(The Secret World) MSL-North: Tha Boyz - Episode 2: The Devil's Lettuce Part 2

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[00:00:42] Here there be monsters, and the Monster Slayers League North of the American border is out there. Even out in Newfoundland, there's word of a new team known only as the Buh-Bies. And don't even get me started on the- Hi, welcome to Critical Die. I will murder you.

[00:01:05] Hi, welcome to One Less Die, a secret world tabletop RPG actual play podcast. We're playing our secret world campaign, Monster Slayers League North. Extraordinary gentleman. Yeah. Not too extraordinary, yeah, we're level one. And we're playing with the Buh-Bies in Newfoundland. The Buh-Bies, yeah. The Buh-Bies.

[00:01:31] And yeah, last time we left off, you guys got your first case, your first mission as part of the McGregor family business in Newfoundland. It went smoothly. Yeah, it went perfectly well. No one died multiple times and no one was left potentially almost dying in the car

[00:01:51] as they traveled back to base. That'd be weird. What did you die? No. So yeah, before we get too far ahead though, let's introduce characters starting on my left. Oh shit. With Aaron. Jacob. Jacob Blackstone. Were you actually Jacob? Jacob, yeah. Oh yeah. Jacob Blackstone. Yep. I'm-

[00:02:23] I went to Innsmouth Academy. And I'm a B. Also a Magus. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Don't want to describe your character at all. Like what he wears, what he looks like. Okay, well honestly, I don't have that written down. Okay, so we'll just go with default. He's 5'10".

[00:02:48] You know, wears an inexpensive black suit, black tie, leather satchel with books and random gear. Does he have like white streaks through his hair? Yeah, he's got- it's kind of feathered at the sides with gray. And then a goatee with chin straps. So you.

[00:03:17] That's not what I look like. Kind of what you look like. My hair is very gray and I have a beard. That's true, yeah. He's talking Dr. Strange. Yeah, you want more of the strange look. Yes. Gotcha. Alright, and next up. I'm Merit.

[00:03:36] I'm playing Marcel Landry, ex-military MP, which is a redundant statement. Big hulking lad. Probably wears a dark suit to match everyone else's, but looks silly in it. Because he's fucking 6'5", and built like a linebacker. I don't wear a suit. We haven't gotten to you yet. Yeah, fair.

[00:03:59] I'm just saying. Oh, I do have a rain coat on. That was specified in the first game. Because we're on the East Coast. Right, yeah. And it does rain a lot. It's very wet. Oh, really a khaki trench. Khaki trench coat? Yeah. Very nice. Suits well.

[00:04:18] I might have to get one of those later. I remember one of you guys had a plaid jacket on. It might have been your character. Is it the guy that's wearing a plaid jacket right now? It probably is, honestly. And you're the demolisher class.

[00:04:33] Alright, and then last but not least. That's me, I'm Dave. And I'm playing John Deere, no relation. It's D-E-Y-R actually. I have that in my notes. John Deere, no relation, also mercenary. Yeah. I have that name because it's potentially not my actual name

[00:04:50] because I'm an ex-con and people might know my actual name from my hijinks previous... I should say, could I actually use that against you at some point? Probably. Don't. I'm in the mercenary class. I almost died a couple times last time, but that's fine. Um...

[00:05:09] He wears a brown hoodie and brown flannel. Different type of brown though, like a lighter brown. Like tactical yellow. All plaid. Yeah, basically. Yeah. He has a backpack on that may or may not have a fold-in assault rifle on it just in case. Yeah.

[00:05:27] It may not be necessarily legal in Canada, but I mean... Nothing we're doing is necessary in Canada right now, so... You're above the law because you're part of the secret societies. We are the... Yeah, you're part of the secret world. Credits! Alright, um... Right!

[00:05:45] Last time I was an expert interrogator! Yeah! Or just an asshole interrogator. I mean, same thing. Yeah. So last time you guys were investigating some strange paranormal activity in a house discovered that it was actually tied to these like demon shades that were being summoned

[00:06:05] from people smoking a laced type of reefer. And you went around to the dispensary and the drug dealer that was giving this stuff out to people, and you found after interrogating the drug dealer and having him smoke his

[00:06:24] own summoning joints and summoning one of the creatures, you then found out that the person responsible for getting the drugs into St. John's was a man named Philip Redd, who is a trucker who brings shipment over from the Plethoron facility in Fortune, Newfoundland,

[00:06:49] which is where it's like a facility that does a lot of agricultural stuff and also grow-up. So that was where you guys were heading. You were heading from St. John's to Fortune, Newfoundland, which I believe is like a four

[00:07:01] or five hour trip if I can Google map that. Oh yeah, our vehicle is a... Oh yeah, the mastery machine! Red VW Microbus for shovels and brakes and implements of destruction. I'm going to guess nobody's listened to that yet, still. Alright, moving on. What is that?

[00:07:23] Arlo Guthrie's Palace's restaurant. Did you reference that last week? I did! I spent like 40 seconds in the kitchen spouting off the whole thing. You guys were like, what the hell is that? And now we're still like, what the hell is that?

[00:07:41] You're gonna have to remind us next week. It's just gonna be a running gag now. Yeah, Santa Lake, I'll try and find it. I was trying to listen to it beforehand. So yeah, it's about a four hour drive from St. John's to Fortune.

[00:07:55] How much healing can I have done in four hours? How does healing work? I know we don't have potions. So, four hours, you can have a short rest. If you have a short rest, you can spend your hit die, because it's 5th edition D&D. Correct.

[00:08:13] Which is one of these. I would consider this a short rest, because one of you guys could be in the car just like... Yeah, we're all level 1. It's way over there. Okay, so then yeah, you get to roll that. Cool. Thanks. No problem. I shall pull up the...

[00:08:36] Alright. Actually, I'm not sure what my health was actually at, because I may have been healed fully. I did do some healing for people. Yeah, I think you did. So I got the medical kit. I mean, I'll say like, you guys also waited like...

[00:08:59] I think you guys waited until the morning to leave. So you guys had at least an extended, I guess a long rest. Oh, a long rest? Okay. Because a long rest is like, oh, I guess some sleep, right? Yes. It is eight hours.

[00:09:13] Yeah, you guys would have had roughly about that time to leave. Because it wasn't like press... Oh, God, we got to get there before the bomb goes off. No, it's like you guys are going down to Fortune to investigate the Plefferon facility and this Mr. Red.

[00:09:27] Well, okay then. Alright. So how many anima do we have? I think you have like two plus your bonus speed. So, starting. I have 4d4 written down as my anime dice. Yeah, you have... Oh, yeah, because I have... Yeah, so you guys would have a 4d4 you said?

[00:10:02] That's what I wrote down. I don't know if I'm right on that. Well, it's your proficiency bonus plus two. Okay. So yes. So then four. Yeah, so you have 4d4 anima dice. And we use anime dice for what again? Different powers in the game. Oh, right, yeah.

[00:10:20] They consume the dice? Yeah, I think you have to roll it. I'll double check. I think some of them consume it and some of them you just roll it. Yeah. Yeah. Right. That's what I was looking for.

[00:10:36] So yeah, you guys are traveling through basically coastal pine forests and more coastal pine forests, scrub land, lots of coastline. Very scenic, very rustic looking. It rains a couple of times on your trip and then it's cloudy. You're traveling down to... Traveling down the...

[00:11:05] Basically passing through several towns, not dildo, but you pass that area. There's an exit off to go in the direction of dildo. You go down to places such... You go past such places as Goobies and Parkers Cove, Roshun, Red Harbor, Marry Town, Grand

[00:11:29] Beach, and then eventually finding your way down after four hours to the town of Fortune, which is sort of a fishing town, like a standard Newfoundland fishing town, although it also has some farmland and agricultural kind of areas. And yeah, you travel into town.

[00:11:51] You also know that this Fortune... You guys would know as people from the area are like in and around Newfoundland. Fortune is one of the towns, the only towns that have a ferry that go over to St.

[00:12:03] Pierre and Nicollin, which is the France away from France islands that are off the coast of Newfoundland. And St. Pierre is 100% Templar territory because they basically run France. So yeah, where you guys going once you make your way into Fortune? The casino to make our fortune.

[00:12:35] There is no casino. There's a nice... Seems like a missed brandy. It really does. Do you have currency in this? Yeah, you do have money, like regular money. I have so much of it. Oh yeah, right. Yeah, two and a half grand.

[00:12:50] I forgot I didn't spend all mine. I will, I guess, yeah, it's been about two weeks, so I will remind you guys that there is a... The Plethron Grow facility is here. So that's why you guys were heading down here in the first place. Right, we know.

[00:13:05] Yeah, okay. We don't care. Okay. Do we need anything before then or are we just going to head straight there? No, we're good. Okay. As air gestures checking to see if there's ammo in his... Token. Yeah. Pretty sure of that. Okay. Angriest little gun.

[00:13:33] I'm surprised you didn't have a revolver. I wanted one and then there was the Tokarev. Did your class not start with one? I may upgrade to a revolver later. Oh, right, because your class didn't give you a gun but you bought a gun? I did. Oh, I see.

[00:13:50] And the Tokarev is cheap. Is it? Yeah. 300 bucks. Nice. Brand well, brand new. Fresh from the Cosmoline. From a legitimate establishment, $300. Whereas a decent revolver in .357 Magnum probably would start around $1,500. Cool. And if you want to get the cool with the rails and stuff it's sixth grade.

[00:14:17] Of course. Like a Rhino. I have a Rhino. I started with a revolver so I'm like, eh, it's a Rhino. Fair. You're okay, good call. But yeah, so you guys... I'm hearing like your rovers. Yeah, where are you guys going?

[00:14:36] Are you guys going straight to the Plethoron facility or are you doing something else in Fortune? I don't think we have anything else really to do here. I don't know anybody here. Do you? No. Do you have any contacts here?

[00:14:48] You guys could like, if you guys, again, you guys can like, it's like, oh, I know somebody here or like they can maybe help us in this. Where is the Tim Hortons closest to the Plethoron facility? I don't think there's a Tim Hortons in Fortune. What?

[00:15:02] There's a Mary Browns. Mary Browns is the, I think Mary Browns has the... But you don't go to KFC for coffee! Mary Browns is more than the KFC. I'm sorry, I thought this was Canada. I'm sorry. Hortons in Fortunataria or Fortunat Newfoundland.

[00:15:28] Are there medical kits in this game? Yes, I have one. Okay. And what does that do? The closest... Does it give you a bonus? So if I'm proficient with it, then I can spend, just spend a charge from it to stabilize somebody who's dying. Right.

[00:15:43] Or I can make a medicine check and use a charge from it to give hit points back, but I can only do that like once per set of injuries. Yeah. Unfortunately, the closest Tim Hortons is 40 minutes away in Marytown. What the fuck is that?

[00:16:01] What's the population of fortune? I can totally check with that. Hang on. I thought we had like one, two, three, 40 people in this country. Like, I grew up... No, you're thinking Tim Hortons everywhere. You're also thinking Ontario, not like... Things are different here.

[00:16:18] Like, I grew up in Orillia. Orillia Song. Orillia Song specific to tape. The total population for fortune is actually just under 2,000. Wow. Well, they should still have one. Nope. Country style? Nope. There's a Mary Browns. Okay. Should we just start... That's all that you're saying?

[00:16:39] Should we just get a franchise started here? Hang on. Cafe or coffee shop in... We could make a killing. Because everyone would go there. There is... I love how this is what the game is. This is grinding the entire game at once. Yeah.

[00:17:00] Yeah, there's a fucking Mary Browns. There's a couple convenience stores and otherwise a Mary Browns. In this town. I don't even know what to say to that, guys. Why do we want to go with the Irma Arrows?

[00:17:15] At some point, the employees are going to come out here for lunch or a break or something. No, they're not. There's no coffee shop. Do you know what a Mary Browns is? It's a chicken place. That is also a diner-esque place.

[00:17:31] Not really. They just do buckets of fried chicken. No, they don't. We're not sponsored by Mary Browns. No, we're not. Although Mary Browns is a very popular thing in Newfoundland because that's where it started. I know. But we do have one in Arrelia. It's not very good.

[00:17:52] But I don't think that's a problem with Mary Browns. I think that's a problem with Arrelia. Because the Berry one isn't nearly so bad. I think that's pretty good.

[00:18:02] So maybe we should reconnoiter and see if we can catch somebody outside and engage them in friendly conversation before we make our entrance. At the Plethoron facility? No, at the Mary Browns. Yeah, the Mary Browns. I'm like, I'm confused. Okay. That's what you guys want to do?

[00:18:25] It's better than kicking the door in. At least it's a first step before kicking the door in. We have credentials. We can knock. We do. What are our credentials again? We have the Weedinspector. Yeah, you guys actually have some credentials from your Templar higher-ups. Right, right, right.

[00:18:41] That they FedEx'd you or something, or faxed you. Yeah. Or sent you a email. You could have them off at the Staples. No, yeah, yeah. You guys got an email with some PDFs basically. I'm sure we have like a forging machine. Yeah.

[00:18:54] I'm an ex-con. I probably am. Actually. I imagine you do. Are you proficient with it? Is there skill for that? It would be probably... I have Thieves tools. It would probably be a sleight of hand, honestly. No, it's a tool set. Oh, is it really? Yeah.

[00:19:12] I have Thieves tools, explosives, EOD tools, and a gaming set. I think... Rather, that's what I'm proficient with. I think what we would need is a forgery kit. Which I think is the thing. Forger's tools.

[00:19:28] But anyway, sit in the parking lot and wait for somebody with a shirt or something. Or a uniform from... Anybody who's not naked, really. Yeah. Unfortunately, this town does have a holiday coming up that's like... The Emperor's New Clothes Festival. Yes, forgery kit is a thing. Okay.

[00:19:52] However, in Fifth En, you can literally just spend money to buy proficiency and skills. Yeah. It just takes like... I think it's a... You have to spend the money, make a skill check, and then if you succeed, then you now have proficiency in that skill.

[00:20:09] But it takes a week. It takes a week per skill check. I'm writing this down that I should buy this. Okay, so yeah, you guys travel... The Plithron facility is just outside of town, on the southern end of Fortune.

[00:20:27] Yeah, you guys are parked out in the parking lot area of this large... There's an office building, a two-story office building, and then there's a large agricultural facility behind it. Basically think big industrial greenhouse kind of thing. And yeah, you see there's like a couple people over...

[00:20:50] If you guys are waiting for like a few hours, eventually a couple of people start coming out to go on smoke breaks and such. Just outside into a designated area next to the office buildings. Nobody's going out for lunch or anything? A couple people, yeah.

[00:21:05] Or a couple people start getting to their cars around like noon. Are they going to crush on these people, or are we going to hit man 47 this? Take their clothes, walk in. I don't think they have anything my size. Oh, fair.

[00:21:22] You do also see a number of large truck... Basically just big semi-trucks with the plaster on the side, like Plithron. They're out near the back area, between the office building and the greenhouse. Are you in that loading bay or anything?

[00:21:41] Yeah, that's where they are. They're out by the loading bay area. There's like one or two by the loading bay. Is it like a loading bay door open? Aka is it being actively loaded? Yeah, actually I'll say yeah.

[00:21:51] I also imagine you guys were looking to get here around noon. So you left in the morning, got here within about four hours, and are showing up around noon. So you guys weren't waiting that long for people to show up.

[00:22:03] We were trying to show up at lunch, so there was the maximum amount of people on break. Yes, basically. But yeah, you do see that one of the trucks is being loaded with some stuff. Okay, well I guess we just walk up to the gate. Yeah.

[00:22:23] We have credentials, we look official. Except him. He looks new for your facial. That's fine. He is wearing a Canadian tuxedo. Okay, so you're just like walking... The front door or walking over to that truck or stopping one of the people that are coming in?

[00:22:42] Well, imagine we have to go through the gate either way. Oh yeah. So we're going to start with going through the gate. Okay. Is there a guard at the gate? Yes. Assumed as much. Yeah, there's a security booth and it's like...

[00:22:55] Oh yeah, so you pop in, the window comes down. And it's like, state your business. We're here for inspection. Just going to slap my ID up against the window. Okay, roll a deception at advantage. Okay.

[00:23:19] If we didn't get these printed on paper, you'd be doing this with your phone. You'd be like... Cracks the window or cracks your phone. Oh god. I said at advantage. Probably taking the spinner. I hate that spinner so much.

[00:23:40] Almost make it so when he rolls at advantage, he has to roll the second dice into the top. Okay, so sorry, this is a deception? Yeah. Okay. 18. Oh, okay, give me a second. I'll call it in. Goes to the call on the phone.

[00:23:56] It's like, hey, we got a surprise inspection. Were you expecting an inspection? Were you expecting a surprise inspection? Were you expecting an inspection? Oh, was it one of the surprises? Okay. Maybe. All right, yeah, you're free to go through. And he hits the button. Arm comes up. Okay.

[00:24:16] Start walking towards the building. We want to go check out the truck that's probably leaving very shortly and could be loaded down with the stuff. Yeah. Or in through the front door. The truck's potentially leaving. The building is not leaving. Okay. Check the truck first. Okay.

[00:24:32] Yeah, so there's a couple of bigger guys about probably your sizes. I point to Marcel and John. I was like... He was staring at me and staring back at him trying to feed me information. He's like, I would say, Jacob? No, it's like, no, that's Jacob.

[00:24:54] Oh yeah, so John and yeah, you get over there. They're like, they bring boxes in from the like, or they're loading skids onto the truck. So they got like pallet lifters and they're bringing them into the... Loading them into the truck. Merrick, what's your character's name? Marcel.

[00:25:10] You sure it's not Jingleheimer Schmidt? God damn it, no. Are you Jacob? Yeah. So you guys could call yourselves the Jingleheimers. That could be your name. So the device. We'll take it under advisement. Not my name. What's your melee weapon again? Hammer. Hmm, Jinglehammer. Jinglehammer.

[00:25:35] I put some bells on it. Jingle all the way. Alright, so yeah, you're approaching these guys. What are you saying to stop them or to get their attention such? Well, hold up there boys. We're going to check this loan. Says who? Says your mother. Okay, no role required.

[00:26:01] Oh, sorry sir. Why don't you boys stand off to the side while I take a look at what you guys have loaded already. Climb into the back. I apologize for my partner. He is always so crass. I thought you were going for a French accent. Southern French...

[00:26:21] You're from Louisiana. This happened last time too. Is like a French-ish accent. Mama touffée. Okay, I'm kind of stealing... Wow, what the hell is that guy's name? Daniel Craig's character from Nightwish. It compels me though. I haven't seen it. What? I've only seen parts of it honestly.

[00:26:47] How many boxes are in the back? There are several skids in the back. Like at least half a dozen skids wrapped up. With boxes about five feet in height and a skid width. How wrapped up are they? Like two layers of plastic. Like completely covered in plastic? Yeah.

[00:27:08] So I'd have to cut it open to check them? Yeah. So I'd have to be that guy. But that's what we're here to be, is those guys. So that's fine. You guys can roll Perception. So I'll pull out my foldable scissors from my... Start cutting into whatever.

[00:27:25] You're just method acting. Yeah, pretty much. Can I make an investigate check instead? Well no, it's a Perception. Roll an investigation as well but also roll Perception. It's two things. Passive Perception thing? I guess I can give you guys the passive Perception. I can talk with passive Perception.

[00:27:47] It's ten plus your points in Perception. Okay, it's ten plus? Yeah. Fifteen to investigate, three to perceive. Well we're going to do a passive Perception. So that's your passive. So eleven? Okay. I'm not in the truck so... Okay. Seventeen.

[00:28:06] Well if you're not in the truck, even if you're not in the truck, roll Perception. What's your passive Perception? I should probably write that down in the passive Perception slot. Fourteen. Fourteen? Seventeen. Seventeen?

[00:28:23] Alright, yeah, Aaron or Jacob and John, you notice, you're kind of looking back as you're getting ready to cut the stuff. One of the guys says something to the other guys and one of them starts walking off deeper into the storage room, into the storage area.

[00:28:42] I didn't hear him? No, you didn't hear him. You just saw him motion something and then the other guy is walking into the facility. Did it look sketchy? It... maybe.

[00:28:53] It looked like he leaned his head over to the guy just to whisper something and then he nodded and then he turned around and started walking into the facility. Well, I noticed it too. Yeah, you did too. Did I notice him noticing? You see him noticing, yeah.

[00:29:07] Okay, then I'll just wave off for you to keep searching what you're searching. Am I being observed? Yeah, there's a couple of other guys in there that have stopped doing what they're doing and watching what you guys are doing. Okay, uh... Shit, needed distraction.

[00:29:25] Did you pull out my phone, send a text message to YouTube, I needed distraction. Sent. Okay. Where should my ringtone be? Well, before... Was it on silent? It probably would have been silent. Okay, was he not vibrating? Not vibrating, I mean yes.

[00:29:45] Okay, but if you want a distraction I could just cut into this and be like, what the hell is this? Perfect. Yeah, so I would do that. What do you mean, sir? Come up here and tell me what the hell this is.

[00:29:59] It should be the product in some of the group... he starts walking... the guy that leaned over and told the guy to do something walks over and is kind of perplexed. Does this look like the official product to you?

[00:30:12] He looks at it, like he's looking at it, it's like, yeah! It looks like the stuff. I'm gonna pull out my glasses. Oh, so it is! My apologies. Roll a deception. Damn. Also, what did you get for your investigation in there?

[00:30:29] What are you, 15? And what did you get for your investigation earlier? I didn't. Oh, you didn't do an investigation? No, I didn't. Okay, we'll get to that after. Okay. Because you're looking at the stuff. Yeah. And you don't smell any sulfur.

[00:30:44] It just smells like... he cut through the packaging and the box in the packaging, and you're just smelling dope. You're not smelling... you're not getting any of that. It's the one that I opened. Yeah.

[00:30:55] But you're not getting any of that. As of right now, you're not getting any of the hint of the sulfur. Are these already tax-stamped packages? Yep. I'm going to inspect the hologram to make sure it's actually legitimate. Okay, yeah. Is all fine?

[00:31:10] Yeah, with your investigation of that check, yeah, it looks like it's above board. It's not hastily slipped on, and it looks like it was professionally printed on and such. So, yeah, it seems like this product seems to be from the actual facility.

[00:31:30] It was professionally done by their machines and so on, and like scan-coded and stuff like that. Whether or not the Plethoron facility here is putting something in their material, you have to basically rip open all of these fucking boxes in order to double-check that 100%.

[00:31:44] Or maybe even convince some of these people here, like if you guys can pull off a decent enough deception, you might even be able to get them to do most of your dirty work for you.

[00:31:53] And so you can find out which one of these does have the tainted material. How many skids are in there? There are currently six skids in that truck. That's a lot of need. That's like 120 boxes each. So we'd be at this for a while. Yeah. Okay.

[00:32:16] Is Aaron still doing distractions? Yeah, what's Aaron been up to? Like the distraction is going off without a hitch. And are you following the man as he goes deeper into the facility? Yeah, I'm turning into a very small animal and following him. Okay.

[00:32:30] I was just checking a small animal. I think it may be a sugar glider. Okay. What the hell is that? It's a flying squirrel. Basically the squirrel with the flaps, like the skin flaps between them. A sugar glider still basically looks like a squirrel.

[00:32:45] They're small, they climb very well, and this is a warehouse with large open spaces. Yeah, so you're following the guy at a distance and then suddenly you pass by something and suddenly you're gone

[00:32:58] and there's just a little critter climbing up some of the shelves and stuff and gliding. Yeah, you follow him. He's heading toward the hallway, the connection to the offices. Did we determine how you shape-shift? Is it a poof or is it an anamorph? This is a...

[00:33:16] I think I asked this last week too. I get everybody to look away and then nobody actually knows. Yeah, so the whole like me, what I just described, you pass something and suddenly you're that friend. Yeah, cool.

[00:33:27] Until I figure out what I want to do, that's how I'm going to do it. Until I figure out what I want to do, that's how I'm going to do it. I also kind of like that because it's almost like non-Euclidean transformation. Okay.

[00:33:36] Because the way non-Euclidean geometry works in the Call of Cthulhu, the sailors were running from Cthulhu through the city of Relais and they were just falling through lines into pits. They were falling through the edges that were not actually edges, they were actually much deeper

[00:33:52] but because of the perception you couldn't actually see that there were wide gaps. Hence the importance of corner handles. Yeah. But yeah, so you follow this guy and he goes to the... there's a doorway that goes to the connecting hall that goes into the office

[00:34:05] but he goes to the side of it where there's like a workshop, kind of like a little desk and some stuff and a phone and he's calling on the phone just for somebody. Okay, are we close enough to hear? Yeah, and it's like... Yeah, we got...

[00:34:24] Did we get an inspector today? Surprise inspector. Okay, well, do you want to come down here? They're playing on... they're ripping open some of our skids in our truck. We got like a schedule made. So can you come down here to deal with this? Okay, thanks. Hangs up.

[00:34:39] And then if you wait, he's waiting at the door... basically at the door there and five minutes later a guy in a suit, like a nice like... obviously not a worker but like one of the execs... Okay. Comes in...

[00:34:55] Basically a Caucasian man, red hair, freckles, but like tall and... That description sounds familiar. It shouldn't. I said red hair which like you're looking for a guy named Mr. Red. Oh yeah, okay. But that's his last name. Not his hair color. Not his hair color.

[00:35:19] It could also be his hair color. It might also be his hair color. This might actually be him for all we know. Maybe. I should just kill him. Yeah, just kick him. Alright, I turned into a dire ape. Smash! Alright, so he comes in and like...

[00:35:37] walking toward the truck and the guy falls behind him. Kind of like subordinately. So you guys have had like the last five, ten minutes. What have you guys been doing after your distraction? Still just cutting through all the boxes or getting these...

[00:35:52] Are you going to try and get these guys to like help you open these boxes and find out what the product is all about? Probably because they're not... They shouldn't be paid to sit around doing nothing. I don't think that's our problem but...

[00:36:05] Well regardless, they have a deadline. We got shit to do so we need to get through this and sort this out. We kept some of that bad weed right? Yeah, you guys have like a sample? You have a sample, yeah. For you to plant? Yes. Yes. Yes, exactly.

[00:36:22] Yes, exactly. I'm the cop. This should be easy for me. But I'm... Okay. I'm going to scurry my way back to the truck. Okay. Roll an athletics. Or an acrobatics. Your choice. I'm sure I get bonuses to this.

[00:36:45] Yeah, I would imagine you'd get an acrobatics as a sugar collider. I think I have to use the stats for rat. Probably. So what are you guys rolling for? Like are you guys trying to convince these guys to help you out as well? No, no.

[00:37:00] So what I'm going to do is take one of the actual sealed packets. Yeah. And I'm going to cut it open. And the real weed is going to go into this pocket. Yeah.

[00:37:07] And the bad weed is going to come out of this pocket and go into the packet. That does sound like sleight of hand. That does. But I mean he's distracting them. It still rolls sleight of hand. Do you have talent in that? No.

[00:37:18] Do you want me to attempt it? I have four. It won't be in a post sleight of hand, so I'll tell you that. Five. Okay. One of the guys. Do I know he's doing this? No. Okay.

[00:37:32] One of the guys that's actually, the guy next to you that was like, you were like, look at this. Like, oh, you're right. This is like, looks fun. And then he was like, sir, what are you doing? Like, what are you doing? I'm just... Quality check.

[00:37:45] Dude, why do you need, why do you need a quality check? What? So I have both bags of weed. Yeah. This is a sample I took from a dispensary that came from your facility. This is your current product.

[00:38:00] You want to tell me what the difference between these two samples is? Yeah, that one looks like it's, like, the bag's all been used and stuff like that. That looks brand new. Still, your mark is your product, yes? This was a return. Smell that. What? What is that?

[00:38:24] It smells, the reason we're here. That is why I'm here. Until I am convinced that there is none of this in this trailer, it is not going anywhere. So as you guys are saying that, I hear you doing that, from behind, you guys hear it's like,

[00:38:41] very good, thank you for bringing this to our attention. And then the guy turns around to kind of let you guys see him, and there's this tall, gaunt, redheaded, exec-looking type guy out there. Mr. Treverson, at your service, I am the representative of Plethron for this facility.

[00:39:05] Sorry, I apologize, this inspection took us by surprise. We weren't expecting any kind of inspection for a while. We thought we'd had one like last week. I was also not expecting to be here today until I encountered this terrible product of yours.

[00:39:21] Do you mind if I see your credentials before we continue on with this? Produce the badge. Yeah. Okay. Well, so what is this all about? There's some kind of a tainted product? Tainted product? Contamination, tainting, I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. Here, smell this.

[00:39:46] Yeah, he takes it away, his nose crumples, it's like, ah, it's like sulfur, something like that, it's like rotten eggs. That's... It's now my thing. Yeah, he looks really perplexed, and he's like, what is it? What's it leased with? We have been unable to determine an exact substance.

[00:40:09] However, it has had dire effects on the people at Zulia. More importantly, we wanted to make sure that no more of this would be leaving this facility. Hence why we immediately went to the truck to make sure it didn't leave with any right now.

[00:40:22] Very good. This is already made market? At least one skin made it as far as... St. John's. Oh, I see. Alright, well... I can take a look at our roster to see who's trucked out there.

[00:40:44] Do you know, is this from a recent shipment or is this from one of the older shipments? We know it was from your driver Mr. Red dropped off last week. Mr. Red, and one of the guys is like, Philip, sir, and is like, oh, Philip, okay.

[00:41:00] Yes, Mr. Red is one of our drivers. He kind of like the exec looks over to the guy behind him, clearly like the bay manager. Ship receiver guy, or like supervisor. He's like, Philip's currently on lunch, sir. Oh, okay, well... Damn, we should have gone to Mary Brown's.

[00:41:25] Yeah, we should have. Where does he often go to lunch? Mary Brown's? Not bad. Mary Brown's, there's also a good seafood place close to the docks that has a damn fine clam chowder. Nice. I'm just making small talk with this guy. But yes...

[00:41:48] If you like we could wait until he gets back or to talk to him about this. Is this his truck? Where's this going? He looks at the guys like, this is going out to one of the dispensaries, not St. John's. He says another name somewhere on the rock.

[00:42:08] Okay, this one's not...this is for... Contraception Bay. Actually, it'd probably be... Contraception Bay. Dildo. Dildo is actually a very small town. It would not have dispensary. Well, it might have dispensary. Anyway... It probably has a fricking Tim Hortons, do you?

[00:42:30] Don't look it up. We don't need to know. Tim Hortons, Dildo. Ah, that's some interesting results. So anyway... Yeah, so do you guys want to wait or do you like...what do you guys want out of this guy?

[00:42:53] Well, if we call him back from lunch, we'd probably tip him off. So I think we'll just wait until he comes back and is out. It's going to take us a little while to go through all this anyways. Yeah. Yeah, when's he due back?

[00:43:05] Should be back by 1. It's like 12.30 now. Okay. Probably take us that long to look through this truckload anyways. Indeed. Have to go through all of it, I suppose. Unless you want to risk some of this getting out... No PR would not be happy.

[00:43:22] No PR would not be happy. Yes, boys, boys, come on. Help the inspectors out. Bop, bop, bop, bop. Basically, yeah, the crew in the storage room that were gawking and waiting for instructions. They started coming in to help you guys out. Fortunately it is easy to identify. Yeah.

[00:43:43] So basically about 20 minutes or so later, you guys have basically pulled apart every fucking skid in that truck. And you have found no tainted material, no tainted product. Good. Our work here is done. Walk away with the boxes open everywhere. I get all the packages ripped open.

[00:44:03] That is how that works. I guess we'll just call this a loss and burn the product or dispose of the product. Why? Just package it back up. All we do is crack it open and give it a whiff. What are you doing there, bud?

[00:44:21] You're probably still in the packages. Fuck, bud. Come on. Just wrap it back up, put it in the truck and go for a rip. Fuck. Oh, fuck, bud. You guys are supposed to be going to the kids and acting. Oh, fuck, bud.

[00:44:36] Yeah, so that's not your problem. That's what they're dealing with. Yeah. How do you have whore waste? Well, they also make a corporation, but yeah. Yeah. So yeah, you guys are finished with that. None of the product in the truck was tainted.

[00:44:55] Unless you want to fucking go through the entire hang of the bay, like the storage room. Let's go back and see the production facility. Let's see if it's coming off the line bad. Yes, I can take you to our operations. Is this the only truck going out today?

[00:45:12] Yeah, this was the one that was going out. Yeah. Good, good. I recommend any other boxes that are packed up. You should probably check them before you send them out. And then any new boxes, just make sure to give it a whiff before you close it up.

[00:45:27] Yes, very good. Do at least a spot check. One package per box. Very good. Yes, thank you. And yeah, he takes you on a little tour out to the greenhouse facility. So this massive sprawling... There's like large rows of plants.

[00:45:51] And there's even a gangway above it, where the sprinkler systems and stuff are, the watering systems and stuff are. And there were a couple people in their in-suits monitoring, checking the plants and scanning barcodes and stuff like that. The plants and such. They need formal water for that?

[00:46:08] Yes. Well, just for like, just in case. Yeah, actually I'll also swing it. You guys have to hop into some really quick and dirty clean suits. Like just basically those paper thin clean suits. Yes, we'll just have to put these on just so we don't contaminate the product.

[00:46:30] And you guys go through and... Are all the workers masked up? Yeah, they've all got respirators on and such. So that's probably why they potentially couldn't smell any bad product coming through? Is it block scent or no?

[00:46:42] I don't know. You guys have more knowledge on respirators and stuff. Would you be able to smell through a respirator? It depends on the respirator. It depends on the substance. They wouldn't be getting high off of cannabis, like off of grown cannabis. No. The smell is very annoying.

[00:47:03] So it might be muffled at the very least. So it's possible that it could have slipped through. Possibly, yeah. You also don't know if this plant is going to look any different from a regular cannabis. I'm getting a full undiluted scent because I'm still a sugar glider.

[00:47:20] Are you following them as a sugar glider? Roll stealth, sir. Yeah, roll stealth to go unnoticed. I've rolled a 17. I get bonuses to it. Yeah, you are just like in their shadow as they're passing through.

[00:47:40] As they go through the decontamination room, like you're hiding behind one of these guys. I was going to say, one of them turns around. You're on the back of their legs like they can go into a paper suit.

[00:47:54] And then you guys walk through and then you're in there. And yeah, it's a very overpowering smell of cannabis. And like kind of just wet mille louis, kind of like garden center kind of smell. That's the point is that Erin got high again.

[00:48:12] But yeah, roll an investigation as you're sniffing around and looking around. You guys could also do a bit at a disadvantage because of the respirators. As the guy's touring you there's like, as you can see, this is our product. Still 20. Sorry, investigation? Nine.

[00:48:37] You're actually listening to the guys like Spiel and stuff. As you can see our product is hand-picked and dirty 20. As you can see, our product is state of the art facilities. It's like equipment and facilities. We spare no expense on replicating the proper product.

[00:49:05] Here, plethron, nothing but the best of bioengineered cannabis. What does bioengineered mean? You should ask what bioengineered means. Yes, they're bioengineered from the seeds in the bud. Basically to create the certain different types of highs and have different THC and CBD potencies. We have different breeds in plants.

[00:49:39] We have different strains for different uses. We have some medicinal stuff. We have stuff that just produces CBD or mostly CBD, some that just produces primarily THC. Different strains for different uses and such. You guys are going through it. You're just caught up in his corporate jargon.

[00:50:01] But you guys, both you the flying squirrel and the actual human, you do not smell any hint of sulfur or demonic. You don't pick up any weird arcane from any of these plants. We have the deerstuff, Frankenstein.

[00:50:20] There are actually a lot of strains that are named for mythological snake creatures. Or just mythological animals and stuff like that in general. There's the hydra strain, there's the chimera strain, stuff like that. The roboa strain gets you so high it'll eat your own ass. Whoa.

[00:50:47] I'm starting to get the strains from my grandma's boy. With your investigations, you are not picking up any kind of weirdness from any of these plants. It seems to be for the most part all in the up and up. There's product keepers through your day.

[00:51:07] I only imagine if this sort of facility was around back before this was illegal. How much illegal stuff could go through this? We're not just a grow-up, sir. We also focus on various other agricultural products and projects in Newfoundland.

[00:51:25] We're actually also in charge of a cod fishery farm off the coast. Oh shit, here's a fish people. I'm sorry? The people who fish, you see. We're trying to make sure that we don't get another moratorium on cod. So we're setting up fish farms off the coast.

[00:51:49] Fish people, it's not fishermen. It's more PC. They started the grow-up stuff once it became legal in Canada. They've also done a bunch of helping the local farmers in agricultural industry or economy of Newfoundland with their various projects. May I? Which is what Plethron tends to do.

[00:52:19] You guys would know from the world, Plethron is that company. It's like Big Pharma. It's big pharma, because they're the big biogenic engineering company that does a bunch of agricultural and animal husbandry projects on a modern scale.

[00:52:43] Aside from being a large corporation, there doesn't seem to be anything amiss for you guys that you're looking for here. Were there any accidents or oddities last week here? I'm trying to draw some connection to this bad string that goes... Roll persuasion.

[00:53:05] And as you're doing that, I'm going to grab a drink. You would. Persuasion? I'd rather be laying inside. Is it? Just laying. Just listening. You'd better sleep at night. I honestly really love that finger ring now.

[00:53:26] I've had a couple of those bottles since last time we were here. It wasn't bad. It was definitely sweeter on its own. You didn't get screech left? No, I've got all the screech done, so I haven't been able to go to the LCBO.

[00:53:42] Next time I'll have something else. What do you get for persuasion? 14. Well, I believe we've had a few breakdowns of some of the equipment. They've been replaced immediately, of course.

[00:54:00] But I think I recall someone was saying that some of the broken down equipment has gone missing from our workshop. But we may have just sort of attributed that to maybe it got lost in the garbage rather than our dumpsters, rather than to be repaired.

[00:54:24] And you didn't follow up on that? We did a scant follow up on it, but it seemed like... How big is the machinery that was... Some of our sprinklers, some of our watering systems have gone down. We've had to repair some of the hosing area.

[00:54:44] We had to replace some of the sections of hosing. Not too big. It wasn't going to detriment our production. So multiple pieces have gone down? Just over the last couple months. We've lost a few components. All of them have disappeared?

[00:55:01] Yeah, it seems we've let one or two people go as a result of what we consider to be delinquency. They might have just thrown it out rather than try and repair it in the workshop. We're stolen. Well, perhaps, but I don't know why.

[00:55:19] Maybe to grow their own illegal weed and potentially sell it under your name? Like that odd smelling baggy we have? You don't think that. It's a possibility. Well, unfortunately we've let go of the people that were working at the workshop for the negligence of potentially throwing it out.

[00:55:43] You got their names on file still? I could find it for you. At this point, as you guys are doing that, a guy in a paper suit hastily comes through the decontamination and is like... Boss, yes, yes. Mr. Red has come back from lunch.

[00:56:03] Oh, okay. Do you want to go see Mr. Red then first or why go get those names? Yeah, we'll go talk to him. Why don't you go get the names for us please? Very good.

[00:56:18] So he goes out, you guys go back through the decontamination, get out of the greenhouse and go into the decontamination, change out of your outfits. Do I see Squirrel Aaron? Squirrel Aaron. Aaron, have you been following him the whole time?

[00:56:33] I'd like to gesture to you to potentially follow him. That's what I'm doing. Okay, so I guess we'll do it with you first. Roll a self. We're just assuming everyone's lying, although everyone is probably just telling the truth here. It's the secret world, everything can be conspiracy. 21.

[00:56:56] Okay, yeah, you're the knight. You are like... I am the Squirrel Man. I'm Squirrel Man. And yeah, you follow this guy through to the offices building as your friends go off to deal with Mr. Red in the main hangar area.

[00:57:15] And you go into this cubicle offices kind of area, following the guy to his... And he looks around and punches in a coat on his office building. What's the code? Roll perception. It's beep-boop, beep-boop. 23? Your queen... Your keen squirrel eyes. Catch the number, it's 0666. Really? Yeah, okay.

[00:57:51] He opens up... The door opens and he goes over to his mahogany desk where his... Oh, he's evil. He's evil as hell. Where his nice advanced... Nice advanced Anansi Corporation laptop is. Or desktop computer is. And he starts typing on a holographic fucking keyboard. I'm sorry?

[00:58:15] What fucking year are we in? 2023, but the companies that are under Orochia's six years... Yeah, and the company that these guys work for have crazy cool tech. The keyboard is about this size. You put it there, it projects it onto the table in front of you.

[00:58:34] And then you just type as though the table was your keyboard. That's pretty neat. Really shouldn't have actually... Living in the future. Every minute we're living in the next... Yeah, Anansi Technology. So you're typing in stuff like that. Or he's typing in stuff like that.

[00:58:56] And basically going through a roster of employees, both former and non. What are you rolling for? His password. Ah, yeah. Spy squirrel. 16? 16? I mean, he wasn't trying to hide it. No, he wasn't trying to hide it. It's basically a birthday.

[00:59:21] It seems like it's like 19... I'll say it's like 05... 20... 1976. I just need to just type this stuff up. He wrote it down. I should give you a notepad for this game. This is very conspiracy-y. I mean, we have so many extra goddamn sheets.

[00:59:45] Yeah. But I just mean for other general notes and game notes and stuff. I need another notebook. But he checks through it and you see him going through employees and stuff like that. And yeah, he finds a couple... there's about three employees he highlights.

[01:00:03] And jots down on a little pad and takes a stick. Can I see the criteria by which he is searching? Like, is he just picking some random patsies or is he actually pulling up the schedule to see who's working there?

[01:00:19] Oh yeah. He's going through basically a chart of former employees and he's checking to make sure... It seems like he's looking for the people that were laid off a couple weeks ago. Okay. Yeah, he's not just willy-nilly picking this guy and this guy and this guy.

[01:00:35] He's not looking for a scapegoat for you guys. Okay. Yeah, he seems to be doing his job. Okay. But yeah, so he types that out or gets that down on some...

[01:00:47] I'll say he prints it off like a printer and takes that sheet and starts walking out of his office. Did he lock the computer? He doesn't lock the computer. Did he lock the computer? He does lock the computer, yeah. He has the password though, so...

[01:01:08] But do you need to snoop? Do you want to snoop? Yeah, I want to snoop. Squirrel wants to snoop. I mean corporate secrets. It is, yeah. You guys are in the secret...

[01:01:23] I don't know necessarily if all the secret-worlders would know about the dark secrets of the companies that are owned by Orochi. Question, would the holographic keyboard recognize the squirrel going like this trying to hit buttons? Well, yeah, I'm gonna say no.

[01:01:42] You need to transform it back into a human. That's okay. I'm almost out of time anyway. Oh, it's a timer? It's an hour. But through the guy's entire lunch break, I was in squirrel form. Yeah, I see it. So you transform back into a human.

[01:01:57] I punch in the password. Do you sing that as you're doing it? Yes. It pops up with a... So what are you trying to find? The sound sensor goes off in his office. Email. Let's take a look at his work correspondence. Okay, roll investigation. Do do do.

[01:02:21] Do do do. Do do do. Do I have a USB stick? Do I have a USB stick? I don't know, do you? Is it one of your... Roll a Quinten's check. I have an old MP3 player. Yeah? Do I have... I assume I have the cable for it?

[01:02:45] Yeah, you probably have a charging cable for it, which is also data synced. Okay, then I will hook my MP3 player up to the computer. Okay. I'm just going to upload his email to my MP3 player. Okay, what did you get for your investigation? A natural 20. God damn.

[01:03:02] Yeah, no, yeah, you basically get his entire... You get all of that and... And the other thing that I was going for was his recent files. Yeah, you find a couple of recent files. Yeah, you basically get like a... A local folder? A local folder.

[01:03:21] Yeah, you get recycling bin stuff in the local folder and all the emails are loaded up onto your MP3 thing. Okay. Just as the door starts opening again? Well, as...

[01:03:33] As an alarm actually does go off, and at first you think it's you, but then you realize it's the general security alarm for the building. Coming back to you guys. Okay. So you guys split off to go and like talk to...intercept this Mr. Red. Yes.

[01:03:51] And yet he's coming in through one of the doors, he's talking to some people and seems to be like... And he seems to be like... As you're walking toward him, you see this big burly redheaded guy. Looks like a lumberjack kind of a dude. And he's like talking...

[01:04:11] Or they're wearing the same plan. He's wearing red. But yeah, he's like talking...he's even got a fucking fisherman hat kind of over on his head and stuff. And he's like... Yeah, he's just talking to some of the other guys who apparently seem to...

[01:04:27] It sounds like they're probably telling him that somebody is looking for him. And he's like, what? And then he sees you guys. As you guys approach. It's like... What do you want? We need to talk to you. What about? About your shipment last week? Was it last week?

[01:04:47] Yeah, it was like last week. Yeah. I took a shipment down to St. John's. He definitely has a very strong French accent. So...actually do any of you guys have history? No, I probably do but it doesn't matter. I have a zero in history.

[01:05:16] Well, I would allow you guys to roll intelligence, an intelligence save or an intelligence check at disadvantage. Intelligence check. I have zero in intelligence. You still have to...you can still roll it. But at disadvantage. You have six? On disadvantage too? I hate how D&D is like...

[01:05:37] Most builds you make your dude an idiot. Because like intelligence is used for so little things. In this... That is one thing I will criticize.

[01:05:47] I understand why they went with D&D 5e for the secret world because it is very popular and they wanted to get in as many people for the game and so that it would succeed. They do plan on putting it out for another system.

[01:06:02] But yeah, D&D is not the best system for like horror or even espionage games. I mean we're doing alright. I know, I'm also like...I've spent my off time trying to look at the different skills and which ones would be appropriate for espionage checks and stuff.

[01:06:20] Stealth for some things but there's other things that might come in handy for other things. Because D&D is geared more toward a medieval fantasy rather than a modern thing. So I'm also trying to think of that for the different skills. But anyway, sorry what did you get?

[01:06:33] Natural warm. Oh, yeah no he's a Frenchie. Like probably French Canadian or something like that. You don't know. But yeah, he's just like I took my shipment out to St. John's and then I brought it back, did my job. Just one stop? Yes.

[01:06:58] No stops between here and there? No, it came back here. So if I check your truck's GPS transponder, it will confirm that fact? I'll look at the site to check if he's lying? You absolutely will. You absolutely can look inside.

[01:07:13] It looks beyond, it looks at John, it looks beyond John today. It looks exactly like John. It's like a phantom behind him. It's like rolling, it's like I have seen. A total of ten. Now he seems to have a, he seems pretty nonchalant about it.

[01:07:39] Seems like, seems a little standoffish but he doesn't seem too perturbed by this and seems to be like I've got nothing to hide kind of thing. Yeah because it kind of seems like he left here, someone intercepted him and gave him extra crappy dope to transfer to Sellafold.

[01:07:55] Do you want to roll insight? Do you have insight? I do have insight. 20. 20? Oh he's, so he's putting on a good poker face but he is definitely, like he seems, like yeah you can check my GPS and stuff, he's gone up the high of that.

[01:08:18] But he is definitely, you can see like a little bit of sweat behind his ear. It's like he is worried about something. But he's putting on a very good poker face for you guys. Like you can, there is a tell that you can get from him.

[01:08:34] It's very subtle but you're able to pick that up. Would the GPS show if he stopped or just his path? No I think it probably would just show his path. I don't think it would show.

[01:08:46] Yeah it might, yeah it might, yeah it might have a show where he stopped but like yeah. Because I'm just, that said, I mean we're also dealing with like cursed weed. Yeah. So you know magic is involved, how good is the GPS going to work? Yep.

[01:09:07] Yeah but if it's a mundane drop off to the truck of just handing the weed over he would have to stop. Unless there were some Wild West shenanigans going on with like riding him. Oh my god. Opens the back of the truck, the freaking ramp goes.

[01:09:26] Yeah so it's like OG Fast and the Furious bullshit where they're like. Three black cynics. The first speed where they've got to refill the bus on the move. Yeah. There's a bomb on your bus.

[01:09:41] Yeah no but yeah he seems to be hiding something but you, but he doesn't seem, it doesn't seem to be necessarily the GPS stuff. But it does seem to be like he's worried about something. Do you remember what the dealer's name was?

[01:09:54] It was, actually I have it here hang on. Our parages would know. Yeah Sammy Von Tufel. Von Tufel. You know does the name Von Tufel mean in DU? Uh no. He, with your role. Inside. Okay I was going to say with his inside role. Okay fine.

[01:10:16] That, another drop, a couple more, like a little bit more sweat kind of behind his ear. Maybe we should continue this discussion in a more formal setting. Uh what do you mean? Aren't you going to check my GPS and see that I have done nothing wrong here?

[01:10:34] Yeah we can sit in the cab. It's private. Uh alright. Press knuckles. So you guys are walking him over there? Yeah. Uh okay. Roll um. What kind of cab is it? A day cab? It's a semi truck so. Does it have a sleeper cab?

[01:10:58] Is there a back seat where we could potentially hide a body? No it's just a basic, it's a basic one. Like you can travel around, actually he probably would have a cab because like. Is it the new Tesla truck? No actually I don't see it might be.

[01:11:14] Because it might be run by Manticore. It's a Manticore truck, or Manticore model truck. So yeah it's definitely a fucking Tesla. New Tesla electric trucks are pretty sick. What faction is the Orochi group? Uh they're their own faction. They're like the new secret society. Um but yeah.

[01:11:30] It's um not Manticore. What does Manticore do? Because Tesla's all black and white too and so is Orochi. Well no here's the thing. There is no Orochi on any of these things but it's different. Like the thing is Orochi is literally. Its namesake.

[01:11:44] Where it's like a nine headed snake, a serpent. It is a nine corporate, a nine company corporation. It has multiple subsidiary companies under one corporation. One guy, a 90 year old man who teaches everybody the command nailing. God damn it. Master Orochi. God damn it. Um.

[01:12:07] The leader's just gonna have to be called that now. That's what people refer to him as. God damn it. I think it's Manticore. He's making some new super weapon that like shoots a huge beam. No no that's the special beam gun. That's a different thing.

[01:12:24] Oh okay yeah yeah. Sorry hang on I just wanted to double check. What is Manticore Manufacture? Okay cool. Yeah they're um yeah they're the ones for vehicles. So yeah like yeah the car is a. No actually what? Ecyclo. Yeah yeah they're the vehicle. Tesla-esque Manticore model. Cool.

[01:12:47] Yeah so it is definitely an electric car or like yeah it's an electric semi. Yeah. Yes. Before I leave the office there is one last thing I need to do on the computer. Yeah okay we'll. On the computer.

[01:13:00] Okay we'll get back to you because we're gonna have something here. As he is like you're walking out to the car. Or to the truck. Yeah you're just like he like kind of like. It's like a hits a button on a fob that he has.

[01:13:13] And it unlocks the car. There you go you can check the GPS. If that's your truck it'd be rude for us to. Hey you're the inspector. I insist you can go up and get the chicken. Okay. You wanna go check it? You know trucks better than me right?

[01:13:36] Probably. I basically want to stay here in case he runs off like a Tazan. Really? In case you're going up there? Yeah I'm going up the back. Okay so I've got my hammer underneath the back of my trench coat. Yeah. Okay. Just in case.

[01:13:54] Roll perception and you can roll investigation or also perception. Roll or passive. You can either roll investigation or perception what do you want to do? Investigation. And Dave you can roll perception. Roll or passive. Roll. Could fail. Nice. It is the inside of a truck. Really? Yes.

[01:14:18] Is that not a 7? It's a 1. Double 1. We're real good at this. Give me a second. So you're in the back and you're like yeah no this is a guy's. This is clearly the trucker's mobile home when he's on the road and stuff. That'd be 20 goes to prison.

[01:14:40] You can't even feel like where the fuck is the GPS? Why is there. Oh there's definitely some kind of a weird sulfur whiff in here but like where's that coming from?

[01:14:50] And then meanwhile outside you're like looking up at him and then you look to see Mr. Red and Mr. Red's fist just takes you in the face and you're down on the ground. And then yeah you hear. And no one witnesses it outside.

[01:15:05] No no one witnesses it outside. You're knocked on your ass on the ground. Hello Flora. I haven't seen you in a little while. Take 5 damage as you are just punched. As he just punched him in the face. Yeah he's a big guy.

[01:15:21] So you hear a muffled as you're fumbling around trying to find where that smell is. You hear a muffled like fall outside. Does he actually hear it? Actually yeah do you hear it? Roll perception. Yeah roll perception. Or maybe passive to hear it? I'd say passive yeah.

[01:15:47] Okay give me a second I'll see if. To hear me falling and going. With the door open. You're still digging in there you're still looking through things. And by the time you don't find it there's just like a whiff of like that sulfur smell somewhere in this room.

[01:16:07] Like maybe it's coming from the guy's jacket that's like the that's on the other side of the cab. And you're like oh fuck it. You come outside your buddy's just like passed out on the ground like knocked out on the ground.

[01:16:17] And you then you hear off in the distance. And the truck is just driving off out of the parking lot. A pickup truck? Yeah it's a red SUV. He's just driving out of the like peeling out of the drive or parking lot.

[01:16:33] How far are we from the master machine? The master machine? It is. You walked across. We didn't drive in so we got to run there. Yeah you had to run over to like run across past the security check to the part of the public parking lot area.

[01:16:48] Anybody proficient with driving a transport truck? Yeah back at the. So I guess actually back at the actual. Before we cut I'm going to be starting to get up and be like anyone get that truck that hit me. Yeah. So you're grabbing stuff on the files and such.

[01:17:07] I changed the screen saver on his computer. Okay. To this. Oh. For those at home? For those at home it is a Illuminati like Mason kind of thing saying always watching. So he is you're doing a what is it a red.

[01:17:27] A false flag operation where you're like putting the. Your rival factions. Name out there on. But yeah. Actually yeah so the alarm. The general security alarm comes up and you hear. Some commotion coming from like down the hall toward this room. Okay.

[01:17:51] I guess I'm going back to my sugar glider farm. Okay do you have to roll anything for that or just. No. I have to roll anything. Oh really? Yeah the two security guards with tasers in hand. Tasers or stun guns? It's baton taser batons.

[01:18:10] In hand come to the door and like punch in or punch in a code. And open the door and start looking around so roll stealth as a sugar glider. Okay well my plan. As because the door swings in yes.

[01:18:22] Okay would be to go up the back of the door. As the door. It's a glass door too. It's like one of those it's a corporate thing so it's all glass and stuff like that yeah. Okay well then that plan doesn't work. Yeah it's a fishbowl basically.

[01:18:35] Glass walls. Glass floor. Glass door glass walls yeah. They want to be able to see their workers and such. What was it? Just a second. We need the soundtrack for it. Something to be cronked to. Or it's going to be the actual Mission Impossible song playing.

[01:19:06] Either way it's not going to be on recording because it will be cut out. No I don't think this is copyrighted. Well then it was like take 10 seconds. Worse. And my phone immediately dies. Okay well it's going to be the Benny Hill theme. What did you roll?

[01:19:27] A natural 20. Oh net 20? I'm gone. Yeah they come in it's like clear. And they're looking around like don't see it. This is the room with the hack where we got the hack notification right? Where the hell is hack notification? I used a password.

[01:19:50] I guess I plugged into my USB. Maybe just because the computer was accessed when he wasn't in the room he already left. Like with his credentials. Because he didn't use his password to get in and out of the room. Yep.

[01:20:08] So yeah they're looking around but you were like as they were pulling the door open you were already up close to the top of it. So you basically as it swung in. They take a step in and glide over their heads.

[01:20:19] You glide over several people in their cubicles across the pen. All the way. With your tiny little middle fingers. Yeah. You get to the other side of the room where the door to like the hangar or the storage area is. Pulled a full on John Cena? Yep.

[01:20:41] However the door to that room is closed. Okay I'll take a look around. Is there a fire alarm nearby? What's your passive perception? 14. Yeah you can find the fire alarm. Okay. Okay. Take a look around.

[01:21:02] I just imagine like it's like really like interesting like shots of like the cameras like right on like one of the little like like one of the little cubicle like walls. Like looking at the looking over at the at the wall where the fire heart thing is.

[01:21:16] And you just see. Climbing up the wall and then just like. Or is he running along the top of the cubicle. I would say you'll find an empty cubicle go in that go up and then find the fire alarm. And then.

[01:21:31] Go for my my running long jump there. Okay yeah. It's very cinematic like it's a Dutch angle as you go as you fly as you soar and glide to the to the fire alarm.

[01:21:44] And then you use your glider your your sugar glider weight to push down the lever. Okay. And then quickly. Is there a large woman's purse anywhere nearby. That is going to be a perception. That will require a perception test.

[01:22:01] Now are you asking if the woman is large or if the person. Okay I'm looking for an escape vessel. Yeah. That's going to be an 11. She had just come in from lunch.

[01:22:22] There's a woman with a large handbag and she would just set it down when the alarm started going off and it's like oh.

[01:22:28] And she like goes to like get out of her cubicle but then like turn like realize that she's forgotten her bag and quickly runs over to grab it. So in that time you're able to let you could hop into that bag. Perfect. And she goes in as she.

[01:22:43] Perfect. Yeah. Everybody is getting pulled out of like told it like leave and some of that. And same thing you guys hear finally here like some alarms going off inside like a fire alarm. And you see the workers are kind of shuffling out to long outside.

[01:23:00] What's going on now. So we don't know what's going on. Yeah. There's a bunch of people like yes. They see you like getting up and say what happened. I slipped. Oh. On the deception roll. Nine. Oh OK. Where's where's Philip. Or where's Philippe sorry.

[01:23:34] He ran off in quite a hurry. I think he had something to do. Oh OK. I guess he had something I don't know. I didn't. That looks like a pretty nasty nasty shine there for looks like the floor gave you didn't treat you very kindly there sir.

[01:23:51] Oh it was the steps of the truck. I was getting off to see. Yeah I'm not used to these these new Manticore trucks yet. I'm not used to getting off. Yes that as you're walking is you're like stepping out you're getting out of the tree. Thanks.

[01:24:06] I was like right. And he just like walks over back to the group to like have a generous lover. Yes he's bugging off because like that's weird. Yeah. I'm like wiping blood from my nose probably from that bunch of me.

[01:24:20] So we get a chase and we're going to get him later. Well he's clearly the problem. What are the lead do we have right now. The problem isn't here right now as far as I can tell. Is his truck hooked up to anything. Whose truck.

[01:24:36] Yeah it's hooked up to one of the. This wasn't Red's truck that we were looking at. Yeah. You guys went to one of the trucks that were parked like away from the building. It's not a trailer. It is hooked up to a trailer. Would it be.

[01:24:51] He did he didn't he didn't. He came back with lunch on his in his own truck and his like regular truck. Is civilian pickup truck. No not a pickup truck it was SUV. So yeah he didn't. So like would they.

[01:25:05] I'm not familiar like would a company have their trailer still hooked up to a semi. Usually unless they have extra trailers. If they have extra trailers then they would probably load the trailers up independently of having a truck set up.

[01:25:20] But most places only have enough trailers for the number of trucks that they have. Yeah so we have the truck gets still tied to the trailer. That's how I kind of saw it was that the trailer. So we're probably not chasing him in that. No.

[01:25:33] So they are running for the mystery machine. It's a lot quicker than hot wiring his truck or finding his keys and disengaging the trailer and chasing him. Right. So. Am I outside. At some point. You hear like you.

[01:25:51] Yeah yeah yeah you hear a commotion like outside it sounds like they're like they're gathered outside. Okay I'm going to poke my head out the purse. Roll. This is going to be. What's what's your what's your stealth modifier. Three. 13.

[01:26:09] As soon as you poke your head out it's like. What is that. Oh my god it's a rat. What are you talking about I'm adorable. It talks. Yeah. He's making noises though. Indignant squeaks. She starts screaming she drops the bag. She's like. I take off. Roll an acrobatics.

[01:26:34] To not get stopped. Not getting out of this damage this time. Your animal form has come in quite handy so far. That's why I wanted it. Yeah. It's an 18. Yeah you're you managed to like navigate around like high heels and and some and some steel toe boots.

[01:27:04] And as she's wearing there's like multiple people in the crowd. Steel toe boot. Yeah yeah she's wearing no there's a couple of people in the group that she had to navigate past. Yes yes.

[01:27:17] But you manage to like screw up and you see actually as you're running you see your buddies just like. Like to the public parking lot. Okay well then I will. With a bloody nose. Well he might not see that he sees you guys really.

[01:27:31] Is there a light post nearby? Sure yeah. Okay I'm going to go straight up the light post. And then leap off and glide to land on one of these guys. Roll acrobatics. I'll make you relentless. You want to be fancy you got a role to be fancy.

[01:27:47] Chris is really just punishing himself because he's asking for more tops. One day I'll just destroy that thing. Never. 17. It's immune to physical damage. You actually climb up high enough and like just glide right onto their shoulders. Ahhhhhhhhhh. Devil squirrel. You're a terror of my roving deform.

[01:28:18] Double move. Oh wow. So yeah you guys are now all together. Yes. Okay alright I still can't talk so. You guys get to the truck after like a few minutes. A few minutes? How far away did we park? You understand how multiple, how long multiple minutes is?

[01:28:39] It took a few minutes. Like two minutes to run across like a large, it's a large area. Let's say a good quarter mile time. Fine a minute. Fuck you. Next time we're on the street I'll run for multiple minutes. We'll see how far away I get. Alright.

[01:29:00] Oh we gotta go to like an industrial park and then have you run across like two or three of those parking lots. That's what I imagine this is. That's really how far away we park.

[01:29:09] Yeah you guys were, like they have a public, they'd have a public parking lot. You had to go through a security check. And then there's the private public, the private parking for like their employees and their trucks and stuff. And then there's the actual facilities.

[01:29:21] In any industry facility I've been in, the guest parking is right next to the door. Oh fine, in a few moments. Like fuckers. I feel like you need to work more industrial jobs. No, I don't want to. I'll do some more research in the future. It's fun.

[01:29:39] A.K.A. asking me to run across parking lots for you. Yeah it would be myth busters that I was like can't you run across, take the run. Anyway, yeah you guys get to your truck. Or get to your, yeah the mastery machine. Okay.

[01:29:53] At this point it has been like a few minutes since Red left though. So. But I mean if he was hauling ass out of here, it's a good chance you got him in an accident and leaving him free of all the destruction behind him.

[01:30:03] Possibly. Did we say which way he went? That would be a perception. I'd say that would be a perception. You were also knocked on the ground like still like recovering from your injuries and he was just getting out of the cabin. Again, you guys both failed utterly.

[01:30:17] Oh yeah but he managed to get to his vehicle and leave and turn away before he got out of the cab. Got him in the cab? Yeah because he failed his, he was too busy with failing his investigation. I guess we did both fail. We both failed.

[01:30:32] Yeah and then he rolled a seven on his perception. So yeah you were seeing nuts like this. That's fun. Yeah so I will let you guys do a roll perception to see if maybe there's something you can find or something like that.

[01:30:44] See if you can find a skid mark or something. Maybe like he looked for skid marks if he was getting the fuck out of the dock. Can you roll anything that is double digits please? See you gotta roll, you gotta like do this. Do this.

[01:30:58] I have my drug down there. That one's going crazy too. Soon I won't be able to play because I'll run out of dice. Here take my dice. No, no. You can't be rolling great. You can also roll if you want. What am I rolling for? Perception.

[01:31:13] Wait sorry that's a total of ten. Yeah it's fine. You have a good perception even though my rolls suck. Twelve? Yeah so you're looking around and it's like there's that skid mark might not have been there when you pulled in. Maybe that's his. Okay.

[01:31:37] Is anybody really watching me? No they're in the car. We're both trying to see which way you went. You guys are in your car. Like you're in the confines of your car. So you're covered by the master being in the back of the van.

[01:31:50] Perfect. So I'll hop into the back seat of the van and all of a sudden I'm pawing at the side door as a stabbing as a dire wolf but I look like a newbie dog. Okay. Okay.

[01:32:06] So you're like maybe that black mark is like a screeching point of turning off of the road. And then yeah you hear the pawing of that. I'm going to sniff his pocket. Okay. Where the weed is. And then I'm going to paw at the door.

[01:32:24] Are you guys letting him out? Yeah okay. I didn't know if you were trying to point. I guess if you pointed you'd be doing something different. You would be literally doing a dog paw. Yeah he's. I will open door. Okay.

[01:32:38] I'm going to get into the middle of the street and take a smell and see if I can track by scent. Which I do at advantage. Sorry I just immediately. We're in a town of 2500 people. There is not enough traffic to justify me getting hit by a car.

[01:32:55] I just really morbidly love the idea of you just like hopping out of the middle of the car. I was like. Just like taken up by another. I need jimmons coming back. Another. Ironically by a plethron Mack truck. Total of 20.

[01:33:13] It would look horrible and I would probably be triggered if I was watching that as a. What do you turn back into a human? But then he'd like wake up in the void. Like seeing the heavenly host and the dreaming ones is like oh fuck.

[01:33:25] I mean it's not really how it works. I have extra hit points while I'm at. That's true. You're going to get by a fucking Mack truck. I'm sorry that's gonna kill you. I'll be or severely maimed. You are a level one character sir. Yeah.

[01:33:43] Depends on how much damage it does. All right like I would probably do. I didn't happen but I would probably throw in like five D six at you for that. And I mean there's a chance it could kill me.

[01:33:52] Yeah actually eight D ten would probably like because it's like. Well I'm thinking like collision damage. What's your speed limit in this town? It's technically 18 wheelers so you should roll 18 dice. Okay this didn't actually happen. Guys let's stop. It didn't actually happen. What's your survival? Sorry?

[01:34:11] What's your survival roll? Oh okay. So if it's survival then it is exactly the same. Total of 20. Total of 20.

[01:34:22] Okay you do smell the faintest hint of the sulfur and actually it's not as much as the sulfur but also like carfumes that are like a much stronger like a strong scent like a recent scent going down a direction on the road.

[01:34:39] Okay I'm gonna bark twice over my shoulder and take off after it. So basically he's leaving you guys outside of town like even farther out of town than the plethora facility. Follow that dog. Who's driving? Am I driving? I guess so. Sure I'll follow that dog.

[01:34:58] You travel for about it's probably close to like actually I'm gonna double check this so. I can move a hundred feet every six seconds I don't know how fast that is. Should we just like pick you up and just you can ride. How's the speed a minute?

[01:35:19] Should we just pick you up and you can ride lat while sniffing out the door. After about like. I mean yes. Yes. So you're running you said? So about five minutes go by and you're basically like trailing past like following this dog down this road.

[01:35:38] Well first off does the new version of the Volkswagen bus does it have a sliding side door? 11 miles an hour. Did the old ones have sliding side doors? Or did they just have a door at the back? What's the model? It's a Volkswagen bus isn't it?

[01:35:55] Yeah it was a brand new one. You never run in one. That's your basic movement speed. That's my double movement speed. Right you're right. So running would be probably twice that. Either way a car is faster. They do have side doors I don't know if they are sliding.

[01:36:14] I think they're actually like. I think they're actually pulled. Looks like they're swinging. Oh no no they're actually they are sliding. You can ride lat. To be fair that does not look like a swinging one. To me that looks like I guess it is a pull.

[01:36:29] For me for a second. It kind of looks like the back door is a suicide door but it's not. Yeah it's actually a sliding door. So yeah so there it does ride lat.

[01:36:37] All right well if they pull up beside me with the door open lat then I will hop in. And I will stick my head out the door and keep sniffing as we drive down the road. Is your tongue hanging out? Yes. And my ears are flat.

[01:36:51] This is a common sight in town it's fine. It does not draw any attention. Well it's a doofy dog so I mean yeah. But yeah you drive out to a section of town there's a sign that says Dark Hole Brook. Like just like that. I know right.

[01:37:08] There is a there is a an old farm road or like an old farm road like gravel road. And it looks actually pretty dusty like it looks like some of the dust is still just still settling.

[01:37:19] Going to the east of the on the road or like on the left on the road. Bork bork. And then I will point. Yeah.

[01:37:32] Yeah it goes into the wilderness basically it looks like this gravel road is going out to like the tree in some like the brush in the hills. So you follow this road out into the out into the brush and stuff like that.

[01:37:44] Eventually you come across a mailbox about like maybe a few seconds into the onto your drive. That looks like it's a and actually there's even like a an old wooden sign that says. The says the the slaw farm like SL AW farm.

[01:38:11] So we're looking for the owner his name is Cole. Actually. Yeah. Chris really likes that. No actually that is in my notes his name is Cole slaw. Nice. That's excellent. That's excellent. So yeah you guys like follow the road follow like this branch of the road.

[01:38:35] Past the past the signage and yeah you come to what looks like an old. An old farm like a farmhouse in the front like and you see you even see a red SUV parked in the part hastily in the. Part hastily in the in the driveway.

[01:38:56] And then there's like an old dilapidated looks like there's an old farm like an old barn in the back and then like some. Some various like patches of some some various like large gardens in the in around the house. OK.

[01:39:10] Some pumpkin farm some pumpkins and cabbages and corn and such. Let's get up. Get the backpack on I'll preemptively unzip half of it reach in and rack the A.R. just in case I need it. OK. Should we have a report to base.

[01:39:26] Do we have means to do that I guess we burn phones or something. Yeah phones yeah. Yeah. Woof. Good boy. So we'll call it in we'll send our GPS coordinate. OK. Let headquarters know where we are we're going what we're doing. Yeah chasing a potential suspect.

[01:39:46] Just in case we die. Yeah just in case. Yep. Just in case. Yep they get text message back. Godspeed.

[01:39:59] And you like when we go into the driveway should be like skidded sideways so like you can't really get out easily if you just hop to the car and bail. I try to block the way out. Do we see the car.

[01:40:09] Yeah the cars right there like hastily parked in the in the driveway. Out of the car walk over to the SUV and just paw at the back tire and look at you expectedly. I guess yeah that's true. We can't just walk with that.

[01:40:24] Yeah you just pull a knife out just stab the tires. I'm using my folding scissors actually. Only three of them. You stab all four of them in the insurance. Sorry? If you slash three of a guy's tires it doesn't fall back in the insurance pay. Really? Interesting.

[01:40:47] Also if you fuck all them up then technically it's more drivable because they're all the same you know. If you got three flats and a drive tire. I'm still all over the road. Yeah. It's like one of the steering ones but not the other one. Yeah. 31.

[01:41:14] Okay so yeah you guys are pulling you guys getting out of the car and like stabbing the tires of that car. Well is there anyone outside? No seems pretty quiet. Do you guys want to roll perception tests? I personally just put it on everywhere. Of course. Right.

[01:41:33] How big is the shield? Is it like a tower shield? It's a full tower shield. It's a full tower shield. I wish I could prep and cast mage armor on myself but this is the last of my anima so I can't do that.

[01:41:47] It's got like the whole Templar get up on it. Oh nice. Oh so it's got the nice it's got this emblem on it because that's the this is the Templar shield. Nice. Got it off of Redbubble. Thank you double digits. What am I rolling? Perception.

[01:42:08] I guess I should roll that too. A total of 25. Wow yeah the house looks pretty like it looks like it's been used but it's pretty old. I can see through the walls. No actually some of the windows look like they've been boarded up like some of them have.

[01:42:24] Oh so this isn't just a normal house. Yeah but the door is like it does look like it's been it has been it has been taken care of very bare bones. It's not falling apart the main farmhouse is not falling apart but it looks yeah.

[01:42:38] My hand is up audience. Criminal background does it look like a safe house? Oh I didn't so because it's in the middle of nowhere.

[01:42:46] So you're looking at this information so you're looking at like looking at the property and some of that this is clearly an old farmhouse like an old farm property there's you're looking at the gardens and like and some of the crops and stuff with that.

[01:42:57] None of these crops have been used these are these crops have been left unattended they're still like roughly in their patches to for like two weeks. They've been left to keep up appearances but they've clearly not been picked.

[01:43:07] There's no barn that old barn is falling you look at a glance from the front it's like oh that looks like it might be you and then you turn you look at a different angle.

[01:43:16] Oh it's fallen like there's part of the roof is falling through this that that barn hasn't been used in years. So this is a front for a grow up. Okay.

[01:43:26] Like there's probably the grow up is probably somewhere in the back behind like behind the actual farm property itself.

[01:43:30] Somewhere in the hills if you had to guess and but you'd have to like look you'd have to go further behind the house to see if there's any like trails or anything they go deeper into there. Okay I'm going to inform my friends that.

[01:43:41] They probably do use the farmhouse maybe more for just like sleeping in and stuff. Or either way the windows are boarded up on? Only the front door actually only the front ones are boarded up. It's weird that they're how close is this to other houses?

[01:43:55] It's literally the only house in like from for kilometers. You hear banjo on the windows. Okay. I will say only the first floor front windows are boarded up the ones the ones that are from the second floor they're still. That sniper rifle is aiming at me.

[01:44:12] No but if you had to get if you had to guess somebody could those windows that's not there's no glass in those windows so if somebody wanted to use that as a sniper spot that's probably where they would use it. Hmm. Okay.

[01:44:25] Because you know us Canadians are known for defending our grow ops with assault weapons. Totally. Yeah. Sniper rifles. Definitely. I thought we just paid the electric bills and got some modern luck. Yeah. No true but it even made it is very odd. Okay.

[01:44:48] So this guy does not want to get caught I don't know if this is going to go hostile or not but it could. How many people do I smell? It's pretty pretty jumbled there's like a there's definitely smelling the sulfur.

[01:45:02] There's like a it's hard to tell there's like maybe maybe a dozen different scents. There's also magic in the air. There's definitely some kind of like like energy in the air other than than sense. Weird question.

[01:45:20] The amount of times you turn into a dog would it be smart for us to potentially wear like some the same cologne so you can tell that that's us for sure no second thoughts about it. That might be something to consider for future missions.

[01:45:35] That I would be familiar with your individual sense at this point. Okay that's fair. Are we like a new group? You're a new group. Yeah. This is like your first mission together. Okay fair.

[01:45:46] So maybe some I don't think it would take long for me to get used to your individual sense. Okay okay. But yeah so you yeah that's what you're sensing there's definitely something there's there's definitely a charge in the air around sensing. You die. You just die. No reason.

[01:46:03] You just you wake up in that void. It's like ah shit. I pissed off God. But yeah so what do you guys want to do? You're currently just standing there in front of the farmhouse and such. I'm going to sit and look at that. Okay.

[01:46:20] Okay so we've disabled his vehicle. Yes the vehicle has been disabled and you've gotten a sense of the situation of the property of like the locale. Is the alarm on? On the vehicle? No. Do you see a blinking light?

[01:46:33] I'll even say when you got to the door or when you got to the car the car door was the front door was the driver's side was still was still slightly open. Okay. Like he got out of it in a rush.

[01:46:44] Is it an old vehicle or a newer one? It's fairly new like. So it's probably a fob. Yeah it's like 2020 or like 2018. Okay. Quick sniff in there smell sulfur. Little sulfur yeah. Yeah. But not enough that I think there's more in here.

[01:47:00] No it's more like it's like more of just a residual from like if this guy is like carrying or something. Okay. There's definitely also like the scent of weed in there as well. Okay.

[01:47:13] So this guy is either if he knows that we're on to him he is potentially going to grab the product and hide it somewhere else. Yeah. Or destroy it. Or destroy it. Or into ambush. Or all the above. Yeah.

[01:47:29] If I had to bet that barn is probably where he's doing his growing it's probably not in the house. No the barn is falling in. Yeah the barn was falling apart. Is it completely falling apart? You from the front it doesn't look like it.

[01:47:40] As soon as you look over the roof is behind it behind the front is collapsed. Okay I thought it was still. Okay. But you'd have to go farther into the back to see like what the situation is in the back area. Okay.

[01:47:51] But all you can see in the back is like vegetables and like large vegetable gardens and crops and stuff. Okay. All right stack up on me get behind the shield. We're going to go tack in the building. Puck the corner come around and advance to the back.

[01:48:05] Okay sounds good. We're going pretty loud so I'm just going to pull the gun out of this. Yeah. Like he's already got the straight up shield and the hammer out. Yeah. Like we're not fucking around at this point. We'll snap the barrel over.

[01:48:19] He's already demonstrated he's willing to use violence. Yes true against me specifically so I shouldn't be going in half-hearted on this. Yep so yeah you guys are going in or like heading toward the front door. We're going around the side. Going around the back? Okay.

[01:48:39] Hugging the building so they can't get a good angle on us to fire. Gotcha. Yeah you. Got my hand on your shoulder with like the gun ready to go. Yeah. There's a dog sniffing your ass. Yep.

[01:48:49] Yeah you get around to the back porch and yeah you actually as you're going out going around the back you see that there is a little looks like an old ATV trail that goes through a like kind of there's goes between two large crop like large vegetable crops

[01:49:09] like gardens like there's some corn and some cabbages and stuff just kind of still still growing but like wild almost like bordering between wild and like tan like planted yeah overgrown kind of material a lot of lot of cabbages and such.

[01:49:25] And actually it looks like there is a fresh set of treads in the mud in the dirt in the moist dirt going down that ATV trail of an ATV. Okay. You see like the tracks and stuff.

[01:49:41] And as a dog you can smell that scent is coming his scent the guys or the scent that you smell it smells from the other van is going down that trail into the into the hills. I was gonna ask Jacob like do you smell exhaust here? Yep.

[01:49:57] Low growl pointing in that direction. Is there another ATV around? Nope. You have to walk out that way. Okay. It's too overgrown stuff to take the car. Yeah. Okay. I want to protect our rear. We need to raise the mastery machine on suspension. Yes. Off-road.

[01:50:18] Yeah that's that's a future future conversion. It'll look too obvious though so it has to be on airbags. Airbags. Yeah. Hydraulic suspension. Yes. So not only can we drive it high but we can make it dance. Oh yeah.

[01:50:32] Also as you guys went around the house as well not just him now noticing it you guys also notice. I notice a Chichichang one where they're driving a random shitty van and then like they pull into like a weird neighborhood where everyone is using

[01:50:44] hydraulics and stuff so like they pull over the side and like pull out all this like pimping stuff like they peel off the like industrial logo on the side and has like a like a hot girl painted on the side and they flip on

[01:50:56] switches and like put on shag carpet on everything to like blend in. Sorry please continue. Yeah no yeah you guys are going to the inside? Yes we're gonna check those. Okay. So we can get shot in the ass.

[01:51:07] Yeah you check the door or are you trying like who's trying the door? I'll try the door. Okay. I'll do it. Okay so we hit it. Yeah you're trying your best to open the door with a pause.

[01:51:18] Well I mean if I just cry at the door a bunch of times someone will answer the door. They always do. Bam. I can't open the door. People love dogs. Not cultists. Except for you apparently. I mean that's true. That's a dog. Not cultists.

[01:51:33] We could potentially be sneaky with this and let the dog try to get someone to come to the door. I'm pretty sure they know we're coming. So you try the door. Yeah it's unlocked. Alright so I unlock it push it in about an inch.

[01:51:48] Get the hammer ready and then bust through. Ready to go. Okay. I was picturing you doing that with like a standard nail hammer. Okay. Definitely bust a skull. Roll an insight. Also considering you are right handed it is relatively safe to assume that you would check

[01:52:15] left first because you would bring the shield around that way. Yeah. Okay and I'm left handed so I would realistically go right first. Good game. Five. Five? All go in the middle. Five. Five and a half. I heard five were your insights. Yes. Okay.

[01:52:32] We're going to become the Ginyu force by the end of this. We were people. There were five of them. There is a skill for doppelgänging yourself. Yeah there's the chaos magic. Alright so you don't insight the shotgun trap that was hooked to the door. Okay. Ka-blam!

[01:52:51] For, yeah for, it would have been 11 damage. Is this bird shot or buck shot? It's buck shot. So yeah what's your shield do to that? He just adds a herbivore glass. Does it not have to roll in if it actually hit?

[01:53:11] No because, would a trap, would you need a, that's the thing yeah. It's a trap that he didn't, he was nearly, he didn't detect. So it went off. Okay realistically if your shield is rated for buck shot it would just bounce off the shield and it's fine.

[01:53:29] Problem being we are playing D&D. Yeah. So for, he's triggering a trap and the trap, like he's not trying to evade the trap. He's intentionally triggering the trap. And the shield just adds a C. So as far as D&D is concerned.

[01:53:44] Yeah I'd say actually, and I'm also looking at like object hit points and stuff like that. So yeah and I'd say like your, yeah that thing's fucking probably like, yeah you're basically able to like tank the, I'd say roll a strength save just from the blast itself.

[01:54:00] Not getting knocked back behind and like knocked back. Knocked you over. Yeah, 11. Yeah okay yeah you, he takes a step back as like the shotgun blast like takes, yes Aaron? So I don't know how 5th edition does it. And I don't know how this game specifically does it.

[01:54:17] But in other games shotguns are usually treated as a line or cone attack. If they're treated as an area attack like that then they're a dexterity save. Okay. But he is also tanking it and using a shield. Yeah. So yeah.

[01:54:39] I'm willing to just have him do like the like, just. Oh actually I know how I would go about that. Do you have the, what feats do you have? Do you have the special shield one? No. Okay. We haven't gotten any feats yet. Have we?

[01:54:56] I don't think we have had a chance to really choose any. I don't think we have either, I was just asking. Because there is specifically a 5e feat for shield mastery.

[01:55:06] And what it does is it makes it so that you can use your shield to basically make you take half damage from area attacks. Okay. Well I'm saying like it's close range and stuff as well.

[01:55:19] So like I'm saying it's like he just had to roll a strength thing to like rebuke it basically. Yeah. Okay. So you're holding the direct counter to this. You're holding a bulletproof shield against bullets. Exactly, yeah. Yeah. So yeah you basically. It's a straight. It's a power shield.

[01:55:35] It's a riot shield. One of those clear ballistic riot shields with the templar. I thought you just had like. A buckler. A Captain America sized. No. Riot shield. Which are also a thing. Yeah. No he straight up just like. RIDE. Yeah. I'm not just a templar.

[01:55:52] I'm like a halogen. Yeah. You went full blown out. Yeah so yeah he takes a step back as like the. As the. You guys all hear buck shot go off. Yeah I stumble a little bit but I push him. I shoot him in the spear into Gladius.

[01:56:06] And yeah you look over and oh yeah there's a string I snapped. Whoops. That was a trap. But you kicked it open so like there's no more trap there. I'm going to count this as. We got a shotgun. True. I'll just pot the shotgun a little bit.

[01:56:21] Yeah that's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You say it to the dog. Yeah that's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good boy. Good boy. Um. Where's the dog with smirking? He actually is. I'm assuming you're the highest intelligence ever.

[01:56:39] No you have a really good intelligence too don't you? I'm 18. It's actually my wisdom. My wisdom is insanely high. My intelligence isn't low. My highest. My highest is dex. My second highest is wisdom. My intelligence is 14 but my wisdom is 18. And I'm not smart because I got cocked.

[01:56:59] So you guys are traveling like go inside and looking around. Roll investigations as you're going in. I'm not because I am taking the shotgun trap. Okay. Or at least just ripping it from the trap. Yeah. Investigate? Yep. That's 16. Not perception? No. What kind of shotgun is this?

[01:57:21] Pump action or double barrel? It's a pump action. Okay. Yep. He's a pump shotgun for a shotgun. I prefer that because now I got a pump shotgun. You're saying it's not a choice. It is but. Total of 19. Uh 19? Okay.

[01:57:40] You have the double barrel and you wrap the string around each trigger individually. Yep. Just going to go to the newts. But I have a breaching shotgun now. I guess the other side is if you were setting it up for home defense. Okay.

[01:57:54] And you had to cover both your front door and your back door and it's only you. And you have a pump action shotgun trap on your back door. You're covering the front. You hear the back door one go off.

[01:58:05] All you got to do is run to the back door, pump it, and it's set and good to go again. And run back to the front. Keep covering. I guess that's true. I mean. Depending on how you got that set up. You'd have to reset the line.

[01:58:18] This is not important. No. We should continue. Yeah. So in your investigation inside, you don't find it. What you find a lack. What's interesting is you find a lack of things. Like this place has been stripped down to bare bones.

[01:58:33] Like there this place you're you find a couple of areas like the living room area, the den has been all any furniture has been removed from it. Like that would normally be in there and has been replaced with bunk with bunks.

[01:58:45] Like this was effectively their sleeping quarters and like in the kitchen, there are cans and cans of beans and and what have you. But it's pretty much just a Spartan kitchen area. Yeah. Okay.

[01:58:59] Is there are they all just are all the bunks exactly the same or is there one that looks like he's in charge? No, no. Well, you're on the first floor. You're only on the first floor.

[01:59:10] But you're seeing like it's basically the same kind of the same kind of like camping bunks. You get like a Walmart sports department. Same with the beans, like all the beans are like basically like dollar store brand like baked beans and like and basic like meal prep stuff.

[01:59:26] Like this is basic. It looks like there's about a dozen maybe about a dozen people live here or like are living in and out of this place. But there's nobody here and there's no like there's no even like any like personal effects or anything like that.

[01:59:39] So two questions. Yeah, one when I check the shotgun, does it have any extra rounds in it or is it empty? Yeah, I'd say I'd actually say I just say it would be empty because they only had like one. It only had purpose for one shot. Okay.

[01:59:52] A roll of nine on mine. Investigate to see if there's any nearby ammo. Just this. Let me open. Yeah. Okay. So we see the front door from here. Yep. Is the front door of a shotgun trap? No. So I just came in the wrong guy. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

[02:00:10] But we got a shotgun in it. We would have a shotgun in a round. Yeah, but we may have not found it. Either way, we shouldn't dig around too much because the longer we stay here, the longer he's getting away.

[02:00:22] So I assume it's just a cheap pump action shotgun. Yeah. Okay. Maverick 88. Yep. He's got to move ahead. I think we're going to have to catch up to him eventually. Let's check upstairs. Okay. Let's back up again. We'll go upstairs. Yep. Yep. Roll perception. Both of us? Yep. 10.

[02:00:40] Okay. Oh, this is perception. Yep. I get to do a percentage. 17. Okay. Isn't that 20? Mm-hmm. Can I borrow your dice? No. Nobody's taking this luck from me. No. I love this spinner. We can't even touch it. We'll taint it. So you're a dog though, right?

[02:01:06] I will definitely taint it. Yes. No. Nobody's taking this luck from me. No. I love this spinner. We can't even touch it. We'll taint it. So you're a dog though, right? I will definitely taint it. Yes.

[02:01:18] You're the one that notices the claymore mine that he's about to step on, or he's supposed to step past. Okay. Attack roll. On the claymore mine. What? You're attacking it? No, I'm attacking him. To not go near... To, to, because I'm a, I'm a dog.

[02:01:33] I can't say anything. Yeah. I'm just going to grab you by the back of the belt and yank you back. It's a natural 20 on the attack roll. Okay, roll strength. Strength. Oh, you're grabbing him, attacking him and grabbing him and pulling him back? Yeah.

[02:01:46] Okay, roll strength, strength save against him. I just rolled a natural 20, man. Again. Okay, roll it, have him roll it. Uh... 15. Okay, fine. Regardless, we know that you're pulling at him. It's just whether or not you physically pulled him back or not. And, uh...

[02:02:07] Also, his roll actually just, you roll well. You roll very well. And you guys are on stairs. That's fine. Pulling him back. And you rolled a 15? Yeah. Okay, you almost teeter down the stairs, but you manage to catch yourself on the rail.

[02:02:21] I'm also behind him so I'd be... Yeah, you're also, yeah, you see, some of the dog like runs up behind or past you and just grabs him and pulls him back. And that's when you notice, like as you're holding him back you look back and say,

[02:02:32] Oh, you see the little hint of the Claymore mine. Maybe we should keep our eyes down. You keep your eyes down and I keep my eyes up because you're the one in the front.

[02:02:41] And that's when they point and then you see the glint of the Claymore mine at the top of the stairs. Now, you were a military. Oh, you can disable explosives. Yes. Yeah, yeah, you got the EOD kit. Yep. I do. So go ahead and...

[02:03:00] Would that be like a sleight of hand? With the EOD or does the EOD just automatically give him the ability to do that? Or is that just a proficiency thing? It's a proficiency thing. Okay, so you get advantage. You get your proficiency plus I'd say advantage. Okay.

[02:03:17] And it is a sleight of hand? What is this? No, like you just get your proficiency bonus too. Yeah. Oh, okay. So then would it be... Sorry, would it be an advantage or just be the proficiency bonus? It depends on whether or not...

[02:03:34] He's got the toolkit for it. Yeah, he's got the toolkit for it. Is this something that he would have worked on before? Do you think he would be good at this specific type of explosive? If I'm not, you sure as hell are.

[02:03:47] You're more into explosives than I am, right? Actually, why don't you just help him with it? Yeah, you roll and then he can get advantage. If he uses to help another action... Oh, he then... Then he gets to do it with advantage.

[02:04:00] Okay, yeah, that's how we do it. Yeah. Okay. So if you guys are both helping each other doing this. Have you done this in your... Were you a cop or military? Military, MP. Okay. So have you done this before? I've set and disarmed a lot of these.

[02:04:14] It's just two wires going to the top. Then you are probably the one that should be doing it and I will assist. I don't think so. No? He's not proficient with the toolkit. The hand isn't steady like it used to be. Okay, fair. Then I'll do it.

[02:04:27] That's why he used heavy weapons. A wider spread. That's pretty good. So it's 17? 17? Yeah. You managed to deactivate the claymore. It's not going well. At least you're seeing it. It's going a lot better than the last time. Yeah. So I'm going to take the claymore.

[02:04:50] Stick it in this bank. Yeah. I do that. You held the clock very well. Yes. And the wire and all that. The book was it that I was reading that they found a claymore. One of the characters literally just put the pin back in,

[02:05:05] picked it up and put it on the inside pocket in his coat. There's no pin by the way. It wasn't a pin, but there was a thing he did to make it safe. But he's still facing him. No, he was facing out. Okay, still. He wore denim.

[02:05:26] Put it inside his coat. Oh, it was Jim Butcher's son's book. Oh, Jim Butcher's son has a book? Yes, James Butcher. Not Billy Butcher. Not Billy Butcher. He would know better. Okay. Either way, I'm taking that. I'm taking the string.

[02:05:49] Actually, I should probably use the string to make an impromptu sling on the shotgun. So I'm not one-handing the shotgun and the rifle. Watch, it's just a piece of yarn. It really was. Well, that would have to be a trip wire ringed to the clacker

[02:06:04] because the clacker would have to be set off. Hmm. Either way, yes, that happens. Okay, so we're upstairs. Yep. So you guys go check in your corners and stuff. You find the front door, the front room that has those front windows

[02:06:26] and there is a pretty hefty arsenal of ammo and some guns. Bag of holding. We don't have a bag of holding. Though it is in a duffel bag, so you can just bring that duffel bag down to the mastery machine. Nice.

[02:06:43] If it fits in a duffel bag, you can't call it an arsenal. It's just like a stash. Yeah, it's a stash, yeah. And there's two rifles, like two hunting rifles there. Like bolt actions? Yep. Oh, is that it? Yep. Shotgun shells? Yes. I'm scared.

[02:07:02] There are three boxes in the duffel bag. It's a 20 gauge shotgun. A birdshot. And a 12 gauge shotgun. So the last buckshot round he had was loaded in the shotgun, the rest of the round shot? No, I'm being facetious. I'm being a fascist. What?

[02:07:25] And then the other room that you find upstairs of note, because otherwise everything is basically stripped down. There is actually one of the bedrooms that is actually nicer than the bunks downstairs but it's still like a makeshift, it's not like a mattress or anything like that.

[02:07:42] It's just another bunk but it's a nicer one. Okay, I'm going to go pee on it. It's definitely off to a court. I am a dog, I am going to pee on it. That's fair. Do I have to poop yet? Constitution? Yeah, I guess we'll constitution.

[02:07:59] Constitution saving throws there. I'll take a constitutional. Three. Nope. Damn. I can tell that you will be trying to do it though. He's like constantly looking around, trying to get the works moving and just not having it. Okay, alright.

[02:08:36] That's all you find in there, it's really just like a nice sleeping area away from the other bunks. Well it was nicer now it smells like pee. Yeah. No documents? Not here. No silver smell, just pee smell?

[02:08:53] There was some, like a little bit of silver smell but like... No duffel bags, no dressers, nothing? No, this house is pretty Spartan. No cooler filled with ammo and med kits? No. No missile launcher just right over there just in case?

[02:09:09] I believe that's called a wand of one less dragon. Also sadly no manuscript pages. What about a thermos and a bright light bulb? No. How about a laptop? Nope, not here. Butterfly dog cakes? Hmm? Butterfly what? Butterfly dog cakes? No.

[02:09:31] No, unfortunately again like yeah you're looking around like this is clearly like just where they sleep. Any of their other like maybe they have an op, like they have like anything that of import like for intel and stuff

[02:09:43] might be closer to wherever they're, maybe there's like another building somewhere. Is there a basement? Yeah but it's just I'll just save you guys the time, there's nothing down there. It's just a root cellar. Alright, we're gonna have to trail before the trail goes completely cold. Yep. Okay.

[02:10:03] Alright, back down and outside. Right on the same path we walked on. Are we dropping the guns and ammo off at the mastery machine first or are we taking those with us? I feel like it'll slow us down. Sorry.

[02:10:17] Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. What's that Jacob? Timmy fell down the well? Yeah. What's up dude?

[02:10:32] I will put the extra two boxes of shotgun shells in the duffel bag that has a couple of rifles in it and I'll just, does he have a garage? No there's no garage. Okay. It's just a farmhouse. How far away is his truck parked from ours?

[02:10:48] It was literally right next to the front porch. So like if you guys park, how far did you guys park away from it? Probably right in front of it so we couldn't leave. Put it back in the mystery machine. Yeah, so I'll quickly run over there.

[02:10:59] You start with ammo. It's all .303 British. We are incredibly lucky now. That expensive. We bought today. Okay. So yes, I dropped that off and yes. Probably leave the shotgun there because I'm probably not going to be able to use that and carrying those around is annoying.

[02:11:21] Unless I just specifically use the shotgun and put the rifle in my bag. You've got an AR. What do you need a shotgun for? Inside. You got me for the inside. I guess that's true. So yes, it's all in the truck. We're good.

[02:11:34] Alright so you guys start trekking through that trail like through that. We're trekking. The truck is staying there. Yeah, you're trekking down that ATV road, ATV path like near the, like between the gardens and such. Yep. Probably hoofing it. Yeah. You can smell stuff. Get on point. Okay.

[02:11:54] There's a lot of chaff in the air, basically a lot like arcane static about this entire farmhouse area. Okay. And there's definitely some kind of weird smell but you can't really place it. Everyone roll decks as you guys are passing through the gardens. Of cabbages and corn.

[02:12:12] I read a question just because I was looking through my cantrips. Um, Aaron do you happen to know how long True Strike lasts for? Not long. Okay so I can't like preemptively just have that good to go. No I think it's maybe like a minute. Oh okay.

[02:12:28] No I don't have that one open. Oh I do have it open. True Strike. One round. That's like seconds. Yeah. Concentration for one round. Yeah. Yeah okay. Just wondering if I should be doing things differently. So sorry, deck save? Yep deck save. 12. Okay you're knocked prone.

[02:12:51] And I'm not. You're knocked prone. 13. You're knocked prone. All of you are knocked prone and you're going to take 4d6 bludgeoning damage. 4d6? As the cabbage patches move and lumber up. I forgot to heal myself from getting punched in the face.

[02:13:13] In a massive humanoid like form made of earth and vegetation particularly cabbages lifts up and knocks you all to the ass. Question, in the drive over here could I have spent my 1d10 to heal? Yeah. It's not going to help much. 4d6 could be double my health. Yeah.

[02:13:43] Okay so I am actually healed and I don't have that. 11 damage to all of you. I have 1 HP. As a giant hulking cabbage golem lifts out of the garden and catches you guys completely unawares. Okay so I guess it's initiative day. Nice knowing you guys.

[02:14:09] Guys I got this. Do you? I do. Do you? I do. Do you? Do you? 22? I gotta pull up the initiative page. What did you get John? 22! Okay what did you get Jacob? 15. Also is it Jake or Jacob? Jacob but everyone calls me Jake.

[02:14:35] Okay just because I have Jake under here. 14. Alright there Jacob. Sorry what was that? 14. What was that Elmo? Yeah I fucking love those guys. Okay well congrats you guys are going first. If we didn't we would be all dead. Honestly.

[02:15:01] So here's the thing you guys have Merrick to thank for this monster because he's the one that gave it to me. Yeah I needed this just to tell you. This entire scenario was based around this creature. I hate it.

[02:15:15] This scenario evolved from the idea of wanting to use the cabbage golem in a scenario. Sorry wanting to use the cabbage patch kit. Oh no those are part of it as well. Those are coming with this creature. He fires many versions of himself at you. Okay! We're fucked!

[02:15:39] I would have really liked you if you had leveled up before you did this. I would have still have like 20 points instead of 12. At this point there's no even okay once my turn there's no point me even

[02:15:52] putting a heal on because if he hits us once we're dead anyways. So my best course of action is to just damage it and hope it dies before it has turned right? Which one of you has the claymore? Me? That is true. It's a big fucking explosion.

[02:16:16] Yeah but is he gonna let me hook it up or am I just gonna like I would say it's about full round action. Yeah. How would I go about hooking it up quickly safely? How likely is it to blow up if you shoot it? Extremely.

[02:16:34] Then one of you has throw it. If I throw it and it's facing me and I shoot it I die. It's facing me. Well you're also all right now you're all prone on the ground. So you gotta get up first.

[02:16:48] So I have to use my full action to get up. No you have to use half your move action. Okay. Either way who's going first? I guess it would be John. Great. So Deegat, John Deere how you doing? Not good. Okay.

[02:17:08] Also this is kind of ironic because your name is John Deere not relation but this creature I think it's original name like that you from the link that you gave me was named the farmer's demise or farmer's nightmare. Yeah.

[02:17:20] John Deere versus John Deere no relations versus farmer's nightmare. So here's something I recommend you take the claymore you stick it in the ground facing enemy you start crawling that way. As soon as you hit your next turn you shoot the claymore.

[02:17:40] Yeah I mean okay if I'm on my ass couldn't I just kind of like scoot my legs up like click it into the ground in front of me and then clack it. Okay. Like immediately. Most of the damage is on the ground. Yes. You're still holding.

[02:17:57] No not that I'm holding it clicking it into the ground and letting go. Still there would be blowback a little bit. Is there some damage behind it? Every action is equal and opposite reaction.

[02:18:06] So all that projectile that's going that way is matched by the amount of blast coming back. Yeah. So it's gonna take like 20 D8 piercing damage. Yeah. But you're gonna take like 20 D8 bludgeoning damage. Yeah. So I don't know that it would be that much.

[02:18:23] Yeah I don't actually know what it is. Because it would be dispersed somewhat. How much is your how much are you have grenades right? Yeah. How much damage? 3D6. 3D6 so like maybe. So like how about 4D8?

[02:18:34] Yeah but I mean with the way it's the way that they're that it's direction that allows the ball bearings to be as damaging as they are. Claymore is basically a shotgun. It's okay. Absolutely a shotgun. Okay in that case then it's probably just gonna do the same.

[02:18:49] I'll bump up the damage of a shotgun. Because if I put the butt of my shotgun against my face and I shoot you with it, it's gonna be worse. It's gonna be a lot worse for you than it is. It's not gonna be fun for me.

[02:19:03] Okay so probably like. Regardless I can use half of my action or half of my move to stand up. I can use how many actions would it be for me to just pull out the claymore out

[02:19:22] of my pocket or backpack or wherever I put it and just stab it into the ground because it has like a little feed on it. I'd say that's reaction honestly. That's probably your bonus action and then your action to set it up. My bonus and my action?

[02:19:38] Well the bonus to pull it out and then the action to set it. Okay so it is set in front of me and then I still have half of my move action to move. So I can move back from it.

[02:19:50] Yeah and you mean move half the distance you would normally. Why is it an even terrain? No but you're all prone. No I'm up now. I use half of my action to get up. So I can move back. Half of his movement to get up.

[02:20:02] Yeah so wouldn't it be half his movement. So he would get half of his normal movement. But it sounded like you were saying that he got half of half of his. No no I meant like half his speed. So instead of 30 feet it would be.

[02:20:11] You can get 15 feet away from him. Yes I can get up, set it up, back up 15 feet. Yeah I'm just back like. Yes and that uses all of my actions and I can't do anything else. Correct. Okay great. So I guess I'm done.

[02:20:33] Next up is going to be. I kind of wish I just shot it. Jacob. Actually I wouldn't have been able to shoot it. Can I delay my action until after MC Hammer? Marcel. Marcel. Sure.

[02:20:53] I was going to ask what action would it be to take a clicker and click it. Probably just a free action honestly. I've already used a free action so I don't have one anymore. Well probably you could do it as a reaction or a bonus action.

[02:21:08] Yeah I'd say a bonus or a reaction. So when it comes with it you could as a reaction you can click the clicker if it comes within range. It's already in range. Yeah it's like right up in your grill. You guys are all up in it's grill.

[02:21:24] So can I burn my reaction right now to just hit it? Or could I throw the clacker to someone else to use on their turn? Yeah you could do that. I'd say either or. If you want. Is that going to break the rules? I don't think it would.

[02:21:45] Do you want to set off now? Kind of. Throw me the clacker and then I can cover myself with a shield and blow it. Or you can get in the way between him and it. Yeah okay I'll do that. Well it's Marcel's turn now.

[02:22:01] Are you throwing the clacker? Yes. So I catch the clacker, I bring the shield up, I crawl back to 15 feet. So I'm between the claymore and him. I got the shield up and I hit it. Okay. Roll 4d8.

[02:22:19] Because the shotgun does 2d8 of damage so imagine a claymore might do 4. Fair? The move level is good. That's 4, 8, 8. 9, 8, 8, 16, 25. Okay so you shoot it with 29 damage. It does not seem... It takes the hit and is still lumbering towards you guys.

[02:23:03] It does take in damage but it is definitely not destroyed. What is this thing made of? It is made of dirt, mud and lots and lots of matrically infused vegetation. Like cabbages and vegetables.

[02:23:18] In fact the heads of cabbages actually have honest to god facsimile faces on them that are screaming at you. Oh and I can also use my sacred the forge to regain a hit die plus 11. Okay. Very nice. I cast an anima. 12 of a magical health. Okay.

[02:23:43] Now it's your turn. Yes. Okay. Get him boy. Alright. Spent half my movement to get up. That was just your free action. How far away is he? That was only your free action. Probably like 5-10 feet. He set his shield too. What? He set his shield too.

[02:24:05] I guess. To ignore the back glass. Yeah. I suppose. That uses the action. I guess you did it. It was based on full defense right? I guess yeah. Yeah I was going to say I guess you maybe want to roll a strength save but it's

[02:24:18] the shield is protecting you from the. I'm already on my ass. I can't get any more. Exactly yeah. So sorry you're probably about like 10 feet away from it. Oh fantastic. I am on my feet and I'm going for the cabbages and eggplant. Okay. Alright.

[02:24:34] You're still a dog aren't you? I am. I am still a dog. I feel like we should have both just attacked it. We may have done more damage if I just shot it and he just hit it with a hammer.

[02:24:53] It does have a lot of hit points I will say that. 23 to hit. 23 to hit? We'll hit. Okay. Okay. That's 10 damage. 10 piercing damage. Okay. And it has to give me a strength save. Okay. It's a huge oh by the way this is a huge size aberration.

[02:25:38] It's a huge size creature. Okay. Sorry that was a strength save? Yep. 19. Okay. Then it succeeds that's not a problem. So how much damage do you do? 10. 10? Okay. I am going to spend an anima, my last anima. And I am going to um... Mangle. Mangle? Yes.

[02:26:05] I get to make two unarmed attacks. Okay. Okay so 20 to hit. 20 will hit. And a 18 to hit. 18 will definitely hit as well. Excellent. Okay so my unarmed attacks don't do a lot of damage but... They're a little something. So 6 and 7.

[02:26:42] I keep remembering that I have 13 animate dice I can use. So 13 damage. 13 damage sure? Yep. Okay. I am going to flavor that as I got a good bite on them and then I did that thing that dogs do when you're playing tug. Yep. Worrying it.

[02:27:07] You're definitely shredding up and worrying a couple of the cabbages and such. As you're so close to it you see that those cabbage faces have teeth. Like straight up sharp teeth. Okay. And they are gnashing as well. But... Okay I guess it's on to its turns. Yep. Turns.

[02:27:30] Yep. Multi attack. Toothy cabbage attacks since Aaron is right up there in its grill. Actually the first one is going to be a slam. So can I have to do two cabbage attacks or two slam attacks? The toothy cabbage attacks are range.

[02:27:48] But since somebody is right there up in its grill it's probably going to target that person. Because if they tried to use ranged attacks with me right here I would do them at a disadvantage. So that's going to be 15 to hit. I think that will do it.

[02:28:02] Yep that will do it. Okay. Do I use the static number or do you want me to roll the dice? Roll it. I like it when it's rolled. Okay that's 8 damage for the first attack. Okay. As you're being bludgeoning damage. Okay.

[02:28:20] And then it's going to smash at you, slam at you again for 18 damage. Or not 18 sorry not 18 damage. 18 to hit. Yep that will hit. And 11 damage. Okay. On the second volley. But you are basically keeping its attention from the others.

[02:28:42] Well my fur is matted, I am bleeding but I'm still holding. Yep. Really? I'm just a giant hulking beast. There's a reason I picked a direwolf. I guess. Do you guys want to see what you're fighting by the way? Sure. I can pull up a quick sketch.

[02:29:01] Just check the chat with me, you'll find it in there. Oh yeah there he is. Oh no. There he is. That's what you're fighting. Lovely. It's a huge size creature. Oh okay. So it looks like the rose of like. It was the cabbage patches. It was the gardens.

[02:29:17] They have a security goal. Great. So it's an earth elemental that is made out of cabbage rots? Yeah. Yeah it's one of the, picture one of the earth elemental from Secret World Legends. Except add a bunch of cabbages with teeth on it.

[02:29:32] I was actually kind of picturing the rock monsters from Breath of the Wild that you killed to get the. Yeah very much like a talos. It's like an earth talos. Kind of yeah. So top of the round is John. Okay. So yeah. No one's dead yet. Not yet.

[02:29:52] Okay. Alright. Okay. Guiding bolt? Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. That's really my best move right now. It is literally one of the best moves I've ever made. I'm going to go with the It is literally one of the best low level spells there is. Yes.

[02:30:16] So, ranged attack. Plus five. Oh that's a better sign. Cool. That is 14 to hit. That doesn't hit it. It's huge! It's up by one. I don't, I literally, I will say I did not make up these stats. These are. It's engaged in melee. Does that not give advantage?

[02:30:40] It is engaged in melee. Yeah, you can roll an advantage. This isn't going to help. I appreciate it though. Oh rolled 19. Yeah then you hit it. Okay cool. Excellent. Okay. And now shooting in the back.

[02:30:51] Yeah well not in the back but it's preoccupied with pounding a fucking mastic. It's punching a nukey dog in the face that's fighting it in the testicles. Yeah. Yeah. Those cabbages are a scream.

[02:31:01] If you let go at just the right time he will punch himself in the testicles. Yeah for a normal organic person that might help this is a fucking construct or like. It's still bludgeoning damage. Yeah. I have to say it's not going to react the way it does.

[02:31:18] It's going to be a little bit more aggressive. Yeah. It's going to be a little bit more aggressive. It's still bludgeoning damage. Yeah. I have to say it's not going to react the way a human or like a person would. Yes.

[02:31:32] Okay so I aim the gun and I shoot the guiding bolt through the gun because that's how. That's your medium. Yeah but it's basically my spellcasting focus. I do not shoot with my gun. I shoot with my. I do not cast with my hands.

[02:31:45] I cast with my gun. He was cast with his hands and forgot in the face of his father. So he has a bright beam I guess of a blast of radiant light comes out and he takes 15

[02:32:02] radiant damage and the next attack on him gets advantage from any one or just me. Correct. Okay. The next person who makes an attack gets to do it with a damage. How much damage was that? 15. Sorry the next person. I will say.

[02:32:19] Out of all the attacks that one and the one where your friend was wearing it with like with the use of anima seemed to be doing a lot more damage than the previous attacks. Okay. I'm going to spend one of my anime dice and I did.

[02:32:40] Oh so now when I spend that I have to hit with it or something. Because basically it's favorite and you spend one on hit add roll to first attack on it for a round. Yeah. So basically you can roll that guy.

[02:32:55] You save that number every time you hit it. You have that number. Okay. Yes. On hit on the first. Yeah. So one of these and it takes this much damage. One. That's a good fall not roll. Roll it again. I'll let you roll.

[02:33:10] I hate when they just flop. Okay. Much better. Yes. I'll keep that there as a reminder. Now there is always something there to remind you. Yes. I'm totally not going to forget that. Okay. So yeah. That is. Jake or that is John. Marcel.

[02:33:32] So as a result of you. I am behind you. You're now behind. Yeah. So Marcel you're up. All right. How far am I from the feature? You are within 10 feet. Okay. Oh I'm also. I'm not sure. No you are within 15 feet at least. Because. He's about 20 feet. Yeah.

[02:33:47] Because he crawled back 10 feet and we were already 10 feet away. Yes. So I can't get to him this turn. Well I guess not. You could because you have a speed of 30 right or unless you have a speed of 20. He's still prone. Oh you're still prone. Okay.

[02:34:05] How about you just have your action get up. No he was he was he was shimmying or he shimmied over. He didn't get out. He shimmied to get the shield. Oh okay gotcha. So yeah you're yeah you still. Oh I can charge.

[02:34:14] You could charge and that would give you the 30. All right so. Also my move I moved back a bit with my last action too. Yeah so you're now like what like 20 30 feet away from. I wouldn't want to go too far away. Yeah.

[02:34:26] I'd probably move back maybe another 15 so a total of 30. Yeah okay. So I rise up. I charge. A 31 just in case. With a heavenly strike. Okay. I have advantage. You do because you did it on a charge. But he has advantage on you next turn. The creature does.

[02:34:44] Yes. Okay. It's okay. Does this count as the my attack hit him the magic which gives advantage. Does that burn on this. Oh yes yes it does. Okay. I mean. That's his life. We gotta damage him. 12 19 to hit. 19 will hit. Okay.

[02:35:02] That's going to make it a D8 plus four radiant. So nine 13 damage and he must make a constitution save or be blinded. Give me a second. Okay. That's not on his list of immunities. Quick question. So how much physical damage was used? 13. 13. Okay sorry. 13 radiant. Yeah. It matters.

[02:35:38] It does in a way. So he seems to you mentioned that he took more damage from anima attacks. Yeah. He did. He did. He did. He did. He did. He did. So you mentioned that he took more damage from anima attacks. From. Yeah.

[02:35:56] So keeping in mind I have to burn anima to turn into a turn. I don't know how that. If you would like on your turn you can roll an arcane and I will give you some if you succeed I can give you some information on that.

[02:36:09] I just want to give that hint a little bit of a hint. Okay. That's it. And I got a roll for constitution. Basically asking if your dog form is getting the same benefit as us using. Yes. Because it cost me anima to use it. I don't know.

[02:36:26] So let me see here. Constitution. Nine. Nine on that constitution. No. So it is. How the fuck is a cabbage golem blind? I'm blinded. It has eyes. All of its cabbages. All of the cabbage heads eyes like aah. Yeah all of them. Okay.

[02:36:47] So a blinded creature can't see and automatically fails any ability checks and requires sight. Oh wait hang on. Oh hang on. It does have tremor sets. Okay so it's not really. It's not fully blinded but yeah so it's I'd say I'll take I'll have it take disadvantages though.

[02:37:03] Alright. Because it has to yeah attack rolls on the creature have advantage and the creature stuff creature attack rolls are have disadvantage. Well no we would take disadvantage if we were blinded in a fight. Yeah but it has tremor sets so yeah.

[02:37:19] Make it take a minus two to attack. Yeah I'll have that yeah do that. Because we would take disadvantage if we were fighting blind golems. Yeah because the disadvantage is way worse than a minus two but minus two is still

[02:37:29] like a fair penalty for like the part of partially being partially blind basically. Yeah. Okay. You can shake the blindness when you get to constitution save. Okay. So I'll do that. Alright so that's what you do yeah you definitely like bring down a smash

[02:37:43] down and it is it doesn't like that at all. It does seem like your your strike does its full weight of damage upon it. And next up is Jacob. So you want to roll that arcana to get some insight. Sure. The bonus action. Yeah.

[02:38:03] And I get to do the set advantage. So that's going to be 19 total. Okay so it seemed like when you were when you bit the first time and when the claymore took it out like it didn't it didn't damage as much as you thought

[02:38:24] it might it should have. But when you guys were using in when you were infusing your attacks with magic or enema like any kind of like a non mad. You have non magical attack seem to do less damage than when you have like power behind it behind attacks.

[02:38:40] Okay. I.E. this thing will take will will half damage on non magical attacks. Well that's all I got left is non magical attacks. So does his dog go form count as a magical attack. No I wouldn't count that. Okay. Can't you get a day.

[02:38:59] Limited unlimited cantrips are free use. Like the porn type. I'm about to become ranged 17 right next to it. But 17 that it's okay 14 damage. Okay was that. That's just regular damage. Yeah I'm out of enema. I got nothing left there. Well I mean spells would also work.

[02:39:30] Can't cast spells a dog for that's fair. Want to stay in dog form until you get hit again. Sorry. You want to stay in dog form until you get hit again. Yep. Okay. So that's Marcel's thing.

[02:39:44] Yeah your attack just seems to do some damage but not as much as you wish it would wish I could hurt. But he's going to give me a strength save. Yes. That is going to be. Nine. That is a failure. Okay what are you doing to it.

[02:40:03] What is it doing. Not some problem. So you are you're just putting the full weight of your new feed dog body into it and basically somehow you topple it backward. Yeah. On to me. Are you behind it. Okay. They've yet rolled X to get out of the way.

[02:40:23] Five. No you're going to take a damn you're going to take D six three damage. You are crushed under heaps of vegetation and dirt. Pull the pins on all your grenades. Just like big ass titties. Just like it falls on you. He's just like.

[02:40:49] And you wake up into the void. No. Oh right because we're bees. Yes. It's not permanent. It just might take a while for you to come back. Wait does that mean that Jesus was a bee. I figured that's why he's the void.

[02:41:07] A lot will send me back faster. Hmm. What will. Oh my god. God. Oh shit. Okay moving on. Yeah so you're just like partially crushed by like the garden. It fell on you. Oh shit. So next up is the golem. He got buried in the garden.

[02:41:41] So for its first attack it actually is going to throw some of its cabbages over at John. At disadvantage. Yes. Does that not give him an opportunity to do anything? No. Not unless we have a feat that gives us that. Dave. 13. Nope. 13 doesn't hit you? Correct. Okay.

[02:42:14] Well still a large or a small a head of cabbage with teeth lands near you. Beside or behind me? Like off to your left. Damn that's my good side. Yeah. And then the other one the other thing it's going to do is.

[02:42:33] Is it just a head of cabbage there? For now. I hate how you say that. I'm pretty sure they grow legs. See I wish you didn't say that because now I have to resist.

[02:42:46] No actually I will say actually as soon as it hits the ground it like starts like stuttering like sputtering and then like growing like tentacle like arms and legs. Okay. And looks just mixed between adorable and terrifying. A terrifying. Adorifying?

[02:43:03] Another question is burn down the boss and hope it kills all the mobs or deal with the mobs and then focus the whole house. You don't have good choices either way. Actually apparently according to this it would actually yeah no that's fine yeah that's good.

[02:43:20] And then yeah that's. Yeah you're totally at the bottom. God damn it. Sorry hang on I just got to add some. Oh fuck I had Hunter's Mark. That's okay. I forgot a bonus action spell that could be used. Okay. Shit. So. That was its first attack though.

[02:43:43] The other attack it's going to do is going to try and slam. Aaron's character. Jacob. Jacob. It should be easy to remember our characters because John Jacob Jingle. Yeah. And then I had to roll a disadvantage. Oh no roll minus two right. That's what it was rolling.

[02:44:03] So that would be 15. That hits. Okay. Actually hang on it is prone because it fell on its ass. Hang on. Oh yeah. Yeah so it would take a disadvantage. Okay that's. Fuck you. It rolled a three. Minus two is one. Not a natural one but yeah. Okay.

[02:44:32] Dirty one. Yeah dirty one. So it does not manage to land a hit on you as it is trying to get up. It does get two attacks remember. I rolled the first attack was to throw a cabbage attack. Right okay. And then it would.

[02:44:47] It does not have a move action correct. Yeah. So it spends its move action to get up. From being down off. Yeah so it's not off of you. It tried swinging earlier and now it's getting up.

[02:44:58] So but next is actually going to be the top of the round. John. Okay. There's a creepy cabbage creature right next to you. Yes. The teeth. How injured does the main guy look? How dispersed is his soil? Like it's definitely worse for wear but it's not.

[02:45:21] It still looks like it could kill you guys. Yeah how close is the little cabbage head to me? Like five feet away. Oh it's right there. Yeah like it missed you but it's like right there. Do you want to see what it looks like?

[02:45:34] Well I'm assuming it's just one of the little heads but it has legs now. You're not wrong. It's adorable though. But it also has teeth like there's sharp teeth in that mouth. But it could be friendly. It's looking up at you very hungrily. Great. Oh my god.

[02:45:52] Do I have? Dave's just like it was my turn. It really was. I do not. I thought I might have had to speak with plants. He did take the plants as a thing. Well he has the druid archetype too. So that's why he's a dog.

[02:46:16] That's how he was able to turn into a dog. I'm just surprised to speak with plants as an option. Oh yeah. Dude like the druids of Avalon probably talk to trees all the time. He is the Lorax. He speaks to the trees.

[02:46:30] By the way there's actually some real world news that I wanted to throw into a Secret Worlds game at some point. So at Hadrian's Wall in the UK, some asshole 16 year old cut down a tree that

[02:46:45] has been in the middle of that wall since the time of Hadrian's Wall. It was a landmark. It's been used in several movies including the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie as a location and some asshole 16 year old decided to cut it down for 16 Giggles

[02:47:03] overnight and now he's in prison. Rightfully so because it was like vandalizing a national landmark. Some good news though. They have stated that the tree should be able to survive because they should be

[02:47:22] able to grow a new shoot through the stump thankfully but it will take a couple of decades for it to be back to its... No it's going to take a couple hundred years for it to be anywhere near the same size.

[02:47:35] But in a couple of decades it should be... The same tree will continue to grow. But yeah I was just like oh man that is definitely a Secret World scenario where you guys are having to deal with the... The 16 year old.

[02:47:46] Yeah the 16 year old who's secretly an antagonist to the Druids of Avalon because that's definitely something the Druids of Avalon would be pissed off about. Yeah. But anyway. Oh fuck yeah. Oh yeah. Oh fuck yeah. But yeah anyways so yeah Jon what are you doing?

[02:48:01] F.Y.I. the trees speak Vietnamese. No. No they... Oh my god. I'm keeping it in but Jesus Christ. Getting close here. Okay um... Alright Charlie. First up I'm going to use Hunter's Mark on the big guy.

[02:48:23] Which I roll 1d6 to do additional damage to him if I hit him. Thanks one. Okay. I mean that one technically didn't roll either. I'm not going to be thinking about that one though. Okay. But that's extra with damage every time I hit him or anyone. Hunter's Mark.

[02:48:43] It's just you. Is that what it was made for? Yeah you. Well I roll every time. Also you rolled a d4 don't you? Not a d6. That was for his favorite enemy. Oh okay. Just Hunter's Mark. Hunter's Mark is plus 1d6. Yeah.

[02:48:54] Yeah I just thought it was you roll it every time you attack. Yeah you do. Oh do you? Yeah. Oh I thought that just set. No. No. Is the other one set? Yes. The end was written yes. Okay yeah. Alright so yes. Almost action is done. Main action.

[02:49:12] I don't know if I should just do Guiding Bolt again or do Magic Missile and send 2 to the little guy and 1 to him so I could potentially kill the little guy and still damage him. Are the little guys minions or do they have more HP than that?

[02:49:29] I don't know. That's why I'm wanting to send 2. There are no minions in 15. Because like this way I'm still getting the benefit of doing extra damage to him but I'm still hitting that. The other option is. I will tell you this. Mass Splash.

[02:49:42] It does have its own stats. It does have its own stats. I'd stick with either the Magic Missile or the Guiding Bolt. Yeah just because that's a cantrip comparatively. Cast Magic Missile to the Darkest. Yeah.

[02:49:59] Because I don't want to not attack the little guy because he hits me on the head. Magic Missile my friend. Yeah I'll Magic Missile. So it's 3 darks, 2 of them are going to the little guy and 1 of them is going to the big guy.

[02:50:13] The one going to the big guy is beefy for some reason. It really is. It's bigger. And it's going towards like a glowing spot. It's bigger, harder, longer, faster. So the damage of that one is. And it's shaped like an ice plant. Can I get these to roll?

[02:50:35] There. I have to throw these more aggressively. Yeah. Yeah okay that didn't help. Wow. That was 3 ones in a row. Okay. Fuck sakes. Alright so the first one that hit him. Was 1. It was a 1? Yes. Okay so 4, 5 damage. Oh wait 5, 6 damage to the big guy.

[02:51:01] Just the big guy? Of 6 force damage technically I guess. Yeah. Nothing is resistant to force damage. There is 1 creature in the monster magic that's resistant to force damage. I can throw the Oozang Bong at you guys but. Please don't.

[02:51:15] It's a different kind of force my friend, but I appreciate you. Okay so yes. So he took that damage. And then the little guy, he got a 4 and a 1. So 4, 5, 6, 7 damage to the little guy. Yep. Okay. He's not dead.

[02:51:37] And then I'm going to back up 30 feet from the little guy specifically. Okay. And then I can't do anything else. Alright. Well the little guy is going next and he is charging at you. So you went like that 30 feet away. And he's like.

[02:51:57] At least forced him to charge. Yeah. Is that a benefit? Isn't charging just better? No. Because charging means that you're attacking at advantage. But everyone who attacks you in the next round gets to attack you with advantage. Yeah. So it's attacking with advantage?

[02:52:19] He does get to attack with advantage. I don't have another D20 somewhere in here. At least I know I'm going to go down with no magic left. If I die with magic left, I'll be angry. Jesus. I have to maybe fix that now. God damn it. Oh fuck.

[02:52:43] Oh no good. That's all magnets. Just magnets. I'll lay down. I don't have any D20s in this? What the fuck? You want one of my cursed ones? No. Give me the spinner. No. No. No one touches the spinner. Here you go. Thank you. I hate that die.

[02:53:06] That die goes die. Matt what did it do? Matt won. Good job giving him the loaded one. Okay. Fortunately it was an advantage so it got 14 for the other one. So 19 to attack you. You hit me. Okay. Don't waste your time. I'm down. Are you sure? Yes.

[02:53:30] I still have to roll. Does he do more than one damage? He might. Sorry does he do one damage? Is the better question. Does he do one damage? He does nearly like all damage. If he did one damage, I'm down. Yeah sorry.

[02:53:49] Yeah he does like more than one damage. No shit. As long as he does more than zero, I'm down. He just bites into your jugular. It's unflailing and falling at my ass. Do you want to roll? I roll death save on my next turn.

[02:54:07] Okay we'll just say you're down. No strength savings. As far as I'm concerned, I believe that's how that works. Kenny is down. Luckily these guys only have one action. Next up is Jacob. No sorry Marcel because Jacob changed his turn. Marcel what are you going to do?

[02:54:35] I'm going to disengage from the big guy. I'll take private step back. I'm going to sacred flame the little guy. The one that's on him. The one that's on him. How many little guys are there? There's only one. Okay so it's him. But it's on you.

[02:55:01] It's attached to him. It's gnawing on his jugular. Are you doing an AoE attack? If it's not an AoE, he can target a single thing. Fair enough yeah. Right? Yeah. But then it's going to be on fire. And then it's on you. I'm already dead. Dead dead.

[02:55:23] He can't be any more dead if he's having him on fire Kenny. Does additional damage to a downed enemy? Is it coup de grue Aaron? He's already down. If I get hit when I'm on the ground does it give me like a death to hit immediately?

[02:55:38] Yeah it's a failed death save. Oh it counts as a failed death save. So does that count toward the three that he has to roll? It counts as one of the three failures. We're asking this because considering throwing fire on the enemy that is attacking me,

[02:55:55] which would put him on fire, would that damage me with fire? Yeah because the cabbage creature is still gnawing on his body. It's on fire. And it would be on fire. It's on me. Am I on fire? Am I hit by it? You're not on fire.

[02:56:11] But you are in host proximity to fire. It'd be equivalent to like standing next to a campfire. I would think so. Yeah. Like I'm not... We'll see if it's still...

[02:56:23] I will say it'll be really bad if it's still alive from this attack when it goes into his turn. So new plan. Okay. Is it within 30 feet of me? No. No it's actually like... I retreated... You're like closer to the cart now.

[02:56:38] I was at 31 feet from you and then when this thing was here about to attack me I retreated another 30 feet. So I'm 61 feet away from you guys right now. Or 61 feet away from the main monster.

[02:56:50] Yeah I'm willing to say you're probably closer to the cars than you are to them now at this point. I guess. Because you were like basically running and trying to find a stretch. Because the cabbage golem only started attacking once you guys started crossing over it.

[02:57:04] Which was when you went across that... When you started treading following that ATV trail. And that was still pretty close to the building. So you're basically like right at the one car. Are we in like... The path is a column and there's just like...

[02:57:20] There's plants on either side? There were. But the thing was the cabbage golem was the path and the two gardens. I'm just saying when I retreated from this creature. Was I forced to go on the path or could I have gone laterally?

[02:57:35] You were probably forced to go on the path. Fine. Okay. So you might be screwed up if I accidentally end you for you. That's fine. But I guess I'm just not going to disengage. And I'm just going to smack him with heavy miss-viking.

[02:57:49] Because you also don't necessarily know this is happening to me. All you hear is... Yeah so basically on its turn... About 60 feet away. On its turn it's going to basically just like... It's still gnawing at you.

[02:58:00] So it's going to basically cause one of your death saves to fail. Yep. It is what it is. If it's going to continue eating me. It is going to continue eating you. So I guess I have to disengage and kill it. So... Make a deck save. Okay.

[02:58:17] So I disengage and fling the deck save. It's 17. 17 works. 17 deck save? Yep. 17 succeeds? Yep. Yep. So it's still alive. But I'm disengaged now and I can close and charge. Wait, wait. Because it charged at advantage. You get advantage. It's not an attack.

[02:58:42] Yeah so would it get a disadvantage then? On a save? I guess, yeah. I... Because he can't get an advantage on it because it's a magic attack. It's a spell. I guess. Okay. I will allow this. It's still 15. Is that...? Nope. Yeah. It's a retry.

[02:59:06] How does it have such good fucking spells so easy? Because we're level 1 characters fighting level 5 characters basically. Oh so you asked it to do a deck save, right? Yeah. And it has a plus 3 to decks. It's the small guy.

[02:59:22] Basically it's a big lumbering thing that throws small fast things. Okay. So I guess that's my turn. Okay. You have another bonus action thing you can do? No, I only have one bonus action thing. Alright, Jacob. Okay so... He disengaged and went to your...

[02:59:37] He disengaged and tried to use magic on... And you look over... Did you go further away or...? No, just 5 foot step. Yeah. 5 foot step turned around, hadouken, missed. Because the 5 foot step is my entire movement. Really? Because I'm disengaging. Yeah, okay.

[02:59:52] And then I'm on the ground being eaten by a little cabbage... Being mauled by a cabbage patch kid from hell. I'm regretting my decision of splitting my damage. And the big guy is... I'm sorry. I'm regretting my decision of splitting my damage.

[03:00:09] And the big guy is still just like... He's gotten up at this point from previous. I know. So then I'm going to attack. Because that's what I gots to do. And what I gots to do is... Good. That's excellent. Okay. I roll to 20. Okay, that's good. Okay.

[03:00:33] Especially since it's non-magical damage, so you know. Yeah. Every little bit helps. Yep. Oh actually... I don't know about you guys, but I like when you guys are like in harrowing conflicts. Because it's like a lot more... The risks are more real. 6 is 10. The stakes are higher. 6 is 20.

[03:00:56] And 3 is 23. Okay, so that's 23 damage. Okay. Okay. So... That was non-magical? Non-magical. Okay. Shoot, what is this thing? Okay. This was the big one? Mmhmm. Okay. And then he needs to give me a strength save. I get knocked down. But I get up again. Strength save. Mmhmm.

[03:01:33] That is going to be... 13? Yeah, that is literally the DC, so he met it. Yep. He is not down. Okay. So, next up is the cabbage goal. And it is going to... Slam. So... Come on and slam. If you want to change... That will be 16 to hit. Yep.

[03:02:19] Okay. Because I'm in a capacity, and all the separation based spells are gone. That's going to be 6 damage. Okay. And then... What is its reach? I'm just going to see if maybe it can slam against... Maybe you two. He is a huge creature, he can. Yeah.

[03:02:43] Yeah, it's got a reach of... It's slam has a 5 foot reach. Are we? Oh, that's it? According to this, yeah. On a huge size creature? I guess, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Is that enough to reach him? Nope, he took the 5 foot step out.

[03:02:59] Yeah, then I guess it's going to pound you then. Okay. A nat 1. Okay. Okay, so you... Yeah, just fumbles. Fantastic. I am still a dog. Yeah, so you're just being like... Yeah, you got smacked one time and then like, you flinched, I guess.

[03:03:23] Or it flinched, or like it was like trying to figure out if it could go after the other person that was attacking it or not. And it's kind of like, in that time, it like flinched. But that's a natural 1, so doesn't he have to roll damage? To itself?

[03:03:37] I mean, it is a fumble. Okay, fine. It finally punched itself in the balls. Yeah, it punches itself in the one eggplant. However, it was not a magical attack, so it's... It takes half damage. It takes half damage.

[03:03:56] Well, it's two, his eggplant, so that's where you take half of the damage. No, it won't. I know you guys are so desperate for that, but no. However, I have been also like...

[03:04:07] Whenever it's half damage, whenever it hits like a .5, I have been scaling it up to the next one up for your benefit. There's not quite half an inch. No. Okay, so yeah, it punches itself in the groin area and that eggplant is just mush.

[03:04:28] Congrats, you now have this horrible smell of grandmother's house with cigarettes and stuff, cigarette butts. Apparently, according to Kentucky Ballistics, pureed eggplant smells like a wet ashtray or grandma's house. So it's like I don't really get that because I love eggplant, so I don't really get that smell.

[03:04:57] Is it because of the high potassium? Maybe, I don't know. Maybe it's the raw stuff that smells bad. Because children can smell potassium. Because toddlers will lick ashtrays. And if they start licking ashtrays, it's actually a sign that they're potassium deficient.

[03:05:16] And if you feed them bananas, they will stop licking ashtrays. It's interesting. So apparently kids can smell potassium and know when they need it. This is why I always follow my cravings, because apparently your body knows what it's doing mostly.

[03:05:34] Apparently it's because it has a chemical compound called trimethylamine. That's why eggplant smells like egg when cooking and then when it's raw it smells like wet ash. Interesting. Anyway, yeah, so it- It moushes its own penis. Eggplant. And next up is top of the round, so John. Deathsave.

[03:06:06] So is this just a D20? Yes, it would be a D20. You should know this by now, I've done it in both recordings. So what do I have to beat? Ten or above. Did you roll a ten or above? I rolled a 14, so yes. Then you're good.

[03:06:18] That's one success. And that's the only thing you can do on this turn? Yep. Okay, well now it's the Cabbage Patch Kid's turn. So is it just a failed deathsave? No, it has to make an attack roll. Okay. Against me prone though? Yeah, so it would take advantage.

[03:06:37] It can do it at advantage. Is that how it prone works? Well, you're helpless. Or you're unconscious. Yeah, so if you're unconscious, attack rolls against the creature have advantage. It could potentially miss. It could potentially miss, yeah. Controversial creatures are incapacitated, see condition.

[03:06:57] Can't move or speak and is unaware of their surroundings. The creature drops whatever it is holding and falls prone. The creature automatically fails strength index saves. Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

[03:07:09] And any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attacker is within five feet of the creature. Okay. That's if I'm unconscious but not dead. Yeah. That's what the critical hit stuff is talking about because this is just hitting.

[03:07:24] So it's still like going to be a you're down so. The rules still apply just not the critical stuff. Well, I rolled a 19 earlier and so on to two rolls. Yeah, it's rolling like. It hit. Yeah, it hit. It rolled a 19.

[03:07:45] That's what I'm saying, what are your numbers? 24 is to hit. Yeah. So deathsave. Failed deathsave. Okay. And that's all I can do. So next up is Marcelle. So I'm out of combat currently. Yep. So I'm going to move my 30 feet. You just hear chomp, chomp.

[03:08:03] And I am going to charge at the creature to use my heavenly strike. Nice. Are you just kind of like just like. Golf swing. I was thinking golf swing or like croquet or what's the. Oh polo. Yeah, polo just like. Polo. Yeah.

[03:08:18] Here I come to save the day. Oh yeah, I was doing. 24 to hit. Yeah, that hits. An enema die. Oh nice. With an enema die. What's an enema? Ram it up its ass. Seven. 11. 11 damage. Dang. What is this guy at now?

[03:08:41] He's not quite dead, but let me roll a saving throw. Even if I put all those magic missiles on them, I wouldn't have done shit. Saving throw to like. Strength save to like knock it like. It. Nine. So. It's gone. Yeah, it's.

[03:09:02] Also you have to roll a constitution save so you won't be blinded. That is going to be an eight. So yeah that thing is just. Yeah, it is. Probably. Yeah I think so. D4s just don't roll do they? They just kind of fall. I'm just practicing.

[03:09:24] It does have tremors. Because I take these rolls. But yeah it just goes like eeeeee. Over your, over the truck, over the master machine. It just. It sounds like mini me getting kicked. Yeah. And it's just like you guys like you hear, you think you hear like a.

[03:09:39] Like off in the gravel somewhere behind your cars. Or behind the cars. Dang. Bouncing. That was a three. That was a three. See it actually bounces a little. Bumble bounce. Yeah I guess that feels better.

[03:09:54] So congrats you've gotten rid of the problem that was munching on your friend. Alright. You can't speak, you're just like. That's some good light coming at me. I can stabilize that next turn. Yeah. Okay. Next up is Jacob.

[03:10:10] I mean I could potentially stabilize myself with three successes right? Is that how that works? Yep. That's why you're rolling the death save. To try and stabilize yourself. Okay. Only one left on the front lines. Do do do do do do. As a dog.

[03:10:23] Do do do do do do. As a dog. Do do do do do. And I'm a little beaten. Feel like catawousy. A little boozy. I'm alive but very badly hurt. I have lost more hit points than the rest of us have total. Yep.

[03:10:42] Yeah you guys are all like he's like oh you needed to get any hit points last time. Oh now he's earning them. Rolled an 18. Yep 18 okay. So I know that's gonna hit. That hits yeah. Okay so that's 12 damage. That's just regular? That's just regular old damage. Okay.

[03:11:03] So it's still kicking. I know. I know. Alright that's your turn. Yeah that's it for me. Okay. Well next up is the cabbage goal. Yep sure is. Got no bonus moves. Yep. No not in this form. Not as a dog over here. No hang on hang on.

[03:11:21] I do if I had anima. Yeah. Do I need to roll a constitution save? Oh yeah you sure do. It's a strength. Sorry strength save yeah. The 23 or 22 I think. Yeah I saw that as double digits so you're gonna succeed. Yeah okay so and now comes the swings.

[03:11:30] Yep. So that was a 16 plus 5. That is cocked 16. Yep. So that was a 16 plus 5. That is cocked 16. Yep. So that was a 16 plus 5. Yep. So that was a 16 plus 5. Yep. So that was a 16 plus 5. Yep. So that was a 16 plus 5. Yep. So that was a 16 plus 5.

[03:11:47] That is cocked sir. Alright final roll. Okay hang on. 7. That's a miss. I might live through this. You might. Actually that would have been a 6 not a 7 sorry. That would be a 13. Nope. That's a miss. He misses both times.

[03:12:14] He hesitated because he punched himself in the dick last time. It was like wait. I fell into this trap before. In his mind it doesn't talk because it has deep speech I think is what it can understand. But it's just like wait right I don't have the anatomy.

[03:12:33] It's still kind of befuddled and confused. Oh fantastic. Okay. Wrong game. But next up is top of the round. John. That's a save. Come on John. I feel like death save is going to be my nickname there. Oh John death save. John death save dear.

[03:12:57] Okay so 13 so that's a success. Yep. You can't see me. So you got one more success? And then you're stabilized? I'll be stabilized but I'm not up. Yeah just be stabilized. No. Only if you roll a natural 20.

[03:13:12] If you roll a natural 20 you actually gain a hit point in your backup. So even after I'm stabilized I keep rolling? No I don't think so. So you have three shots to roll a 20. Yeah okay. Technically you've got five shots to roll a 20. What is it to stabilize?

[03:13:31] First aid. I guess it's first aid yeah. If you have a first aid kit you just spend a charge from it. If you don't have a healer's kit then it's a medicine check. Yeah medicine. Medicine check. Six. That is not going to...

[03:13:51] I don't think that's going to do. No. I think it had to be a ten. So yeah. Anything else? I just want to hold there. That was your action. Do you have any bonus action stuff? Do you have the spell healing work? No.

[03:14:10] Could he use my med kit? Do you have your med kit on you? I have a backpack with me so probably. Then I'll go back and find his fucking med pack and use his own IFAC to heal him. That makes sense.

[03:14:24] We should probably have our IFACs on our belt for exactly that reason. I mean if I was in a people form that's where mine is. I'll save that. You spend your entire turn scavenging for that and then spending a charge on it to stabilize him.

[03:14:43] So you are now unconscious. Cool. Thanks. You're not bleeding out. He managed to put some pressure on that gushing wound. On your neck. On the gusher. That's his nephrodisi. Next up here. That one's going. I'll perform a PZI on you later. Jacob. Your belt? Okay, Marcel went.

[03:15:10] Yeah, Marcel just went. Okay. Then I did a thing. I guess I'm just doing this again. Just tanking this. Yeah. Watch that heat in the wall. Live! I might be Druid-ish but I don't have any healing spells. Yeah, you're more of the... I do. Shape-shifting.

[03:15:32] You're more of a shape-shifting Druid. Does a 15 hit. 15 will hit just. It's meter B, right? Yeah. So spoilers. AC is 50. And again, I did not make that up, Aaron. Seven damage. Is that normal? That is normal. You're just nickel and diming this fucking thing. Yeah, I can do.

[03:16:07] Yeah, no, nothing against you. Well, that's all I can do at the moment. When's he getting beat out of the dog? I just don't want to waste the hit points. There are so many of them. So yeah, next up is the Cabbage Golem.

[03:16:24] And it's going to start slamming. That is going to be... I rolled a 17. Okay, that's getting hit. Is it cocked? No. No, it was in the box. I was hopeful, man. Is that... Hang on. Okay, that's a one. So that's a six.

[03:16:45] So that's going to be 11 plus four, I think? Yeah, that's going to be 15 damage from that slam. Well, that smashes me... Can I make a strength save to see if he throws me? You could do that, although I kind of like the idea of him just like...

[03:17:05] He smashes down and then like... No, no, no, no. He smashes down into a crater of where you were. And then he pulls it up. You're no longer a dog. You're now a human in Yamcha's like, crone-up... Like, in the crater. Well, except that I...

[03:17:19] You still up it. You still get up and stuff like that. But when he first opens it up, you're just like Yamcha. But you can also do a strength save if you don't want to do that. If you don't want that to happen.

[03:17:31] I don't want that to happen because it's funny and embarrassing. Don't you realize how much I like that kind of thing? Yes, you like me to be pathetic and on the ground. That's my job. I'm the one who bleeds it on the ground every episode.

[03:17:49] Why do you think I love his character so much? He lets me get away with that kind of shit on his characters. I just let you get away with that shit on him. Oh, that's what you do? Yes, I did pull a strength save.

[03:17:58] Okay, and it's not even like you're prone from it. You're just like bam, and then you're back up. But for a moment you were just like Yamcha curled up in the crater. And then he's going to smash you again. Crilling. It was crilling in the crater. Yeah.

[03:18:12] I should have done the strength save because then I wouldn't be in melee combat. No, that's true. That's going to be a 13. I think that hits it. As your human form now? Mm-hmm. Because my armor class is 13. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Do I have armor?

[03:18:33] Do I have armor of any kind? Please, dear God, do I have? Did I buy armor? That should have been calculated in your AC. Wouldn't it be calculated in your AC? I didn't write it down. Oh. But... Hmm, that's not good.

[03:18:48] Yeah, that's the image I was thinking of. I'm just like, ugh. Also, you don't have armor proficiency, remember? Because of your magus. You have light armor at best. It still does something. Yeah, it still does something. What does the Bracer of Horus do? Uh... Magical shit? He buy...

[03:19:14] Does he ride horses? I don't know what it does. Is it in one of the top ones? Yeah. Before this game started. I gotta find that. I think that's in like 450 maybe. Somewhere in that range. Oh, okay. Maybe it's like 500. No, hang on. I went way past.

[03:19:33] Probably like 350 maybe. Oh, wow. There's gear. So I think Talismans are after gear. Yep. Tools? Talismans. What was it again? Bracer of Horus. Bracer of Horus. There it is. Where's Talisman? The Talisman is a 5 inch long bronze metal bracelet.

[03:20:02] When an enemy scores a crit against me if I'm wearing it, then I may take a reaction to block the hit entirely. Ah. Push-up was a critical attack. No. Okay. Okay, so no, I got no armor. That's it for me. Okay.

[03:20:17] You want to just go ahead and roll your Strength save as well. Because that's going to be 16 damage. Because I rolled like 2 sixes and plus it's four. I'm bludgeoning. Well, I'm dead. No, actually dead. You're not dead. No, no, I am.

[03:20:44] Well, I mean, except for the fact that I'm a B and I will come back. I am actually dead. Are you? Yes. Because I took more than my natural hit points in negatives. Oh. Then yeah, I guess. Because I only have eight hit points. Okay.

[03:21:03] So that takes me to negative eight. Well, I will have you do the honors. How does it kill you? Okay, well he did that Yamcha punch. Yeah. And then I got back up and then it just did it again. Yamcha punch you straight back into the grid.

[03:21:23] Straight back down again. I got up to my knees and I was like fists up, ready to go. And just once more onto the breach. Yep. All right, let's go check the death mechanics. I thought I was going to be the first one to die here.

[03:21:41] I seriously too. See, but you forget. There is an entire song about this. It's called Always the First to Die. And it's always the wizard. I think Gasting way more magic than he does. No, but it is true. He has, he is literally the Magus. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[03:21:58] You're just the Merc. They think the Mercenary would die faster, quicker than the, in genre wise anyway. All right, I want to figure this out. Well, this is a good test for the mechanics because you get to see what the mechanics are like for this.

[03:22:14] And I mean, you are a beast. It's not like you're permanently dead. No, I'm not permanently dead. But I am actually dead. Where the fuck is the death mechanic? Oh, this, I cannot wait for the- Note to self.

[03:22:39] Remember, and I said this to myself last time at the end of the session. Note to self. Remember to cast mage armor before turning into an animal. You did say that. I did. I did. But I didn't remember. You're dead. And now I'm dead?

[03:22:57] And I wouldn't be dead because it would have missed me. That sucks. Where the hell is the death mechanics? Okay, here we're gonna damage and stuff with that. Okay, here we go. Maybe. Dropping to zero. Saving throws. Bees and death. Here we go. Bees don't stay dead.

[03:23:16] When they die, their bodies go into an anima-fueled regenerative coma to repair the damage done to the flesh. During this time, the bees' mind drifts through the spirit realms where they may commune with the dreaming ones, the host, or other eternal beings.

[03:23:32] The bees' physical bodies eventually reassemble themselves and the bees' spirit returns to their mortal shell. In game terms, when you die as a bee, you eventually return to life at full hit points. How long it takes for this to happen depends on the choice that you make.

[03:23:50] For while your mind drifts, you can hear and respond to the voices of both the dreamers or the host. Or and the host who call out to you. They will aid you in your hour of need. All it will cost is a bit of your free will.

[03:24:08] So if you choose a Destiny of Shadow, sacrifice one point of your Destiny and add one point to your Shadow score, and you may resurrect at the start of any of your next turns.

[03:24:20] If you choose a Destiny of Luminance, sacrifice one point of your Destiny and add a point to your Luminance score, and you may resurrect at the start of any of your next turns.

[03:24:37] If you reject both the Shadow and the Luminance, and choose your own Destiny, you will resurrect in 2d6 turns. So you hear, like you are in the void. Your mind is in the void in the darkness.

[03:24:51] You see a shattered moon overhead and an asteroid field of where the moon is shattered and such. And you're on this desolate plane above the stars or below the stars. And you see a figure, a woman bathed in light and a man wreathed in shadow.

[03:25:10] And they both ask you, do you, how, like, will you... Suck. Yeah, yeah, you can say that, yeah. They just look at you and they both simultaneously say, suck. Yeah, yeah, you know what? They do that, yeah. They're like, suck.

[03:25:29] How would you like to return to your immortal shell much quicker than your, much quicker? Will you embrace the dreamers or will you embrace the light? Will you embrace the light?

[03:25:41] Well, it could because the creatures, well in terms of the combat, like it's going to go after them now. And one of them is close to death even, like he's been stabilized but he's still like, yeah. Now your friends may need you, this says the woman.

[03:25:58] And then it's like, yes, your friends may need you. Now would I maybe be better off just kill him? You would again be able to show up. Technically, yeah. Honestly, it's better to let me die.

[03:26:15] Well, except that if you sacrifice too much of your destiny and you gain too many points in shadow or light, then your character becomes... But that's the thing, you can also reject the destiny, like either or destiny and you won't lose any of your destiny points.

[03:26:32] At this point, the moment I went down, it would have been better to just turn around and shoot me dead. Immediately on the ground, try to do more than my health to immediately kill me than just start my respawn timer.

[03:26:47] Even if I don't choose both sides and just roll the 2d6, I would be back up earlier. Meta-wise you're right. In story, you guys... I'm going to say in script... It's supposed to be really, really painful for me to come back.

[03:27:02] And I'm going to make you roll a wisdom save because oh god, that transition is not fun. No, I'm going to reject it. You're going to reject them both? No, no, I'm not going to reject them both. Fuck. Uh...

[03:27:24] Fuck, I'm coming back for my friends so I guess I'm going to the light. I'm going to actually save the woman that's bathed in light, looks like a diner waitress and her signature says Sarah. Fim. Her name says Rose. Yeah, Sarah Rose. Sarah Rose, yeah.

[03:27:41] And the other one looks an awful lot like... She carries a lantern? No, she's got a menu. No, I was saying because she's the light. Oh yeah, she just bathed in light. So you're accepting the light? Yeah, I'll accept the light.

[03:27:56] Okay, sacrifice one of your destiny points and just put it like... Say that you have like, jot down luminance somewhere. And she's like, you're making a good call. And yeah. Okay. You're back. Or you'll be back on the next turn.

[03:28:21] His body is like basically mushed underneath the creature, by the way. These are the noises he's making as he's waking up. Yeah. So yeah, that was what happened with the catch goal. So top of the round, Jon, you're unconscious. Can he roll to not be unconscious anymore?

[03:28:43] Now that he's got like one... As far as I'm concerned, no. As far as I know. As far as I know, no. Okay, I'm just double checking. I mean, I feel like it should be different in this game. Well, once...

[03:29:04] As far as your health can go, you know what to do is to actually resurrect him. Well, you can also like, on your turn there, Marcel, you can either attack the monster that's going to come after you guys now,

[03:29:17] or try and like heal him up for some more and get him up a little bit. As far as I'm at... I'm going to need Roy Jenkins. Okay, are you still in the item section? I know where it is. I kind of vaguely know where it is. Okay.

[03:29:32] Gears 342. Thank you. You have to go way past guns and everything. 388 I think is the death rule. I need the first aid kit rules from it because I think they differ from standard 5-E. You might be right. Also from what I'm gathering just through playing in this,

[03:29:49] if we're in the thick of combat and we're not near the end, I don't think it's worth stabilizing at all. It's still kind of like lore-wise, meta-wise it makes sense. Like you're right.

[03:30:00] Lore-wise, like it is sort of still also like you don't want to shoot your fucking friends. Oh, I didn't necessarily mean shooting, but better to leave them to deal with themselves and potentially stabilize themselves or potentially die

[03:30:13] than for us to burn actions where we could be using that to do damage to the enemy or what have you. Fair. Also, where's the first aid kit? I'm not seeing it in here. I just read it. Sorry, I'm not like... I know what's in there.

[03:30:31] Like I'm seeing... Is it further down? It's usually in these. Yeah, I'm not seeing it. Forgery, forensics. Gaming, disguise, chemical. It was a bubble that it's not in tools. Oh, so it wasn't in tools? Okay. No. No, first aid kit. Okay, it's under, it's in the other chart.

[03:30:49] So yeah, it's not in... That's where they're saying the kits that's coming on. First aid kit, yeah, I find it. Okay, antibodies. It's not a tool. Ten uses as an action.

[03:31:00] You can expend one use of the kit to stabilize a character to the HP without needing to use a medicine check. If you have proficiency with the first aid kit, you may expend the use of the kit to try and treat an injury. Roll a DC-10 medicine check.

[03:31:15] Medicine check. And then I can heal a die four of damage. Yeah, with this test you may heal one die four. You may only use this once per injury, once per injured individual per day. So... Okay. So I can heal you a very small amount, Dave.

[03:31:35] That's enough to get me up though. I'm gonna need to heal himself. Yep. There's no point. Because, yeah, I get up, get a small amount, and then I can burn my action to use healing ward on myself to heal a max of seven on me.

[03:31:54] Then I get hit once and I'm dead. Yeah. Regardless. Like, I hate talking about the meta stuff, but it realistically... One hit point versus a skin of whites are basically the same. Yeah. When the thing that you're fighting deals a minimum of six damage. Yeah. Fair enough.

[03:32:14] Okay, so Marcel, what are you doing? Since Sean, you can't do anything, so right? Unless it kicks to my turn in the order, but I don't think it does.

[03:32:23] It's your turn now, but yeah, like, at the top of the round, you were at the top of the roster. Are you at the end of the roster? I am third. Yep. Yeah, he's third.

[03:32:34] The cabbage golem killed him and then we dealt with the death thing, his death thing. So then we went top of the round. Which is you. Which is you. And you're down? So now it's Marcel. Okay, so Marcel, what do you want to do? The creature has...

[03:32:48] Like, you saw the blood splat of your friend getting crushed, and now it's getting up and turning in your directions. Oh, did it actually move past me? Not yet. It's going to now. Because it would have had a move action.

[03:33:02] Oh, a move action, then yeah, it's passing you. So you'll be behind it. So how far away is it? You were like 60 feet away, so yeah, it's like 65 feet away I guess from you. It moves towards me, right?

[03:33:15] It started to, yeah, so it got about 30 feet on its turn. So it's only 35 feet away there. Yep. Okay, I charge. Okay. Alright. And I give him my last blinding strike. 24. 24 will hit. 10 from the land of the ice and snow. 10, 14 damage. Okay. Radiant blinding.

[03:33:46] Alright, I gotta sort of roll to see if it's blinded again. Nat 20 so it is not blinded. It sees all. Yeah. 14 damage you said? Yep. Okay, so it is... Again, you're pounding at it, but it's still up. So are you basically a paladin? Yes. Yeah. Okay.

[03:34:08] It's the demolisher. Next up is would-be Jacob. If your turn, are you resurrecting? Yes, but I believe it also said that I come back at the end of my next turn. Yes. So you were spending this turn getting back.

[03:34:22] Yeah, so you're like the blood starts like souping back in and like glowing anima chunks start like filling in the gaps that are no longer like repairable from like normally and roll a will save or wisdom save as you're just like oh god. Wisdom save you say yes?

[03:34:46] Yeah. 12. Okay, it's not great. You'll suffer... 13. 13? Yeah, it's not great. You'll suffer a minus one. Okay. Just for the first next turn that you're active. Okay. But yeah, you're just like oh god, that hurts. So it's the capital. Bring it on! What? Bring it on!

[03:35:16] I wish I had not like skipped it jumped out of the box and like and got scow... skewed at 19. You get advantage. Because I charge. I rolled the same thing. I rolled a four twice. So yeah, that one's gonna miss because that was that's I think only...

[03:35:40] Just fending it off with a shield. Yeah and then... next attack. Uh, 15? Nope. Doesn't hit you? Yeah, you are just like... It's just like you're getting hammered down by these fists of mud and like broken vegetation. And your shield is just like holding it back at bay.

[03:36:07] And then you hear from behind you... As that fucking Cabbage Patch Kid who did not die, but was thrown and has been running since it landed for like two rounds. It's just like... It just leaps at you. Son of a bitch. So... 15. It goes right past you.

[03:36:40] Like whiffs. That's the noise it makes. As it splatters back into its host, its original creator. And yeah, top of the round. So it would be top of the round. John, you're still knocked out. Just casting that every day. I don't know. Why aren't you? You idiot.

[03:37:09] Marcel, you're back. It's back up to you. So is the dismount returning to its host? Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna say it smashes back into its host. Okay. Five foot step back. Cast Sacred Flame. Okay. So make a deck save. DC 14.

[03:37:27] By the way, it's just me or there are no prices in here for Talismans? Yeah, we had to make up some of the cost for them and such. Because again, I wouldn't have played this game without buying a damn thing.

[03:37:41] Yeah, I hope to God the original, like the main PDF that's all gonna be laid out and stuff will have some prices and such. Okay, because I'm gonna need to pick a couple of these. Yeah. For sure. Because I am way under Tal.

[03:37:56] Well you guys are rookies, like you're rookie monster hunters or monster slayers. Yeah, deck save you said? Yeah. Seven. Nope. So it is on fire. So what's the damage on that? Do I add my attack, my spell attack bonus to damage? No.

[03:38:17] Okay, so you just take six damage, but it's radiant. Yeah, and it's the full damage. Okay, so it is on fire. And not, actually it is blinded by the light. Yep. So minus two. Okay, so yeah, it is on fire. It is still up and about.

[03:38:44] Jacob, you have resurrected. You've risen. Okay. You feel all tingly and live again. Full HP. Then I'm going to draw my pistol. Wait, no, that's not a thing for me. You have a gun. I do, but I'm not gonna use it.

[03:39:11] I'm gonna cast magic missile. I don't cast spells through my gun. What do you use as a spell focus? Yes. Arcane focus. Okay, so it can be whatever it is. I think it's supposed to be just like an amulet or some kind, yeah. Okay.

[03:39:30] I think I had said that it was a ring. Yeah, I think you're right. Okay. And it's magic missile, so it just hits. Yep. Okay. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. That's 11 force. Okay. That's actually full damage.

[03:39:59] Yep. It is not doing great, but it's still up and about and angry. Okay. Then I guess since I'm in human form at this point, I'm going to whip out my baton, my double-ended cane that turns into a quarter staff and cast Shalali. Okay.

[03:40:19] The cabbage is going to, or the cabbage golem is going to continue beating down on Marcel. Or trying. Or trying. This is on the first attack. Of course, now I'm starting to roll. Shalali? What the panic in you there? No! Twice.

[03:40:47] Put it down and pick up a different one. Jesus. Okay. 13 doesn't hit? No. Yeah, so yeah, it's just like, like that one shot, like the big shot from the back was just like, just causing it to go there. And top of the round. I'm unconscious. Sorry, John.

[03:41:10] Me again. Dave, I'm honestly, I'm sorry that you're like, he can't do anything. I'm learning. Yeah. I'm learning how this game works. Yeah. We're all learning how this game works. I'm learning that stabilization is useless in this game.

[03:41:24] Yeah, we got to figure out, well, if he, if somebody could get to you to give you more HP, you could actually. Not in the heat of combat like this.

[03:41:32] Yeah, because this is a huge creature and I am on the wrong side of it to get to him.

[03:41:37] The only way that this would have been good is if I was alive, because then I could still use an attack action and use bonus action healing word to give someone health on the breath. So somebody else needs to have like, someone have a healing spell for you.

[03:41:49] For this. Yeah, and I just got the. Yeah. So maybe for the future. Don't die. Stay back. I was 60 feet away from the combat. I know, I know. Fuck you bud. That's true. Well, you know what? Fuck you man. Like the monster has a tactical attack like that.

[03:42:12] I'm not saying you shouldn't have rushed me. I'm just saying don't tell me to run away when I totally ran away. No, I know, I know. I apologize. What is heading this way? She started fucking beating him right and left. Boom, boom, boom.

[03:42:24] Hey, get rid of the face. Okay, and just a regular hammer hammer? Yeah, that's all I got left. I'm out of ammo. But that's still a 19 to hit. That'll hit.

[03:42:35] I feel like this is like starting to become like Iron Man versus like Winter Soldier and like Captain America. Just like, like just tacking this thing on both fronts. 12 damage. 12 damage? Okay, so six damage. All right, nickel and diamond them again. Yeah. Jacob, what are you doing?

[03:42:59] By the way, these talismans, roughly what are their prices? No, I would probably put like 50 to 100 dollars like starting price. And then like there's like room for like haggling and stuff or like conditions. But again, that's just me basing like that's how it goes.

[03:43:17] They're not very expensive, but they don't really do very much. Yeah. Some of these would help me a lot, honestly. I'm not going to say I have them now. Like I would have bought them previously, but I'm not going to metagame.

[03:43:29] Yeah, maybe you accidentally like left them in the van. Yeah. Uh, yeah, I'm just gonna I actually I'm just gonna shoot them. Okay. Draw my pistol and shoot them because I only got one spell slot left. I rolled a 16. I get to add three.

[03:43:52] So I assume that's gonna do it. Mm hmm. Okay. We get to hear that fantastic report from a Tokarev. Nice. Okay, so that's four and two is six plus three is nine damage. Uh, okay, nine. Neon magical. Yeah.

[03:44:16] So it is getting that you get is falling apart, but it is not like falling apart enough to for it to like be a be not a threat. Okay, it is definitely starting to show like you're getting down to the bare bones of this skull.

[03:44:30] I thought that we were getting magical. Right. Yeah. Um, and yeah, the cabbage golems going to start continue slamming in a. Just a slug vest over here. Yeah. Uh, that's gonna be 15. See how it's tab like 150 points. 160. It's the it was the boss of this fight of this.

[03:44:57] Well, yeah. He has to go. It was the boss of the scenario. It was the boss of the scenario. And that one also misses. Yeah. Yeah. I know man. I know. Believe me. Again, I had faith in you guys.

[03:45:17] You guys and also I wasn't too worried because you guys can't technically permanently die. Um, yeah. So the both of those attacks miss like whiff. She knows hold me. So yeah.

[03:45:34] It's also probably because this thing's losing a lot of mass has lost a lot of mass over the last like couple of minutes like minute or so it's been he's been fighting it. I caused his whole junk to fall off. Yeah. So top the round. Marcel. No. Yeah.

[03:45:53] Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember again? Like, yeah. Hammer. Technically, you should be at the very end of the roster. But no, would you still be the same because I come back at the end of my previous. Oh, okay. I got you. So what was it? Miss. Okay. Jacob.

[03:46:14] Okay. So I have line of sight to him yet. Yeah, you can see him through like things legs and like, oh, okay. So I cannot get to him. No. Go around. You go. Yeah. Around. It does seem to be more. It has not been attacking you.

[03:46:30] It's been attacking him. Okay. So then I'm going to move 30 feet around it. Yeah. Oh, fuck. But one of these medallions, if you reduce the zero hit points, but not killed it right, you may take a reaction to drop one hit point instead.

[03:46:43] I could use that so many times in both games. We're learning. We're learning. I had this, but it was in the fucking. What one is that? The golden coin. Sorry. No, the fishbone medallion. Fishbone medallion. Okay. I'm going to buy that too. Yeah.

[03:46:59] I'd say that's probably going to be like a hundred bucks because you can get those a dime a dozen in Newfoundland. I'll even pay for it for everyone. $300. Here you go, guys. Okay. So that's 15 to hit. Yeah. Okay. Although I wouldn't have saved Aaron. No, no, no, no.

[03:47:22] That was a contest that like eight damage. Okay. Dead yet? Nope. Because it's really only four damage. Yeah. So it is, it is again, you guys have been because you've lost your mat, you may not be able to like magically use anything. It's basically nickel and dime them.

[03:47:45] All right. Top of the round creatures. Wait, wait. So you were running and then like running and gunning. I moved 30 feet. Yeah. And then I shot. Gotcha. You're sure you're circle strafing. Nat one. He killed himself.

[03:48:09] But he did do a fair amount of damage to himself, but he's not dead. How did he do it? Probably just like he like he punched and just like there's just the right angle of the shield. Basically, just like it ricocheted the fist ricocheted back into his face.

[03:48:32] So like crushing one of one of the last pristine cabbage heads on his face. So, you know, I'm going to say that because of Nat one on the first attack, he doesn't get a second attack. So top of the round, Marcel. I'm going to put the hammer down.

[03:48:52] Great. OK. I don't know how that works in the game. It's double your dice worth of damage or double your damage from your dice. Right. But you have to decide beforehand. You can roll double the amount of dice or 14, 18. So we take time. OK.

[03:49:10] How do you finish him off? He punches himself in the face. Yeah. The cabbage they just broke. I just overhand slam with the hammer into the same spot and drive that hammer right into the ground. OK.

[03:49:24] The whole goal and just goes like like in a thunderous like reverberating crash just like like falls forward from like the impact of that hammer and just like face plants into the ground and then drops and just turns into soil and spoiled vegetables.

[03:49:40] And as the dust settles, you guys are like recover like racing to secure him and so that I make my way over to John. Yep. And make a medicine check.

[03:49:54] I still got three quarters of my hit points and I think I took more attacks than just for the animal. Good for you. No, you did not. He got hit way more than you. I was attacked more. Yeah. Yeah, so that's my medicine check. I got a 22. OK.

[03:50:14] Yeah, that's 24. Yeah. Marcel also roll perception test is just like dust is settling. You're looking around and such. Twenty or eighteen. OK. All right. Look at you. You have three hit points. What? You suddenly fluttered in life as you put smelling salts under your nose. I'm up.

[03:50:37] Let's get this guy. Where is he? Oh, fuck. Marcel, you see off in the distance like in the direction of where the ATV trail was going off into the woods and the hills.

[03:50:50] There is smoke starting to billow over the hills, like over the woods, over the trees in the distance. So something's going on. They're burning their ship. But yeah, you are. Congrats, John. How long did that combat take?

[03:51:06] I lost count of how many rounds that was, so that was probably about a full minute or so. Yeah, more. Yeah, more than a minute. At least ten or more minutes. So that was at least, it's about six seconds around, so probably about a minute or two.

[03:51:20] I think we were close to two full minutes. Yeah, you were close to two full minutes with that boss fight. And that was the boss fight. That was the big bad boss fight I had for this scenario.

[03:51:31] I mean, there's still going to be some fighting potentially, but we'll see. We'll see how things go if you guys continue forward. So before we do anything else. So first off, you're killing me for how much? Three. Okay. Let's write that down. And that was a good roll.

[03:51:48] It was. Okay, go ahead. I'm going to cast Mage Armor. Okay. Yes. It lasts for eight hours. Yeah. Yeah. Like I could literally cast it before our nine to five job, and it will last my entire work shift. Yeah. Yeah. I get two level one spell slots today.

[03:52:15] Technically, I could use it for all of my waking hours. Yeah, but not be able to cast. Okay. So we're learning. We're learning. It's a new system. It's a like fresh new system and setup. So yeah, so it's just apparently been too long since I've been a wizard.

[03:52:35] Yeah. You never wizard. Well, he's been. He hasn't been a wizard for a while. Really technically. But yeah, so you're you're shambling back up. Yeah. Running back to the guys. I forgot something from the from the ship from the from the master machine.

[03:52:52] Let me just go get it. Come back with the fishbone talisman. Okay. Okay. Are you guys so you guys going to now? Yeah, it doesn't seem like like the energy also the magic charge that you were feeling is gone.

[03:53:04] It was the overarching magical charge that was in the area was the goal. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Now we know what that feeling is now. Well, it's also just it's just also like like a natural feeling of like it

[03:53:16] could be like any kind of ambient magic or spell that's going on somewhere. It's also a technique of traffic is this thing had like perfect like it has has an ambush like ability that like you can't detect it until like you just immediately

[03:53:29] like as soon as you walk over and it ambushes you. Okay. But I did give you guys a dex save to try and not get totally pumped. But you guys also all failed. So I'm going to change the mag in my pistol because I fired two rounds.

[03:53:46] How many uses of my make have been used? I think the one just the one that you used. Yeah, I used my first aid kit. Right. And I can't use it again on myself because it's used for one set of wounds. Correct.

[03:54:02] But it still can be used to stabilize you. Yeah. Yes. You just can't be like used to like heal you. You used it to get me awake. That right? Yes, because technically I can use it to it can be used to heal you for that was used

[03:54:20] for the second hit. Yeah. I came into this fight almost dead that I haven't put any heals on. Yeah. Okay. I thought you guys had like you guys had. Wait, you should know. No, I healed a bit. Oh, right. Yeah. You're in the car. Yeah.

[03:54:36] But I wasn't healed full. Yeah. Also. Yeah. Right. You took damage from from red or from Philip from him punching me. Yeah. But you would have had like full health before that because you guys had a full night's rest and you had a four hour drive here. Yes.

[03:54:49] Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But yeah, you guys are now in shambles. There is a smoke there's smoke billowing off in the distance in the direction of where you guys were heading. Mostly okay. I'm just spent. Yeah. I am also spent. No animal left. No spells left.

[03:55:06] But I still got my cantrips. I'm still got my gun. So that I have. We're basically just D20 Cthulhu characters now. Love it. We already were. Honestly. Basically, yeah. We have been the whole time. Spoilers. Wait, we're Cthulhu D20 characters? Always was.

[03:55:24] Just like the astronaut with the gun. Let's go find these assholes and kill them. All right. So about five, ten minutes of walking through the brush and up and down rocky hills and stuff. You guys come upon the ATV.

[03:55:41] Actually, there's several ATVs and a little clearing next to a cave that goes into the bedrock. How many several? There's like three. Okay. Do they have keys in them? Yeah. Okay, they're mine now. There's also smoke billowing from the cave. All right.

[03:56:01] I'm going to put my MBGs on. You have night vision goggles? I do have MBGs. Nice. I'll lead the way. Okay. So it's in a cave? Yeah, there's a large cave. You're able to walk in kind of cave, but there is smoke billowing out of it.

[03:56:21] Actually, from the smell, it smells of cannabis smoke. I'm going to put my gas mask on because I can only stand being incapacitated from pot so often. Do I have one of those? You got shit. Maybe someone who wants to stay outside and not get high.

[03:56:41] Okay, I'm going to send the tax bulb survey drone in first. Okay. What does that do? Is it just a drone basically? Yeah, I can just see. Does that mean John? Your demolition is trained, yeah? Yeah.

[03:56:58] Think you could take this hand grenade and rig up a trip mine in front of said cave? Yeah. Yeah, I suppose I could. We could set this up as an ambush. I do also have a hunting trap apparently. Do we want to wait for them to come out?

[03:57:20] If you wait then if they're in there burning and destroying stuff, we're going to wait until they destroy any evidence that we can potentially get. Yeah, but does the evidence actually matter? If there's more than just more weed, I don't know what they're doing in there. Yeah.

[03:57:42] Well, we'll find it with the survey drone. Okay, so you bring the survey drone. It's basically just a drone. Does that knife is all or is it just okay? Cool. Yeah, you bring the survey drone in and like control it through and

[03:57:52] you're watching through the sensors and stuff. It's going through pretty thick smoke, but eventually like you can go under the smoke until like the lower area like just a few feet below it.

[03:58:03] And you see a large it opens up into a large cave large enough for at least two or three rows of about five or six beds like like garden beds of what was cannabis plants. They're now like burned husks and such and the actually the wooden frames

[03:58:25] of these beds are now burning as well kind of like roasting as well. There is nobody there and there's but there is a secondary. There's another cave like a small like a branch of a cave that goes off to the

[03:58:40] left and your drone goes into that or assume your drone flies into that to investigate and you find the remains. It looks like a desk and there's some hastily hastily. It looks like it was hastily like whatever was on it was grabbed and

[03:58:57] stuff. There's a couple of pieces of paper still on the ground and like like kind of soaking in the in the wet floor and stuff. And there is a painting about a mirror but like body mirror sized painting

[03:59:11] in on the back wall and there's something there's a device next to like right attached to the side of the picture of the painting frame that is blinking really quickly. It kind of looks like a detonation. It's some kind of device that would explode.

[03:59:28] You'd get maybe guess maybe C4 with a detonator and it is like blinking rapidly. You want to roll a wisdom save to try and get your drone out there before it goes off or. What is the painting about? Roll perception. Two. Colonel Sanders. Only a two?

[03:59:53] Well, two plus three is a five. Okay. It looks like a coastline.