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I am Bob Mahogany tonight, we bring you a special report. We have
late breaking information about an ongoing situation developing at the orchard. For more information,
we take you to our field correspondent, Susie Sunday. Good evening.
As you can see behind me, there appears to be some sort of gathering
at the area of the Great Aspen, and over the last minute we have
heard screams in the sounds of clashing weapons. Do any of the reports mention
what started these apparent hostilities? Currently, the most common report is that our
visitor may have desecrated the Great Aspen with day oh. Is this related to
earlier reported rumor of unconscious guests being carried to the dungeon after dinner? We
currently believe so. We have also had reports come in that the leader of
the Orchard, Mike Chef, has transformed into a giant man spider. A
giant man spider, would it be safe to assume it can do whatever a
spider can? At this time we believe so. We have also had reports
of members of the Orchard disappearing, but at this time we cannot confirm.
Thank you Susie for keeping us in the loop. We will check back in
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Today's ice Breaker. If you were a villain, what would your layer
be? What up? It's your boy? Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox,
a human consultant turned halfling bard who holy believes it's better to be lucky than
good, but it's best to be both. If Richard was a villain,
his layer would be a tropical island layer that he also uses as a resort,
so there's people coming and going all the time. He's got a little
what is it called money laundering action going on in that way, and that
way, like the James Bond types can't come and blow up his thing because
there's also innocent by standardsAnd I'm always thinking, I'm just exactly just imagining Richard
Cox with like a shirt that's like half unbuttoned and the song Hustling by Rick
Ross playing in the background. You get Richard. Yeah, it's funny because
I was thinking Kingsman like tropical island. But then you said Scooby Doo movie.
I'm like, twisted, what a weird movie. Hello, I'm like
Taylor Jacobs, a centaur barbarian with a heart of gold. So Taylor's super
villain layer would obviously be marketing solutions. Plus there is so what her like
power would be, or like the power she would influence or impact others with
is instead of saying yes the clients, sometimes she says we'll see what we
can do. Is one of her her lair actions. She presses kolate on
the printer. That's incredible. Hi everyone, I'm Katie and I play Crystal
the Drowdruid with her very own MLM Crystal Clarity. I think that if she
had to pick, I think it would be like a cruise ship similar to
Richard Idea, with like all of her little like it's mandatory that anybody that
works in the company come on the cruise, and so it pays for itself.
That's how she like sustains the layer and takes care of everything. And
also it's probably where all of her little secret recipes are and the not so
organic ingredients that she puts in her essential oils. Yeah, not so organic.
I know. Hey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy and Amanda,
a basic, brough and tumble human fighter with a freshly minted dentistry degree.
I'm gonna have to dig really deep on this one. It would probably into
the cavities, Yeah, probably her mom's basement. Yeah, because it's like,
you know, it's kind of damp down there. It's like dark.
Probably be a good place to you know, host evil villain things. I
mentioned. I'm Tyler. I play the IT paladin known as Bentley, and
Bentley's Layer would be a Windy's so that if anyone showed up. It could
be like, sir, this is a Windy's and then when he inevitably beats
the hero in a fight, he could say, did it hurt Wendy's not
sit your face? I am Alex Capps, your DM or district manager.
And I was also gonna say my mother's basement, because just like the joke
of like the DM, you know he lives in his life. Let's see,
if I had to say something else, I would say wherever would let
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right, so when we last left off, you guys were in the midst
of combat. I don't know why I said mist It was like very early
stages. Yeah, like the first six seconds. Yeah, the first first
round of combat. And really, other than Tyler wetting his pants, nothing
happened. I didn't wet my pants. You don't know that roll perception constitution
Schrodinger's wet pants. We ended with Crystal, who made a bunch of noise
and shocking and uh yeah, Mike Cheff turned and noticed some people heading towards
the tree. So now we go to the top of the order Taylor.
Taylor is going to she's in a rage and she's gonna try and pull his
robes over his face. I should remind you he looks like a giant spider
right now, all of his eyes. She's also giant. Yeah, she's
large, but she doesn't like he's not wearing a robe, like he looks
like a giant. His clothes went away. They kind of morphed into the
body when he changed form. I do want to put cloth over his face.
So it's either like my shirt or the tablecloth, or if I have
robes around, it's that. Okay, I will say I'm trying to block
Richie. Did you get to the robes when we were Oh yeah, yeah,
okay, that's fair enough. And you have a lot of excess material
for yours. So I'm gonna say it wouldn't be too challenging for you to
disrobe and like throw it over his face because it's a horse blanket. So
go ahead and make an attack roll. Do I get advantaged because it was
a good idea because I rolled the nat one dice? Dice? Yeah?
Good? Omen sure here okay, that's a ten plus fifteen or five to
attack fifteen. So fifteen you throw it up and in his semi distracted state,
you manage to get it over like most of his eyes. Okay,
and you hear him go Miss Jacob's dad is just so uncalled for. And
you see is it like two of his spindly legs are trying to grasp at
the at the cloth but it's getting hung up on the hairs around his face.
All right, So Bentley, it is now your turn. All right.
I need you to roll me a wisdom saving throw. I'm sorry,
not a wisdom saving throw, just roll a D twenty sixteen. That is,
you are still scared, like you you kind you kind of like got
come fine? How far away from him? You're about twenty five thirty feet
thirty feet? Okay, I'm going to burn my channel Divinity and use Champions
challenge. I need him to make a wisdom saving throw ooh okay, that
is a twenty three. He definitely passes, so it doesn't matter what it
does. His first role was in that twenty I'm sorry, that's what.
So you got that one out of the way at least. Now I didn't
anything. As you see, he kind of quivers and he goes, oh,
dude, that was a bonus section. Actually, I'm gonna cast a
spell on him. I'm gonna do a compelled duel and I think that's another
wisdom saving thre Let me double check. Okay, that is a sixteen.
Uh he passes again, so I'm done. Okay, so he looks at
he goes, oh, mister Paladin, you're gonna have to try harder than
that, all right. So then we have Amy Ann. Okay, so
set the scene for me. So here's what I'm imagining. So Taylor just
like whipped her robe off and like put it around his neck and JIT trying
to like hold him, and he's struggling a little bit. I still have
hold of one of his arms. I'm going to try and do the same
thing that I saw her try to do, which is on try and grapple
them. Okay, So go ahead and make an impose strength check so that
will be up after not making a confident face. Well, I've got a
really high plus to it. How high at eight total? Okay? He
rolled more than an eight okay. And you see as he he like withdraws
his leg, he goes, now, stop that, that's just uncalled for,
miss amy An. I don't know what you think you're trying to do.
So that was my action. I want to try and talk to him.
Hey, mister chef, this might be a misunderstanding. Can we will
you let us go? Is? Are you mad at us? Are you
trying to kill us? Like? Can we leave? No response immediately?
See, So here's what happens. So she's trying to grapple him, and
he pulls his leg out, looks like he's about to hit her, and
you see, she says, makes this plea to him, and like all
his his wiggling stops and his head still in the blanket, just turns and
looks at amy Ann and and just cocks to the side a little bit,
you know, and it's just like, really, Richard, it is now
your turn. We've come this far all right. So, so Richard,
you are still I guess technically you are back hidden because he can't see you.
Oh fuck yeah, let's go. So Richard, how far away am
I now from the tree and the what's it called the lux me lay Sole?
So I would say if you dash, you would be within thirty feet
of it? Now, yeah, I'm gonna do that. Okay, So
you dash for the lux meleay Sole. Yeah. I'm like, okay,
he's got the things on his eyes and now's my chance. So I'm just
gonna run really fast, all right, but what I think is really fast.
So you do that, and it is now his turn. So Taylor
Jacobs, go ahead and make your opposed strength check because he's going to try
to break free from his head restraint. That's fifteen. One of his claws
finally finds purchase and rips the cloth off of his face. That is enough
of these silly little games. It's time to play my way. And you
see as two of his little spider legs clap together, and you see as
all the sconces in the room go out see and then you both Amyan and
Taylor Jacobs will get an attack of opportunity as he attempts to scurry away twenty
twenty one, twenty one that will hit, so roll damage eight damage.
Okay, what do you do? Just punch him in the eyeball. Yeah,
I'm gonna try to punch him right in one of his eyeballs. I'm
just like picturing it popping. Okay, Well, yeah, you so you
said that, and I was like, well, I'm gonna roll to see
if she hits it in the eyeball. And I rolled a twenty, so
I'm going to say that, Yes, you punch him right in the eye
socket. Okay, okay, And here's he lets out like a little spider
screech as you do in Taylor Jacobs. What did you roll for itat thirteen?
That is not hit? Yeah, and you're I imagine you wouldn't be
too happy about that. But as he scurries off the light, I just
cossed that as he scurries off, the light in the room goes darker and
darker and darker. So Crystal, it's even hard for you to see more
than about fifteen to twenty feet as this darkness that's coming over the room seems
unnaturally so, and it is now your turn, Crystal. I cannot see
mister chef. You cannot see mister chef. You can't see anyone else in
the party, including Richard. So far, yeah, so far. Dang,
my plan is scuppered. That's a good word. Yeah, because I
was going to use fairy fire to light all of the things up, but
he's gone, so I can't. That would have been really clutch right now,
I know. But oh well, Okay, so since there's no attacking
that needs to be done because I literally can't see, I am going to
cast dancing lights to try and get allow people to see at least around them.
Okay. So each of these will shed light in a ten foot radius.
Okay, so I want to know where are you throwing them? Well,
actually, so you have to be able to see where you're throwing them,
So you have to be able to see a location to target it.
Okay, so I can see twenty feet out. Yeah, So are you
gonna basically put them at the edge of your vision in like four directions?
Yeah, pretty much. Okay, so you're gonna expand your radius another ten
feet just on the edge of your vision, you see, like the rear
end of a horse. Okay, guess who's but that is Crystal. Important
note, as a bonus action on your turn, you can move the lights
up to sixty feet, so basically every turn you can use your bonus action
to keep your lights like around you so you can see. Oh that's super
helpful. I'm gonna use my movement speed I guess to walk towards the horse's
rear end that I see. Okay, Hey Taylor, why did you guys
go after what's his face? Mister chef? So what I'm gonna say is
you move the lights in there and you walk towards her so you can see
Amy Ann, you can see Taylor, and both of you can see just
barely like each other because of her lights. Gosh, it's so dark in
here. Oh my gosh, are they okay? Well I can't. I
can barely see. Can you see Crystal? Yeah? It does? Anybody
else have a torch or something? You I'm literally lighting this room up.
That's a good points. I didn't mean to doubt you. Thank you so
much. You're welcome. At the end of Crystal's turn, you guys,
hear just outside of your range of vision, like and you almost feel like
the wind blow by you. You hear the little skittering like spiders in the
darkness. No, and I need the three of you to make a wisdom
saving throw three fifteen ten. Okay, so both Amy and and Crystal fail.
Taylor Jacobs, you you get like that eerie feeling down your back,
but you're like, keep it together. I'm gonna beat the shit out of
this dude, and then the but the other of you kind of cringing,
and you do not. You now have the frightened condition and you, guys,
hear out of the darkness fear. How I savor it like a fine
wine age to perfection. He's just trying to freak us out. Guys,
you brave souls have walked right into my web of terror? Do you feel
it that creeping dread? I think you're just describing a cult gnawing at the
edges of your mind like a serpent coiled to strike. Don't listen to him.
I was fine until you got creepy, and now I don't like you.
We we could have been friends. Dude, You scared her. Look
what you did. I know. Why can you see where this voice is
coming from? You know, kind of echoing from all directions. Look dude,
I respect the hustle, but like, can you just can we just
leave? Like, I don't understand. I was gonna join. Why are
you o? No? No, no, no, there's no there's no
leaving you see, my dear adventurous I didn't want to leave. Fear is
not just a feeling. It is my sustenance, my lifeblood. I feed
on your ever shiver. You're racing heartbeats and desperate cries of your dreams.
With every gasp of terror, I go stronger and you weaker. You are
not afraid of make me a perception check with disadvantage. Did we end up
in scream? Is that what happened? Or we in some sort of or
like the shining? Okay, so with an eight, you think the voice
is coming from like five feet behind you and it is now your turn.
I think she's gonna take out her great sword and try and hit that area
with it, and she's gonna tell Amy Ann and Crystal to make a run
for the tree. So make your weapon attack twenty four who finally hits roll
for damage? All right, two D six fourteen. So you swing your
sword into the darkness where it sounds like the voice is coming from and you
make solid contact. Yeah, but something doesn't feel right. Oh no,
is it? Bentleys? And as you as you draw the blade back in,
you see what appears to be Richard. How did he get behind us?
Bloodied, like bleeding out and looking up at you with like a dead
look in his eyes. He collapses to the ground. Don't worry, guys,
it's not Richard was nearer the tree than he was to us. Keep
going and keep running to the tree. Okay, okay, okay, all
right, if that's how you want to play it, that's fine. You
see is it dissipates? Uh? Oh, good call, good call.
I have good special awareness. I'm part of wait my oh no, I
think I leave one of my lights over by Taylor when I'm walking to the
tree that way. Yeah, so Bentley, it is now your turn.
Roll me a D twenty five. That is not a pass. But now
technically you can't see it, so you don't know that you're you're not knowingly
moving towards it. So what do you do? You're surrounded by darkness,
you hear what sounds like the rest of your party in the distance. I'm
going to use a bonus action and burn divine sense to good idea of this,
oh to see if he What you would determine is that it is because
of the type of darkness this is. You don't know its exact location,
but you would know that it is generally across the room. Since you've done
that, now you cannot advance any closer to your party because you know where
it is. Roughly, you played yourself. Really, hey, guys,
he's approximately that way and the bracelet the bracelet does bracelets where the tree.
If I'm perpendicular to the tree, he's approximately fifty at the front of the
room. Is he left to right at the tree? A DM? Is
he left right at the tree? Based off of my approximation of make me
an intelligence check fifteen, if you are standing at the tree, Bentley is
to the left, like if you're facing a like, you're at the tree
facing towards the way you guys came in, Bentley's to the left of Okay,
so then Bentley's to the right and he would be towards the left for
now. Okay, Yeah, that Manley passes all that information to you and
exactly that same right. No stage, No, you see as well,
you don't see, but you hear as he calls, I can't run towards
him? Can I run towards the tree? You cannot make any closer movement
to him because you now know where he is, or you have a perception
of where he run circular staying the same distance away from him. So you're
going on an arc towards the tree. That's fine. So at the end
of your turn, and I'll do a dash to get there. Okay.
Nice. So you're making a lot of noise and at the end of at
the end of your turn, you hear as he says, hmm, that's
no fun, now, is it. I need you to make a wisdom
saving throw please. That's a twenty seventeen plus numbers. Nice? Fucked?
Well, that's no, that's really good because he was casting fantastical killer that
would have been fun. Sucks. Yeah yeah yeah. Okay, so that
was not shot way, So that was that you not to mister chef by
the way, Oh you're so dying. No no, no, so Amyen,
it is now your turn. Okay, I'm trying to run towards the
tree and I'm gonna try and climb up the tree. So if you dash,
I would say, you just would make it to the tree. No
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So I'm gonna need you to make two rolls. Make me a either
athletics or acrobatics check first. Actually, that athletics check needs to be disadvantaged
because you're blind like you had you can't see it's dark. That first one
was a fifteen total and this one is better. So fifteen okay, so
fifteen. I need Richard to make a deck saving throw. Okay, start
saving throw is a nineteen okay perfect. So so you're running through the darkness,
she just runs over him, and you, like you just a split
second before you see him, You like, just hurdle Richard, and Richard's
like, here's you and just see him like you you just notice him like
as you get when you're within my five feet. Yeah, you're you're like
like hands hands distance from him. You're like you just managed to pull off
a hurdle. Okay, now I need you to make another athletics Well,
can I say, Can I say, since I ran into Richard, does
that make me any less scared? Like I'm not running for my life?
Is it more like? Ah? No? No, you're that's it.
So we'll do that at the end of your turn to do what there's an
action for that? Oh okay, okay, So I need you to make
another one, either athletics or acrobatics, your choice. Okay, do nineteen
okay, perfect. So you manage to skid to a stop right as you
get to the tree. Okay. Okay, so you don't run into the
tree, and you like, you touch the tree and you're like something about
it. Just it feels nice, and go ahead and make a wisdom check
or not a wisdom check, roll a D twenty ten. Okay. You're
still scared though, all right. So at the end, can I holler
at Richard, Richard, we gotta get out here. It's very scary,
all right. So at the end of your turn, it sounds eerily quiet
in the room, and then we go to Richard having it be super dark,
and then not knowing quite exactly who just jumped over him, but knowing
someone just jumped over him, he's going to pull out his phone and turn
on his flashlight. Ah, okay, So we're gonna say this is slender
Man rules. So you've got like one beam. It gives you about fifteen
foot where you can see. So as you turn it on and you point
it like towards what you thinks the tree you see amy and like panting,
like holding the tree, like the tree. I'm gonna go in that direction.
Can I make it to the tree in my full movement? I'll say
you can. Okay, So make it to the tree. How far up
into the tree is the U is the light bulb? Just I mean,
just do it. That's I'm trying to figure out how far So she's gonna
be about thirty feet up? Thirty feet up? Okay, well, it
would certainly take me a while even if I was climbing it. All right,
It doesn't take any movement to turn around into the circle. So Richard's
just gonna turn around in a circle with the flashlight pointing out to see you
know, within that like fifteen foot whatever radius, if he can see anything
else. So you don't see anything else, okay, He's just gonna shout
out into the void, Taylor, we're over here. Come to the sound
of my voice, like I believe in you. You can throw me up.
I can't quite reach it. And and through that He's gonna use his
bonus action to give her bartic inspiration, a motivation speaking a right. Yes.
So as soon as you say that, almost exactly the same message comes
to you, Taylor. No, I'm over here. Now. I need
you to make a that's going to be wisdom saving throw, or we'll say
insight to determine which one you think is actually Richard as a fourteen. Okay,
so with a fourteen, I'll say, you hear the second one,
but you got there was some kind of warm, fuzzy feeling you got with
the first one, and you think that was the one you should listen to.
So let's see. That was the end of Richard's turn. So now
it is his turn, and you see, let's see you well, actually
you don't see anything. I need Crystal to make a constitution saving throw.
Okay, hold on, let's see. Oh shit, what does that mean,
Alex, don't say that he quitted on a rass No, eighteen,
You just you were about to take twenty one points of psychic damage. That
would have been I would have been unconscious. Yeah, that's why, because
I was like, it was like, well forty six things, I don't
have any and then I rolled all like three sixes in a three and I
was like, I'm about to knuke her. Thank god. Oh yeah,
no, you rolled at the end of your turn. That's right. Yeah.
So and you hear this like chilling voice in your head, Crystal says,
give in to the darkness. How that was her defense? She's just
like, how I want to I was all on board with this this entire
time. I don't understand. Then, Richard and amy Ann, you get
a creepy feeling. Both of you make perception checks and we see each other.
Yeah, yeah, y'all can see each other. Oh, thank god,
Richard, that's an eleven. Okay, I got a six. Okay,
So you guys don't see what's about to happen. Okay. So unfortunately,
both of them attacking amy An rolled like single digits. Both and the
other two attacking Richard both crited four. Richard, don't worry, they're not.
This isn't. This isn't Mike. So as you guys watch, you
see as it appears that the darkness itself is attacking you, almost like in
a humanoid made of darkness and spoopy. You're gonna Richard, You're gonna take
So it kind of lashes out and amy Ann just kind of obliviously, like
like just moves and it misses. Uh, Richard, you're gonna take five
points of necrotic and then the second attack is an they're five points of necrotic
damage. As you get like you get like double tapped by two shadow people.
Oh my god, Richard, Okay, yeah, I'm fine, I'm
fine. Do you know it's shadow people? Did we so after they hit
him, he would see they had advantage because you guys couldn't see them.
What do they look like? Okay, shadows, you're gonna answer? Shadows
are we? Are we scared of them? Is that? Are they the
cause of her an eyes fear? They're not, as Mike laughs. In
the distance, he goes, let my shadows deal with him. Uh,
it is now Crystal's turn. So Crystal is going to expand her lights out
towards the tree. Okay, even with her night vision, she still can't
see him, right, Like, I could go to the tree, or
I could go towards Taylor. I guess yeah, I could could. Taylor
told you to run to the tree, though, didn't she? And you're
scared? Yeah, which means I probably won't be listening to do Yeah,
it's like when you're a live card and the person clings to you. Yeah,
I can't say both of us if you're drowning me. Yeah, that's
exactly what Chrystal's gonna do. And she's gonna run towards Taylor Jacobs instead in
the dark. No, there's a cherry light near her. And also Crystal
can see so like, I mean, Taylor, because Taylor's got to sword
out find right, she gets it. That's gonna be fun. On Taylor's
turn, I know. I'm like, so speaking of, she'll have to
go back to the ragers. So that's that's Crystal's turn. Taylors Crystal in
the process of okay, in the process of moving towards Taylor, she expands
her lights out pretty quickly out into the direction of Taylor. Does she see
anything? So she sees, I mean she sees Taylor, and Taylor kind
of lights up a little bit. I mean, you don't there's it's just
it's the room that you were in before. You don't see. But you
don't see Mike. Okay, but that's thirteen. You're still scared. So
it's going to run up to Taylor and like hug Okay, So she brought
the lights. I'm gonna say Taylor does not have disadvantage, but I need
Taylor to make a perception. Are you talking to her though, Like,
yeah, I am so scared or something. Yeah, Taylor is talking to
or Crystal is talking to Taylor. I gets confused, just like you're not
actually not perception. This would be wisdom or insight to see if you think
this is another one of the things come up. Yeah, that's a sex
Oh cool, do we have any like you do? Actually go ahead and
roll it? Yeah, I don't want to. And Crystal is running at
Taylor screaming. Yeah. So so something comes screaming out of the darkness,
and Taylor Jacobs spins around like one eight with her sword seventeen you see,
you see the look of fear in her eyes, and you're like, nope,
that's her. You You bring your sword like stopped like right before,
right before you get to her. Okay, she's gonna like pat her basically
okay, comforting, way all right, And then Taylor Jacob's what are you
doing? All right, I'm gonna toss Crystal up behind me and take off
toward the tree. Okay, fair enough, So we will say you get
about. We'll say you get three quarters of the way there, okay,
and then we go to so at the end of Taylor's turn, let's see
and Bentley, when we're almost there, she's just gonna be like, keep
talking to each other so we can find each other like echo location. With
that and the lights, do you follow Taylor as Taylor is running, Bentley,
I need you to make a constitution saving throw. That was fourteen.
That is not that is not pass Bentley. You take nineteen points of psychic
damage. Wow, and goodness, and you you hear just out of the
darkness, your fear is my sustenance, Bentley, and you hear the skittering
of what sounds to be hundreds of tiny little spiders crawling all around your feet.
It is now your turn. Yes, I'm going to roll fear.
Okay, that's ten. Bentley is going to He's pretty scared and hasn't been
able to do anythings the deems dickhead. Finley's just gonna start praying to his
deity that he doesn't know much about in this world. It's gonna be like
he's having the Foxhall moment. Yeah, Yeah, he's gonna he's gonna do
the fox the moment, he's gonna pray to Talos, who's totally not owned
by the fest stuff. He's gonna pray to Tallos. He'd be like,
tell us, be with me, a tellus chemistry. I'll devote my life
to you if you help me get through this, So make me a religion
check it's a plus zero is a twelfth a twelve. So you hear this
faint voice in the back of your mind. You owe me one and your
sword. The lights and flame cool, and you can now see about fifteen
feet in all directions. Do I feel like a badass? You feel you
feel pretty badass. But fifteen feet in front of you and about five feet
from the people at the tree, you see Mike Shit in his spindly spidery
glory. Can I run towards him and attack him? The Uh, you're
still feared? Gotcha? Hey, guys, I see him. He's where
did you say? Fifteen feet? So, so what I would say is,
because you're like you're that, I can't run fire you, guys,
like all of you in the darkness, you see like an orange light in
the distance, and you see the outline of what appears to be a giant
spider like between you and the fire holy ship. Oh my god, climb
the tree? Do I do? I still have an action after the prayer?
Uh yeah, I'm gonna burn my fifteen points lay on hands to uh
give me that fifteen h okay, that makes sense, and then we go
to Amyen. Okay, okay, we gotta climb the tree. Richard,
get on my back. Why don't you just throw in You're not here,
You're you're so you're throwing Richard on? So what do you so? Meta
game? What are we trying to do. We're trying to get to the
like of melee thing that's in the tree thirty feet up that you know where
it is? Yeah, okay, but we're still in the dark, in
the dark, and we can't see anything, and I'm frightened of what exactly
the spider. I'm freighting of the spider. Yeah, okay, okay,
yeah, Richard, you get on my back. Let's climb up here.
I can't see to throw you umm in the moment, Richards just as all
right, I mean I can't throw you, So I'm going to say you
climbing on her back is easy enough. And since y'all are right, back
to back in the initiative order. Y'all are going to take your turn together.
Okay, okay, so you climb on her back. I'm just going
to try to climb and you're trying to climb the tree. Yeah, so
I need you to make me an athletics check to climb the tree. Okay,
that's good. Twenty one. Yeah, that's successful. How should I
do out day? What's your A C? What is my icy? It
is fourteen? Okay, so that's three hits from attacks of opportunity. Oh
from the goat. From the you take five necrotic Oh two more ooh and
then seven as these like shadowy tendrils like lash out at you as you try
to climb the tree. But I will say, what your movement speeds thirty
feet, I'm going to say, he's small, so you're not encumbering her.
You make it halfway up the tree to the light bulb. Okay,
Now, Richard, you could try to make it further, and I would
say, because your small stature, even though your movement speeds lower, I
would say, if you try to, you'll make it to the light bulb.
I'm going to try to your successful to it. Yeah, I'm going
to try to. Can you see, I mean, we can't see anything
that was the whole thing? Figure out what the thing is I'm trying to.
Actually, I'm going to use a bad omen you've already decided to try.
Yeah, okay, so you roll with disadvantage. Okay, but what
am I rolling? That will be? Either athletics or acrobatics. Can you
give yourself particle inspiration? I don't think you can give your self inspiration,
but because everything we've done so far has been movement. And I do now
have my You do have your cell phone. I do have my cell phone,
which we've established is my arcane focus. All right, I have a
spell that I want to use now that I have my Alex. What is
an arcane focus? An arcane focus is the thing that allows you to cast
spells without the required components. What are components? Components are the necessary ingredients
for you to cast a spell. It's like flour in a brownie recipe.
That is such a good example. Oh my god, Yeah, you're such
a good teacher. Okay, what am I doing again? I'm making a
wet check. Either athletics or acrobatics? Okay? And what spell are you
trying to cast. I'm trying to cast enhanceability. Okay, so that would
be either Basically, you need to decide either decks or strength. I'm assuming
you want decks, that is correct. Okay, I'm doing decks. So
I'm basically just canceling out the disadvantage. Okay, I'm burning a spell slot
to cancel out the disadvantage. All right, nice? And then I rolled
a twenty three. So you basically jump off of her shoulders and climb the
rest of the way up, and you feel like as you're going, you're
like, I think I'm close. I think I'm close. And when you
reach up for that next hand hold, you feel the looks me lay solely.
What does it feel like? Does it do anything? I just feel
something smooth. Finally, after this rough tree bark, I'm like, oh,
thank God, and of our sponsors, nothing happens. I didn't think
anything would happen. Then yeah, oh, I just needed to get there.
And you hear a voice in the back of your mind, go do
you think that will help you? It doesn't need to help me. I
just need to have it, all right, So now it is his turn,
Amy ann Yo, I'm on the tree I'm on the tree, bitch.
Yeah, try some trick. I need you to make a wisdom saving
throw seventeen. Oh okay, all right, okay, you pass. So
I told you, bitch, she's smart and in a tree. Wow,
the tree helped. He's like, come on, like, really, you
guys are no fun. You're very unpleasant as well for a cult leader.
You're not very charming. But you will notice the sounds of what it appears
to be things trying to climb the tree behind you. A gratitude today keeps
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