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you for listening and enjoy. The door in front of you creek's open.
It is the sound of rusted metal on rusted metal, and you get the
census door has not been opened in a very long time, I think.
However, as the door sort of swings open, the three of you standing,
probably Thrack is probably still waking up. To be honest, you're probably
coming to after being kind of passed out for a day before. You stands
like a little dwarf. However, this dwarf has sort of blue grayish skin,
a shock of white hair, bloodshot yellow eyes. And when I say
bloodshot yellow eyes, I'm talking basically sith eyes is what you're looking at here.
And the creature looks kind of haggard, to be honest with you,
an old, shabby set of robes with wraps around his wrists and ankles,
and he's leaning upon a stave which appears to be sort of bleeding from a
glass ball at the head of the stave. He wanders out, looking past
you around as if he hasn't been outside in some time, looking out across
the fields of sort of snow and tundra, before coming to rest and looking
over each of you. Sea. You would notice while he speaks, he
seems to be more comfortably speaking to you than the other three. But he
does sort of speak to you all pacing around sort of intermittently looking at you.
He says, pure thought usually is all dead? Oh heit sindsco.
Didn't he come back? He convinced that he was slave, but he was
not, like that's what that blood said. Never made it back to the
river. The past, the past has fallen to madness. There's only a
few of us alive now, and we had to block off the waste to
the drought tunnels, madness and bustards when they stop. We had to block
off the east by the sea. Pure madness coming out of the water.
H what's it? Like out here as bad as we thought, it's much
worse actually in before it gets really bad at here. The word he used
pure madness. Yes, that's what it is. Outside as you say,
like you should let us in. You see him sort of casually move in
front of the doorway again, sort of like not not blocking your path and
t posing, but he just he kind of unconsciously moves in front of you
and says he are right. Yeah, yeah, Well all they're welcome under
the These are the window go peaks, and you can travel through our home,
and he points to the doorway. However, I have four questions.
You answer these truthfully and you may be granted passage. Addition, is that
right? Do we have a choice? No? Well, I but no,
But I mean you always got a choice, right, And how do
you know if we're canning the truth? Well? I don't Yeah, interesting,
all right, what are your questions? All right, let's see it's
been a while since we have people come. The first question, what brings
you to our mountains? Travelers? Are you seeking refuge, trade or something
else? We're seeking passage? Okay, all he is Is this a group
question or are we answering individually? Do you have an individual. Are you
all together? We're all together package? Okay, right now, do I
suppose all right? Question number two, ah, do you understand and respect
the customs of our people? I look hesitatingly towards heirs. Have I heard
about the these people and their customs? Okay, let's see. You can
all give me history checks with disadvantage if Maya knows about these guys. But
I don't know if CEO knows about the guys within this world, right my
history with disadvantage. Yes, disadvantage your normal. You're pretty far away from
Menzo, so I think probably still disadvantaged. Very well. You're there is
this is a small community on the edge of the world. Eleven from Cyrus,
eight from Thrack, which is the lowest he can possibly roll for history,
eight from sea and is jild and not bothering. Oh okay, since
everybody looks so nonplushed, But I just was thinking about what I know.
Yeah, it's a disadvantage. There should disadvantage. Let me just think again.
That's still pretty good. Yeah, you're the only person that can guess
who these guys are. I don't know how. I don't know why these
are Darrow there, they're very similar to dwarves, but they're not technically dwarves,
really they are. They've never been seen outside of the mountain and from
what you would know about them is that they are flesh mansers and blood ritual
types, and that they are the Hills have Eyes community of this world.
They live deep under the mountains in the Windigo Peaks area of the world,
way up in the north east, and generally speaking, people are sort of
afraid of them, but they are not. Yes, but they are not.
They're not really thought of as being sort of necessarily just straight up evil.
They're not like the type. They're not like kidnapping people off the road
or anything. But tales about them are all over the place. But you
would know them as blood manss, flesh mancers and sort of inbred under mountain
under dark dwarfish types. But they're not. They're not. Yes, Oh,
yes, so quite familiar with your QUESTO would see a very very good
people, very good folks. Yes you should trust them. Yes, yes,
we don't worry an if your your goings and cubbings and doings or of
the above were respected. Hey Christian two e Hey, will you abide by
our laws and honor our traditions while you're within our domain. It still a
strange think to you with attaching h. The strange thing with that it dies
in it. I supposed to talk about that, I spit a long time.
Well, you know, it's been a while for me. You'd have
to speak. Is that one of the customers or oh you know who does
that? Elether h you're not just being a bit actually da Well that's good
because it was quite embarrassing. But I would quite like to see you well
anyway, Yes, the answer is yes from me a D fourteen. Would
you have to manually type into role twenty? Thank you soon? Kind of
you six one, two, three, four five six? Okay? This
is who you know who does the dancing? Uh? Okay, yeah.
He kind of like looks across each of you, but it doesn't seem to
be sort of massively bothered about your your answer. He says, Hey,
question three, can you prove yourselves capable and trustworthy and have your fish challenges
in the walds that can demonstrate your resilience and resourcefulness. Oh the extra scar.
I think I haven't really been paying attention to the most of this conversation.
I'm still just sort of I'm like doubled over, leaning up against my
staff. I'm trying to pull up your roll the zero on sleight of hands,
all over on your turtle back. Don't get off, she strips you
when one fell swoop entirely from top to bottom. All right, all right,
all right, and I come over and I help you. But heard
our speak at onstin, Yes we have as you ask, Sorry, sir,
No, I was just remarking about how we just demonstrated how capable we
are when one when one fell swoop. But go on, Yes, we
have demonstrated. Things are looking for my skin ripples a little bit like you.
You would usually see when I'm about to world shave, just a ripple
of like string energy and the flash of glace towards you. I pat your
your shawl like they're there. It's all right, Oh hey hey. He
kind of looks you up and down jailed. Then he recognizes what is happening
or its foul. It's like a scales changed direction or something. M I
wish you could have such a talent. That's natural. That that's all natural,
it's right, very natural, all right. Question number four, have
you ever eaten the flesh of one of your own kind? It was that
one time? What? Yes, yes, certainly not. I'm not insane.
Ye, no, I don't know. He points out at rank and
says, I am yes, uh yeah he he sort of nods, I
work at the many nods like what all right? So that's one, two,
three, four, five of you alone? Anymore coming? Wait for
five? Is it not? Here's the f yes? Three, four,
five? Oh, he's gone? Where'd he go? Do we won?
So we one? Hey? That we watch? We watch? Do we
want that way with you? The fifth one? I'm fairly certain none of
us were expecting. Hey, am I seeing things? How many of you
guys there? Four? All right, let's get you inside then quick.
Let's get a door locked, so ushes you inside, watching behind you,
sort of scanning the horizon. My name is Bibble. My people are the
Darrow, and I will guide you through the peaks along the pass hy bibble
b I b b E l bibel. Hey, lovely name, lovely name?
Hey? And what are you? The last? Ah cirus? Not
your name? What the hell are you? That's a drow? That's a
tur toll or something like that. That's an orc. Don't see many of
your kind these days ah, but you. No, I don't know.
Is it no? You know, I try to know you. I'm sorry,
I don't know what that is people, So yeah, never probably wishes
people. Oh, drama, you know drama, got in fighting? You
must no, I am part of part dragon born. Oh that's what you
are. I can see it now, that's the scales in the horns.
Okay, right, you have to pack down. Okay, yeah, suspicious?
I don't know. Is he being very instantly dismissive? Is he looking
for something in the information? Or was he just curious? Twenty for Oh,
I mean that's definitely a pass. No, yeah, fucking no idea
what Cyrus was genuinely just I couldn't figure out what she was. He was
essentially everyone watching this show for the first five minutes. I would also like
to roll for insight, if possible, to see if Cyrus was being truthful
with a lineage yep sixteen. This comes down to whether you were being truthful
or not. I was being truthful, but I think on that role you
would also know that I'm like pissed and kind of begrudging myself for not having
lied. Question or do you just wish to pass through the peaks. How
far is it to uh? Where? What is the place that worked the
forests? That we're the force of knowledge? The knowledge? Yeah, it's
called the house of knowledge, is the house of the forest, and they,
I guess the kingdom as well. Okay, how long do you reckon
to reach the house of knowledge? Hey, that's where you're trying to go?
Yes? Is that a problem? Not by me? No, But
you're never going to make it in there? Look at you? How so
brack? When he say look at you? Thrack vomits all over the floor.
Hey, what's wrong with him? Is a disease? Not cleaning that
up? There's not many of us alive down here, you know. We
gotta be careful about that. Perhaps he keep him six feet away from me?
All right, I'm fine two steps away from thrag wherever I am.
I go over to him and I place a hand on his h on his
stomach, and I do like a healing, healing word on him. I'll
take one of them. Can I get that as well? Do you need
it back? The bottom of my back has been out for years now.
Noo, he's walking around, all right. I walk over and I do
that for him. I put my hand on his lower back. Then,
oh, just giving them out. I present my rear. I look at
him like, roll my eyes. Yeh timey. So you're trying to go
now you said the house knowledge, but yes you're talking about the no lands
forest, No lands forest, I use not gotting into the house and knowledge.
That's where we'd like to go. Yes they oh ah, like you
said your name was sirrus it is? Are you some sort of god immortal?
Uh not that I'm aware? No, you any I use here like
something oh special? Don't you always saw that one? Then? What do
you mean? What? Well, it's your double A spider crawls out from
underneath his shirt. Usually got a spider on you. You have it on
yourself? Yeah right, Uh, I don't know if you know where you're
going. Whose anology? You kind of get in there unless you're a face
tag or something, a face that you wouldn't happen to know who you can
find one that's short notice? What you hey, the house knowledge, but
you got to get in there. He ain't gonna be able to do that.
You said immortal, Yeah you're not special. Well I haven't died yet,
but it doesn't mean as I know, I am mortal. Okay,
it's very important that we get there. It's very important A then had to
fly when this shape pops off, I need to leave this place. But
I don't know what to do it do I haven't done the good authority that
being able to fly is not going to help you from whatever. That That
was my plan. Even the skies can be poison. Oh is that poison?
Is it? Is that what's killing him? No, he's not dying.
Are you sure that? It looks like Shay? Stand up a little
strager armor? Fine? Thank you. Whenn't all gets sick, do they
get more green or less? Yeah? You actually a very upset purple.
Actually not the reason any of your own business. Uh right, don't worry
not Ever's there any threat to you with your people. You're not going to
get stick from us. You're all fine, right, no, no,
no, no, no, right, okay, So you just want to
go to the house and knowledge. I mean, I can take you to
where it's supposed to be, but you will not be able to pass through.
You'll end up in the river lands. So you end up in the
no lands or worse, Well, we would appreciate the guide. Nonetheless,
all right, you're looking at two days. If we go straight there,
if you want to come to my voyage, meet with the elders, spend
some time, maybe doing we dance, we'll have to go a little wolf
path extra half days something like that. Wait wait, wait, wait,
wait, it's two days and you don't even have a guarantee you'll get to
where we're trying to go to. Well, how do we get there?
Yeah? Sure, I don't know. No one's ever done it because you're
immortal. It's not how you get on there. We've been on the road
for about a month at this point. I think with all the travel and
the the cold, land's running away from the zombies. What's two days?
Wait? How do we know we're not immortal? Anyway? Maybe whatever,
you should just try dying just to see. You're welcome to give it a
shot. Please do not just sit in my options. Two days is it
would be the difference between moon still standing and it being lost? What has
happened to the moon? No, it's the town where I come from,
Moony. Where is that north? Very cold? And I know there was
any shite north? Wait? How many if you add the dad here?
Anyway? These days? Fourteen? Now fourteen three hundred a year ago.
Ah, yes, yes, yes, I just think there's a lot more
of you. How are you moving? What happened to the rest of you?
Where did you go? Stay here? I might see here. People
just started dropping dead and nowhere. We did not know why. Then the
tunnels, the bastard drough tunnels opened up. Then they know what was coming
through. Then they know what it was. Some of them drew, some
of them know, all of them dead. I had to break the roward
dead, he said, Oh, I don't know. We bloked the tunnel
off to block it off. What are they coming through to attack you?
Or were trying to escape? You killed a good load of us. We
are not fighters, the dancers. And then we had the bloodless tritings coming
up out of the fucking sea, soulless bastards, preachers like like little scating
lizards, but big right coming out of nowhere. So we locked ourselves in
the blood holes. Are you interested to learn for the door? Well,
we sent out a scout not long ago to see what was out there.
Didn't they know what was going on? Maybe the surface was still good.
Uh so he thought maybe you were him, you know, but you're alive.
So that's hope, right, Yes, I have a thought. Hi.
Ah, so you know that it were pretty bad for a few days.
But you know I turned to a river. So may I speak with
my companions for a moment? Aye? He just stands there and crosses his
arms privately. Oh, I'll walk ahead. You just follow this tunnel down.
Yeah, we'll get on our way. You just follow it down.
It lights up. It looks dark, but it light up just a few
layers down, nice and bright for you. Can you see in the dark?
Yes, yes, perfectly. He starts wandering off, heading down into
the tunnel way. It's pretty much immediately a sort of naturally occurring tunnel.
But there are some poorly mason steps that have just been very roughly hewn out
from the natural stone, and he starts stepping down them, mumbling to himself.
Ahead of you. Okay, I want to ask a question. Cannibalism
in this world? How often does it happen? Because I'm pretty sure they're
going to eat us. Well, I mean, if they were to eat
us, it wouldn't be cannibalism, now would it? Is what he looks
like anyway, right, yeah, I turned to arcute mhm. I turned
to the three of you, and I say, I suppose I have no
reason to suspect this other than it just occurred to me. What sorts of
food do they have? Could they not just be inviting us back to meet
their elders and eating us? I mean, he asked, if we had
consumed each other's, well, our own people's flash, would that not make
them question whether or not to eat us? What do I know if these
people I've met with before they might eat you. I think I think it
depends on if they're hungry. They do not. They do not see life
and death as a black and white thing. They seem to have some sort
of relationship with death where it doesn't matter if you don't. It's almost like
a return to the earth thing, you know, you return to the river
they call it. So it's not like they're not bothered by it. But
they are very much like you, probably jilled and would understand that they they'll
eat anything. They will eat each other, they will probably eat people.
They probably do eat drow and duagar and you know, deep gnomes and whatever
else comes up from the under dark under here and anything that comes down.
But again, I don't think you get the sense that they go out of
their way to do that. It isn't like they are actively trying to capture
people to eat. It's just that if you die, they might eat you,
the same as your cat, like if you're locked in your apartment.
And what he says, they're not fighter, is this true? And by
experience, I don't know if you would know outright, but they are certainly
capable in some ways. They have the ability to use sort of blood magics,
which is very rudimentary magic. It isn't It isn't quite as I guess,
sort of evil you might expect it to be. It just is another
form of magic. But it's usually very basic spell casting that they have.
And from your experience they all seem to be majors. They don't have like
paladins, or they don't have like spearmen and guardians like that or arches.
Almost all of them in your experience seem to be mages. So in you
know, it's just are they capable? Yes? Are they sort of warring?
Not? Really? Okay, Well, let's just say it's a doggy
dog world out there, and I wouldn't leave any finger's pointing or you can't
see them just in case somebody gets a little bit of an idea. But
I think we could probably overpowered them if they mean there's any harm and are
quite nice folk and there's lots to learn, all right, Well, then
I suppose I don't have Perhaps it would be good to speak with them,
gain as much information as we can. Yes, yes, but you must
be sure to blink very slowly whenever you're talking to them. Blinking does seem
to scare them, especially the eldest. I begin blinking very slowly as an
example. Yeah, romni a D two if you roll a one, this
is not true. Oh yeah, I fully this is a mix of things
that could be law rather one. This is just so not It's just something
that you think is true, and I have believed every time you've interacted with
them. I like to think that one of them told her that was a
joke a long time ago, and she just yeah, okay, then it's
track. Just maybe keep it out, Just let's see what their supply channels
look like, and maybe we could see how desperately are and whether or not
we want to stay. Okay, how dark is it here? Since we're
following this fellow, it's dark for a little while. As you start to
walk down underneath the mountains, however, Bibble sort of leads you down a
few levels and it's not too long. It's maybe only five minutes before it
actually starts to lighten up again. There's like this winding set of stone stairs,
and it isn't like a little you know, like a coiled winding.
It's just like a long, slow decline. You can sense that you're going
downwards, but it isn't, yeah, like a little castle set of stairs
that would twist downwards. He's just sort of moving along ahead of you,
his stave hitting the ground, giving you an idea of where he is,
even if you can't see in the darkness that well. However, after a
little while, the cavern starts to sort of lighten up again, but it
begins to glow with a sort of dull crimson. And as Bibbil brings you
out of this sort of crumbling stone doorway, he takes you out onto an
enormous bridge that leads through the mountains. I say bridge. It's kind of
just like a roadway that moves endlessly throughout this place, and you end up
on the Blood Vein Pass and it is lit from below by this kind of
glowing, vibrant red. You hear Bibble sort of mumbling to himself, and
then you catch that he's actually giving you a sort of tor and you sort
of realize, as your ears may be attuned to what you're hearing, he's
said you moticulously by generations have skilled Darrow Mason's eyes. Our networker tunnels and
bridges and pathways, trade route. For the most part, it used to
be for the mountain clans. But time has not been kained. And the
last year that the eyes gone to shade a towering stone. Ages used to
endlessly move through the chasms, but we've got to close off those whetherin it
is no nothing, it's just a ruin. Now. I suppose that's a
way of time, right. You know there's a certain grandeur to it,
wouldn't you say? I a testament to the craftsmanship Darrow architects. My grandfather's
grandfather. How old am I? Yes, somebody there you asked what I
was. I assumed that we were on a comfortable basis. I'm one hundred
and twenty five. How old are you? Is that old for your people?
It is old for your people? How old are you? Forty seven?
I sold for a dragon born but young for an else No, something
like that. I suppose, yes, yuh, okay, so was I
mean when you're gonna die? He's walking along while he's sort of like making
this chat. When the mountain comes for me? I guess I would assume,
right, I would assume anywhere. I mean, I'd like to see
eighty summers would be lucky. Okay, how does the mountain come for you?
Exactly? What's that figure of speech with it? Grow Lake? Probably
something like that. It's a figure of speech as we're giving the tool of
this place. Is there any element or touch of the divine in this area?
Yeah? How are you sort of determining this archaeology? Mean religion?
Check? Then I guess fourteen. Let's see. Yeah, you would recognize
a recurring symbol on the wall, which is sort of a it's sort of
like a dragon skull, but the dragon skull has a couple of extra eyes
around a blood red gem, and each of the sort of stone masonry is
etched around a gem in the walls. There is the walls here are just
sort of filled with glittering gemstones, but they're all predominantly shades of red ruby.
Garnet Carnelian red gemstones, and they change. Some of them are huge,
some of them are small, and they're just embedded in the walls all
about in the natural cabin way. Then there's these masoned, sort of endless
criss crossing of bridges that sort of serve as like a passway. You notice
that as you're moving through here, almost all of the chambers that these bridges
lead off to have been caved in, as if someone has purposefully broken in
and closed off almost all of these pathways. And as you're moving along these
bridges, which seem extremely sturdy, they're very high up with this under lit
glow coming from underneath, like as if there's a fire underneath. The gemstones
sort of glitter in the glow. You recognize this as a symbol to the
god known as vol v o l, which is a sort of a blood
god. Really, and that doesn't necessarily mean, like, you know,
evil blood god. Blood isn't inherently evil, but predominantly is what does this
place smell like? Is it irony? Yes, it smells like blood.
That's exactly what it smells like. You see Bibbel looking at you, and
he follows your eye to the symbol and says, oh, Ray, of
course I'll be crazy. I mean not to. Yeah, look, come
with me, and he brings you all over to the very edge of the
sort of causeway and peers over the edge of one of the bridges and says,
like, beneath all of these bridges flows a huge river. It is
a river of what looks to you like glowing blood, crimson currants, shimmering
with this sort of otherworldly light that's casting this sort of eerie red glow throughout
this cavern. I shake a small vial from my belt. I won't know
you recognize. I did my finger in from time to turn to put these
streaks on my face, and I let one drop down below into the river.
Hey, look at that below you endless and powerful. That is our
angel. He sort of peers over and looks down at it casually. He's
not like praying to it. He's not really doing any sort of like you
know, religious gesture. He says, that is the blood of all.
Yeah, if you're feeling given, you can leap in join the river,
as we all must do at the end of our journey. Yes, perhaps
not yet, have you noticed anything different with your angel as of late that
what is a river? Has it slowed or has it sped up? Take
to look at it for a moment. Looks the same to me. You
don't happen to have any priests with the like you river watcher or something of
the kind. Eh, Well, the elders are elder. I'm old,
but they're old old. They've been around for a long time. They're their
blood and the river blood. It is kind of the same thing. So
I suppose you grasp them they know better than me, or thank you.
If you're magically inclined, you can pull from the river as well. If
you like his glass in its sort of staff, glitters and blades a little
more. Come on, then let's move on. There's a reason, by
the way, this place is known as window peaks, so you know,
watch the corners, watch the ceilings as well. They're here. They're watching
that much. We know, if we're lucky, they won't strike. He
looks at Saya, then he looks at track. So that's one, two
three for Okay, what do I get from? Well? Do I read
anything from him? When he looks at me? You see, he looks
at me specifically, then looks to Thrack. He give me an insight check
if you inside nineteen. He's sort of looking at you sort of nervously.
He sort of counts on his fingers. He looks at you, points sort
of subconsciously at you, points at Thrack, points at himself when he does
the counting. But I don't know if you really get anything off of that.
He just looks kind of nervous. I think, okay, I would
like to see if fucking sense what kind of magical energy is coming from the
river. Yeah, you can do that, give me, I guess you
can just give me an arcana check twenty two. It's immense. It's the
same as you might sense from any other angel you've been in the presence of.
It is just the purest form of arcane energy and the most powerful form
of arcane energy that there is in the world. The river being an angel,
it almost certainly must be based on your sort of senses and your whatever
your inclination is to figure out what the energy of the magic is. There's
also sort of an element to it that I guess give me another arcana check.
Let's see what you know about blood magic. Yeah, A good,
a good sort of amount. I don't know if it means that you know
any But there's there's a thing called blood channeling that most practitioners do where they
they use their own blood or their own sort of life as well. It
doesn't have to be blood exactly. You can kind of do it with just
life energy. Two cast spells and two sort of channel abilities. The river
below you would allow you to use sort of certain blood spells if you had
them, without having to use your own blood. Really, but most people
don't use blood magic. It's for one thing, it's taboo, right people.
It's a thing that people associate with hags and witches and evil creatures.
Two, it's just incredibly dangerous. Three it's said to drive you insane endless
use of your own blood and your own life. It has a psychological effect.
And yeah, generally speaking, it's just extremely dangerous and it's messy.
It's it's not an exact science like a wizard's magic would be. I mean,
wizards use magic almost as if it was science, and it's usually not
that powerful considering. It's just it's it's cheap and it's dangerous, and it's
yeah, it's like it's like homemade magic, you know what I mean like
it's it's never as effective, it's never as good. So if you're a
wizard, you can be aware of it and you can learn it, but
you wouldn't probably specialize in it, though there is no doubt that there are
people that would, right, yeah, but this, this river would allow
you to sort of channel blood magic without probably doing harm to yourself. And
I would know that I couldn't use the energy from this river to do anything
else? Are you? You probably could if you knew any sort of blood
magic spells or blood magic, right yeah, And you'd be able to do
it without any sort of penalty to yourself. And I wouldn't I think what
Fraku is thinking, Like, can I use the power of this river to
help create something with a bit of bone that other god? Oh? Okay?
I would stop here and I would ask I would say, pobill,
Hey, you appreciate land questions. You can you ask me anything you want.
I don't care if it's blunt or not. Are you taking us to
your elders so that I can use our life force to continue being elders?
Why would they need your life force to do that? No, that's quite
the accusation. Hey, look down there, that's life. There's no purer
life than the blood of all. They don't need your weak, little mortal
life. Come on, look at that. I would like to roll for
insight. Yeah me. Also, I want to know if you put any
emphasis on the word mortal twenty two eighteen. He seems to be telling the
truth. He seemed sort of like a little a little offended that you would
suggest that your life energy could rival that of the river of blood that flows
below you. It certainly doesn't seem like he's bringing you to the elders to
be sacrificed to further their age or life. M Okay, you're looking at
me like that. You don't believe me. I believe you. I turned
to the others, and I think you would say I'm still looking pretty bad.
No, I would say, this is an excellent source of power and
we could use it, perhaps craft something, something to help us. Oh
my god, are you kidding? I didn't know you're an omorer or a
you know, a weaver or a what do you make trinkets? An alchemist?
An alchemist? What's that? What does that make? I asked him
the same question. Well, I I am interested in were enhancing my staff.
Yeah, he just starts laughing at that. Wasn't me. I'm quite
interested in him enhancing your staff. Yeah, I don't actually laugh. I
look puzzled as to why everyone else is to enhance your staff with blood.
Haha. There was a pill and moon they sold the alchemist. I should
have gone, no, not just with blood I've actually found. But I
know the fact. I suppose you could say, Okay, yes, yes,
can you forge things? Yeah? Is that what you're trying to say?
Or no? No? Maybe? Why are you asking me? Yeah?
What do you mean? What do you promise? There's a forge?
And I used to make all shorts of weapons, crystallizing parts of the river
and then using the blood of old en hands and empowering credible weapons. And
some of them are still around, but most of them have been lost and
destroyed. He we got some shape versions. He picks up his stafe,
which looks pretty well made to be honest, Like I said, it's pretty
sort of like basic in terms of its structure. But the the glass blood
filled orb on the end of it that is bleeding, just sort of endlessly
bleeding and running down the thing looks like a decent staff that a mage might
yiuse no shape trade their sils. Does it feel like there's any strong latent
magic to that staff? Does it feel dormant or does it feel can you
sense any magic coming from it? You mean arc ten, It's it must
be magical for it to be bleeding the way that it is. I think
you get the sense that it is certainly a magical item, but it is
probably quite rudimentary. It's almost certainly doesn't really do anything outside of being an
arcane focus for his own blood magic and his own spell casting. Probably,
I'm trying to get a feeling for the potency of their God's influence. I
guess on the magic most things shape, he said, waving it around.
Uh oh, you know, if we don't know how to make nothing,
and why not the past such knowledge down the generations? Where's it gone?
Yeah? The base we go is two bags, they call him. Don't
ask why why you got these things under his rapes? Sucks, big fleshy
sacks under his rapes, And when he breathes in, they go out.
When he breathes out, you're going call him a two bags fascinating and he
goes good with his hands, but shy talking doesn't he know his arse from
his elbow either? Not too bad. She's got kind of like she's quite
smart. But I I think you're know. Bear in mind, this guy
is like emaciated. He looks kind of crazy. He's sort of his his
skin looks like weird and gray and sallow. Give me a perception check.
Whoever, all of you? Whoever? All of you? Yeah, let's
go with all of you. That one's this campaign sixteen fourteen. And then
see you're the only person that has noticed it that hasn't noticed that he has
an extra finger on his hand. So during this time, as he's walking
along, the other three have notice that he does actually have an extra little
finger on the end of his hand. And he says, hey, I
don't know. Hey, he just launched the ability out of designs, chers,
armorers, Smith's past. I suppose certainly none of them left. Now,
I didn't wastore that time and energy getting that ager part. If you're
not going to do it, elbow reckon the side, can you show us
the forge? Hey, we can try and do something. I mean,
I've been in there before trying to get going, But I don't understand that
you have to make a fire as I in your tribe ever signs there's anyone
in your tribe other side the paste hundred years ever started a family with someone
from another tribe. Oh, right, nods and then says, which way
the forge? Hey this week? Come on, and he sort of carries
on, waddling along in front of you. Is his staff tapping on the
ground again? Yeah, this place is really well, really well lit.
As you're moving along, there doesn't seem to be any sort of you know,
traps or anything weird like that that's going to jump out of you.
For the most part, it's just sort of a ruined walkway. It feels
more like you're walking through a ruined than a sort of active passageway. Once
upon a time, it's probably pretty bustling, but it would have been hundreds
and hundreds of years ago, let alone the fact that it seems like recently
they've specifically sort of pin themselves in. And he starts moving and he says,
Oh, this is going to take us off course, maybe a bit
longer, not too long, a few hours that way instead of a few
hours that way. Is that right? Or have you got to be somewhere
you want to promise? Are we get loads of time. I'd long to
see the folk. If that's all wrong, all right, no problem.
Did you hear that? Yes, all right, let's go this way.
You eyes, you're on the roof. Don't don't just look for things that
are moving. You've got to find a shadow. Ah and you you're on
temperature. So he points at sair in terms of you to look at the
sailing. He points at Jilden and says temperature. All right, I forget
it's called let me know. I don't know, I can never tell.
Yeah, I'm frantish, tickt fig bring that out. Eyes up, ears
open, you know, legs on a swivel. Is that right? He
trudges off down one of the pathways. At points he starts sort of the
points he starts sort of like humming to himself the sort of weird discordant tunes
that don't sound melodic in any way whatsoever. And he just starts walking.
And it probably takes you about an hour and a half. And he takes
you away and along one of these long passageways. The passageway that the bridge
that he takes you along is much much bigger than the others, as if
this part of the as if this was sort of a main thoroughfare, or
as if this was an area that they brought huge things along. You notice
that there are tracks that are embedded into the stone in places, and not
tracks like a mine shaft, but like as if a huge device would be
moved through them, sort of just sort of embedded into the brickwork. But
you get the sense that some sort of transport thing was probably used here again
certainly has not been used in one hundred years minimum. And as he's walking
along, he points out bits and bobs, randomly mentioned things that make it
sort of seem like, you know, it's a bit like a guided tour,
but for the most part he's just telling you about the gems that are
in the walls, or the history of the the different clans that used to
be here and now there's only one, his clan, the Darrow. And
he brings you to a just an enormous opening at one point, a cavernous
chamber with sort of blackened, scorched walls. You get the sense that this
was a sort of a room that not only did it contain sort of flames
and countless fires, but as if the room itself was sort of probably lit
up so many times that it scorched the entire room black. And as he
walks in, he sort of points things out. I don't know what that
is, and that's got to be some much And he's pointing at broken tools
and rusted equipment that you don't recognize as just being like forgerers tools and armorers
tools and things like that. But he sort of kicks a set of tongs
out of the way. It has no idea what it is, and you
get the sense of a sort of a one thriving industry in this room,
yielding give me a perception. Check night, Okay. In one corner of
the chamber, there's this enormous sort of statue of a four eyed dragon.
It's a sort of stone form that's just been weather worn and age worn.
It's got sort of again, it's sort of scorched and blackened, but it
does have like a bizarre gaze to it, as if it's sort of silent
and sentinel and watching over the forge in the center. At the back of
the area, there's blood from the river that is bleeding from its eyes and
drying over the cracked stone below. As you walk into this room, there's
another colossal figure, which is hewn from the stone and rock of the actual
probably the cavern bed, and it would have been carved out as they moved
through and carved out this room in the first place. And it's just the
sort of likeness of a very mighty darrow, a sort of stone visage and
an imposing stature, a sort of proud look to him. It doesn't really
look like Bibbil Bibble's this kind of like hunched over, skinny looking, little
haggard thing. And this looks like this would look to you more like a
traditional dwarf, I think, but it does seem to have this similar sort
of robes, but much nicer looking, a huge staff in one hand,
and in the other it actually holds a sword. Amidst this sort of debris
and detritus of ages that have passed is the forge's true purpose. You can
see an ancient anvil. Its surface is pitted and scarred from years of years.
But the room also, much like all the other areas, the river
of Blood is below it the rumor sort of glow of red. But there
are access points and pulleys and sort of what would look like kind of pneumatic
devices that have kind of broken and fallen to ruin. That seem like what
they would do is pull the river upwards, or gain access and bring the
river up. The idea of like maybe taking a thimble of the blood from
the river and using it, you know, sneaking away with it or something
like that is probably maybe immediately sent from your minds as this is. This
was once a thing they did. They actively used the river, brought the
blood up, used it to forge the the weapons, crystallizing the blood into
gems, and using the blood probably as water, you know, to cool
down the iron and things like that. So you get the sense that this
room was designed to bring that river upwards and then create weapons and brinkets and
gems and things. And as Bible is walking through, he says he long
ago it was a forge. Is that right? Is that why it's called
a forge? That's right right? By they made weapons, bringing the river
up and then using the blood of all to enhance empower these great weapons.
But we can't do it anymore. That's gone. Unless you can do it.
I mean, maybe you can make me a fork. I've heard of
them. What's a fork? He is a fork? Is that the word?
Yes? Right? Why is it don't you eat with that? Some
people do? Right? What do you walks? Mostly? What do I
used to eat? Right? Chopsticks? Right? A chopsticks clearly has no
idea. That's literally a not just knives. What do you mean? Are
they just chopsticks loose and knives? I want to fork. You can't shop
with a chopstick? Oh well as well a galloon saloon? I want that
as well. Fork you know what you're doing? Then? And he literally
kicks you in the shed? Mm hmm. Do you know? How do
you use it? Imagine that it would do absolutely nothing to me because it's
a frail, old little It's not being kicked by bunny rabbit. Yeah right,
I I say, I think I think I could figure it out,
and I would look around and see it. Could this forge be used?
Give me an investigation check as he's doing this, check as I watched look
around looking at the forge and stuff. Do I get the impression that Thrag
knows what he's doing, or he's forged, or if he's just blagging his
way through and just you know, I don't think Rack has a whole lot
of knowledge hands on about forges, but I think he does. I think
he would have read about a bit about it crafting weapons, and certainly he's
read about crafting magical weapons, so imbuing weapons with magical power. I think
he's more investigating if he can use this equipment to somehow safely embed the bones
of gods into weapons. Okay, So it's just curious as to the nature
of your investigation, is all. But Okay, I'm not sure what you
pick up on. I'm just sort of looking around with a twenty four your
sort of basic understanding of how to use a ford, whether you've done it
before or not. You're probably going to have to spend some time fixing some
elements. You're probably gonna have to go and find like a bucket and just
hope there's one here or some some way to bring the river upwards, assuming
that from what you're looking around at that they were using the river of blood
to actually cool the metal. Otherwise you're going to have to find some source
of water. But generally speaking, if you can get fuel to light the
forge and get the forge hot enough, there is actually quite a few tools
around. The forge itself looks like it would function. It just looks old,
and you'd need to tidy it and fix it. The anvil would certainly
work, and the tools are really well made, and we're talking like dwarven
class tools. You're looking at the darrow were probably once maybe not quite on
the level of some of the greatest dwarves in the world, but they were
close enough. So the tools around here looked like they were actually made really
well and have probably survived hundreds of years and probably still work. You might
need to do some bits and bobs. I don't know if you have the
mending can trip or anything like that. You do, is that my help?
I do? I do? Yeah, I do. Not. That
will make it a lot easier, because you can probably fix some of these
things. But generally speaking, I think the hardest thing to potentially acquire here
would maybe be fuel, something like coal, and then getting that forged going,
and then obviously figuring out how to crystallize the blood is anyone's guess.
Not only is it it's just not just you know, you can't just bring
up a liquid and crystallize it, but also this is an angel. You're
literally just pulling an angel up. You know, it's not the blood of
an angel necessarily, it is the angel. So figuring out what that is
there must have been some process. It might take you a little while to
figure out if that's what you're trying to do. Maybe even just forging something
in the blood would work. But that's all. All of that is just
absolute guesswork. This is you're going to have to go fall like Oppenheimer,
figure out how to create this atom bomb situation. But the forge itself does
look like it is in good enough of a condition that it would function.
And if you had this skill and you're successful in potentially doing something, this
forge would definitely still function. It's just fallen to age and ruin over a
long period of time. That's all a question. Could I roll to see
if I have actual blacksmithing experience from my time? You can roll, or
you can just you can have had it if you want. You don't have
to roll for these things in your backstory. If you want to have that
skill, there is certain well, but it's kind of like it's one thing
to be like, oh, I plan to have that, It's another to
be like, I've now entered a scenario where this would be extremely useful.
I definitely have that experience. I've just decided, Yeah, Well, the
difference is mechanically. So when you create a character, you pick a background,
and in that background, quite a lot of the time you'll get something
like skill proficiency with tools. And I don't think any of you have a
blacksmithing or a blacksmith's tools proficiency, so you won't have that, but you
can role play that you have knowledge of it. And I don't mind giving
you sort of boones and understanding that way if you want. You're also welcome
to roll for everything and be like, yeah, I have that knowledge and
that I don't. You won't mechanically get any bones apart from maybe I'll give
you some advantages here and there on checks. I think I'm gonna go ahead
and just decide that I maybe helped a couple of times and watched I liked
watching it happen, but I definitely didn't make a blade from scratch or anything
like that by myself. Completely fine, And in a minute you're gonna be
like, oh, also, I can fly a sixty foot flyer movement.
Yeah, I'm actually an angel. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing
with this stuff. I don't you know your characters, we made them,
you know, they've been a life for years and years and years and years.
Yeah, we made them in twenty minutes and then just started playing,
and then you figure it out as you go along. So I don't care
about some of us made them in twenty minutes. Howkish, I don't regret
it. I have a question, back, or green, I have a
question. Do I believe that I have a piece of bone from the giant
pterodactyl or whatever, and also a piece of bone from the ball. Let's
well, I mean that's up to you whether you believe that. Have you
checked? Well, I wouldn't you have your little knapsack of holding. They're
in my knapsack of holding doing the angels know what to all my little instruments
in there. I don't know what's happening to them or but I know they'd
be dangerous to root around in there for them, I guess. Yeah,
I would like to briefly open the bag and see if I get a feeling.
Okay, you give me a perception check and see it. Give me
a perception check very well. Fifteen fifteen, a's seventeen seventeen. Have you
been checking the ceiling like you ask you to? I have not been doing
anything else? Really? Okay? Yeah, you open the knapsack, and
I think maybe there's that moment of like trepidation where you go to open it
and you're expecting it almost to just irradiate you, you know, you just
or like the whole room just like you. You crack the ceial on this
thing, and then you wake up three days later and everyone's dead and everything's
on fire. But actually, no, it is nowhere near that intense.
There isn't even that huge wave of like that pop of what you know.
I'm just gonna call it radiation because that is essentially what was happening, that
sort of pop of immense and intense feeling and death. However, as you
do so, there is a sound. In fact, there is a terrible
or cry, and a thing like a howling ghost crossed with a great beast
echoes off the chamber walls of the forge, climbing and scraping its way upwards
from below sea, which is what I may be you didn't see. It
is a bizarre creature, a sort of amalgamation of humanoid form and the literal
primal essence of Winter's fury in stark contrast to the sort of the red I
wouldn't say it was warm necessarily down here, but it certainly isn't cold.
The room you recognize now and notice it is cold, is a little colder,
Jilden. Your perception check earlier on was to see whether you notice the
cold they dropping temperature, and I think it is an instant and it isn't
like one of those things were like, oh, it got cold all of
a sudden. It's just like, ah, it is a lot of colder.
This you see first, sort of antlers appear in one of the openings
that are in the ground here that lead down into the into the river.
And then you see a horrible grotesque claw hand thing, a sinewy arm reach
up. Then you see this emaciated beast crawl into view. Its skin is
stretched tightly over its bones. The face is it's sort of a grotesque visage
of razor sharp teeth stained with the blood of the river, as if this
thing has been drinking the river or it's been dipping its face in it.
However, its skull is uh out. It almost looks like it's wearing the
skull of like an elk or something or over its skin. And before you
realize that that is its face, its face is its skull, these sort
of sunken eyes inside this skull, and then nothing but twisted, sinewy arms
and legs scraping and pulling yourself up out of the hole in the ground.
There is a constant sort of frosty breath hanging around it, and Bibble says,
oh, shay, that is so when they go, I knew it.
I knew it, and he looks at Sear and Thrack again. Ah,
this is our fault. This is our fault. This sorry, shut
it. Hey, what do you mean, what do you mean? I
wanted to be my fault as well? Take my blame if you want,
all right, you said, Let's get some initiates. Okay, so you
guys can place yourselves anywhere on those top two platforms the window, go is
this thing down here? H and anywhere on these top two platforms. So
you just take your name from your journal on the right and drag the name
onto the sheet and place it and then roll your initiative. Sorry, you
are all long rested, Yeah, even Thrack. Okay, I added two
of me and just confirming I no longer have the impact of the vampire affecting
my total cool, cool, cool, cool, You are free of the
vampires A nothing. I will truly be free, you know, m hm,
back negative one from may nicative one. Our initiatives always sucks. You
can never have ever rolled an initiative higher than PIM I have a plus four
and six two. I forgot. You have Bibbel on your side as well.
Nice. I'm sure he's going to do a lot good and not by
all I believe in him. Keep the n PC alive, I guess buses
in the chair for Boblin the Coblin. Yeah, he's gonna be with you
forever, isn't it Okay? So there you go, here's a Darrow savant.
But it is okay. The initiatives are a rolled. I'm going to
try and make this and that we can actually all see what's going on over
here on the map for viewers, and it is serious. You're the first
to respond to this thing. There's absolutely no doubt by the way, this
thing is trying to kill you. It is just it is. It is
literally like something from a nightmare crawling up out of the ground. It's doing
that weird movement thing that zombies and creatures do where they're just kind of like
you're like, oh, that thing's so evil it's unbelieve. It's trying to
kill us. There's no doubt about it. This isn't a thing that can
be reasoned with. It is a true monstrosity that is moving towards you.
It sounds almost Jersey Devil esque in its description, right, Okay, I
am going to cast. I'm going to send a big guiding bolt out towards
it. It nineteen nineteen against this creature. He's thinking about it. Okay,
Now I just pull out the window because I haven't got enough screens and
one second for the deal. He was mean. He just roll and then
tell you if it was a hair or not. Okay, I'm gonna cast
this at third level, okay, and so you twelve damage radiant over radiant
damage it does not okay, okay, yep. And then I am then
going to cast Shield of Faith on the rack. Yeah, that's it,
all right, Brank, it's your turn. Yeah, okay, I'm going
I'm going to do uh, I know what I'm doing. I'm going to
uh calst slow on. This creature might have to roll that, h okay,
I don't think. So you are a time around up to six creatures
of your choice in your forty for cube, I just need to make a
wiz say oh yeah, succeed a wisdom saving throw or be affected by a
spell. Okay, here we go. Fourteen. This is your spell?
Is it against my spelled? Okay? The creature speed is halved minus two,
I say, which I mean to remember manually well and dexterity saving throws.
You can't use a reaction. Uh, it can either. It can
use its action or a bonus action, but not both. All right,
okay, anything else in your time? Is this a length here like in
front of me? Yeah, those are not You won't fall down them,
you know what I mean. You can easily step over those the edges of
the map and the thing that it crawled up out of the proper ledges.
But yeah, ignore those little ones. They are actually like things that lead
down into the the blood. I'll just move I'm gonna move over here.
Okay, that's my turn, great Wendy gore. All right, so half
of its movement is gone. Yeah, yeah, all right, so it
can get to there on its turn. Ah, that's it, all right
right, It is now the turn of bibble. H. I don't think
any of these spells are going to be that useful. But I think you
see him kind of like waddle forward a little bit up part up next to
Cyrus, and I think he is going to cast a crazy spell. Yeah,
you see him raise his sort of stave up, and then you see
some energy sort of coalescing at the end of that stave, and he he
says, you're not had to use this one in a long time. It's
called the and then he just launches a lightning bolt towards the wind to go
six so it fails. What comes out of the end of this stave is
canonically exactly the same as what you think of looks like in your head.
It's just a wave of energy launches out of the end of this thing seriously
like sort of fits your clothes. As you're standing next to him, and
the room lights up for a second, this wave of energy strikes the wind
to go. The creature sort of lets out like a cry, but it
sort of keeps coming forward as it takes thirty two lightning damage. Yeah,
Okay, it's the end of his turn. Sear it's your turn, all
right, let's see. So this creature is oh, five ten, fifteen,
five thirty thirty five. I can't really do hm. Okay, I
am going to take see five ten. I'm gonna go ten feet here.
Then I'm going to raise my left hand in front of me. You're going
to cross my ring finger over my middle finger and then claw my hand,
and as I do, I kind of kiss my teeth and make a noise
like that, like a squeak. And I am going to try and someone
a swarm, a swarm of spiders around this creature in order to try and
make you do the thing. Right, What are ca sworm spiders on the
spider infestation? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, So what
do I need to do for that one? That's a description right there?
Common yes, twenty four Yeah, I believe that just about makes it.
Okay. Does anything happen? Probably not. It's a cantrap, right,
No, I think happens okay, yeah, A bunch of spiders a peer.
I don't think this creature is even aware that they're there. I think
you guys see him do this, and you see these spiders a peer,
but this creature just keeps wandering forward. That's okay, yes, all right,
jild in your turn m hm hm. A constitution bonus has changed some
things. Yeah, I got the lord okay, and I do two things
simultaneously. The first this is a risk I might not work considering the circumstances.
Yeah, I conjure a flaming sphere in the end of my staff and
fling it as I turn into a direwolf simultaneously, and with the flaming sphere
and the dire wolf were both interweave and a strange dance. As we go
barreling towards the windergirl as the flaming sphere goes straight straight for him, dexterity
saving for him. All right, let me get you a flaming sphere and
I am now any other creature. You're direwolf. Now. I was going
to say, yeah, it would look almost elegant, totals like running I
am a dire wolf. It does look elegant. Fuck you. I was
actually going to comment how cool it looks in my mind, like an anime
or something. M hmm. All right, Yeah, you can move that
flaming sphere around wherever you want. You can put the dial walk wherever you
want, and should have control over it. Excellent. Yes, you both
go down bowling towards it. I will I actually stop short of it and
skid to the side. I have fifty foot of movement speed, so I'm
going to skid to the side just out of its reach as this spear comes
towards it and smacks it straight in the face. Well, all right,
what do I need to do? What saves? Save a deck? Save?
All right? Twenty three? Yes, that will save Okay, wait
to take half dog seven to his deck. Saves that I didn't add to
the lightning earlier on. So it still takes half damage. Okay, well
I'll take it. It still takes five fire damage. Five fire damage,
all right? These minus two? Imagine in twenty one. Still he does
have a minus too. You're right twenty one. Remember that you need to
keep checking me on that because I will forget. I was thinking about it,
all right, And are you're doing anything in dire wl form or is
that the end of your turn? No? I just skid past in a
distraction. And I also, for those listening, I did fuck this fell
up. I once again, it is supposed to be damaged on the start
of their turn. But we'll just leave it and assume that it does damage.
Yeah, cirrus, Yes, I'm going to cast another diving bault towards
it. Okay, that is a miss. Dang, yeah, I think
this thing is sort of moving along. There's all sort of craziness going on,
and this guiding bolt just strikes the stone of the forge next to it
as it's kind of like jittering and moving in a weird way. Wait,
I doesn't go. I think bolt give some sort of lash to hit the
next attack no idea, No, it should if it succeeds. Yes,
I think that's the first Oh yeah, and the next attack role made against
this target before the end of your next turn has advantage before the end of
my next if I was doing this. Yeah, but I think you get
advantage because you hit it with the guiding bolt last turn and no one's done
an attack roll against this since then you okay, good shot with advantage?
Yes, just a you've already rolled okay, Okay, Well I tried.
I tried to help you. You tried, you tried. You have to
roll it out? What every time you've been hitting them a lot past few
sessions for getting them out, you know, ironic considering red was coming.
Yes, okay, yeah, so this is a miss. What are you
doing? You sed to have a bonus section maybe, uh yeah, but
I'm holding on to this shield of faith for a track sere. How is
your looking? I look fine. I look like I'm the bad running Okay,
then yeah, that's it. Great for me. Okay, I always
do what's the roll on the flaming sphere and I walks for it? Yes,
all right, you can move away from it. Yes, okay,
I'm going to have him keep wondering forward. Then he will cannot have a
turn. Oh sorry, I misread what you were on. Never mind yet
your turn? Okay, excellent, I'm so glad that you ran up to
it. I'm going to cast fireball. Good luck my do you for safety?
So yeah, shoot the fireball out. It lands huge explosion thirteen on
the deck save, which is actually an eleven. That is a no no
no ipposition. It doesn't behind it or something. Yeah, so missus the
save and I rolled pretty terribly on the damages on the eighteen eighteen zamage.
All right, anything else in your turn? No, that's it, that's
my turn, all right? The windy goes turn. Yeah, so this
creature is going to move here the how was that that just moved? All
right? So how does this work here. This is everything that is in
this cone here. So all three of you, Cyrus, Bibbo and Thrack
need to make me actually I need to do that. Can I do far
away? Are you from it? Oh? Yeah? Cool? Right?
Uh, you need to make me constitution saving throws. Please. This thing
sort of breathes inwards and then a huge frost breath attack launches outwards, chilling
everything you just see. It is just like being hit by a tornado briefly
of extreme cold con saves. Please, Bibble, this is a spell.
This is not a spell. Okay, what a good strong five there,
yeap, Bibbel, roll of four. I got a natural twenty two.
Nice? Okay, So you only take half of this amount of damage.
Plus you have your cold bullsy on because it's cold damage. But do I
take a quarter of it? You'll take a quarter of thirty? Cyrus,
you take half of that. Bibble takes half of that as well. Oh,
bustard. As this frost breath is launched out of this creature, why
do they only take half? They don't take Oh no, you're right,
yeah, I'm stupid. You take thirty damage, Jez, sorry right now,
sorry to maya him. This doesn't make any sense. There we go.
He looks like he's about to drop dead. Additionally, a creature that
fails its saving throw by five or more is paralyzed until the end of its
next turn, which is both Bibble and Cyrus. You are frozen in place
until the end of your next turn. So that's Bibble. Now it's Bibble's
turn. He doesn't do anything. Then he unfreezes and he sort of stumbles
backwards. The ice breaks off of him as he stumbles backwards and sort of
leans on his stave. Ah, and that's the end of his turn.
It is Sears turn. Okay, I am going to run towards this creature
who's twenty five feet away from me, running towards him on his western flank.
I'm then going to strike him with my staff. I raise it in
the air and bring it straight down towards his dear skull of a head.
All right, and let's go ahead and try and do that now or thirteen
to hit. I assume that missus. No, it does hit because his
ie is reduced right now, So you do hit with that? Oh okay,
well, okay, in that case, that's seven points of blushing damage.
I'm then going to swing again with my extra attack or twelve to hit
that one misses, That one misses, all right? I then you see
as I approach my my expression is more or less neutral. However, the
eyes on my forehead go from close to almost like a sneer as I then
go into a flurry of blow. Is expending one key point for an unarmed
strike for twenty one to hit? Definitely hit. Okay, that's going to
be five points of blushing damage. Ok Because it's blushing damage. I'm going
to use my crusher feet and move it down five feet towards the flaming sphere
there. Yes, I'm then going to attack it again with another unarmed strike.
And let's go ahead and see how that goes. Nine that misses,
I assume, and I shall then expand the rest of my movement to No,
in fact, I can't because I've missed. All right, That's where
I am. That's my turn. O. Great, um, give me
a perception or a medicine check myself. Okay, perception check is for another
eight and great at these of the mind, Jill Dan, it is your
turn. Wolf Jill as a seer is battering this thing with his quarterstaff.
I utilize that and it's like some insane anime fight scene. This flaming sphere
sears stick as I hop onto it nimbly and use it as a leverage to
jump down upon when to go an attempt to bite him. I also have
pack tactics, but I don't need it because I got a natural twenty five
fox which is ten plus eight piercing, so eighteen and a strength saving throw.
Okay, this is a non magical attack, right, This is just
a physical attack. Yeah. So yeah, you notice as you like dig
your teeth into this thing that it doesn't do as much damage as you feel
like it should do. This thing has got resistance to bludgeoning, piercing,
and slashing damage from non magical attacks. You are now aware of children.
This is magical, That's what I'm asking. Yeah, I don't know,
is it. I'm another check. There's something that happens where you're something something
magical. And then I think at both our levels right now, our moves
constituted as being magical at least mind does for my alarmed strikes. Now that
you're definitely magical. Yeah, you were doing full damage. Yes, starting
at sixth level, your attacking beast. One counter is magical for the purpose
of overcoming resistance and immunity. Okay, cool, Yeah, Then disregardless of
that, you do eighteen damage to it, okay, and then a strength
saving throw please, Then a strength save seventeen probably made it it's act yes,
yes, excuse okay, so it's not knocked prone. And then yes,
it is in range of the flaming sphere again, which is bobbing around
again, just kind of leaving in and out, and that is my attack.
You can make me a perception or a medicine check as well. Yay.
Eighteen. You're watching some of the damage that you're doing to this thing
as you tear its flesh. You see it's flesh kind of knit back together
as it seems to be slowly regenerating. This creature has a regenerative element.
Cyrus, you are paralyzed, your entire turn passes. You are now unparalyzed,
and that's the end of your turn, which brings us to thrack.
Do I have a free turn here to relate that information or do I have
wit my turn to tell the racket this thing is regenerating. Well, you
didn't see it, so I don't know if you know, of course,
you are absolutely free to do this, and so I kind of assume,
and is a point going forward. I think it's up to you if you
want to role play it out, but I kind of do assume that if
I give one of you a piece of information unless I kind of go with
unless you tell me specifically that you don't tell anyone else for some reason,
that we see jild and run up bite this thing and then turn around and
in a weird wolf dire wolf way, is shouts like it's regenerating. You
know, it tastes regenerating. Yeah, Iop, I give you gut rot
or whatever. He says that you remember that movie Dog Soldiers, No One,
no one in the world. He says something like it's one of my
he gives. He says this insane line as he's about to be eaten by
a wolf and he like the thing grabs him. He's beating eating by a
were wolf and he's against the wall and the guys he's got the most London
accent. He's like, ipe, I give you gut rot, and then
he gets eaaten by the thing and make me laugh so much. I don't
think that's even the line but it's something like that. And remember last summer,
that is what I imagine what happened to Jordan in a minute when she
gets eaten by this creicture. Rack your turn. Yeah, I'm going to
move back here and I'll do a fire bolt. Okay, a bit of
fire comes out at the tip of my work by a bolt, not the
ball bolt. Okay, I was looking at this like everyone as well.
A little all the fire comes out of the must staff and fifteen fifteen hits
seven fire damage. You took damage, right, you both need to do
concentration. Actually, seriously, your concentration Oh yeah, fully stops. Oh
yeah, slow concentration, Yeah it is. You will still hit either way,
but you've reminded me. It's it. It's constitution right, Uh,
it's a con save. Yes, sorry, okay, it's broken. He's
no longer slowed. Because I'm a war caster, I have advantage on constitution
savings throws. But because I was paralyzed, does that override the hit?
Yeah, because you're not making a save. It just breaks it because you
can concentrates the same as going down. Yeah, okay, okay, all
right, so yeah, you've still got a bonus action attack the movement.
Yeah no, I've got I've got nothing. Okay. End of turn Windy,
go save please six save, yes, okay, ten fail. That's
the full two six ten fire damage from the flaming sphere and fire damage.
Okay, it'll so heals. Thank you for reminding me that it heals as
wolverine moment happens. All right, let's see here appearing on the anvil is
a fantasmal image of your worst fear. Uh see you and Jilden. It's
up to you if you want to tell us what that is. But you
do need to make me a wisdom saving throne. I don't think I see
anything. Oh you know what? You know what? Fuck you? But
I'm not going to make you your immune to the fucking spell. Yeah,
my roll does the wolf or roll does mean yourself. So you roll as
you for the wisdom. Okay, say fifteen fifteen. I think you make
it as well. Where is your spell? So? Yeah, you just
make it? So what what do you see? And except to you if
you want to tell us or if it's character breaking just weird? You see
it? But you know that this isn't real. Yeah, it looks fantasmal.
I see a prone figure, slender, tall, laid across the anvil,
bleeding profusely, absolutely torn apart. Very familiar to me. Yeah,
okay, I will so just read this and didn't see it. But neither
of you started your turn within ten feet? Actually you did, didn't you?
Yield done? Ron me a con save please? Oh sixteen makes it
breaks it nice that you only take half of this five cold damage? And
then see you ran in, didn't you? So you didn't because there's a
lot of it on its turn and on your turns, and I'm juggling all
of these things. Okay, cool Bibble's turn. Bibble Bibble is going to
do one of these other bullshit things. But I need to need to read
it again. Oh okay, yeah, how messed up do you look?
Cyrus m I'm not looking so hot, but I'm not out for the count
yet. He steps behind you and says, I'm gonna hide behind you all
right for a second year, And then he bites his finger like really viciously,
just bites the side of his finger and narrow toe style and just rips
a piece of his flesh. Blood starts running down his hand, and then
he just flicks it at you and a bunch of blood lands on you.
The blood lands on your clothing and armor, and then it just moves like
the carnage symbio around and then it just you feel this sort of warm splash
of blood and then it runs across your skin and you heal ten plus spell
casting modifier, so you heal four fourteen HP. WHOA did he bite his
spare finger or one of his normal ones? I think just one of his
normal like his index finger, because that's the rules, right In movies and
stuff, they always take a knife out and cut the palm of their hand
as deep as they can, and it's like, dude, cut like your
elbow or something. Why are you in your hand? That's insane? Okay.
At the end of each of your turns, uh, you need to
make me a con save uh or you take a little bit of damage from
this spell cyrus. Okay. That's how this spell works. It heels you
good and then it slowly strains you away it hurts you afterwards. Yeah,
I'm just how long it lasts? Oh a minute? Okay? So the
next ten times just forever basically times okay, So that is his action.
Do any bonus actions the ball I don't think so. All right, that's
his turn, Sea, your turn, and you need to roll me a
consave please, one constitution safe coming right, twenty nice, you take half
of this, which is five cold damage, and that is because this thing
has a chilling aura that's just from being this close to it. By the
way, he's pretty chill, gotcha, he's chill. All right. Then
I'm going to swing down on him with my water staff for twenty two to
hit. Twenty two will definitely hit. Okay, that's six into bluzging damage.
And as for my crusher feet, I want to push him again away
five feet away from me, towards like the southeast if possible. There kind
of occupies the same space as Jilden, so it kind of needs to go
there. I think they can't occupy the same spot. All right. Then
I'm going to swing down a game and my quarter staff for twenty one to
hit. Twenty one definitely hits. Yeah, ten points of bludging damage.
Okay, And then again I throw my staff around me using that again.
It's almost like it takes a life of its own as it like swings towards
my back, and as I do, I turn doing like a scissor kick
for an unarmed strike, like so for thirteen to hit, I guessing that
doesn't hit anymore because he's no longer slowed. Correct, Yeah, all right,
as I miss, I land on my feet and punch outwards while in
a long stance for my second punch or a twenty four to hit. Yeah,
that's going to be five points of bluzzoning damage. Now as my fist
connects, I'm going to extend my fingers out and push outwards again. This
is for an open hand technique where now he needs to make a strength saving
throat thirteen A thirteen fails, he gets pushed fifteen feet to the southeast.
Is that there? Yes? All right, he's on the edge here as
he he pushes him back, and you see his claws and not just the
ones. This thing I imagine this thing kind of looks like a death claw
from fall Out in a way, but we've just a death claw mads A
Marriwuac these horrible lis feet and the mid journey that and its claws gripping at
the edges here as the stone breaks away and the the you see it kind
of like look backwards and there's this drop down into the blood, but it
remains standing here right on the very edge. Okay. I then run around
the verge of its frost aura and stop somewhere here. That's my turn.
Yeah, all right, Jilden, your turn. I pressed the attack,
carrying the beast and try and jump straight on its back and again once again
bite. I do not have advantage this time because I don't have an ally
within five foot, so is a miss. And then with my bonus action,
I ram the thing with my sphere again an interweaving of well off and
fired. It's very cool. It's another dexterity saving throw please all right,
song and interweaving of wolf and fire at George R. Lmin book and that
wouldn't half damage, so oldest three fire damage. And then I am actually
going to back away from it and out of its aura, absorbing any opportunity
attacks. It doesn't have one because it loses it with my open hand technique.
Also cool, all right, all right? So then in that case,
I'm going to actually run it's right hand side into open space, and
the sphere is right on top of it again, and that is the end
of my turn. Yeah, cool, Sarahs. This thing is kind of
like wobbling on the edge. There's a flaming sphere in front of it that's
freaking it out. These two kind of do a double up a team up
attack here, where Se pushes it back, Jilden presses the attack and then
they both dash away from it. Okay, mmmmm, I am going to
make a saving throne. Oh yes, constitution, it is a con save.
Yes, it's at the start. Okay. Three, if it's at
the start, actually is at the end of your turn. But I don't
think it's been a matter much. Well, three is definitely a fail.
Rommi a D ten okay, allow, because this is the amount of necrotic
damage you take. Four necrotic damage. Okay, And from behind you you
hear him say, I think I might got one of them words wrong.
No way, he's not from London. I think I've got one of them
words wrong, as he's sort of like mulling over because he's barely conscious.
Okay, I am going to Yeah, I'm gonna trust my team here to
continue doing damage. I'm going to cast Speacon of Hope, which everyone gets
wisdom saving throws and death saving throws. Who gains the maximum number of hit
points. We all know, and that's everyone in thirty feet Oh sr has
moved since the last time I planned this, So I'm can I move and
then cast it? Yes? Thank you? Okay, I'm just gonna move
slightly forward here and that should get sorry sorry, yeah, it's great.
That's nice. I stand on top of the anvil, cast Beacon of Hope,
and then I then do mass healing word everyone gets seven oh nos crime
and that includes Bibble. Yeah. Wait, it's seven. The maximum healing
that that can come from that everyone would get max that would be eight.
Yeah, okay, so eight yeah, im one on my I don't think
I'm within thirty free of you, am I? No. Bibble's like sucking
his finger and he's like, oh, you can heal as much better than
my candy. Okay, anything else on your turn? No, that's everything,
all right, rank your turn. Yeah, I'm going to cast a
magic missile, but I'm going to do it a spell level two O four
dance come out of the end of my start, and they all hit automatically
because that's the magic in magic missile. And this is damage two three four
four, so thirteen damage, okay, thirteen damage all right, and that's
that's it. Actually no, I will move. It's feel stupid, but
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna move, move back to where I was,
and it's just gonna come up and freeze us own place again. Alright,
do your worst. Okay, let's see who has first. I wanted
to do a flaming sphere thing, right, yeah, okay, so I
am fucking this up every time, but it's if it ends its turn in
this space, then it will take the damage, which she did last time,
so that's fine, or if I run you or both. Right.
Umm. Yeah, I don't think it really sees the wolf as much of
a threat. I don't think it knows what to make of the flaming sphere,
so I think it's obviously going to step away from that ledge. My
friend step over here a little bit, and then I guess I'll see if
this recharges first. No, okay, see her? Yes, you alone
must make me think a common save. I can't access his spells. This
is a spell, by the way, if you asked me earlier on yeah,
that was for if he was slow. Everybody's not in okay, right
right? Con save seah, okay, one con save, coming right up.
I'm good at these nine and nine. Okay, so you will take
thirty four damage as another sort of This is the cone of cold spell,
but it's essentially the exact same as its frost breath. You just you see
this creature sort of pick up some of that cold and it rushes out towards
you as it starts moving towards you as well as it moves towards you,
and just as you sort of recover from this cone of cold, it's kind
of on top of you here. Okay, but that is the end of
its turn. Bibble. I don't think he can do any of his blood
spells right now, but a lot of these blood spells like weird little rituals.
Okay, so he is going to do I wonder if you know what.
I'm just gonna roll for how scared he is right now of this creature.
And he's pretty scared. I think he's probably gonna stick back. M
there's this one day sixty feet or all right, he can launch some blood
at it. Let's go with this. Thanks, save twenty four forget it.
You see bibbles, like he whirls his staff around and then launches sort
of like what looks like burning blood out towards the creature. It lands and
rains, and Pepper's the area kind of burning in an almost acidic way,
little bits of smoke coming up from the blood that lands around the wind Togo.
But the uh, the spell is ineffective. That's the end of his
turn. See your turn. Okay, I take it. I have to
roll a constitution save now right right twenty Okay, you only take half of
this ten Ooh. If I didn't succeed, I would have been down.
Okay, So I am now going to run around him until I am on
this side of him, and then I am going to strike him with my
staff yet again. Ten to hit. I presume that missus ten missus nineteen
to hit at it five points of blushing damage, and he's moved five feet
to the southwest. Hype a shoe, And now I'm going to yet again
this time around. I'm battered. I'm in fact, it's not really that
I'm batted so much that my skin looks like it's cracking where I've essentially been
free stored, like the frost has run over me and parts that have cracked
as the ice is cracked, My skin is cracked underneath. I'm not looking
very good. I'm going to make an unarmed strike. My eyes open wide.
Are the ones between my nose or on either side of my nose,
but the ones above my forehead, and I'm going to attack OR seventeen stay
hit seven points of blotting damage. Okay, And as this happens yet again,
my fist opens and I push forwards again, expending yet another key point.
He now has to make another saving throw of the strength variety. I
believe sixteen sixteen succeeds. Okay, Well in that case, I believe one
second. Okay. I can then attack him again with my unarmed OR twenty
to hit seven voice of blooding damage, and he has to make yet another
one as I spend I believe twenty five twenty five. Okay, alright,
he is standing strong and that is the end of my turn. I shall
try. I'll try and run this way. I'll just run north away from
him. He does get an opportunity attack, it does, okay, Yes,
if we packed tactics, you're pasted eighteen versus your Okay, you hit
me more piercing damn. Let table talk be mm hm me no, no,
no, leah, the table talk me into it I said, I
told you, I said, I don't get fack to this because none of
my allies are within five feet of you. Takes fourteen piercing damage. Oh
my god, on top do you have an opportunity attack? What did you
do last time? I stopped if from having it. I succeeded my pushback
at okay, which means you're actually here where you weren't trying to run so
down, but also make me a con save. As as you sort of
turn to flee, you recognize this creety it does that one of those weird
jerks, and just sort of it moves into such an unpredictable way that you
go to move and then you look down and it's actually bitten into your thigh.
It drags you a moment and you've just taken too much damage from the
cold that you pass out. And I think as we as an audience maybe
see this thing tear some of the flesh from your thigh. It lets go,
but you recognize there's a sort of a twisted magical energy that seeps into
your body. You are cursed with supernatural hunger. You cannot regain hit points
and have disadvantage on wisdom saving throws curse last until removed by a removed curse
spell or similar magic. Nice. Oh no, not good? Jilding into
your turn? Can I ask a question just because I'm a bit ignorant of
how curses work in D and D. Does the spell magic? Okay?
You no, it doesn't. It's a curse. But that means I'm dead
because I've been taking to zero and I'm cursed. I can't be healed,
so I'm dead. Or you can make your hold on Okay, you're not
hold on. I can. I'm actually not that I can have to make
another character that I can actually stand. Please, my gosh, would spare
the would spare the dying? Prevent like? It would make him stable?
So he is good until I can remove the curse. You you can all
so do the manual stabilization in this with a medicine check. Okay can Yeah,
I have removed a curse. It's just not it's not prepared, so
it would have. I don't know the fuck they do, but yeah,
okay, I have to get to him. You've got to get to him
for a manual, so you can. Anyone can stabilize someone with a medicine
check. So's it's essentially just wild up med RP. You just run up
to them. Yeah yeah, right, slash me packs wounds and then that's
what. Yeah, you're immediately healed of any wound that you could possibly ever
have for some reason. If you make that check, if you fuck that
check up, you will potentially do more damage though. And also, Spare
the Dying is literally yeah, it's just instant stabilization. I think I haven't
seen the spell in a while. But spare the Dying. So you touch,
you do have to touch him. You touch a living creature that has
zero hit points, the creature becomes stable, so it just stops him from
bleeding out and dying yet. Yeah, yeah, that's something from having to
do death staves. It's really what that is. Yeah, okay, yeah,
you can be at zero hit points and be stable. If he gets
three successes on his hit point death staves he gets, he becomes stabilized.
That's what happens there, got it. Okay, you can stay in that
state forever, basically, you know. Okay, cool, good to know.
Okay, it is Jilden's turn. You see Sea thrown to the ground
by this creature. This creature doesn't do the animalistic thing of like trying to
eat him. Either, it immediately just like lifts its head up and starts
scanning for the rest of you. It doesn't seem to be interested in like
consuming serious thing is actually just trying to kill you, maybe for fun,
or maybe it eats later or something, but it's immediately forgotten about sea right
now. I don't think I changed my tactics. Infact, use my bat
attraction to rear the sphere back and ram it once again, which again another
deck save twenty three. There's four bad damage in that case, and I
will Yes, I'm gonna check my distance, yes the phone, run at
it and leap at it an attempt to bite it once again. That's natural
twenty again for ten piercing damage and a strength saving throw please okay twenty one
on the strength save. Yeah, that succeeds. Okay. He some strong
and dexterous and constitutional constitution Americans love him at this time. I hang on
to him. I'd sink my claws into his shoulders and tear and worry away
his neck whatever is inter yeah, okay, cirrus, Yes, okay,
I am going to run to sear uh cast spare the dying. What do
yeah, I h I crouched down and I put my hand on his forehead
and then to the side of his face, and then I bring my forehead
to his forehead, and then a white glow sort of travels down through his
body like in a in a flash, and then he's he just still looks
the same afterwards. But that's that's it. And then you said that this
guy has no interest in eating. It doesn't look like no. He seems
he's now sort of like wrestling with the dial Wolf to be honest. Okay,
uh, then I'm going to Missy step out of here and just get
back over here. Okay, thanks to Biball, rack your turn. Yeah,
I'm going to try to slow it again, so sort of a cereal
pocket watch comes upon it and starts ticking down and it is a wisdom saving
throw twenty. Oh you know what, roll it again with my special chronology
mage bullshit eleven and eleven fools. He's glad. I used that when I
was trying to push him off the legs, I didn't think about it,
so he could land, and so he could land in the magical angel blood
and be healed and then also turned into a transformer that kills us. All
the extra arm people told us. You can go into it and die and
give yourself to the that's the phase two buddy. Yeah, okay, that's
my. That's my. That's it again. All right? Oh actually I
will run away. Okay, Windy goes turn first, it will Wolverine heel
for a moment, it gets burned by the flaming sphere. Now if it
ends turn here, yes yeah. Oh, if it ends turned okay,
all right, I'm going to roll for this will potentially change the course of
the entire game five or six. This is gonna be bad. Oh,
se, You're immediately back on death saves. I wonder, actually, someone
do a google for me. Does this just put him on death saves or
does it mean he because he's stable at zero, does he lose a death
like fail one immediately? Why does it just put him straight or does it
just put him back into them because you're taking damage, well, stable and
down. I think because you're stable at zero and you're taking damage, I
think it just puts you on death saves. That makes sense, That's what
I would row, but I'm not one hundred percent sure. And children,
you need to make me a con save place. What could you do to
him? Because the amount of damage meadows as well. Right, so if
you hit me, then I go into death saves. I don't lose too
immediately. Okay, six, Well let's see, the amount of damage is
thirty six. You take thirty six cold damage both of you. I use
a reaction to absorb elements instinctively in this case, and absorbs with that cold.
But I do remove from the wild shape and I am back into my
total form the wolf is okay. Now, if thirty six is more than
Sea's maximum, he will instantly die. That's that's not the case, thank
you. Oh my god, dude, that's what I was actually afraid of.
Like, this is not good either, but that was the that was
the scary one. If now, if he takes more damage, does this
mean he's at like negative thirty six? No, I think I just need
to do it in one hit, one go. So if I do this
again next turn and he does his maximum more one more than his maximum,
I think he dies. Wax says he takes an immediate fail. Going,
I think he takes an immediate foul. But you actually google, yeah,
yeah, look at that all right, But you're also the player, so
trust you. Yeah, you're biased, very mind. Whack is the GM
of doom, and I'm the nicest, most wonderful GM of all time.
That's all flaming spir disappears, which is hilarious because it's the other way around
in real life because Whack is much nicer than me, and but as a
GM, I'm the nice guy. Anyway. You're on death saving throws.
Let's see it again. Mm hmm, Jilden, you do absorb elements and
what does that do that completely negates it or it just no, just captures
some of it, lessening its effect on you and storing if your next melee
attack. So resistance to the triggering damage type until the start of my next
turn, and then my next melee attack will do the triggering damage. Okay,
so you only take half of that phase six cold No, I say
the full damage. Oh wait, no, you're resistance of the damage.
No. No, with I believe further attacks. No, I'm pretty sure
you get it immediately. It says lessening it, which it doesn't have any
specific Yeah. Yeah, so resistance so you give your you immediately as well?
Yeah? Okay, I thought it meant from anything after this. No,
no, no, this is this is literally what the spell is for.
You immediately give yourself resistance to whatever is doing it, which is cold,
so you take half of the damage, and then you also store because
that's what a reaction is. It's like stop, this is happening, and
then you continue with ned case I'm still a wolf. Yeah, this spell
is just there's a couple of spells that do this, but this is one
of the no spells, you know, old No, all right, I
think it's gonna you know what. I think that's probably where it's gonna stay.
You're still like holding onto it and biting it and stuff. Yeah,
yeah, turning away at it, all right, you still have to take
half of the damage that I don't know if you I'm tracking the die wolf
bibble, can bibble do any bullshit? Probably not. Yeah. I don't
think any of his blood and magic is going to help right now. I
think he just needs to do some some damage. Uh yeah, let's just
go with this one again. This is a let's throw a ball of blood
at it the deck save six. Yeah. Again, he's just sort of
flinging blood from the orb on the end of his stave over there. It's
it's just these orbs of blood that they're like, he's almost throwing water bombs
full of blood that are just landing and missing. See her a death saving
throw please, okay, saving throw? Okay, one moment, please call
it? Death saves are here? Twelve save? Yeah, however I now
lose two because of the cone that I'm now in. What I lose?
Actually? Yeah, when you took yeah, you actually you actually know you
were put on death you were put on death saving throwers from the ORB from
No. Yeah, you're right, No, you're right, you're right.
Yeah, it's on your turn. You're correct. Yeah, So then you
make so you get one make for your action and then one fail for starting
your turn. Two fails because I'm hurt. But do you take turn and
you're when you're hit taking death saving throws? That's that's a crit. So
you lose two saves? Is it? I never I never did that.
I've always done it as one. But you weren't hit on the death saves.
You went to your death saves because you were hit. I see.
Okay, I'm just trying trying expertly, trying to save your character's life,
or you insist on killing it in front of everyone. Well, I'm just
following the rules. Yeah, I feel like that is not the role.
But someone says, only if it's a melee attack at melee range, I
think that is it. But even then, I never I've never had that
role. So if you take damage while you're downed, it's only one death
side I'm not doing. I don't get into any of that is technically a
crate bullship. Okay, that's for it's only a creative it's a sword or
something. Okay, then there's only one fail. Yeah, and even then
I won't have that. I don't do that role anyway, because that's just
all right. I mean, I guess maybe maybe you don't salivate killing your
players or the sword in describe every last detail. Some gms absolutely love it
and they but yeah, okay, then I'm down to watchat right now.
Some gms actpert absolutely love it. Yeah, I see them in there,
and his name's Wax. He's in there creaking around. Whack Stephen is the
wind to go underneath the skull. It's okay, So you get one make
and one fail then right, and it is Jilden's turn. Okay, twists
choices, we don't get choices. I disengage and pull away from it slightly.
Okay, Oh you need to roll consave? Yes, what is this
for? Can you start your turn in? The eighteen eighteen is a make
so you only take half of this amount of cold damage fifteen so seven okay,
and yes, I back off in the hopes that it will try and
retaliate and hit me. Oh you wanted to try and get you? Oh
yeah, okay twenty two Yes, that will make all right. Seventeen piercing
damage. You also need to make me a con saving throw thirteen thirteen is
a fail. You are cursed again. You see this thing bite you.
There is sort of weird magic that seeps into the bite. You can't regain
hit points and a disadvantage on wisdom saving throws. A curse last until removed
by a curse bell similar magic. Also, it says you are cursed with
supernatural hunger, So I think interpret that however you want, but the truth
you do you are cursed with supernatural hunger as well. But I think that's
sort of flavor text. But you know, play it how you want.
Okay, Yeah, it's bitten you, okay, which is what I am
no longer a dire wolf. I have reverred back to a children form,
and I rush back as far away as they can get, and I will
use thorn Whip, which is a merely spell attech. Who's it? Is
it? Who's it? Who is it? Eighteen eighteen does hit? That
is nine piercing and it just pulled ten feet towards me and away from sir.
Okay, nice, Really, I will use a bonus action healing word
to heal sir. Okay, yeah, do you understand the gymnastics table talk.
He's cursed. If you can't heal him, will he just will he
stabilized? Or will he? But I don't think healing. Yeah, I
think he needs I think he needs the d C first. Well, I
can't spare the dying again. Yeah, it just like keeps him from the
death saves, but he can't heal it all. Yeah that's fine. Okay,
Well, the main thing was getting it away from him. Basically,
have to long rest so that I can. Yeah, we have to keep
him memorized. I don't have it. I don't have it prepared, so
I have it, don't have it prepared, So we're gonna have to like,
yeah, I don't know. We're gonna have to keep him spared the
Dying for as long as possible. How many times do we haven't told he
is fine? Uh? Don't tell me that too. I think fer one
then Oh my god, okay, yeah, kill the thing. Okay,
okay, I am going to I'm manic, I'm manic. Okay, I'm
running thirty feet over to him. I cannot reach him to do spare the
dying because I Missy stepped too far away, which is awesome. I love
me for that, But I will cast sanctuary on him. Uh so until
the spell ends. Any creature who targets the Wordy Creature with an attack or
harmful spell must first make a wisdom saving throw, lose the attack or spell.
Blah bla blah. It's just basically make sure he doesn't get hit again,
hopefully. Okay, and is there anything else that I can Oh?
I forgot to add my one six cold from the absorbing elements. I just
realized it was a melee spell attack, so okay, it counts, which
is four yea cold damage. You can tell that cold damage is not effective
against this creature, but it does do it's shoe damage. Then I'm also
going to cast sacred flame on it? Why not? So sixteen deck saved
fifteen it makes it break? Okay, there's nothing, Okay, great,
very cool. That's it. Thank you, that's it. Well, yeah,
that's it. Okay, track, I think we'd like to know.
Can I study how injured it is without using an action? But how's it
looking? Is it bleeding out of its mouth? Well? This is the
thing is that it's regenerating. That it's really hard to see, which is
why I'm only giving it to the people that have been in melee range with
it. Because this thing looks weird and it doesn't. It really doesn't look
like it's injured at all from far away because of the way it looks,
because it just looks like a horrible It almost looks like an undead creature.
It's like a horrible, monstrous thing. So yeah, I don't think you
can tell without an action. You can use an action and I'll let you
do a sort of rudimentary libra, you know, final fantasy libra. Ah,
No, no, thank you, that's up to you. Yeah,
okay, I am gonna do I'm gonna do magic missile again at at second
level. So four more dants come out of the tip of my staff,
and they all strike the wind to go in different places. Those are the
noises he makes, except for more beasts. You someone could do that,
please nice accellent thirteen damage, eighteen damage, Okay, it's good, all
right? Anything else, Yes, I'm going to move in twenty five.
I guess I probably don't want to go into the four which I'm going to
go here. Okay, the end of your turn, yep, all right.
What's the rules in spell casting when it's slowed? Yeah, he's going
to roll a D twenty and uh. If it's an eleven or higher,
the spell doesn't take effect until the creature's next turn, and the creature must
use its action on that turn to complete the spell. If it can't,
the spell is wasted. A creature affected by the spell makes another wisdom saving
throughout at the end of it. Stone, Okay, I have to roll
over an eleven twenty nine, so hold on, I think I'm a little
confused. On an eleven or higher, the spell doesn't take effect until the
next turn. It's delayed until the next turn, and he asked use both
actions to actually complete the well. Right. On an eleven or higher but
it doesn't say anything about what happens if it's under an eleven, So I
guess nothing, right, Okay, it's so random that it's I would have
thought it was an eleven sunder, you know. Yeah, all right,
well, I'll put it in a chat so people can read. Yeah,
let's just go with that ruling for now. Jilden, make me a strength
saving thrower. Please thirteen? He needed fourteen. You are pushed five feet
backwards as this creature creates a gust of wind as it sees you, pushes
its hands out, and you just feel this wind buffet you and push you
backwards. Questions how high apart we from this river? Pretty high up?
This forge is actually closer to the river than the bridges have been, but
you're still fifty feet up okay. And is there any way up from this
river towards where we are or is it pretty entirely separate? It's pretty entirely
separate. Yeah, there are like lots of ropes and pulleys and things around,
but there aren't any just like you know, steps down or there's little
ladders that get you out of a swimming pool. I see this happen.
I see her fall off, and I'm going to give her. I'm going
to give her another chance to hold on. All right, we see the
wind come back lash, then it casts the spell again. Jilled and pin
wheeling her arms and stuff. But give me another strength save eat fourteen twenty
two buffets you and you sort of just like ruptions. Stand still, Okay,
I admit try. I was going to let you try. In Indiana
Jones with the thorn whip, I had a few things. Actually, there
was a number of things I could have done. To be honest, I
was like, they're gonna have to get real creative here. Oh yeah,
I ruined it, all right? No no, no, instead death yeah,
stuff falling off of stuff is the most dangerous ship. All right.
Bibble's turn. Bibbles did the same bullshit that seem at ten Spirit bar Bibble.
He actually fails. He does hit him with the destructor disc rilling.
This is this is only one D six acid damage he's doing, but he
does four damage to the creature. It is Sears turn. Oh my god,
I shake on the ground and succeed. Okay, goodness another success to
successes one fail. Jilding, it is your turn. You are to stop
pin wheeling at the edge of this the ledge. What would you like to
do? You're very annoying. She points a finger at it. How tall
is this cabin? Is it like really imagine a huge chasm kind of thing.
Yeah, the cavern's pretty tall, you know. I run away from
this precarious position up towards this staircase here and above us in this chasm,
a huge storm cloud begins forming, and it looks nothing like you've ever seen.
It's red where rain white fall. Instead, blood falls as it forms
from this blood lake. And I call down lightning on the windergo. So
that's dexterity saving through all right? Are you channeling the river or is it
just an effect channeling the river? I think a little bit. Yeah,
all right, if you're pulling from the river, and he did say this,
you do get little bonuses. So this is disadvantage. And eighteen probably
still made it. Yeah, hold on half a bunch of damage, so
that's fine. You got any more of those chronal buttons, so it takes
half of the two. It's the sixteen still, No, okay, I
s my DC is not great. It has four H has six H,
so how do you kill it? Yes, this lightning, and it's like
blood lightning. It's bright red. It comes down from this chasm sky and
strikes the windergo and instead of dissipating, it stays in place. This blood
lance that goes all the way up to the chasm, and the entire thing
is petrified. I tried hardcore metal guitarists to come in window. It has
just been petrified by blood from a lightning. I wouldn't have any ramifications in
the future. I'm sure the coolest thing you've ever done in your line.
Yeah, that was unbelievably metal, dude. Uh yeah, the most metal
thing you've ever seen in your life happens and Bibble sort of like standing there
watch this, watches this whole thing happen and looks at the window go and
says, oh you did it. Oh that's the things ah, and normally
just run. You're quite strong, he says to you children. I'd like
to go up to this petrified and try and take it like at the face
of the skull of it. Just you do that. Are you gonna wear
it? Yes? Oh my god, dude, what one is attached to
it? Still? Yeah? Absolutely? And then I will silently go and
stand next to see her and just look over him. Bibble sort of just
like falls cartoonishly onto his butt and just like leans against the nearest like wall
and just lets his staff hit the ground, and he's just sort of catching
his breath. Yeah. I run over to see her, and I cast
spear the dying and I look to the others and I say, I can
cure the curse, but I need to rest. I have to prepare it.
Okay, shall we rest here? I don't know if we should have
rest here. It's pretty dangerous if she hadn't. It's not the only one.
There's lords of them. Can we move him safely while he's uh spared
spared while he's I don't know like the rules around like moving. I mean,
yeah you can, it's injured. It's difficult to move him. I
guess. Here's the thing. When you were dragging, when you were dragging
thrack across the planes, and I just sort of forced this upon you in
the in between sessions, But you I imagined that you'd built this sort of
makeshift thing that was just like two logs with the pelt between it, and
then you put him in it and it was just a stretcher that you dragged
along or carried between two of you. Do you still have that? We
wouldn't have gotten rid of it, right, we'd be carrying alt Is on.
It is part of I'm not very good. Most the thrack just pick
you up and well we can't. You can't. Actually I don't. I
don't have lea tape memorized. But there's another bullshit spell where you can just
create a disc or it's got something like a floating disc, tensors, floating
disc or something like that. I don't know that. It's make something into
one of those Star Wars you know, like everything just they're pushing stuff around
and they don't have wheels, but they push everything on a floating whatever it's
called. I ran a Star Wars campaign last year that and I can't remember
a single thing from it. But you can tune in. You can watch
that on the VODs if you want to. Rise of the Apprentice really good.
Yeah, it was really good. It's really really good. Thanks to
her, well, thanks to Booster Greg. I really think it was the
players that really brought that one together. Yeah. Yeah, just realizing my
worst fears and nightmares the dark side. Bibbel walks over and says, Oh,
is he dead? That's all right, just push him off the ledge,
no drop down, and he'll be one with the river. No,
he's not dead. We have to move him. We have to move him
and then I can I can heal him. But we have to find some
more safe. All right, Okay, there's not really anywhere safe. What
do you mean by safe? Could you define that for me? But where
we won't be attacked by another one to go in the next eight hours?
Oh okay, where do you sleep? Well in my house may be?
And why is your house safe? Well, we got walls, We've got
these little sticks we put out at night and it stops things from walking in.
And we put this stuff along the ceiling that lets us know when something's
crawling along the ceiling. I'd like to go to your house, but I
said pretty far away because we came here instead of going that way. You
remember, I can't take this a few hours, I'd say, I mean
I think you can. Can you carry him? You look you look strong,
all sodd And I get the bowl out and just make a dime around
us, which is why didn't we do that? We put the safet of
safety. It creates whatever you make On the first night in Minecraft, he
says, what's that safety? Just that out of sticks. Oh, it's
like a little hose. Yes, you're welcome to Chad if you want to
be. Oh, I'd love to Ian. Oh no, no, no,
I wouldn't dream of it. Oh that's a strange can dream of interesting?
Why is it safe? Though? I don't ask questions I don't want
to answers to. I start meditating so that I can prepare remove curse,
and I'm just there next time, I I would like to spend this time
examining the wind to go and the land in the river and see fucking figure
out how to make her. I had to do some malcoming with marsh laugh,
okay, children. Then I take out my little vial of blood,
apply it to the when they go mask, tied it up a little bit,
and then get back and relax. Sorry on on the ground. Eyes
as I am unconscious and but I'm stable. My two normal eyes are shut,
as they would be if somebody was at death door sleeping or unconscious.
But the eyes on my forehead, those spider like things are all open at
the They're never always fully open. They kind of glance and dart about the
place, and especially so either if I have like an AMMO that's really strong,
or if I'm in combat. But the first time, they just open
and looking around as if like that's me and my normal eyes are shut but
I'm not moving, but they're just perceeding. Okay, alright, alright,
freak all right, freak Bibble says, would anyone like a song to pass
the time? In fact one? Okay, can I use your shell?
Absolutely not, And he takes out two drumsticks and starts playing your shell like
it's a drum and he says, when I wake up, well, I
know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the mane new wakes up next to you
and when I go out, yeah, I know I'm gonna ben. Hello.
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