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soon and thanks for listening. I am so disappointed in them. I know,
I'm so surprised. You'd think that, like they would remember who the
client is, right, I think like we're missing the goal here is that
you and I are carrying this team and they are just like dead weight.
We're literally bringing them through this whole process, and they are not invested in
getting me my phone back, and that should be priority number one. That's
exactly right, Like we just we need to get the money. That's our
one goal or one purpose. This is my livelihood. This is the thing.
This is the reason you guys were in the conference room to begin with,
is because my whole brand is bringing everyone to the table, and the
fact that they are just pretending like it's not that big of a deal when
everybody relies on that phone to get their paychecks is just absurd. To me,
that's exactly right. How do you think we should approach this race?
I just don't feel like shape shifting is like a thing i'm comfortable with.
I had a really negative experience. I think the goal norm we don't speak
of. I can't believe you would bring it up. I'm so sorry.
I promise I'll do better. Thank you. Like you and I were the
core of this, so if I don't trust you, it's not going to
work. We have to like get through this, like it's important. I'm
thinking, like, as far as the race is concerned, I'm kind of
used to, like you said, carrying the team on my back. Why
don't you just hop on? Okay, I did ride horses as a kid,
so it's probably fine. Perfect. Yeah, Dad paid for him.
It's fine. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to death Right, where the thrill
of the track meets the thundering hoofs of the finest thoroughbreds. I'm Thirtius thunder
Hoof, and I'm honored to guide you through this heart pounding spectacle. Could
we please have all of our contestants for our next round line up at the
starting line? Death race? Did you just say deathrace? Greetings, my
paid and unpaid interns. I am Alex Capps, your dem or district manager.
And this is Overworked and Underplay, a D and D podcast for young
professionals, by young professionals. Today's icebreaker, what is the most awkward gift
you've ever received? Hi? I'm Tyler. I played Bentley, the IT
Paladin, and the most awkward gift Bentley ever received. This one that any
of young boys may or may not receive. He was sixteen years old and
he learned that his father had too much faith in him, as his father
gifted him a box of condoms to avoid grandkids. That's less too much,
I don't know, just being responsible, good parenting. The box has still
remained. Those things expired before they got used. Hey, I'm Marjorie.
I play Amy and Amanda, a basic, b rough and tumble human fighter
with a freshly minted dentistry degree. So working with the public, Amyen has
received a few gifts, some of them a little more questionable than others.
But once there's this older gentleman who gifted Amy and some pants that were really
tight a little bit revealing. It was just a very very awkward, awkward
gift. But she thanked him for him anyway. Okay, okay, how
do I follow that? Hi? Everyone, I'm Katie and I play Crystal
the Drowdruid with her very own MLM Crystal Clarity. All that might currently be
up for debate. And the most awkward gift Crystal has received is from one
of her, for lack of a better term, paid boyfriends. He thought
it was real, so he got her like real Valentine's Day stuff and she
had to remind him of the contract. Hi. I'm Annelin Hardy and I
played Taylor Jacobs, a centaur barbarian with a heart of goals, and the
most awkward gift she ever received was a pair of flip flops. She's like,
when am I ever going to use this amazing close toed shoes? Only?
Only? What up? It's you boy, Marcel Hardy Planning. Richard
Cox a human consultant turned halfling bard who holy believes it's better be lucky than
good, but it's best to be both. And the most awkward gift that
Richard has ever received was a graduation gift. His like extended families like,
oh, what can we get for you? He's like, oh, you
know, I need some clothes, maybe for the workforce, so maybe anything
like yellowjacket related, because you know that was his school's mascot and lo and
behold he got a yellow jacket. Oh. I mean they got him the
thought that counts, which is why it's awkward, because he really appreciated it.
He's like, I could never wear this. Once again, I am
Alex caps you'r DM or district manager. And the DM's most awkward gift he
received was not actually one he opened, but at one time the DM may
or may not have have dated someone who's sibling had the same name as as
the DM, and they may have opened a gift that had their what they
thought was their name on it but was intended for the DM and pulled out
lingerie. Oh dear no, oh oh no, so yeah, especially when
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patreon dot com slash own up pod. All right, so when we last
left off, you guys were planning a disastardly evening of skullduggery where you're planning
to pay for Nemeo and his boys to break in and steal a cell phone.
Meanwhile, two of your members, who may or may not be in
charge, decided to take matters in their own hand and to raise money the
good old fashioned way through mortal combat that they did not realize they were getting
into. And I would just like to say that. So as we pick
up Richard, you, Amy Ann and Bentley are approaching the arena that was
pointed out to you by the person at the bar man. Isn't it crazy
that this arena has a giant sign this is death race And they didn't realize
they were getting involved in the death race. Maybe they went into the side
entrance. Let's give them the benefit of the doubts. As you guys are
approaching, you see a guy at the front looks at you and he says,
tickets please, how much it is? H Do you want cheap seats?
Good? Seats or like like really good seats. Oh, really good
seats, but I like to know the price of all of them. Oh
yeah, that's a good point. Cheap seats are five copper, decent seats
are five silver, and then the good seats are too gold. Oh yeah,
I think we can. Okay, that's very expensive. Okay, here's
your tickets. All right? Wait what comes with the really good seats?
Do we get like a free beer with food and beverage are in the box
and you have really good view of all the carnage. Nice? Thank you?
Question for you quick? Are the good seats really close to the action?
Are they really far away from the action? That's why you're in charge,
Richard. I mean you asked some really good questions. You see,
is this what you now recognize as a goblin is just kind of staring into
oblivion? And he goes it's close. It's as close as you want to
be. Really, if you're thinking about it, He's like, I mean,
you, guys, you look like you're wearing nice clothing and armor.
You probably don't want to get a lot of blood on your on your stuff.
You'd be surprised. Okay, that's we need to circle back to Actually,
we want the closest seats to the action we can get. He says,
that would be the middle round seats. That's the silver. You'd rather
have that in the food and beverage. Can we pay for both sets of
tickets and then just say wherever we want? Sure? Whatever you want?
Man, all right? Can I get work here? Yeah? I want
that. Okay, that will be six gold and fifteen silver. This is
the weirdest Richard. Richard gives him two gold and five silver for his seats,
and the goblin just kind of looks at you and looks at your friends,
and he's like, oh, you're that guy. Yeah, we're gonna
split it. Well, I don't feel like I need to give you two
gold. I'm just going to give you the silver. Okay, we only
get the silver ticket. That's right, Okay, here you go. I'll
give him give him the gold frames. I know that she's gonna eat.
Oh here's the question. How much is the food? They can session?
Probably more expensive than once you get in the box. Somehow, I doubt
that because you're paying for the seat. Am I talking? I'm looking,
I'm are you talking? I just have questions, guys. I can't.
I'm keeping my eye out. Do you see Taylor or Crystal? I haven't
seen them yet, so make me a perception check. By the way I
rolled earlier, you have two good omens and three bad ole Can we have
an advantage because we know I have a distinct tone of voice from No,
you don't natural one. Okay, So you look and you see that you
are still outside the arena. It'd be funny if you said she looks that
she sees a concession cart, you would see a concession I'm sure we'll find
them once we get inside. And maybe that's why I wanted us to get
to see it as close to the action. If it's like any sporting thing,
you don't really get to see the competitors. You think they have hot
dogs. I hope they have hot dogs. What's what's going what's the point
of going to a stadium if you're not going to go a stadium dog?
Well, shouldn't we be like more concerned about them because it's like death race.
We want to find them, But if it's hard for us to find
them, we'll definitely see them during the company. But that might be too
late by then, it might be might not Okay, they've been in the
jail. They're fine. I don't know about that. But we have the
wristbands, Amy and holding down the wristband. Taylor. Hey, hey,
where are you? We're here, we have tickets. Hey, we're approaching
the starting line. Oh my gosh. Okay, okay, well, good
luck guys, they're about to start. We need to run. Actually,
Rich I can just pick you up and carry if you want. Okay,
definitely stop. So Bentley, you go to the concession court. I mean
I paid for the box seat food. You're going to go to the box
sat to get food? Yeah? Okay. So Bentley is heading up to
the box and you guys are heading down to the silver seats. Yep,
exactly all right. I'll bring you food. Please do so. As you
guys head in, you hear the announcer over the top, grittings. Everyone
is hof here again, and we will be beginning the next round in three
minutes. All competitors to the gate. Sound like a centaur. I don't
know what does a centaur sound like. I don't know. Thunder. That
seems like a good centaur name, though, doesn't it. Bentley? Maybe
we can find it. Get up there, conversation. Yeah, poop,
so Bentley Bentley. You make it up to the box and it's pretty easy
to get to, and you see all the seats are like lined with what
looks to be padded velvet, and you see some very finely dressed people serving
drinks and food. And you see what appears to be a like a stag,
like a big deer creature on a big spit being spun around a fire
and parts being carved off. Are there any like Southern bells around, like
with fans, you know, like the sure Yes, it's just like the
Kentucky derbyps hair. Oh, they definitely have meant jewels. I just feel
like this isn't his classy as the Kentucky Derby. I'm just saying, oh,
it's not so they're not all wearing hats. Oh no, they're definitely
wearing hats. But a blood it has like the carcasses definitely gets Julip and
then just starts ask for as much meat as possibly carved off on the plate.
Does he see anyone interesting in the box? Anyone he might recognize,
anyone that stands out, So definitely no one you recognize. You would see
a bunch of people dressed in very fancy attire, and you see people taking
seats in the box and you see them holding up like the little binocular things
like they would wear at the opera. Is anyone wearing like a shirt like
saying that they're rooting for a specific contender. You wouldn't see that in this
So there's not like a very common contender that everyone that constantly wins. They're
not holding up faces. No, no, no. So that's what you
feel like. If you win the death race once, that's enough. So
I've seen death Race. You have to win seven times before you let out.
So, oh my god. Different. So we cut back to we
cut back to Richard and Amyen, and you guys make it to the upper
tier, which you notice actually kind of juts out over towards the track and
overhangs the lowest tier, and you guys see people decked out in all kinds
of strange garb. They're not very fancy dressed, and you see different strange
symbols on what appears to be signs and big posters and things that people are
cheering and and they're chanting towards each other. Uh, what are you guys
doing? Thanks again for carrying to me. I don't think I would be
able to get here on time if I had to run with these little these
little legs anytime, Richard, I appreciate it. Let's see looking around this
kind of looks. Hopefully this isn't like the student section we have to end
up the whole time. Well, my goodness, for fifteen silver, I
would hope not. Okay, can you see? Okay, do you want
to like sit on my shoulder or something? If you don't mind, okay,
go ahead, all right, see you hoist rich or yeah, Richard,
up on your shoulders. Oh my gosh. As you guys are making
your way to the seats on your tickets, Amyen, you would hear a
cart coming by, that says, and you hear the guy going soup,
get your hot soups. Oh is it cold outside today? It's a little
chili? Oh, Richard, chili? Oh what chili? I can't help
myself. I'm a double dad, a double dad, dare you? Oh
my gosh, hey, Richard, do you think i'd like to see how
close to everybody is to starting? You can see pretty well, and you
see what appears to be five stalls from where they're about star, and you
see that the first two competitors are beginning to get on their mounts to get
ready to go to their stalls. Okay, how far away are we from
the stalls? Like with it while staying in the stands. How close can
we make? I would say from where you're at, your close to the
start finish line. Okay, perfect, And so you're probably about thirty feet
from the stalls themselves at the very bottom of this of this area. Hey,
Amyen, can you get us down to that spot over there? I
think so, Richard, hold on all right. So as you're moving,
you hear them saying fresh soup, get your hot soup. I'll have to
get some later. This is more important. I'm keeping my I'm keeping track
of where this guy's going a lit. And then as you guys are moving
down through you hear people talking in strange languages and stuff. But you hear
some people cheering for a swift wind. You hear some people cheering for thunderclap.
And as you're making your way through the crowd down to the starting area.
We cut to the starting area. Hey, I'm gonna go ahead and
start stretching and getting all limbered up and lose. I'm really excited not to
die obviously. Excuse Mary. He sees a little goblin approaches you. Are
you miss Taylor Jacobs? Yes, sir, are you the rider? No,
I'm the ride? Oh okay, huh uh? So you who are
you? Well? I'm a Crystal. Okay, Crystal, nice to meet
you. So you're the writer? Yeah? Okay? Are you ready to
go? Do you have your weapons? Do you there's no saddle on this
person? Do we need a saddle? Do you do you have one?
Uh? Yeah, you're gonna have to hurry. So where are the weapons?
So there's like a weapons wreck and a saddle in the little like prep
area. Okay, I need you to make me a sleight of hand check
to secure this saddle onto the onto Crystal or an animal handling check your choice.
I need to secure the crust. Who's making the slide of hand?
You're looking at me? Yes? Sorry, Crystal. Crystal needs to make
the slide pantake to secure it onto Taylor. Taylor. Sorry, okay,
I'm sorry. I was looking at you and I probably said Crystal both times
you did. It's fine. Do you plan on using any of the omen
dice not for this one. Now, okay, Well, I'm gonna spend
one and you're gonna have disadvantage for this role. Rude. Uh, that's
okay, it'll give us one more good one, right, yeah, okay,
okay, So six plus five? Okay, eleven? What is your
insight? What's your modifier? Plus four? Okay? You think you did
an okay job? I think I did. Yeah, you get it on
there with your your what was it an eleven for the slight of hand?
Yeah, so with your eleven you get it all cinched down and you think
about it for your secular you remember like riding horses when you were younger,
Like, I think this is how you do it. So it's safe to
say that she knows that she didn't do the best she could do, but
I think it's worth yeah, continuing on. It's like acceptable, Yeah,
you're like, it'll be fine. The question is screaming, oh yeah,
no, no, no, Katie is losing her upset. Katie would be
very upset anyways. So yeah, you get the saddle on there, and
then there's some weapons. Are you wanting to take one of the weapons?
Yeah, I think I want like a long staff type thing, spear spear,
Sure, there's a spear a lance trident which has a higher damage.
So that's the fun thing about D and D. Pretty much they all do
this. Yeah, they're pretty much all the same thing. Yeah, unless
you're going underwater, in which case tried it would make sense. Spear Okay,
spear amazon all right, so make me an animal handling check to hop
up on Taylor. The one thing the druid doesn't have, probably Taylor.
I'm assuming you're going to assist her. Absolutely, Can you do a best
friend check? Yeah, you will have advantage. Okay, it's not necessary.
Twenty three. So you put one foot in the stirrup and immediately like
it's like you're twelve again. You're like, oh yeah, this is like
riding a bike. It's like freedom. Yeah you know, Okay, Like
there's this slight tangle. When it happens, you're like, this is like
the most excited you've been in a while. To die. Well, you
don't think you're going to die. You're an optimist, right, I mean,
you're right, I got confidence. Bulls like fake it till you make
it. As you're hopping up on there, you hear someone over at the
start like heading to the starting gate, turn and they go, Maximus,
look at this. They let just anybody in here these days. Wow,
with a name like that, that's really impressive, Like that you could have
that all of a penis you gotta be compensating for something, you see he
is as this small statuted individual spins around in full armor, walks up in
this hobgoblin approaches you and he says, you dare be meirched the name of
Maximus swift Wind. Oh my god, you're so cute. Look at you.
Can't what are you doing right now? Can't pick you up? N
It's really cute, you see as he slowly like backs away like I don't
know what kind of sorcery this is, but this is this is not sporting.
And you see you're right, You're right, You're right? Right?
Is this this female dwarf turn goes now, Maximus, go easy on them.
They're new. Go ahead, take your seat, and go ahead and
get ready to collect the l She says that to maximums and you see as
this dwarf approaches you on the back of a ram, she says, I
don't believe I've ever seen any of you around here. The name is Valeria
Thunderclap what is your name? I'm Crystal. Hi, I'm Taylor Jacobs.
Nice to meet you. Valeria, Nice to meet you. And this is
my ram Thunderbolt Express. Wow what you see as the ram just kind of
stares right into like Crystal, like it just stares like it's staring into your
soul and just go, oh, oh, okay, don't mind him.
He can be a little serious. Before death race? So does everybody die
in a death race except for one? Are there multiple winners? Like?
How does this has to die? Or is it like whoever survives? Yeah,
it's just it is a potential outcome, you would say. Okay,
so it's not like a prerequisite. So it is a race you can just
also kill people. Yes, it's a we just kind of race around this
track, a race of mortal combat. It is the first survivor to cross
the line wins. Okay, great, that seems pretty straightforward. Yeah.
She she turns and she says, uh, that one over there, and
she points at a goliath. That's Ajax you see as he steps onto a
flightless dragon. Said that's cool. She says, no, need to take
this offline. Overworked and underplayed will circle back after these messages, he is
a bit dull, but he is very strong. I would avoid him.
She points over at Maximus, whom you've already met as he gets onto his
flaming horse mirage. He is from the Imperial Capital, and he is very
intimidated by women. If you could not tell, she went, gave that
away. And then she points over there, and you see what appears to
be a high lf range getting on the back of a unicorn. Ah,
and that bitch is astrid storm racer. That's our competition right there. Mmmmm,
she says. Now she will use any means necessary to win. Now,
I tell you all this, I'm not your friend. You will stay
out of my way or you will die. With that out of the way,
good luck. And you see as she heads over to the starting gate,
I think she's nice. Yeah, I wonder if she's interested in joining
Crystal Clarity. Yeah. I feel like we could use her. I wish
we had like a marketing banner we could have put on me. But oh
well, yeah, some sponsorships right exactly. Yeah, I love it.
This is gonna be so fun. You see is what appears to be a
bluegal wizard approaches and he's like, hey, I noticed you didn't have any
pauldrons or any other like kind of decoration for your mount Crystal. He's kind
of looking at Taylor very confused because this is not a normal situation. He
goes, Uh, do you need me to whip you up something really quick
before you get started. Yeah, it's some kind of of banner or something
like. You have to have at least a number. Oh well, can
they just know my name? Yeah? Can it just be crystal? You
have to have a number and a color because there's a lot of people in
the audience who are illiterate and they're betting on this, so they have to
have something simple to place their bet off of. Okay, how about we
go with our Lord and Savior. Taylor Swift's thirteen. Yes, absolutely,
I like it is there? Thirteen is thirteen available? Thirteen is? Are
you sure you want number thirteen? Taylor Swift says, it's good luck.
It doesn't have like a curse or anything. Okay, here you go,
and you see as he starts like he holds out like a piece of cloth
and starts magically. Can we do it purple? Since Crystal's a purple drop.
I like it purple purple? Thirteen? Yeah, and do you want
anything else on this? Well, we can't have Crystal clarity, right,
I mean it would be the move. He's just I can put whatever the
Yep, yeah, we should do that. Should I should do that Crystal
clarity. Taylor's gonna quick like draw out what the logo looks like. Okay,
and you see as he's like, they're like trying to get you all
to hurry, and he goes, give me a minute, like he says.
He gets the thing all drawn out, and all of a sudden,
he sees he waves his wand over Taylor Jacobs and this horse drape appears around
her like lower body that has the emblem you drew out and the number in
the purple thirteen. Yeah. Oh, and hey, while you're here,
would you mind checking our attack just for like shits and giggles. My trainer
always used to tell me to never do it by myself. I'm sorry,
that's not my wheelhouse. I'm just the tech guy, all right, good
luck, Thank you so much. You have great craftsmanship. Uh, you're
welcome, Crystal says, and nothing. Then you guys are here in the
back. So while we're getting close, it's like, hey, Richard's gonna
go on the bracelet Hey Bentley, before you come down. We're over here
in this area, and I described how we got to where we are.
Try to find the betting spot so we can make a little extra money on
this race thing. Oh yeah, I hear that unicorn person's a shoe in,
so I'll put some money on them. I mean, do what you
gotta do to make us more money. Like you agree that maybe bet not
betting on. Richard wants to bet on our people because like he thinks that
that's the smart thing to do. But he's like, I'm not going to
micromanage you. Just make sure we get money. This is like the one
thing I did not look up betting was for some reason. Why would I
Why would I consider that you guys would even bet on the It's like you've
never played D and D before. They're like, oh, oh, there's
a chance that our people don't win. Let's hedge our bets, right.
Bentley definitely would win up to some of the rich people and talk to them
a bit, just to see who the who the favorite is. All right?
So Bentley, what you would have found out from your searching is that
your patriots who were listed under the thing as new competitor. They hadn't even
gotten their name in there before they were assigning them. Odds are twenty to
one odds. Twenty to one odds, Yes, I've seen worse. Astrid
storm Racer is the favorite at one to two odds. Close second is Valeria
Thunderclap at four to five odds. Maximus swift Wind is four to one odds,
and then Ajax storm Stride is ten to one odds. All right,
he's gonna come back. How much you want me to bet on them?
I assume you're going to chip in together? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
for sure. How much we want to match it? Does Amy n also
want in on this? No, you guys, go ahead. I can
probably put like one hundred down. All right, I'll match you. So
we'll put two hundred on our friends. Did he just say friends? That's
said hour? He said friends? Guys? Taylor Jacobs in the back of
her mind, there's like a little tingle, She goes, Oh, what
was that? Can they benefit from my blessed spell? Bless the range?
On bless I was gonna say, is Richard with an earshot thirty feet?
Well, we're definitely with an Yeah. Well, I'm gonna say if you
hurry, I'm gonna hurry. Okay, I'm gonna make the bet. I
have a plate full of deer meat and ears of grilled corn. Yeah,
and you you make it down just as they're about to start, and you
see as they take everybody out on a parade lap. Oh, can we
see them on the parade lap? Yes? Okay, when we can see
them, Richard's gonna use his I'm gonna bart the inspiration them with a little
wristband and they're like thirty feet ish right, you said that's how far away
we'd be. Yeah, I'll hit them both a blessed too, And so
you hear his Thaddius thunderhook comes back over the announcement. The atmosphere here is
electric and the anticipation is palpable. Is we're moments away from the starting gate
swinging wide open. Before we dive into the action, let's take a quick
look at today's contenders. In the number one position, we have Asterid storm
Racer and her Unicorn Galloping Glory. In position number two, who's been turning
heads with their recent performances, displaying remarkable stamina down the stretch, we have
Valeria Thunderclap riding thunderbalt Express, waiting up for third in trade. Today we
have a relative newcomer, but he shows a lot of moxie. Maximus Swift
windsative from the Imperial Capitol, riding his horse Mirage. Next up, failing
from the northern reaches of the far flung edges of the Empire, we have
the goliath barbarian Ajax storm Stride, riding his dragon Turbo Tempest. A second,
we just got the name in here. Is this correct? So there's
two? There is uh Taylor Crystal riding. Yeah. Sorry, Oh it's
a centaur. Okay, that makes more sense now, all right, give
it up for Taylor in Crystal. They're the best. There's nothing they can't
do. And then through that, that's when he's holding you're the best around.
Nothing's ever going to take you down, all right. So you guys
do your parade. Laugh, and you see that this is not the typical
horse racing arena. You see there are left turns and right turns. No
Nascar in here today, baby, Formula one. As you're making your way
through, you see there's pits, there's jumps, there are obstacles, all
kinds of fun stuff. As you're making your way around, you hear as
Ajax comes up alongside you. So I recommend you staying out of my way.
I would hate to have to crush your puny little horse legs. Hi
a Jacks. That's the same advice that we've been hearing from other people as
well, So there's definitely a consensus around here. Yes, you are small
like Twig. Oh thank you. I've been working out. He looks very
confused anyway, see you later, see you later. All right. So
as you guys make your way back around to the starting gate, you begin
to take your starting positions, and all the betting is closed. So Bentley,
will you give me a tally as to what you guys? How did
you guys bet? I think we just put straight up two hundred gold on
Crystal and Taylor. Oh wow, really, it's like the movie Dodgeball.
That's what Richard said to do. Oh okay, all right, well let's
see what happens. So if you win, we're rich. If you lose,
we hate you. We don't know that though. We don't know that?
Yeah, or do we? You can tell us through the racelest if
you want. I don't want to get in your head. Yeah, that's
why, that's why we blessed you. And you got that tingling in your
mind that he somehow calls you friends not mine. Yeah, gotta specify that.
Okay, are either are either don't care? Are either Crystal or Taylor
doing anything prior to the race beginning, Taylor's been like trying to be cool
about everyone, kind of being a dick. But so she's gonna go into
a rage loky a low key rich more than mouthing. This is why I
started talk it. So I'm going to I'm gonna throw yellow bone on this
one. Okay, I'm going to assume that someone gave Crystal a jockey whip,
and because because has to take damage to remain enraged, So I'm going
to assume that I'm not poking you with the spears. Yeah, she has
a jockey whip to kind of keep you focused during the We're gonna have to
tell Crystal that that's okay. You. I know that Crystal is kind of
a bitch, but like she's not gonna just Crystal, I need you to
fuel my hate fire. Okay, Okay, she didn't hate me every once
in a while, Okay, I can do that. I will. I
you know what, Whatever you need, girl, I'm here for it.
I just needed your consent. You have it. Okay, So who is
doing what? Because one of you is going to make combat roles and the
other one is going to be making the racing roles. So my strength lies
in spells. Okay, So combat's not my strong suit. But I will
be casting Shelleyley on your spirit on the spears before we start. All right,
good enough, As we're getting ready to begin, Taylor Jacobs, Yeah,
as you you're sitting in the in the stall waiting for the door to
open, as you hear them begin to count you down, as there is
a goblin who is attempting to sing the song or trevaria to start the event.
Before we do get started, I also want to cast Enhanceability on Taylor.
Okay. Either bears endurance, which the target has the advantage on constitution
checks, and it also gains two six to temporary hit points which are lost
when the spellons or Cat's Grace, the target has advantage on dexterity checks,
and it also doesn't take damage from falling twenty feet or less if it isn't
incapacitated. So Taylor, would you rather have a bear's endurance or a cat's
grace? Based on how tricky this course sounds. I think a cat's situation
sounds good. Okay, all right, so I'm going to cast enhanceability and
give her cat's grace. Taylor's also grown to a large animal at this point.
Large? How does that work with the saddle? It expands magically.
They get ready to begin. You see, as everything goes quiet, the
door's about to open, Taylor, Jacobs, I need you to make me
a dexterity saving throw seventeen. You have advantage as well, okay, and
you're blessed. Yeah, blest, yes, that means you roll a D
four. I add that to it as well. Okay, everything to all?
Is it skill checks saving? Actually, I think it's just attack rolls
and saving throws. Okay, attack rolls and saving throws. So that's a
twenty one. That is very fortunate advantage. Good point. As the gate
goes to open, it makes some kind of a noise and you see everyone
flinch, but you stand true, and you see as three of your competitors,
Astrid, Ajax, and Maximus run into the door before it opens,
delaying them. Your door swings open and you in Valeria both just make fee
launch straight out. But your swiftness is just ever so smoother on ex when
you see that you break out into the lead of the race. Yeah,
cross country runner, I'm not loving it as you do this. I need
Crystal to make me a dexterity saving throw. Okay, you is a good
thing you had. That bless really because you hear a whistling noise like out
of your right ear, and you instinctively duck as you feel a javelin just
buzzes right past your head. Okay, I think this is my opportunity to
taunt. So I'm gonna not look back, but I'm gonna say you wish
and I'm gonna shout it at the top of my lungs. Okay, noted?
All right? So well, so as you pull ahead and you you
start approaching the first obstacle, you glance back and you would see that the
first three are slowly catching you, guys. So I have a cantrip called
mold Earth and it turns difficult train for me into normal train. Okay,
you, guys, approach the first obstacle, which appears to be like it's
almost like a ditch and you cast mold earth and instead of having to roll,
you guys just run right over it. Yeah, like you, and
I immediately remove it as soon as I'm done. So you you like lean
in and you tell Taylor just keep running, trust me, and you make
the dirt appear under her hoofs and then disappear right behind them. It's the
power. Yes. Valeria approaches and you see as the ram jumps, it's
almost like a flash of lightning. It's on the other side of the ditch
and it's slowly closing on you guys, and the other three approach Maximus,
ajaxon Astrid. Astrid jumps and clears it no problem, almost like her unicorn
was galloping through the air and actually picks up speed jumping. The dragon just
plows right through the ditch, but doesn't seem to slow him down. And
Maximus ooh, Maximus takes a spill. He is now in the tail,
and you guys both picked up one point of speed. So you and Valeria,
Astrid picked up two points of speed, and Ajax picked up one.
So currently yours is it a four. Valeria and Astrid are at a three,
Ajax is at a two. And Maximus is at a one, so
you approach your neck stops. Quick question for you, DM, like,
as we are watching this, we can see that they're using magic. Yeah,
can we see like if magic is banned from the audience. So what
you saw right is what you would have seen right as the race began.
Is a arcane bear goes up around the track to prevent objects from leaving the
track and entering the stands, but also to prevent people in the stands from
influencing the race. Perfect, so we don't have to worry about that.
It would have been. I was actually sitting here looking at like I wonder
if they were run past, if I could just command someone to fall.
Okay, So now chaos both of Taylor and Crystal make me a perception check
not helpful. Six If they're rolling for for perception, can we as the
audience see what it is and give them like a heads up? So you
wouldn't be able to because the magical barrier would prevent you, no, even
from the I'm gonna burn inspiration as well. Okay, oh my god.
That eight. Okay, So with an eight, you wouldn't really see what's
about to happen. So you guys approached the next obstacle, which appears to
be some wooden hurdles, and right as you're getting to the point where you
would jump, Taylor Jacob's, you feel the ground beneath you is very slippery,
and what you would have seen if you turned around, And what the
crowd saw is Valaria holding her hand out and casting a spell. So,
Taylor Jacobs, I need you to make me a deck saving throw. So
fourteen is just enough. You managed to catch your footing. It will slow
you down a little bit, but you do manage to make the first jump.
And now you see as Valeria and Astrid are both neck and neck with
you. Do you, guys, do you guys do anything. I'm gonna
go with the unicorn girl. I'm gonna cast frostbite okay, sixteen okay,
sixteen will hit okay and roll damage four damage. Okay. So you you
blast at Astrid, and what happens is you notice that the horn of her
unicorn like flashes like a lightning rod as your spell hits it in instead of
her, and you see as her horse slows down ever so slightly, so
she will lose a point of speed. Okay, and then they'll have disadvantage
on the next weapon attack roll Okay, it makes it makes before the end
of its next turn. So if she attacks me, it's disadvantage. Say
you're one cold bitch. I like it. I thought of it. So
now Valeria pulls up alongside you both and uh oh do I get to do
anything or is it just one of us? You go ahead, what are
you wanting to do? Okay? Can I unsheathe my sword, chop down
and then sheath it back like at the ram. Okay, you're trying to
attack the ram. Yeah, okay, so make me an attack roll.
Okay, so that's twenty four and yeah, twenty four that will hit.
That's ten plus five day fifteen to the ram. You said lamb chops for
dinner boys, So you fire that off off And what I need you to
do is now make a deck saving throat, so I have advantage on deck
saving on your Jackson spells, and also just kius the whole bless. I'm
going to say this counts because it is a magical effect. Well, the
bless also just give you advantage her advantages in addition from yeah, so that
means you can't do double advantage. You can't. Well, dang it five,
Well, this is going to be fun. It's okay, it's okay,
it's fine. Okay. So as you swipe down, you make direct
contact with the lightning ram and as your sword, your metal sword, contacts
its body and attacks it. You feel this surge of energy run through your
hand as you drop your sword and take eighteen lightning dodge. As you hear
it, what is Taylor's response, Eat my apples, bitch, your road
apples? A road up? It's horse shit. Oh eat my road apples?
And you hear it. There you go. You just attacked Mike Ram.
What was up with that? Fight me like a man? All right?
Next time I will. She's a steed too. So let's see some
other things happen behind you, but you're not aware of what's going on back
there. So you guys have navigated through over half of the course, and
as you're making it around the back straight, you approach what appears to be
what you didn't notice before is actually a split in the course. Okay,
so you'll see one section looks like it shortcuts the track a little bit,
but it's very narrow. The other section is just normal track, but it
looks like it's going to take longer to cross. I think we should do
the shortcut. What do you think. I think that the shorter the better.
I'm sure it's a death trap, but oh for sure. As you
enter this section, it's basically like a narrow bridge that cuts off part of
this one corner, and below it it appears to be a tar pit.
Okay, So what I need you to do is I need you to make
a deck saving throw. And because of how narrow it is and how hard
it is to hold on, I need Crystal to make an animal handling check.
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