Hello everyone, It's me the first and the cast of wonderful people who have
not not in the right places. It's John Sandman in the dark, Whack
Stephen who's always in the right place, Humkin Berry who is in the right
place, and somehow John and Tiger needs to switch. Good luck. Hi
everyone, Welcome to the stream. I'm really good at being the host.
I don't know why I am in charge of my own stream ever, but
here we are, and may it never change. Hi. Players, how
how do you do? Yeah? I think, yeah, you're okay,
I'm fine. I just sometimes I just take for granted that I that you're
in the right place when we jump on these calls and stuff, and I
kind of just it just slips in my mind and then I'm like, oh,
yeah, of course they're in the wrong places. Easy fix. We
know our we know, we know. Yeah, to turn ourselves on.
Because forty seven episodes, forty six episodes, forty two episodes, forty nine
episodes forty seven were on episode forty nine, the number of episodes to the
number of tests. If we can hit fifty, that'd be huge. We
will. I think we will definitely hit fifty. Even if number fifty is
the like roundtable thing that we do at the end. That's cool, that
would be I'm pretty sure there will be. My OCD part of me really
wants it to just be fifty because it's just such a nice round number for
it to be on one hundred and fifty hours of watching our dumb faces.
Also, sometimes people constantly ask me, like how many episodes was Fractured World?
How many episodes was dust About? And I'm like forty three Fords,
And I'm like, Frecid Wells. There was too serious Sid And I just
don't know where it's fifty. I will just remember, but yeah, it
was fifty foot dark Fire. But we'll see, we'll see. I'm literally
not gonna hold my breath because I don't know. I just don't know.
And I'm also happy for this to just take as long as it takes,
even if it's a couple episodes over fifty. I like it to fifty one
fifty fifty Part one. We did that a round table as an episode.
I will if it is number fifty, Yeah, okay, I will if
it's number fifty, But we'll see how it goes. What's what's happening,
what's crack Alac and everyone's ready. Everyone, I'm good. I'll literally talk
as long as you want. I'm getting to it, man, let's go.
They're doing the last minute level up stuff as they panic, and we're
going to jump right into it. I'm not kidding. The game is going
to start today because I need to give give Whack the gift one that we
just begin. It is the worst day to give them the gift. Yeah,
no, he ain't. Look at John frantically strolling. It's my best
impression that I can do. Actually get five seconds. That's huge, that's
huge. Chat brings something up to Brad, brings something up to Bread right
now, Brad, that's a question for the fantasy remake. Oh no,
that's any new news, anything crazy coming out. Totally thought you said any
new nudes. So last time, last time, you can't buy any time.
I'm in control here. The group entered into the Gate of Fire and
took on a group of cultists, including a cult of a pritarian enforcer known
as Kidder Night Sky, and Written didn't ridden didn't like him much. I
don't know why never did anything to her, but he didn't like him,
and just because of that, they kind of blined for him and beat him
up and killed him nice and early. But he was more than happy for
that to happen because all of the coltists who were chanting and making spells,
we were able to to slow you down a little more. They they they
hurt you a lot. They cast a lot of inflict wounds, some whole
persons, and it was it ended up being quite the struggle. I actually
thought that you would that you wouldn't struggle quite as much against them, But
you did. You you did defeat them. Though it was pretty rough.
It was touch and go a couple of times for ero. Oh god,
that's a let's not know. That was a rollercoaster for me. Holy ship.
Up down, up down, up down. Literally. Yeah, in
the in the end, in the end, you did it. You you,
you beat it. Magic Miller says, I love how the last episode
was labeled inflict wounds. Yeah, me too, because that was their that
was their their objective as well as the name of the spell. It was
just designed to injure you, slow you stop, you hurt you. Literally.
Maybe they would have they wouldn't, That wasn't they wouldn't have done that.
You uh, you guys defeated them, and then you decided, like
what you were going to do, where you're going to go. You had
a little bit of an obstacle to get past. There were three cultists who
were kind of just standing in the way. They also had been laden with
some sort of spell that caused them to combust in a little bit of a
throwback to the little magmin type creatures that you fought in the same area at
the beginning of the campaign. You uh, you dealt with it. But
Drift doesn't heal the way that you guys. Heal. You guys while you're
in the gate of fire, heel over time. You're fueled, empowered your
base, you have lair abilities that allow you to heal and regain your spell
thoughts very quickly. However, Drift is he's not powered by the same things
that you're powered by. He's powered by a different patron altogether. He is
powered by blood, and he can drink blood and regain HP that way.
He hasn't even been doing it to the fullest extent that he can. Every
time he drinks the blood, I think he I think you forgot. He
has two abilities that allow him to heal by drinking blood. You've just been
using one f y I. You you're still an initiate of the blood.
But I have to kill the thing. I haven't killed so many things,
right, Yeah, well you went to do it, and that's just that's
just another way you can. You can heal, just f y I.
You can only heal via blood. And you attempted at the end of the
last episode to drink the blood of your beloved comrade and buddy. Yes,
the problem. She was okay with it, Brad, She gave me consent
nineteen. Yeah, all good. You are for sure going to survive the
FELMICI and me too movement that comes in in waves during the next dn D.
In the future. However, what you may not survive. You made
the joke. You made the joke. You made it. No, no,
no, don't pin this on me. He made the joke, say
anything. The The the problem is when you when you drank this blood,
it was too powerful. That there is there is an element, like an
unwritten element here, something between you and rin, something between or something just
within yourself. Sometimes blood is too powerful, and also sometimes you can you
can sort of slack too much and you go into a blood rage. We've
witnessed it once before, and it was one of the one of the ways
that you survived previously was that the others managed to stop you in this blood
rage. Your eyes were all black, and they you thought that they were
shadow demons, and in fact you were just kind of in this odd blood
rage. Most notably, your eyes turn entirely black, like you're wearing a
Sclarer lens. And that's what happened at the end of the last episode while
drinking the blood of of Rin, and that is also where we are going
to pick up today. However, before we beg in, let me set
the seen a little for you. While you guys are in here, you're
inside this this mountain, I guess you are. You guys, y'all see
something here. I think Rin you notice it immediately, but I think everyone
else in the room here will also immediately notice the change, the shift in
in Drift as he as he sort of loses control of himself. And you're
in this room, You're in this underground uh gate, this temple almost is
what it looks like. The floor is red and untainted from endless eons of
time, and Drift's face turns up to you, and his eyes turn entirely
black, and then rin and nineteen an Ero and Stubby would each see this
ghostly figure emanate upwards from drift. This large and imposing robed figure, very
pale, white, humanoid, kind of blank. He doesn't look weird or
twisted. He doesn't look like the version of this old man that Drifts saw
in the Shadow Fell. He looks somewhat normal, like a goliath or a
giant stone giant. Maybe he's very big. His arms are all big and
strong looking, his legs are strong, and he's got this red robe that
flows around him. It doesn't really even touch his skin. It flows oddly
around him, but it covers most of the bulk of his body. But
you can see the form underneath is just this huge humanoid, strong looking colossal
man. He also looks younger the old, haggard, weakened man that Drift
encountered in the Shadow felt. This is definitely the same figure, but he
looked like a shrunken, twisted, gnulled version of what now slowly drifts up
from drift and begins to kind of He doesn't really take like a he's kind
of ghost like, incorporeal above and around drifts very corporeal form. It mirrors
drifts movements, or Drift is mirroring the movements of the huge figure that inhabits
him and drifts up out from him. When Drifts eyes turned black the same
time as he the same as the first time he entered the Blood Rage.
He he moves suddenly fast, very quickly. He lets go of your arm
and moves backwards from you. The both of the hands come up from Drift
as he steps back from you. The ghosts that the specter that Drift had
heard pulled from the body stands at the doorway, and you also see the
souls of the dead cultists kind of rise up from their corpses as well,
but they don't do anything. They just stare and they turn and look towards
this figure. I can hear the music from someone bigger, probably, I
guess right now. Oh wow, all right, well, someone's got something
going on. I'll bring you over to the to the map so you can
kind of get an idea of what we're dealing with here. This figure here,
just in case it was me, thanks pal, sits above Drift,
and there's a moment where this this figure is kind of animalistic, because if
it drifts animal blood rage, and it's combined. It streams at you that
it wants to slake in blood. It turns and then it composes itself and
it stands up. It's sort of hovering Overdrift, like is it like it's
almost like, does it look like a puppet master? Kind of look very
much so. As it moves, its arms drifts arms below it move,
and his face is relatively kind of animalistic, not slack necessarily, but kind
of like I just start playing some music on my fire lute, Okay,
And I know this doesn't actually do anything when all is sudden done, but
I'm trying to use a counter charm, okay, which will be me using
musical notes or words to disrupt mind influencing effects. All right, That might
work for you, guys, but it's not going to help Drift. It
doesn't break the He's not really even charmed in this situation. He's I think
that's just the way that I'm perceiving things. Yeah, and I think as
well, I don't think any of you really even know what's going on with
Drift. You've all had your suspicions and things throughout that rule check. You
can give me a because I'm a smart You are smart, but you also
are a month old, so or maybe a month and a half old,
so you can give me a history check with disadvantage. That's an in base
check. So if you've learned anything double twenties, I can't see any I
don't know why it hasn't come through for me roll twenties in earlier, but
I got a fifteen fifteen. I think you probably understand the different types of
magic that exist in the world. There's the magic that you have that comes
from yours personally, comes from like an inner source. Various other clerics and
priests kind of kind of view it as a divine thing. Paladins as well.
There's sorcery, which just comes from the land. People that are born
with the with access to magic or uncontrollably feel this magic. There are bards
and wizards and eldritch knights and things like that, people that learn and study.
And then there are warlocks and they they bargain, they make a pact
for power, and I think probably you get the sense of that's what's happening
here. There is a there is a pact that has been made here,
and it's the price is being paid currently this thing isn't really here. Whatever
it is is an otherworldly creature that acts as the patron for however Drift got
his power, and I think Drift has mentioned it before that he that he
was saved by something or someone from death, so I think you get that
sense. The the form steps back from you all again with its hands up
and then raises them, Drift mirroring the raising and movement. The figure looks
around as if he's seeing the room for the first time, and then he
speaks. His voice is are kind of a mixture. Drift speaks at the
same time as him, but just for the sake of audio, we won't
try and do that. You can hear him speaking underneath, but you also
hear this voice and it emanates as if it is coming from the creature somewhat
Again, he's incorporeal and ghost like in his form, this robe that moves
around him. Everyone gives me investigation or perception checks on this figure as he
opens his mouth to speak to you. Yeah, Rin, I think you
probably just think that this is a big, terrifying ghost like giant, maybe
really really big goliath, something like that nineteen an Ero. You can see
that this robe that moves around him isn't isn't even material. It's blood.
It's blood that's that's thin and sits and just kind of hovers around his body
and in a robe like shape, like clothing, but it's just constantly moving
blood in uh, and it kind of acts as clothing for him either way.
He looks back from looking around the room and casts his eyes towards towards
each of you. Stubby kind of like looks over you, and I think
at this point he's kind of getting used to whatever the fuck is going on,
and he's just a tag along, so he doesn't say anything, but
he looks confused. He's got pick in his nose in the corner, he's
got up one hand on his whiskey and one reaching up towards his quiver.
When the figure speaks to you and says, maybe it's time you've left this
to me. I've watched you all from Afar, stumbling from one place to
the next, barely piecing it together. Something lies open for you down there.
But it's too easy, isn't it, wouldn't you say? Lights in?
He wants you to go down there, and what do you want?
I want to finish this in your stead, And what if we can help
you finish it? Oh? You can. What happens to drift? What
happens to drift? That is to be decided by who? What did you
say? By whom? We both said at the same time, Because me
and Whack are fucking incredible? That is to be decided by me? And
why is that? Because I am closer family to Drift than you will ever
be. Mm? That is a lie? Is that? So? Were
you there when you pulled him from the village? Were you there the many
times he was hunted and fighting alone in the wild? Were you there when
he fought for his life in the arena? I was. I was there
in the arena, and I was here through this temple before and now out
in the wilds with Drift. We fought together. We saved each other's lives.
We are his family now. Perhaps he is my brother. Perhaps,
but I have been there longer, protecting him, empowering him. What about
his choice? He made his choice long ago? Mm hmm. The figure
starts moving around very casually. Drift kind of moves with him. He starts
to look at the walls. He almost reaches out towards one of the walls
the columns and touches them with his incorporeal hand. That drifts hand reaches up
and touches it too. He says, the figure below us the reason you
are all here. He doesn't expect me turn. Now, leave this vessel
in my care and flee this place. I will complete your failed pursuits,
sure, saying, we leave you here and you finish all of us on
your own. I have more than enough power to defeat this masked figure of
yours is just a man, immortal, and you're not real. Oh,
I'm very real. You who construct? What did you say? What about
dark fire? Dark Fire? The demon that tries to cross over? Yeah?
How will you stop him? He will not cross He is locked behind
this gate, is he not? We're wasting time by being up here.
He could be crossing also, Brad, I would like to roll a check
to see if I can see the alignment and or like what this is as
far as like like if it's evil or if it's you know, like I
don't know if what, I don't really know how to ask. I hope
I'm making some kind of sense, Like I want to see I know what
you want to do? You want to do a paladin's divine sense, you
have anything like a spell that lets you do that. There are spells dorotect
good and evil and things like that that you could well have protect good and
evil, And that was something I've been considering casting, and maybe I just
need to cast it. If you don't have a spell or an ability that
lets you do it, then you can't. You're just having to go by
your own wits. I'm going to cast protection from Good and Evil on drifts,
okay, always save, I think, And what does it do to
tell the spell ends one willing creature of one willing creature? So casting the
spell is probably absolutely pointless. So and it's also concentration for up to ten
minutes, and it's on touch. So I'm just gonna go ahead and rewind
because it's a willing creature. So at that point in time, I'd be
very obvious. I couldn't do it. I didn't know it was a willing
creature. I didn't read it thoroughly enough. My apologies forgive oulk fire has
already crossed over. No, I believe you would already be dead, didn't
we mistakenly let him out of the gate in Rose? God? I know
not precisely what happens here, what has been planned prepared for? And what
do you plan to do? What do you get out of all this?
I will fight for you. You will certainly die down there, but I
can grant you the power you need to succeed. If you wish to win,
Why would you do that? Because I want you to win. I
want Why do you want us to win? Because if crosses over it destroys
my world too? Okayrol insight check on that whole situation right two, You
can m ten. Probably he seems kind of like he's telling the truth.
Same thing on a thirteen for you, Ero, he doesn't seem like he's
lying. He seems like he's telling the truth. But also he looks very
kind of evil, So who knows. Twelve He doesn't appear to be lying
necessarily. But I don't think you have any solid idea of what this thing
in front of you is speaking to you about, whether he whether he believes
what he's saying, whether he's lying to you. He says there is power
in blood of you should know that, but you don't. This is a
dark magic. You are not the first creature that I have seen that praise
on people like Drift, And where does your magic come from? My magic
was taught to me. I fake creatures, fake creatures in ways that I
would rather not repeat, precisely as I expected. Your power comes from darker
roots, perhaps than I. My power comes from practice of techniques and spells
and such that I did not want to learn, but I did. I
do not take power from anywhere else from myself. If that is what you
want to be, leave, cast your eyes from it, ignore it.
But there is more power inside you than you could know what causes through your
veins, even you more fords? Mmm, then do tell? Because the
longer we sit here in talk, the longer we waste our time. You
were created for another fight, for something else. Why do you even fight
here? All of you? You failed your pursuit. You were no longer
shackled Hasmo, because we're the only ones that can do this. Incorrect.
I can do it. No, you can't. If you could, you
wouldn't be trying to persuade us right now to help you. Why is it
and how would you help us to help you? I will grant you power
as I have done with Drift. No do that? Hell? Look at
Herio no, hang on, How would you mean to hang on? Send
me here amount He crosses his arms and looks down towards Rinn and then kind
of looks down at Drift and then out towards the exit and says, it's
been a long time since I have known the strength granted to me over the
years by my patrons. And there have been many, and you have met
some of them. But it is my words that grant the power. You
wish the blood pets we make, and you have squandered your blood away.
And then he points at each of you individually, not stubbing and not drift.
He says, noble birth, noble birth, noble birth, And what
did you do with that noble blood? Nothing? You ignored it, and
you could have gained endless advantage, and instead you chose to neglect the power
in your veins. Let me use it, let me defeat this foe of
yours, and let me impart. We didn't have a choice. Blood.
Yes, what do you mean by noble blood? He uncrosses his arms and
leans down a little and kind of gets real close to kind of each of
you and looks at you. I smell it, the power that runs in
your veins, each of you born, and then he looks at you nineteen
created. They referred to you as the princes of Rosegard or Forged. Do
you know why? I don't, just as much as I don't know why.
My name is Santom. The King prompted you, m He believed you
his son, all of you. What of Drift? What becomes of him?
When this is all said and done? Drift is mine? Will you
trade? I cannot. The pact has been made and is a pack concluded.
It is not what concludes it. When Drift has his vengeance. He
looks at Rin, he looks at Hero, He looks at Drift. There's
one thing I promised Drift that I would help him with after this is all
said and done, and that was his vengeance. He looks up. You
and I share a common goal, Yes, as do. I wait,
what are you talking about. I'm not going to let Drift go without his
vengeance. I promised him, and I keep a promise. Understand. He
just explained to us why he's doing this. He's doing this so Drifts packed
won't end. His vengeance is down there, Yes, if he takes control
of Drift, then he won't be able to claim his own vengeance. I
look back at the figure, looking for an answer or a buddle. He
didn't say anything, but he looks down towards Drift and says, the blood,
the rid. Why don't you let him speak for himself for a moment
he cannot Why he has entered a blood rage and you can't take him out
of it. I cannot, not yet, Why not yet? For I
need him for this. If you leave now, if you take my offer,
we will need Drift power. We gave up control of ourselves. We
were slaves before to has more. We felt helpless, and you would willingly
put yourselves back in the same situation for presumed power from a creature we know
nothing about. The only thing that we know is plain before us. This
creature has control of Drift, our brother hero. You don't have to convince
me. I didn't want to know because I was tempted. I wanted to
notice if I could stop it. We're not leaving Drift, then take my
power with you. I stepped forward. I am by Drift side until the
last breath I take that I don't even Breathe holds up his hand and looks
be controlled again. I won't me and Arthur is anything. It's just out
of curiosity. Brad going on with the ring I'm wearing as I get closer
to the figure. Nothing. Okay, this is the first time I've ever
wanted anything for myself. I'm not leaving a right as well. I'm not
leaving neither am I and I will fight with Drift until I am dead again
too, but I will not if you control over me creature, your actions
would be your own. No you help? Yeah, both Fords. As
I said, I am with Drift, Drifted with me that I am with
you. I'm sorry. The only reason I came back. What's to deal
with this? And nothing else? The only reason nineteen He nods. I'm
not going to let the world end. Nothing else matters. You mattered to
me. You mattered to me. He matters to me. I don't want
you, hm, I don't want you to I'm sorry. Whatever is down
there dark Fire cannot come over. It's just a man. I don't think
we need his help. Truth be told, but I'm not letting Drift go
alone anywhere ever. Again, we're not suggesting that you do. You don't
have to take his offer to not leave Drift alone. And what do you
say, what do we do? Then we can't stop us from joining and
marching down there. There is a reason that this creature has done all of
this. He wants us to leave for a reason, and it's not so
that we stay alive. Couldn't care less about us? Closure? Are you
saying that if we refuse your power, you will not proceed to let us
come with you down there to defeat the people? We dechiusee to defeat?
I figure that get out my power. You will fail, and if you
fail, I fail. You wanted to cast us from this place. You
said that you would handle it alone. How would you do that? I
will use drift as I have so far. I will empower him. He
will be strong enough. The three of you carry within you something else?
Do you not? Yes? Yes we do? And why is there not
an entire army of masked men here waiting a few cultists a single warrior?
A fair question, one that we would have to look for ourselves to find
out. It's too easy. He wants you there. You are the key
that has been bothering me. Actually, have you not been used in this
way once before? And you would repeat these mistakes? Mortals? I am
no mortal. Oh yes, it must be another. Another option there is.
We can purge your fire, we can bolster your blood, and we
can send you in there with my strength. He will not expect it,
they will not have planned for it, and you will win overwhelmingly, so
they will not allow the demon through. You will rue the day. No,
No, what of drift? Why didn't they kill us? Zero?
Why did they just stall us? What? He's right, he does want
us down there, But for what? What of drift is packed? And
when his pack is complete, what will happen? Drift is my vessel,
So drift does no longer drift. That is correct. I never will be
again. The pact was made long ago. What do you know of this
place? We were here once before, but we were we were frightened,
We were unable to explore it fully. What purpose does this place have?
Do you know? Eight? Uh? I think for the first time you
see him kind of his face, His expression has been relatively plain this time.
I think he probably cast a glance downwards and says, I know very
little of this place. The others like it. I was cast out from
the mortal realm. I have spent my time in a dark place known as
the shadow Fell. Why while you cast out they believe me something evil the
first King and his men. And if we let this creature take control of
us, what if we are unleashing an evil even greater than dark fire.
We can't trust it if they want to lure us down there, if they
want us down there, as you suggest, What if there's another way this
place, this temple, this gate that has Maul told us about, Why
would they build it? Why would they do this if we are needed for
some sort of ritual supposedly, What if there is a way that we can
sabotage it? This temple. When we first arrived, we saw several strange
things all about. What if they have something to do with all of this?
What if we can stop this ritual by using the temple itself, this
gate? Okay, I refuse to trust this creature. I won't do it.
I don't want to save the world anymore. I want to save you,
guys, And that's how that matters to me. I love you all.
You are my family now, creature, if you are a part of
drift, and I suppose I love you too in a strange way. But
I won't allow anyone to control me again. I won't. I'm going to
look around. I know we're pressed for time, but I think everyone is
right. I think this is a trap, and we knew that when we
came here. So let's try and think differently. Will you not work with
us? I have offered you the chance on your terms. The shadowy figure
kind of shrinks and begins to kind of dissipate a little bit towards where drift
is drift. I think you start to kind of come up from like an
unconscious state as you start to move your own way. The figure, as
it's disappearing, says my terms, they still lie open. I reach my
hand out to drift, drift, drift. Yeah, we had a conversation,
yeah, with your friend, but my hand is still not for drift.
I think did I get did I get blood? Did I get your
blood? Did I hurt you? Are you crying? What happened? Did
I hurt her? Did I hurt her? No? I'm just glad you're
okay. I'm fine. What's wrong? Think your friend paid us a visit?
But my friend? What do you mean? Don't be KOI I'm not
being KOI what friend? The first the one who saved you the one who
gives you your power. Oh he gave us options? What kind of kind
of options? His terms? To give us power to defeat what's below?
Drift. I stand by you no matter what. It's the only reason I'm
here as de Yeah, you guys accepted the offer. Oh not yet?
What do he said he was going to do with me? I shoot a
glance at nineteen. It's a very stern. Do not open your fucking mouth.
Look, he expressed that your vengeance would complete the pact, So it'll
be done if you take your vengeance, Drift. But then he said you
would be his host? Is that the agreement you made with him? I
don't know what do you mean his host? I didn't make it as in
you would no longer be you, He would be you, and you no
longer I didn't say I would do that. I just said, why don't
you speak with him? Then? I think he already agreed. What do
you mean host? What does that mean? What what do you mean by
host? Like? I have to like I have to do things for him.
That's that's okay, as in you would no longer exist, and your
body, from what it seems, would be his body. Like that would
be no longer a life from what I gather. Once you complete your pact,
he looks at Hero and Wren. It seems as though you will cease,
but not your body. Drift, this creature, this first there is
something more. It offered us bargains. But I do not think everything is
set in stone. Yes, I agree. If you had to come through
after that and couldn't do anything, then why wouldn't he have just killed us?
Or had Drift tried to kill us? Is at this point, Drift
that you are lifted upwards suddenly, as if an invisible hand has plumped you
up by the ankle, and Drift begins to vomit black smoke, huge amounts
of it. Within moments. It's filling the floor. There is power in
blood Drift. Anyone doing anything to react? Oh, I have a reaction
to you. Once they're done, I'll wait, tell me go ahead.
No, I'll be the last one. It's not we do it's floating,
true. I'm fucking ready, my ready, a weapon, the hands down,
I absolutely do that. The room is filling with smoke, lots of
it fast. Black smoke blooms a bit, just pouring out of his mouth,
spilling over the floor. Stubby takes a few steps forwards. What's going
on there? This demon is the one last time to do something. I
speak out loud to Drift and the entity. I'll say it again. I
am with Drift no matter where he goes the room. I hope that makes
enough sense for you bread what I'm saying. I would assume, oh,
yeah, you. The smoke covers the floor, and I think all of
you hear the voice now as it comes from somewhere nearby, but not anywhere
that you can see. This room fills very quickly with this shadowy smoke.
It's not over yet. I cannot be banished, I cannot be killed.
You cannot bargain with me. Our pact can never be broken. Drift,
you paid for your vengeance with my power, and I shall reap the rewards
of half a millennia of preparation. The smoke paus endlessly out of Drift until
it fills the room. And when it covers each of you, you are
pulled from the gates mechanically and everything and into the shadow fell and the realm
of the first. Can everybody give me initiatives, please? As before you
this smoke fills this place up and you look around you as it begins to
fall again, and you are in a very strange dark landscape covered in this
distant, ruined Gothic architecture. There's black skies and black smoke everywhere. It
still sits across the ground heavily like fog. Huh yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. Each of you stand behind four pillars separated by a bridge,
and this bridge stretches out across this like blackness, this bottomless pit of
like unending darkness that goes downwards. Levitating at the center of the bridge is
this giant, the first, this gray skinned herculean man thing, this red
hood of blood draped over his like powerful build, and you see his eyes
clearly, probably for the first time, snakelike red in his hand is Drift's
neck, and he's holding him up off of the ground and he's he's large.
He again, he looks like almost the size of a giant. That
old weak man Drift is gone. This figure is here now he has seen
this figure ever, I think you recognize it as that old man. But
he looks like he's been like hump. He's he's roastied up and you can
see his teeth for the first time, as well as if he was concealing
them before, and all of them are sharpened to deadly points. He has
way too many teeth in a very large mouth. His fingers, which are
gripped around Drift's neck, which sit in his other hand, are tapered into
these very long, natural daggers. He looks around him as if he's not
one hundred percent sure where you go, eyes are and he but he speaks
outwards while holding you Drift and says, well, then here we are.
I haven't felt this good in hundreds of years, and I can feel it.
I'm so close. I had an itching feeling all along it would come
to this, And you will not deny me my vessel, my kingdom.
Come out from your hiding holes, mortal rodents. Let me end this on
my own terms, and I'm gonna roll INITIP for him and Stubby and add
them in Stubby's just like Stubby. I was like, fuck, did I
get involved in this? Thought? He was going to kill a He thought
he was going to kill a demon. He's in on it. Let's see
Stubby where you're at? Boy, honestly the true hero at this point?
Study, Oh god, maybe not? He rolled the five h find.
It's pretty stunning. What just happened doesn't mean you won't still kick ass.
It's not quick to react. Oh he's drunk enough to not give a fuck.
Okay along with stubby griff. Yeah you my fighting from my life right
now. Oh stop, I don't know what you're doing. You tell me.
You are in the grip of this creature and uh, he has you.
You are grappled by him. You are in it's in its grip and
it's holding you, and uh, it looks like holding you, but it's
it's speaking out to the others. And yeah, you you can. I'm
just gonna look at him while being grassed. Can I talk through his hold?
Is it where I can talk? Yeah? I think he's He's not
killing you, He's just got you like your doll. I appreciate you saving
me, but I didn't know that the pact would last forever. You are
on borrow time. Let me go. I'd like to reap down. I
will yell out. I'd like to yell out to drift. Whatever you do,
then, whatever your choices, I stand by you. Drift, whether
with him or what, by yourself. I snap to that way and then
back towards where Erro is on the opposite side of the bridge. If you
are with him, Drift, I am with you. I don't care which
way or another it goes. The first looks like he's about to move,
so Drift, you can do some thing in this situation. He doesn't seem
to be too bothered by your cries out. I'm gonna ask him one more
thing if you're okay with it. Yeah, Are you gonna kill my friends?
They have chosen to kill themselves. No, I just see me instantly.
Don't care what he says, don't give a shit about anything else.
Instantly, I'm going to cast thunderstep. Do you just see me? Just
look over by Eero and scream no, and you just see me. Teleport
over to where Eerroo is and uh, you teleport to an unoccupied space you
can see with them range. Immediately after you disappear, a thunderous boom sounds,
and each creature within ten feet of the space you must make a constitution
saving throw, taking three D damage three D ten thunder damage as a failed
save for half as much. Okay, give me all that. I'll give
you a con save and you will kick this shit off fourteen damage. If
he fails fourteen, his con serve is coming in. I'm not gonna lie.
He's got some good constitution twenty eight. Oh wait, can you can't
see that? But we can. Let me get a twenty Yeah, you
can see if you're look in the chat. He takes what he takes half
of it'll take seven. But you I assume you can still teleport out.
Yes, yeah, I teleport out to raise yourself wherever you need to go.
Let me see you how far? I think it's thirty feet, three
hundred or no, the thunder can be heard from three hundred feet away,
ninety feet, ninety feet away. All right, I'm gonna go all right
in front of Era maybe or right in the middle. I didn't know Rinn
was there too, so I'll just go right in the middle and just like
be like with my friends. And then I'm gonna look at Hero and Wrin
and just tell them I stand by you, and then that'll be the end
of my turn. Sure, I think you do this. You deal with
fourteen the seven damage, and you disappear. See his hand kind of clutch
in on nothing and he but he is moving in the other direction already he's
moving towards the first voice he heard, which was nineteen and I think he
probably will continue in that direction. Is that the end of the attorney is
right. That is bringing us to the first he He is permanently levitating,
just for the FYI, that's just a thing that's on. He's a about
five foot off the ground right now, but he lifts himself a little higher,
and he moves like flies over towards you, almost immediately like drift.
He speaks to Drift. And this is probably the thunderstep. The quick interaction
they had happens while he's already moving towards the voice that he heard. Instantly,
he moves quickly, but not super quickly. He moves to here right
next to you, but that is where he ends his turn. He kind
of he moved. He flies over towards you. And then as he comes
around the side of this pillar, which has this kind of smoke and this
light coming out of the top of it. You look like you're in Bloodborne
or Dark Souls or something. It's that kind of a landscape, all these
ruined buildings, like this old dead kingdom, it looks like. And he
comes around this very tall tower that's sitting here with this fire coming out of
the top, and his head snaps down towards you and he smiles, just
a big, broad kind of kind of smile down towards you. Nineteen and
but he doesn't say anything. He he just looks at you and smiles,
bringing us red. How did he react when he was dealt damage by me?
I think he probably just kind of like it was just like a little
a little flap as Yeah, he just he was a little shocked, but
I don't think he was, you know, he didn't die. Bringing us
to rin On the other side, I'm gonna step out here. How far
away is he? Hold on? Far? Okay? Really far? Really
is a huge place like this giant bridge. Good grief, you can't my
belly morph on yourself, I think, oh god, okay, I'm coming
to ranks. I think he's still technically hold on how far? Rat?
Can you continue? That? Who was dragging that? I was? Okay,
he is one hundred and sixty feet away from you. Okay, I
will step forward ten f and then I'm going to use my bone and I'm
going to shoot this fucking asshole. Okay, okay, Oh God, When
he wants to hit. Okay, I will use a key point to try
to stun him. Okay, you do eleven piercing damage, damn Wren.
And what is required for the thing? Yeah, it is a con save.
I don't know that though. I don't know. He's got constitution like
a mother. Yeah, another con save. That's oh my god? All
right thirty Yeah. I think this arrow comes in like nine seeing this figure
appears in front of you, huge and imposing, when when an arrow strikes
his strikes his side and he kind of grunts a little looking down at it,
and you can see it buries himself. It passes through this blood cloak,
and the blood starts to form weirdly around it, but it sits in
his in his body. You're also doing martial arts, what is Nope,
that's just my second oh shit, sorry, the same role, so I'll
allow it. But yeah, I just it was just my It was just
my second bow. I get to attack twice. Just hit the long bow
again, okay, damn y yeah twelve twelve. However, however, I
did want to spend another key point to do something. I'm just grabbing it.
Sorry, I've only used it once. Umm ah, okay, take
it takes an extra one D four can say shots? Sorry, oh my
god again? Did that last night? I did four? Nice? Thanks
for four? Yeah? Yeah nice? Nice hit. As this thing is
hit by two arrows, he kind of like snaps them off with his hand
with these elongated fingers. He is concentrating on nineteen right now? Is that
the end of your fan? Oh yeah, you're right, okay, okay,
I uh so the the landscape before us, you said it's it's kind
of BLOODBORNI ish I'm I'm seeing on the map a sort of stone structure.
Is it out beneath us? Like? Can it get there? It's like
a classic like Mare's fog. It comes up to probably your ankle. Just
a smoke like there's a smoke machine constantly running somewhere. It seems to sit
across everything everywhere, and everything else is just yeah, it looks like stone.
It doesn't look weird necessarily. It just looks like very rundown, ancient
stone, very old. Okay, aero, okay, okay, ero.
Can we get out of here? I get out of here? Oh my,
all right, okay, here we go. I'm I'm going to get
over. I don't know if I can just simply rush over here, or
if I have to jump or what. But I'm going to get close to
Drift. Okay, yeah, no, no, oh, I say what
you mean? Sorry? Yeah, the ground seems like grasp, like dead
mud or something like that. It's hard to tell from the map. I'm
not sure. Yeah, I thought. I'm sorry. I'm going to the
gap. I'm going to rush over to Drift. And I say, do
you trust me always? All right? This might hurt. I don't know,
but I think it's a better option. Rely on your very very dark
powers. Right now, do you agree what I cast? Polymorph on Drift?
And I would like to now being a creature, being a person that
has lived amongst the figlin, I have heard of some rather horrific creatures,
one of which is a creature that has many, many multiple heads that are
rather serpentine in nature. I'm going to make Drift into a hydra. Okay,
and you can definitely do this, right, This is a polymorph.
Yes, I don't know up to my up to the sea. Oh,
transform a creature that you can. But it says you need a call.
You are correct, You are correct. It says you need that is that
is correct? I am you. You are correct, I screwed up.
I haven't the campaign that will remain nameless for spoilers where they funked with polymorph
in the end and it was horrible and game breaking. Don't get me wrong,
I'm fully expecting. All right, let's see what else I might know?
Then, all right, what else would make sense? So a beast
whose challenge rating is equal to a less than the targets level and drift level
is one lower than the rest of you, is actually level seven? Yes,
yes, so you are seven beast? All right? Beyond it,
I know creatures. I'm trying to justify what Eero would know. So I'm
trying to be fair. Heard of the hydra. Oh my god, if
I turned into a hydro, that'd be soft sick. We can't do it.
What didn't Drift say that trying to heal him hurt him. I'm not
trying to heal him. No, I mean, but maybe we should be,
is what I'm saying. Not Drift, Well, you mean the heb
Yeah, I suppose it's worth a shot. I'm like, I'm like holding
Drift by the shoulders and then I look, I look, I'm freaking out.
I'm like, what are you doing? I turned towards the first and
I whisper a healing word. Actually, hold on, I don't think I'm
close enough. No, I'm not close enough. Never mind. Oh,
I'm sorry. I'm going to I'm going to turn Drift into something that's not
nearly as cool. And I'm very disappointed that I fucked it up. I'm
sorry looking at me, funny man, what are you doing that? I'm
going to turn him into a giant crocodile? Fucking true? And what the
rolls on? What he retains and stuff? Nothing? I can't talk.
Yeah, so it changes mental ability scores, it changes all the stats everything.
I guess they're aware of, like what happened. But it sort of
works like a if he drops his zero HP, then he has to deal
with the difference on Drift. Can't speak, can't cast spells? Why?
All right? There you go? All right, so I get a character
sheet? What I do? Yeah, I'll give you access to the giant
crocodile. Now everyone can just see it. You should be able to open
it up and you'll see what it can do. Oh great, this is
gonna be I mean, it's got a nice healthful So there's that Okay.
Your body just twists and breaks and grows and grows and grows, and you
fall closer to the ground. The tail paws out, all these teeth push
out from your extending nose and mouth, and then you turn into a gigantic
crocodile. Yes, God, what did you do to him? I was
worried if you tried to use his power? Wouldn't people do? I think
is what's giving him his power. It can just turn it off right right,
and and then I will, I will, I will use a botic
inspiration on let's see, I can do it just so I can see on
nineteen, and I say, you've got this, nineteen. I have faith.
The first glance is over whatever the fuck you're doing over there, and
then glances back to nineteen. Pitiful tricks, You'll turn nineteen. The first
thing he does is he looks up. You've grown impatient in the millennia you
are locked away, it seems do everything has been building to this point.
I am sorry. Then you've wasted a lot of time. And as he
says that he has his shield and his sword already out, and he claps
them together twice, and I would say, it goes silent for a second,
and he just kind of like almost like straight like new Rudo, puts
his hand up to his face and he kind of like takes a deep breath.
The next thing, you know, and he looks up at the first
nothing happens at first transforms into a crocodile. Yes, he looks up.
And then next thing you know, I would say that nineteen looks up,
and then he goes and he tries to get the first to look up.
Does he look up? Does he look up? Absolutely not, He doesn't
look up. And then beside me, I cast spirit Guardian who lands our
Guardian of Faith who lands next to me. Guardian of Faith is going to
be different because I'm going to go off cannon to the fact that we're in
a Homebrew campaign. Guardian of Faith is a large specter. Let me just
put it in the chat real quick so people that want it can read it.
A large specter. Guardian appears in Duration of Octopads has sixty health basically
does a bunch of other shit, but when it hits it fucking looks like
Hasmo, all right, and it's Hasma with a great, huge like flaming
shield and sword and like the shield, and the sworder just flames like there
don't They're just that, And I just kind of look next to him and
look back, and I put my shield in front of me, and I
just kind of I just kind of look and go. It didn't have to
be this way. You could have gotten your way. But now he doesn't
say anything, and then he passes his turn. Why. I don't know
what this is, but it looks a bit like a fire person. No
sucks. Uh, let me give you a token I didn't have. Daddy
has more. I don't know if he's gone because I messed with him.
I'll let you go. There's one how big it is? Large? And
yeah? All right, so this is there episode. Ever, so the
guardian occupies a place that is indistinct. Is there where you want it?
I was gonna go ahead and say that I'd put it just to the other
side of me. That's it, just to the other side, so like
where you are on the on the other side. Yeah, yeah, I
would say, you put it over there. Yeah, yeah. It just
it appears next So that's why it looked up because it came from this guy.
And he says, to you, your kind burned me once I shan't
let you do it again, you won't. I know this thing deals radiant
damage, but I don't think the best done. So yeah, okay,
so that's there now, and Stuffy is he polishes off like half a bottle
of whiskey like throws throws a bottle of gym beam over his shoulder and right,
fuck it, lis is it? Then eights the demon. We come
to get let me tell you saying I never killed a demon, but I'm
gonna kill demon. Their bang fires off to I love him so much.
Two shots into the study into the can I please still be in the next
campaign into the back of the first two of them hit should have given well
seven and a six on the piercing damage, which is a grand total of
forty nine piercing damage because I can count with it. Well, yeah,
just two more arrows. The first is just being like hit by them,
grunts, and Stubby kind of starts to reach for another arrow. Eh,
I'm running a little low on arrows. You only see what's on the greens.
And he starts looking around for arrows on the ground as Quiver is looking
desperate. Oh no, I have some of you need them, come to
me. The fox say that over here, I as well. Yeah,
he looks he sees like eight of you with his blurry, drunk fision,
and that brings us to drift. I don't I think he starts to move.
I don't think he can go too far, but yeah, I think
he's gonna He starts and he's like sidling along, like he kind of like
moves because he's very wary of the thing. And he steps like puts a
tentative foot on the on the bricks of the bridge, but it doesn't it
seems very stable, and he starts to move over towards you again, reaching
back for an for an arrow, bringing us around to drift. The alligator.
Hello, I'm an the alley gate. All right? Any water around
here? Water? No, there is so just to just to however,
what whack asked again? There is You can see this ground. You can
see this ground relatively clearly here where it's gray up to this edge, you
can see it. I think you can see that it is some sort of
like ground. It's the fog, isn't that pick You can see that there's
ground here. There are these pillars. You can see that it just there
is something here, like it's just it just looks like a bottomless pit underneath
this section here where where you can see the kind of edge of it.
But for sure there's no water known. All right, great, then you're
just gonna see me just there like run up to here, and then I'm
just gonna use all my movement. I get thirty feet on ground, so
I'll use all of it to get to here. On after the game,
I forget. You can use your action as well to get your loop.
That was my action, so thirty is my normal, and then another thirty
for my action, right, mm hmm, go right, Yeah, he's
just stubby, is straight right? That that is that house. That's a
friend. That's a friend. That's a friend. Of course it is stubby.
I think my mind's broken. He's so drunk that he's accepting it.
If he wasn't drunk, he would probably be doing some sort of weird non
D and D sanity sabes for this. Yeah, the first does it take
damage on his turn or only when he moves into the space. What's the
wrong? It's it's the first time. It's a let me just read it
real quick, and a creature has to that moves into the space and then
ten feet of the guardian for the first time on a turn, must succeed
a dexter already savings throw you trapped him, You beautiful fucker. Well,
I would assume that he's this will be the first time because it's it isn't
because it's when he moved. It only lasts until it does sixty damage,
by the way, and not until it takes sixty Yeah. It feels a
flat like twenty out every time. Wow wow wow, yeah, things about
I don't know. It's amazing. It's a thing that you slam down and
then things run past it or into it and then it takes damage. Whereas
here he's not moving, he's already made it. That's interesting. I thought
I thought that was I thought it was supposed to be something like I think
I read it like I was reading Spirit Guardians. Any creature hostile view that
moves to a space within ten feet of the guardian, I mean no,
I definitely just I was thinking about Spirit Guardians, is what it comes down
to. Yeah, that's my own fault. So I don't think it does
anything. Moves as soon as he moves, it will for sure. So
prepare yourself nineteen because the first suddenly and like this is he moves so fast
that it's really hard for you to witness what's happening. He does that dragon
ball z like you know when they just teleport in close range. Basically he
kind of does that, and he just starts striking at you with these claws
on his hands. First attack with his rapid strike. Fuck is a natural
one. Roll me, thank you. Daddy has more hig a writer eleven.
Oh, I think does something that is impossible. Oh no, he's
going to leave himself open to you if you have advantage on everyone has advantage
on their next attack. Holy shit, no, no, no, no,
no no. Oh nineteen has everyone has advantage on his next attack against
the first if he gets one. So he opens it. He moves and
he's gonna at some in some way. He will expose himself, leave himself
vulnerable to an attack from you. He appears, he nannies the funk behind
you, and you just bring a shield up, like barely in time,
and you feel the crunch of this thing hit it and it's hard. It's
like being hit by a boulder. Like. Then he's on the other side
of you very quickly with a twenty nine. I'm going to assume he hits
and he is going to deal piercing damage. As he appears next to you,
and there's this crunching sound as these huge claws of his, all four
of them, and they're very long. They're like, yeah, they're long.
I'm not going to say in chess because Peebe will turn it into something
weird. But he just punctures this armor and I think nineteen they like go
through one part of you and you see them come out the other. There's
all these like peeled metal and you see these sparks pour out of you of
green and white, and he like drags you one side with it as he
pulls his hand out and says, there is that that is blood. Whether
it looks like it or not, I sense it and I feel it.
Questions yes when he got behind me, I'm just gonna ask, even though
I know you might just say no, no, he didn't technically, I'm
just flavoring it. Give me a constitution, saving for it's not over yet.
Thirteen thirteen is a fail. Let's see which one is he gonna want
to do here. So I just want to put this out there. And
this isn't me brown nosing. I really love the image you chose for the
first So that is actually a creature known as the Herald of Blood from the
tone of Bose and it is a cool, cool creature, but it's not
what you're fighting. It's cool. It was really sweet. Uh. So
he's going to use anyway, he's going to use one of the things here.
Ask a question real quick before you do anything, Brad, Yes,
So I have that bartic inspiration that's only on attacks. Is that correct?
I can't remember exactly is what is that on? I think you could have
used it on the same Can I use it on the con save? You
could have, but it's too late. Okay, that's why I stopped.
I don't know. I can't remember what the bardicainstic inspiration? Yeah? Yeah,
roll me a three D six. Okay, so I cannot use it?
Then? Correct? Correct? Oh wait, no, no, no,
no, no, no no, don't roll me a three D six.
I'm done. You cannot be healed naturally or magically until after your next
long rest. That's the worst one that could have happened. Wow, Okay.
He then m stops. He brings his hand up and looks back across
the bridge and shouts at the rest of you. Will you not reconsider my
offer? Still stands after it, But nineteen looks okay, right like we
don't see that he looks any different. I mean, I don't think so
there is your dog. You didn't fucking feel good. Nineteen is behind the
big fiery elemental, and I don't think I can see you, he says.
He says, join me or guy. Nineteen looks up at him and
says, I'm wherever drift goes, and if Drift is with you again,
I am with you. You just all you see you cut to the crocodile
and you see Yeah, I don't know is anyone responding? Yeah, don't
trust him? All right? Okay, fuck you're gonna He's a legendary action,
aren't you. No, I'm not mm hmm okay, pass the time,
rin oh god, okay, but yeah, I will move forward.
Let me see. Oh I'm gonna go next to crocodile. Okay, ride
it, just ride it. Ride literally, I'm probably good, honest,
Yeah, okay, Can I shoot him with my bow through the elemental or
no? Okay? Okay, I just I wasn't sure if the elemental like
stop that from happening, it's just that. Oh boy, okay, got
this eighteen eighteen is a miss. Oh my god, things a beast.
I feel like I know the level of the king we're fighting. Twenty two.
I will use a key point for the extra bullshit, extra bullshit yep,
oh god, you mean stunning strake. What are you doing? No
extra damage? Yeah? I did that again? Three seven all day?
All right? Yeah? Another arrow comes in and hits him with that.
He says, you continue to fight. It's foolish. You are nothing.
Do you not see I can end your fight for you. I can make
you stronger, not without us anything else in your turn rid Oh no,
nope, I thought about it. Oh, I wouldn't do that. I
wouldn't do it. Erar mantle of inspiration on giant crocodile. I should I
should say giant drifted dial and uh grin and myself. I can't reach stout,
boots and the rest, but I can on us. So you can
usual reaction to move up to your speed, and you gain eight temporary hit
points huge, which is not healing. It's temporary. I see what you're
clarifying early, and I will use the dash action as my main action.
So I will move sixty feet sorry, how much A temperate eight? Okay,
thanks, and that's it for my turn, he says, phage tricks.
And you think this pure magic. I think this is magic that doesn't
enslave my friends and my family. He says, go that to your queen.
He looks at you, and he's smiling still. He's got this giant
mouth. It's slightly too large. All of his teeth are perfectly sharp and
long, like one of those horrible fish. That's it for my turn?
Why, oh my god? Nineteen So I would say that in that moment
of when he like hits attacks and then I bleed, and then all of
a sudden, I feel this weird thing come olader that lets me not heal?
Fuck shit? Just reading something real quick, uh, real fast?
That the giant isn't a concentration spell, is it? Mm hmmm? They
yep. And I can move it too, can I? Is that right?
I can't remember up, that's okay. While you're reading that. I'm
reading. I just vaguely remember mcloak and having this spell. I've ever seen
it? You what spell? Got the uh? The guardian thing? Mmmmm?
He just kind of sits there for a second after gets hit, and
he kind of just stumbles a little bit and he looks over for Drift doesn't
see. Drift doesn't know he got turned into a fucking crocodile. Claps again
with a sword and a shield, cast spirit guardians around him this time,
and when he cast spirit guardians around him, it does kind of the same
thing. Instead of him looking like these big spirit guardians, it looks like
big ass fire elementals wearing tons of plate armor with huge spears. And they
each come down, one at a time, all around me, and then
they all look and they all turn the spirit towards the first to protect me,
and he goes, Please, the longer we're here, the more we
have to worry about what's going on in there. How far out from you
does it go? I'll give you an aura it gets fifteen foot radius.
Uh, there you go. Also, note this does hit him pretty much
as soon as it drops a fire car correctly. Let me put it from
here so you can read it. Yep, I recall another cleric that had
this bullship too. Okay, apparently it's not going to do that. It's
just gonna put lab in the channel, which is because it does. Yeah,
you roll for a tax on it. I think so spirit guardians,
we read it spirits bubble l la la. When you cast a spell,
you choose unlimited creatures. Is obviously just to be him there. Speed is
hard. When it ends for the first time, all starts its turn,
it must make a whiz save. Okay, so this one on the start
of its turn, it will do a thing, which is why I knew
the other one didn't, because it always says if in doubt, read the
words the words literally. Okay, yeah, So that he is, and
I think like the first reacts to it. His eyes seemed to be relatively
sensitive to light in this place very dark and gloomy. And then as a
bonus action, you see him. You see all of them turn in and
turn the spear back on nineteen. And when they turn the spear back on
nineteen, they shoot it up, and then they turn it back in the
first. But when they shot it up, you saw like almost like in
the old final fantasies, like when you put like shield on someone, it
would just do like a circle, like an oval around them. And I
cast shield of faith on myself. Okay, oh, hold on, concentrations,
then yeah, I want to wait before I do that. Yeah,
hold on, I want to make sure. Yeah, there is a concert,
So I'm not going to be doing the Shield of Faith, which is
kind of a bummer. I think that's the thing I've grown to really kind
of be annoyed with the cleric is that everything is concentration. Uh so yeah,
I won't be doing that. Yeah's Ranger and Paladin. I'm coped by
that pretty hard. That's that's why. Yeah, whatever, Okay, what
else do you want to do. I'm just gonna look at a couple of
spells real quick and sink for just one second. Bread Thanks for being patient
with me. This is a weird, ridiculously hard fight. I'm very certain,
so thanks for being patient. Oh well we wait, stop be fires
two shots please, just looking at it, and one hits for eleven piercing
damage. Another arrow. It's the best, he's the best, and the'd
be down. I've got many left, and he's looking around for the arrow
as he does another thirty. Oh am, I far enough away I could
toss him a quiver. Yeah, the whole quiver. Yeah, I mean
he and slings it over his shoulder and grabs another arrow. Yeah, so
I'll give him an entire quiver of forty Yeah, he cracks open another bottle
of whiskey that he pulls from some pocket of holding that he's got. He
has a very specific coat that has a pocket of holding that can only hold
whiskey bottles. Uh, that is going to be matron all right, when
we just restaurant for compently at the top of the round, I'm not first
assume. At the top of the round, the first reacting to the light
says it won't be enough. You cannot stop me. Oh here, I
am too strong. Join me. I shall what you look like when the
light issue. This is how you want to die. I cannot die as
you're already undead, and I will slay you. And that's where we're going
to go to our break at the evening. Everyone gets to go to a
pep and when we come back it will be drifts turn until then, everyone
go grab yourselves a little drink, or go do a little wi wi or
poop poop. You need to do a poo poop. I do one now
and we'll be back in a few minutes. Just a little announcement. We
do have a cool, little, cool little thing on the on the side
a cool little thing on the side, which is an adventure like a one
shot, like a mini shot three part adventure, which is an audio based
one shot called the Silver City, and it's set in the same setting as
well. You guys, it's so fucking cool. Okay. I thought it
was just like a one shot. It's not go watch it right now,
and I was like, the links for it are in the in the chat,
if you're watching live, if you're watching on a VOD, there will
be linked for it in the in the we Believe Do thing. And yeah,
if you and I think, if you're really enjoying this series and you
want some more kind of supplementary stuff for Dark Fire, then more then I
reckon, I reckon, I reckon you'd enjoy it and you get a kick
from the last episode. In particular, they're two hours long each three episodes,
So go and find those on all the varying things that we've put that
podcast up on and we'll see you after the break, Amn you. Hello
everyone. Pumkyberry China by Consume porridge or something, I don't know what it
is. The potatoes that's my comfort food, just a mashed potato. Well,
you've got two turns as we were joined the combat. Here, young
Drift, you are currently a giant crocodile and you are stippity star umping your
way across to the first across this bridge. Yeah, I'm taking my movement
and I'm gonna bring myself right here. Okay. Actually I'm an idiot,
so I'm I mean, I'm I'm a crocodile, so I will literally yeah
right there. Okay. And the first on his turn he has to do
all what Tiger with save I'm dying. Okay, I will look, but
I can't remember what it is. He's not really dying the wrong tube because
I have a I have a habit of doing that. It is on spirit
Guardians. It is Guardians. Uh, it is wisdom of saving through It's
almost always with save. Yeah, okay, all right, one coming in
wait, hang on past five to that still fails? Right, you tell
me what is your spell against my spell save DC? Is that what it's
against? Yeah? Well then he fucking passes about one. So I understood
how my spell Saved DC has never really went up all that much. It's
your wisdom plus your proficiency on top of ten. I think, um,
so what does it do? Does it do half of damage or anything like
that. I think it. I think it does. See, let's make
a wisdom take. On a failure, the creature takes three D eight radiant
damage ornocrotic damage. On a success, they take half. Okay, so
you can roll me three D eight and I assume you're doing radiant damage because
you're good. Absolutely now, yeah, sixteen does anything happen when it hits
them? Um? This is a test half? Yeah, give me an
insight check or an investigation check. You're probably gonna do an investigation check twenty
four or he doesn't like it. It's definitely making him uncomfortable, but it
is not doing any extra damage to him. It's not he doesn't seem to
be vulnerable to it. But yeah, he doesn't like it. That sucks
a lot. Does suck a lot? Um? Now it is his actual
turn. He says, very well, if this is the way it must
be, this is the way it must be, it must be. He
literally just kind of like brandishes an arm and all the bullshit that you've pulled
up and are injuring with and says, you will stop fighting then, and
you will join me, or you will die. Where is drift I will
allow you to drop the spells if you want, you can banish them in
this moment. Okay, okay, So where wait? He said? Say
what did he say? Again? I don't know? Join me are dying?
It's pretty much. And he's allowing me if I want to, I
can drop you right now? Where is drift? Is here? Where I
like? Point to the crocodile. You seem that to go. You've got
to be fucking kidding me. He what's the best choice we had? He
looks up? What's the shield down in front of him? Huh, you
don't the spell? No? Okay. And when you say you put the
shield down in front of it, you mean in the sense you're picking up
the great sword or as an No, I've just got my shield in front
of me. Just a fake. I just wanted to know if you had
minus two ac or not mental as. The first is going to attempt to
attack you again. Very well, these these claws launched themselves towards you.
Again. He moves blindingly fast, and that is a twelve miss, a
miss, next one seventeen, next one twenty six, a hit. Fuck
he again, it's just he appears one sign of you. He brings the
claws down. You defend it with like an armed, like a natural brace
that you have. You bring the shield up for the next one before he's
in front of you again, and you feel that puncturing damage as you take
twenty one piercing damage. I also need a constitution savings throw, please,
Brad. It's the only reason he's going after him because he talked for a
Yeah, he didn't know, I said when I said it out there,
he didn't know where you were, and two of you were like, we're
over here, and then that's what That's what happened there. A six is
a fail. So let's see what happens on this one. Oh, I
know what I think he's gonna do? Or is he let me see?
Mmmm? Sorry, these things are fucking confusing to read. Okay, Ronny,
A three D six this time? Yeah? Seven? Wait, I
need to do one more? Uh eight all together? Create a tally somewhere
of eight. Okay, you you are confused for eight rounds. You can
repeat a constitution savings throw at the end of your turn to shrug off the
chloric flux that has hit you from this wound. Has his has his claws
puncture in to your body. You feel it's just awful energy pass out and
from this, from this creature, and it affects you immediately and confusion.
Essentially, you're under the same spell as the confusion spell. You you roll
a D ten at the start of your turn to determine what you do on
that turn. So when we get to your turn, we'll deal with that.
Can I talk beforehand to him? Uh no, I don't think you
can, because he's fucking quick, and he fucks you up and then you're
confused. Simple as that. He he brings his hand up to hit you
again and then stops as Yeah, what you might call it spirit guardians concentration.
I would assume need to roar for that. I think it might just
rock. Well, let me see, m M. I don't see how
you would be able to concentrates. I'm confused. Yeah, yeah, that
would make sense. I don't know. I don't, I don't I would.
I would rule that you would drop that spell because you're super confused.
Yep. So you're you're doing like crazy ship. You're gonna are potentially gonna
be doing some insane ship in a second. So the first stops the assault
and then looks back across the bridge, looks down at at Alligator three and
shakes his head at all of you as you're running across this bridge, pulling
weapons out, rint firing arrows. What do you want to do? Yep,
I'm doing that. Twenty four, twenty four is a hit, thirteen
is a miss on hitting there, five piercing sap, and then an extra
four damage. Yeah. An arrow comes in and passes through this this blood
cloak that's around him and strikes his flesh underneath. He grunts again, you're
I mean you're hitting him for full damage. He doesn't appear to be resistant
or anything, but he's got arrows in him all over the place. I
think he probably just pulls this one out. As he does, so,
part of the blood from the cloak goes in and I was the wound a
little anything else? Yep, here what dore? Here we go, buddy,
Carol. Please all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna run forward, And
as I'm rushing forward, I will whisper a word on the on the wind,
a healing word at the first Please. At we'll see if Bradle likes
Final Fantasy. Right now, we'll do level one A Level one healing word
on this guy for six healing, and I whisper, I whisper, does
it burn? It fucking does burn. The hearing magic strikes him, and
I think you see it kind of spread across his skin like usually maybe there's
like a warm light or something that moves across the wounds and things, But
for him, it spreads across him like a like a rash, like his
skin bubbles a little underneath it, almost as if you're doing legit burning damage
to him without seeing any of the fire. And his skin boils a little,
and he grunts and enough, and then I will say, how about
this, And I point two fingers out towards him, and I cast a
fire bolt, all right, twenty six for seventeen fire Damn Yeah, it
hits him. It doesn't seem as effective as the as the healing word,
although it does do more damage technically. You see him kind of burnt by
it, but it doesn't boil his skin anywhere near as badly as it should.
Some of the blood cloak comes up and kind of dissipates the fire.
Some of it gets through, and he continues to growl at you. So
and that's it for my turn White let's see him. Uh uh okay,
nineteen we are deep ten. Come on, buddy, Can he break out
of this? Yeah? At the end of his turn, he gets a
chance five two to six. The creature doesn't move or take actions this turn.
You're just kind of stunned, like tweety bird stunned. Give me a
conceive. Can I say anything? Nope? Okay, you're out of it.
Yep, my buddy to nineteen. Yeah, buddy, nineteen is the
magic number of it? After does it? After I break out of it?
I would like to say why? Why? So the first? Why?
Why? Why should I listen to you? Why should I work with
you? The same reason we shouldn't understand why we work with you? Use
your words? They don't need you. I'd like to use you. But
if you won't join me, then you can die and I will get home
with it by myself. Liar, you need us, so you wouldn't have
asked me. The the first turned to the alligator of drift and he says
I need him woo and god damn it, Stubby grabs two random arrows out
this gay this day is a fucking bastard. Bang bang off go two shots
from my role he's gonnah them both. Oh no, that is a natural
one for Stubby. Wat could you just row me a D twenty while oh
my god, range critical fail? What thing? Four? You miss your
but hitt an ally within five feet of them, So this is gonna suck.
Nineteen drift is technically within five feet as well. Yeah, I am,
I'll take it. I mean, oh she is I'm ten. No
he's not. He's right next to the first. No, the first is
to the right of the fire elemental thing. Yeah, I know I can
see that square counts. No, it doesn't. He's a three by three.
Yeah, that's ten. That's me. Is it? Is it not
old on? Is it not like registering? Right? Am? I roll
twenty? Maybe it looks like he's right next to him for me, he's
here, We're here. This is close. Second game. I'm gonna hit
refresh. Yeah, this was doing this to us yesterday, I think as
well. Yeah, nineteen you will take the damage from the first attack six,
and the first takes the damage from the next one, which is eight.
So two arrows come in and then Stubby just oh shape shape left left,
and then ah, hey sorry blood, yeah, not too much worse?
Gy next one hits the the target, so that feels eight on there
and your rift it's your turn. Finally, it's my time to shine.
So I will go up right behind this thing who's looking over at nineteen.
I'll get right in his face and I'm gonna lock you and you see me
open my huge jar and I'm gonna I'm gonna go for a bite. No,
witch it twenty twenty is a hit. How do I do the damage
on this? And the target is grappled to a word attack? Huhas the
word attack in there? Oh my seventy damage? Seventeen seventeen okay, seventeen
still good, yeah, seventeen damage. Like this thing just comes up behind
the first and just leaps up and grabs his legs, dragging him down.
He's levitating, remember, and he kind of he's pulled down to ground level.
As this thing deals seventeen damage. Oh, there's no saving throat to
you. Just get grappled immediately. You get grappled immediately. The target is
grappled, escape on a sixteen and until the grappling, the target is restrained
and the crocodile. That's so good. So yeah, okay, you can't
move around, although he wasn't anyway, But as you're grappled, I'm gonna
slap you in the head with my tail as well. I get multi attack,
okay, fifteen, I don't say anything. Don't say anything. Wait,
don't I'm want to use Asthma's blessing on that. Just for good measure.
I'll allow it. Okay, that's why as quick as possible. Yeah,
what does that mean? I get to reroll it? You get if
you're thirty feet from a reaction, I can use my reaction to give you
a plus ten bonus to the role you want to roll it? Is it
automatically? So I do damage on it? Yeah? Yeah, I love
you boom eight budgeting on top of it. Thanks right. Yeah. So
the does come in and just and the first almost minimum damage. The first
is now kind of a ground level is struck by this tail, and he
looks he looks down at the crocodile and looks back up because he's grappled.
Don't I get advantage. I don't know. I don't know. He just
got Yeah, he just can't move. You're just holding him. Yeah,
he's like looking. He looks over at the bridge at you a lot and
says yes, very clever, and now he's gonna unleash the fury. Unfortunately
here as several attacks come down. I think the first one's coming in at
nineteen. I want to understand something. So if he's grappled, he can
still punch an attack and swinging ship. Yeah move, you can't move right
now, that's all? Yeah, like he's he just starts attacking wildly left
and right. One coming in at nineteen on a natural thirty. How would
you like to put me on the ground, Brad curious? That's what it's
going to kill you? Oh my god, holy ship two plus sixteen.
No, it shouldn't doesn't kill me. It doesn't kill you out right,
So it's just putting you down I think probably just straight through the center of
your chest and then pulls the uh pulls the flows out. But dad,
I almost called you. Aren't you okay? So your grapple? But is
it at the end of your turn? You see if you're prone? Aren't
you prone? Right now? Who? No, No, there's no pro
he's just my tail attack. Yeah. Well, if the target is a
creature, it must succeed on a DC sixteen strength save throat or be knocked
prone all right, well, I'll give you the strength. Sorry, nor
where am I? What's going on? Right? No? I don't.
I don't think this is going to affect anything that much. But yeah,
he's going to pass this. It's a strength safe. He's nuts. Hold
on. What happened? Oh? Actually maybe it will hold on. Let
me make let me make a strength save here, come in here. Remember
got a bit at sixteen twenty one? All right? Nothing changes? Okay?
You yeah, you're you're punctured in the chest. And then the huge
form of nineteen. It's the it's the deck there and he is now the
first then is going to attack the giant crocodile three times three, two twenty
eight and a twenty seven. I don't even know. No, my armwork
is fourteen all right, one two and three thirty one piercing, thirty four
piercing and thirty might that might be ninety five? Damn it, I'm dead.
I don't think you are dead. I think it breaks a polymorph.
It does break the polymorph, and I think your drift takes the difference.
If I'm not, there's not much difference at all. It's that's only a
six damage. Let me five hp. He breaks I think probably what we
see is he just fucking bitch slaps the spell off you at this point,
like he just he just and you just see, like the crocodile. If
the result reverts as a result of dropping his zero hit points, any excess
damage carries over. Yes, so you just take the remainder question. Brad,
did I heal at all when I drank her blood earlier on? Oh
you want to get full health? What? Well, you were controlled by
him, He healed you up. Yeah, that was the thing that I
forgot to mention and I wanted to and uh wait a minute, wait a
minute, wait everyone, sorry, everyone else as well. You are not
getting the healing effects of Yeah, I thought of the gate. Well,
because you are not in the gate right now, I still have I got
temporary HP as the crocodile. Correct, I don't know. I think that's
up to Brad. Oh, well when did you do it? Well?
The yeah? Oh yeah, no, no, I gave you temporary He's
still a crocodile. Yeah, if I if it was, I was still
a crocodile. I am still up as a crocodile. Right, Wait a
minute, No, you only had eight bonus John, You're you're you're out.
Why because he's on two crocodile HP. Is that right? Yeah?
To HP. The amount of family he took crocodile has like fucking two hundred
h P and he just took you just took ninety five. You're right,
Yeah, you're right. It doesn't it doesn't. No, broke the spell,
but only did one damage to me? Right, so brace the spell?
Does one damage to you? I need you to make me uh three
constitution saving throws? Oh god? Okay as drift correct, yep, i'd
buy my crocodile. I really had fun with you, Okay, wouldn't it
just be the first two that he does as the crocodile? Actually, and
actually I think he only does one. Actually, no, it's all three
because the last one is the one that knocked him out of crocodile. Right,
So he's doing all three as the crocodile. I think, umm,
because the last bit of damage is the one that knocked him out of crocodile.
For I mean, it's up to you. You're the DM. I
mean you just oh no, you only do one? Anyway, you do
one? So one as a crocodile. No, Frank, I do one
constitution saving throw as the crocodile as the cross. All right, let me
pull up his sta there it is twenty two. Twenty two is enough to
make the safe, so you don't get any additional bullshit that happens to you.
But you are spanked out as a spell and you are standing before the
first jarget aisle. Really sorry, you took a lot of damage. Do
you look all right? Yeah? He looks down at nineteen as nineteen collapses.
I think you hear it. I don't know if Yeah, actually I
think you can. You can all see him collapse, and he says pitiful
and you were the ones to face left. Musk ma'am, come now take
this power. I'll take nothing from you. I will not be enslaved again.
Then I will take all of your life. And it is Rin's tone.
Jesus seop you uh do we have with Bartic inspiration? Do we have
advantage? Nope? Okay, no, you just add the eight if you
want. No, you didn't have Bartic inspiration, I mean mantle, Yeah,
I couldn't. I always fucked them up. Fifteen two misses. One
comes in and he pin knocks it out of the way. The other launch
is too high. Anything else you're doing. Yep, you're right, and
I'm just I'm I'm I'm looking at nineteen down on the ground. I'll actually
move, sorry, go ahead, I'll look at nineteen down on the ground
and I look back towards the first and I think my eyes probably the gloss
over with fire, and I just say with a healing word, and I'm
casting healing word at level four on the first polish for nineteen. That is
a hit. A wait, No, that is just damage, isn't it.
You're saying that nineteen damage nineteen healing damage. I'm just yeah, okay,
yeah, it burns him for sure, and then I will use a
another fire bolt on him. Okay. Twenty seven twenty seven is absolutely a
hit for nine fire damage. Nine fire damage okay, and then I will
move behind stout boots. Okay, it's much shorter than you. Mm hm.
I am wearing the haffling short shorts. Yes, all right? Nine
seen. Give me a best saving thrower please. Two? Can I use
the bartic inspiration that I have? I don't know how that works. I
don't know if you can do that, so I figured i'd ask technically,
I don't I assume the answer is no, but one ability check, attack
roll or saving throw. It makes so technically, I think, so yeah,
I think you can. But I'm gonna use it here. Help for
the eight. You just can't be give in a bartic inspiration after they're unconscious.
There you go. That turned into a four and consumed that bartic inspiration.
So still a fail. So one fails so far, they'll be I'll
bring it his heart, but I'm in all low of trouble. I can't
be healed, so right. That's why Mirank was very upset in the first
place. Stubby is freaking out because he's hit you with an arrow. Oh
shape, oh shape, pum pum. Two shots go off over the top
of the first How are you he's getting Get him up? He's doing concentrating
on the arrow that is stuck in nineteen, bringing us the drift at the
top of the round. Oh my god, double again jump not in coms,
No, no, no, okay, I'm still muted. I'm I'm
gonna look up at the first and be like, stop killing them. He
looks down at you, and I think, give me an insight check.
Sixteen. I think he actually looks a little sad as he looks down at
you and says, I cannot. They will not join me. They will
hinder me. They will stop at nothing to take you from me. And
I need you as you needed me. You need me. Huh, then
why don't you join us? I have in the form of drift. I've
been on your side. Now you demand me. Yes, stop hurting them
me a persuasion check. Thirteen shakes his head. I cannot. This is
what it has come to. It's been too long. I have worked too
hard for this. I cannot allow these rodents to stop me. So you're
gonna kill me too? No, I will do everything to preserve you.
Then catch me. You're gonna see me run to the edge. I don't
know if this goes down, I don't know if it's a drop it is,
I'm going to jump, all right. He gets one opportunity attack on
you. Great no, no, no, and he swipes at you.
What does he want to do? What does he want to do? What
he want to do? How can he How is he best going to try
and stop you? I think he yeah, he's going to try and stab
at you on A thirteen. I think his lowest role so far. He
misses you and you run, you can continue your movement. The edge is
I think that were here is around fifty feet away. I guess what was
this closest is fifty Yeah, it's not the edge. No, I think
it's here where it goes completely pitch black. I think you can use an
action to double it, right, I mean you can make it. You
can dash basically. Yeah, I know I can make it. I just
just give me one second, Brad, can I I'm gonna use my movement
to run the first thirty to ray here. Yeah. When I look down,
what do I see? As I'm running along the edge, It's just
a bottomless pit for a little while. You can see that mist running down
the side of the edge of this kind of natural looking cliff edge. It
looks Let me ask you a question. You ever floated in space for your
entire existence, just falling and falling and falling? Because if you haven't,
I can tell you about it. I'm not saying it's Obama's pa. I'm
saying it looks like one. No, I know, I know. Yeah,
I'm jumping. I'm god, I'll use my fore moment. I'm jumping.
Okay, drift jump. You just see me just leap. Oh man,
there's nothing he can do here. I do as drift leaps off the
edge of this thing to something doom. Hero, You see him leap,
and then time slows a little for you, and you hear a voice,
the same voice you've heard a couple of times, say it can be done
now if you wish? What can be done now? You want your money's
worth? Don't you my money's worth? What are you talking about the future?
I hold the future in one way? What comedies? If that is
the name you wish to call me? What do you mean? This is
our This is what I do. I see the future for you, but
only once. What are you saying? I can? I can go back?
I can bring him back if he thinks he's gone. Can I roll
an insight check? Yeah? What fucking kind? Damn as seven? If
he falls? If he falls, if he falls? Oh m hm.
You have to understand how difficult a decision this is for Hero. Every time
he does something that fucks with someone else's choice, it is against his very
nature, not even to save someone's life. H I want to roll the
die, but I'm not going to. That's the coward's way out for this
you damn what it is? Hero would choose for himself? Kayah yah.
He made his choice very well. And he just I fall to the ground
like crying. Sure, can I react? You can react? This is
like a crazy situation. I'm going to ask you if I can do something?
Or is the first the first going to do anything? The first tried?
Is the first looks like he's gonna bline after drip. I'm gonna jump
after him and I'm gonna grab him, and then I'm going to slow for
all right, Well we'll have to deal with that on your turn. But
that's what you're doing. Yeah, it's uh, it's the first turn now.
And he moves, he runs. He takes twenty fucking radiant damage from
this thing for the record, which is this mount? I can math as
this thing strikes at him and the radiant damage maybe like a has the hasmolish
thing brings out a fiery sword and rips it across his side. He runs
forward. No no, no, and he does the same thing. He
leaps off the edge. Drift has fallen into this darkness. We can't see
him anymore. The first does the same thing. Cloak of blood washes out
behind it. It falls in places, and as parts of the cloak pull
off the end, you can see they turn to liquid and drop like standard
liquid wood in the in gravity, not being suspended by whatever is causing this
to happen. He does have this levitation thing, so he kind of float
runs across the edge and then brings us to Rin, who I think does
the same thing, runs and leaps off the edge. Yeah. I use
my crazy monk speed dash to just kind of like run full speed towards the
edge, and I just dive off. I flame on while I do it
so that I can see, Yeah, and I try to see if I
can catch drift. Okay, that's all you get to do for now,
Irri, Dear. I just rush to the edge. Uh. I'm looking
back and forth to nineteen. I'm looking to the rest and I said,
oh, family, and I'm going to jump as well. Nineteen give me
a death safe. No, nineteen rolls himself off the edge, wants to
fall to give it would be so much fun to do with a six.
Six is a fail. Stubby is going to run over to you, and
in an attempt he'd like he'd run. He like sees everyone jump off the
edge. And puck eye and he runs over towards you. He looks at
the damage that's been done to you, even know you are. I suppose
let's see, right, you're just a con. I'm a dwarf your construct.
I'm a dwarf that doesn't look good now it doesn't look good. One
for me, one for you. Splashes it over your body, and he's
going to try and give you a medicine check, which I think is a
wiz check. Also, please, please please, he is. It's a
ranger. But you can fucking save animals. Well, I don't know if
I can give him advantage. I would if he were a human. I
don't think that if what if you give him advantage because he's pure in heart?
He is not pure heart at all. Okay, he's liable, to
be honest. He did like ten point seven percent blood alcohol level. Right
now, I'm going to give him an advantage because the drunk or a dwarf
is, the better they are. Did he get advantage enough? You know
what I'm saying. Fucking no advantage. I'm giving him a wisdom check.
He doesn't have a skill in medicine. He's gonna get like an eighteen fine
it's fine, it's fine. Thirteen. He stabilizes you. He sits there
for a little while and we probably just see this this scene for a moment
where where where Stubby is just tinkering, tinkering with nine shirtless Stubby montage.
It's a while and we get this odd, this odd feeling, I think
probably watching it seeing another dwarf walk on work on nineteen. The last time
this happened, they were preparing to betray him and stuff like that, preparing
to use him. And Stubby spends a little while just kind of using whatever
things he has at his disposal in his pack to kind of bend some of
these these wounds into place, patch up some of the metal. You see
him with this like random hammer that he's got, just nailing things into the
nineteen. This works, that's toward and craft anywhare that what's happened to you?
Let's see what this is gonna do? Right? He pushes you every
now and then and you kind of grumble and move as as Stubby works on
you. And all right, he still cooking it, still kicking it.
Okay, I need I need an l for some what keeps you a laved?
Then? Just this okay, fuck it'll do That'll do another one?
All right? No, I see I see here and h nineteen After after
a while, I think you come. You come too, and sat next
to you with his back with that yeah one HP with his back against the
back against the rock, drunk out of his not he's got his he's just
leaning against the thing. You come too. You see Stubby near you in
this place. He doesn't see you and don't think immediately m h where's the
others? H are? Yeah? Shut you're alife? Right? I don't
know what you're made of? I think so is that? Okay? I
kind of had to put that on you, and honestly I found that on
the ground, So I don't know how old it is or what it is.
I think you're kind of patched up. I guess where are the others?
Ah, go on mine, they're going run. Yeah, the big
fucking demon thing. I had a big shout off with the teflingeling said fuck
you, taking my fucking body and flung himself you know, out there avoid
and then the other one went, and then the other one went, and
that was that. They all flung themselves with the age. Well that bridge
mm hmm. And you'd rested. Let me see how long it's been overall?
Heah on defa, yeah, give me a default, give me a
default. Yeah. All it takes is four hours for me to fill up.
So yeah, it's been four hours. I think that's technically a long
rest for me. Yeah, I think you can probably take it and stout.
Boot stands up and dust himself often says where where where are we?
By the way, is this part of the plan, Like you said,
we's going down somewhere, But I don't know. But that don't look like
someone I'll buying. Honestly, that looks like some sort of poisty apocalyptic nightmare.
I don't want to go that way. Back over a bridge don't look
much better. Which ways, the tavern four hours ago? Four hours,
right, and you haven't heard anything since now, I mean no, the
odd scream from somewhere some some so it's over his place. I don't like
it, you know, overcast, scary, spooky, not really my cup
of tea. Usually I you know, run but then they want to leave
you. Sorry about that arrow, by the way, Thank you for saving
me. I didn't know what to do, just kind of went on instinct.
You saved me, and now I feel like it's time I pays a
favorite doctor. You Okay, stands up, puts his hand out the stubby
he's sitting down. I assume too, and offers to help him out.
He holds a little dwoven hand up to you. I don't know how we
get out of here, but if it's been four hours, h it's too
late for everything. My friends are gone, docfire has come through the bottle
by now we have no clue how to get out of here. Ah,
I'm not gonna lie. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
You guys told me we were going to kill a demon. Then there's thus
and then there's a gate. I can't we just put a latch on it,
and then you know the one. I think we can put a lass
on anything you want in here. I don't know if we'll be leaving anytime
soon. All right, which way? Then over the bridge? Lord,
Yeah, give me a perception check nine. Everywhere looks bleak and horrible.
I'd like it. There are structures in the distance all around you, as
if this was like a very populated area, but it's just empty and gray.
The buildings look all broken, in some places there is this kind of
white light that you've got that lights some of this area, But really you're
just looking at a very bleak and dark landscape. It's quite hard to make
out anything. It's very dark woof that artwork. Can I also or roll
a survival check to see if I guess I kept technically it's already perception.
Can I roll a survival check to see if Because he's got to eat,
I want to walk over where did they jump off? Oh? Listen,
I don't think where did they jump off? He walks over to the edge
of the bridge, the point where they jumped off pretty much each of them.
He points at the varying parts of it and says, well, she
leaped off there. He sort of fell off there, theft jumped off there,
the big jumped off over there. Can you an investigation check or whatever
check you'd want me to do to see how far down I can see?
And it's black. It's just like black. Mm hmmm. Say I'm sorry
you were involved in this. Uh I listen, there's a lot of talk
of vengeance. That's what I am here too. Mm hmmm. I've learned
a lot of at vengeance in the time I've been alive. Kah, where
could they be? Um? Hm, they fell, they fell. I
mean you've heard nothing for four hours, and I didn't they hear four thunks
either. M mm hmm. Well, for all I know, this might
be better than what's home Ah, the trophic dark. I suppose as long
as somewhere has got whiskey. Nice, I did nothing for me. I
uh, you want to pray, We'll try it again. Sure, takes
a drink of whiskey. Nothing happen is at that point you are transported back
to the gate of fire. Whoa, Suddenly the entire area around you shifts
and changes, and in a blink of an eye, you're there. Oh
oh, feel sick. Oh hey, look that I will back, but
they aren't. And then the air around you begins to ripple. And that's
where we end today's session. Fuck off, twenty minutes we can do you
can tell us more, No comet. What needs to happen is going to
take longer than twenty twenty minutes. Oh my god, you guys, what
is wrong with you? All right? Well, thanks very much for playing.
Before anything get said that Void did is absolutely kill I need to look
at this fucking Killer should put it up. You should put it up.
We'll try while we do a round of shout outs for everybody, beginning with
the only confirmed surviving member, Tiger Writer young man, where can people find
you in the week? Hi? While that time, I'm Tiger Writers,
And if you don't come back and watch next Tuesday, I will physically find
a way to hurt you, provided writer for everyone. You may be asking
yourself why I'm saying this, and it's because it's going to be my aggression
when I potentially still die. If you guys enjoyed my role play and all
of my friend's roleplay, that's here and Brad Dming, make sure you come
back. We do it every Tuesday right now for just a couple more episodes.
And thank you very much for coming out and paying attention to us.
If you're out there listening, thank you for listening to us, and thank
you for taking the time. I did a lot of thinking about D and
D the other day and how much I love doing this and how sad I
was that we're coming to a close in the next few episodes. So that
being said, fuck it coming to a close. You're gonna need something to
do. So if you're bored Wednesday through Sunday, you can come watch me
on my channel at Twitch dot t before it slash Tiger Writer, and then
we'll just see you next Tuesday. I like heart feels a little weird right
now. I agree. I for the the artwork on the screen over there
for you. That is Void Smoker at Void Smoker one word on Twitter because
I can't get it on the screen. But yeah, you should check out
Void Smoker. By the way, just in gen he watches a lot of
our shows. I'm getting choked up because I love it so much. He
watches a lot of our shows and he does a lot of really really good
artwork, just just I think while watching the episodes, he spams these things
out at the highest quality I've ever seen in such a short amount of time.
And there's one of them. So thanks for that, dude. I
love it. Honestly, if you watch our shows, you probably have seen
something by Void Smoker before and it's always amazing. So that's just on the
screen there. That's what that is. Please check him out. And who's
naxt John sam Man. I had to jump, guys. I had jump.
It was the right thing to do. I thought about it earlier and
I thought the only way to stop him is to threaten your life, but
he was only listening like a little bit. Yeah, yeah, I don't
know. It's so cool because like there's so many ways that could have gone,
there's so much, so many ways it could still go. There's so
many ways it can still go. And yeah, thank you guys for watching.
As always, I stream as well about four nights a week, so
follow me on Twitch, the good old Twitter. I'm I think I busted
a vocal cord last month. Yeah, I've been struggling with like I lose
my voice very easily. So this Friday I'll be getting checked out so we'll
find out or anything. But everything else is good. I love you guys,
I'll see you next week. And Pumpkin Barry Hello, Hi MPB.
That was intense. Jesus, you can find me here tomorrow. GMing Nocturn,
which is also an emotional roller coaster, and then I I'm right now.
I'm currently addicted to the SIMS, where I like whack am making all
of the table story people, including the folks here on Dark Fire and watching
them run around and kill each other and do fun things. So it's good
you can come hang out with me if you'd like. That's it. That's
all I got. Oh, and go check out the fucking podcast, the
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the chat and YouTube and we love you YouTube folks, We love you so
much. And then mister wack Stephen, what's going on? Oh man,
it's I'll give you a little extra information if you'd like. Archimedes slash Gabriel.
The owl is technically a celestial just as is on his little tag.
So no, you can't polymorph into him. Oh I wasn't going to try.
Yeah, it's it's it's rough playing ear a Dear sometimes because I have
some really tough choices to make, So a lot of times when I'm overthinking
stuff, it's for a reason, and uh, I had I had to
make it. I had to make a tough choice again tonight, and it's
it's a it's a fine line between my instincts as a person and eerro Deers
as my character. It's hard, it's hard to make that delineation sometimes,
so uh, today was definitely one of those times. And uh, I
love playing ero Deer. It's a lot of fun and I like being forced
into that mindset, and I like thinking really hard about those decisions, and
uh, thank you everybody for watching as always, and thank you Brad for
for doing a great job with the show, and thank you to the rest
of the cast for being awesome because I love I love doing this show so
much, and uh, you know it's it's gonna be rough and we end.
Honestly, if this is how Rin goes out, it's perfect. I
would be very happy with it. And uh, it's the first decision I
ever made for like myself. That's fucking awesome. I will say that.
Uh, you know, the concept of family for Ero is really important,
and uh, I'll give you guys a little bit of I mean, the
big reason why he left the fagel End was to find his family, and
we'll stop it. He's found He's found them, and uh the thought of
losing them again is worse than he can imagine. So that was that was
why he did what he did. And uh, yeah, I guess for
a wind down, I'm gonna I'm gonna play some sims out of this good
relax. I made some fucking spot on her holy ship and yeah, I'll
be streaming after this. Yeah, who committed the murder or who did the
crime? Was it me? I don't know. And if you want to
know what that's all about, Stephen's channel for Yeah, Brad, Yeah,
I have nothing going on whatsoever. This is my life. This is all
it is. Is preparing really good episode. This is a really good episodes,
trying to work out and I'll be doing well. I'll be doing Castle
Rose Guard. Oh yeah, Darkfire on the sims to night. Sorry yeah,
yeah, But were you shocked? Were you surprised by today's episode or
never? Kind of? I mean I wanted to see the decisions that you
were going to make. Will well, I'm just going to kind of keep
them really on, like what's going on because it's not over yet really,
so we'll see in a couple of weeks it'll all be over and you can
ask all the questions you need to ask if you have any questions in your
head for me as a DM or for the cast, We're going to do
a post Do you just confirm that there are two more episodes? No?
No, I can't confirm anything ever anymore. We'll see how it goes next
week, but there will be a post show sort of roundtable discussion where we
talk about things. I have a list of questions that I'm compiling. It
will be a chance during the livestream to ask questions as well, and I'm
going to answer a lot of these sorts of questions where I have to just
shut up. The curse of being the DM is sitting there by yourself for
like this has been like what year, half a year, nine month,
and I just have at the end of every episode, I have to just
go and sit alone quietly and not discuss this with anyone and not be able
to really talk about it do the same thing after. It's so annoying.
But also you know, that's just how it is. So if you have
any questions or you do want to ask me random things, then there will
be a chance with that eventually. For now, I'm going to shut up.
I mean, I'm glad somewhat that you've seen that Archimedes does have a
ridiculously powerful passive ability, because everyone's been like worst worst two thousand gold spent
ever and I've been sat here this whole time like that is the best.
That's the strongest thing I've ever handed over. You didn't use it mean that
you still have availability potential user question still use it? Okay, I think
you can guess what it is, but I won't tell you mechanically what what
what he can do until either you need to use it or the end.
I was worried that you would get all the way to the end and not
use it, and Archimedes would always just remain this really lame item. But
he's not. He's a great so much gold, so much you know what.
I just realized I'll never get my busters. I knew that, so
that's not necessarily true. And also, didn't your new one look like it?
It looks like it. Yeah, you got a cheap knockoff. No,
but I mean doesn't he used some ability where it's just a bastard.
It's just a shitty old curved sword. It's like the curve. It's like
the bullshit curve sword from Dark Souls because nobody really wants but get it.
This aesthetically looks like ship. That's what I'm using. I mean, it's
a pretty good weapon, though, like to be honest, it's a very
broken weapon. The ability is pretty insane on that thing, the world wind
ability. I've used it three times, Brad, and you know I've only
ever hit with well, you get you can make two attacks against one target,
which is which is an extra attack that you don't get normally, and
if you hit with both, they are stunned until the next time. It's
very strong. It is very it's a very strong weapon. But I think
Archimedes. Archimedes is stronger. And I was kind of used as a weapon.
I don't know, you you yeah, he I knew that like something
would happen with Archimedes where either he would be revealed to be worth every penny
or not so. And I still think that that it's like potentially just not
gonna happen. But whatever, I'm glad. It's like having a secret that
you can suddenly kind of speak about, you know, like, oh yeah,
yeah, this is the thing that I can talk about now John's new
tesla, like John's new tesla that you can't tell anyone about. Anyway.
That's the end of this session. Did it go how you expected? Did
anyone expect any of this? I don't know. I thought we were finally
gonna meet you might have done. We'll see you next week. Thank you
very much for watching. Good session. Thanks again for watching. Remember to
check out all the other things we do during the week. We have shows
pretty much daily, and we've got all these other extra things, including the
Silver City. And I really highly recommend if you enjoyed this episode, you
go and watch that because it's very so there's there's some stuff, there's some
stuff. There's some stuff in there that you'll like. All Right, Hi
everyone, So your next week, hope for that. That's the wrong button
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