The group followed Dolly Pine to the headquarters of the Hydro Woman. She was
running away, running towards something. They confronted her on the top floor in
the same room where Warren Morrison watched his daughter died years ago before, but
now he sees her again, standing right next to his arch enemy. Hello
everyone, or should I say howdy? For the last session of the Center
Saga. Last we left off our group, the Center Squad. Sorry,
I had to move my thing. Our group, the Center Squad, was
confronting Hydro Collective president Dolly Pine in the board meeting room. She is on
the other side of the large table for SHUDG nine had just attempted the silent
spell, but it was counterspelled by Dolly. Right, we are still in
initiative. I have no more spells, and I'm going to tell you guys
the turn order. It is going to be Matthias, than Arthur, then
Warren, then four too oo, then Dolly and then Alice. Hmm,
okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Um God, we haven't
played this in over a month. I think, yeah, oh yeah,
it's a beauty long time almost two I think we had We were on quite
the hiatus. Yeah, school, school picked up a lot for for a
bunch of us. Yeah that must that must suck. Yeah it's scary.
Yeah, so school anymore? It must be nice. Yeah, yeah that
sounds kind of cool. Yeah, I just have to have surgery instead.
Yeah, that does not sound as cool as as the first thing. To
be fair, I don't know, sounds pretty awesome. They did surgery on
a grape. No, shut up, yeah, shut up. Because it
is Bias's turn. Dolly Pine stands before you alongside a young woman whom you
don't recognize, and Dolly appears to be preparing a spell of some kind,
one that lowers the temperature in the room. Fuck is a cactus. That's
one of my weaknesses. But that is shooter. Uh yeah, so I'm
gonna take off. Well, first off, what's what's like my range?
Like, how how far away am I from her? She is ten feet
away from you? Be beautiful. I'm gonna take out my gun. I'm
gonna shoot her. Yeah awesome, Back to basics, babe, that is
going to be a fuck. That's an eleven. Never mind, I don't
think that's going to hit No, that does not fire off your shotgun.
However, I imagine as you all run in together, you kind of stumble
around and you get bumped by one of your peers, shooting off towards the
ceiling, shattering a um lamp that's hanging on the wall. I'm had to
hit that, you will ask? Well, mean to hit dollar pomp next
time? Good plans Arthur's turn. Uh, I'm also just gonna Well,
she's writing a spell. I don't have many counterspell type beats. I also
don't want to hit the goal. Would you possibly have silence as well?
As that would be clutch? What levels spell is silence? Second level?
Yeah? I don't have it prepared, so technically no, okay, um
uh D and D paralysis when you're looking at your spell book always happened.
Do you want some advice? Well, I wouldn't mind a little advice from
the DM. Well, I have a question, fortun das G nine,
are you capable of casting silence on your turn? I don't remember too to
my memory, I do not have any more second level spell thoughts. Yeah,
I believe that was the case, so no, I would not be
able to. All right, here's a plan. So she's readying something in
the room's getting cooler. We're gonna do a little I pulled up six spells
and this is one that I didn't pull up, so uh ha ha.
Also, this room must be pretty small. It is um a large meeting
room. The office of the she does on the other side of the table
with the table is very long. Um so the room, I would say,
is like fifteen by thirty mm hmm. Well, we're gonna do a
little bit of blindness. Oh so so oh shit. Art opens his ma
and he screams, ah foam and foamy, mushroomy fungus starts pouring out as
a cloud and it goes across the room and uh yeah, I guess now
this is when she would as this happens ash G nine. You said you
told me you're out of second level spell slots. Dolly Pine does not know
that I want you to make me a deception check. Oh eighteen okay,
wow, pretty deceptive. I have no bonuses. I just added, I
just got an eighteen on the ice. Well, when you when you have
no face, I guess it does make little sense. That's pretty good.
Dolly is not going to counterspell your spell out of fear that something worse might
happen. So it's a con save. Oh that's not very good. Um,
great, does a ten save? It doesn't? All right? So
Dolly Pine is now blind and can make constitution saves at the end of each
of her turns. Awesome cool, I know right. I give him a
meaty pat on the back. Oh wow, that that you chose that adjective.
Huh um, she she witches, turning, turning away slightly, bringing
her hand up to her eyes. Um. Previously, in the last episode,
she had told you all to that you need to let her leave on
a train with Alice or your lives or forfeit. At this point, you
hear her say, so you've made your choice now. Um for two?
Oh oh, Warren is okay, portos, fire and shit. So she's
casting a spell. She's going to cast a spell in her turn, and
I am giving you guys hints as to what that spell is. Can I
make an our contract to see if I would know what that might be?
Sure? I don't think you know. I probably don't. That's a net
nine plus four thirteen. I think you know. I think you know exactly
you want to tell them, Alex, I would say you would know.
Um, you don't know the name of the spell, but you've seen a
similar spell done by high fileane warriors during the Afterfall war. Um, you
know when like a bunch of super powerful wizards basically just committed a bunch of
war crimes. Um because they're angry that they lost all their power. Um.
Yeah, this this is a spell that um when used in a crowd,
and render quite a large sum of people as frozen as frozen statues.
Oh oh right, it's it's oh fuck? Oh fuck? Okay, Um,
I would I would know the casting pots. Can I try to shoot
her hit this? This is kind of kind of vicky. Can I try
to mangle her hands yet? So make an a tackle with disadvantage? Okay?
Uh? Oh, first one's a natural sixteen and second one is a
natural nine. Uh So in total with a natural nine, that is a
seventeen to hit. Yeah that'll hit fuck yeah okay. So in terms of
damage, that is eight points of force. Uh And I have another Eldrits
blast. So did that pass the inspection or do I gotta do it again?
Um? Which which one trying to mangle her hands so she can't cast?
And eight points of damage total? Yes? Okay? Um, I
will have her roll a dye on her turn. Um, I'll have her
make a dexterity check. Okay, I got you with a DC ten.
Can I do that again? Sure? If you managed to hit, I'll
increase the DC. Okay, okay, natural eight and a nap twenty.
God damn it, sled is a sixteen to hit? Um? That will
hit? Cool? Awesome? That is thirteen points of damage. All right,
I'm gonna raise that DC to fifteen. Awesome. Is that your turn?
Warren? Take out your gun shooting Dolly's hands. I'm I'm gonna say
to Alice, Honey, I know I've been here in a long time,
but it's me. It's me. Please. Um. She is in stunned
silence at the moment. Fair, I don't blame her fortu ods Gina,
and it is your turn. I would like to use my movement to get
to the other side of the room and block the other doorway with my body,
with your body, and I'm gonna shoot her after I use my slayers
pray. That's right. I'm in range now, baby, all my attacks
will have disadvantage. I only have guns. You are in melee range.
But she's also lined it at the moment anyway, So yeah, uh you
know what. So for my action, instead of taking an attack after popping
my slaighters prey on, I'll go ahead and use my hunter's sense so I
can take an action to look at a creature within sixty feet and learn its
immunities, resistances, and vulnerabilities. Who are you looking at? Well,
of course, Dolly Pine. Okay, Alice, I'm gonna shoot her plot
twist. I was the villain of the season. I would lose my shit.
Dolly Pine does not have any resistances immunity either. What have you?
Great? All right, so it is Dolly startin. I'm going to roll
a dexterity check. It's a DC fifteen to see if she can correctly cast
the spell while she is blinded and her hands are mangled. Wow. Okay,
um, that's actually exactly what she needs. Wow. Thirteen plus two.
How convenient? Um Alex is fudging the rules just just that we don't
know him. I mean, m hm. So she is going to cast
Cone of Cold. I need but for two O nine to make me a
constitution saving throw. Uh must be fucking nice, not twenty eat my dick.
Fuck you congratulations. Oh wow a um, so yeah, only Arthur
fails. Where is my phone? What all right? Guess I gotta roll
all these with one dye individually. So how's the weathermen? Guys? You
know it's very cold at the moment. It's been really warm in Milwaukee.
Dolly Pine completes her spell. A whirlwind of pure cold energy coalesces in her
arms, and she releases it in front of you, guys, her hair
blasting backwards, completely destroying the facade of a of a businesswoman, of a
professional. She is desperate, um, and she will just yell not no,
not when I've come this far. Arthur, you take thirty seven points
of cold damage. Um. Warren and Matthias you both take eighteen? Okay
I thought Warren saved? Yes, did did eighteen? Wow? I'm still
so still up. Oh my god, Oh my god. It's not very
pogers of you. Alex. I must conscious, Alex? Did it freeze
me? Or is it? Am? I? Like? Are you dead
or unconscious? I am unconscious? Um, then you are not frozen,
but you probably have frozen bits of you so I would fall Yeah. Ah,
oh I bet he needs as kissed. Oh I've run it over licking
my lips ready to go. No kind of liking your lips. The rest
of the rest of the party, the rest of the party not healing on
purpose. So that is that the cactus can puncture me. God, it
is now Alice's turns. She turns to Dolly. Her confusion turned into frustration.
Why would you do that? Dolly responds back, kind of not knowing
where to look because she's blind at the moment. They were trying to kill
you. No, they were trying to kill you. Leave me alone.
Um. And as she's yelling, this fury of anger is happening, you
all start to like feel it. You feel this energy fill the room,
and you notice that Alice's eyes start to grow glow yellow. Look out,
guys, Alice is an EmPATH, and I need to make all of you
need to make me wisdom saving throws. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm all
wait. Oh beautiful seventeen well fucking ambushing me with that during the description,
um hm hmmm, what wisdom? This is wisdom natty fifteen plus I'm kind
of worried, but I also got a good role. But also this is
the end game, so I'm worried anyway. Thirty seven sixteen hopefully not.
Oh I got I got a sixteen two twins, so her sixteen sixteen seventeen
six so okay, art well DC arts unconscious. Oh that's right, arts
unconscious. It doesn't matter for him anyway. He has to make it.
Two. Dolly failed by a lot because the DC was twenty. Yeah,
non, God on god, the DC was twenty, which means that all
of you are paralyzed. I fucking it, um, including Dolly Pine h
and all of you, like you're everything becomes cloudy, like of you kind
of like leave your body a little bit? Do you dissociate? Um?
Do? Alice is shocked by this. She reels back like what She tentatively
pokes Dolly Pine in the forehead, at which Dolly falls over. Alice looks
back to the rest of you. You were all still on moving because of
her, and she does not know why. So she takes her bag and
she runs out the door. Shot which door the one I'm in front of
or the one that they are in front of? Um, I mean either
or because you're all paralyzed, But I'll say the one you're in front of,
because it doesn't matter. We're all paralyzed. We are all paralyzed.
It's almost like Alex set an unreachable DC so that he could do cool story
stuff. I set a difficult DC so I could do cool story stuff.
Miss She's honest. Hum great, Yeah, so fuck matthiast got the highest
on his role with an eighteen correct. Seventeen seventeen Matthias, you become unparalyzed.
First, I'm going to um. Well, First, I'm gonna run
over and heal my hobby. How do you do? How do you do?
So? I use laying on hands and I kiss them. Lay on
hands and I kiss them. I'm gonna expend lay on lips. Yeah,
lay on lips. Um. I see. Currently, I had fifteen left
over in the pool, so now I'm down to ten. Warren and Fortuneo
become unparalyzed. Next, Uh, Dolly is still paralyzed. I'm gonna shoot
her like all, like twice before I run out. I'm run after my
daughter, but I'm gonna shoot her twice. Are we not an initiative anymore?
Yeah? I'm okay. Uh twenty five to hit you don't have to
roll? Oh cool? Then two things are damnage then and I don't think
you have to roll damage either for real? I mean she's paralyzed on the
floor. Well, she's paralyzed on the floor, and you have a bullet
left in your gun. Oh, you're right. I'm going to um,
I'm gonna, like um summon the gun and like walk over to her and
like just put it up against her head and say I one, and then
pull the hammer back sea when hail and I pull the trigger, a bloody
crack resounds through the room, and you stand over her in that same room,
and now the body is someone else's. I don't even I'm running after
my daughter. Great, you are all unparalyzed, do you all follow?
Yes, I'm getting the fuck out of here. That's gross. Immediately once
you leave the room, you notice the building has become chaos. The town
has become chaos. What began as protests has turned into riots and now is
full on bloodshed. Collective members are betraying each other for different factions that are
breaking up under different board members. The enforcers don't know what to do because
Clyde Dominic betrayed Dolly Pine and all the while, the people of Truth Water,
who have had enough of the Hydro Collectives bullshit, are breaking in Um.
It is not difficult to leave the building without being accosted. I mean,
everyone's busy with their own in fighting. It's become personal at this point.
You run out the building, you're greeted to um, just like a
crowd of protesters that's grown outside. And I'm gonna need a perception check to
see if you guys can find Alice amongst the crowd. Ooh uh, that
is ten five, they're seventeen. Yeah, I can do at least one
thing in this campaign. Fortune, you have no stuff real good. You
can look at stuff real real good. You see her running ahead, and
you are able to follow behind her. It's difficult to make ground catch,
to close the distance between you, but you keep it from growing more than
it already is. She eventually cuts out of the crowd, running down the
street, running towards the newly constructed train station. Fuck. And it's strange
that, I mean, Dolly's the one who wanted to take her on the
train. You don't know why Alice would want to be on the train.
I hope that body back in that room is fucking Alice. And you just
execution your daughter and ran away without realizing it. That would be very sad,
very very angry at Alex. I'm gonna do that. I said,
today's many be weird. It's not gonna be that weird. That's not weird.
That's heartbreaking, that's that's fucking horror. That's fine. So like if
I started shooting at ah, Hey, why don't we not even do that?
Maybe just just justice. I'm saying good bye to your daughter again.
Well, she doesn't recognize you from a train? Wait? Wait, can
I cast um command ask her to halt? She is from feet away?
How? Yeah? How far away is she? Alex? I was about
to say, um, like a one hundred and fifty feet Um? Can
I just I'm gonna call out and be like, Alice, please stop.
Um, I'm gonna roll to see if she heard the can I use?
I don't have thought I charge you? Never mind? My bad? Um.
She will yell back, there's something I need to do. What is
it? Please just let me know I can help you. She doesn't respond,
and she jumps on the train. God damn it, and it starts
to move slowly after this giant monstrosity of metal and uh sales on it.
Sales that can be um like brought up and down Uh. It is levitating
a good ten feet off the ground. There are stairs that lead up to
the doors um for all the cabins uh. And there are engine audit engines
are not common here. However, recently, scientists in the falagi An Oasis
have funny begun experimenting with burning the magical crystals that they use to cast their
spells. Because the Falan use a specific kind of magical crystal that they mind
in the falagi An Oasis Um before the fall and everything, uh, and
that's what they use to cast their magic. They begun to burn it as
a source of fuel, a very powerful source of fuel. And there are
multiple of these engines set up across the train. The train starts to move.
Athletics checks please what timing? Uh M, all right, good thing,
everyone's revolting. But that is this is so cool. That's an that
one Athletics speventeen eleven twelve Warren, you're so distraught you can't even bring yourself
to jump um with that you do, guys, do not catch up to
the cabin that Alice had entered. Um, however, you can you do
catch up to the cargo cabin, which is the second to last cabin.
I'll take it, and he managed to jump on before the train leaves.
Truth water rad rad here. Let me let me scroll down to my to
my train details. Trains. Inside the storage car, there's no people,
just barrels, boxes, the sort of things A couple have. Um up
uh, signs that say um keep away from flame on them. That's ominous.
Mhm h Okay, investigator, keep going up the train. I am.
I listen. I would love to investigate it. You know I can't.
I mean, it would just it simply would not make sense right now
for me to do that. Okay, I am going up the train.
Um. Well, the next car is the sleeper car. It's empty.
However, right after you enter it, the door on the other side opens.
A man wearing a train conductor uniform steps out, and it's walking towards
you. Determinant determinant tint flee with determination, with determination? Yeah, he
is he trying it? Is he saying anything? Inside? Check We don't
recognize him, do it? Oh God, that's another horriblele That is a
seven total eleven maybe fourteen? Um? You two can't tell that, Matthias.
You notice that he his eyes look very far away, uh like like
this kind of far away no, like uh, they're not actually seeing anything,
you know, like seeing but not registering. And he keeps walking towards
you, guys, twenty fifteen, ten feet five feet, He's right up
on you, and then he stops right in front of you. What do
you want, looks up to you, and says, excuse me, I
need to get to the back of the train. Okay, he walks past
you. He's gonna jump. I'm not little, Yeah, I don't care.
I'm gonna past I'm pushing past this guy. Okay. You push pass
and you enter a passenger car. There are six people in here, various
coons, and all of them are sitting perfectly still around tables. Oh okay,
they have that sane, far away look in their eyes. They're not
trying to stop us, though. Right once you enter and get close,
one will stand up very quickly make his way into the hallway. We'll not
the hallway, but like the center, strip the ill and take out his
gun, point it towards you all and say freeze, I would like to
shoot him. Cool. Are you an attack roll? It's a gnat one.
Well, how about we enter initiative? Alrighty, yeah, let's do
it. Let's kick some booty. Uh fuck, what the hell? Um?
God thinks back, all right, whenever, whenever You're right. Twelve
wells asked for twenty twenty five. No awesome, cool fifteen to twenty.
I got a sixteen cool for two I would have a higher decks. Oh
yeah, definitely stop locking your car. I got a four awesome Yeah,
all right. The goons are up first. Um. Oh and a description
wise. Uh, this passenger car is lined with windows on either side,
and you notice the train is starting to get a lot faster now. Um.
You start to hear rumbling from up ahead as the as those kind of
basically jet engines are activated. Um, and you were speeding through the sands,
presumably on your way to Sentinel. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Goons are up first, and they are going to make their shots against
you. Guys. There are six of them, so I'm going to roll
see each one of you hit all right. One on Matthias, two on
Matthias, three on Matthias, okay one on four two, another on four
two and wow three un Mathias three, unfortuno okay, yikers, yikers indeed,
um Matthias that is a fourteen to hit. Yeah, nope, not
gonna hit a twenty three yep, and a seventeen. Yeah, all right,
I'm gonna roll the damage for those do do do two six eleven?
You take fifteen points of piercing damage. All right, they fire their pistols
at you, blasting through your captain exterior, um, splattering bits of green
plant stuff over the room. Well, because like you like a like a
hard you have like an outer shell or something. It's a weird vibe.
I'm like, um, I'm like the little the what do they call,
like the little suckers that had the hard exterior, but they got the really
gummy stuff on the inside. Four two oh, that is a twenty three,
a natural one, and a natural two. So you take eight points
of piercing damage. How it is now your turn shoot the one that shot
me. Okay, first sixteen that'll for sure hit. M oh. I
probably have to make it a disadvantage, don't I what? Four? Because
we're in close range now, you're not how big is this train car?
Well, it's long, so they're like fifteen feet up from you. Guys.
Yeah, my rifle is like ninety three hundred. Well, but you
don't have disadvantage beneath ninety, you have disadvantage within five, So it's a
straight roll up to ninety in a disadvantage up to three hundred. Well,
then I'm gonna use my snipe. Wore the same bonus anyway. Um,
I lost a D eight. I don't know where it went. Twenty points
of piercing damage. Oh yeah, he is out second attack reload? Um
using your sniper rifle? Yes, Um, I think you're Oh, you're
using your second attack to reload, Alex, I asked you about this so
many times. I know I can use my extra attack to reload. Got
it? Awesome? Anything else you wanted to do in your turn? No?
Awesome, Arthur Wow. Right as Michael walked away, all my fucking
god, right as he walked away, What are the fucking odds? Oh?
I told him my roommates that they're sexy voices are too loud, The
sexy voices are too sexy. So there are six in the train. They're
all being five now, thank god. Uh man, it sucks that we
have to kill these people who are not in control of their actions, but
I have priorities, so I'm gonna go ahead and take a shot with my
revolver. Just pick one of them. Okay, I don't I don't really
care which. Uh. Let's see revolvers forty eighteen hit. Yeah hoo hoo.
All right, we've got three points of damage. Oh, four points
of damage, big damage, I know. Okay, and then I'm sure
the site of green cactus matters splattering is scary, So I'm gonna I'm gonna
use my bonus action to cast healing word uh with uh first level spell slot.
And since it's just first level, doesn't have to be too spicy to
a steamy. But I'm just gonna say, Matthias, are you okay?
No? Uh yeah, I guess that's it, just an it was an
inquiry on his health because it's first level. If it was third level,
I don't know what I would have said, favorite ropea poem I would Okay,
we got a five points of healing for you, so thank you.
That's so much HP I got hell yeah, hell yeah. Um. When
you shoot that guy, you shoot him in the arm and as he doesn't
even notice the pain at first, but you slowly see that far away look
drained from his face, and he like comes to looks at his arm.
Eyes go wide, goes, what the fuck is happening? Um? But
eyes, it's your turn. Okay, let's see here. So I got
the fourteen. Well, taking damage brings them back? Do you have any
way to to like hit to be specific when you guys hit them? I
am rolling a die to see whether or not it brings them back. But
still, if you have the option, maybe do you have any way to
damage multiple even if it's little damage? I have an undisclosed amount of molotov
cocktails. Yeah, in the train car that we're in that's moving. That's
a great idea. No, well well no, no, well no,
no, we could we could do something with that. I think what we
could do is we throw the molotov cocktail and then we get like outside the
other door, and assuming these train cars are all like inner link using those
little steel things, we just chop that off. Oh. I thought you
were gonna say, like, oh, we're gonna use it like thermite.
I'm like, it's not thermite, though, it's about the cocktail. Um,
whose turn is it mine? Mathiasis? Um? We have a shotgun?
Yeah, I'm just gonna use the shotgun. We'll reach for Finally,
in close quarters and you have a shotgun, you can Um, I think
the scatter applies to like a fifteen foot cone or something. Okay, that's
aim for one person, but you could do that additional like D four or
something to multiple people. Okay, that's a fourteen to hit. Um.
Yeah, I'm gonna have the hit. Okay, all right, So that's
two D four plus one D four for scattering. Um. So that's a
total of wow, not good, four four points of damage for all of
that four from all of that. Yeah, I rolled the two A one
and a one. The person who shot directly and um, the one of
the people next to him don't even notice, just as like, um,
dust blows through the air as you fire your sawt off and slowly little dots
of blood fill up their chests. Um. But one person who got like
a pellet in like the side of the side of the neck, regains their
composure, puts their hand up to their neck and like it's looking at their
gun. Doesn't say anything, just like, uh, Warren, it's your
turn. Okay. Uh So I'm I'm getting the idea that these guys aren't
super in the mood. I'm just I'm gonna I don't want to kill them
by any stretching the imagination. I just want to get past them, So
I'm gonna just shoot them once each to see if I can rouse them.
So two attacks, dude, it's like in Red Dead. Your your vision
slows down and people. Oh those both are hit twenty one with my lower
one. Uh yeah for sure? Uh and cool I rode low too.
That's an eight and nine. Um. One of them regains their composure.
Yeah, yeah. Can I try to move past them or would that?
So there's only two left that are still out, so you can provoke two
attacks of opportunities. That's oh no, I have two points of health.
No, I would not like to do that. I would like to take
cover instead. You can take cover behind um, let's see the chairs.
Does anyone else want to do that? It sounds like a good idea.
Yeah, okay, you all take cover behind the various chairs and we get
to the goons. Turns however, one goon is dead, three of them
have regained their consciousness, and the two that don't have their consciousness holding up
their guns will kind of like one of them will monotone. Please say,
now boat your weapons on the floor and put your hands up, just like
pointing his gun out at the aisle, holding his action, and the other
one will do the same. They will hold their actions for you guys to
be seeable. Um. But the other three are like, David, what
the fuck are you doing? What's going on? David? Classic? Uh?
And then he will turn to the days when will turn to his friend,
we can't interfere m. They start trying to like shake him and stuff,
and nothing happens. Fortune nine again to shoot him. M hm all
right, so ums, oh that's a misfire. Kay, that's my whole
term. So you crouch out from your hiding spot. One of the ones
that was holding his action is going to try to attack you, but you
have three quarters cover, so that's not going to hit. Does it blasts
off the chair in front of you, Arthur? Do opportunity attacks work when
we're all using guns? Um? You there? They wouldn't do it with
a gun. They do it with like a knife or like a fist.
But if you have like two hit points, then a fist would be enough
to knock you out. Yeah, noted. So this is a passenger car,
is there? Any? Um? Probably is? I don't know.
I'm just trying to be creative because that's the point of this game, right.
I guess maybe there's is there a luggage or a luggage rack. I'm
assuming there's like bar or anything, because it's not like a food carriage.
It's just like passengers. So it's like benches and luggage. There's luggage,
benches and luggage. Yeah, I mean this is this is a bougieass train,
like this is the first time it's been used by the way. Um
it was supposed to be so that Dolly could take a trip to Sentinel,
um for like a pr stunt type deal. Um. So they are like
little chandeliers, um, like three of them above the aisles. How's how's
luggage stored? Is it under the seats or is it overhead? Both there's
there's areas for both. And is there very much luggage that these six people
may have brought. Maybe it's a long trip um they have brought. It's
like each person brought a Duffel bag, So like six Duffel bags, m
and there wouldn't be Art would like to look at how these overheads are constructed
to see if there's a flaw that he could easily exploit, so that it
falls. Okay, make an investigation check. So anyone undercover would then be
stuck in only you know, the aisle would Well we'll see sixteen investigation.
Um you'll notice that, um, what's holding all of the they're kind of
like metal great overhangs, UM that are attached via like a cord that runs
along attached to the ceiling. Like, um, there's stuff coming down from
the ceiling. It runs to the ceiling and it runs through the luggage carriers
in order to attach to them to the ceiling. And then it's also like
you have to you have to like put your stuff on the other side of
the chord, so kind of like hold stuff in place, but it is
like the structural support that's keeping it up. I would like to try to
damage this chord with my multi tool on the side that uh four two oz
is not on. Okay, um, oh, how do I want you
to do this? I guess make like an attack roll with Dexterity m H
flat thirteen. Should I use attack roll with Dexterity, So I should have
a plus three for my multi tool? So sixteen you have a plus three
with your multi tool? Okay, yeah, sixteen will do it. You
snap the cord, the um luggage flips down, and the Duffel bags fall
on top of h three of these blokes. Whoa wow. Um all right,
one person is fully knocked out. Someone was bringing bricks. Someone's like,
I gotta I gotta bring my brick, I gotta bring my coin collection.
It's like that episode of SpongeBob with the suitcase full of rocks. Yeah,
but it knocks out one of the awake people. But it knocks the
gun out of one of the Day's people's hands and it slides across the aisle.
It is now matthiasis term. Oh would you like some patching up?
Still, I'm gonna bonus action for slot again, healing word and just be
like a be careful out their champ. But it's more like be careful to
to who to me? Yeah? Oh cute, I'm touched. So I'm
gonna hear you for five again. Thank you, thank you. So anyway
I started blasting. That's seventeen. Yeah all right, let's roll these three
D fours again. That is much better. An eight? Um, oh
I did forget to have Oh anyway, with an eight, you take out
the one day's person who still has their gun. The only other Day's person
that is still up is the one that dropped theirs. So I think less
you'd like to do? Um, no, I think that's gonna be it.
Don't you have extra attack? I feel like, yes, yes you
are, Yes you do. Cool. They're saying that you can't attack twice.
Yeah, yeah, I just remember and sorry about that. But whenever
you have to reload, you have to use an attack for it. Okay,
Um, would you like to attack again? Yeah? I would,
but they don't have their gun, but they're still in trance, right yeah?
Yeah yeah, So would you like to attack with your shotgun or a
different way? Um, I'll do a I'll do a short sword this time.
I'll switch it up, all right, take take aut take out your
knife. That's a nineteen to hit. Oh absolutely, um, and then
that's gonna be a uh nice nine points of damage. So you walk up
to this guy, you walk over his gun and walk up to him making
a slash against him. Warren, you're up? Is he still tranced?
Let me see? Yes? Okay, I'm gonna shoot him to see if
it will untrance. And that definitely hits the twenty four Oh Jesus thirteen points
of damage. He is knocked out. Okay, whatever, if these guys,
if the rest of these guys aren't trance anymore, I'm gonna say,
y'all better let me pass. Well, I'm gonna do something nasty and I
just go along. Man, let's start booking it through the trunk. You
don't want to mess with this guy. I mean, I still got to
cut up above my head from where he cut me with a bottle cap.
What you hear? One person? Just sorry? As you as you leave,
yeah, and get at the next room is a dining car. There
is a there was one person in here. There is a mountain of a
man who is sitting in front of um like a big pile of food that
is untouched. And he's just like holding a fork in a knife, a
same dazed look. And he slowly looks up at you, guys. It's
been so long I could use my doors. As he slowly brings up his
hands and as you look at them, you notice he's wearing gloves that has
filet magic crystals embedded in the knuckles. Whoa, and they start to crackle
a little bit of electricity. God damn it. He stands ends up like
easily pushing the table. He's at a good few feet to the side and
his cells for the glory of the Fallein Empire and runs at you guys.
Oh um, i'd also, we're gonna go right back into our initiative.
Um. I believe Warren had just gone So he is up first. Can
you guys make an insight check for me? Sure? God damn it.
Eleven eight ten h that is a seven wow wow. Yeah, this dude,
um huh. He seems like he does not know where he is and
thinks you are other people. I figured as much. Yeah, so,
um, he's gonna go up. What was the marching order? Who's in
front? Uh? Definitely not me? Definitely not me. I have to
hit, well, it would be me. I did charge in their first
it is me. Let's be real, all right, you're gonna take an
attack? Roll awesome does a dirty twenty hit. Uh no, yeah,
of course it hits cool. You have two hit points I did. Yeah.
Yeah, you're knocked out? Cool. Yeah. Who's behind him?
I guess me? Probably Okay. Um does a fifteen hit all right,
um, and then he is going to do his third attack. That's probably
me. Um does a seventeen hit yep, it does, all right,
give me a minute to grab what a one? All right? One?
You take eight points of lugeening damage okay, and one point of lightning damage.
Oh alright, your little double lamming there the classic one two? Yeah,
classic for two. It's your turn. I will put away my rifle
sadly, or put away my sniper. Take out my rifle nineteen to hit
absolute oh seventeen points of damage? Holy shit shit uh. And I'm also
gonna tell you that he beat the save to snap out of it. Oh
so you shoot him good chunk in the chest and he staggers back a bit.
And who the fuck are y'all call a doctor? Who I am?
I'm having a bad time right now. Can't imagine you'd be having a good
time. No, I am also, yeah, having a bad time.
So I mean, if if anyone could heal me, I was gonna say,
are we are we out of initiative right now? Yeah? Okay,
Sam, I'll give you you or I'm sorry, Warren, I'll give you.
Um, I'll give you a three three HP from my thank lay on,
lay on hands, I can't lay on? Lets you Yes, you
guys are doing this this guy's like, what are y'all doing here? You're
not supposed to be here? Business business mm hmm. Make a deception check.
I mean, I guess persuasion because it's so vague. Uh uh,
let's see it. That's us six Well what kind of business? Well,
I mean we're going pretty fast. I don't want to have to throw anyone
out. I mean that dukes fucked up things to your body. I mean,
I still have another attack. Do you want to use it? He's
gonna be a little bitch, yeah, but he hasn't been a little bitch
yet, so we'll fucking all right. Well, I mean I think I'm
probably gonna have to detain y'all. O't devise against that. It's my job,
and I would recommend taking a day off. Make an intimidation check.
That was so cool, actually, like for the listeners, I actually felt
intimidated looking at Sam's staring into his camera. I have been practicing not blinking
while looking like camera, which is the darkiest fucking thing imaginable. But it's
very good for home games. I think that's a six teen plus. Um,
Chris, my profession intimidation? Where's my I am? Okay? So
that is uh god horrible math twenty four Jesus, Yes, all right,
I'm gonna go eat my where the fuck is my food? Cold? M
And then you guys just rush past him as he as he ponders, hell,
yeah, great, lovely. The next room is the engine car the
last one, and there is no one in here hold the phone? What
uh can I investigate? And yeah cannot? I have a question about the
next I don't know how closely we are sticking to gun slinger rules and how
much we are just flavoring. So my question is, when there's a misfire,
is an action of there's a certain DC you have to hit on a
tinkerer tools check to fix your gun. I do don't have tinkerers tools.
We are not going to do those gunslinger rules because this will like if you
have like a primitive weapon and it just like fully breaks when it misfires.
I mean, normal misfires are just like something got jammed and you gotta dig
with it for a couple of seconds. So I'm gonna say, if you
have a misfire, it just takes your action to fix and there's no check
repire great that I will fix it real quick in here Yeah, it's just
like jimming a little bit and tell until like the bullet that didn't fire pops
out. I'm also going to reload my gun. Smart. So she was
definitely the conductor right, oh way, But Alice isn't here either. But
they're on top of the train. So what did you get in that?
Check? Sam? I got a natural twenty. Suddenly realized that the man
that was walking towards the back of the train was the conductor. Uh when
he had been charmed into leaving the engine room? Where the fuck is my
daughter, Alex? And then you hear footsteps on top of the engine God,
damn it? Fuck? What have they been teaching her? I'm gonna
Is there a ladder between cars? Yeah, that's a great question. Oh
another thing I'll point out, because you um got a natural twenty. You're
not headed towards Sentinel, You're headed north. You're headed towards the ark wind.
Oh oh okay, um, I'm not sure how big of a fan
I am of that, to be completely frank. And there are ladders.
Yeah, let's do that. Let's ladder up on here. We bought a
polar Express. This bitch right drifts climb on top um acrobatics checks. Please.
Oh christ oh, that's not good. Eight thirteen fourteen fourteen. All
right, Warren, you got the eight I did. You are having a
tough time moving up here, as you managed to as all of you climb
up on top of the train. You are moving fast. The wind is
very strong. If you don't keep a sure enough footing, you are sure
to either fall off or fall behind. You have to stay Warren specifically has
to stay on kind of like on his knees to stay up here. Awesome.
You do see Alice at the front of the train, standing perfectly balanced,
no issue, standing away from you, and she slowly turns back and
as she does, her eyes are now fully glowing with yellow crystal. What's
happening to me?