Previously on oops All Boards. Clarice Bell, Andrinki Kilonian. The four Bards
with acting Secretary Gideon storm Caller at the Chalomir train station come across the classmate
cretatious under Thigh, who is to accompany them on their journey to Tabart Sava,
the seat of Chalomir's standing army. Suspicious of everyone and everything, some
of the bards decide to surveil the train station for strange activity, while Bell
and Keilonian create a semi intentional diversion by performing for the crowd and end up
gaining quite a bit of coin in the process. The remaining bards noticed some
potentially noteworthy activity on the part of a few train porters, and also notice
a very large strange crate awaiting transport, but they are unable to discover more.
The train pulls into the station and the bars find their seats, discovering
themselves to be the only first class passengers aboard. The Bard's journey begins uneventfully
enough, but after some time the train lurches to a stop, injuring Secretary
storm call and a few members of the party. Mercifully but somewhat mysteriously,
Keloonian steps pat chicken angel escapes unharmed. A porter enters the first class car
and tries to get Secretary storm Caller to come with him, saying he believes
the secretary to be in danger, and immediately arousing some of the Bard's suspicions
Andreck volunteers to investigate the front cars of the train and to accompany the porter
to ask the engineer what happened. As Bell and Keilonian set out in the
opposite direction on the train to see what they can dig up about the rest
of the mysteriously absentee porters. But as the duo make their way through the
first class dining car, they find that not all is as it seems.
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But in truth we're all in. We fight like we learned it in
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we'll explain to you. Thus there's nobody left so that's why they call
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We hope that addresses all that you have to know to enjoy listening to
our All Bard party sent off on a mission. Hell it go, Well,
we're sure you can guess. Oops it's all bars. Oh, Andre
Harrobold. You're at a bell Tsunamio Flat Colonial Stumps, lou Bear College,
Clarie sour Cloud, Palmage Ha, Cretatio thunder Thigh Sluvere College. Welcome back
to Oops All Bart's, the actual play podcast that does what it says on
the box. I'm your hosting game master Jillian Ashley Blair IVY. But if
you call me anything other than Jill, I'm going to assume you want to
talk to me about getting an extended warranty on my car with me? Are
our barts Bart's Please introduce yourselves. Hi. I'm Tatesen Hadas and I play
Cretasio thunder Thigh. Hi. I'm Anne Coleman and I play Clarice sour Cloud.
Hello Ashley Banks playing BELLSTERNAMEO. Hi, I'm Ross Curry and I play
Andreich Harrowhold. This is Bob Kellyan, I play Keonian Stumps, and we're
also joined by our producer Nate Runkle, who I'm going to start making introduce
himself one of these days. So I know we ended the last episode on
a bit of a cliffhanger, but let's just take a moment to reariente ourselves
a little before we get started. In our last episode, Clarice andrik Bell
and Kelonian accompanied Gideon to the shell in your train station so that you can
take a train to Tabarts Savo, where the standing army is located. And
then at the station you also met up with your classmate Critatious Undersigh. Many
of you know Critatia from school, but he's not actually been a part of
your all Barred party so far, and you were all very surprised to see
him, not just because he escaped the chaos at commencement, but also because
he, like Clarice, calls Gideon uncle Gideon. When that happened, Clarice
had a big reaction, but Gideon explained that he's close to both Clarice's and
Cretaceous families, which is perhaps a little weird because Clarice and Critaesia know each
other at school, but neither of them knew that their families were both close
to Gideon. Once you got that little bit of awkwardness out of the way,
you went to the platform to wait for your train, which had not
pulled into the station yet, and Belle Kiloonian wound up creating a kind of
diversionary dance off, with Belle actually being the only one doing any dancing,
and at the same time Andrek Clarice and Cutatio, you decided to scope out
your surroundings and see if anything seemed particularly sus Most notably, you saw a
porter who was accepting something in an envelope from a mysterious man, and you
also noticed a large, somewhat ominously labeled crate that was being prepped to load
into the freight area on the train. But you didn't get any detail to
intell about either of these things that you noticed. Belle and Kilonian while they
were making their diversionary dance off that wasn't actually a dance off thing managed to
also make quite a bit of money while they were busking. And then the
train came in a station and you all boarded in the first class car,
where you happened to be the only passengers which getting tells you was actually not
unusual, so nothing to be concerned about there, I guess as you're on
the train, everything was more or less normal. First, several of you
were just trying to get some arrest. Belle and Clarice went to find a
snack, but no sooner had you moved onto the next car. Bell and
Clarice but the trainler, she was, said, and stop knocking many of
the bards over or slamming you into the seats in front of you, doing
some bludgeoning damage. You might remember that this is where I made the executive
decision to save Angel from taking any damage, because it turned out she only
had one hit point, which I guess I, as your DM, probably
should have known in advance. But after deciding that I was not going to
kill Angel, Bell and Clarice headed back to the first class car to rejoin
their party, and then a porter came running in from the other direction on
the car and was saying that Gideon was in danger and that the Secretary should
come with him immediately, which raised several eyebrows amongst all of you. So
ultimately, as a party, you decided that Andrew would go with the porter
to check in with the engineer and maybe do some investigating in the train cars
in between where you are and the front of the train in the Meanwhile,
Clari's and Cretasia were going to stay with Gideon to make sure he's safe,
and then Belly Kuilonian, we're going to go in the other direction on the
train to talk to passengers, make sure everybody's okay, and also try and
figure out why there didn't seem to be any other porters on the training that
you had noticed so far until the sky came running into your car, so
Andrek. On your way to the engine, you took stock of the porter
breakroom in the coal car and you found a tabbed porter uniform stashed in a
coal barrel. And then you also tried to get some more information out of
the porter who tells you whose name was Higgins. Meanwhile, Bell and Keilonian,
when you started to make your way through the first class dining car,
you got the distinct impression that you weren't alone, and just as you tried
to move on to the next car, you discovered why. And that is
where we're going to pick up today. The table that you were standing immediately
next to rattles a little bit, and you jump out of the way just
in time for the table to turn on its side and reveal that it has
teeth, and I need the two of you plus the table to rull initiative.
You can also call for help if you feel like you need to.
I feel like Belle wouldn't call for help, because if we're dealing with this,
there's a non zero chance that they have more to worry about. Kilonion
can do what he wants. But I rolled a seven for initiative. Okay,
twelve Kilonian with your twelve and initiative Europe First, Kelonian is gonna say,
oh my, I think the tables have turned, and then he thinks
for a moment that he might want to use his withdrawal into shell action.
But then his courage wins out and he is not going to retreat into his
shell and instead is just gonna run up not next to Bell, and is
going to give Bell resistance. So that is a D four. You can
add that to a saving throw. Yeah, any saving throw. Thanks,
great, Well, it's probably a good thing you did that, because it's
the table's turn and the table is going to try to bite you. Rude
does a thirteen hit. What is my scene? No, it does not,
it does not hit. Then you are fine, it's your turn.
Okay. Bell is going to say, wow, that was so rude.
I never put gum underneath table. There is no reason for you to be
acting like this. And I'm going to I think I'm just gonna pull out
my chakrum okay, one in each hand. Chakrums plural okay, and I'm
gonna take a slice of them rilled hip. That's a twenty four to hit
that certainly hits. All right, that's gonna be seven damage, okay.
And then I'm going to use two handed fighting because they're both light finesse weapons.
Yes, so that's gonna be a twenty six to hit that definitely hits.
And then it's just one D six without the plus four for damage,
so that's gonna be three damage. Okay, Kiloonion back to you. Kilonion
is going to try to put this mimic to sleep, okay, doing a
quick scan to make sure that this will actually work, and Bell is standing
right next to it. Also, oh yeah, please don't put me to
see. I also forgot it was an area, yeah, Belle seeing Keilonian
sort of hesitate mm hmm, is going to ask him is it worth it?
Just like running and closing the door behind us, it works for me.
You're gonna provoke opportunity attacks and Bell you would anyway because you're right in
its range. So in order to disengage, well, actually no, you're
not. You're not part rogue, so you can't disengage as a freaction,
so I can't. It's also not my turn, but I have I have
my new feature that could help. Okay, do you mean run to the
next car or run back? I was singing the next car, but like
this, I think whichever way Keilonian runs is the way Belle will follow.
Well, we were of the same mind, so I'm going to I think,
can't. Can't I do disengage? Right? Your movement does not instead
of I'm going to do disengage all right, that's fine that you just can't
dash. Okay, yeah, that's fine. I can make it to the
door. Okay, it's the MI mixed turn again, and he rolled a
gnat one to hit Belle. Nothing is happening there. I love that he
didn't like bite his own tongue. He just like bit in the air and
it's very confused by how he didn't hit this small girl who's not that far
from him. Define intervention, I guess. So, yeah, Belle is
also going to just disengage and does when Belle disengages, does there like does
glitter appear? Is it a dance move? Bell just moon walks away?
Yes, peace, Okay, Yeah, she's definitely she's gonna take it out
some glitter, throw it into the non existent face of the table, okay,
and then just sort of like moon walk away of while doing like just
sparkly hanked like the glitter is just I'm gonna I'm gonna let you do that.
But the glitter can't doesn't have an effect like if Oh no, no,
it's just part of her. That's just part of her disengaged, like
like yeah, and the moon walks away beautiful. All right, Let's go
back to the first class car and see how Criticio and Clarice and Gideon are
doing. Before that, Can I ask Kilonians message? Right, I do
have message, So Belle. Once they get to safety, Bell, we'll
ask Keilonian to tell Clarice what happened. Keiloney and puts his fingers on his
temples and concentrates very hard and thinks at Clarice, Oh, what was I
supposed to say that there's a mimic in that there's a mimic in the dining
car, and maybe they shouldn't go in there, right, Clarice, there's
a mimic in the dining car. You maybe shouldn't go in there. Make
sure that our person that we're bodyguarding is safe. The range on message will
allow you to do that. Yeah, it also allows It doesn't say how
long the message can be. Yeah, it says the person can reply.
It is blocked by one inch of metal. I don't know the train is
made of metal. I would say that, like each individual wall is not
a full inch, But we're going through one, two, three walls.
Are there windows in the doors between the sections though? Because antipocepta, so
there are windows in the doors between each section. You could get through and
just be kind of could I just poke through the door and yeah, let's
we'll do it. Okay, I poke through the door and send a message.
Uh, so we're not going towards the dining core. There's a mimic.
Something's definitely up. Cretatio, can you grab my backpack from up there.
Yeah, sure, And Clarice is gonna pull out a folded black piece
of fabric and she's gonna look at Gideon and say you remember this, should
I? Yeah, it's my parents from from the Revolution. And then I
start to shake it out larger until he can see that it forms a portable
hole. WHOA. So for our audience, would you like to go over
what a portable hole is? I'd be happy to So a portable hole is?
It gets funny over you say it. It's a soft, fine piece
of black fabric that can be folded up to the dimensions of a handkerchief,
but can expand to be six feet in diameter a circle. With one action,
you can unfold it and the portable hole creates an extra dimensional ten foot
pit essentially that you can then close up with whatever you want in it.
And it works like an extra dimensional bag of holding, but completely one way,
and the person within can climb out whenever it's open. Okay, And
this is something I stole from my parents. Oxygen in this bit about ten
minutes worth. Yeah, so they can be in it for ten minutes,
after which time they would start to suffocate. Yeah, this is a pretty
unique thing. And I definitely shouldn't have it, but I also haven't done
much with it. So I'm really hoping that Gideon, upon seeing it extended,
knows a little bit more about this level of magic. Do your parents
know that you have that? No? But isn't that a good thing?
Right about now? Why would that be a good thing? Because just get
not yet, Just if somebody tries to enter the car and they're here to
kidnap you, which like obviously they're gonna want to do because they're taking all
the hostages from the current administration, you should deaf, get in the hole,
and then I'll put you in my pocket and then I'll let you out
when they're gone. Your friend, I don't I don't things. I think
that I should be here ready to fight. Oh. I appreciate that you
will always want to fight Uncle Gideon, but there are two of us who
understand how much easier that fight will be if there's no one for them to
take hostage. Clarice, I love you, You're not exactly a fighter,
right, but they're not going to need to fight me. If you're not
here. We're going to like break open the window. We're going to like
send some rope out and make it look like we sent you running and you're
going to be in my pocket. Tell me that's not brilliant persuasion check.
It's a good plan. I'd rather not do a whole lot of fighting.
But I rolled to fifteen and my modifiers eight, so that was a twenty
three. He size and climbs into the portable hole. Okay, just sit
like on the edge there and Cretasio, can you knock out that window?
I'll give you some rope to run. Oh, because I'm just a big
dumb brude. It's my job to just break whatever. Whatever. Just I'm
literally three feet tall. You have a sword, whatever, whatever, it's
whine. Okay, so you're gonna try to break out the window. Yeah,
it's a strength check with detail, Okay, strength check with disadvantage.
Okay, Can I when he's doing this be like that that one, the
one with the emergency exit peel around it. That just well, it's good
that he was disadvantag I think we're thinking about this train and way too modern
of away. There's no like emergency exit with a gasket. It's just sealed
windows. Yeah, but that if it's that old a train, like the
windows are gonna pop out pretty easy or there magic. I mean either way,
I just rolled a four. If we're doing this, yeah, you
definitely did not break through the window. All right, give me a second.
Why do I have to do everything? Clarice is going to go investigate
the seals on the windows and if this is a steam locomotive, there's some
way to open and close the windows, because that's the standard feature. So
she's gonna investigate. She rolled a NAT twenty and her modifier is plus three.
All right, then NAT twenty. You see that every other window is
set up to be able to open, like half of the window. It
doesn't need to be broken. It can slide open. But when they are
closed, the windows are magically reinforced. So Clarice is gonna, just like
in the most generous spirit, restrain from looking at Cretatio for the next like
full minute. Like she's just gonna go to the window, investigate, slide
it open, get out some rope, run it to the other side,
and then keep her eyes averted so that Cretasio doesn't feel judged. In his
defense, you're the one who told him to break the window. I'm feeling
I'm feeling it anyway, I'm feeling it anyway. So, having Gideon sitting
at the ready to get into the portable hole but not in it yet,
having the window open and the rope ready, I'm going to suggest that we
stand. I have to ready the action of folding the portable hole, okay,
and then Cretatio. I don't know what you'd like to do, but
maybe ready something. Yeah, I mean there's no there's nobody around or anything.
Uh and have you relayed to me already that there there's a mimic fight
going on? Yeah? Yeah, Okay, I don't know that I would
really in character I would do anything, because nothing's actually happened yet. Yeah.
No, I'm just thinking like posing with the rope so it looks like
you've just helped him out or something might Okay, yes, I'll grasp it
in my little, a little tiny rope. I have a little tiny arms
and see if this actually convinces anybody that I was actually holding the rope with
my negligible strength of arm. Can Cretatio grab things with his feet? No,
he would not be able to. He can like kick stuff, yeah,
do not have a posable claws on my feet? Anything else that you
two need to do. Right now, I'm just gonna communicate to Gideon and
to Cretatio. If I fold this, every single one of us needs to
start a ten minute time er. Yeah, mark your clock, whatever you
got to do, Okay, anything else that you need to do, I'm
just ready. So from within the hole, you hear gidding and going like,
I mean, I'll keep an eye on the clock and everything, but
I won't exactly be able to get out of this if you don't open it
for me first, right, right, But what I'm saying is like for
you to manage the stress of being in there, you'll need to know how
long it is an acceptable amount of time before you should even worry. Okay,
cool, So I'll have like ten minutes before I have to worry about
dying. It's slow suffocation. You will chap like you would be unconscious before
anything went really bad, and like we could still probably get you out.
So like now, we're not going to leave you in there for ten minutes,
Uncle Gideon, it's us. Your father is not going to be happy
with you if you kill me. I wouldn't be happy with me if I
killed you. No one's gonna be happy with us if you get caught fine,
and he like gets down a little bit deeper into the hole just sinks.
All right, We're going to go back to Andrik and the porter,
who are walking into the engine car. So basically you have like a small
cabin where the engineer and assistant engineer like your copilot, basically are sitting.
It's elevated so that they can see over the rest of the train car,
but know that there is thirty five feet of train still ahead of them that
they are looking over, right, the engine itself, the engine itself,
So anything that they think they see in front of them in the dark,
they're seeing at a major disadvantage. So they're there checking their controls, having
a very quiet conversation when you walk in with the porter. So sorry to
starb you out. Why have we stopped? Who are you asking the engineer
or the assistant engineer? The engineer Okay, so the engineer is a small
goblin who is sitting. You know, where they are seated is elevated already,
and then he is on something that is even more elevated than that,
so that he can see over the top even of his control panel, and
he's going to who are you very sorry, I'm part of the Secretary's security
detail. Okay, I we thought we say something on the tracks, we're
looking into it. Can I see over the the engine and you've got sixty
feet of dark vision? Yeah? Yeah, goblin should too, right,
But I mean still like you're looking over the top of this train, so
he's got the dark vision. But it's an eighteen perception. There's some sort
of amorphous shape out there. Whether it is just some fog in the distance,
or whether it's something more solid, it's very hard to make out.
There's definitely something there, you just can't necessarily tell what. Well, how
long do you think before we get moving again? I don't know. We
just we have to. I mean, I can send one of the porters
out to go check on it, or we can just wait for a little
bit longer to see if it moves. Higgins, would you like to go
take a look? No, I would not act. Does sound like this
is part of your job, isn't it. Nope, Like I said before,
we deal with passengers. But the engineer just said one of the porters
should go look. Next to the engineer is the assistant engineer, who is
a goliath who's actually had to drop his seat to avoid hitting his head on
the ceiling of the train. And he's just going to grunt step down from
the platform, walk out behind the engine car, and you see him walking
around the front of the train towards the amorphos, towards the amorphous shape.
Mm hmm okay, oh he's gonna die. Yeah, So what do we
see as he What do I see as he walks out there? Nothing?
He walks out there, he looks around, he doesn't see anything. He
shrugs. He comes back. Well, then it sounds like we can get
moving again. Yeah, that would be that'd be really great. As soon
as he gets back on the train, we're gonna keep moving. So the
assistant engineer is going to walk back, climb up bridges to seat Duck to
get into the seat. They're going to look at each other, move a
lever, turn some dials. The train is moving again. I will remind
you all that now. That means that as you move between train cars,
you have to roll an acrobatics check. See Higgins, that wasn't so bad.
Why don't we go back and you can attend to your passengers. Yeah,
okay, we can. We can do that. So he'll just walk
out, lead you back through the cold car, through the porter's car back
into the first class car. Okay, don't think I didn't notice that.
You said we were part of the entourage, and you didn't say bodyguards from
five cars away. You You just like get this sense that he has disrespected
your group, right, Kilonians, Like somewhere somebody's not saying, buddy guys.
All right, So now you are in the train with the train car
with Clarice and cretatio. Really is too many scenames. So you're now in
the train. We have to make those checks to get from car to car.
Yes you do. Yeah, so acrobatics check. You move from the
engine to the cold car car. That's a twenty two passes and then the
second one to get from the whole car back into the first is that into
the porter car? That's a nine. I believe that doesn't past. Let
me just double check. No, it's the DC ten. Okay, So
you need to take one D four plus two thunder damage thunder damage thunder damage.
The train is moving, wow, so that's gonna be four total.
Okay, Hey, this is a dangerous It's like the average person has a
fifty to fifty chance of dying. Dying for one D four plus two not
dying, not to mention like, apparently they make a habit of just stopping
the train when they maybe see something in the US. I mean, you
know, when a train breaks fast, bad things can happen. So okay,
so that was the damage that you took moving between the porter car and
the first class. Yes, so one more role to get into first class
and that last role was a natural one. That's gonna be double damage for
you. So uh, two D four plus two. So Andrik is dead.
He smacked his face on the train too many times, and it's pretty
strong. I know, it's just funnier that way. All right, five
more points of damage. Okay, I stand by my statement. An average
commoner has four hit points. They could usily die walking between them. I
mean, people can die going between train cars. But yeah, yeah,
we're gonna to all our listeners. Let that be a lesson. That's right,
that's right, don't go between the trains. We'll just say that everybody
in Uba is uncommon in some way. All right. So now you're back
in the car with Clarice and Cretatio. Where's the secretary in a hole.
I'm he's in a he's in a hole. Let's uh, don't you worry
about it? Higgins? Is you haven't folded the hole up yet, right?
Correct? Higgins is going to notice this big hole on the ground and
walk over and peer in and see Gideon. Gideon's gonna wave. I guess
I don't know, sir. Sir, please exit the hole, Higgins.
Perhaps I'll go look for the head porter and we can get get the passenger
service back on track. Go ahead and walk through that next car over there.
Well, for initiatives? Why are we rolling for initiative? Nothing happened,
Oh, something's bad to happen. Don't trust this porter above table?
We never did. Yeah, six total of nine? Okay, nice?
What's your five? Earl to fifteen? Okay, so Grace is fifteen,
you were nine nine and Anark you were five. All right. I will
tell you where Gideon is falling in this initiative, but I'm not going to
tell you where the porter is yet. Well, it turns out I can
tell you where the porter is because porter's going first? Are Higgins Higgins?
Poor porter Higgins. Higgins looks at the three of you, and he looks
at Storm collar in this hole, which, to be clear, is a
really rare magical object. So he in theory, is just seeing a massive
hole in the middle of the train with storm collars, just like crouched into
Yeah, he's going to jump into the hole. Ah, He's going to
jump in the hole and try to stab Gideon. Ah. So Gideon just
needs to jump out and then we just close the hole and let him suffogate
you to death. Right, Yeah, I mean the hole works that way,
you can get out. Can can two people be in the hole at
the same time. Yes, it's a ten foot space. I think it's
quite large. Okay, so now I get to bounce between two character sheets.
I can tell that he's not going to hit Gideon though, Clarice,
it's your turn. Uh. So Gideon is still still in the hole.
I'm gonna use my free action of talking and say get out, and assuming
that I have at least made eye contact with Gideon so he understands that I
need him, I will remain ready to fold my hole. Okay, I
feel like fold my hole. It's going to be in that song at the
Jubilation Festival when that finally happens. Okay, Cretatio it's your turn, all
right. I'm going to try to lean into the hole and I'll wait,
did Gideon come out? No, he's still here, He's still in there.
All right. I'm going to try to lean my head into the hole
and bite Higgins. Yeah, okay, biting attack all right, fourteen to
hit it hits all right? Three damage? Can I just ask when you
bite, do you lock your jaw like, like are you biting release or
are you like digging in I'm going with the antent of grass, so you
could be pulling, yes, him out, but that would be that would
have for your next churn. Right, but you're he's scrappled, so I'm
like locking my jaw on whatever part of hicken like kickens. But you said
it's it's it's three points of damage, yes, okay. So you've basically
got his scruff like you've got his collar really and you like scraped him with
your teeth, so you didn't do a whole lot of damage, but you
made contact. Okay, cool, and you're holding on all right, So
my head is in the hole, Okay, do you does your bite attack
come with like does it also count as a grapple like after you bite because
if not, then it probably is like you snapped at him and like just
barely got him and had to release. It does not. It's not saying
here that it does have a defold grap Okay, so then you you snapped
at him, you scraped the back of his neck, but you missed.
Okay, do you have a bonus action? No? Okay, Then we're
going to go on to Gideon's turn. Gideon heard Clarice say that he should
get out. Gideon likes a fight. Gideon is going to So Gideon rolled
an unarms strike and that is a non natural twenty to hit, which is
definitely going to hit, and that is going to be poor damage. Gideon
is not going to immediately jump out of the hole andrik your turn. I'm
going to go over to the edge of the hole, look down at Higgins
quote unquote. Let's see, Oh Higgins, this is not going to end
well for you. I really would encourage you to rethink your course of action.
And I'm going to cast indecision on higgins charismas saving fro Please. Okay,
DC is fourteen, it's a ten. Okay, it has failed.
It safe. So on his next turn, Higgins has to take his entire
turn to do whatever action he's going to do, so you know, movement
action, bonus action. He can do one of the three Okay, got
it, and then he can repeat the saving fro each time. Well,
it's his turn, and he's going to go back with his jagger. For
Gideon, that is a fourteen, which I think is gian. It does
not. I have to ask what does his indecision look like? What does
how does this decision play out? He's trying to figure out whether to stab
with his right or stab with his left, and he eventually like tosses the
dagger into his left hand, which is his weaker hand, and that's why
he's not successful at the hitting Gideon Clarice. Clarice is very displeased that Uncle
Gideon won't just get out of the hole and feels like cretatious biting at Higgins
would be like delightful for us to watch if we could be on the same
level. So she is going to grab the rope that was dangling out the
window, okay, and start whacking Higgins with it just to just stres act
him while she talks to Gideon. And so it's like Uncle Gideon like literally
just get out of the hole for a second, and then Cretasio and I
can wreck this guy like it's just like just like for one second, let
us show you a he can do, roll up performed actually roll a sealth
check to see if you were able to get away with that without Higgins noticing
or with Higgins just being so distracted by so sixteen plus eight. Yeah,
Higgins is just there going oh ou oh out and totally focused on you flogging
him and does not notice what you are telling Gideon Critatio. All right,
I'm gonna try to make another bite, but this time as an attempt to
grab as a grap Okay, so what are you rolling in? What am
I rolling? We are both rolling athletics. The grappler is rolling athletics and
acrobatics acatics whichever I'm going to roll athletics. Fourteen he a Kiggins rolled in
nine. So he is grappled. Okay, how are you like where are
you biting him to have him grappled? I'm just going to try to go
for like his arm, Okay, all right? And then so your but
your head is in the hole holding onto his arm. But I'm more or
less like leaned in there because my head is so large, and I would
also probably have some difficulty getting into this six six foot diameter hole seeing as
I am seven feet tall. But you do have movement left? Yes,
yes, I was going to say I have a half speed movement. I'm
not trying to move him too far, just trying to get him out.
Just grab him and pull him. Okay, that's going to be an unopposed
strength check to see if you can pull him. And we're going to call
the DC. There fourteen oh no, total of seven. So you you're
still grappling him, but you didn't manage to pull him out of the hole.
Okay, and it's Gideon's turn. Gideon is going to look up from
the hole at Clarice and be like, is it better for me to hang
out in the hole and you guys get him out? Or should I jump
out and you guys keep him in? No? No, he's toat's right
at this point like uncle, Like he's grappled, we can you know you're
fine? You want to stab him a little? Like you do? You?
What is how deep is this hole? Okay? So to get out
of it, he is going to need to It's going to be an o
letter. You're an acrobatics check, we'll say, because he's a monk.
So to get out of the whole, Gideon is going to need to do
an acrobatics check as part of his movement. But he's still going to try
to punch Higgins one more time. And just remember I do have a rope
dangling in there that I'm all right right now, Okay, I mean it's
not You're not really strong enough to know. All right, He's going to
try to punch Higgins again. Oh, that's going to hit and Higgins is
then going to take seven damage. So after he does that, Gideon is
going to ignore the rope completely, kind of do that thing you know,
like in swing dance where you could like bounce off like sand once. But
he's thigh, so he's going to like actually try to Ashley does. So
Gideon is going to try to like use Higgins's thigh as a way of launching
himself out of the hole. And he does not succeed at doing that.
Did he at least knock Higgins over a little or something? Yeah? I
think let's let me let me roll for let me roll for Higgins. We'll
just see we're we're going we're breaking some rules here. That's fine. No,
Higgins is still standing. I think because of the way that Critaceia is
holding him, He's not gonna move a whole lot. So Gideon is now
still in the hole. Higgins is still grappled by uh Critatio, and it
is now Andrick's turn. So store Collars still refusing to come out of the
hole. He tried to come out of the hole. He just didn't do
a good job of jumping out. Yeah. To be clear, in the
portable hole, it says any creature inside an open portable hole can exit the
hole by climbing out of it. So he was just showing off like he
he could have just climbed. Yeah, I guess he was trying to get
out quickly, like with a big jump, as opposed to well, what
was climbing is an action. He was just basically trying to make fancy movement.
Okay, since the situation seems to be at least I don't know that
I can contribute any more to the current scenario. So actually, then we
go back to the porter break car and seeing if I can get into any
of those lockers. Okay, so we're gonna pause on that take you out
of initiative. All right, it is Higgins's turn again. He has to
repeat that charismas saving throat and what's the DC. It's a DC fourteen charisma.
Yeah, he definitely does not get how much did he fail? High?
He rolled it five? Uh, then he takes no action this turn.
Okay, this is a this is another lock them down type of claris.
Clary's is gonna just be completely over this because the whole was like her
one idea and it has not gone according to plan. So she's going to
try to like find h appropriate spot on Cretatio's tail where she can provide leverage
with her small amount of weight, and uh, she's just gonna be like,
uh, I think it's time to pull your your little guy out.
Uh. Okay, if I you know, touch you, hell, we
couldness girl. All right, So I'm healthy? Okay, so you're taking
the help action? Yes? Nice? Okay, Cretaceia, all right,
that means you roll with advantage. Okay, So I've got him grappled.
I think at this point the uh yeah, the the novelty of the whole
has now passed and we really are just dealing with one guy. So I
think it'll be fine to just pull him out now and just do battle with
him, just on the normal We're gonna do an unapost rank che because he's
already got grappled. Yeah, that'd be a thirteen, but you get to
reroll because I gave you advantage. That would again be a thirteen, and
we said it was a fourteen DC before, right, Yeah, Clarice didn't
add a lot to the strength. I'm just kind of jerking him around inside
the hole. You're at a very to be fair, you are at a
very strange angle. You're like, you know how the ceiling is lower where
the seats are versus in the aisle, so you like couldn't really stand up
fully to get into the hole in the first place, and you've got the
seat. I guess I'll just remain holding him then, Okay, just does
this provide any any help? Not help, but like, does this give
anything to Gideon in like preventing Higgins from attagging a disadvantage for any saving Throwsky
and his left arm is what's grappled and was holding his weapon. Yes,
well it was his left arm that was holding the weapon, but it was
his non dominant hand. Well, he was debating. Yeah, okay,
I'm just going to stay holding onto him. Okay, all right, it's
Gideon's turn again. And Gideon's going to look at Clarice, who's standing there
like shaking her head. It's like, fine, this giant tail. So
this time Gideon is just going to like jump up and climb out of the
hole. There's no check needed there, that's just his movement. The hole
I guess has like naturally craggy surface that can be bouldered up. And Gideon
comes out of the hole, thank you. So I'm gonna we're gonna trap
this guy in the hole, right, I mean we can. I was
thinking we would just like I don't know, cast something on him and so
he's like passive and then interrogate him. I mean, I guess, I
guess we could do that too, like your nephew has him grappled. So
okay, we'll do it your way, I guess, but just remember that
that kind of spell you have to keep casting otherwise get hostile again. Yeah.
Yeah, so that's fine. I just like I want to keep the
hole out just in case there are others, you know. Yeah, I
know, maybe we can I don't know, trip somebody into the hole.
That would be kind of fun, right, Oh, I meant to cheap
Okay, So getting is out of the hole, Andrik has left the room
and it's Higgins turn. And Higgins is first going to try to get himself
out of the grapple. So well, first he needs to get himself out
of in decisions. Oh right, charismas saving throw. It's the sixteen.
He broke the Okay, he's broken the indecision and now he's going to try
to get out of this grapple. And so that's going to be another strength
check from Critatio and another athletics check from is it no, it's athletics too
from Critasia. Yes, yes, athletics from Critatio. Athletics also from him
because he has no acrobatics ability. That is a nine. Well that's fine
because you're to five. Okay, So he is still grappled. While he
is still grappled, though, he's going to reach for the dagger with his
right hand and try to swing across to stab your nose where you're where you've
got him, because it's a male weapon. So he doesn't, Yeah,
like there's he can he can do that when he's grappled that's an eight.
Okay, you're a see it is definitely higher. Yeah. So he's just
still grappled and like flailing around trying to stab with his dack. Okay,
and we're back to Clarice. Clarice is going to cast in thrall, I
love it, begin by throwing a wisdom saving throw of thirteen DC fifteen.
Okay, so on a failed save, other things would happen. But having
succeeded, your Higgins is just going to hear So like when you are in
the dark depths of the hole, do you ever think up out like time
in the same s of time? Can he tell I don't remember? Can
you tell that this is coming from you? Or is this just like a
voice that is now in his head? Uh? He can absolutely tell what's
coming from me? What? What? What are you talking about? But
like you know, when you're in the dark, you sort of feel like
you don't know how time passes, right, and so like you slip into
But he's not actually entrilled, right, he just hear correct, So this
is just what he's hearing. Just like are you are you gonna kill me
or not? Clarice realizing that her enthrall effort has not worked. Is gonna
shift a little? Do you want to die? I mean not particularly,
but I also don't want to hear any more of that. Okay, well,
like that's offensive. I was trying to help you. So what what
makes you deserving of my mercy? Cretatio? It's your turn, all right.
Gideon is out, so I am just gonna disengage and pull my head
out of the hole. Higgins realizes what's going on and he is going to
climb out of the hole. Okay, well, so sorry that was your
movement. You want do you take an action? I was just kind of
thinking that just stand and front of the end, that the whole entrance and
just kind of body block the entrance. So do you want to prepare an
action? Yeah, I'll prepare an unarmed strike a kick, just to like
shove him back in there. If he has to get out. You have
let go. Gideon has seen that you have let go. Gideon is going
to look down in the hole and he's going to try to kick toward Higgins.
I'm going to say that this is with a disadvantage because Higgins is below
him, but we're going to see if it works. It does not work.
Okay. Now it is higgins turn, and Higgins is going to use
his action to climb out of the hole. He's hurt, but he's still
able to take this as his movement because we've established it. It's kind of
craggy on the inside. He's going to look at the hole in front of
him, look at Gideon to his left, look at Clarice to his right,
look at Cretatio across the hole from him, and he's gonna try to
throw a dagger at Gideon. It's not gonna hit. So he throws a
dagger and it is going to go over Gideon's head and into the door to
the next car. It's Clarie's turn. Clarie's is gonna unleash some vicious mockery.
You kidding me? You are literally less than five feet away and you
could not hit him? Do you know how big he is? Like bruh
ah, you are the worst assassin I've ever seen. Like do your friends
even know that you're here alone? Would they trust you with this? Did
you like drug somebody so you could be the one to take gone Gideon?
Because like this is real, dumb, vicious ouch. Is there a saving
throw? Thirteen Wisdom that's a four, all right, he's gonna take two
D four of uh damage? All right? Are you rolling with the D
four? I did? Okay, it's just three Okay. He does look
wounded by that though. We are flashing over to the kitchen. Car Bell
and Keilonian, how did you enter? Obviously through the door, but like
in what style? What manner? With a fabulous style? Very much?
I always have a good style. I'm kind of like a folksy style.
To actually answer the question, I think probably a little bit more callously than
before. Okay, would you say that you were being sneaky or were you
just being quiet? I think maybe sneaky like is there an inverse of sneaky
like? I feel like sneaky is like I'm trying to make sure nobody knows
I'm here, uh huh. Whereas what Belle was trying to do is make
sure she knew if anybody else was here. Does that make sense? I
think that's still sneaky. Okay, well then yes, I think she was
trying to be sneaky. Yeah, well, Kilonian was sort of running and
I'm gonna go ahead and if it's okay with you, do like an insight
check to see if I pick up the fact that Belle's trying to be quiet,
and then yeah, I think that that's a great idea. Keilonian is
also probably in front of bell because oh natural one. Yeah, even though
that's a ten. So Keilonian does not notice that Belle is trying to be
quiet. I'm guessing Colonial doesn't have the best Why am I blanking situational awareness?
I was thinking more of peripheral vision. But yes, with a big
shell, Yeah, I mean Kelonian comes barreling through like the five foot six
one and fifty pounds turtle with a shell on his back that he is.
What's your ac seventeen? That shell? Baby? Yeah, you have a
dagger in your shoulder now because he rolled a non natural twenty. Oh how'd
that get there? I didn't put that there. Standing at the other side
of the kitchen car is somebody else dressed as a porter who is rating the
knife block in the kitchen. So, yes, there is there is another
porter who has just thrown a dagger. Really, it's probably play a kitchen
knife at you and got you square in the shoulder. Oucheez. Now we're
going to roll for initiative again. Fun sixteen okay four. So Belle,
you're behind Keilonion. I am. I'm going to say that because of kiloonion
shell, the other so called porter does not see you, so is not
going to try anything with you, but is going to throw another knife toward
Kilonian. Do we have damage for that? Oh? Yeah, I should.
I should roll that. I assume yes. That's one D four plus
three five cheez. So the porter is going to throw another knife at you,
and that is going to be a twenty three to hit that hits me,
Yes, it sure does, and that's gonna be six more piercing damage.
You know what they say. If you can't stand the knives, get
out of the kitchen. You might have to do that better. Bell,
it's your turn. Obviously the porter didn't see me. I probably can't see
the porter, but I'm assuming that I picked up on the fact that there's
somebody there based on you know, Kilonion going ow, yeah, cool,
just check it. I am going to say to Kilonion, we can do
this and give him Bartic inspiration, okay, and then I'm going to say
two could play at this game, and uh, get in front of Kelonian
and then throw one of my chakrums at the guy rolled a hit sixteen that
hits five damage. Five damage. I'm guess say I used about five feet
of movement, because what I'd like to do is then like use the rest
of my movement to run up directly in front of the porter. Love it.
I'm gonna try and make a go to sleep. It is Kilonian's turn,
all right. Keilonian stretches out his clawed, turtly hand pulls the daggers
out of his shoulders. I assume he has one in each, and he
says a haiku. Oh my god, fighting's not my way. It is
more in my nature to send you to sleep. Okay, roll the total
number of it's a total number of hit points that you're rolling up. Yeah,
all right, so this is gonna be thirty nine hit points. Fall
asleep Bell, How many hit points do you have? No? No,
no, it passed past bell, so it doesn't get hurt. Oh are
you targeted behind him? Yeah, he's sleep sleepy times. Yep, you've
put him to sleep. You're out of an initiative. You know. He
like gets all up in the guy's face and it's like ready and then he
just collapses in whatever and she's like, oh, okay, that was close.
Well listen, it's only gonna last one minute, so we better move
on. All right, It's just a real quick nap. Oh wait,
Bell wants to look around the kitchen to see if there's anything that she can
use to tie the porter up. Okay, tell me what you are investigating,
and then we'll an investigation check. I guess i'd probably check maybe the
walk in first, or like some of the cabinets, but I'm assuming that
it's a kitchen, they probably have like string for you know, like tying
up cuts of meat or things like that, like you know, you use
twine when you cook. What's your investigation, Belle? It's not good.
It's negative more. Oh okay, mine's just mine's plus one. Yeah,
so my investigation is very bad. So I think Bell probably goes to Keiloni
and she's like, wait, wait, wait, let's find something, you
know, like some string or something and like tie him up so that when
he wakes up, he doesn't like come throw more stuff at us. You
got great ideas, let's do it. Thanks. So Bell is taking a
health action, Well, Keilonion is going to search, Yes, what does
that look like? Are you just like pointing at things and telling him to
open cabinets. I think so. Yeah. I think Belle is also probably
like describing different things that stream could be used for in a kitchen. Okay,
before you ruing your investigation, check Bob rull me a D six like
a D six like a D six three. So you and Bell can choose
three points that you investigate, and you'll investigate all of them with advantage.
What do you think, Belle, where do we Where do we think we're
gonna find that sort of a rope like thing? I think probably definitely the
walk in. Yeah, it could be it could be some meats wrapped in
twine or something. Yeah, And I think Belle's gonna look at and be
like, you know how most kitchens have like the drawer with all the stuff,
where's yours? Because I think ours is buy ore is sick? Oh,
I have a little box I keep in the shelf in the closet.
Yeah. So with that information, I guess Bell's gonna want to check near
one of the sinks. Okay, so you've got the main sinks kind of
in the upper left. That's where you've got like your it's more of a
prep sink, so it's where you're washing vegetables, draining fluids off of things.
Then the dish washing station is also a sink that's going to be full
of like hot, sudsy water that you can't necessarily see. And then the
other sink on the opposite side is more of like a first aid station because
it's next to all of the hot stations. So if anybody burns themselves,
there's the sink there to wash it, and then there's like ointments and bandages
and stuff on a shelf of above. Definitely want to check that one.
Good good safety protocols here, Yeah, got to be cautious, So walk
in first aid sink and then what do you think about? Oh maybe I'm
thinking maybe the dish washing area. Maybe there's some sort of hope. Yeah,
you can tie people up with a hose. I dig it. Where
are you checking? First? The walk in investigation with advantage sixteen. Inside
the walk in you see a couple of large turkeys that have been trussed,
so they have the legs that are tied together and like the cavity is stitch
shut. Next to those, you also see a roll of twine. It's
not very thick, but it's there. What do you think, Belle,
do you want to hand that to me and I can start tying it up
with this while you look and see if there's anything better. You got it?
So Belle is going to try to tie the porter up with this kitchen
twin. Yes, Kilonian, where are you investigating? Next? Next,
I'm going to go to the first aid sinc. Okay, nine, I
assume can you get the help, belch Chin? This time you get the
help for the whole thing, because bell Bell directed you toward your search excellence
eighteen. Yeah, so you're going to see there's nothing really in the cabinet
under the sink. It's like plumbing and maybe some cleaning supplies. Up above,
you'll see a first aid kit. There are bandages, antiseptics, that
sort of thing. Nothing that seems like you can tie somebody up, but
potentially things that are helpful for you, especially as a cleric. Next,
dishwashers thirteen for the dishwashers area under the cabinet or under the sink. In
the cabinet you see soaps, dishwashing detergents, and sponges, that sort of
thing. Nothing in the sink looks out of the ordinary, Like the water's
a little bit obscured, but it's not like there's nothing that seems like blood
or something is being hidden in there, and there are no shelves above.
Did they see any rubber gloves, like dishwashing gloves you rolled at thirteen?
Yeah, I think you find one set of like cheap dishwashing gloves. I'm
curious. I'm not in the train car, but I could imagine Bell,
being a creative thinker, would understand that putting those gloves on somebody who is
tied up would slow them down. With the untied Bell roll an intelligence check,
a flat intelligence check. Yes, a flat intelligence check, to which
I have negative too. Uh huh cool, that's a seven. You definitely
do not think about using the gloves to slow this kind of thing. Does
she make an inflated hand turkey instead? Yeah? I think I think.
I think Keldian tosses the gloves to her and she makes a little hand turkey.
It could be a toy for Angel later. That would be very dangerous
for Angel. But I think what Bell does have the insight to do is
check to see if the porter is wearing a belt. That's very smart.
I'm not even gonna make you roll for that, because it's pretty clear that
he is. All right. Bell is going to say to the unconscious reporter,
I'm very sorry to do this without your permission, but also you tried
to kill us, sow, and she's going to take off his belt and
then use that. I feel like this is the second time we've bound somebody
with a belt, right, like didn't didn't andreck, yes, Andrek bound
goff DOMI or drummer with it. You just got belt. Wow. Belle's
gonna like do fingerguns at Kilan and be like, hey, all right,
we're gonna leave the two of you there. We're going to go back to
Andrik, who had gone back into the porter breakroom. Yeah, specifically to
check the lockers. There are thirty lockers here, which is a lot of
lockers, given what you know about how many people are actually staffing the train.
What lockers do you want to look at? I mean, I don't
know if these things are locked. So I'm really just at the first part,
like just checking handles to see and I would just work down in order
from thirty on down investigation check nineteen. So as you walk, you're just
going to like pull up the tab on each one of them. The only
lockers that are unlocked are one through three. Okay, so I'm going to
look in those and see what the contents are. Each of those three lockers
has street clothes that seem pretty hastily stashed in those three lockers. Amongst the
street clothes, you also notice a couple of pairs of boots that have a
lot of mud on them. The real porters are dead, aren't they.
I don't know. Can I discern how many sets of clothes are It's just
like one set of clothes in each locker for three total, or like,
It's hard to tell exactly how many sets there are unless you want to pull
things out and try to match like shirts and pants, but it's definitely more
than three people's worth of clothes. Okay. And then the last thing I
would definitely take note of is I'll say, roughly, what size are these?
Are we talking? Like? Are they all average human size? Yeah?
They're all average human size. Some seem more male coded, some seem
more female coded. But it's like dungarease and flannel shirt sort of thing above
table. The reason I'm asking is, doesn't seem like it's likely that either
the engineer or the assistant engineer is in on whatever's happening here. That's why
I was because a goblet and a goliath would look very like those clothes would
look very different. No, it was a good question. Okay. Having
established that and having pulled out the piece of cloth, I'm gonna hop up
to the coal car again now because I assume that the no one's like barging
in on me or anything. So I've got time here, so I'm gonna
make that check to go up to the coal car. That's an eleven.
I think you said that DC was ten. Yes, okay, so I
am able to make a coal car. Yes. So now you're back in
the coal car. We'll say that the trunks that had been that you'd opened
earlier. You were the one who opened it early. Yeap. So the
trunks that you opened earlier is towards the front of that car. There are
still nine other trunks with coal, and then there are also the barrels that
presumably have water. What are you doing? Uh, I'm gonna start with
the trunks, okay. Are you just moving one at a time, yes,
kind of like I did with the lockers. I'm just gonna see like
how many of them I can shove open? And what I find? The
lids are very heavy, the hinges are really tight. So it's a strength
check DC eight for each one you want to open. Okay, how many
are there total? You've already opened one, so they're nine left and again
I'm just working from the back to the front. First ones is sixteen.
Okay you you are you moving and opening all of them? Are you looking
in them as you I'm going to look in as I open. Yeah,
there's coal, all right? For expediency's sake, and should I just like
you know, we'll apply that sixteen to all of them. Yeah, you're
you're not going to suddenly get ten points a week or opening one. So
so you've opened all of these? Yeah, take it probably takes me a
few minutes. Yeah, yeah, rolling an investigation check with disadvantage disadvantage on
the it's a ton of coal. It's like not well lit in there.
Uh that's a seven as far as you can see, it's just coal.
Okay, So no more cloth? No, all right, I'm going to
pop over to the barrels. We'll just see if I have anything like do
the barrels do they seem to like have twist top, like how are they
sealed? It's not a twist top. It's think of like a whiskey barrel.
The top is like hammered in and kind of sealed, and there's this
figot on each of them. I don't know how heavy these are, but
can I like just kind of rocket to see if I can sense anything like
sloshing about in their strength check nineteen. It's definitely heavy the way the barrel
full of water should be, but it doesn't feel like sloshing. You feel
or hear a thudding. I don't think I have anything that I can cry
this open with. So at this point I'm gonna make my way back to
the first class car. Okay, you're gonna need to roll your acrobatics checks.
That's a twelve and a non natural twenty, so you're fine. There's
chaos in the first class car. There's the I mean, there was the
hole that was open. You are aware of what had happened, you had
left. What are you doing? Uh? We have more company than just
Higgins here. This is he's not working alone. Any idea? How many
five or six? Probably the one time I get to ride in first class
We're still an initiative in this car too, right, Yes, yeah,
yeah, I guess we are. So if it's fine, talking is a
freeaction. But like we're back to the top of the order. Higgins has
now seen Andrick come in, heard what Andrick is going to is trying to
say, and is going to throw another dagger toward Andrik. That's a twenty
one day hit. Uh yeah, yeah, seven piercing damage. I will
also know Higgins happens to be on the chair next to Angel right now.
I'm not going to I'm not gonna have him attack Angel, but I'm gonna
put Angel an initiative. Does she have an initiative? Bonus? Okay,
Clarice, you have heard Andrek come in and tell you this. Higgins is
throwing knives or daggers. What are you doing, Oh Higgins, why are
you gonna be like that? This is Clarie's hiles of a sudden. No,
she's just tired. Okay, dude, dude, the daggers look over
here. What do you want? He's just gonna point it. I'll tell
you what I want, what they really want. Yes, he's gonna He's
gonna stop it. At there's a little dance number. No, he's just
gonna point it, get in Like what to you just want him dead?
Like do you need information? Like what we have to stop him from raising
the army? Who is we? What the what are you even talking about?
Are you even a porter? I'm starting to think that he looks at
you like you are an absolute idiot. Back here, look here, look
here, ignore that one. Yeah, why are you like you personally on
this strain to help restore glorious leader Malvaux to power? Oh you're one of
those dude? How old are you? Do you even know? My parents
have told me glorious stories of Malva's reign. Okay, okay, so like
I mean, I don't listen to anything my parents tell me because I'm a
normal person. But whatever, So like you're like you've been to the Alcazar,
you're tight with Lucienda all that right? Yes, that's where that's where
I came from. Why am I telling you all of this? Well just
just like, dude, we just like we're in a tiny train car,
like we it's a natural thing to talk. So you do you? But
like, okay, so like you want to stop my uncle Gideon, but
like he's literally just like riding a train, like what what what did you
think this was going to accomplish? I know where this train is going,
right, But like all of us can easily destroy you. So like you
think I'm alone? No, no, but like right now, I think
you're alone right now, right now, your toat's alone, and like we're
all ready to kill you. So like you've got a choice here, babes,
do you want to take an action or are we just having a conversation.
I mean, if you're gonna be unreasonable, then I will absolutely take
some actions. But I'm just saying, like you're not gonna win, so
like maybe you should make some better life choices. I would rather die than
work with you. Oh, I was not offering to work with you.
That is, that is presumptuous. Yeah, Clarice is just gonna whip out
her rape eer directly into Higgins Center World him. That's a seventeen to hit
that hits and it is it's four. He's looking pretty rough. Okay,
I have two weapon fighting and I was already holding my daggers, so I'm
gonna just stab. Okay, that's a nut five double damage plus so it's
four doubled eight he's barely standing. I told you, like, we literally
can stop all of you. Is there anything you want us to know,
like about your friends? Is there anybody we should watch out for, like
maybe not kill. He raises his shaky hand to his mouth and like draws
his fingers across his lips and turns them like he's zipping his lips. Oh,
it's cute that you think you have a choice, Cretaceo. It's your
turn, all right, m you're still on combat, right, yeah,
but you're you're an initiative. So okay, is the hole still open?
Hole still open? All right? Okay, I would probably have a hard
time getting around it. I don't take up that much space, just real,
Yeah you can, you can move, Okay, Yeah, I'm all
right. I'm gonna walk around, walk around right to Higgins. Okay,
I'm gonna kick him. Okay. Hit. That is a twenty non net.
That's fine, Rod, hit or roll your damage three. That is
exactly the number of points to make him collapse dead into the hole. Okay,
he just tumbles forward, dead into the hole. Well, he said
he wasn't alone, So yeah, could you maybe get the body out of
the hole so I can pack it up. Yeah right, all right,
I'm gonna climb into the hole and just grab him in my jaws and then
just bring him out. Okay, you just like put him on the floor.
You put me in a seat, I'll uh, I'm just gonna drop
him on the floor. Okay, are you folding up the hole? Are
you leaving it there? I'm gonna fold it up. I think having everybody
know the mechanic of it means that I can use it. But no,
I am going to fold up the hole and then I'm gonna say you,
uh, cretaceous, You good to keep an eye on unks if I go
check things out. Yeah, all right, it's cretaceo by the way.
Yeah no, but I thought it was like, yeah, you go stay
with uncle Gideon. Okay, so we've folded up the hole. Where are
we going? Clarice is going towards the first class dining car, even knowing
that there is a mimic in there. Yep, yeah, okay. Is
anybody going with Clarice? Ye? Okay, we've got other quote unquote porters
to find, all right, So you can move yourselves on over into the
dining car. When you get into the dining car, you see the same
things that Bell and Kilonian had seen, broken china, broken crystal silverware,
a skew table, cards askew, and the one table that's turned on is
end with teeth. I thought maybe it was going to be hiding again.
You wouldn't know which table. This has all been happening very fast. Clarice
is gonna just like try to walk across the rubble on the other side of
the train. Okay, she's small, she's light. She's gonna see I'm
not going to make a difficult train for you. Yeah. So she's gonna
just try to walk in front of the mimic and see if it notices.
Yeah, you're provoking opportunity. Yeah, that's okay. So it's gonna try
to bite you eighteen oh yeah, okay, and that is going to be
ten piercing damage plus seven acid damage. Clarice is really suffering, but at
DM's discretion, would like to continue to drag herself past it to a place
where she can drink the healing potion she has with her. I think we're
not really an initiative. You just happened upon this, so I'll allow you
to Okay. Great. The first two roles were three and four plus two
nine. Okay, I am now going to make the three of you role
initiative. Like I let you have that movement for free, but you're an
initiative now, Clarise, that's a twenty seven okay, Andrick seven all right,
well Clarie, you get an action. Now, I'm gonna cast truce,
right, okay, just pointing a finger at it. I want to
understand it's defenses and on my next turn I'll have advantage on my first attack
role. Okay, it's a it's a mimic. It is immune to acid
damage and it can't be knocked prone. Okay, I'm gonna mention all that
to Andrik, and then my next turn I'll have vantish. It is the
mimics turn. The mimic is going to try to use its pseudopod action.
Clarice, it's twenty three to hit. That's gonna hit. Yeah, so
it's gonna hit for nine. What is the nature of this? So it's
nine bludgeoning damage, but then it is also going to subject you to it.
It's the adhesive trade. What that means is it is now adhered to
you and you're grappled, so ability checks to escape is grapple are going to
have disadvantage? Okay? Was that a sneak attack or a weapon? Like?
What's how does it it's it's a it's listed as a melee weapon attack.
Okay. Yeah, basically it's a tongue right. Yeah, you said
nine damage? Yes, and you're grappled andreck Okay, I'm gonna use my
movement to get up to it. Is it considered engaged with chlorice? It's
grappling here are you? So? So I drawed my long sword so soon
this attack has advantage? Yep? Right, So the higher one is twenty
two to hit that definitely hiss. So it takes five points of slashing damage
and it needs to make a charismas saving throw. Oh boy, as we
know, mimics are at very charismatic twelve. That is a failure. It's
a DC thirteen. So actually it was eleven because I just it's minus one.
So until the end of my next turn, whenever it makes an attack
or a saving throw, it has to roll a D four and subtract that
for the attack. Okay, got it? Attack or saving throw okay,
and I'm gonna then do my offhand attack with draw my dager into an offhand
attack. Is this also with advantage or do you only get advantage on one
per turn? It knows you're there now, okay, that's a twelve to
hit twelve just hits twelve just hits are and it takes an additional piercing damage.
Oh boy, it's not hurt enough to disengage with Clarice. It's Clarie's
turn and you are grappled and you have disadvantage to get out of the grappl
Do I have to try to get out of the grapple? You could I
just start stabbing it because it's attached. Yeah. Great, I'm gonna use
my rape year first. That does nothing. But I have two weapons fighting,
so I use my dagger and that's a twelve just HiT's great. Oh
I forgot I had advantage on my attack with my rapier, so I could
have rerolled that one. I think because you're grappled, do you always it
was because I did true strikeing? Oh right, yes, that's right.
So yes, okay, so I'm gonna roll my d twenty one more time
for the rape year. But we know the dagger. Yes, okay,
that re roll gave me almost nothing. Okay, great, So with the
rapier. You still hit. Yeah, uh, that's going to do four
damage. And I'm gonna add my psychic blades. So I'm going to add
two D six of psychic damage two and four. And it is the mimics
turn, or as I've written in the notes, memic simm me Colin.
The mimic is going to trade bite you while it's got you there, that's
in need. That's not gonna bite me. No, andreck, I'm going
to continue hacking at this thing. Oh well, it doesn't matter because Nate
wasn't gonna do it. Didn't subtract the D four from that attack role.
That's going to be fifteen to hits. That hits. Okay, so three
points of slashing damage and another charismas saving row and that was thirteen DC thirteen.
That's a three. Keep subtracting that D four from its attack rolls and
saving frows offhand attack with dagger stabby stabby U thirteen hits hits and another two
points piercing damage. The mimic is definitely hurting. That's my turn, Craze
back to you. I'm a stab it, yeah, yeah you are.
That was the first one and that is not gonna make it okay, and
then the other hand is definitely gonna do it. That's a twenty four that
does it okay, and that's that's an eight plus two ten is piercing you
feel it started to release the tongue from you, but you're still grappled.
I am gonna add my psychic blades as far as I can do that,
as much as I want, I can add two des four more psychic damage.
You slice right through the mimics tongue. The tongue is still adhered to
you, but the mimic is dead ew okay, So there's a tongue stuck
to me. There's a tongue stuff to you, but I'm mostly feeling pretty
crappy, so I'm not gonna worry about it. You're just gonna walk out
with the tongue attached to you. Yep. This is going to get worse
before it gets better. You got any healing you can do? I'm going
to down a healing potion for myself, all right, and I'm gonna ask
you any chance you could help me, like some or something? Uh,
how many points did you heal yourself for? Five? Okay? And then
is there anything you can do for Chlorice, Yeah, I can cast cure
wounds. Okay, take four points of healing better than nothing because I rolled
a one on my one for that. Clarice is going to suggest that she
go second into the next car. Reasonable, So you've you've healed yourself a
little, you've healed Clarice a little. Are you going to go back into
the first class car? Are you going to keep moving because we didn't.
I expected to see Colonian and Bell here and they're not here, so and
we know they're not forward, so we're continuing to the rear. Okay,
so you walk into the next train car. That was a NAP twenty on
my right, so you're both fine on your acrobatics check. So then Clarice
and Andrik walk into the kitchen car. You don't see Bell or Kilonian.
You do see a person dressed a porter, tied up asleep on the floor
but beginning to stir. Yeah, it only lasts some minutes, so we're
going to stop there and that's it for this episode of Oops. All Bards
joy us in two weeks for the Barbecue episode, where we'll take a deep
dive into this episode, which is episode seven. If you can believe it,
and then two weeks after that we'll have episode eight. As always,
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