(Daggerheart): Dat World! Crew of the Hedgehog - Episode 1: Duncle Needs a New Attraction

[00:00:01] From the town of Badaxe, you can see Hagar's dark, nestled in the mist and cold water, shadowed only by the surrounding coastal mountains of Ironbeard Inlet. A crawling dungeon now still, slumbering perhaps, piercing the tide up to the heavens and exuding mystery, mist, and strangers to these strange lands.

[00:00:24] But enough about local history. These are the tales of some folk who hail from this strange, mysterious rural region. The Crew of the Hedgehog. It's not dis world, it's dat world. This is DJ Architect, signing out. Hi, welcome to One Less Die, a Daggerheart actual play podcast. We are trying out Daggerheart and we are currently in an RV in New Breswick.

[00:00:54] Special on location episode from the farm. Yeah. So yeah, let's go around the table and introduce characters, starting on my left. Or, front, left. Merit. Hi, I'm Merit. I'm playing Antioch. He's a order-born clanker with the Divine Wielder subclass, Sephiroth. Um, yeah. Okay.

[00:01:23] I'm Jordan, playing Ivar, a faun with the heritage of Slyborn, the subclass of Nightwalker. Okay. And I'm playing Puck. That is Aaron, by the way. And I am a wizard. You should know by now, Chris, I never say my name. I know. Never say my name. And I am a wizard. Uh, I'm a lore-born wizard, uh, half goblin, half, uh, halfling.

[00:01:52] So, uh, we, I'm a goblet. Yep. Um, apparently I have a twin sister, and she's a, uh, a hoblin. Yep. And, uh, yeah, this is, uh, gonna be set in Datworld, because it's my silly... Because it's not Disworld. It's not Disworld, it's Datworld. And it's my silly, uh, kitchen sink fantasy world. Uh, and yeah, you guys are in the...

[00:02:19] Uh, so you guys are up in the northern, Lordern Mountains, uh, region, where it's, uh, snowy mountains, uh, snowy mountain peaks and, uh, deep pine valleys and such. Uh, there's a, a large inlet sea of sorts, um, that your, that the town you guys are currently in, uh, reside, uh, like, is on its shores. Um, and that town is called Bad Axe. Um, one thing to note, uh, I think I told you guys last night, uh, the, when we were making

[00:02:49] characters, um, so in this world, there are things called crawling dungeons. They're massive architectural organisms that burst out of the ground, and people and adventurers kind of become prospectors as they just rush in, like, deal with shit and steal whatever's there and then get out before they usually leave. Uh, though some of these, uh, these, uh, crawling dungeons don't leave. They stay put in for years or even centuries. Uh, and one such thing is near Bad Axe.

[00:03:18] It's the, uh, Hagar's Dart, uh, which came out, uh, which pierced the ocean, uh, pierced the inlet, um, about a hundred years ago and started depositing new races and creatures and stuff into the world. Um, however, uh, it's, that's caused a boom in, in the town of Bad Axe, uh, which made opportunity, or made a lot of, uh, gave a lot of opportunists a chance to, uh, leech off of adventurers and such.

[00:03:48] Uh, and one such of those is Duncle Zan. Uh, Dungeon Uncle Zan and his creepy crypt. Uh, he is a sniveling, creepy, greasy, red, uh, Dracona or Dragonborn-esque individual. Um, like, rail thin, greasy as hell, eye patch. Um, and, uh, he, he has a, the crypt is effectively a dungeon in name only. Um, it's, it's a tourist trap.

[00:04:18] Uh, he lures in would-be adventurers thinking that they're actually going into a crawling dungeon and then really it's just, they beat up some monsters, get some kind of like cheap loot that he's found. And then, uh, he, he's actually, uh, like leeched money off of them for going into the, into this dungeon. Uh, so, I've got a question for you guys, uh, individually. Uh, starting off with Merit.

[00:04:45] How do you know Duncle Zan and what, uh, why do you owe him a favor? He managed to acquire one of the relics I need. He got it off of one of the, uh, one of the, one of the adventurers used as collateral. One of my idiot comrades, yes. All right. He shouldn't have an easy smuggling route. That's fair.

[00:05:13] As a skeezy little dragonborn creature, yeah. He would know. Yep. And you, Sir Gobbit? I had read stories about this fucking badass, super old, ancient, powerful dragon named Duncle Zan. And I thought it was the same dude. I thought he was going to be able to lead me in the right direction to figure out the source of magic.

[00:05:43] How'd that turn out? It did not. I'm here. I was very disappointed. Yeah, you guys are kind of just commiserating, I guess, in the, uh, in the local tavern, the local watering hole with Bad Axe. Um, uh, what is the, what are we, what are we gonna name this tavern, this watering hole? What is the place? The Chipped Edge. I, yeah. The Chipped Edge.

[00:06:12] So, you guys are all like sitting there, uh, you guys all know each other in some capacity. Fucking elephants. Yeah. There's an elephant in the room. Yeah. You guys are all kind of commiserating in, uh, in the, the Chipped Edge. Um, so, yeah, how do you guys know each other? Cause I think you have that on your character. I don't actually have that written down. You didn't write down like that? I'm not sure how I know these guys, but I've been working with them for a while. Okay.

[00:06:41] I mean, I happened to know Aaron through convincing him to help me with some business. Which really only happened because our sisters are apparently lovers. Well. Their sisters are dating and they're part of a, uh, the, uh, the, uh, legendary national activist, uh, group. Well, effectively he had overheard his sister talking to my sister about how shitty I am as a person.

[00:07:08] Which only piqued Aaron's interest even more into who I was. Yeah. Cause you know, they have, they must at least be interesting. They're terrible judges in character, so obviously I had to give the guy a shot. Yeah. I had to give the guy a shot. Haha! Wrong setting. Oh. Oh. Ethan, where's? You should go back to that one. Yeah. I had a, I had a, I think gonna fuck up the whole place. Yeah.

[00:07:32] I had an adventure planned for, um, uh, for the B team, uh, but I, I just could not sit, like, sit down and read it for, for this weekend, so. But, that's why we're doing this. Also then Daggerfall came out, so. Or Daggerheart, not Daggerfall. Daggerfall's... Something else. That's, that's Elder Scrolls. Is it? Yeah, that's, uh, that's one of the locations, yeah. Um, but yeah, so you guys are commiserating in the Chipped Edge, um, over the things that

[00:07:57] you like, that you got, like, the, the favor that you all owe Dunkelzan, uh, was like, probably in the last couple weeks. Um, and, that's why as you guys are commiserating, that's when, like, two, three tankards come down on the, on the table, and lo and behold, the scuzzy red drake himself is there, and they're like, hey guys, how you going? How you doing? Looks at you guys all, like, very, like, shit-eating grin.

[00:08:26] Um, my mechanical face doesn't really emote, but you can tell I'm just giving him a death glare. Yeah. You're pretty sure, like, he mockingly gave you that tankard because he's gonna drink that? Yeah. I don't even acknowledge that he's there. What does God, what does, what does Puck do? How does he react? I have made exactly the same advancements in my studies that I had before we ever met.

[00:08:56] Great, great, that's good to hear. Yeah. You're as bright as a beanpole, aren't you? I'm brighter than the adventurers I just, I just leeched off of, again. Actually, that's why I'm here. I'm here to call in those three, those favors of yours, I have from all of you guys. See, the last adventurers, well, they killed, they killed the bulk of my attractions down in the crypt.

[00:09:21] So, uh, I need you all to go and hunt down something and bring it back. Live, preferably, but if you're not, I mean, I got a contact with the Necromancers Guild. I can get it resurrected if you guys bring me the body. Uh, it's your choice, I mean, something, something big, something dumb, something scary. Maybe some, some animated skeletons on the side. So you mean you and your cousins? Ha ha! Yeah.

[00:09:50] He looks so, he just, he takes a drink of his tankard. Ha ha! Well, um, I mean, you guys know that there's like tons of caves and, uh, and, uh, and dens of things out in those, out in them hills. So, uh, I'll let you figure out what, what you're bringing back, but make it good and we're, we'll call it square, we'll call it even. Do we have an accord? Mmmmm. Yeah, we need incidentals though. Oh? Obviously pay.

[00:10:16] Oh yeah, you guys, oh, you guys can loot whatever's in those, in the, in whatever layer or den, you guys find. I just need the, I just need the creature. Okay. It's far more lucrative to have a dungeon, uh, a, a, a fungeon as it were, a fake dungeon that, uh, that has fun. A fun dungeon? Yeah. No, no, it's a fake dungeon, it's fungeon. So wouldn't it save you money if we brought it in alive? It would save me money. So shouldn't we get paid more if it's alive?

[00:10:45] Tell you what, on top of, if you bring, bring whatever you get alive, except for the skeletons, obviously those can get, I have to get those animated. But, if you can bring something back alive, I'll throw in a hundred coin. Alright, we're just gonna look at the others and see what they think. A hundred coin? That's, that's not bad. That's, that's for all of you. Not, you should be. I understand. This is not Shadowrun. Yeah, no, this, yeah. Your terms are acceptable.

[00:11:17] Alright. Well, uh, to finish off his drinks, I got some, uh, clean up to do. I gotta get the, the refuse out of the crypt, so I look forward to seeing you. You have a couple of days. So, for the next, uh, before I hear the next group of adventurers is coming into town. So, uh, and yeah, he just kind of slinks off. Like the worm he is. W-Y-R-M. Yeah, I know, I know.

[00:11:47] We suddenly just made a lot of people thirsty. I wanted to wait for the break there. I was like, ah, okay, good. Again, I appreciate that. Um, yeah, so here's the thing. Uh, you guys can, uh, all might have, um, uh, some knowledge on like, on what is a viable idea. Um, so, let's see about a roll for this. Um. This adventure is already making me regret one of my choices.

[00:12:18] Uh oh. If I didn't pick pick and pull, I could've picked contact, and I could've just talked to somebody in town who would've known where to find something. Yeah. Oh, well. Maybe pick and pull a common handy when we get in the dungeon. Well, you are a pirate, right? Yeah, cool. So, I actually have something for that. Um, everybody starts with, uh, with two hope. But you actually start with a third one because of me. Also, uh, remember to roll for your, uh, your, your prayer dice. Um, Antioch.

[00:12:47] It's Antioch, right? Not Antioch. Yeah, Antioch. Yeah. That's a one. Wait, with three hope, I can actually use that to get a plus two to my evasion until either attack hits me or I just go to sleep. That'll be your soul if somebody tries to fucking kill you. Yeah. Because I already get a plus one to evasion because of my armor, so that'd be a plus three to evasion. Well, my trait that I took as being half-halfling is, uh, Luckbringer.

[00:13:16] So, at the start of each session, everyone in the party gains a hope. Nice. Okay, so, I think what I would need you guys to roll is... find what the attributes are. It's gonna be a learning session too. Uh, alright, um, yeah, actually a knowledge, uh, all of you guys can roll me a knowledge,

[00:13:45] uh, check. The D12? Uh, so two D12s, uh, both 12s. Oh, two D12s. Okay. Uh, one is a fear die and one is a hope die, so just figure out which one you're gonna roll. Always roll hope first. I got two hope and fear. Now, quick question. Yep. I am well-read. I have advantage on rolls that involve history, culture, politics, or prominent people or places. That would be... Valid? Valid, yeah. Okay. Okay.

[00:14:13] So, since I have advantage, that means I get to add a die six to my roll. Okay. This is a pretty easy roll as well. Just getting things started. What'd you get? A crit. Okay. So, I will take a hope. Yep. And I don't have any stress to mark off. I rolled a pair of threes. Yep. So, a terrible crit, but a crit. Yeah.

[00:14:38] So, your knowledge plus, uh, your knowledge modifier plus your whatever you rolled combined. Uh... So, I got a two and a one. My knowledge is, uh, zero. I don't get a bonus. So, three? Okay. So, you don't really know anything. Um... So, okay. Yeah, because you, yeah, you failed with, uh... Was your hope higher than your fear? Yes. Okay. So, you... Two hope, one fear. So, actually, yeah, you, you, um, you failed with hope, so I will give you something, but... And then...

[00:15:06] So, I rolled a five hope and a ten fear. Okay. So, and what's your, what's your modifier? Zero. Zero? So, that's a fifteen with fear. So, you should see it with fear. So, I'm gonna actually start making a counter for the fear. You could just use tokens. Yeah, I could. I wish I had actually bought some at, like, a dollar store. Um... Actually, is there anything that says, like, do I start with any fear? Like, equal to you guys? No. No, I never... Okay.

[00:15:36] Um, so... You only earn fear off of us. So, I will say, uh, so we'll start with yours since you were pretty high there. Um, so, you, uh, Antioch, know that there is a place up north, like, north of, uh, north of Badax, um, that a couple of people have tried going to, uh, and very few have left. Uh, it is, uh, known as the, the hell hole.

[00:16:01] Um, and it's a, some say it actually leads to, it leads into, like, a demonic pit. Fun. Yeah. Um, that's, like, that's probably, you guys, you think you might be able to, like, if he's looking for something big and nasty, you guys might be able to, like, you know, wrassle up a demon or some kind of thing, hell spawn. To enslave such a creature would please the god of the burning bush. Yeah. It worked for his, one of his, his acolytes, Solomon.

[00:16:32] And Grundy. Yeah. Wait. Um, so, you got a success as well? A critical. A critical success, yeah. Um, you're aware of a, um, you're aware of a, uh, crystal, uh, crystalline cave down in the south end of the, uh, of the, of, like, in the hills, uh, south of, uh, Bad Axe.

[00:16:54] Um, some, like, there's been word that, uh, there's been, like, some kind of, uh, serpentine creature, uh, that's kept as a pet by an ogre, uh, that lives, lives deep within the crystal caves. Okay. So you could either, like, catch the crystal creature and, the crystal, this crystalline serpent creature and the ogre that it has as a pet, that is keeping this thing as a pet. Okay. And for, uh, and that was a puck.

[00:17:21] Uh, for Ivar, um, you, not really sure what, like, what, like, where, like, what you, you don't know of any, like, location specifically, but you know of a guy that would know of a good location for something. Jim at two hands. Uh, a, uh, notorious gangster pirate. Formerly, um, uh, Captain James Hook. But he got his hook, he got his hand back from, uh, from the nasty crocodile that ate it, uh, some, some years ago.

[00:17:49] So now he's kind of taking out a new leaf, as it were. All right. Uh, but he's, and he's actually in, he's in the, down in the harbor right now, and it was with his, uh, his gangster pirate ship. Just like, it's, it's very art deco-y looking. Of course. It's got Thompson cannons. Yeah, I was gonna say, the cannons have drum magazines. Yes. Wah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Yeah. I figured it had like the air suspension would bounce. Yeah.

[00:18:18] Yeah, yeah, no, not, not those gangsters. Like, 20, 1920s gang, the Chicago, Chicago gangland 20s. We're gonna do, we're gonna do the Cholos here. It's like classy gangsters. Yeah. So, yeah, you, you know that, you'd be able to go down, you can go down and talk to him and see if he knows of someplace. Um, though he might ask for, uh, for something in return, but. Always does. Yeah. So, yeah, that's sort of the, uh, the thing for today is, uh, you guys know some locations to find something, um, to get a certain point.

[00:18:48] Oh, it's an important question. Puck has what accent? Yeah, that's true. He's a goblin halfling. I kind of want, I think an Irish accent. But that's me though. I think you should go full gobble. Just sell it as goblin-y as you can get. I don't know if I can do goblin. I don't, I don't think that's in my wheelhouse.

[00:19:17] The kind of quote-unquote accent I was just going to do with mine is just any time I swear, have the vowels like a sheep. That's fair. I feel like, uh, shit. I love that. Damn it. Damn, that's good. But only when I swear. Yeah. And you're still going by like Pivar the Horn-less. I think so, yeah. Yeah, so you're a fawn without a horn. Okay. Yeah. It's, it's that little like inferiority complex thing of fucking, you mentioned it, I'm gonna

[00:19:47] stab you. Okay. You're gonna make a potion for that now. Pretty sure there's a couple. It's blue. Alright, I will, I will try for the Irish then. Okay. I will try. But that's probably gonna bleed into either East Coast or just straight up Canadian. That's, that's fine. Oh, fuck, bud. Oh, fuck.

[00:20:11] Um, alright, so, yeah, um, you know that there's a hell hole, you know there's a crystal cave with an ogre, and you know a guy who might know who knows things. Who might know of a place. So, yeah. See, it's preserving space. You got any ideas where we can be looking? I believe it would be most pleasing to both our employer and my god if we were to enslave a demon in the hell hole north of this place. I know that.

[00:20:39] I'm familiar, I'm familiar with the place you're talking about. I don't much relish the idea of venturing into the devil's anus, which I believe is the technical term for the place. Well, you might have a point. I also know a guy who knows some things. So if we have some questions, we can go talk to him. I suppose that would be a way to look at her. Uh, here down to the south there's a crystal cave that's got an ogre in it.

[00:21:08] The ogre's got some kind of pet serpent, which we could either look at capturing the serpent, or depending on what the serpent be, we could free the serpent and capture the ogre, bring the ogre back. These seem like very mundane creatures. How much do you want to help this fucker? How much do I want to risk for this fucker?

[00:21:34] To just clear a debt that we, like, we could go out and catch ourselves a pack of fucking wolves. I suppose it is all in service of the burning bush god anyway. Do you have a plan to take them alive? I might have a trick up me sleeve. Fiddly-dee-patatos. Fiddly-dee-patatos. And it's not just throwing potatoes at them.

[00:22:04] Why don't we, uh, why don't we go talk to Jimmy and see if he knows anything about this ogre and this snake, so maybe we can get them both alive, and we can leverage both of them. That's fair. He might have more information on this than I got. Because if we could find out what this serpent be, like, who knows? It might be, like, fucking enslaved silver dragon for all we know.

[00:22:31] Which means there might be some good coin to come out of such a venture. I believe the simplest way would be to rend the ogre limb from limb and then restore him later. But the gold. I knew it was going to get you with that one. I mean, I suppose that is a valid option if it comes down to her. But, uh, I have a spell for that.

[00:22:59] Not for tearing limb from limb, or the other thing. Oh. You do seem to have a spell for everything. Well, you know, sleep is a very versatile spell. I do. I do have sleep in your room. I do! I do have sleep! Oh, God. It's going to be the ever-round game all over again. Just like, the creatures are running away. Sleep. Mid-run.

[00:23:26] It's called Slumber, and it's one of the options in the Book of Iliad. Nice. I approve. Okay, so yeah, where do you guys want to go first? Are you guys going down to the harbor to- I think first we're going to go down to the harbor to talk to Jimmy, just see if he can give us any more information. Because if we can get anything that helps us get both of them alive, I mean, we can hand one over, and then be like, now you're going to pass for the other one, or we're going to wake him up. Ooh! Fuck yeah!

[00:23:56] Fuck yeah, boy! I'm a pirate, not an idiot. I mean, I might be a bit of an idiot too, but... That's fair. That is fair. Okay. Yeah, so you guys trek down the timber road, because the streets of Bad Axe are- they actually use the iron pine timbers as like- like, basically in place of cobblestone,

[00:24:23] because it actually sticks around longer than stone sometimes. So you're just walking down like there. It's down like a slope down to the beach area. And you can see off in the distance in the water, you can see this giant blade piercing the tide, and like mist pouring out of like slots out of it. But in front of all that, you also see this black and white,

[00:24:49] like black and white washed art deco pirate ship in the harbor. Like on the wharf. And you can see it's glistening black, like drum fed cannons. And yeah, the- what's the plank that goes down like to the- Yeah, the gangplank is down. And people are- there's pirates with-

[00:25:18] they've got the bandanas over their head, but they've also got fedoras. They're wearing like black vests, like- like vest- like it's like sleeveless vests. And nice pants. As they're- as they're loading- loading in cargo onto the ship. The skull and crosswinds flag also has a fedora. Well, it's- It's a skull- a skull- um- uh- and two skeletal hands. Like, jazz hands. I love it.

[00:25:49] He's just really happy he got the other one back. Yeah. You could say he's- pretty jazzed. Yeah. You may- like on the deck of the ship. Some kind of jazz play. Smooth jazz. Jimmy and his trumpet. Yeah. Just the cantina band from Star Wars. Yeah. So then I- just from the- from the wharf there, we'll just yell out- Jimmy! Uh, yeah. A few-

[00:26:18] a man comes up like to the- to the edge of the ship. Um, again, fedora, pencil mustache, looking kinda like Christopher Walken. I was like- Yeah, I was asking. You remember Ivar? Uh, yes, Ivar. So good to see you. What do you want? Well, we owe a favor to somebody who's a pain in the ass, and he wants us to bring up some of the-

[00:26:48] some monsters alive for his dungeon. So, we had- heard of a ogre and some kind of serpent down to the south, and I was wondering if you know anything about it. Uh, so yeah, he starts coming down the gangplank, uh, to- to actually like, talk to you, so he's not just shouting it, information down to you guys. Uh, and yeah, he comes down and, um, he's like, ah, so- the crystal caves down the- down the southern end of the, uh, of the forest and hills. That's the place. I've-

[00:27:16] I've- I've seen that place a couple times on the- on my way down into the southern shores there. There's, uh, a lot of swampy area down there as well. There's, uh, uh, there- there- there's a couple of also maroot- old wrecks down there with, uh, animated skeletons. Um, but as for the- the crystal cave, uh, I've heard that the, uh, uh, I've heard this- this creature that you say- that you speak about, uh, they call it Jarmangan. The-

[00:27:45] jar is a J-A-R. Uh, it's, uh, J- Jarmangan, the glass serpent. Uh, they say that it- it sheds off glass shards and crystalline glass shards off of it as it moves. Uh, leaving a- a trail of- of- of difficult ground for anybody who tries to follow it or- or track it down. Except for the hide, of course, of its master, the- uh, the ogre. Um, though I'm not-

[00:28:15] I can't remember what the name of that ogre was. But yes. Jarmangan- Jarmangander is the- is the serpent here, uh, that you're speaking of. It's pretty big too. It's, uh, about the size of a hydra. So I was just gonna look over at, uh, Puck. As long as it's not a false hydra.

[00:28:42] Uh, uh, uh, Jimmy's like, spits twirling- It's like, ugh. I'm gonna get me started. Keep going to ghost towns along the coastline. I'm gonna- I'm gonna spit, and then like five seconds later, I'm gonna spit again. Sorry! I couldn't remember if I did it the first time. Oh, he just like- To the effect of like, for Hasein was like, oh-hoh. Like, trying to ward off a curse, or like a bad- like a bad- like- like a bad omen.

[00:29:11] But yes, uh, that's uh, that's about all I've- I've heard about this, uh, this crystal cave. Um, so, yeah. Do you know anything of the Hellhole to the north of here? The Hellhole. Also known as the Devil's Anus. Oh, that place. Oh, that place. I have- I have- I have heard of it, but I've never- I'm going- I'm going into like a pirate thing. I'm gonna try to do uh- Christopher Walken. It's like, uh,

[00:29:40] I've heard of the- I've heard of this place, the Devil's Anus, but uh, sadly, or fortunately, I suppose, um, it's a little farther off- farther away from- from the- from the inlet. So, my- my boat doesn't very- doesn't get very close to it. Um, I have heard there- there is a, uh, there are- there are many- I've heard that the woods around the Hellhole are, uh, connived-

[00:30:09] or are just teeming with, uh, imps and- and, uh, lesser demons. Well, I appreciate all the information, Jimmy, and, uh, remember next time you lose your keys again, because you keep doing it, I'll, uh, I'll unlock the door for ya. I appreciate that. Yeah. Alright. Wait. You're telling me that he needs a set of card keys to run his ship.

[00:30:39] No, he keeps locking his treasure keys in his office. Oh. And- He keeps locking his treasure keys in the- every god damn time. No, no, no. He leaves the treasure keys in the office, the problem is he forgets his office key in the office too. Treasure isn't doing much good without the keys if you can't pick the lock. I can pick the lock. Oh, fuck. And I could make it my treasure. Actually- But it's much more useful in order to let him keep his treasure, because then I get information. It's true. Actually, it reminds me of the time that I locked my house keys in my car,

[00:31:08] and my car keys in my house. Built up backwards. Fuck. Yeah. Fortunately, there was a screwdriver in the front entrance, and I found a paper clip out on the sidewalk. Oh, jeez. So I had to pick my own lock. Okay, MacGyver, calm down. Oh, actually, one more thing that he does say about the hellhole. If you do go that way, he's also heard that the forest around the hellhole are ever burning.

[00:31:38] And it's as if the sap from the trees is some kind of fiery elemental. Perhaps it's like hell-infused. So, very hot place, and then a very prickly place. Where you get a burner stat. Yeah. He did also mention, like, down, like, closer to the, because the cave, the crystal cave is closer to the shore,

[00:32:05] and there's actually a couple of wrecks down there as a result of, like, the crystalline stuff. And he spotted, he has seen some skeletons down that way. Which would make skeletons easy to get. Yeah. I think the best option, personally, I like the option of the crystal cave is a little bit better. In part because, you know, there's not a forest surrounding it full of lesser demons that we gotta fight before we get into the devil's anus,

[00:32:33] where we can capture something big enough to really make a statement. But, crystal caves come with an ogre, and ogres are known for collecting some treasure. So we could just capture the ogre, free the serpent, collect the treasure, and call her a day. While Puck's doing that, can I look around and see if there's any, like, unattended ships that we could potentially use to get down there?

[00:33:02] Sure. Yeah, that would be a... ...perception. Instinct. Instinct? Yes. So you can roll your 2d12s, and add up that with your instinct. Zero. Cool. Yeah. Uh, 7 hope for fear. Okay, so, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. So 11, yeah, that's, that'd be enough. Um, and you succeed with hope.

[00:33:29] Uh, so yeah, just down the wharf, um, you actually see, uh, uh, there is a, it's basically like the, the, a fantasy medieval equivalent of a yacht. Uh, and, uh, and there's a guy in a nice suit, in a nice outfit, like, kind of an aristocratic sort of, uh, fellow, uh, and a small entourage he has. And they're, they're leaving the wharf. Um, they've, they've paid off the, uh, one of the wharf keepers, or one of the dock keepers.

[00:33:56] Um, or they're paying off one of the dock keepers to basically keep their boat safe and heading into town. Okay. So, if you guys are interested, I know that carrying an ogre is probably not on our list of things we'd like to do today. If we're willing to wait a couple of minutes to just wait until these guys get just far enough to not be able to see us take their ship, I found a ship. It's, uh, what's, a pinnace is like the size of a yacht, right?

[00:34:27] Yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a pinnace. Or ship. What are you saying? What's your plan on commandeering this, Russell? Borrowing. It, we do have to come back here with it. My father would say that you're some kind of thief and scum. I am not a pirate. My mother would say, good on ya, boy. She knows what she's talking about.

[00:34:51] Yeah, so you can either, yeah, you do have a dock keeper kind of in the way, but I mean, you guys can figure out how you want to deal with that guy. Do I have to be in combat to cast a spell? I don't believe so. Aaron? Sorry? You don't have to be in combat to do a spell, right? No. Yeah. Alright, I would like to cast... Oh, you also gained a hope. I gained a hope? Yeah, because you failed with hope. Yes, remember to add a, yeah, remember to count your hope. Oh.

[00:35:20] Because, uh, or tally up your hope, because you use that to buy stuff, so, yeah. I now have more than I need. Um, roll anything close, or? Um, so... Because effectively what I'd like to do is I'd like to use my Nightwalker spell. Yeah. To basically step into one of these guys' shadows, and walk out of this dwarf guy's shadow. Okay. My goal is basically just to scare the fuck out of him and be like, you're gonna go that way now.

[00:35:49] Okay, so you're trying to intimidate him. Yes. Okay. I just, I would like to use my spell as part of it. Yeah. For sure. Um, yeah, uh, I don't see a... I think you can just, but yeah, go into their shadow and then pop up behind him. Um, and I suppose it would be a... What's your charm? What's the charm I want? Like, presence. Presence, yeah, you're using your presence to intimidate. Plus one. Plus one? Yeah, so again, yeah, roll to see if you can intimidate this man into... That's the 2d12s, right?

[00:36:19] Yeah, 2d12s. And I'll actually, you can get a plus one as well to it. Cause you're getting him behind him with your spell. Uh, so that is a nine on hope and a five on fear, with a plus one that's ten hope, six fear. Okay, wow. So sorry, how much was the total? Uh, ten hope, six fear. So sixteen. Wow, yeah. Um, yeah. You, uh, how do you, how do you, like, like, you pop up behind him. Like, how do you, like, intimidate him?

[00:36:47] So, the way I picture it is, I basically step into, uh, Antioch's shadow and stepping into it, I immediately step out of this, uh, Worfgard's shadow. Yeah. But as I step out, I grab him on the shoulder and I'm just like, okay, listen, you're gonna keep walking this way and no matter what you hear from the ship behind you, you're not gonna turn around. Uh, but they gave me a bunch of gold. You know what? Yeah, okay.

[00:37:14] He just, like, he, like, tries to, like, stammer a little bit, but, uh, like, after, like, cause he sees, like, he's watching the, the, the group walk off. Well, I don't see that. At this point that he'd also see Antioch and Puck standing there. Yeah. And he kind of realized that, yeah, he, he could argue, but he's already outnumbered. Yeah. He's like, I'm just, I'm just gonna go, I'm just gonna go get my, go on my lunch break. That sounds like a good idea. Yeah. He just starts kind of stumbling off toward the, uh. So then I just wave over to these guys and point at the ship and be like, huh?

[00:37:44] Yeah. So, it is a sailing, uh, like a small sailing yacht ship. So you guys will have to, like, make a rule or two just, like, to figure out how to, like, control it properly. Of course. I mean, I, I, I imagine I'd have some idea, but then I'll have to explain to these guys how to do it. Uh, Jordan, you gotta mark his stress for that. Okay. Okay, yes. Why? Uh, cause that shadow stepper requires him to mark his stress. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

[00:38:14] So you guys, uh, walk over to the boat. Um. Who's, uh, I guess, uh, you guys, I'll let you guys get onto the boat, but whoever's, like, untying it, like untethering from the dock, uh, we'll need to do that stealthily of some kind, in some way. Just so, like, no one... Well, as I say, I'd probably do it just because I'd know where these ropes, where these headhounds should be anyways. Uh oh. Twelve fear, six hope. Okay.

[00:38:39] So, that's six, or fourteen, plus, uh, whatever the stealth one is. Probably instinctive. Uh, stop. Uh, I need to find out where that is on the, in this book. Control, hide, tinker. Control, hide, tinker. Yeah, that's the one, yeah. Uh, so that's plus two. So that'd be fourteen fear eight boat. Jesus, yeah, yeah, you're, yeah. You're, you're just, you're the knight. You walk between the raindrops. I do not want to get fucking caught doing this.

[00:39:07] Yeah, you're just like, you're just like, you're just cutting the ropes, like, really quickly. And then hopping back on, um, onto the ship as it starts like kind of floating away with the current. I mean, I definitely have the jump to be able to do it. Yeah, you just hop off, like, you just leave off. Yeah. Um, and no one's the wiser, like, no one notices that it's slowly drifting away. Doesn't look weird to anybody. Yeah. Um, so yeah, now you just have to figure out how to like, get it going and such. So, you are the pirate, you are, you, you've been on boats before. Mm-hmm.

[00:39:37] So, um, you can help, like, get the, one of them will have to get the, uh, you'll, you'll be probably the one with the wheel. Yeah. But somebody needs to like, get basically lower the, uh, the sails. Right. For you, so. Because they haven't been currently. I would probably ask, uh, Puck to do that, just because the idea of getting a big metal robot to climb up the mast seems like a bad idea due to counterbalance weight. True. All right. Well, I'll give her my best. Okay.

[00:40:06] Uh, so this would be, um, uh, I guess an agility or something to get up there and like, Sprint leap maneuver. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. That one to get up there and then you'll have to make a roll to, uh, tinker with the, with the ropes and such of that. Though I will give you a plus one because, um. You have somebody explaining it to you. Yeah, exactly. Okay. So on my, uh, agility, that's a 16 with fear. Okay. All right. I'll just add another one.

[00:40:37] Uh, and on the finesse. Don forever. That's a, uh, 11 with hope. 11 with hope. Okay. Yeah. No, you got, you managed to get up there and, uh, though there's a few times you, you think you may hear some shouting from the shore.

[00:41:03] Uh, and you, you, if you guys look actually, um, say, uh, Antioch, you look over because you hear shouting from the shoreline. Uh, and you see that, um, that aristocratic fellow and his entourage are running down the, down the, to the dock. Um, and like screaming, we're like, where's that dock keeper? Like, I thought, like, I paid him good money and coin to keep this thing. Get back here. Like, just like shouting, like flailing his arms and stuff like that. Calling for some help. Like calling for help. So.

[00:41:31] Why, thanks for making us ready there, folks. We'd have a, we'd have had a hell of a time of it on our own. I've heard actually just laugh and say something along the lines of, don't worry, we plan on bringing it back. Yeah, they, you, they're, it's, at this point you're far enough down the shore that like they're just, it's just like, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar, though, uh, there may be a pursuit at some point. There may be repercussions, there may be implications. That's a later problem. Yeah.

[00:41:59] And by then we'll have an ogre and a fucking glass hydra. So like, who's really gonna win? Fair. Um, alright, so, yeah, you, uh, you're the one controlling the ship, but I won't make you roll for that. You just, you, no. I have a vague idea how to do this. Yeah. And the, the, the sails have gone up. So yeah, you start heading down south along the inlet. Um, down, uh, Hagar's arm, which is the, uh, the part of the, sort of the split off into the main inlet. Um, that, that axis in.

[00:42:29] And, uh, you're into the main inlet and, uh, you go for a couple of, probably about two, about two hours down, uh, down the shore. Um, and like the trees get more fuller and more green as you go down this far. Um, and then the water starts getting more marshy and, uh, you start seeing a little more shallow, like areas where like there's rocks piercing, like sticking out and such. Um, and, uh, who's keeping watch?

[00:42:57] Like who's watching, like keeping a, like ahead of like to notify of situations and obstacles. I mean, if Puck has already climbed up to the crow's nest on his, like to loose the sails. If he's already up there, I mean, it makes sense for him to be the one keeping an eye from up there. Sure. Yeah. Okay. Um, can I also ask during this time have, I'd like to take at least a glance around to see, does this have any kind of defenses on it? Are there any? It does have two little mini cannons. Okay. Like not like full fledged, like.

[00:43:26] Well, no, I mean you did say it was an aristocrat ship, so I didn't figure it would have like full on broadsides, but I was like, it must have something for defense. Yeah. Because if we are going to get pursued, which my character would assume at some point, somebody is probably going to have something to say. Yeah. Because they noticed. Like, you know, those like, those little mini cannons that like from like. The swivel guns. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. They've got on both sides basically. Which means useful, not incredibly damaging, but useful. Yeah. Right. So you're rolling a perceptive, like to perceive? Yep.

[00:43:55] I can perceive you. That is a critical success. With hope or fear? They're both sixes. Oh, right, right, right. Critical success, yeah. It's a crit. Yeah, sorry. Uh, wow, yeah. Uh, so yeah, you see up ahead, like there are these jagged obsidian, um, uh, shards basically in the water.

[00:44:22] Uh, the, the, the surface also getting much shallower, much more marshy. Uh, you see, uh, about a dozen shipwrecks in the, in the weeds and in the, in these, these obsidian glass, like in among these obsidian, this obsidian obstacle course. Um, and yeah, you see some, you do also see some movement on those, on those wrecks and actually even in the tide. Okay. Of like, some like, very skeletal humanoids.

[00:44:52] Alright fellas. Looks like there's some, some life up ahead. I don't know what she is yet. Perhaps some skeletons in the water. Yay. Uh, I don't know guys, this could be bad. This is a bad idea. Yeah. So yeah.

[00:45:21] So you're not going to tell me that you see stuff in the water? You're probably already, yeah, you're probably notifying them of, uh, the, the, the shards, the giant obsidian shards. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The giant obsidian shard here. Hey, see the big spikes? Don't hit them. Yeah. Okay, good call. Yeah. Hard to starboard. Let's just avoid the rocks. There'd be big polky rocks sticking out to the water. Hmm? That was pork belly. I know. I still call it fucking right and left. There's a reason I didn't join the Navy.

[00:45:52] Um. That was because you were straight. No, that was the other issue. Nice. Also that we don't really have any boats. Yeah. We have boats, it's just none of them float. We've got two whole submarines for the kids to put on. We have two working submarines. We own eight. Um. Okay, so you guys are, are working to navigate around some of the, Yeah, so I, as long as Puck's feeding me the information,

[00:46:22] because I'm assuming I can't see all of them for one reason or another. Yeah, like there, there's, like some of them are like, like, you're seeing obvious ones, but then there are some that he's seeing that are just Well yeah, that would be like below the deck that I can't see, but from his angle he can. Yeah. So I would just be basically trusting him and you'd be like, you need to this, that, the other thing. Okay. Yeah. Drift lazily to the left there, bud. Alright, um.

[00:46:51] Hmm. Antioch, what's your Ephesians? Eight. Eight? Okay. Really? Eight. I have a minus one to that. Oh, okay. What do I tell my, maybe? Nine, and then you modify it from there. Oh no, it's class dependent. Uh, yours starts at twelve, Jordan. Okay, so once they're changing, average. Before I spend hope. Mine is eleven. Because something should be...

[00:47:20] If I spend hope I get a plus two until I get hit, or until I go to sleep. I currently have four out of the three that I need. There we go. Uh, two, two, two. Where's this? Oh, there it is. Uh, that is not enough. Um, you, uh, you see an arrow, you hear a... ding!

[00:47:48] Like right next to the, uh, the mast that you're next to. Uh, and it's an old, um, looks like an old decrepit arrow. Just, uh, twinged right next to your... Oh, just above you. Uh, and you see, you look to where, like, it was coming from. You see on, on one of the... Basically, on one of the, the, the various, um, shipwrecks, uh, there appears to be a skeletal figure with a bow and arrow. Okay.

[00:48:15] And there are several other skeletons approaching the ship from the tide. Like, out of the marsh. You're being targeted by animated skeletons on the ship, over there. So I'm obviously gonna try and avoid that. Yeah. Now that I'm aware of it. Um, I would say, uh, you wanna make a, um, um... Probably a s... What would, what, for like, I guess getting, getting the ship out of, like, back into deeper

[00:48:44] water so that the skeletons can't just like hop onto the boat. Maneuver, control... I feel like finesse. Finesse, yeah. I would call it finesse. Okay. Uh, so that's... Okay, let me just check this for a second, I can see if that's a six or a nine. Okay, that's a six. So that's, uh, eight hopes, six fear. Fourteen? Six fear. Fourteen? Okay.

[00:49:11] Uh, yeah, you managed to, uh, start pulling the boat into deeper water. Um... Sorry. Uh, Jordan, are you adding your modifier to one of the dice beforehand? No. Okay. What's your modifier for finesse? Plus two. I rolled a six and a four. Oh, okay. Okay. So, eight and six. Okay. Okay. You know, you don't add the... You don't add to both dice, do you? No, I think... No, you add the dice to... Sorry, yeah. Sorry, yeah. Yeah, sorry, yeah.

[00:49:39] It's the dice first, because you have to know whether you're rolling with hope or fear. Mm-hmm. You add them together, and then you add your bonus. Okay. Yeah. That's... Okay. That's where I was misunderstanding. Gotcha. So, yeah, no, that would be 12 then. 12? With hope. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you managed to get the boat into deeper water as the, uh, as like about a mob of, about four, uh, animated skeletons are kind of trudging through the mire, like through the shallows to get to your boat.

[00:50:05] Um, and you are still also there, so you can see some, about two other skeletons on the, on the, uh, point, or on the, the peak of some of these downed wrecks shooting arrows at your ship. See, here's where it becomes kind of a pain for me. Mm-hmm. I have no long range weapons unless I decide to leave the ship. Yeah. But if I leave the ship, nobody's steering. Yeah. Um, what do you want?

[00:50:32] From where I am, do I see any fishing nets on the boat? Um, you don't. No. Okay. I was gonna say, I don't think... It's an aristocrat's boat. I was gonna say, I don't think they're gonna be on the ship. It's more like a leisurely, like, oh, let's go down, let's go down to the next harbor. Yeah. But you still gotta eat. Yeah, true. But it might, it's not on the deck if you're, yeah, what you're looking for. If it is on the ship, we don't currently see it. Yeah. Okay.

[00:51:02] That's what I was asking. Cause, you know, capturing a few skeletons... Is what you guys would like to... Basically, at this point I'd just be trying to keep the ship from hitting anything or being gored. Yeah. So I can't really argue for me doing much more than what I've done. Yeah. Yo! I'm gonna move in front of him. Okay. Between him and his D and the skeletons. As the arrows are kind of coming by. Yeah. Gotcha. I mean, my vision's better than yours, but okay. I'm not gonna argue it.

[00:51:33] I did only a shot. Yeah. Alright. But yeah, you guys are currently out of range of it. However, you look, you look just past the marsh and like the, these, all this, like the, these obsidian shards and these skeleton wrecks. And you see up on the hill on the shoreline around this marsh, which does kind of go for a while. Up the hill, you can kind of see like the sparkling trails of, of what looks like some kind of shiny materials, kind of refracting light.

[00:52:03] So it looks like what presumed to be the shed of this giant glass snake. Yeah. It kind of, yeah. It almost looks like, it's like, it's like, almost like snail, snail trails, but like of glass shards. Yeah. Like just all around the, the shoreline up, up the hill, going up into the trees and into like the mountain, into like the hills. Alright. Yeah. All around the shores, you give your balls a tug. So mechanically speaking, Merit, what kind of movement do you have? I have no idea. Uh, ch-ch-ch-ch.

[00:52:32] He has a wheel for feet. Just one. Well, well I'm just trying to figure out because like, okay, I'm out of range of getting shot at. But like, we still need to get the skeletons. So, how close do I need to get? We could get them on the way back. We could get them on the way back. We could come back this way. Well, yeah. But, I'd really rather not have things sleeping on the ship while trying to deal with skeletons shooting at me. Yeah, they wake up. That seems like a bad fucking time if one of them wakes up. Yeah. Especially if one of us succeeds with fear by accident. Like that's...

[00:53:01] That's a bad time. Well, I'm gonna spend a hope. Okay. And uh, give myself some extra armor. Cause apparently I can do that. Okay. Um, also yeah, the problem here is like, the shore, like the closest shorelines to the Crystal Caves is this marshland that's just, this marshy area that's just like covered in like obsidian shards and wrecks, undead wrecks basically.

[00:53:27] Okay, so even more important, we're gonna take care of these fucking skeletons because getting off of this ship into where we need to go takes us directly past them anyways. Yeah. And like, sure we might be able to evade the arrows on the way there, but now we're trying to bring two sleeping things back and getting shot at. That's not a good time. So far you guys have noticed there's like basically six skeletons.

[00:53:53] Two that are, two have ranged weapons and four that are just kind of, just kind of soldiering around in the shallows, so. What, what time of day is it? Uh, we'll say at this point, um, you guys are drinking, so I mean, 10 o'clock in the morning. Uh, we'll say like mid, it was like early afternoon when you guys got this thing, so it's probably about like, it's getting late in the day. But like mid, midday, like, yeah, about midday.

[00:54:26] Um. Or just, yeah, about there. How far away are the skeletons from us? Um, they are probably, right now they're very far. Um, like the ones that are in the shallows. The other ones are, are beyond that. Out of range. Yeah, out of range. So, um, like, cause he's pulled the boat away from, like out of, out of harm's way effectively. And it does seem like the, the skeletons are smart enough to not just keep going into the deep.

[00:54:56] So they're, they're kind of, they, they stopped at a certain point and are just kind of watching your boat as you. So at this point, yeah. Ever's just kind of looking at these guys being like, so, uh, how do you guys want to deal with these skeletons? Cause, uh, I think we should probably take care of them before we try and take anybody sleeping past them. Because last time I checked getting hit by an arrow probably wake them up. Okay, so there's archers up in crow's nests? Uh, effectively, yeah. Crow's nests or like, you know, like how like some of the ships are like, they've like

[00:55:26] The prow is like sticking way up. The prow is like sticking way up and they're basically like, like climbed, they've climbed up onto like the nose. Okay. Yeah. So we have two of those and we have four that are just kind of waiting in the shallows. Well, yeah, they're basically just like, they've got their sword, they're, they're all cutlasses and, uh, uh, they're all like draped in like, well, like waterlogged leathers and, and, and armor. Yeah. So how deep is our draft and how shallow are the shallows? Uh, the shallow, like the ship would be able to like, like go through those shallows

[00:55:56] with some, but it would be a lot slower. The problem is those obsidian shards and the other wrecks. So would I be able to get reasonably close safely so that Antioch could be able to hop into the shallows and make his way towards them, like engage them? Yeah. All right. Yeah. So my goal at that point would be obviously trying to keep an eye on the archers so that I don't get hit.

[00:56:23] My goal would be to try and get Antioch as close as I can to those in the shallows without sinking the ship. Cause the ship's kind of important. Even if somebody does try and chase us, we still need a way to get back. Yeah. Well, how are skeletons with cutlass is going to sink a ship? I'm not worried about them sinking it, I'm worried about the rocks. Yeah. Fair. Like I'm more concerned about the rocks than getting hit by the arrows. Like getting hit by an arrow sucks, but like the ship sinking is much worse.

[00:56:52] Yes, sir. I'm going to spend three hope. Okay. And use Arcane Barrage. Once per rest, spend any number of hope and shoot magical projectiles that strike a target of your choice within close range. They're not that close. No. Right now, like even when he gets like, basically like, just kind of like, um, to a place where an Antioch can reasonably go. Exactly. It would be, he'd be close, you guys would be close. Yeah. Not very close around with that.

[00:57:22] So even then you'd still have to hop out and get closer? Yeah. Or wait for them to get closer to us? Well no, cause that's what, cause it does go up to close range, not very close. Okay, yeah, never mind. But, okay. I had thoughts on this one. Yeah, like the, the skeleton, when you get closer to the shallows, um, the skeleton warriors will be within very close range. And the archers will be in close range. Okay. Cause like, that's like, for like distance and such. Are they within far range currently?

[00:57:50] Uh, currently, uh, the, the warrior ones are in far range. The other ones, uh, are out of range so that they don't actually hit the boat. Yeah. Until he moves the boat. Well yeah, it was effectively, got ambushed. I wanted to make sure that everybody understood what the hell we're about to do and now we're gonna do it. Okay. Yeah. So, I'm gonna start to move the ship carefully towards these, uh, warriors in the shallow so that I can let Antioch have his fun with them. Okay.

[00:58:18] Uh, Antioch, you, I assume you're like, kind of like waiting at the edge of the, the, the, the, uh, side of the boat? Yes. Okay, uh, you can roll me a, uh, an instinct to perceive something. Actually, it's, it's, you would be on the crow's desk bucket also. 17. 17? Okay. So mark a hope. Um. Oh, come on.

[00:58:49] That's a four. I didn't perceive shit. Okay, yeah, you're just kind of like, you're, you're planning on shooting those, uh, archers as soon as you come in from the range. Uh, Antioch, you are seeing, um, some kind of disturbance in the water behind, between the archer, the, the warrior, the, the skeleton warriors and the archers. There's something in the water behind them that's like, kind of just drifting around,

[00:59:16] like, kind of moving around, kind of like, flanking them effectively. Uh, like you see bubbles and you see some kind of like, disturbance, like ripples and disturbances in the water. There is something in the water at approximately medium range. Do you guys want me to keep moving closer or do you want to modify the plan? Plants never survive anyway. Okay, moving closer. Okay.

[00:59:46] So just continue trying to get closer to those warriors. Uh, as you get, you get, you get alongside the shallows, to allow Antioch to hop down into the water. Uh, you're about knee deep. Okay. And then just to kind of flesh it out. Once we are close enough for Antioch to jump, I would be doing basically the equivalent of dropping the anchor or something else so that I can effectively now not worry about it floating away. And kind of get involved. Yep.

[01:00:14] Yeah, the, the shallows kind of like go, there's like a shawl. So you can just like drop the anchor down there. Yeah. It's still within safe, it's safely away from any of the shards or IV things that would like sink it. But like the skeleton archers can now start shooting. Yeah, so it's basically while Antioch's hopping off, at the same time I'm dropping anchor making sure the ship's not going anywhere. Okay. You're dropping anchor, I'm dropping trow. Okay, um, so yeah, we're going into a combat here. Uh, how does that work? Aaron?

[01:00:43] I'm going to be dropping enemies. Um, and you're dropping cars. Well, there is no initiative order. Yes. Although there, we can, because there is an option for that. There is an option for that. We can do it if you like. It would probably make managing this easier. It could be. Probably right, yeah. Okay, so then how does the optional rule for initiative work? So spotlight track, wow I actually had it right on the right spot. Um, spotlight tracker, if your group prefers tactical play or structured players, player turns,

[01:01:11] you can limit the number of actions each PC has available to them at a time. We recommend that you start with three actions. Uh, but you can increase or decrease the number as your table prefers. Uh, if you use the system when a battle begins, every player plays or places action tokens on their character sheet to represent how many actions they can take.

[01:01:34] Players then act as usual, and each time they make an action roll or perform a significant action while in the spotlight, they remove one token from their sheet. Collaborate with other players to pass play around the table, making moves and telling stories together. Even if you have multiple action tokens, see if any other player wants a chance to act before you spend more than one in a row.

[01:02:04] Uh, once each player has used all their available tokens, players refill their character sheet with the same number of tokens as before and continues playing. Okay. So, uh, yeah, I guess we do need tokens of some kind or... Okay. God, all I have is one, one green, uh, these like fake little like shamrock coins. Everybody has die sixes though, right? That's true, yeah.

[01:02:33] So take a die six and just set it to... You guys want a die six? ...free or whatever. We'll use them like counters. Yep. Thanks, honey. So... For a...

[01:02:58] Yeah, it looks like everything else is basically roughly the same as, uh, like regular, uh, moves. Or rather, regular scenes and spotlights, so... Alright, um, I guess we'll go around the table. So yeah, Natyak. So...

[01:03:25] I jump off the side, as close as possible to the nearest foe, and begin to grapple him while I get on my rope. Okay. So... So yeah, uh, you are... Rolling your attack, uh, yeah, make your attack roll. Oh no, it's a, yeah, two, twelve, yeah. Ten.

[01:03:54] Ten, uh, with hope or fear? Ten with hope. Ten with hope, okay. Um, that is just enough to actually grab onto one of the skeletons of warriors. Okay. So you're just grappling him and, uh... I begin tying him up. Oh, begin tying him up. Awesome. Okay. Uh, yeah. Uh, he will begin tying you up. However, one of the guys nearby was going to try and attack you while you're doing that. He can try. It's gonna be...

[01:04:24] Uh, fourteen to hit you. Your ambition, I think, is seven, right? Yep. So he does major damage. I'm gonna spend an armor point. No, no, no, no, no. That's just to hit you. He didn't roll damage. Oh yeah, I had to roll damage first, yeah. Okay. So that hits. Okay. Uh, roll damage. There it is. That is eight damage. Er, so... Okay. So then, uh... His threshold, right? Yeah. What is your first threshold? Uh, eight. Okay.

[01:04:54] Okay. So that's within... So then, nope. Uh, cause if it meets, it's in the next category. Oh, okay. So it is moderate. So it's a moderate one. So it's a major damage. So you will take two HP if you don't use an armor. So I will use an armor. Okay, so you're only gonna take one HP as... As you're tying up the one skeleton... Actually, I'm gonna mark down, like, how many skeletons there are and such. One. Skeleton. Two. Okay.

[01:05:24] So, uh, yeah. So you're tying up skeleton one, but you are taking damage from behind, basically, as one of the other skeletons kind of autonomously, like, just clattering and just like, just wailing on him back. Okay. Um, so, uh, Ivar, what do you wanna do? Uh, from where I'm at, I have a pitch. Yeah. Could I use my grappling hook to try and snag the skeleton that's attacking him? Yeah. Okay.

[01:05:54] What do you want me to roll for that? Uh, that would probably be... That would actually... I guess it'd be your attack? That would be an attack. Yeah, that would be your grappling hook. Yeah. With the grappling hook. Yeah. So, that is... Oh, I'm asked. Eight. Eight. With fear. Eight with fear? Okay, I'll add the fear. Okay. Um, eight with fear. Oh, sorry. No. Nope. Wait. Yeah. And then you have any... Wait, what's your attack bonus?

[01:06:25] That seems like a finesse. I think I read the wrong one. Well, uh, grappler has... I don't know what grappler is. Just a second. Grapples under strength. So that's actually... Oh, five. With fear. Five with fear? Yeah. That is not going to be enough. I didn't figure it was. Yeah. As soon as I rolled it, I was like, oh, that's not good. Yeah. So you're... Actually, I'm going to say that as that one's... as you go to throw that, and like at the other... the second one, the third guy actually grabs onto your rope and pulls.

[01:06:54] So, I need you to roll a... we'll make it a post strength, I guess. I guess? Is that something in this game? Yeah. Maybe. It can be. It can be. My d20 against your d12. Your d12s. That is... That 20. 10. Sorry. I got that 20. So you're like... I can pull right off. He's planting the fucking water. Into the marsh. Yeah. Um...

[01:07:22] Yeah, it's... you're just landing in like muck and water. Yeah, I was going to say, there's no way I can argue to even get away with anything else except... Actually, could I... Can I... Can I just pitch the benefit of my Caprine Leap at least in line on my feet? Sure. Okay. Yeah, we'll have that. Can I use one of my experiences to interject? Sure. What can go wrong will go wrong. That... Yeah.

[01:07:47] So, yeah, you're finishing up tying up your guy and you see that happen. But with one hand I want to use my Divine Wielder and attack both enemies with my sword at close range. I... Okay. I have a funny experience of a tie-in-less. I just have nothing to go for it though. Land home. So I go, Marcus Dress. Yeah. And I smite like crazy. Yeah. So that's six hope. Hope. And five fear.

[01:08:19] So... Thirteen with hope. Wow. For the first one. For the first one, yeah. Alright, so the first one you're definitely swinging at through. And then... Yeah, what's the... Nine hope. Ten fear. Fuck. Nineteen. No, twenty-one. With fear. Twenty-one with fear. Okay. Uh, yeah, no, that... So you... You swing and hit both of them with your sword. Like basically, you finish tying up that, you see that... Fuck.

[01:08:49] And just like swing... Hallowed axe. Hallowed axe, yeah. And just swing your axe. Yeah. Six. Seven damage each. Seven damage each. Uh, so it's... So their threshold is four. Oh wait, hold on. And then the next one's eight. So that would actually be... That would be moderate, right? Sorry. What? Um... How much damage did you do? Eight. Eight. Oh, eight? No. Seven. Seven. Seven, okay.

[01:09:15] Okay, so then that is between the two numbers, so it would be in the major. So it would be two. Uh, yes. In the moderate, major, and then severe? Minor, major, severe. Minor, major, severe, yeah. Okay, so yeah, they both take two damage from that strike. Uh, they do not like that at all. And... It would be way creepier if you said, they enjoyed that immensely. Yeah, they chatter with glee. Um... Okay, now I have an additional bone. Yeah.

[01:09:46] Yeah, this is... Root! What? Uh... Humans don't have a bacula? What's this shit? Yeah. Oh, hang on, I wanna do something here. Uh... Humans are the only great age without a penis bone. Really? Hmm. They're real for the bacula. So, as you're swinging that, um... Something, uh, grabs your legs and pulls you down. Fucking rude.

[01:10:17] Um... So... That's gonna be... Uh, so they pull you down but they don't inflict any damage. But as you're like, looking at your optic... Surfer, or whatever you have for like, your vision. Uh, you look, you're through, looking in the water, and through the murk of the water and so on, like, through the flurry of the silt and such. Uh, you see just this weird amalgam of multiple skeletons just kind of like, combined together in like this ganglia of bones.

[01:10:47] Oh my god. Um, and it seems to be the thing that was like probably... You suspect that's the thing that was like, kind of disturbing the water. Mm. Just like it's crawling in the bottom of the... in the silt. Uh, because it can't properly stand up. Um, and that grabs you down and pulls you down. So, uh, you're currently kind of grappled by this thing. But you're not being taken... you haven't taken any damage from it. Yeah. Um, so yeah, you see... Yeah, see, you get like, launched down into the ground. You let... I'm actually sitting on my feet and then all of a sudden Antioch just get... pulls down in the water.

[01:11:17] It's like, oh! Yeah, after swinging and like, damaging... Yeah. Doing pretty decent... Swings an axe, messes them up, and then all of a sudden... Yeah. You just say, what?! I still have one skeleton tied. Yeah, yeah, that one just like... He's kind of up, he's just kind of like... He's just kind of sitting there. He's just kind of standing there, tied up. And I still got the rest of the rope, right? Yep. Perfect. I'm gonna wrangle me up some skeletons. Um, you also see this happening, um, Puck.

[01:11:43] Uh, actually, I guess both of you could roll me a, um, uh, a knowledge to know what's going on. Know what just grabbed Antioch. I guess actually, Antar, you could also, because you may have also heard of what these things are. Three with fear. Okay, thank you. I have no idea what the fuck's going on. You're like, you're like, you're like, what the fuck? Seven with hope. Seven with hope? Okay. This is literally a moment of Antioch was right. Anything that can go wrong is absolutely gonna go wrong.

[01:12:13] Yeah. How's, uh, how's Puck doing? Pair of tens. Holy shit, man. Uh, yeah, so you, you know what this thing is. Antioch, you know what's attacking you. Uh, they're called skeletal dredges. Um, basically when, uh, when there's like a mass of skeletons and like the necromatic magics start kicking in and they get kind of cobbled together like a, like a tangle. Uh, and they just kind of become a fused thing.

[01:12:40] Um, creepy thing about them is, uh, they tend to steal skin off of victims. Oh, you're fine. You don't even have any. They're, they're, they're, the things that keep them together are the sinews and skins of... Oh, you're fine. I just kept them all the way from me. Yeah. I'm gonna stay up here, buddy. So, like... So just, because I need to know mechanically. Yeah. How many people would be considered very close to me? Oh god.

[01:13:07] Um, very close to you, uh, there's the two skeletons that are, that just took damage. Uh huh. And technically, I guess the dredge. Okay. That's in the water next to, cause you guys, cause you, you landed pretty close to Antioch. Uh huh. So. Because I would like to spend a hope to make a spell cast roll. Okay. Two conjure throwing blades that strike out at all targets and then very close. Targets that I succeed against will take a d8 plus two magic damage. Okay. Using my proficiency, which I don't know which proficiency I would have. Wait, what was that? Your proficiency is one. Okay.

[01:13:36] What was the damage on your, um, that hallowed axe? Uh, d8 plus one. Well, it was magic. Magic. Okay, good. Cause I just realized, like, the skeletons had a resistance to physical damage. So it's a good thing that you had a hallowed axe. Alright, so, what do I roll for this? Uh, so. A spell cast roll. So just. Uh, spell cast roll. What does he, he wants to, uh, cast a spell that like, blades hit a bunch of guys.

[01:14:04] Yeah, so he rolls based on whatever his spell casting ability score is. Oh, okay. So your, whatever your spell casting, uh, uh, stat was. Uh, cause each class had a spell casting. It should be on your roll card. Spell cast trait is finesse for him. Finesse? Okay. Finesse? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, plus two. Yeah, plus two. Yeah. So that is 14 with hope. 14 with hope. Alright. Uh, that definitely gets the warriors and the dredge, uh.

[01:15:02] That's 10 damage. Okay, um. That's gonna be attack separately and damage together. Are you still doing that rule? Sorry, what? Is the rule still that you attack separately and damage together? Is it? Hmm? Attack separately and damage together? Is the damage, like, the same for all of them or is it just the other? Oh. Um, is it? So as far as I understand from this spell, it is not a, like, radius explosion. It is a... Basically throwing magic damage. ...targeted attacks.

[01:15:32] Yes. So all of them would be separate. Yeah. Okay. So first one's 10 damage. Okay. Second one is 5 damage. Okay. Third one is 7 damage. Okay. Okay. So the skeleton warriors, um, they are... They just get just slashed to bones. Yeah. They are just... They crumble into the water and they're just floating bones now. Um, the skeletal dredge, um... Oh, it doesn't have a threshold.

[01:16:03] It also just fucking eats it. Beautiful. Um, yeah, so the thing that was grabbing you and wrestling you just gets like... I gotcha. You just see a bunch of daggers just like go through it, like ripping its, uh, the sinews that are keeping it together. That is disappointing. Um, but yeah. Reasonably that's all I can ask for. So, I'm happy. Actually hang on. The dredge? Yeah, okay. Um, actually, hang on. I think.

[01:16:32] Damage. PC deals. To the dredge. Defeat an additional minion within range of the attack. Oh yeah, so that doesn't matter. Because basically, yeah, you got everything. Yeah, I already hit everybody within range. Yeah, the only things that are still moving are the two archers. I was gonna say the archers that are not in range. Yeah. Um... But yeah, so, that's what was going on in the water. Um, Puck. What are you doing?

[01:17:01] You just watched all the warriors kind of just fall apart. Yeah. Nope. I haven't been watching really. Because I've been paying attention to the archers in the crow's nests. Mm-hmm. That's what I've been watching the whole time, waiting for them to come into range. And they've come into range. Like, yeah, they've been in range. Okay. Don't know why I didn't shoot already. Well, we were getting... Yeah, sorry, yeah. We're getting some things. Are they within far range or close range or what range? Um, at this point, they'd be in close range. Okay. Yeah.

[01:17:31] How many are there? Uh, there are two. One's on the crow's nest, one's on the actual like prow of... Or like on the prow of a ship? The... Whatever the front is. Okay. Yeah. Well, the one in the crow's nest, I'm going to blow four hope. Okay. How much hope do you have? Like literally it was full. Okay. Mine is also full currently.

[01:17:59] Yeah, you guys can rack it up pretty well. I mean... You've also been using some of your stuff. Oh, remember to put a stress for your... Oh, yes. Yeah, keep reminding me. I've also critted a bunch of times. Um, any number of hope. Shoot magical projectiles that strike a target of your choice within close range. Roll a number of die sixes equal to the hope spent and deal that much magic damage to the target. I don't have to attack. Okay. There's no spell cast. There's just... It's just damage.

[01:18:27] So it's basically like magic missile. Yeah. Yeah. That's why it's beautiful. Yeah. Okay, so that's four. Four. Nice. Uh, four and twelve is... Sixteen. Sixteen. Sixteen. Um, that's the archers. That's enough to hit them. So... No, no. This is straight damage. Great damage. Um, sixteen. Jesus. Okay. That's severe damage for them.

[01:18:56] So, uh, for one of them? Just one of them. Okay. It's... How does it... Like, does it just explode in a torrent of arcane energy? I would guess so. Yeah. Yeah. You just... It does the... It does the whole anime sidewinder missile thing. Yeah. Like that, like, all those, like, little, like, missile barrage. Yeah. And just, like... Just... Just bone dust. All... And arcane energy just crackling around that... Uh, the prowl of that... That... That wreck. Uh, the...

[01:19:25] The archer scuttle looks around and says, What the fuck? Like... Just like, kind of like... Doesn't say anything, but just like... What the... Yeah, just the body language of... What? Yeah. It's like... I'm sorry. What?

[01:19:57] Um... You're not... You're not... You're not... Like, legendary actions from D&D. Okay. So you just kind of get to interrupt and do attacks by... That's what I've been... That's kind of how I've been doing it. Like, whatever, like, these guys have been doing, I've been like, spending a fear to, like, actually act. So... Yeah, cause like, a lot of their stuff is like, spend a fear to, like, do something here. So... Um... Yeah.

[01:20:28] Uh... And... Yeah, so... I guess... Top of the actions. Um... The... You guys are... Um... You guys get up... You're getting up from the... You're kind of like... Seeing everything. Um... And, uh... Yeah, I'm gonna see that skeleton. I'm gonna spit it out a fear. And, uh, that skeleton is going to... That archer is gonna try and, uh... Shoot at one of you guys down there. Uh... Can I burn my hope real quick? Sure. Uh...

[01:20:55] So I burn three hope, and I get plus two to my evasion until either I get hit by somebody, or I, uh, take a long rest. Okay. So my evasion's down plus three. Wow, that's a 19. On, um... Odds? Evens. Evens. So you're actually getting struck. Well, I was gonna say, my evasion's 15, so... I rolled a 19. So it's, yeah. But hope for nothing. Yeah.

[01:21:27] Um... And that is gonna be... A D8. Do I have any... I have a D8 in this one. I have a D8 you can borrow, it's very fair. Alright, so that is gonna be... Uh... Five to your threshold. That is minor damage. Minor damage? Okay, so you get one harm as, uh... As an arrow strikes your shoulder.

[01:21:57] You're quite fast enough. I'll eat it. Yeah. Uh, but now it's, uh, Antioch's turn. So how far away is this skeleton? Uh, so for you guys, uh, it is close as well. Alright. So, I'm going to charge him. Um, okay. Uh, it is, I will say, uh, I should...

[01:22:22] So it is up in a, um, like, it's, the wreck that it's at, it's, uh, all that's left of it basically is the crow's death. Is it the mast in, like, the crow's nest that's kind of broken out of the mire? So you could run up and basically, like, knock it out of the crow's nest if you wanted to. Yeah. Alright. I shall knock it out of the crow's nest. Ready to roll for that? Uh, yeah. Um... Strength chest? Probably a strength chest, yeah. Ten with hope. Ten with hope. Okay.

[01:22:52] Uh, yeah. Ten, it flops, like, like, shakes, like, you basically, um, just, that thing just reverberates a couple of times with the mast, like, it's rotted like wood. And this thing just, like, slingshots it down to the, like, down to, like, right behind you into the mire. So. Ah. Then I'm going to hogtie his ass too. Okay. Yep. Um, that'd be a finesse probably. Or, uh, where, which one was it? Strength is grapple.

[01:23:22] Strength is grapple, yeah. Finesse is... Which one was the tinker one? Oh, it's finesse as well. Finesse, yeah, okay. Finesse is control hide tinker. So that's five with fear, which is not great. How many hope can I burn? Um, I got five. Burn one. What? You can, you can spend a hope to roll an advantage. Okay.

[01:23:51] So I'll spend a hope to roll an advantage. Would you guys do a d6? Yes. Yep. So, ten. Ten? Okay, yeah. Yeah, that, you managed to rope that, that skeleton. Like, you just like, push it, like throw its, uh, its, its bow away and just kind of like hog tie it. Effectively. So while Antioch's doing that, I'll just say that I basically, I just grab the, uh, skeleton that I've tied up as well as the one that he tied up and start bringing them to the ship.

[01:24:20] That way, it's, they're already there, we don't need to think about it. Yep. Um, and yeah, uh, you guys have, I'm grabbing those bastards in the hole. Yeah. You guys have, I've collected at least two currently unliving skeletons. Yes. And then a bunch of bones. Um, yeah, I say like after about like a half hour of just like, if you're, if you're collecting the rest of the bones, like you, takes a little bit of like, like, finag, like grabbing them. Takes some doing, but. Yeah. Um.

[01:24:48] We finished that comic, can we take 5 L.I.P.? Sure. Yeah. I was actually about to say the same, so. Yeah. We'll take a break. And we're back. Do do do do do do. So yeah, um, you guys are back on your, on your ship. Uh, you've gathered, um, you, you, you've basically, uh, uh, tied up the, um, the two living skeletons to whatever, like the mast or like in the cargo hold or something. So. Yeah.

[01:25:16] Uh, and then you also have a, just like a, a burlap sack of, like a, like a, uh, uh, like a sack of bones, uh, that comprise, would comprise basically of four people. Or four, four entities or beings. Uh, cause like some of them were, they could have been dwarves or elves or, um, or humans. Yeah, I'm really sure. Um. It was a person. Yeah. It was at one point a person. Um.

[01:26:07] Um. And then they were walking back to the same area. So do you guys want to see if we can get any closer safely? Do you want to do a hike in from here? Or do you think we should find somewhere safer to weigh anchor and then go for a bit of a longer hike? Merching is one of my primary directives. You would say that. I mean, whatever our illustrious captain thinks is the best course of action. I'm a captain?

[01:26:36] I mean, you have been in charge of this boat. That means you need a hat. You start like sifting through the guy's like personal quarters like, oh there's a one. Oh yeah! It's really fancy, it's even got like a fancy feather. It's definitely a black tricorn with a white feather. Yeah. Alright, now I have a hat. Okay. Well, he likes marching, but of course he would like marching.

[01:27:06] Do you think it makes more sense to do a hike in, to do a walk in from here, or should we push our luck and see if we can get a little closer? Well, I don't much relish the idea of having to try to carry an ogre on me back. I mean, you can carry an ogre on your back on dry land, you can carry him through a marsh or right to the boat. Or directly to the boat, but you're going to be carrying him. I mean, he might have... I'll bet you. It's going to be me carrying him. Not by much.

[01:27:36] I'm not that much taller than you. I'm a fawn. Okay. Like, I am taller than you, but I'm nowhere near as tall as this fucker over here. Is this a serious discussion? Why? Your lack of sarcasm and humor is honestly depressing sometimes. Yes, this is a serious discussion. Unlike you, flesh and bone. I will carry the hostages. I mean, when he words it that way. Well, hokey-tokey. Where do you want to walk from?

[01:28:04] Because he'll walk from anywhere and he just doesn't give me straight answers. If he's the one carrying the over, I don't care where we walk from. Alright, I think we should leave the ship here then because we're just going to waste time if we try and find somewhere safer. And I don't think getting closer is going to benefit us much more versus the risk we take. Especially because I have a feeling that somebody might come looking for the ship. Fair. At least if it's over here, it's kind of a pain for them to get to as well. Fair.

[01:28:33] But if we need to GTFO real quick, it's not so hard as if we get closer. Yeah, because then if you have to depart and somebody's chasing you, you definitely have to try and navigate under pressure. Exactly. Yeah. So I figure this is kind of like, outside of my character. I feel like this is kind of like the perfect middle ground where the one of the characters is like, I don't see much of a benefit risking the ship getting closer. Especially because we did hear somebody yelling.

[01:29:02] I don't know if it was exactly them because I was sailing the ship. But I heard somebody yelling. So like, I'm not so naive as to think that nobody noticed. I'm just glad we got away without getting shot at. Yeah. The owners of this vessel seem very displeased. Oh, is that them yelling? That's what I haven't heard. You may have also heard a guard bell ringing from the shore. Oh. That could be a problem. That's a problem for later. That's for future us.

[01:29:31] Exactly. How far are you going to be? A good curtain to us. It has to go get an ogre and a giant glass snake. Yeah. So, I can quite literally have bigger fish to fry. Yeah. Okay, so you guys, what I'm hearing is you're coming to the ship. So we're going to leave the ship where it is. We're going to hop out onto the marshy area there and we're going to start making our way in. Okay. Okay. Yeah, everybody, you can roll me... I guess it would be... I'm going to have that in the book or something.

[01:30:01] What you can do with your stats or your abilities. Just while you look for that, I'd... Oh, here it is. I would position myself behind Antioch in such a way that I could just step into a shadow if I need to. Yeah. I'm going to say this is probably going to be an agility to just kind of like muster through the marsh of the shallows. And like navigate through. Because you're also having to be like, as you get closer to shore, there is more like wreckage. And then you have to kind of like navigate around. 16 with hope. 16 with hope. Okay. So you can take that and get a hope back.

[01:30:36] Great. I hope or... 13 with fear. 13 with fear. 13 with fear. Thank you. So you managed to get there but it's... For the goblin, or for the goblin, it's a little slow going because... I'm only three feet tall. Yeah, they're like ankle... Not ankle, they're like knee deep. You're like waist deep in the water.

[01:31:00] And there's a couple of times where you like hit a silt area that is a little deeper. Well, I mean that's the benefit of my jumps. So as long as I can find solid ground to jump from, I can literally jump point to point too. So I'm not even dealing with the water as much. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to use one of my experiences. Okay. It is mission men self. I will shoulder the burden of carrying the small hobbit. Okay, so how do you just like pick him up? How do you pick him up?

[01:31:29] Literally, I just walk up behind him by the collar, hold him up at arm's length and continue walking. Like a lantern. Basically just like hanging from your fucking coat. Before that, I'm like walking with my bag of books held straight up overhead. Yeah, like a guy from Vietnam with his back. Yeah. And then I just get lifted out of the water. Alright, yeah, I can live with that. Yep. I am not so worried about dignity. Yep.

[01:32:00] So while we're walking, I'll, after Antioch picks up the bug, I'll just look over and be like, so do you think they're mad we took the ship? Yes. Yes, I think they're mad that we stole their boat. We didn't steal it, we're borrowing it. Borrowing. Without permission. What? Semantics. Semantics. Are they a friend of yours to be borrowing shit from? I mean, if I leave them some gold, they might be.

[01:32:31] Well, they might be okay with it when we get back and we bring them some gold, but at this point, they think you're just a pirate. Not a pirate. That's actually... Not a pirate. Not a pirate. Not a pirate. I prefer the term buccaneer. Exactly. I've learned a remark. I prefer the name buccaneer. Buccaneer. Buccaneer. Um... Also that has a double me...

[01:32:58] Oh, I guess maybe not for a goat person, but a buck an ear. um but yeah you guys make it sure and uh you start seeing like so these like obsidian shards are kind of like it's almost like exposed bedrock but it's like obsidian here and then you just start seeing these like all all the way up the hill to and like you can see like through the brush through the foliage actually there's not much foliage but through the trees and like uh you can see like some like trails it looks like actually some of the trees look like they've been cut down

[01:33:27] at different angles like as if by like sharp implements um and you're seeing the ground is just covered in brittle like glass and crystal shards um all the way up a hill and you see this kind of glittering um cavern off in the distance up the hill uh probably very far up the hill um so about like 300 feet or so uh into the on like the uh the side of a mountain like a cliff face

[01:33:55] so looking at some of the uh like the glittering debris yeah would i be able to find any that are like particularly attractive colors um yeah yeah you can uh you search around for that uh that would be i guess we can use that for uh uh an instinct right or yeah instinct that is 14 hope 14 hope yeah yeah you find a couple of like shards um and it kind of they kind of do look like like snake scales but

[01:34:25] like the snake scales are like the size of spearheads okay um and you find some that are like kind of like coalescing almost like they've got like kind of like um opulescence or like whatever like that oh that oily kind of like coloration like they like kind of have a spectrum of light okay in color which is basically iverson i think if i can get some trinkets and shit maybe they won't be so mad because i am just borrowing i do fully intend on bringing it back yeah i just needed it to do this

[01:34:54] thing actually also with that roll um you did also notice some glints of something shiny in the wrecks as you were walking through um like in like kind of the half buried yeah so one of those things now that i'm seeing this i'm going hey wait a second there like wasn't was there something silvery or goldy is this what i saw over there yeah yeah it's hard to tell you like it might have been the same kind of stuff or like i mean those wrecks are old but like who who would have come

[01:35:23] around here and like checked them and also there's just skeletons around so yeah um but that's something you can maybe like check on the way back or something um but yeah so right now you guys are having to deal with a climb up bad like shitty terrain um full of uh full of basically like glass shards and and uh this obsidian uh material that's sort of like poking through the dirt and

[01:35:48] or in the uh the earth um to get up to this uh cave that's a ways up the hill so it will be a disadvantage um and uh uh you guys will have to try and uh trudge up there so so what check is that uh so you can either be um agility to uh i would say agility uh or even um

[01:36:15] uh where's uh or even finesse just to kind of um like if you want to just climb up there like not worrying about like making noise or if you're actually trying to like be stealthy you'd have to use finesse i mean i'm trying to be quiet my whole shtick oh well i'm laying behind not trying to be

[01:36:38] uh yeah 19 through fear 19 through okay it's like i am quiet because i do not want to be fucking found yeah 10 with fear 10 thank you you don't give a shit you just want this to be done crunch crunch crunch you're just like it's a good thing i'm behind you because i can just jump into that fucking shadow man and i assume he dropped you down so that you're oh so i'm rolling now too yeah

[01:37:07] okay unless like were you also continuing to hold him the whole thing yeah i was gonna say flesh shield fucking funk use the wizard as a literal shield i have an added finesse yep it could be finesse so if you're being stealthy well i don't think i am no six with hope six with hope okay um

[01:37:33] so you're lagging you're actually like you you start like you're avoiding the the glass shards um because that's crinkling instead of under your boots and also like it could possibly pierce your boots but then you get onto like the obsidian shield basically that's exposed and you're just having a basically it's like a kid trying to get down get up a slide and you just keep sliding back down this like this this kind of like uh brittle and and sharp and uh smooth uh like crystal like black crystal

[01:38:02] uh and you're you're you're buddy you're you're two uh allies like one's like basically like it's hopping from like the shadow of a tree to a shadow of a tree basically like that and the other one's just like like just not giving a fuck he's doing full jaeger walking into the ocean yeah except up a hill yeah just crunching through like basically like making footfalls like footholds and you're just

[01:38:25] lagging behind down in the down on the uh the shore still um i'm working my way here yeah uh do you want to make a uh perception as you're down there as you're like uh sure it's a crit again six and six okay uh yeah um i thought it was a nine and a six and then it turns out it's a six and a six

[01:38:55] uh okay so you are you you uh you get down there's like like this is your third attempt and you're still just sliding down this and not you're like you're worried like you're you can feel the soles of your feet like your boots are probably getting cut up by the uh by the obsidian and then you start hearing the buzzing well i'm wearing boots yeah no i know okay i'm not a barefoot halflet no no i know no but i mean like it is like obsidian like it does it's sharp it's sharp yeah even when it's

[01:39:19] like not like actively trying to hurt you um but then you start hearing the buzzing like the like almost like and and you look around and you look off into the marsh and like the mire you start seeing a swarm of of blood-sucking flying insects with needle-like uh poroskises uh about the size of rats oh shit yeah it's a small swarm of giant mosquitoes

[01:39:49] uh can i see either you can still see them but like yeah you'll have to shout out to them no i don't no i spend a spell you teleport uh no i can't do that yet um but the book of elat lets me spend a hope to open a line of mental communication with one target i can see this connection lasts until my next rest or i cast telepathy i am gonna say that you probably see antioch before you see

[01:40:16] i was gonna say it would only just it would only make sense to get antioch's attention anyways because he's quite literally the one you send to start the fight yeah so i'm going to um i'm going to open a line of communication with antioch and let him know that uh shit there's some there's some big blood-sucking fucking mosquitoes coming a huge swarm of them a swarm of huge of them

[01:40:43] fucking i'm hiding yeah there's like reeds and some ship debris still on the shore so i will render aid please attempt to do better i fully imagine i fully imagine antioch stopping mid-stride and me jumping miscalculating and hitting him based on his big oh bang ow why'd you stop our comrades being attacked you look down you're seeing you see the oh the goblet the goblet is

[01:41:10] down still down on the shoreline and there's a swarm of a black swarm of large insects coming at him why is he taking so fucking long if he was up here it almost looks like a like a swarm of birds except those are not birds i would start making my way towards him because like i can use my

[01:41:30] random blades when they're close enough so is a swarm a single entity or is it uh so it's a horde um does it count as target or target dozens of fist-sized mosquitoes flying together for protection

[01:41:59] uh so they are one they are one mass of things uh until it starts yeah yeah they're they they treat it like one like like they're it's a mass of things okay um plus two bonus two their difficulty okay so yeah basically the um it looks like they increase like their their difficulties and so that for

[01:42:26] hitting and such right when dealing with them so we treat them as one yeah okay it still only counts as one yeah and then it looks like if yeah i mean out of game it looks like um once they start getting like diminished like once their health starts diminishing they actually they're it affects other

[01:42:45] things about them so yeah uh so yeah um i guess this is gonna be the combat another uh thing so you guys you and you guys are gonna have to like rush down to help them so you guys all have three action

[01:43:03] tokens just like three actions um in the combat yep so uh we'll start with um with antioch uh so you can spend an action basically to get to just charge down there and and get down there because it takes it's easier to get go down than up i spend an action to charge down the hill okay yeah within that within

[01:43:27] within seconds you're just you're like an avalanche of a robot just running down going down the hill so i would like to approach within very close range of uh i got it okay yeah uh and then yeah the swarm is approaching from the uh the shot from uh the various like marshy like wrecks around so uh they are they'll they're they're gonna be on you guys in seconds so uh so i'd use one of my points here

[01:43:57] to uh use my caprine leap okay to basically jump in very close range with these two yeah basically just separate a unified force when it does get here yep yeah i kind of see that as like you just like you skin it down a little bit and then just basically yeah it's literally one of those i get enough speed so once i jump i'm just i'm gonna make it yeah all right and then what is your action as this thing's all right well since the boys are standing here now i'll uh conjure up a bunch

[01:44:26] of light between me hands and then uh step into a very dramatic kamehameha wave position and launch that bot a bolt beacon uh straight into the little fuckers okay uh so i make a spell cast roll i'm trying to save the rest of my stress for me to fight this damn orc

[01:44:51] and the and the glass serpent i mean i'm hoping that the serpent can be communicated with i don't know how but so how do we lose stress uh there are some my next question um some skills that uh that mark stress off we can take a rest which will get rid of stress uh you could have a um healing potion or a stress

[01:45:16] potion uh healing does health but a uh uh whatever the other one's called stress um stamina potion oh yeah i actually meant to uh let you guys know that if you guys won you guys could have taken like a short rest on the boat before you progressed further so if you would like to do that like great i rolled 17 with fear 17 with fear oh right yeah i keep thinking like i keep forgetting what that

[01:45:42] fear is that okay so all right uh success spend a hope uh so i assume that's a success 17 yeah uh to send a bolt of shimmering light towards my enemies dealing die eight plus two i guess i gotta find a

[01:46:00] die uh uh no i got one okay that's a 10 that's 10 that's a 10 that's a 20 that was a die 10 okay seven plus two so that's nine damage nine damage okay so uh that actually is going to be severe

[01:46:29] um so you yeah kamehameha half the swarm fantastic fantastic long game is it yeah um soon yeah but it also makes them vulnerable oh what's that mean okay i guess i gotta look that up uh well i mean i know that if i were to use my reign of blades it gives me an additional 1d8 damage

[01:46:59] when they're when something's vulnerable yeah okay so so instead of d8 plus two it would be 2d8 plus two okay so probably like makes it's probably like a weakness or like a vulnerability yeah it's probably some along the lines like if you were stunned in dnd or something like that where you like you get advantage on the attack against it except instead of advantage it's just bonus damage yeah it's on page 102 yep uh vulnerable when uh yeah when you gain the vulnerable you're in a

[01:47:27] difficult position in the fiction this might be mean you're knocked over scramble to keep your balance caught off guard uh when a creature becomes vulnerable the player and gm should work together to describe narratively how that happened while you are vulnerable all roles targeted to you have advantage okay so that's what you got there you go so uh until vulnerable is cleared then they

[01:47:54] have worth asking how does one player vulnerable um i believe he has to spend a fear on their turn yeah i believe yeah i mean narratively it's pretty simple because like you said the half of the swarm shot vaporized the other half is like wait what yeah they sort of like scattered and then they're trying to reform it into like a but like a smaller but still cohesive unit yeah uh and i'm actually i am actually going to spend a fear not to make them vulnerable but to actually go

[01:48:25] uh so um uh so yeah they are going to actually go after the the small swarm is going to go after the goblet um and uh attack you so your little proboscuses are going to come at you uh and that is

[01:48:47] a 16 remember i rolled 20 d20 on this where did my where did my curds go oh they're on your stomach they're on your belly bud oh they're on the other side of my belly uh this is the only way i have the five that i have right here yeah i have no excuse i have all the info right here re-roll nine

[01:49:16] please all right i'm using my goblin danger sense uh that's going to be a nine that's not enough is it not no okay so they saved your ass just like like all like torpedoing towards you to try and like just pin cushion you with their proboscuses proboscuses yeah um but they do not manage to get you

[01:49:41] so um okay so you went you went and then you went so i guess back to you etioc oh six use the fear to interject and don't as a divine wielder i throw my axe at this worm okay 14 with fear uh 16 with fear

[01:50:06] also remember you get advantage so you can roll a d6 22 with fear with fear okay yeah that's better there it is um and with fear you said yes um so uh yeah you uh managed to hit them so roll your damage

[01:50:30] seven seven okay seven magic uh that is going to be moderate or major damage um they are not quite all gone but uh how does that look like how does like the you like throwing your axe and like how does that like take out a bunch of like a whole like a swath of them so they're they're dive bombing him yes yeah so they're sort of lined up on a plane i'm perpendicular to that plane as i throw the axe it

[01:50:58] carves through them just cutting off wings and as it returns it carves through the game i mean if you want a little bit of flavor to that you can even say that as you spin to throw it causing a spark off the rocks catching fire and then you throw it and it comes back because you are a clanker which means your weapon being oily is not another question also i am the subject of a fire god yeah that makes

[01:51:23] sense yeah yeah yeah yeah you torched even more of them um so at this point there's like only like a handful of them left um but they are kind of pissed even they're more into a frenzy honestly for your far as it doesn't really make sense for me to attack because all that was a dagger what am i going to do so you're trying to stab them individually i ain't got no fucking fire god like

[01:51:46] you control like shit you know they're appropriate well i will actually spend a fear and uh they are going to target you okay because they strangely enough they sense that they can't get any blood from the from the uh thing that's from the machine yeah the machine i wonder why yeah i'm fucking that 20 jesus

[01:52:09] uh yeah anything they can i mean if it's 20 then they're clearly gonna hit me yeah uh then the oh hang on i'm using different nice because they are diminished it's a d4 d4 in there

[01:52:29] uh i have one in the pouch over there okay let's use that one and so you take two damage and uh you have to mark uh you mark stress or i mark stress to force the target to mark an

[01:52:52] additional hp so you take three uh hp or or sorry you take um so i hmm aaron so i rolled two against your threshold so that would be one and then uh for the blood sucker uh part here it says i can mark a stress for the mosquitoes uh to force the target to mark an additional hp does that mean

[01:53:16] that basically that that bypasses bypasses okay so yeah so you're actually taking two h uh two uh two hp okay uh as you start getting you start feeling your life blood like being drained from from the uh from these yeah because it doesn't say to increase the damage to the next category it says to mark another hp yeah um yeah so all right well at this point i'm just lash out with my dagger

[01:53:46] pissed off because motherfuckers just bit me yeah so with finesse that is 14 with fear 14 with fear all right uh that will easily hit them so that is d8 plus three because it's paired with a small dagger which

[01:54:10] gives me plus two okay that's that's not a d8 that's a d8 no that's a seven not a one uh 11 11 10 fuck man 10 okay 10 uh so that's severe um that actually will kill them all so so just pissed off and start slashing with both daggers blood gushing out of them because like they're like they're siphoning blood you're just like popping them i'm just so mad i'm stabbing all of them just it's just

[01:54:40] like go just blood it's like blood showers like like a samurai movie so realizing that i've killed them all i'm just gonna look around go uh and then i'm gonna drink my minor health lotion okay yeah so how does that work um they must have been deer flies right yeah um let's see how does

[01:55:06] that work um minor health lotion yeah oh exactly i look actually i found consumables here minor i've lost half my fucking health i need this feeling kind of woozy all your blood is there well i mean i got shot by an arrow and i'm like yeah okay and then then the mosquitoes started sucking me in a way

[01:55:29] i didn't consent to you clear one d4 hp okay that would d4 sorry i got i just okay first uh while you're there yeah what's a uh what's stamina potion what d4 stress uh which was it stamina potion stamina potion uh yeah one d4 stress okay and just like that i'm feeling much much better yeah how's your

[01:55:52] stress i mean two out of six i'm gonna spend two hope and clear one of those all right beautiful thank you very much okay so i'm using mending touch yeah to cure the stress i'm just giving a nice back rub yeah yeah yeah i got i got the magic fingers god they're so strong it's almost mechanical

[01:56:22] magic just standing here they vibrate well i was gonna say i was gonna say all bunkers is all bunkers is everyone why do your fingers vibrate your mother likes it you met her uh you should have said your sisters like it oh damn i missed that

[01:56:48] opportunity i was also i was gonna be like you should have seen my my my uh my female uh family unit like he basically has insinuating that he has a sister also that is also a vibrator but she's just a vibrator she's like she's just a dildo uh yeah so um suffice to say as you guys are like cleaning up and like licking your wounds and such

[01:57:18] that's when you guys all hear this like horrible like like grinding slith like grinding like hissing sound coming from the caves uh coming from up up the hill of the cave immediately damn um and yeah you you're pretty sure like whatever's up there knows you're coming um like it's what it woke up to

[01:57:43] some date to the sounds of what was going on out here so okay so point of note tasty point no um another thing i didn't know about my class in this uh strange patterns oh yeah um choose a number between one and twelve when you roll uh when you roll that number on any duality die gain a hope

[01:58:09] or clear stress you can change this number when you take a long rest so i've now chosen that number and it's a seven okay lucky seven lucky number seven um just just to put that out because like if i if next time i roll that i hadn't brought it up to you guys then it could be said that you just picked that number right now you dick yeah well that's fair yep i put it i put it next to your uh

[01:58:34] your name on this just so i have it in there um yeah so yeah you guys like deal with that little like issue and then you hear the the grinding hissing sound coming from upstairs from up from up the hill as like it hasn't hasn't poked its head out of the cave yet but like oh fuck it it you get you yeah it's pretty aware of something outside can i take a moment to try and find a safe place near

[01:59:02] the cave entrance to hide um sure yep uh yeah you guys can i say this one like you guys take some time and climb up there yeah i just pick them up by the collar game you are being assisted please do not resist this is due to my community i get uh advantage on rolls on finding a safe place to hide so that's why i specifically asked for that just because i want a spot where i'm safe but i can kind of see what's going on yeah but ideally safe yeah you can actually yeah i'll say you can find the spot you

[01:59:31] actually is like you should climb up above the cave mouth okay and kind of like dangle along precarious kind of precarious along the uh the edge and kind of poke through between like two of the like crystal stalagmites okay there um to see inside cool um yeah that does not do safe we're gonna find out how safe that turns out oh horrible

[01:59:56] so that you're here with my finesse it's five five um i'm either not seeing shit or i'm falling which one do you want do you want to fall or do you want to i mean my my full objective like my main objective was to be safe yeah with the ideal of being able to see yeah you i'll say you you're like you're safe so you're not gonna fall but i just can't see you can't see anything and you

[02:00:23] also can't hear like you hear like something deeper within the cave but there's also this like weird like glass kind of sound like like almost like lots of like like chandeliers like dinging and kind of like a ring yeah and it's just like almost keeping like a bit of tinnitus which oh so yeah so it's like yeah it's just no that's perfect no that's that's absolutely fair and yeah it was with fear so yeah all right so um what uh that's what this i assume you went

[02:00:51] uh i assume you guys what you went ahead of these two or like i'm a little bit quieter than them yeah yeah so yeah you guys eventually you guys get up shortly after uh he's been doing that so uh yeah you are at the mouth of the cave okay we're doing it master blaster style hmm we're doing it master blaster style okay you're sitting on my shoulders firing

[02:01:17] oh okay i can accept that yep i'll draw my wand and hold on to the top of his head i have an antenna fantastic um you guys can both roll me a uh perception or so instinct to to hear something as something starts approaching from the from inside the cave this is gonna be like one big

[02:01:42] like long set of comments oh yeah yeah grit grit all right uh rolled seven okay um sorry i rolled a seven on my hope die yeah uh but seven and six is 13 uh plus one is 14 14 with hope okay yeah you hear from deeper within the cave um you you hear this like weird like tingling sound

[02:02:08] like almost like the rocks like dinging and like almost like uh uh like chandelier glass and crystal um and you hear that that gravelly hush like like hissing sound getting louder and behind it you hear it's like what is that go check it out jar go check it out so you know that that's what you hear from deeper within the cave so the ogre is close to the amount of the cave but he's sending his

[02:02:35] pet out first can i attempt to sneak in to the cave then like kind of along the side away from these two uh yeah i will there so you can see them like they're they're in like near the mouth of the cave and then you start seeing something like at first you're like oh it's like there's like a rock shift no no that's the crystalline glass snake that's coming out of the cave um and its head is like past

[02:03:00] you at this point so yeah but yeah so you uh uh for puck and antioch you see this like uh this large crystalline um serpent about the size of uh uh about the size of a house um or it's the size of a house or it's the size of a house coiled up so it's really only like three feet in diameter and its belly

[02:03:27] but no um like i but its head is about the size of your boat it's pretty big yeah that's pretty big it's described as having a massive head that leaves behind glass shards trailing behind it so maybe like half the size of the boat is the head and then like a long a long serpentine body

[02:03:52] and tail um that's just shedding constantly shedding glass okay if i could get your attention i would try and talk to it well i was actually thinking you're gonna do that anyway okay good okay um i don't know if it speaks english do you have anything to

[02:04:18] telepathy i mean spend a hope to open a line of mental communication it doesn't specify a language yeah no that's that it is telepathic communication that's a good point i can't argue against it okay uh so yeah i will i'll mark off a hope well what language is masters speak to it in uh it did sound like uh a brutish common or like yeah like whatever the common english dialect it

[02:04:45] should at least be able to understand you if not communicate back well i mean at the very least i should be able to send it like pictures to show my meaning well exactly yeah so um so that means that our telecommunication drops telepathic communication there we go uh and i open one up with the glass snake okay uh it it starts kind of coming out of the cave and then it just sort of like gets up a

[02:05:10] like almost in like alert and then like sees you guys like sees antioch and then the and uh and puck and then you start like you just open up a line and it's like what what is this relax there friend this is just so we can talk no talk leave or be eaten well i suppose you could eat us if you really

[02:05:36] wanted why or you might get a taste of the freedom why would want freedom me love master do you ask for sure he is no he's telepathic so who do you now yes is he good master master

[02:06:01] raised us from egg oh that's great what happened to all your siblings no siblings oh yes siblings snake always lay dozens of eggs where did your siblings go i don't know oh but he might have eaten your

[02:06:29] siblings no roll roll roll a persuasion yeah this is my worst role my strength which is why i got pulled off the boat uh okay um okay so 10 with hope and five fear so 15 minus one so 14 with hope

[02:07:04] so it's like he's resisting that idea but he's not attacking yet and and for you antioch you're you're seeing this it's just like kind of like just it's almost like a conflicted body language but for the body language it shivers and more glass sheds off of it like think of like you know how like uh when you're like when you're hammering down metal ore and like you see like that glow yeah it kind of has a glow to itself like its internal body and you're seeing like flakes of glass and like uh crystal kind of

[02:07:32] come off of like that like the impurities yeah no no i'm sure he's been great to you always gives you the first choice of the meat and lets you keep whatever loot it is that you're after whatever whatever a beautiful serpent like yourself would want to keep he probably dotes on you like an absolute favorite pet never sends you to do the grunt work or nothing piece of art you are

[02:07:58] that's that's my job is to is to protect master and his horde oh well that sounds like an awful waste to your talents he lets me eat the intruders like you but he never goes and gets you something delicious to eat like you could eat me yeah sure like i'm like roll fear all right attack all right

[02:08:26] i'm sure you've had lots of goblin in your day and lots of lots of halflings too both gamey and small and not not a whole lot of meat on our bones and i'm sure that the humans are are just kind of tough and not terribly pleasant they smell bad and and i mean satyrs oh well you know those might not taste too bad kind of gold like like goat

[02:08:54] i've never had satyr while he's talking while this is going on as soon as i realize something's going on can i start sneaking further in yes i was actually gonna yeah so like you're prolonging you're you're delaying because i at least want to be able to come back and be like okay this is what the fuck we're walking in here yeah so yeah you can you can now try and climb down into the cave i should always just take charisma as one of my uh uh abilities like my one of my good ability scores yeah

[02:09:23] nice plus two uh 13 with fear 13 with fear yeah all right so you managed to get in there um and um like you managed to sneak past the the jarming gander uh this glass serpent uh it's he goes down a ways through the tunnel like you're you're you're falling like you're probably what the fuck this is a big fucking snake and um and it's like there's keeping him distracted i don't

[02:09:50] want to fuck with him it's sort of like a geo tunnel like just like tons of like crystals like poking through everywhere and it's like massive jagged slag tights and slag mites uh and eventually you get down into you see a glow beyond the serpent's tail but you you hit the end it's like at least like 40 feet down like 40 feet long um and you get down into the uh like

[02:10:12] deeper into the tunnels and you see a glow further in and uh you you see glittering gold and silver and and uh and chests of of other things um kind of in and around uh like the sides and a mixed kind of like like just kind of um leaning up to the crystal walls yeah and then in the center is this giant

[02:10:34] bloated fucking humanoid grotesque monstrosity of a of a being uh he's got like jagged antler horns like kind of like from the top of his head all the way down to his like the the nape of his neck okay um he's got beady little like red eyes uh his skin's like kind of a mix like kind of like a cow pattern of green and yellow um uh yeah this is some kind of an uh he's got like kind of wet

[02:11:02] like grossly wet like skin like hair kind of like falling from either side of his face um almost like lamb like uh like uh mutton chops yeah um and yeah he's massive tusks big bloated body it's it's it's it's an ogre uh and he's just kind of sitting there with like next to a fire roasting

[02:11:22] a person roasting a uh actually um a fawn or what was once a fawn um and um uh he's like calling down to let's say what's the talking so long just go and eat whatever's out there and bring back whatever they have so he's gonna start having a more of a truck a thick trucker

[02:11:48] like accident so i'd like to cast nightwalker okay and use the shadow that i'm currently hiding in to jump into his shadow yeah the shadows are flickering all around so yeah you can do that uh and then i would like to use my ability pick and pull to have advantage on an action roll to steal from him okay it says here through south of force so stealth is through finesse

[02:12:14] uh yes okay oh yeah what are you trying to steal from him exactly or like just whatever he's got on him because i'm assuming anything of true value he would keep with that's not fair yeah okay that is 14 through fear well anything that he determines to be of value which might not be of value yes but it's something i can use to bargain because i can bring it back to you and offer the

[02:12:39] serpent because it's valuable to master okay yeah um so what did you get 14 fear 14 of fear so you go to grab onto it and you you get it but then he shifts his weight i went sorry yes you go to grab it you see like on his belt um kind of like in like a little like like look kind of there's like a loop like he's like kind of strung almost like a noose yeah uh there's just like kind of the cap metal

[02:13:07] figurine to you it's pretty big to him it's just basically like a little like it's almost like a little figurine uh of some kind of like angelic being okay uh it seems to be made like of silver and like some inlaid like jewels and the eyes and such i'm gonna get my hands out on her tonight um well yeah actually um yeah as you as you go to grab it you you you get a hold of it you unlike i'm nuisance from the uh from the strap uh and then he shifts his weight and uh yeah you're gonna uh i'm gonna

[02:13:34] just roll uh to see how much um to see if if it's a bad or well just a minor damage all right it's gonna be a minor like one one hp okay uh as he sits on uh he actually uh he sits on your hoof on one of your hooves it's not enough to like crush it like break it right now but it's enough for me to be uncomfortable and stuck yeah um so you currently can't move and he just and then he

[02:13:58] starts like oh what is it just like kind of like trying to get back behind where you are trying to adjust and also trying to like see what's what's like poking him in the ass help me step ogre i'm stuck oh god so quickly just before we bounce can i take a second to try and basically look around for something to indiana jones this yeah now that'd be uh yeah the uh instinct to quick thinking uh instinct

[02:14:28] is zero so that would be 16th row 16th row yeah you find a um uh yes you find a a scimitar and a scabbard uh that you can like basically like quickly as he's like yeah as he's adjusting oh yes basically switch off of the statue it's made of solid gold and covered in rubies but but you know it's still yeah uh there you know we'll say the statue as soon as you grab it from to it so like there's

[02:14:54] some kind of like it's like well hey some magical potency to it um but yeah you swap that out and like switch that and he starts he he tanks against the um the metal scabbard yeah it is a gold inlaid scabbard uh and he's like oh and then he's like just trying to like adjust and eventually he does adjust uh his his uh his ass his butt cheek to allow you to like get your your leg up and then he's like a little bit of a lip yeah it's like a little bit of a light spray basically from

[02:15:25] his weight all right so at this point i'm just gonna stay in the shadow because due to my uh cloaked unless i move or attack him he can't see me so i'm just gonna stay here for now yep um i'm gonna give this idea you're pulling a john cena basically because at this point like through through ivar's perspective i now have something that is valuable to him which means it's valuable to the snake and the snake hasn't attacked you yet because i'm pretty sure i'd hear something that

[02:15:51] fucking big but you don't necessarily know that the snake finds it valuable because nobody can actually get a compensation yeah what i mean is is if there's anything of value in here if you're able to manipulate the snake i know how to manipulate people it's going to be through something that the master values because people follow somebody who they see either a value in or somebody who has value true at the very least i can try and bargain this thing and if the snake doesn't

[02:16:14] fucking want it i do so fair yeah plus again the snake hasn't attacked yet so like clearly you're doing something that's working i don't want to fuck with that if i don't need to plus will let me bullshit for a very long from here i can sneak attack if i need to as well so uh so yeah we come back to the the snake's head like right there so anti okay you're you're watching this like you don't know what's going on like in in their head but he is the snake is just like

[02:16:42] eyeballing your your uh your goblet friend so who is still sitting on your shoulders i'm going to interject in common okay stay negotiations have failed you are being placed under new ownership resistance is futile okay so the teleportation breaks or like pauses for a moment it gets muffled

[02:17:06] it gets muffled i i have a role for this oh you do okay yeah so first of all i like to use my clank uh purposeful design to give me a plus one bonus to my primary experience of peace through power i've been designed by the elite minds of the order of the burning bush to sounds like a venereal

[02:17:30] disillusion to deter our enemies from ever challenging us i'm a war machine a war forged as he will comply or he will face the true wrath of my god so i'm also going to put uh so that gives me

[02:17:49] a d20 for my hope die okay jesus i'm just over here teleporting and shit plus one bonus plus d20 uh plus five for my prayer dice he is going to be my bitch or he's going to die it's one or the other

[02:18:12] god that sucks i don't know how you pulled that off but so 12 plus uh 17 with fear 17 with fear okay so the uh it it like oh 18 with fear 18 okay just quickly before you decide i would also point out aaron has already instilled a bit of doubt i i am aware of that yeah so it i wish i didn't need to

[02:18:39] argue for it does it does like kind of like its head kind of like cocks back like because it's like what are you saying and then like but it sort of like backs up a little bit almost like in fear uh from your just your sheer presence and like your like your like you're like yeah you're like force of will wait that's a that was an instant rule uh presence rule 19 yeah however as you're saying this uh you hear the uh and you see you see that i hear this and see this a lot more clearly but uh you guys hear

[02:19:07] the ogres like oh what the what is going on there jar and he's just getting up and starts coming up to see what's going on as well so the snake's not attacking you guys um because it's in some kind it's in a state of doubt from both your telepathic communication and your your authority your divine authority um but its master is now like coming out to like to see what all this racket is and just for context i'm staying within his shadow yeah you're just like i'm like you can't see

[02:19:36] because you're not looking at me and i'm in your shadow so like okay then i will immediately because i didn't actually do anything no yeah i just said shit yeah i would then like to immediately cast uh my spirit weapon to attack the ogre so shoot past the snake past the snake just whip the axe

[02:19:56] right in his face all right come on good roll you want him alive right seven with fear seven that is not enough and uh can i use a here huh can i use a hope uh yeah uh can you spend hope to do that uh

[02:20:24] no no no yeah we realize you can't yeah no um so uh actually roll your damage hold on i can spend a hope to use an experience which i will also use for peace through power because i'm now but you can't use experiences in combat oh is it only for like skill like it's only for skills okay okay um but uh yes roll your damage

[02:20:53] for your your axe six six sorry just a brief aside you can't spend hope to give you advantage or anything but have you used your prayer dice i just did yeah okay yeah i know i didn't give an take a roll yeah i blew both of them yeah okay um but yeah so the the axe does uh end up um

[02:21:19] like it doesn't it misses the uh the over completely ricochets off another piece of crystal and hits ivor really yeah yeah with fear roll that low no but with fear it's a failure with fear yeah it was a failure with fear so um so ivor you took uh that that'll be six on your threshold that is

[02:21:45] just enough just cause major because it's my threshold is six okay so yeah then you're getting taking you're gonna take two hp if unless you do something because unless you mark an armor or two can we use one hour and take one damage yeah yeah all right i'm gonna do that then okay so basically you you see it coming whoa and if i see one of those i i can either avoid all this and get seen or i can avoid part of this and not be seen and i'm gonna avoid part of this and not be seen yeah because

[02:22:11] i'm going to use my fucking sneak attack and try and stab this motherfucker inside the fucking neck okay hey your act comes back to you and he's like is that there's blood on there but like pretty sure you missed this thing and the fact oh oh i'm so close to being a crit but it's still gonna be fucking dumb 23 which one's my fucking what do i use for attack again uh finesse so it's a plus two that's fucking 25 through fear jesus okay uh well yeah you hit him or you definitely hit

[02:22:41] i'm fucking terrified of this dude because now i'm getting hit by my fucking friends too all right so that's uh d8 plus three you still have a connection with the snake it's a little bit muffled more muffled but yeah 11 damage uh 11 damage yep it's literally the max this is as much damage as i can do without creating okay so that's gonna actually be two hp so that's amazing and then

[02:23:05] i would also like to take this opportunity to use my kick which is a second attack which is in melee range it doesn't say an ability would you accept finesse since that's what i use for my other attacks uh yeah okay so that would put me on a total of 20 through fear to kick him

[02:23:32] just kick him well so uh based on this uh mark is stressed to kick him which right yes because you have that uh that's for and what it does is it allows me to kick myself off of him so i can now create space and get the fuck away from him before he tries to hit me yeah because you're not gonna be and you're not gonna be able to kick him back and it's 2d6 damage 2d6 damage okay

[02:23:55] 2d6 damage so that's 5. 5? all right um that is going to be 1 so and just for my own context how far would you say a kick like that justifies distancing me from him uh basically i'd say from melee to very close yeah from melee to very close so like within like 10 to 30 feet i think it is yeah very close yeah pretty sure it's yeah so yeah you're you're basically like about 10 to 30

[02:24:24] feet knocking back either myself or the target so actually i'd rather kick him closer towards these guys except this guy's a pretty hefty so like that yeah it might not be sense for no that's true i mean i did just stab him in the fucking neck yeah but it's narratively implausible narratively makes more sense to kick myself off and just create that distance because i don't want him to just like rage swing and accidentally hit me just because he's mad yeah he is gonna get into a fury though moving forward oh absolutely yeah but now he's getting attacked from both sides and

[02:24:53] he has to prioritize yeah and the snake hasn't done anything yet no the snake's confused i would just like to point out to the to you as the dm yeah that the snake has just seen me make that wicked intimidation check i threw the axe yeah and his master just took a whole lot of damage yeah the fact that i didn't actually cause it and the snake doesn't even know i'm here like the only the only person that has mentioned a fawn is him yeah the snake hasn't seen me at all no actually i

[02:25:18] mentioned a safer the same shit well yeah but i mean also not the axe and the guy's not looking good yeah are you are you implying that like like the the want the snake to attack you now or well no it would be intimidated by that it would look intimidated okay it would look like through his authority he is usurping the current masters yeah because i just bloody the shit out of what makes it i didn't but yeah no i i get you yeah yeah so the snake is still like like very confused and actually uh through

[02:25:48] tele through your telepathy link still it's it's kind of like scatterbrained a bit it's like what it's like what is happening what what what what it's just like it's like what what just one moment friend i will turn my attention to the ogre and start singing gently and i will throw a handful

[02:26:11] of sand and rose petals and lavender in its general direction and i will cast sleep okay i'm gonna say that like the sand and the petals like catch on a strange wind and go to like down the cave because he's still far away he's yeah he's like i'd say he's basically like far away not very far but far oh okay yeah he's he's down he's down near the behind near the back of the snake sorry because his

[02:26:38] his weapon thing is for like very close range i think okay close range okay close range in that case i will actually read adjust and say that the the ogre was coming inside like to the side of the snake so yeah he's in close range okay my bad okay because if he's in close range then i can cast sleep yes okay but it wasn't if it was a far then i cannot that was my my bad i didn't establish where the ogre was in conjunction with the snake so

[02:27:07] it all makes more sense negatively to do it this way yeah yeah okay so that's an 11 and a four uh so 15 17 with hope uh that will hit his difficulty yeah he's asleep what oh just into the just yeah just like just face plant doesn't die but like just face plants into the

[02:27:36] into the dust into the little like rock like crystal dust in the ground on a success they are on a success they are asleep until they take damage or the gm spends a fear on their turn to clear this condition okay also like there's a reason why this ogre is like also like up for your you're you're look at your daggers like and like they're just like dented and like and hard you're gonna have to like you're gonna have to like start like taking a little blacksmith to get worked at the second like i see this ogre fall over asleep i'm immediately using all of my

[02:28:06] rope to try and just tie its feet yeah my whole 50 feet is just going on his legs yeah um i am going to spend a fear um because i need you and i want you to roll a uh a finesse to get out of the way because as he like timbers down and crashes uh that actually dislodges a bunch of of the crystals on the roof i was just saying i'm behind him he's not leaning on me but that that yeah

[02:28:35] that's a 10 actually it's crit never mind i was doing math on there okay uh yeah you just like whoop you're like around around his feet or like you just like kind of hunker down and then like after the last couple of them like have fallen like a couple of them hit him and like did nothing to him yeah his skin's like kind of stony and like and like hard and hide so like you and then you're able to like start trapping them and then i'd immediately be telling anti-hoc be like uh you want to

[02:29:00] tie his hands quick i'm yeah you're currently dealing with a snake yeah you're still in front of the snake and the snake is just like what's going on like that's what i'm saying you want to tie his hands quick because the snake doesn't know what's going on yet and i will simply stride forward confidently and begin binding his master okay um snakes is like what are you what what are you doing like what what what are they doing somebody needs to tie his hands well you see your master is a

[02:29:29] right son of a bitch okay and he's being arrested and taken for justice what is arresting let's call it um he's taken and kept you as his pet to use as he sees fit to guard his lair and send to do all

[02:29:53] his dirty work and eat all the disgusting dwarves and smelly uh disgusting smelly dwarves and the and the the elves that taste like vegetables and all the other gross things while he's keeping the fawns and satyrs and goats and sheep and beef to eat for

[02:30:21] himself you're getting the shittiest fuck you look for me right now you can't hear any of this though i can't hear you i'm saying you're delicious all those are never mind yeah it's all tough you know i'm saying you're delicious like yeah to somebody that would absolutely eat me if you knew i was standing here oh i mean he just doesn't know that i'm standing here i've been tempting him to eat me the whole fucking time so yeah it's because you're sitting on a robot how

[02:30:47] does i'm also a robot to eat okay so you can roll one more like um persuade to like convince the snake to like like you're now like he's in fact been being treated like crap yeah and like

[02:31:00] he deserves better uh this is a presence presence yeah sorry okay that's a 21 with fear with fear

[02:31:22] okay um so that's definitely success but with fear uh so the serpent is it's it's definitely like again it's not going to attack you guys um but it's you've it's honestly it starts slithering out and

[02:31:45] it's like it's i need to think about this and it just starts slithering out of the cave and going out into the the woods and the hills around the cave like to to take a walk or take a slither to try to like think about it's but what life has become so you've given the snake this semi-sapient entity an existential crisis he needs to go he needs to go take a walk all right well you're he's gonna

[02:32:14] go ahead and take uh eight points of emotional damage i will send you to jesus oh god that's such a great video that's such a good yeah so yeah you you know what actually roll um i do actually want you to roll something um uh whatever your

[02:32:37] roll two die six seven seven uh it took a stress hit does this count as strange patterns for me because oh no i didn't roll a seven i rolled a four and a three yeah so no yeah the snake the snake took a a stress hit uh so it's it's not doing very it's it's it's going off to go um to to do some soul

[02:33:06] searching um out in the in the woods while you take care of his uh his master i think that's what about his could be about as good as could be expected yeah but somebody needs to tie his fucking hands before he wakes up all my ropes on his feet i'm working on it i am actually working okay good yeah um with your vibrator fingers it's helping stay asleep okay so you two can both uh

[02:33:34] like um uh antioch and an ibar if you're like like roping this guy up uh roll um i guess it's finesse for tinkering i believe yes yes yeah roll that to basically like make sure that your knots are can i will strength check by holding him while he's doing the nine if you're basically like like just kind of like helping him i think that would work uh 17 with the restraint 17 through hope okay uh

[02:34:04] 15 through fear uh yeah so you uh so the legs are strapped down and they start moving on the on the feet and he starts kind of coming to a little bit like you're you're what's your your slumber spell like does it uh what is it um you can spend a fear to wake up yeah i'm sorry i'm gonna spend a fear wake up uh i'm gonna use my kick to the side of his head okay i'm trying to knock him on the

[02:34:34] conscious man that i'm i'm gonna say that like uh uh if he's still like asleep and on the ground then that evil bowl should ask for his advantage yeah you definitely have you're definitely have advantage because he is like broggy and where that other die went yeah it's okay the the floor is

[02:34:56] except for the sack um now can you get down there yeah that's the this is a very tight space oh so it's through fear yeah remember you have uh uh advantage on this one so that gives me an additional d6 yeah okay so that totals to 21 through fear okay yeah you you kick him so roll your damage that is

[02:35:22] 2d6 right yes double check that yeah it's 2d6. Can i spend a hope to help him uh not on a damage roll ah damn it eight damage eight damage uh that is gonna be a major to the side of the side another two to his head boot to the head um boot to the head i will say that is enough for um yeah he's like oh

[02:35:47] why oh it's just like he's not he's still like awake but he's like he's wrong and woozy yeah i chime in with a stop resisting um and what do you would you roll for your um oh that was your like your you rolled strength check to to restrain yeah so you you still got him to restrain so after you've kicked him and he's still groggy he's not gonna like it's gonna take him a few more moments to like kind of like try and get active yeah uh you can uh he's got his arms like basically like held

[02:36:16] together but he doesn't have them uh like strapped yeah so you can roll another um uh finesse to uh basically like wrap that little that is 17 through fear okay uh so yeah he is hogtied but he is again starting to i should just i don't know why i bothered like marking that i'm just gonna spend it now um yeah so he is um he is hogtied for all intents and purposes so but he's starting to move

[02:36:46] around like like trying to like like move around and he's causing again more vibrations and more crystals are going to come down on the ground just for the sake of continuity yeah there's 50 feet of rope on his legs and 50 feet of rope on his hands because i used my entire length of his legs and i used his entire length on his arms yeah so he is tied yeah yeah however yeah he's trying to impale us with the ceiling yeah he's well yeah he's just he's wiggling and his is inadvertently causing

[02:37:12] i don't know about trying but it's happening yeah he's like a i will also say like because i didn't really describe like how big he is like exactly i just kind of like gave you the general thing yeah he's like probably about 20 30 feet like he is a hulking mass of of like fat muscle yeah so i might stand up to his shin yeah um which means i'm like halfway with his thigh yeah like literally one of their favorite one of their tactics is biting off heads

[02:37:39] and ripping off limbs so so yeah mister i'm uh i'ma carry him out of here well first off you guys are both you both since you're both in the cave actually are you also in the cave because you're on his shoulders i'm still on his shoulders i was gonna say i don't think we ever said that he didn't get off then all three of you need to make um some kind of check uh to evade being hit by crystals

[02:38:05] coming down i like spikes coming down off the ceiling can i not bother and just shield okay yeah and tank it yep i mean wait if you're taking over your head then that means that i don't have to do anything i was like you're sure if all you gotta do is like you are his shield yes well unfortunately i'm far i just make the argument for agility then just because the sprint leap maneuver yeah and then could i

[02:38:31] argue for advantage based on my caprian weight yes yeah so that is a crit plus six crit and yeah again much like the original last time it was like yeah yeah and you're actually like you get out of the cave yeah i'm just like i'm done with this no move um and then you're just like tanking it so this would actually be a strength just to kind

[02:38:56] of like not get crushed by can i spend armor points to absorb it i what's the maximum damage you would give me i was probably i was gonna roll two die six to see what it would be so okay roll two die six all right let's see let's see how many arrow points i have to spend nine so that's into a major damage so i'm gonna spend two armor points to tank it yeah okay yeah you just want that yeah you just tank it like a boss just like get your shield up so given that i'm outside waiting for these guys can

[02:39:24] i take a moment to try and just look over this thing that i stole from them yeah what do you want me to roll uh it would be an app probably a knowledge for analyzing and well it's i don't have a minus one that's good zero but that is 15 through fear okay um i will say i'm only a lot of fear yeah you're helping you're bolstering my i'm like almost a 10. i've been like getting like i've been like sticking kind of floating around 10 this entire time i've been just spending i mean i've i have

[02:39:54] enough hope that i well you're not allowed to have more than 12 so that's good that's good yeah i got enough hope to fuck about but yeah um i mean you're helping me like have my my action economy so well i mean somebody has to yeah you see this thing it's um it's like an angel like a silver angelic statue uh probably about two to three feet in in size so it's like three quarters my height yeah yeah like what's this thing i'm gonna hold in this whole time where i keep sitting down and picking

[02:40:21] up bouncing around with it and just yeah um and it's got like kind of uh it's it's stylized human like maiden kind of figure with like uh wings that kind of are that sort of arch on the back um there's uh inlaid the where the eyes are that's like inlaid with um emerald uh one one's an emerald and one's a sapphire if you had to guess um and there's something divine about it um there's some kind of like divinity about the uh the potency okay um like it just feels like

[02:40:50] you kind of you kind of give it all the same kind of similar vibe of magic that your friend your autumn i was gonna say my immediate knee jerk is i need to get into this yeah so aaron do you happen to have any like lightning spells no those are okay so you're a wizard you're lightning spells are sorcerers yeah so basically because because every class has two

[02:41:19] um domains um my domain uh i have one that i share with you and the other one is codex which is like spell books and stuff and they all have different effects and i get a lot of the cool stuff with my codex spells like a lot of them uh teleportation dimension door like that the transportation stuff

[02:41:43] i get those i do get fireball i do get uh uh kind of like time stop but not quite uh disintegration wave like i get some pretty wizardly shit but um i don't get the domain arcane the domain arcane is a sorcerer thing they get lightning spells does anyone get codex and arcane

[02:42:10] i don't believe so because it's a circle i think the other one that gets codex is bard but i don't know what the second one bard gets is but i think it's one of the ones that is shared with rogue um my only thing is that's too bad because i want to make a taser joke sadly i cannot taser taser taser stop persisting

[02:42:39] now i could get a magic weapon that does lightning damage i think i think that's a thing how do we get this i don't know i mean i'm already outside the game so like yeah i'm chilling but like until the snake comes back that might be a problem he doesn't know over here yeah oh he knows what he's been just told what a satyr looks like that's what i'm saying like he was just told that apparently i taste good and he doesn't know that i was here with you guys

[02:43:08] druid gets shares arcane with sorcerer not tanjax actually yeah so they get they get nature magic and and arcane and arcane that's actually that's sick that's sick i'm looking forward to multi-classicist druid we have our caster if you haven't noticed me being able to jump around and just shank more than you see so far yeah yeah

[02:43:35] i mean don't be wrong the city is still a little bit mad at us because we borrowed a ship but like it's only because they didn't realize that we're just borrowing it yeah bard gets codex and uh the butterfly one that's uh grace uh sorry i'm just checking some things let's see i actually kind of like that that layout for domains i'm gonna be disappointed when they add

[02:44:00] additional classes to this game because it's not going to be this anymore well there we go as long as they modified appropriately they could still be but it won't be in the core book well no but you can make that argument and i complain about every single one of these games but because every one of these shares with the two neck uh shares one with the one next to it on either side if you're inserting another class this is the nature of having those things

[02:44:28] there's a very neat way to do this and to go with the opposites the book of contradictions that's actually a really good point directly opposite the circle with you that's actually not a good point like arcane and marshal that's there's your sword mage mm-hmm okay okay no idea what the warlock would work out to based on what i'm seeing over here it

[02:44:53] would likely be grace and something else because grace is very much like the shadow stepping the uh throwing knives and shit like whereas midnight is more the lock picking the theft the coercion which isn't to say that a warlock can't be good at coercing it's just it seems like one of them is more specifically into like the coercion more like the physical i'm

[02:45:22] gonna put a knife to your ribs type whereas the other one's like i'm gonna manipulate shadows and knives isn't there a warlock build that's charisma based usually warlock builds are almost always charisma based yeah all right so um yeah you guys are still trying to get the uh trying to figure out how you're gonna get that over it i'm outside the cave going this thing's magic yeah right yes uh yeah you you understand there is definitely something like some kind of potency to it but

[02:45:50] you're not sure exactly not my forte what is yeah so um you have a big ogre that's in front of the goblin and the anexi i will pete stop resisting and i will bludgeon him with the back of my axe yeah no he's he's sufficiently like he can't move he can move but he's like a little sluggish now at this point he's like a little sluggish now at this point yeah he's like kind of

[02:46:16] woozy i can i can get him out of the cave how if it's a straight shot yeah uh you'd have force push a kinda kinda it's called power push make a spell cast roll against the target within melee range on a success they are knocked back to far range and take two die ten uh take a die ten

[02:46:43] plus two so magic damage you realize you should see you realize doing this you'll push him out of the cave and then he's just gonna tumble all the way down through like well and mind you like you've already like know that like as an ogre he is thick-skinned so he's actually pretty much impervious to to the glass so that so yeah the only concern is the rope yeah yeah he might he might some of that

[02:47:11] rope might uh get get slashed and like he's pretty concussed but like but there's also a good chance he might just like slide all the way down to the shore which would be beautiful and then you just have to see if you can find his uh his existential pet yeah or at the very least or yeah it'll just like let that let let jarmangander just like roam lands become his own creature okay yeah you can do that because i don't think our boat is big enough for jarmangander yeah it's like a 40 foot yeah i was

[02:47:41] gonna say having you described it as being half as big as our boat yeah yeah it's head was half the the rest of its body is about 40 feet long so yeah yeah yeah yeah it's can he not swim maybe i mean we can tell uh mr dungeon man be like hey hey you got an ogre you got an ogre and you have the location of the snake you only get the snake you send some other boys out there go get it we brought you an ogre he also doesn't even know anything about the snake you guys you guys were the ones that like oh like let's source like here's an ogre in skeletons by the

[02:48:11] way if you want a snake yeah send some other guys do it we uh we're out of time we gotta go do some other shit yeah mostly you know pay off the bounty because i stole a shit yeah yeah yeah i've got five stars in the upper corner of my vision all the time i gotta go pay that off you just keep flashing yeah okay so yeah are you gonna power push him i think he'd be funny as fuck personally all right then that's what we do i mean i'm just sitting off to the side looking at

[02:48:40] this thing on with him and what is it and then like yeah so is there anything like all right well i have to make a spell cast roll yep this is some police crew do i get you to do this at advantage yeah he's yeah he's hogtied yeah he's hogtied and confessed you technically have to offer me

[02:48:58] that's for you i'll allow yeah okay wow it's a success that's a four and a four yeah uh plus three three three it's a it's a crit i keep forgetting yeah yeah yeah like

[02:49:25] like yeah he like you you're like what is it there's a gust of wind and you see him like he he shoots out of the cave oh and then just like who just like slides on his stomach all the way down to the shore at this point i just i was just like and just there's a big splash and just like just down at the bottom of the hill yeah and yeah while we walk down you want to take a look at

[02:49:53] this thing i stole it off of him while he was uh roasting his meal down there and that's a total of 10 damage i mean is he dead oh uh let's see if he's dead well so that would actually that's that's only going to be major um he's actually not dead okay even if he was he would not be dead because like in fifth edition

[02:50:18] yeah um you get to determine with the final hit oh whether you knock them unconscious or kill them we probably should have known about that when you get when they were killing when they were uh dealing blows against the skeletons oh well because we did kind of just like i yeah i don't think you're very skeleton unconscious well it doesn't feel right to render a skeleton yeah we were also told that it didn't matter if they were dead they had somebody who can resurrect them it was

[02:50:45] fine it's just easier and cheaper if we didn't kill them yeah and we haven't killed the ogre so like you also have held up to what we said you're giving him a bag of at least five people worth of bones and two living skeletons plus an ogre plus a living ogre so like he might still give you that hundred gold better otherwise i'm going to cut the ogre free and tell him he's going to do him

[02:51:07] yeah uh yeah so yeah and he killed your snake oh no no no no he put your snake in a cage and the only way he's going to tell you yeah anyway also when you guys look down at the shore at the hill hey uh that hill is no longer covered in glass because this like scraped it all out so like the only thing you have to worry about is like a couple of patches of obsidian like uh kind of just like poking out of the ground i want to go back in and look oh yeah there's also the gold there's also the

[02:51:36] horde of stuff well so first i would hand off the statuette to if i get him to look at it and then i'd like to see if i can find any chests that are locked okay well we'll get to that in a second yeah so uh yeah you want to make a uh a knowledge um to see if you can identify what this thing is

[02:52:01] seven with hope seven with hope um it looks very similar to some of the iconocic of like servitors of your god um but and there's definitely some kind of like magical uh presence within the like divine magical presence within the statue um but there's it it's it's sort of like locked in there like it's not like outwardly um activating or anything like

[02:52:30] that once you touch it so can i make a separate instinct role to determine the divine nature sure yeah nothing to do with the actual iconography you just like to sense it yeah yeah instinct is for sensing receiving oh great okay oh there's a one crit is that yeah uh that's fine yeah i'm

[02:52:55] pretty sure the numbers matter yeah it's just it's immediately a crit um yeah you uh it's definitely um uh divine magic so like like holy magic um it seems like it's almost like it would like the magic is is uh uh uh is sort of like a boon of sorts to uh to perhaps to whoever is able to unlock it that's what you're what you're kind of garnering it definitely feels like very familial like divine

[02:53:25] power behind it uh perhaps the wizard may know something but about about uh what the subject is though so you guys can also see about that but yeah um he is still on antioch's shoulders as far as that's also true yeah i do i keep forgetting here oh no i had to get down okay did you have to go okay i had to get down so that i could make my i came back into the cave so you would within reason be hearing this conversation yeah you would be seeing the statue like you'd see the statue and you just

[02:53:54] touch the side of him probably honestly no it you said it was like two or three feet yeah which is like literally what it is and i'm like four foot so yeah all right i'll take a peek we put it down next to him it's a perfect double it changes its form to be from um so that's a 14 but i think

[02:54:26] advantage on roles that involve history culture politics or a prominent person or place do i get advantage sorry what was the what were the event you have advantage on roles that involve the history culture politics of a prominent person or place i don't think that would count sorry

[02:54:45] this icon is not a prominent person or place it's yeah all right you know what i'll give you yeah okay my only argument there was was just going to be the question of is this statue of a significant person that none of us recognize yeah because if it is then i mean technically that would cover okay i rolled a six on the die six but i don't remember what i got before i think it was 13.

[02:55:15] okay so that would be 19 19 20 31 okay uh you do kind of recognize the the maiden figure um um it is uh it it's a prominent saintly or uh or at least like kind of like a holy woman uh of the from like of a of the of a giant tribe up in the mountains um that uh martyred herself

[02:55:41] and uh to kind of honor her they made the the the uh the order that's up there up in the mountains uh basically made these uh these uh these these effigies of her in an angelic form uh hence the wings um and uh yeah you you also recognize kind of what the magic of what what the purpose of is it's a um

[02:56:05] it is in a toon relic so uh you by by carrying one of these things uh on your person you gain a plus one bonus to instinct neat and it's just in the yeah it's just like a

[02:56:29] what type of giant was she uh she was by clubs oh yeah there's like two she was uh blue blue and green eyed um like that you know you know the the the maiden like the the giant maidenness uh of this order of this like aesthetic monk order was uh had like uh but a heterochromia like blue eye and green eye and so that's why like the gems are an emerald and sapphire yeah yeah that's cool yep okay well

[02:56:57] then i will relay this to them if you take a look one eye is in in blue with the others in green it's for heterochromia she was a giantess from up north uh martyrdom whole nine yards she didn't actually have wings but they they made her look saintly in recognition of all that she'd done and stuff sainthood afterwards all that um there's a whole

[02:57:25] story this thing is how tall uh it's it's literally your size like it's it's i think oh actually i think i said it was like three feet you said it was like two or three feet yeah two or three feet yeah sorry to be fair this is for giants yeah so it literally is like basically like uh like a like it's the equivalent of like a pendant or like a something they'd have on their on the on their belt but much like that ogre had well as i said at this point i would just hand it off to andyark because you're doing one big

[02:57:52] enough to carry something like this many of these things were known to be magical and they they've kind of enhanced your senses in a way um sadly you've got to be like carrying it on your person to do that and i don't think that i'm carrying this stone block around with me oh it's not stone it's silver okay i don't think i'm carrying this heavy slab of around with me but no i forgot about the code

[02:58:20] i will carry your burdens okay then take a plus one to your instinct yep you have to take a plus one to your instincts when you're while you're well and you can only carry one relic at a time so if if you find another relic uh you that's the thing yeah uh but yeah once you get uh if you go back into the actual horde

[02:58:45] of that's in the back of the cave i just imagine we kind of wait to the the ogre he's brown he's like he has a good face version of the mud into the water he couldn't get out it's fine life support yeah um okay so here's what we're gonna do me and my boys gonna mess you up i'll roll the one so um

[02:59:12] fuck you find oh god no okay uh i'm gonna roll two dice two dice six so you find four uh effectively four chests of gold

[02:59:35] um in this cave and three chests that are that are not of wow this game just made this difficult right four chests worth of gold and then three chests like actual chests with something in them so this game has a loop uh loop chart um and uh so uh i'm gonna say um uh give me a second here while

[03:00:03] i figure this out let's go with uh so two die twelve uh for uncommon and then uh for two of the so two die twelve uh uh uh you two can roll two die twelves and then aaron if you would like to roll three

[03:00:26] die twelves uh let's let's do this in order so we can figure this out for a rare thing that you guys find in the chests okay so three die twelves and add the total yeah okay 13 13. oh nothing about it i gotta find hang on before before okay let me figure out this to make sure it's we're doing this

[03:00:51] right uh using a rolling guide on the right items ahead of the game or during session determine the desired rarity of your roll of your items roll the associated number of die 12s add their values together if needed to take and take the item that matched that value uh the rolling guide okay so

[03:01:13] yeah so you got um 12 oh so you unlock this chest um and it's empty um but there is uh but for the uh

[03:01:32] but there does seem to be something about it like at a glance it looks it looks it looks out it's not a mimic do not tell me it's a fucking mimic it's gonna be so mad you open the chest it tries to open you um but that's where i thought that was going i was like you you lifted like you tried to like lift it oh this gotta be something cool in it and then you open you unlocked it and it opened

[03:01:58] because there's nothing there but you lift it and it feels heavier than it than it looks um uh you look around roll it roll an instinct or sorry insight uh instinct yeah instinct yeah uh 14 hope 14 hope uh yeah you you like look you have to actually get like anti-rock or something to help

[03:02:22] you like lift it up because it's fucking heavy as hell um and you see on the bottom like there's a little like carved like there's a carved word um uh it's in a different language yeah pen 15 you know what fuck it because it is that world yeah it is that world and that yeah one of our one of my

[03:02:47] my roots for this is table chatter becomes a gameplay oh absolutely um the inside jokes are what makes it fun yeah so you're even say like pen 15 and then suddenly something like manifest uh uh uh uh

[03:03:02] uh manifests inside the chest so roll another uh two nine six oh six uh you find really you find a pair of of locking cuffs that come with a key that roll again that seems that seems that are the magic

[03:03:26] cuffs because that could be cool uh crit eight eight okay fours my god um you find um yeah the uh locking cuffs and a uh it looks like a woven net see both of these things are actually very useful for me because i can jump out of your shadow and arrest you and be like no you're under arrest true that's true yeah um also you have a chest that has a trigger word that actually like will make

[03:03:53] the chest look empty um until you say the uh uh the the uh triggered 15 yeah and when you say 15 10 it it um it go everything that's in it vanishes um i'm the good cop he's the bad cop that's the dumb cop yeah so i am i'm gonna write this down as well i'm gonna like make sure i have dumb cop

[03:04:17] so it was cuffs the chest and what was the other thing sorry uh the chest uh yeah the chest uh the manacles and the net the woman's so uh you can make a finesse roll using this net to trap a small

[03:04:30] creature uh a trapped target can break free with a successful attack roll of 16. i'm just gonna write

[03:04:48] in quotes pen 15 empty chest um and that magic chest is specifically called sebastian's chest yes

[03:05:10] um so what did you get for your uh roll there 18 18 uh you find in your in the chest that you uh or i guess you're also like pick locking like lock picking everything um in that chest there is a minor stamina potion recipe so there's a scroll in that one i mean that still helps all of us

[03:05:34] yeah yeah it was a smaller box but like yeah that uh and then what did uh what did you get for your 26 26 uh you find a great stone you can attach the stone to a weapon that does not that doesn't already have a feature the weapon gains the following feature powerful one on a successful successful attack roll an additional damage die and discard the lowest result

[03:06:05] so it's a socket it's a socket it's a socket for how it's a socketed it's a gem to socket into a into a weapon yeah ship boss you want to trade the scroll the scroll the scroll of stamina for uh for now it says it says um uh a stone uh that can be fitted to a weapon that doesn't already have a feature yeah so um if you look at the

[03:06:33] weapons they all like some of them have features some of them do not but your spell attacks aren't weapon attacks are they that is correct but i do have a weapon i have a wand i just haven't used it so he spells instead yeah uh but yeah otherwise you find you also find like four chests or but i'll take a look and see what weapons do have features gold in this like in this horde that this guy had this

[03:06:58] guy had so which i think if we did the mat like since it's like one we're doing one coin then a handful is 10 and then a bag full is is 10 handfuls and then a chest is 10 bag fulls i mean that sounds right so i think that's what is that not like what's the math there uh one ten a hundred thousand

[03:07:25] that just gave you four thousand gold yeah i just gave four thousand well you know it was a as a this is pretty normal for you chris yep not only that it was described as there's a bunch of gold all over the fucking i did say that so um i mean anything less than four thousand what is really that much gold over the place the how do you carry the hallowed axe that's the problem force push down the hill just explodes gold goes everywhere okay well

[03:07:56] all right then yeah i'll give it to you because my uh my wand doesn't have a feature as well but i also only roll a die six so yeah i'm largely going to avoid using it honestly just the fact that i have a chest that will hide things for me a set of cuffs and a net i can use all of this to do like really dumb shit too

[03:08:25] yeah and look it does say like it basically it just makes them invisible because like it doesn't actually like hide the weight of it well no it just you can't see what's in it okay so we got four chests worth of gold right yeah yeah so i say we take one of those chests and we use it to try to buy this boat that's a good idea um why don't we take one chest and bury it before we try to do

[03:08:53] that just in case we need to take the rest of it who's going to try to take the rest of it the aristocrat that we stole from first because that's how aristocrats are we put them to sleep and put them in your box yeah we put it to sleep and then we put it in his box i mean if he wants to try to take our

[03:09:16] shit after we legitimately tried to buy his shit off of him i mean you guys did say that we stole it i said we borrowed it now we're trying to buy it as long as the offer is good enough i don't see him being that upset exactly we brought it back you can have it back if you want or you could take this chest of gold and we'll just keep it it was an unauthorized test drive exactly i i can at least

[03:09:44] concede to that yes and then that way the remaining gold divides up really easily amongst us true yeah true wind up with a party ship and a chest of gold each to go on fantastical adventures across that world i mean if this works i will be spending my goal to put more cannons on this fair because like having a first silver guns is nice and all but like

[03:10:11] having at least a couple broadsides would be nicer yeah because then next time i can start firing fucking cannons at the earth instead well you probably could have used the swivel guns i was steering okay but if you're steering then you can't be firing the broadsides either no i can get you motherfuckers too you can rig that up i was up in the crow's nest that's why i said i

[03:10:38] could get you for two you fuck also i am the cannon the glass i was about to fucking say that all right so you guys are wrecking these four chests of gold i'm gonna say conveniently the guy had like they were in piles there was some stuff in there that you were able to like put all the gold in yeah uh and so you're basically dragging these four hefty gold like chests of gold um out of the

[03:11:06] out of the cave and then just slide them down just ride them down like a sled yes um i mean one chest weighs like four times what buck weighs so or parts right yeah so like realistically it it's the chest dragging him yeah uh you get down to the the shoreline and the the uh the over is still alive but blowing bubbles as his face is just in the mud and water

[03:11:34] i give him a straw yeah just took his hog nose i started hitting bubbles with a stick and tell him to get the hell out of here that's it um yeah then you have to get him to the boat so yes that's a good job i guess we'll roll him over first i mean if he must uh let's really have a rope for his neck

[03:12:03] no he's got horns it's fine yeah he's got to tie to the horns yeah i just start dragging him by the head okay roll roll strength to heave the like go like get this guy through the water hook are you just on his like on the on the creature's like stomach or something as he's like as you're like as yeah 10 here 10 10 with fear uh yeah you um you get to the yeah you uh start like mushing him or like

[03:12:33] he should be at least floating yeah yeah he's floating ish but it's also the shallows yeah so and he's effectively a fort a 30 or 40 i think it's a 30 foot like like individual so um but yeah you're you're like you're carting him through and he gets stuck a couple of times um okay when he gets stuck i'll just use my my little push again oh god

[03:13:00] that will uh yeah it doesn't cost me anything to do it you're serious really no stress right no stress no hope nothing fuck why am i dragging this guy then yeah because i feel like once he reaches that threshold and he like he's knocked unconscious i feel like if you're intentionally making attack against him again he's going to die i mean

[03:13:24] here so he gets stuck you're gonna roll the do the power push on him sure okay do we heal him first uh you could he's not he's still technically still like alive like you haven't actually truly like gone down to zero or like oh okay so like if he ain't down to zero yet i told you care there it is just like whoa where are we going oh i do have to make a spell cast roll when i do this

[03:13:53] uh okay uh well that's a did you say crit i might actually know you're 13 to say you're gonna say you're managing that because he's tied up yes he does he does i'm very lenient when it comes to like like like you like make it make a case for 17 i okay actually that's yeah that 13 would have been enough actually strangely enough but yeah 17 yeah you

[03:14:21] basically it's like he's like manually like pull it tugging this guy around and he gets caught and you're like don't worry i've got the motor like a powered like the power steering yeah fires him out to very far range no you but you basically uh blast him all the way to the boat um you think you see you think you see one of his antlers has been chipped

[03:14:44] or like broken off um in the process but whatever he's over well i will see if i can find that yeah yeah it's floating around cool maybe i'll make a weapon out of that later uh but yeah now how are you guys getting up onto the boat we're not getting on the boat it floats right yeah well drag him behind we haven't we haven't used the puck's rope yet so that's true

[03:15:12] i can give you guys my rope all right now there's not time specifically from his feet so now you're just a toe you're just towing a tugboating yes nice here's my stupid fucking rope great pull i call back to shore snake heel you do you want to try and roll for that i guess i'll open it come on 12 that's actually a pretty good start

[03:15:42] 10 22 with fear hope uh hope and plus one for presence so 23 23 with hope okay so you call out an echo across like the the hills bellowing yeah um and you you see the snake like poke its head out of the canopy like you see like you're like where oh there he is whoa and he just like looks it just

[03:16:08] like stares at you yeah he's not coming yet no he stopped uh his uh his walk like you got his attention i said heel i point directly to the back of the boat okay roll again yeah at advantage

[03:16:32] that's not gonna work well you have advantage that might 12 uh 16 17 16 17 with hope with hope uh he slink he suddenly like like slinks back out of the brush and around the uh the canopy and then a few minutes later you hear the grinding sound like that's like it's like a slaking off of the glass

[03:17:01] slaking off of him and he slithers into the water and becomes almost immediately invisible in the water because he's a fucking because he's like crystal in glass um but his head's still above the water and he just swims up to the boat i can't believe that worked no god i truly it's the work of my god you and your fucking religion yeah so what would you yeah so he's he's there by the boat

[03:17:29] we start sailing out okay and yeah i guess you you sailed to uh you sure heading to uh sure hope the coast guard isn't waiting for us all about that i mean we have a big fuck off snake now so it's not as big of a problem as it was but like yeah and as you're tugging this uh or uh ogre behind like a like a goddamn tube i uh just want to point out while we're getting ready to set sail i have i've

[03:17:57] mentioned the puck i'm like so you see the flag up in the closeness there mm-hmm we need to lose that why is that because that fight got stolen we're gonna put up a white flag with a gold circle on it what's the white flag with a gold circle we're telling them we're trying to buy it okay do we have

[03:18:26] a flag like that somebody could tinker like okay i'm steering i'll see if i can go find some bed sheets yeah you find some luscious bed sheets both white and gold i will take uh i will take i mean one of the chests and put an aristocratic ship so actually isn't the craziest thing to think of yeah so what were you doing i'm gonna take one of the the chests of gold and put it directly on the prow of the boat

[03:18:55] and open it no we're serious yeah okay then i'll just i guess i'll cut a bunch of vertical slits in the uh in the bed sheet in a certain in a ring and then just feed the cut the the gold bed sheets into strips and start feeding it through like weaving it cross weaving it so that it all makes like a gold ring and then i'll runner up the runner up the flagpole okay pull down the uh other flag

[03:19:24] and quickly burn that so i don't know what we know there like i said it got stolen or just serpents eat this well then the other thing i would do after that is i would make sure that i'll tie it i'll tie it onto the uh the ogre as a diaper yeah i'd also make sure that the swivel guns are like painted backwards like away from the port yes that's very clear so it's like we're not trying to start a

[03:19:48] fight no mas no mas okay yeah we might have maybe did some things without permission but we're trying to make things right now yeah okay um yeah you uh yeah you guys show up about another two and a half hours later like back up show back up to the uh to the port of bad axe um and yeah you see there is a there's like a local guard ship um in in like like that was an approach that was starting to like

[03:20:18] set sail like he said ready um and uh you see on the like like ha see they returned to the scene of the crime but like it's the aristocrat on the on the prow of it i'm just no crime we borrowed it we brought it back didn't we what what is the meaning of this yeah so i just went to the flag

[03:20:41] okay so what's the meaning of this try to buy it yeah roll presents to to convince the uh to convince this aristocrat that's like you're willing to pay for this boat that is 12 with fear 12 with fear i'm genuinely trying to buy it yeah yeah i know i know um i'm just trying to figure out about the fear thing i mean he can ask for more

[03:21:09] like that's not a good enough offer yeah my daddy bought this and got me this yacht for at least twice that amount when two years ago well see that was two years ago prices though see these drive it off the walk at least 1800 nautical miles on this thing not to mention one has two cannons who only has two cannons they're not even cannons they're just

[03:21:37] swivel guns i'm trying not to insult the man to ship i'm literally just trying to make myself look better in this situation so you can try and haggle down um but that'll be another persuasion or another uh presence i mean he's already pissed so yeah that's actually better uh 16 with hope 16 with hope okay he's willing to to accept a 1500

[03:22:08] are each of you willing to chip in 250 so that we have a ship this seems logical because all of my money is going to go to getting more cannons and to make this thing faster i suppose i could pitch you the little beauty okay that's like how like you're giving you're not telling you give me a game gurgle you're paying them yeah i love it well he is literally spending all of his money on the

[03:22:38] boat that's true i'm making it i'm making this thing our fortress yeah this will be your your it's our fortress of solitude yeah whenever we play these games yeah this group again this was my goal right from the start as soon as i knew there was a dock i'm like i'm getting a ship i'm stealing one buying one something i'm getting a ship yeah first you stole it then you bought it yeah borrowed it it's born without permission i did not all the intention of buying it back exactly uh yeah again

[03:23:04] unauthorized test drive yeah uh it was like very well i suppose we'll have to sign some papers over back at back at the harbor wait these things are papers yes oh okay um and yeah you guys get back to to the dock and it's it's not a huge big hullaboo like as soon as you like sees that you guys have the money there yeah he's willing to he's a lot more like amicable

[03:23:31] about it so i'd actually look at puck and send him to go uh bring our lovely friend to come and collect his goods while i sign papers that we have a boat yeah okay so as you guys are like basically you're getting transferring the like ownership of the boat to you i'm sitting here signing things you see like the name of it it's like this should be like fucking like pritzy name what do you want to rename the boat i'm not even gonna like i'm not even gonna say what the name of it it was too too

[03:24:00] obnoxious and like swift but like what is the new name of this this yacht the hedgehog the hedgehog okay it's not particularly large but i plan on making it a prickly little bastard so oh you should call it the no tan lines that's that's the party boat this isn't a party boat so this kind of is a party but yeah we've got the reference for now yeah it's not gonna be wrong the party's yacht

[03:24:29] party boats are going to be fast um yeah so and then uh yeah you you run up back to the uh you know where dunkel zan lives like he's he or where is uh where his uh his residence is in town um so you you go up to his side of his uh his neck of town uh and uh and knock on his door and uh he he opens the door

[03:24:55] and like looks around kind of in like a again that shitty way that's like what and then he looks down like oh oh you're back that was that was quick what'd you find you didn't find something right we got an ogre oh okay and some skeletons perfect are they alive or do i have to get the necromancy i don't think any skeletons are ever alive i i meant i meant primarily the ogre but yeah like like

[03:25:24] the ogre is alive all right skeletons are still some of them are in one piece and some of them are in a bag you know what i'll take it yeah two of them two good i'm glad you're so gracious that she'll take it i mean yeah hey that's it that's good yeah we'll take our hundred gold all right are you not you're not

[03:25:52] offering up the the the glass snake or is that staying i don't think it's his to offer that's that's true yeah it is technically antiox well i don't know i had a good rapport with that snake i'm not everybody else got born i do the same the snakes barely aware i exist i can still communicate with it telepathically absolutely but listen to him yeah he takes his commands but you can actually have conversations with it i can also offer you this large crystalline snake

[03:26:22] hmm all right i don't really like the idea of selling this snake into slavery he you guys do know that that ogre's dead like within a couple within a couple of weeks that that ogre is going to get killed by some noobish party of adventurers who like we're going to get scammed out of their own gold to go into that into that dungeon i'm willing to sell the ogre into that because

[03:26:47] but are you willing to do that for the glass sir that's not up to me yeah morally i wouldn't but the snake again is very only dimly aware that i exist oh yeah the ogre's going to be dead within a couple of weeks yeah how common are glass serpents they're fairly rare like they're like really rare yeah like like they are technically legendary creatures oh no i won't say they're legendary

[03:27:15] creatures but they're they're like a they're sort of like yeah but i feel like the cryptid status yeah i feel like if we if we sold them to this guy and then you know we just let slip to our sisters that get dead dead dead involved get dead dead involved i mean i'm signing papers so i have nothing to do with this yeah yeah antioch at this point i think

[03:27:40] it's antioch and and uh puck that are at imagine so yeah so yeah do you have any thoughts on the matter i would like to receive the maximum value possible for this creature i love you so fucking heartless it's beautiful he is a machine well but that's what i mean like he's sticking to it so well oh it's so good okay but question what is more valuable a box of gold

[03:28:08] or a potential ally that you can call in to assist you later gold through an exchange for services and goods yes that is the definition of money what would your god think my god carries money for his last service fair i mean he might also be kind of pissed about serpents in general

[03:28:38] especially depending on the intentions of said serpent all right well i suppose we're selling it okay we have a prickly hedgehog yacht so okay okay all right i guess we're we're just trying to sell it uh one of you guys could roll presents try and like like you haggle some more money it's like hey look

[03:28:59] like we have this legendary fucking creature it's a glass serpent they're practically unheard of it sheds the most pristine glass from its flesh it disappears in the water basically becomes completely invisible you like providing with the maximum value for this creature or here we'll eat you

[03:29:29] i mean he probably won't last probably probably last part of the longest of anything if he's uh if he turns gets invisible in the water because he's like the ambush predator in the in the in the the the in the dankest part of the dungeon all right uh so you roll your uh presence at advantage that advantage is because of you yeah you're threatened uh so that's gonna be five and five

[03:29:57] uh uh 10 21 minus one is 20 five and five secret no no it's five oh yeah five uh so a total of 20 with fear okay um all right all right i i can offer you another 100 for uh for the uh for the for the serpent five are cringes and he's not sure why yeah

[03:30:28] you also feel a little bad about last 100 yeah we just got 4 000 there then back because that was a horde that this thing had 100 gold for this majestic creature yeah this offer is insufficient i will be retaining this animal all right it's yourself all right we will suit ourselves all right good

[03:30:52] all right fantastic where can i pick up the ogre he's floating in the bay all right i'll get some mung minions to help me with this he's not 30 feet tall i suppose not yeah yeah so he comes down like a little bit later like as you're getting the boat like ready and so that first the cannons are being brought over yeah yeah i told you guys i was putting my money in the

[03:31:18] cannons and shit i wasn't kidding uh yeah you see um uh skeevy duncle uh dunkel zan uh and uh and a bunch of uh honestly like a just a huge like legion of of uh of dwarven like of dwarven smithies and uh and uh or of dwarven like employees um all coming down to the shore yeah and uh yeah he's just like telling like like they're hauling the the ogre closer to shore and then they're just like all

[03:31:47] like in unison taking this this guy and just like heaving him and dragging him on a giant cart and just uh some of the back roads around like around the the main town because again they're trying they don't want like people to see the the the their the goods before they get into the crypt they gotta have a cart out in front with the flashing light and the cart behind yeah exactly yeah

[03:32:12] get special permits for this job yeah um and yeah so uh and yeah he gave you guys the 100 gold for the uh for keeping things alive um they they also take the skeletons and the bag of bones apparently necransers are way cheaper than i thought they were um and uh uh yeah you guys have your uh your ship the um the hedgehog and uh apparently a uh

[03:32:38] a glass serpent you can call upon i'll say that yeah you call upon that glass serpent um once per session no no that is way too much sir once once all right once because i don't know what the stats on this creature are but based on its size and how legendary it is i i may have been like

[03:33:03] over it's like that that whole mimic thing again where he can just start calling down meteor raids of of minutes onto the planet you never got to do it i i know i know but that that is horrifying and like too op even for this world it isn't tier one standard creature is it yeah

[03:33:28] like so but so is a cave ogre so okay okay yeah a tier one standard creature apparently okay um but yeah so i'll say you can you one once you can call upon it yeah for for actual like fight

[03:33:49] yeah yeah um yeah it can be my daily driver sure yeah um and uh yeah you guys you're getting your your ship uh it reinforces retrofitted and such um additional hull over yeah um but we can i think i think that's what we're gonna call it tonight it's just you guys get your the ship being built and

[03:34:17] like you're like there's adventures uh adventures await for the uh for your little team um i don't know what's your team name what's the the crew of the hedgehog sonic and friends but the heroes of the hedgehog heroes of the hedgehogs are bad yeah that's a pretty good one yeah uh and yeah um

[03:34:43] i guess we'll we'll call it for tonight there um comments questions suggestions how'd you guys like it yes i like that i like the flow yeah yeah it's fun it seems like pretty easy like once you get into it it seems pretty uh fast and loosened like narrowly like narrowly uh like fluid so well and i also like that because of there being no initiative like we were able to orchestrate things like

[03:35:08] merit throwing the axe at me using my sneak attack more or less simultaneously yeah like as soon as my character realized what was happening it's like okay go time yeah there was no like kind of waiting for this minion that minion that minion and then my turn like there's there's none of that yeah because now um as useful as the initial system is it can also kind of make things a little more clunky in certain situations yeah now part of a part of the mechanic of this system is something we didn't do but

[03:35:35] you guys did kind of do it was um uh combo attacks you can spend three hope to do a combo attack with a teammate okay where you basically act at the same time essentially could do something along the lines of um hello i could i could call out to merit's character to uh let's play some cricket

[03:36:04] and hit something with my um forceful push thingy straight at him and then he could use his cleave it in twain like they're supposed to be powerful and dynamic things but basically two players get to go at the same time but you have to spend three hope to do it yeah three hope each or three hope total i don't recall i read the rule but i kind of just i was skimming there was one of those that's cool

[03:36:34] keeps reading yeah yeah because i was looking up something uh something else specifically while it when i found that i also i just gotta say i do love antioque like especially near the end is like this isn't sufficient or like how cold you were to work because it kind of reminds i don't know if you guys have seen this like show it's called like murder uh murder bot or something it's on amazon i think or like or apple but it's like basically uh this like security robot working like that's on

[03:37:03] on board this like the the shuttle full of like employees of some mega corporation they get like stranded on an alien planet and they the humans are just insufferable like they like they're they hate like the corporation that they're working for and so that they they're trying for a better life and they try to convince this robot that the security robot to like help them and like they try to treat treat it like a person and it doesn't care about that and it's just like

[03:37:29] you get to hear this thing's inner monologue as it tries to like like interact with these humans and it's like it's sort of like this like really awkward like outward communication but when you like talk about like they're like oh like you shouldn't have like blown that that enemy's head off like we were like like that's that's so like like that's like we could have like gotten her to stop or something like that and he's just like and in his head it's like these humans are so fucking ungrateful like i just saved their asses it's like i save you when you complain yeah or

[03:37:59] it's like like like like when he like came in and like like and like the the person had like another guy hostage and she's like don't move her up and then her head just explodes and he you see like his arm cannon is like ready to fire and it's just like and the the uh the guy who was um who was like hostage was like you could have blown you could have shot me it's like yes that was a uh that was in fact uh a 95 percent that was a a five percent chance there's a five percent chance

[03:38:27] i was gonna hate yeah it's like so methodical but like like it's just like a machine that like has an attitude like like is very logical and just has no time for these emotional beings i have no time for you guys for these a lot this sensitive about this yeah exactly yeah they're they're all so sensitive about things yeah i was like oh should we call it an it or should we call it him it's like it's not part of the crew it's like it's it's like it's like dude i don't even fucking yeah man

[03:38:55] yeah and then it says something like it says something that like um from a conversation that like it had to listen to yeah it's like oh so now listen to us on the ship and he's like believe me i wish i didn't have to but it's like you guys i'm tapped into the security system i have to listen to you huggers you guys are insufferable don't shut up yeah i hear your conversations yeah i really wish you guys so i love that like aspect because it kind of reminded me of that it was really like

[03:39:21] the part it's an interesting character yeah and then fawn just uh uh iver just like bouncing through the shadows it's basically a mammalian zoiberg yeah i'm trying to be over here and uh over here and guess what stabby stabby yeah and then puck in your your irish accent was on point thank you i thought i feel like just like trying to talk down this semi-sapient creature like the whole

[03:39:50] time it's having an existential crisis going wait a minute i never thought about this before yeah i didn't really think about much before but like i was i am really just an animal but with some intelligence you have literally increased my iq by presenting you the fact that i can in fact ask questions yeah this makes me uncomfortable exactly it's like give your dog a reason to like think

[03:40:13] about its existence like uh all of a sudden dog understands depression yeah something dog sad a dog understands question dog not happy yeah yeah that was it was fun it was a fun little little romp back into that world and now we have the jarmungandr the glass serpent the hedgehog the pen 15 empty

[03:40:41] chest yeah uh if there's nothing else to be said i guess we'll turn off the recorder all right oh did we level up oh god i don't know we'll figure that out again okay we're off recording so see you all next time internet goodbye