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slash discord. Thank you joy. As the group approaches the Dragon Gate,
they along with the Awatya that have been selected by Alli, make their way
through the jungles of the Ecle Expanse on the continent of Ukulam in a wholly
different planet, the planet of Castravel. They're seeking to return to Galarian and
as they begin to approach the dragon Gate, Malvik senses the presence of a
drake nearby. He begins to rage and screams to the rest of the god
I break away from the group as fast as possible in the direction of the
dragon. Madavik, where are you going? It begins to rush off.
I'm going to bring you all over here. As Malavik begins to rush away,
please place your tokens anywhere inside this red rectangle, select them, and
please roll initiative as far away as I possibly can. What's up there?
You guys? Can you see it? Where am I? Who knows?
I'm having some technical difficulty. I can't pan them ap. You can try
right clicking sometimes that will work. Mm hmmm. Unfortunately I don't have a
mouse. Oh wow, three natural ones thus far, not enough one.
Yeah, okay, this is gonna go really well. M M, I
need to uh. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Okay.
As you begin to approach the dragon's gate, you hear this, this sound
of of Malovic raging and this creature making a sound, and immediately you can
all feel the the hairs on the back of your neck sort of go up.
That's sort of like instinctive pray. Feeling begins to overwhelm you for a
moment, and several of you are sort of stunned just from your h your
basic kind of reaction. Let's see, I can just add our celia here.
Okay, and you had a thirteen alrighty Drake gets roll with stealth on
this one. Oh and that was a bad role. Okay, hm hmmm.
Uh. Although Malvic has alerted you to this creature only Malvic and the
drake will start on this surprise round. Uh. You hear some flapping noises,
the sound of leathery flapping wings, and the horrific sound of this uh
this, this roar getting closer and closer to you as suddenly bursting in from
the trees above this winged drake. Phil Land kahy there, and we'll use
some special bullshit unfortunately. Okay, let's see this is this is going to
be uh fortitude save. As you see the creature start to uh start to
take a deep breath, and then there is this wicked sort of bubbling fluid
that is falling from its jaws. It falls to the ground and sizzles as
it does so, and I will need a fortitude saved from this will be
our celia. Yes, that's a not twenty for twenty nine. Very nice.
Okay, Uh, you avoid this sizzling sort of poisonous looking liquid lands
near your feet, sort of twering the grass all around you, and m
Arsidic, mind your step, Malvic, it's your turn in the tree or
on the ground. It's on the tree. I am going to rush forward
now. As I'm rushing forward. You'll see my horns start a in loongate
spikes start to come out my sides and my arms, my thighs, muscles
are bulging and get it bigger, starting to rip my clothing. The tail
gets longer, teeth and fangs who grow sharper claws start to come out in
my hands and fingers as I run, and I leap onto this tree and
climb up with a roach of speed. How high up is the dragon?
Fifteen feet? Probably fifteen feet? I will use a new feet called raging
athlete. Oh, physical obstacles can't hold you can't hold back your fury.
While you are raging. You gain a climb speed and swim speed equal to
your land speed, and the DC of high jumps and long jumps decreases by
ten. Your distance for vertical leap increases to five feet vertically, and your
distance for a horizontal leap increases to fifteen feet if your speed is at least
fifteen feet, and to twenty feet if your speed is at least thirty feet.
Yes, okay, I'm going to leap onto this tree immediately, okay,
saying that is only ten feet from there, and I wove begin to
climb to my full speed up to this, which is twenty five, so
I should reach it. Okay, Thus two actions, one action to attack,
because not only do I have that, I have combat climber. Now,
attacking while climbing is nothing to me. Excellent, you're not flat footed
while you're climbing, and you can climb with a hand occupied. I must
still use the other hand in both legs to climb. Question is what are
you using to attack with? Isn't a great sword because it's versatile can be
used as one handed or two Okay, I would use now my plus one
striking room the great sword. It's fire damage and gulps the sword and I'll
swing nineteen. So I think I need to check what. I don't think
versatile means the same thing, if I'm not mistaken. I think versatile is
different in this. Yes, it's a different type of damage. You can
pier it's piercing instead of slash. Yeah, so you'd have to use an
unarmed attack or a dagger or something. Okay. Then I will punch with
my fists to try to throw this dragon from the tree. Okay, I
get regular rage with that. I don't think I get fire damage with it.
Actually I do, because it's still a weapon. It's just a mom
seventeen that is, unfortunately a miss. The wings of this creature sort of
flap and blow some of the foliage into your face as you approach and you
try to strike, but in your fury you miss widely. Okay, I'll
just scream at it and let's be into my toe. Alrighty, we are
into regular turn order a rash talk. Yes, it's a dragon would want
to be here, so I won't. I back up twenty feet fifteen feet?
Yes, and I do something new. I call upon the lightning in
the sky with a sudden bolt. It must make a reflex save of nineteen
or take twenty six damage, which was actually fairly low for that rolely,
whoa, it will take half if it's only six seeds. Now we're cooking.
I rolled a one and a two in that damage range. By the
way, whoa, okay, very nice. What does this look like?
As you first the first time he cast a spell? It's looking up at
the sky and as I do with normally my frost, and you see like
almost condensation drip and foam, electricity sparks and connects to me, to which
I aim it right at the drake. Okay, let's see. This is
a nineteen requirements reflex save. Okay, that's the thirty two and it takes
no damage because that's a critical success. Good. No, that's good.
There's a high reflex save there. But yep, it looks really cool and
does nothing. You look super cool doing it, super cool, like you're
you know, you did the thing where you looked very gandolfish in your lizard
gandolf in your in your attack. You know, you held your staff forward
and and like your robes were blowing, like it was super cool and and
it was so much more powerful than you expected. And it's like trying to
control a fire hose by yourself. You hold the staff out and just it
cracks and it totally like decimates the part of the tree that it hits.
You can see the little spider web like burns moving through the tree that it
That it cracks outwards too, Okay, is that it for return? Don't
feel thunder and electric lightning attacks as a curse here on the show, don't.
Okay, the Drake will use its draconic frenzy. You start to see
the creatures salivating this poisonous liquid starts to fall from its jaws, and uh,
it will war and it will then that's that's too many. Okay,
are you my life change builder? See you next week? Everyone. No,
I was fine. I couldn't find it my D four, so I
had to dump out the whole dice bag. And uh, I had to
figure out who it is attacking. It is attacking Karoun. Unfortunately with iconic
frenzy. Uh, it will plant sort of down towards you. Karoon climbing
down towards you. You can see it looking furious as it will then strike
with its dryconic fury, which is not too pleasant. It's probably fine.
It will first make a fang's attack against you. It's a good thing.
I just got this brand new leather armor nineteen to hit definitely hits. Yeah,
okay against your AC that is a hit, and this will be for
twelve piercing plus. I need you to make a fortitude safe easy. That
is not a success. It's not a critical fail. However, you take
an additional five poison damage, ah, and you are enfeebled one. Sorry,
so five poison damage you are uh yeah, poison and enfeebled one.
All right, So how much damage do I take? Is seventeen twelve piercing
and five poison okay, and then feebled one then it will attack. Oh
I'm sorry, Uh, forget the forget the five poison damage. That was
my bad. Uh? Wrong, wrong one? Uh thirty six, I
must stay and feeble. Yes, I rolled the wrong damage. Sorry,
hold on, okay, we'll just keep the original of twelve just because I
rolled the wrong one. It should have been less, but I rolled pretty
bad on the other one. Okay. Then, so this is with its
fangs, it sort of takes a bite out of you, and then its
tail whips around and there will be two quick strikes with its stinger. Cow
and yes, three strikes plus the movement twenty six to hit. It was
really fun playing with everyone was what's your ac It's eighteen? Okay, I
thought that was a crib for a second? Okay, fourteen quit me fourteen
piercing damage plus to poison to twenty. Oh, I'm sorry. Uh,
we'll just use your fortitude save from before. So, yes, this is
a poison. You are still enfeebled one, all right? Okaymm and then
the second singer attack, Oh, no, twenty five to hit for another
fourteen piercing damage. All right, that's what a sixteenless house? Uh?
And this will be another fortitude save please? Oh no, oh no,
sorry, I got this. Sorry, that is definitely a crit mmm for
initial six poison damage. I'm dying. You are enfeebled two as well?
All right? Well I'm unconscious, okay. Uh you are currently uh wounded
one and dying one, wounded one, dying one? Am I still enfeebled?
Can you be enfeebled and unconscious? You're enfeebled two, I'm sorry,
and feeling two, wounded one and dying one, right, all right,
dying it's so it populated, dying, unconscious, flat footed, and blinded?
Is that cur that's with dead like the dying condition. So as soon
as that gets lit, whenever you get healed, that all goes away.
Yeah okay, okay. Uh so let's let me just calculate how much damage
that was? Uhay, Well I had forty eight health and I was full
from before. Yeah, so it was over forty eight damage twelve uh seventeen,
So twenty nine was that four attacks? No, it was three attacks.
The poison from the stinger was its own separate role. Yeah, gotcha.
Okay, and if only you guys knew someone who could make you an
end cadote. Okay, yeah, I just rolled the fangs attack because that
was technically what the attack was. Okay, So twelve seventeen, thirty one,
thirty three, thirty nine, nine forty nine. That was fifty three
damage, just barely yep, uh with one, there was one basically krit
that happened from the poison on that one. Okay, Malvic, it is
your turn. This creature has just uh twenty six? Is this the new
round? You have the surprise? Oh no, I'm sorry, it is
your turn, Rushack. I apologize. I don't know how to wait.
Wait a minute, No, no, you're absolutely right, because I did
the landing and it was useless. I forgot I was useless. Carry on,
Malvic, it's your turn. Oh all right, you are currently just
slightly above the drake has climbed down on the branches in the bark of the
tree and struck karoon down. I'm going to jump on the drake. Okay,
give me an athletics check twenty eight Okay, go ahead, may here
a taprel. I'm going to lock my thighs around his skinny neck, and
I'm going to take my great sword and come down on it. The drake
Holnick Fury of the Red Dragon, so I have fire attached to it as
well, and that was bad, damn it. Okay, So I was
giving you a circumstance bonus because you rolled well on your athletics to jump off
of the tree and make this cool descending thing you land atop the drake.
However, it is very snake like and it's sort of like hard to bring
your weapon directly down upon and its neck moves out of the way as you
strike. That is a miss, and I will I love switch my position
of my sword to do as a stab attack. So I'm gonna say just
so you're ware before you roll this hold on. You have one action left,
one to jump from the tree, and then you have two actions that
you used, one to strike with a great sword, and I have one
other one correct, there's nothing else I can really do but to get off
this drink, but I am staying on it. Seventeen Okay, seventeen is
a miss. Again, You're trying to sort of hang on to this creature
and strike, but unfortunately it just manages to dodge out of the way.
Okay, or Celia, it's your return. I have a es shin.
It is fifteen feet up into the air, not anymore. It's about on
the tree. Yeah, it's on the tree. It's probably only about five
feet up. All right, very good. Then I will use one action
to five foot step this way, and then I'll use another action to five
foot step this way, so it is now flanked black footed. And for
my final action, I would like to exploit vulnerability. All right, that's
a dirty twenty. Okay, I think that is a miss. But let
me check almost positive. It's a mess. That is not enough, all
right, but it's not a critical failure. Okay, Then I will only
be able to use my personal anthesis against it. That will be the end
of my turn. As I maneuver around the tree, trying to perhaps via
distraction of my own kind, I begin to rummage inside of my pouch,
searching for something to help me with getting upper hand. Here that's my turn,
okay, yarrah, here Karen, oh God, I am going to
go ahead and use my first turn to reach a handover and channel my oracular
energy through these new healer's gloves that I purchased in Nascar Lua in order to
heal Karun for two D six plus seven for twelve points of healing. So
Karun, you are no longer dying and you have twelve h p Aroun,
Darling, get the fuck up and run. Oh. I will then turn
my gaze over to this creature, and I shall utill ie is my new
oracular ability vision of weakness. My eyes will turn blue as I gaze deeply
into this creature. And with vision of weakness, I am going to go
ahead and gain which of its three saving throws it has the lowest modifier,
as well as any of its weaknesses, and I will get a plus two
bonus to my next attack rule. Okay, I'm just going to extend this
map out a little bit because I'm having trouble getting onto the screen, so
I'm just gonna do this awkward and gross, but there we are. There,
we are all right? Okay, very well. And do they have
any sort of sure because you earn them as well as which is taking throw
modifiers slowest you learn and there's no saving throw for this Nope, what the
fuck? Yeah, it's a focus spell, so I mean it's gonna it
elevates the curse. But yeah, it's pree dope. Okay, very well,
let's see here, this creature has no weaknesses. Need the do I
creature need the do I wink. The lowest of its saving throw modifiers is
will, and you gain an inherent understanding of its movements again, plus two
status bonents to your next attack role or skill check made as part of an
attack action against this foe before the end of your turn. So I won't
be able to utilize that this turn. I do not leave. But with
that being sent, uh, I am going to back up a little bit,
since I do not want to be caught in any sort of an AOI
or anything. If this is something that that creature has, it looks big,
I would assume it might, so I'm going to step back about here.
Let me just double check and make sure yes, So with my final
turn, I am moving back, and that is it. Okay, Karun,
you are currently prone, but you're feeling a little bit better as this
large like ten foot creature is sort of slithering around the tree. Malvic is
kind of on its back right now, and it is sort of peering down
at you. You feeling the wounds that you've already taken from this thing.
Karu survives in spite of the creature and through petty will of survival. I
will run away, and do I have to take an action to get up
from prone? Yes? Then I will take one action to get up from
prone, take one action to run away to hear. Yes, Fortunately this
creature does have an attack opportunity. Yeah, you see, it's its tail,
start to move around like a whip, and it sort of cracks towards
you, and will uh do do do a stinger attack upon you? Twenty
five to hit? Yeah, that's fine for thirteen piercing damage. Back to
dying. I good bye, and I still need a I still need a
fortitude save. Oh no, oh no, dying too? Then? Huh?
How do I increase my ability to die where there's no number next to
it? How do I die harder? The number is next to your HP
on the sheet, It'll say like dying, Oh, dying too? There
we go? Got it all right? Yes, and you are still enfeebled
too, okay? Uh oh rash talk, it's your turn? Yes?
Do you have that? Yes, Darry, I got this. Just to
be clear, you wouldn't have gotten that far anyway. So Karoun is oh
all right? Still there. Sure, Well, let's see, yep,
I have to take chances stamping my staff down. I reached a hand out
and bugs begin to swirl around it and seemingly begin to bite me and drink
from my blood as I use reach, so I no longer need to do
touch attacks and have thirty feet added to any touch spell. And my bugs
begin to fly out, attempting to bite this drake to give it scurvy.
Oh, it must make the fortitude save and quit fail to succeed for me,
it has to quit fail. I'm pretty sure if it's plus is yes,
wow, uh, it's got a lot. I'm not gonna lie.
We've had it happen before. It doesn't happen fail before. It doesn't have
to quit fail, but he has to get it. I know, I
know what it's plus is. I saw. Yeah. Well, okay,
the particle is enfeebled for a minute. Yes, that is why I like
this spell. So that is ten rounds, I believe, okay, enfeebled
one, Yes, that is ten rounds. Okay, very nice putting That
is all I do. Putting on a uh a condition like this happens to
be pretty good thing. Just in general. Oh yes, that's why I
have them. They try and sell you on that stuff quite a bit,
I think throughout the book. And there's the reason for it. Uh Okay,
I cannot find this icon for this. I know we've got it,
like a broken bonus something I don't know. I cannot find it for now.
I will use a yellow marker. And this is enfeebled one. Okay,
all right, And enfeebled is physically weekend. When you're enfeebled to take
a status pennanty equal to the condition value to strength based roles in DC's including
strength based melee attack roles, strength based damage roles, and athletics checks.
Pretty good, yep. Now, Prune, it is your turn again,
because your torn order switches when you are when you're not unconscious before the creature
that has knocked you unconscious, So you're currently dying too. Right now,
that's not so good. So when you are dying, you basically have to
make a roll here to see if it gets worse. I believe you can
use hero points. You can use Hero points to stabilize yourself. It will
consume all Hero points you have. Oh no, I'm fine, okay,
and I'm going to need a roll. I think it's a hold on,
let me just double check it. But I think it's a flat D twenty.
I think you're right, unless it's constitution but I think it's flat.
It's all right, I got the five. Okay, hold on, that
might be very bad. Wait, are you dying? You're not able to
reroll using hero points once you roll a death save, are you? I
don't think so, because you have the opportunity to spend four. Dying four
is done? Done? Yes? Okay, Oh my god, I need
to check on this real quick. Okay, well, only when that's different,
because I have four ferocity for me, it's dying five. Uh.
Okay, So this is a recovery check. The DC is equal to ten
plus your current dying value, to see if you get better or worse.
Okay, so you rolled a five, so that wasn't a critical fail,
luckily, because if it was a critical fail, you would have just died.
Yes, however, you are now a dying three. Oh, dying
three by M. The drake is enfeebled and Malvic is riding it right now.
M. It will try and shake you off, Malvic. Mm hmm.
It's only five feet from the ground. Correct, Yep, you know
what we're gonna do. I think it's time to fly. Mm hmm,
it's time to fly. Okay, uh, Malvic, please make an athletics
check for me. Twenty six excellent. Now this creature is going to get
a minus one to this role. Oh okay, Malvic, you hang on
as the creature begins to fly up and away over here. It's up in
the air about thirty feet. I'm gonna uh just put some wings on this
thing. If I can find some wings in one of these icons. Yep,
okay, and I do thirty feet Nope, all right, I'll just
make that a three. And that's how many feet up intends. You know,
it's like guess Okay, So it's about thirty feet up with Malvic on
its back, and let's see, it is very upset that Malvic is there.
It will then uh rear back and sort of fire off a burst of
poisoned spit towards Yara and a rash talk. I need both of you to
make a reflex save please twenty one okayteen Both are fails. A rash talk
yours is a critical fail. I'm gonna remoll that if that's critical if I
can, yes, thank you, let's see if it's worse. It's worse,
still could fail. You are both hit for six poison damage. I'm
sorry, a rastack, you're hit for six. Ya you are hit four
three poison damage. Okay, I can make it twelve if you want.
No, no, no, no, no, I've that's all right,
thank you, though I appreciate your generosity. Yes, we quite like where
we are. Okay, that is it for its turn, Malvic. It's
your turn for our first attacker. I'm going to try to slice the wound.
It's my great sword. Okay, you can aim for a specific body
part if you'd like. I will give you a penalty on the roll,
but with a risk might come greater reward. I am raging twenty four.
Okay, you didn't answer my question. What's the question? I'm ladging.
All I know is to kill this thing, all right. Unfortunately, that
is a miss in this case. As you aim for the wing, it's
sort of just barely misses, Malvic. It's really close as you as you
aim specifically for the joint in the shoulder joint where the wing connects to the
body on this creature, and it it just barely misses. Fine flapping furiously
trying to get you off for my next attack. I am going to attempt
to grapple this thing's neck and wrestle it to the ground. Okay, that
will be an athletics check. I'm going to take two actions to do this
to be fair. Actually, I really don't I can actually put the sword
around his neck. I want to be thematic athletics check twenty eight. That
is a success. As I'm doing this, I want to speak to it
and dray Kronic I don't know if he can even understand, and I'll just
say stop fighting it. You will die. And then I will turn my
whole body weight with the sword around his neck and position myself in a way
to wring it to throw it off balance. Stop fighting, stop fighting.
We are the fight the hart. I will make you my pray Syndroconic just
pisses me off even more. Okay, sorry, yep, you have essentially
grappled this creature. That's one action. One action left. I'm going to
try to throw my body weight and throw this thing off down is to bring
it down. I don't know what's going to do to roll be an acrobatics
check. Really yeah, m hmm. Four. I will reroll that.
Okay, have one hero point left A twenty okay, so it's still taking
the enfeebled penalty, so that's an eighteen. You start to take the creature.
You're off balance. It is rushing towards the ground, and let me
be the end of my time. Roll a two D six please true D
six scutchy as the you bring the drake down to the ground hard and it
will take some damage from the fall. You also take a little bit of
damage. You take five damage. That diamonds is negated as I smile and
you start to see smoke slowly coming from my mouth in vapors. As I
stare it's dragon and his broken husk on the ground. Because I still have
one temporary hit point remaining from rage this dragon, this drake is far from
broken. Okay, or Celia, it's your turn. I immediately begin to
rush forward, and as I do, I will pull out another exploit vulnerability
twenty six. Okay, uh that is enough. Okay, you do what
do you learn from the its highest weakness resistance or immunity? Uh? Immunities,
disease, paralyze, poison, and unconscious. Okay. As I begin
rushing forward, I pull from my satchel what appears to be ash ash of
a burnt creature, and I begin to smear it across the blade of the
spear. And so for my second action, I'll move into position. I'm
unsure what would consider a flank? Is that appropriate? We're here? Yeah,
I think you'd have to be one to the right. Okay, that's
okay. So while flat footed, well it is flat footed. I will
make a spear attack here. So drive it forward twenty minutes three. Very
good. It will take eight piercing damage. I don't know why, I
says bludgeoning. Ignore that it would take eight piercing damage. And as I
drive the spear forward, it takes an additional six because we leveled up very
nice insects here in sets, you're all insects. I won't fast all your
flash, it says in draconic. I don't relate it. I just screamed
out a time, Yara, it's your turn, seeing Karun have fallen again.
I will go ahead and I will channel my oracular powers through life link
into her, pouring out some of my life essence into her. You will
notice that the scars on my face extend inwards and there is energy coming from
it of a golden light heading her way. That'll be for two points of
healing on that, and she will return to not being dying. And with
that, I have now elevated my curse to a moderate level. And as
such, I will go ahead and cast a two action second level heel on
Karun from Afar, and that will be also adding I believe an additional sixteen
healing. I'm a double check. Oh no, wait wait wait restored by
eight? Does it if it's a level two increases my age? Yes,
so you get an additional sixteen on top of that, So that will be
thirty eight points of healing. Oh, I rolled these limbs when I'm moderate?
Where am I? You're live? Try not to die again? Please,
no promises. Oh you can see Karun's got some like what I vision
for enfeebled is maybe some like arthritis or something or like you know, like
your hands are sort of like shaking a little bit. Okay, am I
I'm still wounded, right. I don't think that that removes wounds? Right,
No, it does not magical healing. It's not remove You're wounded too,
right now? All right? Wounded to and enfeeble two yeah, and
just so you're aware, if you get down again, that means you're a
dying three. Oh, all right, and poisoned. You were not poisoned.
You were enfeebled two and you are wounded too, all right, thank
you. No problem is that if you return, you are That is its
talk. Seeing that it is now on the ground and maybe just a little
bit easier to hit. Aiming at it, frost forms on my finger and
begins to build up more than a normal ray of frost. As I attempt
to make a large icicle attack it and hit with a twenty five to hit.
That is a hit. That will be a total of seven. Okay,
staring at seven damage, I'll do it. That's damage. I take
it. You see the ice or spread out across a part of its,
part of its torso right near your leg, Malevic. You can feel a
cold like emanating up your leg, but your your blood is boiling, your
rage is thrumming, and you ignore this. Your prey is below you,
and this creature is not a pushover parun I have one more accent. Well,
I'm sorry, that's all right, Ah, I'm going to cast guidance
on Malevic. You choose the next row. You take a plus one four?
Is that within range? Yes, it is thirty foot range, but
that's why I've reached. So yeah, yes, that is now it.
We'll notice the bugs collects on my back as I want to slat them.
I allow them to do. I have a disgusting stuff that they do.
Helpful, they like you. Okay, Karun, you're currently prone, enfeebled
too and wounded? Two? All right? How can I throw something at
the dragon from this distance? How far away is it? It's on the
ground, all right? All right, good, so I will. You
will see Karun skitter back up to to just to her feet, but pulling
out an alchemist's kit. I would like to quick craw a lesser empidote,
which gives me two of them, and I will take one. I'll be
just scraping off some of the some of the goop from the draken and like
mixing it in some vials, really quickly shaking it, testing it, and
just pound one of them. And can I throw the other one to another
party member? Sure? You take one. And as this happens, I
think we're gonna go ahead and say that the enfeeblement was part of the poison
from this creature. So I think this is going to go ahead, and
um, it's going to cure your enfeeble two. I think sweets no more
enfeebland. Correct. So you used one action to quick craft, m one
action to drink. You're still like sitting down on the ground. M hm
can I so should should they do some damage? Or should do you want
to antidote mess him up? Can I sheet him alive? I'm just from
the from sitting down. I guess I'll just all right, I take one
of the Alchemist's fires that have just this just this little jar full of light
and flaming swirls. It smells like fuel, it's all right, And I
just bite the tip off the impuel and posted the dragon with with one of
these calculated splash. Very nice, okay, uh make your bomb erm now
it's this. But also the calculated splash does a different damage, right yeah.
Yeah, So you do your int modifier, which is what FO four.
That's right? Okay, yeah, so you can actually set this and
I'll help you with this if you need on your character sheet. But you
can set this because all your splashes are going to be your intelligence mod now,
okay, with calculated splash Okay, so you don't hit it dead on,
but the the the blast of fire that sort of explodes outwards, similar
to like a Molotov cocktail, expands outwards and has managed to connect with the
drake and do some damage. All right, that's my turn. The drake
is going to try to throw Malevic the fuck off, um, and we'll
try and make an athletics check to do that. Well, actually, I'm
sorry. It doesn't make an athletics check to do this. Malevic. You
roll an athletics check and you need to beat Okay, Oh that's good.
I was gonna ask a clarifying question, apologize. Is it prone after hitting
the ground? It is prone? Yes, it can only take move actions.
Then if it is prone, the only move Oh move only move actions
you can take. My mistake it does is that? Anyways? It ignore
me. I thought I was just wondering your food. So sorry, Malavic
makes it breaks it us fucking barely. You stay on top of this thing.
Uh, it's fucking furious that you're on its back. It's going to
use another action to shake you off, another athletics check. Please, you
stay on top and now it's in its fury, will try and strike at
you with its stinger. Does it gave me d buffs? Free boll We'll
move yourself from my back and it will try and strike at you with its
stinger. It has a D buff. Yes, it's gonna be a minus.
Is prone and what else? Yeah, it's flat footed, it's prone,
and it is currently enfeebled. Yes, however, I just fucking roll?
What do you say? What? Okay? How much is that total?
Uh? So flat footed is a minus? Quo to ac? Does
flat footed affect the attack roll as well? Uh? Prone is attack roll
minus two? That's what I was thinking of earlier. Yeah, okay,
so minus three? So this is a thirty three total total that hits.
That's a great Oh oh boy. Okay, I also need a fortitude save
from you as well. Then love rerolling that out of points, not rerolling
that twenty three now, okay, twenty three is still a miss unfortunately.
Okay, this is gonna hurt. Okay, this is we need another twoty
six? Wait what was this negative sixteen? Hold on, this is gonna
be twenty seven piercing damage? Oh uh once second? How much twenty seven
piercing? And then thing? Wait, that's point negative twenty six. No
care, I will I will raise my amulet for amulets abeyance, reduce that
by six damage twenty one. Then you take that's included my oldest twenty one
total. Yeah, and then poison damage sagar twenty uh. And since you
succeeded on the saving throw, I'm sorry you failed on the saving throw,
but you didn't quit fail. This is gonna be mm hm. So I
think that the damage it's doubled, but you don't get the second in feebled
Okay, it takes seven poison damage and one in feeble one in field,
and it is your turn, Malvick. I'll feel this poison into my bloodstream
and I just knock away the pain, and I will slash at this creature
in fury three times in succession one to twenty, miss eight, miss nine
and a miss. Oh. I'm sorry. Well I should have said guidance,
but it doesn't matter because it would it would have missed anyway. Guidance
is the only plus one guidance would make the first attack hit. Oh well,
if I'm allowed. If not, that's fine, fine, all right,
I will take Goddess on the first hit. Okay, only the first
strike hits, and the creature sort of shakes violently as you try and swing
and just kind of miss. The next two attacks malvic, but your first
one will deeld some damage. Very nice, okay, And I'll just then
I'll scream out in pain as I hear the well, not in pain and
frustration as I hear the feel the poison stalk in similar fashion, I strike
three times with my spear. Okay, that will be eight piercing damage plus
an additional six the fourteen total there. Second rolls a seven. That is
a miss. Third attack is a ten, another miss. Two quick strikes.
This time the creature uses its tail to sort of batch your spear away
as you attack with two quick jabs with the spear that both miss. Okay,
yarra oh, all right, not much as hitting this thing, it
seemed. So I'm going to spend this turn to do a little bit of
setup to maybe perhaps try and get some more damage in on my end while
still being able to heal. So I will go ahead, and I will
place a hand upon my chest to cast guidance upon myself to give myself a
plus one to my next attack rule with my other hand, I will go
ahead, and I will summon forth my spiritual weapon next to this creature that
is a natural one anyway, but it's still there. That's my turn.
It's there in spirit. I'll try not to miss the mark next time.
That was very embarrassing. Okay, is that it for your turn? That
is indeed? Okay a rash talk. Yes. For one action, my
hand waves out. Bugs begin to fly and fill the air and swirl around
me, biting me slightly and then flying on over to Maravic and alighting themselves
on you. You'll begin to heal, which yes, is four around for
four rounds. To make note of that. That's the start of your turn,
Oka four for four rounds. Yes, I'm going to put the little
medicine bottle on you. I think it's on your turn. It might be
mine, whatever's easiest to it doesn't, we'll say it's the beginning of your
turn, Alvic, Okay, yeah, it doesn't specify, thank you.
That is one action. Thunder begins to clap around me as I have the
final prepared sun and bolt as I call down lightning as it flows through me
and I strike at it. It needs to make a fortitude save. Do
not get a critical reflex STABU reflex save reflex God that I wouldn't think that
the strongest thing maybe reflex. No, it's not. Fortitude is thirty one
again? Talk? He looks so freaking cool in this giant bolt of lightning
just cras crushes down and strikes the ground right near the dragon. That's it,
all right, buddy, Okay, prude, that's your turn. Well,
so the dragon really hasn't moved, has it. It's still in the
same spot. Is it still prone? Wow? What a loser? All
right? Then, well I guess I'm still prone to. So I shouldn't
throw stones. I will. I think I will stand up. Cannot that
takes nection? Uh from? Can I tell, like how damage the dragon
looks? Does it look like it's on the verge of death? Or are
we just going to keep You've definitely taken some good shots on this thing.
For sure. It's bleeding. It's bleeding, all right? And hold on,
Oh your advanced scurvy. Actually that is gone. It never has.
It's just enfeebled if at ten rounds of past Uh no, So it's got
a disease trait scurvy. I did not get scurvy. It just got enfeebled.
So here I'll show you. So it succeeded. It only got enfeebled.
However, if it failed, it would have been afflicted with advanced scurvy.
So on success, it's not scurvy. It's just in feeble. Yeah,
but you're correct it it cannot get enfeebled, or it cannot get scurvy.
Oky dokey, Sorry, Karan, what were you going to say?
So? From here, I would I guess I will just try and throw
more fire at it. If it's just going to let me sure, all
right, I will rip another ampuel out of my vest and crush the little
tip of it off with my teeth and just it smells like fuel and it
looks terrible, and to throw it and you just see like an arc of
flame going space. Again, the splash manages to connect. You see this
burst of fire spread outwards and singe part of the creature. Again. In
draconic, you hear a schema, Si says in draconic, and then from
a final trick, I will hide. I take cover. Okay, is
this great a cover since I'm in the woods. No, it's probably just
regular cover behind like one of the behind this tree. I think a bush.
Yeah, do you you? I think you have one more action?
Right? Or are you moving? I had to get up and then and
then taking cover. Gotcha, that's my turn. Okay. The drake is
really trying to shake Malevic the fuck off. Um athletics check please Malvick.
Mm hmm. It is so pissed that you're back there, at Malavick.
Uh. And it will strike with its stinger twice at you. That's really
did me off. That will be a twenty Uh it's thrown that's two and
field is one, so that's twenty one to hit. I see is twenty
one? How does it hit? Then? Fifteen piercing damage? Malvic?
I need a fortitude save thirty one? All good? Okay, you take
no poison damage and then let's see second attack with a stinger, same thing,
thirteen piercing damage this time though, Yeah, okay, forty two save
twenty one. Okidoki, that is a fail. You take an additional five
poison damage. You feel it sort of with every pulse of your heart.
You feel like the poison sort of like burning its way through your veins as
it is moving through your circulatory system. Okay, and the drake stays but
it is your turn. My grip is slowly starting to waiver. But then
I feel the sting of a mosquito and game plus four hit points and I
am going to Then I assume this dragon is looking at me since they trying
to attack me. Correct. Yeah, it's really super pissed at you,
for sure. Forty two one intimidation for a intimidating glare. That is a
fail. I know, I'm sorry. That is a success. That is
a success. It will now be demoralized, demoralized one frighten one, all
frighten one, yes, and then I will take my great sword and I
will slash out it with all of my might. Die. That is a
not one. Okay, I'm going to try to do it again. Sex
of some people sucks. All the damage that could be would be nice.
Yeah, you're just so enraged and still just trying to think. You're holding
on with your legs. You know, you're doing the thigh crusher on this
creature, just trying to to hold on. Now, if it is our
Celia's thighs, I mean yeah, most likely you can work together. Yeah,
I can only make my picks pop. Can't go a bit, okay,
or Celia it's return, I continue doing the same, striking forward.
I will try to aim for its throat. Now, Genthel will probably never
walk without a limp again. Twenty five. That is a hit. Seven
plast six damage. Very nice. You sink the spear deep and you can
see blood is like pouring from the wounds. At this point, I rip
it out and I dive it back and again and I miss for then eight.
This is just a series of glancing blows that sort of slide against the
creature's scales, just barely scratching it. I see how unwell Malevic is.
My movements become desperate, and I am stabbing ferociously forward without even looking.
Yarrah, it's your turn. Seeing Malvic in the can that he is,
I will channel that extraracular energy within myself and cast a two action heel on
him with my moderate curse. That will be nine plus sixteen, so twenty
five points of healing for him. And with my final action, I will
take a swing with my spiritual weapon, sustaining the spell. It will miss
again. Okay, rashtock, it's your turn. Yeah. Clarifying question,
who has the iodarochy uh? I imagine it would be alllly, oh they
he with that? Yeah, oh, Alley and several of the awatia I
knew that, I didn't realize they have kept that makes sense, started carrying
the telescope and several other components. Got it well, all right, got
a couple ideas here, none of which are great. H So I was
waiting to see, all right, well, well we'll give it a to
college try, because I've definitely been to that in this world a swamp college,
ah had raises. Frost begins to form, but not nearly as much
as before. As a ray of frost goes out for a twenty one to
hit, twenty one will be a hit because of all the d buffs on
this creature right now. Very nice, thank you, most minimum damage,
but I'll take it six. Yeah. You can see the ice spread out
and uh it's it's causing like, uh like immediate frost burn on this this
creature. You can see, uh, you can see the drake sort of
wobbling like it's barely keeping it together right now, and I think I'm gonna
move farther away. Okay, karun So it's still on the ground, is
this right? It is? It's dried many times to shake Malvic off.
You can't, well, I Caroun feeling embodling. Will I mean, I'm
going to throw another bomb at it again? I was you take another impute
it from my vest. I would bite off the tip of the impute.
It's meant like feud. It looks like terrible and I will throw it in
a big arc over the wounds, and again I will again. The bomb
doesn't directly hit this creature, but the fire spreads outwards again, and this
time, Karoon, you can see that the creature sort of trying to buck
Malevic off, and the fire actually spreads through its mouth and its face,
and it screams in pain and it falls to the ground dead. What's that
that? Don't understand? Loser, dragon? Are you still awake now?
No? He said it was pouring blood momentarily ago on Oscilia's last attack.
Yes, I did, and I will proceed to take my great sword.
Turn it over now to slit its chest open. Find it's hard. I
would like to eat it. You want some magee for fifteen n sixes.
I've got some pepper, some basil. You take six poison damage? Yeah,
I know, and might keep consuming the art. Uh manvik what and
when I look up, my eyes will be different slits instead of pupils.
So we have grown out. As you see a variation of colors go from
red to green, and the scales that have come on my face and then
they go back to red. I stand up with the acid tripping from my
mouth, look at everybody in a fairer manner, sink my claws into the
ground and try to hold back the rage. So I try to come back.
Nay you on my prey today, And then I look at everyone.
That's right, buddy, you got him? Go on, say what you
must? You are ready? How much you do not? Just you despise
me and do not like me? Science, That's that's pretty cool. Actually,
I'm on you. I'm on team you. Do you want to enterdote
because I've got one. You should probably cook that first. I'll spit out
whatever. He's so flushed up between my teeth things. Stand up and would
like to search this creature for any Actually, instead I would look over at
Karoon and notice that they have been a big part in the hunt. Invite
her over to taken part in the feast. Wow, thank you, I
don't know what to say. Thank you eat your phil it will take your
potion. Sure, here take the in and out. I've taken one already,
so speak in. I'm going to just gingerly take just a tiny little
bit of because I'm not sure culturally, you know, I'll just take a
bit. And which part? Which part should I eat? Deliver before?
Yes, deliver the boys and glens they work and turned them, didn't take
some sticks out and just kind of gingerly takes the slice of the liver,
like not taking my invitation one then golfing in this. Oh, I'm definitely
going to eat it good. I will take an ocean And then who called
that me? That was me? I simply was going to ask if you
were okay, mmm, I will start to feel pain and the wounds all
open up as rage. The fires will die down, and I am pretty
hard and I take my first step. I will in the ground so hard.
Please make it shave. Now. I have taken an antidote and it
lasts for six hours. Okay, still not enough? In yeah, karun,
you are nauseated. Nauseated one so you managed to you know, you
gupe down the liver, the raw liver, and uh the dragons revenge.
Yeah, immediately, Karn like turns around starts wretching inside. It's really good.
It's really good. Actually, it's really good again, I said,
I asked, why, why would you not want to cook that? If
I count a little root vegetable, maybe some aromatics, I could make that
little liver that's tasty, devowing the lesser beast. So are you show on?
Yes, we're not come. The spirit will go on within you and
you grow out power. I can feel it. I can feel it already.
M hmm. You did good. You all did. Did not run?
I expected that. Oh, if I had the key, I was
going to. Lelly speaks up from just past the clearing. Okay, is
the creature dead? It is dead. It should be safe. Throughout this
entire exchange. I've been looking around making sure there's nothing else disturbing the tree
line. Is it safe for us to begin setting up? Yes? Yes,
I believe so. In the meantime all of it come here. Is
anyone badly injured? I just started to take off my arm and show wounds
all of my body as I walk towards you. Are right, yes,
wounds and is going to do something one of the awatya who would have been
introduced to you as uh Aksaiah will assist in sort of just just healing.
We can assume over the next twenty or thirty minutes that you are all fully
healed, all conditions are removed. M Who is this person again, Aksaiah?
Is she single? Did you have home with me? No? Malivia
wouldn't be worrying about that right now. Indigestion for taking it. So,
oh question the dragon? I do not know in this world. Do dragon
scale sale for anything? Cross scalarian? Certainly? I would like I don't
even have to make a role for that. Yeah, okay, I would
like to. These are drakes. This is a drake specifically, it's not
it's not it's not it's not a full blooded dragon, but close, and
it's definitely worth something. The question is what can you actually get out of
this creature is the real question here. That's the role. I will ask
Malvik if it is all right for me to harvest one of his eyes.
Yes, I plan on harvesting this whole creature. You may definitely help me
if you like. And the eyes are yours eyes are important. They have
seen many things. They may be able to detect things that we cannot,
especially this being a different world, it might be helpful for us to take
it with us. Yes, and I will try to harvest the scales anything
that we can get off the creature. It did have resistance to poison.
So okay, Malvic, you can make a survival check. Anyone helping.
I'm getting treated by the elves, is that right? Yes, I can,
if you ask Okay, I mean I would have just said this out
loud. Yeah, if you asked, I would help with survival the okay,
harvesting, So both of you can make a survival check. Let me
too, nice, Okay, we need to check because this is going to
be close. Okay, So Malvic, roll me a D ten six.
You harvest six dragon scales? What about the eyes? Excellent? And roll
me a D five. Okay, let me make notes real quickly. Roll
me D six Okay, what was it he said? Thank you? D
six? Yes? Five? Get uh five dragon drake meat rations from this
reader, and roll me another D six five five teeth? Oh, I
will I think everyone if anyone's watching me, harvestist, I don't know who's
around, you will see me slowly methodically different from what I've done than any
other creatures. I treat this strike, even though I have hatred for it.
I treat it with care. As I harvest his parts and set it
to the side. It kind of zone out. But I take the meat
cut and I look at the raw stock, put my hand on his shoulder.
I said, we've had a rough patch, and I I may have
said things that did not translate well, but I would like for you to
know that you are a valued companion. And I dump the meat on his
arms. It's so much, it's like it's like a full you know,
there's different cuts, you know, it's like, uh, it's like like
five really big steaks. Mm hmm, it's like five porterhouses. Then I
will walk to our city and thank you and say I will take the empty
bottle that m feeding the liquid was in and I'll I'll give her the bottle.
I won't put the eye in because I'll be mash it and I probably
won't fit. Actually it's really big, and I won't hand it over to
her and say he probably want to give this in to preserve it so it
won't dry out. It's got just the thing. Reach into one of my
satchels and you see me pull out a small bundle of wax, paper and
delic We begin to wrap it up, and as you're close you can see
into my satchel, perhaps for the first time, there is numerous numerous bits
and bobbles, little trinkets, metallic things, powders, sprigs, seeds,
and now among them an eyeball, small compartments neatly divided inside of this large
pocket. More or let mm hmm, I'll nod now look over past.
You're right, and I'll nod to her, And then I'll just go and
check on Karoon and say, how was it? How is word getting treated
by the elves? And just a bunch of elves around me. They are
all like looking at my arms and my hens. It's going all right.
They're way bigger than I am. I wasn't that hurt. It was fine.
I probably would have survived. Nothing can kill me. I'll be around
forever. You're resilient and stuff. I'm a creature of spite. Well that
was the feast. Did you feel the power? Of course I still feel
it. It's it's like a ball, like a hot ball right here in
my guts. Feeling good. Thank you for your potion. I don't have
feeling anything from it. That's that's good because normally it makes you know never
mind, it's good that you don't feel anything. Mm means it's the good
stuff. I will wrap the scales and teeth together, walk back to Yar
and say, I have a room in my bag, but these are heavy.
I will silently open up the bag of folding. These are precious to
me. I do not know whichever condition we will be in the items will
be in if we do travel through this gate. That I would appreciate if
you would hold it for me, certainly now legitimately to place them in the
bag. And I would also be very shocked and bewildered how it feels too,
I mean guessing it's like a dimension pocket, almost strange magics. And
then I will walk off and sit with the group. So as you are
all sort of flicking your wounds, the Awatya begin to help Alley with this
telescope and various bits of copper wire and such, rigging the telescope to the
idara and strapping the shade with her key to the top of the arch.
With delicate strands of gold appropriated from one of the Awatya's necklaces, Alley makes
one last adjustment to the telescope, then looks to you all for the go
ahead. I will walk over to Ll without saying anything, and I revolved
the embrace her. Oh, I will whisper thank you. You are most
welcome. I'll return. I'm sure you will, and I want you to
know, Melvic, do not cast doubts upon yourself. You have good friends
here, it seems hmm. I'll just grunt and nod and I will separate
and walk toward everyone and stand next to everybody as we are getting into the
part really is sort of looking at each of you. I don't see any
reason for us to stay longer. Yes, I believe it is time move.
Yes, but lely, thank you and I will look towards everyone for
all of you for allowing us to stay with you for such a time,
and for all of your assistance. Genuinely, do you want here? Sort
of look at each other and smile. Lelly says, this adventure something that
none of us will forget, not for many years. We will tell your
stories, and don't worry, we will tell yours. I am sure that
Gentiel will tell many stories of you. Ha ha. That that's fine,
Lelly closes her eyes and softly chants. She places both hands on the telescope.
Golden light spills out from the gate key and cascades down the ayudara,
then through the wire to the telescope. With a deep, chest rattling hum,
a telescope blasts a beam of light up into the sky. Alley grins
and cries it's working, yet, as she says it, the hum takes
on a discordinate note. Her smile falters as the telescope's beams suddenly changes direction,
refracting to different points across the sky. The landscape itself begins to fuzz
and shift. The stones around the eyudara remaining the same, but everything else
transforming images of alien beings and strange places. Dragons in the snow, gelatinous
blobs in candy floss, clouds, spindly angels soaring in a starry void.
Flicker pass too quickly to catalog the iodatus broken loose, Lilly shouts her hands,
working frantically at the telescope. It's searching for a new connection and trying
to take this whole clearing with it. Hold on, we won't have another
chance at this. Everyone get closer to the gate I'm going, I'm going,
I'm going, I'm going. I grabbed Jara's hand. Oh dog,
what was it? Oh? Yes, I run, we run, Yes,
we are running this. Can I ascertain anything about this? With my
mechanics drifting, you can make a roll. It's gonna be really tough,
live tough roles. What Allelly has set up here is beyond you and your
knowledge of any sort of gate travel. Yeah, you maybe read some cursory
things in the in the in the library, but you can't seem to put
the thoughts together right now to explain what's happening. As you all approach the
Ayudara, Lelly adjusts something in the flickering landscape suddenly locks in place. Cold
red desert appears all around, broken up by delicate rock columns in high canyon
walls. The gateway ruins now stand in the mouth of a canyon, at
the bottom of which lies a strange contraption like an insect with canvas wings.
Forty feet away, a rat like humanoid in a wide brimmed hat glares at
you from the back of a giant red lizard. He rears his mount and
shrieks. I need to know what languages everybody speaks certainly not rat. I
speak Elvin, Dwarf and Arburial, Verisian and Hallett speak Sylvan Common and Turcona.
I speak Common, Orc, Macklow and scald Common, LuxI, Sylvan,
Elvin and Hallet, Common, Nakrill and Verisian. Okay, are celia?
You make out some of the words nearest translation of which I will require
an intellect check for. Okay, could I negotiate with you that I could
do a society ro Sorry not in this one. Cool a your just screech
back at them. It's a rat. How difficult could the language be.
That's a pretty good one. Never mind, Holy shit, Okay, Uh.
The gist of what you make out is this is my shalage. You,
you tall sandsuckers, and I'm going to bring you all over Yes,
do we get to kill the rat. I'm going to bring you all over
here. If it works, peez, there we go. Oh man,
please move, drag your tokens onto anywhere or around the gate on that stone.
Dais around the gate. Where's the gate on the telescope? Oh,
that's the whole thing is again this is the gate right here? H one
moment over there we go. All right, okay, it's elect your tokens
and roll initiatives. Look, little buddy, I don't know who you think
you are, but we just killed the dragon. Oh fucking exclaim something?
H I would say, Wait, I think I understand them. M hmm.
What did he say? Or it say? They They must be some
kind of scavenger. They simply wish to hold their claim on the find.
I don't. I don't think they will be hostile if we aren't. He
definitely looks hostile. I'll tell you that I could coerce them into submission.
Oh was it closer to aklo or was it closer to scald uh aclo?
Okay, I will call out an aclo, say wait, we are travelers.
You can do so when your turn comes up. Sounds cute, malevic,
it's your turn. This creature definitely looks hostile, sort of pointing what
appears to be some kind of uh strange contraption at you. It hm,
let's see. Oh it's making threatening moves towards men. Yeah, and I
will sudden charge and swing at that thing immediately said I know. I said,
sure thing, okay, okay, yeah, I will go here and
I will sling at it. Steps all reactions. Oh the srin conic Ley
is sort of yelling to you as you are doing this, She says,
protect the telescope, protect the gate. That's a twenty, okay, twenty.
This rat folk is riding this giant gecko, and let's see, a
twenty is a miss. You strike out with your sword and you can see
the creature sort of fumbling around it. It has a hand crossbow similar to
what Karun has, as well as some things that look like bombs. Man
Karun, throw it. Okay, Well that's end of my time. I's
a miss. Okay. A giant gecko that this creature is riding on will
trying to attack you with its jaws. Malavic fifteen. A hit is a
miss. I will bash it out of the way with my fists. Yeah,
you do that like Conane punch when he punches that fucking camel or is
it a horse I can't remember, punches the snake and uh then it will
try to move away with the rat folk on its back. It's gonna move
up here, and let me just double check on its movement. Uh yeah,
it will climb up the side of the wall right there about five feet
up. Okay, or Celia, it's your turn. Okay, I see
the telescope is what we're trying to protect. Here. I will move so
that I can have a clear line of sight of them. Moved to about
here, suffering forward. I'll raise both of my hands and try to speak
with them. Please, there's no need to be aggressive. We are trying
to get home. We require both of these devices to get home. When
I say this in Aclo, I will try to slow down because clearly it's
not the exact dialect. So a little bit of info on the Aklo language.
Okay. It is thought to have like other worldly origins. So it
sounds really weird to any of you that are listening to this. This is
very the real language. Yeah, it sounds insane like it's not. It
sounds like a bunch of I don't know. I'll let you take the lead
on this one, ar Celia, but it's really strange. It doesn't sound
like it has any grammar or anything, you know. A lot of trilling
and birdlike noises, perhaps almost mimicking someone trying to mimic a bird of some
kind, with variations of whistling in between. Okay, and I need you
to make a diplomacy role please twenty three. Okay, the rat folk sort
of looks a little curiously for a second. Clear off, this is my
claim. My chirping will take on a growl and I'll say no, this
is ours now, flex my muscles. Intimidation significantly smaller bonus this This creature
looks unconvinced, you see it. They sort of scoff and begin to reach
in to its pouch for a bomb. Hey, uh, that will be
my last action because I moved. Okay, negotiations aren't working. Okay,
it will then, uh it will then. Sorry, he's got some crazy
ship. Don't tell me it's going to extend his leg or some ship.
No, no, we are here to loot some ship. Oh wait,
hold on, it's an eldritch language, so it probably sounds really sloppy,
but like that's not the real language. Anyone can do that. Just take
some noodles. Okay, it is Uh, they're gonna throw a bomb at
you, Malvic, rather me than them. Fifteen is a miss. This
alchemical bomb has launched your way, and there will be some splash damage.
Jeez, it's poison. Because Melvic and I have both had antidotes within the
last six hours. That is a wonderful point. Let me see you're welcome
call me in the morning. Uh, let's see. Four. Let's have
some fun malvic roll me dy four kay for you or me? Three?
Okay? And two three you see shadow begin to spread out similar to a
bomb that Karun is thrown. You will take some mental damage. Uh,
this is gonna be four mental damage. Maladk does mental damage bypass temporary hit
points? Yes, it's mental enough physical I don't know if that's a thing
that does a good question. So but yeah, I think I think temporary
sort of works like a shield. Yeah, okay, up temporary hit points.
You reduce your temporary temporary hit points first. Ah oh yes, that's
probably why they don't give me much. Said four. Yes, four,
I was just stick my great sword and swing it hard to create like a
wind whish season away and do do do you see this creature with sort of
like these bulgy cheeks, like a squirrel that has filled filled its cheeks up
with acorns, reach into its mouth and pull out another bomb. It will
throw another one at you with its quick bomber feet or ability. Uh okay,
that is a twenty four to hit. Yes, I hit. The
damage is not wrecked. Oh, roll me a D four one okay.
This is seven persistent acid damage and two splash damage as a flask. Okay,
And I said seven persistent. I take the persistence immediately, uh,
I think the persistent. Uh So it immediately deals with one and then seven
on your at the yeah, at the beginning of your turn, right,
okay, and then it will fire its hand crossbow, and this one will
be aimed at you A rash talk nineteen A hit. Yep, you see
the bolt sort of sail your way, Rastac. You're trying to process everything
that's happening as you hear sort of like a Lilly sort of chanting and quickly
trying to adjust things on the telescope. You are r It's your turn,
all right. I will go ahead, and I will glance towards this creature.
I had a chance to meditate, so my curse went down to minor,
and now it is indeed at moderate. As I am casting vision of
weakness towards it. All I need is to be able to see it.
My eyes will glow blue, and I will be observing this creature intensely.
The rat men in particular. Okay, fair enough, okay mm hmm okay
uh. And this is your vision of weakness okay uh, and you're looking
at the rat folk. Okay, weakness does not appear to have one.
And then which was three saving throws as smallest will will is the least of
its saving throws, and hearn understanding is gain plus two status bonus on your
next attack role or skill check. Okay, oh, yes, I will
be using that with the remaining two actions that I have. I will wave
a hand over the rape year and I will send forth needle darts its way.
I'll have a plus two so that it's twenty four to hit. Okay,
twenty four is a hit, very good? Hear him screaming vain,
and that's for twelve piercing damage. Yes, indeed, yep, absolutely like
like just it's a horrible site, you know, just rending flesh with these
needles. Okay, run, it's your turn. Like a parakeet which has
seen its reflection in a mirror, I am filled with rage and will let
loose a smoke bomb to how do I to right? Can you see this
all right here? Okay? Are you able to see that? Very well,
and I will move my body to here, which is twenty five feet
okay, just behind the shield of smoke. Absolutely. I think we have
some cool effects for that. I'm just trying to find them fucking things.
It has bombs so spread out and that's ten perfect said, ten foot that's
right, A little bit lower, just one lower. There you go.
Yeah, fair enough. Uh, and then I will I will, I
guess I will craft another quick alchemy. So then the two actions thus far,
and now the third one will be quick out three that's right, all
right, and then that's that's matt Urn. Okay. Is the smoke ten
foot radius or diameter? That is an excellent question. I feel like he's
not that huge radious, that big radious burst crazy. Okay, Yeah,
there you go so much better. Yeah, uh okay, wow, alrighty
a rash talk. It's your turn. Yes, you can't fucking see the
things now, I was gonna say you can't see it either, right,
Yeah, No, that's that's totally fine. Okay, Well, it's actually
all right because uh, I pop a cork off of my water skin.
I even though it's worn, I think that would probably be an action,
yes, to open it up is it it's worn, you said, let
me double check that actually before I assume if it is worn. No,
it is stowed, so i'd have to take it out for it action.
Yep, that's that's fine. So I take it out and pulling some water
out of it via magic a rousing splash malavic for eight temp HP which also
removes acid or fire persistent damage. Immediately know where that wetness has come from.
Enjoy your wetness. So now you have eight ten eight peaks. I
think we determined it. It overrides the lower one. Yes, already.
See that's a per perfect mellowick. It's your turn. I am going to
there are some fun stuff. You want to have fun, I'll have fun.
I'm gonna do raging athlete. Take my turn to run and leap fifteen
feet and then come down and attack this creature. Let's see, I would
have to move to Yep, I make it as you rush towards the creature.
Lelly yells just just a little while longer. I just need to make
some more adjustments. I don't even hear. I am going to swing with
all my might. Yea eighteen that is a miss. I'm going to swing
again. Second action, day twenty three, and you were swinging at the
rat folk. I mean, yeah, it's the closest thing to me.
Okay, that is a hit me. I guess yeah, that's my bad
damage. Fifteen okay, four of that is fire. By the way,
the great sword like partly sticks into the rock where the gecko and the rat
folk are, you know, clinging to the rock nearby, and you draw
this large drend of blood across the chest of the creature. Ah, be
here, Okay, the gecko is gonna move, crawling along the rock surface
with the grenade ear on its back. It moves up towards them. Don't
do it. Don't you do it? And uh, he will check a
bomb. Don't you do it? Don't you do it? It went around
smoked. Uh. Well, you can see that they are looking like they're
about to withdraw a bomb or Celia, it's return all right. I will
move I've teneen twenty twenty five. I'll move here. As I run forward,
I'll pull out my spear, which has now been emblazoned with a rune
of returning. I will throw my spear at the rat person. Seventeen seventeen
is a miss. It platters into the rock and sort of sticks there.
I will recall it. Is it an action to return? Okay? Yes,
I don't know, actually think that I'm asking. I don't know,
I don't know. I will look it up. Well, we can assume
that it does. That will be the end of my turn. It is
not. It says a thrown strike that it flies back to her and after
the strike is complete, it just sort of, you see, like wobble
more than it should and then it just withdraws from the stone. I'm just
right back to your hand. I catch it. I threw it again.
Is there like? Now? I don't want to impose anything on anybody's characters,
But is there like a tattoo that you have to get to make it
like return to that hand or something like in the palm of your hand.
No, but you could. That would be awesome esthetics. I'm just asking.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I could probably do a tattoo. I
think I could figure out how to do a tattoo. Okay, okay,
we have some can't make you tatooties to do the tapoo gun. That's the
end of my turn. Your hand so you moved and you attacked. I
think you have one more hand of times I attacked twice. Oh, I'm
sorry I missed the second one. I apologized a mess, Yes, few
misses as uh. It's it's a crazy kind of experience. You know,
you launch the spear, you catch the spear, and then you throw It's
like throur throwing mule near you know it just it throws it, like comes
back, throws it again, just comes back as I'm throwing it. I
happened. My body happens to be arct in a way where you see me
as I reel back to throw the spear, my titties are just in your
face. Karun. You just see a lot of wobbling titty action, right
hear, that's my turn? Okay, the book still taking aim at U
Karoun will throw an alchemical bomb. Uh, I hate it, Karun,
roll a D four for me. As the twenty is a heat or celia,
you will be hit by the splash. Okay, he Oh my god,
what happened? I've rose the two? Yeah, I know I'm trying
to find this. It's pretty clear that I've moved in front of you to
try to block this. But as it explodes on both of us, unfortunately
he does nothing. What did I have opened before? All right? Well,
the one chart you needed, right, I closed it somehow. I
don't know what I did with it. Uh, Okay, a little prank
from past. Whack, it's the little goof let's see here. Uh cool,
cool, there we go. Okay, Uh, this is fire oh
so reginal so rechal. Oh boy, your language doesn't even make sense.
This is for eleven fire damage karoon, and and this is too persistent fire
damage by the way. Uh, and ar Celia, you take two fire
splash damage and two persistent fire damage. Okay, uh, Next we will
have this creature will fire too quick m two quick hand crossbow shots one to
ar Celia first one twenty five to hit ahead se load. Uh it did
not, so it's just gonna do the one then. So this one is
a hit for four piercing damage or Cilia. Okay, yarra, it's your
turn. All right. I will go ahead, and I will raise a
hand and and blue energy jolting toward this creature's head as I cast days.
It must make a fortitude save or I will save part of me of twenty
okay, twenty five, all right, so much? Four? Yes,
it would be taking half damage, so two points of damage. Okay,
dog, And let's see here, I still have one action. So from
here, I will go ahead and I will I will cast guidance upon how
far away is male of it? Let me see you forty four? Oh
he's just too far, all right. So I will go ahead and I
will cast guidance upon our celia. Okay, that will be my turn.
Okay, uh, Karun, it is your turn. I will I'm torn
because one hand I am on fire, but the other hand I am really
having a fire inside of me. And so I will take the red empuel
that I have been shaving and I will take this out and I will throw
it. Okay, dog, I assume. Oh well, yes, we'll
be throwing it at the Red Folk, and I will be biting off the
tip of the empuele. The glass is breaking, you just see coming out
of the darkness inside of it, all of the light being shocked into the
impuls It's through the air and I'm aiming right for the Red Folk. Okay,
go for it. Oh right, I forgot that. Oh yeah,
yeah, I have to roll twenty six. That is his okay. Uh.
The shadow shirts just spread out and you can see it like like get
sucked in like by a breath of the rat folk. It is not very
fun to do these to people. Okay, and it has no persistent damage
right now, Okay, it does. It does one. It does mentally
splash mentally splash. Ah, you're right, but it does become frightened.
I don't think that it does. Does it less a dread mu? Yes
not, because it already felt intimidation on the hit. The target becomes frightened
one or frightened two on a critical hit. Many types also grant an item
bonus to tech rolls. Maybe that doesn't That might just be for demoralized dude.
Yeah, I think it. I think it's good. Okay, fright
war then and from the next action I would be throwing it. Gecko is
also taking mental damage, okay, and then I will also be throwing another
bomb this one. Oh no, you throw a lesser alchemist fire. Another
fire just kind of collides at the rock behind. No splash, there is
a splash. Absolutely, you hit the gecko and the rat folk for the
four uh splash damage. Okay, now you can be scared and on fire.
Okay, Now I will take cover and that is my turn a rush
talk? Yes, oh, let me see. Is it farther away again?
Oh it's not. How is it looking? Just a rough cursory glance,
like I mean panning out fire and uh yeah, I mean there's there's
a wound across its chest that Malvic inflicted. Yeah, but that's it,
nothing too much more extreme. That's what I now that. That's what I
want to know. Thank you well. Then stamping my staff down, reaching
my hand out, I reach as bugs begin to bite at me, and
pull goblin pox out of me and fly over to it. It must make
a fortitude of DC nineteen very well, fortitude twenty three? All right,
it is still sickened one okay, it must vomit it with an action to
get rid of it rus all right, yes, and that is all fair
enough. Malvic uh alllly is sort of yelling I've almost caught it. Everyone
back onto the stone, Oh boy, okay, yeah, I run toward
it. One, two, three, four five. I moved my twe
to see a way. Yeah, twenty, and use my remaining movement to
leap to this creature, because I can leap up to fifteen feet and I
will start attacking it. Yo, Okay, twenty one twenty one is just
barely a hit. Oh, twenty one damage? How do you kill him?
Malad? Oh? I I've swing way harder than I wanted to,
and I think I take half of his body with the sword swing, as
the other half is still straddling lifelessly on the salamander. Yes, yes,
and with that off of the gecko? Have two actions? Correct? Left?
Still have no one one action left? Mmmm? Well the rats on
the gecko. Correct. I'm going to try to finish the job. I
can't move the twenty three that is a hit eight for sixteen, four of
that damage being a fire. You kill the gecko as well. Now we
out of combat. You are out of combat. I try to grab as
much shit off of this rat as possible. Yay, hello, you take
hold my arm out? Do I get time to grab whatever I can?
I'm not even going I'm just going to grab as much as I can off
of the questions of the body of Alvic. Are you sure you want to
do this? We don't have Let's go come uh anime style grab my sword
has warned you three times, and I will. I will leap. Well
how high is this platform? Uh? Probably probably five ft something. Okay,
yeah, I can leap up. I'll leap up and rush over and
then I'll rush over. Mm hmm. Agreed. It is amazing. I
gave you lucky it's not a drons. I gave you three warning, three
raging. I'm following the ring rage. No, no, no, no,
the two The two warnings were if you need to like, stop hitting
it and come to you guys. But I can't to domesticate the gecko.
Okay, so, uh here's what's gonna happen. I should have just grabbed
the upper body of but it was in the middle of a you doing things,
so it wouldn't have made sense. Just think about row bombs Ley begins
to uh tweak this machine. It begins to glow and again you see this
bright light shoot up and as this happens, clouds of roiling yellow green mist
rush over the desert. The sandy ground falls away and is replaced with spongy,
flesh like hills of oozing blisters dotted with pools of black goo and groves
of what look like hair follicles. From the peak of a nearby ridge like
a huge vein, an eyeless, black winged shape takes flight right the ground
below us or in a distance it's a nearby ridge. I hate it.
I hate it here any more than smoke bombs. Yes, do we want
to hide ourselves before whatever the that is? I will deploy a smoke bomb
at the present location. Hold hands, don't get lost, Try not to
breathe. It's kind of toxic. I grab on to whoever's next to me.
Yeah, everybody, please make survival or occultism roles. Oh I like
that? Could I make an esoteric role? No? Okay? Twenty four?
Okay, the DC was a twenty anybody that failed, please make a
fortitude save ahmen thirty Oh no, you guys don't feel so good. What
do you have a chance? Would you have a chance to what? Use
a hero point for that? Seventeen? No? I already I already said
that that you had failed. You had the opportunity to do so. I'm
going to say no. All right, Yes, everyone else was talking though
it's twenty three. You can speak up when that happens. Don't worry about
it, yep. Okay twenty three. Uh. As you change to this
place, some of you realize this something is wrong with this atmosphere. You
try to breathe pockets of air. You can see maybe like a hazy difference
between the atmospheres and the people that succeeded on the initial role managed to get
a good breath of air. People that failed the initial role and failed the
fortitude save. You were now clumsy one. Oh no, it's so clumsy.
As you're feeling a bit lightheaded. You just kind of stumbling about a
little bit. And this would be Karun only you meant it. You succeeded
on your fortitude save. You can still feel this effect. Something is happening
to you right now, Malavik, I'll just kind of grab one to Karun,
noticing his air stumbling. Where is is the real question? Lelly is
working on the ayudara right now. Okay, yes, tell let's go.
Let's move you guys over here. This is what this place looks like.
Please drag your tokens near the portal on the stone. WHOA where you think
you would be? How were we earlier? I think it was like this
and then Karun was in front there. Did I manage to get off that
smoke bone before I became clumsy? Yeah? Sure? Why not? Where
did you place it just right at our feet? Okay, so like with
me, is the center maybe oh you dropped it right there? Yeah yeah,
yeah, uh that would be covering everybody if you do it there.
Yeah, okay, all right, fair enough. M let's see what does
clumsy do ooh ooh decks based checks in dcs, including ac reflex says,
range attack rolls, and skill checks. Using acrobatic stealth and thievery, you
take a status penalty equal to the condition value, so you have a minus
one to all that stuff. And because of that, everybody, please make
me a stealth roll. This is because of the bomb. Yes, still
do I have a bonus? Because of I'm one with the shadows. Everybody's
one with the shadows right now. Everybody's got a bonus, all right?
Okay? Oh lord, uh oh these stealth rolls okay, uh not the
best, not the best. I think there's a lot of coughing that's happening
right now from everybody. People that are struggling. You can definitely tell that
the atmosphere is different. There's a different pressure here, there's a different smell,
there's a different uh. You can tell that something's wrong with the atmosphere.
And I think I think that uh h rash talk and our Celia,
you are the most aware that this is definitely like not a safe atmosphere for
you. There's something wrong with this atmosph sphere, something some kind of gas
or something that is causing some some problems. And I'm going to make a
roll real quick ghost that might change what is happening here. M ooh.
As you're sort of coughing and trying to uh maintain your uh, maintain your
sanity, really, uh, some kind of creature is making its way towards
you. You can only see like dark shapes, uh, sort of flying
about as it will seemingly begin inspecting what's going on. You hear Alelly sort
of coughing, go too far, m most re orient and uh, I'm
beginning to question the technical acumen of the elves. I need everybody to please
roll initiative. Select your tokens and roll initiative. Almost couldn't find my token.
Make it a little easier for you. Okay, let's see, ars
Celia. You can make out that there's some kind of flying creature that is
heading your way. It looks like it has noticed Malavic. You can barely
see through the smoke. Something's headed our way. Turn out to breathe the
air, cover your mouth if you have to, wely, Please work as
quickly as you can. I will, but I can barely see. Oh
no, we're all looking for the person who did this. I will forward.
If I stand right on the edge here where I'm obscured, can I
see the creature? You would have to leave the area? All right,
I'll do that. Okay, I'll step out of the smoke to get a
better look. Okay, oh boy, okay, let's oh lord, how
shall I show you this? And I paced this? You could just leave.
You don't have to show us anything. Well you do? You select
the token and then you hit delete. No, I don't think that's how
you do it. Okay, okay, four, I put it in the
discord for you all. I don't like that. Yeah, the Jersey deaf
is. I'll make it just a little bit bigger. It's this sort of
inky looking cre with horns and large wings. It's very spindily looking, and
it is making its it's flying towards the smoke in this strange experience that's happening
here at the gate. That is a critic that likes to get high.
Am I right? Wack right. Oh no, I'd kiss it all right.
I'd use excellent vulnerability for my second action here. Don't hold that one,
loved, I'm going to re roll that. My last hero point for
the day is the thirteen. Okay, Unfortunately that is not enough. Is
that a crypt failure? I'm checking. I think it might be. Uh
nope, Okay, then I'll have just sorry, a regular personal antithesis against
it. As I come stumbling out, I look at it and one of
my hands is in my satchel. What's that? Never seen anything like it
before, or Cilia, I will use my third action to back up again
into the smoke. There's something out there that's heading our way. It looks
like some kind of demon or winged. I've never seen anything like it before.
That's my team. This should be a twenty four. Sorry, and
I will sort this again. Okay, there we go. Okay, or
Celia, that's your turn. Malvic, what do you want you want me
to handle it? M hmmm. I think it's seen you, Melvick.
Now it's seen me too. I will move up here sillness smoke, but
to block a rash dog. And this has happened in the span of what
minutes or seconds from the other place? Oh, lesson? Yeah, less
than minutes, yeah, I mean it has. It's been minutes for sure,
Like I mean maybe two minutes. Okay, I'll close my eyes and
this like you know in a Marvel movie where the Hulk and Brianna is trying
to summon the Hulk. It's a card and it comes in and goes out.
I cannot rage. I still have two very hid points, and I
will look at back at everyone. Mm hmmm. One action, nothing taken,
okay, one second twenty to move fifteen feet mm hmm. Ottomie wants
to go out and meet this creature head on. But what I will do
It's no a defensive stance or anything like that. You can just take cover.
Mm hmmm. It's nothing I can do unless I go up to it,
all right, I will I moved once, Okay, I can't do
anything else with that. Yeah, I guess what I would do is I
will use the sling to try to shoot. I mean, even though I'm
obscured, I know it's gonna a penalty, and I'll just try to lob
something out there. Okay, well, obscured. Nothing else I can really
do Okay, go for it unless I can. Yeah, it's something else,
all right? For two bludgeoning damage, there's this horrible sort of squelching
sound in response. I don't like that. I don't like that. Well,
yeah, I'll just back right back up and try to make sure that
my body is blocking the squishes. Okay, a rostock, so I can't
see it, or I just see a shadow through the smoke. Yeah,
I mean just occasionally, you know, like your smoke is sort of billowing.
You maybe get occasional glimpses here and there, but you can't really see
it, right, if you have a decent hearing. I did hit it
and made a noise. If you'll have a direction, I mean, you
know, I hate it. Great. If I don't, nothing change,
I'm going to attempt to tangle foot it for an attack of twenty five okay,
trying to grow vines out of this weird ground area to lash of hornets.
Oh it's flesh. That's even worse. I'm glad I didn't step out
therefore. M hmm. If this hits it, it will take it minus
ten foot to its speed for a single round. Apparently it can make an
escape attempt. Okay, that is a success. Okay, And this is
uh vines, which in this case a rash talk are not vine their hairs.
I don't like that makes horrible sounds as it becomes tangled in these hairs
that reach up from the fleshy ground. Okay, anything else in your turn
of rash talk. No, I don't want to be here anymore. Well,
let's see if the creature can help you out with that as it bats
its wings against this prison, this hair prison that you have created. Still
don't like that. No, it will take a minus ten foot circumstance penalty
to its speeds for one round. Okay, I think it's just gonna move
mm hmmm. Oh lord, this is weird. Okay. Uh, it's
going to use two actions to get here because it is currently load uh for
ten feet for each one of those actions. And then as it enters these
smoke, it will then uh trying to attack. And as it sort of
enters the smoke, you can Malvic and ar Cilia a rashtak. The three
of you can maybe see now the silhouette of this creature. That is just
a little bit wrong. It's a lot of bit wrong. Let's be honest.
It's about as tall as you are, ashtak, and it has these
horns. It's very spindily. It's you know, it's it's similar sort of
to your body type, sort of very lithe and it has spindily arms,
spindily legs, and very spindily looking just horso in general. It has a
very inky like appearance, and it's so weird. It will use its tail
to tickle one of you. Me, me, me a rash talk.
Oh, I need you to make it. I need you to make a
fortitude save Oh goody twenty seven. Oh wow, got scales so creeped out
by this thing has raised his fortitude by several degrees. Yeah. This tail
starts to move its way towards you a rash talk, and you just fervently
batter it out of the way. As this creature gets closer, it has
no face that you can see, and as it gets closer, you hear
Alelly saying, get rid of the smoke. I can't make any adjustments,
is she does? She say, get out of the smoke, get get
rid. Oh. As the smoke billows across all of you, this creature
has joined you in the smoke. Alleli is constantly making adjustments to the telescope.
We're gonna wrap here, and I didn't immediately play the credits because I
want to just let you all know I have done which you have asked.
That's all your fault. I've created a character on Wild RP and I am
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