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slash discord. Thank you, joy. It seems I'm in the crossroad yet
again. But as long as that road least the power and my destiny of
feeling the idea of eradicating this world, of that wing it demon sort of
a dragon, that's all that matters to me. As I look over and
look down, I see or I say, you're tossing and turning a little
bit. I had placed my hand on her shoulder in due time, No
matter what happens, it was nice having someone care. Is it time already?
M yes, we should go back by. I have to wake the
others for a watch my main I'm gona try to get some rest. I
have a lot to think about, and I'll stand up. The night was
uneventful that that's good. You look a bit stiff, are you all right?
Mm? A lot on my mind. Let's get going, get the
others. I think you need a bit more rests. Also, your armor
is I went ahead, intend to do it. I uh look over it
and run my fingers over the details that you've mended. You did a great
job. Mm hm. We may have to get you more eventually. There's
only so many times I could keep timbering and hammering at it, and the
straps are going to pop soon. Stress on the front end is getting to
a point where the links are starting the going bard. You can see that.
Oh, thank you for helping keep it together in the meantime. Bye,
come, I'll reach my hand out, I pat myself down and stretch
in place. All right, let's go. If you wouldn't mind, why
awaken a roster for me. I'm going to go find an area alone.
I'll go too far, all right, M do not worry, and then
I'll add that looking for you. M all right, I begin to make
my way over to a che talk. Can I gently shake his shoulder?
Yeah, M yes, it's time to get up. I'm sorry to wake
you. Mm hmmm h it's fine. H okay, you sleep all right?
No, this places and I do not like it. Mm hmm.
It is unsettling. Mm hmm. It's too dry. Mm hmm. Oh.
Never you're awake, I would appreciate some food, if you've got any.
Mm hm oh yes, I pull out some of the hm mm hmmm.
Rations. Yeah. Those ride foods and things. Yeah, yeah,
thank you. They do not taste good, yep, but they will do
the job. Mm hmm. All right, Well, if you don't mind,
could you wake Yara. I'll start eating this and you're packing ye.
Are you not sleeping? Mm hmm. Worried about malefic mm hmmm. I
don't worry. I do not know if he will be himself much longer.
If I trying to get some extra sleep, could you keep an eye on
him? Yes, yes, all right. Now I will lay down where
you are laying down. I'll just start eating and falling asleep in your bedroom
everywhere. Oh yeah, this is stop the first time, and it will
not be the last. I will keep watching. I will also watch out
for Manvic and see what he goes. Oh, my vision is poor at
night, okay, rash talk, please make a perception check for me,
it is yeah, as to say, twenty one force site based or twenty
normally. Okay, Malvic, are you trying to be uh stealthy more so
like keeping myself away from everyone? Okay, you're not trying to hide,
You're just trying to make sure you're away. Okay, fair enough, stick
into the shadows, so to speak, and just having not being in the
light if we have any kind of dim light. I know we said we're
not going to be burning anything or anything of that nature. Yeah, just
found a spot where I can just lean up against a tree or something and
doze if I need to. Yeah, it's dry, there's no fire,
and it's getting pretty cold. It's it's got to be probably below freezing at
this point, and there's a that dry wind that's just blowing through. You
know. It's one of those situations where if your hands are dry, they're
like cracking and probably bleeding and stuff. Uncomfortable to say the least. But
you go off and you make your space a little bit further away from the
camp. Do I notice anything you do? Not? I will make myself
some tea. All I wait, and when the time is up, I
will rouse yarrah okay, your watch goes without issue. M hm mm hmmm.
Yarra mm hmmm, oh, yarrah, God's yeah. Yes, are
we being attacked? No? No, no, no, place a hand
on your shoulder. It is time for watch lest ah. Yes, all
right, very good. Sorry, it's been a It must have been a
very deep sleep. Mm hmm. You are needing rest, have been very
busy, yes, and you as well certainly need yours mm hmmm. Yes,
Malevic is resting over there and everything is fine. Just noting his position.
He is not with us, right, do we know why he's all
the way over there? Mm hmm no, oh, I can guess very
well. All right, marsh shock, you get some ress? Yes?
Do you want tea or food? Oh? Yes, yes, that would
be lovely. Their food is here, and I pull out the ration bag
that has the terrible dried food and bread that replenishes dip in does see it
will be immo adible delicious? All right? Can't we get the heck out
of here? Yes? It is not delicious, but that is all right.
If you like it, I can give you more. No, No,
I'm I'm quite all right. M I will rest wake me if there
is anything of course. Mhm h safe watch m and the good rest of
you m hm oh, and my petrol is taken. Okay, hmmm,
yarea, Please make a perception check for me twenty six. Okay, Now
do me a favor and please make it will save for me. Why is
it always me as a heads up? I'm a master. It will save?
So it is a critical success. If it is a success, excellent
it is. It is a critical success, which is an interesting thing.
Yarra, there's a there is what I can only describe as probably tingling or
slightly itchy feeling coming from your mark. This is a sensation that we've never
had before. I look at the others. Do they seem uncomfortable? Let's
find out the rest of you. Please make a will say for me.
Oh my god, I rolled a NAT one in two or fourteen nineteen.
Okay, ooh, I rolled a natural one for karem. Let's go ahead
and spend a hero point. I will also spend my hero point twenty six.
Wow, if you're gonna spending a game, wow, yeah, rash
talk stirring. Looking around, Do I notice anything different about the surroundings,
anything in the area, any strangeness? No, mh, I'll I'll walk
over to rash talk. And yes, you can see that rash Talk is
stirring a bit. There doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary.
Otherwise I will try and wake him rash talk. Rash Talk does not wake
he stirs is if in a nightmare. Oh, I do not know what
to do for you dotting. I will simply remain there and make sure that
he does not flail too much or hurt himself. And now watching what happens
very well a rash talk you, on the other hand, for not having
a great sleep your dream. Rash talk is something you've experienced before. There
is a hold pundra around you. You recognize the rest of the group here,
walking amongst others, toiling away in this frozen wasteland. There are pillars
of stone in the distance, and what you see to be you think to
be ash falling from the sky like snow. It's not ash, it is
something else. It seems. Hold is strange. You can't you can't seem
to take control of this situation or ashtalk. You're tired, You feel his
bone, weary, exhaustion, feel uncomfortable here yet again, another place,
not suited for you. Harsh, cold, brutal. You have the barest
whisper of what you need to survive here a rash talk. No one seems
to be talking, No one seems to be communicating. Everyone has purpose,
They move, they construct, they are set to task. You are here
for a reason, and yet you still I don't know what that is.
There's a not so soon thing familiar sound that you continue to hear verberating through
this landscape. Your ends are cracked and bleeding. There's again this feeling of
something watching you. Rash talk. I would like you to please make a
perception check for me. It's yes, thirty two. Then rash talk out
of your periphery because you don't have have full control of your body. Here
you see silhouetted figure that you've seen a few times now, large, sort
of hairy and muscular with horns. It's fur thick, matted. With a
thirty two hourrash talk, you realize that this creature that you can't get full
view of, it's always just out of sight. You see something that catches
your eye just for a moment. The light and the snow reflects, maybe
catches just the embarrassed hint of something odd. You think it is wearing a
mask. This is false. There is costume here. You feel this warmth
moving through your body, and as this light reflects off the snow, silhouetting
these pillars obelisks, you can start to hear Yara's voice. M rostock darling,
roastalk, a roastalk. Oh wait no, m h I need to
see you longer. Oh m hmm. It was right there? Who is
right there? It's it's not real. Mhm. What is not real?
H m hm oh h the creature, their teeth, the class m it's
fake. You heard another one of divisions. Yes, it's a mask.
It is not that. It is a falsehood. I got the most clear
look I've ever seen. It is hiding. So you believe that this is
not the creature is not what it appears, then, no, it is
not. It is not a something else is with us. I I's old.
H m hm hm hm m hm h m. I hate this place.
Saka watchie. She said it was holy. Yes, yes, this
is a masquerade. I wonder it is pretending whatever it is, So you
believe her vision to be a falsehood? I thought it was maybe before it
is. I know what I saw I had the most control I've ever had.
I still could not see a good look. But the for the claws
the musket is it is that? When did Sakawachi start having these visions?
I know? Not unlikely when we did mm hmm. She already had the
mark when she was on the road with us. Hm. It could be
something entirely different in terms of her visions. Could be unrelated. It could
be related, but it also could be unrelated. She's had visions for quite
some time, even before her mark, if I recall, Yes, but
were theyse ease with this solely being she spoke of? I do not know.
We will have to speak with her. Perhaps, yes, maybe she
should try to induce one for herself food she did not take it. If
she goes in knowing, perhaps she could get a clearer of you. We
could certainly speak about it. M hm. See it was wrong, something
was wrong. I am not, and I wish I could see more.
Well. I mean, it is a very wonderful deduction to know that whatever
it is, such has been oh a distant spectator, so to speak,
It is not what it seems. Such is valuable knowledge. Yes, that
also means it could be anyone. Yeah, that is what I worry of
something masquerading as something holy that is not of good intent. Well sok.
What she thought of the bird thing as holy might not the creature you and
I have been seeing. I thought it was this the creature when she had
the vision of us dragging our body, thinking we had done something terrible.
It was the body of this thing, was it not? I muddled?
I do not m hm m h yes, I do not like any of
this. No, but we will discuss all of it when everyone gets a
proper night's rest. Yes, mm hmm, yes, all right. Are
you feeling any discomfort? I know my mark was quite irritable. M hm.
Is my mark uncomfortable? Um? No, no, it is fine.
See all right. Can I get to you any shame? It is
yours? My mark feels fine right at this point? Um? Yeah,
to be all to be compani mm hmm, yeah, it feels all right
now. It was quite agitating previously, and then I heard you and saw
you moving around in your sleep, So is agitating at the same time.
Yes, that is the coincidence. No, indeed it is not. M
there's a way I have christiction over here too. I wonder did you see
anything else of any import? We are all walking with purpose toward pillars,
stone pillars. I was ash falling from the sky, but it was not
ash. I do not know what the substance was. I do not think
snow. I thought it was the undra. It was cold, it was
desolate. You're walked with the thing off just in the periphery. There is
a connection at least between the vision I had quite some time ago as well.
I too remember the ash sort of snow. Oh wait, that was
what fell in the water before we were taken by the whales? Distance,
was it not? Was not there some sort of snowy yet on the lake?
Are you asking me now? I am yes, actually, uh,
I believe you had believe it was spores. But yeah, I think you
had a vision that you saw. But no, there was like an oily
kind of substance. But it was falling from the sky, was it not?
No, No, I thought it was you had a vision, thank
you where you saw these things though, Yes, yes, it was just
in that dream, all right, No, it was mm hmmm, I
do not know. Yeah. I will try to rest, perhaps I can
dream again, or you could venture to try and to sleep we have much
to learn still, our dreams can only be prophetic and help us so much.
Mm hmm this is true. I will I will try, all right.
I will be here to shake you awake if I noticed anything, but
I'll let you sleep a little longer next time. Yes, all right,
think there is oh no, all right? M h thank you for watching
out on the yarrah always you do not have to thank me. I will
rest so what I'll go sidle back up where we have the tea set up.
Keep my eyes peeled very well. Aside from this, you're a watch
goes without issue, Yara. When dawn hits, the Reclaimers are probably up
first, followed by Sakawachi and her companions. I will go and wake Manovic
if he is not already awake. I am up then, cleaning my arm
or choppening my blade as much as I can with a white stone. Hm.
Did you sleep well? Mm hmmm enough I got arrests. Sleeping out
air is difficult between the gold, the scurrying about the voices. The voices,
yes, you don't hear them all around us, especially when the sun
is not up. Hmm me. Those that lost their way maybe spirits who
knows I say anything in particular and just noise. I see there's also a
throbbing sound throbbing going from the land delay line. Hm. Must be I'm
just quite powerful here then, m hm that it is. Where are we
planning to go today? I suppose we will have to discuss. Everyone else
is asleep. I'm about to wake them, and I wanted to check on
you. You know that we're in the middle of a battleville, I suppose,
so I would like to look about when we are done exploring these rooms.
It's good to learn about the area that you travel in. HM.
No, Well, I guess, like I said, we're near it.
You know, it looks like we're in the middle of when this place is
try and dead and to be fair, everywhere as technically a baptlefield. I
would like to go there today if possible. And we were talking about it.
Yes, there's lots to be learned there. Learned the lay of the
land, you're but drove it to its demise. Do we know what we're
messing with? That is a very fair assumption. Mm hmmm mm hm and
a juice sleep. I slept all right, but while I was unwatched my
mark, it was quite irritated. Did you feel anything similar? No,
m rash talk the miss flailing about a bit. It turns out he had
a dream, you know, the ones that we have had previously. Ah,
the collective mm hmm. I'll let him explain it. But interesting findings.
H m hmm. Let's go join the others, I guess, and
I'll start packing Stoff. Wait a moment, Maravic. Mm hmm. I
again, I wish to apologize, raising my voice at you. Do not
apologize for what you are passionate about and drives power. Power drives the emotions.
I understand. However, you can communicate your passion in a way that
is not yelling. Do not worry. I am used to the form of
communication. I do not care if you're used to it. It is not
right m m. It is not normally my way. It's quite different of
you. But I do know that we all have many sides to us.
It will have topology if it makes you feel better, but I do not
place you in any kind of way of concern. This place drives us to
say and do things. Also, we have been stressed out the whole time
we've been here, and when we start finding out about our past, and
boy do I understand that can really drive us to well not be ourselves.
So you were not hurt emotionally? No, No, I have been told
to get out, leave, stay away throughout my childhood. If anything,
you have not struck me, and normally follows. I did struck you when
I first met you, quite hard. If I would, you say so
myself because of the purpose. Will let you continue to think that you have
damaged to me if it makes you feel better as well. But I am
used to this shift of emotions. Do not worry yourself. Far more important
things to think through. You have a decision to make, so do I.
The path splits and forks, which way we choose depending on what we
think is the correct way to go, or emotionally bound or even goals may
be set upon us. Everything has a consequence. We have to realize that.
But some consequences are meant to be heard. I suppose, as you
said, in some way, we are all puppets, not just those of
us who have some conversations with God. If not a puppet to a God,
a puppet to our own minds. Yes, at any rate, I
wanted you to remember that you are a dear friend to me, and I
do not like this discomfort and slight, the hostility that has been present.
M Well, I did not expect this this morning, but I appreciate your
concern this place. As much as I want to hate it, I feel
like I need to learn more. There are going to be changes and challenges
that come our way. Do know that I do not mean to place any
ill intent or harm to any of you. Indeed, m I just know
that at any moment in a place like this, we are facing the inevitable,
inevitable possibility of certain deaths. So I wanted to make sure you knew
that you were loved and that you can talk to me at any point.
All right, man, thank you? M all right, and and and
same to you. But we should get back. The others may worry that
I'm trying to I don't know, Tim cho to a different way of feeling?
Are you? I can I control what you feel. I do have
a dominating appearance, as do I. Yes, in a different way,
I suppose, and ghostly looking kind of visage. There is a very ghastly
beauty to you, but gyastly well I meant ghostly ghostly. Did you learn
that that's a pleasure. That's the yeah, and you know the language the
barriers aim. Yeah, wherever I you are a beautiful specimen of whether you
look like that before or not. I don't know if a corpse can be
it's well, I'm not a corpse. I'm not undead, for asthma would
not have brought me back. I'm dead. I hate the undead. It's
why I have the powers that I do, where I can destroy them pretty
easily. Okay, well then, yes, whatever you are now, it
is quite nice. Freak of on nature. I know they're better than anyone
else. Kah, freak of nature. All right, I'll just wake up
the other, shall we. M hm, you go on ahead, all
behind you, all right, and I will scurry off to go begin to
wake up people. Stop with ostilia. As I looked at them through the
ground and mixing things that we'll look up towards hers. She walks away and
take a deep sigh. If only give me that symbol, o Celia,
Darling, I brought you food. Oh thank god, I'm it's not very
delicious, though it doesn't matter. I don't know that. I suppose I
heard some noise, anything troubling, nothing attacked us, and nothing attacked us
in the night, so to speak. But the Raschop did have another one
of the visions that we have had previously of that hulking figure. Oh interesting,
mm hmm. But it's harmed. No, no one is harmed.
Although my mark was quite irritable last night. At the same time, say
nothing new. I'd like to lean in and look at Yara's mark. Doesn't
look any different, just because it's also hilarious, Marcus, basically right above
your cleavage. Right, m h it's leaning in to look at yours cleavage.
What do I see? Camark and some boobs. Okay, so it
doesn't look any different. Nope, oh okay, I am blushing. I
blink away. It looks fine. I'm just fine, wonderful, all right.
At any rate, m a Ros talk had division, so we should
definitely wake him up and have a discussion about it. Nothing else of import
happened, right, I'll go wake him and I rush off blushing. Actually
a leave all right, Uh, I will go try to find Malevik.
I'm just slowly dragging all the stuff back to the camp and loading it up
on the wagon. What have we approach you? And I immediately begin limbering
up. All right, Melvic, I think it's time we change some things
around here. What do you mean by that? I think that you and
I should gain something called a ritual where every morning we spar together spa mm
hmmms of combat combat. Sure, I think it'd be a good way to
keep us both grounded and in ourselves come attuned to our bodies. That's what
you would like? Sure? Shall we start this ritual tomorrow morning or now
by now? Why not? Now? As good as time as any.
Don't you think I've never done this before? If I'm too rough, let
me know, don't worry. Even if you're a bit rough. I like
it trough, and I will just start wrestling malasik. Oh, it's not
gonna be that. No, no, no, no, no no.
We're gonna do some We're gonna have some fun with this, okay, okay,
So, uh yeah, you two sort of limber up and you begin
to uh spar. I'm gonna go ahead and drag your tokens onto this.
Uh just need the ruins picture here. As I think everybody's like noticing as
you begin to, like, you know, spar, and everybody's I mean,
this is like breakfast entertainment. Yeah, okay, do you want to
make the first move? Oh, I don't wait, I launch into it.
Excellent, all right, hold on our cilia, hmm, what do
you attempt to do here? I will throw myself at Malevic and attempts to
grapple him. Okay, athletics checks. Actually, athletics checks from our cilia,
Malvic. What is your athletics modifier? Seventeen? Okay, so you
gotta be to twenty seven? Nope, what a twenty seven? Okay,
I'd begin rushing towards you, and I to puk my arm around you to
like kind of close line, need to kind of grapple you and I miss.
Yeah, just perry it. But it'll be like a I guess you
could say, a combating, disrespectful like teacher to students. Perry where I'll
just step out of the way. This is how you do combat. I
expected a bit more from yours with you. I'm just getting started. I
won't even turn around. I'll just keep by out from the corner of my
eye. Rushing me up front personally is not going to ever work. Try
something else, all right. I will immediately turn around and I will try
to grapple malvok again, but this time I'm gonna give him a spank first,
and then I'm gonna try to grab his neck. Okay, just statistically
possible, probably not, but so this this will be an unarmed strike.
Okay, as possible, unarmed strike, an armed and it would be the
number two right as I did, because she's done an athletics. I'm a
master, I'm an expert. Okay, at twelve, thank you, and
I miss again. And then I'll I'll just use my arm. This will
and I'll block it and then wrap my arm around her arm as he tries
to grapple. Okay, Malvic, it's your turn. I'm going to attempt
to use my tail to trip her, to throw in the ass. I
can pull over my shoulders. Okay, make an athletics check. Or Celia,
what's your athletics mod. Does it matter? I'm thirteen thirty six,
Yeah, Arcilia, you don't. It's completely unpredictable, Like it's one of
those things, you know from your perspective, we just see the camera like
look up at the sky, you know, like what my arms and legs
are like dangling as I'm being held up. Oh, you're quick mm,
but I'm not dode. I will reverse my grip and attempt to slammer to
the ground. Okay, yeah, yeah, go ahead and make an unarmed
strike. I think number two. What you're four? Yeah? Okay yeah,
Arcia, you just get slammed on the ground like the wind knocked out
of you. Oh it was too rough. I'm sorry. I back cracked
from that one. We should probably be done. Yes, with a little
more training, maybe you'll be able to land the blue and I'll try to
extend my arm to help up. Oh no, I'm not done. As
you take my hand, I'm going to try to trip you. Try to
pull your body weight forward and go for your ankles. Good luck. I
know you're trying to trip. You said, yeah, athletics check. Gotta
beat a twenty seven break. You go right, yeah, Malvic, you
you feel or selly like grab your ankles right and you're like no way from
the Yeah, I'll fall forward, and then I started to roll on top
of Malaga and pin him down. Okay, uh, this is a grapple,
so go ahead and make another athletics check. The second one is gonna
be so bad. Fourteen No, yeah, I'll use what I reflex this,
I guess you could say, or actually I would use my my bron
to hold her in place. It's getting halted here, it's been little's We're
in a dry lake bed much much hotter. I mean, you just still
have a cold. I'd rather it be warmer. Can I have your body
heat just suddenly? Sure? Take it home. I put my arm around
literally, yah, you I think may have a fever. Indeed, everybody
else is just like popcorn, you know, like oh my god, you
know, like just you just hear like random crowd noises in the background,
like everybody's watching this. Okay, So, Arcilia, you have tried to
pin Malvic Malvic, it's your turn. I'm going to flip her over and
pin her. Okay, athletics check feet to thirteen. Yea, you you
pin her. Now you have to hold her there. Make another athletics check
twenty nine. That's number two. Yeah, or Celia, you are pinned.
And this time I'll wrap my tail around her leg and have both hands
pinned to the dirt, and I'll get really close to her face and like
I think I've won. That's where you're wrong. Mm hmm. Washed my
head forward. Oh, I'm going to head bash you. Yeah, nice
unarmed strike, make it work it I'm barely scraping behind this fight crunch.
It's that same like from the from the sixed brain damage? Sorry, who
has the brain damage? Though? I don't know. That's maybe a double
concussion. Oh oh god? Who made the cool sound? It was very
cunchy. Then I would like to oh, definitely fight dirty. I will
try to headfast your neck. You're gonna try. I don't think that's possible
to headbuts again, yeah, because my head is back. Well, if
she tries, she can try. I'm gonna still doesn't know how to fucking
wrestle. I want fights. Go ahead, listen, Celia knows how to
fight, only does some kind of cool thing with her head here, all
right? Twenty six It was the second attack somehow it is maybe I leaned
back in and I think like to talk to be like that was again.
H okay, uh, Malvick, let's talk more fighting. My body heatle
like rise and I will then move to position my arm around her neck and
attempts to put in a sleeper hold. Okay, so far Malvic has one
pin. I'm gonna say if we get to three. That's the end,
okay, or we could tap out everybody see athletics check. This will be
an athletics check. Yes, it's a sleeperhold. If you don't, you're
sleeping. Ooh that's a natural one. I'm over you rolling because this is
two fun. Here we go, Here we go. The hydrop I have
too still, Yes, this is versus A twenty three. You've got thirteen
right? Thirteen? Yeah? Absolutely? Uh, you feel it like sink
in malvic. Let's try and hold it. You make another anthetics check.
Oh that's a grit. I'm gonna count that for two. I'm gonna count
that for two. Cilia starts to nod off. That's with a negative too.
What the heck? All right, I'm not tying with you yet.
I'll just pull back and then, uh, the head bash kind of pissed
me off. So I'm holding tighter than I want to. But then I
notice boobs and then i'll like Arcilia starts to like slacken like I could do
this all day, and then oh then I kind of tap her. Awake,
we come on, did I win? Are you done? I look
over at Yara. I'm holding I'm holding my hand out like this. I
believe Manvic has one good fight, and expect for you to keep going as
much as you've done, and I'll help her up. I take your hand
and I get up and I'll turn around. You might want to fix fix
yourself. One of my breasts seems to have fallen out in my bad fix
my shirt. There's like lots of coffee in the background, like people trying
to like look away, like really conspicuously. You shouldn't you all be getting
the caravan ready? We have to we have to move out. No,
we are exploring more buildings Mattervik. We were waiting for you. Oh right,
okay, and now let's let's fully walk off, walk past yard and
just go mm hm out. I didn't mean to, but I'm not mad
about it. Keep going. Yara has a fever. Rash is a rash?
Talk like still body heating? Yara? Like, is it just like
hanging on your insert the bu My eyes just twitching uncontrollably. I'm drinking a
lot of water. Is in the background chatting up someone that was watching.
Oh yeah, did you like that? That was cool? Absolutely, that
was a nice little wake up. So if this is the case, yeah,
I guess I guess Ziah would probably uh, you know, try to
communicate with everybody once you've had a moment. So what is the plan for
today? We still have the battlefield to attempt to find. Yes, Oh,
and the tower, and in the Hall of the gods, the Hall
of Gods. Pipes up and says, I would prefer the Hall of Gods.
We can try to find it. Mmm, did go where we wanted
to the other day. I think there might be some value in us trying
to get more information about this place before we yes battlefield, we learned about
where we are and what happened and what to help us and seeking out this
Hall of Gods and what we're dealing with. We should go to the battlefield
to search it thoroughly. There maybe tools that can help us. Yes,
but where was the hydra headed when it was seen? We don't know where
all these location, yes, yes, but the battlefield, the tower.
The tower would be the easiest to find, of course, because it is
a tower, but there are still many tall structures here. It's not exactly
easy to know where any of these places are. Half of the day that
we are spending looking for any of these places is simply finding them In the
first place. I might recognize some, but this place is ruins. There's
lots of breed, and we have to move about the ruins. The direction
of the hydra to maybe check the other side first. The last three week
saw of it. It was traveling through the center of the ruins. Well,
the argument could be made that the tower might be high enough that we
would be able to get a visual on our surroundings end on the hydro.
Perhaps M. Yes, So I suppose it is up to a vote,
then perhaps sure I vote a battlefield our Celia. Throughout this entire conversation,
I've been watching Malevik and I say I think fattle field. M. I
will go where the majority chooses. Though I think the tower is wiser.
We do not know where the battlefield is. This could help us locate it.
I have an idea. I have an idea where it is. Oh,
did you find evidence? I feel it. I'm not doubting you.
I feel it. Yes, the lines throb you have good instinct. I
would trust that. Yes, have you been unusually hungry? I think this
lay line is affecting my biology. Been unusual for a lot of things,
and that means I don't know how to feel about my emotion. My body
is triggered in motor ways. I have been hungry and tired, I felt
anxious, bothered a lot of things, and now you have this burning sensation
in my old body like I could do anything. I think we should keep
an eye on these things. Mm hmmm news. So then the battlefield,
Yeah, if of course that is what we find, that could be our
goal. But we may find something else. True, we should take whatever
we can find first, I suppose. I think that's her right. M
hm oh, we y are right? The dream ah, Yes, we
should speak with Saka watch She about it, and the rest of our group
as well. Indeed, suck. Do we want to have this conversation with
every one? No? All right, do you all mind if we just
have a discussion with Socca Watchy for a moment. I look to you our
other friends. Are you talking to the reclaimers? Yes, of course,
take the time that you need. We should get going soon now, of
course, Yes, this will be quick. Yes. Soaka Watchie and her
companions are you know, sort of part of this conversation. They kind of
look at each other. What did you wish to speak of? I had
another vision similar to the ones we fat and you that what was this vision?
What did you see? Saw? More more clearly, We were walking
on the tundra, as you and us have seen the ash that was not
ash fell. We were heading toward the stone pillars, and the creature,
the fanged and clad and fairy creature, was in the periphery as usual,
but I saw more of it. It was a mask, a mask.
Yes, it was not what it is. There is something hidden inside it.
The you speak of the vision that I saw with you previously, it
is not the same. I think it is that we could not see it
clearly correct. This creature, it's always been just barely out of vision.
Holking with horns. It was she. She she looks deep in thought,
and you can see signs of this evident on her face. Her eyes are
sort of moving about, you know, like one does when you're when you're
really thinking hard. The the creature that you were moving Is this the one
you speak of in that vision? Yes, In others it is lurking watching
this one. It was watching and it it was not as it seems.
It is hiding its true appearance. And these visions you most certainly have to
do with our mark as this was happening here. I was on watch and
I felt my Mark was reacting. It was irritated. Did you feel anything
last night? No? The whales sang in the background as it does.
I don't know exactly what it means or it's intent of what is watching us,
but suck watching. If you have another vision, focus as much as
you can on it, see if you can goerate. Something is wrong,
something is hiding truths. Yes, I do not know what or why.
It may not be ill intent, but I suspect it is. What do
we know of this? Well, what do we know of it? What
is monstrosity? Is it a god? We know that it was placed here,
but we do not know much more than that, at least I don't.
What do you know, Zakowaji? But you're not telling us only what
the peoples of the other world knew? They and what do you have sold
me from your visits to this place? They from what you have told me
from your your venture to this other world? You have said that this creature
was alien to this world. Mhm. Beyond that, I do not know
mm hmmm. So we do not know the intent of this creature overall?
Is that what we're all saying here I meant the creature in the mask,
not the whale, were both the well we were told was trying to destroy
mm hmm via control and yes, f all and all those around it.
Yes, if I recall, oh, SiO was first encountered by the elves,
it was severe. What was what was it? As Saverian know something
of that nature? Perhaps I I'm not, Yes, yes so Saverian,
Yes, a magical see was there? Indeed, and those who encountered SiO
they inhaled some sort of vapors, if I recall, and they lost control
of their minds. M hmmm. That is what we've been told, like
we have already encountered. Yes, to a stronger degree. But yes,
mm hmmm. And you see Sakwati again, she's been deep in thoughtless whole
time. The creature that you see observing it looked like the creature that you
were transporting in this vision. Yes, yes, it may be one end
the same. It may be taking the form in our visions of the creature
we were dragging. I am unsure the creature that you would dressed similarity was
aina muran. Yes, you have used that word before, the one that
gave us these marks or the monster represented on your eldest mentor yes, yes,
salmonkar the last salmon car At least that is what I thought. What
you say, this creature that watched it was wearing a mask of costume.
Yes, I am certain I do not understand. I do not either.
That is why I brought it to you. Could your elder have en fooled
or enthralled? That makes no sense. Why for some sort of desire they
could have in the mask of they could have made your elder believe something that
was most certainly not good. That would explain why you have the mark as
well. In the tribes I come from, there's always an adviser to a
leader. Did you know the adviser to yours? There how many advices we
are a tribe of people. Mm hmm. Would have been easy. I
was just going to say, it could have been easily manipulated. It is
also possible that what you experience, your elder experience, was true, and
that this vision we are receiving, that is the falsehood that is trying to
manipulate us, masquerading as this holy being to cloud your mind. I do
not know though, these marks they when we have these visions, they get
irritable. They cause you to have horrible dreams. And this mark was given
to them as well as as Aarnimuran's run or something. Was it not?
Yes? He missing? How is the mark given to you tattooed? It
was given to me by your elder, Yes, sessum grandmother. How do
we end up getting the same mark? Well, speaking just hypothetically, whoever
is masquerading as Arnimurin could have given Sesu knowledge of this rune and masqueraded it
does something beneficial to guide sakawachion journey. Takawachi mentioned as protection at one point,
Did it not? Yes, that was what it was presented as.
Was it not? Yes? M wait eh? What if it could all
be one end the same? If the same creature was what met your elder
was also in negate. If it is a thrall of the whale masquerading as
this holy beast, it could have given us the mark as well. It
is. Have you ever tried to remove your mark? No? Why would
I? When we tried to remove mine it went to the bone. I
am not suggesting we tried to remove yours. But it is is a simple
tattoo. It would be only skin deep. If it is deeper, yes,
in your vision, did you notice if this creature that was masquerading as
an immurin if there was any sort of the same mark on them, I
saw nothing. If it is it may be under the fur. Or if
it is but a custom or an illusion, it is under the illusion.
I'm not suggesting we try to remove your tattoo, Sakawachi. I do not
say that, but that would be the fastest way to confirm the few details.
But if you remember when we tried to remove it, Yara, you
were compelled to walk away. Yes, yes, there was a compelling curse
of some kind on it. If we attempt to remove it, we would
know if we cannot, that would imply much more, I think than such
a simple begging description. But a tattoo of protection. You can see sacawachies
like very a bit scared. She's holding her hands clasped together, and she's
sort of like rubbing the mark with her thumb, and she says, I,
I don't know, I don't I don't think I feel comfortable removing this.
M trying. I have an idea, if you are all right with
it, I would like to touch your mark. You promise you aren't going
to try to remove it? No, I would never. All I want
to do is see if I can read something from it. We have not
tried this. That is brilliant. It's possible your mark is different from ours
if you receive this when you were young, or if you remember actually receiving
it. We don't remember receiving it. All right, she gives your hand
is on her hand? Yeah, okay. I will use read psychometric resonance
to see if there's any psychic impressions left on this, if I can perhaps
see a face, perhaps see a moment, anything strong emotion tied to this.
Oh, there's a lot of emotion tied to this. There's love attached
to this. That is the overwhelming feeling that you get immediately. Love,
worry, a sort of general sort of fear of I don't think you can
really distinguish too much in these emotions, but you get that worry fear,
and then I would say that you probably get a sorry. I'm trying to
How far back does this go? Does it say? It does not say
says you can spend one minute concentrated aldret to get a vision of the face
of the person who imbued this item with such emotion in the first place.
Okay, so let's say you spend a minute and you can see Sacawachi's elder,
and there's probably some flashes of the same creature that was in this shared
vision that you seem to have as a group where you were transporting dragging this
creature. It looks the same. No painfully negative emotions with this in those
flashes? Am I able to focus in on it? Try to perceive that
possible deception that Rashtak has mentioned isn't a disguise. You do not feel this,
Okay, Takawachie, you are one of the lucky ones. This is
genuine and it was imparted to you with much love. Who are so deeply
loved by this person. Some tears begin to well up. Cry with her,
Mike, this is genuine. I I saw the creature, but rash
Tak, it was not as you described. I think we might be seeing
two things. Perhaps both are true. It's just a matter of timeline.
Taka, watch you are protected and this is genuine. I can tell you
that with my whole heart. Ah Celia, I have another idea. I
thought this is what you meant, but the tattoo that I have given you
read the room, and I will read one of ours, and if they
are different. I look down to the tattoo that Rash has given me and
I run my fingers over it where it's on my forearm. This glyph allows
me to read all written language once I activate it. I would like to
do that now and try to read Takawachi's rune. Okay, see what's written
there? Okay, so it's it's the same marking that you all have.
Okay, it's not a language, so you don't read anything there. Your
reading glyphs uh. I think the only thing that you can really understand from
that, I'd say, give me an intelligence check. Oh shit, okay,
yeah, this isn't text. This isn't this isn't text. Is it
possible that I could persuade an esoteric rale? Yeah? Sure, it's your
bullshit? Why not, Elliott? Let's go thirty four. This is a
place, I thought. So I don't see any words, but like I
mentioned before, I think this is a place. It's a mountain and perhaps
a gate above it, where exactly I don't know, but it's pointing to
a location. I think that is good confirmation. Yeah, well, at
any rate, we're not going to learn much else by sitting here and coming
in circles. We have more knowledge we can we can think on it throughout
the day, but we have daylight that we need to not waste. Right.
Yes, uh, now look towards you're mm hmm, sucker wordy.
Apologize for raising my voice. It's not a way to talk to someone,
even if emotions are round up. It was out of place. I forget
how young you are, how much you carry on your shoulders. We all
are all going through stuff and it is not give an excuse for me to
act out of key. Whether you my apology or not, it wasn't right.
And I understand if you feel a certain way towards me. I would
not use my past as a way to benefit from being a jerk. We
have to work together to get through this. If something was happened to you,
I would not be okay with it. So I apologize. Sakawachi just
still like a little teary from the route reading of the the the glyph.
She wipes some tears from her eyes. She looks at you with a I
think a bit of understanding, and she nods her head and she says I
was also in the room. M hm, you are correct. I am
overwhelmed. H But we all have our parts to play. You all lose
this. We oh no now that something is very wrong and if we take
no steps to try to fix it, and this world is doomed. Yes,
you are brave to take on to so much the weight of the world
on your shoulders at such a young age. You should be exploring the world
and finding who you are. But you take on this journey. That's it's
very powerful and strong. Your strength is inspiring. You will come to a
point where we have to make a decision, good or bad. But when
you make that decision, make sure that you make it and go full settle
with it. Don't don't think about anything else. Just do what you have
to do. I will understand. I'm sure we all will, because if
it comes down to us making a decision that we have to I'm pretty sure
we're going to do the same. We'll try to do a better job at
coming unicating. Please know that you can trust us, at least when it
comes to talking to us. None of us want to see you or anyone
else laying about like these bones in this waistline. She takes a deep breath
in lets it out. Yes, and your mentor would be proud of you.
Just stand today in front of us as a warrior. With that,
I'll stand up, nod my head, and walk off lip trembling. She's
like, you can tell, like she's trying to use her eyelashes to like
hold her tear ducks closed, you know, like she's using every ounce of
force not to just start bawling. Just so, where did we decide to
go? I think the battle field, But if we do not find that,
we will go to whatever we find first. Then I feel there is
much dust in the air. Yes, I'm just quite proud. That is
all there. Perhaps we can get going now, all right, and let's
enter exploration mode. What's everybody doing as you begin to look for the field
of battle? My favorite thing, scout, That's all I do. I
will be looking for tracks again. That worked out very well last time.
Actually, wait a minute, we're going to the battlefield. We're not in
the battlefield, so yeah, I'll scout. We're searching it, yes,
therefore it yes, So Malevik is scouting, Raschalk is searching o Celia.
What Are you doing tracking? Is that some storry? Yes? Yes?
Actually, can I switch? I'm sorry? Say you? And I investigated
and said I think this would be especially with what's going on in my head,
I would want to fully investigate. Normally I am screaming, I'll scout,
I'll be behind. But this time I'm very, very very intimately looking
at this land, almost to the point where I'm not paying attention to anyone
or anything. Just the layout of the land, okay, feeling for the
lay lines, trying to listen into the inner voices, all kinds of stuff.
I am particularly sensitive today about what Maledik is doing and what he's not
doing, noticing that he's not scouting. I will scout, okay, fair
enough? Ross talkers track looking for tracks, Yara, Yes I will.
Instead of defending this time, I will go ahead and I will search,
trying to find any concealed hazards that might be in our way. Very well,
okay, Malvic, what is your best recall knowledge skill? Arkana,
crafting, low medicine, nature, occultism, legend, society, uh,
survival zero, They're all zero. Well, I have some in nature,
a little bit of nature, but you can also swap with someone to if
needed. Yeah, but this is this is like a personal matter. Yeah,
nature would Nature would be my best out of all of those. Okay,
I have law, but it's legal law. What the hell is that?
What if? What if you followed the expert on that, would that
be something that you might be able to do? Then up to you.
If someone notices how intent I am of savanah Land, then they come up
to me, then I'll do something like that. But other than that,
if people are all doing their own thing, I'm like expert master or legendary
in whatever or skill you were using to follow them. Mm hmm yeah,
religion and medicine the only one with expert in nature. And then there you
go. I mean if someone noticed that, Karen, I'm just trying to
help Malvic get law stuff for his character. I'm sorry, I probably would
be tracking. It would have to be someone interrupting me. I would be
too paranoid over the tracks from before. Uh, Karan is only trained in
nature. Sorry, she could do the tracks. Yes, I'd need to
be asked. I will just say that now. Yeah, Karen, Yeah,
Karen has survival, but again it's just trained. I mean I could
survival my survival is great. Survival has nothing to do with the recall knowledge
and for that's what I thought. Oh right, for tracking, that's what
you're saying. The only thing that maybe I would be tracking but occasionally stealing
glances at you. It's a matter of if you'd want to interact that.
Yeah, I think for the sake of like the story, I would be
very very very very like yeah, as much as I want to meet it
me. But Malevic would be so. I mean, the stuff that he's
he's heard in his head, he's not even It's like you guys don't even
exist at the moment. Unfortunately, all right, here we go getting that
twenty twenty one. It's not bad. I'm not going to re roll it,
are Celia. Perception check twenty two, Yara, I'm sorry, rash
talk, give me a survival check. Twenty nine. Okay, Yara,
what were you doing? Searching? Searching? All right, sealed hazards blah
blah blah. You don't have to make a check for this, But let's
do a perception check. Nonetheless, all right, twenty nine, let's see
Karun. What will Karun be doing? I should try my best to stay
in character for Karun. I feel like Karun would be either looking for ingredients
or just sticking with a rash talk. Maybe we'll do follow the expert on
a rash talk. And I am not an expert in survival. Oh never
mind, I can't do that. Then, well trained, but no expert.
I have an idea, Sure, what's that? Perhaps something to track
tremors to see if like the hydro might be coming close like the craft.
Yeah, I don't think that's going to be possible, because you guys are
out and about in the ruins. I don't think that's a thing totally.
Okay, if that's not possible. Identifying alchemy, you can use craft and
alchemist tools to identify an our chemical item. Man not doing that? Uh.
To remind what tri Karoon has done in the past regularly, is chug
one of the potions to look for secrets like Yara is choosing to do right
right, that's normally what Karun does. Yeah, okay, we'll do that.
Uh. Karun will also search and we'll get a bonus from the Eagle
Eye potion. That's a natural one that's really on brand with that's a second
one today with Karun's perception checks it seems correct. Uh, all right,
Now let's see what did you get, Arcilia. You got a twenty two.
All right, Celia, please roll me a D six five. Alrighty,
I'm gonna take you about five hours find this field of battle? Now
lost the page this was on? Where did it go? All right?
After arriving at the field of battle, you see this wind swept battlefield being
a rather obvious sight. If you had gotten a clear look at it,
it would have been relatively easy to find. It's not too far from the
camp. There are what appeared to be various armaments and bones and stuff strewn
all about this place. I will take warfare, lore, athletics or survival
or perception checks to investigate the field of battle. I'll go warfare in this
Malevik is doing that. Now I'm going to athletics one only roll it twenty
five on warfare, survival, twenty nine athletics for critical success. Okay,
so let's say we had oh Yara, you have warfare lore awesome, Yes,
part of my battle medic forgot Karen Karendia Karun has athletics. This is
terrible. Perception is eleven? Survival was at eleven? I guess we'll do
survival because we didn't have good luck with perception. Okay, twenty five,
all right, one success to success, four successes, all right. Over
the course of the next couple hours, as you begin to investigate the battlefield,
uh, we're gonna say, Malvic, you can tell that the armaments
and the remains that are scattered about all vary considerably in age. Clearly there
was more than just one battle here, there were dozens over many years.
Yara iron trinkets bearing the symbol of Iomi Dae are common among the fallen,
as are demonic sigils, but there aren't any remains that suggest the presence of
Sarkorean god callers. This battlefield was clearly used by demons and crusaders, not
demorans or Ashtak of the war horse remains half buried here, many bare evidence
of having been mutilated, horn asunder, or otherwise defiled. The rampant desecration
appears to be most densely concentrated near the dried up lake bed of Hume Pool
and our Celia. You find nothing Karun will find. I think the reason
why I am unable to focus here is because the psychometric resonance here is just
palpable. Oh okay, I'm distracted. Karun finds a shield tucked beneath a
fallen crusader's otherwise ruined armaments. She holds it up and she says, oh,
I think this is This is probably like a pretty decent shield. This
is a lesser sturdy shield. Nobody wants to see it. I'll take a
look. I have no use of it. This is a magical item,
uh, with superior design and excellent craftsmanship. The steel shield has higher hardness
than its non magical counterparts, making it harder to break and destroy. You
can search for it in the compendium there. Excellent is it minor? Lesser?
It is lesser? Yessir? Right? Okay? And I would like
I want of you to make a stealth check for me. I can probably
do that if no idea skin Okay, I'm going to re rull that because
I got a feeling this is importante. Okay, I guess my self is
not one today. Sorry, I need to check something. Okay, um
m m, or say they please make a perception check for me. Eighteen
okay, I mean guess my at twenty. No, I'm shocked at a
number. Sorry. Uh, Okay, somehow, while you are all searching,
you do not notice as a huge creature approaches the field of battle.
I am going to move you over here, and I am so sorry because
I need you to all to select your tokens. And just so you're aware,
I rolled previously to see where you would be on this battlefield. I
need you to select your tokens and please roll initiative perception or still will be
perception based. Okay. I did not roll high for this thing stealth check
and it has a crazy modifier for some reason. Don't forget everyone who gets
a plus one because I scouted. Uh. Okay, then twenty six nineteen
Anigi is the first to spot this creature fifteen. Uh, we have the
role there. It is correct this to twenty six. I had a plus
fourteen on itself. By the way, yeah, I was like, how
the fuck is that possible? I saw the number, I was like,
what plus eleven? I didn't even roll well for it, but it still
crushed the shit out of your perception score unfortunately. Sorry. Uh. Denigi
is the first to notice, and I think Denigi like sort of looking through
some of the armaments and things that are on the ground. Begins to uh
see a shadow just sort of come into light. Many shadows. There are
ten sneak like heads on this larger body. A rash talk. You did
find tracks, Sorry, you did find tracks. They weren't from this creature.
Though I rolled for it. I figured, unfortunately, yeah, we'll
get to that later. I need to add some more people to this.
I was not expecting this to happen. Okay, either where we alrighty,
Actually it'll be better if I do this. I cannot believe it managed to
sneak up on you. I'm shocked, actually shocked. Fuck, oh shit,
thirty three okay, oh god, okay, I need Dad. Then
Sanko Watchie and Zaiah, Oh my god, okay, Sanko Watchie perception the
Nigi Yeah, and Saiah. So again, just mechanically, I rolled to
see where everybody would be if you got this encounter, and I had already
set it up because you were just kind of spread out on the battlefield,
looking investigating, looking for stuff. Uh okay, and I need Saya,
Mother of God, I just that not set Oh no, okay, all
right, uh Zaiah, I need a got that okay, good m all
right, folks, good luck this creature begins to s. You see ten
heads begin to move around like snakes. It's not a hydra. You look
around and instead there's more like worm like heads, sort of like an earthworm.
Kind of look to them and there's almost like flower petal like mouths on
the ends. That splay out and you can see all these like barbed spines
and stuff all over it. Uh yeah, okay, it's gonna attack an
eggie first who notices too late that this is approaching. Oh boy, yeah,
gotta each one of those heads get to go. You will find out
enjoy twelve attacks around there are ten heads. Okay, dude, what is
this thinking? Okay, first and foremost they have ten feet reach. Uh
it moves into the frame. It essentially is not noticed unfortunately. Uh so
I'm counting its movement as a freebie here. Uh and it will get to
attacked and easy to start things off. You could do it like an anime
and have it like yeah, I think it doesn't really do that until it
actually notices that you're there. And DeNisi slowly sees the shadow like creep in
and see it like kind of wiggle. It's immediately like wrong, Oh no,
you know is the immediate thought. You see like a giant like you
know, it's like a tree trunk that begins to like move into your vision
and it's wiggling, you know, fucking terrifying, Danni. He looks down
and then slowly looks up at this creature and there is a horrific sort of
squishy sort of sound to it, and it's got like a a strange reverberation
that bounces off these columns and debris and stuff all over here. And it
will then attack an iggy oh boy. Uh uh so it moves into range
first. Uh, and then we'll attack with a uh I want to do
that. No, it's gonna try and hit as many people as possible.
Yeah, it's gonna it's gonna move Uh. Hold on, let me just
double check the movement here. Okay, Yeah, it'll go here, It'll
go there. Okay, Uh, it's gonna go there. And it will
then attack Denis Malvik Karoun and Arcilia. Okay, here we go. Uh
she flat footed because it is, I don't think so no, Okay,
thank goodness. And it will use its storm of jaws action it gets to
make a number of strikes up to its number of heads, each against a
different Targetmm. Wait, you said each against a different target, as in
ten attacks each target or is it no, there's one there, okay,
there's four people in range, okay, and it will attack four people.
So we're gonna start with our Cilia. It's better than any other thing twenty
nine to hit ur cilia that hits for sixteen piercing damage, and it just
tears your flesh with these barbs and these like string It doesn't have a mouth,
like a creature that you would recognize our cilia. These barbs and spines
along the sort of like these pedal like I don't know what to even call
them. The orifice at the end of its neck just begins to like snap
and tear at your flesh. It's a parasite. Gross uh. And then
next that karoon An eighteen hit might be a miss. That might very well
be a miss. I think that's a miss. Hold on, holy shit,
I think Kroon has more I see than I do. That would be
its holy shitun uh, sort of just ducks underneath this uh, swinging barbed
neck of this creature almost like a giraffe, but more wacky, waving inflatable
tube man uh okay, and then Malavik m an eleven hit unfortunately is a
miss, Yeah, a critical miss. And then towards Danie fifteen is also
a miss. Uh uh he yells what is this thing? And ummm that
is it? For its turn? Okay, Karun says, uh, We're
getting the fuck out of here right uh and we'll immediately like back up like
from this creature. Slowly weill Karun will she was just attacked. She's definitely
gonna like try to retreat. She's gonna take a five foot step and then
chuck a bomb, I think, without question, and this will be I
would assume Karun would chuck a frostfial or no, Karun has more good chuck
good chuck fire fire moderate alchemists something, yes, moderate alchemist fire. Let's
do that. You got a bunch of those twenty nine hit? Is that
a hit? I need to check, you need to check what is that
ship? Yeah, it is a hit. Uh. Now we'll deal to
fire damage with two persistent fire damage. As she connects with this creature.
Unfortunately, the head moves out of the way. It's the body still.
Did you see that that thing moves fast? Uh? Okay and let's see
persistent fire too. Okay. Uh. Yeah, the creature doesn't seem to
really notice it at first. Uh. And that is going to be it
for Karun's turn. Danigi, who is right below this creature is man Uh
I think uh one question? That was two actions of karoons, Uh,
move and throw. She has one more. Yeah, I'm trying to remember
bombs are one, right, Yes, yeah, you are correct. Okay,
she normally takes covers. We'll just have actually, we'll just have her
take cover. There's not really great character. We'll not really have great cover
here. Yeah, but she will, she will do that. DGI.
M oh my god. This is a really tough choice, Denise, and
a bad spot at tack of opportunity ten times. I think. I think
DANII is gonna try to get the fuck out of there. Step disengage.
I'm gonna take three five foot steps. That's that's the Eastern I'm gonna just
try to get the fuck out from under this creatures. I mean, just
look up if there's a dinosaur there, you know, like, I mean,
get the fuck out. That's the first impulse. She's gonna use her
whole turn to do that. Just get out. From underneath this creature or
celia. That's your turn. First thing I'll do is exploit vulnerability thirty six
against it's DC. Oh shit, it's pretty good. I don't think it's
a crit, but I think it is a success most definitely. Uh you
got a thirty six. Holy shit, that might be a crit. Hold
on, that is a corritz whoa. Alright, let's go with a crit.
I learned about all of its resistances, weaknesses, and immunities, including
the numbers associated with them. It is immune to area damage. It is
weak to slashing slashing. Five that's it. Take out your blades. It
is vulnerable to slashing. Okay, I'll five foot step here and then I'll
attack the nearest head. Okay, twenty four to hit with your hatchet is
unfortunately a miss. All right, I swing wildly and that will be the
end of my turn. Okay, Alvic, it's your turn, mumbled to
myself. You said the best power here, excuse me with it range and
then I will take my blade out and stab it in the ground and slide
it along to collect whatever lay line power that I can. And I'm running
up to attack right here. Okay, yeah, to go five foot step
technically said, it's the great sword plus two on the damage for the lay
line, right twenty malvic Uh. When you go to strike this thing,
it's the neck of this head is so fast. You're not expecting something that
like big to just be that sort of serpentine in its quickness. It whips
out of the way of your strike of your great sword, trying to be
less predictable and swing again, thine, that is a miss. Uh.
And your I don't think you actually get that third action, right, did
you? You raged? You last? My bad for getting raged. You
weren't doing that. You weren't doing the sudden act, the sudden charge correct
dictions. Yeah, that is it for your turn. Mm hmm Ara,
it's your turn. Oh excellent. Well, first of all, I will
go a hurt and I will channel the power of my curse, the scars
reaperating on my face and bleeding inward, cracking my skin. I'm going to
go ahead and cast life link on Malavik and on ar Celia. They will
get six points of healing each if they are injured at all. And let
us see, I have two more actions after this. With my second action,
I am going to go ahead and preemptively activate my bracelet of dashing.
This will guarrant me an extra ten feet of movement for the next minute and
with my final well, with my final one, I will cast guidance upon
a rash talk from afar a rastop darling. Uh. I don't know,
can really do anything, but good luck. Oh fuck, I'm going to
try my best. That is my turb I'm cruise running right out of the
scene. I'm not casting invisibility on myself and fucking off. Okay, and
how much healing was that you are? Because our cilia you got the dose
of here sixa okay, Uh, very well, Sakuashi Uh is sort of
what is that Christian? Oh my, she's like breathing really heavily a rash
talk. You can tell she's extremely scared. Uh. She will begin to
cast a bless and there you go. You're under the effects of blessed or
rush stock. It's your turn. She will also take cover. All right,
I have guidance on which I think affects the thing that I'm going to
do. So you have a plus two to hit, yes to hit.
But that's not what I'm doing. I just want to see the phrasing enough
guidance. Ah damn, I washocking to see if it affected and helped my
deces. But it doesn't. So I'm going to make use of what you
did and do the thing next to No, I almost everything I have this
doesn't actually help me apologize. I am going to cast slow on this.
It must make a DC fortitude twenty five my fortitude. I know, I'm
aware. I have to try it failed. It has slowed for one minute,
that is ten rounds. Okay, I imagine also take cover. I
imagine it's quite taxing for you, a rash talk maybe from like the size
of the creature. So what do you think? This looks like it as
per usual with my bugs and things? This is not an environment I enjoy.
But worms begin to crawl out of the mud and mire of this old
lake bed and begin to wrap around its feet and anything holding the ground,
trying to just do their best to slow it down. Yeah, the bugs
are like crawling all over it. You can see the snake like next kind
of like whipping in like the pedal like mouth warrifices like trying to like fend
off the bugs. But they're all just kind of like crawling all over it
and crawling like into any into any any of its joints, like it's just
trying its best to try and whip them off. And there are bugs that
just get you know, like it go flying and stuff. But there's just
so many. They're just like pouring out of a rash talk sleeves and like
it just looks like a scene from the Mummy. And I take cover behind
this pillar as I am just constantly just go, please go. That is
my tad Zia. We'll say, okay, uh Zia, we'll say mm
hmm. That creature if it is anything like a hydra, you have to
sorry wrong accent. You have to you have to. We have to quarterize
any heads they get cut off, plung to so fire hire yes, fire
all right, rd you have no fire. Good luck. They got a
natural twenty on that roll for you. Very nice, okay, uh Zaiah
will oh boy umm. I think just shoot with the crossbow. I think
that's what it's looking like right now. Okay, come on there, you
got this crossbow attack. That's a natural one. The bolt blasts off her
hands are like shaking. The crossbow is just bobbing in her hands. She's
just gonna use the last action to reload. Uh okay, al Kauwasha will
now get to go. I think it's gonna go ahead and move. Let's
do that. It's gonna move right here. It's moving slower. It's sort
of whipping around wildly. Won't get to do it special bullshit because of the
slow Can I at least be on top not a bottom? I mean listen,
that sounds like yeah, yeah, uh okay, it doesn't get to
do it special bullshit, which is good for you because someone probably was going
to die. It will then, uh, let's see, I'll pick well,
actually, I think it's going to attack. It will attack. Gotta
make a defive role. I think we'll do two D five. Let's see
which ones will attack. Okay, that's gonna be Karun and Yara. Alrighty,
here we go. Two of these heads will come snapping out to try
and strike Harunin Yarra first one towards Karn. That's a critical thirty eight okay,
thirty two damage. I'll raise my amulet, okay, and how much
damage minus nine? Okay, so what is the math on that? That
is? Thirty two minus nine is twenty three twenty three total damage? Okay,
you can see the like Karun like fumbling for another bomb, and like
as Karun looks down, the neck like just tears into Karun's flesh and then
those strains like petal things just like tear furrows through her clothing and her arms
just get like torn up. Oh can you shtop that pace. I'm trying
to get the bomb to throw at you, next one towards you, Yarra
twenty seven to hit. It does hit, but it is not a critical
that is sixteen piercing damage. A blood sprays as the spiny barbs on this
thing's neck just rip and tear and pierce you. Okay, that is it
for its turn? A real question. I'm sorry movement that it made.
What would consider it? And did you make a five but step or something
forward? Okay? Thank you? Uh oh actually I'm so sorry, Yara.
What's your health backup? That was one action too many? I'm sorry.
God, I feel better all of a sudden. Okay, Karun's turn.
And also I have to roll to see if the fire stays on.
Nope, fire's gone, Karun says, Should I just keep throwing fire at
the are we running? What are we doing? Throw fire at the heads?
Maybe um okay uh. Karoon will try to throw another bomb, another
moderate alchemist fire that is a sixteen that is not a hit and the splash
damage does not connect because this is immune to area effects. Oh shit,
um uh it just dodged the fire. Probably not good. I will try
again and throw another bomb. I believe in you, darling. Fifteen that
is also a miss. Okay, uh, things really fast, guys,
this is and Karoun will try to take cover. Okay, Danigi is going
to take another five foot step back and then uh, we'll activate Hunt Prey
and we'll shoot the longbow, probably trying to take aim at one of the
heads. I imagine the one that's closest, so we'll aim for this one.
Jesus Christ, Denis, Denise is the best time her group, Let's
be honest. So let's see that is a crit. That is a crit.
Okay, thirty six to hit was what DENI? He got where for
thirteen piercing damage that's getting doubled to twenty six? Her special bullshit doesn't even
get to go off because Danigi sends the arrow to deal the most damage possible
to this head, and the head sort of gets torn up like Danigi's muscles
like bull just she lets go of this of this arrow. You can see
like her forearm and like her biceps are all like veiny and like pulsating,
like she's putting all her energy into this shot. It's totally monooke style demon
arm kind of shit. The head just kind of like blows up almost and
it falls limp. Okay, that is it for Denise turn. She had
other special bullshit go off, but it doesn't matter. You can see that
the head is sort of just like hanging there, looks like it's half torn
off. Or Celia, it's your turn. I'll attack the one to my
right. Twenty seven is a hit, all right, I do have some
extra stuff. Sorry, I'm gonna click this because I clicked the wrong hatchet
because I did the range stripe. Damn, what a wast Okay, so
it would have been the eighth sne plus two plus five. Yep. The
head is sliced, or Celia, you totally jab this thing and like leave
a horrible trail of blood, like severing the neck of this creature, and
it just leaves this horrible furrow of blood and it's like purplish the blood and
it's sort of just like erupts in massive spurts. Is it still moving?
Nop? Okay, I will then attack the one to myself. Is that
a second attack? Yes? It is, oh thirty one, very nice.
That is a hit. Okay, plus that's eight plus two plus five.
Another head sliced open fall the limp, purple blood splatters on the ground.
For my final action out five foot step over here, okay, and
didn't find turn Malavic, M that's right selves, five foot step, I
guess because I'm underneath thing thing. And then I will swing away. Oh
my god, nineteen that is a miss. Go again. Reverse grip is
all my roles today? Oh that's a nap twenty ooh and this was your
second strike, Yes, it was, oh shit, alright, very nice?
Uh so Malvic? Uh yeah, it's it's just it like explodes,
like just covering you in purple blood. Yeah, all your double damage doesn't
even it's not even required for this sixteen It at his fire. Okay.
Let me just double check on something real quick here, because that's that you
have been told that cauterizing the the the wounded heads is important. Mm hmm
yep, it's cauterized. Mmmm. We get to delete that one. No,
you see blue flames cauterize the moon and it's like, God, I
need more and that'll be into my turn. Okay, uh yara, it's
your turn. Oh to do fire, to do buffing us to do to
buffing them. Hm hmm. Well you know what. I'm going to go
ahead and cast impending doom on the body. It must make a will save
of twenty five Oh shit, okay, very nice. Uh okay, twenty
five DC. We'll save all right, here we go, Come on.
Not one creature is immediately flat footed. On the second round it becomes frightened
two, and on the third round it also becomes stunned one. At the
end of the third round, the creature takes full damage, which is twenty
two mental damage. So we'll just keep a note to that. My eyes
flash a creepy, eerie blue as I mutter under my breath and stare directly
into this creature soul, and then it takes the effect. Yeah, you
don't even It's like one of those situations where somebody has something on their face
and you don't know where to look when you're trying to make eye contact and
you're trying to look. It's got six heads left, and you just kind
of look at one of them where it kind of tries to you know,
it looks like it's about to eat you, and you send this this feeling
of impending doom upon it. Very well, Okay, hopefully that helps,
right, and I have one turn left. So with that final turn,
I'm going to go ahead and utilize my doctor visitation in order to move over
to Karun and utilize battle medicine at a master level for fifty points of healing.
Wish Jesus Christ, it hit like a thirty every time? Or right,
it's very odd. Yeah, you just squirt all kinds of super glue
in Korun's wounds. Those things are closed right up, shoving things into the
wounds, and it's accelerating it with healing. Do I feel better? I
feel great. That's like, you know, totally the best super glue I've
I've ever seen, good good stuff. I probably will need to you know,
copy it for something at some point. It's always good to have an
inhesive guess certainly that is my turn. Sakawachie, increase the range of bless
You're ten feet and I think not brave enough to move closer to that thing
Dan right where she is, will take cover rashtoc. Yes, I'm looking
around, looking at the heads, knowing I have nothing to do with fire.
Bugs don't like fire. And do you wish for me to try to
make it weaker or to be attacked? And I'm looking wildly around. Read
of it? Oh both bush very well, very well, Yes, and
I cast a new spell the flavor of course, because I use bugs in
everything. This is more of a centipede than anything else. For a twenty
six stit modus vine, that is, it is because of bless eh uh
to describe this, it's a slithery thorning vine that attempts to constrict and crush
a foe against the surface, this being the ground. Ah and oh yes,
it's a spell attack against the fortitude d C which actually I realized that
may be a myth. Uh. Okay, so the fortitude DCU is a
miss here yes, sorry, Yes, that's okay, which was very little
damage in the first place. So yes, that Bless is twenty six and
guidance is only one turn. I think, yeah, it's uh, well,
let me just double check flat footed Oh yae, I don't no,
you're right. It might not it does. I think you're correct. Saving
throws forgot. We gotta look at the legacy stuff. Yes, flat footed,
its circumstances, the penalty of the ac Nope, very well, Nope,
that is okay that misses and ah, I have more ideas. It
did not work though, and I okay take over. Zaiah shakily fires another
crossbow bolt. Uh, I couldn't do that. I guess that's not bad.
Actually, hold on, she can do this because you guys do need
this. She is gonna cauterize one of the heads as she pulls out a
scroll, and you can see as she pulls out the scroll, she begins
to sort of mutter in what sounds like a different language. Lea way.
As she does, there's a flaming sphere that forms, and she throws it
basically at the head closest to her, this one, and we'll just try
to cauterize the wound. Mm hmmm. Uh yeah, So she's gonna move
this flaming sphere around. Why don't we make no him Spanish? M no,
missious, now Spanish. Okay, let's do Actually wait, I've got
fire hold on one of my doing what am I doing. I've got fire,
I got fire stuff, I got fire stuff. That is going to
be one action. I think her other action is going to be to fire
a crossbow bolt. I'll put the flame down, but it's going to be
right where this head is and then cauterize this one. Uh okay, crossbow
bolt probably to Actually does she have to maintain that? Does it consistained?
If it says sustained, concentrate and sustaining two different things up to one minute?
Yes, So every turn you must utilize one turn or one action in
order to go ahead and sustain it. Uh. First time. Each round
you sustain this fell, you may leave the sphere in its square or roll
it to another square within range. Yeah. So I guess she's not going
to use the crossbow. I imagine she's just gonna take cover and yeah.
Or does she have to maintain it the same turn? No, No,
first round you cast it, then the second round is when you sustain it.
It's similar to SOCCA Watch's blessed Yeah. Yeah, okay. Now there
is a basic saving throw reflex d see hold on Uh, creatures that saved
it their saved take no damage instead of half oh shit, hold on that
might not happen. Sorry, Uh, we need to reflex save from this
creature then, sir, folks, No, that is all right. I
can put all of the basic saving throw stuff in here because it always applies
if it says a basic saving throw is needed. So critical failures of double
down image failures on normal damage successes result in half damage and critical is no
damage. Well, then shit creatures that succeed at their save take no damage.
Though specifically says in this spell at the bottom, yes, then yes
it is a different yep. Okay, so this the head is still floppy
and flaccid, but it's it's still there. It's not cauterized. Okay.
In Zaia will just take cover. Okay. The al ko WASH's turn,
and I also have to get that fire because the sphere is gonna stay there.
It just didn't work. Ah, do we have sphere of fire?
I'm certain that I do this. Okay, I'm just gonna move that there
all right. Uh the al kawaha. I'm so sorry, guys, this
thing sucks. Uh. Okay, it's going to use its regeneration. Um.
Okay, you see its wounds begin to close up, and I need
to all this. Oh, the heads do not regenerate. All right?
Uh? Then, oh boy, here we go. Let's see here.
I'm going to roll onto three four Nigi's out of range. D oh,
actually hold on one two generality two Okay, Malvic, the creature will use
its special bullshit here and do a focused assault upon you. How many actions
is that two? I'm gonna use this whole turn to do this was the
regeneration. Oh, regeneration was free free. Oh yep, I guess I'll
see you looking at the taunted. Uh that wasn't the smartest thing. Ye
oh my god. Okay, all six of its heads that are left to
right now attack you simultaneously. Good luck. Six twenty six to hit.
That's a hit by one fuck one ac fuck all right? Uh all right,
initial damage is seventeen piercing. Okay, wait, let me do this
math as we go. I have fourteen temporary hit points. Well, Yarra
takes ours, go first. Wait, I have fourteen temporary I'm saying you
just take three and then two of the next whatever damage comes up, Okay,
go for it. An additional twenty nine, so that is I'll take
that. I'll take the twenty nine forty six damage. Wait what, I'm
only taking twenty nine? Whoa you tight amulate? So you you blocked seventeen
of that damage. I have fourteen to break hit points plus yours. Okay,
and you are a block three. I take five five, so I
got hit for twenty seven and then what now? Or so he raises their
ambulance takes off nine. So you got fourteen fourteen plus five is nineteen plus
nine. I'm just sadding. Yeah, twenty eight minus forty six minus twenty
eight Okay, I've one hundred nine h nine. So he took sixteen damage
there total? Yep. Yeah. Just you see all of these like snake
like necks like whip at malavic barbs just tearing into his flesh. He uses
his sword to kind of like block some of it, but it was just
brutal. That is it for its turn. Damn, that's loaded work,
dude, Lucky that went through. Bro U Karun is going to say,
okay, so we've got fire on the heads. I don't see them growing
back or anything. Are we doing this right? Should I keep throwing fire?
Yes? Yes, keep throwing fire. I don't have a lot left,
but they'll keep doing it. And she's gonna throw a bomb. I'm
gonna say that she Yeah, I guess she's gonna try and hit the body
to try and cauterize one of these heads, so the splash damage will not
work. If this is a miss, it's a miss. Here we go
twenty eight. He that will cauterize another head and still deal some damage.
Okay. Uh. The napalm like spreads out on this creature and totally like
seals up the head. The flaccid worm head sort of just wiggles like just
from the reaction of its body moving and uh, just you hear this like
horrible like tearing sound at the base. It just kind of like tears off.
A splurt of purple blood shoots out as the napalm spreads and cauterizes the
head just in front of our Celia and Koroun. I got it. Okay,
cool, definitely done. Uh, all right, I'll keep doing it
and she'll throw another bomb. Second attack. That one is a miss.
Unfortunately, this one napalm covers the ground but unfortunately does not hit the heads
in the air. Okay, and then Karun will take cover as the last
turn, the last action, DENI will see she can hunt pray right,
hunt pray, and then we'll fire with the long bell. She will take
aim towards this head. I see nineteen natural one to hit. Unfortunately,
that one misses. Arrow sails past as the head. It's just moving all
over the place. It's super tough to hit. And she will just notch
another arrow. Take a second shot. That is a twenty one to hit.
This one actually like just barely nix the creature, leaving a small scratch
on it. Does not hit though. That's it for Nanni Eastern or Celia.
I'll talk the one to the next me. Okay, natural one,
Unfortunately, that is a miss. You strike with your hatchet, you kind
of like fumble about. I think that the head of this creature is kind
of like moving around and the neck just kind of like hits you and pushes
you back as you're striking your swing again. A thirty one is ahead.
That's nine plus two plus five. Okay, this one gets sliced up real
good. Purple blood shoots everywhere. Is it just kind of flops down?
Then I'll move okay fortnitely question for our Syria, did you say you took
a five foot step? I did not but what answer your question? You
quit on your esoteric correct Yes, doesn't your mortal weakness act like its weakness
like fire? Uh? No it okay, if it was counorizing, its
weakness is slashing as well. I don't know if fire is a weakness.
I know aulize, so it could be, though I don't know. Sorry,
we weren't given that to Oh you're right, it's not, sir.
I move here, I stried. Yeah, you're going to take in texts
of opportunity. Unfortunately what yeah? Soy uh, let's see here the slow
stop attacks of opportunity. Does it stop reactions? I don't believe it does,
but don't check. Okay, nope, okay, uh yep. It
will try and strike at you with its fang, So twenty four to hit
I will use my reaction to activate emersaries protection. So my AC is now
twenty five. Very nice, very nice. You see these scales begin to
crawl up ar Cilia's body, similar in shape and color to Malvis, and
Arcila do me a favor, and Maker will say for me please twenty five?
Okay, okay, something wriggling at the back of your brain there,
Arcilia. I'm not quite sure what that was. Okay, Malvic true turn
mm hmmm, I will hmm, okay, I'm going to do slash up
the one on the ground that's dead start not dead, but the one that's
out quote unquote trying to cauterize it. Yes, that's attacked twenty seven yep,
that is a hit. That one is caunterized. And then I'll use
the momentum as I swing, spin my body around and dig my feet into
the dirt and then sudden charge. Hello, this is why Stephen from table
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