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slash discord. Thank you joy. Our investigators leave the city of lasky Alua.
They head east looking for She who walks, a demi god creature that
the people of the kol Expanse worship and appreciate as one with the forest.
They are led by Awatia guides young scholars from Laski Alua that Gentiel has provided
to the group. They have climbing supplies and the offerings to make large,
hopeous amounts of fruits and mushrooms. What's your step there seems to be a
bit unstable here. Let me give you your hand. I can help you
carry that you hmm. I help lift up one of the bundles of offerings.
If you could just secure the wheel there and we can't. I think
that'll do it? Is secure? Wheel? Is it not? The dast
well? I think it's just off the axle just a bit if you can.
M hmm. Is here take this hammer and tap the wheel on?
How hold it in place? Is that good? Oh? Far is the
trip from here? It shouldn't take long. We're probably halfway there. So
now it's peaceful er of the jungle. That is h calmer. We have
found this, yes, m h change of peace. H. Don't let
your guard down completely, though it is still dangerous. Very few of our
people make it this far out. I have looked at head and I do
not see the same dangers as we've had before. Just because they are not
the same does not mean that they are safe by any means. There are
still some creatures from far the west and the expanse that make their way across
the mountains. Oh what kind? We are unsure? We have seen some
preachers, some of the large insects. I believe we'll better keep our eyes
up and open as much as we can. Mm hm, m hm.
What is the one who walks through seasons? Like she who walks through seasons?
Yes? Where do I begin? Many of our people think of her
as a sacred being. They worshiped her here. She moves through the forest,
but is one with the forest. They are large. You will know
when we arrive or we will see this fire, and you will know when
she arrives herself. Are there any customs that we should observe, any particular
greetings or behaviors that you suggest? She who walks is not one to concern
herself with the minutia of our day to day existence. She concerns herself with
greater matters of the forest. But I suppose any any respect that you can
offer would be enough respect of her. And when you make the offering and
when you ascend to claim the waters, respect her. I think we can
manage that, don't you. I look over to my companions, certainly,
speaking on respect, I expected Gentil to see us off before this endeavor,
because he did not show himself. Yes, Gentl was we We expected Gentil
to see us off as well. Very strange. I heard he had a
sprain or some kind. He should be fine, just done well, you
know spain. Was he injured at the dinner table? Is some time after
you made it? You what he listen? I don't think it's appropriate for
me to share details. Gent t L has told me that you are a
private people. For her to keep such details to yourselves of the private dinner,
well, you can ask him for details when we get back. Seem
most reasonable, right? Will he be able to talk the fine meeting?
He didn't even see us all, so I believe he's what did you do
to him? Never mind? I do not walk away. I think there's
like several of the Awati are kind of looking towards our Celia. Actually this
has been said. I just saunter forward. Did I say something wrong?
No? No, you're fine? Uh huh. Everyone seems uncomfortable. Is
that the emotion they have? No? I think they are using their imagination?
Uh, well you've heard at that it was a good workout. Mm
hmmm, feel quite limbered up. I take up an extra back. Everyone's
awkwardly staring at each other like and but you continue your trip. We're going
to be in exploration mode here. What would you all like to do an
exploration as you journey to this offering spire? It's in a handout and you
can view squeeze. Did a lot of that last night? Yeah? Oh,
Digentia mm hmm. Perhaps follow the expert. M m m m.
Let's see. Oh never right, okay, mm hmmm. Are one of
the oati I'm sorry to cut you off. Are they leading the ota alam
who is kind of like in charge of this? Uh? The group of
guides is probably leading the way, yeah mm hmm. Then I will stay
close, perhaps providing at e stress that advise as we're moving on. I
will use the exploration activity of follow the expert. Okay, let's have you
make a survival check. Then whoop seventeen okay, so this will be a
nineteen what's everybody else doing? It will be scouting. We got half speed
in the back, Okay, I will be investigating. It says you can
recall a knowledge, and specifically I would be looking for herbalism. That's my
knowledge, my law. I'm looking for herbs and other things that could be
useful, rare and that sort of thing. Okay, recall knowledge. So
I guess this will be a nature check nature or I do have law herbalism.
Okay, I think it's the same, know it is slightly better,
but yes, twenty three Okay, you see many herbs and flowers that you
haven't seen before. You will sort of share your knowledge with the awakiya as
you journey, and they will sort of point out some herbs and things that
have been collected and some that they haven't seen before. Hmmm, sorry,
I'm getting a list here for you. Thank you, and I will tell
you how many you can collect. This also moves a speed, so I
would probably be it this somewhat near you malevic, Well, you slow down
the whole group when you when someone does these. Okay, and what about
you, Yara, So I am currently between search and avoid notice. Search
would be searching for concealed hazards, but I suppose if we have someone scouting,
there's really no point in that. I mean, scouting just gives us
a plus one initi if something happens. Yes, yes, it's all right,
So yes, I would like to use my exploration to search in order
to keep an eye out for any concealed hazards in particular. Okay, okay,
I will attempt a secret cham Okay, please roll me a D ten
or rash talk m h actually yeah, roll it roll it again, umparrow
and enter. Okay, rash talk. You have found uh two different plants
and herbs. There is a a cactus like plant that you find along the
way, reminiscent of most cacti that you've seen. It's rather sort of thick,
and it has a skin to the cactus that is almost moist looking.
It reflects a lot of the light. And the Owatya have called this the
sunsharred cactus, and it stores a lot of water in the cactus, but
they warn you that you must boil it first. You also find a kind
of interesting vines hanging from the trees. The Awatya call it the Gloomsorn vines.
It's dark and twisting, and it grows in the shadows of these trees,
and it is indicated by the Awatya. And you also let Karun know
that it can be used for its unique properties and creating potions and elixirs that
manipulate darkness and shadow. This will actually be very beneficial for Korun's ampul of
what was that dark potion dread Yes, lesser dread ampules, And potentially,
if Karun whirls well enough on a crafting roll, I will allow Karun to
make something better. Okay, thank you yes. Along the way you run
into a few issues, mainly related to the terrain and navigating the supplies and
things around, slowing you down a little bit. It's still not that long
of a trip compared to some of the trips that you've made into the expanse,
and it seems to be far less directly hazardous. You can still hear
predators and things moving around in the jungle and whatnot, but it doesn't seem
to be as an immediate a threat. So Malvic. There's probably a few
instances where you kind of like warn everybody to like slow down, or you
hear some things that might give everyone pause and you kind of have to stop
or maybe conceal yourselves periodically, but you managed to do it easily enough without
the need for a check here and half the day passes, and eventually in
the distance you can see a spire. As the carts come to a stop,
you see a slender spire, a vine choked gray stone jutting out of
the jungle and pointing towards the sky above. Sixty feet high. The tower
is terraced with narrow ledges and windows at every story, plus a yawning open
archway at its base. Mounted atop the spire's uppermost ledge is a giant horn.
The guides the Yawantya stop just the edge of the clearing around the sacred
spire, and they all sort of look around. There's a lot of wonderment
that you see. They are younger, and Alam mentions it has been over
what do you call it? A decade? Decade? No decades more than
one since any of the Owatia have visited spire Jungle, as you can see,
is reluctant to reclaim it. As you all look towards this clearing,
you can see that there are no vines, there are no there's no overgrowth
here. It's a clearing around the spire. T you know if that means
it's safe? I do not, but I do know that this is as
far as we can take you. You must continue the journey on your own.
Will you be waiting for us or will you return without us? We
will stay here, We will help you with the offering, and when you
are finished, we will return with you. That seems wise safety in numbers,
but it is tradition for those that make the offering to do so alone.
Fair enough, Is there anything that you need to warn is about any
specifics on how to perform such ritual? When you blow the horn. We
will help you with the offering. Aside from that is a journey that you
must take yourselves understandable. But what I mean is one fine she who walks
way that we should address her fam aware. She who walks will not speak
with you in the way that you and I speak. Now, Oh,
she is not unaware of you. But it is like the way we look
at ends. But I suppose there are some that are more uncaring. It's
not that she does not care, it is that our affairs are so much
smaller. Mm hmm, all right, no bowing that. Let's go.
Everyone ready, Yes, I say so. M hm. So it makes
the offering we blow the small horn. I think that's what they called it
before. Then we could clean then then offering. Does it blow the horn?
Then they dealt with us with the offering? Yes? Oh boy,
I recall our friend back in lascar Loo were telling us it was to complete
the summoning. Yes, good, we all have an understanding. I will
carry the major part of the heavy parts of it. I also have the
bag as well, to make things a lot easier. Right, Okay,
how many how does this carry? Rastalk? Do you know? I don't
know the grades of that bag. We have not yet determined the same seems
the same. If it's it will hold quite a bit. Twenty five bulk
how many pounds? That is a lot, and I will help load in
your bag, open it wide, place suddenly so placed in the offerings and
gently one or two bulk is roughly equivalent of five to ten pounds. So
theoretically you can load everything into the bag of holding. It'll take a while,
and it'll take a while to take it all out. Oh, we
don't have to if you want to carry it all. We do not know
what kind of trous lay ahead. And I'll say this very low to everyone.
Gentiel said that the trip wouldn't be as shin as stressful when it came
to the archives where we understand what we were up again, so we saw
it. I have a feeling that this is the same. They haven't been
back here in a long time. I think you're as idea of placing it
in the bag of holding is probably best. If we lose an offering,
we cannot blow the horn true all right, then we'll take our time this
leading option. I will get out of the way and watch Malvik stuff Yar's
bag. I do so with precision and gentleness. Just because I do not
want to crush offerings they have. I presume that these offerings are rap it's
food, it's food and mushrooms. Yeah, I'm definitely like fruit, lots
of fruit. You know. I'll specifically pass it by a rashtok's face as
I dump it in there, just just if they notice that I am too
harsh or whatever with the audience. As long as you're not by crushing it,
I would not make any mention a note very good form, good form,
mm hmmmmm, open it wide please, all right? Sorry, I
mean there's not any so much to give here. Just keep trying to speed
up many offerings. Is it like a hundred pounds? Okay, we'll slow
down. You don't want to bruisee anything? Yes, but I'm getting anxious.
Do you want me to take over? I can help. I think
it's more of a one on one sort of thing, a train. But
if you took you could take turns. I think taking turns is better if
we make a train. That means there's more chances of being dropped. Fine,
all right, will tag team and I begin to take the fruit and
carefully stuff yours back. I mean the Yawatya will sort of help you.
Uh you know, Alam says, as I said, we can help you
once the once you have made the journey up the spire. Mm hmm.
But if you wish to do things this way, that is fine as well.
It's fine, I bet if you have done enough for us already waiting
for us on our return, it was good gesture. We'll take over from
here. Be safe. We have not been through the spire, as I
said, for decades. M you can only imagine. Yes, I think
I will go around to their car and inspect it for any other faulties that
may slow us down later. Okay, it's pretty rudimentary. You can make
a I think this is an intelligence check. Oh my god, yep,
nothing's wrong like crafting. Oh I thought you meant like an intelligence. Yeah,
it's an intelligence. I would say if you had a bonus and crafting
and it looks like you yeah, uh yeah, I just say, well,
card is strong, very good, nice mead blade and it's just like
I guess that's like peeling in old wooden strong good. Okay, so you're
gonna spend some time doing this. This will probably take you like ten minutes
something along those lines loading the fruit in, But you do it, no
issues? Good? Is there no weight to the bag when you hold it?
Slight weight, but no more than a regular backpack? Are you comfortable?
Are yes? I am all right? I'm good. Is there anything
else we need to go or need from while we're here? We do not
think so. No. Oh, I believe we arelready? Yes? Do
you have me ends up protecting yourself? As I talked it? All right
here we are very good at running. Mm hmmm a good skill. They've
survived here for who knows how many centuries. I trust they can stay safe
mm hmm. Indeed if they had a way to contact us if something happened.
All right, if we stay longer, I'll start devising plans. I
suggest we get moving, all right, let's go. Well, yeah,
make your way towards the spire. We the uh yawning open archway again sort
of cleared from this jungle. All around it is not very overgrown. There
are a few vines here and there, but nothing like it should be in
this jungle. Who is leading the way? It's Malvic. Hm hmm,
okay, Malvic. I'll hold up the rear, make a perception check for
me. That's one ty alavic. As you approach this archway just ahead,
you can see what appears to be inside at the base of the spire,
three staircases, a large central staircase leading up to a platform, with two
smaller staircases that lead up sides of the spire. And just before the large
staircase you see something that looks like a bundle of sticks, sort of all
scattered about. This appears to be some kind of nest. And then as
you approach you see something inside the nest move multiple colors, sort of shiny
looking carapace. You've seen something like this before. This is a carrack.
It appears to be resting inside the nest. Oh, the swarthy eat thunder
insects. Yes. Yeah, I'll raise my hand and then this point and
point to my lips. Mm hmmm. I'll slowly back up and join a
group and just have a whisper. I say, I understand your intentions and
what you want to do, but we do not know what kind of emergency
yelp these things have, and if it's sensitive, we do know that they
respond to vibrations. How do we pass? Then? I worries we pass,
it wakes attacks. If one can quietly move and pierce its neck,
it may not make a sound. Is this fully grown or or adolescent?
M and I would not know, obviously, but size will more than likely
be a da. Yeah. I'm just trying to see with the twenty if
you were able to see it or not, I'm gonna say it looked full
size. Mhm. That is true, but you would have to get under
the pleating yes and the accurate with yours strike If you miss, we are
all in danger. I spoke, not of myself, not be able to
approach quietly unfortunately. These stairs. What's some of the left and sides of
these stairs? Is it all just jungle or is it a cliff? Oh?
No, This is the interior of a of a stone building. This
is a spire. It's a stone spire inside. Yeah, this is the
interior. There's a large archway and at the center of this sort of large
room that is essentially the base of the spire. There is the nest just
in front of the staircase leading up to the platform with the two staircases on
either side that lead up the side of the spire like up. Yes,
you are do you have any magics there can silence an area, or muffle
us or distract or No. I do have that invisibility potion from before,
But on a creature such as this, I feel that is a waste.
And did we look for only one? Certainly? So what if we take
the opportunity to try and launch some sort of attack together? Yes, all
that once, all at once? Fine, try and surprise it? Oh
yeah, yes? Are you on bar with this idea? There's no way
I can sneak around it that much. I can tell you I'm going to
be surrounded and then but it's to death quickly, respectively. We do not
know what or who we are about to see. She walks, maybe testing
us as we are here and now we handle such situations as our gods do
us. She is of nature. Nature is survival of the fittest. We
do not care without reason. That is nature. Okay. When I look
inside to perceive the nest, am I able to tell if this was deliberately
placed? Is it uncannily put together? Or uh? Make a nature check
for me? Worse survival? I take either? Eighteen. It looks like
it was you know, like a like a nest was made by animals all
right, I think this is a good plan. What if it has jong
insects. If it is like that of where ourgen is, they are self
sufficient one thatching normally any young can be left. It will be no harm
to us that the cycle may continue after we leave. All right, I
think that's fair. Let's go with the plan, but we'll warn you.
We have to approach the nest first, be successful in doing that to launch
and it are I will not move from this spot. I can read it
and as arty and I I'd have to get into. Yes, the risk
is too high the more of us that go in. Indeed, how confident
are you that you can flank it from behind? I'm not sure that I
can make it that far. I can in one stride, I could.
I can get there fairly fast in an instant m but it would take some
preparation of me hunkering my body down to so much propel myself forward. Granted
that would be a lot of vibration, but it'll be instant. So only
one of us need to get in place. Say yeah, you would be
the one that have to. It's closer unless you have some sort of attack
where you can from a distance. I do remember, don't you have an
eye. Then I'll come to realization that I have a spear on my back
or the lance that's extra reach as well. This helped. I think we
have to be mounted in our teaser, right, So there's another thing that
happens with the lance, which you can couch the lance, and for that
you have to be mounted. Hmm. But otherwise it does have the reach
all right, It's just the lance can be unwieldy, is like the main
Yeah, I think for the sake of being able to utilize my kit in
battle, it'd be best I I just have this and I'll pull out my
spear that I have get into position. It could be in the front.
If it's easier for you, I can easily held myself to the back side
of it. But if you do that, this point the Q would be
the best way for you to get there. I will go behind it.
Very good? Is everyone ready? Malevic? Go ahead, and I will
place a hand on Melovic's shoulder and I will imbue him with guidance. You'll
get a plus one for your next attack role should you choose you will you
feel slightly cold for our Felia. No coldness for me, though, I
was gonna ask, all right, I'm sorry you cast guidance on or cilia?
Is that what you said? Yes? Okay, so you cast guidance
on our cilia or as well as your I cast it on. Yep,
all right, I will begin to sneak forward once everyone confirms there ready,
I will begin to silently try to pull from the pits of my stomach the
anger and the ferociousness of all of my anguish to trigger a rage before I
move on. You are okay, I'd essentially like to move silently here if
I can. All right, let's find out how silently you do this.
Everybody, please select your tokens and roll initiative. Now you'll be doing this
with stealth. Since I did the I don't know if this matters. Wow,
but since I did the scout, do we get a plus one?
Or is that only when we're moving? Uh? You absolutely get the plus
one? You can all and you can all click on your initiative uh numbers
in the turn order there and add a one. Wow. Please going to
a Sonka. That's awesome. H Something just happened with my roll twenty.
I'm gonna refresh real quick. Mine would be twenty two. Yeah, mine
just removed, like my image and everything. So I think I just oh,
yeah, my token's not there, so I think I have to reroll
it was there? Yeah, what happened to it? Yeah? I don't
either. I touched and I broke it. I'm sorry. What Karom pulls
you into the shadows to the dark nicemm and I think you were at max
hit points right, yes, I mean my yeah, everything should be that.
That's weird. Okay, uh yeah, let me just reroll real quick
and then I'll fix it to be twenty two. We should all be at
my say for there we go. This is where Earl's are thirty sort.
I'm not gonna lie. It's very possible sleep right, uh okay, so
giving it a circumstance penalty, but uh it is or was asleep as you
approach okay, Arcilia, you begin to approach a rash talk. As Arcilia
is tiptoeing there, you see the carrack stir What do you do now with
the music? I think I know the answer. By stirring, do you
mean it is awake and getting up to attack? It definitely seems to have
noticed our Celia, but it's not up. It's still lying down. Yes,
it is currently prone. It is stirring then just too late it has
noticed, and I think what I will do? Yes, this seems maybe
a good entry idea. I am going to change what I originally thought,
and I'm going to cast tangle foot upon it. I may reroll that.
I can't remember if I know. If it hits before after I can reroll.
Uh, I know what you can you? Okay, Yes, I
will do so it's prone thirteen. Unfortunately it is not going to be enough.
As you cast the tangle foot. This sort of sticky sap uh covered
vine just manifests and begins to flick from your hand. This is a range
of thirty feet though, so I think you do have to be closer.
Oh, you are right. I want to do it. Yeah, Uh,
well I have said I would, so I will. I didn't realize
the range that's on me. Okay. So as as the vine gets out,
you can see the creature uh just sort of moving uh and and uh
it's it's limbs kind of force its way out of the vine as it tries
to begin to encircle it. Even though I don't have actions what I wanted
to do before moving, which you can determine if I could clap hands over
my ears. Okay, so you move and uh two actions to use the
tangle foot. The carrack will stand up with one of its actions, and
our Celia, just as you like are getting close enough, you look back
and you see a rash talk and he calls out, and this vine sort
of moves all around this carrack, but it is too aware of what is
happening. It sort of breaks the vine that arash Talk sends out and it
will then I damn it, It's fine. I realize this will be for
the future. It didn't factor in my half of my ability points. Say
if the seventeen would have hit it cool, but I'm not gonna worry about
it. Seventeen would not. Okay, great if that makes me feel better,
Thank you, Yes, because I didn't do it right and I should
have. Okay, it will use the one action to stand up. It
will use another action to sort of like with its weird sort of many legged
appendages and this sort of thick booty. It rushes towards you, our Celia,
and you hear this like reverberations start to happen, and it will try
and strike at you with its claws. Ooh ummmm, hold on, that
is a thirty to hit twenty two smack damage. No, that's not max
damage, that's three less. Sure damn, I said, girl, because
he hit one. Okay, I'd like to use a reaction because I don't
have a two handed lance. I have my sphere instead. I will pull
up my amulet as I see this claw coming down. There's no way.
It's too fast. I can't dodge it. It's going to hit me no
matter what. Hopefully, as this energy pulses from my amulet, it will
be able to at least soften to blow a little bit. I will use
this on myself. Okay, you hold up the ambulant and this is going
to give you a two plus your level. You are a level three,
so this will reduce the damage taken by five, and that's a good thing.
What is your armor class? My armor class is twenty one. Just
miss that crip by one. That would have been really freaking bad. Okay,
so twenty two slashing damage reduced to seventeen. As this creature sees you
and will hit you mightily, and blood sort of splurts from the clause Yara,
it's your turn, all right. I am going to go ahead.
Seeing that have happened, I feel like I would have actually knowing where we
are now, I feel like we would have been in proper positions. But
I'll use a turn to go ahead and move up so that I might be
able to target our Celia more appropriately. And from there I will go ahead,
and I will be thankful you weren't closer, because it would have done
on me. Yeah, yeah, yes, I think what I will do
then is I will send forth her from I'll open up my canteen and I
will send water flying towards our Celia, casting a rousing splash upon her.
She will have five temporary HP for the next minute of combat. And that
is my turn. Okay, are you looking for your YEP and I can't
find it. I don't know. I'm waiting. I'm gonna hold my breath
until you find it. No, don't do that. Ah, there we
go much better, all right? Make sure I saved the freaking profile this
time. All right? There we go on there, it's on there good
all right? You are splashed rousingly for a whopping five healing our Celia of
temporary HP. Uh is that a for returning Era. Yes, indeed it
is. Okay, karun oh right after I see all of this happening and
making many suggestions that I, of course, could you know, slide along
the wall, being completely concealed in my shadows because I am very shadow like.
Now, I guess we'll just go ahead and blow it up. So
I will move forward like over here maybe, and I will throw a bomb
and hopefully I don't you know, get its attention too much, but we'll
give it to try to, you know, light the nest on fire and
everything. Okay, So sixteen for the attack is a fail, but it's
fire splash and it has the persistent fire, so the fire will probably light
the twigs on fire and make like a ring of fire eventually, like after
a while, probably because nothing really catches on fire that fast unless there's an
accelerant. So in actuality, I have dealt one fire damage. Okay,
Nolvick return. Seeing Karoon do this, it's like she was in my head.
I rage with iconic fury as I will. First, it's sixty feet
yes, try to make contact with the eyes of this creature and intimidated with
intimidating glare okay, intimidation, intimidation check. I don't want to reroll out
with a hero wint re rolling the nine. I don't have a dezl in
my life anymore. So all right, what's twenty two? Twenty two is
a success, and I'll just you almost you'll see smoke starting to come out
of my mouth and the horns are growing on my shoulder and legs and hands
as I then sudden impact, excuse me, sudden charged towards this creature.
Is this a fraightened one? Because it's just a regular it is unless it's
a great Yeah. Uh, with this, I can move up to fifty
feet. Now I ask before I do this is how high is his nest?
Maybe like q feet? I was working easily. Yeah, okay,
I know I said you don't want to be to flanket. But for what
I'm going to do, I don't believe it's gonna be a good idea.
But what I will do is split the difference. I will move here and
I will slash my attack. No, I will use this attack on the
creature so and it will be with fire, with fire, that is correct?
Ooh, okay, twenty three to hit. That is a hit.
Yes, four of that damage will be fire. Prepare yourselves. It may
to get into its defense mode. As you bring your your great sword down,
you find a sort of chink in the carapas, just the segment of
the carapis and you can feel like you sort of managed to slide off of
the carapas to find that segment. And then as your sword connects with the
segmented sort of fleshy bit underneath the carapace, it ignites. Okay, set
it for return. That is it I can do, Celia. I will
stumble here with a step action. My second action, I will try to
exploit vulnerability and do an esoteric role. Okay, eleven, that is not
enough. Is that a regular failure or a critical failure? Good question,
I do need to check. I think it is right on the border,
just barely a regular fail Okay, I can only exploit it personal antithesis.
Then you see my I reach into my satchel and I pull out an aira
doesn't dust, and I begin to wipe it on the side of my spear
as I move sideways, now flanking it, and I will attempt to stab
my spear into its backside. Okay, all right, So it is frightened.
You have flanked it, which means it is flat footed. Uh that
is still a miss, however, and you hit it, you just don't
find like a segment between the carapas. I am unsure if this makes a
difference. But both of them had guidance cast upon them, so she has
a plus one to her attack. She chooses do we okay, so we
it's on. It's till my next turn, so she has to use it.
Did not know that? Yes? I think eighteen? Yeah. Uh,
you didn't cast that last round though you cast it the round before you
went already okay, So I guess it was just fucky because of like the
the turn order, because we cast it before combat with the intention of them
actually being able to hit. Okay, yeah, tween, is this your
Is this your first? Is this your first attack in the combat? Ar
Celia? Yes, all right, so that's fine. Eighteen Yeah, that's
fine. So let's see, so you had an eight scene. Uh,
it's kind of minus three still not enough villainous, and again you do connect,
but it just sort of scrapes along the carapace. That would be the
end of my turn. Rash talk. Oh dear, well, it ain't
broke. Cla comes out, it begins to drip with frost. This is
the very first to encounter, and I do not feel it is wise to
burn our arsenal just yet. We'll see eh For seventeen Did you send out
this ray of frost? It flies out from your fingertips a rash talk and
you can see that it connects partly with the nests. Some of it gets
through and like sort of freezes along part of the carapace, but the creature
doesn't seem to notice. Then I step ahind and the swallow and okay,
Carrick will now decide who wants to attack It will be Malavic. Malavic.
The carrack sort of turns around as you have sliced at it with your great
sort of the flame ig knights, and it kind of like turns towards you
and will try and strike at you with its claws. Twenty eight to hit
it hit or fifteen slashing damage nine for me, I had six temporary points
that have gone now. Okay, second attack thirteen. Wow, I'm really
bad If I got there this time. My positioned my great sword in a
way to not blocking b harrier down. Make it fall to the ground powerful
In the third attack, is it fifteen? This time, I'll batt it
away with the sword. I'll just maintain my eye contact on it to hold
the glare Yara. All right. Noticing that we have a moment of at
least not having our Cilia getting hit. She's looking quite bad. I'm going
to go ahead and I will summon forth my iracular curse to cast Lifelink.
The scars upon my face will reaperate and stretch down inward, and you will
feel a golden war around you. You receive two points of healing, and
I will be taking three points of damage each time you get hit within a
round. For the first time, that is my first action, and for
the remaining two. The remaining two, I would like to go ahead and
I will cast Torturous Trauma. As it appears that this creature has been quite
difficult to hit with piercing things, so let us try something more of a
spell. It must make a fortitude saving throw of nineteen or higher twenty eight,
all right. The creature still takes half damage since it is a success,
so they take six points of damage. And that is my turn at
LISTA. Found something that might work. You can see it sort of like
wriggle around, you know, like an insect does when it takes when it
has any sort of painful experience, because it sort of wriggles with its large
body and badonka donk all right, karun oh the frightened does the fright The
frightened ends. I know it ends after my turn? Okay, uh karun
bill? I think uh. It also takes fire damage. And I forgot
uh. Somebody rolled me a D twenty not it every time I do it?
We get in ship, go on down, I'll do it. Yes,
I'll do it nineteen Okay, roll me a say a D four one?
All right, so be it. You can see that the nest has
caught fire on the northwestern side. I feel like I have clan animated fire
and I can't find it. Where is it? Mm hmmm ah ah ha.
It's too big all right, so awesome right up there that's so close
to me? Yes it is. Okay, let's see here. Uh okay,
karoon will. I think what we'll do is hand crossbow this turn,
both sails pass. You see it, just thting thing bounce off the carapace
of this creature. You know. I don't even know why I bought this
damned thing. It never works, right, somebody's going to need to give
me lessons or something, you know. Okay, so that's one action.
Then what we'll do is reload, and then we'll throw a bomb. This
time we'll throw a lesser dread ampuel. Oh, that's a very good role
this time, enough to actually hit it, and we will do some emotional
damage. Okay, so this will be I believe this is another frightened alone.
Unless it's a special condition, it cannot be frightened again. It's already
frightened. Does it build upon the frightening though? No, no intimidation essentially
overpowered thing. So they are very strict on it. No, it does
not, Nope, Okay, just one mental damage. It's definitely thinking about
all of its past mistakes and how they are currently affecting their future. And
that will be it for my turn, right, Melvicy. This creature is
currently flat footed and intimidated. So it's a negative two on his ac correct.
Uh, it's a negative three three Okay, the end of your will
be back down to negative two. Understandable. I will swing at it.
I'm great toe that's natural natural one. I will it's been an errow point
because I don't want to know the negative effects of that. I am out
of aero points now or we roll? Are you now? Yes? I
am back stop it at eighteen fire damage? Uh is not enough, unfortunately,
damn. Okay, that was my first swing. The swing penalty only
matters if you're trying to hit the same target correct. It refreshes when you
go to the targets. I have no idea. Let's find out multi multi
attack. It's called m AP multi. It's a pull attack penalty. I
think multi attack penalty. Okay, attack rolls. Let's see if you use
an action with the attack trait more than once on the same turn, your
attacks after the first take a penalty. So it does not matter if you
attack different targets, you all take the penalty. Yep, yep, Okay,
yeah, I just thought. I think it's just because you're like off
balance essentially when you're down right. Okay, I will, I'm not going
to hit this thing if it says that ac I'm now going to chop at
the pile in front of me here with my great sword. Okay, with
fire damage oops, with Dinumber two seventeen to hit. Okay, seventeen will
be enough to hit the pile of sticks. Yeah, I'll just say that
did it, and hopefully it catches fire then I will. You can see
embers are have started there. It's not like it doesn't immediately. I'm going
to hit it again like a celebrated Yeah, you haven't like hit it with
napalm or anything, right, correct, So I'm going to swing at it
again. I could probably make nay palma later though. Thirteen thirteen not a
great job this time? You uh, you swing, You're sort of frantically
trying to create another fire again. You can start to see embers forming.
You can start to see something is getting going here. It'd probably take a
few seconds for that to happen, though, Okay, Yes, Basically,
what I want to do is create a distraction for this thing to stay off
Arsilia any more attention to what's happening around it. All right, it is
no longer frightened. It's correct, and now our Celia, it is your
turn. Okay, now that I've got a closer look at it, I
would like to exploit for vulnerability again. Fifteen. I don't think that's gonna
be enough. That is not enough. Unfortunately, Okay, nothing happens.
I reach from my spear and I try to stavage forward again. Twenty two.
Oh, flat footed. That is a hit, very good. That's
gonna be five piercing damage plus an additional five damage because of personal antithesis.
I find the sweet spot and I tried to strike it again. That was
a plus three for the personal antithesis. And it's empowered because I have it's
one handed essentially. Ok yep, that's ten damage total. And my second
attack, unfortunately is a four. Yeah, I will not use my hero
point. That is my turn. That is going to miss. I think
this time it's just an outright miss. You don't even hit the carapas as
you're trying. The creature sort of turning and twisting, and even with that
large dairy air uh moving wiggling in your face, you just uh you can't
quite seem to uh to hit it a raw shock. It's your turn.
Yes, this thing seems to be doing just fine after all this. Yes,
I mean you can see that they've definitely struck some blows. I mean
it's still moving around. Yeah, I don't want to get close to it.
I'm scared oh, but the thing that would be useful is up close.
If you don't feel like you do it, don't do it. That's
all of my things that are very good are very close. Soon we'll get
the range thing soon. It has to roll. I think a three to
quit me. No, no, it's not that bad, but it's very
close. And then I'll die. So one more attempty. Just I don't
think I can see it from here, which is why I moved here.
Yeah, no I can. I can just poke my head out. Okay,
the corner of the square that you're in lines up with the corner of
the square that it's ah ah right, very good. Okay, oh then
just eh arm out, just very froth to get in sheer hope. And
if it doesn't work, then I know what I'll do next. John E
twenty three d Rash talk looks like, you know, like when kats kind
of wiggle their butts like they're ready to pounce on something. He looks like
he stops himself like a few times, like he's trying to psych himself up
like a rush in there. It doesn't do it, And essentially he just
points wildly with the finger, knowing how terrifying these creatures are and you see
it. As the creature rears up to strike, you can see that it
exposes its belly for a moment and your ray of frost connects. Okay,
very nice, and then I john, hmm no, I straight up,
just if I can do a full action forward to make it effective. I
clap my claws and hands over my ears, remembering last time the Nightmare that
was its sonic attack. Just nope, no, no, no, yep,
and that's it. Uh the carricks turn it kind of. You start
to hear this when sound as you can, you see the reverberation chamber.
It's a mighty dairy air begin to uh torque like crazy. It is just
vibrating wildly and the sound sort of increases in volume, and it will use
its reverberation chamber to mm of go ahead and attack Malvic and Karoon with a
boom strike. I need a fortitude, say from Malvic and Karun. Twenty
eight. Hey, that's a twenty six whack, plays Karun, wow,
rolling twenties right off the bat, So that will be enough for both of
you to make it. You immediately recognize what's happening here, and you just
cover your ears faster than you thought possible, because the sonic wave sounds like
a peal of lightning and thunder as it is directed towards the both of you.
Whoa Karun's like holding her ears and sort of kneeling down on the ground,
like squatting down as this happens. Okay, then, seeing that this
had very little effect, the creature will strike with its claws towards you.
Malvic twenty three tohead damn sit me all day. Luckily for you, that's
a low damage attack of eight splashing damage Warrior Cilia either Okay, that is
it for the charactertern Yara. It's your turn. Oh right, I am
going to go ahead, and I will I will expend my last focus point
in order to cast life link upon Malavik. May make sure actually that he
is within range. I believe he should be since it's thirty feet, but
let us see, yes, he is within range, So I'm casting a
lifelink. The scars stretch further into my face. I am going through excruciating
pain, and you get four points of healing at the moment, and I
will be taking three points of damage for you each turn. Now I have
my final two actions and with that, I am going to go ahead and
take this opportunity to try and heal our Cilia. I have moderate curse.
So she also gains a value for the heel equal to the level at which
I am casting it. It has already included. I've set it all up.
So I'm going to go ahead and cast a two action heel, and
that is eleven points of healing for our Cilia. Very nice. Can we
fucking kill this thing? That is my ten? Karun says, don't worry,
I've got it, easy peasy, and I'll just chuck another bomb.
And Karun will go ahead and huck a bomb at it, throwing a We're
gonna have to use some refused reagents here and we'll make a bomb on the
fly. Okay, we're gonna chuck a lesser alchemist's fire at this creature.
Okay, that is another just automatic one splash damage for fire damage. But
unfortunately the bomb is sort of of misses. You can see that it sort
of accelerates the fire that's near you, Malvic, and fire begins to sort
of spread up there. Okay, quick addendum, there would be plus eight
to the heel for Ossi Lesh. She gets a bonus eight hp. Thank
you Dan. The two action yes okay, uh, and then Karoun will
yeah, I think, well we might as well fire that hand crossbow.
Might as well give it a try, all right, Come on, hand
crossbow, don't fail me. Now, you're really good. Sometimes probably I
wait to see it. Not this time either, Okay. The crossboat bounces
off the carapace. Is this thing broken or what? Okay, Malvic,
it's you return. This is a titan creature or large large okay? Is
it facing me? Or is it amazing away from me? Okay, I
will say, yeah, good, good question. Actually it did fire,
It's it turned and struck at you with its class Yeah yeah, yeah,
okay, I will scream out. I want to get rid of that thing,
and I won't move, but I will strike at it. Twenty seven.
That is a hit car and that's what four fire damage included in the
damage. Okay, very nice, nice meaty hit there, Malvic. You
could feel the sword sort of sinking pretty deeply on that hit. Very nice.
Well, I can do it. Just keep swinging, I believe.
Yeah, that's what I look at doing. Nine flatters off the carapas this
time. Is the creature wiggles its way out of the attack twice both miss
and I will strike out it again with a spin. But this is well,
okay, or Celia. I like to pull back my spear and with
intention, I like to try to stab it in the reverberation chamber that has
trying to do some kind of damage to it. Okay, so here yours.
It's a success, just barely. I was going to say, if
you want to aim at like something specific, I'll give you a circumstance bonus,
but if it hits, there will be a benefit. And it does
hit with a twenty three. The creature is currently flat footed, so that
is just barely enough to succeed on this attack into its reverberation chamber. Okay,
mar Celia, there is this horrible sound of agony from this creature as
you stab it in the reverberation chamber. Could you say that with some t
pay a count done, I resign. The creature immediately sort of sort of
undulates up and down, and your spear sort of likes the sinks in deeper
you can tell like the creature is sort of rapidly tapping its legs trying to
make something that sound again, into reverberation chamber. It seems like it cannot
make it anymore. Yes, like and congratulations to r say, oh,
yank this spear out and then try to strike for a meteor underside. Second
attack eighteen eighteen is a miss. You you strike at the creature, it's
moving so erratically after you have done this to wound it that it's just too
difficult to hit with the second attack. All right, and then my last
action, I will step here to move away from the fire. That will
be my turn. You can see that the fire is indeed spreading, and
it is only moving along the sticks, which are kind of acting as a
sort of kindling. Really more than anything. Rash shock, it's return.
Unfortunately, it's not flat footed anymore. It does seem like we're making good
progress. As the results, I will continue doing what I'm doing and not
getting up close and personal. Hat twenty It is not enough red frost sort
of you see it connect, but like some of the fire just kind of
licks up and you hear like cracking in like small explosions as the two temperatures
meet. I will move up next to RRA. That's my final bit of
action, and that is all all right. The carrack Uh sort of looks
around a bit wildly, as this fire is sort of spreading, and you
know, maybe some of it sort of catches the the the undulations of this
creature. It will move here and will strike out erratically, not necessarily at
Malvic this time, but I did roll for it. So it will hit
Malvic again with its first attack, and then it will strike at somebody else
with its sex an attack. Eighteen A hit Malvic, this is a miss,
okay the creature and then a second attack will head towards Karun and eighteen.
I believe it's a hit on Karon that it hurts pretty bad. Yep,
that is a hit for seventeen slashing damage. Oh, I wasn't in
the shadows enough. Okay, that is it for the charactern Yara, all
right, Karun, I will help you in a moment. We need to
finish this thing. My breathing is labored. I am quite pained at the
moment. I'm going to extend a hand and crap the air tightly as I
cast torturous trauma yet again on this creature. The fortitude saving throw is supposed
to be a nineteen. I don't know why I'm living fifteen now, but
I will fix it. Fortitude save Okay, holy shit, what does a
casual thirty three? Yeah? Sorry, No, that is quite alright.
It's got a it's got a pretty beefy fortitude save. All right. I'm
going to go ahead and utilize the last bit of my movement or the last
bit of my turn, in order to move close enough to Klarun that I
might be able to assist her perhaps next turn if needed. And my turn
critical success or just a regular success. It's a critical crail for Arra,
so the creature is completely unaffected. Okay, okay, I'm sorry, Yara.
What was the remainder you? Yes, I was just moving closer to
Karun? All right, Melvick, Mmm, it's a good thing that hadn't
moved, because my neck's actually would have been interesting. Well, I'll grit
my teeth and I will see that Karoon's taking major damage. So I positioned
myself in front of this feature, and I will swing my grate sword.
It is now flat footed again that it is eleven. That is a miss.
As you're repositioning, you're trying to make sure that Karun isn't hurt,
like you could see like Karun took this massive slash, blood sort of splattered
all over her clothing. You rush up and you try and like defend Karun
and bring up the great sword to strike, but you're just able to kind
of like stop Karen from getting hit a second time. Uh. Let makes
you got something real quick? See if we can do this? Got it?
Oh more than one size lodger, would me would be? That would
be this correct? Okay, that's spoopy. All right, you're on deck
seven seven. One more action? Uh is a miss again? Your focus
is kind of like trying to protect Karoon here, and the second strike misses.
Okay, that is it for your turn? No you know? Oh
yes, I did move your core, ar Celia. It's your turn.
I start my spear Ford twenty three. That is another hit, very nice,
and this is for how much damage? Fourteen damage total? Okay,
okay, another massive blow here, Arcilia. You see this thing's bleeding like
pretty uh profusely now, and horrible fluids are leaking out of the reverberation chamber.
It's it's definitely very upset. I don't stop the pressure. I keep
going, ny miss, but I go again. I miss again. Okay,
two more rapid strikes with your spear. You the creature is kind of
like undulating, forcing you to pull the spear out and you try to strike
again. But miss or rashtok do the thing I did not want to do,
but is a good idea and a bad idea. I use an action
to move without moving through a threatened space and inhale puffing poison out at it.
It needs to make a fortitude save, which I know it's very good
at but nonetheless, okay, good luck, I just need fucking not that
a critical outside do hidbit. It's got a plus fifteen mm that'll do it.
It's a thirty on the saving throw. Unfortunately, it is a critical.
It's a critical success by the creatures. This Karrack, it seems it
sort of turns as you do this rash talk, You're a puff of poison
sort of goes completely amiss and it just gets blown into the air. Our
Celia just kind of shielding herself and Malvic shielding himself, but it does not
seem to be absorbed by this creature. That is all I do. Okay,
the carack, still on fire, will strike out wildly at the targets.
Around it, which this time is venient before I have a die for
that. Ope, none of you die for that. Let's see top to
bottom, left to right. Aim for me, it is aiming for our
Celia to start twenty seven to hit nice for very low. Luckily for you
nine slashing damage six, so you take six yep. And I don't know
if you still have the temporary HP, but it would have removed from that.
What but you don't take any damage if it had temper AHP, I
have five second attack, Editor Rosch talks, way, oh, no,
a thirteen to hit it? Doesn't it me somehow? Because it's the second
attack, the second attack, they rolled a four on that one. I'm
so very glad. Let's see who The third attack is again a rush talk
h hey, look it's got even less chance to at you this time.
Oh my god, what I am dying? Goodbye? Give me the dice,
dice, give me the dice. That was a crit and that is
slashing damage. No, he's dying to talk. Kron do something, that's
all I'll say. Okay, I've got potions and stuff or is it going
No, that's the last of its turn. It is Karun's turn. Karun
will rush over to a rash talk, probably here, and luckily the creature
does not have an attack of opportunity, and Karun will feed you a potion
which is gonna basically take her whole turn to do this, but this will
be a minor elixir of life. You get one D six hit points.
I'll roll that. Sorry, you got one HP or rash talk as Karun
feeds you this potion and you're saving throws against diseases and poisons. Get a
plus one for ten minutes. Now you're filling it, you're killing it.
You got a drink whole lizard trying to save your life. You were dying,
you know, look at that blood, or maybe don't look at it,
but we need to get you away from the creature. It's going to
kill you again. Probably Yara. It's your turn. Oh shit, all
right, I'm going to first use an action to go ahead, and I
will move in between Karun and a rash talk. I was slip bikeshit me
a part of me, and I'm going to go ahead and firstly use battle
medicine with assurance on a rash talk. At a trained level, it is
going to be five points of five healing off the bat. Okay, now
does this Okay, so this isn't a cret. It's wounded condition is removed,
so you're wound. I utilized assurance just to be fair. Yeah,
so this would not count. Well, it's a success, right it's an
automatic. No, when you use assurance, you do not roll for it.
The role is just ingrained in it, so I know, but it's
still just considered a flat success. Oh yes, yes, yes, So
your wounded condition is removed. That's it. One or two wounds, that's
the Oh no, no, no, no no. To be clear,
battle medicine does not remove wounds treat wounds in general. All right, well
I'll take the five eight all right. I know this is not much,
and it's fine. I will but one action left. M yeah, I'm
going to go ahead and take that last opportunity then to utilize guidance upon a
rash talk russ talk, get out of here and hit it hard, right,
sorry, all right, and that will be my ten Arabic. We
need to end this. I will swing with all my might for the best.
Fifteen fifteen, unfortunately, is a miss. The creature is just moving
so erratically right now, it's so hard to hit it first strike glances off
the caravas, so of me trying to for its media parts. I want
to try to attack whatever's closest to me, can be a claw neck,
whatever it is, and I'm gonna go again. Nineteen nineteen is a miss
again, unfortunately, just barely. You can see like it's moving so erradically.
You almost connected with something vital looking, but it barely manages to snake
out of the way. Mm hmm. No point in me attacking again.
I never know, but there are other actions that are You could relocuit on
your third attack and atill it immediately. It's very possible. I've seen it
done more than once on me. By the way, this is not the
first time. This is exactly has happened. I'm gonna let the frustrations take
over and willing to have an inner talk with myself and say, fine,
I'll let you in and I'll tap deep within myself an energy, a fire
that burns hotter than any flames than I would like to show anyone. It
actually crisps my mind and turns of me more feral, and I will cast
blasting beames at this creature. Oh, we need to have you also roll
a D twenty um, and you will be making an attack roll against the
creature. Now we'll say that you can make a melee attack since you're in
melee range here, so this would be like an unarmed This would be an
unarmed D twenty or they unarmed, which you can go first, but you'll
also make a D twenty after this. Eighteen. Okay, does it erupt
from your mouth? Where does this happen from your eyes? It says in
the description one hand, But I mean where do you think this happens from?
It can come from my hand. Actually, my great sword is versatile.
Okay, the beam of fire blasts from your hand, but it sort
of goes wide. I think maybe you're not expecting it as it happens.
Roll a D twenty. That is good. You suffer no backlash, and
I will lose all focus and just be kind of like a sea swread moment
where I only see the creature and I will be making random attacid that creature
only still is dead. It's your turn. As it's distracted, I strike.
I'll use my hero point. Twenty twenty is not I don't enough what
with the flanking? Not don'tenough twenty two doesn't it down? All right?
I believe it's in twenty three years. Yeah, I strike again. Oh
I'm sorry, No, you are correct. That is a hit. Okay,
then that's ten damage total. Very nice again, are Celia? You
strike? True? This creature is starting to look like a pincushion. It's
bleeding very heavily, and it does not look good. All right? For
my last action, is it, Paul, that I try to grab bodily
the river Bruno? Okay, I attack a third time and roll this zero.
That's my turn, the last attack. You think about it, you're
like many get out of here, stop it? Okay? Currently prone,
what do you do? Oh? Yes, I stand up and get the
hell away from it and then take cover and then I'm done. A rash
talk runs away, molting horrific looking bloody scars as he runs. This is
imagine a lizard just fucking like you know the lizards that stand up and run
across the desert. The carrick would definitely be trying to use its reverberation chamber
if it wasn't so badly poked in the booty. It will instead swing wildly
at the two people that remain in its range. This will be towards our
Celia to start twenty nine to hit. That's this is it a crit No?
Twenty one ac yeah for ten slashing damage seven It took seven damage.
Second attack towards Malvic. That's a natural one. It's a wildly malevic.
You miss it merrily misses you. Sorry. Last towards ur Cilia. Shit
crunchy twenty three to hit for twenty slashing damage or Cilia. With this,
I will raise my amulet and use emulet's m Vivainbay ambays. Okay. That
will lower the attack by five damage. As this creature finally finds you true
and leaves a rending clause right through your flesh. That is it for the
character turned. Karoun will reload the hand crossbow and fire the hand crossbow.
Twenty one is a hit. Yes, and uh, wait a minute,
why does Karun have a rune on this? Hold on what is happening?
That's a striking she has it's a regular cross will Yeah, it's a regular
crossbow, so ah uh yeah, she's got it set on this thing already.
So that is actually a twenty but that is still enough. No,
it's just a melee that gets the flat footed that's a miss and then reloads.
You gotta fix that after the session. Okay, uh yara, all
right you said this thing is looking it? Yes, yes, all right.
I'm going to go ahead then, and I will attempt to shoot some
needle darts toward it. I will wave my hand over the rape here and
have it apparate as the needles holvering above my hand, and I will send
them forth one by one for a twenty six to hit absolutely, yara,
how do you kill it? Oh? Each needle pierces one of its eyes
before it ends up hitting between the eyes. It falls, It crumbles,
and blood trickles. The fire continues to envelop the nest around you as the
creature sort of slumps and you see a leg sort of kick for a second
and it slumps bloodily to the ground. Does a fall on the branches again
least sucking burd Thank you, it's partially on there. Great, I'll be
all right. The fire out, Yeah, I don't know what damn you
can cause here, brousing splash one of them up there, and I will
be joining him. I'll begin to kick away any sticks that I can that
are unburned, to run and jump and do I don't know what the ballet
move is when you jump and throw your legs up, but I want to
catch one of those roses. Splash for yels things. No kidding, I'm
kidding. You can rouse you if you is kay. Yeah, you can
put the fire out pretty easily with your rousing splash M immediately let me look
at you. Come come, come, come here. He would make sure
that the perimeter is secure. Yes, keep an eye out, and I
will begin treating a Rastok's wounds, said, you can check to make sure
there's no I don't know. Maybe we can see from here without me,
is there? Can you see if there's any eggs or anything inside there?
There does not appear to be any eggs that you can say, Okay,
I want to harvest this big bitch if I can, okay, make a
survival check. M. Yeah, I massee grate. It's okay, don't
even have to look at it. Yeah, Karoun is looking at this creature
and like rubbing her hands and then you just dry like your sword into the
creature and like, what are you doing? Meat? Well, there's no
more meat now, just sludge. M. I don't walk away from it.
I would check their nest to see if there's any treasures. Sure,
make a perception check, please, Malvick fifteen. So there are some things
in there. They sort of look like, uh, roll me a D
four four. Okay, yeah, you can see that. There's like different
herbs and things that are sort of there. Maybe the creature needs them as
part of their diet or something. And roll me a D ten. So
this is actually really that sunsharred cactus. Maybe some of the the sun catches
the edges of it as you're poking the nest and sort of stamping on it
as you're putting it out, and you notice it. You're you're able to
gather four bits of this shun charred cactus, which can be used, I
will say, as four rations. Or you can potentially give it to Karun
for some alchemical use, or a raschtok for some cooking use. Or if
we find a baby carrick, we know what they eat. I'll find a
berry carry I'm killing. This is gonna grow and kill us. Yeah,
I'll just I'll I'll just hand it all to Karun because the Rashtok has a
bag of forever given stuff, So I'm just handing to them and then I'll
look around the as you are asked. You look around the perimeter. You
see the the uh two staircases on the sides of the spire leading up m
hmm, yep. I will just stand here and wait for everyone to attend
to the wound and a right, so, and I look out the way
that we came to make sure nothing else is heading our way. It doesn't
look like it. You can probably see the Awatya on the edge of the
clearing, sort of like peering out from the trees, looking fucking terrified.
I tried to give him a thumbs up, and I'll go back inside.
There's just a lot of worried looks. A rostock darling. Can you handle
karun while I work on our celia banked up as well? Yes, yes,
it will take an extra ten minutes to go ahead and work on our
cilia. I am using treet wounds for the first time at an expert level
since I keep rolling really well, so I'm going to roll really badly this
time. I'm sure that is a failure. Ooh, you were trying to
do the expert level. Mhm, it has to be twenty Yeah. Now,
I figure since we're out of combat. I might as well start using
that since I get more from the medic dedication and whatnot. So it's like
a painful ten minutes our Celia of Yeah, I think what you see is
as you come up, I am in a conversation with Malvik talking about that
one maneuver you did with the underswing. I enjoyed that. I went and
I'm just essentially reviewing the combat we just had, and I'm being a bit
legally as you're trying to administer. Ah ooh, that's a bit sharp.
No, it's fine, Thank you for trying to look after me. Yes,
well, I will work on kroon with nature since I can do that
for medicine and treat wounds. You have to do all of that spitting lizard.
It's very off put thing. Yeah, well it's easier than pulling out
a mortar and pestel. Yes, I mean I have a mortal mortar and
pestle, you know, like I do. But it's easier if I just
think I've domesticated. Okay, just be careful where you masticate. I always
to do that is a critical success, very nice, which would be is
that right? Forty eight plus ten or just forty eight. Okay, that's
forty eight plus ten. Okay, I think karoon is fully healed, most
likely thirty two healing ri can we give some okay that burns? That burns?
Oh, all right, that feels pretty good. Id you you can
spit on me all you want. I guess, lizard, Well, it's
it is a healings. Hey, when you mix this one ub we found
here, this is one of the ones they pointed out. You you mix
it with saliva and it works very well. I'm going to have to analyze
your spit sometime, you know that, right? It probably? Yes?
I thought it took some while ago. It's never enough. You know,
it evaporates its spit. There's water that shouldn't shouldn't have read that quickly?
Well, it's hot. Takes a jungle ye rasktok, Darling. Your services
is also required for our other compatriots. Ah oh yes, name mm hmm.
And I suppose I will try and spend another ten minutes to heal as
cilia. That just don't fail. What I'm confused. That's an expert level.
It has to be twenty has three twenty Yeah. The chart's there if
you want to look at it she heals for way more if she succeeds.
Oh, that's what the twenty means. So kay, oh, let me
take it again. Because so when I mentioned it in the the thing rolled
a nine. You calculated it weird, okay, no if that's if that's
no, No, it's got the plus nine total, very very good.
O darned of course that one time that I use it, and for Manvic
this will be whatever this is. It's a plus one because I mus I
think I mean to take us one or two plus two. This is plus
two due to me having my specialization. It's an eighteen but I don't have
X. But level though you are healed four eight seven than nothing, thank
you. Yes, that wounds me a rush talk better than nothing. I
didn't mean it that way. My conversation is continuing. It's probably why you
are is having a hard time. So if you if I jump off your
shoulder, then I might be able to stab it from above. Please please
stop moving, Please stop moving, sorry not to move all right, they
throw your linson. I don't know. Ah, you know what. Those
biggest bugs don't fuck around, do they? No? No, no,
yeah, I was considering one for a pet, but you know that's just
too much ass for me. Mm hmm, yeah. I believe what I
will then do instead is I will just go ahead touch our celia so that
we do not wait here any longer, and I will heal her. Let's
say two action here with my moderate curse. Now, that should be hold
on, it's not the true action. Let's see the two actions should be
plus eight because that was the hold on. Let me see here, because
it's supposed to be too j eight. I should I I feel like I
did this wrong. No, no, no, that should be right right
because it's one twelve twelve yep, yes, perfect, all right, So
you get that plus an additional point of healing as well. I believe that's
already on there. Never mind, so you get five points of healing plus
eight math all right, yes, And from there I'm going to collapse to
my knees, and unless we are moving forward, I am going to head
and try and refocus for the next ten minutes. Okay, Well, I'll
do the same if you're If I see you meditating, I absolutely will.
There was that question form a long time ago with her with a little eggs
of these things here. They were not good as as we wait ten more
minutes, I would like to look around the interior of this base floor.
Are there any ruins? Are there any depictions marveling? Anything of interest?
There doesn't appear to be. But what you see basically is the space above
you goes all the way to the roof of the spire. There are the
stairs appear to lead all the way up to some kind of like catwalk that
you would imagine continues like a like a spiral around the outside. The spiral
is on the outside, it's on the interior, but around the the the
edge of the spire. Are there any light sources, any windows? No,
but there is a lot of light coming in from various cracks and things
like that. Okay, it's well let in here. Does it seem structurally
sound, yes, all right, like thick stone walls. I speak all
my thoughts here to Malvik and Karoon as the two of them are meditating mentioning
the stone work. Give me a perception check. I think that our ascension
should be relatively easy. Twenty one. Yeah, on the catwalks up above,
you can see there's some like vines and stuff hanging down, but nothing,
you know, nothing like rooms or anything along those lines. Fortunately,
I think if we wanted more information, we're just gonna have to go up.
It's a good thing we did not bring the word to you with us.
They would have been at good risk here. Oh yeah, one of
them would have died for sure. They would have folded faster than the lizard.
Well, I'll just chuckle that the room. Now, there are three
staircases here to the lead up the middle one leads like a raised platform,
and then on the outside there's more stairs raised platform. Is that what we
need to make the first off of it doesn't look like it. I mean,
this is just like a platform here and then up there, gotcha?
Yeah, okay, I see, Okay, there's a wall here if it's
just not showing it correct, m And I'll just wait out until they're done.
And uh yes, I'll just try to bandage my own remaining wounds like
tears of cloth here and there. And okay, guys have been here for
like half an hour. Yeah, yes, I believe it's about forty minutes
now. Okay at the moment, m all right, do we think we
are well enough for do you all need more assistance? Have on? Everyone?
Lizard? What yes of it? And his spit is really good that
it feels nice. It's like a little tingly and burning at first, but
then there's it just feels nice, like it numbs the pain. That's good
to know. Pull out my notebook. Mm hmm, Well I think we
should move forward, yes, m m. Yes, let's begin to dissipate
from me after my meditation. Okay, and we've done all all searching of
this area to find out if there is anything. Yes, I'll I'll look
up on this. No one went up on this plat phone, correct?
I think I'll say you went around? Yeah, Malvic and our Celia looked
around. If they went up on the platform and looked around there, then
then I yes, never mind, So I suppose I'll lead everyone up the
stairs. Then, uh, if you want to do you want to?
Okay, you should. I's not it's not a competition. Just you just
don't look it's you know you're okay, I'll let you go first. I'll
watch the rear, okay. I would be like a sandwich. Two very
muscular people. Sandwich. Well, you are good at spotting things, but
if something bull rushes, you'll be able to handle the blow. No,
I can handle a lot of things Mallovic. Oh, sometimes multiple things at
once. I've seen it. I will clear my throats and walk up the
stairs. I'm just trying to process everything. Oh, what's the marching order?
We got in the front, definitely now I will be behind Melevik I
in the middle. I'm dead last. I'll say that already. I'm alive
last. If I was in the back, I definitely would be dead last.
Walking up the stone cowwalk, several stories of catwalks connect staircases ascending the
inside of this tower and seemingly random geometric patterns thirty five feet above the ground
floor stairs end yet another five foot wide ledge circling the inside of the tower,
this one leading through archways to continue on the tower's exterior. Move along
the catwalks. I'm doing a secret role. Hang on, we're not in
explorational mode or anything on Prince stair mode. You are in Uh you are
not in exploration mode at the moment. No, mhm, okay, I
do actually need to check on this. Sorry, hang on, as we're
going up the stairs. So, uh, what do you all if you
think about Gentio? He's very curious about many things. Yeah, yeah,
he is isn't he very focused on the meeting of many different species? I
would say that she's probably interested in many different things. So you use a
scholar not much unlike yourself, and I got along with him very well.
Any good questions? Did you have a good night yourself? Yes? I
have continued to eat the rest of the meat and made sure I've fed my
little friend. You're eating big already. Oh, I see quite vulvus.
Yes, soon after all of this will me get back. I will,
I will release Dara. Oh how do you feel about that? You've been
with sea for quite some time, haven't you? Yes? Perhaps say or
two now? Hm hmm, Malvic. As you ascend to the upper catwalk,
you notice something moving above the stairs. As our Celia is the last
to climb, we have an opportunity here. The vines appear to be moving.
I'm going to bring you all over here as you decide what to do.
Hm. Hm. The vine is moving all around this area or just
where you said, above each of the staircases. So confirming, We passed
underneath some of the moving vines and then entered. I see, but you're
the only one saw it said, there was an opportunity do you mean to
make the first act because we already passed past these vines? Mm hmmm,
I think without saying anything, how far how far down that these vines hang?
Good question, so you can tell like on did you uh s,
I gotta find this. Uh they hang down pretty far like and reach.
Yeah, they're like ten feet uh ten feet up? Okay. I don't
think I would have time to turn around and tell everyone what's going on since
we're in a narrow it seems like a narrow staircase. You can also see
malvic that there. The part of the tower is exposed over here. You
can probably climb over there. It's about fifteen feet to climb up. I
rolled very well for you on a secret perception check. Okay, y'ah,
that's the closest one to me. If she, depending on what she's looking
at, she's looking at me, then she can see where my eyes are
following. Yes, I would be looking at you, and then I would
dot my eyes in that direction and I will haul ass over there and jump
onto those vines. Okay, where sorry? Which ones? You said this
is climbable? Yep? These are just these are moving. Yeah, there's
vines above the stairs that you just came up over here that appear to be
moving towards Ostelia. Oh okay, yeah, I think I think before I
go, I'd look at Yarra and I'd kind of throw a smirk and a
sigh, and I'd run and I'm going to go in this h hiss area
and I want to jump and grasp on as many vines as I can.
Okay, this is non difficult at all. You can make. Are you
ascending? I mean yeah, I mean it's gonna say yeah, so because
if I have a running start and I jump twenty one okay, you all
see Malvic sort of rush off and begin to quickly climb up the vines on
the western side of the of this. The cow walks over here. You
can see some light coming down from there. It's open. It's about fifteen
feet up. Run, run, let's go. I'm just like cod.
Okay, I would like each of you to roll initiative. This is a
perception based roll. But you said the rest of you are just me,
all of us. Okay. Eighteen twelve Okay, Oh, that clears a
lot of things up. It was disgusting. Yeah. The vines begin to
move, however, because I rolled ridiculously well for Malevic's perception check as he
was climbing the stairs. You get around to do something first, or Celia,
it's your turn. You've seen Malvic sort of rush off, suggesting that
you all run. What do you do? No? This is so awkward.
Can I delay? That's a thing I can do, right, You
can move to the It works differently in this. You can delay, select
this when your turn begins and take your turn later. You can do that
if you'd like to. Okay, I'll go after a rash talk. Okay,
why would Karun move? Yeah? Sorry, I gotta roof the Karun
and I am on the wrong layer. That's why I can't do that.
Okay, Karun, and let's see what you get. We need a perception
check, perception initiative. Hope, that's not correct. I need an initiative.
Oh already, so Karun would have gone before you. Yeah, and
Karun will rush over and just fucking start climbing. Now, this is going
to be precarious. Okay, Karun is going to start to ascend the wall,
and I'm going to need a check for this. Uh, We're going
to need an acrobatics check for Karun. Here I believe let's see, this
is going to be h h, this is gonna be balance. Okay,
Uh, there's some like like pebbles that fall off as Karun rushes past a
rash Tak and Yara, who are kind of like looking around a bit wildly
for a second. Whoa, look out watch it whoa, and Karun will
begin to Uh, We'll begin to climb nineteen on athletics, nice child.
Uh, and Karun will begin to climb. Okay, Karun is about five
feet up the wall, Malvic, you are basically at the top. I
will what I will do is laid, I find my footing and try to
assist anyone that it's near me. Sure, yarrah, it's your turn.
Oh, this is sure to go. Well, it's going to go.
Great physical activity in the past has gone excellently for me. I am going
to do pull your skirt up well, of course, there's no other way
for a lady to run. I'm going to go ahead, and I will
cast guidance upon myself to get a plus one to whatever the fuck I'm about
to roll, all right, and I will use the rest of my movement
and my turns to rush over there and attempt to climb as well if possible.
Okay, let's see we need to get some measurements here. Okay,
make an athletics check. I'm going to use a hero point. Yeah,
Doc, that is a seventeen. Okay, you begin to climb the wall.
You're about five feet up on the wall. You and Karn are sort
of climbing, climbing about the same pace. Rashtok yes, I am going
to go and climb. Uh. Yes, And now that it's thinks that
no one's in front of me, which yes, definitely yeah it I think
that I don't know where my movement I was trying to find that because I
think I'm slower. Oh no, no, I mean my my movement per
action. It's a top. Let's be twenty five. There we are.
We're good. I found it. I think I can get to where Yar
is. Then yes I can. So i'd get right under Yara in one
turn. Okay, and also get into space this is open, oh that
one, Yes, I can do that with twenty five. Then very good,
And then I begin to climb as far as I can. Okay,
plastics, all right, Okay, I also will use my hero point for
that. Well, this was you said this was easy to climb. Yes,
with all the vines, I'll take it. If I need to move
a little slower, I'll do so. Okay, let me check. I
think easy climbing was like five or ten. It was very low. I
think it's ten. That could be wrong, I say, yes, I
thought so from before. Okay, yes, no problem. You have two
turns left here, so you get ten feet up? Okay, our celia,
okay, fuck hmmm, five, ten, fifteen, twenty twenty five.
As I move here, I will use the last two of my actions
to pull out a torch and light it just in case. Okay, okay,
that's relating to vines underneath them. I was like, well, less
pressure, No, I'm okay. Uh, Karoon will use the rest of
her turns to try and climb. Let's see how we do. Hell assistant
as well. Okay, Uh, seventeen is enough to climb all the way
up with your assistance, Malvic. The vines begin to begin to move.
Let me see here how far they get? Uh? Okay, they are
gonna move there and that's there alrighty. So I was figuring they're like traps
more than you just see the vines like extending slowly as you rush. Uh
you are it's your turn? Oh does it not go back to karun?
Choose the fastest of all of us? All right in as Cilia got you?
Yes, I am utilizing the entire rest of my action to move up
this thing. Well, assist when you're getting the athletics wonderful. Another one
seventeen. Okay, with Malvick's help, you were able to make it to
the top. Come all right, thank you darling rush shock. Yes,
and the same for me. Fourteen. That's fine. I'll just keep taking
my time. It's slow, but you managed to do it. You only
have another five feet to go. You are also to the top, ar
Celia. I'll drop this torch that I just lit and and then I'll begin
to climb. Okay, athletics check thirteen. Oh okay, you are able.
You're like moving a little bit slower, waiting for other people to climb,
and then you finally get your chance. You begin to move and Malevick's
hand comes down and grabs you and pulls come to the top. I'll done,
Malevick seeing this, Yes, very quick taking. Yes, we're just
scared. Why not? It warns me about what is ahead. Seems the
higher we get, the more dangers there are. Usually the case you hear
some rocks sort of falling away down below. Let's get away from this opening.
Smooth, smooth, three foot tall battlements surround the offering spires flat top.
In the center of the stone floor, an engraved circle depicts interwoven vines
and esoteric rooms. On the eastern side, horn of living fungus grows up
out of the stone its hollow stalk, starting as a small mouthpiece and growing
larger as it encircles itself and ends in a large trumpet like bell. A
nest of sticks and bones fills rooce northeastern corner. And as you all make
your way up, I'm not putting my lips on that you see a winged
creature pouncing towards you. Hello, this is why Stephen from Table Story.
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