okay? Uh Dan gains one HP, one strength,
one agility, one presence, one toughness, and I find nothing.
Okay, well all your stats went up, you know the only one Oh
wait, no or gosh one up to show off. Okay, right,
well not bad. That's pretty exciting. It's very exciting. Actually yeah,
okay cool? Well um, so yeah, you guys feel more powerful and
oh, I'm sorry, I need to actually give you the chaos blade here,
Henry, ye old Henry, So if you'd like to tell the listeners
what this fucking thing does, because it's pretty legit. Oh oh, the
chaos blade is a linehander dealing two D eight damage on maximum damage the power
death is cast. So yep, uh see what happens there. Yep,
that's that's an unclean scroll, so you can see what it does. All
creatures were then thirty feet lose a total of four D ten hp. Oh
okay, not fighting by you. Yeah, I'm gonna be way powaway from
you. Owe me you fight over there, all right. So the next
few days are rather uneventful as you guys go back to your regular duties of
guarding the town, patrols, guard rotations. Nothing all that exciting happens in
total, Where is it here? Yeah? Yeah, you guys can replish
all that stuff. You'll be back to all that um okay. In total,
about a week passes before something exciting happens. So I'm just gonna roll
for the miseries here. Do them all at once, so we've got eight
days that go by. Oh my god, three miseries occur. It is
a rough week in the town of craven Ford. I need three rolls of
D sixty six please, So you want D sixty six, Yes, three
separate ones. All right, I'll throw one and gonna do it. Oh
yeah, that's right to the roll of the virtual days. Because I don't
know what divans. All right, tell me what we got. I'll just
go with the first one. I rolled fifty six and I got a fifty
three D eight A lot of high numbers. Yeah, you can't get a
fifty eight on D sixty six ro because of sixty six. Oh geez,
I guess you could roll two D six. Yeah, boom, it was
a fifty three. Oh we already have a three sixteen sixteen. There you
go. Okay, So listeners, in this game, when you roll a
misery um, you then roll on the calendar of Naturable, which is like
the prophet that thinks the end of the world's coming. He has this table
of of psalms that you roll on and they're they're numbered to these dice rolls,
and they are little verses which determine terrible things that are happening. So
the first one was a fifty six and the last king and the last Queen
shall wither to dust. Their wretched courts are devoured by wolves. Dope.
Later in the week, you guys have a messenger, someone who passes through
the town. It is a royal messenger, and he comes by telling you
that the King of Grift and his queen are no more. He tells a
horrifying story of wolf like creatures that descended upon the royal court, breaking in
under a full moon and slaughtering everyone that was there. This was all happening
during the birthday party for the queen to celebrate her forty ninth year. This
has thrown Griffed into a bit of chaos, as this was what is his
name, King sigfam the kind which he's the king that had the suicide cult
planning to lead his people off the side of the cliffs into the endless sea
as the world came to an end. Now, some people believe that this
is the work of the Church of the Two Headed Basilisk in the Inquisition,
because they were not too keen on King Sigham's sig Fum's suicide cult. But
no one can prove that, you know, some people think that it was
some sort of curse or some sort of evil magic that the Church of the
bad As was performed. Perhaps these creatures were unleashed by them, or that
perhaps it is yet another sign of the apocalypse. That is certainly what Spendall.
Your doomsayer seems to think the messenger looks hollow eyed, because if he
has not slept, almost as if he's just kind of going through the phases,
as he seems to be traveling from villaged village to let people know what
has happened. You begin to end here stories of more lawlessness throughout the peninsula.
As without the King and Queen, the patrols on the King's roads are
less and less. They're disorganized, banditry becomes more common, and days seem
darker. Then we have a fifty three and birds shall fall dead from the
sky, So ergush. One day, when you're out on patrol doing your
rounds, you hear the squawk of a raven. You see it sitting up
in the knotted, twisted vines of the rotting oak, and you hear another
squawk. You notice that there is a raven lying on the ground on its
side, kind of twitching, clearly dying. This turns into a squall of
more squawking, which begins to just fill the air and almost as if it's
actually raining, Hundreds and hundreds of corpses of these black birds plummet from the
sky, cracking onto the ground, onto the road, crashing through the branches
of the tree, and even smashing through some windows on a few unlucky houses,
leaving a literal carpet of dead and dying birds. Horrible squawking followed by
an even more horrible stench, and the world seems to get even darker,
and finally a sixteen and blood cough shall spread like fire across the waste lands
of the drought. So this does not affect your village as much since you
guys have the rules, But a horrible drought has basically swept across the land
and it has caused this horrible cough in people that makes them spit up blood
as their lungs and throats are so dry and parched. Most disturbing and concerning
for your village is one of the pools seemingly overnight dries up, leaving nothing
but an empty, bottomless hole, and even though you still have a few
other pools remaining, this is seen as a terrible, terrible omen for your
livelihood and your village. A couple of people in the village die from getting
this cough. Although it's believed in, the deacon seems to preach that it's
come from the outside and there's no way that the beck Lure would abandon you
all like this. And in that fervor, a group of visitors pair of
merchants who are traveling through are basically snatched up by an angry mob and eventually
thrown into the crystal depths as a sacrifice to the beck Lure in order to
appease it and hopefully return the pool back to its normal self. In the
days that follow, the pool remains empty and dry. Please mark off three
miseries on your character sheets as we approach, and we will now be rolling
a D three for our miseries. Oh boy, finally, there is one
other horrible thing that happens each of the days that these things happen. These
miseries befall the world in your village. There is a terrible black storm that
sweeps over your plateau that you call home. It feels like a wind,
but it feels like a wind of sand, and when it settles, you
realize that it is not sand but salt, but as a salt that is
black rather than white. I need three D four rules, please, Okay,
I'll throw one in there. Okay, two, three, and four.
So this determines the strength of this salt wind, the black salt four
being the worst, and this will determine the dr of the toughness test you
each must take. Basically, everybody in the town succumbs and is exposed to
this in some way, especially you guys because you're off and out on patrol.
So on the first day, it is a sickly I'm sorry, it
is a three a terror gale. The sky blackens as this salty black wind
sweeps over the village. I need everybody to make a DR fourteen toughness test.
If you pass, you are fine. If you fail, you must
roll a D twelve. Oh god, I'm not very tough. I'm gonna
use them an omen Oh thank god, for the first time this game.
I'll just omen to reduce the difficulty of that test by four. So I
passed, all right. So the first day, although it is unexpected,
you all seem to be fine. However, many people in the town suffer
horrible horrible consequences of being exposed to this. The next one is A four,
which is a flesh ripping storm, a crystalline hurricane. The storm only
seems to intensify a few days later, literally ripping the roofs off some of
the village huts and flaying the flesh from some of the exposed villagers. This
toughness test is a DR sixteen nuts that's not gonna bean see or maybe its
wow, oh wow wow eighteen nineteen and it was a fifteen, But that's
minus two, all right, torbin, I will need a D twelve please,
it's hi good. I don't know, I don't really know. Um,
these all seem to be bad. I don't think there's a method to
this madness. Ten brutal and unending suit cough You spray black saline iicorps.
Rumored cures range from healing fountains to terrible blood rituals. Without treatment, you
perish in D two weeks. Well wait, D two weeks, so yeah,
flip a coin, roll roll D two. I'm on two note one
week. You will be dead within seven days. As every day the cough
gets worse and worse, and there's already a lot, big coffer. Basically,
you're coughing up soot just black. It's like you're constantly chewing on charcoal.
And finally the last day is a two, it seems. After that
the storm dies down in intensity becomes a sickly cursed salt breeze. Your final
toughness test here is dr ten. Come on, oh, I saw the
one I saw, uh Torbin? Do you want to use an omen or
um? Yeah? I guess we have omens again, don't we um?
Could? Yes? I will use one to uh blower the dr Yeah,
okay, all right, Well, as the storm goes down in intensity,
you are all okay, But all sorts of terrible things are about falling people
in the town. Many people get getting the soot cough like your good friend
Torben has here, other people with blisters, and even more terrible horrible things
that they'll leave to your imagination for the time being. The storm also basically
discolors much of the town, especially the outside of the buildings and the ground
just black. It's not very good for the crops either. After that horrible,
horrible week, things get better, not really, though, As this
black salt storm begins to take its toll on your home. There are at
first rumors and then quite frequent sightings and reports from villagers and eventually from the
Guards of goblins beginning to creep their way into craven Ford, snatching people in
the dead of night, sneaking into homes, hiding inside cupboards and whatever little
nooks and crannies they can, stealing whatever they can get their grubby mits on,
and otherwise becoming a horrible, horrible nuisance. It's almost like an infestation
of insects, not quite as many, but the goblins are vicious, and
it quickly is becoming an issue as it seems your town is no longer safe.
The Guard the Blighted Bulkwork has its work cut out for it as it's
trying to deal with these, these stories, these reports, and what makes
things even worse. At first, it seems like these goblins are multiplying exponentially
without rhyme or reason. Eventually, the deacon, she explains during a sermon
that these goblins are cursing other people. Anyone who is attacked, wounded,
bitten by one of these creatures eventually turns into a goblin within a short amount
of time couple couple of days, maybe at most and hold on, I
gotta get my other notes here, so that becomes a problem in the town.
The other thing of note that happens during this time the owner and head
of the owner of the mill and the head of the Green family. His
name is I want to say, it's irv All. Yeah, Irvall Green
Dies. This is a big deal because the Green family are basically the closest
thing you guys have to like a wealthy, rich, upper class family.
They're not nobility, but because they have the only mill here and everybody pretty
much in the town gets their green from the Green family, they live quite
comfortably. They have the biggest house, which you know, to you guys,
is like a mansion for the I was outside of the town. It
might be considered more of a regular sized or a house on the larger size.
And um, you know that his son, whose name is Nagal Green,
basically becomes the head of the family and inherits the mill. And then
each of you please give me a presence test R twelve come on, well
done, twenty one? All right? Whoever passed, please roll me a
D four? Okay, all right, Tory okay? Three? Who rolled
two? Ergosh Ergosh, you are actually one day approached by Nagal Green and
he wants to pay you and hire you to help guard his like apothecary shop.
Now, you may or may not know that he has this little shop
as kind of his side business before he had the mill. You know that
basically at this point, he approaches you and he wants you. He wants
to pay you to help guard his shop. He explains that he has developed
a cure for the Goblin curse, which he has been selling. But as
the goblin infestation is getting worse each day, he's having to deal with more
agitated and upset and sometimes desperate customers. And he's already had several fights breakout.
He's worried for his safety, he's worried for the well being of his
shop, and of course he's worried for his ability to continue to produce the
cure should anything happen. Yeah, er Gosh would agree to help, and
he would offer you. Let's see how much does he offer. I'm trying
to find it here. I don't I don't see it in my notes,
but I'll get back to that. So oh, here it is. He's
willing to offer you twenty silver a day. Damn okay, which is is
really good money. Yeah. I have a picture of Nagel, of course,
and in true more fashion, it's horrible. Oh No. He's a
tall, lanky man. His hair is um wiry, thin, kind of
long. He's kind of got the emo like black hair going to the side,
like Toby Maguire in the Spider Man movie Idre you. Uh, when
he's at work, you can see, like here he's got his big alchemist
smock on with big gloves, and he's got his belt of tools, and
he's got protective goggles that he often wears. He's a bit pale uh no
facial hair, very clean cut guy, and he's in his um like early
thirties, so he's he's not terribly old, and uh, he's a bit
um. You know. He kind of kind of talks like a nasally nasally
voice, you know, kind of nerdy, but you know, he seems
like he wants to, uh, you know, keep things from getting into
more of a disaster. I don't know if you guys read Giant homocidle Maniac
comics in the nineties, but that reminds me of that absolutely job. His
apron is a like a bright red apron, and unlike many people, he
seems to keep himself cleaned on almost an excessive obsessive level. One of the
quirks you probably notice after you work with him for a couple of days.
Okay, okay, who roll the three aden a dean? You're approached by
a noble who you have not seen in the village before. They introduced themselves
one day, perhaps you run into them at the inn, and they introduced
themselves as Jodah Kluffenheim. And she is a somewhat tall woman where's very fine
clothes. You hear rumors that perhaps she is a princess or baroness from a
nearby area. She's definitely not from craven Ford, but she she explains that
she wishes for you to get to the bottom of this goblin infestation. She
is worried that this outbreak is going to reach her nearby duchy and with all
of these, as she puts it, filthy peasants running around, it's only
a matter of time before it gets out of craven Ford and then eventually affects
her and her family. And she is willing to pay you two hundred silver
to get this done. But each day that goes by, she's going to
reduce that by twenty silver until it's solved. And if you're unable to solve
it in that time, she says she'll find someone else understandable, acceptable,
good and Dane would h yeah, I would go for it all right.
She has a big bodyguard who's with her that is helping protect her while she's
traveling. But she will be here in the inn until this is taken care
of. And who rolled the four? That was Hector? Not Hector?
I was Hector in the other game, Henry. Um Okay, you are
approached by a worried, upset peasant who lives here in craven Ford, one
of the countless people that makes up the well less than five hundred souls.
Now after all these terrible things, um. His name is Ergrip Wicket and
um uh uh has already lost a few family members to this. He's worried
for the town. He's obviously a fearful, superstitious religious man, believing this
is the beck lures punishment for everybody sins um. But Uh. He finds
you on patrol one day he begs you to help get to the bottom of
this goblin issue. And he um, he says, I know, I
know that that you're the one that he can get to the bottom of this.
You've been blessed with the Becklures sword, and I know the Deacon looks
down upon you and I can trust you. And he says, I don't
have money, uh with I you know, I don't have anything like that,
But um, I have a U. I have an heirloom of my
family that I would be willing to give to you if you would, if
you can solve all of this. Of course, it would be the best
for the well being of all of us if we could find the source of
this plague and root it out. He says, so good, good,
Um, well, please, I don't want to lose any more of my
family. Uh So yeah. The three of you each are offered jobs of
some sort or to look into this, and unfortunate, unfortunately one of you
is not. So with that in mind, a week and one day has
passed since you return from the dungeon, A whole lot of people have died.
Goblins are running amuck, cursing and infecting the town. Uh. The
richest guy in town has died. Um, and there's apparently a care being
distributed, but there's not enough of it to go around. Unrest it's becoming
a problem. And yeah, it seems the end of the world is vastly
approaching. What do you do, Harbard's gonna go to that wealthy house filled
with weak people. Okay, I'm I'm just kidding. They're probably he's keen
on it. You know, you fill in the room out, you know,
you know right now, I'm just doing a job. So this doesn't
decide my morals. I mean, if you find a better job or something
that'll keep me out of harm's away whatever, Right, you'll find these weak
people with lots of money. We'll say that it. Uh, it's to
a wealthy house that's actually not part of your village. It's out somewhere in
the wilderness, hence the maps. It's kind of in a hidden area.
Um. It's a small house that has its own little like wall around it,
so like some private security. That wall is only probably about maybe five
six feet tall, so it's jumpable, but it's it's a well built stone
wall, and there's like a small fortified house, you know, think like
Empire fortified manner scenery piece for Warhammer. It's kind of like that. Okay,
so not huge, but definitely nice and and well built. But um,
I don't know, but I mean, yeah, I was gonna say,
I don't know if this is derailing, but I'm definitely, yeah,
definitely gonna hit this. Oh you know, you guys can hit it.
Hit it another time. That's that's fine. I'll add that to the notes.
Now that we have it, perhaps we'll go check out the random dungeon
creator. I yeah, so it be fun. Yeah, I guess can
add that to your notes that you guys have that as an option if you
so choose. Okay, um, so did how many days did I work
for that guy? Or am I just constantly doing that out? Well,
at this point, you're just getting started because this, this this whole goblin
thing happens at the end of this like week in a day. Um.
It starts up shortly after the hurricane rips through the town, right, Okay,
Yeah, if you meet up with the other people who survived, and
do you have any do you have any plans or any orders? No,
there's no official orders yet. It seems that there's a lot of chaos and
confusion, and a lot of the guards are scared to even go out on
patrol because of the thread of a goblin curse makes sense, makes sense.
But the four of you could meet up and you know, you guys all
live in the barracks since you're all currently guards, so you would see each
other. You'd probably go on patrol quite often during the week. Would I
be able to pick up a cross bow if you got the money? Sure?
Yeah? Right, yeah, Well it's on the agenda this week,
Chaps Survive, that's the agenda every day. Hill definitely for Orban who's coughing
black lung. Oh, yes, I should probably take care of that.
Um, I need to find a doctor. Well, I mean I work
working for a guy who's like an apothecary. We could take it in.
Oh can we please? It's getting quite severe. Oh yeah, okay,
just don't get too close. Don't get that on me. I don't want
that comment. Where as it put up a cloth to myum. He pretty
much always holds a cloth probably up to his mouth now, you know,
like like he's got the consumption in the old Wild West, you know,
I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just maintaining a six
foot social distancing. I'm sure you'd be funny. He's got a plastic face
shield on. Yeah, uh okay, Well the two of you can go
to the carry. What are the other two doing? We'll assume right now
you guys are at you guys are having breakfast or something one morning at the
barracks, getting ready for your daily patrols or whatever you guys are up to
that day. So you guys may discuss as you see fit. So the
room of the goblins attacking? How do they get up here? Do they
just scrabble up the walls of the mountain or there's some underground tunnels up they're
coming through. Well, yeah, that's a good question. I want to
go on a patrol and steak out. We try to find out, but
that's dangerous because you might get turned into a goblin. Has anyone been attacked
recently that we know? Um? Maybe not personally that you would know,
but why does it? Everybody give me a presence test d R twelve just
got fifteen? Anyone anyone who passed? Uh? Yeah, you have a
lead or a rumor of somebody or someone you heard that you heard through someone
who heard that this person was attacked or something of that nature. So yeah,
you it's like two of you have some sort of lead. You know,
I think I heard a lead about gil Vug, one of the farmers
who has hangs out in the field. I think he got attacked. And
these are two separate leads too, so it's not that you don't both hear
the same one. Was it gil Vug was name? Yeah, I'll make
a note of that in case we need to come back to gil Vug,
gil Vug first farmer, all of it. Uh, this this is the
way the GM folks, I'm just telling you, this is happening. Charts
and procedural dice rolls the love it. Okay, what's our other rumor or
lead? Uh, maybe that there is a like triangulation of like strengthened attacks,
So that would be a good bet to like stick out. Uh.
There seems to be a lot of activity on the southern end of the plateau.
Okay, that seems to be where the attacks first started and where the
majority of them seemed to be coming from. Okay, And now the cat
is playing with a warrior don't know, and now he's my cat likes to
do this thing where he help Paul the mirror in the bathroom, and now
he's doing that to my monitor, weird creature not from this planet. Man,
tell you I know, yeah, or this realm. This guy stregoing
Man, he loves to just sit on the sink in the bathroom upstairs.
And if I come upstairs to use that bathroom and he's not there, it
does not matter where he is in the house, or what he's doing or
how quiet I am, he will come bolting around the corner. So you
can jump up and sit on the sink while I'm in the bathroom with him.
Wow, I have a creep man he is. That's fine. I
mean I'm kind of a creep too, So we get hold on pretty well.
Yeah, the cats hanging out of this world. They help the Aliens
build the pyramids. That's why Egyptians are so crazy about them. Actually makes
a lot of sense. Oh yeah, so those are your two leads that
you have a farmer. How strange. I'd sort of imagined the one of
our victims would have been someone with a vast, brawling basement that could be
infiltrated via tunnels. I mean, I don't know this guilbat guy. He
might have like some kind of weird dungeon basement. Should we check? Yeah,
guys, Yeah, first we want to probably take Norman too, like
the hypothecary, so this doesn't continue, right, I'd rather not die?
Yeah, good call, I mean I agree, all right, I have
that magic sword. If you were, it'd be at your apparel. But
sure, I'm the last of my family line. Why not? Okay,
sound like an upstanding guy that week I've known you. You saw it here,
folks, it's and it's official. It's lower it's lower or what is
it? What is the term they use? Not lower? Um, damn
it, damn it, damn thank you. Okay, So you make your
way to Nagle's apothecary shop, which is, um, probably somewhere in between.
It's near the town square because that's where a lot of like the shops
and things are are located. So it's probably somewhere around there, and it's
probably be close to the mill since his family owns the mill. So um,
it's not a very big shop, but it is nice. You can
tell. There's a little bit of money in here. Rumors as to whether
or not he actually was able to do this himself or it was from his
dad's money, but um, either way, either way, he has this,
uh, this little shop, and so there is a Um there's a
group of people lined up as always, and Nickel is there, and he
is behind the counter and currently dealing with with some customers. Oh this is
the shop. That's a bit of a line, a little popular recently.
Excuse me, everyone, I'm extremely important. Please make way. He well,
take out a silver and flick it on the floor. Okay, roll
me, roll me a presence, and I'll give you an extra plus one
for throwing that. That's clever. I like that. That was a twenty
Okay, that one. I feel like an moment to help here. Uh
yeah, I think it's time. Let's reroll that sucker. Can't be worse
than that, right, oh my god, it almost was. Yes,
Okay, you throw it and like one person runs out of the line after
it, but it seems like, um, nobody wants to lose their place
in line or they're too busy arguing with each other, and uh yeah,
it doesn't have the desired effect. Um okay, well, well, very
well, I suppose I'll wait in line unless I can add more money to
the pile on the floor. Well you could, but um, I don't
know if if ericush here is just gonna like lead you in since he works
here. Kind of yeah, I'll just take a fit like pardon, people,
Come on, I'm here to protect you all from goblins, so I
have to get in here and talk to someone. Yeah when, um,
both of you? Is anybody else with you, guys? Or just the
two of you that went to the show? I mean I didn't stop anyone,
Evin, but I don't know. Did the other two of you go
with or no? I don't know. I felt like we might have been
attempting to mail about the farmer's house. Let's see what what's going on there?
Unless of we don't want to split up, and I don't mind,
Kyle, what are you doing? I think? Um? I think a
Dean would probably venture off to the southern part of the plateau on his own.
Okay, um, a dean and are two players in the shop?
Please give me presence tests all right? It's just not my luck tonight,
man. Wow, yeah, I will I will own that. Yeah.
It's that rolling okay right again? Wow? So cool dice like they're fucking
magnetized man, the way they roll? Yeah, real good. I got
an eight total? Okay, So, um, a Dean, we'll get
back to you in a second. Let's do the shop here really quick.
So you guys get to the apothecary. And when you get there, you
can see Nagle looks a little disheveled and overwhelmed with, you know, all
the people that are here. He sees you, he's like, good's it's
it's out. It's about timing. You got here. Uh, you need
to get these people in order, or gosh, they're they're starting to cause
I'll starts of trouble. We've already got a broken window. All right,
all right, leave it to me. Calm down and also heal my friend.
He looks at over Torbin. Oh goodness, yeah, m hmm okay,
let let me let me see what I have. And he goes back
behind the counter and starts rummaging around. Uh let's see here. What did
it say? Mm hmmm? Uh, Orbin, pick a number between one
and twenty scart you there, Oh, Torment right, sorry, I'm Torment.
Um rolla what I'm sorry? Pick a number between one and twenty one
twenty um um lucky scaven thirteen. He's always a good choice. But not
quite nope. Uh he wrote just through some stuff and uh, you know,
he might give you something that you can try for a couple of silver,
but in the end it does not seem to help. Oh boy,
he's like, try try this, this might this might help. And it
doesn't help. And as you pop off the cork it's a dream. He's
like, oh, by the way, that's that's ten silver very well and
uh he eagerly pockets that money. Yeah. Um, and then I'll,
you know, start doing my job kind of help him corral these people.
Get to strength test dr Dr ten Oh lunkay, okay, easy sixteen.
Yep. You crack your knuckles, roll your shoulders, crack your neck,
and everybody gets back in a nice orderly queue. That's rights, how we
do it. Meanwhile, down in the southern part of the uh the thing,
um, Adan, you are traveling about and uh, what exactly are
you doing? Are you just looking around? Are you talking to people?
What is your approach here? Uh? Yes, Adean would approach people,
but in this that he would try to talk at them, but he doesn't
like being close, so he's basically just shouting at people from across like the
road, like that's a that's as much distance as he needs. Okay,
Yeah, he's he's uh, he's bounding at people about the goblin attacks.
Oh what kind of things are you shouting? Uh? Uh? Where have
you seen goblins? Okay, where are you hurt? All right, So
you awkwardly yell at people for maybe an hour or two, most of them
giving you strange side eye glances in a wide berth, even though they know
you're a guard. It's still awkward. But eventually there is an older woman
who comes by and she she's, you know, kind of wobbling on her
cane, and she kind of raises her voice. She's like, what's that?
What did you see? Goblins? Have you seen? She scratches her
chin for a moment, and she's like, no, but you know,
it's it's it's strange you bring that up. Yeah, no one else seems
to have noticed. But those goblins appeared at a rather peculiar time, it
seems. Uh. I think they started showing up shortly after um after her
Vot Green died. Interesting. Yeah, no one else seems to think so,
but you know, it's something I've noticed. Yeah. I spend a
lot of time just sitting in my living the staring outside the window. You
will be fully conscious when the end comes. What good day to you all
right, bye bye? Uh would uh so? And how long ago was
that? Again? Was that just earlier? Earlier in the week earlier?
And when you when you think about it now, as far as what you've
heard or been told, it does seem to line up, you know,
like within a day or two of of him dying is when the supposed first
goblin sighting attack was reported. Okay, um, we'll go over then to
our final character here, Henry, the champion of craven Ford. You go
to the fields to talk to this farmer and yeah, so you meet this
guy who the fuck was his name, Gil gil Vug And he looks,
well, he looks and sounds very depressed and dejected. You see that he
has a bandaged hand with a dirty bandage, and he is looking rather sweaty,
more so than you would imagine even if he is out working in the
fields. You see him, he's currently moving around wheelbarrow filled with some bales
of hay, moving him from one part of the farm over to you know,
feed some of his his candle. Oh, there he sees you,
and so, you know what, I think this is a good time to
use another one of these fucking charts. Charts hell, yeah, I gotta
find it first, though I know it's here somewhere. Doesn't that one?
Or we're all for disposition? It is murderizing me wrote me twenty six.
Please yep, I know that one. I've seen that chart. M hmm,
that might be a bad number. Ten is ten is good? Okay?
Good? So he he looks up and he says, oh, sir
Henry, Oh can I do for you? Oh? If i'm a is
it at gil ug? I am good. I was told there might have
been an an encouragement of goblins here in the recent past. He sighs heavily
as you guys he's walking, and he says, do you mind if I
work while we talk? No, I don't wish to interrupt, And so
he continues to move the wheelbarrel, and then he you know, turns back
to your question. He says, kind of with a heavy heavy voice,
M yeah, and one of those bastards And he looks down at his bandaged
hand. He kind of like stops for a second. He rubs his palm
with his other hand, and then he goes back to moving the wheelbarrel.
One of those bastards bit me two days ago. It is bad teeth and
chomped on. I was I was cleaning out the barn and I've got at
like a storm cellar down there, and a little bastard was hiding in the
dark. Didn't see him and probably spooked him or he spooked me. And
yeah, and he holds his hand up and you can see that the bandage
looks like it's you know, seeping almost a little bit, and you're not
sure if it's from the wound or through the fact that he's actively using his
hand, maybe he hasn't changed the bandage. And you can see that he
even though you don't know this guy personally, you get the feeling that he
physically looks a little worse for wear than what you imagine he normally would be
more pallid skin, sweating a little bit more, breathing a little bit more
heavily, your hair maybe thinning or very matted down. Stuff like that I
sprung from the undersilla. Then so they there's no, oh, do you
mind if I take a look around? Says no, not at all.
If are you? Are you? I hope you're looking into this. I've
got two kids to take care of, and well I can't afford nagles I
think it's cure. I think you'll be all right. I faced goblins before,
and I'll lift my sleeve up and show the like bandaged arm, which
is entirely unrelated to my goblin combat. But he doesn't know that. He
uh, he gives you a kind of a weak smile, and he says,
we would expect i'theless from one of the bech lures chosen, and he
like does the sign of the Bechlure with his hand, you know, kind
of like you know, like doing the sign of the twin tailed comment or
you know, the sign of the cross, like something like that. Well,
I guess, uh, doing appropriate sort of sign or bower or whatever
is necessary. And oh wait, I've just realized I've forgotten my previous rule.
Well I'm gonna I'm gonna walk towards the barn and try to get out
of the line of sight. Yeah, easy enough to do. Mhmm um.
No, I don't think she'll be mad if I don't use it right
now. I'm gonna use the other's y hander and not the chaos blade because
I don't feel like testing it with against my compulsion at the moment. We'll
come back to that later on there might be nothing in here, so it
won't matter. Yeah, I think I'm gonna inspect the basement. That's all
right. Yeah. You find the doors to the storm celler and you open
it up, and it's just got a simple like latch on the outside.
So if you were inside, probably hard or difficult to open, but on
the outside it's just a simple like a latch. Open that up and you
make your weight down into there. And it looks like a typical you know,
seller that you would imagine. You know, it's probably like a barrel
or two in the corner. There's some shelves down here and some equipment that's
been kind of haphazardly tossed around. You know, it's not the most disorganized
seller, but it's certainly not the cleanest either. You could see how easily
something could be high getting down here, especially if it was smaller. Okay,
that's all kind of look around. See if there's any like now weird
shoot through holes or tracks are strange. Okay, give me a presence test
please, dr ten please? Oh snap, Yes, they need to do.
They need to do like a bad one for the the one year roll
of one. That would be awesome. Too. Okay, well, um,
natural twenty folks crushing it. So Henry, sir, Henry the chosen.
Um, so Henry. What you do, in fact discover is a
little hidy hole where there does seem to be a little nest that she at
this point would understand is what the goblins set up. You don't see anything
currently there. Looks like perhaps it's abandoned at this point. Um, but
you're not sure. You know, maybe maybe the thing could come back.
But um, you definitely find signs that there was at least one goblin down
here at one point. All Right, I don't like that, um because
goblin nests, because I don't. It's brought out under the ground, so
I'd probably don't need to burn it down for no reason like their fungus.
Last all right, Um, yeah, I suppose I'll um exit and see
unless there's any tracks that I can follow from the nest in or out.
Yeah, I would say within that twenty you would you would see something that
would indicate it was recently moved between Okay, so yeah, it probably used
to believe it it's it was probably used as early as or as as recent
as earlier today. Whether or not the thing has left permanently or might come
back. You're not sure. Okay, so like exiting through the uh from
the cellar, out of the barn, or yeah, it's it seems like
it's somehow it's getting out. Yeah okay, uh um, yeah, I
guess is it possible to trace or out through? Like does it just lead
us? I'm sorry to say that again. Um like, uh, there's
no tracks or anything that leads to a particular direction like out to a cliff
or out south or I would need another test for that. To try to
follow a trail or pick one up. Once you leave the you know,
the seller is quite different from being out in the wilderness in presence. Still,
yes, it was a six or sixteen Um. So no, when
you get out here, even with you know, you might see the start
of the trail, but you lose it very quickly. You know, maybe
just a couple of little footsteps or claw marks. Doesn't seem to lead anywhere
in particular. You know, it's it's so short you can't really even tell
which way it's going other than it left the seller. Okay, Well,
really I think I have much else to go off of, so I'll bet
our farmer foil and I think try to meet up with the rest of the
group. Okay, well, we're just about at our end time here,
so I think this is probably a good stopping point. You guys can discuss
your findings next week and decide how you want to go about your investigation.
We'll see if anybody can find a cure for Torbin and if maybe he can
make it to the end or will become another notch on our deaf counter here.
So who knows. I know Eric may have a few more skipped sessions
because of his incoming job change or potential move, so I'm sure we will
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I hope you've enjoyed tonight's episode. Sorry I couldn't kill any characters, but
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halfway over anyway, so it's true. Yeah, I've killed somebody off screen
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