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Ep. 28 - Wildheart - Between a Rok and a Hard Place
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The group press on with their ambush under the Chalk Seller's shop. Rif'a succumbs to the combat but something odd is happening with her shadow…echo…ghost thing…
Rok faces an insurmountable dilemma and Aaronax breaks the game. Will the group make it out? Where in the gods' name is Falco's riptidin' hat? Can Rif'a survive one encounter without going down?
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Transcript
Reefer Down: A Tense Beginning
00:00:00
Speaker
Oh, get the fuck out! It landed on 19 it moved a 1. In wild hearts land
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Speaker
where legends grow Tidal surges rise and flow Golden treasures deep below Time to get moist, here we go
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Speaker
Here we go
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Speaker
There's a moment of silence, a minimum pause, as all you can hear is the haggard breathing of your compatriots around you, and the slow laboured breath of Reefer, who now lies, lifeless, on the floor, rock at your feet, Falco, not too far away from you.
Strategizing After Loss
00:01:20
Speaker
However, in between you and... your friend reefer are a number of the veilsry the group that you have been hunting ever since they ambushed you on the side of the ravine post tidal surge and stole all your belongings all the belongings you had won at the cost of garrick and falco's hat You find yourselves in a large room with multiple enemies around you. Each have taken an amount of damage, but finally the numbers succumbed and took Rifa down.
00:01:52
Speaker
There are four enemies in the large, almost brewery vat room that you find yourselves in after breaking through the wooden wall using rolls of cheese.
00:02:03
Speaker
Aranax, our ah newest member of the group, You find yourself in the first room, the pantry room that we'd entered into, down some stairs, underground in the Sky String Arena, under Beefy Large who sells chalk.
00:02:17
Speaker
and you had confused where this door to the next room had been and now you are stuck after Rock unceremoniously threw one of the veils into the room and said something along the lines of you deal with him you have been having this face off you fired an arrow which thudded into the ground and quivered slightly at the ground of his feet and ever since then you've both just been looking at the arrow then looking at each other then looking at the arrow then looking at each other no one really choosing to move, you being unaware also of the fact that your compatriot, newly found compatriot, Rifa, fallen unconscious.
00:02:54
Speaker
We found ourselves midway through a round of combat, so apologies listener, but if you're tuning into this one, just go back and listen to the first one, it's not gonna make any sense without that. The order, just so you know, was Falco, Reefer, our Veils Root, Rock, and then Aranax.
00:03:09
Speaker
Because the Veils Root have just taken their collective turn and incapacitated Reefer, we're moving on to Rock.
Rock's Combat Moves
00:03:17
Speaker
ah For the first round I'll just over describe what's around you and then you will kind of go from there. So Rok you find yourselves nestled between two barrels that you've just barged your way through the door into this large room with Falco to your right, one of the rogue-like enemies directly in front of you.
00:03:37
Speaker
Rifa's lifeless body slumped against the barrels directly to your left. Next to Rifa is the enemy that's laid her out and about 15 foot to your kind of left, straight ahead, left-ish, tails' us direction, um you there's another enemy. So there's four in the room. Two are currently in combat range with you and ah Falco. Two are about 5, 10 feet standing off from that.
00:04:03
Speaker
If you remember, just a couple of things, Falco, you had seen that the enemy approaching you from the far end, if you remember, the far end of the room had a another area to it that you haven't yet got to and explored the enemy that's approaching you did have a bite mark on his face uh there was a fresh wound the others have all taken some form of attack prior to that there is room for an escape you have got a doorway you have got cheese holes there are other spaces in the room as well um that may give help You're surrounded by large barrels and vats of what must be kind of bootleg ale or some form of moonshine or liquor.
00:04:40
Speaker
You're unsure yet, but these kind of sit around the edges of the entire space. So, Rock, you find yourself in this predicament after bursting through, throwing a member in towards Aranax, and you're now face to face with this cacophony again of the Vale's Root.
00:04:56
Speaker
Fresh turn, fresh faced, what like to do? Okay, he's still got a point of exhaustion as well, which is a bit frustrating. Not so fresh, sadly. Not not Rock. ah But he has just seen Reefer get shanked and basically drop to the floor. So the first thing, obviously, he is going to do is just shout out. reefer no uh and he's gonna stand over her body and as he does so within the room he's gonna once more go through this kind of martial motion and there is i believe within the room like an open topped barrel that's got some form of liquid in and it'll kind of just the the top of that will swirl and make its way towards rock and surround him am i right in thinking that's probably like alcohol or or something like that
00:05:43
Speaker
You're not much of a drinker, are you? No, i'm not. for a drinker You would assume it's some kind of drink that is used in... Awesome. Okay. Because the swirling mass around him is an acidy mass.
00:05:57
Speaker
So I imagine this kind of... ah this This liquid that's gone off is kind of coming around him and it is basically going to convert some of his attacks into acid damage as he activates...
00:06:08
Speaker
Whatever you roll for damage for this, sorry to interrupt you, but whatever you roll for damage, if you hit anything, can you plus one to it? Ooh, tasty. Just for this? this Gladly.
00:06:19
Speaker
I certainly will if I actually hit. um But I have just activated the the feature. um I can't remember what it's called, but it is my thingy feature.
00:06:30
Speaker
ah Shit, it should be in my features and traits, actually, shouldn't it I should know this off by heart by... This is ironic that you're tavern brawler as well. Elemental attunement, that's the one.
00:06:41
Speaker
So just for just yeah just for your awareness, basically, he... ah gets an increased range, and he can also push or pull enemies on an attack with them.
00:06:52
Speaker
um But with that swirling around him, he's going to step over the top of the downed reefer. So he's literally standing, kind of feet ah spread over her in a very protective pose, and he's going to plant a fist dead centre into the chest of the one that did the... um the the kind of the downing strike if you like um but I have to minus a two off whatever I roll it's a good roll though so that's positive ah it's a 21 to hit yep that hits it's the one to the south that you're hitting with the red dot correct on the sound here yeah max damage so that's nine points of acid acid damage it's still going to be non-lethal because it's still a melee attack that you can kind of make it non-lethal it's just that's the damage type that's come through and I need them to make a strength saving throw as well um
00:07:39
Speaker
Okay, the character that that ah um enemy is downed okay for all kinds of purposes. Yeah, so they go but they go flying back 15 foot into the wall. So 5 foot with the tavern brawler, 10 foot with the with the attack if they failed the save automatically.
00:07:55
Speaker
So push lam and yeah yeah pushed immediately back off her. And with that, he is going to kind of now step away from Reefit into the middle of these two enemies and just take another kind of step forward where that barrel has come from, where that liquid has come from.
00:08:11
Speaker
And he's going to turn to the one that's between himself and Falco. And I'd like to use my action to make a grapple at him. So I need a saving throw from him. The DC is 13. It's either strength or dex.
00:08:28
Speaker
12. Amazing. So he that that person in front of him is grappled. And what he's going to do is he's going to use the rest of his movement to twist with that. Effectively, what I want to do, Mark, and you can tell me whether I can or not, I kind of want to suplex him into the barrel behind me.
00:08:44
Speaker
So mechanically, I want to move him round so that he's kind of in that space and try to kind of put him in that space. um Obviously, I know it's it's arguably... more than just flavour to try and suplex him into a barrel, but that's that's his intention.
00:08:58
Speaker
You're using your action though, so it's the cost is an action, but I will get you... um the move The move can take place, and it's one of two outcomes I've got in my mind. and Could you give me an athletics check, please, to see
Magical Maneuvers and Bardic Flair
00:09:12
Speaker
if you're able to properly get the German-ness of the pull and to dunk? Because it's a four-foot barrel. Not anywhere near your height, but...
00:09:25
Speaker
Natural 20, let's go. Oh, damn. Okay. Yeah, um it's straight in. It's like, boom, three-pointer, baby. He's straight in into the into the liquid there, plopping in. Like, the intention is literally... Oh, sorry, pick him up and just dunk him straight into... Yeah, yeah and it's like perfect in. Could you give me a perception check, please, Rock, as well, just for...
00:09:48
Speaker
that action natural one let's go cool thank you very much um so anything else you want to do with your turn uh that is his action that's his bonus action uh he is going to just kind of he knows that he's knocked the one out to the to the south of him he's now kind of between two of them one in a barrel one not uh and he is just going to kind of he's not going to take a step backwards um yep He is going to, yeah, be wary of the one that's to the south of him blades out, kind of almost because he's kind of in the middle of three-ish now. So he's just going to keep his keepers awareness around for those.
00:10:27
Speaker
That's the intention is this kind of bubbling, not bubbling, I suppose, but almost like a steaming, acidy elemental energy is flowing around him. Okay, brilliant. Thank you very much.
00:10:38
Speaker
and this barreling force of a goliath comes powering into this room and just ah Falco it's just the the strength and finesse that you see of this athletic beast entering just with with precision and strength just start to control and move the battlefield around and literally the enemy in front of you just literally disappears out of your view ah but unfortunately it's not your turn Falco you're after our next in the next room You hear the muted screams and splashes and shouts.
00:11:10
Speaker
You do hear the call of Reefer from Rock, but it's all quiet. There's a thin stream of light coming in over this this man's left shoulder from the ladder far off at the other end of this room.
00:11:26
Speaker
And there's a moment of silence. And despite this noise that's taking place in the other room, there's a stillness. Aranax, you're ten feet away.
00:11:37
Speaker
ah believe your crossbow is out. This man is, fingers are edging closer and closer towards his dagger at his side. What do you want to do?
00:11:49
Speaker
So, um... I have a short bow, not a crossbow. Aranax would say to the narrator.
00:12:00
Speaker
Aranax looks over at his would-be assassin. ah Right. um Yeah. So we're doing this then. And with that short bow in hand, we're underground at the moment, aren't we? We're in a cellar.
00:12:17
Speaker
Correct. Right. Right. So all of a sudden, um on the stone walls or wooden walls, whatever surrounding us, because we're deep underground, there's more moisture. So just in the area around him, it feels almost like this moisture is being drawn in towards where Aranax is standing.
00:12:36
Speaker
And it just centers in front of him, just underneath his chin, all the way down to his legs, as he's going to cast Resistance on himself, which I touch a willing creature, me,
00:12:49
Speaker
and choose a damage type with eyeing the dagger he's gonna take a guess at slashing and um anytime i take i'm getting a no but like piercing piercing yeah it's going slashing oh god okay because i had to was going i looked at it looked at it aranax suffers from a really shit dm player but a player not dm um
00:13:21
Speaker
that's frustrating well unlike unlike you aronex got syphilis bitch contractive water yeah uh pink eye concentration spell up to a minute and i can um Yeah, I can resist some damage. Probably the wrong type, but that is my turn.
00:13:41
Speaker
Okay, nice. and I like to imagine that almost like a thin film of sweat covers his whole body that glimmers slightly. And that is almost the... Is it his nervousness or is it the is it the spell? Who knows?
00:13:52
Speaker
We'll find out. We will very soon. And and speaking of which, top of the round, round four, Falco. You've just seen Rock barrel into the room and commit atrocities to these the Vale's route, and rightly so.
00:14:07
Speaker
ah The enemy in front of you has been ripped away. What would you like to do? I will. So the guy that Rock's put into the barrel, is yeah you say it's quite a shallow barrel, so is he still visible?
00:14:18
Speaker
Yeah. He's four feet high, and he went in head first. So it's going to take him down he's upside down. I'm kind of thinking mechanically. it's goingnna It's the equivalent of prone and a little bit restrict ah of of like um not grappled, but kind of basically hes he's going to be at disadvantage on stuff because he's upside down, etc.
00:14:42
Speaker
So um go with yeah go with that. Cool. Okay. I want to move to the midpoint between these two green cloaked guys.
00:14:54
Speaker
ah To add ah add a bit of flavor, if that's all right, what I'm going to do is cast ah a spell that creates a 15-foot cube. I'm cast Thunder Wave in front of me. Nice. ah Across that space there. So hopefully hitting the two guys.
00:15:08
Speaker
And to add a little bit of flavor, if it's all right with you, I will like i touch my finger to my tongue And then, like I'm conducting electricity, plop it into the water with the guys that's upside down.
00:15:21
Speaker
And as I do it, I'll say, ah do you Bree-Leave in magic? Yes, that's a cheese pun. And I'll cost my ah cast a level one Thunder Wave on those two. Nice. Is that a dex saving throw for them?
00:15:33
Speaker
It is a... Con save, 13. Okay, con save. and The man in the barrel is going to roll that with disadvantage. So I'll do the other chap first.
00:15:45
Speaker
He rolled a seven, so he fails. The one in the barrel, however, it's a two or it's a 12, so it's a two. Both fail. Brilliant. In that case, they will take, and hopefully this might hit the barrels as well. Ah, that sucks. It's so it's four points of damage, but they're both knocked back 10 feet.
00:16:04
Speaker
Okay, let me just get the numbers down for these two. Four points each, yeah? Yes. Okay. ah Yeah, the man to the north, the the one with the bite on his face, is going be smashed back into the wall above and kind of being perched on top of a barrel.
00:16:22
Speaker
The man in the barrel, the barrel's going to tip over. He's going to splay out and bump his head against ah one of the large casks in the corner there, taking one point of bludgeoning damage.
00:16:32
Speaker
ah He's now just normally prone because he's fallen out. And now the floor is covered in
Echoes and Enigmatic Elements
00:16:38
Speaker
this and this liquid. ah Could you make a perception check, please? You might have something else, but ill just I want a quick perception check, please. Yeah, sure. If you'd be so kind. Thirteen.
00:16:50
Speaker
Thirteen.
00:16:52
Speaker
Oh, there That's what you needed. um What you notice is when this liquid pours out, that there is a... You don't see it. You can hear it. It's like you can hear a little bit of the surge again.
00:17:08
Speaker
Just a tiny bit. And it It seems to, I know there's glow moss around, so it's a slightly eerily green light that you have in the space, but it just refracts differently.
00:17:21
Speaker
Something seems to remind you of the wave, just just briefly, just that little jump in your heart and you see that liquid pour out. and And that's it. Was there anything else, any movement, any bonus actions you want to do?
00:17:35
Speaker
Yeah, I will step back away from Rock, now that i've cleared the space, even a little bit, and I will shout through to Aranax in the other room. Hey, Aranax, you ain't enjoying your yeah Eyes White Shirt party in there? And I'll give him Bardic Inspiration.
00:17:54
Speaker
Very nice, very nice. That's a D... 10, isn't it? D10? D4? D6.
00:18:01
Speaker
and I've just laid on the space at a random circle where roughly the the liquid is just in case you're interested on the map. So it's about a 15-foot circle that it's created from the spillage and the thunder wave um being what it is.
00:18:13
Speaker
Actually, would have spilled slightly behind it as well, but I can't draw that shape um just to give you the sense of the thunder wave pushing it into the corner. and Right. Thank you very much for that then, Falco. Rifa, it's Rifa's turn.
00:18:29
Speaker
and She is making death saves. The first one is ah three. That's a fail. Oh, shit. Next up, we've got the Vails' Reap.
00:18:41
Speaker
It's their turn. We've got three on two at the moment in the main room. um One is Prone, the barrel rider. He's going to get up, and the man on top of the barrels is going to jump down and start moving, because of that hit, directly towards Falco.
00:19:00
Speaker
He's going to get into falconic range and he's then going to take a couple of hits against what a head against you. Oh, gosh. I forget which number he is. He's number two. like go ah That is going to be 14 to hit.
00:19:17
Speaker
Hits. Good. Five points of slashing damage because it's a sword that does slashing damage. Thank you. And then he's also just going to make that hit and he's going to move so that he almost Falco, you're more in the middle between him and rock.
00:19:39
Speaker
Almost you're becoming the human barrier between him and rock. There's a bit more space between you you basically ah rock them. The one who is behind you is then going to take a stab at you with one of his daggers.
00:19:52
Speaker
That is that's okay. That's good. That's 18 to hit. Yeah, that would. The four plus three, five points of um slashing, no, piercing damage. Rock's going to use his deflect attack, which is a plus six to it anyway. So um if I reduce it to zero, i well, I take no damage. So I reduce that by seven hit points.
00:20:13
Speaker
So take no damage from it. Was it a knife coming in? Yes. going to do something I haven't done before, um which might be a waste, but fuck it. Rock is pissed with this guy.
00:20:26
Speaker
As the blade comes in, he's going to, instead of just kind of swatting it to one side, he's going to grab it and turn it around and thrust it back towards the attacker. Can he make a dex save for me? He can try.
00:20:39
Speaker
15. Yeah, that passes. and So he basically is is was trying to redirect the attack, ah but obviously he he's managed to to dodge that. ah Sorry, that would have been cool.
00:20:50
Speaker
No, it's The last one, he stands up and he's going to cross over the the Liquid, the man who's been in the barrel, the barrel rider. And what you notice, Falco probably, but I'll give Rock this as well,
00:21:03
Speaker
and as he steps he seems to step quicker and faster as he paces over the liquid um and he's going to get to you and there's just going to be a so very slight bluish tinge to his eye or like dune style how this the um the fremen have a slight spice glow to the eyes this is a guy Yeah, the Sandal Gahib.
00:21:32
Speaker
It's not quite like that. It's just a very, very tiny little glimmer. And again, similar to something you might have seen previously. um And he's going to roll to attack you with advantage. Ooh.
00:21:44
Speaker
Yeah, 15 to hit. Meets and beats, baby. 1d4 plus 7 points of slashing damage. Should have gone well. Just that one. Yep. Oh!
00:21:56
Speaker
you want to know um and yeah there's something different about him now crossing through that liquid that's obvious to tell um that's the oh no that's the end of the one room's worth of people uh in the other room the rogui character is going to very calmly step forward after catching a blade and is going to look directly at you and then stab forward with precision at your throat. 13 to hit. That hits.
00:22:32
Speaker
Oh no.
00:22:37
Speaker
Five points of piercing damage.
00:22:42
Speaker
Been playing this for six years, guys. Sorry, my dude. ah to make you so Make a con save for your resistance as well. Yeah, yeah because you might lose that. Oh, yeah, shit.
00:22:57
Speaker
Oh, wow.
00:23:01
Speaker
That's 18. Yeah, you're fine. Yay, my useless resistance is there. Hooray, you never know. Well, if you get into contact with the others, they do slashing damage. Stop trying to poke me and slash me.
00:23:13
Speaker
Come on then. wish you had a biggest go hand in that big sword and use that instead go on he's there right stop trying to hit me and smash me that's the end of their turn uh yep that is uh I was going anything else I want to do, but I'm talking to myself here. Let's go to rock rock. You've been rock rock. You've been um but ran ihow two more either side of you.
00:23:38
Speaker
And and that yeah, get some damage three. What you to do? Okay. So the one that's kind of to the South of me on the map, am I right in thinking there's a brazier behind them? Is that something on the map? What's, what's that there?
00:23:50
Speaker
Yeah. That brazier is, um, hanging off the wall. It is, okay it's not lit on the picture, but it is lit for intents and purposes. Um, You assume from your time being in pubs that's usually used for fermenting or for ah getting ehan the equivalent of kind of alcohol content, yeah ethanol making spirits.
00:24:10
Speaker
It's hot. Okay, so the dude that tried to stab me, like i'm I'm assuming that I grabbed the blade, trying to push it back round to them. It hasn't quite worked out. I'm just going to plant a Spartan kick with my bonus action, or try to, um to to push him back into that if possible. ah That is 20 minus 2, 18 hit.
00:24:32
Speaker
Yep, that hits. Awesome. um In which case he takes seven points of non-lethal acid damage. And can you make a strength save for me? Seven points. Nice. And a strength save.
00:24:44
Speaker
Yes, please. 18. Yep, passes. ah So instead he's only pushed five foot back. So he places a boot in this person's chest, but it doesn't quite kind of... yeah, make the the the um the distance that he wanted to. So that was his bonus action.
00:25:01
Speaker
um The guy that kind of went in and shanked him in the back, he's now going to turn his attention to that guy. I don't know if Rock would make the connection between why he's now perhaps glowing somewhat because Falco stepped in and blasted him backwards. So...
00:25:17
Speaker
so what right is goingnna want if you if you want yeah if you want to give me ah If you want to roll perception, I won't count this towards it, and if you get pass, you realize you put two and two together, and if you fail, you don't. Does that work?
00:25:31
Speaker
No, it's a natural two for a six for a four overall. hes He's just really angry. Yeah, he's so angry. Guys, this one's seeing blue! And what he's going to do is he is going to just whip a hand wrap back to the the kind of on his back.
00:25:47
Speaker
He's going to pull out the trepidation and he's just going to try to lather it across this guy's face in front of him. So not an unarmed strike, ah but he's just going to try and twat this guy right in the face.
00:26:01
Speaker
With the trepidation. and Um... Okie dokie. So, that is... ah natural 20, I think? Yes, it is a natural 20!
00:26:12
Speaker
to Yeah! Yeah, it is. That's gonna hit, baby! Okay, what are your crit rules? I can't quite remember. Um... I can't remember either, really. is it do you Do you double the roll or do you roll twice? or what what How do you usually roll them?
00:26:27
Speaker
um What's more fun? let's double Let's do two rolls. Everyone loves rolling dice. Let's roll two dice and then add everything else. okay so ah So that is 19 minus 3. 16 is the overall um bludgeoning damage as he brings it across this guy's face with an almighty thwack.
00:26:51
Speaker
How much it is it? Eight, nine, 18? It's 16 because, yeah, I don't get to double the um the dex plus dex damage. And he's kind of brought it off his back and two-handed twatted this guy across the face with it. I mean, even with the fact that there was a slight...
00:27:06
Speaker
ah kind of dampener on your damage almost like uh he had something else happening to him he's he's down he's down again yeah it's non-lethal again but he's just bringing it straight across the face and as the guy drops to the floor he'll just say you couldn't handle the trepidation and he's going to kind of turn at this point and use his movement to run up to Falco and kind of square off with him and he's going to keep his body kind of side on somewhat. So he's kind of, he's almost like he's facing Falco because his noses he knows he's got the guy near the brazier.
00:27:41
Speaker
um He knows he's got this guy in front of him so he can grab him if he tries to run or he can defend if ah if an attack comes in, but that's, that's rock. Fab, thank you very much for that. So now suddenly it becomes two on two in this fight.
00:27:56
Speaker
ah Rock, that's the end of your turn. Thank you very much. Aranax, return to you. You've just been stabbed, pierced, some might say, by the the the hoodlum, the villain, the the man that is against you right now, the member of the Vale's Root.
00:28:10
Speaker
What would you like to do? Definitely not slashed, right? Definitely not slashed. Everything but... And he's right in front of me now, isn't he?
00:28:21
Speaker
He's up in your grill in combat, your combat melee space. It sucks when you've chosen the wrong fucking... Oh!
00:28:32
Speaker
um Okay, so Aranax will ah kind of look at surprise as the blade I assume pierces his throat because that's what he's aiming for kind of like hand holds his hand up to it um oh um and he's starting to feel like panic set in all these emotions are kind of moving through him and he's gonna just harness that panic state compresses emotions ball it up internally and he's gonna release it and cast a second level calm emotions in front of him
00:29:15
Speaker
Okay, for listeners, um can you explain what they what the the ruling is on? What's the spell for that, please? Each humanoid ah in a 20-foot radius sphere, centered on a point that you choose within range, must succeed on a charisma saving throw or be affected by one of the following effects.
00:29:33
Speaker
The creature has immunity to the charmed and frightened conditions until the spell ends. um or the creature becomes indifferent about creatures of your choice that it's hostile towards. This indifference ends if the target takes damage or witnesses its allies taking damage.
00:29:47
Speaker
And when the spell ends, the creature's attitude returns to normal. So I'm going for the second one. You need to make a DC Charisma 13 saving throw as that ah moisture that Aranax kind of held onto the start gets pushed out.
00:30:01
Speaker
And it's almost like he sneezed on his attacker's face. LAUGHTER
00:30:07
Speaker
Okay, charisma save. Yes. thirteen 13. Six. Woohoo! He's now indifferent to me.
00:30:19
Speaker
i i mean, I think he was pretty much indifferent to you anyway. but yeah Okay, um we'll see what effect that has. Is there anything else you want to do on your turn?
00:30:31
Speaker
I'm not with these attackers. i like I'm a tidecaller. and then that's it. Okay, we'll see what happens when it comes out to them. Thank you very much for that, Aranax. Great stuff.
00:30:44
Speaker
You still have yet to strike an enemy. ah Falco, top of the round. You've just heard the cacophony of destruction behind you as you've been one-on-one and Rock's been tidying up a few of the others.
00:30:58
Speaker
Though you seem to have the larger, the taller, the more stocky of them all. You've picked the harder fight, um to quote the beginning of White Chicks. So, um what would you like to do? White Chicks Triumphant, I love it. I only watched it for the first time the other day. and got forced to watch it. It's beautiful.
00:31:17
Speaker
I've never seen it before. Fantastic. Sorry, Barco. I will flourish my rapier and then pointing towards the guy that just stabbed me, I will say, anything you can do, i can do, Feta! And I will make rapier attack against him.
00:31:32
Speaker
every time Every turn. Every turn. These are all one episode too late, I'm afraid. But yeah, I like it. It's all about the cheese. Yeah. All right. We'll take it then.
00:31:45
Speaker
This then the the branded but ah the branded blade, isn't it? Yeah. 17 to hit. Hits. um So with sneak attack, because Rock kindly stepped next to me, that is 10 points of piercing damage. Oh, shit.
00:32:03
Speaker
That's good shit. Given that's just your bog standard go-to attack, that's... Man, them rogues. and rogue Them dry rogues, very good. Anything else you want to do?
00:32:14
Speaker
I will... Oh, good question. No, I'll stay where I am. That's that's pretty good. Happy with that. Okay, cool. right, thank you very much. End of your turn. Rifa's turn.
00:32:27
Speaker
and She rolls an 11, so passes. But what's ah what happens, what you start to notice is that there's a part of her...
00:32:42
Speaker
splitting and this echo that you've seen now a couple of times is kind of with her laying through her body almost like and it kind of just just shifts slightly to the side then back in and there's bits where it looks like the echo is trying to sit up and then it it kind of like flickers to being laying back down within the body of reefer again and then and then tries to get back up and flickers down again that happens two or three times it's quite obvious given this is a you know quite a quite bright and and effect in quite a relatively dark room.
00:33:18
Speaker
That's all that happens with Rifa and her
Hostage Crisis: Drift in Danger
00:33:21
Speaker
echo. Moving on, it's the Veil's room. We'll come to Aranax last for flavor. Firstly, ah the chap who's been pushed back away from Rock after the Sparta kick is going to rush forward back towards you, Rock, seeing you now as the larger threat physically and mentally, no offense, Falco, and is going to roll to hit you.
00:33:44
Speaker
That's going to be a 13 to hit. Nope, blocked. um And that's all he's going to do. Seeing that, the chap that's currently involved with Falco is going to turn to Rock and take a swing at you with his sword. It's a natural one. Fuck's sake. Okay. Beautiful.
00:34:00
Speaker
Not great. Aaron X. This man stares at you. And at this point, you notice something about him. He has a rather wispy mustache.
00:34:13
Speaker
And it kind of bristles slightly. And his eyebrows furrow.
00:34:19
Speaker
And it's it's like he's walked into room and forgotten why he's there. and he just kind of looks around for a second and looks at you, but looks at you like you would do perusing items in a shop. Like it's just a an indifferent look towards you.
00:34:35
Speaker
he looks around and looks at the cheese and mutters something under his breath about cellars or darkness or water or moisture or something like that anyway.
00:34:48
Speaker
it turns around and then we'll just um starts leaving 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 gets to the stairs thirty gets to the stairs isn't going a dash because it's not a dashy thing.
00:35:02
Speaker
um he yeah i had to roll a perception to see if he could hear his fellows being hurt in the room next to him and rolled a two. And so he didn't hear anything. In my mind, the door would kind of shut again anyway, so he wasn't going to see anything. And he's just slowly, there's no fighting going on in the room with the holes, the cheese holes.
00:35:20
Speaker
So he's slowly making his way indifferently away from from everything. He's not interested anymore. And, towards the state Towards the ladder. He's not up the ladder. He's at the base of the ladder. He's not going to take a dash because he's not in any any rush. he's just He's just indifferent.
00:35:37
Speaker
And that's the end of the... that the end of the Vales route time?
00:35:43
Speaker
and Yes, that is going to be the end of the Vales route time. Yes, it is indeed. Okay, and over... No. It's not. It's not the end.
00:35:58
Speaker
You hear a very loud shout from the far end of the VAT room that you're in. Aaron, actually, you don't hear this. Well, maybe you might. What's your na- No, fuck it. Let's just go to the drama mark.
00:36:11
Speaker
Rock and Falco, though, you definitely do hear it. This dark corner of the room, which we have yet to explore, you hear a shout. And it's a shout out. Just a loud, STOP!
00:36:25
Speaker
STOP RIGHT NOW!
00:36:29
Speaker
That's all you at the moment. Moving Rock, over to you. You just heard that noise and these two enemies have just failed miserably in attacking you. What do you to Okay. And I've also seen Rika... Rika? Rifa kind of weirdly almost ghost out a little bit, like like phase in and out with that with that echo coming through her and that's going to concern him.
00:36:50
Speaker
And he's going to shout Fords kind of... like almost shouting through Falco, even though Falco's right in front him to, to, cause he knows Aranax. He knows that Aranax has kind of used magic on him before. Uh, and he's just going to shout out, uh, first of all, and just say, Rifa, stay with us.
00:37:08
Speaker
Uh, Aranax, we need help. and he's going to take a step no he can't take a step forwards fuck ah the he knows the guy's just run back in towards him so he's going to look back towards um the guy that's come in towards him take the trepidation back into one hand and again place a palm an aft boosted palm as a bonus action ah unarmed strike into the one to his south oh no with a minus two that's a nine to hit
00:37:40
Speaker
ah That misses. Thought it would. So he will use his action to ah basically, as it kind whacks into his chest and doesn't quite work, he's going to look at his hand, pull it back, kind of ah flex a couple of fingers and then go for another palm to the center. So with his action using another unarmed strike.
00:38:00
Speaker
To the man to yourself. Yeah, yeah. But it's ah it's a 10 on the second. So obviously that doesn't... Yeah, he that misses. Almost like ah you the concern, that the shout, it's just slightly off-putting. You're in your rhythm, you're in a good zone, and now there's distractions and things have offset you slightly, perhaps. Yeah, and he can't easily get past.
00:38:23
Speaker
No, no. Would he...
00:38:28
Speaker
Could he get closer to Rifa? Would he get closer to Rifa if he saw her in a bad way? Either way, you'll take an attack of opportunity. Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah but I mean, yeah, a meta will knows that, but fuck it. Rock doesn't. He does know that, but he's willing to take the risk.
00:38:44
Speaker
He's going to step away into the space behind Falco. So leave Falco with the big guy and take a step towards Rifa. So he will proc an attack opportunity from the bigger one. so sorry it's a natural 20. that's okay it's not a problem i hope because i can still react okay so i can d six
00:39:11
Speaker
10 points of slashing damage. Okay, reaction, deflect attack. I reduce it by 15 points of damage. And actually what he's going to do is I know it didn't work last time, it might not work this time, but he's going to use his final focus point to deflect attack and try and move that attack.
00:39:28
Speaker
Like as he's running away, this blade is coming down. He's going to see it, kind of push it past him. not caring about the other fucking guy in the room. So he's going to have that blade hopefully come down into the other guy behind him.
00:39:40
Speaker
So I need a dexterity saving throw from the... and Larger of the two. the one No, the one that he is closer to now. So not the one that he stepped away from. He's hoping to deflect that one's attack into the other one. Into someone else.
00:39:53
Speaker
Yeah, so it's a dex save. Second natural 20 in a row. Oh yeah, then never mind. Yeah, it doesn't doesn't hit. The guy gets to block it. No damage goes on to him. ah But he is going to continue with his movement.
00:40:03
Speaker
Sorry? And you don't take the damage I don't take the damage. I've reduced it by a minimum of 15. But he's going to reduce that and he's now going to ah get himself interposed again. So at least yeah Falco is on the opposite side and and kind of Rock is on the opposite side. So they're both closer to Reefer than the the enemies.
00:40:22
Speaker
Nice. But that's me. Lovely. lovely Thank you very much. Aranax, this dude's just wandered off. bit sweaty he's gone and then you've heard this shout from rock or from a voice inside saying briefer stay with us aaronax we need you or something along those lines so as soon as the um attacker left and that kind of almost felt like forever that bit of silence and the movement Aranax had this held breath just wow as he just holds onto his knees.
00:40:58
Speaker
Poor, poor 150 year old dwarf and just kind of lets it out. Oh, wow. um And then he hears Rox shout. Now, the room that I'm in, is there?
00:41:14
Speaker
Because I remember last time, I couldn't see over the bowels being such a short person. Correct. um Is there a door behind me? So i've I'm currently facing um this long room and my attacker's just gone to the top left corner and up the stairs.
00:41:38
Speaker
So is there any doors over to the left of me, to the south of me? Or is there a cheese hole? ah Last episode, you rolled a natural one on a perception, and I told you that there was a door on the southern wall, which was a big fat lie. and That's why I'm there. war Yeah, the actual door was to the left of your current location, which Rock had found, and then thrown someone through for you whilst you were looking at a wooden wall.
00:42:06
Speaker
By now, though, you would have very clearly have seen the door fling open. um Sorry, push open internally into the big room. ah You very much see and know that that is where the door is now. I'm not going to make for it. That's unfair.
00:42:19
Speaker
Okay. So Aaron X or... I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. and run over to the door. Is there barrels just in front of the door? Can I see a path through?
00:42:32
Speaker
There is barrels, but you can squeeze your way through them. Yeah, it's fine. Okay, all right, awesome.
00:42:39
Speaker
Didn't realize this would be such a challenge around the waist. As he squeezed past these barrels, he's trying to just... This is the first time he's been in this fucking room.
00:42:50
Speaker
So he looks around and sees chaos. Chaos. Do I get eyes on Rifa? Yeah. I've got 30 feet of movement.
00:43:01
Speaker
Like, who am I going to piss off by pushing past them in the bowels? Is someone going to take an attack of opportunity against me? like he's just He's trying to push his way through. And he's his ultimate thing is to find Rock, Falco, and Rifa, especially because ah Rock's voice was somewhat...
00:43:21
Speaker
NERVED. So as you enter into the room and given your stature you've got ah slim narrow kind of sliver of space between the barrels and the wall that you could probably even with when you suck your belly a little bit you could re-fit along there.
00:43:39
Speaker
So what imagine do is the door swings open you move to the first gap between where the barrels are and peek through. And there you would see ah just chaos fighting. People rock, liquid flying everywhere, punching, deflecting attacks. It's like the fucking scene from The Matrix.
00:43:57
Speaker
Falcons the middle, branching your rapier, chaos. If you were to move to the next one, you would directly see the back of Rifa's head and this this echo thing trying to kind of either pull itself out or push itself into to her form in some way, something changing there.
00:44:13
Speaker
Brilliant. And I'm also right into understanding if I do that, I'm kind of covered by these barrels. So you can just see, like, I'm just looking through the gaps between the barrels. have a little glistening eyes. For mechanical purposes, I'll probably have you in half cover.
00:44:26
Speaker
Amazing.
00:44:29
Speaker
I know what an unconscious person looks like. Aranax is a healer and Rock's voice of of um pain it gives me indication enough. I'm going to cast Healing Word on Rifa.
00:44:43
Speaker
um And very much like when he casts Resistance, it's that moisture in the room. It's like Aranax always requires either some water or elements in order for his arcanic abilities to work. So he's drawing this moisture from the rocks and everything like that.
00:44:57
Speaker
And it funnels into ah this kind of small line of droplets that pass through towards Aranax. And he holds a hand out almost to intercept it and then kind of blows it.
00:45:10
Speaker
Almost you would a petal in the wind. And those droplets make their way towards Reefer. And he casts Healing the Word. And she gets 11 points of healing.
00:45:24
Speaker
Lovely, and as those droplets of water fall against her head and her forehead, they just instantly absolve themselves into her skin and you see the the the echo form start to calm.
00:45:38
Speaker
And what happens after that, well if anything happens after that, we'll we'll see it on her own. But yes, for now, intents purposes, she is no longer having rolling death saves. She's out of that state.
00:45:49
Speaker
Anything else you want to do with your turn, Aranax? He's quite happy with his um tiny vantage point behind cover. Yeah, it's a good position to be in. All right, Falco, top of the round. um You would not have noticed anything change in Rufus' condition probably at this point, and but you are about you are kind of you aren't flanked because it's not a thing anymore, but you've got Rock moving between you. It's just chaos at the moment. and Somehow the sword that came over you towards Rock, he's tried to deflect through, and there's just...
00:46:18
Speaker
bits of these tall bodies all around you, pushing down and scrumming down on you and it's suffocating. and What would you like to do? I'll whip my rapier around um to the opposite side, to the green cloak that is next to Rock on the south. yeah um And as I do, I'll look up at Rock and I'll say, Ricotta, finish this. Ricotta, finish this. Oh, terrible.
00:46:49
Speaker
That's what was going
Combat Chaos and Critical Hits
00:46:51
Speaker
for. And I will make a rapier attack against that green gloke. ah Okay, nice. um With sneaks another 17 to hit.
00:47:02
Speaker
Yeah, that hits. And five points of piercing with sneak attack as well. Three, that one, five points. Sorry to be a dick, would you have the sneak attack? you're within five oh you're going for that guy sorry yeah I'm with you nice one yeah yeah the south guy yeah yeah thank you very just five points in total just five points okay just checking cool good absolutely fine no problem he's still up but you just catch him like in the hip and it's fucking painful like in the love handle right in there not fun not fun not fun at all yeah everyone's cool nice anything else you want to your no that'll be the end
00:47:38
Speaker
Nice. and So what you notice then, it's Rifa's turn, she's not going to make a death save, but what you do notice is though that her Echo stops kind of convulsing and trying to get to stop and move.
00:47:50
Speaker
And what you do notice, oh god, would anyone notice? I'm going to tell you, Aranax, you would see this, definitely. You see very calmly ah the slightly older, slightly more weathered version of Rifa, the Echo, calmly stand up.
00:48:08
Speaker
It would turn around and stare down at the the slowly breathing unconscious body of Rifa. And then the eyes would slowly look towards the sword that she has in her hands.
00:48:20
Speaker
And this echo will reach down towards it and try and grasp the sword. And as the hand pulls up, what's drawn up is also and an echo version of that sword. And yet the blade of the sword is slightly charcoal-y, slightly darker, and it seems to be dripping or something is full like sand is falling off it or like snow is falling off it, but it's quite dark.
00:48:43
Speaker
And with it, you see it and it's just like Rifa, except just expressionless, the horn slightly more chipped, the face slightly more weathered, the and cheeks slightly cuts and and just just worn down by combat war by something else.
00:49:02
Speaker
it It looks over the blade once, twice, and then turns Aranax away from you and towards rock.
00:49:12
Speaker
and then lifts the blade high, high up. And then in a single mote movement passes through rock through rock into the space clear on the other side and takes a swing down against the the but person person that Falco had just taken a hit against, rolling a natural one so nothing happens. Yay. That got me though. That got me. old Yeah, yeah, I'm on.
00:49:36
Speaker
ah Gotta gotta to give it the good. Fuck, no, I've just rolled ones and twenties tonight. That's all I've had. So it's either everything or nothing. Ah, brilliant. Right. um Anyway, so um she is safe, um downed and the echo is is now in play.
00:49:49
Speaker
um Right, thank you, me, for that. The Bail's Root, let's jump into them. So there's two of them left. The guy who's now being surrounded is going to just take a big old swing out ah with his dagger towards a Rock.
00:50:05
Speaker
That is a 15 to hit. Meet and beat, baby. For seven points of slashing damage. Oh, Rock takes a big old hit. Shit, man. The...
00:50:16
Speaker
the other one that's up against Falco is going to look at this thing that's just appeared again. This this ghostly skeletal spectral form. A panic can take a swing at that. Ooh, for a 21 to hit. This is me now. I'm just playing with myself because control both characters here. Woof.
00:50:34
Speaker
um Takes a couple of points of damage there. You see it swings and you... What he notices as he swings and hits against this version of it, instead of it just disappearing like it has in the past, it stays. And yet, as it hits the back shoulder of this creature, the back shoulder kind of just dissolves away slightly.
00:50:49
Speaker
still seems to move fine, doesn't even notice, but the back shoulder just kind of dissolves out a little bit like it's a corner of it's been rubbed away or parchment has been scrubbed away. And that's the end of those individuals' turns.
00:51:02
Speaker
And then something happens. Over the Echo's shoulder, you see another figure appear.
00:51:11
Speaker
He's tall. I'm not going to say beefy large, but he is a larger chap, similar to the guy that Varko is currently up against. However, this time it's different.
00:51:24
Speaker
He's not alone. Held in a tight headlock over his form with a knife to his throat,
00:51:37
Speaker
is Drift. Bleeding from the mouth.
00:51:43
Speaker
Terror in his eyes. And he has this dagger held to his throat and a short sword down by his side. This is obviously the man holding him, not Drift. Drift is wearing the same clothes you expected him to wear. Aaron X, you have no idea who this boy is.
00:51:59
Speaker
And yet you can see there's some sense of defiance and sheer terror in his eyes. And the man says...
00:52:07
Speaker
Leave now, or I kill's the kid.
00:52:13
Speaker
And he's holding an action. The dagger's to his throat.
00:52:21
Speaker
Ruck.
00:52:23
Speaker
What would you like to do? In all this madness, in all the chaos that has ah happened, And with all the shit that's going on around him, is Rock clear as day seeing what has happened here?
00:52:41
Speaker
Yes, because the other two individuals, the other two Vales Root members, you see them look over to this person and you get the impression, their aggression level drops slightly, that they are turning...
00:52:57
Speaker
away that look at him look at you like they're waiting for you to decide what happens next i'm not going to pause initiative for this round but they more than likely if nothing changes will not attack you at the end of this round so they're one getting at is there's a space in the the movement there's a pause in the movement where that has been seen and heard by everyone in the room okay apart from reefer who's unconscious okay So having seen...
00:53:31
Speaker
drift there within the hand with all this madness going on for a second just seeing that and with seeing that kind of blade towards his throat as well. Rock is going to freeze for a split second.
00:53:49
Speaker
Then he's going to take the disengage action
00:53:56
Speaker
uses full movement speed to get right up in front of this person and go to make a grapple attack to try to hold this person's hand and basically grab his hand that's in front of of Drift, basically trying to stop this ah dagger to the throat.
00:54:20
Speaker
It's not the smartest move. Might not be the right move. at all but instantly in this situation i think rock feels like he can do something about this so yeah maybe kind of the guy that was previously in front of him just a quick kick to the kind of the leg push past sprint past and just go for grabbing this guy's hand i don't know whether it'll work i might be absolutely fucking stupid
00:54:50
Speaker
the minute that you break rank probably past the member of the Vale of the Vale's Root between Rifa's Echo and the Vale's Root member ah there's a flash a glint of steel and in a second a split second Drift falls to the floor you're still in the same position he will be making death saves the that was The held action, the trigger was attack against him or the group did the opposite of his demands two times.
00:55:27
Speaker
And that is seen as a direct attack against him. So yeah, you can move, absolutely you can move there. and Drift falls to the floor, this square in front of him, and the man behind is is stood with the dagger out at the moment. He has a short sword to his side.
00:55:47
Speaker
okay But the grat you can grapple him now. Yeah, but no, no. That's happened just as your friend. he's gotten towards him, that has happened. Yeah, you would have seen that probably with about 10, 15 feet other moves. You'd have been in full view.
00:56:00
Speaker
Yeah. i Yeah, it was a fucking stupid thing to do. You remember what Rock would do? Spur-of-the-moment kind of thing. yeah being in the middle of this fighting, all this stuff that's going on, suddenly seeing that another kind of... He's just been stood over Reefer and trying to protect her, do what he can. He's seen Drift who he thought wasn't down here for the... Like, he was sure, he was told it was a halfling. He he like he doesn't understand. He's like, I can do this. I can save this.
00:56:28
Speaker
He's gone sprinting in, wrong fucking call, and seen drift drop to the floor. Instead, he's going to be kind of sprinting. Instead of going for the grapple, seeing him drop, he is just going to go for a full drop the shoulder, shoulder charge into this person that's done it. Unarmed strike, bonus action. Okay, well done.
00:56:51
Speaker
That is a 14 with his exhaustion to hit. Meets it beats.
00:56:59
Speaker
Okay. Um...
00:57:02
Speaker
um That is five points of acid damage. He needs to make a strength saving throw. And he's also going to be activating his and hill's tumble feature to knock him prone regardless.
00:57:18
Speaker
He will be pushed back five feet regardless. But it's just whether he goes five or 15 feet is the saving throw. You're the seven on the saving throw. He goes flying back 15 feet prone.
00:57:31
Speaker
prone from where rock is as he kind of lands this shoulder charge into him what do i want for this not wisdom it's rage it's not rage though i want something that can measure that could you give me a athletics check please mm-hmm
00:58:00
Speaker
It's a... A three overall with the minus two to No worries, no mind. um He slams back against the wall. Take a point of bludgeoning damage for that as well um as he slams back into the wall. As in Rock will or the other guy will?
00:58:13
Speaker
No, the other other guy will. You don't move. Okay. And it was going to be because it's 15 foot. That's 10 more feet of me. That's a big old distance. I want to see it such power that you smash because it's a wooden wall. I thought maybe smashes through into the next room, but it didn't have the right kind of um power for yeah for that. yeah But still, we get them away from you anyway.
00:58:31
Speaker
and And with Rock's extra... With his extra momentum, he'll kind of skid to a halt the remaining five foot in front. So he's directly in front of um this person. And like you say, kind of rage and fear in equal mixture kind of passes through Rock. He's beaten up quite severely at this point as well.
00:58:54
Speaker
ah Drift is bleeding out to him. So he's... he's stuck between a rock and a hard place um with trying to... like he He doesn't know what he's going to do next, but what he did there was there was no martial prowess to what he did.
00:59:09
Speaker
It was a fucking... American football, drop the shoulder and just smash this guy off of Drift. um That's all he can do for now. Nice. Thank you very much for that.
00:59:21
Speaker
Difficult when character decisions don't marry up with what you want to, but hey, you sometimes got to buy that bullet. Thank you very much for that, Rock. Aranax, you have...
00:59:33
Speaker
Between the barrels, you actually do have line of sight on this. Rifa is laying prone anyway, so you can see over her. And you would have seen this event take place. You don't know who this boy is. You've got no recollection of that.
00:59:45
Speaker
Yet you you you can see the way it's impacted some of your other fellow colleagues. That's maybe as far as we can put it so far. What you like to do? Yeah, Aranax has read the room and probably...
00:59:59
Speaker
It could taste the silence as the blade took out the out drift. um So Aranax is going to do what he can. He's going to push through the fucking two barrels and step over lightly over over reefer.
01:00:19
Speaker
Forgive me, I've forgotten. But on this map, there is a blue circle ah some 20 feet away from Aranax. What is that? that is slightly different alcoholic thing that was spilt when Falco knocked at the Thunder Wave and burst one of the barrels and then one of the other villains that are now down of the Vale's Route, it seemed to affect them in some way and it also affected rock when he kind of called upon that liquid for one of his attacks as well so it's a cu a big big puddle basically that's fine like that's that's all good it's not conducting electricity like some fucking pokemon move is it so i'm gonna i'm gonna tiptoe out of the reach of the um the attack i'm making my way i've got 30 feet and aaron x is almost if trying to
01:01:08
Speaker
flatten himself against anything and sidestep and sidestep and sidestep his full 30 feet, which will take him 15 feet away from drift.
01:01:19
Speaker
And as he finally gets within 15 feet, again, he's just going to he's going to close his eyes for a moment and he's going to hear almost the the movement of the tides as almost it's like you're sat on a beach and you're hearing the waves. And from that, again, um not to labor the fucking...
01:01:39
Speaker
moisture point too much because I've used it three times but it's a similar sort of thing where he's going to draw on the moisture probably use some of the liquid that's around him and it's going to just pulse um this isn't like what he did with reefer instead the water doesn't go in a straight line it almost hits the floor and makes its way crawls almost like something from stranger things um over to drift and as soon as it latches on like venom from spider-man on drift um Drift's heart rate should steady, but he shouldn't wake up.
01:02:14
Speaker
And Aranax is doing this on purpose because he can tell that this boy is in danger if he wakes up. This could be someone to be used as a bargaining tool. And it's a fucking boy. So Aranax doesn't need to know much more than that. You don't fucking hurt children.
01:02:28
Speaker
um So he's casting Spare the Dying. So choose a creature within range that has zero hit points and isn't dead. The creature becomes stable.
01:02:39
Speaker
You see the liquid kind of and skitter off towards it, almost like you've summoned a small creature. And it seems to know where to go in terms of illness and ailment.
01:02:50
Speaker
And it moves as you direct it towards his neck and it kind of um buries itself in, almost like it's gathering and pushes the blood back in. It's not, but you don't really know how it works. It's magic anyway.
01:03:01
Speaker
And you see the wound starts to to heal up. You see the furrowed brow of this boy, the messy brown hair matted over his sweaty brow, relax slightly as he seems to just fall into an uncomfortable sleep rather than the big sleep.
01:03:18
Speaker
He is stable. Anything else who wants to do with your turn? Nope, that's me maxed out. Oh, man. I had to write this stuff out clear as day what was going to happen with him because I was like, oh, fucking hell, this is... Yeah, there's more intense than Garrick right there, man. who No, it's alive.
01:03:35
Speaker
i Yeah, fuck that guy. He just thought hairy thoughts. That's all he did. Hairy thoughts? Oh, heavy. Yeah, yeah. Right. Aranax, saving the day. Thank you very much, Aranax. Falco, you know, from your perspective, I'm not going to get your own perception, um but from your perspective,
01:03:54
Speaker
you've seen what rock scene and that's pretty much it at the moment um which is the rock sprinting over this member of the veils route pulling a knife across the throat of drift drift falling down rock going full this is sparta um oh and reefer's shadow has a sword
01:04:14
Speaker
directly in front of you as well. Um, so that's, that's, that's what's happened. What do you want to Okay. So as, as drift falls to the floor, uh, I'll shout, no, Aaron X, we could really use your help in here. And I'll drop the rape because I haven't seen it.
01:04:30
Speaker
I'll drop the rapier from my left hand into my right hand and then whip it around to the guys to the North. Uh, I'll make another attack. Do it. I guess reefers, um, echo counts as an ally. If correct. it does Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:41
Speaker
yeah Brilliant. Um,
01:04:45
Speaker
ah That's a six to hit. That misses. The damage was dog shit anyway. Then I will seeing Rock go flying in forward into a bit of a rage, I will give him my last Bardic Inspiration um with my bonus action.
01:05:06
Speaker
Very nice. very nice
01:05:11
Speaker
And Rock, all I say to you across the thing, finish him. In that voice. Fantastic.
01:05:21
Speaker
yeah Alright, very nice. Thank you very much for that. And Rock has the Bardic Inspiration. ah Right, moving on then. Rifa's Echo is going to take a swing at the um the person the the person to the south that we've been battling for a while now and rolled a natural 20. Well, that's good. Yeah, buddy. Once and baby. Oh, my. All is.
01:05:47
Speaker
and that's going to be
01:05:52
Speaker
enough Which number is here? Let me just double check. Three. yeah, yeah. I need four hit points. don't know why can't tell all that off. And what you just see, um Falcom, and um to an extent Aranax, Rocky ain't got a clue, is this this slightly dark...
01:06:09
Speaker
and blade, different to compared to the kind of the ethereal nature of everything else, just slowly get pushed into the throat and then kind of ripped out through the side, whipped out through the side.
01:06:20
Speaker
and Despite being able to pass through you and people, it doesn't the blade doesn't. and It just leaves this kind of really awkward, very unclean, kind of splayed part of his neck as he chokes and falls dead on the ground.
01:06:38
Speaker
ah that is the end of the echoes turn it's the veils route turn um the person who's just the near falco and reefer that's just seen this uh is going to run and he's going to run towards the door and out if he can oh the one by the way in the other room has already he's fully scarped and he's probably just looking at the clouds the one that was in with aranax before He's out of the picture now. So he's going to move away. um The Echo isn't going to get an attack of opportunity.
01:07:10
Speaker
But Falco, you do because he's trying to exit your space. Would you like to have an attack of opportunity? Yeah. Yes, please. Absolutely. All right. Roll to hit.
01:07:22
Speaker
10. That misses. You just caught off guard. Maybe a bit of the blood or spine from the other one gets stuck stuck in your eye. um So it's 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 feet. And he's going to use the dash 5, 10, 15.
01:07:36
Speaker
And he's up the ladder and he's gone. he's gone It's just the one individual now remaining that's not unconscious. And that is the individual that was holding ah Drift captive.
01:07:52
Speaker
And he is going to turn towards you, Rock. And he's going to smile through slightly bloodied teeth and draw out his sword. And what you notice about the sword is it's just a short sword, but it has a slight glow to it.
01:08:10
Speaker
and he's gonna drop into stance, even with his back against the wall, with his nose running with blood, and he's gonna roll to hit. Well, he's not gonna roll, he's gonna try and hit you. Fuck, a three. Okay, all right, well well, he doesn't. He tries to hit you, and you you you dodge yourself out of the way before he manages to make his first hit.
01:08:26
Speaker
and He's gonna have another one, though. that's a natural one. Cool. Okay. and Literally ones and twenties. Ones and fucking twenties. So just, and you're just, despite being in this rage, perhaps just, you're you're just, senses are heightened. The bardic inspiration kicked in that line of finishing echoing through your head, both hits miss.
01:08:44
Speaker
And that's the end of their turn. Rock, your turn to retort. Cool. you know what Rog's going to do. Very much. It's not with the trepidation, believe it or not.
01:08:57
Speaker
ah So the first thing that will come in is an unarmed strike. um But it's going to, I think, pretty much miss, unfortunately. Because even with the Bardic Inspiration, it's not going to do too much. But the second one is very much going to hit. It's a 22 without the Bardic Inspiration.
01:09:21
Speaker
and does ah but is Was it a d6? Was the Bardic Inspiration a d6? Yeah. o Because the first was an 8. a ah no you can even oh Unless I rolled 6 on it, it wouldn't work.
01:09:36
Speaker
Can I wreck on it and try it? 6 is a meet and beat. That's a 1 in 6 chance. Do I feel lucky, punk?
01:09:47
Speaker
rock Rock was told to finish him. It's a three. Didn't work. wow ah But I'm going to once more activate the hill's topple feature and it's going to knock him to the floor and effectively what he's going to do is go for a kick to the knee, kneecap to bring him down to the floor again. There is no, once more, no martial finesse whatsoever to this.
01:10:12
Speaker
It is... ah acid powered absolute boot to the knee uh for a seven points of acid damage um and i need him to make a strength saving throw again another strength 13.
01:10:35
Speaker
thirteen ah Yeah, that meets and beats. He's only pushed back five feet, so he'll once more be kind of kicked down to the floor and into the wall behind him.
01:10:46
Speaker
Rock's going to move forwards, basically. He's kind of gone into... Again, all martial prowess is gone. He's just launching himself forward. He's placed a kick towards this person so um this person's knees.
01:11:00
Speaker
He's bringing a hand up to the trepidation behind his back. ah He's seeing red where the other guy was seeing blue. He's yeah closing in on him, but that's all he can do this turn. Okay, nice. Thank you very much for that. Aranax, down to you now. You've just um stabilized the boy and that was about it from your perspective. You used to see Rock going at it, this final person. What did you do? That's cool. Aaron Axe, having known what he's done for um Drift, so he knows he's stabilized him. Again, he's kind of in that Zen-like place where he'd closed his eyes before and he's almost um sensing what's around him.
01:11:37
Speaker
Falco, have you been hit?
01:11:41
Speaker
I have, but I don't know i don't if I've been hit enough that you would notice. No, that's okay. That's all i need to know. ah So as Aaron Axe, because he's he's using he's using his sense around him,
01:11:54
Speaker
To the point because of his clerical powers he can can almost feel, I've said, water, but there's other fluids as well and just at the slight hint of blood from Rock and Falco, he's going to close his eyes on that as soon as he almost tastes the metal.
01:12:13
Speaker
and he's going to... um There's no finesse. He's a fucking <unk> chunky dwarf guy. so he's going to just push both hands onto the floor, not in a smooth dance sort of way. He's just almost like he drops down to one knee and then puts his hands on the floor. He moves his kelp cake but cape backwards as he does so. And as soon as his hands connect the floor, um he's going to use his cleric ability, preserve life,
01:12:42
Speaker
Rock, you're going to get 8 HP. And ah Falco, you're going to get 7 HP. As I expend 15 HP to bloodied creatures within 30 feet of myself.
01:12:56
Speaker
And I've divided the HP. Hang on a minute. Bloodied means you have to be below 50%, which Rock definitely was. Well, that's a fucking bollocks thing. I did not know that.
01:13:08
Speaker
I thought bloodied was like your blood... No, it's a new it's a new concept because it's ah yet's a condition yeah it affects a lot of um creatures. There are conditions that kick in once bloodied. Retcon everything about that. Oh, I'm going to take those off. Okay.
01:13:24
Speaker
Hang ah Yeah. 15 HP to rock.
01:13:34
Speaker
Which almost brings him back up fully. Hooray. Fucking hell. He hasn't got a chance. Not like this. Nice to Aranax. Falco, top of the Rhine. Sorry, it was there anything else you wanted do Aranax with your turn? I'm going to read ah the basic rules for D&D.
01:13:51
Speaker
As you were. Specifically 2024, 2025. Yeah, so actually five v I'm going to catch up on the old stuff. Go back to fucking 3.5, mate. um Right, Falco, this dude's just on a runner in front of you. um Despite your best efforts,
01:14:08
Speaker
what would you like to do? Is Rifa, is she still on her back like she hasn't moved? azara Yeah, it's like she got shanked and then she fell down, slumped down and then her body's just slowly, so she's laying on her back looking up, ah but her eyes are shut and she's not bleeding.
01:14:26
Speaker
ah From where Aranax came from, you might make an assumption that he's healed her on the way past, but um she seems stable. Okay. Um...
01:14:36
Speaker
um
01:14:40
Speaker
I'll look up at Rifa's echo and be like, he's a fucking ghost! And I'll turn around to Rifa on the floor and I... don't know how feel about her at the moment. She was quite quite sassy before.
01:14:53
Speaker
yeah i i'll I'll kneel down next to her and if she... I'd like to make a medicine check to see if I can do anything to help her. And my and Falco's medicine check is the kiss of life.
01:15:07
Speaker
ah for fuck's sake That's all he knows how to do. it and it And because of last time he did it, it worked. He thinks that's how he brings people back. Oh, Garrick. It wasn't Garrick, wasn't it? No, it was tidecaller.
01:15:21
Speaker
Oh, yes, of course. Yeah. and okay Oh, shit, Garrick did do it to you. yeah Yeah. just Kissed him good, baby. All right, give me a medicine check, please. He was so dumb.
01:15:36
Speaker
That's a nine. Nine. You press your moist lips against... against I'm sorry, Alice. Alice is going to hate this so much. Against Rifa's unconscious lips.
01:15:52
Speaker
um zero consent here and and know you got you blow like you did you believe before and um it just does it puffs up her cheeks and nothing else really changes but she's like warm to the touch she's still breathing you can feel that and you still get a sense that her ah ah yeah chest is rising and it's falling and you can hear her heartbeat um so like it seems to be they're the things that a alive people do okay I'll call her Aaron X I think I've stabilized reefer get after the kid and now they're my turn excellent thank you um the echo of reefer is just going to be hovering over your shoulder falco looking directly at you and just very slowly expressionlessly shaking her head at you and that's all she's still clasping that sword
01:16:43
Speaker
who's just slowly shaking her head and looking at you.
Explosive Climax and Aftermath
01:16:46
Speaker
That's the end of her turn, Vel's route to turn. um The person that's in combat with rock is going to go to hit you back with like a feigned overhead attack and then switching to a low body hit.
01:16:59
Speaker
and That's going to be an unnatural 20 to hit. It will. 8 points of slashing damage reaction I'm going reduce that bitch all I need to roll is a 2 or higher to be able to reduce it fully yeah I do reduce it by 12 so powerful that 1 on 1 it's like impossible to get through amazing yeah such a good feature right, retort, your turn.
01:17:25
Speaker
Okay, I said he was unhinging the trepidation. sorry that's what Sorry, I'm really sorry, sorry sorry i'm yeah I need to retcon. There's one more thing he is going to do. um Could you...
01:17:37
Speaker
Could you give me a perception check, please, Rock? I can certainly try with a minus two. That is a natural one for a three overall. No problem. um You do see him after but as he's hitting you. I think he's kind of skirting around your position, um trying to get into a different position that he can be in um until he's almost done like a 180 all the way around you. So he's ended up not at your back because I imagine you would have followed his eyes, obviously, um but just so he can be on the other side of you.
01:18:16
Speaker
Now it's the end of his turn. Your turn. Cool. I'm dropping the trepidation because that is not okay. He's now moved himself between drift for all Rock knows is...
01:18:28
Speaker
ah dead, dying, bleeding out on the floor. He doesn't know what it is, but he is no longer going for like a a twat with this. He is going to go for an unarm strike again, kill surprise on this bitch to try to, in fact, he's going to fucking jump and just put a double footed drop kick into this guy.
01:18:54
Speaker
um It's a 22 to hit. to hit okay yeah that hits okay uh that is nine points of acid powered damage i need another strength saving throw um but he is going to get booted back as far as he possibly can be hopefully with this He rolled four.
01:19:14
Speaker
Okay, he gets thrown back 15 feet as the two feet kind of land directly on his chest. There's something behind him at the moment that he obviously Rock would probably know about and try to be pushing him towards. Rock's going to land prone, use half his movement speed to get up.
01:19:30
Speaker
and use the remaining 20 feet of his movement speed. Before you do that, could you just give me another athletics check to see? It's become almost canon now that if you're going to kick someone into something wooden, there's a chance it can smash and break.
01:19:45
Speaker
Yeah, no worries. And there's like a large large cask to to pour into a really big barrel to pour into the smaller barrels that has like a big tap on the front. It's a slightly reddish hue. Natural 20, let's go.
01:19:58
Speaker
ah Okay. Is that your third? Yeah, I was going to say that's your third one at night. I'm exhausted. So you got a minus two off it. That's still a 21. It was still only a 14 to beat. And you smash him through this barrel um that just explodes with them with the liquid that gushes and pours out. This seems to be a much, it isn't the same glowy thing. It just seems to be like a beer or something because it's foamy and it has that smell of, of the guild of anchor and other pubs that are available in wild hearts.
01:20:28
Speaker
um what you do notice rock that's odd and i'll give you this for free despite rolling that dog shit for um perception is that as it like explodes there's all the wood there's the detritus you'd expect but there's also this weird long almost like um not cape we know them as like cables like long thin bits of wire that definitely wouldn't have been holding the barrel together in any way shape or form it's just weird wire stuff around the outside quite a few times around the outside of this barrel um but he's pushed back massively through this thing taking another point of bludgeoning damage um and is yet collapsed on the floor at aranax's feet pretty much okay actually no aranax imagine you're looking through to the boy looking at the other direction and suddenly you hear this
01:21:13
Speaker
i and then this body just appear next to you on the floor. ah Heavy breathing, still alive, right next to you. at Rock, anything you have got more things to do. I've got my full movement speed, so he is just kind of, imagine like London gangster, full fucking rage, shoulders hunched forwards as he's just kind of muscling towards this person.
01:21:36
Speaker
Did you say he was on the floor? So he's kind of prone? Yeah. okay yeah i mean and you said there was gonna be no no no after that you said there was some sort of wire or something coming out of that box there is yeah yeah rock is going to charge forwards kneel on this person's chest and wrap whatever the fuck that is around his neck and just pull okay um how do we do this i don't know
01:22:05
Speaker
because you've just
01:22:08
Speaker
done something else in the process okay um let's deal with the suffocation let's deal with the the slow death anyway he had one hit point i'm just gonna say that it's successful he's prone he's surrounded And yeah, you you but squeeze the life out of him. It bursts through his throat a little bit and and and he he falls very close to Aranax, dead.
01:22:40
Speaker
you As in this is lethal, non-lethal? 100% lethal. Okay. Lethal.
01:22:48
Speaker
Aranax throws up.
01:22:51
Speaker
Aranax! What you also noticed in your time observing is out of all the barrels in all the space, that one, the slightly red one, was the only slightly red one.
01:23:10
Speaker
What you see as Rock grabs and yanks at this wire and starts moving to strangle him, you see the small... You start to notice that in the brickwork of the wall behind it, the what seems to be the mortar that seems to fill up the lines between it starts to glow almost outwardly um as it' a slight amount almost smoke starts to fizzle out of it as well as it starts to spread and move further and further and further around the space this was actually the reason why he'd moved around you rock was that he was going for this for a kill switch for a a possibility to bury the space and so i turned the page in my notes i genuinely thought oh okay he's dead he's not gonna get to it and then he said and then i'm grabbing the wire and oh okay right now it's happening that was literally the only way of accessing it was to was to yank on that wire so
01:24:11
Speaker
Between a rock and a hard place again, we find ourselves now very much aware and I'll give it to you all because the small wall that it first affects between the two smaller spaces almost instantly crumbles and falls and it's it's stone, it's a stone wall.
01:24:31
Speaker
made with some bits of wood the wood bits light on fire instantly and you see it as it spreads not only down the wall towards the south but also onto the ceiling and towards the north we are now in a position that this space is going to become untenable very very very soon I will regret if I don't just utter in here because you you've brought it to Aranax that he noticed this from the the offset.
01:24:59
Speaker
um And do with this as you will. Aranax would do it anyway. So let's go from that. So as soon as Aranax notices this...
01:25:10
Speaker
He it swirls his hand around his head and pushes forward and as he swirls his hand, the liquid around him, because he sat in it, turns around and follows the direction as he uses shape water, which is a cantrip, and will...
01:25:27
Speaker
Just utterly, he's constantly, he's as soon as the water hits and you hear the tsss, his hand is swirling around again and another chair and then hand swirling around again and he's just constantly pushing this water following where this is going as he's just, and maybe the other barrels as well. As soon as he feels any liquids around him, he's just using it um as he almost becomes encased in this constant dance of water around him.
01:25:52
Speaker
Could you give me an arcana check, please? Okie dokie. The spell works, absolutely. There's no word about that in the number of times. Oh, get the fuck out! It landed on a 19 and it moved to 1.
01:26:05
Speaker
Okay, okay. ah But what I will do is that... No, no, because the spell works either way. It was just for flair and flavor more than anything. What you... in The TLDR of it is you manage to basically...
01:26:19
Speaker
pause off and wall off where the where where these sinews of fire were going the wall stopped collapsing you don't do it particularly gracefully i had an idea i thought you're gonna say natural 20 or 19 it was going to be a beautiful cinematic moment of all the barrels opening water just kind of like shaking now man it's sloppy as it's like like your snot comes out your nose it's just a bit of a mess it's it's not pretty at all and you still got some vomit on your beard as well when you threw up so it's just not it's it it gets the job done though um and what you've managed to do ah that's brilliant i didn't i i didn't know you had shaped water but it makes perfect sense giving you a tide cooler but that is
01:27:03
Speaker
Fucking brilliant. um Yeah, you managed to basically defuse what was in theory going to be a three round entire basement collapse.
01:27:15
Speaker
Stopped. And as the drips ah the last couple of drips of water secede and fall away, there's a moment of silence. As everyone breathes, we fall out of combat. Rifa's echo returns back into her body and she lies quietly on the floor.
01:27:32
Speaker
The three of you stand now in this drenched space, smelling of liqueur and the surge and What would like to do?
01:27:45
Speaker
Aranax turns around. Aranax just turns around to you all and is... Got vomit in his beard, sweat all over him. He's hunched over. His hair is all twisted and matted and knotted as the sweat is kind of poured from that. It's a mixture of vomit after what he's just done and he's taken all his energy and he's just... yeah Is it always like this with you guys
01:28:16
Speaker
I like to think the rock is still over the body of that person, just kind of hands still tensed, pulling apart and kind of ah about two or three seconds go on. He hears what Aranax has just said and he kind of shakes his head, snaps almost out of it, drops the body to the floor and kind of backs away from it.
01:28:42
Speaker
And he's just kind of you just see the the the kind of the the the childlike, doglike quality return in some way to him as his hands kind of tremble a bit and he his eyes are darting around the room, darting around everything that's happened. And he's just sprinting over to where Drift is to put his hands on Drift's neck, where it was slashed.
01:29:07
Speaker
And as you turn him over, as he still sits in a warm pool of partially his own blood, partially that of countless others, you you find you go for the neck, you go for what you know, which is to cover the wound, to make it stop, to stop it, to make it better, which is that kind of natural mortal instinct we all have.
01:29:27
Speaker
And and through the through this slight thin layer of of liquid and and blood, you you just can't find the wound. And as you clear away the rest of his neck, there's there's there's nothing there.
01:29:43
Speaker
Can I kind of feel a pulse or get signs of life from him? Yeah, as you hold him, you see his chest rising and falling quite quickly, as it does with younger people.
01:29:55
Speaker
um But he's alive. Okay. And Rock's kind of on his knees there, I imagine, cradling ah drift kind of onto him or into him. And he's going to look almost with fear at the other people in the room. You say, I am sorry.
01:30:12
Speaker
I don't know what what and what happened. he's He's okay. He's going to be okay. And tears are just going to start streaming down Rock's face. but this Yes, he's going to be fine. I just didn't want him to wake up.
01:30:28
Speaker
I thought it'd be best if he looked like he was dead, but he's perfectly fine. He needs rest and a potion or a word of healing, but he's he's not dead. He's been spared.
01:30:44
Speaker
And with rock still kind of cradling drift, tears streaming down his face, his eyes are gonna dart to reefer. And is she... she did you Did you save her too?
01:30:57
Speaker
Yeah, I think she's okay.
01:31:02
Speaker
ah Yes, um she too is. She's OK. ah More healing was done on on her. And it looks like Falco was doing his bit, too.
01:31:17
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I didn't enjoy it, but but I did it. Yeah, yeah. ah How's drift? He'll be fine. um I would recommend probably carrying him for a spell.
01:31:28
Speaker
And if we could get the fuck out of here as soon as we could, that would be good too. Erin X, we got things to do that are far too important. Look at Drift and I'll i'll walk up to Drift and where Rock is.
01:31:44
Speaker
and And as I get to them, I'll say, and the more important thing, all of our stuff should be here. and I'll keep walking past them and go around the corner to see if I can see anything. Okay, and as you ah as you push past them into the the remainder of the space, um you do notice what looked like, firstly, in you would have seen this earlier on, but in the heat of battle, we wouldn't have talked about it particularly too much.
01:32:06
Speaker
ah It seems to be like a um a small bureau or a desk with a candle that's lit on it and a stack of papers. ah There is a series of shelves with items on it. Behind it is a crate and behind that looks like some kind of strong box or ah kind of a large chest almost hidden away in the corner of the space. What'd you like to do?
01:32:29
Speaker
Yeah, I'll head straight over. um As soon as I get around the corner as well, away from prying eyes, i know they're probably going to follow shortly, but as soon as i get around the corner, Falco would pick up the pace a little bit. like There's something here that he he really wants back yeah and he'll head over to wherever that might be in one of the containers.
01:32:48
Speaker
All right. And um what you do when you head around the corner, head head towards the these items, you do find a number of things in there, some of which um aren't yours. um So i'll I'll read them out to you anyway, Falco, and then I'll pop them in the chat so you can have a copy of it as well.
Unveiling Secrets and Searching for a Hat
01:33:05
Speaker
But you find a shield, a plus one steel shield ah that bears the crest of Tidewatch Keep of one of the Tide-swar vanguard upon it, one of the kind of most police-y forces across Wild Hearts, one of the major armies that take place here.
01:33:22
Speaker
So it's the plus one shield. ah You find 20 arrows, 5 of which though seem to have this strange almost barbed wire quality to the tip of it, plus 1 damage to hit for those 5.
01:33:35
Speaker
You find 3 sets of what seem to be stolen adventuring gear. So climber's kit, a healer's kit and an explorer's pack.
01:33:46
Speaker
You find the tattered remains of a spellbook
01:33:51
Speaker
ah that has Mage Hand, Feather Fall, Shield and Detect Magic in it. Sorry, I've said these very quickly, but I will put these in the ah and the chat for you as well now. um You
01:34:06
Speaker
also find a small leather pouch that has 40 gold pieces in it. Ka-ching. You guys are in the money now. You also find...
01:34:19
Speaker
an item that you recognize you fight it or You smell it before you see it. It's Rock's bag of food. Thank God that thing we've been looking for for so long. You find Rock's bag of food.
01:34:31
Speaker
um But also within there, you also find two more items that you recognize from the surge dive. You see the rapier that Rifa had found and the bronze.
01:34:42
Speaker
I think both of these were Rifa items and the bronze compass that she had gathered as well. Maybe you haven't seen it anyway, they are Rifa items that she found. there as well. I've removed the monetary amount in there because you don't yet know if they're worth anything or did Garrick die for nothing.
01:34:59
Speaker
um
01:35:02
Speaker
that's ah that's That's in that area there. There are a few other things. Is the idea that you're going to just explore and gather stuff that you can from around the space and travel through? so I can just go through the few other things there.
01:35:16
Speaker
If it's just me, I would... I think maybe maybe the gold he would probably keep on his person. Maybe he'd just tie it to his belt or something. But but everything else is like... um ah Jack Sparrow at the end of the first Pirates the Caribbean he's like looking at stuff they're throwing over his shoulder he's only looking for his hat oh amazing so there's just a pile of like shields and arrows on the floor yeah it's clanking bong and he's like throwing things over his shoulder yeah amazing right but anyway we we can we can gather those someone else can gather those items on the way as well um rest of you Aranact Rock what what's the what are you guys up to
01:35:57
Speaker
Aranax would be ah putting his hands in the barrels of liquid to wash out the vomit. in his beard and to pat down his hair that is all crazy from that shit-shaped water natural one.
01:36:14
Speaker
And he's just trying to recompose himself. He makes sure that his eyes, every time it kind of glosses over a dead body or so, he's purposely not looking at it for just un uncomfortable. He's like, he's aware of it's in the room, so he's not going near it.
01:36:32
Speaker
any of them um and busying himself like that okay there are he's not still unconscious but alive by the way so is it just the one that's dead within the room there's two uh one two are dead sorry but took the image off reefer's echo had killed one of them as well uh rock how about yourself
01:36:55
Speaker
ah rock how about yourself Yeah, Rock is he's he's there. um He's shaking a little bit. um Takes several deep breaths, kind of looks around the room, notices the the fucking stupid thing that he almost set off and killed everyone there with.
01:37:17
Speaker
Kind of takes that all in, takes to how it's kind of been, everything's been snoshed around, sees the Vom-covered Aranax, kind of recovering from all the shit that he's done as well. And after a few deep breaths, he calms himself down. you almost see him close his his eyes and and refocuses his mind.
01:37:37
Speaker
um And he is going to pick up drift kind of there, with just kind of within his arms. ah He'll look down at the corpse of the one that he went too hard on, kind of not look at it too much, like look away, almost ashamed, um and say to Aranax, I'm pretty sure that there are two, those ones, and he'll motion to the two that he knocked out.
01:38:06
Speaker
They're not dead. They should just be out of it for a while. So just keep an eye on them.
01:38:19
Speaker
we need to find Falco's hat. And he's going to turn with Drift in his arms and make his way around the corner to where Falco is.
01:38:31
Speaker
Right, you do see all these items being haphazardly thrown out. An arrow almost catches you as it flies over your over Falco's little shoulder um as he piles through it. ah The hat is not there as you continue searching.
01:38:46
Speaker
There is... nothing else there for you to to find. What you do notice, though, as you search along those items, along that fireball, which seems to be where they keep all there or their good bits right at the back of the space, on the ledger, there is... um is ah covered and a note, a letter that's been opened in them and then half pulled out as well.
01:39:10
Speaker
um Upon there, there is yeah kind of stacks of paper and a lit candle. um In the main room, it's just the vats that now many of which have been spilled. um There obviously is the the previous room of the beds in it and the food that we um we kind of passed through quite quickly after making our cheese holes.
01:39:30
Speaker
um And a space to the far end near where Rifa lays unconscious as well. that is like I'll just give you that bit. But the other end is a latrine, it's a toilet. So I'm not going to make you walk all the way and go, what is it? It's a toilet and there's nothing there.
01:39:42
Speaker
So there's nothing there and it's a toilet. There you go. Save that bit. I know I can't even let me reveal it. No, what the fuck is it doing? There you go. Okay, there you go. Toilet, there you go.
01:39:54
Speaker
So anything else want we want to do while we're down here? I'm just going to leave it out to all of you.
01:40:00
Speaker
um Does one of the packs, one of the adventuring packs, look like it's like it belonged to Rock?
01:40:08
Speaker
Which pack did you have? I'm pretty sure that, well, from kind of his his starting equipment, he would have had yeah ah like some adventuring gear in there um as well. So if there's a pack that looks like it's been kind of looted from him,
01:40:22
Speaker
he'll kind of yeah taking the explorers pack yeah it was probably yeah yeah there's some like some rope and basic things like that so if he notices that he'll he'll re-equip that he'll re-equip the trepidation as well and being reunited with his food bag as well his eyes will go wide uh and he'll just say tref look it's there it's all there like motioning Drift's unconscious head towards it.
01:40:53
Speaker
ah Weekend of Bernies. Are hungry, Drift? No, he's not going to go down. I'm thinking more like Woody in Toy Story where pretends that Buzz is fine and has the hand. Oh, look, we're fine with our buddy, see? I wouldn't put it past him.
01:41:11
Speaker
no ah but yeah he's definitely taking that back as well so he's loading himself up on shit that was his um definitely okay um you do also notice falco on your journey through and piling stuff out um a note that has been with a dagger stabbed into the wall ah really close to where our our mate was almost pushed against it my firewall nearby this um near to this what i call a bureau this desk almost if you will it seems to be quite a short letter written um in quite a cursive right i use cursive a lot for most of these but it's quite f affluent writing very big and swirly writing um that seems to be written as a warning to the people down here um it just reads to the veils root quartermaster
01:42:09
Speaker
The items taken from the dive site must be relocated to the temple beneath the wave within two days. Travel light, travel quiet. It's two hours south by the ridge road, and there's been word of scavenger crews moving too close to comfort.
01:42:25
Speaker
If we lose what's stored there, we lose the only leverage we've got to barter on the southern route. Get the crates out before the moon sets. The tides are turning.
01:42:39
Speaker
There's no name beneath it.
01:42:42
Speaker
Sorry, I said it was a warning. It wasn't a warning. That was the other one. I'll read it anyway because I've given away that it's a warning. It just says, Carrick and the Skystring crew, you were warned to keep your heads down. I've heard noises of laughter, of light leaking through your trap door when it should be shut tight.
01:42:55
Speaker
You think the eyes of Storm Spire don't see the rats? I trained you better than that. keep it this keep the still running but start cutting it with the salt reed again it sells better to the outer fields i want the debt ledger scrubbed by first frost if i hear you've taken one more pouch of a priest or a squire i'll collect it myself no one steals from veils root not even veils root and then below that is a name dias or d i a s
01:43:25
Speaker
that was the warning sorry i got them muddled up
01:43:31
Speaker
Aside from that, I mean, there's fucking brewery equipment you could you could smuggle out if you wanted. Barrels of ale, um... there's a series of bit of food in the other room if you wanted to nick some of their bread and um and uh some of their other fruits they've got in the other room but as you kind of i've kind of pushed you through scouring the room even though i know you weren't going to but i'm going to because it's plot points um yeah you scour through the room most of the stuff the kind of the big equipment in the room you're currently in has kind of been destroyed by the thunder strikes by the kicks by the combat um or ruined by the liquid um
01:44:10
Speaker
yeah so we find ourselves after kind of searching through that space that's what we found there um we've still got two individuals who are dead but not dead and as you enter back into the space you see reefer's eyes start to flicker open but she doesn't really seem to say anything anything else you lot want to do
01:44:36
Speaker
now has anyone read that note who found it and Um, well, I think I pushed one of them on Falco, and but the other one, Aranax could have been yourself about the warning one about keeping it quiet. Don't steal from if I hear you, are you stole it from anyone again. Okay.
01:44:54
Speaker
okay Um, I'll pop them in the chat as well. as you're going to a copy of them. Thank you. Cause Aranax would take note of the one that valk Falco said, um,
01:45:08
Speaker
because it started to mention
01:45:12
Speaker
places um so he's he's he's just trying to work out in his mind map of wild heart where all of this is taking place um he's not going to say anything he's just that's what's going through his mind he's he's not here because he was after these treasures so unless someone is telling him what there is he's kind of just in the other room not looking at dead bodies absolutely not absolutely okay um sorry uh rock anything from yourself yeah rock rocks there standing with um drifting his arms uh the venturing pack on one side his food draped over the other shoulder pretty kind of laden like a mule in some ways and he's looking around the room as well and he'll say hey falco
01:46:03
Speaker
Do they have the... mask that you had here? Or the cape I brought up?
01:46:11
Speaker
No, they got nothing here, Rock. that It's just a load of shit from other people.
01:46:20
Speaker
I thought they'd have all our stuff here from Garak, you know? Yeah, I thought we'd evident there was we all be on these shelves here. That's why we put up such a big fight, but there's nothing here. There's a crappy shield and a couple of bags.
01:46:32
Speaker
Arrows? No one even has a bow and arrow in our party. um Actually, actually i could do if there's arrows, I could do with them. oh Oh, yeah. yeah Here you go. I mean, it's it's been pretty futile, but it's the only weapon I've got.
01:46:49
Speaker
Oh, I thought that was... i i didn't know it was a bow. It's a short, but yeah yeah I will take the arrows. Okay, ah I'll chuck him the quiver of barbed arrows. Thank you.
01:47:01
Speaker
So just a reminder, it's five of them are barbed, which is a plus one, and the rest, the other 15, are regular arrows for all intents and purposes. The barbed ones are irretrievable, so once they're If they hit someone squishy, you pull it out, it breaks.
01:47:18
Speaker
So the others, you could rerie re-retrieve them if you wanted within reason, but the barbed ones are kind of one use only, Juppies, because it's a plus Cool. Many thanks.
01:47:28
Speaker
Where's your hat, Falco? it It's not here. It's not here. There's other stuff that we got that is that was taken from us that isn't here either. And he's getting like really irate now, pacing back and forth.
01:47:44
Speaker
But now what? Um... Uh... Right, well, we gotta to get the kid outta here. Um... Uh, excuse me, I... You're still looking for your items, yes?
01:47:58
Speaker
Yeah. But the letter you read out tells you where your items are. That's right. It's a clue. And I'll rip it off the wall. Yes, but not so much a clue as a specific instruction.
01:48:14
Speaker
There could be a riddle or some kind of map coordinates hidden in this piece of text, Rock. Falco, I'm tired. I don't know if I can do riddles right now.
01:48:26
Speaker
All right, well, we can sleep on it. I got an idea. i um I'll walk over and I will pick up the the rapier that was that I would have tossed over my shoulder. having sheathed my own um and with ah with a real mean face on I'll walk over to the closest unconscious Veil guard.
01:48:48
Speaker
Okay. um And I'd like to try and wake him up at point, at blade point. Alright, yep, you managed to you managed to stir one of them. He's kind of through a bleary eye looking looking back up at you.
01:49:02
Speaker
So with like point on the base of his throat um and holding up the the letter as if he knows everything about it, i'll I'll fix him with my meanest stare and I will say to him,
01:49:17
Speaker
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have is a very particular set of skills. Skills that would make me a nightmare for people like you.
01:49:30
Speaker
fuck say Now, if you give my hat back, that'll be the end of it. I won't hurt you. I won't kill you. But if you don't tell me where my hat is, I will hurt you.
01:49:43
Speaker
I will torture you. And then I will kill you.
01:49:59
Speaker
In wild heartland where legends grow Tidal surges rise and flow Golden treasures deep below Time to get moist, here we go