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C2 Ep. 118 Stranded in the Maze Chapter Five
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Does Milo find peace?
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Introduction and Acknowledgments
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Session Kickoff and Player Introductions
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Hello, welcome back we're on your new National Play Podcast at the Everon Campaign Setting. I'm your Game Master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Triva. I'm Randy. I'm Randy. I say it exactly the same in every episode, so I thought I'd do something different. Welcome back. It's been a disaster. What happened last time? Not Trevor. Actually, a lot of preparation because it's in the corner, Trevor. OK, we prepped for Fighting Jason.
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We got a lot of information about Tarani activity. We got a lot of information about, um, um,
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Yeah. We've gotten house fearland to cover it up, basically. Well, it's going to somehow, between the conversation with Satan and the conversation with Basil, it sounds like someone else is going to take the credit for this thing. It's going to seem like organizational strife rather than individual vengeance. I've got new tattoos. His punches are so much punchier. He's got the punchiest
Planning the Ambush on Jason
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punches and sharn.
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like they have the power of kicks. We had a conversation with Satan, we had a conversation with Cassian, we had a conversation with Olive, we had a conversation with Basil. We found out things. We are ready to go fight Jason at Keg Bottoms on the 27th of Larvian. Larvian. Yeah, Larvitar. I was gonna say Larvian was my favorite evolution. Larvian.
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in the evening on the 27th of Larvian. We ride! Okay, so you all have made plans to where Jason will be at the site of the new keg bottoms that's currently under construction. Will not communicate to his underlings that this is happening and Satan is going to keep Vigo tied up so that Vigo can't make the meat with Jason. Right? Okay, he's gonna go make some meat with Satan.
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I do have a question because obviously this is something we would have known while planning this. There is nothing left of original keg bottoms, right? That lot has been cleared. There's construction going on. That's what it has been cleared to build a new one. Yes. So we can't be clever and have a flashback like four years and say like, I was hanging out at keg bottom. Remember the trash can. Remember the trash can.
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Exactly. I put a bunch of health potions underneath the trash bags. No. It would be a gun. Not a Fletcher. A gun. I got 30 odd sticks and I don't know how to use it. I punch it. I'm sharpening my gun.
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Okay. Um, so we're going to implement flashbacks, um, as available, you have one free flashback from the triumphs. Um, anything additional would be, uh, you utilizing story points. So yes. What's the plan of attack gang approach? It's exactly that we're going to, uh, here's the thing. It's.
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I'm just trying to figure out, does it have a roof? Does it have walls? No. Are we inside? There's nothing there. So there's walls, right? Starting to be? I mean, the framing has started on the walls. The basement has been dug out, foundation laid down there, and most of the framing work has been done on the basement thus far. It hasn't been under construction for that terribly long. I think it's been a couple weeks since Joe came and met with you to get the plans approved. Right, exactly. I would imagine we want to be there before he gets there hiding, right?
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Or next door. I mean... Eris is going to find a spot up high. Like, Eris is gonna...
The Ambush Begins
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climb up the side of whatever tower, whatever the tower of the nearest building is. And acquire a perch. This is a new construction on an urban city block. Right. There are a lot of walls and buildings and stuff. Right. Eris is perched and Tasha is circling. Bob considers waiting in the basement. I think he's going to. Okay.
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Milo, where are you going? I think you should be behind the door waiting to close it behind it. There's not. What? No, we got there. We got there's a door. There's open walls, but there is a door frame. All the walls are open. All the walls are open to the front. There was a door that Milo can close the door dramatically. We took that big piece of fabric from that first chase scene that we did a thousand years ago.
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Lying to the walls with this. The only way in is this door. Yeah. Yeah, what? I mean, emphatically. That's the flashback. That's your free flashback is you built a door. Some dumb stuff. That's a. They had a door built. Oh, man. OK, I'm in the basement. Eris is up high. Milo. I'm I'm.
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Just wait in the shadows or something. Yeah, I was considering maybe down in the basement too with Hob, but. You also have access, and you've used it before, to a type of spell called Mask, where you can make yourself look like someone else. Barstool. Or Vigo. Vigo. Barstool. No, what? Yeah, I'm with him. We need you to look at a bag of Doritos. Jason, just come sit on your head. Doesn't see anything, and then, haha, stab.
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Brilliant. Yeah. So now we've covered our tracks and that people will think it was either House Fearland, Boromar, or a Barst. Barst. A mimic. It was a mimic. Oh, you know what? As soon as we get there... How early are we getting there? Who wants a reservation? Milo. It's our reservation. That's true. I did say that Satan would get back to us with what time they were going to meet. That's true. 7.45. Okay.
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So if we're rolling there at 7.30, you think? I'm gonna check and stuff. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Seven. You said evening. You did not say night. Yeah, but I mean, I agree. Nobody could be around. Will it be dark? It'll be, well, it's always kind of dark because you're in a lower part of a city of towers. It is autumn. But yeah, it'd be dark. There will be people, I don't think there's sunlight though. No. Yeah. But there'll be people out and about like,
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All right. I feel like there's never not people out and about. We've never had an empty street. Like, so the busy city gonna look like Vigo. I'm going to need you to make a mask check.
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And I'm gonna remember an item that I have that turns me invisible. Did you bring a mask? What I was saying, when we roll in there, I check my new locationator for Viggo to see if he's actually elsewhere. He is not within short range and he is, as you twist around, above you. Okay, so he is within five miles, but that's fine. Most of the city is within five miles.
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If this fails, then I will just hide in the shadows. Okay, so you are casting mask on yourself. So starts off as an easy check.
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Um, the normal, uh, check to spot the illusion is an average vigilance or, uh, average, average vigilance. If Jason were to suspect something, then it would be switched to a perception check, but vigilance is just to kind of passively like something seems off about this. Um, but you can add the realism effect.
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where you can increase the difficulty of checks to determine if the illusion is fake by one. And after casting, you can spend two advantage to increase the difficulty of the checks by one more. So if you were to roll four advantage, you can increase it a total of three. But that would increase your difficulty by one. So it'd be two purple. Let's do that. Okay. And I'm going to flip a story point. So change one of those purple to a red.
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Three successes, one advantage. Three success, one advantage.
Jason's Counterattack and Team Strategy
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Okay, so only one advantage, so you can't upgrade it additional times, but it's now three purple vigilance check to notice that you're not Vigo. Okay, so he's not just gonna make him suspicious, it's just gonna make him just know if he passes it.
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I was thinking like, oh, it's going to be suspicious, but he might not necessarily. Let me double check the wording. A keen observer can attempt to spot the false nature of the illusion by making an average vigilance check. Success means the observer recognizes the object's illusory nature.
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So essentially at a distance as he's approaching, probably not going to do anything. The second he starts to interact with you. Right. And well, the second he steps foot inside, everybody's boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Yes. But he will probably walk up and greet you. And then at that point, either people jump out and kill him or try to talk and then we'll see. No, they just jump out. So I mean.
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Smart money's on you starting with snaring, right? Oh, yeah. Whatever it is, your net thing you have. That, or I'm just gonna try to freeze him to the ground. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. If he was sweaty, we could freeze him all over. I'm never gonna let that go. I can't. Or should you? I think he's gonna get... If he starts talking to me, though, because I don't sound like Vigo.
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I mean, I would say the illusion like you could you could affect your voice well enough to potentially it would be more about what you say rather than the sound of your voice. Like if you're like, oh, Jason, wonderful to see you. It'd be like what? So more like so. Yeah. OK, Raynard, where are you? I'm invisible. Right. And I'm waiting just
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to get between Jason and the door as soon as he calls him. Yeah, just like get behind him so I can be like, ha ha. With a knife in his throat. OK. And I'm assuming there's like a ramp down to the basement. I'm exactly as low enough as I need to be so that I'm hidden. I mean, the floor above the basement has not been fully constructed yet. So it's like, yeah, yeah. So Milo is effectively standing on like a platform that's built up out of the basement right now, not on sturdy ground, as it were. So don't drop him down in the pit.
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I didn't go in good for him. OK, so that is where everybody is located. Jason, Eris, you're up at a high vantage point, so you can easily see. Do you have the new fancy goggles on or so? Yeah, you see. What do you learn about Jason? Your new fancy goggles? Name's Ignacio D. Thorani. Capricorn.
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currently employed crap record vocal weaknesses, vulnerabilities, total hit points. So, yeah, Jason's approaching looks like Jason, not like the image that you all saw of Ignacio Thrawny.
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And seems to be very casual, not on guard or anything like that. So he gets to be around medium range away
The Battle's Climax and Aftermath
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from keg bottoms at this point. Is there anything that you would like to do? Aim at him. Okay. So Aeris trains Jason Seitz.
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Raynard, you're invisible. Milo, you're just, are you standing in the street in front of keg bottoms or are you standing on the platform? Yeah, I mean, yeah, in the area, in the vicinity where it's very close for Hob to get to. Okay. So yeah, Raynard, you're kind of standing near Milo where he's at and Jason
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Sees you and begins to like kind of pick up his pace with a bit more purpose now that he's seen that you are here And he gets within short range of Milo and engaged Hey boss, what's what's up? Can you believe we're meeting him at keg bottoms Yeah, didn't you didn't you set this meeting yeah, I
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Okay, well, that didn't take long. What? I had something to say. Say it! Say it! Yeah, you know, there's a reason that we wanted to have this here meeting at Keg Bottoms. Because it's probably gonna be a very good day to die.
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End of episode. I really like that Milo's, Milo's Vigos is a lot like Christopher Walken. And Milo wants to, Milo wants to, we get the drop on him, right? I'm gonna cast this bow. Jesus just turns and runs up. It's a good day to die.
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I wish. I said on the Discord, people would have paid money to see my face when Cassie showed up. I would pay money to see what Randy just did again. Okay, so roll initiative. You all get to roll cool. Jason has to roll vigilance. We went to ambushing. We did. Yeah, that's the ambush. That's the ambush? Yeah. I'm gonna like get pops off. Well, you were talking instead of doing that. That was my whole deal, though, was to say and then go, baboon. Well, if a PC goes first, you get to do, it's yours, but.
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Oh my gosh. Get four green. Two and three. I'm sorry, two and, no. One and three. One and four. Oh my gosh. Wow. Yes. One and four. Sorry. One success and one advantage. Two blanks. I'm shooting blanks. Oh and four. Oh and three. Oh my goodness. That is not sounding good at all.
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Jason does turn and run. Dust is not good. I can't imagine we go the first hit. No, but I'm behind him with a knife. He goes first. I mean, he rolled four and two. Unbelievable. Yep. It's him then us and him. He's probably super confused. You just told him to die. He's still like, what in the world is he talking about? Why is Vigo acting crazy? No. Okay. So here's the thing.
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He is going to do his vigilance check, not his action or anything. But he's going to do that because he is confused. Exactly. But Viggo might be just being weird. Exactly. So it doesn't change your perception check yet? No. OK.
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Also, I think I. Yeah, vigilance is based off of cunning. Is that right? OK. Yep, no willpower. That's weird. Oh, because there's plenty of those. We have one of the two of those. Do you really want to make it hard for him? This is. Two yellow, one green. And actually, I need to reroll his initiative because. Aha. Three and one, he still goes first. No.
Looting and Discoveries
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all four of us I really don't want him I want us to yes okay yes okay
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That's triumph. Oh gosh. But, but, but it is not going to be a success. Um, so that pairs with that to eliminate the success. Um, three failure, one advantage and a triumph. Hey, that's figured it out. Right. Right. Cause then I want to figure it out and not have a triumph at you.
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Yeah, we're gonna go somewhere else to kill them, which is why I brought up keg bottoms several times. Yes. Milo's... I know this is Milo and not Randy, but Milo sucked at that.
Escape and Public Attention
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Milo's brain, even though he's intelligent, is not all there. Little cloudy. Not actually intelligent. Not originally.
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I have to say how to good practice.
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Okay, so he is actually smarter, it's not just the power. He became smarter when he got conked on the head and whatever, but he's still not all there. So he is smart, but he has very little practice still in being and acting smart. Exactly. He has the capacity. Exactly right. It's like you can't coach tall, but just because you're tall, you're still going to learn the other stuff.
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Okay. So he failed. So he has a triumph on the, on the, on the table, um, which is effectively a despair for you all. Um, so, um, he did not tell anybody that he was coming. So that can't be like, there can't be all of a sudden reinforcements that arrive. He does not see through the illusion. So he's just confused about what V goes on about here. Um, Hmm. Trying to think of what.
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What this could mean because I can't have reinforcements I can't have him I'm just going to give him
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and upgrade, his action is going to be making a perception check to like, what?
Final Thoughts and Next Steps
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And like looking around to see what are you talking about kind of thing. So he's just going to get an upgrade to his perception to try and spot what's going on. So collectively we're on the table, except for Milo, combined stealth. So who has ranks in stealth? Who has high cunning? My cunning is four. Four and you get the two boosts because you have the goggles on. Stealth does not come up from cunning.
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invisible does it comes from agility agility. Okay, agility is not good. I've got no ranks and two agility. agility. What's your agility? I've got a yellow and two green. Three agility, one rank in stealth. So difficulty of the pool then would be one red, two purple. His pool is with the free upgrade that he got from triumphing is this guy. Okay. Okay.
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Ranard is invisible. So we will add a setback. Well you so that knife, you depleted it to become invisible.
Closing Promotions
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It's not as potent. It would be an improvised weapon effectively, so it wouldn't have all the cool buff things. But you have that new cold rod. I really can't wait to use it because I'm going to go ice to meet you. Did you blow it?
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My favorite quote from that movie is revenge is a dish best served cold so put on your Sunday best. It's like utter nonsense. For success to threat is his role on his perception to look around and see what in the world is going on. It's Sunday like ice cream. Is that? Yeah.
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Yeah, he looks around confused as to what you said.
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He succeeded on his perception check, so he spots Hob hopping up out of the basement to attack him, because Reynard's invisible. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Can I go first? Well, it's a PC slot, so... Can I try and freeze his feet? That's a thing the thing can do, right? Yeah, you hit him with it, and if you get enough advantage on the roll, you can immobilize him. Does that sound good? Sure. Well, do people... He can also do that, so maybe it's easier for him. That's true. Let's freeze him to the ground.
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But if you do it, then I'll do something else. I mean, whatever you want to do. I was thinking we see who's got the better pool for it to make a better chance. Because it's going to cost Randy too strange to do it because he's casting a spell, whereas Reynard's just doing a melee check. So it wouldn't cost Reynard a good strength to try it. And you have four PC slots. So if somebody does it and fails, next one can try it. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Well, it's not a ranged weapon. That would have been nice. No, it's melee. So it's melee light. Yeah. I only have two green. A story point. Yeah, one, but if you want. What's the difficulty, though? Too purple.
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You could use your mover to aim with it. So you get a blue. What if I was already ready to do it? If I got up and started running, did I, did I get to him? No. Okay. You could get to him. Well, if I can get to him, then you're engaged. You at least get a boost. So you want him to go first and then you can go to try to, cause thing is, he's not going to get to move until all of you have had a turn to go. Yeah. Yeah. Let's do that.
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You go first. Okay. So I'm just going to go and hit him and then you guys can try to freeze him down to the ground. But that way, if I'm with you too, then you each get a boost die on your try. So I'm going to get up, run up short range, right? He had an advantage on his checks. So I had a setback die to your, uh, you got it. Okay. So I'm going to get up and run to him. Uh, I'm going to take some strain by aiming and I'm going to take two more strains. That's three total to do a double or nothing. Um, and I'm going to punch. Okay.
00:23:47
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These are all the same. These are all yours. Yeah, you're going to red. You got it. So it'd be one and one? One and one, yep. One and one, and I still have to add more to my brawl, right? Yeah. That feels good. Yeah. OK. OK, you know what? You guys want to come out? Let's come out. My hand couldn't hold them all. That looks real good. Yeah, it looks real good. Let's just do this real quick. Oh, wait. You want to do that?
00:24:17
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Okay. Wow. Yeah. It's a two, four, six success. So that is, I mean, he's going to get hurt. He's going to get hurt. It's only one advantage. So I can't create or anything like that. But so six success means six, 14, 20 wounds.
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Okay. But I also did my double or nothing. Uh, the first one, which I think actually is advantage. So that would double my advantage. Let me double check double or nothing. Yeah. Nope. I didn't do it cause I forgot to increase the difficulty. So it didn't count. Okay. So how much damage then? So 20 total, 20 total damage. That's not what the double or nothing without the double or nothing. Six, six plus five plus six. 19. 19. Sorry. No, what? I did something wrong. Cause it's,
00:25:08
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Six and five. That's 11 plus six. And eight. And eight. Six and five and eight. So 19. What's the eight for? Bad math. Looking at the wrong number. Six and five and six. No, it's six and five. I added eight. That's what I did to get to 20. I looked at, I looked at Braun and saw an eight.
00:25:26
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On my character sheet here because my soak is right above it. Okay, right 17 pierce one pierce one and I don't have enough advantage to do vicious or burn or anything So I will simply pass a boost die to the next person to go with that advantage. Okay, I should heal some strain But I got a feeling we're gonna get some flip so then I was I forgot also you definitely should have been totally different But that's fine. The what he has adversary rings, but oh, yeah. Okay. Well, we we all messed up Huzzah
00:25:55
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So then now I'll get two boost die. When you're passing and one that you're giving. And you can aim and get a third. Because I'm next to you, you get one and I passed one to you. So that's two. And if you'd like to aim, you can get a third. I'll aim. And you don't need to do a maneuver to get to him. And then I'll get two green. Two green. And difficulty. The difficulty is two rat. But I'm invisible. That's fine. The difficulty is how hard it is to hit him. You know what? Take another blue. You're invisible.
00:26:22
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Um, and add a purple. Okay. Okay. Do you like to flip story point to change one of those greens to a Lolo? Should I gang? We have three now.
00:26:36
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And Eris hasn't used her human back yet. Let's do it. Because I can always get it back if I fail, right? Now I can. Yeah, that's true. Oh, yeah. Cool. I remember. Yeah, you should always in combat checks flip one then. I think it's once per encounter, if I remember the talent correctly. Is that what it is? Oh, wow. Well, let's see. There's a despair. Oh, good. He couldn't see it. He couldn't see it. So this goes away? No.
00:27:06
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So these go away. That's not good. Nope. You still succeeded. Look at that. So then this just turns into this, right? Yes. But that success and the failure from the despair cancel out. Right. But there is still one success. So still one success. Three advantage, five advantage, a despair.
00:27:27
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So essentially as a success that it does despair to try out. And it goes off of my advantage, right? You can spend two, spend two of them to freeze. So he's immobilized. Yeah. The damage is, I said base four plus your brawn is two. So seven plus one is eight damage. Six.
00:27:52
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Four plus his brawn of two is six. Oh, right. We ain't math and right today. It was mostly my fault, but. Seven total damage. He's immobilized and you still have four. Three advantage.
00:28:08
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Three advantage. What would you like to do with that? You could pass an upgrade to the next check, so. I think I would like to do that, yes. Okay, pass an upgrade, cool. And a despair. The easiest thing would just be to not be invisible anymore. I think that happens, because didn't that end when he did a combat check? Wasn't that the conditions of the weapon? I don't think so. Not in Genesis. Well, I'm sorry, I thought that was the condition on the knife, not the spell. I'm misremembering.
00:28:37
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if you make a combat check after you've depleted it to freeze the person. Was Hob in contact with him when I froze him?
00:28:51
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I mean, both Hob and Milo were in engaged with Jason when all of this popped off. I mean, I could have been touching him. That's true. So, yeah, let's say. Yeah, I mean, the the ice. Effectively explodes out like because you've never used this before, so you just like whack him with this ice rod. So that was before soak seven damage that you did. So seven damage.
00:29:20
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between the two of us. No. No, actually, I'll take it by you because my soaks ate now. Oh, to lose today for the listener. I have here seven. I am wearing my new harness. And it looks great. OK, that is it for Raynard's turn because action maneuver. So third PC slot, Eris or Milo. I'll shoot. OK, Eris gets the upgrade from Raynard's check.
00:29:51
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What are you gonna do? You're probably gonna do something harder. You should go so you can have that upgrade. It's too difficulty. I'm just gonna try to set him on fire. Oh, okay. With ice? Hey. It's the bottom of fire and ice. Sorry, I'm gonna set his head on fire. Okay, so you are, we said medium range away. We did. So...
00:30:15
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You are too, that would be too purple, but it's going to be too red given his adversaries ranks. Yep. Yeah. Go ahead and add a purple. Gogglers. And that is aiming. So many dice.
00:30:38
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Do I benefit from this thing that's giving boost dice to people? Yeah, to be engaged to me. Okay. Engage to be engaged with me. I mean, whatever, dude. It's been a long time coming. Alright, then here we go. Oh, and just so I don't forget, as an instant on my turn, give us one of the story points back. All of a sudden.
00:31:04
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It's a lot of empty things. Yeah, it is a lot of failure. Crap. I have definitely missed. Yeah. Is that. That eats that. And that eats that for advantage, though, but just for advantage. Right. Don't know.
00:31:32
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I didn't use that upgrade. Roll a green. Nope. It's yellow. Cause the screen would go away and be replaced by this yellow. There's only one face that can make this work. That's that right now. It's just so much more advantage. Uh, okay. So five advantage and no successes.
00:32:02
Speaker
A lot of advantage. How advantageous. Oh, and my Fletcher is of superior quality. So it's actually six advantage. What shall we do? Just had one success. I could trigger all the things all at once, but it is the last.
00:32:30
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Uh, he's already immobilized. Oh, that's not useful. If you pass an upgrade, I guess I'm passing an upgrade. Cause I got just gets him an extra green. Cause he rolls for four yellow. Yeah. Yeah. I'm passing an upgrade. I can't take anything else useful to do. I mean that, that was three advantage on a rain arch check. So you want to pass two upgrades or you could have no strain. Um,
00:33:00
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Or you could upgrade the difficulty of his next check of passing upgrade and then also pass the upgrade. Just realized that what's about to happen is Tasha is going to try and bite his face. Um, yeah, I'll pass two, two upgrades, two. Does this work? I'm about to have Tasha act. Does the upgrades end up at her? The upgrades end up in Milo as a player.
00:33:38
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Tasha dives and attempts to claw at his face. This will put her engaged with Hobb, so. Did she get the boost? Yeah. I think so. That he is going to deplete an amulet around his neck. So upgrade the difficulty. So add another red. Because it's upgraded difficulty twice, so it would add a purple, then turn that purple into a red.
00:33:40
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I think you're passing them to the player.
00:34:08
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I don't like that. Yeah, this isn't gonna happen. Oh my gosh. So very not. Three advantage left over. Another upgrade. Sure, why not? So three upgrades to mine. So that would add a yellow and a green, right? Yeah. That's a good pool, my guy. You might want to do something besides just burping. Do the gnarliest thing you've got with that pool.
00:34:38
Speaker
So you're adding burn to your attack. Don't forget that. Well, if, well, if you get to do that for free with your wallet, right? So, um, are you just attacking with the fire quality or are you adding something else? It's already ensnared though. I think I'll just do and it's guaranteed to work almost.
00:35:07
Speaker
You can add, I'm just, you know, you have the empowered where the attack would deal twice to the characteristic linked. So instead of plus four for your intelligence, it would be plus eight, but that would add to purple your check. But if you hit really hit just for Randy's consideration reference, does he have a difficulty to purple right now or is it too red?
00:35:37
Speaker
So adversary is all combat checks against this target twice. And technically, according to the rules, Arcana is listed as a magic skill, not a combat skill. Okay. Wow. The spell I was thinking about is too purple.
00:35:55
Speaker
Loophole. Seems very advantageous for magic users, but also magic users are constantly gaining strength and encounter, but they can do crazy stuff. So anyway, right now we'll let you stick with Two Purple. So, do you want to add two more purple? It's still a good pool. I want to set him on fire. He's currently sitting at five yellow, a green, a blue, and two purple.
00:36:22
Speaker
It's very good. Very good pool. So do you want to add two purple empowered or do you want to just set the guy on fire? Or you could add one purple and give your attack a crit rating of two instead of only being able to crit on a triumph. Is this still going to set him on fire?
00:36:38
Speaker
Yes, it would still set him on fire. This is all in addition to setting him on fire. Yeah, fire doesn't go away, my dude. The fire is a constant. I know you got your spell cards over there, but that's the beauty of the Genesis magic system is you can do whatever you want and combine it in any way that you want. And the setting him on fire part, he does have to spend advantage on that. Yes, he gains the burn quality.
00:36:59
Speaker
I think it's worth adding the purple. So we're doing the empowered. We're adding the two purple to double your damage base and not the crit rating. Just making sure. Okay. So now it's three, four, five yellow, a green, a blue, and four purple. Would you like to spend a story point to change that green to a yellow?
00:37:20
Speaker
Sure. We have four story points. You're like trying to really help Milo out here. I like it. Watch me beep this. Just four blank yellows on this roll. Not that, not four blank yellows. Somebody help. Okay, hang on. No triumph. Okay, it looks good. What do we got?
00:37:42
Speaker
for success to advantage. Just enough to burn. Just enough to set him on fire. For success plus six doubled? No, plus eight doubled.
00:37:54
Speaker
Oh no, plus four doubles. So four plus four. Four plus eight, 12. Four plus eight is 12, plus three from your one. You've got team. We cannot let people know how bad we are at math all of a sudden. You've got to edit this cleverly. And then the burn is equal to my arcana knowledge skill. No, so it's burned four. Four. So 15 damage. How long does it burn left? And that's doubled with the empowered?
00:38:18
Speaker
So you got, so it would only be 11 damage if you didn't do the empowered. Oh, I want to do that. You did the empowered. You already did the empowered. The empowered just happened. Oh, okay. Yeah. When we were doing the math. What was his damage? It was 15. It was 15. Okay. Cause he gets three from his one. I missed the last, I missed the three. Okay. We're good. Okay. It's like 11 to 12 is not, no, nothing got doubled in there. I don't know. A one, a one got doubled in there. Ignacio. Yeah. You gotta say his name.
00:38:48
Speaker
You burnt my bar. You killed my wife. This is retribution. I mean, describe how Ignacio dies.
00:39:05
Speaker
Could it be after the hat? Could he have said that first? Yeah. Absolutely. That was as he was burning from within. Holy crap. We didn't even take a full round, or we just kicked out of the full round. You all got one lick in. Well, I looked a few people on accident, but yeah, go ahead. The little wand, the little black beam. The leg of the bar stool.
00:39:30
Speaker
Yes. From the fire. The leg of the barstool from the fire. The only thing that Milo could find in the remnants that reminded him of Miley, of all things. Miley. Oh, thank you. He loves her so much. He loves her so much. He always calls him Miley. Like it was yesterday.
00:39:49
Speaker
I should have never named her Kylie. The beam goes right in through his forehead and the molecules inside of his head just start catching on fire until he just begins to burn and just spontaneously combusts.
00:40:13
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, and he he falls backwards, cracking through. I mean, the heat melts the ice enough to where he just falls limp on the ground. Those of you that can all of you are watching this, in addition to the obvious smoke that would occur from Jason Ignacio being
00:40:31
Speaker
Uh, cooked the smoke from Milo's forehead has thickened and is coming out a bit more intensely as all of this is happening. Um, and Milo, you, you feel the power, I guess, not in like a, you just, you feel the energy coursing through you in a, in a significant way more so than when you typically use magic. Um, so yeah. Um,
00:41:03
Speaker
And then you. Give me a perception check with a. One red difficulty Milo. Is there any way we can assist? I need this to work, whatever it is. Flip a story point, I mean. But no, this is this is literally an internal thing. Two greens, two greens, you would flip a story point to upgrade to a yellow. Yeah.
00:41:35
Speaker
So just two yellow? No, it's one yellow, one green. Because you asked for two greens, right? Well, my perception is one yellow, two greens. Two yellow, one green. I get a green. Two purple differences. Or one red. Sorry, that's what I said. One red.
00:41:49
Speaker
Three success. Two success and an advantage it looks like. Two success and an advantage. There's nothing verbalized in your head. You don't hear anything, but you feel a strong, it's weird to say external because it's happening within you, but you feel another sense of finality and retribution and like,
00:42:18
Speaker
Fist pump like, yeah, like you did it kind of thing internally. Okay. Milo gets a little smile on his face. And you rolled one advantage? Is that what you had on that? Yes. Okay. What do you want to do with the advantage? Illestrain? Cleaning crew comes in right away. Two more right there.
00:42:48
Speaker
Um, not my strains. All right. You just suffered too. So yeah, that's just put me at four plus at the end of the encounter, I can try to heal some, right? And we are out of the encounter now, obviously. Yeah.
00:43:05
Speaker
So yeah, Jason's body lies smoldering on the ground. His eyes having been burned out. I mean, that would be the first thing to go. So in front of the new construction of keg bottoms, Milo standing over him holding the leg of the bar stool from the old version of keg bottoms. I was going to do a thing he's never done.
00:43:33
Speaker
and inspect the body. Okay.
00:43:37
Speaker
Um, so looking at the body, uh, Oh, the, the illusion fades away. So you see the image, uh, and this would have happened while he was burning Milo. As you were talking to him, the Jason Visage would have slipped away to show Ignacio, the Ronnie, um, death Ronnie. Um, so he's wearing black leathers, uh, leather armor, uh, with an amulet around his neck with a large red jewel, but the red jewel seems to be a little bit cracked and like diminished.
00:44:09
Speaker
And he has 15 gold on him. Couple of daggers that seem to have maybe some magical property to deal more damage. They don't see it like intricate as Reynard's new dagger or anything. So they're not like hyper powerful, but they're just good quality magic weapons.
00:44:29
Speaker
but that's all he brought with him because he thought he was just, you know, having a meeting with Viggo. So that's all you've got when you investigate the body. So, yeah. Aris, from your vantage point, I mean, people are looking. A guy just got burned out from the inside out. So, you know, a fight broke out and somebody died. So people are taking notice at this point.
00:45:00
Speaker
Probably cheese it. Right. You want this thing, this amulet thing? I'll look at it. Okay. Break the chain. I assume I can do that. Or is he too brittle? Something gives. Gross. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm not going to describe anything, but you can just use your imagination. One way or another. I got an amulet. Yeah. Um, okay. And, um,
00:45:30
Speaker
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00:46:36
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