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slash discord. Thank you, joy ride ride for rolling. As strider leads
the way, you charge forth from your hiding spot, who is in the
lead? That would be me with toddles backwards, tied to me with a
belt. That's right? Very well? Is this a new riding order?
This is I am allowing you to select your riding order here as we begins
that ride ahead, do what the travel role? Mmm? Your travel role
is better than mine, though, if I'm not my second? Do you
want to go in front? I would try, I think, being emboldened
by this leader, Okay, I am happy to be right behind. Real
do I have a rusty back? I would assume that you do. I
think I think the what what we had decided last time was that Rusty is
the only horse we have strong enough to carry me. So I I think
you're on my horse, and I'm on the horse. I'm on. I
think you're you're on butter. You're on butter. That's right, great seakfast
mm hmm, very well. Riode is in the front with I'm sorry,
who is just just yourself? And then Tottles Yep, I'm strapped and I've
got my bowl out. Yeah, but that would be reverse actually, so
turtles will be since I'm I'm controlling the horse, Touttles to be behind and
now be in front, okay, and then who viper you're very quiet,
apologies if it's possible, I'd like to be next after that, because otherwise
I might get hit and die at any moment. So I'm up, squishy
right now. Very well? Okay, Ben andwin Or Andowin. Are you
taking up the rear? I suppose i am, since in the last pursuit
that they made the person in the rear took the majority of the punishment,
and I think it's just myself and maybe Toddles are the only two healthy members
left. Everyone else has been shot up and beat up. I will take
the rear because you charge forth from your hiding place. You burst forth.
In the distance, you can maybe see some torches belonging to some of these
war riders, these goblins in the distance, you can hear there they are.
Oh no, you ebaser, they're coming. It's okay. We planned
for this. Hey, the traps that Strider and I set up may yet
be of use. Strider is with you at the front, Rey oath you
are just to give you an idea. The war riders have passed where you
are going. You have a choice to follow the road or go off the
road. Where are you going right now? Off road? We're going off
road, I think. Okay, you begin to charge off road. Let's
bring you back to this map. Just this music, come dying. It's
so good. If the muser gets any more inspirational, I'm turning around to
fight, be careful. Yeah, yeah, it's too good. Please make
a travel roll. I would, if I am capable of doing so within
the constraints of this chase. Use one of my dwar Dwarven incantations, my
broken spells, in order to achieve a magical success with my travel role.
Okay, you activate this spell. What look like what is happening playing it
to us. Okay, so it's similar to what I do with Rusty.
In fact, I'm holding both the stirrups as we're going, and once again
you see my arms alternating, going up and down. And as you see
that, this stirrup goes in turn. It makes those sine waves and it
almost it makes a sound and a rhythm as it pats against the shoulders of
the horse, and it's as if butter knows exactly what's going on here.
It's almost as if it understands. It's like I'm speaking in horse code and
so it's just horses communicate by breath anyway, Sorry, under well, eventually
I'm still moving my arms up and down, but then the stirrups go straight,
and once I get to that position, it's almost as if I'm guiding
it. The sound of its hoofs is it? You know it trods on
the ground goes from hoofsung grass, you know, those double thuds to sounding
as if it's trodding on metal as we glide across the forest floor. Are
you okay? You're breathing heavily off there, but never mind the role regardless,
Okay, Oh lord, I believe it costs you hope to do this.
I'm not mistaken it does indeed. I Uh. Strider holds forth his
sword and it catches a glint of the moonlight as he's riding forth next to
you. Real he looks over to you for a second and you see like
a rye grin on his face, and he says, we shall yet win
this day. And there is just a glint and a glimmer of light that
you see. You see a necklace upon his breast and it sort of is
bouncing and reflecting the moonlight. It's ever so bright. And uh, this
is a magical success. So what will happen here? Is I need you
to roll your chase button. Please chase the chase button. The road is
clear, okay, charging four three oh? With Strider by your side,
the rest of your friends behind you, you can see that there are no
obstacles ahead. The hill that you were sort of rushing over is sort of
the foothills past Brie. As you continue rushing through your sort of up and
down these foothills, there doesn't seem to be any shrubs or trees or anything
obstructing you. It is open here. As you charge forth, what will
each of you do on your turns. Well, I'm facing them as they're
turning around and coming after us. Can I fire a shot? Would you
like to go first? Uh? Yes, okay, yes I would.
All right, Tottles, you can take the first shot. Then. Actually
I think Real is in the front. Yeah, he needs to go first
technically. So yeah, you guys are technically sort of you've peeled off from
where the wargs are. Okay, so if you're not quite perpendicular, but
you're a small angle maybe and uh, you've started to go off road.
I assume north. Okay, Uh, all right, So I will say
that anybody can go first in this case. Okay, Well, in that
case, if nobody minds, I will, unless somebody else had other plans
like London. Okay, no, not that it didn't know. You're good,
okay, Okay, then I will bowl to attack. Please hold a
line. Yeah, and it doesn't matter which one I aim at. Right,
That is correct? Okay. That is a piercing blow to start us
off titles. Okay, let's see as the war riders catch your scent or
see you charging. An arrow flies through the night. We see it heading
directly towards one of the war riders and they need to make a roll.
Just imagine this hysterical scene of this little hobbit strapped onto the back of this
horse, light face in their direction, trying to steady the ball. It's
absurd. Next we'll be bouncing down the river in barrels. We can only
hope. And this is versus A fourteen. Hey, you damn it,
that is the success. Yes, you do not kill them, but you
still deal your damage. Okay, very well, Um turtles, w don't
you go ahead and roll me a D six please? Okay? Three D
yes, okay, right in the middle. Okay, that's fine, that's
fine, it's no big deal. Who's next, I'll go next? Just
to so the turtles literally strapped to me. I think I'm very concerned that
if I if I even get a scratch, I'm going to fall off.
So I would like to roll a defend roll what flavor wise, I'm sort
of trying to to wrap my arms around the reins so that if anything hits
me, I'm not just gonna fall right off. We'll just do a straight
battle rule ooh one great success. So it says roll battle to gain a
bonus to your defense for each success, So does that mean you have one
extra success? So as it stands, this turn, because you are defending,
you will gain a plus two to your parry essentially, all right,
okay? Or this round turn? Okay, who's next? I will go
next, and I would like to I would like to just defend or just
evade. Actually, I would like to do some evade work. I can
stay where I am and not get taken out by anything. Okay. Oh,
I do have a question about this though, considering we're doing round for
round, since reals rolled well and there's no obstacles coming, But for evade
it deals with obstacles with this only work for that role or for the next
one coming for the the coming obstacles. It's good to evade in the beginning,
but there can be other things that crop up. Great, okay,
is it all right if I roll athletics? Uh? No, you're on,
You're on pony back. You can, okay, if I could,
if I could, for a moment, fight a little bit. Lawyer begins
to let the lawyering begin because last session. First of all, the rules
do not say on the evade portion. It says role travel or athletics to
evade obstacles. It does not discern between either of them, and last session
I was able to evade with an athletics role. You let me. I've
altered the bargain. Okay, I'll take Okay, travel it is travel it
is. I'm sorry, I'm folding them. No, no, no,
no, I'm arguing in your behalf. Don't let invader you. I'm so
easily vadered. I could girl. I swear what if I was mean once?
I'm sorry this this in this case, it is a travel role.
Okay, no problem right now, I can't justify Uh an athletics check.
Yes, okay, I'm I understand. Okay, thanks, much's next?
That is a fail. I suppose we should make use of the traps that
Strider helped me with. No, I don't know if you have a set
mechanic for this, but I am going to lure them into it. Okay,
we'll say this is an improvise. I think that this will be probably
battle. I will take that travel. Hi. I cannot pass either of
those roles. Uh, what were you trying to argue? Well, we
never really talked about what kind of trap it is, but I would assume
that I would make a trap that okay, Well, in that case I
will lead them directly to it and jump over it. I could potentially argue
it's a feat of anthleticism. I suppose you're jumping. You are jumping with
the horse. I mean all of the all of the whole like horse charging
and horse stunt stuff in the writing book is all athletics roles. That does
seem to be the way. Yes, so I do think that's fair,
given that it's not in the core book. It's in the writers of Rohan
supplement with all of the horse tactics and horse charges. It's all athletics.
But if you if I can't do an athletics role, then I would let
somebody else do it, because I would not set up a trap that I
myself cannot navigate. That'd be similar. I offer a hunting as well,
if you have proficiency, because it's a top you hunting with snails all the
time, hunting or exploring pretty we could both. I could use either of
those moments, unting, take counting. That's good. Was a good lawyer,
I have to point from you. I appoint the dwarf our head lawyer
from now on. Yes, when he is here's the one with the contract
after all. Yeah, interesting in that character where you don't wear brief Oh
God, get out of here. All right, there we go. I
have I have failed hunting roles before at critical junctures, even though it's a
good skill. So I think I will use hope or petition one of my
teammates if they would grant me one. I'll give you one. Yeah,
absolutely, because I do not want to fail this important role. Here we
go. Okay, I need I need you, I need everyone to understand
fatigue. That is, I rolled four ones. That's the worst one you
could make. Yeah, that's uh yeah, I will take a point of
exhaustion here, fatigue, wow, to re attempt this nice. I was
specifically being quiet because I've watched that clip a couple of times from last week
when there was two so nice and a roll. Dude, I just rolled.
I just rolled one, two three, A sourn three ones. All
right, here we go, taking the taking the exhaustion for this boom go
again. Oh that's great success, that's great, much better. Okay,
so I'm going to say that, uh you definitely see there are three wargs
that are closing with the group. You peel off two of them towards the
trap that slide that Strider had successfully set up. Unfortunately, you did,
I believe you. Strider tried twice, you tried once, and Strider got
one success. I think we did fail some of the tropicals, so I
know some of them are not going to work. However, however, are
you ready for my lawyery? I'm ready. Okay, I at least stop
and rear the horseback and do the movie thing to get their attention first,
and then do it. I don't actually have to change the roll or the
results. I just need to look cool doing make an all roll please great
success in awe. Rusty literally looks awesome doing it. At least, yes,
Rusty looks very majestic holding this bear of a man sort of rears back
on Rusty, and you see the two war riders sort of like hunching down,
getting like more aerodynamic a rushing pick charging forward. You can hear their
their their howls as they get closer to you, and the two of them
sort of rush off. There's a glance over Strider's shoulder as he watches you
do this, and you rush towards the traps. You can see both of
them following close, nipping at Rusty's tail. As they get closer, one
of them springs the snare and you the war is caught. The rider continues
forward and just sort of rolls upon the ground. The other warg manages to
sort of trip over the one the goblin that fell off of the warg,
and they sort of all make a mess down on the ground, meaning this
round only one will closet. We got a two for one special. I
did not expect that to be on a great success. Yeah, okay,
real Nie, what are you up to? Okay, so I've made the
initial travel roll, but I can still roll more. Is that what you
were saying? Yeah? Absolutely, okay, you actually have your turn to
make. So I've got this fine make heavy chair ring nail at the moment,
but it's not really doing much use for me. Can I remove it
or like unclasp it or whatever doing that while riding? It's almost impossible?
All right, super tricky. You can definitely try. M I don't think
I would. I'm just trying to, you know, min maxis. Like
I said, you can definitely try. Hmm, I'm already ahead. I
would like to try something in how close are we all as we're riding together
in this road, I'm leading the way. I yes, I imagine Anderwin
is quite a bit back now from the rest of the group, but beyond
that you're the rest of you are pretty close together. Because I would have
liked to improvise. Well, as we're riding I see a tree, and
I would like to try maybe perhaps two I mentioned before, maybe perhaps twenty
episodes ago, how well we don't have cars at Doom anymore. However,
the Dwars the next best thing, of course is cutting down trees. I
because well, we'd have no minds to mine. So I was going to
ask if I could find a tree, probably swinging at it as I ride
by, to make it fall into the path to block the way I'm ahead.
But perhaps maybe with some timing and some Dwarven engineering ingenuity, I could
perhaps, you know, we'll make it so that the tree falls down as
our last member goes by. Absolutely I think this will require Yeah, so
this this would be qualified as an improvise. I will absolutely allow you to
do this. This is not going to be easy, so I would say
that this is most likely an attack role. But I'm giving you a pretty
heavy penalty I'm going to say there's a minus two bonus. Die to this.
Minus two bonus give you hope. Okay, make that only a minus
one, and we're going to say your target. Yeah, just make a
role. It's minus two bonus die for me and the titles gives you a
bonus of one so plus okay, a bonus of being a dwarf and having
done many much logging in my time. Unfortunately, not unless you have one
of your attributes. O holy piercing blow. What would normally be almost an
impossible task rio to try and chop to fell a tree with one swing of
your axe while on horseback. This is a tcrpg man smooth swing, your
hero, Uh, you managed to fell this tree as you as you are
charging forth, you you can feel the the this sort of thrumming power as
you wind up for the swing and you put forth all of your energy into
this into this strike. There's probably like a few sam rainy sort of like
camera angles that happen, you know, like way too close on the on
on I forget which which pony you're riding. There was like like that wild
horse eye that you see that like super close camerangle, Like what are you
doing, and uh uh there's like this intense uh frown upon your face,
like and uh you absolutely managed to destroy uh this this tree as your swing
passed. Maybe it was partly dead, but it won't be in any stories
that you tell in the future. It's a mighty ook, very lord of
the Rings, isn't it. Yeah, must I must point out that Real
is such a beast. Four out of his five dice did not even count
because he was weary. He just made that purely off the fiend on strong
power, through absolute freaking absolutely the tree falls. You have created an obstacle
essentially for those behind the main group. I will say this will be for
Anduin and the war Rider. I immediately realized that as far back as I
am, there's no way he could timeless to perfectly separate me in the work.
O great, Okay, Strider, Let's see. I think Strider will
begin to lean down, and it looks as if he's whispering to his horse.
There is just this moment of peace and serenity ri Oath. As all
of this intensity has been happening throughout this night, there is just this quiet,
penetrating voice that you hear somehow carrying on the air. This gentle urgency.
You don't understand what it means. It isn't an elvish, but it
is enough to quell any fears that you might have. Yes, yeah,
yeah, Oh. Strider looks up and you can see this determination on his
face. His horse begins to gallop, and with each step that his horse
takes, it seems to catch the light. You feel faster. You hear
butter breathing harder, Their muscles tense. All of you begin to gallop faster.
Ride a strider says this. All of you can feel yourselves continue this
this chase. You're saving lives tonight, no matter what happens, even if
you must give your own. You don't know how many lives will be saved,
but if those rangers make it back, it could be countless lives,
all because of you. Why can I go next? No? I feel
normal? Okay? Uh, and I need you to make a travel role
for me. Please come on. Shit, that was so cool. Yeah
that was good. Wait to zero. Oh you have nothing, I have
nothing to trouble. Okay, one D six for me? Oh okay,
if I had spent a hope on it. Those two roles are both incredible.
So I might have been able to make it there, but it's very
rare that I can pass the travels. I'll just take the fail and see
what happens. Uh. You and Rusty are both hit by this fallen tree
that Rio has sent backwards. You manage to not quite time the jump right
and it connects. The war rider is also hit by this, and you
will take five endurance loss from this. Okay. Also another checkpoint has gone
by. Oh I'm just sitting there soaking in the peace and serenity of this
elvish magic feeling, the sweet release of nature, basking in its calmness,
kind of punched in the face by nature, has the all right back to
doing it my way? Who is going first? Yay? Round? Or
so? Can anyone can go first? For the person in the lead has
to go first. So the war riders are giving chase, I will say
the person in the lead has to go first. Okay, Okay. In
that case, I suppose I shall continue travel and use one more hope to
try and at least make this next round as smooth as possible. Before you
do that, make a regular old travel roll, regular regular travel role.
Okay, and still you stop on it if you want, okay, to
make it magical, but not to even a bonus die so bam, it's
going to be a wy failure, but it's all success. Few chase rolls
please, two chase rolls okay? One clear? Clear, Okay, excellent.
The hills are clear as you rush and cantinues through the night. Okay,
Now roll me a D six please, okay? One D six five?
Okay, uh five, that's not good. The rest of the wards
have picked up on the scent and will be joining things. I do have
a question before we continue, though, So the host whispering we had in
the previous round was for what would that have give me an extra dice to
roll for travel? Or what the No? No, okay, so what
did it do? I think we're going to be a yeah, we just
got to a checkpoint really fast, all right? Okay? Uh what would
you like to do? Real? What you're saying? I've done, I've
done it. I was going to ask if I could I would have I
missed out on a bonus dipe. I didn't. So that's my turn.
No, No, that's not your turn. This is for the role to
determine what is happening this round on the road. Essentially, I now,
now it is your turn. No right, hmm. I suppose there's not
much I can do but maybe perhaps evade anything coming my way. Okay,
go ahead and make it a travel roll. No right. Extraordinary success Oh
okay, that is very good. We're gonna give you three of these.
That is very good. Real okay, alrighty. Essentially, Rio, you
are remaining as vigilant as you can in the lead, and you are very
aware that you are guiding this group, and there are many wards that hunt
you this night. Okay, uh, who's next? I'll go next?
Now, Okay, Hey, I've got this like elvish h calming determined tenacity
here, and it looks like Anderwin is right in front of a rider.
Ah, and I'm not going to attempt to kill steal, so I'm going
to begin to win mine. Okay. I don't think your minds either.
Three words, all right, so I'll hit the same one I hit last
time. Then okay, so this is with an extraordinary extra two successes?
How would you like to spend them? You Carson blow and then mighty?
I believe you can do that. Let me just double check I'm almost positive
you can. Uh, you have a special boat. You have a keen
boat, right, I do, so you only need nine for your that's
right, Okay, yep, you can absolutely do that. All right,
let's find out if they are able to make this role. This is versus
a fourteen it is a fail. How do you kill them? I think
Totals has the most kills in the entire party put together. Well, I
like to think that like Anderwin is raising to go attack and my arrow goes
like right past his hair, and you know, but he's not worried at
all. It's just like, because I can't really see, I'm short,
So I think him raising his spear allows me to aim. And so I'm
like, you know, like, okay, he's pointing at where exactly where
I need to point my arrow, and so I think it's teamwork and yeah,
and then the arrow obviously pierces him right through, and then they fly
off the you know, not the ring style. Something crazy happens and then
the thing's flying around all over the screen and it's shoe does the odsous axe
arrow shot thing you know who through the ax as this hoards as these hords
get close enough to where I'm starting to feel like I might actually need to
pull out the spear, and I turned to go stab it, and it
just gets caught by an arrow. I don't even look back. I don't
even need to look. I know who shot it, and I just kind
of smile and put the spear down and keep going. It like little rainbows
or a little like honeycombs on each of the arrow shafts. Okay, question,
since I now this is my mini lawyer in since I still have an
extra success that I didn't end up using, since the pearson blow killed it,
can I say that the teamwork gives a bonus die to and win for
his next attack? Uh? Only if I'm attacking the road with a travel
road. Oh sure, why not? Okay, all right, who's next?
I attack that I attacked the road with a travel road. Uh.
I wasn't even going to attack. I was going to try and regroup because
I was falling behind. But don't do whatever you would do. I mean,
you're kind of talking me into it. You know, you're telling when
you have a big hammer, everything looks like a nail, and I have
a very big spear that these barks are getting close. What I'm just going
to do what I'm good at. I'm going to turn around and stab it
in the face as they're catching up with me. Well, not turn around,
I'm going to keep riding straight with the group. But I'm going I'm
going to like trust I know that Rusty is a very well traveled and competent
horse, so I believe that if I loosen my grip on the reins,
he will not immediately run into a tree. So it's not like I'm driving
a car. He is intelligent. I'm going to turn back with the sphere
and stab at whichever one is closest to me. Rios has left like a
butt crack imprint on Rusty's back. Why it's the saddle dwarf shaped. Yeah,
I will, I will go for it. I think my usual rather
ferocious style of running at things and roaring is kind of oddly absent as I
am calmed by some unknown sort of magic. I just kind of calmly look
back in slow motion and take a rather relaxed breath, probably more than it
should be for the situation. But Strider's magic is having its impact and just
going to shank this one behind me. I'm going to use Uh, the
Orcish spear for this, because that's a one hander. I don't think it's
reasonable for me to turn back with two hands on horseback. That makes no
sense. So I will roll this one. Boom boom boom boom boom boom
boom boom. That is a great success. You've been an extra success.
How would you like to spend it? I will make it a heavy blow
because I cannot pierce here. Okay, Uh, very well. So that
is twelve twelve total damage. There is a howl behind all of you as
you see Andowin's spear, this warg rider and warg behind him yells in pain
and uh, you draw some blood. Okay, who's next? This is
as a reminder mainly for listeners who may have forgotten. This is the poisonous
spirit that we retrieved an orc earlier in the story, So why don't I'm
still not entirely sure how this poison works, but I know it's nasty stuff
that I just stabbed him with it, So this would have had to been
uh if it was. If it was that same spear, it would have
been used at that point. The poison Okay, so it has worn off
at some point, Yeah, all right, it's not infinite, okay,
unfortunate, So I'll have to go find a snake and extract some venom and
repoison it. Do I still have that mushroom? He's next? All right?
Do you want to go next? No? Now go ahead. Do
you want you to go next? No? I want you to go next.
All right? Well, be the exact opposite of andin and rusty.
Will you hang up first? I know that if I turn around it all
that bread will run into a tree. So as born as it is,
I'm going to do another defense role to to hunker down and stay safe for
myself in Tottle's sake. I can't remember. Did you succeed on the first
one that you made or did you film? I did? Yeah, I
succeeded on the first one, and then I succeeded on this one too,
with a great success. Okay, very well, Okay, so you are
maintaining that two extra to your parry rating. Okay, viper, yes,
I would also like to defend and keep running exactly where I am. Ok
that will be a battle roll all right, very nice? Okay, get
a plus one to your parry rating for this round, right, Okay,
until your next turn. That's what I'm getting at. Damn. Okay uh
did you? Uh, Strider. I'm gonna have Strider do where's the day.
I don't have enough defixes. I have to roll this ship multiple times.
I've got one I can roll for you. No, I promise I
won't find oh okay, uh, Strider says, look to the south,
there are more. Oh these, roll a D twelve for me. Uh
Lundon, Oh no, you better roll a one or a two. I'm
watching you. Unless the twelve is good, I'm not looking willed it into
existence again. Okay Uh. There are three war riders that are cresting the
hill. Okay, I mean they're headed from the south basically in this way.
Okay. Uh. The Strider didn't see them. They would have been
able to engage in this combat in this round. Okay kah. The war
riders that are engaged and on and awin right now. Mmmmm, let's see.
We're gonna have them attack with spear. That is a success, and
you are You drive your spear through the the leg of one of the war
riders into the war They sort of break off briefly, and as they do,
they spin with their own spear and they manage to slice into your side,
feeling three damage there and then and then the other one will come up
on the other side and try and spear you. That is a fail The
spear strikes against your own as you carry it away around first still right,
Yes, I need a travel role. Okay, hmm, what is my
hope? Like I give you one? I gave you one. I know
if you can give me a hope to me to do a magical thing,
or it has to be from me. Master, believe it does have to
be from you. I'm sorry. Okay, no, we don't apologize.
I would have taken it, but I'm also stupid and I didn't. I
shall try again. Here's a hope for travel reasons. Very failure. Okay,
roll to chasets please, but it's a very successful failure and the rod
is twice Okay, that is good news. Okay, the road is still
clear as you charge through the night. What would you like to do on
your turn reo? Hmm. I think things have been okay for now,
but my roles have not been amazing. That being said, I guess I
shall stay the pastick the course, and you know I kill that three.
I think I'm feeling. Okay, I don't feel like drawing back and attacking
nothing, because you know, I think I'm gonna just keep being evaded,
you know, evading, unless I can do anything else. Low Master,
that makes more sense. You can still evade if you like. This will
potentially override your your current evade. Okay, defend. Would you like to
defend? Hmmm? Rule bottle will increase your parry. It's to successfully defend.
I do have a really bad party, okay, go weary failure.
Okay, you still have three vade points right now? Which are which are
good things to have? Okay, I guess since we're we're two checkpoints,
and I will say that those evade points essentially last for this checkpoint. Yeah,
okay, Okay, what's next? That's okay? Donalds titles kill another
place. Yep, I'm gonna try. Has warned you that there are three
war riders that are coming from the south now as well. Okay, I
will hit one of those, yeah, or try anyway. So, just
because I think it's fun, I'm going to rearrange the math a little bit.
Just do it like this, because you guys are coming in at a
different angle. Okay, let's see here that is a success. Which one
are you aiming at? The one you aimed at from before? No,
I was aiming at one of the new ones from the south for the leader.
Alrighty, this one here very well, Okay, Dough, the arrow
sails and you see it. It doesn't quite hit like anything vital, but
you hear like a in the distance. Okay, Okay, that's my turn.
Yep, he's next. I go ahead. Yeah, I'll just go
ahead. And I'm definitely rolling defense again. Okay, I'm so afraid,
and hell, you know, for giggles, I'm giving myself a hope.
I don't want any chance to p succeed. Whoa very very nice. This
is a plus four? Who you're perrierating right now? Oh wow, there's
a twenty one. Jesus Man's untouchable. Now I'm essentially doing this. I'm
on this. I'm on the other side of bread as low as I can
get without throwing toddle solves. Since we're tied together, so you're using the
horse as a shield. Yep, got it. Poor horse. He's tough.
He can take it and take it. Yeah, you who can't take
it still can't him? You know, who can't take it though this wark
behind me that I've had about enough of Piper good. Yeah, I'm also
gonna still defend. Sorry, just going to defend again. Battle role Okay,
yes, okay, that is another you have an extra one tier parry
rating right now? It doesn't does it stack from the last time? No,
it does not. Just double check in. Okay, thank you,
Okay, and win. Are we using the stance system when we're in horseback
melee? Yeah, so a good question. Essentially, Uh, it's kind
of reversed, right, So Rio's would be like in rear word stance.
Uh. And then you guys can be in whatever kind of stance you want
besides the person in the front. Okay, I could be in defensive stance
technically, yeah, definitely, But that last session we forced the one in
the rear to be in forward stance, which is I think, yeah,
I think this is this is forward stance, all right, Okay, yeah,
I think the three in the middle are whatever you want, and then
the one in the rear is forward stance and the one in the front is
rear word stance. Okay, Well, forcing me into forward stance means I
will probably take more damage, but the walk right behind me is not going
to like what happens next. I'm sure, yeah, out of my face.
Okay, that is a regular success and win is a crushing defeat.
I know, I am. Would you like to spend a fatigue to reroll
that? The fact that this is only a normal hit makes me quite sad.
I mean you could make spend a fatigue to reroll that if you want.
You know what, I will be baited into it. Yes, I
know it's what you want. I will take the bait. Die. Oh,
I'll just have to take my result and live with it. But I
did hit it last turn. I don't know how much health it has left,
but does four damage potentially finish it? Uh? Four damages is not?
It is still up. These things are just mountains of health. All
right? Well that is my turn? Did someone say mountain? Strider says,
continue leading the way, I will try and peel these off, and
he will fall back to guard the Hobbits. Ten success Dice five rolled ten
with not one extra success stalled. Okay, so Strider is going to fall
back and protect the Hobbits, which is a very good thing right now,
because the war Riders will be advancing and they were definitely about to come into
the flanks. There we have three war riders that will be engaging Strider.
Holy shit. Okay, let's see here. M oops, I clicked on
the wrong buttond. Okay, that is a Gandalf rune, which is a
fail. The first one swings its Strider and he uh just kind of ha
carries it with his sword. There's just a spark in a flash in the
night. Another one another fail. Uh. This one goes wide and just
misses its mark. The last of the war riders another miss, just barely.
This time uh catches again Strider's sword. He spins and parries the blow,
sensing it coming from his flank. The two that are behind you and
win that are giving chase will now try and strike you with spear. Okay,
m tyre for that forward stance to bite me in the butt. Here
we go, give me the damage. That's a piercing blow. Okay,
I need you to try and protect against a fifteen injury rating? Fifteen?
Can can can he get hope for this one? I can't remember which are
Yeah, I can give him hope because he's one of my ocus, which
so he can be two for me. Nice by all means fifteen injury.
Come on, come on, come on, Oh my god, that would
have been so bad. Okay. Uh, You still, however, will
take three damage. As you successfully manage to avoid a piercing blow just barely,
and to win that you feel the spear sort of dig in to your
side, almost piercing something important. For now, it's just your flesh.
The other war rider fails as tries to strike you. Yes, another slim
miss. Uh. The spear this time flatters against the halt of your spear.
You round the rolls the roles from these walk riders. I just want
to throw it out there that we have gandal for somebody looking out for us,
because if you look at the almost every single one of them was to
make it break it by one. That's crazy. Yeah, it's Gandalf.
You say, I'm going too well because we've been opened by this, uh
you know, stride a fellow. I'm going to burn more hope in to
try and get this magical travel success to go. Weiry failure. Ah,
okay, h chase rolls please, okay, Weiry successful failure and the road
is double clear again. Okay, wow, wow, super lucky. I
do have the weight. These tables are weighted so there's a percentage chance for
each thing to happen, and the road is clear is the most likely thing
to happen. So that is showing itself. Now that is a good thing.
Okay, realth, what would you like to do with your so?
Am I still evading? Am I still guileful on this horse for this checkpoint?
And now reach the next checkpoint? Correct? Okay? In that case,
I shall h I suppose I shall roll defend, so roll battle to
try and increase my defenses for this term. Then in that case, great
success. Excellent. Okay, you have added a plus two to your power
rating right now. I'll make a little red indicator for that. Okay,
Okay, alrighty, who's next? I really want to get this thing off
my heels that keeps biting me. Me, I go next by all means?
Okay, I'm shoot not the thing that's biting out of seals. Okay.
Given your tendency to just kill them in one hit, perhaps you hit
the other one and just take the full else one out. All right,
extraordinary success. You've got two extra successes. You cannot get a piercing blow.
Quiet, No, you got a three, younger. You can go
for a double heavy if you'd like. Yeah, I'll do that then,
And what's your strength rating two? Okay, where that will be a extra
six damage? Very nice. Okay, arrow sails past you into when you
can see it catch the war rider, probably like somewhere in the in the
ribs something probably like breaks a rib bone or something. It curses in the
night. Okay, it was next, and I will do another defend defend
role. Yeah, and okay, sorry, I'm just having to keep track
of my hope because my shadow is so high that, like it's very easy
for me to be like, oh, I'll just give everyone a hope and
then be like, oh no, I'm miserable. No, no, no,
okay, batt'll roll Okay, okay, I'll take it, keeping that
one, that one Perry extra, keeping that one Perry. Okay, So
it works. I would like to go next, but just to make sure.
According to combat actions, and I don't know if they apply fully here,
but a secondary action is drawing a weapon. So can I pull the
ball out and shoot it within this turn? Here's sure? The rules say
that you technically can, but you're on the back of a horse. Yes,
sure, here's the tricky thing. You and Toddles are sharing a pony
right now. Yeah, because of the the logistics here, I'm going to
say no in this case, okay, which is more than fine, and
I will think of something next. I want to do something ridiculous, but
Dragon tittles along for the ride for you two your ridiculous thing. May I
stab this? I really am chomping at the bit to stab the scoplin and
get off me. O my lord four. I didn't even know that was
possible. He rolled a one on his feet, die four sixes and three
on the success die quad heavy. Get off me. Yes, that's four
times seven twenty eight damage. Get off me? Which one are you aiming
for? I think they're both roughly equally damaged, so it doesn't particularly matter.
If I were trying to be mathematically appropriate, it would be the one
that Puddles just hit. But honestly, the one that bit me has pissed
me off more. I'm killing that one, okay, I twenty eight?
Guy, I don't even know what I I think. I wait until it
comes in to bite me again, and I invert the grip instead of holding
the spear like a lance. I hold it like an ice pick, and
when it comes in to bite me, just straight down on the top of
its head. Oh that is incredible. There's yeah, there's a there's a
horrible cracking sound as you connect with the goblin, just fracturing and breaking its
skull with the with the IMPACT's force. Okay, who's next? Okay,
So I have an idea and you can tell me if it's feasible or not.
I understand it puts us in a little bit of trouble Turtles, So
I will be communicating this to you. I'd like to take my twenty five
feet of rope and move out to here and drag it behind until it catches
in one of the feats, if possible. Okay, you are giving up
your you're giving up your defense to do this, I know, but I
need to know if that's a thing that is possible and what I need to
roll for it. You absolutely can can try to do this. This will
most likely, I would say, this would be a battle roll. Oh
yes, please, yes, Okay, So trying to do some advanced battle
tactics here. Yeah, I'm okay. So I tell all this to Tattles
like I'm gonna try and trip them up, and I've got the rope.
Are you okay? Can you you got my back? Ye? Yea,
yeah, yea yeah, yeah, no you don't always always always, all
right, what do you need me to do? I pull out, just
keep them off me and I am. I've got the rope and I've I'm
going to string it backwards as much as I can, and I'm going to
try and as it's backwards, I'm going to get a little bit past and
one here and release the rope and I'm going to be going back and forth.
I'm serpentineing a little bit to try and see if I can catch the
feet of this writer right here. Okay, Tod, do you have any
hope for me? Can you direct me? I'm going to give you a
negative one that's more than is. Yeah, you're trying to to do something
about titles? Yeah? Are you trying to do the Star Wars maneuver and
tie up the featural? Yeah? It's this is an ass and all right,
so when I give you hope, you get too. So it's gonna
take away that negative and give you a cross one die like wedge. Here
we go, all right? Very nice? That is an extra success I'm
gonna say that you managed to trip up two of the word writers as you
do this, all right, as soon as I do, I release the
rope to get them. I don't want to hold onto it. Okay,
that is a good plan. Okay, explain what this looks like here,
Lawton. Okay, So I'm communicating with Toddles the whole time, like I
need you to tell me when to go left and when to go right,
okay, because I can left, right, right, right, and it's
dragging across, and I think as soon as I feel yeah, she says,
now is I feel the slightest snare and I pull but let go,
like just enough to try and create the smallest bit of tension. I probably
hurt my hand in the process. I would imagine I'm going to get a
rope burned from that one. But I pull and then I let go,
and I still can't really look back too much, so I'm I don't know
how successful I am. It's okay, Loton, cool guys don't look at
explosions. Okay, I do, though can because I can't help but look
at it. Right, So I'm just like, holy, that's great.
It did such a You got two of them. Have you ever have you
ever seen it? Have you ever seen the Blues Brothers? Oh? Yes,
Now, the ludicrous car situations that happen in the car is like flipping
like ten thousand feet into the air. On the war riders like like fly
backwards, getting tripped up at ridiculous speeds. They just kind of fly back.
It's online lobby, yeah, effects right, spending out of control.
However, because you have done this, I'm going to say that you have
fallen back one space. Sure, absolutely, Okay, Strider, we'll try
and dispatch this war Grinder got a pretty ridiculously good chance to make that happen.
Yeah, if he could, just if he could, just marder.
We're gonna chinx it. Have we learned nothing? Yeah, you know what
I'm gonna I'm gonna yell a few words of encouragement to Strider. You're doing
so great. Okay, Yes, Strider strikes the Award Rider and decapitates him.
You just see the the sword flash in the night tottles. As you
start to fall back, you get a little closer to Strider and with a
blur this uh turning motion, he first twist to the right and then spins
left and quickly extends his arm. The goblin port atop the warg is unable
to keep up with the speed as their head just gotda goes sort of flies
backwards, and the warg starts to patter off to the side. The remainder
of the war riders, this one will now try and strike out an andin
with go again. Let's go. Oh no, that's me, damn it
all right, that is a fail. The warder strikes out. I'll bring
your head back, yeah, and strikes out, and you just batter the
spear away before it hits Okay, round real, you need a travel roll
from you, please. I think I'm fumbling with my beard before going oh
we're mostly red hair, never mind, and then rolling, and I guess
do I burn my last hope on a magical success? I failed every single
rule. I'll give you one. I'll give you one. You can't.
You can't first magical, but you can give me one. Just to give
me one dice if you would like to, sure, I shall take it.
I feel like that's role matters more than most, and so I rolle
success of that hope. Please make a chase roll, okay, so effectively
I have a feeling I've been burning my hopes for nothing because with my successes,
I've been rolling twice, not once. Well, no, when you
fail with your when you fail with your travel role in the first role,
it's a disadvantage in D and D I take the worst of the two outcomes.
You've been getting extremely lucky with your chase roles. I see. Okay,
all right, real what is your actual turn action? What are you
doing? I have no range weapons that I feel I want to use.
I'm still weary, and so I think I'm just going to stay on the
defensive here because I'm not able to do much else here but lead and so
hmmm, battle defense. Very nice. Okay, We're gonna give you your
parrier rating is instead of plus two, it is now plus three. Okay,
very nice. Who is next? Okay? What are you doing?
Towns doing that? Apparently? Okay, a piercing blow plus an extra success.
I'm assuming you're doing a mighty blow with your extra If this doesn't if
the pierson doesn't kill it, yeah, am I able to turn it into
two pierson blows with the candle or it goes through and then back into again.
Yea, she has a homing arrow that just keeps the guardian of the
galaxy, and it's it's it's just I mean she's called thread good, right,
so the out will thread through this doing that's right. Oh wow,
I didn't even think that's so good. Yeah, it's Karellian, the elf
for Vermontige from the arrow that goes what's a good name for an archer?
A successful defense against your piercing blow, however, you will deal a nice
amount of damage. Uh, the arrow sails up. You can see it
actually, uh like rakes a horrible scar across the orcs face, like leaving
this horrible blood. You almost got him in the eye. He just like
narrowly avoided the eye from this. It just probably breaks the cheek and like
also just a horrible scar across their face. Okay, it was next Hey,
I oh tell him that is a success anuin I am better luck next
time. I am somehow failing to get the extra success to which I'm accustomed.
But I still hit. It will four damage, finish the job.
No, it will not. You do have so much health you do manage
to strike with your spear and leave another bloody trail on this creature's skin.
You see horrible like peeling wounds like across its face and like just horrible,
like a black career sort of pouring all over. It's by it's like barely
keeping it together right now. It's next. I'll go next. I'm going
to do something completely different and hunker down and do a defense role. All
right, Oh, only one, okay, Okay, that's one. I'm
going to also do something completely different and hunker down and do a defense role.
Okay, see if I can carry the one wall that is another one
extra parating all right, yes, uh, Piper, you're just kind of
looking over your back and imagine like every time you look over your back,
you know, to see what's going on. It's like a different scene.
You know. You see wargs like leaping in blood, flying through the air,
arrows sailing pass. It's it's like a strobe effect almost, you know.
As these things are happening, flashes of metal glinting in the night,
and Strider will fall back to help and toWin the war Rider has a new
target. Strider begins to fall into stride with you and awin and he says,
uh, you must dispatch them quick will be run ragged, and he
marches he's sort of riding in tandem with you, and you see, as
you're looking back, you see the war rider reach out with their spear,
trying to spear strider, and that is a miss. Okay. Round eight
in response to his comment the amounts are very strong. We have to take
off the riders with precision hits. I've hit this thing over and over.
How many have you killed? I have no idea start keeping track. I'll
have more goblin heads than you this night. And you see, like out
of the corner of his eye, there's just a wry smile. Fair enough,
I'll start with this one. I'm just gonna try to like break the
turno order and try to stop again. So before you can do this now,
since you want to be there, since you want to be the badass,
you gotta make the travel roll from the rear. Yep, yeah,
all right, why not? Here? Have have a have a zero okay,
please make two chase button rolls? All right? Wow, holy there's
nothing on this road. You have gone thro this okay, very nice,
There's only a fifty percent chance for that to happen, by the way,
no road, Yeah, incredible. Um yeah, So one, two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, Oh
my god, ten you've had ten road is clears? What the fuck?
I don't know what the odds are on that one? Uh but fifty percent
chance? Look, look, fifty percent chance is the normal weight on that
hold on. You gotta roll this to see if it's what can happen.
It's just fucking unlikely. Okay, we had eleven in a row before somebody
rolled something different and holy fucking shit saying yeah, I'll do you one better.
I've rolled twenty success over the past four turns when not one extra success.
But then that one that I hit for thirty something damage was like,
all sixes, no idea? What I have, no idea? What's going
on anymore? You were banking them up regardless? And how do you kill
this last wargrider? This is the one that just said something about red hair.
I'm going to drag you back, right, I think. As it
comes in to try and shank me again, I grab hold of its spear
with my I let go of the reins with either hand for a moment,
and I seize its weapon and then stab it. And as it says I
will take you back, I just take its weapon instead. I don't say
anything. I just think it's kind of funny that I take something from him
instead as he dies. Okay, absolutely, you strike out with your spear
and the warm grider falls. You hear Strider yell, we are clear for
the moment. Find a play for us to rest. All of your evades
and battle defense are now resetting. Rios or one of you can be the
scout and look for a place to rest momentarily. What would explore right,
that would be an explore role? Not me either, I explore is I
have three and it's favorite. I'm throwing you a hope, just okay,
helping you out, okay, mm hmm, let's go. Oh great success.
That's a very good thing, Piper, because this was a very important
role. Oh good, okay, So find a place to rest and you
can all sort of take a rest through the night. You hear sounds of
wars and such. Strider sort of tells you all too, we need to
wrest our horses. If we do not, they will be run ragged and
we will all be cast on foot for the rest of our chase. Everyone,
catch your breath. We will rest here as long as we can.
And he sort of puts a hand on your shoulder, Piper, and he
says, you have some keen eyes and some good instincts. This will do
us well perhaps for the night. Thank you and you and your injuries.
I will keep on. I think as we're resting, I'm going to now
remove my coat of mail and I suppose apply it onto what drape it over
butter as if some sort of badding, And just so that you know,
once we get going again, I'm not going to be a burden very well.
I'm going to going to hitch up Rusty in our hiding spot. Time
quickly, going to walk back out to where we were fighting, though,
take advantage of my ability to see in the dark, and find those the
war bodies, and I'm going to collect extra spears from them because I realized
that, Okay, you can definitely do this if you would like to,
you'll have to. I'm assuming you had you had gone quite a ways to
try and find a resting spot. I can travel back to how do you
where if you like. I didn't want to interrupt your narrative, but ideally
I would like to grab these before we even run off to the hiding spot,
like well, like after we've killed the last one that was chasing us,
and there's like all these dead warks around. I want to pick up
three or four of these spears so that I have something to throw. Okay,
I'll tell you what. Roll me a let's say a scan. Roll
Sure, each success will give you one spear. Okay, a feat success.
Okay, you you managed to find one unbroken spear that will work.
That's good enough. Once we're once we're actually in the camp and everything else
like that, And just so everyone can sort of visualize, I've got this
idea that that that I'm I'm almost like a mummy at this point without a
little bandages, right, like individual fingers are wrapped in bandages because I was
so injured. But even with those little injured fingers, I have a piece
of paper and a quill and I am writing down a tally because I heard
them I was right there with and and saying that. So I'm writing a
tally of how many that I know he killed himself and how many and killed.
So I'm keeping score. I don't know if anyone about me. Are
you not in the score? You want to be clear if you see me,
because I definitely lean over and I'm like, what what what about me?
Do you not think I'm a hero? It was it was no,
no, no, wait wait, I'll put you on there. I'll put
you on there. Look at Hottle a little b Yeah, but I'm behind
now I'll never catch up. What do you mean you're behind? What will
You've already started itallying those two I don't remember, do you don't just don't
just make up a number? No, then it doesn't. But they're so
tiny. I mean, it's no, I'll give you some mine. I
mean it's no, no, then it's not really, that's not really,
it's fine. Just wonder. I am going to try and remember how if
it was important for her to say something that I'm actively trying to go well,
I mean, there was three in that one, so I'm trying to
remember numbers as best. It's probably so way off, but I can tell
you that Striter's way at the bottom according to my tally. Wait at the
bottom. I'm going to I'm going to walk over to London to see what
he's doing, and then clean down and say you better stay down there too,
if you know what's good for you. Sometimes I'm not looking. I'm
going to lose to this random guy, we just met, all right,
so I'll put that away. Well, that's then I think I'll probably try
and find a comfortable place to go to sleep very well. The rest of
you, is this counting as a full rest? Or is this counting as
just a short rest? This is counting as a short rest essentially, So
you're your fellows it you're let's see, what is it? Your your strength
rating in your endurance comes back? Yes, you if it's only counting as
a short rest. You restore endurance SEQL to strength, which is still really
good for me and Rios. Okay, I'll take my plus two. Ye
take your strength rating. Take what you can get. Your strength rating is
restored to your endurance. Okay. Oh I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
What your my my goes up by your strength reading here? Right? Okay,
perfectly, please reset your paris. Yeah yeah, back to seventeen.
Do we do this well? We should also figure out how to distribute our
eight fellowship points as well. Uh sorry, replenish the hope. Yes,
I agree with that, but also Longton, for the most part, everything
that we're fighting is bigger than you, So your perry rating should not just
be seventeen. It should be too higher if it's close to me, right,
like it has to well, like it if if you're engaged. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's bigger than you. Thank
you. So okay, just a reminder, yeah, I mean write that
down. It's like a plus two if their close, right or something like
that, I just leave Honestly, I just leave mine on because if I'm
ever in combat with anything, it's going to be bigger than me. Yeah,
so for me, I have to Yeah, but like you, yeah,
he can adjust the Perry Rayton if it's a ball, but otherwise you
end up forgetting and yeah yeah yeah, So for the fellowship points, you
should probably just like I'm at six hope right now, but I have no
shadow, so I would very much like some back if yossible. Yes it
does anybody else need some? Yeah, I've been spending it for travel,
so yeah, like one maybe or two? Well, I will take none.
Okay, you're anybody else taking some? How much? Hyperneda catten there's
eight total? I am. I am greedy and have hoarded mine. I
don't spend it, but that also means I don't need to take any to
restore either, so I can have all of mine, I have eleven right
now, My shadow is eight. Ah, so and I used one this
session, I think, yeah, or two. I'm at ten and so
I use my hope. Pretty sparently I don't have shadow, but I would
like to get that back otherwise I might be in trouble. Maybe for sake
of making this easier, just use the dice roller in the game and just
hype something like, for example, mine is currently seven of nine, I'll
just put seven of nine just oh, just to see where we're at,
so we can see the whole group at a glance and tell where it needs
to go. Great idea. As much as I hobe it's a Hope batteries,
I kind of feel as if the closer to me is more important,
not twenty. I'm sorry, I mean it is, but I used six
Hope this it's true, it's true. Yeah, yeah, I don't need
it. I don't really need any uh. I just won't be using it
often. So as long as everyone's okay with me not being super luxurious with
my hope, uh, then I don't need more. Just to be clear,
when you're falls below your shadow, you're considered miserable. So if you
ever get a sour on rune. Your success died don't matter at all.
It's an auto fail. That's what happens when you miserable, right, which
is why my shadow is currently six. So I'm only one about by shadow.
Yeah okay, yeah, so you're taking some. We know that.
We're just trying to decide how much. Well else it's dealing with heavy shadow.
As I look around the camp, who is like starting to get depressed
at all? This? If you have more than five, if you have
more than five or six, speak up? Yeah I have eight. So
it's just Piper and Rio. It seems to be struggling. It seems yeah,
I mean for this for this round itself, there's nothing wrong with Dolan
out since since Tottles has multiple folk, I pumping you up some would be
good. So what if we did like a four, two and two.
So four for Turtles, two for Rio, two for Piper, workes work
for me? How about this? You are incredibly low yourself, London.
Don't be too generous, but that's this thing. Do you like alto tune?
You can do two? No? No, no, it's okay because
six hope is a lot to use, and I don't know what's to come,
but I imagine it's probably similar to what we've been dealing with already.
I'm not doing much and I can't do much outside of my battles. Roles
and sex is still a lot in my shadow zero. I'm okay, but
considering how you can help multiple people, that's way more important. And I
want to make sure Rioth is okay. And I want to make sure Piper's
okay. You need the padding this, this is more fair. This way
we all have a lot of our own. Yeah, I am convinced.
I'm convinced with London's reasoning, we should do it that way. I've already
added my voice, great, perfect, very well. Okay, re Oath,
make a travel roll for me. Okay, the travel roll please.
I mean, I'm no longer weary. I'm almost naked in dwarf terms.
Let's see something good. I've got this vision of this moonlight and this Dowarven
bombs and the wind is blowing his hair all right, with armor Dwarven clothes
like medical gowns, you know, the butts always exposed. Absolutely, bye,
roll a D six for me, please, Realth three. Okay,
Turtles and London, please make awareness rolls oh, great success. I'll throw
the other one to turtles. Thank you, Lonton, please roll me an
twelve. I feel like that's ah, it's just standard in all of these
Every night that we're on patrol, you help me make sure I'm doing my
job for you. Okay, that's terrible. Titles starts like picking flowers and
you're like, oh yeah, sure, Like, oh tell it's been in
a yard. Yeah, turtles, see how far you can see the flowers?
So you are able to get a little bit of a rest here a
few hours pass? Uh? You know you hear the sounds of wargs in
the distance. Strider sort of checks in here and there and says, I
think they are off our trail for the moment. Must rest while we can.
The losses are rather ragged. We can get a few hours of sleep
at least. How much longer do you think we must maintain this pace?
It's what I asked him, But I'm also asking you, law master,
how does this checkpoint systems work? Exactly? It is what I'm getting at
here. Ever comes first? The chase points are the checkpoints. You will
okay into this chase, perfect thought cha, And Strider says, I'm not
sure. However, if we can make it to the last bridge before the
troll shawls, we will be crossing a river. Be sure to ruin whatever
trail they may have. You don't think they will cross and pick up our
scent. On the other side, water will not mask our scent for long.
The walks simply hate water. The further we move from the weather hills,
the further we move from there homes, it will be much harder to
track us. Further from their homes, I think we have led them far
enough that your men have gone door are likely safe by now. At this
point, I think we just need to make sure that we live. Let's
get to this river then you know how far it is a few days all
right. If we need at this pace, our horses may not make the
journey. I worry more for the horses than for us. You are truly
a man of nature, and one of the rear. Nature has provided me
all that I need. Seems only fitting I show some respect in return.
Perhaps in a different time may have been a ranger, a brother. I
think perhaps in some ways we are even more like than you, And I
think the magic you spoke to your horse tribesmen in my tribe. I have
seen them do something similar. I almost wonder if perhaps the same spirit watches
over you and I, albeit may be with a different name. H what
I whispered, it's no magic. There's a plea all the more similar than
or. It is a plea that I have made every time. Get some
rest, I don't keep watch. So what's you say? Hyper mm hmm.
I'm gonna need a roll from you? Okay? What kind we need
you to roll against? The sh at him? Oh? This will be
okay. This will be a role of your choosing either valor or wisdom.
And this is in regards to how you're feeling right now. I'm going to
leave that up to you. I'm going to choose valor, all right.
You think this is because of You're not sure? Maybe if your bravery is
failing you. Yeah, because I think there there was a version of me
who fought sea serpent and survived and was brave and overcame my fear. But
I've been through a lot since then, and I've become injured, I've become
unconscious. I am cursed, and my closest loved ones are on this quest
to uncursify me, and I could not feel more in this moment of a
useless burden, because I'm I'm too scared to fight for fear of taking wounds
and making it so that everyone else can't continue. And so I do feel
well, ah, I do feel like it's not possible for me to be
brave anymore without potentially hurting those I love. As you fall to sleep,
Piper, it doesn't take long for dream to take hold. Whispers. There
are familiar sounds around you, languages that you don't understand. You can recognize
these feelings taking hold of you, Piper. When you are asleep, you
open yourself to something. There is a cold sensation, it's your hip.
There is feeling like a hand rolling along your side. You look down and
you see a hand reaching for your sword. This shadow, it is smoke,
It is upon you. You see it happening. You feel he's shadow
like hands crawling long, everybody trying to break into your mind. What do
you do? Oh? No, yes, you see this happening, lib
Yeah, I I try crawling. I'm like crawling backwards off of the bad
role that I'm sleeping on. I'm trying to get away from them. I'm
reaching reaching down to grab the sword. That they're trying to get and hold
it close to me. I've not unsheathed it, unsheathed it, but I'm
I'm kind of trying to unwrap it from from me and trying to hold it
close so they can't get it as I'm as, I'm crawling backwards. No
no, no no no no no no no no no no no, you
don't know me. Bocks I and I have to see you. I'm the
one you got ms hang up the language? Are you done with me?
Or did you have more to say? I'm not from me? And the
head looks and the fun I'm not hiding starting friends, see up the language.
You one, not you. I can't see. As you hear these
words, fire begins to wrap around you. You feel the shadow cold,
and the fire burns, and as the shadow moves, it forms into the
slit of a pupiled eye on fire. You start fame. Fire begins to
roil and move all about you, and with a start, you hear piper
scream, hyper piper, weak up, weak up? We m hiper is
a dream? Is a dream? You're alright? I throw my axe?
Yay guy, I'm great, and to Win's arm. Hi. He could
see me what I Strider moves close to you. M just he puts a
hand on your cheek. Just look at me with me, okay, okay,
okay, yeah, yeah, your friends, m H. Strider looks
towards you and I just look. I just look confused, like I want
to help, but I have no idea what she's even talking about. When
Piper mentions these things, you're confused, and then sharply, like nails on
a chalkboard, you feel cold in the fire flashes in your mind. You
see glimpses of what Piper has seen. Yeah, is it looking at me
now? Or am I just seeing a faded memory of what she just saw?
How fitting to roll the eye of Sourn by looking at the eye of
Sourn. Oh my god, it's if you look. Even though it's favorite,
it's two elevens, I'd like. Yeah, I was going to point
out that eleven. It's a favorite. It's a favorite skill for me.
I just rolled it twice, noble, so it is worth hold on.
You rolled double elevens and eleven on the success dice. That's that's that's the
load of the rings equivalent of rolling sixty six six. Yeah, I just
rolled six sixty six on the dice looking at the devil. I feel like
that. So I'm going to need everybody to please make a shadow uh roll.
I will leave it up to you. This is valor or wisdom.
Can I go first and then if people choose the same thing as me,
if I get bonuses it would help or no? Sure? Oh okay,
wow, oh shit, all right, I'll roll next, because why not?
Holy shit, I think that's the first time I failed a shadow roll.
I succeeded. I'll go. I failed my won before I roll.
I still need the answer, like is it looking at me? Or am
I seeing a memory? Because if it is looking at me, this is
a valior role. But if I am seeing into Piper's memory, then this
is simply my wisdom. It is focused on Piper. I see I have
rolled a wisdom with a great success. You can you can allow somebody else
to pass if you like, Uh, Piper made her role? Yes,
three youth, Yeah, yeah, I thank you. I know that re
Oath isn't a bad way with the shadow at the moment, but my first
instinct is probably Piper. Even though I realized I am not talking, I
know, I know hear me out even though I know it's not actually looking
at me and this is just a memory, I feel like instinct will take
over and I would step in front of both Piper and re Oath even though
there's nothing actually here, and just say leave us alone. Else in my
lifetime, I will watch you for anyone says this into the air toddles you
and re Oath and Lowton, you see nothing except and trying to stand before
hyper and real. This is foreshadow for anybody that has failed, for anybody
that has succeeded. This is three Oh no, okay, okay, In
what way does my great success supply? Does that just take someone's stop somebody
else from failing? And I think Rio would hear my challenge and consider his
a success, although I think he's still in deep trouble. Regardless, I
still get three more shadow. This was not the time for me to fail
that role. Ah question, Can we quickly just refresh on when shadow like
is an issue? Beyond miserable? If your shadow equals your hope Mannie,
your total hope Mannis takes over. Okay, you react and you move down
to the next step of your shadow path. Ah real, bye did you
go? How did you just uh hit that threshold. No, not yet,
Oh, thank goodness, I don't need to. I would like to
point out it's probably because of those two hopes that we just gave. Right.
Well, now this is his maximum, not even the current points.
He's He's about to have his his shadow level bigger than not not his current
hope, but his hope tank, like a gas tank, is about to
be overfilled by shadow. Hey, yeah, what happens is your your shadow
reaches your maximum hope? Uh ill favored on all rolls. Jesus. You
can get rid of it in only one way, by playing out about of
madness or a violent reaction, marking a significant step in their downward course towards
degeneration. He tried to take the bring oh my god, you've gotta have
a boom here moment. Yeah, a bottom here a moment I was thinking
more. Perhaps maybe have I don't know, like authoriti an Orkan shields moment
or something, you know, like he's the same shadow path I am so,
but I supposed to find for later, you know. So Strider sort
of looks at all of you and says, we need to keep moving.
Then if the eye has fallen upon you, Yeah, what is this eye?
Is this the shadow in the east? Does it see I? Strider
breathed heavily and says, this is evil. The shadow follows us. Now
it has seen. It has seen us. Sauron knows you our fering agandalf
your curse. It has put us in grave danger. We must make all
haste. We have gotten all the sleep that we can for now. I
am sorry. You must keep moving. You don't need to be sorry.
I get up and I go over to bread. It's not on you.
It's is just what do we have to do. The elders of my tribe
have long stood vigil against this evil in the east. I have heard it
called many different names, the Shadow mortor so Ron, but never have I
seen it face to face. I did not know it had an eye.
If it insists on watching us, I'm gonna turn and look at Strider.
I do not care how long it takes or how hard we have to push.
I will see that eye fall one day, sooner or later. My
people have stood vigil against it for generations. It will not end with me.
Let us hope so and the one of the River. We must make
haste. Gather up whatever strength you have mm hmmm, we're right. Let's
I have to collect more goblin heads aft to roll. Strider seems to not
pay too much attention to that comment. Launton. Yeah, when you made
those comments to Strider, he saw something strange in his eyes. He almost
looked guilty. There was something he did not say. I won't say anything
to him right now. Master the horses and Strider climbs aboard his horse.
What about the rest of you? All Right, turtles a belt round,
I'm gonna know if it's too tight there, that's fine. So did we
get any sleep or no? Did I got in a few hours. Normally
it's almost mourning, but it feels far away. Normally sleeping over nightwood feel
us fully, that's this haunting essentially from this eye, I think, prevents
us from getting any actual rest, so we only get us strengthen eating instead.
Okay, you are haggard, road weary, and you still have a
long way to go. Oh what are you going to say? Oh?
I was just going to say that. I I quietly get on jam and
I just sort of look at the group and I say I'm sorry, and
then I just start quietly moving in the direction that Strider is walking unable to
look at any of you. I'm going to stop, Piper, like just
put my hand on her shoulder as is like trying to guiltily sneak away,
Piper. If anyone should be sorry, it is me. I am the
one who's brought this curse into this group to begin with, not you.
There has all three of you trying to help me that has landed us in
this mess. No, no, no, no, there's not to be
sorry for you. Don't take responsibility for our choices. Don't do that.
Correct. I will not take responsibility for your choices, thank you, says
you. Pipers should not take responsibility for mine or for theirs. Hey,
give your chin up. I'm not taking responsibility. I'm taking responsibility for myself
and for myself. You're all in grave danger, grave danger that I would
have been in regardless. This curse has haunted my generation, or haunted my
family for generations, hundreds of years. This has been my bane since before
you were born. But do not rack yourself with guilt. The only guilty
one was my great father's hundreds of years ago. They were tempted by the
shadow and gave in. If anyone is at fault, it is and Or
and my ancestor, none of us. Now, remember where the enemy is,
Remember whose responsibility it is. You cannot take that burden upon yourself.
It will weigh you down and destroy you. I just thought I could have.
I just thought i'd bear it better. It is he, But your
little hobbit shoulders have proven more broad than most men. Just keep it up.
We're almost there. That's the horses. We need to make way before
the light comes in the middle of the day. It'll be even easier for
them to follow us. Strider, were you a ready yes? Yeah?
Do you think you could sing us a song? Oh? I think I
might have a song here and there. Let's see. I started singing a
song that is it's not sad, but it's I think there's a level of
somberness. I imagine it's slow. Tells a story of a hobbit on his
way to see he's sweetheart, and along the way he runs across somebody who's
in a brook and he has to stop. But he gets the lower parts
of his legs much more dy muddier than he would have wanted. But that's
okay because he helped the person out, and he's going to keep on going
and he sees someone and they're trying to lift something up. They can't do
it, so he stops and he helps him lift up the box. But
now he's all dirty up front. He goes a little bit further and someone
is loose their chickens. It's trying to help wrangle them. He gets a
few scratches here and there up his arms. By the time he gets to
his love, he is an absolute mess. But it doesn't matter because,
regardless of the journey, made it to the end, and the song sort
of leaves with that little hopefulness of making it to the end. Would you
mind if I named it? Oh? Please do? I'm going to call
it the Last Bridge. Oh I love that. Please make a song roll
want even at the risk of losing hope when I really shouldn't. Right now,
I'll do it. I'm going to use one for song. I'll give
you a hope and that gives Yeah, this is why I asked for some
Sure, here we go success, just barely right on the edge. Okay,
re Oth, you have a bonus to your travel role, an extra
bonus one. I need you to make a travel role for me. Please,
as the journey continues. Okay, so I have a bonus one to
my travel role. Correct, yes, m h we move success okay,
a miserable success, but a success. Dothe less roll me eighty six,
A six okay, and a one. Please make a hunting role. Mm
hmm no, oh no ah, Oh the luck today? Oh boy,
I've always thought that dice are overrated, and maybe we shouldn't always listen to
them every time. Okay, I have rolled so many, so many sourw
eyes today, So the next day is rough. You all gain three fatigue
okay? Oh, and please roll me and win six other one that's not
good, okay, okay, I was hoping you were not going to get
a one. All right, very well, So there is more to this
chase that continues into the next days. You are left without rest as you
are hunted by these war riders. Day after day, you are chased,
the horses barely get any sort of rest. You are all haggard and weary,
and as you think you have no more left to give, the largest
of the war writers that you have seen thus far has given chase. There
are seven accompanying this large goblin who now hunt you as you make way to
the last bridge. I hope you do well. Good luck. Oh boy,
you can all feel that your companions, your fellowship or straining your horses
are haggard, weary. Please worry into yourselves the way that you would be
in this group. Someone else canna take the front. I'll hold you,
I'll take Oh boy, it's not even gonna matter, but I'll take the
front. What don't do that? I mean, so it really depends,
Piper. Can you do travel roles or not? I have one pip in
travel, all right, mine's favored. Yeah, okay, all right,
then go for it. You gotta do it. Are you on my back
this time? Or are you on you? You strap me in? So
I'm on on yours? Okay? There with me? H As three Oath
tries to move back to take the rear, I'm going to kind of intervene.
I know your bravery is beyond question, but the length of your arm
my question. You should let me take the rear. That's why I have
this OCS which is almost as tall as he is, and I GM Lord
Master would like to implore that we both are a railway at the same time.
Very well, you can do ver. Well, we're not there yet,
okay, I will ride side by side with the oath and hold the
rear. That's a mighty red warg covered in all sorts of war paint.
It's charging in the back of another group of war riders. They have been
plaguing your journey here as you get closer to the last bridge before the troll
shaws the last bridge, please, I would like one of you to make
a awareness role, any one of us. I'm wary right now, so
it's not it's not a good idea. I could. I've got two and
it's favored, but my awareness is very good. I'm gonna give you a
hole. I don't as you wish. It's me? Is it one or
two? I forget to It'll only be one for me. Yeah. Oh
my, how am I I rolled another sou and the water all over the
place tonight. Oh wow, it's not the time for this to happen.
I did not make the awareness role. Okay, very well. Uh somebody
rolled a D four. Oh my god? Oh no, oh, no,
okay, the entire group will be engaged. Oh sorry, spot.
It's so many bad roles to make this all happen. It's so many.
This is the worst case scenario right now. Okay, I'm so shocked,
Lawnton. Please make you travel roll weary failure. I've won again. You
know. I almost use a hope for that, and then at the end
I was like, wow, if I had to use a hope, I
would have made it too Chase rolls to Chase rolls? No, oh my
god, how did you make it worse? That's what I do? Oh?
Okay, roll another D four I will please? Don't I think I
have the odds right? Just kidding? Oh? You rolled it? Okay,
I have rolled it. I mean shouldn't I have? I'm sorry too
late, I he said another huge reread war. Could we could we?
Maybe perhaps we invite the idea of multi versus and maybe this multiverse needs to
be rewritten over again. This isn't Marvel. Oh god, okay, actually
let me delete this because I think it's slowing stuff down. Now, okay,
alrighty oh boy, this is not good. Guys, I'm sorry.
Okay, mm hmm okay, do who's going first? I would like to
go first? Paddles. You have a rope? Oh? Yes, I
do? Is it on your I mean saddle back? Yeah? But it's
not like it's some carrying it around. It would be in the saddle bag,
wouldn't it. I don't know. Yeah, that is your choice.
I can't make it. I wouldn't be carrying around like a fifty foot rope.
I'm sorry, that's been my saddle bag probably, Okay, I'm sorry.
What does all right? H a GM? What does the what does
the the view in front of me look like? The road is clear,
I get that, But what sort of landscape are we running on? A
few miles ahead you can see that there's I mean, it's rolling hills.
Okay, so occasionally there are some rocks and things. There are some shrubs,
There are some trees. Several miles away you can see the river,
rocks and trees. Is there anyway? No works are too strong? All
right, I'm just gonna have to go for defense, I believe for now,
as much as I wish I could do something else. Are there any
tall cliffs or elevated areas near us? Rolling awareness? Check for me better
this time? That success. No cliffs, but some steep hills. Oh?
Is this is this something for all of us to be aware of?
Or only and one all of you? You can also kind of vaguely see
what's going on question is whether or not you're able to take advantage of it.
Well, okay, so we know that the they are unfamiliar with this
land, right, they're unfamiliar. They're not This is not where their home
is. There are ways away. I would like to hope that we've had
a conversation about the land and how we're going to ride. And is it
possible that Strider would have said you have to be careful. There are points
where the hails will drop off suddenly. I'm only asking because I'm wondering if
there's any way to bait them into something entire all right, if you would
like to, yes, improvise you can do that. I do tottles can
I I don't want to empty your tank? But could I get a plus
two? Because it might matter greatly because I'm weary? Yes, try not
to keep doing that. So what I am trying to do is I'm trying
to debate these three since they're coming at an angle, to see if I
can get onto oh to success. Oh ok, I'm gonna see if I
could get at least one of them to misplaced foot in something. I am
trying to figure this out as I'm going. Sorry. Quick question, do
we get an opening volley or not? Because it's an ambush? I forget
how you can hiding is the one that you needed? Okay? Uh Lanton
twisting and turning with Butter, you manage to and again Butter is weary.
You can hear the like haggard breaths. You have run this horse too hard
and we're on bread. Bread. I'm sorry, that's all right, we're
on bread. You have run this pony too hard, and it is a
lucky that you are able to sort of pull off this maneuver. But you
managed to draw away a war rider and they miss sort of the the the
edge of the hill here the the the apex of the hill. They misjudged
and sort of stumble and they do that. They do that thing where they
sort of like try to like powt the ground sideways and they just can't get
the proper traction that they need, and you see they just kind of slide
sideways and fall down the hill as you continue to ride. Yeah, it's
a Lanton's turn. Who's next? I would like to go next, and
before you do anything too crazy, m hmmm, I will turn and look
to see what your plan is because my plan about to do something crazy and
attack. Then, Uh, I will attempt to be the voice. I
will attempt to be the voice of reason here and say your act and my
spear are not matched for ten of them. We need to lure a few
away first. I let me go first. Okay, I want to enhearten.
Uh, I haven't done this in a while or so, let me
just look it up again. Rally is what it is. Okay, whilst
she's looking it up, Lord Master, Since we did not really find any
high cliffs, and I think we already established there's no river for a while,
I will look for the most common hazard then and stick it. Can
I see thick vines branches in the area that looks hazard is to traverse or
even if it's not that hazardous, just the thickest place, even if I
could ride easily throw it. So this will be related to a role that
you make. Basically will make the role and will determine what happens after.
But Tattles want is to enhearten first. So I believe that means everyone gets
a bonus eye on whatever. Well, anybody that is basically in the combat
range right now. No, that's a normal success. I'm pretty sure any
extra success it gives you an extra one. But if you get a Gandalf
run, it's everybody. I thought Gandolf is a regular one. Oh all
right then, oh anybody who's doing fighting. Then Gandolf makes it so that
your success dice are just extra. So whatever you roll on your success die
can give you extra successes, but the Gandolph makes it a success. You
can roll all ones on your success diye and get a success with a Gandolf.
That's what it does. I see, I see. The bonus is
applied to all player in heroes fighting in a close combat stance of two or
more. Okay, got it? Sorry, okay, so let's see what
can I give you? Can I give you the little rally flag. That's
what we'll do. I have my plan. I'm quite to try it.
Won't say you hew another tree? What? Okay? You are looking for
some kind of hazard to lead them in. Not not even necessary. I'm
not necessarily looking for an existing hazard. I'm just looking for an area with
dense foliage. It doesn't it doesn't necessarily need to count as an obstacle.
Okay, and given given our terrain, okay, don't give me a cell
un for once. There we go. Success. Okay, success, You've
got to sound on by the way, did I I'm glad it's a favorite
skill. Then to dodge that cell ron? Wow? Yeah, when the
two is better than the eleven, yeah, I will just I'll look to
rioth and say, uh, stay the course, fight the ones that stay
with you. I have an idea, and I'm going to break off to
the left slightly, okay, and I'm going to like rear back on rusty
and actually point my spear at their leader like it's a challenge before riding into
this foliage. Okay, Uh, you managed to draw one. Now uh,
as they get closer, you sort of quickly peel off, uh,
dragging them into like a bunch of shrubbery basically. Uh, they just get
kind of bogged down and they will sort of fall back as you do this.
That wasn't the plan. I didn't get to the good part yet.
Okay, you do more good? Uh? Well, if I've only if
only one of them bothers to follow me, I may not even do it.
Well, you got only got one success, so yes on uh on?
Which roll on this awareness role that you just did if you got more,
I was gonna give you more. Okay, hmm. If only one
of them is following me, I'm not even going to bother I. Uh
okay, I have a plan in mind, but I need to get a
bunch of them to uh to follow me. I I don't even the one
that just followed me, I don't I don't think the I don't think it
would even back like I'm not writing through anything to hazards, it would probably
still be following me. So it is essentially out of the fight for now.
Okay, that's a big deal. Mm hmm. I mean you want,
I want to tell you what I'm planning, but I also don't want
to spoil the surprise for the listeners. I guess this is what I'm getting
at here. But I have an idea. I just need to get a
bunch of them following me. What would I need to do to get them
to target me and follow me? Uh? Probably in awe. Yeah,
I would say an oral, But you've already kind of decided on what your
your original course re action was, So I'm going to say this is going
to change up the order a little bit. Then I'm gonna say I'm gonna
put you kind of just ahead of Rioth right now, Okay, Okay,
I'll try again next her, and then I need to them to follow me.
That's that's me for now. I suppose. Oh, actually he didn't
do a combat role and it wasn't a battle role now and Down said,
don't do anything, foolhardy, I forget the actual word. But I am
in the rear if any of them come close enough for me to swing at
as we're moving, so I'm not necessarily stopping to fight and not pulling back.
I will swing at the nearest creature with a battle on cous kind of
what I do? All right, make your role, don't forget your bonus,
all right? So so we start with the all role, I believe,
and you're a forward stance, forward stance forwards, dogs, Oral,
Lanton and Tottles are in rear, Word and win, Strider and Piper and
whichever stance you want real so forward. There's no bonus with the oral,
is there? It is in combat maneuver? No? Okay? So too
wow, Okay, Now if it was three, they'd be weary the entire
encounter. Okay. And with the two extra successes, what does that do.
It means that all enemies are weary, even if they're like thinking to
and above or whatever it's called. Also, the big guy's weary too.
Potentially a very big deal. Yeah, yes it is. That was a
good move to hope you survive. I wish I was joking. This is
very scary. Okay, and then I actually swing at one of them.
Okay, Now this will be with your bonus plus any hope that you want
to use. I can't do that. But so when it comes down to
who I can attack, I can attack any of these creatures or just six
within range. So I can't attack the red boy. Well they're all red.
These are different wards than you've seen before. I meant bigger. Who
had a big boy? Okay, no matter, I shall still try.
One minute, I close my character sheet, you know for luck one two
bonus die ruh, Hey, that is a great success. How would you
like to spend it? I can't spend that to make it piercing? No
can I? In that case? Uh? Let me double check. I
don't think so. But you did have some special bullshit on your acts in
you I it's a piercing at ten, so you can make the acts a
piercing weapon. Oh no, yeah, piercing at nine even no, nope
in that case eye okay, and this will be uh one extra success.
So what is your strength rating? My strength rating is seven okay, plus
one, so you get an additional eight damage with this attack. This heavy
axe blow reels. You know this is bad, and you know that you
need to inflict as much damage as possible. You bring the half of the
axe down, lopping off one of the arms of the goblins atop the war
rider. Right now, they're still they scream out in pain, but they
are still galloping towards you, looking ferocious. These goblins seem to be much
more afraid of whatever's following them than they are of view. Okay, who's
next? Ah me, you've gone already, Toddles, that's right, you're
right, hiper Yeah, I just just I want to verify a couple of
things. We have to kill all of them, right, We can't just
chase them to a checkpoint and lose them at that checkpoint. If we get
enough points, you can absolutely do that. We can do that. Do
not have to murder everything, okay, we just have to survive and keep
running, and can you I just want to double check what things we get
points make it to the next gosh, I also defeated. Want to while
you're looking that up, want to remind you all that Lonton and I did
give you an actual special item with that horn, which I think either does
the enheartened or something with the battle role. But have to look it up.
But we made a special item with those horns. We gave you both
and it gives you bonuses if you use it. I remember, it gives
you a makes all favorite or something. I yeah, which might be usable,
which is fine. I try to reduce. No, theres one to
awe is what it was, Okay, so if you want to just awe
them away, that'd be great. Can sorry, I just I really want
to understand why a maximum my turn, because we will die if anything is
a miss. There's fifty we have to reach fifty chase points to end the
chase right or the fifth or the fifth checkpoint? Huh. We do not
know how to get to the fifth checkpoint. We just have to Okay,
just double checking that. It's not something that I should have been aware of
at the right. We're going specially to just keep writing for the checkpoint than
to try and you know, fill all over points. Yeah, so I
think I am going to try to right now, they're not on me,
so I'm gonna try to evade because I get a point if I successfully evade.
So that way you can either evade or you can do like a special
extra or something that isn't an attack role and try to slow them down the
improvise. Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm just trying to like think like
literally have throw shit out of yourself so serious, Yeah, you have a
rope. I'm not going I just want to emphasize this. And I know
this is I'm so sorry this is going to trigger you have Miranda, But
this is the most this is the most danger you've been in. Yeah,
for sure, this is it. This is why I'm like, this is
why now I'm just I'm not even an accent, Like I'm not I'm not
like I like our games. I'm a board game. The roles tonight have
led to this moment happening, to the point where I'm actively trying to kill
you now, Yeah, must happen. Okay, the problem can I Okay,
if I throw ship behind me, if I like throw my bed roll
and stuff like that, there's also a chance I hit strider and win youth
right potentially if you fail pretty well, ask what kind of a role it
is? First, is it athletics to throw stuff? Please tell me athletics.
I would take an athletics role. Yeah, I've also been able to
be at your I have four Yeah, I have four pips in athletics because
I I was like, I want to build a tiny berserker who can like
actually do damage and athletics stuff, but then being on a horse and not
having any use of a bow and literally not being able to do anything because
I'm a tiny hobby with a tiny little sword on a horse. You do
have a lot of points and sword right, because you have works coming in
on your right side. Yeah, I have four points. Okay, I'm
going to take a bed roll and the works coming in on my right I
would like to throw my bedroll at them to trip them up. Lantern,
A bedroll is going to hit somebody and bounce right off. It's okay,
Yeah, I'll use my windproof lantern. I'll just yeah, okay, Oh
we're tossing out party items now, well that's serious. It's that's okay,
am I rolling athletics? Okay, you don't get a bonus from the rally
on this unfortunately. Can I ask another really crazy question, is there any
chance that I'm like randomly going to get more shadow in the next Like,
oh, I don't think we know that? Yeah, I know, But
okay, I am going to use a hope for this. You just take
one of mine? Are you sure it means you get to share the shadow?
You get two of mine and I In the last two encounters, I've
used zero hope. I'm good. Okay, okay, okay, I'm sweating
great success, great success. Okay. You throw this lantern and the oil
sort of splashes from the from the interior of the lantern, and the uh,
the the the whatever, the the ignition part is of the lantern that
the I don't know if it's lit already, if you have it hanging off
the side of the horse or what. Yeah, yeah yeah, But you
throw it, it catches a spark and the oil sort of lights up.
You managed to throw it, and two of the war riders coming in from
the side fall back. They will not engage this round. Okay, did
I do any damage to them at all? What the fire matter? If
they're not engaged on the round keeping up. That's like really good. That's
really good. That's almost better than doing any damage. Good good, good,
good good. Okay, cool, that's it for me. Then,
thank you Strider. That was good. That was very good. It was
very good. Okay, yeah, thank you for the help everyone. Oh
you did that yourself, bonus. Oh yeah, that's true. You suggested
the lantern. Okay, mom, Strider, he's the only one with plot
arm or the little ship. He was he was actively trying to protect you
guys, the hobbits, I know my name into the plot armer. What
I do need to get them? I need to get the plot armor behind
us to take some hits. Just hear me out. Let's draw troll Strider
at them. Okay, long enough. It's like when you have an immortal
NPC and you just leave it in the room full of baddies. We're gonna
make a rot. Oh god that you got a soar on around real?
Did Yeah? Okay, I think I'm my puke. Can I call my
Can I call bullshit and get another roll this time? Because I just weary
and ship. Sorry they are weird. Yes, I need to do some
expert lawyering. Ready for some expert lawyering. You should also be able to
take a fatigue point and reroll it. So the Rangers even have a special
trait called Endurance of the Ranger where they don't even get fatigue from traveling.
So Strider, I have Strider with his own special bullshit. Unfortunately, that's
the kind of thing. Okay, uh okay, Uh, Strider is going
to peel off from the group, and he will say he's going to leave
us. We'll die and he survives into Yeah, he says, haply fellow,
I'll take care of the reinforcements. What reinforcements? You two? She's
gonna kill the two and they've made a deal with it, just leaves us.
The rule is him just deciding to leave us? Are dead? Pretty
much. I'm just kidding. It's really bad. He makes a bad decision.
He makes a bad decision, is what happens. So, okay,
war Riders, Oh boy, okay, how many are not engaged in this
round? Just so that people listening can keep an idea of how bad,
how much worse this could have been? So, uh, somebody's dying to
night for yeah, So there's uh two out of eight that are not engaging,
right, now, oh fuck, does that include the big one,
the boss? Oh? Okay, you basically you were one shy of maximum
on like everything. It's pretty much the worst roles you guys could have made.
Uh, okay, yeah, here we go. Yeah, the oath
the first one. We'll try to attack you. Okay, the first round.
Everybody, good luck before we get too far into this, before you
start rolling as attacks. How did I end up? Like I veered off,
ran through obstacles, came back, and somehow I'm in front of Rioth.
I don't understand why I wouldn't just fall back in line with him,
because the idea was the tank hits together if we had two, right.
I think just because of the nature of the fact that I can't have the
entirety of the map you peeled off, rio is still their main focus of
attention. You managed to get one to pull away, So this is just
kind of the way that it's working right now because technically you're a little bit
away from the group, just a little bit, so Rios has most of
the attention right now. All right, Okay, broad shit, good luck,
buddy, Nervous for you, I closed off. I can't look.
I can't look. I can't look. I feel good. What it's like?
I feel good? Mathematically probable that we're going to have weary all of
us die in the first couple of before. That was so good. If
I could give you an oscar for play that that was it. I could
give you a big kiss on the mouth. This is called bribing, is
that not? This is called horny fear? Beer boner, beer boner.
I just got I just met a lot of shadow hands. Okay, I
keep clicking the wrong thing because I'm so nervous. All right, Oh my
god, that's aganda of roon. That is a miss. First goblin caught
the war writer. You're now seeing like how many of them are like charging
forth. They're sort of like moving in tandem. They're well practiced. These
are veteran war riders. They know what they're doing. They move and packs.
This first one misses, however, the second one a weary failure for
ones, Oh, Gandalf, the third one, come on, you can
check this off. Okay, I need you to make a protection role injury
rating fifteen. Who has him as a focus? You need to please give
him a hope? Please I do if needed, take mine? Yeah,
Protection role Injury rating fifteen. Oh god, this is like I think this
would be one hit, one kill. I think any bonus die. Yes,
okay, that's right, that's how you do. Okay, Oh god,
okay, I'm sweating. Get one extra perry rating because you've gotten an
extra success on this for this ram. Okay, I've added it forth on
now strike you are in forward stance as well? Yes, okay, okay,
come come on. That is another piercing blow. Buddy, did your
armor did you put your armor rating up by one? Okay? What is
your armor rating? My armor rating? You can see it as a target
number. All right, Sorry, thank you. I can give you hope
again. I am my My hope battery is very short. I am nearly
out. I can give you one. But when he gives you one,
you get two. And I think this might be worth just one more of
woman, and then I'll take it from here. I failed it. Oh
oh shit. Uh you will take a woundy of Okay, but you're not
out. So I had ruled one D twelve. Now I check the wounded
box on your character sheet and roll a D twelve eight. Okay, this
is a severe injury with sort of normal circumstances. You would heal from this
in about eight days. Yeah, but let's see you you're just gonna die.
So we see the Goblin rider uh sort of move in and they're sort
of moving in a line for a second, and we see the uh acts
of Rios go up and the Goblin riders spear. The front war rider just
moves out of the way, and the one from behind moves forward. The
spear charging forward and stabs Rios. Just blow the arm pit and there's a
horrible yowl of pain as Rio takes a wound. Not good, my god.
Okay, there's still another Yes, there's and then another two, three,
four, you've done two more? Yeah, and then how hard is
real? Like I can see half of our party's health the other half.
You saw Rios get stabbed pretty well just there. Uh and that was also
three damage, Reo, I've had it is? Yeah, okay, and
the other h okay, uh another spear five of six come on, kind
of come on, come on, failure, weary, failure. We already
made a huge difference. Spear strikes out towards you, Rio, and you
managed to just barely deflect it with the half of your acts. The last
of the veteran war Riders spear strikes out and again Rios you just ap barely
managed to parry it. Then the large goblin in the back covered in face
paint. You hear the goblins chanting oh fuck, oh suck, go fuck
go fuck, and as they do, it's goblin poles a large war bow
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