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slash discord. Thank you, Joy. That's the third thing. I've never
been alone. What what do you mean by that? M hmm. I
do not want you getting involved any more than you already have. I'll figure
it out. I reach out and I grab you by the wrist. Melevic,
I'm already involved. Whatever it is it's trying to get between us.
H I don't remember much. I just remember being alone, in a voice
reaching out to me. It was cold that day, very cold, and
everything became warmer. He said that we were alike, that our father's wrong.
When did this happen? Yeah? I was younger. I believe memories
are twisted. I remember the tree leaves. I also remember the cosmos bearing
lands of fire. M what does it want from you. Mm hmmm.
I can I speak more on this, okay, Malvic. I hope that
we can speak more of it soon or find a way to I respect if
you don't want to. But it's clear that it's trying to get between us.
And though you may have been with it for some time, I don't
think it's going to want to leave me either to reached out once it will
try it again, I can tell. And if I know nothing, I
won't be able to protect myself and I won't be able to help you.
I don't think there is no helping me. I have already made the deal
a deal. I cannot speak more on this, okay, And I believe
as I look up towards you, you'll start seeing the scales in the red
start to come in a little bit more than normal. The darkness starts to
follow over my eyes, under my eyes, around my cheek bones. I
I cannot Does it hurt you, No, quite the opposite. It gives
me immense power. Power isn't everything mm hmm to me it is. It
seems like it's hurting you. Though I don't like to see you in pain,
it won't matter. We have to finish this task. Have we promised
everyone? And then we can go always. I let go of your wrist.
I look down at my bloodied hand. Oh. Until we separate ways,
I will do the best I can to help you as I as I
with you. S don't get burned. You've been cursed as well. I
saw the scales. I wasn't part of the deal. I think you and
I are connected in more ways than one. What do you know of ancient
dragons? Nothing? Really, no more than the average person names. Do
you know names? I think back. I am someone who reads about creatures
and haunts. Could I possibly know a dragon name? I mean you can
make an esoterical oral creatures are part of that, right, yes? Twenty
four? Oh, I'm sorry, that's from last session thirty one. Okay,
hmmm, yeah, you definitely know something about dragons, that's for sure.
I think that you know most of the basics for sure. You know
that there are chromatic dragons, and you know that there are metallic dragons.
You know that the metallic dragons are often considered good, and that the chromatic
dragons are often considered evil, and they do some pretty horrible things they uh
will depending on what kind of dragon is will be involved with the rest of
the world, and some for firs seclusion. The chromatic dragons like to more
often than not just or things, and there are many different types. I
don't know beyond that if you know specifics, do I think it's possible that
whatever possession or deal or supernatural thing that has been with Malvic for so long,
is it possible that it's in the realm of the dragon. Oh,
certainly what he is describing starting to coalesce in your head. I think with
thirty one he's spoken about fathers and such, and there's one pretty famous father
amongst the dragons and bad relationship with a with the son. So there's two
pretty famous dragon deities. Uh, the good dragons metallic dragons and all dragons.
Really the father of like all of the dragons, is Apsu, and
Apsu has a problematic child that goes by the name of day Hawk. Day
Hawk is the atren deity of evil dragons the chromatic against in particular names.
I suppose that most people probably know about Apsu. Mm hmmm. And Dak's
pretty quider. No, Yes, that's it. That's it. Our fathers
are wrong. The hearts that I take from these lesser beings. That is
what I must do. Take in their hearts, rhythm of the land,
gain the power to take down my father. As I will take down my
father, and together together we will pursh this land of weakness, create equality,
and then I will finally have my realm as it should be all Rick,
is that what you really want? Yeah? No, I don't know.
You came along. You messed up everything. Now its feelings are being
separated. I didn't expect to for many bonds with any of you. Your
interference have created a spot. It will take me time to complete. The
battle still continues with my father. As I will find my father. You
know in this curse of this land you want to help him so much.
Then you become a part of the deal as wellll No, you have to
stay out of this. We continue this, I'll find a way to purge
all the weakness that is here. That is the deal. You will not
break it. This bond cannot be broken between us. Is keeping things at
bay Malvik. Look at me. You can tell the others and I will
take their lives. Don't tell the others. I will keep control. I
have been I have to do this. This shouldn't be your burden alone.
You're one of us. If it were me, would you want me to
keep silent if it was to be InTru from taking the lives of the others
and ripping their hearts with the chest go aheadye, don't do it. No,
I would trust you to find a way with me. But I don't
believe including the others is. I just don't. I just don't feel like
they They can't don't know, we can't. We have to keep going on
with this mission. And I've been dealing with these voices. It's just this
place. It's up here. Appetite of power keep going closer. The closer
we get, the more I have to put up a fight. But I
will be fine. You are a fighter. We will fight it together.
He's weak, that's why he has. I need his power. I need
his power. But I will fight it and you won't fight it alone.
Yes, I know, And I lift up my and the one that bears
our bond mark. I promised you. Yeah, until one of the stars.
I promised you. I mean, that's the freedom is. And I
don't know how these things work. Two birds, one stone child to cut
the chromatic dragon, as has promised, the power would be yours to be
able to defend what you think you care about. I can continue to protect
you all with the power that I have been given. My father was connected
weak minded. I was found weak minded. You are controlled, not controlled.
I allow certain things. I'm a lot stronger than I hate. I'm
a lot stronger than he thinks. I am all fighting an endless battle with
my father. I am wanting to fight my father. Take his heart,
take their heart, and then I will have I will have full control over
myself. A realm Valerian will be mine. I take your hand. We'll
do this together. But it's going to be something that takes more than one
night to figure out. For now, m sit with me. Let's have
some tea bye, and I'll go and sit closer and I will pull a
cup of tea for Malevik and try my best to bring some calm and comfort
and just turn it out. We cannot tell the others. You can't get
them involved. It'll only bring pain and sorrow. You can trust me,
I know. And I'll take the tea and sit on watch for the rest
of the night, or for the rest of the watch. Can I join
you? Okayum, you finish this last watch there are no incidents. Everyone
begins to wake up to start the day. Everybody make a fortitude day for
me, please TWENTYO. I'm gonna remember all that. Twenty one eighteen thirty
zero point for our celia changing a thirteen natural one into a thirty. It's
seventeen okay. Yeah, there's a lot of dust and like it's not super
pleasant, Like you're all a bit rough, you know, like waking up
with that sort of scratchy throat. But it's more severe, I think for
a rash talk and Karoun did something dye in your throats? Rochtoker, you're
right, but oh it sounds like a dying animal. I need what Yes,
yes, yes, let's get your water, darling. I got an
ancho of your bone stuck in my throat. If anyone wants to know,
did you get it out? No? I don't want to be here.
Would you like for me to get it out? No? Saving it for
later? All right, I'm not going to question the customs of your people.
It's a bit dusty. We should try to cover our faces. Mm
hmm, yes, is it didn't work? I will just walk over and
start tending to the horse again, helping blossom, yes, and helping Ulie
Cook and Numa up on the area where they will be sure steering. I
guess you can call him coaching whatever, driving driving? What is the horse's
name again? Then you named the horse blossom, Oh, blossom. Good.
So you begin to continue your journey across star Chorus wastes and towards the
fallen star as you all enter exploration mode again and the wagon gets moving,
what's everybody doing? I will scout mm, I will attempt to look for
reagents along the road. Okay, I will go ahead, and I will
defend. I'm on edge at the moment. Okay, you are traveling with
her shield out. Basically you can see Yara on head on a swivel kind
of situation. I would like to gather information to speak to Sacawatchie and the
others, trying to get an idea of perhaps more of what they know about
where we're going, what we're doing, and if that's not fruitful, maybe
more information about them. Okay, very well, I'll be searching for in
doors you can seal hazards, so on. Okay, all right, Uh
Malvic you said you were scouting m h all right, uh Karoun give me
a survival check survival, it's twenty nine despite having an anchovy bone stuck in
my throat. Okay, go ahead and roll me a D four two.
You find two moderate reagents worth of supplies for alchemy. Thank you. Next
rash talk, you said you were doing searches. Yes, okay, I
need to check on something. Okay, arashok you you're gonna find a few
things along this along this bit of travel. First off, since you were
the person on this part of the UH the questioning UH, roll me a
rolled me just a flat D twenty ten in the middle. So you are
traveling for a good portion of the day. A lot of this travel sucks.
You guys are on a lot of like plateaus and things. You have
to do a lot of scouting. You're finding yourself like having to like figure
out paths for the wagon to take. There's a world wound that happened and
canyons that have sort of UH formed from the earth moving UH in this area.
Right So you you you find you might find yourself in a spot where
you just can't find like a switchback to go down into a valley into one
of these canyons, or just trying to figure your way around the area.
So there's a lot of like hurry up and wait where you have to like
get to a point where you can see as much as you can and then
say, okay, let's go that way. Along the way rash talk,
you are going to find a lot of hidden traps rolled well for your secret
perception check. So you, uh, you find a lot of what are
it must be old traps they were set like for like some pitfalls and things
you can see. You're traveling through old battlefields and you are seeing some traps
that look like they were set up, and you spot them. A rash
hockey managed to find several along the route and allow the group to move around
them or through them or disable them along the way. These bones and things
that you see around are definitely worrisome. I think. As a group you
find a fair amount of bodies along the way, some that look humanoid and
some that don't. Some bones look like they have been crushed or chewed or
melted. It's a strange and troubling sight for sure. Or Celia, please
make a diplomacy check for me, all right. Twenty seven Okay, you
learn a few things about talking to Sakawachie, roll me a D two okay
one okay. Sakawachi speaks a little bit about where they come from. Their
tribe is known as the Aminuit. With that in our discord, so that's
not the right thing, I guess I can copy it, but that again,
m and they come from pretty far away. They are basically, for
all intents and purposes, the equivalent of an Arctic tribe. They live in
what amounts to the Arctic circle of this world, and they have traveled a
very long way to do this. I think you gather from this conversation with
Sakawachie that there is a lot riding on this journey, not just personally,
but also for their tribe. There is a spiritual connection to what is happening
for them that you've observed in your travels that runs very deep with their tribe.
And you learn that, sorry, I lost the page where it got.
You learn that the this Sakawachi is a a scion for the uh the
Erutaki. Her mother and her grandmother both taught Sakowachi how to see patterns in
the ice below and the stars above, and that is the basis for what
san Kowachi uses to read the stars and learn astronomy, and her grandmother,
known as Elder Sesheu. He's very proud of Sasauatchie, and Sakawachie mentioned something
of your missing moment Sacawachie's final summer before adulthood. This last summer, there
were unnatural blue lights that were beamed up from the center of the crown of
the world. And as Saquachi's speaking to you about this, you can see
the worry in Socacuachi's eyes. Please make an esoteric laurel Okay twenty seven.
The timing of these blue lights, your dreams, these visions, black frost
wail. It all feels connected to you, and you still get the impression
that Saquachie is keeping some secrets. I do not push it for now.
Instead, I am more curious than inquisitive, and I try to share as
much as I can. Back. I go on to tell Sakawachi about essentially
my time in our gear, the aftermath of the Whispering Tyrant, and when
I began my apprenticeship with the Burning Sun Clan, how I was taken away
to care Maga, and it is there that I became a student of nethis
the god of magic. But I did not learn magic, not in the
way that wizards and sorcerers do. I learned of magic in the mundane,
the magic of emotion, of feeling, in the power of humun existence,
humunoid existence. I try to just have a genuine conversation with her. I
think you've seen that Sakawachi has felt the most comfortable around you, and the
conversation that you have with her is an important one. She smiles a little
bit, and it's definitely like opens up to you a little bit more than
she has been over the course of over the last few weeks. Okay,
I would like a survival check please from one of you who would like to
make it. I'll see their mirror up. Okay, go for it.
MH Is that legal? How are you? MW You can know? Okay,
you were scouting it makes sense. Okay, traveling for about ten hours
today you make okay, headway through Star Chorus again. It absolutely sucks traveling
here. This is not a jungle, but these canyons you find yourself having
to take a lot of time just to you know, find a place to
to get the horse down and get the cart down and like into a place
where you can move to the next area. It's absolutely frustrating. You make
okay progress today and you begin to rest. Somebody roll a D twenty four.
I would like to do this, Yeah, I'll do it. Yes,
well, I was so excited about that. For let's go. Maybe
nobody else wanted to do We all have in this context, right, yeah,
okay, I don't like that. That's not foreboding. So settle down
to rest for the night. Uh, everybody unpacks the cart. You've become
familiar with this now it's been many days since you have done this. The
rest through the night, there's no problems. You begin the journey again,
continuing slogging your way through star chorus exploration mode. Once again, what are
you doing on this day? Same thing I do everyday? Try to take
off the world scouting again, a little too on the nose. I'll be
doing the same, keeping an eye have four traps and such and secret doors
and things, and I again would be looking three agents. Yes, and
now I will be defending again. Okay, I would like to make an
impression, and basically I'll use my read psychometric resonance ability to like kind of
low key tell futures and stuff for the the past. I don't know,
just trying to do some wholesome you know, faction XP grinding. Sure,
yeah, I definitely heard those words that you said. Can you say the
name of that ability once again? Please? Uh? There you go read
psychometric resonance? Got it? Okay, that's what I said. Huh definitely
okay, okay, And you are trying to read the psychic impressions left on
an object by their previous owners. Which object? Well, I'd like to
make an impression. So essentially, just trying to do something nice for these
people who've been away from home for a really long time. So I would
let them know like, hey, this isn't a big city that I can
do. If you'd like to hand me over something valuable to you, I
can remind you of home. Uh okay, So I think make a diplomacy
check. Why am I going to regret this? Why can I just tell
this is a bad idea? Twenty five? Okay, Okay. I'm trying
to see what they have they can read m looking through their stuff. What
about the Nigi's bow. It's not a bad idea. I'm just checking what
everybody has to see. If there's one that might be more appropriate. Hopefully
it's not a traumatic energy tied to it, because the last thing I want
to do is be like, oh, let me run into your home and
then just start screaming. So they have a few things they have like some
scrimshaw jewelry and things jewelry that's made from like whalebone. They have like a
few different kinds of bone jewelry. They have their their travel supplies. They
have some weapons and things they do have, like like daggers that you can
clearly tell are from their tribe. They does have a bow that's well ornamented.
Which would you like to investigate? I would like to investigate one of
the scrimshaw items. Okay, hmm, belonging to anigi. Okay, how
do you think you get this impression? What is it like for you?
I would have to touch it, essentially hold it in my hands and enter
a meditative state. I would run my fingertips over the very fine details and
try to imagine the history written in this object, the painstaking hours it must
have taken to carve it from one material to create a memory an image of
something else. There was deliberate intention in the creation of this thing, and
there is a reason now why Diniki carries it with her, whether it's fondness
for the person who created it, a moment they got it, or what
it reminds them of. Something sentimental is here and I'm trying to tap into
that. How do you experience these feelings, these impressions? How is it?
How do you perceive them? Essentially, it would be like over imaginative,
over imaginative thinking. I would close my eyes and begin to smell things,
hear things, see things. Flashes, yes, flashes more like pictures
rather than anything moving or living. Impressions left on the object. And whatever
I see, I'd like to describe it, just to remind Danigi of where
she's from, or how she came to get this item, or who made
it for her. I think the first impression you get is cold. You
know you're buffeted by these cold winds. You find yourself seeking shelter behind very
warm clothing. As a child, you see the warm smile from your your
mother and your grandmother. And small tribe of people bustling with work and activity,
people going about jobs, fishing and finding ways to keep warm. There's
a familial connection, not just amongst these literal family members, but also the
tribe. You feel this connection, and you feel this, You feel like
this this necklace was passed down from grandmother to mother, mother to you.
You get just the embarrassed glimpse of a journey of hunting, using all parts
of this animal that you tirelessly hunted someone else in the tribe fisher, a
hunter, a scrimshaw, artists, merchant traveling across the lands, bringing different
fibers, things to resupply the tribe. You see the journey that this necklace
has taken from conception to creation, carving, ending this down from grandmother to
daughter, and the day that you received it, when you recognized as an
adult, where you left. I describe everything that I can, down to
the details of my grandmother's eyes, how kind they are, how sweet her
smile was, the smell of her home, the pride of her people,
And tell Danigi, we are both very far away from home. My home
is not very unlike yours, though not cold. We are all a family
as well. My people are quite communal, so I understand and I feel
the gravity of you being here. Thank you for sharing this with me.
There's a few tears in their eyes as you talk about these things. Sakawachi
speaks up and says, you are able to tell all of this from holding
my necklace. Yes, only with powerful emotions and strong connections is as possible.
It's not every little thing. It was part of my training. Yes,
thank you for the reminder, and your training is strange, but it
is welcome. Thank you anytime. Alvic, please make a perception check for
me, Nataloni okay, Alvic, yes, roll me a D ten please
six h Okay, you've been traveling for a while now. You've sort of
come across small forest up ahead, which I think is a welcome kind of
situation from this basically hellscape that you have all been crossing now for about a
week. M hmm are you headed in h It is in the direction where
you were traveling. Mm. So you're telling me this is an area that's
completely different from everything else. It's green and lush and stuff like that,
like inviting. Well, it's just kind of a forest. You know,
there's shrubs and things that have survived. You know, it's pretty bleak.
I mean, it's bad land strain. You know, there's the occasional shrub,
there's the occasional like petrified tree. You might see the occasional living tree
here and there, but they're few and far between, and this is a
small forest. I will drop back a little ways to the others and let
them know what I see and point it out. I will go up to
Karun first, and as Karun, do you still have your glass of the
eneable to see far? Yes? Of course the hell always keep that thing
on me ready, and I'll point in the direction of the forest, and
I'll ask could you he can see if you see anything inside? Certainly I'll
let the others know. Well, Karun is doing that. This is the
item. It is a fine spyglass gives a bonus of plus one to perception.
Okay, go ahead and make it up or some check twenty eight.
Okay, do we see anything with my little eye? Yeah, there's I
mean, there's a forest up ahead. It looks like it is generally like
a on the same path that you are currently traveling. The uh there is
a pretty open space between you and the forest. And you can you swear
you see a horse staggering out of the woods. What kind of horse?
Does it look sick? It is staggering? Make a medicine check twenty seven
of course that's wounded. Oh no, like it like it's got a little
cold, or it's in missing limbs. No, there's there's blood that you
can see. Oh no, and uh it has a saddle on. Oh
no. As a matter of fact, I do see something. It is
a It is a beloved horse, someone's pet, with a saddle on it,
and it discovered in blood. There is do not recommend we go this
way. There is show somebody swamped on the horse. Barely No, there's
also I can also just barely make out a body that is schlumped over it
like it is sleeping. But it is not sleeping. It is covered in
blood. Unless sleeping covered in blood. Everyone obviously hears this. We're not
whispering, so career, I'm not whispering about how far away is this person
from us? Less than a mile? So I resume our going far on
one hand looks dangerous. But on the other hand, or smith or smith,
but what if that person needs help? What if they're still alive?
That as well? That as well too, Yes, well that the other
there's no in the front, and I'll do that. I'll go to our
drivers and let them know and try to host taste Okay, do you are
you indicating that you want to go there? I mean that's what it seems
like everyone as well to wherever that person is. Yes, okay, I
will go with the group, but not because I want to, but because
I want that delicious horse meat. Okay, you sort of signify the signal
the the the rest of the group about going that way. And uh it
is currently uh Enuma driving the cart. As you begin to head over that
way, the horse is kind of moving pretty slowly, stumbling a little bit
and vulnerable is what you ask. Hm. You can hear it in Uma
say, the creature looks hard, yes, and what if the rider do
they look as if they're in control of the the horse? They are not
moving? M A trap only one way to find out. I would probably
let Numa and Lukocono to possibly make sure the card is not too close the
horse and the person and help everyone off, help the companions off the carriage
or whoever's walking with me, and we go, Ah, we should probably
go and leave the others here. I would definitely let Nigi No keep eye
out, and I'm sure she has really good eyes and if anything happens,
she can hit things from Afar ready's bow and arrow. I am absolutely going
with Manovik mm hmm. Anyone else coming, let's go, Yes, I
am staying in the back. I will stay with the lizard. We will
cough together. I will walk with im guessing the marching orders me h Yara
and Ursiya and perunin or our minds. Mm hmm. Okay. It's pretty
open here, lots of lots of dust kind of blowing in and mm it's
probably it's probably like dead smack in the middle of the afternoon, right about
now. And as you begin to approach the horse, the horse is kind
of obviously startled and you can tell is hurt pretty bad. I will cast
a second nivel hue on the creature from Afar. Okay, two actions,
so that is twenty four points of healing. The wounds begin to close up
on this creature and you can see like there's a trail of blood behind it
where it was traveling. It still looks a bit like wild. As you
begin to approach, let' us keep our distance. This person upon the horse,
what do they look like? They're slumped over? Give me a perception
checky. I will reroll that fourteen okay or another fourteen, Why do I
ever reroll anything? How many times has that happened? At least like five?
Hard to see? Can I? I think Alavik and Yaro or in
front? So yeah, say no, malevic, are you able to get
a look and see if they're breathing or anything. I don't want to start
all the horse and send them flying with U. And I'm just holding back
a lot of stuff right now, so my vision is not one and I
don't trust my vision right now. And also the heat wave is probably making
it more difficult. You said it's is it hot or is it cold?
Okay, then the cold is making any more. It's kind of like a
cold you know, like have you heard of a cold desert before? It's
closer to that, you know, like uh in like uh lower parts of
South America they've got these, like in Chili and ah. I think in
Argentina too, there's like a pretty massive like cold desert there. It's like
really dry, really really really Okay, Uh, I'll just say that we
just need to get closer. Then That's what I'll do. I'll get closer,
okay, carefully, carefully toning mm hmm, please make oh boy,
I think This is probably like be a diplomacy check sh or nature take creature.
Either agree with the pomacy and nature. Let me tell you, I'm
decent to diplomacy. But you're in the front unless you want me to move
ahead. Uh, that's your call. If you don't, I'll do nature.
Well, I'm already healing the horse, So how about I leaped to
the front. Yes, I'll put an arm out. No'll very carefully start
to approach the horse for thirty two. Okay, the horse is obviously not
doing well, like in terms of whatever has happened. It is in some
kind of shock emotionally. Yeah, so you probably walk up really slowly and
just to show that you're not a threat. The horse begins to like slowly
calm down, lower its head, and kind of move it towards you,
sniffing and sort of it looks like it could be ready to bolt, but
you have its attention. I will very carefully reach into my pack and provide
a very very a piece of dry food or something that we have and try
to feed the horse. Okay, you begin to take out some food,
the horse kind of goes for it pretty quickly. It's obviously pretty hungry.
And you get a look at the rider while this is happening. You see
what appears to be quite a few wounds on the rider. It's a half
elf, and they're wearing like clothing that's kind of it's not really camouflage,
but it is. It appears to be like it would it would be made
for this environment. Looking upon them, can I either tell whether they are
breathing or not or if their wounds look fatal? All right, as the
rider is no longer with us, could do It's very solemn about this.
Noticing that there's a half elf the horse could at least be very useful if
we'd like to try and take this one with us. I'm sure it was
not the horse that did it. What do the injuries indicate to me?
Does it look like they were raked? Does it look like they were stabbed?
Does it look like they were bitten? Does it look like they were
bitten to death by a horse? Thirty two? Again? Wow? Okay,
okay. There are clearly long, m thin bruises on this person,
maybe an inch wide, and you know, it almost looks like they've been
lashed with something. There's what appeared to be um awhul i described. You
can see that they have their skin has kind of been burned pretty badly.
They have tears in the flesh. They don't look like cloths. They look
like jagged sort of tears in the skin. Perhaps a cat of nine tails.
I am uncertain, but I relay this information to those who are with
me. Do they possess any type of marking on them that could indicate they
are a prisoner of some sort? There's give me a perception checker round twenty
five, Karina. You see some evidence on their wrists of some manacles of
some kind, and they were wearing some kind of manacles, but not anymore
correct. I think this person was a prisoner of some kind. These markings
indicate that they had once worn manacles recently, and perhaps these jagged wounds could
be the result of a cat of nine tails or some of the torture implement
Right, it's all right with you. Perhaps we should de settle them.
Yes, I will keep the horse calm and I will try to take care
of its wounds. If you very carefully take the person off relevant can you
help me? Yes, yeah, I will do so. As you begin
to remove the person from the saddle, merging from the woods. In the
distance, you see something very peculiar. It appears to be the biggest fucking
flower you have ever seen. It is apparently moving out of the woods,
headed towards all of you and this horse. I sure hope no one sets
it on fire. Is it pretty? It? I suppose that depends on
your definition the flowers. Why there is so much dust? Mm hm,
someone needs to get their loss out of here. Yes, got a sort
of Uh. There's four large frond like leaves at the top. There's do
they look friendly? There's a leaf that are things that are sort of root
root like? That is that are being used to propel let's preacher forward.
I am going to make the suggestion of throwing the body towards it. Do
we have time to check pockets before we throw it? I mean, we're
taking it down. You could do that as we're doing so. You have
the body off the horse. Now I am leading the horse towards our caravan,
or tempting to, at least. I really want to kill the horse.
I really want to kill the horse and leave the horse for the flower
monster. It is really reasonably quick. We have a whole corpse right here.
Let's just see yeat over there. But this is a living creature.
I'm already all the way to the caravan. Oh no, no, no,
all right, it's fine. Is this quickly while I'm looking at is
this a lashie of some nature? A nature Czech of Russia. M I'm
going to be roll that. I think re rolling in nineteen okay, yes,
but twenty five I don't think so. If it is, it's the
biggest leshie that you've ever heard of. Mm hmm. As this thing's getting
closer, you realize this is a huge creature. It's huge. All right,
we throw the corpse then, mm hmm. I check it the I
checked the puckets before we throw it. Quickly, question Mark, give me
a I think this will be a fevery check. That's not great. I
should have done all re roll. I'm not scared. Get I want to
know what's in the pocket. Wow, that's a natural one. Uh yeah,
or Celia, you're trying to like rifle through their stuff really quick.
You can't find anything as you're as you're trying to like dig through their stuff.
I'm throwing the corpse. Then I won't say anything. I yell out
in sylvan as you are throwing the corpse. I don't stomp you. We
mean you no harm. Here is your food? Okay, looking for any
recognition of any kind. It seems to have zero response. I'd say the
same thing, but an abistle. Okay, do you need me to make
a check for throwing it or wait one moment, I will I will translate
for you. Listen with one language called this work. Can I speak to
it? There's no responses. You're just kind of yelling word. Oh no,
I'm just all yelling at differently at the moment it does not respond.
I'm moving to Weiara. But like maybe in between the caravan and Melvis.
I mean, this is this is a humanoid person. You're pretty strong,
but you know, even Brian Shaw probably not going to toss this person more
than a few feet. I have Titan wrestlers. Yeah, I'm just imagining
Brian Shaw trying to throw somebody and uh, yeah, you throw them a
few feet sort of roll along the ground. This creature is getting closer and
uh you can see like it's roots as it's getting closer to their move kind
of like tentacles. They're like slapping the ground. You can see them like
slapping the blood where the horse was traveling, and do what you do.
Fire is not wanting to start the major forest fire. This has left the
forest. Oh, come towards you. Forest is in the distance. All
right, that's fine. Can you hold rings? Yes? Yes, hold
the rains, hold them steady. I will I will pull out the flute.
About how far away am I from this creature? Let's call it one
hundred feet? One hundred feet. Let me see how far I can do
this. I ready a bomb. Oh my god, I'm panicking. It
doesn't I think it was supposed to be thirty feet, but I could do
rich only be ninety feet. Ship. Does it work? I don't think
it's It does not need to be an intelligent creature. Do you just have
to wait till it moves ten feet? Yes? A split second? Yes?
Oh? Question with how fast it's moving towards us? Do we get
the sense that it would be able to outrun our caravan even if we were
at our top speed? No, it does not look that fast. Okay,
so we could just retreat as soon as it reaches within ninety feet of
me, I will cast rich spell and I'm going to use my food of
charm. Okay, go ahead, and performance check. Yes, it must
make a will save of at least thirty in order to succeed. You rolled
so good, that's really early. Is that pack? Roll? Is that?
Yes? That is my that is my performance added to it. Okay,
alrighty mostly mm hmm okay, uh Yara, you begin to play your
songs. Uh. This creature begins to slow as it approaches the group.
You appear to have done something to it. All right, I believe keep
playing. What do we do? What do we do? I don't think
it understands what I say. We should probably push an emotion toward it.
What does that mean? I don't know. I'm just guessing. You can
see the like tentacles like as as Jara gets agitated, begin to like flail
around. Com I want to take the body, Just say leave, make
like a plant and leave. Whoa, it's flailing about. Karon walks over
and takes the body. Okay, let's go, let's go. Let's go.
You start to drag the body. I will help Karun. I will
pick up the body and throw them over my shoulders. Stay they yard until
already, and then run back and join the caravan. You yelling, what
is that? What is happening. Should I shoot it? No, I'll
stay with you and signal to the others to go back to the caravan and
bring it forth, and we go into the I don't know if we're want
to go into the forest. Is that thing where it came from? An
idea? What this thing looks like? Let's go? Is it picture time?
Yeah? Sort of picture? Oh yeah, yeah, that's a I
think I know where those last barks came from. That doesn't look so bad.
No, it's only huge nolunt Yeah, Karun. You're just dragging the
half elf over towards the caravan. Sakawachie and Ulukuk and a new mer just
kind of looking at each other a bit frantically. Who's this? I'm leading
the horse back this, dropping up the body and dressing the wounds a little
bit, performing some rites pres of some kind. It was on this horse.
The horse. We have a horse, and that's a creature that's being
charmed at the moment, we should be ready to leave it moodily in the
carriage already. Why are we bringing a dead body? I don't know.
We have to lay it to rest. Okay, that's a good reason,
right, okay? And they sort of all help you put this body onto
the onto the wagon. Are we good, darlings. The horse is just
kind of there. It's it's having a reaction to this flower. By the
way, you can see that this, uh, the horse is kind of
freaking out a little bit. Is there the hitch for the horse that we
have? Is it a single hitch? The sized caravn? Uh? How
big is this horse? Uh? It's a riding horse, so about average.
I'll ride the horse then, Okay, probably heal it first. You
hear this. It's fine. Is it still wounded? A rashchok? Please
make me a nature check M. Twenty seven? Okay, uh yeah,
a rash shock. You're able to, uh, just kind of calm the
horse a little bit and and hop on. It just has a saddle sort
of like stomping. It's its foot a little bit. It's rearing back.
You can see it's very scared of this creature. It's all right, right,
let's go. Yes, we are ready excellent? Are we going forward?
Whoever we were at headache? It shouldn't be able to keep up.
Okay, Yara, what are you doing? I am continuing to play and
backing up this last for an hour, but I'm terrified, so yes,
I will maintain the song and continue to follow it's me hm hmm. Perhaps
we moved double time. Mm hmmm. Yeah, yeah, just suggest that
we pick up speed honestly, and then have Karun throw a fire. You
can throw it pretty far right, so yeah, we would speed up.
We can outrun it and then Karun throw fire on it to knock it out
of its thing, or we just outrun it. Actually, yeah, we
don't even need to do that. The minute you do anything, it will
indeed retaliate. I won't be throwing it at the creature. I will be
throwing the fire in front of, in between us and the creature, so
that we are not engaging it in combat, just creating an obstacle for it.
Will sort of speak up and say that Flower is clearly hunting this horse.
Mm hmm. If we ride away, it will continue to hunt the
horse. But I don't even understand why we even have the horse blood trail.
The carriage is cramped, Malevich, and it is a living creature.
So if you don't want to take care of it, I will. If
we're not just wipe off all the blood is right, I can heal it
it has some sort of sense for this creature even if it is healed.
Oh no, I can smell it. Oh I can fix that. Are
you going to I have many, many and other things that should be able
to mask it. Send that should work. That is a wonderful idea.
I will begin to take out some of my herbs and apply them accordingly.
Can I assist in this? Absolutely? Let's have both of you make a
nature check twenty eight. If it's considered medicine for whatever reason, it's a
plus two. But okay twenty eight. Okay, yeah, you do a
good job cleaning this horse. Let's say it takes ten minutes. That should
has been playing like this whole time. Are the fire and slams and I
have the longest scented hunt. Wonderful? So what now? Mm hmm,
Okay, you begin to travel towards the forest and continue your journey. YAA,
just kind of playing. This creature is following. It's not as fast.
You guys are hurrying a little bit. We're gonna say that you're kind
of like, uh hustling. Yeah, you're hustling. Uh and uh just
speed wise, just mechanics wise. This creature is a little bit slower than
you, So as you begin to hurry your pace, you can see it's
starting to fall behind. It is still following, just for behind. Once
it is sufficiently far behind us, I will toss a fire bomb in between
us and the creature to create an obstacle. Okay, it goes around.
It's a low of the flute. It just kind of goes around the fire
float it down. About half a second, it's fallen behind. You can
see, you know, slowly but surely you're hustling, and does not even
start a little bit like it might go eaper fire. I am made of
plant, no, wow, brainless, yep. Kind it just has like
instincts basically, just sensitive fire around self preservation I have. Yeah, it
just starts, it just goes around basically. Uh. And you continue your
journey towards the falling Star. How long are you going to travel? How
far are we away from the falling story? Pretty close? Right? Like
a day way, give me a survival check, Malavick, right, twenty
six less than that. You've been traveling for a while today, This would
definitely be around the time you'd want to find a rest. But after what
just happened, you're hustling a little bit, like I think that's in the
back of your mind, like, hey, we need to rest, but
there's also this giant freaking flower that is apparently carnivorous that is following us.
Yes, I'll relay that and say I understand that you probably want to rest,
but we need to keep going. We've already wasted so much time.
Well while we are going through this, is there any kind of identification on
the body, any sort of parchment or a note? Yes, there is.
Yeah, I would like somebody to make a society role for me.
Please, I can take that. Do you want to have a plus?
I can assist I have Akay, twelve, you should do. I agree,
now I will reroll that fifteen getting enrolled. You are fourteen? Yeah,
there is a there is like uh an insignia of some kind. They're
wearing leathers mostly you. You feel like you've seen this before and you can't
freaking remember what it is. It kind of looks like a bunch of leaves
that looks like a face. There are many organizations in the woods that have
been classified as unsavory by dwarf and logging companies. I'm sure this is but
one of the many. There's no name on any of these parchments. No,
there's no parchments, just a picture. Yeah, these are like insignias
on this person's clothing in this garb. I see they would have, by
the way, a few things on them. Mmm. You would see what
is the equivalent of like a shive, basically like something that was whittled down
to make a weapon, just like a piece of scrap wood or something that
was whittled down to make something pointy. But they don't really have much on
them. You can see that they have like a few maybe like rotten berries
on them, but really nothing. I will take an impression of the insignia
on some paper. Listen, are you familiar with this type of berry?
What kind of berries it? This one? This rotten one? Can you
identify this? It would be probably pretty pretty common looking edible, edible food.
It's just kind of gone gone bad, not poisonous. This person,
whoever they are, picked these berries and knew that they were edible, probably
saving them for food, but they've gone wrong. Can you tell how long
the body's been dead? So I won't require a role for this. You
can see that it's probably been dead for at least a few days mm hmm.
And are there saddle bags on the hoofs No, no saddle bags?
All right? What is the barting like of the saddle? Does it?
Is it exquisite? Is its insignia that is on I think the person's belt
that E would see. It's kind of like a belt buckle with the insignia
on it. Is it a crude metal? Is it something more elaborate?
It's not metal, it's leather. Mm hmmm mm hmm. Again, it
looks like a bunch of leaves that kind of look like a face with eyes.
So if there is nothing else, the journey is continuing as this strange
flower is falling behind in the distance. You are playing for She's worth for
an hour before it gets exactly I would like to begin wrapping the body in
some cloth if we have any You do have cloth? Yeah? For sure,
I would use some of your supplies to do that. Is it possible?
Yeah? All right, you brought a bunch of whys and things.
Okay, begin to wrap the body. Anybody doing anything else? Hello?
We traveling for Yeah, I'm stretching the traveler times, so I'm definitely going
to be scouting you guys are basically moving at like double speed. I guess
scouting. Then, yeah, so you can't do a lot of the exploration
stuff that you've normally been doing unless you want to slow down. But I
feel like it defeats the purpose of what you were doing it. We'll just
keep going forward and I'll try to call out things that I see. Sure
you begin to move into the forest again, there's a few hours of daylight
left. It was kind of like probably let's call it like three pm when
you guys are across this stuff and you have been traveling most of the day.
You set out pretty early, so this is you know, you've been
traveling for like ten hours today, hoping probably to find a good spot to
rest and and uh and get ready to uh the camp for the night.
Now you are entering this forest. I will take a survival check from uh
whoever has the highest survival I guess I have ten. I have heaven issue,
we have ten twenty nine. Okay, rash Tak, you think you
know a little bit about this forest. I think it's called the Nettle Glens.
H the Nettle Glens. You do too many windows watching different thank you?
Uh man not doing good today with the info. Come on pious.
Uh, it's one of the few remaining forests here in the area of the
world wound. It was seemingly unaffected by the blight or the destruction that occurred
through the rest of the land, meaning that you are now located in the
rift shadow region near the Sarcora River. You're not quite sure why it was
untouched, but hereot it is and you don't really know much more than that.
M Before we would get to any place we stop, I would cast
press to digitation as I ride this horse to clean off all of the scent.
Mm hmm, okay, yeah, it's a spell. You know how
to do it. You don't have to make any sort of role for this.
Its job is to clean stuff. So it does. That horse smells
great. What do you make it smell like? I make it smell like
nothing if possible. Yep, smells like a whole lot of nothing, which
is very imp of if you've ever been anywhere near a horse, because they
got that booty stank uh, perpetual swamp ass with horses and uh, it's
it's doesn't smell like anything. Yeah, but I'll start doing that to the
caravan like as like the last hour. I'm basically just trying to remove as
much scent from as much things as I can. Okay, when you enter
the forest, I think are Celia, you and Sakawachie you are probably communicating
with Karoon as well about like where this star could could have happened. And
you can see that there is a green glow emanating in the distance. Four
Do you see that? Yes, it say some sort of glow. Do
you think that is the the star? Karen? Do you think it would
hurt your eyes to look through your seeing glass? I can certainly try.
It's a perception plus one yes, ahead twenty two. Okay, it's hard
to like make anything out beyond the glow. There's trees here that are sort
of obscuring the view. It is a forest. Now that you have entered
the the wind is kind of like died down a little bit. The dust
has sort of died down, and you know, you can see there's there's
creatures in the forest. It feels like a normal kind of forest around you
at this point, but it's tough to get any details even with the spyglass.
You're just kind of your vision is obstructed, all right, looks okay
Uma Uma kind of like pipes up from the front of the wagon. Could
it be some sort of god you mentioned, a divine beast m hm,
Sakawachi says, perhaps, but it could also be something dangerous. Should be
careful h at any rate, how are we all feeling? Should we try
and make camp before going and investigating into something like that? There is a
clearing up ahead. Let's go to the clearing. I'll just follow. As
you begin to approach the clearing, you see a large knoll made of piled
dirt, like a giant hermite nest. M already a boblem whoa Uma slows
the wagon. This must be where it fell, as Sakawachi sort of points.
You can see evidence of something, a large well. It sort of
looks like a there's remnants of something. There's clearly something that has landed here.
But where is it. There's no crater, there's small impact marks around.
You can maybe see a felled tree here or there is there a source
of the glowing glow is gone. Perhaps we give the horses a break and
we investigate. Yes, I'll go, Karoun. Do you still have that
device that checks the oil sample in the air? What the hallucinogen. Oh
uh, I can certainly make one for you if you'd like one. Don't
you have one? Uh? Well, I was saving it for me.
No, the contraption you made. I'm so confused. The vial we made
a vial I believe is something that spins around when he closed to something.
Oh, yes, well we were on the ship. That's right. Yeah,
with the goopy nonsense. That's right, I do have them, it's
right. Rummaging through pecks, it's right here. Are there any strange readings?
Are there? Any strange readings? Doesn't appear so, seems rather inert.
This dirt mound that's here, there's a it's first of all, it's
gigantic. This thing is probably uh like one hundred feet by fifty feet,
and it's piled up maybe forty feet high. That's so high. Yeah,
you said it was like a termite? Is it? Absolutely? It kind
of looks like, okay, yea insect things? Is there evidence of like
dong or creatures having moved through here? Are you all like getting out of
the wagon? Are you looking around? Yes? Going on, getting out
of the wagon, Hitching the horses. I'll provide them with water and food.
While the others look around. Okay, I'm looking for any herd that
might be interesting in this forest that is weirdly instact. Okay, so you
just begin wandering around the clearing, start looking for herbs or yes, I
don't get too terribly far from the caravan because I don't want to be alone.
They give me a perception check v. Fifteen. If it's if it's
with sight. Okay, Yeah, there's not really a lot in the in
the clearing here, a rashtak. There's nothing that's terribly useful looking to you.
Does this seem to be an appropriate place for a burial here? I
mean it is there, There is a clearing here. I mean you could.
I mean it just really depends on your perspective. Honestly, I'd rather
put them in a tree. Honestly, is there any kind of nice looking
tree here? I will do that. I will use my anti tool and
make a little shovel. Okay, Malvic, you said you were doing what
I want to. I want to stealth at this point, stealth, move
at house speed and search okay, and where you look ill, I want
to we roll that bad boy. Just we I mean, we need a
camp somewhere, so I definitely want to look for a place that's not as
dangerous. That mound is kind of disturbing. I don't want to be anywhere
near that. Okay, that's great, Okay, on stuff, I'm stomping,
Yeah, yeah, Malvic, you're trying to be quiet, and then
like you're just having one of those days really where like everything is a little
clumsy, like your your sword. The there's probably like a clip or something
on your sword, so it doesn't like constantly move. Yeah, and like
that comes loose and it's like clanging against something else, and you're it's so
beyond frustrating. Yeah, frustrating, lapping on like every stick possible, or
Celia, what were you doing. I'd like to look at the mound and
try to see if there's evidence of creatures nearby. Sure, give me a
perception check twenty two Okay, mhm. I think first and foremost this is
it's still pretty damn cold here. There's uh, there is a level of
dryness that you're still experiencing here in Sar Chorus, but the forest is definitely
like a respite from that. There's a lot of evidence of various creatures and
things that have come through here, ar Celia. You uh, yeah,
you probably like see Malevic step on some stuff. He crunches what appears to
be like the molting of some kind of an insect out of a question?
Does it seem that this forest very out of place, that it wouldn't belong
here in the waste? Oh? For sure? What if this entire forest
is what fell down? As you're thinking that, you notice that there is
what appears to be some kind of well near the mound. You came from
the east and on the western side of the mound, which is again,
this is a pretty big mound, so you didn't notice it at first,
but as you're moving around the perimeter here, you do see that there is
a there's a stone well, pretty big. Look down at my hand where
I have the scar from the previous lay line. Do I sense that there's
a lay line nearby? Yes, I looked, Malovic, mm hmm.
Do you feel there's a lay line nearby? Sculdy was throwing me off French
crunch crunch ll uh. I'll lay on the ground because I'm just I'm not
feeling feeling a little dizzy and all over the place. So traveling all day
and you just you just like hauled ass for a few miles. Yeah,
I'll lay down and uh try to put my fingers in the in the dirt
or claws whatever you want to call them in the dirt, and try to
feel for the lay line. Yeah, Malvic. As you sit down and
you kind of like scraping something off your boot, you see that this it's
something crunchy was like underneath your boot, and it's definitely some kind of insect
molting. So it reminds me of a sky a little area, and I'll
just like pick up as much as I can of it and throw it to
the side. Whatever this insect was, it was about at least the size
of your hand. A lot of these could be a problem if there's more
than one or a colony of them. M So I'll grab or say his
hand and then try to feel for where the lay line is and follow it.
Maybe it'll lead us to something. See if the vibrations get stronger,
Yeah, this is a big lay line. Uh you know, does it
like gets stronger in some parts or is it just procedurally getting it's just kind
of intense here. Yeah, Okay, you're not really noticing much of a
difference if you walk one way or another. Got it turned to the others.
Be careful. We are on a lay line, which could possibly mean
anything we ingest could have unexpected consequences. Male effect. That might mean we
might be able to find more of that water. Oh oh really, there's
a well nearby? Oh you think a well in the middle of ear strange
convenient? Indeed, this should be where the stuff fell. I do stand.
Where did the glow go? Should wait until nightfall? I do not
know what is this mound of dirt? Couldn't under the mound. Maybe it's
a defensive thing. Maybe it is a creature that is trying to hide.
What do you recommend? No psychology. We brought you here. This is
what you wanted. So now we have to trust you and your instincts.
I can tell you that there's power resonating here. Maybe it was attracted to
it. M is so there's you said, there's like a small it's not
a big crater, but there's indention or something that may have fail. Yeah,
like the east is that where the mound is? Yeah? The east?
So the mound is pretty big. There's a section of it, like
the eastern half does appear to be like looser. Uh, and I think
this is something that you would you would have noticed Orcilia that, like the
eastern half is a lot looser, and it appears to be like fresh soil.
The area above the mound has some scorched tree limbs. Okay, it
may have fallen over here. We can dig, but if we do,
it may disturb things around this. The the well that you saw Urcilia is
about forty feet wide and made of stone. It's just west of the mound.
Look there, it's quite big, about forty feet around. Have you
looked inside it yet? No? Perhaps you can join us or Rash Tuckinson
light Kakaroon is digging a grave alone, so if you could ask her if
you want. But she's over there digging a grave. Can you see a
light? Rash talk, Yes, I can just grab a rock off the
ground, test light on it, and yeah, you can also kind of
see it's still there's still light out. You probably have about an hour or
so of light left. And you know, when you look over the well,
you can see that there's a rickety wooden staircase there. There's no water
inside, and you drop the raw you sort of realize that how far down
does it fall? Because I see the light just fading. Yeah, it's
uh. I think you can see the staircase probably like wrap around maybe two
or three times, so like two stories give a take. Yeah, maybe
about that. It's not that deep. And stairs. I'm looking at the
stairs to see if there's any like fresh dirt or mud or anything on it.
Give me a perception check nineteen twenty. If it's site based, Okay,
yeah, it would be. You can see some blood around the stairs,
fresh ish, yeah, ah, fresh blood is going down the stairs.
Hm as a rash talk says that I will look towards a rash talk
with with eyes beating on them, and then look towards Karun in the corpse,
and then back to a rash talk and then straight ahead. It's just
it if you if you're curious. In Malevick's mind, I am thinking of
things that have transpired that others may not know. In the Nike. You
quiet, and I will say us you all want to investigate mm hmm.
The further we go down there, I wonder how intensive laid lines are going
to get fairly I soon well, I suppose we should have all of us
go in search this come with? So how we help run over there?
Mm hmmm. I just want to use as much daylight as we can,
So let's hurry. If you're going to help room dig fast, join conn,
I will stand back. We don't have that many digging devices, and
too many people doing one pole for pose will be too many. Mmmm.
Same. Okay, you do your best to assist Karon, give me an
athletics check. You want me to do the athletics check. You're shoveling your
grave, all right? Sure you don't want anyone else to do the athletics
check. Pretty sure, ar Cilia, you can make one as well to
assist that one you. I'm very tired. You are Holy shit? Uh
the roles today. No, it's been going well. I do have a
zero in athletics. H yeah, I don't. That's not the problem.
It is so funny that my not one is better than your zero. It
also makes a lot of sense. Yeah, so, uh, our Celia
is digging with their hands and Karun is digging with a shovel. Or Celia
is somehow digging faster than Karun and it's still going really slow. You have
to stop like every every few seconds like this is not a task to be
done at the end of a day of traveling. Do we see them struggling?
So I've just taking a lot longer, taking a long time. I
mean you probably notice after like ten minutes, like it's barely made a dent.
Oh just look at the last second that why don't you consume the corpse?
They do not wish see the corpse. It's putting a blood inside of
it. Still, would you like to burn it? It'll definitely be faster
than digging a hole that I do agree with. How are you doing?
I am dying clumsy? It seems busy. These lay lines are postinging through
my veins. If we find the same type of water that I was able
to study, well, would you consume it you wished to do before water?
Oh uh yes, it's the water that cured the curse. Mm hmm
yes, yes, of course, I'll hold you to it. Then hopefully
you find some what is taking so long? Daylight is slipping away. They're
un struggling slightly. Look, Kurn, you've got to use your hips,
swing from the hips, reciting chens in incantations, oblivious to the rest of
you bearing your body anyway, leave it out. It will attract creatures and
predators. Likely, burying it may reduce that risk. Yes, I don't
understand why you don't just give it to your whitch queen. If you get
stripped of all his blood, make it easy. It is many days old.
The rigor has set in. Blood slightly clotted. As you say this,
something clicks in your brain. Blood leaving these stairs, it's fresh body
seemed like it was probably a few days old. One plus is not equal
to no. No, it is not. It is my would I have
an idea of lay lines preserving things like blood. You can make an occultism
role because I don't think it's from the same person. I at least internally
made that connection thirty two some thing, so it's possible. I guess it
doesn't make a lot of sense. Uh uh. Whatever is bleeding currently went
down the well recently. It is not that one over there. M hm.
That's so did shouldn't we go investigate you and I? We should all
go together, Malevick. I wait for them. They're taking so long.
It's not going to be once. They're both looking like, uh, their
moms wrote them notes for Jim class and have to participate anyway. It's today
the one I predicted yesterday. Malevic I trust are you in its trouts?
Yes? I have no idea what you're speaking of. Why would we go
together down there alone without telling them anything? Without them you can tell them,
never said not to tell them. You are elusive. I know you
at this point. You apologize so much when you accidentally attacked me, and
now you I do do your feelings. I am good at reading, you
know. I stuck. I am tired traveling all day, so have I.
I'll gather my wits and I'll stomp over you. Get to the group
that is digging, digging a hole, and I will throw my back into
it frustratedly with claws and the hands, and just dig as much as I
can. Athletics Chechnologic sixteen. How did you roll? Like a two?
Yeah? You're all the tude. Amazing. Okay, I'm sticking with it.
I'm tired. I want to make note. I'm not I'm not helping
in any way, but I'm just very very curteous. Good. Yes,
that's what I was expecting. If I helped. When the roles work with
a narrative, it's amazing, fucking shovel I take the shovel from Karun.
Why don't why are we burying this body and its more important things to do?
Oh my gosh, I'm look at a shovel and go there's no way
I can pick that up today. Yeah, uh Yara with a fourteen Yeah.
Uh you. Everybody's trying to like help, You're all just like so
you keep passing the shovel around while Karun is like, uh, reciting these
rights and uh yeah, it's just taking for ever. It's like the ground
is a is hard, and like there's a lot of rocks and stuff.
It is not going well, this is gonna take you a few hours.
I have an idea. Just take the body down the well. That way
it's underground at the same time. No, then you stay and you dig
your old hole. I'll throw the shovel down to the ground. I was
happily digging my hole. I shovel. K Are you opposed to a cremation.
It's not the way it is done their, it's the opposite. In
fact, still digging and chain thing. I'm still digging. I'm gonna go
down that way and find out what's going on. If anyone wants to join
me, feel free, But if we say, if ours doing this,
who knows what comes out at night? And that they just djusted to the
giant mound or what else is there? There's blood in the world. I'll
go with you. You should all come. The others are up here,
will you cook and a numa if you can convince them nicely to help dig
this, we can stay up here and help dig if you'd like. That
would be wonderful. Would that be all right, Koreoon, Sure hold some
sort of a ceremony when we get back. Cheriens just right back to digging
and chanting. Should have burned it, and I'll walk off. That is
incredibly disrespectful, and I will continue and walk you follow Malvic mm hmm.
Okay, Karun is staying behind to dig and perform final rites for this f
elf. I will stay with Karoon. This is clearly important to her.
Okay, yes, I will join them. I've been standing at the well
the whole time waiting for them. Okay, Malvic, Yara and a Rashak.
They begin to head over towards the well, and again like one of
the sides is kind of like clear of stone, so you can kind of
walk in and access the stairwell, which again is kind of like rickety wood
steps. Seeing the ricketiness, I do pull out, uh my rope and
climbing kit, okay, and just attach. I don't go use it,
but I attach the rope and the grapple to the side of the well and
just hang the rope down. Okay. And what order are you making your
way down the steps? As the rostock's doing that, I'm going to walk
behind them and pull out my hatchet slowly and then chuck the rope and I
will go first. I will wait for a roth stock to finish, and
I will be behind him with my shield in hand. Malvic, barostock yarra
the order fair enough? Mm hmmm mm hmmm. Begin to make your way
down the steps. Malvic, please make a perception check for me. Twenty
eight Alvi, you think you hear a noise as you're making your way down
the steps. Mmm. I'll hold my hand up to signal in quiet and
point in the direction of noise so they both can listen for it. Does
he go down? I would like to then try attempt to go into a
stealth vhote. Okay, you can attempt to stealth. I'm going to reroll
that what's wrong way? It's really good stuff. Okay, it's got to
be your last hero point. I'm done now I have one laugh. I
had three because you give me your point, Frank, Can I have the
same curse? How adorable? Okay? Uh fifteen rerolled unfortunately to another fifteen
malvic. Hear this noise and you try to like be quiet slowly take the
next step. And it's like that one step at home that always fucking squeaks,
and you you, you don't know which step is going to do it.
You know that some of them have been squeaking as you've been making your
way down them, and it's like trying to eat a potato chip silently.
Yeah, you hear the loudest crunch humanly possible. It's very loud. And
you notice some holes begin to open up in the walls as large cat sized
beetles begin to erupt from the wall around you. And let's bring you over.
Hear, I need you please select your token and roll in the chef.
Ooh ooh is he twenty seven and thirty for a rash talk? Okay?
Emerging from the wall around the well, burrowing through the walls, you
see these I mean the size of cats are emerging from the walls. Insects
with large, oversized mandibles begin to emerge. Oh boy, I will roll
for them. Hey go lucky. Okay, a rashtak, it's your turn.
Yes, I have a question. Where is the rope? The rope
is still attached to you. I mean you tell me how far up are
we? I mean you're twenty feet down, you're halfway down? Deep?
Is it left? Yeah, it's about forty feet. I mean it's like
the equivalent of a normal size, well like depth. So we're halfway down.
Yeah. I see a beagle next to me. Are they hostile?
They don't look friendly? Great, there, I jump off. Okay,
yeah, give me an athletics check. It's amazing, hilarious, amazing.
A rash fack. You do this, I mean you do this like exactly
correctly. You grab the rope and you you know, you don't get like
rope burn all the way down. You know, you don't do that thing.
You go like just a quick you're doing like a quick climb. You're
not just kind of doing a basic you know, you're not doing some uncharted
stuff which would probably kill you. Ninety exactly, Yes, thankfully only twenty
feet, which is also part of why I was willing to do it even
if I failed. But I didn't. How many actions do I have left?
I'm going to say, you've got one action left? That's fair?
Is fair? Let's see then what can I even do with this single action?
And you're down on the ground now? Yes, good, that's what
I was hoping for. Ah can I see the party members from here?
And where would I have landed then? Where I played my yourself? Oh
yeah, I mean you're down below. You've landed directly below the stairs,
just on the ground. It's like there's some bits of stone and dirt down
here, probably like a little bit moist on the ground. That's nice at
least. Yes, I'll cast guidance upon Yaha. It is a thirty foot
range and I'm twenty feet down. Sure that is my turn arrah, all
right, so that is a plus one on attacks and saving thro Yes,
the tackrels save excellent. Well hmmm, uh checks skill checks as well,
skill checks as well. All right, Well that changes a couple of things.
I'm going to go ahead and I will launch my needle darts to the
one that is behind me up above on the staircase, not near Malvic.
So I will wave a hand over Adronesi's rapier and sermon forth these needles that
levitate above my hand as I launched them towards this creature with a plus one
to this, so that it is a twenty to hit. Okay, so
nineteen the hit you said, or twenty because there's a plus one that is
a hit. Which one are you aiming for? You said, the one
an No, the one that is behind me? Yes, So that is
twelve points of piercing damage cold iron. Okay, you hear there's like all
right, well I have one of several darts are in it and it's still
like like pulling through the holes. Oh that is disgusting looking all right,
and I will use my final action. I am not within thirty feet of
a rare stark. Correct, you are all right. I'm going to go
ahead and I will channel my iracular curse. The scars on my face reapp
reaching bleeding inward, and I will cast life link upon him and malevik.
Okay, that is my turn oracular curse on Malvic and a rash talk.
I'll put a blue dot on both of you, so you remember okay,
Malvic, well, I will there's a bug like to the left of your
head, like you like turn your head slowly and you see the man boy,
I just like h and then at the same time, without me triggering
it, I'll end up raging. Be like you do not run boy,
attack and I will then rage. But at the same time as I'm raging,
I will gain a feat tapping the lay line. Since I am here,
all of my attacks will gain a too forced damage on top of the
attacks that I do, and I will gain eight temporary hit points. The
the uh. There's a sort of bluish glow that begins to flow around Malavik,
and I'll take the hatchet that I haven't hand while I'm holding a rope
and strike out at this beetle. One action of rage, one action to
attack the lay line, and last action to attack. It'll be plus two
on this because I don't have a set up, so that's actually sixteen.
I'll be plus two flat forced damage. On top of that, four of
that damage will be eigh so this is gonna be fourteen times two, which
is gonna be twenty eight plus an additional two force damage. So this this
will be thirty slashing damage. As I'm coming down, the red flames will
burn out to ignite blue into blue flames that burn horder and goes it's a
target. I don't know if it goes through or now. Oh yes,
absolutely, I mean if you credit number one, so that's a hit automatically,
but you've rolled it. You've got a thirty four. Yes, that
is a hit. Very nice. Okay, it's still up. That's it.
Yep. It's carapace is like crunchy, like you absolutely crunched this thing.
But you see this thing is like sturdy. It is still moving.
The skin beetles turn skin beetles. I did like why you call them that
in the name? Nommm. Yes, this one sort of erupts out of
the wall. Uh and will m oh. I think it's going to use
special bullshit here. It will make a mandibles attack on you to start things
off. Malavik twenty six to hit. Indeed a hit, Okay, special
bullshit activated. Uh No, it's not that big. Uh. It does,
however, rip into your flesh and will deal some extra damage and add
a bleed condition. Oh okay, twelve piercing damage plus six persistent bleed damage
now is that bleed on until bleeding hard works? Is it goes it?
Does it go to your healed or does it go down par round? It's
it's persistent. You have to like staunch the bleeding to stop the bleeding.
Okay, I have to make a check. Yep. Yes, uh,
let me see. I know it goes if you're healed to full HP,
it just goes away. Okay, So let me ask this, y'a.
It takes how much damage? Six from the oracular curse? I take five
for you ones around? Yes, okay, so I still have I have
eight temporary hit points. So technically does it oh to my so? I
don't know how that works. I'm sorry, say that one more time.
So yaard takes five damage from it? I have eight temporary hit points.
So I'm guessing you took twelve piercing as well, right, okay, so
just minus five from the damage that you took took eighteen damage. Took eighteen
damage. I'm sorry you took twelve damage right now? Minus five is seven
and you have six persistent bleed damage that happens. You're trying to ask it
takes it's too physical. Yeah, bleed doesn't start right, away. You
don't take the bleed this round. Okay, So I took two damage,
all right, and six is the persistent about it? Well? Term it
was twelve piercing yep, and then you minus how you've got eight temporary hit
points four left over the art takes five damage, takes four damage or I
guess five, and you still have one temp HP left. Yes, okay,
so I was wondering if I am full HP as please count. Well,
we'll find out, because it's going to attack you again. Okay,
yes, there you go. Yes, it'd be the first six. That's
an additional seven piercing damage. The sixth period persistent bleed just stays on correct.
Thankfully, bleed doesn't stack luckily for you. It just takes the biggest
one. Am I doing it here? Okay? You said seven? All
right? Cool? Got it? Okay? Uh? That is it for
that skin beetles turn. The one that's up here that emerges from the wall
will also spend an action to move towards you, and UH will try and
attack you with its mandibles. It will also oh, it has another bullshit
thing. I'm sorry, Malvic. I also need you to roll a fortitude
safe that is a success you are. Okay, never mind, but let's
see what happens on this round. This one will attack you with its manibles.
Twenty eight to hit it attacking you okay, yes, for six piercing
damage plus, so it will. It doesn't get to use its special bullshit.
But I do need you to make another fortitude safe okay, so negative
one? Y'are takes damage from that as well? Or what? No?
I only take it once on the round. Oh, once on the round,
opera creature, gotcha? All right? Mag six thirty yep, so
good. And then we'll make one last mandible attack and that's a miss.
This one like biting at your legs malvic and it does take like a hunk
of hunk of your flesh down there. Okay. This one just north of
Yarra Yard sort of bursts through the wall lands near your feet and will attempt
to bite you with his mandibles. That's a thirty to hit, not critch
though. Shit they got beef heer. I thought that one was going to
be a crid Oh damn. Okay, five pierced plus uh. It will
use its special harvest flesh bullshit, and this will be an additional four persistent
bleed damage. It takes a chunk out of you, Yara, and I
take that at the end of the next turn. I take it. Now
you're end of your turn extent alright, uh okay, uh okay, and
it has one action left. It will attack you again. Oh actually,
I'm sorry, I need a fortitude save. You's forget in something. I
will actually re roll that thirteen. Okay. Holy shit, I am a
cousin player on all the fucking table story again. It's incredible how often you
do this across all of the shows. Yeah, Yarra, you are clumsy
one for one round? Whoa, you feel yourself. There's a strange anesthetized
feeling that you have where the creature bites you gets really numb there. Okay,
that is it for its turn. Then the one south of you,
Yarra, will move for one action attack with mandibles and you are now flat
footed as it attacks. That is a thirty two to hit. Oh that's
definitely a critical. Oh no, what also happens when you're clumsy? I
take a negative one to my ac to my DC's that are dexterity based,
my reflexas saves, range, attack rolls, and skills using acrobatic stealth and
thievery cool. Okay, this is gonna be fun. Okay. Fourteen more
piercing damage as this creature's mandibles again kind of like bite into your flesh.
You feel it at the back of your leg, Just tear into your flesh.
It will not use its special bullshit because it doesn't have enough actions to
do that. It will get one more attack, though, and that one
is a miss. So you do feel like this creature like latch onto your
leg and like scrape the back of your leg. Yarra. That is it
for their term a rash talk. Yeah. Um, let's see there were
our gods. Am I able to vaguely see any of the beetles from my
standpoint? Make a perception check? Is that an action? No? Okay,
just figure that check because that would change things. It's a rickety staircase,
which is why I'm giving you an opportunity fair twenty six. Yeah,
I think you can see Romandi four three. Yeah, you can see the
one that's kind of like just above you, kind of through the stairs.
You see it like attacking you ara ah, I see that's the only one
I can see. Yeah, all right, And that's the one she's shot
with the needles. Yes, no, shot the one by Malvic. I
don't think you know that though. Ah yeah, that was more a player
curiosity. I can only see this one anyway. Or no, not the
not the one by the one south she hit with the needles. Ah,
yes, but I see this one. So I am going to hold up
my staff and cast a threeaction magic missile. Oh shit, evocation focus spell
level ninety nine. I feel like that's a TYPEO of some kind. It
is, indeed a typo that is not supposed to be any of that.
The greatest magic missile that has ever been cast, A Rosstak is all that
is. Wizard. Also, I don't know if I need to roll that
three times for damage or if it takes the one and multiplies that by three
missiles that I actually don't know. It doesn't specify. Just to speed things
up, we'll just do what However many times you're casting it will do three
actions, so it's three missiles. Yeah, so it just gets multiplied three
times, okay, no, and that would be fifteen damage. You see?
And this this what color? Do you think that your magic muscles are?
Oh? Oh gosh, I'm trying to remember where this you probably red
actually from the evocation staff like little I'm channeling in essentially fireflies. Okay,
so there's like an orangish kind of glow or just red. Yeah, there's
just this force damage that kind of hits this creature. It's battered against the
wall just as this damage shoots up through the stairs below it. And that
is my turn. Okay, yra, I go ahead, and having taken
all of this damage, I will cast sanctuary upon myself. My hand rests
upon my chest. I begin to glow with a golden light surrounding me.
My eyes flare golden. Now, anytime a creature attempts to attack me,
they will have to make a will save of twenty two, and it is
not affected by clumsy From there, I am going to go ahead, and
I will I'm going to go ahead, and I will take the stride action
to walk behind malefic so that he cannot be flat footed, nor can I.
Okay, which if they have attack of opportunity, that would provoke it.
Obviously, Luckily for you, they don't. Rather big darning and I
stand back to back them. You take four assistant bleed damage and roll a
D twenty flat twenty. It's exactly yeah, Okay, Alec gets your turn.
Since we are in a lay line, I would assume that this vision
gets sent to ar Celia Arsilia, but since we are in a lay line,
all she sees his yellow eyes flash instead of what is actually being seen
in front of us. And then I will take out my great sword as
an action and slash at the one right here, okay, eighteen, the
one that is to the east, or the one that's like right right on
top of me. Yeah, it's like falling out of the walls, like
on the ground below you. These creatures are tiny, so they can ocup
space. Still the size of a fucking cat. It's still a beatle the
size of a cat. And eighteen is a hit, so there's twenty damage.
And then let me see, I think I already put the force damage
in there. It's temporary two, so four of that twenty is fire,
and then there's two additional damage flat Okay, yeah, again, their charracas
is so tough, like just smacking through them like you do. You see
some like some fluids shoot up and the creature definitely reacts in pain. They're
sturdy as shit. That would still love that's the one I hit earlier for
thirty rice. It's kind of fifty ones. Okay, you were attacking the
one, the same one that you attacked earlier, because that was the other
one. Oh was it? I thought it was this one that I was
attacking. Okay, then I attack. You're attacking the one that's below your
feet. I thought that was the one I hit earlier with the head.
Yes, I'm just I'm misheard you. Oh okay, Yes, I'm attacking
the exact same one I attacked earlier. It's still up, okay, and
I will again follow up with another sweep another eighteen. Oh I'm sorry,
it's not eighteen. I thought I hit attack too, so that would have
been a thirteen. Sorry fourteen because you've got this. This isn't an agile
weapons but never mind it is. No, it would be a thirteen.
That is a miss. I think you're probably worried about, like hitting your
own feet with the follow through. Yeah, I'm stacked like at this point.
Yeah, making it a piercing instead of slashing. Okay, that is
a miss. All right? Damage? Yeah, you take six persistent bleed
and I need you to roll eight. Twenty twenty mhmm. Fourteen onmost still
up. Six persistent bleed brutal okay, the skin beetles one fine, okay,
let's see the one that you are attacking will try and fuck you up.
It's going to try and mandibles you again, trying to take chunks out
of your leg twenty five one. So it is a hit, okay,
special bullshit activate okay, seven plus Actually no it doesn't because the bleed can't
stack. Never mind, I won't do that. Seven piercing damage. Second
mandibles attack, and I need I need to damage. Is that gone since
you did sanctuary? Oh no, I still take damage for you. Yes,
so you took two piercing damage then, and then I need you to
make a fortitude safe all gucci. Uh. Second attack is a miss.
Third attack is a miss. Yeah, you're just like you know, using
your sword to kind of like block it from attacking you while the other one
is like closing in from the side. It will then attack you the eastern
one seventeen hit is a miss. It's second attack one, third attack tune
creatures. Uh okay, he says, this is blood is leaking out of
his legs, so he yeah, let's see then the skin beetles that are
near you, Yara, have no idea what you have cast upon yourself.
They will continue to try to attack you, and when that happens, they
will save each time. Will the first time. Creatures attempting to attack the
target must attempt. It will save each time target. If they succeed the
first time, they are exempt from the rest of it. Okay too,
that is an eighteen. That is a miss. It will try and attack
again. It cannot. Oh no, the creature can't attack the target and
waste the action. It can't attempt further attacks against the target. It's it's
probably like really confused, and I think we'll just go past and try to
attack Malvic. Okay, so it will use It's so one action to attack
Yara doesn't work, wastes the action second attack. A second action will be
to step five feet towards Malvic. Third action is to attack Malvic. So
this will technically be attacked to the multi attack penalty that fail. Alvick,
you see this one sneaking up behind you, Yarra. Maybe he gives you
a heads up about it. The other one will also try and rush up
towards Yara an attack my flat footed or no, no, okay, this
one makes it with a twenty five, so it will attempt it to attack,
and any other attacks against the target can attempt its attack and any other
attack. So it just gets to attack normally. Yes, one action to
move and then first attack action thirty one. Yep, that is a hispot
is not a critical? In goodness you are you are still clumsy? No,
it was at the end of my ten. It was for one round
the round past, at least I think so. So it is for one
round, but I think that ends the end of this round. Oh yes,
okay, all right, sorry, sorry, right, so then that
matches it. It is ten above that's a critical. Yeah, sorry,
that's okay, Okay, here we go. Okay. Twelve piercing damage in
your way, yarra as this creature munches through your leg and then I need
a fortitude save thirteen again clumsy again? Uh? Okay? One attack to
move or one action to move one attack? Uh? So it has one
more attack That is a twelve. That is a miss. Okay. Meanwhile,
up above our Celia, I you take start to see a strange flash
these yellow eyes. Karn. I think I think our friends need help.
During this busy what I think our friends need help? All right, take
this, I will hand you a cheetah elixir, go with haste. I
will be here, dinky, you will look after karoum. Yes, I
will make sure nothing answer mhm. I on cork the cheetah elixir and I
down it m and you begin to run so fast. Elixir gives you wings
as you It's just an amphetamine. Yeah, just cue up any of the
music from like, uh what was that movie with Jason Statum crank it horrible?
That one speed the whole time. Yeah, uh Ristelia easter hauling assm.
Okay, I'm gonna add you uh on here and then you can roll
initiative. Once I do. There you go, very good? Okay a
rashtok it is your turn. Yes, I am going to can I which
beetles? Can I see now? Because things moved? Yeah, things moved.
Give me another perception check A fourteen our favorite number today. Unfortunately you
cannot see any Okay, I'm gonna move the center of the room. Am
I able to see any at an angle? Now? Naturally? Yeah?
Give me another perception check? All right, A critical there you go,
Yeah, roll me a roall me two D four four and one from five.
So yeah, you can see this one and I'm on the wrong layer,
so you can see that this one up here to the northeast, and
then the one down southwest. Lovely conveniently, I have two more actions.
Yes, yes, okay, Then on this southernmost one, it's going to
get more of the staff as I hold it up, and this is like
I think this is the Oh no, I use glitter dust. This is
the second type. I've used the staff sid arrow for everything terrible. That's
a two to attack. Wait no, oh, that's not right. It's
still not going to hit because it didn't. It didn't factor in any of
my attack because why would it. That would be technically a fourteen with my
proficiency. Yeah, the acid arrow like sizzles away some of the rickety wood
of the railing. That says, and that is it. Okay, yarrah,
your turn. Ah all right, Well, firstly, I'm going to
go ahead and I will begin to utilize battle medicine upon myself, accelerating the
healing with my magics at an expert level for twenty five. So that is
twenty two points of healing on me. Are you four? No? No,
I am not. I'll calculate that after thirty nine was twenty twenty two.
My brain can't do at the moment. Just step in your bubble when
you click on your plus. Yeah, plus twenty two. Wonderful, Thank
you for from there. I am going to go ahead and I will turn
around and do the same to Malevik. I am utilizing battle medicine upon him
at an expert level. That is A twenty six, So twenty nine points
of healing for Malavik. That should useful. That should maybe? Does that
clear your no? I'll just shy. No, I had equal inside a
plus by accident. What was that eighty nine? Yes? Oh then yes,
this was the twenty nine. Indeed, wow, thank you. If
you're at so the bleed is now gone. You do excellent darning. And
with my final action, I believe it is one action to raise a shield.
Yes? Is that correct? I will be raising my shield in order
to gain the benefits of holding that and that is my ten. Okay,
ar Celia, you see all these giant beetles fucking crawling out of the walls
and like attacking Yara and Malvick's legs. What the fuck is this? As
I'm running, I draw my dagger by ten five thirty thirty five. The
Cheetah elixer gives me a plus ten to my speed, so it's thirty five
now for the next ten minutes. So that's one action, I will five
ten moves here. For my second action, you can stand right on top
of the beetle if you want. Yes, I will do that. Is
it flat footed? Ummm, that's a good question. I don't know how
that works. It'll be flat footed if I stop here. Uh yeah,
I think so, Okay, I'll stop here, and for my last action,
I will stab with my dagger. I'm gonna use my hero point man.
What if the session rolls are off today? That is a lot different.
That is a crit excellent. I will hit the button that says roll
critical damage. Why why we don't have no, we just double it.
So you got to you got nine piercing. We're going to turn that into
an eighteen and you have on a critical hit the target becomes sickened one unless
it succeeds a DC nineteen fortitude save. This is a poison effect because this
is a dagger of venom. Yes, and I also have critical specializations now,
so it will take eighteen piercing damage plus sickened one plus the knife critical
specialization is target takes one D six persistent bleeding damage. Okay, very nice.
I forgot to do mine, but I'm going to let it pass completely
forgot I have that. I will also let it pass as the GM because
you forgot that. Yeah, I completely forgot it. It's only fair.
Did you roll your persistent bleed? You didn't have to it says one six
persistent bleed yia three plus item bonus to attack rolls. No, no,
no that's not It was like a plus one dagger for instance. Okay,
so m hm, so you just have three it's three persistent bleed. Okay,
all right, that's it for your last action, yes, Malvic,
mm hmm okay. I will then again strike down towards this one. Okay.
One that's like underneath you, underneath me, it's piercing through there.
It is a twenty nine. That is a crit right now, We're going
to do this because this is a great scot critic. Uh, how do
you kill it? Malvic? Okay? Is like taking time to do that,
and we're like at the end, I just just continue to stop it
and just just hacking at it, and it's gonna be a rough gift,
buddy, I'm sorry. Oh great, I was using two hands, all
right, moving on a little bit of both. Yeah, I'm going to
turn and do the same to the uh this one that'll be a tech number
two. Okay, twenty six is a hit, right it for twenty four,
four of that being fire, two of it being four damage, and
I have one more action, as I romantically laughing, I am going to
do a fire spit spell at it as well. Gonna be a three fire
spit spell. Is that what you said? Yeah, dragon dragon spit today.
It's a miss. Well, help me think that it didn't it is.
It didn't calculate exactly a multi attack. It's a multi actual attack,
not as spell. Yeah, that is a mess. Okay, Needles will
begin to continue their attack. Okay, we're gonna go this one up here.
Okay, this one will attack Malavic. Ummm, that is a nineteen
hit. That is a miss. That's a miss. Second attack is a
sixteen. Third attack is a twenty three. Still a miss. Oh you
got higher than twenty three? A scene? Very nice? Yeah, forty
four okay, twenty three, It is all right, three attacks miss.
Okay, the one just south of Malavic will begin to attack. Fifteen a
hit is a miss, and that one is a crit. Twenty nine.
Umm, that is for twenty four piercing damage. Five indeed twenty four,
so nineteen is left and then I need a fortitude safe now wait, nineteen
is love for twenty four it was twenty four damage minus five from yar attack.
I will raise my ambulech and reduce that by eight damage. Okay,
eleven damage? Okay, all right, said what did you do as the
success? Okay? Uh? Was that three attacks from this one? Yes?
I believe so. No, no, this is that was the second.
This is the third. Sixteen is a miss. Okay. The one
that is south of Yarra has to beat the will save the attack. This
turn that is a fail. It will also move over. You will actually
Arsilia is there. It will turn and attack Arsilia. Hey, it loses
its first action, so this is technically its second attack action. The mandibles
on ar Cilia for sixteen hit, I'm assuming that is a miss. I
could it away and then an eighteen hit slap it away? Yes, imagine
Arsilia bending down and slapping me away. I'm assuming you try to like crawl
up and you're like just smack the thing off of you. Okay, roshock,
yes, yes, good, I can still see the beatles I saw
before? Yes, which was that in that one? Uh? Yes,
happen I moved. All right. Then what I will do is use reach
for one action where I'm just trying to make a touch spell or that sort
of thing very close able to go thirty feet, which I then breathe in
as deeply as possible. And on this little fellow puff of poison, you
must make a fortitude save of twenty two. Sorry, the one to the
north, the bottom one, this one down here, Yes, that is
a natural oneonderfil It takes twenty poison damage and four persistent poison. Very nice,
okay, and I have to do the persistent blead damage that it had
because I forgot, and then they're all eighty twenty okay, bleed is still
up yep, yeah it is. Uh it seemed to inhale all that poison.
Good, yes, and then then but yeah, four poison persistent on
top of that bleed. That's fun. Okay, all right, that's all
I got, turn alrighty yarrah, all right, Well I'm going to go
ahead and I will cast life Link upon our Celia now, so I will
be taking damage for her as well, and that will make my curse go
to moderate, which allows me to rule the twelves instead of d eights.
So from there, with my final two actions, I am casting a level
two heel upon my self. Let's do it. That is going to be
twenty six points of healing plus another two actually from my curse. So twenty
eight does that top you upol? I'm not sure, does it? No?
Let's see you're eighty four those four you're at eighty I think so,
all right, and then I must roll to see if the persistent bleed continues.
You take four damage first, yes, of course that's still a failure
anyway. Okay, yeah, so you take the four damage and the persistent
bleed stays on. Okay, that is my done, Castilia. All right.
For my first action, I would like to use exploit vulnerability on this
creature in front of me. Okay, twenty three against its DC success.
It has no weaknesses. Okay, I will use my personal antithesis that thoughts
online and then I stab it again. Hah, how do you kill it?
I clear it into two pieces and I kick it away. Yeah,
there's like a crunch noise, you know when you like when you put like
a really sharp knife on some crusty bread. It's a little bit like that,
right through. Cool. That was my second action. Then I will
move. If I stand here, we'll be able to reach the one.
Okay, that's my but yeah, I've got long arms. I'm seven feet
tall. I will continue to try to cleave this one right here. I
can't believe No, nobody's done the the the meme of like holding up with
now, I expect that to be one of the first memes like that we
had for this show. Twenty six, twenty six, and you're hitting the
one to the east, mel this one, Yes, yes, that is
a hit. Thirty two peer, that's not even maximum damage. Jesus Christ,
how do you kill it? Ah? That's again Mantle is just chopping
at his, stabbing at it until it dissipates into a pool of blood and
cracked whatever, just like that, crunching like through the steps right below the
beatles. Yeah, legs and like twitching. As you're killing it, I'll
turn to the other one and do the same thing to it. So number
two to twenty seven Jesus Christ almost a crit wasn't enough. It still did
thirty damage. Non krit those even max damage. I say, is it
a critic one of flat footage between the two of them. It's not flat
footed. It's weird, weird uh positioning. But yeah, have one more
attack twenty How do you kill it? Oh? The same way just Alvick
is like stabbing into the ground, violently, putting holes through the stairs as
these bugs squeal and die, these skin beetles all twitching as you all kind
of catch your breath. Is it over now? That would be a good
time for me to push the button for credits. But I just want to
give you guys a heads up because I thought i'd give you a little heads
up. I didn't make a video for it or anything. But tomorrow we've
got Kira Wednesday, I'm going to be doing something special. I'm gonna be
starting something special on the channel, something completely different that we don't normally do
here. I'm actually going to be learning the Blender program. I used to
I went to school for three D animation, to college for it. I
haven't done it in many years, and I'm just going to be streaming the
process of learning Blender here on table Story. That'll be taking place on Wednesday,
probably at noon or one o'clock. I haven't decided yet. It's going
to be around there, and yeah, are you going to be animating?
Are Celia doing the I'm going to be following some tutorials to get my to
knock the rust off because I haven't animated three D in many years. But
anyway, hopefully you guys will check that out and we'll see you tomorrow for
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