All right, welcome back to another episode of the Broken Lords podcast, where
we join our heroes who have been for months now trapped in the Valley of
the Lost Souls. When last week left off, they had approached the monolithic,
unnatural stone walls of some sort of citadel at the far end of the
valley, and they had noticed the ominous flapping of wings flying creatures with ape
like bodies flitting about the crenelations of the wall, one of which had landed
on the near side to them sniffed the air. And it was at this
moment they decided to get out of dodge, at which point Ricardo Vega tripped
on a rock which went tumbling down the hillside. There's like a two second
pause. Then you hear him go shit. You think we'd be used to
this stuff by now, but we're not used to this stone bare feet on
rock. Listen, We're there's a lot of room for error here. Yup.
The creature perks up and starts swinging its gaze wildly about the hillside.
It hasn't locked on to your position yet. What would you like to do?
Would you hit the deck? Like? Yeah, Like I'm cool with
hiding behind rocks or whatever cover I can find sounds great at the very least,
till for it because it's kind of so far away from us, right,
it's yes, yeah, So I want Homeboys to move into my effect
the range, which is, unfortunately, as a non flying creature, kind
of small. But I'll roll stealth. Everybody, if you are going to
dive into cover should rule stealth. I'm not gonna be a hater, but
I am going to use one of these momentums. Can I use a fresh
fortune point? That's that's available to you, our fortune points? Fresh new
session? All right? Saying to you? Then two successes a big daddy
one's success. I guess I'll use a fortune two successes are right? So
did VGA use a fortune point? Or I did not use a fortune point?
So you got a one? Everybody else got it two? I think
I got four total? Oh yeah, you use the fortune Yeah? Yeah?
Does that generate any momentum? Ooh boy, we're gonna are you telling
me that we're in for a spicy situation. We're gonna lower that doom pool
because the tomeboy just rolled a twenty amongst right, Yeah, m that's what
Ricardo likes to hear. So the creature stands up like fully upright, stretched
its wings, bats them a couple times, hops off the wall, and
starts gaining altitude. It is flying in a pattern of increasingly wide circles,
but it is more in the direction of where the rock went instead of where
the rock came from. So it is spiraling basically south. I would say
south southeast, not like real southeast. But okay, we're still at the
far wall, right, oh, right, because we move We moved west
because to get to where we got Okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
yeah, it's that kind of a direction. Okay, I feel you.
Yeah, I should be trying cut west and then go south. Probably,
let's hit it. I have a question, but I don't have a better
idea. Is that back the way we came Oh, let's see here.
No, that would bring us in front of the building. Actually, oh
okay, Yeah, you guys had moved a bit westward, so you're probably
karish okay, and the creature is heading that way, headed south by southeast
kind of. It's basically, if you're looking at the building, it's deviating
to your right. So yeah, if you would go west as you go
south, that would bring you away from mid search pattern. Yeah, I
would like to do that. Yes, you didn't have a better idea,
It's all good. I'm going to need Octimer et cetera, et cetera.
That's for his names, not for his company. Yeah, I need Octimer
to make a survival check, to try and pick a way down for the
party where they won't draw more attention to themselves. Well, I'm gonna spend
our last momentum an eighteen or fourteen and a seventeen rough break that is not
terribly different from what the oxter roll is only failed one of those by one.
Nuts. You guys, pick your way down as quickly as you can,
but your descent is definitely going to take longer than you're us and as
long as this thing is actively hunting for you. So let me roll and
see what kind of attention span this dude has. Gold Fish, gold Fish,
Goldfish, gold Fish. I'm running for school child with sugar and crans
and hands. It's like a step up above goldfish. I got you.
I mean I would take that in Let's go three seconds, baby. Yeah,
there's candy that way, guy, Mmm, candy. I'm game as
fuck. I've lost so much weight in the jungle. I'm bad spend a
pointed doom here since this guy too much help that he can get. It's
fine, no, no, no, I'd rather he spend the doom now.
Honestly, should have had an extra momentum from one of my skills for
the stealth check. Fuck off. All right, So you guys are creeping
down the hillside and this thing is still making sweeps in a long minute stretch
by, and eventually you see it drop down and land not terribly far away
from where you guys were when the rock was kicked. The angle of the
hill puts him out of sight of you for the moment. Okay, I'm
not sure if that thing can pick up sense or not, but I just
be prepared. I suppose let's keep going. What is the priority line of
sight on this thing is broken? Do you want to risk picking up the
pace a little bit? Do you want to still be extra careful? Do
you want to roll and hope for enough successes that you can make it go
faster? How would you like to approach this? I mean, I'm seeing
an opportunity. We might as well take it now and try and speed up
get down there. But that's what Carl was thinking, we're probably gonna have
to cut straight south though not great admittedly, but yeah, because we still
have to go down into the swamp find but we'll link up with a no
one right. Yeah, Octimer is confident he can find his way back to
the camp once you make it to the bottom of a hill. Yeah,
it's just a question of how much backtracking we have to do across the swamp,
or if we pass into that middle area which we never explored, the
one with the big that seems to go right down the fucking middle. I
believe Nella said that's where most of the fish people propagates. But cool,
he's already been catfished. He can add more fish to the lift. True,
we handled our own against them, but I don't feel like it'd be
too hardening linking up with Nala once we get down to the base of this
thing. All right, I guess we're headed straight south. Then, if
we're gonna try and get this done immediately, do you guys mind if I
burn both of our momentum and then just throw whatever I get back into the
pool. Yeah? Literally, what it's for? All right? Could I
help Socks with stealth, October with stealth. Would you allow that or is
that just two opposing goals kind of thing. If October is picking a path
to be safe, that's survival. He's more concerned about your footing than your
profile. If you will want to be stealthy, that will slow you down
even more, and everybody has to technically only I have to roll. I
have camouflage, so I can apply my sealth skill to a number of other
creatures or large objects equal to my cell focus plus my ranks and camouflage,
which would be three. Doesn't that require you spending some time making the camouflage.
Had we already done that? We can get to a flashback of us
at Nalla's place putting ship together. I think we have done it once.
It was kind of on the fly. I think you just ruled that we
could kind of when we were trying to when we were in the Dragon Zone.
Yeah. I do not want ever to go back to the drag and
zone. We don't, we don't got it. We're good. Dragon zone
is a ghost. Yeah, listen, Dragon Zone is very far away.
We're good. Never go back to Dragon Zoe and Lake. I guess let's
just focus on the fucking survival check in hand with fort Ice. How could
I possibly fuck it up? Please? Please stop? I wish you would
stop doing that. That's too quits thought, Yeah, Jordan, I told
you I couldn't possibly fuck that up. You juju is when he starts talking
about how much he hates success. That's when if you lived by the ice
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