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Lords. Thank you, Hello everyone, and welcome again to another episode of
the Broken Lords podcast. We will now continue our story where our erstwhile heroes
try to escape from a valley filled with stuff that wants to eat them.
It's not fun, speaking of which they also want to eat. So last
I heard, you guys were stockpiling supplies, right, yeah, yes,
all right, So give me first. Somebody give me a craft check zero
mother fan successes. Target number is ten and he duffed it. Hate it
for those was at a twelve and a seventeen. You hate to see it.
My craft is technically thirteen. Anyone mine eleven? Give it a try.
It's only it's only a difficulty one. Do I actually have anything that
comes to me craft? I do have something in craft. I'm pretty sure.
Oh yeah, I can roll one extra D twenty. I feel like
it depends on what you're crafting. When making a craft test, you may
either roll one extra D twenty or spend one doom to reduce the difficulty that
tests buy him one step to a minimum zero. I have it as well.
One second. That's actually a cript. That's two successes, bitch,
two successes. Cool. You are able to make two water skis with that.
If you would like to spend your momentum rather than bank it, I
will allow you to make one more. Let's get two water skins up.
That sounds dope. I'm cool with that. Well, you're starting it too.
If you want to spend the moment three yes, no, let's make
that three. Let's make that three. So, because of where you are
in the valley, I would like Octamer to make me a survival a check.
Yeah, sure, I take it. This is not the woodlands that
I am familiar. You're still on the edge of the forest, so I
would allow you to have your this and this is a gathering food and water
check. So I am going to reduce this down to I think two steps.
Yeah, it starts it too, so that would reduce it to zero.
So you don't have to roll if you don't want. So you can
if you want to generate momentum, which I do do successes. The chart
has been marked. You are able to find a water source. It is
pretty far our west of your initial starting point. Okay, as you and
the crew kind of scout your way west because that was the plan to survey
the thorn wall anyway. Yes, you do see southwest of your position.
It looks like the ground drops away. Okay, what would that mean?
Have to get a closer look to find out. Do we see an end
to the thorns in the distance. No, it seems like it goes right
up to the wall. But you'd have to keep scouting to try and find
a way in. Ye. Sure, why not? If I was a
jerk sorcerer, I would make my evil giant, effing thorn wall the entire
size of the valley. Just absolutely create mode on Minecraft and fucking cheat.
We cheated that ship in I'd put roses in mine because I'm stylish. I'm
still interested in that at dip yes, I scout the dip. So you
guys scout westward along the thorn wall. While you're searching for resources, you're
managing your craft. Tie. I am in the mornings and the evenings.
It takes you about two days until you can comfortably sev far wall. It
looks like there are some thinner brambles over here. The dip is now direct
south of your current position. If you want to spend half a day,
you could get up close and see what it is. There's no sign of
the dragon's territory over here, either, so you don't have to worry about
backtracking into that. I think I could probably scout this out solo. Okay,
I'm a pretty wily guy. I don't think I need to bring everyone
out with me. That'll leave maximum time for them to craft you do not
want, all right, So for a solo expedition, you will be able
to move quite a bit faster. Give me another survival check. You can
still reduce this check by one, and it is a difficulty too, okay,
so I'm gonna reduce it down too. I would you like to spend
any momentum. I'll probably spend one of my momentum. Yeah, there's a
green outline of one of those there is, So that's the success awesome.
Would you like to spend your extra momentum to assist even further with the gathering
of materials for the trip? Yes, actually that would be most advantageous.
Cool. Since you've been pacing along the thord wall, gazing out over its
where you can see the steam rising out over the swamp, it is already
significantly hotter here compared to when you were in the deep forest. So it
occurs to you early this morning before you set out to investigate that dip that
swamps like that back home, there is some sort of mysterious illness you can
get there that can make you very sick brilliant, So you consult with our
resident herbalis Phaedra. In between the two of you, you come up with
some plants to keep your eyes out for, with an end goal of trying
to be able to make some herbal remedies to possibly help people fight off or
resist infection when you're crossing the swamp. So you are going to find two
ingredients for phedro, and you're able to scavenge enough like fruit and nuts and
stuff as you go to bring up the total group's rations to about a week
if you stretch it thin. Oh yeah, much obliged, sir. You
come up to the dip in the ground and you are looking at a jagged
ravine. You're kind of at the narrow end of it. It looks like
it stretches all the way to the cliff wall on the west side. On
the west side, Yes, if you had to guess it, literally,
it's more than ten miles. So okay, we I posted to the eastern
wall right because we were kind of hugging that. You got out very close
to the eastern wall. Yeah. Over the past couple of days, you've
basically crossed the whole valley. I just want to check and make sure that
my own mental map is correct. Here. What you're saying is if we
had instead of crossing close to the eastern wall, if we had crossed close
to the western wall, we would have hit this ravine and likely had to
have gone to this side. Yeah. Yeah, let me see, do
I have a little X grip over here? Let me see if five kinds
it sounds like this ravine is probably not easily crossable. I'm gonna give you
a rough sketch just so we're on the same page. I don't want to
ask stupid questions, but is there any ravine that's easily crossed? Depends on
how wide the ravine is, Yeah, okay, yeah, fair. So
if it's like a five foot ravine, yeah, oh, even if it's
ten feet, you could probably find like a sturdy tree and cut it down.
But you know, oh, that's rough, all right, that's rough.
Yeah. We have a valley that is in the neighborhood of thirty miles
east to west. On the west side, there is a large, jagged
ravine that stretches in the neighborhood of twelve miles about six miles above that is
the thorn wall that the players are trying to find a way across. I
don't like the way you're using the word miles, which is often because of
the terrain that you're in, you've been greatly slowed down. I mean you
could. I mean, ancient armies used to march like thirty plus miles a
day, but that was usually over level even terrain. So yeah, and
we're going into a swamp soon, so I can't imagine we're gonna be picking
up a pace all that much faster. Boggles the might. I hate myselfe
horrible worst one the week. It was kind of rough, like, we
don't want to go on this side of the ravine because that would basically be
useless to us unless there's some secret cave entrance there which we can bank on.
But I think we're still fairly well set on crossing the bog. No,
that's what I mean, but as in getting past the thorn wall,
right, Yeah, like going on this side of the ravine, like the
other side of the wall, is not going to really help us unless there
is some miraculous like cave entrance. Shiitis a fucking cave entrance to his evil
bog. You know it's a real smelly bog too. Yeah, it's dank.
I hate it. Now have we seen any There have been no real
ways in so far that we have seen from the Thorn Wall. From our
western edge of the thorn Wall, north of your current position, there is
some thinner terrain there that looks places where thins out and kind of looks promising.
Okay, I feel I've been staring at the thorns now and then because
what else is there to look at in that direction? Are they dry?
Are they healthy? Yeah? They're very kind of like weed looking stick like
wood fiber. They're not green thorns. They're brown thorns, sure, but
if I were to but they're they're big, like gnarly Okay, yeah,
I think like like acacia thorns. They're like maybe four inches long, maybe
some are longer. If I were to work at the surface of one of
these big gnarly ten drils of thorns, is it green underneath? Are they
hollow? What is it like? I'm trying to figure out if they could
burn basically, Oh, if they're like nettles, essentially, that's what you're
If it's wet and green and alive on the inside, a chance we can't.
Yeah, it's not going to burn easily. If it's dry and crackly
and like kindling. Even if it's tough, kindlings look evil, it might
burn if it's dried. They probably look evil regardless. Yeah, but I'm
not going to put words in Corey's mouth, Corey, do the thorns look
evil? Do the thorns look evil? Is the big question? No,
the thorns don't look evil. They just look like a rather unpleasant plant.
They're hardy, they're definitely alive, they're not dead. Yeah, but they're
not like hollow. It's very difficult for you to snap one off. You
actually have to use your staff to do so. Yeah, but when you
do it, it does appear solid on the inside, a lot of sap
flowing. It looks healthier on the inside than it does on the outside.
M Oh okay, fun. So we got wet vines here alright, boys,
meaning we're gonna need a change of plan. I bet they stink too,
I bet they do. They're bog vines that can't possibly be good.
Yeah, vines. I think that's the name. These are official n GM.
What's the bog level? How are we doing a bog level? You're
good on O? Is it visible beyond the vines or the vines? You're
not in the bog yet? Yeah? Basically on the other side of the
thornwall. The thornwall is seven eight feet high in places, so you can't
really see over it and down to where the swamp begins. You just can
see the swamp beyond it. Got it? Okay? Can I even see
through it? Or? Is it basically solid with house? It's very very
thick. How many seeds? Okay? All cues? Wow? Damn,
we had a thick Bob. All right, boys, we're gonna get our
indirect ass ready. We're going into the thick bog