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Animal Kingdom Ep. 32 - Kiryu
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We catch up with Goro in the different plain of existence. While Hava, PJ, Silas and Avalon are confronted by a new enemy. Lets hope its not too much for them.
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Introduction to a Mythical Kingdom
00:00:03
Speaker
Our story begins in a far and distant land, a place ruled by houses of sentient animals and mythical creatures, an environment that is forever tipping the scales towards controversy and conflict. Grave danger lies hidden in every tavern, forest, and stranger's glance. In this kingdom, we will follow a deviant group of adventurers, brought together by chance, or perhaps by fate.
Setting the Stage for Adventure
00:00:31
Speaker
This ragtag group of a tortle, a tabaxi, an otter and a hound will travel across this great kingdom, fighting their way through the unknown and weaving a powerful destiny. This is Rolling Across the Pond.
A Pie-filled Bonding Moment
00:01:05
Speaker
Hey everyone, welcome back to Early Crafts of the Pond, Animal Kingdom. I did it! I remember. I'm your GM, Jesse, and I like pie. I'm doing it. What kind of pie? Just any pie? I mean, if you want to go proper with my favourite pie, lemon meringue. Oh, lemon meringue.
00:01:30
Speaker
What about a good pork pie? With the fluffy foam, not necessarily the heart. I don't, I'm not a huge fan of the heart. It's got to be freshly cooked as well, like still warm. Yeah, oh yeah. But anyways, this intro's gone on long enough. Pie flavor! Steak canal. That's just really cool. Indeed.
00:01:56
Speaker
I feel like this is one of those things as well, when you say pie, it's interesting what people think of. I also think of the Spiderman 2, where they give pie to... I can't even remember his name. Spiderman 2 or Amazing Spiderman?
00:02:25
Speaker
It's better not to. It's like Teddy Maguire. Teddy Maguire. And then his friend is in the cafe and the waitress comes up to him and says, how's the pie? So good. That's a deep cut. Why that one lie? I don't know, but my sister quoted all the time.
00:02:51
Speaker
So yeah, but it is really interesting to hear about pie from an English perspective as well, because pie means so much more to us, like chicken and gravy, steak and ale. You know, there's so many options. It's still a sweet pie. I don't really like meat pies. Yeah.
Character Introductions and Preferences
00:03:10
Speaker
Yeah, Apple. Yeah, hi, I'm Sam. And I play Avalon, plain feather, who is your amazing, wonderful warlock. I mean, wizard, he's definitely a wizard. Not a warlock, he is a wizard. And also, I like pie, but yeah, because we were talking about pie. Apple pie is good, but if I'm honest, I'm so much more of a re-bob crumble guy. Oh, re-bob? Like, re-bob crumble with custard. No, see, like, honey? Or custard and ice cream.
00:03:38
Speaker
Like an apple crumble? I need more crumble than apple. I don't. I'm not a fan of the tartness. I just... I'm the opposite because there's like too much dryness. I'm Luke. I'm playing stylist and my favorite pie is pumpkin. Pumpkin! I had pumpkin pie like the first time a few years ago. It's delicious. It's so good. Pumpkin pie is so good.
00:04:03
Speaker
Yeah, we don't really do. We're still talking about pie? I love it. Yeah. I just have to put this in the fridge. Well, we've all said what our favourite pie was as well, so that's why. So now it's your turn, Davida. Oh, goodness, okay. I think I'm a pretty big fan of like... No, no, introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Davida, and my favourite pie is Boysenberry Pie.
00:04:29
Speaker
Ooh, it's who you play! That's the last very kind of thing. I play half of us. Well, half of favourite pie is actually cherry pie. Okay. What? I don't know, I just made it up right there. The Avalon's favourite pie would definitely be fish pie. Yeah, I can see that. But then, you know, I love a good fish pie as well, so. Readers are fruitarian, so a good kind of favourite, but I'll be willing to try. Yeah, I've turned too many NPCs to think about that.
00:04:59
Speaker
What is Caesar's favorite pie? That's the question that everyone wants to know. Caesar's favorite pie. That's probably one of those ones you can't see unless you take a bite out of it. He's so lean he doesn't have pie. Caesar's favorite pie is probably apple.
00:05:20
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Oh, sorry, yes. Hi, I'm Lee. Sorry for joining abruptly, but I was running late due to a work hilarious shindig. I'm Goro. I've been currently sent to quote a very popular anime to the shadow realm from the sounds of it. So let's see, or the mirror dimension. I don't know. Let's see where Goro is. But he doesn't hold any grudges towards Haver at all. And that's not coming off Sarsi or anything. It is literally, he does not hold it against her.
00:05:47
Speaker
So, let's do a recap, everyone. Does anybody remember what happened? Recap? I said I'd like to rebub pie. No, on last week's episode. Okay, do you want me to give it a shot, Luke, or do you want to go? You can. You heard the reader. Okay. It was really evil.
00:06:05
Speaker
We enter into the pyramid and Hava is talking to a disembodied boy. She turns around and realizes the giant dragon and it has, it smells really horrible because it's actually a mummy or something like that. Meanwhile, outside, um,
00:06:23
Speaker
Caesar and Avalon are in the midst of trying to get into the pyramid, and they face a horde of zombies, yeah, a horde of zombies, aided by handbags and with the Whiffler. And then another beaver, werebeaver badger.
00:06:46
Speaker
that we may have encountered before. And they managed to defeat the zombies and make it inside the pyramid only to find a giant dragon mummy. And then Hava tries to trick the dragon into accepting marble, but then trips and throws it instead.
00:07:13
Speaker
Well, it's not exactly how it was played. That still happens to have a mouse with a wizard in it, on it, and in it, and it pops out and says, hi, how did I get here? This dragon I trapped ages ago. And before that happens,
00:07:34
Speaker
Reader's brother shows up, and Haba's like, hey, how'd you get here, Reader? And he's like, I'm not Reader, I'm writer. And yes, I'm going to carry on from that. So to correct a few things, the dragon appears, plays with Haba.
00:07:50
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and tempts her to throw a marble which she is 100% hesitant because of her blunder from the last time but gives in drops the marble as she knows it would take effect and the wizard mouse V as we all call him and
Goro's Combat Trials
00:08:09
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how he goes by now comes about and gives you a little bit of a lore session of what's going on the dragon
00:08:18
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is afraid of him backs away, you obviously have a writer. Writer? Why? Writer. Why a deer? Yeah. Writer. Writer. Like, read deer. Yeah. Appeared. And then in that
00:08:38
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V, as you were leaving, exposed writer to being Silas, his younger brother, who he captured along with John, who was kind of the counterpart of V. And you leave. Oh, also. That's the mouse that we saw in the very, very, very, very first episode. John is, yes. John.
00:09:01
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And Jackson has gone off to look for another entrance or exit to the pyramid and you left without him. Whether that happened, whatever that changes, but we know we're not sure what where we're going to take place. Now what is going to happen now is we're going to jump straight in to
00:09:22
Speaker
our parallel universe, our out of this world event, and we are going to do quick combats between Goro, half a snake, and the skeleton.
00:09:35
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because I'm being held by the skeleton. The skeleton and me were encoiled in this tale when we got Black Hole. That's why I asked Jess at the end of like, not last episode, but the episode before where I was like, is that thing still with me? That's amazing. It's so good, it's so good. Right, so let me just pull up a few things.
00:09:58
Speaker
Also, I love how in our last combat, as soon as V shows up, combat stops completely and somehow they don't attack us and we just leave peacefully. Well, they already stopped attacking, so they were already at attention ready to attack, but the dragon wanted to play with his food before he ate it. I'm still okay, because I still have a point of inspiration, guys, as well. Sure. I can inspire our DM not to kill me.
00:10:25
Speaker
you did do what was it like 40 damage that was the first hit yeah the fire on it and it was pretty rough yeah and then i couldn't dodge a coil when then it didn't even cut the skeleton no it was good times good time so uh roll initiative let's do that let's just go into it we're gonna do a separate initiative for you guys that's not bad it could have been better okay let me know what it is oh that is not a good one
00:10:54
Speaker
Okay, I unfortunately got 14 and I'll let you know this because I rolled a 2, I then have a plus 7 for my initiative and then I get an additional plus 5 because of who I am now. So 2 was pretty awful. Let's get these bad rolls out of the way, guys. Because I need to live.
00:11:21
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So the skeleton's going first. And he's going to first try and get out of the snake's grip. I'm intrigued to see what his strength is, bro. Well, we'll see right now. Please get out. It'll be so funny. The skeleton tries to get out and he kind of squeezes halfway and then he pops in half.
00:11:49
Speaker
Yeah, that's a nat one, isn't it? That's a nat one, roll. You roll that over the leg. Oh, gosh. Jeez Louise. I was looking forward to hanging out with Barry. Like, honestly. Then it is your turn, Goro. Here we go. Can he go? Yeah, that's a pretty good number. Yeah, that's 22. Yeah, you're... You push your way out. How do you do it? How do you get out of this?
00:12:15
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I think when Barry goes, I'm gonna call him Barry. Barry Bones, I was gonna call him. He was gonna be my friend. When he pushes, I push, but I just literally pop up and then because of the sheer force I did it, I accidentally kill him. Okay, I like that. That was cool. And I was literally turning around to grab his hand and nope, just exploded in my face. Poor guy. I like it. And now it's the snake's terror. I'm really happy with this. Not in that one.
00:12:45
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Nothing at once. I'll take that. I'll take that every day of the week. I promise it's not your dice. Okay. So, so you pop open and the snake kind of uncoils and it goes for a tail whip, but it overshoots and it brings itself back and smacks itself inside itself. And it really irritates it. How's that feeling? There's only half a snake.
00:13:14
Speaker
I was going to say, he's only half a snake. So my question is, with seeing that, so you just said he hit himself. Yeah. Was it? No, it's kind of sound we're hitting the video game reference. You know how like in the House of the Dead, where you go to a boss mode and it says, if you hit this area, this is the weak point. Can I do an initiative like that to find a weak point? Because it's half a snake. You can do an insight. I need it. Could I do that if that's all right?
00:13:38
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Watch Goro now just be like, fight big food. Yeah, he's gonna do big food. Insight. That's just gonna be in 11. Yeah, you don't know. Yeah, I just look at it. I'm just like, yeah, I have no idea. Okay. So, what are you gonna do? Right, okay. So, quick question. When I got transported, I still have my torch. Do I still have my torch?
00:14:03
Speaker
Right. I'll do what I said just briefly. I'll take one action to attack and then my other action because I can't. I'll spend a deep point to do two more attacks. Technically, I'll do three attacks. One normal, and then the other one will be just obviously fury of low. So that gives me a little bit better. So here we go. First attack.
00:14:26
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Is it 19? Yes. It's going to be 12 damage. For all three? Just for one.
00:14:40
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Oh, I would do all three first. Oh, do you want to do all three? Okay, sorry. So, five for first. Next one. That's going to be a 12 to hit. Yeah, it misses. That misses. So, then the last one. Yeah, that's also probably going to miss. That's a nine. Miss. Yeah, so just 12 damage. Sure. Okay. Sure, sure. You know, come on. Yeah, it's just a casual 12. I can't believe where he is right now. Right. And so you...
00:15:10
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Give it a good punch. Oh, right. I forgot about that. Oh, that doesn't sound good listeners. So they're going to go again. Big tail.
00:15:24
Speaker
Oh, but that's 16? I'm okay. Armor class is 17. Oh, man. Okay. For now. Doesn't matter if he's dead. Okay. So he has multi-attack. Of course he does. So good. I love that. We're going to go again. 17. So that misses still. Oh, misses because it equals. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
00:15:53
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like so this tale is kind of like just spasming and it just keeps trying to lunge for you and just off your shell off the chest like it's just not getting through anything and uh it's your turn
00:16:06
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Okay, can I do an Insight to see if there's anything? Yeah, go for it. Yeah, Gora gets the same role again. He's still like, perplexed. Yeah, you're like, where am I? I gotta tell you, I need to... If I survive, Insight is the next thing that I need to do. Right, we'll do it all again, so we'll see. Same amount of attacks. That's a miss, that's just a 9. Okay. Is it 12? Miss. Come on.
00:16:37
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16. Uh, miss. Gosh, this guy. You have 17. Yeah, yeah, but he's a, he's a... I've had six attacks, guys, and I've hit with one. This is not good. Come on, let's go. Then the tail is gonna come back at you. Okay. A 20, not a natural. That hits. Yeah, that hits. So the tail finally just goes and lunges for one of your arms, and...
00:17:11
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get my calculator. 21 damage? What the absolute balls Jess. Oh it's uh oh no. You're saying just 21 right? Yeah just 21 damage. Okay I'm still okay. And then you have to make a strength save.
00:17:29
Speaker
Okay, Goro's best stat. Oh, mate. Yeah, that's a 22. Yeah, so you don't go prone. Oh yeah, that would suck. I don't know if I could be taken by him. And then another 20. Yeah, that is. Okay. 16 damage. Okay. And it's your go. Oh wait, and roll a strength save, sorry.
00:17:59
Speaker
So just to add fuel to the fire guys, Nat 1. So overall that's going to be really... Oh inspiration! Inspiration, thank you! Holy shit, you're good. Inspiration. Yeah, we're good. Okay, that's going to be an 18. Holy cow, that was bad. Okay. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
00:18:18
Speaker
from afar you just heard half his voice in the back of your mind i didn't know she had the message transfer i wish i just had like instant transmission uh so you're not prone and it's your go it's my go yeah okay we're gonna do the insight thing again yeah go after it yeah that's a little bit better 17 17 i mean
00:18:49
Speaker
problem. You know what I'm gonna hold for that.
00:18:52
Speaker
I would say you, you would know, um, it being half a snake, obviously it's probably half the hell. Now, obviously you don't know the full health, but it's a massive snake and you, I don't know if you were there for that conversation, but basically the snake was supposed to go after the dragon. So the fact that the dragon took half of it apart,
00:19:19
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But it's a dragon. Yeah. In a way, the obvious areas to hit are probably the inside of it, but it's still muscular. It's still... But the thing is, you can't see me, can you? No. It has a sense about things, but it can't see.
00:19:42
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I'm going to get the swamp out of there because I can dash miles away but then my theory is I'll then have a roaming random snake trying to find me.
00:19:53
Speaker
What are the listeners yelling at right now? Are they saying like, don't run away? Did they say, die fighting? Like, what exactly? Sugar Honey Ice Team. Okay, so if I did a dash, quick question. Is that double my walking speed? Yes, it does. Okay. But that's your turn. Oh yeah, I might use a key point to do something insane. Oh, key points are bonus action.
00:20:22
Speaker
No, I can just spend a key point at any point during my turn. And this is what it is. It's called step of the wind. You can spend one key point to take, to disengage or do a dash action as a bonus action on your turn. And you jump the distance doubled. So I can just jump 90 foot away, like the incredible hook. So you're going to do in a way to dash action? Like it basically, well, it basically allows me to disengage and then jump away. Yeah. Yeah. Do what you need.
00:20:49
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got three key points left because I can't bloody meditate up there. Yeah, I think disengage means like don't fight it. And then I just run. I think that's the best bet. Let's do that.
00:20:59
Speaker
That's it, Goro, Goro's like gonna try and live guys. Sorry. I know you want him to like disembowel something, but like this thing's just in one hit, halved my health points and then another hit, halved it again. So I think if I take another hit, I'm done. So I can't really take another hit. Yeah. That, that big, that big first hit really hurt me. So yeah, I'll spend two key points to do that craziness. So I've got one remaining. Okay. And then in that you just, from let's say role perception.
00:21:26
Speaker
while you're, while you're taking off. Oh, inception. Right. Or did you say insights? No, no, perception, perception, perception. Okay. My perception now be 21. You see this snake just burrow like all of a sudden you go up, it goes down. Fudge off.
00:21:47
Speaker
Tremors. Wicked. Awesome. Well, I'm just going to do the coolest thing ever and got a head start on it. So let's just keep dashing going 90 feet. I don't think it can keep up with me. Just keep going.
00:22:02
Speaker
it's not well actually hmm here we go this is rose like well actually it's half the snake so you've got to have half the movement just no it grows 30 feet all right i hope it's 30 feet okay i'm not bothered by that yeah so it's you want it faster obviously 100 i'm just running
00:22:18
Speaker
So, with that occurring, I will, did Sam freeze originally? No, he didn't freeze, that was so weird.
Moral Dilemmas in Combat
00:22:28
Speaker
He's just like a statue mate, he's loving life. I wanted to comment on that for like the past five minutes is that Sam is like, we are screwed. So, what we're gonna do is we're gonna pause there for Goro.
00:23:17
Speaker
And we're going to go back to you guys. You guys are leaving the pyramid. Now I have a question. What are you doing? Are you going back to King Alarox's territory? Are you going to find Celeste? Are you doing both? What is the idea? What is the plan? Where are you going? I guess I do an insight as far as if going back to the camp would be a smart move on my part.
00:23:46
Speaker
Sure, but so what we'll say is you are still on that walk as of right now. While you're making that insight where you are walking out of the pyramid. Yeah. Okay. Cause I kind of don't want to go back if they're just going to put us in this. Sure. Sure. Roll inside. Anybody else want to do anything else? I just want to say before the hours up, I want to put the necklace back on. Okay. Sure. Sure. I just want to be trying to chat with the,
00:24:14
Speaker
as much as possible and learn from this wizard the mouse and see what I can improve myself on. But you're not a wizard. Yes I am. I'm a wizard.
00:24:27
Speaker
Great. Yeah, I mean if you want to kind of get things done, probably not the best place to go is back. And although it's like a 50-50, it's like going back would probably solve a few things because you'd probably be confronted and you can deal with that and kind of get past it and carry on and maybe King Elrass can take care of a few things when he arrives.
00:24:52
Speaker
Otherwise, going out and getting supplies and getting the pyramid taken care of is also important. But going back to King Alaros' area, the territory is not the best option to do that. If you want to do it as quickly as you can. Yeah, I mean, you could also do 50, like split the party and do that. If I did go back to the campus, is this inside enough to
00:25:18
Speaker
Uh, figure out what, what, what, what the best approach would be to win back for people. No, not necessarily. Cause it's not what you're looking into right now. You'd have to roll again. We do have Mr. Gus and he's pretty friendly to us, right? So maybe we could head to his place. Yeah. Yeah. The, the, the store. Yeah. Well, while, while we're figuring that out, what Avalon, what, what are you thinking?
00:25:45
Speaker
So Avonon would basically be asking V questions like, so V, how, how do you cast spells? He's like, he's like trying to stay close to Silas at the same exact time. He's like, but he's like, that's a beautiful question. I,
00:26:03
Speaker
I've never thought of that. How do I cast spells? Fascinating. Right. Do you have any advice for buzzing wizards like myself? Well, okay, Avalon, we know you're not a wizard. That's obvious. I mean, I saw the glow. I see the roots actually growing from your chest, like into your chest right now. It's very obvious. Okay. Well, okay. Do you have any
00:26:30
Speaker
Any advice for a wizard in disguise as myself? Oh, a wizard in disguise. He looks at Silas. Oh, Silas, sorry. And he's like, Silas, this bird is fascinating. A wizard in disguise. I will get back to you. I promised that Avalon. I will get back to you. OK. OK. Then with that Avalon, we'll just change the color of his feathers to purple. Nice. Cool. What's going through Silas's head right now?
00:26:59
Speaker
Uh, a few different things of like trying to help Ava be like, okay, so what is, what is it that you would like to do? Where would you like to go? Cause like wherever we go, I'm fine with it. It's definitely being like, we can help him. Right. Ava one, we have the tools. To help Ava one or to help Goro? Ava one. Oh, sorry. I was thinking about Goro. Kind of trying to be like, so that if he, if he's just like, no, I just don't want to help him bro. Um, doesn't have to.
00:27:28
Speaker
What are we trying to help Avalon with? I'm sorry. Becoming a wizard. Yeah, to be pretending to be a wizard. The wizards are not usually the best people, so why do you want to be a wizard? Oh, you heard that. He said he did a hush-hush just between brothers. Actually, you have perception with advantage, though. Wherever you'd like to go, I would like to meet just the last. That would be interesting, but I would also like to meet
00:27:57
Speaker
So wherever you'd like to go. Oh, anyway, I can help. We can. It's just, it's just about, uh, I, I'm, I don't even know when I am. So, uh, I have tried to ask that so many times as well. The gods don't want to answer my question. I've asked so many times. Well, we'll figure it out. I want everyone to roll perception. 18.
00:28:24
Speaker
18. Nice. I would roll for everyone else. Natural one for Susan. That's not good. Okay. He's hanging fun. Okay. Yes. What'd you get, Avalon? 15. 15. 14.
00:28:48
Speaker
So you guys, Clara and Skinny, see four guards. Like this? No, no, no, no. Along the sand. Because you were still walking to decide where to go. Oh, I think we decided to work where to go. Sure. As you were walking, you decided to go there. Okay.
00:29:11
Speaker
So, do these gods look menacing? Do they look friendly? So, these gods have golden kingdom garbs on them. Obviously, they don't wear armor to their monks. And there's one that isn't even wearing a guard, but has a tattoo for the golden kingdom. And he's got a massive shell on his back. And... Yeah, of course.
00:29:38
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I didn't see that coming. And how else can I describe your father Lee or Goro?
00:30:08
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You know how like Urby one had like a like a weird robe but it was like kind of torn but it was like kind of looking like thing it's kind of got like that so he can cover himself up like that but it's like the royal flag as well so it's just like royal robes of like the king's guard like it literally is badass like
00:30:27
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he was supposed to change it but he keeps it as a reminder of all the fights that he's either won or all but lost but yeah he's a badass don't don't don't get punched by those gauntlets just now update for now this moment you do see scars on him you see you know not a broken man but a like a bruised up man insight
00:30:51
Speaker
Hey, go for it. I mean, you are.
Unveiling Kiryu's Past
00:30:54
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, obviously, how about you know who this is? I know who it is, but I want to get some insight on how to approach him, like, whether or not. He's standing at a tension. He is ready. Like, I want to see what happened to him and kind of, like, what his, like, yeah. Roll insight. When did you get Avalon? Not a natural 20. 14. The 14, you can tell he's
00:31:18
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been in a war. With a 14 you can know that you can deduce that he's there for Goro. Oh no, I didn't say that. I said he's there for Goro. I didn't say.
00:31:50
Speaker
With a non-natural 20, you Avalon, you can feel hostility on this guy's face, on his eyes, on his mannerism. But he's looking for someone, for something.
00:32:12
Speaker
and he does not look friendly. He does not look friendly. So the logical thing to do is I take off and start flying and Eldritch Blast. I can't see it. Where are you going, Avalon? As in I'm just flying above the ground and Eldritch Blast. She's trapped. No! Stop! Avalon! He's gone. He said he did roll an attack. Stop! Avalon!
00:32:41
Speaker
Well that's a natural one. So what you, what everyone else sees, like you don't see anyone else around. It's just the four of them and you guys. And you see Apple and shoot to the sky.
00:33:03
Speaker
And a blast of energy come from him. And these monks stand firm, stand strong. They do not hesitate. They look up and this energy blast just shoots right in between them. Nothing, no problem. And Avalon, what happened to you? Well, I shall. Yeah, this is how we say hi. And you take six damage out.
00:33:33
Speaker
Well, as I cast it, I completely forgot about the medallion, which, you know, flew up and hit me in the eye. Like that, that's good, that's very funny. Then, you roll initiative. Look, go! Albalo, look back! We're not getting in a battle right now! Can I negotiate it? No, initiative.
00:33:55
Speaker
No, I couldn't get any power right now. Okay, so I think we're gonna have three more episodes. I told you not to underestimate us. You just really wanted to fight them, didn't you, Avalon? Why couldn't you have waited for the peace talks? I've been talking about this. I didn't look very peaceful. You're not my friend anymore.
00:34:31
Speaker
What's your dad's name, Goro? So let's go full fricking circle with this. So obviously I am Goro. My dad's name is Kiryu. Oh my goodness. Okay. We're going full circle. I just wanted to get the gazoo so I could heal up. I can still, you can still- Caesar is so out of the picture right now. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying. You literally have no healers, do you? I don't know. Y'all need to heal up.
00:35:00
Speaker
I think the only one who's not heard is PJ. Yeah. Maybe Clara and Skinny. I don't know. Geez Louise. Yeah, I don't think they fought. Yeah. Tell me what you rolled. Oh, you mean for the initiative that's not actually happening? You sure? I don't want to roll. I've been rolling really bad initiatives. Yeah, really bad. Really? What did you roll? Six. Six.
00:35:29
Speaker
What did you get in total? Six? Six in total, yeah. Okay. And we have a plus one on the initiative. Yeah. Wait, do I have advantage on initiative? Hold up. You tell me. Where did my right advantage on initiative? Where did that come from? What did you get? I got 16. 16. And Silas? I got it. 28 for insight, but I'll ask about that later.
00:35:59
Speaker
12 for initiative. Oh, we're initiative 20. I just wanted to point out that I did get 28 for insight. For insight. But no, we can move on to... That's insane. That's fine. The casual 28, Luke. Casual. 28 for insight. Casual 28, yeah. I was looking specifically for like, what's this guy's feel? Why, why is he the guy in charge? So if you're looking at that specifically with a 28,
00:36:27
Speaker
I don't know if I know history about how well you didn't roll for that. You roll for insight, but that's the kind of thing I'm trying to figure out. So insight wise, this guy does not look like a good dude. Oh, okay. I do have advantage, but okay. Great. There you go. But you, you see the bold and kingdom colors. You see the bold and kingdom guards and you recognize those as King L Ross's first colors.
00:36:57
Speaker
Well, I've been around so long and he hasn't been in this position. I'm just trying to figure out when that changed. Yeah. Let me to roll. Roll history. Roll history. With advantage, if I have 28. Sure. 19.
00:37:13
Speaker
from the time from when you escaped till now even when you were with king alras what you know i'll tell you the biggest hiccup of what's to come the reason he has been put in this place the reason is because your brother john and
00:37:40
Speaker
You, you remember this conversation, you remember this conversation with King Alras. You needed a defense against these wizards. You needed protection. And then this tortle came about into your land and he was trained, beaten, destroyed.
00:38:01
Speaker
broken to becoming a basically a wizard, a magic destroyer. He knows pressure points to stop vocal spells. He knows immobilizing to stop physical spells. He knows anything and everything to stop magic from being used. And again, he was just a boy.
00:38:26
Speaker
when that was happening. Fast forward, the day of forget happened. And in that day of forget, you remember King's Derren learning about him. And he had him train other monks to do a special unit of other monks to do it. Now, they don't know as much as him, but they know that they are basically magic destroyers.
00:38:51
Speaker
And you know that they basically had to break him as a human being, as a humanoid to do this. So in a way, you know that the devotion is there to the kingdom as well because of that. And from that insight, I know he is working under Alvos.
00:39:14
Speaker
No, no, no, no. You know he's working for the kingdom. It wasn't necessarily to a king. It was to the kingdom. It was to protect the kingdom. It was to protect the essence of the kingdom. It was to protect, and then whatever that formed into, that is what he protects. He's not a robot, but that is what has been drilled into him before with King Alros, and probably repeated with King Deryn.
00:39:44
Speaker
So that's what you get from that. 19. Imagine if you rolled a natural 20. 12 for initiative. Right. So from the top of the initiative board. Oh, that's funny. I'm going to talk to myself for a moment. So, uh, Caesar goes, I'll might, uh, I think, I don't know. I think I need, I can heal myself up and I can get going, but I don't know what, what, what.
00:40:13
Speaker
What do we do? And then V says, oh, don't worry. I'm sure we can reason with these fellows that they seem to have King Elrass' colors. So we should not have to worry. And he's like, oh, mate, but this is not King Elrass' kingdom anymore. This was my father. Your father's? Really? When did that happen? And then they go on this back and forth. Basically, they're trying to figure out who goes first because they both rolled a 19.
00:40:43
Speaker
And so then Caesar's like, you know, I'm just gonna heal myself and then you can carry on with whatever your plan be, okay? He's like, okay, thank you very much sir. By the way, you look stunning. He's like, oh, thanks. And so Caesar takes the moment to do healing touch on himself. He gains back hit points. His hit points was down to two.
00:41:12
Speaker
and V is gonna go and he's like uh well no he looks very angry i can talk to him if you would like talking we should try and talk peacefully i don't know if we could dissuade him from not fighting but yeah yeah i don't fight uh i can yeah i don't i don't really want to fight this guy either right now so let's talk i can get out of here if you'd like otherwise are you able to get us all out of here not everyone maybe five
00:41:41
Speaker
I'm just going to start counting. This is me. This is Finney and Farah and then PJ and Avalon. I think it's six. Oh, Silas. Writer and Silas. Wait, how many do you count? Do you count them more than one? I'm included in the five. And then you.
00:42:08
Speaker
That's seven. Right. Well, I could do two trips. Yeah. Or we just take four of his strongest men and him and teleport them away. But we don't like them. That is a joke. Don't do that. Are you sure I can do that? No, no, no, no, no. This whole mess.
00:42:33
Speaker
But V, you take Silas and PJ and yourself and Silas and PJ and then take Avalon because I don't want him in this fight anymore. Does the creatures have to be willing?
00:42:58
Speaker
And then, I don't know, take Cora, maybe. I think they, I mean, it's easier if they, yeah, so. Not have to, I think you have to like roll. Yeah, they have to be willing. Yeah, they have to be willing. Or is it a save or is it just. No, they have to be willing. All right, I guess we can leave. It's an awesome ticket, trying to take Alpena away from the fight. You started the fight in the first place.
00:43:24
Speaker
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00:45:01
Speaker
And he starts trying to pass the spell.
00:45:06
Speaker
Oh, all right. And he starts saying this incantation and then you see these four monks immediately stand at attention, or two monks, three monks stand at attention and
Battle with Tortle Monks
00:45:23
Speaker
Kiryu leaps in the air and immediately just socks him in the throat. That was a reaction to somebody doing magic basically.
00:45:36
Speaker
Yeah. He does 26 damage and you hear V just... And he breaks his larynx or whatever it is, like the vocal cord area. And so he can't finish his incantation.
00:46:06
Speaker
No, no, no, no, no, no. That was not a very nice thing to do. And you hear just, uh, where are you going? We were just trying to, I mean, we were just trying to, um, get to the camp. Uh, we were trying to get to Gus's, the daggers place. Uh, I mean, we were just trying to get away. Hi, my name's Hama. So, I'm assuming you're here to see Goro?
00:46:35
Speaker
Oh, you know Goro. I'm not mistaken. It wasn't a rover. Yeah, he was here a little bit ago. He was. Where is he now? What are you going to do with the Bynum? Probably kill him. Well, why? He's your son. Funsies. That's very, not a nice thing to say. I'm not a nice guy. I would like to negotiate a peace with an art.
00:47:00
Speaker
also with our realms in initiative oh my goodness the next in initiative is cure you no I'd like to negotiate a peace between our realms peace what can I give you to have you are you you are a dog or a fainite I am Hava daughter of King Elrath of the barbarian clan and the
00:47:30
Speaker
Kingdom. He looks at you with his fists still out. He's like, so? What can we do to settle a peace between our realms or clans? Uh, I don't know. You've taken most of this land. So, and he goes for an attack. And he hits with a 23. Oh boy. Oh boy. Goodbye guys. That was my final words.
00:47:58
Speaker
He hits you for 28 damage. He just immediately swings his body. He's like shifting his whole weight into his punch, and that's where he gets you, in the chest. And... Oh, so you're not down. There you go. Well, yeah, now that you're not down, then he's gonna use his key. If you were down, he was gonna stop. Does a 13 hits. Whoa. Okay.
00:48:25
Speaker
Got one more to go. Oh boy. That's 17? Yeah. Wow, he's rolling so bad right now. He's still gonna hit me for more than 11 a day. Oh yeah, 17. Whoa, I'm down! It was a third cry! What was he crying? I have to, you... He's just gonna attack anyway.
00:48:51
Speaker
I just tried to get the first show. I mean, hey, that was fair. Fair. You know, you don't necessarily know how they either. Like, you know, she's her bloodline or whatnot, but you don't know her. Yeah, that's me.
00:49:04
Speaker
He was gonna attack us. I'm like 80% sure. And the next one is Skinny. And she's just gonna stampede. She's just gonna run as fast as her as she can. Oh my, get it? Oh, that's great. Okay, so Skinny is like, no, Hava, no.
00:49:26
Speaker
and just charges at QU he is pushed yeah he's pushed 10 feet and he's knocked prone so V and I get opportunity attack is it no you get advantage on anyone who's prone and it takes an action oh yeah we're talking he attacked V and then he left
00:49:51
Speaker
I mean, that's 10 damage. Yeah, it just says you can make an opportunity to win a hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach. Okay, then go for it. I guess actually, even PJ can make that. It uses your reaction.
00:50:04
Speaker
that's another eight damage from PJ in this moment when you guys are all attacking skinny has rushed you all see this flicker in front of you or near you above you around you see it flickering around you see
00:50:22
Speaker
the atmosphere warping next to you. I would say it's probably closer to Caesar, if anybody. And then this portal opens up, and a fainite comes out, and he is holding this plastic, like, flower thing? Like, I don't know, this weird contraption?
00:50:51
Speaker
And what you guys think is a weird contraption, none of you have ever seen before. And his eyes are glowing blue. His essence is fire. He steps out of this portal and he says, does anybody know where Hava or Rita are? I made, Rita asked me to make something and I finally finished it.
00:51:19
Speaker
Hello, everybody? I don't know what it's called. It's, uh, but yeah, I don't remember exactly what he made. He was asked to make, but it was something plastic. That's all I remember. Kevin absolute gangster. So Kevin pops out and he sees how and he's just like, what's going on? And Caesar is like, Hey, mate. Uh,
00:51:44
Speaker
Who are you and why are you looking for Hava and Rita? And he's like, well, and he like does this whole like really quick spiel. And he's like, well, Rita's gone. So I'll take the thing. I'll give it to him. I probably, hey, hey, Rita, um, there's a delivery for you. Uh, do you want me just to drop it off? Where? Why would you? Kevin, a guy, Kevin? Kevin? Oh, finally. I was getting hungry. What?
00:52:13
Speaker
What did you ask him to make? What is this thing? It doesn't look edible. I don't know. I've been gone for like months. He should have been back by now. Yeah, he's been in an alternate dimension. Apparently he's a plane walker now. Oh cool. Yeah, he's really like, I don't know what you made him do, but whatever, you know. Anyways. Oh, you know what? Hey, Kevin. Yeah, what's up? Can you?
00:52:43
Speaker
Can you do me a favor? And he's like, you know, reader in Hollywood? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mate, don't worry. We're on the same side. And he like leans into Kevin. And he's like. And Kevin's like, okay. It's a weird request, but I'll see what I can do. And he jumps back into a portal. What was the opportunity attack? I'm just finishing up with reader first.
00:53:11
Speaker
It was either everlasting celery hair or the ingredient love. I think it was everlasting celery hair. You keep chewing and chewing and chewing. It's just made of the celery hair, you know, that's like gross. And we're eating celery and it's just the hair won't... What weapon did I use?
00:53:35
Speaker
19 to hit. 19 hits, yeah. Okay, then it is 7 damage. Okay, he's just gonna miss, oh no, hit with his longbow for 8 damage. Hava, I think we need to, oh, you're down. Oh, wait, I know what he's gonna do next. And then he's gonna use Healing Word, and as he goes to say it,
00:54:05
Speaker
Another one of the monks pops up and kicks PJ in the throat. Oh my goodness, yeah, that hits with 26. And four, 20 damage. Not too bad. I mean, PJ's not hurting or anything, but then he's just like...
00:54:34
Speaker
And then it is Avalon. Okay. So I'm currently 30 feet above the ground. So I fly another 30 feet up. And then I cast Hex on Curio. Curio. Curio. Curio. Yeah. The chosen ability is intelligence. Oh.
00:55:00
Speaker
Okay, so he has disadvantage on intelligence checks. Intelligence checks, ability checks. Sure. But that is, oh, that's my bonus action as well. How does it look? What happens? So what I do is I fly up, grab hold of my amulet this time, and basically see me point my wing down sort of in that direction, straight towards Kyrie.
00:55:27
Speaker
and uh you basically kind of see this sort of dark aura for a moment shimmer around him and then because that's my bonus action i then cast mind slipper okay uh how do you do it so again i'm still holding on to my amulet but this time i put my
00:55:49
Speaker
going quickly to my mind and okay and as you're doing that you're gonna feel something probably oh no there is a 16 hit yes oh but what are you attacking me with one of the monks has his staff he chucks it directly into I don't know whatever mannerism you're gonna do sure
00:56:18
Speaker
They're tougher than the wizards themselves. It's 10 damage and crushes your windpipe. My windpipe. Your vocal tones. So essentially I'm silenced? Yes. But you're only healed. So it's not like a magic spell that you can't dispel magic. It's literally your larynx. So your muscle that allows you to speak is broken.
00:56:48
Speaker
So I basically can't cast vocal spells. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's gonna start. Do I have anything not vocal? Okay. Sorry. So next is Clara. Now, Clara has a moral dilemma right now.
00:57:07
Speaker
Clark backs away and says, hey, sorry, guys, I, you know, I work for hear you. I'm part of this kingdom and, you know, I'm all for peace, but I'm not going to die by his hand. I understand what he can do. And she backs away and disengages. Yeah, we're getting hit hard here. Yeah. Next is Silas.
00:57:33
Speaker
So you don't want us to take you to Goro, just to clarify. No, if you know where he is, she just said he's gone. So I thought I'd kill you instead. Oh, well, we could just take him to the place that he was, probably find him from there. If he's not there, who cares? Well, because you can go kill Goro and you can all- He's not there, it doesn't matter. There's a party happening there, just trying to think of it like, we could go back if the Dragons help,
00:58:01
Speaker
You could drag him and this guy could fight. The guy's around me. Without saying that. Yeah, he doesn't hear whatever you say. Alright. Not persuasion. Roll persuasion. I have 26. Not good enough. Alright. Well, I guess I'll have to attack. That's fair. Like, Hava, what do you want me to do? She's gone. She's down. She's down? She's down. Yeah. Okay.
00:58:30
Speaker
All right, well, can I need medicine checker? No, I mean, you could. Can I have medicine V? If I can help them. Sure, yeah. They do have P. It might help. Dirty 20.
00:59:00
Speaker
dirty 20 to do a medicine check on your brother. Uh, I would say you probably could help him, but not now. Like it is fixable. It's, it's not like, like you can't just pop it back into place. It's literally broken. Okay. Attack. I don't know how to, uh, 19 19 to attack. Uh, yeah.
00:59:30
Speaker
I guess it's eight.
00:59:34
Speaker
damage okay it is the monk's turn and the so the monk that through the spear through the spear through this through his staff and you Avalon is going to tell me his head in the sand yeah you know I'll say it is an ostrich just funny the monk is going to attack who did damage
01:00:01
Speaker
Skinny so Oh and whips it just Like tries to do like this awesome like running kick move And this ostrich just takes too far of a step and just misses and then Where am I in this list? You are sick. You are very low Oh you did 18
01:00:31
Speaker
I didn't put 18. 13. I didn't. I'm sorry. I didn't. I didn't put 13. I put six. I'm sorry. I didn't. Yeah. I was like, I, I, I guess you didn't update it. So no, I didn't update it from the, so you can go now and then we'll just throw you in. So let's say.
01:00:48
Speaker
14. 14 saves. That is monk again. So the monks are going. And other one that hit PJ is just gonna hit him again for a 15. I believe that hits PJ. He's gonna do flurry of blows obviously. 11. And this is the next one. Oh, and then hits himself with that one.
01:01:18
Speaker
He goes, it's like a, I don't know, it's an orangutan. And he goes in, does an open palm punch, and then he kind of tries to do a flip in the air and do another hit, but he misses, and because he misses, he lands on his ankle awkwardly, and he takes damage for himself. And then the next one, the last one, is Daniel, and he's going to
01:01:48
Speaker
Well, he's going to miss attacking B. And hips. And hips again. Okay. Okay. Oh, and then we are back to the top. But, Goro, wherever you are, you see this flickering.
01:02:18
Speaker
shifting colors shifting whatever's in front of you this looks like a painting being melted and then out comes Kevin and he's like hey uh hey are you Goro? Am I right? Are you Goro? Yes I am Goro. Uh your friends are fighting Sirian, Kara, Komo, Kukukuchun. Uh why are they fighting?
01:02:46
Speaker
I don't know. I showed up and I was asked to come. They come to get you. They want me to come get you. You don't have to come with me. I just don't want to come get you. Yeah, let's go. I've got to get out of here anyway. There's this like half-weird snake trying to kill me. There's a snake here? Yeah, I know. I think we should just go right now. Let's leave it be. It's already killed Barry, so I need to make sure it's fine. Maybe somebody should tell the little...
01:03:13
Speaker
and like there's like these little little pixies that are actually like in the next town over it's like that's where this is their little home but and then you jump into the portal and he's like by the way i'm kevin and uh nice to meet you nice to meet you kevin
01:03:28
Speaker
Thanks. And you guys go into the portal. And at this, after this, all this is happening, all this is going on. Again, you guys see this fluctuation, this portal appearing, and outcomes. Kevin's like, hey.
01:03:46
Speaker
uh who brought your friend and out steps Goro back into this whatever world this is back into the world of Illium and you see you see Avalon in the sky you see Hava on the ground you see these four monks including a tortle monk basically above well actually you know the the the tortle monk is on his back and yeah you see the rest of them kind of towering over these guys and
Goro's Confrontation with Kiryu
01:04:15
Speaker
Yeah. Roll initiative. I got a roll initiative. I don't know what to say when I jump in. Oh, your boy's done well here, guys. Your boy's done well. Okay. So we're going to three. All right. Seven and five is currently 12 plus 12, 24. Oh, okay. So at the top of the initiative, you go first. Cool. I turned a season. I literally was like, dude, have you got any of that healing juice?
01:04:43
Speaker
uh um uh mate i i can get there but um i'm flagging myself so i i just need need time just need one more turn maybe maybe he wakes up the camera
01:04:59
Speaker
Yeah, will she hold this? Yeah, that's cool. Okay, Goro looks at Caesar, doesn't know what the hell is going on. Dad is hanging out with people he shouldn't be hanging out with. Is Hava like unconscious on the ground? Yeah, yeah, she's unconscious. Okay, I just go to Caesar then and just literally go to Caesar if you've got anything, like any potions, anything of healing, like anything that can just top me up right now. Has anyone, anyone here got anything? Sorry, sorry mate, I literally don't have anything.
01:05:26
Speaker
OK, sick. Pick up Haver and run. No, I probably could have done that. They don't see me, so I could have literally just left any time. Goro just runs with so much rage and just goes, I'm going to censor this one. I did come to the edit. Get the f*** out of here. What are you doing? Grab Haver and go. Just go. All right, mate, I'll do it when I can, but it's not my turn.
01:05:53
Speaker
She-Hawk in this right now. Why is she-Hawk in this? So then I just turn and I ready an action. Okay. Then after that, it is... Oh, now it is Caesar's turn. So he will, he will do that. He will say, mates, I'm going to take Hava. We're going to go back to King Aloraph's territory. I'll hopefully see you there. And he picks you up and takes off, disengages. So that's, let's do that out. Yeah.
01:06:24
Speaker
And so he goes and he does a quick medicine check. Oh, he can't because he disengaged. Disengaged. Yeah, he's gone. One time I wanted to actually do anything significant. So you guys are out of combat. But I want to fight!
01:06:41
Speaker
I mean I want to save my friends. And then V's gonna go and look at Silas and be like like in his eyes he's like not panicking but he's just like
01:06:55
Speaker
I don't know what's happening here. I'm kinda like confused and what's he gonna do? You know what he's gonna try if he can. If he can. I wish there was like, or, it's like verbal, or this, or that, not all of them. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, why do you want or?
01:07:18
Speaker
choosing verbal or semantic. Instead of verbal, semantic, and material. Not the character. I think you know what he does. He's going to take an opportunity to attack for it.
01:07:34
Speaker
Okay, as Caesar kind of takes off, he's going to do a sleight of hand in Haba's pocket. That does it. He's got 18. But he also takes an opportunity to attack because he's probably moving at the same time. So he takes an opportunity to attack. Let's not get hit. Oh my goodness. Okay. So he pulls out from Haba's pocket the bag of marbles. Wow. And... I lost my marbles, guys!
01:08:05
Speaker
Yep. Probably safer house to be honest. We haven't got a good track record with using these things. Let's be honest. Let's be honest. Although the majority of the time I've used them, they do successfully. They do successfully do for exactly what they're supposed to do. Most of the time, except for two times. But sometimes you should really just leave them alone. So he rummages around and
01:08:33
Speaker
pulls out one and just chucks it and it like it falls and in it it kind of like spreads and from above to below of a 60-foot dome it is as if time stops and he just he says kid Avalon you're not in the 60 foot right you're 90 feet up
01:09:03
Speaker
No, 60 feet. Oh, just missed it. Okay. So he... Everyone is in his 50 foot dome? Yeah, everyone. He, what he does grabs Silas and he takes him as far as he can. And then he casts, or then he gets another
01:09:24
Speaker
oh no then he can do things this is beautiful okay then he casts fly at a level eight spell and i think that means let's see so he casts it on what so he casts it on obviously sylas and he casts it on pj and himself and then he has one other person
01:09:51
Speaker
So Avalon can fly. Yeah, just fly on the bird. So Skinny, because Clara already has diplomatic immunity, I'll call it.
01:10:02
Speaker
Oh, nothing has to grab the Goro. This skinnier Goro. I think he does. He casts it on Skinny, because he... He doesn't have Goro. He doesn't, yeah, he knows nothing of Goro. He just knows he showed up, and he's important, but he is, you know? So he casts it on Skinny, and so immediately they start to fly, and it lasts for two turns, so... Just don't fly too high. Too fast.
01:10:31
Speaker
for that long yeah and then and then what he does is he kind of just goes around starts throwing the people that can fly kind of in the air out of the way as best he can he's just a small man so he can't really do very very much and finally he casts or he throws another marble and
01:10:54
Speaker
that and then he throws another marble and it as it opens so he's throwing it in the sky and he throws it and as it pops open it like it starts off with like a little flag and then it kind of like shakes out and it's like a top of a something and then it kind of shakes out again and it's it looks like a like a like a circus tent
01:11:17
Speaker
And it just continues to expand, expand, and it lands, again, 30 feet circumference around everyone. That's still there. And then time starts back up. And Silas, you're next to him, obviously flying.
01:11:38
Speaker
And so Goro, you're still in the tent with these guys. And it's just basically so that they don't see the rest of them flying away. Hmm. Thanks for that, mate. Awesome. Out of one frying pan into another one. Fantastic. He did it to us and now he's doing it to you. What was he again? Who? What animal is this guy and who was it? The wizard. He's a mouse.
01:12:08
Speaker
Okay, cool. If I get out of here alive, he's not going to be okay. So yeah, he flies out. So he's at an initiative. Then it's cure you. And he stands up. He was prone, stands up his turn. Then it's skinny. Skinny basically flies off. Like she has the ability to fly. She's going to use it. PJ is going to be an interesting one. Does he have any alliance to Goro still? Or does he want to catch up with Hava? That's the thing. Yeah.
01:12:37
Speaker
I'm gonna roll. I'm gonna roll. 10 or higher, he stays at Goro. I'll roll with advantage. Actually, I'll roll with advantage, because I'll tell you why. Because he understands what's gonna happen. And he knows that Caesar has Hava, and he trusts Caesar with his own life. So he knows you're gonna be okay. So I'll do with advantage. Well, it doesn't matter. Yeah, he rolled 10, so it doesn't matter.
01:13:06
Speaker
PJ does is he leaves the tent but he kind of gets a bird eye view from somewhere and he readies in action. Then it's in Avalon. Okay, so how tall is this tent? 30. 30 feet. Okay, that's annoying. So I've seen people fly off. Yeah.
01:13:31
Speaker
I've seen PJ fly out of the tent and get ready. Kind of like perching close to you. Yeah, okay, okay. What I would do then is pull out my crossbow and ready an action. And it is Silas. I'll probably take, yeah, no, he said he wants me to just leave. I won't, I'll be ready. I'll be having my weapon and ready the action of the pack.
01:14:00
Speaker
if somebody tries to attack them. Okay, but you fly out. And then it's the monks. And so the monk is like, like the flamingos, like, what just happened? I thought we got rid, like, we're, we're trained to stop these things. And it's like, I don't know what, I don't know what's going on. And here you, he's going to say, you guys can leave. And he's like, but what, what,
01:14:30
Speaker
No leaf. And obviously Billy. So now it's Goro and Kiryu. Did that trigger your attack? Either of you two. Oh no. No, I'm good. I was just waiting if anyone came at me. Sure. No one has. I was specifically waiting for Kiryu. Okay. But you don't know if anything were to happen with Kiryu.
01:14:54
Speaker
No, I was waiting for him to come out of the tent. Oh, OK, sure. So if he came out of the tent, I would have taken a shot. Sure. PJ was waiting for a scream from Goro or something more specific to that. Now we're back up top. Oh, roll death save for me. Yes. Come on, halves. Fifteen. Oh, that was all two. Pass. Good job. One more to gain, one hit point back. Good job. OK.
01:15:24
Speaker
Now back to the top Goro, what are you doing? I'm just walking straight up to my dad. I take out my, what was my banner of his arms. And obviously the Kings put it on the floor. Look in the arm and tell him.
01:15:39
Speaker
I invoke the vow of hope. When we started, when we became city guardsmen, we took a vow to protect life, no matter who or what they were. You have lost your way. I have lost my way. But it doesn't have to end like this.
01:15:55
Speaker
He stands his ground and he says, reputation, honor, kindness even. You came back and you're not supposed to be here. You're a threat, so let's end this like turtles. Last man standing, go.
01:16:11
Speaker
I look down at my banner and my good friend Leaf. I look into my father's eyes. I look down. I think of my mum. I think of Hava, Rita, everyone I've literally met in my travels. And I go on both knees and I just close my eyes.
01:16:29
Speaker
well and ready in action yeah okay what are you ready oh it's gonna be education okay I've got one key point I've got to make this frickin count so are you gonna attack if he attacks
01:16:50
Speaker
Oh no, I'm just gonna... If he comes at me, which I think he will, I can spend one key point to disengage, and as a bonus action on my turn, I can jump the distance. I'm literally set, I'm playing into his hand at like...
01:17:06
Speaker
If I know my dad has gone gone and truly gone over to the hilarious dark side I'm literally I'm there ready to to go and see if he honestly is gonna do it because then obviously now I know I will have to deal with possibly putting him in the ground which I didn't really want to. Okay so it is curious Karen and he thinks you're pathetic and he does go for a cake.
01:17:30
Speaker
So I will say you're ready to action is a dodge, but in that you can enact your key as well. So roll a deck save for me. Oh, wait a minute. This is good because monks can use their strength for deck saves. Okay, guys, I'm either gonna die right here, right now, or I'm gonna just live to fight another day. Okay, that might not be great. That is a 15.
01:17:58
Speaker
15 so he misses hitting you so he goes you're pathetic and just like lifts a foot and he tries to go but you like roll you like do a tumble roll out of the way and then you use your key and I literally while doing it and I just say you have fallen far your honor is no more the next time me one of us will not be standing and I just
01:18:26
Speaker
Okay, do you still have a ready action? Yeah, I just rolled to see if I knew if it was Goro or not, and I figured it out. Like, in the heat of it all, I was like, okay, all I see is a tortle went out of the tent. I'm waiting for a tortle. So do I know it's the right tortle? But I rolled and I recognized you just in time before I pulled the trigger. So it was close, so it was like,
01:18:56
Speaker
I decided above 10 was I recognize you and I rolled a 12. I literally was gonna laugh because I do have deflect missiles so I could have caught the bow or the bolt and just be like really? So in that also PJ takes off I think okay and so do you all head back to the King Elroz's territory or
01:19:23
Speaker
I'm assuming I can see a lot of them in like miles and distance. Yeah, I'm just going to follow those. I have no idea where we're going. So like, yeah, sure. Okay. Why not? I'm going to fly at the same speed as Gauru. Cool. Have a death save. I can't do anything with dying. Oh, yeah. Oh, hey, I got another save. I'm stable. Yes, you are stable. Good. And then, and so you guys are
01:19:50
Speaker
And I've woken up after this, too. Yeah, so you woken up while you're there. You're not necessarily at your tents yet, but you're in the territory at least. So far, only a few animals are alive. The floating fainite wakened up. Am I floating? I thought he was carrying me. He is carrying you, but no one can see him.
01:20:09
Speaker
Oh, that's right. Oh, mate, that's such a funny thing to see. He carried it up by anybody. That's funny. And I'll be like, wait for it. That's the first thing I say when I wake up. What's this like? Wait for it. Hey, mate. You're awake. He's awake? Yeah. We had to leave, but I was told, Goro, Goro's back.
Kevin's Miraculous Intervention
01:20:32
Speaker
Goro's back? Oh, my goodness. How did we get back? Kevin.
01:20:37
Speaker
Kevin? That dog, Kevin? Yeah, Kevin. He finally came back? I guess. I don't know. Where did he go? Where did he go? A reader said I'm on an errand like months ago, like a month ago or something. Wow. Well, he came through. He brought the girl back. Oh my gosh. I owe him my eternal gratitude. You know what? I didn't ask.
01:21:02
Speaker
And you do see Kevin, actually. And Kevin is still in the tent and he's like, well. He was still in the tent. And actually, you know what, this is a joke, but. OK, and he's from all over the country. So Kiryu is still away and Kevin's like, oh, I wanted to watch this. I will be leaving and
01:21:32
Speaker
Kiryu is like, not in my watch. And he basically goes for Kevin. But at that moment, Kevin cast Banish on Kiryu. Because of some miracle with the dice. Shut the front door. Shut the front door. Did you roll that money?
01:21:59
Speaker
Uh, no, but, uh, Kiryu tried to do his reaction, but he, uh, rolled like a three. So he didn't hit him. And so he was able to cast the spell. So now he's been banished and I don't know what that means. All right. I'll see you later. And he jumps into his portal and Kiryu is gone.
01:22:29
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know. Or a bad thing. I don't know. He was already pissed. And if he can get back into this world, he's going to be more pissed. So what more can we ask for than a month? Wow. That's awesome. Let's give him some more focus. Well, there's one, yeah, give him more. So there's one fret down. There's still one kicking around. So everybody kind of calms down. Where do you want to go, Holla?
01:23:00
Speaker
Someone where you can rest up for a long rest. So you can go back to your tent.
A Moment of Rest and Reflection
01:23:05
Speaker
Yeah, let's go back to my tent and hope that Rocky or whatever his name is in there.
01:23:14
Speaker
So he's like, okay, we'll go get you a tent mate. So everyone else kind of convenes there. And Seven is basically waiting outside with a whole- Seven, thank you. I thought his name was Rocky. Rocky, waiting outside with a whole bunch of other animals. With Chunk there. And he's chained up. And Chunk is also there. And that's where we're going to end today. And everybody levels up. Woo! No. Last time.
01:23:42
Speaker
I know, but we faced two battles since then. You didn't win either of those battles. I'm looking forward to seeing how well you did against this dragon. I want to get the little ten guys. Put it this way. My immediate reaction was Eldritch Blast, naturally.
01:24:02
Speaker
I wrote a 19 to hit and still didn't hit it. Right. Thank you for listening. Thank you for playing, guys. I hope you enjoyed that. Hope you enjoyed listening to it. And I'll hand it over to Davida. Thanks for having a day to cry. I laughed, screamed. And I hope you did too. I don't know why I had to say that, but thanks for listening, guys.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:24:25
Speaker
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01:25:32
Speaker
Wait, what did you know? What happened? How did he, did he hurt himself when he like ripped, he's never killed, had to kill people before? No, all of a sudden he's killing zombies and now he's hurting himself? Oh, he's gonna stop the recording. Okay. He's gonna cut me off. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness.