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the Night Shift, What about Last conversations was about I'd asked him about time
travel? My my wife died. He gets back and I asked him about
time travel and he kind of laughed, And apparently any wizard who's ever done
anything with time travel, it's had to be you can jump back sixty seconds
or something like that. Any further than that and they just disappear into the
ether. They never come back. Cat scripts, get the gold. My
souls already sold. Swim you try to do smell, I wish you well.
Never creature runs your streets. You do better to retreat if you want
it done right. Don't hurt The night Shaft house is pretty sick and like
you can, it's pretty fort fire, sir, true rich, I reckon.
You might need to grab your sword. I'm willing to do that,
um, because it's gonna be a lot of people. Yeah, well,
sure you can take the back way out. Yeah, it's the front way
and the backway thought our carriage. We can try the back way, but
if it comes down to it. We might be fighting our way out.
Your help. I have uh, yeah, I have horses. Could you
to us for us gape? You can have them? Clearly, Alexandator trusted
you, so I do as well. Do you have any other ones that
could be helpful? What? No, he was the wand collector. M
hmmm. Any uh? What happened to his five They weren't found on his
body? M hmm? Anything else? Information relics, all right, don't
think so. I think of something else. Jay strong, gay man.
He like rests his head on your shoulder. Yeah, and I hugs you
a little longer than you intended, kind of kind of patch on the Okay,
okay, I'm like the coffee was great, by the way. Oh
yeah, that's really nice, really nice for the people at the front gate.
And try and buy you a little bit of time. Thank you.
I get it. I don't time, you know, we just spent all
these it buy you time by like a boy you Likedamn. Okay, Um,
let's go until we meet again. And he literally sprints out in his
pajamas with bead alone the love it back door. Yeah, you head to
the back door. Um, you see the stables as you leave out the
back of the house. Um, you're obviously stole in the estate. So
are we grabbing horses at the plant? Yes? Yeah, let's make escape.
Yeah, there's not no covered carriage. Who's a good horsemanship? I
would imagine that I would be pretty darned good on the horse. I'm gonna
hop onto you. Yeah, sounds good. Three horses though, yes,
yeah? What about Bill, Bill and Jeffer on the carriage? Oh shit,
they're still on the carriage. They never came into the house with us.
Was an out front, it was under like the cardboard. If he'll
never came inside'll never came inside? Were wea he's good? Yeah, I
mean he's not known to re with us. We'll send him a message.
We'll send him a message. I guess we have to. Wow, it
feels bad. I want to go back to falcon I like that move to
the Ultimately, I want to go back to Bond City. I feel like
it's kind of a great seed. How long we just need to get out
of here right now? But I do agree with that it would be several
days. I do agree with that eventual point where can we go to get
right now? Go back to the ker residence. It is probably where we
need to go to do. What What are we going to do that to
rest plan on next play? We've already been thinking about how to happen.
I want to go figure out how I got the dagger of yakback shit on
my silver lad like a shower before we go on another technical that's not our
fault. Technically cleans you, but it doesn't feel as good as I showered
it. Okay, fine, okay, So you just want to go right
now? City days away? Yes? Yeah, I mean I'll go camp
out. Okay, sure, what else are we going to do? Do
you have any other idea to go ahead to figure out what the planet means?
Are we telling you there's nothing else to investigate? Can we leave some
kind of message for for Bill? Let him know if that's where we're headed
to the Bone City so he can meet us. Is there like it?
But is there like a guild of astronomers or anything? I would say not
as far as you know. Okay, um, okay, yeah, I
don't like going without. If we're going to Falcon I don't like going without.
Why don't we go back to the con State? Bill, I'm gonna
have to kill Bill, You guys are way too He has the vampire bat,
though I'm at least getting the vampire bat from him another time. We're
never gonna see him again if we leave him right now. We have a
message Heartbrook. He's gonna think we deserted him. We'll send a message to
him. Guys, we're not gonna be able to go. We had to
go through is a what a checkpoint? With the carriages? How are we
gonna get out? We're not gonna be able to get out of here on
horses either, though we're gonna have to. In fact, we should probably
We're doing a lot of talking. I'm hearing some fighting back there, like
we should probably go. Yeah, let's go. I'm saying, do you
want to go out of dragons? We can't get out of ra We're gonna
get past the guards. It's easy to get out of dragons is to get
in it. But surely at your house we could like daylight one of our
great plans and everything, and we could like, great, we've done a
catering thing. We've done. I don't know. We could be like,
um, we've done the circus thing. I think already, Um, what
would it look like to get around to the cardboard area where the carriage is,
Like I have to circumvent half the house or so, but yeah,
you could do that. Let's think it is still daylight. We were still
scene turned into a bird, and the time you spent with Trowbridge, I
think counts as a short rest, so like you've you've had some rests during
that time. Um, yeah, what's the plan? I think we you
can hear swords clashman at this point. I think we go to Kestrel's Lalo,
wait till it gets dark, and then we leave the city at night.
Second, Head's a bone city. Second, it so moose to that
is because you guys want to use the shower. No, no, it
makes the most sense. If it's still daylight and everyone's still looking for us.
We can't really hide because we're on horses, so they're going to see
us. It's going to be more of a risk to go back to the
estate traveling within dragon Spear. Right, know you realize that, right,
did you re Minder? Right? Actually, yep, it has been pretty
hot wherever we've been. All right, let's ride, let's go then,
I know, but I want to go get the vampire bamnay fuck, So
what's the plan. We're going to go back to the sewers and go back
the way we came. Okay, so you're riding for the drags, get
back into the sewers, and exit out towards the lake the poison. Well,
I mean, as far as our knowledge of city, we're not gonna
be able to just like hoof it past the guards blocking the exits right,
feels like a big assumption. Okay, okay, knowing what's kind of what's
going on internally, man, I'm gonna miss it, shower. So you
start riding. Um, and when we get out the back gate, uh,
everybody roll initiatives. Mm hm oh what have time for that to come
up? Freaking I'm just going last about that. I love about seventeen three.
Three is not very three is not very good. Oh I'm sorry.
It's one m M it's a one kay hantro twenty oh very nice. Um,
you do still roll to Cody, because then you can make the decision
as to whether you want to take that last spot or go first. Six
And I will take the last spot, and I am armed with the snail
flail. Oh yeah, do not put Bill in there. All right,
Yeah, Timbo's last, even though at last is a one. All right,
So what's gonna happen is as soon as you exit that back gate,
Um, you guys, hear bolts and arrows fly over your head, none
of them particularly close. Um, but that is the immediate thing that you
hear. H Tom, you go first, yes, so tell me what
what what I see? Why don't you make a check perception check, which
obviously does not count as your action sixteen sixteen. So what you can see
is if there are people camped out on either side of the road, behind
barrels and crates, within stores, pointing their bows and stuff out of the
windows. They've they've kind of camped out. They're aware that you're coming.
It was possible you'd come this way firing arrows and bolts. You've got some
people with spears as well, and as soon as they saw you, they
took shots and some of them did, none of them particularly close. But
it looks like it's that way in both directions as well. So you can
go left, you can go right, but you can see immediately there's people
planted. Hard to tell how many are there? Do our immediate left and
right are there? Any stalls or wagons or barrels or anything of the sorts.
Barrels, we can stipulate you you're you're on like a a commercial street.
Um, so definitely let's say barrels and maybe something like boxes, but
not like big foodstalls or wait, we're mounted. You are mounted, That
is correct. You're on a horse with me. Yeah. Um, so
one side doesn't look particularly less populated than another. I don't think with that,
Jack, I'm I'm gonna tell you how many like, yeah, which
which side is more heavily fortified? I'll um, you know, I'm gripping
Timbo's waist, so I'll just whisper in his ear like damn fly, we
gotta ride left. I don't just that way that way, like just just
go, but I'm gonna do herrow touch where he gets the plus four hp
at the beginning of every four timp HB at the beginning of every turn,
which does not stack. Remember, yes, there's places, and he's also
fearless, so no flames or anything. Yes, um, Timbo, I
mean yeah, I guess let's just fucking ride all right, castroll. She
wants so badly to use the crown again. Um. Every turn is going
to be lindsay thinking about do I need to roll a perception to see what
I see? I think you can if you want, Yes, Okay,
Um, that's thirteen the thirteen. I think you hear the arrows um,
and you see some people fairly close to you, a handful on either side
who are similarly camped out behind barrels or crates or within stores. There's one
that's on top up of this store, sort of pointing his crossbow down at
you. Okay, what a jerk. Umm. I really want to use
it, but I don't know if I want to save it for something else.
I gave it to you to use it, I know. But um,
I want to cast a spell called blunder crap bunk. Yes, I'm
okay. What does tell me what you think? So in my vision of
the spell, I see that like, anybody within the range of what the
normal thunderclap spell would be, which is creative burst of thunder sound which can
be heard one hundred feet away, must make a constitution saving throw or take
one D six thunder damage. So I would think that everybody within one hundred
feet like could make a blunder and mis hitting us or like whatever, like
they stubbed their toe, break a bow and arrow, etc. To me,
that's pretty good. Lunder clap one guy just like trips and falls off
the roof. Oh, let's do it this way. You do have to
do the spell slot when you cast a spell, right, Um, what's
what level are you casting a spell? Out? It's a level two spell,
So you're gonna cast it a level two? Oh no, no,
it's a level zero. What it's a can't trip? Yea, so it's
not a spell slot, it's can't trip. Oh I see, but it's
damage increases as you level Yes, okay, M we're gonna do it this
way. Um, they every single one of them, about one hundred feet
are gonna have disadvantage on their attack just to start with. Um, and
then I think they're gonna make a certain number of them are gonna make saves
as to how bad babel under Um in this case, I'm thinking like a
wisdom save. That sound fair. They're not wise enough to know you shouldn't
lean that far over the roof the crossbow. Um, though you they can't
trip, can't trip, can't trip if you didn't have a thing already out
on Um, that one. That one took a minute for me. Um,
so we're gonna say one die ten of them. Only one of them
blunders, but he blunders. Hart falls off the roof of the of the
store, doing eleven points of damage. He falls off, and as he's
trying to pull his hands out and stop himself, his finger pulls the trigger
off his crossbow into his own neck. Yeah, well he's dead before he
hits the ground. I mean it's okay, magic, it'd be like that
sometimes, all right, and they are all going to have disadvantage on their
attacks. Okay, sous, you're right, all right, I'm not done.
Okay, what else? Um? I stand out and I kind of
address whoever is there, like everybody, and I hold my hands up and
I say, people or fighters or mercenaries of Dragon Spear, please listen to
what I'm about to say. My name is Kestril Corocus, and I and
my companions had nothing to do with senatora off Iron's death. We're trying to
figure out who did it. And you can ask both of his dear friends.
They can tell you that they believe us. Please let us figure out
what happened, and if anyone is like a time travel expert or planetary expert.
That would be great, but seriously, don't make us fight you.
That's not what we're here for. We seriously mean no harm. And that
honestly, that was a blunder. Make a persuasion, Yeah, persuasion check.
I was trying to decide. All right, all right, that is
a see oh my god, that's a nineteen Okay. You hear some like
murmurs um, and you see at least one person like lower their crossbow.
Um. Doesn't have the same effect on everyone. Like you hear one guy
go like, we don't care off, we're here for the money. Um.
But but several of them are thinking about what you said. Is that
up? Um? For the record, you said you stood up and put
your hands out, animal hands. You know. I think it's also a
bold move with like a bunch of crossbows. Same day. Yeah, I
don't lower my hands. I uh, I put my life in theirs.
I'm gonna whisper tim Bozzi. Why is she te bozy? All right?
Come on, yes, that's it. Okay. Do you flee like you're
on a horse. Do you ride the horse in the direction that they are
riding the horse? No, I'm staying there. Wow, no bad guys,
castro your call. Do you want me to roll one attack all the
bad guys at disadvantage or do you want made to roll a series of attacks
all at disadvantage for the bad guys? Oh my god, I don't know.
So it's like all or nothing or oh nothing? O god? Oh
tough break? Um? Oh not for like, it was a thirteen for
both roles, So it's like a thirteen. But that means the attack is
a fifteen. So here's what we're gonna do. Each of you is gonna
take four attacks. If a fifteen is below your AC all four mess?
Does anybody have an AC above fifteen? No? No, fourteen? So
close? All right? So in all cases, then they're gonna hit hailstorm
of bolts, arrows, and spears fly at you. Oh boy, Now,
okay, I'll tell you that was half as many as was coming.
So your performance check there or your persuasion check certainly took a few notches off.
Cool um, all right, cool story, broke damage coming, Yeah,
do your worst, just egg them on. Maybe not worst? All
right? Everybody ready, Yeah, sixteen points of damage across the board,
So each each sixteen points of damage each person. No, each person takes
sixteen points of damage. Sorry, it's still not good. So Attilious,
how are you doing? So why did that? How did that happen?
What do you mean how? I don't understand if it was so you were
rolling as like the whole crowd everybody to attack all of us. Correct.
So that's why, because I could have done any dice ad advantage disadvantage and
it would have piecemealed it. In this case, it was like they were
all going to hit you, or they were like with the same attack where
they were all spell. It was very high risk, high reward in this
case high risk. Hallucinator been great, I'm dead. Yeah, I'm dead.
So you gotta see Attilius take um every four arrows and unlike some of
you, where you take them, you know as a as a graze.
Um? Sorry continue? What them? What? What? Nothing doesn't matter,
doesn't matter. No, because the times that right cutting words, it
should have cutting words your attach as a reaction yeah or no. This just
says oh yeah as a reaction, yeah yeah, I think you can still
take your reaction. But it says that I can't know the result when I
choose to use cutting words. Be gaming. It pretty hard for me to
go back and cutting words are attached down to where then it doesn't hit it.
In this case, I also looped. Uh what sixteen attacks all at
once? So like, I'm certainly willing to fudge the role a little bit
there because I also did. So you're cool. Do you want to use
it now? Yeah? Okay, I'll tell you this goes slack on top
of his horse. Oh you both do. Yeah, you both go slack.
When your horse goes uh uh sort of slumped forward or sideways, you're
still on the horse. I think let's roll one to twentie. Why not
just straight rolls three? Tin Tin Attilius pitches forward on his horse, and
you can see that his foot is like caught in the stirrup, so he's
kind of sideways, but he's still on the horse. Um. In a
way, it might work to his venge a little bit because he's only he's
sort of slid into the opposite side. Uh. Tom is behind someone who
was behind Timbo timbo um, Timbo. I think what you feel is like
Tom's hands just slide off your waist as he drops off the horse, m
hm um, and you leave him behind, all right? Good. Uh,
Attilius, that's it, death save, death save. So remember when
you're unconscious, you're gonna make death saves on your turn at the end of
your turn. If you make one death save and it's a or if every
time you make a death save, it can be a death save, or
it can be a life Yeah. Um, if it's below ten, it's
a death mark and you only get three of those. If it's above ten,
then um, it's a life mark and you are one step closer to
stabilization. You need three of those. If you roll a twenty, it's
two of those. Actually, I think if it's twenty, you pick up
automatically like you're stable automatically. If it's a one, it counts as two
death saves at once. Yeah. So just as a reminder of the risk
that's in front of us. If Attilias were to roll a one right now,
he could die, die die on the next turn. Yeah. If
he rolls not a one, but still that saved on this turn or the
next turn, he could roll a one and die, die die, yeah,
be fully dead. All right, I understand the risks. Yeah,
well yeah, thank you, all right, almost there's a spot on your
great paper you might want to market all right, uh timbo you next crikey?
Alright, mate, turn the horse around. I give it a old
tug on the reins. We turn around right there on the spot, go
backwards. I'll do my best leaning over. I'll scoop up tom bombo at
check on that. Oh, absolutely new problem. Yeah, let's see an
athletics for you. Check. Okay, good than twelve twelve? Uh huh.
Let's see. I think you lean down and you grab him. Um,
maybe not as seamlessly as you hoped. You have to kind of slow
the horse down, stop the horse almost around down, but you're able to
pick him up. Okay, You're not able to like sling him on the
horse behind. You kind of have to like keep him under your arm.
Yeah, that's fine, little more difficult than you expected. It's that he
had to get it. That's difference, right, Like if he would have
been working with you, he would have slid on, but dead weight just
a little bit harder yep. Uh. And then uh, and then we
keep galloping towards Attilius and where orchestral are um. When I get to when
I get so, Attilius is still on his horse. Yeah, and his
horse has like slowed, but it's still like riding in the right direction that
you guys were going. Kestral, on the other hand, is planted still.
She was pretty sure this okay, So I want to I want to
get Atilius's horse to follow me, like I don't. I don't need to
get him, he's still on the horse, but I need to get the
horse. Let's do animal handling. That advantage to come with me minus two
on animal handling. Rough, I'm gonna use an inspiration. Yeah, animal
handling is minus two mm hmmm, very situation. Maybe I don't want to
use it right here. What else could I do? Is my question?
My role? So the first role I was a five, but I don't
know that I want to use the inspiration dice to do better because I think
rather than doing that, I could actually just can't. I just speak with
it. I can as a as a ritual. So I can't really do
that, right, okay, all right? So what's the role the roles
of five? Five? I think you, um, you ride by and
you like go to swipe at the at the reins and it like yanks,
it's had one way and you kind of get the reins and then it kind
of snatches out of your hands, and mind you, it is still running
in the right direction, just slower than Yeah, but running in the right
direction is actually like away now, and I don't actually want to be going
that way if um, well, now we're moving in the opposite direction and
Castro's not moving at all. And what I really want to do is get
back to I want to go back inside the gates of um the the Troubridge
compound. Okay, anything else that's sor did did he evan to see um
my potion appealing jangling around in my pockets or anything? I don't know'm just
like he lifts me up off the ground. Oh he didn't see it.
I don't know, you know, but just he didn't see the potion of
healing that's in my pockets or bags. I do just see what you're doing.
But I like about it is that it's subtle. I didn't see it,
Unfortunately for you. I think both Jay and Timbo's natural inclination is uh,
not to look for the healing element. It's to whack things with sticks.
Yeah, but I got him in one arm, and I'm trying to
get Attilius's horse to come with us. I think, Uh, I think
that's really it. I mean I I ride, Um, I mean,
I guess essentially back to where Orchestral still is. I don't know how much
movement I really can still get. I mean, this is my first turn,
so really like I'm trying to go back into the back through the gates
where we started. So, I mean, this is my first turn.
I just left those gates. I think you can get back to the gate.
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have the night Shift perennial losers. You know, their legs have gotten stronger,
their hearts have grown three times the size, and they appear to be
okay. Well, let's take a little break, ladies and gentleman, and
we'll be back at five. Feel a little stronger since the last time we
leveled up, even though it's been a little while. Wow, Wow,
hey Bill, great job out there, man, You really uh well,
I know you didn't get on base today, but your effort was astounding.
Great job, Bill. People keep telling me that I was, I was,
I was never gonna get to third base, and I um, I
didn't know you didn't. But how can you miss that ball? I can't
it right to you? I mean, right, gee, I might as
well use you. It's the ball next. Want to be fair, I'm
about the size of the ball and you kicked it. Next time you climb
up on atilius? Is that legal? We look in the room. Just
pour me a drink, okay, whatever, Well, I'm so angry right
now. My good friends over at Rallycap took the liberty of brewing us a
beer named after something that will never truly understand, and that is Victory Formation.
And there's some assessment to be some sort of runic symbols of some sort
from these cans. Well, yes, uh, the good news is a
hazy i PA eight percent alcohol by a volume, Victory Formation is very tasty,
even though we'll never really understand what it's like. Hey, it's on
the fifteen to zero. Okay, y'all, it's free. They still have
a chance, is sure. It's a perfect sports brew. Yes, yeah,
quench the first I reckon. When I crank out my dangers, I
can just trot around the base path and watch it with the dingers. This
is the family sport. We don't want to fucking love American football. I
get it. I can read the room just football man. Fuck. Yeah,
this is actually great. Something happened. It's all bump over there.
Yeah, delicious beer. Pelican Craft Brands distributes this throughout the Greater Louisiana area.
Always a fan of bringing delicious craft beer to the people. To take
notes of citrus. It's quite delicious. Various stute over there. Only she
worked on her kickball skills like she's been working on her beers. Tom's fault,
he missed the ball. Mess the ball, you know the game.
That's why would be kicking into me anyway the field. Get your asses back
on the field. Let's finish this, uh, Tomothy Bombo, life safe
all right? Sixteen? Okay, that's his whole turn. Kestrel chest,
you've stopped, kind of stood up in your stirrups, put your arms out
and they drew the attention. For the record, I hate that. I
thought it was a good moves. Just did that. Yeah, sorry,
Um okay, I I kind of keel over. She's just like, how
fuck suck? And uh, we're gonna go to jail. I I sort
of mutter under my breath, Senator of Frien, if you really do have
the ability to time travel, or if you're watching us grow, uh,
we could maybe use some help right now. Um. And I kind of
like look up at everybody. Um, and I raised my voice and say,
this isn't what he would have wanted, but I have to protect my
friends. Um. And so I turn on my horse and no, not,
what's fifteen horse power? Stupid? Shouldn't horse? And I take my
and I leaned down, grab some magic stone or grab some pebbles, and
I cast magic stone and then I throw each one of them into the dirt
to create a sort of a smoke screen. Um, with all the like
the dirt that's rising up. So if we do get attacked again, hopefully
it will be at disadvantage because they can't see us. M Um. And
then I guess, well, I guess let me ask this, like how
far would we be able to ride in the other direction away from the gate,
Like how far were we from their trajectory? Because I don't actually know
what we saw. We just kind of like did initiative and we came right
out. It's ay or I think there were like three different as straight left
and right, straight left right. It's like a road, not an alley,
but a small one. Um, and the estate extends in either direction
on this side of the road. The other side of the road is like
stores, shops, houses, etc. Um. Does that answer your question
or not? Sorry? Not really. I mean, I guess I'm just
trying to figure out, like where we were going, is that toward the
drags You were fleeing towards the drags um to try and get into the sewer.
Yeah, I guess I'm just trying to figure out, like if we
turn back into into troubridge, like we're just gonna have to get out again.
Um. Yeah, we just have two unconscious comrades right now, and
I feel like that's priority number one and yeah, and then we're just gonna
meet you hold up in there like yeah, we'll just go out to the
other side with with bridge. So and the horse travels sixty foot on a
normal turn, one hundred and twenty feet if it dashes, which in this
case it would be doing now mind you, a crossboat can shoot like one
hundred and fifty feet three hundred feet a disadvantage. A long boat can shoot
like three hundred feet six hundred feet a disadvantage. So they'd better hit you
for like two more turns probably, yeah, yeah, I don't know.
I don't love doing this story wise, but I guess we'll just go back
to bridge. Okay, turn back around, except for ye grab it for
the horse trains somehow you can ride over to where his horse is and then
ride back. So I have to also roll a animal handling. Animal handling,
you're pretty good at animals. You can fucking talk to him. Yeah,
have a zero though, shit, oh shit, yeah that one.
Oh it's is it tough beet for y'all? You ride over to his horse
and snatch at the reins, and it yanks its head again and pulls you
off of yours, so you hit the ground kind of all fours. I
think it could use your romantic movement to kind of stand up. So the
saving grace I think a little bit here is you are between two horses,
boy, and you hate to use them as meat shields, but you have
that. I don't know, I'm adrid. I don't know if I would
do that. Okay, yeah, that's a fair point. I'm just putting
it out there. Also, you're allergic to their fur. That's true.
You're breaking out a little bit tough spot. Guys. They are disadvantaged on
this attack anyway. Um, so there is that in this case, they're
gonna be disadvantaged and they're gonna have low visibility because of the sort of smoke
screen that was created. So basically it's gonna add to AC to all of
your acs. Makes sense. Great, we're gonna do the all or nothing
attack again. We end we have a yeah, just don't don't roll so
well, got it done? Yeah for you baby? Anything? All right?
A six does a six hit anyone? All right? This time arrows,
spears, bolts go flying. But they don't really threaten anybody, um,
not that uh Tom or Attilius would know they are. They're passed out.
Um, the other two of you, you don't really see any damage
from it. I mean they kind of fly by you, and I think
that's gonna be their whole term. Attilious, that's safe hearing the gods calling
down. It's thundering. Yeah, come home, baby, there you go
nineteen nineteen two saves. I'm step closer. Don't look at me. Yeah,
you don't want me to look a look at me. Okay you threw
mad at me, Yeah, don't look him. Sorry. Wow, Um,
I'm scared. Okay, Oh okay, we're gonna go. Timbo.
Mm hmm um sorry Timbo. Before you go, You're like, oh,
thank god, um Timbo, before you go. Um. Two things happen.
One, Um, a blue light appears in the middle of the dust,
our boy, our own personal day of sex. Um. I would
say Kestrel is close to it, probably the closest. Um. You're both
passed out. You're probably further away from it, so really it's Kestril kestrel.
Immediately I think probably you know, you're maybe probably from me to you
actually like ten twelve feet Um, immediately have a splitting headache. Like yeah,
it's enough I think that I'm acting. It's enough that it's like a
little hard to focus. Yeah. Um, obviously you know you've got some
some holding you bleeding, You've got this headache. There's dust kicked up everywhere.
It's hard to see. Um sneezing. You're sneezing because of the and
you're breaking out into welts and stuff. So there's like there's a lot going
on. Um. The second thing that happens is that from the right you
see Bill and Jeff arriving on a carriage. Yeah. Um, they have
shields held up bless from the outside and are both holding one rein for each
horse. Yes, they've fucking jeff Let's carriage kind of like I think they're
still approaching. They're not quite there, but but during this turn they will
arrive kind of in front of you guys. Beautiful, beautiful, all right,
timbo, Yeah, all right. I dismount from my steed and I've
got I've got tom over a shoulder, and I get over to uh,
I get over to the horse that Attilius is dangling off of, and I
get him down off of his horse safely. Wait where did did Kestrol pulled?
Kestrol fell off her horse and his between between the horses. So I
I get Attilius off safely and kind of stay behind the horses. Oh,
come on off the day I was professional, and then fucking jump and get
off safely. We're practicing safely, please him to death. Yeah, safely
anything. What he says he's not chafed, you know, totally safe.
Please anything else? What's the shimmering figure doing? Okay, so you but
you have Alius and Tom with you. Yeah, I've got Attilius and Tom
and we're kind of behind the horses steadying ourselves, bracing for the carriage to
pull up so I can get both of them and myself and Kestrel in the
carriage. You're still on the horse, right, No, No, I
dismounted. I think if you're dismounted, you're kind of like behind the head,
stay behind the gate and the hedges. That's fine. Um So,
like I don't think you have to worry necessarily about um more a tax coming
at you where you're standing now, Okay, you cannot see the figure.
Okay, you can see light in the dust, and I think you can
certainly, you know, recall the where that would come. You can make
an assumption that that is the figure, but you can't actually see what it
is. You can just see some like light eliminating illuminating from the dust.
Okay, that's fine. Uh, yeah, you're gonna wait, that's well,
yeah, I want to use an action to get to the carriage or
I think you could run towards it. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
is it about to pull up in front of them? Yeah, I'll I'll
use mo I'll use motion to move towards the carriage within with the two fallen
guys. Yeah. The benefit in this case is like, if you waited
for them and then went, it might be under fire. If you go
now and sort of meet them halfway under the cover of dust, okay,
you don't take an attack, then yes, we do that. So yeah,
I think that's stipulated. No, uh no, check and him in
and jump in. Yeah. I make sure that Kestrel knows what's happening,
if verbal communication or make sure she like sees that I have the two of
them. Okay, so you run in, throw them in, jump in?
Is that the yes? Okay? Uh Tom, that's say oh your
boys stabilized? Um, So it means you're stabilized. Yeah, not conscious,
but not conscious. And can I be conscious enough to say like thanks
tim I think I think we can. We can certainly say that. Maybe
you don't say thanks Timbo, but you're like thank thank you, like you're
you're somewhat emergent when it comes to your consciousness. It's like a thumbs ups.
I'm being tossed in the cart so everybody knows. Yeah, uh kestrel,
Yeah, what do you want to do? Um the so the blue
figure? Yeah okay, um so I check back to see if they've made
it safely in the carriage. And then I turned to be like story,
say you can can you talk to me? What the fuck is going on?
Man, I didn't kill you, tell me, tell me if you
can communicate at all? Or charades? Like one word like first first word
sounds like dagger. You know, do you approach it? Yeah? Yeah,
I mean like I'm I'm trying to talk to it. You get close
to it, you start talking to it. A reminder like like last time,
it's shape. It's shape is not corporeal. It's sort of like shifts
and frozen shrinks. And yeah, it's very like, um, you know
when you hear music distort, it looks the way that sounds. Does that
make sense? Um? Wordsmith over here? Oh? Thanks? Um?
So it might be gesturing, but it's really hard to interpret what that would
even be. Like it's hard to tell what's an arm? What's um but
Jesus um? But as you've seen before, a wand extends out to you.
Yeah, yeah, okay, I grab the wand okay, um as
soon as you grab the wand it dissipates. Oh shit, I had so
many questions. I can talk to me anyway. Um, all right,
I say, I'm muttered to myself. Let's see what this one does.
All right? So you wave it in the air. Yeah A. It's
just as the dust is sort of settling back down and you can sort of
see all these people that you wave this wand and a spray of liquid just
sort of flings in all directions. We'll find out what happens next session.
Oh wow, what a cliffhanger. Damn Clive, hang a b beer next
time on the night shift. And uh, there's more where that came from,
the guys, What did I just do? I think there's like stuff
coming out of this wand it's really gross, smells bad.