Special thanks to Toys and Things in Danvers, Massachusetts, Reaper Miniatures, Off
the Wall Games in Hadley, Massachusetts, Games and Friends in Springfield, Massachusetts,
as well as Triple A Games Arena in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. If you
enjoy the show, help the podcast grow, give us a follow on Twitter
at Lords Broken, join the community discord, and maybe consider offering a small
tribute to the old ones on our co fi. All these links and more
can be found in our link tree at link tr dot ee forward slash The
Broken Lords. Thank you all right, after successfully evading the dragon, our
heroes running out of steam, Birdie Ah Muscle plunge on deeper into the dark
forest. All right, let's get started then. You guys are not terribly
far from the Eastern wall, the Eastern Canyon Wall, and whenever there's a
break in the tree canopy you can see it. It's probably just a few
miles away. Are you going to continue trying to make your way all the
way to the wall or would you like to proceed directly north? At this
point, I think when we are like having at least a five minute CSTA,
I'm sure we've taken at least a couple now that Yeah, yeah,
wars are chilling, chilling a little bit more or at least looking a lot
further away. Right now, you're probably just taking like two or three minutes
and then moving and then two and three minutes like that sort of thing.
I don't think anybody's comfortable enough to stop stop yet. No, this is
just a gut feeling, But I don't think there's going to be good things
at the right wall. Maybe be just to go northern here, definitely.
Whoever runs this place seems penny enough that they put something really bad at the
far ends and like an obvious strategy to funk with people hate that, You're
right, h plus at least we give it had a little gap distance.
So if we truly need to like do that, all right, we're gonna
go hard, you know, east and hug the wall. Strat we have
it with us, right agreed. As I said, my main strategy and
heading towards the wall was in case we got separated, it would be a
bit of like a cut off point. But right, if we don't need
it, we don't need to at that direction immediately. Should we try and
look for a place to like against nighttime? Right, we've left at nighttime
and it's pretty late by this point. It took you a while across that
open stretch. You were moving pretty slow for most of it. Yeah,
I'm just wondering if since we're against the wall, is there a break in
the tree line, is any moonlight coming through? Like? What's it?
You're not quite against the wall. The walls a few miles off at this
point, I see, Okay, but whenever the tree canopy has an opening,
you can see it standing very high up and the distance. I'm wondering
how the vegetation here looks compared to where we were pree dragon crossing, Like
is it the same? Is it a different? But I don't know how
great of a look I can get right now. If it's a dark yeah,
it's still dark. So if you want, if you really want to
know now, it's going to be a difficulty to survival check for you to
get any information at all. Yeah, I can wait, honestly, Okay,
it's more important things to be concerned with right now. Catch look,
a quick hour to hour nap. A NAP's a luxury. Yeah, Let's
try and find a place to hold up for at least a little bit and
regainer strength. I don't know how long we've got before the sun comes up,
but we should probably try and spend that time as downtime. Is it
still quiet here? You continue in a generally northern direction, and eventually you
come to a small clearing that would be just barely big enough to accommodate you
guys. But it's better than nothing. Yeah, and it would be a
fine place to post up to try and a couple of hours sleep. I
strongly suggest we do that thing. Regard the will take middle watch, we
might not have more than two watches, depending on what time of night it
is. I suppose I should take other watch, though, all right,
I'll take the first one. That's good enough for me. Yeah. Do
we have time for two watches, boss man? Or is it really really
late? Well, if everybody is going to get some sleep, there needs
to be at least two watches. Yeah, that's what I figured. If
it's too late, that just means somebody's going to have to sleep when the
sun comes up. If it's too late and we only have one watch,
then I would just suggest we risk it for a night and I'll get some
sleep. Yes, No, I would agree, you guys did also rest
early before, right, Yes, we did prepare to do the night run.
Yea, yeah, you are not in need of eight hours right now.
You should be able to operate all right after two or three, just
to kind of recover from the right up sprint that you had to go through.
Yeah, and you're gonna need to take some time, drink some water,
get some food, that sort of thing. Right, So first watch,
that'd be I do you need me to roll anything? Sure? Rolling
observation? All right? Difficulty is one word up? Okay, well that's
scary. I'm using one of the momentums because I'm scared. Boy, Hey,
there we go. Did we get fording back? He said, difficulty
one? So I think we can. We can decide to spend it on
asking a question. But what I get so far, what you get so
far is everything seems peaceful. In fact, this portion of the jungle seems
pretty quiet. After about three hours, the sky starts getting lighter overhead,
and you are relieved in your watch. I think that's when me and October
have the conversation of like, oh, right, you what, I know,
we determined, you know, we prepare for this. We just need
give me a couple of hours. If it gets to light out, let
me sleep in, is basically what Riccardo says. Yeah, in the meantime,
we can have survival checks for the rest of the party if they want
to get food. You're water stores are not optimal at this time, but
they are not low yet. Okay, yeah, all right, so all
right, so I'll do a survival check to find food and water or juicy
fruits that at least can like replenish hydration. You packs a juicy fruit,
all right, I'm looking for a juicy fruit. He's gonna give us the
Capri Sun hookup. Hell yeah, I feel like there were Durians and such
around, if I remember correctly, Durian like fruits. I don't know if
you ever called them Durians, at least rindy enough to be like a Durian
because you were using them as water bowls. But when it becomes light up,
we can get to figure out if the trees here are the same.
Yes, literally, there just needs to be one person who stays at camp
to keep an eye out for you, and the other two could go out
as a pair to try and find what's needed to be found. You can
reduce your difficulty by two, so this will be this'll be a difficulty easier
row. Okay, I'm actually going to roll on this because more momentum needs
more stuff, right. Yeah. So basically, when I'm attempting a survival
just to find food or water or shelter, each point of momentum spent repeatable
provides the necessities for two other creatures that I will empty the bank. Then
the basic difficulty of survival tests to find food, water, and shelter is
produced simple, and every point of momentum spent repeatable finds the necessities for three
additional creatures rather than two. So I guess I only need one to need
one. Yeah, yep, all right, Well, I mean it's just
a survival check. So basically what I'm saying is only a chump would fail
this. Don't stop stop doing that. I can't. I just got three.
I'm addicted to tempting fate. What's it going to do? Make my
look worse? Up? Stop? So here's here's some points of interest for
you before we switch over. Because I imagined Lydia was going to go out
with you since she wanted to get in full about the surroundings. Anyway.
Oh yeah, yes, bor I should say so well, she's also not
great on watch, so yes or octomer, you are able to bag a
few, probably like five smaller creatures rodents and things like that. There aren't
any big creatures at all in this section of the jungle as far as you
can tell. The game is plentiful just like before, but you need more
smaller things instead of just one larger. With the level of success you attained
that extra momentum point. You were also able to find several small clear springs.
Oh and you were able to top off water supplies again, which is
good because you are well aware the next section of this valley supposed to be
a large swamp. Drinkable water is probably going to be hard to come by,
so you're gonna want to go into that with as much as you can.
Absolutely, all right, could I get a survival check from Adra?
Am I banking my last momentum from that as well? I would say spend
that one to get the water that you eat? Okay, Okay, I
got you, Yeah, yeah, all right, here goes all right one
success. It is dark no, it's light out now, it's early morning
effectively, Okay, that why Ricardo is sleeping in effectively. Oh okay,
you notice two things. The trees are getting shorter, and the plant life
is kind of handing towards stuff that is more successful with less nutrient rich soil.
And over the course of the hunt, you can actually confirm your suspicion
that there seems to be consistent downward slope. The farther north you go,
and with all the rain that happens down here, a lot of the oil
is washed away and stripped out, which would explain the change in flora.
Well that's curious. So am I getting the sense it's turning into more like
I mean, it would make sense that you're headed towards swampland oh yeah,
the terrain is getting lower, and also water is going to run in this
direction. Well, things are getting shorter, but then you're getting towards the
swamp. Like, it wouldn't be drier here, wouldn't it be getting wetter?
No? No, the trees and stuff are getting shorter because there's the
soil is less fertile because of all the drainage that's running through it. It's
probably less supportive too, Like if you had a big, tall thing trying
to grow on the swamp, you either got to be a mangrove or you
gotta be or you're going to be falling over effectively. Yeah yeah, okay,
thank you for talking that through with me. No, as far as
useful or edible go. Yeah, but with Optimer's success kind of encapsulates the
necessities of the party. But I will say that in this instance, like
he's doing the hunting and you're like grabbing and carrying fruits and stuff. Yeah,
well, maybe even grabbing some firewood while you're at it. I do
still have a hewing poultice, an anti toxin, two concoctions, which I
think are like the basis for Yeah, there are the basis for a poltice
or a potion or whatever. Yeah, and then I have three ingredients.
So actually, I know I have an anti toxin, but I feel like
maybe looking for more means to making anti toxin might be smart, because swamp
just a feeling. We'll say, once you guys get moving again, we'll
you'll keep an eye out and we'll have you roll another survivor checks arrival,
checksie. If you can get you any more components. Sounds good. Thanks,
all right, So in a few hours you make your way back to
camp Ricardo is just rousing, and I sworry you've never met her before.
Oh right, okay, that was embarrassing you good? Yeah? No,
um, that would have been arguably worse than being here. Yes, so
I'm good. No, No, being here's worse. Being here's worse.
Do we know where we're going? Somewhat headed north? All right, well
there's audible cracks and he's like, well, no time, but like the
presence writes, I don't suppose anyone saved me a bite. I'm gonna handed
him some fresh rodent not yet cooked, m m, unfortunate, and then
I just it's still it's dead though, right yeah, I mean we just
got back. We haven't cooked any of them there, so okay, okay,
yeah, no. Ricardo absolutely makes a face at it, but like
you know, it's been almost a month, like he's he's gotten over whatever.
Fucking frizziness of looking in the woods is what skill goes into making something
into a food, like cooking or whatever. You don't actually have to roll
for that unless you're trying to like impress somebody. I've like inclined to tell
a story about being on the road and like meeting somebody from some completely different
area that I was traveling through, and they were like cooking rat with like
these weird spices, and it seemed strange at the time, but it tasted
good in the end, and like I'm like trying to like replicate it.
Ricardo makes sense face every time he bites the res you you can seriously make
the stays good. Ourra is good. Well, do you have the stuff
tastes better than starvation? Yeah, Like spices would be extremely hard to come
by out here. Ricarda doesn't suppose there's magic herbs on the on the trees,
Nah, on the trees herbs like salt? No, right, yeah,
yeah, we just have to stay free on that one. I guess
all right. We got for salt is like the dirt under our feet,
okay, rip and peace. I'm just saying, though it's a delicacy in
certain parts of our world. Well, assuming this is that world. Still,
it's not the same if you don't have those herbs, though it's really
not. One day though, Ah got trapped in the house. Once Picks
caught us out, we spent a week and a half in there. By
the end we were eating shoes. I'll take rat any day of the week.
Were they your own shoes. In a very tiny voice, ricardresses the
porridge at that house, set at the outskirtch is kind of bad. The
tiniest voice in imaginable. Like he said it, and as soon as he
said he knew was a dud. But like it's too late. Oh it's
okay, man, I can't all have war stories. Some of us get
to lead good lives.