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the smoke bomb tries to lick a rash talk with some sort of strange ink
like tongue that comes from well ahead with no face rash talk sincees something is
happening through the smoke and bats away this tongue, Karun, It's your turn.
Can I see what is happening to the lizard and to everyone else?
You can make a perception check, but currently you are in a smoke bomb
that you yourself have laid down. Alelli has been suggesting that she has been
having a very hard time seeing how to fix what has gone wrong. I
see my character sheet has bugged out, and I cannot tell if I am
clumsy was I clumsy less time? Yes? Okay, all right, because
it's still thought I was dying and perception okay A twenty Uh yeah, I
think you can make out bits and pieces through the smoke. It's kind of
difficult. You see some kind of dark shape beyond that, and you can
see sort of the others moving around through the smoke. A few of them
look like they're struggling to breathe. I see, well, I'm a little
worried. That's sort of my fault. Sorry. I have one alchemist fire
left. I will be using this directly at the monster. Alrighty. The
alchemist fire is thrown and like a bit of napalm, it's sort of slashes
on the nearby stone around the ayudara. You can see some of the fire
lick up across the stone and upon the creature, but it misses, and
with the calculated splash, this is persistent damage fire damage. Okay A four.
I will spend the rest of my turn by crifting two more alchemists fire
quick crifting okay, dog, and the final act I will take cover.
So you you only get one alchemist fire with I get two with the quick
crafting. No one. It's with the other one that you get to.
That's when you do your right, right right right right, sorry, sorry,
Then I get one. Okay, all right, you're going to take
cover, Yara, it's your turn, right. Seeing that Karoun has been
made a little bit more clumsy and is fumbling with everything that's in her pouch
at the moment, I will go ahead and I will reach into my bag
and I will produce a small tonic that I will basically try to force down
her throat as I attempt to treat her condition. You don't have the force.
Oh, very good, now, rugs. It is well, it's
not your kind of enough. Now that you said, this is meant to
be a counteract situation here. So what I will do is I will use
a gear a point to re rule that it is not much better. So
I believe that the condition is not improved. Okay, okay, And that
is two of my actions. And with my final action, let me see
here Karun is injured. Noticing that what I'm trying to give her is not
working, I will begin to attempt and just bandage up some of her wombs
at a train level, utilizing my assurance for nine points of healing every time
you use assurance. You're all super high. I know, okay, uh
nine points of healing there, karun all right, thank you, that is
my turn. Uh A. Lelly says ike Hu, I can't do much.
The smoke is here, Celia, it's your turn, all right.
I would like to essentially take off my robe and try to use it to
push the smoke wave it away away from a Lelly and towards the creature.
Okay, absolutely, I love the idea of you trying to do this.
Uh. I think this will probably just be totally athletics. I'll take an
athletics hell. Yeah, I use my big muscle, mommy muscles to do
the thing that is a twenty four. Okay, let me just double check
the actions here. Uh, we're skills athletics. I'm force, open,
shove, swim trip. Yeah. I guess that's going to be the closest
thing. Might have been better to have you just do a flat strength check.
Um, okay, I'll just take the twenty fourth. And so I
said it was fine, and yeah, you sort of briefly managed to push
the smoke away. It's still emanating from this smoke bomb though, but maybe
you give alllly a little bit of time to work on something, all right,
assuming that that will take an action as I'm here, here's an offer
for you. There's an offer for you. If you spend your whole turn
trying to push the smoke away, then Allelli will definitely have a chance to
get some work done. Then I will spend my entire turn trying to buffet
the smoke away from Alleley and towards the creature, because I was going to
do a role to see if she could because you were doing this, But
now she just gets it. Excellent, thank you, that's my turn.
Sure, Alevic, does this thing make a sort of noise when it licks?
Oh? Good question? So wired, why why would we want to
know so I know what the swing is? Okay, that's fair. I
think you just want to hear me make the noise. That's what I think.
I want to hear the noise. We all want to hear the noise.
I want to hear the sturbing mmm. Let's see. Okay, that's
definitely not one of us. So as soon as I see it, try
to do whatever it is doing. I am going to swing in that direction.
Yeah, okay, I was thinking of an anime moment. To swing
and create a gust as hard as I can, but I don't think that's
gonna work. All right, I imagine our cilia is kind of pushing a
bunch of the smoke away sort of at least in the back half of the
platform, sort of towards the north. But your side is probably still kind
of covered. Okay, yes, I'm going to swing in the direction that
I hear. I need you to make a perception check or anything. No,
you just get a circumstance penalty. Okay, I am am not raging.
Oh that's a creat that's pretty good. H wow, all right.
Uh so regardless of the circumstance penalty. Uh oh, and it wasn't a
lick, by the way, it was a tickle. Why did I think
it was a lick. I've got a fucked up mind, because I said,
the tongue tickles almost worse? Is it tickling you with the tongue?
Yeah? I tried. I didn't like it? Sure? Why not?
Okay, A twenty nine crit very nice? So this is how much of
that is fire damage? None? This is not without rage. Okay,
this is just a regular attack. Yeah, fair enough? Rage until uh
ten minutes from the last time I raged. Okay, Uh, you strike
and your swing finds this creature. True, you feel like a very sort
of like like it feels weird when you strike through. It feels like you're
you're forcing your sword through a very viscous liquid. But you feel the momentum,
you feel the power strike this liquid, and you hear this sort of
horrible sound in your in your immediate area, this sort of scream sort of
happens, but it doesn't sound like a normal scream. It's just kind of
like muffled in this horrible sort of It sounds like it's underwater almost. And
I'll just I'll pull through as hard as I can. Okay, So is
that forty four damage? There was a lot of damage? Yes, okay,
Ah, man with this since I know where's that? No, I'm
a reverse my grip and slice across. Oops another grid? Holy shit?
What the hell? Wow globul CRIDs for huge damage, starts tickling it.
How do you kill it? Yeah? I'm just completely disgusted by this place.
I'm a piste off. I can't see what happens. All I know
is that when I swing, I think I hit the platform because I swing
so hard the first time gave resistance. The second time he went through,
and I'm just sitting there hold in my great sword and looking down like het
me, hurry up. I don't want to be here anymore. Okay,
Now that was very nasty when Malevic gets those crisis. So much damage was
not total a lot, so forty eight plus forty four, so that's ninety
two in one turn. Nice to have another action killed it in two of
the three and it's on fire. He doesn't have his fire bullshit, but
the remnants of Alchemist's fire. Yeah, napalm. Just bringing this like inky,
it doesn't smell good. Combined with the fact that this atmosphere is currently
affecting you in some way, you all feel very strange. And again I
think it was Karoon was the only one that was actually affected directly by this
immediately. I think the rest of you pass your checks. But as you
are moving around here and waiting for Alllly to sort of deal with us,
as the smoke is kind of dissipating, Allelly is sort of just just yelling,
you know, through the through the smoke and through the atmosphere. Yeah,
what what is going on is the ay your data safe whatever's out there
is now dead. The smoke bomb is still there. It's still producing smoke
as Arsilia is trying to flap the smoke away. Someone moved the smoke.
I'm trying to get this working well, that'll help, and using cloak to
try to fan it as well. Okay, uh, pushing the smoke away
as best as possible. You get another look around this horrific place, this
very unfamiliar landscape again lying before you, this planet before you. This has
clouds of roiling yellow green mist rushing over what you can only describe as some
sort of spongy flesh, like a desert with hills of oozing blisters, dotted
with pools of black goo and groves of what looked like hair follicles. And
Alley is trying our best to deal with this. I would like let's see
here. I would like one more survival or occultism role from everybody. Please?
Is it possible that esoteric might be applicable here? I don't remember what
we rolled last time. It was a no. Okay, yeah, okay,
it might be a fail from everybody. Okay, You are all struggling
to hold your breath after experiencing this fight trying to find any breatheable air,
and each of you will take clumsy one kroon your clumsy just remain Oh all
right. You hear the telescope and the Ayudara begin to sort of power up
again. A beam flashes into the sky. I would like to immediately begin
scooping some of the gup from the monster into some canisters for later. Can
I just get a spoonful? You are clumsy, You can definitely give you
a try, a clumsy spoonful. Some good left behind. Monster is on
top of the monster here. How will I How will I go about scooping?
This will be survival or I think survival? Yeah? Oh no,
okay, the monster scoops me karoon. You're going to drop some of your
alchemical gear. I think as you try to scoop this, yeah, I
think some of your vials clinkin just kind of roll down the stairs as you
try and scoop it, and you like cough like as you go to pick
it up and it just falls out of your hand. It's one of those
moments. As that As that begins to happen and as the light shoots up
into the sky, we have this moment of a questioning in all of your
heads, what is going to happen next? As the grotesque living landscape blinks
away, it is replaced by a dead plane of blackened and cratered stone.
Where the sky once hung overhead is now only the starry black of space.
Nearby, cracked bones litter the blasted foundation of a ruined building. In the
distance, a delicate palace rises from the rock, its walls formed from giant
fused bones. Wind howls into the arch of the Ayudara from all directions.
You hear some strange noises in the building nearby. There we know are we?
I don't know? I did not recognize mm hmm. I would like
to look around, perhaps trying to divine what direction the voices or the noises
are coming from. As you begin to experience this place, there's a moment
when all of your ears begin to hop and there is this wind that begins
to rush. Everybody make a nature check eighteen twenty six Rash Talk. There's
a difference in pressure here. Air is rushing through the portal. You have
a limited air supply. You need to block as much of the air that's
trying to rush through the portal as possible. Oh god, eh wa,
we need to stop this air. We don't have much air here, all
right, I have some goop? Oh well, never mind, I don't
have anything I could do quickly. Is it possible to use my last and
fustree agent to create something like putty? You can absolutely try. I will
take a crafting role to try and do something. Eighteen it's not enough.
Oh no, do you think we can try to capture some of the escaping
air with the bags of hold. So, just to illustrate what's happening,
you see Karun creating this like flubber like material, this like you know,
the little the little vending machine, little balls of snot that you could buy
when you were a kid. Karun is trying to like sort of shake that
out, and it just kind of falls apart. You don't have the glue
to sort of keep it cohesive, and it just hard just sort of flops,
and the globules of viscous liquid just kind of gets sucked through this rushing
wind into the Ayudhara, and all of you will also feel this sort of
intense hole into the the gate here as this pressure starts to try to equalize.
Okay, here's what I need are, Celia, you're trying to use
the bags of holding. I think I had the airflow in mind backwards.
The air is rushing into the Ayodhara, not the other way right. How
far acrosses the ayudara. The actual gate itself is about just a little over
ten feet wide. M Malevik and I will attempt to throw a rope towards
Malavik and it. Perhaps we should try to make a belt around the idara,
make sure none of us get sucked into it. You could, Yeah,
well that just does that mess up anything? No, it shouldn't.
So you want to create a ring around I go around one side, you
go the other way. Fine, I'll grab it and I'll follow a lead.
Now'll go left and gesture mouths go right. Essentially, because of the
conversation and you're trying to make a plan here instead of simply reacting, I
need each of you to please roll a fortitude safety. What the hell sh
it's sixteen okay, twenty twenty four a rash talk, and the rest of
you have made it a rash talk. You are stunned one. You're sort
of getting like pulled on your feet, sort of a windmilling a little bit,
trying to maintain your balance, and you are stunned one as you hear
this strange oh love of the lit it in the nearby building. I'm going
to move you here. Please place your tokens on the platform. Oh my
god, there go. Finally, do we need to be in the same
position we were in? Or roughly? Yeah? Oh what we were doing?
Okay? All right? So where was I was? I in karoon
spot? It was near you were where ar Cilia is? I was Karna
and Arcilia one left and Malvic went up there here? No, I was
here there, Lelly, it's up here. I would like you to each
select your tokens please and erle initiative okay, my not one initiative is the
thirteen because my perception so high. All right, well that's probably fine.
I'm sure that's fine. Okay. Stupid question. Does anybody speak neckrill?
I do? Wow? Mm hmm, Yara. You would hear this creature.
I don't know if you pick up everything, but you generally hear this
creature talking about its bone sage masters and it being rewarded for capturing warm bloods
as it jabbers excitedly and rushes towards you. Anythink anybody know anything about worm
bloods? Worm worm warm? Oh warm in re all. Yes, well
they might want to collect us for some bone people. Malvic, it is
your turn. I throw a rough stop towards it, since he's clo alerted.
Question for the the end? Am I always so cold blooded? No?
You are warm blooded? All right? Now, when a lily says
protect the iadora, does she mean this or this? She means the telescope
and the idar? Okay, how long has it been since the first blended?
This is all happening within minutes? How many minutes? Not ten?
Okay? All right, look at everyone and I will two, three,
twenty? Am I twenty five? Then? Yeah, I can run and
leap. Then one in my movement because of my feet, So I'm going
to run. Yeah, I can leap fifteen feet, so I'm gonna go
ten feet in front of it? Is it? Okay? But make sure
this is thirty five right now? Yeah? I can leap fifteen feet from
the spot. It's like a running leap. But I get sure. But
that's isn't that a second action move? And leap should not be Oh,
I'm not raging never mind. When I'm raging is not is one one movement
all right? Instead, I'm just going to charge, sudden charge where is
it? Okay, I'm going to sudden charge and then I'm going to attack.
Okay, and what's your movement? You speed fifty with sudden charge?
Wow? Okay, fourteen fourteen. You rush up towards this creature and swing.
It is a bit of a wild swing. Maybe you slip on some
of the rubble of this ruined building as you're rushing sort of as quickly as
you can, and you do sort of strike and miss. Then I will
do an intimidating glyph. My sick my last action. Okay, maybe I
missed on purpose. I don't know what this is. I don't know what
it looks like. What is it? It doesn't look human? So hm
uh. It definitely does not look human. This creature has a humanoid shape,
but it's clearly undead. You can see the creature has red sort of
glowing eye holes, nose holes, and a gaping maw for a mouth that
is just glowing and red. And it seems like the flesh is barely clinging
to the bones where it remains. Yeah, yeah, I will just give
it a glare kind of a warning. It was like a warning shot.
All right, I'm gonna make an intimidation check. That's the thirteen. Okay,
thirteen is not going to have any sort of effect that you can tell.
This creature seems to regard whatever it is that you try and impose like
your will on it or just to look scary. It seems to ignore it.
Ya hmm, oh, which I had more spell slots. Right,
We're all clumsy right now. So I believe what I will do in this
current moment is I will attempt to treat us Celia. So with that being
said, I will pull some viols out and I will have her drink something
while I try and bandage up her ankles to kind of help her stabilize as
I attempt to treat condition. With a critical success of thirty two, Very
nice, um or Celia, you are tended to by Yara. As this
wind is kind of rushing past you. Maybe you get like slightly like pushed
into some of the remaining oxygen by Yara, or she helps divert some of
it towards you, and you manage to get like a full breath. You're
no longer clumsy ver good, go get them, darling. And with that
being said, I have one final action, and so I will use that
final action to go ahead and flick my hand over towards a rash talk and
cast guidance upon him, and that will be my turn. We see this
mist sort of squirrel around you for a moment a rash talk and you have
this clarity of guidance. It is your turn. What would you like to
do? Be stunned for around? Yep, so stun one. You have
two actions remaining. Oh I thought it was the whole rem my mistake.
Goods. The number of whatever condition is one, so you lose one action
remaining. Thank you? All right? Oh gods? Okay, first thing,
if you run out of air, we can take a gulp from one
of the bags of holding. It has a minimal amount of air in it.
And then see that thing hostile looking at Yara. Indeed it one ste
take us back to some boone shove in or some ship car it rever frising
that even just full panic twelve with the guidance. Okay, are you clumsy
right now as well? Oh? Yes, uh it's clumsy. Dex and
range attacks. This is a spell attack not ranged, but it's still bad.
So it's not even close a rostod. You shoot it off like the
wind blows your arm off course. You're not expecting it to be so strong.
It's like sticking your hand out of the car when you're going really fast.
You know, it just gets blown completely off course. Okay, is
that it for your turn? Yes? Okay, you're no longer stunned.
Uh uh the longest clumsy last sorry, uh, clumsy is now over for
you. Everybody that's had a turn, Now clumsy is over. Make sure
you said it to zero before you take it off, thank you. That
is a just a reminder for the because if you don't, it stays.
Okay, we get blown up art of this creature so you can see you
would like to see this? Want is she? Is he hot? I
can translate for you. I feel like that's you know, that's personal preference.
Honestly, I said it was bony. I'm just kidding. Yeah,
that thing is disgusting. Good luck? What's that mouth? Do? Wow?
All open? Uh? Okay, so, oh my god, this
is so bad. Uh malvic. You begin to hear from this creature's ma,
this horrific low melody way long lone and it begins to get louder and
louder, and I need all of you to please make a will save twenty
nine nineteen eighteen any one from Arthelia. Sure, I'm glad not to be
clumsy anymore. Okay, Yara Karun, you fail, you are frightened?
Q yeah. And then with its last action, this creature will swing its
long sword towards you Malvic twenty seven to hit that. It's for thirteen slashing
and negative. I need a fortitude save. Okay, uh that takes away
my tempt No down to yeah mm hmmm six ago okay fortitude Wow? What
is that? Like? The fourth one? Yes? Like that's fourth Holy
shit hour? Yet play the lottery? Uh So. On the plus side,
this creature's secondary effect on its attack doesn't seem to happen. You do
see this sort of smoke like fire emanating from this creature's sword as it strikes
you. There's a a strange sort of feeling. It feels like a cold
that sort of cold snap. It sort of feels almost like burning at first
and then gets really cold. This Karun, it's your turn if I take
the stunned action. The stunned condition for this turn. Does that mean my
frightened too goes down to zero after this one? No, because you lose
a frightened condition by one at the end of your turn. So if you
take stunned, different thing. All right, stun remains one action. Oh
all right, I see very good. Then I am very scared. Ah
Is there anything around here that I might be able to scoop up? I
mean, technically it's kind of you would have to jump down on the platform.
Can I make it down and like you know, trying bend with your
entire body to reach the ground. Can I make another check? It doesn't
matter anymore that that there's a leak on the on the platform or have we
moved? Are we past that point? This is still happening. The wind
is blowing violently, all right? Should I still attempt? Can I attempt
to craft a fix for this? You can absolutely try? All right.
I have don't have any more infused re agents, but I do have two
goofy sects. That's going to make things difficult for you. Oh all right,
I don't really have anything else. Ah, I can't because I'm frightened
and clumsy. I ended up hitting you, so frightened, you can still
attack. I don't think you're oh right now, that are clumsy. Okay,
well, what is the range for the crossbow? It is thirty feet
here sixty ft twenty? I think it's twenty sixty. I mean double check
because it's a hand Are you using hand crossbow yet? The hand crossbow at
sixty? All right, then I will use the hand cross bo Okay,
oh no, bo, just kind of uh sort of point the The hard
snap of the bolt shoots out and ricochets off the stone like leaves a furrow
in the stone as it slides past. All right, then I will take
cover. Okay, you are you can remove one frightened. So you're frightened
one. Now, as I am restored breath through Yara's efforts, I begin
to quickly look through my bag. Does it seem like it would be possible
if I took out my bed roll and split it in half on one side,
that I might be able to use it as a sort of like tart
to see absolutely try all right, I take this moment of clarity, the
clumsiness wearing off of me. I reach into my bag, I pull out
my bed roll. I attempt to slice it in half on one side.
Okay, you can make a survival check for me. That's not great,
and I will try my best survival take a thievery as well. All right,
I did already roll the survival. I got a two. I will
use my heroo. Okay, oh jeez, that's a five. You tear
it in half and you you lose your grip, flies flies right through the
ayuda. Shit uh. I will then instead reach for the cloak that I'm
wearing. I'm wearing a cloak of nine leaves, and I will attempt to
use that to at least partially try to cover the Ayda okay, uh,
survival jack or thievery. I'll try theory this time. It's not much better.
Thirteen. Yeah, you take the cloak off and you try and like
cover it. It's just kind of like flapping wildly. If you've ever been
on a camping trip in a very windy sort of environment and you're trying to
like get a tent or something down, it's just a freaking nightmare. It's
flapping all around and you're trying to like straighten it out. You just can't
quite get it right. I will. I will attempt to stand there and
hold it as tightly as possible and not shout out someone help me, grab
me at the end of this cloak, I'll help you, and I will
essentially just hold my ground and try to help or I'm not sure mechanically what
to do there, but I'll stay here. Sure, no problem. Okay.
See rash talk kind of like rushing around. Alelli says, I need
a little more time and Lowick, it's your turn, and I'll just at
this point in time, if they try to attack me, I'm going to
slashaded with a grape sword the twelve. Yay, I'm going to do it
again. First strike, missus. Why seven on this strike? This attack
is sort of like battered aside by this creature. You're expecting it maybe to
be a bit more frail, and it has this It has this sort of
strength to its movements, maybe a very accomplished fighter in its life. You
feel this presence about it, and it sort of batters just shored a side
with a very meticulous and practiced movement. Okay, Uh, for my last
action, we're gonna trying to grab it. That'll be an athletics sick,
right, you are going to try and grab it yeah, that is athletics
eighteen not enough. Unfortunately, when you try to grab it, the creature
grabs your wrist and like twists, so it's it seems to be well versed
in sort of like martial combat. It just kind of uh stops you from
the attempt in a uh in a way where it's not trying to fight your
body weight. It's sort of using your own body weight against you. All
right, No, I'm enjoying it more than hating it. And that's the
end of my time. Okay, Yara, it's your turn, all right.
I will move ever so slightly so that I am within range, and
I will conjure up some of my healing energy in the palm of my hand.
A glow of gold will course out and begin to lash forward towards this
creature as I cast heel, and it must make a basic fortitude save or
it will take eleven healing damage. Where is it undone? It's undone?
Okay, fortitude save, kay, that's a natural one from the creature on
a critical failure. It is double very nice damage. And what's the heel?
It is eleven points of healing? Okay uh yara? What does it
look like? As you create this creature here, I will conjure forth a
large orb of golden energy in my hand and send it lunging towards this creature.
It will begin to permeate around it and kind of move inward, ripping
at whatever this deteriorated fleshes. You'll notice that bits of it will be thrown
and strewn apart as the light is piercing through its skin. That is my
tongue. Okay. You see this visceral reaction from the creature as this energy
begins to surround it, and malavey, you can almost feel for a second
this difference in like air pressure and like temperature that sort of swirls around this
creature. First it's like very warm, and this like explosion of cold and
then passing uh, gusts of warm air sort of squirrel around you. And
you can see this creature sort of stagger as it is hit by this healing
laden. What mean, okay, is that if return era Yes, indeed,
rushtock Okay. Seeing Ocilia do this gave me an idea. I pull
out the pup tent from my bag, a two person tent. I also
have a four person so this is fine. I pull out the two person
one and it's big enough to fit two people. And this you Donnie said
was ten feet wide, it might actually cover most of it. Very possible.
Uh So to Cilia quick crab out of these sides. As I pull
it out for one action, both of you please make a survival check yes
or thievery a critical success. So I will take thievery as well from you
and not twenty survival. Okay, the help of our Celia, you use
the the pup tent to cover a large section of the eight. It's sort
of like acting almost like a sail. You hear this like it's very loud.
This very like loud flapping noise. And around the sides of the iyu
dar you can feel this like intense wind sort of circulating around. It's almost
the swirling sort of sensation, feeling like a vortex of air, sort of
almost like the eu dara is a drain, you know, like the air
is sort of circling around and sort of pulling inwards. You seem to uh
to do a good enough job there and holding the the air as much as
you can back from rushing through the ayudara. Now we'll make it so that
you all do not have to roll on the next round for rushingly good jobs.
How many accents was that one? One to take out, one to
put over? Yes, okay, yes, then sorry, I just realized
that you pop ten with story. Yes, yes, yeah, no,
that's fine. That's what I figured looking at our previous notes from before.
Okay, guidance was indeed used on Malevick. That's what I was wondering.
I don't know if I can do mons with one. I think it was
on you also, Malevik according to yes, because it's only been a few
minutes or it's only been it's been on it's been under an now essentially,
Yes, okay, thanks to our wonderful, wonderful notes, Biara, I
knew this take a take a hero point for that you. Yes, that
was very helpful for me. Ah. Yes, I think I'm just going
to like hunker down and try to hold this as steady as possible for my
final action. So I'm I'm trying to keep it as taught as possible.
That's that's really all I can do here without leaving. Okay, the Cairn
White wait, what's his name? It is a Cairn White, Karen,
Karen like a bring you to my manager. No, that's Karun's job,
Karun fighting hern. Whose manager will be more powerful? It would be the
Cairn White will strike at you, Malavik. Let's see. I think we've
got some long sword attacks coming your way. First attack at eighteen with failure,
striking outwards. You parry the blow, Malvic. This next strike is
a crazy This damage is for eighteen slashing damage. You parry the first attack,
realizing a little too late that it's a faint. As the creature motions
to the left, you move to the left and it brings the sword right
instead, leaving a furrow across your chest. And I need you to make
a fortitude save eighteen makes it breaks it again. You see that smoke like
fire billowing from this creature's sword. You feel that wound sort of intensify,
like this cold burning sensation, and you have a feeling that if you were
not as hearty as you are, that this would be very, very painful.
Indeed, it will strike a third time with a fourteen as a miss.
This time the creature moves slightly off balance, slipping on some of the
rubble. It sort of spins and try to make this third attack and it
hits the ground near your feet, Haroun, it's your turn, all right.
I would like to also assist the lizard hen pressing the up up.
Okay, Joky, it looks like our Celia and have it under control.
Oh all right, well I'm still very scared. There's not really a whole
lot I can do. Uh I suppose is it possible to attempt an intimidating
glare? Yeah, you can definitely get a try. All right, then
I will I will, I will shout, I will call to the Karen
and I will say you you you know, you terrible little thing. You
boil, You're awful and you smell terrible, and also your fighting sucks.
You're gonna die here. So uh yeah, Malevik just just let me know
in the chat he's already tried to do the intimidating glare. Unfortunately you can't
do it again. It's okay, just just right, Kon, That's fine.
I'll tell you what. Then I will take cover again. It isn't
the realman possibility that you could take over for Celia our Celia go through others
stuff and you know what? Then? Is that possible? I will do
that? Then? Yeah? Absolutely, there's this like flapping in you know
where the edge of the cloth. Can you grab it and start to hold
it. I've got it, I've got it. Go go go, Thank
you. Karun is like lifted off the ground. Tiny body is flapping along
with it, doing great. Okay, lower your center of gravity. It's
in the knees the please, ar Celia. It's your turn, all right.
As I am free of the tarp, I will go bounding this way
by Can we move diagonally? No, all the in straight lines now,
of course, of course. Okay, five, ten, fifteen, twenty
Oh so you want to yeah, yeah, So just imagine you are climbing
on top of this the stone here. Yes, I would like to maintain
elevation here as I jump over the rubble here and position myself. I would
like to, for my second action exploit vulnerability on this creature. Okay,
so esoteric role twenty four Yes, okay, let me just double check.
I'm pretty sure that as a success. Probably not a criatge. It's definitely
not a crip Okay, that is a success, all right. I will
learn of its highest weakness. Okay, it is it has so it does
not have a weakness. But I will say that it is negative healing.
Okay, I will essentially, in the same breath, reach into my component
pouch, pull out this aridescent powder and with a puff a dust it on
my spear to empower it. And I will throw my spear the ruin of
returning glowing on it. Seventeen. Okay, you launch the spear. It
lands into the ground and then flies back. That will be the end of
my turn. Okay, malvic Mmmm, well, I see that you are
lawyer, and I will swing again. You're out of the yellow twenty twenty.
It's just barely ahead, all right. Ially, I'll smile at it's
whatever the hell it said to me and uh. Instead of I will act
like I were going in with an armed strike. But I will take my
hand, reverse my grip and slash upwards towards this thing in it if for
nineteen slashing damage, okay, Uh, you sink your blade into its flesh
for nineteen slashing damage, I will say again nineteen it's a miss. That
is a miss. This time it brings it's sword in a spinning parry up
to the other side, blocking the second attack. As it does that,
I'll use one momentum to grab at it again, since I see our Cilia
spiracle past us seventeen not going to be enough again. It does the same
thing where it grabs your wrists and twists sort of ruining your center of gravity
and not allowing you to grab it. Yarrah, it's your turn, excellent,
all right, So I should reduce my frightened value as well to one
from last time. I forgot to do that. But to be clear,
just on the last bit of damage that I did, because I want to
make sure the listeners are aware. Life Oracles curse does not apply D twelves
to damage to undead creatures. However, if you do the plus one or
like whatever the left is, because you do get a bonus bit of healing
or or it says positive it has a positive trait that might do additional damage.
But it should have been a D eight. But that being said,
moving from there, I will go ahead and I will so did it take
less damage? It would take less damage? Yes, okay, So what
it would have been a D eight instead of a D twelve? Okay,
So would you like me to just ree roll it? Yes, and that
would be plus the one from the positive trait, So that would be six
damage and it critically fails, it would be the however much would see critical
I believe twelve. Okay, that is a big difference. Okay, okay,
excellent. I just wanted to make sure you have that correct your end.
And with that, I will go ahead and I will utilize my turn
too. What will I do? I will go ahead and let me see
how far Malovic is. I believe he's within thirty feet. Yes, from
here, I will go ahead and I will cast forbidding ward and a golden
energy will start to wrap around you. You will feel quite cold, and
from there I will utilize the last bit of my action to raise my shield.
And that is it. Okay, rash talk, Yes, still holding
this, I will use one of my focus points and cast life boost on
Malevic I do believe is between thirty feet. Yes, good, that's biting
me, sticking their little probuscus inside of you, giving you healing four HP
round for four rounds. Everything not the smack at it, but I allow
it. Squirt and lizard juice only because I guess because I feel so golden
right now. Heel is the juice. While holding this, pointing one more
time at this creature here, I think it was this one. Maybe it
is the other one. I don't remember either way. Eh, right,
frost again twenty two to hit twenty two. Do you have any bullshit on
you right now? To lower that? I think you're no. No,
I didn't have clumsy and I was not frightened. Okay, then that is
a hit for nine. Frost m it's just down. You see the creature
sort of begin to like freeze over. It looks down curiously at this happening
as the ice begins to spread, spreading out from where it strikes. Okay,
and that is it. The Karen White will sort of speak more and
it will spin and strike towards you, Malvic. Now the forbidding word gives
a plus one to your AC and saving throws. Okay, however, thirty
is gonna but at least it's not a crits. We'll just add bless one
to whatever I roll. I got it on the saving throw temp is,
let's see it. Okay, strikes you for nine slashing damage and again that's
not a crit right, No, okay, nine slashing damage and I need
a fortitude save okay one, I'm going to reroll that natural one on that
fortitude save being rerolled. This is the payback now. Nine Okay, keeping
it together again, Malevic, you just kind of la grit your teeth through
the pain that like cold burning sensation where the wound strikes you, probably on
your arm. This time the creature spins and attacks again. Fifteen is a
miss? This time? Aria, how much longer? Ally yells, I've
almost got it. I think. Everyone begin to hurry back to the platform,
and the creature will strike for a third time. At eighteen, I
think is a miss mountain miss. Yes, it sinks its sword into the
ground as it goes to try and stab you directly with a sort of very
direct strike. The next turn is yours, Karoon. As you are holding
on to the pup tent, I am still holding on, flipping in the
wind. Is there any is there any way I could craft something to make
this pup tent a little better? Can? I? Like? Can?
I? I don't know. You can give it air holes, give him
speed holes that I don't think I'll give him the speed holes this time.
Yeah. Then I take cover behind the pup tent while I'm holding it.
Okay, you can basically just hold it and keep it sort of there.
You can potentially try and craft something to keep it in place, and you
can do something what no, I think I'm done? Okay, are Celia,
it's your turn. As the sphere comes wrenching back and slamming into my
hand, I will throw it again. Squirrel, scroll scroll scroll twenty twenty.
You don't have any bullshit on you, right, that's a regular.
It's just a flat twenty. Yes, that is a hit, all right.
It strikes for five piercing damage and an additional six damage as it's empowered.
You see the iridescent dust as it makes contact with the necrotic flesh begins
to burn. A light go sizzling and bubbling the necrotic flesh. The spirits
flies back towards you as it thunks into my hand. I throw it one
more time. Oh that's wrong, button. It should be negative five,
right too? That is another hit, and this is for nine plus six.
Ah, yes, okay, this time you hit it like through the
neck. Uh. You see this horrible like like viscous black like ichor like
like spreading down and you can see the red light and its eyes and mouth
start to like flicker and dim as it returns a third time. Here,
I will turn to Malvick. Malvic, we need to go now, yeah,
and I will use my last action to run back, jumping the way
that I came. Okay, Malvic, it's your turn. I'm going to
swing at it. Okay. Seventeen seventeen is a miss. The creature just
sort of sways back. As you try and do the equivalent of a slashing
haymaker to cleave it in two, it moves mhmm. Do it again.
It's twenty two. How do you kill it? Yes, I'm just tired
of his talking shit and whatever language is talking. And when I see the
light down, I'm gonna take my sword and I'm going to jab it straight
through his mouth. As before you do it, creature as sim bullshit.
It has a final spite. When you strike it, it simultaneously brings its
sword up towards you and we'll get in a final hit. But missus,
it swings its sword and just misses your neck. Malvic. As you bring
the blade down and sending this creature to whatever is next, I have one
more action and I am going to run back to the platform. It sprays
this picker up into the air as it sort of wobbles. If you've ever
seen Highlander. Like at the end of Highlander, when the head is gone,
kind of like walking around for a second swinging its sword and then falls
to the ground, you are out of combat. Oh, I get many
rounds as four rounds or four? Yes, you should heal a total of
sixteen. After that many rounds you give at least four from that one.
How much time? Hellaly, I've almost got it? Can I assist this
in any way? It almost got it? And to the state and not?
How much time do we have? With a lurch, the landscape blinks
back into the original jungle, clearing everything as before except the archway. The
gate's interior is now filled with a veil of white mist, through which a
simple stone chamber is faintly visible. Above the arch. The gate key sputters
and sparks, rusting into dust before your very eyes. Allelli, Yes,
Allelly, sweaty from effort, clings to the telescope with both arms, its
beams of light pointing steadily back in its original direction. Hurry, she says,
gesturing to the rapidly deteriorating key. I don't know how long it'll stay
open. She gives you a weary smile. And thank you for everything.
We will tell this story for generations. I stole the pup tent very quickly,
get it out of the way. I allow it. Thank you well.
Ready to go, goodbye, dear, I go through around rushes through
bye. I will gesture for the others to go. I will give a
nod in a small curtsy to Julie. May we meet again somewhere sometime you
will and I will step through. The questions were fun. I hope you
got the answer as you wished. Goodbye. There's always more questions. Go
ahead, really, I hope that you get back home safe. So why
and you as well? Okay, and I hold a hand out to Malvic.
Let's go together. I think I'll look back at the jungle in the
direction of lasciar Lure. I don't know now, look ahead, really,
I'll look down at the ground and I'll take it to your hand. I
tightened my fingers around yours, lacing together. Whatever is on the other side,
Balovic, we'll face it together. Mm hmm. Fine, no steps
there. But as I go through, I'll take the pedal that blew to
my hand in the tavern and I'll let it go on the platform It's a
final goodbye. As you let go Castravelle Vlasky Alua, the portal vanishes behind
you as the shade with her key crumbles to dust. The final moments of
this portal start with a flash of light and a faint popping sound, and
you stand before a woman in winter clothing heavy furs. She is emitting small
amount of light in a very dark chamber. It feels like you've just fallen
through a tunnel of multicolored light and reality has snapped back into place. The
chamber that appears before you is large, windowless and circular. Sorry, I
take that back, it's not windowless, because I couldn't find a map that
was a windowless. It's center almost entirely occupied by a massive mechanical telescope.
The telescope's far end hoax out of a wide rectangular gap and the domed ceiling
beyond which can be seen hundreds of stars in the night sky. The other
end of the telescope tapers down to a raised dais, from which a young
woman in heavy winter clothing descends. Oh bang, the stars. It worked.
Before she can say more, loud hard bangs issue from the other side
of a barred pair of wooden doors. Yeah, uh sis clarion, Yes,
yes it is. The girl's smile turns ry. As you can see,
I need help, m hm with what exactly? What is your name?
Who are you? I am Sakawachie. I have spliten with the others
on castrovel. I helped to guide them and you here, you could have
done a little bit of a better job. I think was that exactly easy?
Well, raiders h asleep. Stake my sword out. I just managed
to get into the observatory and bar the doors. It's the only way in
or out. It's just observatory. Is there any hell chemical ingredients here?
I might be able to simple. I don't know. I haven't had a
chance to look around. I will look around, Okay, I'll answer the
door. I guess I'll move an extra MALEVIC and ready back for them.
And to be honest, to be honest, I kind of wanted to see
if it seemed like she was being forthright with us, or if it seemed
like she was hiding anything. Make a perception check that I will reroll since
I will have an extra hero point at the end of the session sixteen.
From what you can tell, she looks scared. Probably is telling the truth
from what you can tell. And there's obviously somebody that's pretty mad outside mm
hmm that you want to say something. You want me too, I will
yell through the door. Halt, who goes there? Where's the Oh?
The doors up north? South? South? Got you? Okay, you
already moved on me. Oh they're way down there. Uh you yell towards
the doors. Uh, the banging does not stop. You hear some voices
beyond the door, you can run? Yea. Have I found anything in
here that I might be a bit use perception? Check the seven you guys?
Where am I? She said Glorian, So I suppose they're Yeah.
I mean it's it's kind of darken here, aside from the light that is
given off by sakuachi windows other windows. I would like to create a diversion.
I would like to toss some books out of one window to try to
create a diversion. Like we are escaping, which side I would like to
be side? I'm closest on this one. Okay. So there's a stairwell,
uh kind of leading up that way, but you can sort of launch
it over the railing or through the railing or something. I just had to
pick up a book, some sloppy book down here, toss it out the
window to try to create a diversion. All right, go ahead and make
am I'll say this is probably like a deception. Yeah, I think deception,
exception or performance. Okay, nineteen crash. You throw this book through
this window, and uh, someone's broken through a window. Shaky on the
side. So test more than one mm hmm. Okay, what I see?
Is that? What I see? I know it's the strangest question pretty
much. I mean, there's a lot of ruined stuff in here, in
a large telescope, specifically to the east, I see some things out a
window in my view. Mm hmm. All right, Ah, they're more
of the window over here. Do you want me to do something about that?
Do we have anything to barricade in here? Looking around? Eventually,
there are some like destroyed bits around this place. You can see some like
wood and stuff that's kind of half ruined. The doors to the north here,
there are sort of barred doors to the north. Can I take a
little peek through the keyhole or something to see if there's anyone here? Sure?
Like a perception check? Okay? Seventeen it doesn't look like there's anything
that way. Now, there is kind of like a deck sort of that
way that you can see. I will call it this to the woman,
is what is this way? Is there is this a viable escape route?
I do not sneak this way. I saw a deck of some kind.
I just barred the doors. I ran in here. I was being chased.
Well, let's go, let's go this way. We'll just sneak away.
I don't think so. It was a long way down. Did you
get account of how many? No? There? I guess light on my
staff by the way, which gives a twenty foot radius of light. There
is also one coming from Sakawachie. How many minutesots has been? Uh?
Probably two minutes since we did everything, not since the start of this.
I would say ten minutes has passed. Okay, I'm going to look at
our cea. I am going to are they standing right in front of the
door? You are not sure? It sounds like knocking at the ba on
the door. It sounds like I don't want to I just want to kick
the shout out his door and hopefully knock them with it. Okay, anything
to do? Yeah, yeah, I will hide I guess an armed fist
would work. It's a kick. Well, yeah, you can make an
unarmed strike. Basically, that's a natural one. Malevic, this door is
way more sturdy than you thought, you know, like he reverberates up your
leg. Sorry, I should have probably did that athletics. That's fine,
I'm sorry. We'll take the ones thought about that. Yeah, of course
you will, because athletics definitely wouldn't have been that. Okay, you still
had a plus nine dude, Yeah, it was also still natural one.
Yep. Yeah, yeah, it's true. So the kick of the door
sort of reverberates up your leg. You know, it's like when you when
you fall without your knees bent or something. It's that kind of a feeling.
And I would like everybody to select their tokens and please roll initiative because
of Rashtack. You're also doing some bullshit, yes I am. Oh oh
oh. That kind of lines with the fiction. Wow, we had two
natural twenties in this role. Very nice. How long does the ward lass
I have to sustain it? So I would have to recast and sustain it.
Okay, so I'm taking it off. Finally, the door gives way
and on the other side, you see two goblin like creatures. Okay,
let's see. I would like yeah, never mind, I'd like to pain
then I would I would like to withdraw a dagger. I feel like probably
is the only thing I have. You would have had time and now I
would like to road to domesticate a rashtock. Yes, it's your turn,
So I cast light before. Could you apply that so I can see on
this map? Sure? I also have my shield. Okay, you have
your shield, your your bullshit shield of lighty lady lighterson. Yes, my
light buckler. Okay, forget what the actual name of it is, glamorous
butler for a glamorous person. Okay, I think I already have that applied
for you. Great, all righty uh should be good now right around,
all right, I can thank you. Okay, so I can see that
the little face poking through the window. Yes, m m great. Well
we know they're hostile. So bugs begin to swirl around me. This is
fighting, oh a friend, if it decides to show up on stream,
there we go, perfect little dude. Yes, by the way, yeah,
my dude went to a kiss concert shield has a he bought that a
dread fair ah well, as bugs begin to bite me, taking a nice
disease with me to them. They begin to swirl and fly and find any
cracks in the windows and bite the face, looking in for a goblin box,
saving throats of nineteen. This is a dude, okay, yes and
nothing. That is all for my turn. Alrighty, we've had so many
krits today, Jesus, okay, is normal for you. Sakauchi will participate.
Uh, Sakauachi will cast some spells. Uh. First off, Sacawachi
will cast. We're gonna do bless probably on Malvic whild you give you a
plus one status bonus to your tack roles, isn't less on the castor and
a five foot radius you and your allies in the area. Oh yeah,
so yes, bless is cast. Sorry, that's why I didn't take it.
Okay, bless so she will rush up to hear and do blessed.
There we go, both of us, call three of us, get Sacawachie,
Arsilia and Malvic. Sorry, I'm just gonna move you for a second
here just so I can do. Oh look, there's a negative one on
my attack rules. Okay, Uh so there we go. Uh, that's
gonna be it for Soakawachi's turn, as she will, I think take cover
behind arsilia saca watchy hot. Would you like to see so watch? Yes,
yes please, it will determine a lot of things. It's very important
to my character. Oh hello, there you go protect at all costs.
M H set a plus one on its dart rules. Yes, okay,
uh yarrah, it's your turn. Oh so it is all right. So
I would like to assist in chipping away at the one that A Rashchuk has
already been attacking. Since Rashchuk is very much so by his loan, some
very squishy, and there is a window there. So I will go ahead
and I will wave my hand over the rapier that is at my side,
and I will cast needle darts forth towards one of the creatures or one of
the goblins for twenty nine to his Oh hold on, uh so a rashtak
windows closed? Dude? Oh so uh that's we'll say, that's how the
create happened. But you Yara are going to shoot your needle dirts out that
way? Is that a regular success or a critical success? With a twenty
nine? Checking? That is a regular success? Very good? All right?
So that will be ten points of piercing damage and you just see bits
of the window. Just break apart and lance out and strike this creature in
the face. Very good, And with that, I will be taking position
in front of a rash talk to hopefully take whatever eya they intend to throw
his way, and that will be my turn. Oh why did this not
get recorded correctly? Okay, that's a mistake. Sorry, I need to
make some adjustments here. I changed something and it did not apply. Alrighty,
that's important. Okay, that's it for your turn you ah, yes,
indeed, Malvic, it's your turn. As the door open, door
is open. Yes, they broke it. Okay, Mmmm, I'm going
to step. Are they in the doorway or are they in front of the
doorway front? You would not be able to diagonal from where you are.
I got you, Okay, I'm going to would I do best? I'm
going to rage, and I am going to you very cornic rage. Four
of this damage will be wait what did I go through? Oh? There
it is, Yes, I did a twenty four. Okay, twenty four
is a hit. Four of that damage is fire damage. Okay, NOPs,
wrong, one eventually got it only took three tries. All right,
you bring the sword down, sliced heady. These are larger than regular goblin
goblins. You would probably recognize that this is a hobcom one m especially Marzelia,
and I will continue to strike. All ten is a mys. This
time the creature sort of brings up, brings up its sword and just kind
of parries the strike. All right, and then I will attempt to grab
at this creature. Okay, let it's shirt twenty three. That is a
success. Okay, it will be the end of my time. Karun.
Karun is nervously eating in the corner. I don't like it. Just a
nervous, nervous eating. Is there anything I can discern about the massive piece
of machinery? Beck, Yeah, this tetoscope? Sure? What would you
like to discern about it? I would like to know if there's anything I
can do with it. I mean, I think you know what a telescope
is. You don't really have to roll for that. Is it just a
telescope? Is there anything else about it? Uh? You can make a
perception check, that was right, Not a crafting check, definitely not.
That's my second that's my second natural twenty for a perception in the row.
It's a cridfest today. It's crazy. So uh karoun you do notice something
that this telescope is large enough and is angled in such a way that if
you wanted to, this is a means of escape from this place. Ah
do I know to where? For now? Just outside? Do I know
the function of this means of escape? And what method would be escaping the
telescope? Oh? Just climbing it. It's pointing like up through a hole
in the ceiling, in a domed ceiling, like in an observatory, and
it's never been like retracted. I see you're pointing up and you could like
climb out onto the dome and get out that way if you want to,
very well, I will. I will then sort of sneak back to the
party and I will say to the listen, listen, there's a there's a
point of egress here at the top of the telescope. We could get away
this way, perhaps in secret. Ah okay, all right, good to
know. I would like to begin the ascent. Sure athletics check. Oh
no, okay, you're it's sort of doing that thing with somebody that can't
climb the rope and gym class. You know, you like grab on and
just slide down, you know, like it looked like somebody that's like tried
to hug a wall just slide down. Is there anyway I could craft some
kind of an apparatus to climb this thing? I have a doubt that you
could do such a thing, but that definitely takes some time and you have
no actions remaining. All right, then that's what I'll do next. That's
my turn. Okay, our Celia, it's your turn. How much do
I know exactly about hobgoblins? Yeah? You can make a role for me,
all right, let's find out. I would like to also just remind
our magnificent yem that I am part of the Urger tribe and I served in
the war. I'm so sorry. What role did you want me to?
Do? You have any or regarding them that might be effective? Otherwise it
would be nature. I will go with nature. Oh wait, esoteric is
on creatures? Oh do esoteric? If that's okay? Sure that's a crit
for thirty one. Yeah. So hobgoblins may appear to outsiders to be the
most civilized of goblin kind, but their civilization is hardly one of kindness and
equality. Instead, they revel in all that is militaristic, tyrannical, cruel,
and destructive. Hobgoblins are singularly devoted to war, and their entire culture
is built upon fostering and maintaining conflict while simultaneously proving their superiority in battle.
Hobgoblins are highly organized, and they work efficiently and effectively in groups, whether
that group is a small rating party, a roving war band, or a
fully regimented army. Hobgoblin rulers require little provocation before declaring war, and more
often than not, such wars are waged to gain slaves or territory. Physically,
hobgoblins stand about as tall as humans and have gray ash and skin.
Very good? Would I know from being in the war that hobgoblin bans usually
have a leader with them the hierarchy the way a rating party might move.
Absolutely? Do either of the creatures in front of us look like they might
be the leader? Nope? Okay, very good? Do I know if
hobgoblin speak orc? You definitely know that they speak Goblin? Very good?
That case, I will for my Would you count that as as an action?
Is that? Is that free? That is an action? Yeah,
no, I'm going to say that's free. All right, very good first
action. I will exploit vulnerability, okay, so I'll do another esoteric role
for that, so thirteen all right, even with a fail, I will
use my personal antithesis, so that will be specifically on the one in front
of me. I begin to ready my weapon, and malevic, you can
see me reaching into my pouch as I pull out a small vial. I
pushed the cork off and it appears that I begin to see mere blood on
my spear, and I look the hobgoblin in front of me, dead in
the eyes, hobgoblin blood for those that I've slain before. And I will
use my second action to attack. Wow, that sucks. That's a not
one for a ten. Yeah, you strike and you see the superior sword
skills of the goblin sort of battery or spear away before you even able to
take a proper stance. I try to recover and I swing up with a
spear trying to attack again. Or fifteen That is another harried blow from this
goblin. Oh right, these are actually with a plus one because of the
bless right, So that'd be a sixteen if that matters. Okay, very
good. That will be the end of my turn. Okay, the hobgoblins.
Okay, you're going to hear the goblins. Does anyone speak Goblin?
Nope? Okay, you hear the goblins sort of, uh, sort of
yelling in their native language. And the one up here will dive through the
window and fail miserably. Uh. They sort of like batter into the wooden
frame of the window, just like uh rubbing his head. Uh. And
we'll try it again. I'll turn to a rass talk. Did we not
just fucking make a hole for them? Are they not stupid? There's like
there's like a wooden cross, you know, that held the window panes in
and they just haven't like bashed through it. Then finally butting it. This
one is going to just give up and try and hit it with the long
stord and fucking just it looks like some ship out of an anime. Like
there's like three three quick slashes. Nothing happens for a second, and then
the window like you know, slides apart, like falls apart and just crumples
to the ground. That's a problem. Then the next one, the next
one will make it through and will rush towards you yarra, and will then
attack with its long sword eighteen a hit that matches my ac since I do
not have my shield at the moment. Up. Okay, this will be
for eleven slashing damage all right, and its last action another attack with its
long sword is a mess with a nine. This time you are able to
spin out of the way here y area, and it strikes this dilapidated piece
of wood nearby one in front of the doors to the south. First will
strike at you are celia. Uh long short attack twenty six to hit that
will hit seen slashing damage. And then a second second action will be to
do an intimidating glare upon you. It can try. It's a ten.
A spit in its face for free to be a will save I believe.
Ah uh hold this bit, hold on, let me roll first. Yeah,
I spin his face. Yeah, nobody's this guy's not intimidating in the
least. Looks at you just kind of growl back. This this hobgoblin is
your average human size year up there someplace, and uh it will try and
strike with uh its last action natural one on that one. Yeah, I
think, uh it's a little scared of you as it goes in for this
last attack and it misses, hitting the frame near you. Last one will
try to hit you malevik thirteen hit is a miss. You parry with your
great sword, blocking it and spinning as this creature sort of throws its sword
into its other hand and then strikes for the twenty one make it break it.
It's you for eight slashing damage. This time it's you damage because it
took my ten points, okay, and then it's last attack is a natural
one. This time you probably just like step on its foot or something as
it's about to strike, and it just oh, either way, which one
is attacking me? The one in front of me? Yes, it is
grappled. Oh that's correct. I'm sorry. I forgot. I'm sorry.
The other one attacking you? Sorry? Sorry. Uh, it's not like
it matters very much except for that first attack. So I can like try
to shake free or okay, restrained equals. Let's have one freehand. Does
it have a shielding sword in hand or is it just a sword? You
have to have one freehand to grab it. So right now you can't use
your great sword. Uh? Do you flat footed and immobilized? You can't
use any actions of the attack or manipulate traits except to attempt to escape or
force open your bonds. Okay, so so there was eight eight? How
much ta w was that? Eight? Uh? Yeah? So six?
Let's see here, I'm just seeing I thought that would be okay, I'm
just gonna roll, I guess to see if it would have broken it.
We'll just do one roll. How's that a twenty versus what uh if you
have to roll your athletics? Okay, okay, so no damage. Basically,
its turn was effectively used. All right, A rash tak, it's
your turn, Yes, it is all right. Mm hmm. I'm going
to step back and have bugs begin to form around my hands as I hope
to have buzzing bites affect the closest hobgoblin here, bugs begin to bite and
gnaw him from all directions. It must make a fortitude save of nineteen.
Gotcha. Well see what happens twenty three? All right, so it takes
half damage three damage. Bugs sort of swarm all around you, yarra and
just pass right past you. Your hair probably like shoots forward as they do
this, and someone like get caught in your hair, and all right,
silence, fly right past you in thirty runs. Okay, that's all.
However, I will note before I forget no more fort saves can be made
against this spell as I sustain it. I sustain it for an action.
It takes three damage regardless. Gotcha? That is it? Okay, Sakawachi,
Well let's see here, Bless is staying up. Ah. Okay,
Sakawachi's gonna just kind of take cover and stay behind you guys, yarrah,
it's your turn, wonderful. I will raise my shield and utilize the free
action that allows me to go ahead and faint. This creature must go ahead
and beat a deception check that I roll it rolled. But I'm going to
re roll that, so I would just roll it as a deception here and
spend my hero point where are you deception? And that is going to be
a plus one to this, So that is a sixteen that it must beat.
Okay, and this is against the perception diiculty. Okay, that is
a failure. It doesn't roll. It's just got a static number. Gotcha.
So that's a failure on my end. Okay, all right, that
expends my daily use. Well, shit, I will reach out a hand
and necrotic energy in the form of a deep blue mist will spawn from my
hand as I cast chill touch on this on this goblin, it must beat
a fortitude saving throw of twenty. Okay, that is a fail. That
is a crit fail, is it not. Oh yeah, it's a twenty
yeah, yeah, absolutely crit fail. Excellent. So they will go ahead
and be unfeebled one and they will take double the damage, which would be
eighteen points of damage. Okay, dokey ah, wonderful. That is my
turn. Sorry, I need to do some math. Uh okay uh.
This chill touch grabs inside the the hobgoblin and they sort of like look down
see this ethereal hand like clutching their inside for a second, and there's just
this like necrosis that kind of spreads out a little bit from the area that
that happens. You can see some of the armor start to like discolor in
that area as that's going on. And is that it for your turn?
Yes? Indeed, that is it. Okay, Malvic, it is your
turn. Still crappling this creature, I'm going to hunt it writtempt to hit
it with my fist. Okay, this will be only a regular race,
no fire twenty five. That is a hit. I'll keep doing it another
twenty five okay, too quick, shit Uh punches directly to the face,
bloodying this creature's nose and lips. Mmmm, oh my file, and might
as well keep going. Two. That is a miss. Last time on
this attack. The creature sort of shakes its head and probably just like lowers
its forehead, So you punch its helmet like ahm, be still subtrale faith
with you, Karun, it's your turn. I noticed that there are these
two feeble creatures trying to gain entrance to this place, and one of them
is very bitten with bugs. And so Karun will, from the dark and
spooky shadows of this place, take a deep, terrifying breath and begin to
say, into this for satan place, only you who wish to forfeit your
lives, your children, your wives, for pest Distresshold your very souls belong
to us. We have killed creatures from every plane and slain ancient and dangerous
foes, and laughter their feeble attempts to survive a bend in all hope you
enter this our domain. Holy crap, Karoon. Okay, so I'm assuming
you're aiming this towards these two that's right, okay, and make an intimidation
check now, so let's give you a hero point booop. Alrighty, let's
see in nineteen is a success. They are both right, and I believe.
Hold on, actually, let me see what coerce is coerce Oh no,
because this isn't really the same thing, of course, uh, attitude's
reference in the v similar summaries. Okay, so you can see them kind
of like look around a bit wildly, as they say in common quickly get
narc causa narcisa uh, and it looks like they are trying to flee.
Good. I will then pick up one of these books and try to understand
it. M. You can already tell the book is destroyed like this.
This is yeah, it's been it's been destroyed for a long time. It
just kind of like falls apart as you try to pick it up. Then
I will continue crafting my climbing apparatus. Okay, Uh, it's going swimmingly.
It's gonna take you some time, now, that's fine. I have
making a ladder. Essentially, I know a lot of knots. I had
imagined you were just using the scrap pieces of wood around to just like fashion
a ladder, just like t take a hammer out like nails in her mouth
like one of those little egg beater looking screwdrivers. Uh are, Celia,
it's your turn. Very good. I would like to exploit vulnerability on the
Hobgoblin that is restrained by Malevic. Uh so, that's gonna be a nineteen
mm hm, which is probably a fail. This is actually gonna be very
close. Okay, that is a success. All right, very good.
I learn if it has of its highest weakness has one, it does not
have a weakness. Okay, that's fine. My personal antithesis will move to
this one, and essentially what happens is I wheel around and I will try
to slam my spear into this one as it is in Malevic's grasp. Spear,
Yeabby, where's my You're aiming for the one that Malvic is holding.
Yes, okay, twenty one. That is a hit. All right,
very good. It'll take eight piercing damage plus an additional six. How do
you kill it? I stab it right in the heart. It bubbles up
blood in its mouth and sports spells over its lid. From I like to
imagine the hobgoblin blood is running down the link of the spear coating my hand.
I will yank it out and wheel around to stab the other one.
It does not have a pers line, this is, but it is empowered.
Hold on, that's should be a minus five my bad. Twelve plus
four sixteen oki doki? Uh twelve, I'm sorry, twelve plus what so
a sixteen to hit sixteen a hit is a miss? Very good? I
think the creature, the hobgoblin, just kind of raises its sword up and
deflects the blow as you tay, that'll be my turn, okay, hobgoblins.
The one that is right next to you, you area, is going
to fuck off and run. You can see it sort of trying to swat
away at these bugs. It's got all these like little bumps on its face,
you know, from all the stings, because that's like the only area
that's kind of like not exposed, as well as its hands. Really everything
else is like covered in armor, so its face is just like getting all
these little bug bites all over it. And yeah, it just kind of
jumps back out the window. And these two are essentially going to disengage the
combat. You hear them running off and yelling Marguza Margiza Rgisa the two in
the doorway. The one in your hand, Malevic just kind of slumps until
it's dead. The other one in front of Arcilia will continue to swing its
sword at Arcilia for twenty two hit. I will hitch for eleven slashing damage.
A second attack, ooh, that's a crit for twenty slashing damage.
I will use my reaction to lift up my amulet to reduce the damage by
six. Okay, so that will be fourteen instead of the twenty, and
its last attack an eighteen hit miss. That was a good damage to close.
This one just barely misses, ar Cilia. You kind of just sway
out of the way. Part of your clothing probably gets ripped. As the
sword strikes through and misses. This last attack, you see the hobgoblins sort
of like looking around waiting for more goblins to chime in, sort of looking
around realizing he's all alone. A rashtak seeing that the bugs returned to me
from wherever that one ran to and begin biting me again, and fly out
to Cilia four hp for four rounds as they bite you, but it's not
too bad. On your turn, gain four hp. All right, Arcilia
doesn't mind being bit it's fine. And then that last one, well if
it and broke, don't fix it. Raying of frosting for a critical hit
on the one there for sixteen. Also it takes a ten foot status penalty
for speed on its next round. The ice begins to spread across the creature,
who's probably like in the midst of winding up for another attack. You
hit it like probably like in the armpit area, just like a pinpoint strike
past Sakawachi, past Arcilia, threading the needle, yelps in pain. That
is all I do. Not a bad turn. Uh, Sakawachi will remain
where she is. Do you just feel this like constant hum blessing emanating from
Sakawashi this whole time? All right, it's your turn. Oh, this
thing just hit Heartilia pretty hard. So I will be rushing forward and imbuing
some of the salves that I have with some of my healing energy, I
should be able to get to her within one one round or one turn here.
So I will do so, and I will go ahead, and I
will utilize my battle medicine. Hate to be jerk here, but I'm gonna
say it's gonna take you two turns to get there because there's a bunch of
shit on the floor and there's gonna oh that was blocking it, but a
little bit of difficult terrain there. I think that also looks like a bath,
gotcha, okay, okay, sore, dilapidated, but it's just kind
of like it's it's difficult. Okay. Yeah, then I will be utilizing
my treat wounds trained without assurance. That's a thirty, so that's going to
be a crypt so that will be forty eight. Another two D eight,
so you will get h eight points of healing total. And that is my
ton malvic. The other one is frozen or like it's arms in the midst
of growing ice. So I'm going there's just an ice. That's a patch
of ice. That's I'm going to look at that one and smile, and
I want to throw the body of this dead one at it. Sure,
I'm gonna say, this is like an improvised weapon, so make an unarmed
strike and you've got a penalty on this basically nineteen. Yeah, you do
hit him with the body, but it's like you don't get good leverage with
it. It definitely makes like an impact but doesn't seem to be any significant
reaction. Does it push him back or push them to the side. Okay,
that was my goal, all right, then I will use an action
too. Oh not the door, so behind it. In my second campaign
that I ever ran, which was a The D and D actually maybe might
have been third, I did the Lost Mine of Fan Delver, and one
of my players at the time, Dual, wielded dead goblins as weapons because
he rolled two natural twenties in a row for like athletics checks to do it.
I'm like, okay, I gotta do it. And I'm like,
you're proficient and fucking wielding dead goblins now goblin chuck yep, And it was
fantastic. So this just had me flashback. That was great. I am
behind it, which makes it flat footed. I will well, actually wait,
no, I can't do that because I would have to take out my
grade sort. So I will take out my grape sword as and auctions as
too, and then I will slash at it from the door. So be
with four or five damage just a crint. How do you kill them?
I didn't obliterated, so I say, you get hurt. It mocked her,
and that just then gave me more rage, and I cut at it
a multiple time. Well it looks like multiple times. So it's just one
slash that this body piece a slight and different directions, and blood splatters all
over our city of spoops. You're effectively out of combat for the moment.
They were calling for someone as possible as their leader. They were running and
calling for someone. We should prepare for another. I have made the climbing
apterrettus if anyone would like to climb out of this place with me. Karun
has a sick looking ladder like it's it looks super sturdy like it's it's one
of those like she's made of a wooden folding ladder. I don't want to
chote my own horn, but this is the sturdiest thing in the room.
At the moment that fold it does, you could put that in a bag
of holding. After this, you could could that. That's very nice.
It's not retractable. But it's like a folding ladder. We'll say it's like
a it's like a ten foot ladder. We'll say it's like a ten foot
ladder. Sick, I've done better. They will be back. Bob Goblins,
do not stop. All right, let's barricade these windows. Then I
thought we were leaving and I'm going to loot these bodies, or at least
the one in front of me. I'm climbing. Heay. I was going
to say, whilst everyone is barricading things, I would definitely like to treat
our Celia because she looks like shit. As I'm bleeding, I raise up
a hand and I'd like to gently push the woman Saskia sasco WATCHI sasco watch.
I would like to gently push her back towards the center of the room.
We need to keep you safe. As you do this, please make
a perception check for me yet twenty. As you do this, you notice
familiar symbol on Sakawachi's hand inside of her palm. It is the symbol that
you all have on your neck. You bear the mark. I wipe blood
from my throat to emphasize I saw this in a dream the elder sas you
described it on my palm for protection. How do you have this texture?
Not from all things? We all have it? Maleviki can make a perception
check. Each Hobgoblin carries following of two of each of these ey had armor,
long sword, short bow for a grand total for both of them,
twenty arrows and a wooden shield each. The twenty arrows is for both as
it forty arrows twenty total. Okay, and roll me a d twenty malvic
find fourteen gold. Yes. A lot of times the telescopes such as this
one contain removable lenses for the eyepieces. Is this one such telescope you get
craft in check Brune sets to disassemble various components from this telescope at the base
you you remove like the eyepiece, look through the telescope very good, and
a lens inside of it. Yes, m hmm. Wait, this is
the telescope that boughts back right, just as I just want to make sure
that you know what you're doing it. Okay, if anyone knows what they're
doing with this thing, it's it's me. We're going to take the eyepiece
and the lens in it, and I would like to fashion a spy glass
at some point, but before I do, I will continue climbing up the
telescope to escape. Okay, absolutely, I think this is what alchemists do
well, is just kind of sort of improvised various bits and craft things.
I mean, you've got a sick crafting role, so I'm all for it.
I think it's a great idea. So is that our plan? Are
we are we leaving instead of taking care of leading orifices. I have my
medical equipment in hand at the moment. Or climb. I can walk,
I can climb, I can fight. But they will be back. Mm
hmm. You should take a leave to read when we get to a place
that's safe. Fair enough, all right, I will put my stuff away
and I will begin to climb. Okay, watch over, uh stay behind
you. You have a spectacular ladder to assist you climb. You do not
have to make any checks to do. So you climb the ladder and you
begin to make your way up. It's very easy. Each of you climbing
the ladder begin to look out across this new place. Sakawachie says, as
you climb this, this SkyWatch and I know we've done a role for this
before. I can't remember what the results were and who succeeded and who failed,
but I think that there were some successes. I remember correctly, rash
talk got a banana's high roll like a crit or something. I remember one
person had a really good role. I had an the cultism role to her
or no, it's a laurel about the whale. So if this is related
to it, maybe there was an independent role for SkyWatch previously. I think
this was one you're thinking of, Yeah, this is this is Sakawachie.
When Sakawachi was originally brought up, there was a role about SkyWatch. I
think that was a Celia. Yeah, it's I think it was me because
we've found out about them and that. Yeah, I think that was you
ot to see it. Yeah, I don't remember what the role was.
It's very good, I think because we got their name. So in forty
six ninety nine ar every member of the House Rogarvia disappeared and SkyWatch sealed itself
off from all outsiders, including supply caravans. Since that day, no message
sent to SkyWatch has received a response, and even powerful divination magic has failed
to penetrate the city's ancient walls. For years, mages and scholars have attempted
to bypass the seal, but were wholly unsuccessful. Very recently, these wards
disappeared and these city gates open, and now here you are looking out seeing
this place which is fairly well kept, recently cared for. We see any
signs of life around, giving a perception check, particularly those goblins. Are
any incoming goblins? I will be crifting a spy glass. That'll probably take
you a while. That's a bit finer work there. Career right, and
uh them'll that'll probably be a series of roles. Yeah, the twenty six
are celia. You see that there are definitely things moving about in the streets.
You see more goblins moving about. You see other groups moving about,
humanoid in shape. You see creatures moving about the streets. It appears that
this is untanged territory. Now look there, you can see bands. There's
another hobgoblin more band there can't tell what that is is moving on four legs.
That's did they move in after this? Able to enter? Oh?
Have they been here for a very long time? Probably not very long if
it still looks relatively preserved. M. Sakawachi speaks up and says, there
are various mercenaries and others that are trying to loot this place. I have
four guides that are with me, made their way here. There are some
sort of thing wrong with this place. And as you hear this from Sakawachi
Arciia. Things begin to get a little strange when you look back to a
location you've seen already. The streets don't seem like they're in the same place.
They've moved, and the twists and turns have changed eight something. Yeah,
I think I've lost a lot of blood. It's that's a street different.
Now. Look over there, just where I pointed. Now there's an
extra stable that wasn't there before. I think, yeah, illusions, perhaps
something else? Hm uh, takawachie. Is it possible that the city is
changing on itself? I believe it is some sort of magical aura. It
makes navigating the streets during the day all but impossible. They were separated.
I don't know where they are now. You just said doing the day would
at night then the usual that you can imagine. There are creatures here,
beyond the mercenaries, beyond the goblins. I have seen strange things. Do
you know if any place we might be able to retreat to you to lick
our wounds before trying and finding whoever it is you're looking for. I know
of one place, but it will be hard to find, all right.
Would you be able to guide us there in any way, shape or form.
I can try, but we've already been lost once. Right, Perhaps
for now we have better chance of sticking put like owns here, yes,
up here, on top of you. But we could go. We could
go back inside and retreat out this way again if need be, If that
is preferred to be inside. It is quite cold. Mm hmm, it's
very cold. Not to me sue them. You can try to fortify the
door, the window. There are bookshelves that could be moved by karoon.
Is like taking off little pieces of clothing the man. It's nice up mm
hmmm, mm hmm. Really, my teeth are chattering. You're the cold.
That's great, comfortable m about being inside. We started moving. It's
gonna go ahead and start getting to work, having had a proper rest in
a while. So I'm just I'm gonna start moving bookshelves, looking for people
to tell me where to put them. Is there in this snow on the
roof at all or ice? Yes, definitely. I would like to collect
some for drinking water later. Okay, as we get back down, I
will collapse and begin to peel back my armor of para. All right,
I will begin to treat her wounds. At an expert level that is a
thirty, so that's a critical. So I will roll two more D eight.
They should be adding the fifteen. Yes, perfect, because I get
an additional five from my medic dedication, so that will be twenty eight points
of healing over ten minutes. Who do not forget our Celia. The life
boost I gave you very good. I'm back at maas wonderful. I will
spend the right of my time refocusing unless anyone else needs my assistance. I'm
just moving stuff waiting for me. They tell me where I would just be
pointing at windows. Karun has fashioned a little hammock by the telescope, and
it's now just curling up with a little bottle of ice water. If I
see this on me piste, so make sure that I just keep working.
Karun is having a little sleep, a little Karun sleep. I'm setting up
camp. Okay. I would like to ask questions of our newest companion.
You spoke of an elder who gave you this mark? Can you tell us
more about it? We don't know how we got it, says you,
says you. He is my elder. I have been sent on a holy
quest. He is my grandfather. I volunteered with me four of my companions,
Denigi the Hunter, my guide, Numa the storyteller, Hammock, and
the navigator u Lekuk. We took a solemn vow to return to our homeland
with a sacrificial God. Hello. This is Why Stephen from Table Story.
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