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Ep. 41 In the Shadows - Bellum Draconis
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Emron takes charge of the party and starts to investigate some disturbances around the area.
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade
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Introduction and Character Roles
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Uh, Reigns. Reigns will see this. He will hear what they're saying and go, yeah, yeah, okay, we get it. We the ones. That's for you, Ian.
Debt and Dice: What's at Stake?
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Speaker
Hello, welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop. We are a live play 5e D&D podcast set in the magical homebound world of Eryth. I am not your dungeon master. I am Will, and I play everyone. And with us today is the wonderful Darren, who plays Rains. You're not Ron. With us also, we have Callum, who plays Alpha. I'm in the Twilight Zone right now.
00:01:27
Speaker
and with us we've got this guy he sort of just sits there tells us to roll dice we don't quite know why we fight him along but he's here anyway so we also have our dungeon master sounds a bit kinky we have mark hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode i'm taking back over very nice but well done that's what you get
00:01:46
Speaker
for mouthing along for the last, God knows how many months you've been doing that. I've got to go on then. You can do it. Hello, everyone. Good to see you all. I hope you're having a good week, you three. And everyone else listening to I'm or in the car or walking or whatever else you happen to do. So, hey, I was a bit different. So, hi, it's throwing me off a little bad.
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Speaker
Thanks for joining us. Yeah, we are this week's episode. We are the Fellowship of the Flableblob today. I don't know what to do. So what we're going to do is I'll tell you what happened. Last week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, we had a long old chat with Vawndan, the debt collector, the all up and the party now technically owe 3,400 gold pieces, 3,421 gold pieces, given the cost of transport over to go or to keep.
00:02:32
Speaker
I had a long conversation of a cheese and port set outside gold ports keep about how this debt could be repaid options were given pay a thousand gold pieces now and have the debt window opened for another few months that sounds a bit of a debt ceiling in america but it's very different obviously.
00:02:49
Speaker
The other option was he takes gold port keep. And the third option was you roll a dice, a six sided dice. And the options being words that he told, but
Meet Von Dam and the Ghostfire Legion
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Speaker
one of them, the last one, I forgot the word now, I've got it here, the annulment was, the debt was paid off. It just disappeared and they would leave. So there was always a chance that could happen. The party ended up rolling much to the
00:03:15
Speaker
disdain by some feeling of Emron who just wants this guy gone. Number two, which was collectors. And we left with Von Dam saying the word collectors and smiling at the group. So he places his hands over his stomach above his chest with his fingers perched together almost like tips to tips like he's forming like a little church in almost like a little tiny prayer as he looks you all.
00:03:45
Speaker
The dice of rolled collectors. All that really entails is this. For a while, my men will be nearby, watching, maybe even.
00:04:02
Speaker
pushing you in the right direction. They will stay, for the most part, fully out of your way. You might not even notice that they're there. Like you, Alpha didn't notice they were there on your journey to the Runkclaw Clan. I believe they were named before. They've since taken on a new name. And that is it for now. That is the only option you have. No, no, hang on.
00:04:32
Speaker
There's got to be more like if collectors what we collecting because no I'm not happy you just saying all and just leaving it open-ended because quite frankly you can just make up shit. But you're not collecting anything safe for the 3421 gold pieces that are owed to me. My collectors will be watching and convincing you maybe at moments to move on. Reminding you of the debt you owe.
Confronting Consequences and Comic Relief
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Speaker
and keeping you on track as to stop any deviation from the area, deviation from a plan that you might concoct, or indeed a deviation across the sea away from where I may reach you, or where you may think I may reach you. In fact, my reach is far. My fingers and arms and tentacles reach all over the wide kingdoms of Ereth, or I just hit my nearby lamp.
00:05:26
Speaker
That's how wide my reach is, it even hits Mark's lamp in his real world.
00:05:43
Speaker
Just that there is a tiny thing that you probably should be aware of and that we won't be held accountable for is that our, whilst the three of us have a knack of surviving our exploits, we tend to lose two people on average quite frequently. Accidents happen. He'll just eat another bit of cheese. He says that. Accidents happen and I can always afford to bolster the Legion.
00:06:10
Speaker
I can always pay for more to join the ghost fires. So you leave a couple of disposable margins? The ghost fires the what? The ghost fire legion. That's the name of my...
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Speaker
small group that I tend to run and lead. These two fine gentlemen are two such members of the Ghostfire Legion, paid for, bought for, trained under my behest for me at my command when I need them. Reigns, he says that. We'll grab another bit of cheese and we'll just go, you say tomato, I say tomato. You say Ghostfire Legion, I say disposable monkeys.
00:06:55
Speaker
Okay, so they left here, fine. And they're going to just shepherd us like we're good little sheep along to where we want to be. Is that what you're saying? Sure. Let's say as much. And if we deviate from the plan. Very well. He stands up. These two will be coming with me though. The others out in the forest that you walked past, they will accompany me on the road back.
00:07:26
Speaker
I should say, as the two guards start to walk off, one little thing before I leave. I did come with others, those in my servitude, those that also rolled the dice and did not roll as well as you may have rolled with collectors. They unfortunately rolled three, the oath. And unfortunately, their method of debt repayment is very different, unfortunately.
00:07:54
Speaker
They now will not, cannot leave the keep and are in
Strategies and Decisions: What's Next?
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the hole. Oh, good. Well, we'll charge them, you know, a few gold, you know, a day to stay. Obviously, you know, we're putting them up. We're putting a roof over their heads. So, yeah, that should start to square away your debt then. Indeed. I speak from this as
00:08:24
Speaker
man to man here that these individuals are not my soldiers. These are not part of the ghost fire legion. They are in servitude to me, debt slave payable. I don't use the word. Others may. And unfortunately they swear a binding oath, which entraps their soul to me. And in doing so, I have no interest in the soul, only the money.
00:08:52
Speaker
And in doing so, they then work at the behest of anything they can do to make right by me in order to gain their freedom. Even that might be through death. Unfortunately, these poor men follow me from place to place, time to time. Some say like some kind of messiah, but I don't use that kind of language. They overheard my plan. They overheard
00:09:20
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the debt that was owed, and they wish some kind of recompense made through your lives. I cannot stop them, unfortunately. They are poor people. They are people at the end of their line. They will not leave. My men cannot stop them. I will leave them to do with you with it, you please. Kill them if you wish. They are nothing to me. Thank you. And the collectors will be here soon.
00:09:48
Speaker
As I said, go about your business as normal. If foots start moving out of line or they start to feel that your plans may deviate from an agreement to repay the money as soon as possible, let's say within the month, they will nudge you gently at first in the direction of repayment, of money, of being on the right side of debt with Von Dant. Are there any final questions you have before me and my men take leave? What are their names, the two people you're leaving here?
00:10:17
Speaker
These two won't be leaving, and many of them on which I don't give in. Yeah, the two you're sending in. I haven't decided yet who they might be. You won't be. They won't be here. They won't lodge here. You won't see them here. They will stay one in the forest and probably one near the road, out of sight, out of mind. Okay, fine. Alpha, commit to your memory bank. We are being watched by ball-bagging dipshit. Consider it done. Very well. Justice rupees the paper.
00:10:48
Speaker
36 will be renamed. 14 will be renamed. Make it say thank you. Done. Bulldog and Dipshit will be your companions for now.
Debt-Driven Conflict
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Peachy. If I may clarify, which one is which? That's a good question. How about you decide? Which one is Bulldog and which one is Dipshit? You decide from their faces. I think that must be the most fun option.
00:11:15
Speaker
I pick my men for their fighting prowess. My women for their fighting prowess. I do not pick them for their faces or looks. Therefore, many are battle-hardened. Many may have faces like ball bags. I'm not really, uh, not sure which might be the most ball bag-esque. And this Legion that they come from, you said that was called again, the what now? The Ghostfire Legion. A name that overreaches, I am sure, but I'm a man of advertising. I'm a man of money.
00:11:45
Speaker
It is not the full extent of a legion, maybe, but it demands authority, do not feel, and in doing so, gives me a little bit more power where necessary. The legion is nigh on more than 100 men, if that's at the moment. But I'm looking to expand, obviously, and find men like yourselves would be fine individuals to join, should you wish to say your name and sign your writ.
00:12:14
Speaker
I find fire can be easily extinguished when the need arises for it. Yes, that is right, young man. Fire can be put out with water and many other things correct. Look, the port and cheese has gone with all due respect and as much as you want to continue this rather tat, you're gonna have to get a bit more out otherwise. I think we need to, as you said, go about our business until bullbag and dipshit make themselves known.
00:12:43
Speaker
Absolutely, on we go, thank you. And he'll start to walk off, portly, off towards up the road that you walked down. As you follow his eyes up, you see two, three, four, five, six more figures just appear from over the edge and they all kind of watch as he slowly walks out. If you were to watch him further, these men would join in behind him and continue to walk out. A horse would appear, walked out by a man on which your dad would climb up onto and saunter off with his men off over the horizon to the north to join the main road. You're alone.
00:13:14
Speaker
All I breathe is a big sigh of relief. So glad he's gone. I'm with Emron. Just anything to get rid of him. Right, we better go see all these folk who are in our keep, Arlen. Jesus, I forgot about them. Okay. Emron walks forward to the keep. Okay.
00:13:37
Speaker
If you get yourselves on roll 20, if you're not already, you should see a series of buildings. Emron has just moved himself very kindly. I'll move you down towards the entrance, which is near the middle. There's like a small mini-mudded courtyard in the centre with a large
00:13:53
Speaker
orange leafed tree, not because of its autumnal, just because of the style of tree it is. Beneath this is a series of rocks that seem to be ornamental that have been placed there for purpose to form a kind of central area for communal courtyard-esque life. Unfortunately, it's never really been completed and therefore the mud has never been replaced by proper stone yards or any kind of nice kind of fauna or fauna or fauna or fauna or
00:14:22
Speaker
Flora. Flora, thank you. I knew there was an F word. I was trying to remember the fuck around it. Hopefully from a map you can't be able to see in the buildings. Is that right? No, we can't. Lovely. Good. Fog of War is working. Sorry.
00:14:37
Speaker
Main hall doors are in front of you and as you remember it, it was still rather disheveled. A couple of tables were set up and the kind of kitchen areas and flagons, the large barrels were kind of in places but very much most of it was kind of disused because of the sheer size and the lack of people that were in it. I remember first entering, you remember seeing Orla sat at a table, a large table
Interrogation and Insights
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in this large hall on her own. The doors sit shut at the moment as Orla walks up behind you
00:15:08
Speaker
I don't know what he's planned here. Or indeed if he was being honest, maybe he is honest that it isn't his choice. I just don't understand this idea that if these people are all found to him, he mentions souls and that starts to get a bit, you know, just, yeah. So let's just see what's that about. Okay. Should I come in? I'll come in too.
00:15:32
Speaker
I'll come in. You go first though. The door's open, swing wide open, and firstly, your eyes need to readjust to the darkness that appears in front of you. You see three tables directly in front of you, long six chairs to a table in front of you, and three more off from that, giving you a total of six tables in the vicinity in the south of the room.
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Speaker
To the north of the room, most of the space seems very, very similar, save that a number of patrons seem to have undertaken some kind of refuge there for now, let's say. There are six, sorry, five, no, six individuals in total in this establishment now in the room.
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Speaker
There are two men stood up to the very, very north of this room by a table which seems to carry a set of cheeses and breads where some of the food that Ola had prepared in the past.
00:16:32
Speaker
There's a large man, quite a large muscular bound man stood near the large barrel of, I think it was mead we had from previously, which had run dry. There are two men set near a table, the top right table, and there is a man stood looking at the wall to the south, which is probably the nearest to you as well.
00:16:55
Speaker
When you enter, they all look around at you and there feels like there
Moral Reflections and Future Plans
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Speaker
was a conversation before and now it stops.
00:17:05
Speaker
The man sat, so the large man stood by the barrel turns to you, his brown tunic, dirty and too short for his wrists, his wrists and kind of forearms showing, muscular forearms, dirt and mud on his face, horrible broken yellow teeth, desperate eyes as he looks towards you. You?
00:17:30
Speaker
You're the ones, you're the ones who can shake this. You're the ones who can stop this. Get in boys, you're the ones, you're the ones. And they're all going to start charging towards you. And many of them are drawing shivs, small knives, daggers, anything they can to just get at you. And I'm going to need everyone to roll initiative, please. I'm going to say this has not gone how I was expecting this to go.
00:18:00
Speaker
I'm rolling well. I'm rolling well. So is everyone by the looks? So is Alpha by the looks things? Right, okay. Did anyone get, well actually you can just tell me, Alpha, what did you get? I got 20. Well, I can see. So that sounded really bitchy, but I can see you got a 20. I can see you get 20. We got 18 plus two actually. The great thing about Real20, someone please. However, our listeners cannot see, so therefore we still need to...
00:18:29
Speaker
Which is why I do the thing like, oh, what did you get? What did you get? But I know the order. Now you shattered that fourth wall. Congratulations. No, I don't really know what's happening at all. Um, Reigns, what did you get? I got a 10. Oh, like I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. Oh, I knew it to roll for them. Ooh. Okay.
00:18:48
Speaker
Reigns, then I'm guessing it's going to be M-roll, and what did you end up rolling? Well, we see Reigns has halved Alpha's roll, so I thought it was only sensible that I halve Reigns' roll, so I got a five. So you went two, ten, five. So it nicely spreads it out, the initiative order keeps it tactical, you know, thought it was only best.
00:19:11
Speaker
Was this on your totally randomized d20 roll? You somehow understood. Yeah. Very nice. Okay. I'm very impressed with you managed to, to, to fake roll 20 to do that for you. Okay. So the order we've got at the moment, alpha, all the rains, everyone, and then our people, they roll the three. Well, not particularly good.
00:19:33
Speaker
So they're going to go last. So you will get the jump on them anyway. So it's top of the round. Alpha, it's your turn. These people all turn daggers being drawn. No one's got anything bigger than like a slightly shattered short sword and clubs, things like that. And they're just they're just pelting it towards you like desperation or open wide eyes. They don't look like demonic or anything. There's nothing weird about them. They're just humans. But there's a desperation. There's a there's a deep set kind of like drive towards
00:20:03
Speaker
you and violence what do you like to do. Alpha without thinking gonna take it pistol out from the holster the one that was talking when we first came into the room telling everybody else to get over get out was gonna aim directly in. I do not move i'm gonna ready in action that if you were to move towards on three then i will take a shot.
00:20:30
Speaker
Okay, thank you. Anything else you want to do? Movement or anything? No, I'm still going to stand by the door.
00:20:36
Speaker
Okay, brilliant. Thank you very much. Aula is going to do the same. She's going to crossbow out, cock it and point it at a different one. So just look at where you're looking and point to another one, where she enters. She's right at the doorway. So she'll aim for the one directly in front of you, kind of across to the east of you. You still kind of stood near the table with the other chap as well. She's going to ready an action as well on that person, the same kind of thing. Rains.
00:21:06
Speaker
Raines will see this. He will hear what they're saying and go, yeah, yeah, okay, we get it. We the ones. That's for you, Ian. And what's going to happen is, is that the, he's going to start backing up and the Rubik's Cube is going to come out and again, out of the bag of holding this, the suit is going to materialize and he's just going to very carefully just back into the suit.
00:21:33
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and will then just keep the Rubik's Cube posted. I can't do anything. I'll have to take my action to put it back on. But he's just basically gone to them. Okay, I get it. We're the ones. What the fuck? What do you want? What do you want? As the suit is forming around him. That's the end of Reigns' turn. Lovely. Thank you very much. Emron, what do you like to do? Emron will look at the people coming towards him and be like,
00:22:03
Speaker
We're not here to hurt you. We're here to help you. And then Enron will cast a second level Bless on the party. That's us, guys. God, I've missed Bless. You're blessed. Everyone here is blessed. So that's all four of us. So that's Rains, Alpha,
00:22:29
Speaker
Aula and myself are all now blessed. We get an extra d4 on the old dice roll, you know. I forgot how good that is. And then Emron will lift up his shield and be their hammer ready if they're going to keep charging at them. It's their turn.
00:22:54
Speaker
And after the things that you've just said there, you hear the chap who's been doing the talking, no one else has really said anything really. They all just kind of are doing the same as him kind of moving towards you. You're going to get the sense of them being possessed or anything. They seem to kind of haphazard in their approach to do that.
00:23:11
Speaker
He turns and says, it's by your death that will be free. It's by your death. The debt will be paid. And they're going to run at you. So that triggers a couple of things. So we'll do the big chat first. He takes a step forward. Alpha, that triggers your attack.
00:23:28
Speaker
Yep, so... Hang on, hold on, sorry, one sec, one sec. Because you... Sorry to interrupt you, I'm very sorry. Because you held an action and then got blessed. Can you use the bless? Yeah. Yes, because he's not made the roll yet. Okay, just check it. Sorry. I had a default in my attack roll. Stop trying to kill us, Mark. It's a go-to move now, I'm just fair enough. 15 to hit. Diet. Ooh, yes, that is always nice.
00:23:57
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and we hit for a total of about max 12 points of magical piercing damage as this energy channels through me through my pistol bangs
00:24:10
Speaker
There's so many innuendos in there I want to make. I'm not going to say all of them. I'll leave that to our listeners to imagine that. I will also should mention, and I haven't mentioned it so far this episode, and it's been half an hour. Callum is topless again. And I need to mention that because it hasn't been mentioned. I've just gotten used to you being topless. It is hot. It is hot.
00:24:31
Speaker
I miss this about the summer months. I miss that you take all your clothes off. Oh, there's Will getting into the mood as well. No, it's not that kind of fight, guys. Come on. Right, okay. So 12 points of damage. This shot splats into his stomach. This big open wound. The bullet comes out the back.
00:24:50
Speaker
groans out as he continues to stumble forward and leans against the table in front of him, kind of en route towards you lot, stopping himself there. The chap that Ola is going to fire at, he also takes a step forward and she's going to unload her crossbow at him for a 16, which hits and he takes, full damage, seven points of
00:25:14
Speaker
piercing damage as the shot fires into his shoulder, the bolt still sticking out of him as he cries out in pain and agony. That's the end, that's the two kind of held actions. They are going to approach though, the fat man, fat man, sorry, that he's not fat at all, actually he's a muscular dude, isn't going to move, he's going to lean against the table in pain, the shot is kind of fired through him. The two guys to the north,
00:25:43
Speaker
One is going to get in range of you, Emron. The other is going to get by a large round table about 10 feet away from you to the north as well. The guy that was near the large muscular man in the center of the room, he's going to move within range with you, Emron, and the chap to the south who hasn't been hit yet is going to move up and be in range with Alpha. So there is someone in contact with Alpha, Rains, and Emron at the moment.
00:26:14
Speaker
So we'll work through each of them that are in combat range of you and we'll go through the attacks they're going to have. Emeron, we'll start with you. You've got two in contact with you. The first one rolls a 10 against your armor class. Mirs. And a 14 against your armor class. Mirs. Bang, bang. Both just missing. You easily parry one with your shield, the other with your hammer. Not an issue, no problem at all. Rains, one in contact with you. That's a bit better. 17 against your armor class. Hits.
00:26:41
Speaker
take four points of piercing damage as this kind of shiv-like element gets in and he just kind of slashes across your armour. Alpha, the one against you, rolls a natural one. Yeah, miss. Yeah, you have to tell me that. Thanks. I appreciate it. I just wanted to say it's fine. Exactly. That's the end of their turn. They've got nothing else. Many have approached up towards you. There's still a one or two out of combat range. They are not stopping. Alpha, your turn.
00:27:11
Speaker
Alfa is going to let out a quick sigh at this, and the one that just took a swing at him is going to see this little mechanical device that's built into Alfa's chest pop off and just crawl up on his shoulder, down his arm. I'm just going to create my Eldritch Cannon as a Force Ballista.
00:27:35
Speaker
You remembered. Does it have stats, Callum? Yes, it does. Do you need to physically create it on the board? So I can kill it. Yes, most likely. Because it becomes a valid target for things like attack opportunity, etc. There we go. I've given myself a lovely pink box, just as a
00:27:58
Speaker
Thing for my cannon even though it's kind of on my wrist anyway Yes, I'm facing forward and I'm gonna use my force ballista to attack at the one that has just Took a swing at me. Okay And that was terrible It does not get through all the day for a well, oh, yeah, yeah true actually it's not gonna be blessed that Okay, so that's a seven to hit for my force ballista cannon
00:28:29
Speaker
That does not hit, fires off. And isn't that a ranged weapon? Yeah, it is a ranged attack, so it would probably be a disadvantage. Just in case you get a one. Modifies, are you giving that? It has a plus five to hit. It's a rule that I just made up. No, I have my currency, plus five to hit. Where?
00:28:54
Speaker
Is that what you scribbled out? I've clicked on your Eldritch Cannon on your character sheet through D&D Beyond and I can't see where it says plus five. Are you on the fourth Ballista Cannon? I'm on your Eldritch Cannon.
00:29:11
Speaker
Right. Okay. It might not be on there. You have to specifically select the force because if there's three different types, one of them is healing or temporary hit points or something like that. Yes. I thank you. I was just checking in. There you go. F you. Well, thank you. Call me on my shit. I'm just calling on your bullshit. Yeah. No, fine. Call me on bullshit. I don't mind when I'm right and I could just shrug it off. But yes, I miss with my force ballistic cannon anyway.
00:29:39
Speaker
Cool. That was a long winded way of doing nothing. Thanks. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Cool. Um, so you miss brilliant. Thank you very much. Uh, let's see if all that can be any better. She's going to fight the same guy again. New roles.
00:29:54
Speaker
seven, eight, nine in total, which misses even though they've got fuck all AC. Have you added their modern? Have you added healthy four? I have not. Hey, that's better. That's a four. So it's 14. That does hit. Huzzah. Oops. That's max damage. This bolt hits the kid directly in the face, the one that's right in front of you. I say kid, it's not a kid. And splat.
00:30:17
Speaker
pushes him back and the ball goes directly through the neck. He kind of chokes a little bit, falls to the ground clutching his throat and has perished. He's now gone, Reigns, the one that's in front of you. I'm going to leave his corpse there on roll 20, but I'm just going to put a little icon over him so we know he's dead. That is the end of all his turn. Moving on into you, Reigns, the enemy that was directly in front of you is now killed. What would you like to do?
00:30:41
Speaker
NC is going to run up Rains's out of the bag of holding and just run up Rains's back and just sit on his shoulder and all of a sudden is going to tap Rains and on the Rubik's Cube will appear the artificial tinkering again and it will just say
00:30:56
Speaker
I do detect some hostility and Reigns will go, yeah, I got that too. Was it the clue when he stabbed me? And N.C. will go, we can exchange ratatat in your words or you can hit him at which point the thundergorn. Oh, yeah, right. We'll just start to whirl. And what Reigns is going to do is he's just going to pull back the thundergorn and just smack this person in the face. Back to phase one, please, N.C. Which one?
00:31:21
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the one directly in front of me who stabbed me.
00:31:37
Speaker
Good job Ola.
00:31:58
Speaker
a butt shot worth of Callum's pistol, or Callum's pistol, of Alpha's pistol, who's leaning against the table in pain, big shot to the stomach, and there is one to the south, nearest to Alpha, whose eldritch cannon missed horrifically, blowing a small hole in the ceiling.
00:32:19
Speaker
Okay, Rains will instead lower the Gaunt and will instead just allow the armour to pulse and what will happen is similar to the Whistling Birds and the Mandalorian. They're just going to come flying out of Rains and they're going to go towards the one that's closest to Emron. They're going to go to the one that's closest to Rains as well. So that one who is just south, that one there. And what he will do is he will fire a magic missile. Just check the one nearest to Emron, did you say? Yes.
00:32:48
Speaker
Cool, okay, yep, how much damage is he taking?
00:32:51
Speaker
We're about to find out. Okay. So these darts are going to come in. It's three points per dart and he'll throw one at him. He'll then throw another at him. So that's six points of damage. And if he's still upright, he'll then throw another one. That's nine points of damage. Can he decide when to stop? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You create four different conglomerates. You just couldn't only roll the damage once.
00:33:19
Speaker
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, he's still up. So he's thrown free at him, so he's then going to throw the fourth at him then to do 12 points of damage total.
00:33:29
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dead, takes him out, each of these kind of hit into his body through them, he staggers for a second, the third one comes into the side of the neck and he just topples over the force of which knocks him down to the ground and he is also dead. Yes, with Magic Missile you create four, you don't have to throw them all at the same target but you only roll the damage once and they deal the same amount of damage for each dice.
00:33:51
Speaker
I wasn't sure about holding it to see if it's down. That's cool. And then what Reigns will do is he goes, good idea going back to option one and see, can you ready some insurance please? And that's the end of my turn.
00:34:08
Speaker
Okay, thank you very much. Emron, over to you. The guy that's directly in front of you, these four arrows, magic missiles kind of smash into him and he collapses to the ground in front of you. There's still a one chap still in combat range, just to your kind of left, and there's a guy off that you can also see making his way over towards you. What would you like to do? Darren, don't forget to make a little thing for Enzi if he actually exists. Yeah, he's on my shoulder if he leaves me, I will, but he's currently sat on me. Well, it's okay. It's all technically a target if he's a small creature.
00:34:36
Speaker
Yeah. Um, okay. Uh, is the character alive? It's true. Um, you know, if someone's, if someone's cast thunder weave or a fireball, the person informed me just for, I would, I wish to kneel down and cast spare the dying on the person in front of me who has just taken loads of magical missiles. Okay. Uh, which brings it back up to one HP as our own. No, it brings them back to zero, but means he can't die. He can't die. Such a living creature that has zero hit points, a creature becomes stable. Okay.
00:35:07
Speaker
Cool. Lovely. Anything else you want to do? Um, Emron will turn to the others and go, we don't know what's making these people do this. Let's try to go for non-lethal shall we? Um, and that will be my, uh, I know I can, you know, I've got a bonus action cause that's only an, uh, no, I can't. That's casting of a spell. No, I can. I will cast, uh, use my bonus action, uh, to cast spiritual weapon.
00:35:36
Speaker
Nice. A nice neutral way to take them out. Well, I can say it hits for non-lethal damage. Absolutely. And it will appear just to the behind the left of the person to the left of Enron, next to the one that was coming down from the north. Gotcha. And it will then attack the person in the white shirt in front of Enron to his left
00:35:59
Speaker
Lovely, the one closest to you, you're gonna bisect in the distance between the two. Cool, nice. All right, would you like to roll damage for that? I'll roll to hit first, but yeah. Oh, roll to hit, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Hitting him with a blunt turn. That's an 18 to hit. 18 hits, roll your damage. What colour is the, I imagine there's light coming off this. I imagine it's like a blue hammer. Oh, nice. Yeah, I can see that. Kind of like a pale blue or a deep blue? Pale blue.
00:36:26
Speaker
Hmm. Oh, yeah, it makes me want my screen. So that's 11 points of non-lethal force damage. Oh fuck. Okay. Well, he's dying. Yeah. He's, he's dined. This is non-lethal. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm, everything I'm doing now is striking for non-lethal damage.
00:36:42
Speaker
Okay. He's, I'm conscious. He's down. Nice. Okay. They are going to, it's their turn and they're going to go for it. The chat nearest to you. Alpha is going to swing at you. 11 against your armor class.
00:37:00
Speaker
the chap is going to, the chap near the table to the north is going to try and get around. Do you get a type of opportunity with you? No, it doesn't. No, no problem. And he's going to move to your, kind of the corner near the barrels where there's like a bit of space there and get a hit on you. Oh man, again, that's a 10 against your armor class. No.
00:37:22
Speaker
That is bad. The chap who's taken the buck shot in the stomach is going to kind of move away from his position and is going to run directly towards alpha. And like up towards you and imagine he's going to just kind of like big beefy arms going to twat you in the gob. That's a bit better. 15. Okay. I think it hits in the face and it just doesn't do anything to you.
00:37:51
Speaker
That's all he can do. That's the end of his turn. Alfa, your turn. This guy's just tried to bonk you on the schnoz. It was a very impressive bonking on the schnoz that he attempted. I'm going to try and return in kind. So the one that's just kind of hit me in the jaw, I'm going to try and respond in kind. So he's like, body tilts around to the side, swings back with his own fist instead of his pistol and just trying to hit.
00:38:20
Speaker
Yeah, very natural one, so that's not a good thing. Could you roll a d20, please? 1-5, something fun happens. Oh god, I'm going to fall flat on my arse or something. Ooh, 16. Cool, thank you. Carry on. Lovely, thank you. As my bonus action, my force ballistic is going to try and take another shot at the other one that missed last time, that's just to the south of myself.
00:38:48
Speaker
Oh my god, I got another natural one! Hahaha, you dick! I got two natural ones in a row! Wow. Fuck! Could you roll another d20, 1-5, something fun happens. This is 50% chance something fun's gonna happen. Oh my god. There's 90, 50%. Well... That's fine, thank you.
00:39:10
Speaker
Alfa is currently just kind of flailing about at this moment. The force ballistic just kind of threw him off balance as it's fired. Because everyone shouted trying to kill them. Maybe, maybe I can't deal with that. But yeah, I have nothing left. I have to stand there and weep. You're pretty shit at this aren't you? I'm terrible, apparently.
00:39:33
Speaker
Fair enough. Thank you so much for that then, Alpha. You're getting worse as it gets on. Ola's turn. She's outside still. Did she hear? Did she hear? Oh, that's two. No, she didn't hear. She's shooting to kill. 18.
00:39:50
Speaker
One, two, oh she gets blessed as well, not that it matters, 20, 21, and five, six points of piercing damage on the chap in front. The larger dude does kill him. That bolt hits him square in the chest. He's got a buckshot to the stomach, bolt in the chest, and he is KO'd dead. That's the end of all his turn. Reigns, your turn.
00:40:20
Speaker
He's dead dead, not death saving phrase, right? Well, yeah. Well, that changed the point. Yeah, you have to technically, yeah, if there's a possibility of saving them, technically they should have death saves. Okay, then if there's a chance of them being saved, then yes, we will run death saves for them. So the one chap that is- You don't need to tell us, you don't need to tell us whether they've passed or failed, it's up to you. Just the purpose, like you can decide that they're dead dead and I can't save them, that's fine.
00:40:48
Speaker
That's fine. I'll keep tabs on death saves anyway. If I'm going around stabilizing, I want men that's relevant. Yeah, cool. Okay. Uh, that's that done a range of time.
00:41:02
Speaker
Jesus, did you not hear non-lethal? That's a crossbow bolt, that's very much lethal. For God's sake, NC, go deal with that. And NC will send one of them forwards. It's gonna send NC forward to the one that's just gone down on the floor. And NC is going to land on him. And it's going to just cast a Cure Wound on him. Okay, the man who's just downed.
00:41:31
Speaker
Yes. Okey-dokey. He gets eight points of healing back. He's almost at full health. Fab. He's feeling fine and damn deep. Better than he has in years. Cool. He's still lying on the ground. He takes his deep breaths in again, but he's, for all intents and purposes, I've only kept the little skull and crossbones thing on him on roll 20, just so he's kind of out of the fight and gonna worry about him, okay? Anything else around you, Reigns? NC Ward, take his hat off, top his hat to him, and then we'll fly back onto Reigns' shoulder.
00:42:01
Speaker
Very nice. Emron, your turn. You've got another chat to your north. You've got two bodies down. Sorry, the final thing on Reigns' turn is he will just shout alpha. Perhaps you might want to get involved in this before Orla decides to shoot someone else with a crossbow bolt. End my turn. Cool. Lovely. Add him to the north. Emron, you've got two enemies down to your kind of diagonal and in front of you. What do you have to do? My spiritual weapon will move
00:42:27
Speaker
to the south to pursue the one that tried to attack me from the left, and it will attack him. Oh, I rolled a hit. And it will, yep. It's a nice pale blue axe, not axe. 10. Hammer? It's a hammer. That hits. It's a hammer, did you say? Yeah.
00:42:49
Speaker
I thought. I think it's because Claude's previous campaign, no, Claude and the previous one had an axe, didn't he? That's why I keep picking axe. 10 points of magical force. Non-lethal. Non-lethal damage. Yep. He's downed as well. Your spiritual weapon has been rolling very well so far. Yes. And he is also downed and non-lethalized. I will then move down to the one that was downed around or two ago, and I will attempt to cast a Spare the Dying on him.
00:43:19
Speaker
Okay. Do you need a roll for that or is that just a done deal? No, it's just an action. I touch it and it stabilizes if he's alive. Yep, absolutely fine. You see his chest falling and rising again as he comes away from the land of the dead of lowering himself down to Akiva and stays with us on this plane of existence for now. Is that the end of your turn, M1? Yes. Guide to the South is going to take a shot at
00:43:49
Speaker
Alpha, I believe he's the only one still kind of cognizant. That is, again, an eight. That's a miss. Okay, end of his turn. End of their turns. Alpha, up to you. Your turn. Can I just double check? The one that's in front of me, that's the one that's had the healing onto it, isn't it? Is indeed. He's not just stabilised, he's conscious, and his eyes are open, and he's laying on the floor at the moment.
00:44:15
Speaker
OK, that's fair enough. Alpha, after a little bit of playing about, is going to try and focus everything on the one that's still trying to attack him. Anyway, I'm going to go with my Force Ballista Cannon again, just to try and blow him away a little bit first off.
00:44:33
Speaker
That would be a 14 to hit. Is that a disadvantage because it's a ranged attack within five feet? Yes, it is. Thank you Will. I keep forgetting on that. Thank you very much. I know you do. Oh, that's even worse. So that's... Oh, no, it's force ballist. It doesn't have blast. So that's 12 points. Oh, for fuck's sake. It is 12 to hit. This person is trying to attack me.
00:44:54
Speaker
Okay. That hits. Can you play D&D before? At the moment, it's kind of questionable. I'm not going to lie. Good non-lethal kind of damage. Now this is a force ballistic, so it has a push thing to it as well. But that would be 13 points of force damage.
00:45:23
Speaker
Is he pushed back any distance or is it just... He gets pushed back five feet. I'm going to argue he gets pushed back 20 feet and gets smashed up against the wall. As he's shot, basically ragdolls him against the wall and he slides down. He's still breathing, but he is unconscious. Unconscious, unconscious, conscious. Goodbye, what the hell is going on?
00:45:46
Speaker
For all intents and purposes, Jesus Christ. We are human after all listeners. For anyone who is still with us, that is interesting. Right. That's it. We fall out of initiative order. We have everyone dying. The large chap with a big gaping wound that's slowly starting to heal, who was our kind of main spokesperson, our main voice, lays on his back, looking up, just panting whilst everyone else is just kind of KO'd.
00:46:11
Speaker
It rains will immediately step out of the suit and we'll just go, hey, you're allowed because my squirrel dissipated the healing spell upon you. You owe the squirrel a word of thanks and you owe us an apology. What the fuck was that? The debt. We've got to pay it off. This is our way of paying it off. We get rid of you. The debt is cleared. We've got to help. We've got to do anything.
00:46:38
Speaker
Fellas did just just just be quiet and assess the situation here. Do you think that you're gonna be getting rid of us anytime soon? No Did Vaughn Dan for dad tell you to kill us? No, that's not your voice everyone. What's happening? Oh, geez Did voor dad did voor dad tell you to kill us
00:47:07
Speaker
Make sure, Callum, we leave all that in. Uh, no. No. Right. So, so how do you, why do you reckon that your debt is going to be paid by our death? How does that work? Because by your death or our death it ends. What ends? The payment.
00:47:30
Speaker
your payment. You have to kill someone. You have to kill someone. That's Vordad's deal to you. You have to go out and kill Forg and that then relieves your debt. He won't tell us how to pay the debt.
00:47:44
Speaker
We can only put together the scraps of information we hear from his God from the Legion. And he spoke of you a lot. And he spoke of an inordinate amount of money you owed. And we took it upon ourselves. We followed in him here. He didn't stop us. His guards didn't stop us. And we thought if we could end it, he could have the keep. And if he could have the keep, your debt would be paid. And if your debt would be paid, our debt would be paid. And we could be free.
00:48:13
Speaker
Whilst all this is happening, NC has landed on the table, has pulled the coffee cup out of the bag of holding, one of the little porcelain glasses, has started to boil and just heard a ding while this is happening and then towards the end of that speech he just starts pissing tea into the cup.
00:48:29
Speaker
just just throughout all that speech and then what reigns will do is is that he will just look at emron as if to say i don't know how to deal with this idiot you deal with him and he'll just offer the tea out to this man and go just jesus christ just i don't know who jesus is uh what's happening tonight i push soul's most magnificent uh ray the beard and and all the rest of it just drink this the squirrel's been taxied on me that ain't piercage tea i promise you
00:48:57
Speaker
He doesn't know what to do, he doesn't take it, he's facing it. Drink up, drink up, drink up, Emran. Do your thing. So, how does Vordad get you to swear your oath to him? I don't understand. We rolled. We rolled. We went for option two, and that was the dice. We're signed to him. What do you mean? You went for option two. We rolled option two. Ours was collection.
00:49:27
Speaker
No. Our option was we repay the debt in full or we roll on the dice. We had nothing to give. Nothing like this place. We had a chance to work our debt by becoming servitude. Swear a binding oath of servitude and do whatever he asked. But he doesn't ask us to do anything. Rind, can you check whether they're under any magical?
00:49:54
Speaker
you know, doodads to make them do this. There's no magic here. Yeah, and also between the squirrel spray and the magic missiles and the running over the swamp earlier today, I'm maxed out. Alpha, you got anything? I'm afraid I have not prepared for such an occasion this time. I guess we're taking the time for it. But there must be something that's in, if you've sworn an oath, that could be a
00:50:24
Speaker
could be some kind of magical thing I would imagine. It's money. It's the magic in money. That's all it is. The power that gold holds. He don't mean the yawn. He don't mean the yawn. It's just we're so bored of people trying to kill us over the past few days. So what we're going to do then is we're going to have to tie you up to stop you from trying to kill us.
00:50:54
Speaker
and we'll look after you until we can sort this out because I'm not convinced that everyone has a choice and if your choice is to just try and out murder folk then either you're truly lost or there's something making you do it.
00:51:13
Speaker
Nothing's making me do this apart from paying off the debt that I owe, for and and. Have you thought about just leaving him and running away? No. Why not? We have the oath of servitude. We're sworn to him. Until death, right? Sounds like magic.
00:51:34
Speaker
Happy days, Ola just shot you with a crossbow bolt and you'd be dead if it wasn't for Ola. Yeah, you did technically die. I suppose you could argue you have technically died. But you do all your life to us, so new debt. Happily, we're not slave drivers. However, I do have a fresh batch of potatoes that need picking. Now, of course, you'll get a fair wage. No, no, no, no.
00:51:57
Speaker
But, you know, I can't pick potatoes by myself and we want to help feed some folk in need and these folk are in need. It's a natural thing we can do here, right? You can come help Elmer. Elmer will do most of the work. I just, I just, I won't lie. When I planted the potatoes, I handled for it through. And if you and your friends, I could just see his glazed over face looking at me. Okay. This is a mistake. You, I, wait. We've moved from me being dead to potatoes.
00:52:28
Speaker
I'm a little... I'm a little slow. You and your friends could be dead now, but what we've done is we've stopped you from dying. But I did die. Didn't I? Well, yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. We sensed a confusion and I think what will help you, have you ever seen a giant walking metal man before?
00:52:54
Speaker
I don't think that's going to help much if I'm being honest. Well, we'll try anyway. Alpha, get over here. Raines, where are you going with this? Well, apparently Alpha can't see where I'm going with this, and they will just gesture to the giant metal man and go, ta-da! Alpha's going to be really confused at what Raines is trying to do by showing him
00:53:20
Speaker
alpha for whatever political region he's just gonna turn the man that we're talking to hello man stares for a second his eyes roll back in his head as he just passes out on the floor right I think hard on the oak I think best thing to do is we get these fork into whichever buildings the most secure orla and you look after him keep him fed and watered
00:53:50
Speaker
We'll go get the gold from the goblins. We can sort out the debt. We could try and sort out whatever their dead debt is. And so they won't kill us. But they're still alive. So we're not murderers. Yeah, sorry. I didn't quite hear. I was outside. Apologies. I wouldn't have fired the bolt in the throat if I'd have known. Okay.
00:54:10
Speaker
And probably the safest place, the most secure, might be the Forge, albeit there are weapons in there, the door is metal and lockable. The Forge is not going to be, you know, it's, yeah, no, there's a lot of stuff in there that might, you know, break. Which of these buildings is the one that's emptiest? Well, the armory was, but the roof's got a hole in it now, or damaged by the looks of it. Albeit, a bit of rain wouldn't hurt them, we could put them at the other end of the room.
00:54:38
Speaker
Yeah, but we want to keep them in. It's not a high wall. They're just going to climb over the wall. This is this... We're not there. Put them in a building and lock the door. That's what I thought we'd do. Aye, and yeah, I think... I mean... No, there's the room in the middle. Sorry, the one that was never been used. Yep, they're on the middle. Totally empty. Carpeted, even. No, this wouldn't be... We can sort that out. It's got a lock on it. I've kept it locked because we don't use it. Well, let's put them in there. Here we can feed, water, that kind of stuff. They're not going to be any danger.
00:55:08
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. That sounds good. That sounds good. Right. All is going to go to kind of- I can run out some, if we want to time up, we can, we can, I suppose, if you're worried about them overpowering you while you're on your own, you know. I think there might be for the best. Just, just, there's a few of them and I could deal with them, but you know. Well, we could sort some kind of shackles out. So at least they're not going to, you know,
00:55:31
Speaker
I think we really need to do that. Look at them. They're fucking one down. Well, Raines, essentially, they're going to be our prisoners for now. But unless, you know, they've got to be able to, unless all is going to physically, we could hog time if that's maybe more comfortable with that. But they've always got to physically feed them all. I think, just, Raines, I understand your feeling and sentiment behind these people. This was easy. But there's still five of them, and there's still one of me.
00:55:58
Speaker
and my track record. Six. There's a girl book over there. Oh, sorry. I couldn't see him over the table. Yeah, six of them, one of me. The odds, I could take a couple of them out, but sheer numbers alone, they would overwhelm me. I think that's just to at least restrain them in some way, hands, feet, something, just to give me a chance if I am going to be on my own.
00:56:23
Speaker
We could do their feet so they can't walk about. Keep their hands free so they can feed themselves, you know, having to literally spoon feed them. That would be better, perhaps. Can't they just undo their feet then? Well, no, if I go forward and do some shackles, they won't be able to undo their feet. That's a good idea. Do you have some or something we could use? I'm sure we've got a scrap metal I can whip some up.
00:56:47
Speaker
Okay, yeah, let's do that. And she goes to kind of rise and pick up one of the smaller of the individuals and he kind of groans and moves over and looks up towards you. All his desires kind of open. He's one of the ones that were unconscious. He looks at you and goes, what about the two in the, in the forge? Did you find the two in the forge? I was going to leave and go to the forge.
00:57:11
Speaker
And that's where we're going to leave it for this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop.
00:57:18
Speaker
That's where we're going to leave it there, guys. Oh, you made worms meat of them. Nice. I think you just killed them. Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. None of the last two episodes of God at all, like I thought. And I'm very much enjoying it. The moment you had these people mindlessly attack us, I was like, well, anyone doesn't feel comfortable just murder, hoboing a bunch of peasants. It's been a while. Well, it's been a while. Hello, Jackie. Level four smells nice.
00:57:46
Speaker
wow wow talk about on the nose if we killed them mark would have given us level four but we didn't so don't get them easily you get no xp for these guys i was gonna go around and put all of them in there we just get extra xp for not actually kind of finding a non-lethal way of getting out of this just
00:58:04
Speaker
I don't decide when you get level ups. If you do. That is literally your job. I think once we've accumulated a full party, then maybe we'll... Well, I mean, didn't help the last two. They were already level five and they died. I know. They still got eaten. Sorry, Danny and Ian, if you're listening, I do apologise. I'm sorry, Danny.
00:58:29
Speaker
I did re-listen to the episode. I do have to say, and I do have to put this on the podcast as well, that Darren has produced one of the all-time greatest memes when it comes to that event as well. I think someone else needs to share it on Twitter.
00:58:46
Speaker
The reason I haven't shared it up to this point is because that episode hasn't come out yet, but it's come out today, hasn't it? And in fact, if you wish to see that meme, you can do so because we will post it on our Twitter feed, which you can find at Fellowship Table. And you can find this on the internet. You can Google the Fellowship of the Tabletop. Our various streaming sites will come up there. I'm pretty sure our Zencaster site will come up there as well. So you can look at our past stuff.
00:59:12
Speaker
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00:59:37
Speaker
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01:00:02
Speaker
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