At this point, the remainder of them are going to attempt to flee.
Phedra. You are the only person in position to make a retaliation, would
you all right? Because I murdered everybody around me? Right, you sure
did? But yeah, I will. I will absolutely take a whack.
I love that freggin' Octimer's results are just forever screwed because his name is too
long. Now that's I'm very accomplished. I'm never gonna be able to read
his shit ever again. It's just this bassodian bowl under the thorn diver's damage.
It's fine, just a melee attack. Yeah, and this one's a
retaliation, so you don't get the discount on it, So it will cost
one doom if you want to hit him. Really, yes, is doom
the only thing I can invest to that? And yes, yeah, reactions
are only paid in doom. There are things that can discount certain types of
reactions, usually parry or dodge. Yeah, okay, let's do it.
Although I know you're not gonna pop a fucking sea serpent out of the side
of the mountain. Well, I gotta take some notes for nextension that spend
twelve start the session. I have twelve doom spend twelve doom sea serpent out
the side of the mountain. Excellent. We get to fight it and not
its natural habitat. I got a good feeling about this one. Boys keep
alive, though, I've got one hit point. Are we on dirt or
are we on sand? Because they could be sand babies anyway, Yes,
I will now roll melee if that's okay? Can I spend a fortune in
here too? Yeah? There you go. Two successes plus the one,
so three So three successes you only needed the one, So you have two
extras. Ummm, this is probably the last thing that's gonna happens. So
why would put them on damage? And I would grab the one from the
pool and put that on damage? Chance, do it? Do it?
Okay? Now I'm gonna roll some dice and finally cracked the case of the
Bossonian Archer. It turns out you can deal damage like a motherfucker if you
stop putting momentum in the pool. So you learned the lessons that I learned
a long time ago. Socks is actually suckers, and you should just kill
people dead. That's where I was failing, and all of my previous encounters
that is seven points of damage, which ironically will wound it twice. So
it's laying there on the ground, and you just twirl the staff so that
it did straight vertical and then jam it down into the thing, stirn them
and you hear a a grimace comes over just face. I didn't expect that
much. I didn't think it would be like an egg. The remaining one
fishman flees wildly towards the river, well towards the central corridor and stay out.
But it's there, would fuck it and stay out, all right.
So with the spasming and dying of the last fishman under the powerful strike of
the quarter staff, Nala leads on her spear and she's like, that got
spicy, But I'm glad to see you guys can handle yourselves. Try you're
not too bad yourself. If we wait for dawn, you might be able
to get a better look at the castle. It is often shrouded in fog.
If you want to really scout it, you might have to get closer.
But this is as far as I go. I'll wait for you to
come back. I think we could use a few days before we go ourselves.
As you get she looks up towards where you know, the even darker
spot against the sky where the structure, the unseen structure is, And she's
like, just beware as you climb that hill, listen for the whisper of
leathery wings. Death comes from the skies. All right, So what do
you guys want to do? Do you want to try and go a little
further up to actually see the place? I mean, you can see the
general shape of it in the fog as the sun is starting to rise.
It's kind of backlit. You can't see the structure in detail, but it
does appear to be a large structure, and every so often you can see
what looked like birds flying around, being a recognition, we should probably at
least try and get in detail to see what we can see, to see
if there's any any way we can get up right, I like this idea
before we move, I'd like to treat Octomer's wounds. Thank you, I
bleed here. Let's get to work on that first thing. You sound great,
So you want to roll some dice? Lid love to Oh, I
thought we just said it happened. When it happened, well, we got
to make sure. I don't like make it worse. We could possibly go
wrong. Yeah, so wait, you had an actual harm. I have
one wound. It is not treated. My understanding is if I treat it,
it'll start going away, it'll stop penalizing him. Yeah, yeah,
I assist me. Yeah, sure, if you have the relevant skill,
I do. I got healim all right, So it add one D twenty
for your help. So I'm rolling three dice essentially. Yeah, do you
get any bonus dice for your healing talents? I can reroll a D twenty
when using my healing skill accepting the new result, or if I use medicine
from a healer's bag, each load adds two D twenty's to the healing test
instead of the usual one. Normal limit of three bonus D twenty still applies.
In other words, I can apply a concoction and get a bonus couple
of dice. Yeah, which would give you because you're getting help from call,
that would automatically bring you to five D twenty if you use one of
your healer's bag doses. I think I will in this case. It's just
been that kind of a trip, you know. It will change my stack
to five dice and I'll go ahead. Five successes. Wow, lex Atom
leads on me specifically, specifically him looks on that wounds like some lasers and
out here. All right, so there's not a lot you can devote those
extra successes too, so I imagine you're gonna want to put them in the
pool. Let's do that. Let's get three. That's a good number.
I like that number. All right, Socks, your wound is treated.
Yes, Sphedra expertly binds it with some herbs and some coop cl nicely dabs
the sweat from your forehead. Well, could be worse, I guess all
right, I still want to go back because I'm still short eight of my
ten vigor. But you know, after the fight, your vigor pool and
your resolved pool reef ill as long as you take a five minute rest.
Yeah we can. We can say five minutes, yes, fun. It
took at least that long for Phaser to treat the wounds. So yeah,
you guys are good. All right. Let's press onwards then, all right,
so to the north. As you are going up toward the structure,
it's kind of gravelly slabs of shale and loose rock going up at a decent
pitch. M hm. And from the looks of things, the higher up
you go, the more intense the pitch gets. At some point, as
it disappears into the fog, it looks like it may become a proper climb.
What's the angle we're at right now? Thirty degrees? Forty degrees.
It starts off enough that you have to lean forward, but not enough to
impede you, so probably less than forty five degrees at first. Put that
angle goes up the further up you go. Are you approaching Geordan levels of
angles? Yes? Right now, Okay, it's just for you. Eventually
only your toes will be touching the rocks and your body will be parallel to
the That's not good. I don't like that. I'm sure it's fine deep
I don't think so. But all right, that's just how we climb.
You'll be in a weird world where it looks like you're standing up straight and
everybody else is leaning. They'll be bizarro. But yeah, So, if
you guys want to start making your way up, the structure is pretty massive,
so the vast majority of what's ahead of you is kind of like a
direct route towards the building itself. If you wish to ascend more circuitously,
you're going to have to go. Probably off to the east would be much
easier. Yeah, Ricardo will take a look at the incline and just think
it's probably not a good idea. If we just show up at the front
door. Maybe we want to circle back around, circle around it committed from
a Yeah, maybe Hotter sells a little bit on that on that route.
I have no objection to such a plan. We can try, but wizards
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