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Ep. 05 - Wildheart - OFFICIAL SEASON 3 PREMIER: Stone and Stars
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Season 3 begins here!
We meet three of our intrepid heroes: Garrick Bladeheart - the headstrong paladin of Vatinis, Rokahurangi Likapekulasahaukea Fetuleyiamoy - the golliath monk with a penchant for the fabled 'Surgedive', and Falco Le Dure - a halfling bard on a quest for hero.
They discover the ravine-side town of Stormspire - a central location within Wildheart, famous for its markets and Surgedive locations. They meet some shopkeepers, cross a rickety bridge and stave off a band of savage brigands - all good hearty team building.
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Introduction to Storm Spire and Wild Heart
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Speaker
People of Storm Spire, gather your eyes, gather your ears, for before you stands a hero unlike any other, the Knight of Stone and Stars. And I'll point at Garrick.
Exploration Resources and Wild Heart's Landscape
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Speaker
Welcome to Wild Heart, the Tide Surge Gambit, a world of shifting tides, high-stakes adventure and unfolding mystery. Want to explore more? Head to fellowshipofthetabletop.co.uk for maps, lore and our latest blog.
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Speaker
And if you can't get enough, check out The Interregnums, our short fiction series dropping every other Tuesday. Or Bellum Draconis, our sister actual play podcast releasing every Friday.
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Speaker
Now, let's dive in. A spine of mountain far to the east, just from the sodden soil rising out, snow clings to the mountains to the north and hugs the vast expanse of the sea beyond, the great beyond.
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Speaker
Cocooned within the range of peaks sits the long and untamed kingdom of Wild Heart, the last of the original 11 kingdoms in Ereth, the first yet to be inhabited, if modern history speaks to truth.
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Speaker
With borders to three kingdoms, Wildheart shares a unique blend of cultures, the insular Shadomendians to the north, the military savants of the Hentis Empire, and the churning beast of industry and iron, the high Jadeheart lands to the south, the only dwarven kingdom known on Erith.
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Speaker
Despite the size and wealth of Wildheart, it lacks strong leadership. Factions rule supreme, with each town or city following a loose set of moral codes, Each, however, develop their own slants on the word of the crest bearer, the current leader of Wild Heart, Grayson Kallish, head of the order known as the Tide Callers.
The Tidal Surge and Its Magical Influence
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They hear the surge, feel it before time, plan and warn for its coming. Etched deep into this mountainous kingdom lies the treasure of Wild Heart,
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an uncontrollable force that brings wealth or death to any and all who venture too close. Such is its power, it dominates religion, language, agriculture, the economy and the mindset of its people.
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comes almost once a week, cascading through the deep, worn ravines from north to south, its origin unknown, but it comes nonetheless. a wall, a wave, a force of water that barrels through the ravines, hurtling down estuaries and up towards the mountains.
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Speaker
If one were to enter the wave, death would be your only reward. But time it right. And the wave drags down items and treasures from the north.
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The wave itself instills infusions into objects, giving them magical properties and the rumor of gold. More gold than the the banks of Scorchhelm, Goldview and Obsidia combined.
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The Tidal Surge. One of the great wonders of Erith. Its power is unmatched, yet the life it brings to those who live near the ravines is like a river running through a desert.
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Speaker
Suddenly these treacherous mountains seem worth the hassle if exotic food, wealth and excitement are in abundance.
Life and Trade in Storm Spire
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Speaker
Storm Spire. Central Wild Heart, a town hewn from the high peaks either side of the ravine.
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Speaker
a series of rope bridges and ladders crisscross at numerous points between the town's two halves. It stretches up a number of tiers on the north side. The south side is lower and but more affluent. Height from the tidal storage doesn't always mean more wealth.
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Those who are closest to the ravine are quickest to react and therefore reap the rewards. The town is a hub for trade and sits right in the middle of Wild Heart, making it a natural thoroughfare for almost all trade running through.
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Speaker
There are one or two stone bridges that connect certain key points across the ravine, but many of the ways across this two halves of the city, of the town, sorry, are these thin rope bridges.
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Speaker
And that's where we find ourselves. We find ourselves at Stormspire Market, the entrance to the town and this second tier. We're kind of on the south side looking up towards the north side.
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And spanning both of these at this current bridge, this current precipice is... the storm science by a market. The place ah we find ourselves in firstly is a bustling marketplace with strange colored fauna and flora that seems to populate the area.
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Speaker
The ground is this gritty, almost ashen brown pulp that doesn't quite act like soil. things our normal resources would struggle to grow here grass flowers etc but these interesting flowers pop up and in and around these uh kind of high arching twisted trees yearn out of the soil up towards the sun the high sun as it sits at midday blazing hot day cold air cloudless sky the market's bustling the first thing you notice and can describe up for all three of you at the moment um is
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Speaker
The stalls seem quite makeshift. there a number of kind of white and coloured striped awnings over a number of different stalls as you kind of enter through. Not so much a gate, but kind of a palisade that opens up into Stormspire.
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Speaker
This predominantly is for you, Charlie, who we're going to be introducing in just a second. You walk in and you see five or six stalls surrounding you, each with their own individual staring at you. And directly in front of you is a long, maybe 40, 50 foot bridge that seems to dip down past the ravine and then lift itself up to the other side again.
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Speaker
And on the other side, a cacophony of noise and a stage in the middle, standing ah maybe only about five or six feet in the air. And yet upon that stage is an individual, a squat, dark-skinned halfling who seems to be gesticulating wildly.
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Speaker
It doesn't take you more than a step or two to overhear the what he's kind of calling out. It seems part performance, part... ah news report, almost like he's not really a herald, but at the same time there's there's a there a musicality to his voice as he announces.
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Speaker
Oh, the drums! The drums ramble through the deep fire to the south. The winds of war blow, and they blow towards us, towards Wildheart. Our kingdom is fractured.
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Speaker
Without unity, without the defense of the tide-sworn vanguard, we will be overrun. The dwarves see our wealth. And he's turning to the four or five patrons that have stood around looking up at him, many of whom are probably merchants from nearby stalls, one of which is holding a clipboard and looking concerned upwards.
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Speaker
The dwarves see our wealth. They see our infighting and they covet the power of the tidal surge. I have but just returned from the border, our border.
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Speaker
What I saw were garrisons, siege machinery, And the Dwarven Legion, they will march on Wildheart. We must unite or we will perish.
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The high jade heart dwarves come for our tidal surge. Mizzy says that he turns his back, Charlie, to your side of the ravine and your character. And you can kind of hear him muttering away as as he kind of gets heckled from a few of the individuals. And he starts to returning that, um you know, retorting to them.
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Speaker
Charlie, going to introduce your character in just a second, but around you, you've got about five stalls that sit to your right and left, straight in front of you but the with the bridge over the ravine directly in front of you.
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Speaker
Before we go through what you're doing, you want to introduce, not who you're doing, that sounds wrong, but what are you know who who we've got in front of you, what do but what do we see? What you're looking at. Okay, cool. um so you would see um on first glance would probably be what you would perceive as a child in a ah blue musketeer costume.
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Speaker
Right. But upon closer inspection, you would see that it's it's a halfling. um He's wearing a teal leather duster that falls down to his boots um around the collar and across the lapels is embellished with like a floral pattern.
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Speaker
There's dark blonde curls that fall from a powder blue musketeer wide brim hat that has a matching feather. ah On his belt is a worn dagger in its sheath and an empty leather collar where you would guess that his war pick would sit and that his war pick is currently in his hand.
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um More of a fashion statement, imagine more of a pimp stick.
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um The last noteworthy thing other than his is overly large hat is that um on a leather and silver baldric, he carries a ah white horn, a small white horn, halfling size.
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Speaker
Okay. Okay. And as you um as you kind of take your first couple of steps past the palisade into this and you get hit with this cacophony of noise and the smells of food and industry around you, ah there's an individual to your right, a female, quite elderly female human approaches from an awning to your right and walks quite close up to you and tries to tries to take your hand. She looks quite loving and kind, well-dressed, seems to be the merchant from the store behind and tries to kind of take your hand.
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Speaker
Welcome to Storm Spire. Uh, yeah, I'm sorry, lady. Last time I saw a lady like you and we headed to that kind of relationship, she broke a hip. So not for me, and I'll keep working.
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Speaker
Oh, uh, and she's kind of mutters unsure to say as you as you walk past. Are you looking for anything in particular in your walk past or what you are really any milk on any of the stalls? There is um a couple of stalls up on the left, the last one before you reach the ravine. So this was kind of like...
00:11:23
Speaker
It's on the edge, so you'd be stepping about two or three feet away from this the lip of this ravine to get there. You can see sticking out from there and kind of facing the ravine a little bit um is a stall that has kind of meats and drinks. You've got kind of different flavoured waters. You've got some kind of glowing ones. Then also you do see a couple of of of kind of deep white um translucent ma material, which you can assume to be milk.
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and This seems to be a slightly... um ah young looking male behind there who
Arrival of Raka Harangui and Market Exploration
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looks like like a halfling as well as he kind of peeks over the stall. ah Hello?
00:11:58
Speaker
ah yeah yeah Sorry, just just window sharp and I'll come back later. I'll just make a mental note of that stall that I'll swing by later um and make a beeline for but this stage area. Okay, which involves crossing the the bridge.
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Speaker
Yeah. So I walk confidently comfortly to the edge of the bridge. And at that point I would stop dead still. I oh ah i probably haven't crossed one of these before.
00:12:23
Speaker
Correct. yeah Yeah. um And you look down and it is about a, ah you can perceive, what's your perception? Okay, quite low. But let's say yeah you perceive it to be about 150 down before you'd hit water.
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Speaker
And down there, it does look like a thin meniscus of water, but it's like, you know, when you see those rivers that have kind of almost dried out and it's just the last little wisps of it. It's almost like there's no water here except the thin little bit. almost feels like a ravine. And down there, you can see these strange mollusks and, um,
00:12:54
Speaker
corn-like um plants growing that had these strange luminescent colours. There's moss that glows. there's all this weird fauna down there particularly that grows. And then the walls themselves of the ravine are bare. It's just rock all the way down. um And as you approach the edge of this bridge, you can you can see it shake ever so slightly gently from side to side as your as your hand reaches out. It's kind of ah hemp ropes along the sides and then wooden planks along the middle or again tied by rope.
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Speaker
ah Looks quite sturdy. There's no fraying or anything that you can see as you stand there. Okay. All right. I'll take a deep breath in and definitely not like Shrek, I'm looking down. I'll be like, like head up and start taking left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot as I can across the bridge.
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Speaker
Could you do a, um, I just do a dexterity check, please. Just a straight dex roll, please. use Obviously, if you've got modifier, you can chuck that.
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Speaker
um That's a five to start. Okay, cool. All right. ah You confidently step on and boom, boom, one, two, and you're getting to about the apex, the middle of it, and um your foot slips and falls down through one of the, ah between two of them. Not that broken, it's sturdy wood, um but just falls through between it and it seems to lodge your foot there. and Your horn's now kind of up, up, up in your armpit and your war pick, again, is kind of tucked up in your arm as...
00:14:24
Speaker
You're upright. You've got no risk of real falling, but you seem to be quite stuck in that central position. is there anything you want to do? Yeah, i'll I'll raise my um what looks like ceremonial horn and I'll use it like a rape whistle in a alarm.
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Okay. Is it like... Anybody? Anybody?
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Speaker
And um suddenly you'll see this haggard old man with a long, crispy beard kind of ah come up to the edge of the of the ravine from the far side, the side you were aiming to get towards on the stage. And this isn't the chap who was on the stage. This is looks like one of the other merchants.
00:15:02
Speaker
Hey, I'm coming. Don't worry. And he's going to step, step, step, step step on. And let me just, for shits and giggles, give him a roll.
00:15:11
Speaker
okay that was a three and he is going to step step step step and then he's going to miss one of his feet and he's going to fall sideways onto his back he's holding on with one arm but now the whole bridge starts to shake and because of that it opens up a little bit more and it slips up to your kind of upper thigh and it's kind of engulfing your hip as well what a good first roll charlie brilliant um and it's engulfed i just wanted to cross the bridge um engulfing your hips like this old man's now ah Help!
00:15:37
Speaker
Help! Just fucking stay still! Stop moving! Stop! Just stop! Okay. Can somebody else that has decent balance help me off this fucking bridge? Solwind!
00:15:51
Speaker
i ah so wind Lyra, come and help us. And he calls back and you see this ah quite tall, very slender elf ah female step out from behind it and look very bored by the whole situation. it's going to reach with one hand and grab a hold of this chap and with some difficulty managed to kind of pull him back and get him out onto the side. And she kind of, uh, you can see her mouthing some words of maybe advice, strongly worded advice to this chap as he walks away and kind of tucks his tail between his legs, not real tail, but his metaphorical tail between his legs and returns back to his stall, which from this position you think probably sells potions or
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Speaker
There's liquid there anyway. And then she looks back towards the middle of the bridge and she steps on with one step each and looks over to you.
00:16:43
Speaker
You're not one of us. ah Lady, I'll be whoever you want me to be. Just just get me out of this mess, please. Sounds like a promise you possibly can't keep.
00:16:56
Speaker
Okay. And she's going to start gracefully kind of dip dim di quite nimbly stepping across ah sir thank god um nippling, nippling, nimbly walking across, nippling, walking across the steps towards you. And she's going to kind of try and take hold of, mean, holding up hands. you Do you want just to grab you by the armpits? Like a baby that wants, the toddler that wants to be picked up.
00:17:18
Speaker
Mommy, mommy. So she's gonna try and grab kind of the the forearm of your arm to hope to kind of grab and pull you out that way. And that's her aim. Fuck me.
00:17:29
Speaker
Okay, that's a natural one. So she um she just slips her hand, kind of falls out from that and she tumbles back and kind of lands on her bum backwards, but she's upright and she's just facing you and her face goes bright red at this.
00:17:45
Speaker
I've never fallen on one of these bridges. Wait, this must be common purpose in this city. that how The whole thing's built around these bridges. is Can anyone here walk across these bridges safely? Where's the health and safety?
00:17:57
Speaker
Why is your arm so sweaty? ah just Sweaty? Because I'm about to, my balls are about to pass through this crack in the wood. Your balls are the least of your problems, mate. Come on. And she's going to just grab you by the kind of the the ah rough of your collar, whatever it's kind of fluffy sticking out there, grab you by the lapels of your jacket and kind of just try and yank you out.
00:18:18
Speaker
Oh my God. um And she can't physically pull you up. And she's going to, she's going to look around. ah Longside, get over here.
00:18:29
Speaker
And the bar, the bardi an individual on stage is going to kind of buffle onto the bridge and he's going to see what's happening and he's going to buffle down next to her. And he kind of moves with this weird kind of side to side movement, like some kind of, I've, my mind, I got like from Pac-Man, but anyway, he kind of sideside, side, side, and he waddles all down like he's got an issue with his bum. Oh my God, I've rolled nothing higher than a five so far.
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Speaker
And he biffs into um into this woman, Solwind, well, she was referred by the man earlier. And she kind of bumbles off to the side. And this is quite a small bridge. It should be kind of five foot, one person at a time.
00:19:04
Speaker
And he kind of stands next to her. What seems to be the problem here? What seems to be the... Who the fuck is this guy? I just came to spread the word of what I know is going to come down here. He's going to squat there next to you.
00:19:19
Speaker
Do you know of the dwarves to the south? didit the did The dwarves to the south? Yes. What, do they have some kind of secret method for getting people out of bridges?
00:19:29
Speaker
They're coming here and we need to band together or this kingdom will fall. And he starts announcing out and using this as his new kind of metaphorical stage as he kind of starts on another rant.
00:19:45
Speaker
Ah, he's ranting, ranting, ranting. And he starts ranting, ranting. There are the dwarves are coming. We must band together, my people. And at one point, Lyra just turns and with the tips of her fingers, just thwacks him hard in the penis.
00:19:57
Speaker
And ah he stops and as he reaches down to kind of cover his bit, she grabs his hand and just reaches, pushes it over to grab a hold of your collar and still wincing. He grabs your collar, she grabs the other side and they're both now going to pull. So I'll get to roll this with advantage.
00:20:12
Speaker
Who thought getting you over a bridge? Okay. Would be that hard, finally. And because the first one was a two. and We've got a 12. There you go. Finally, finally, it kind of pops you up out of it. You've got this, you've got this, not a tear, but it's ah it's ah definitely a clear pleated line where your foot, your leg's been wedged in between this. The material's not broken though, but you can...
00:20:36
Speaker
little bit of wear and tear that you kind of pop up onto the side and Lyra instantly lets go and um starts to to walk away the ah the female elf and the ah the slightly older sweaty man with the um the the person who was on the stage kind of is panting.
00:20:50
Speaker
ah His breath's a little too close to you. Are you okay? get out of my face, you fucking weirdo. And I'll try and, I know there's not enough room, but I'll try and push past him on the small bridge.
00:21:03
Speaker
And does he keep his balance? Hooray, 16. Yes, he does. And he just, out the way as you kind of pass over to the other side of the, you pass, we got over the bridge. Hooray. Cool. You got over the bridge. That was it. That was it. You know, all sorted. That's it. As easy as that.
00:21:20
Speaker
um And on the other side, you do notice the stage. It's about 15 foot by 10 foot wide. um It's only about two or three feet high and around it are three stalls. a bit busy the other side.
00:21:33
Speaker
And a few of them do look and you see little sniggers and little and little laughs out of one or two of the of the people stood around as they watched that little um dance take place on the bridge.
00:21:43
Speaker
think it's almost a rite of passage, you assume. But there are a couple of other merchants here selling other wares. And as you just glance around, you see a few things which I will kill for time as I bring up the right tab, including someone selling kind of textiles. There's a small, very enclosed forge.
00:22:00
Speaker
ah Someone's whittling down a very thin pieces of wood you assume to make arrows or darts or something like that. There's a very strong smelling apothecary stall kind of crunching up materials and you can smell incense and something else odd in the air.
00:22:16
Speaker
And then finally you can see that old chap who tried to come over and help you in the first place and his stall with ah what seems to be ah glowing, ah it's the same colour but glowing liquids lined up multiple times.
00:22:29
Speaker
And there's also the chap with the ah clipboard who's just stood perplexed watching this entire time as you as you kind of cross over. ah is there anywhere you want to go first?
00:22:40
Speaker
um I'll give a bit of a side eye to all the people sniggering. Just ah an off comment. Yeah, I've got to show you happy now. And then I'll start walking towards the... So what's the stools? I'm not, I'm not going to bother with the stage because I think I've made enough of a tip myself already. So I'll, uh, I'll go, I'll go browsing for anything. Um, is there anyone who looks military or guard-like?
00:23:08
Speaker
Yeah, they there is, there's actually one chap, um, which surprises you as you walk past ah with a crossbow. And he seems to be wearing chain mail or something with kind of a blue, but some kind of blue kind of tabard over the top of it.
00:23:21
Speaker
It's all too... kind of salt-crusted to see if there's an insignia on the front, but he's been stood near the bridge watching this whole thing take place. He doesn't seem affiliated with any of the stalls.
00:23:33
Speaker
There's him and there's also the chap with the small ah small forge who looks quite burly. And from your perception, you could take that he's possibly, yeah he's he's the late side of 40, but might have seen military combat at some point in the past.
00:23:50
Speaker
Okay. um I'll head to the the guy at the forge. it sounds Yeah. Yep. So you poach up and you see sign above Stoneweaver's wares weavers wheres and um you see this yeah quite...
00:24:05
Speaker
Yeah, quite large forearms. He's got kind of like a, what's the one? Not walrus mustache. they look the goat Yeah, the little goatee job going Bald head. And um just a big old couple of scars on the skull and the back of the head as well. He's wearing...
00:24:20
Speaker
um kind of not much on the top half and then just did kind of a pair of kind of very loose trousers tied up with a bit of rope barefoot. And around him he's got a so bunch of um stone weapons that he's kind of um chiseling out, but then also one or two ah really particular weapons of of of of iron or or steel.
00:24:41
Speaker
And what's interesting about a few of these weapons is the one that he's currently hammering down on, and glows doesn't glow like it glows from forge. It seems to have this slightly luminescent glow, a glow that reminds you of what you saw as you passed over, stuck in the ravine
Introduction of Garrick Bladeheart
00:24:57
Speaker
for a good 25, 30 seconds.
00:25:00
Speaker
And he just gives it a couple of bang, bang, and then looks up. Yep. You're doing some smithing, are you?
00:25:11
Speaker
Yeah, obviously. Can you know can you not tell?
00:25:15
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I mean, i'm a I'm a bit of a smith myself, actually. yeah yeah You don't look like one. the The best halfling smiths don't look like smiths. It's ah it's a hidden secret, hidden skill.
00:25:27
Speaker
But my my hands are incredibly calloused. um Can I see? ah What, these hands? yeah I can tell a lot from a smith by his hands, the style that he dukes with.
00:25:39
Speaker
Uh... Sure. I mean, I've been using a lot of moisturiser recently, but yeah, sure. Yeah. Have a look. And I'll show him my palms that are like pristine. I haven't picked anything up in days. Fantastic.
00:25:54
Speaker
He looks at them for a second, looks up at you, looks back down at it. And he's just going to give you hand a little slap. They're the hands of a, he winks of a blacksmith. All right.
00:26:10
Speaker
I'll be a bit taken aback. there ah yeah yeah Yeah, well, yeah, like like I said, bit of a Smith myself. I dabble in masonry, but mainly metal work. um But good to have someone to talk to in this crazy mixed up world.
00:26:23
Speaker
um I'm looking for, and I don't know if you can help me, Jai Ali.
00:26:31
Speaker
We'll say to you. but and I'm just looking for him. I've got an appointment.
00:26:39
Speaker
I know if you can just come up here and just ask for things and get what you want. Or do I look like a guide? I'm not a guide of wild heart. I'm a smith of wild heart. Yeah, and that's why I came to you, because I'm a smith, and I thought we'd have some kind of rapport here.
00:26:54
Speaker
Could you roll for persuasion, please? Or deception? It's your call. Because it's we're borderline, so I don't mind which one you Yeah, I'll do persuasion if that's 16. Okay. Okay.
00:27:06
Speaker
sixteen and
00:27:10
Speaker
By the stoning stars. All you're waterlogged imbecile. I'll let you know. I'll let you know where you need to find him. But he's not always here. He's sometimes in Stormsby. He's sometimes to the north. He's sometimes to the south. He's sometimes all over.
00:27:26
Speaker
But ah i I will tell you. Come here. Lean close. I'll lean in, let eyes wide. Closer. That could be awkward, but get a bit closer.
00:27:42
Speaker
three gold and it's all yours.
00:27:47
Speaker
ah By the stone and stars. Um, and I'll, I'll reach into my, um, gold pouch and I'll take out, I'll take out three gold, but I'll put them in his hand one by one and just see if he stops me.
00:28:00
Speaker
So I'll do one. i know just no And hand out still. And then I'll do two. And there's no movement.
00:28:10
Speaker
And then I'll be really pissed off and go three. And the minute that third one hits, bang, hand's closed. Head up the road, head up round here. And you know the tavern here? Yeah, of course I know the tavern here.
00:28:25
Speaker
Last time I saw him, he was up that way. So head yourself round there and good as that. Just because I've been to a few taverns round here. which Which exact one are you talking about?
00:28:36
Speaker
And he's going to look a little bit, well, the only one that anyone will go to around here. You know, the one, I'm busy. I'll get back to it. You. And as he says that he's just going to turn his head o to the bridge area. And suddenly his face is going to start to pale and his expression drops. And the,
00:28:57
Speaker
The tools he currently has in his hand starts to fall to a side as he starts to reach down towards one of the swords, the, we can assume is some kind of magically enhanced sword, as he looks up and suddenly drops down low into some kind of military stance.
00:29:11
Speaker
And he just suddenly stops speaking and his gaze is taken towards the direction of the bridge. Okay. We're just, we're going to pause you. We're going pause you there. We're going pause you there and roll back a little bit of time.
00:29:23
Speaker
And what we come to is the end of that speech from the Bard. And we're going to introduce Will's character. We're going to introduce you in just a second. Um,
00:29:37
Speaker
not mere seconds after Charlie's character, who we haven't actually figured out the name of yet, heads over the bridge and gets stuck. As that happens, you fall through and there's a cacophony of people around your character.
00:29:50
Speaker
A new figure approaches from exactly the same direction through the palisade, not two, three minutes behind you. And again, it's first approached by... the old lady, but what's different, Will, for your characters is, as you know, you've been kind of tailed since entering by this young boy, this teenager who's been kind of following and very affable, very kind, who just wants to help.
00:30:13
Speaker
And he's been following you in, trying to ah trying to give you some advice and and help you out as you make your way through. And you realize his name is Kip, ah but he also goes by Drift as well, which you assume is his kind of pseudonym that he likes or his street name, if you will.
00:30:29
Speaker
And he's going to um he's going to kind of take a step up and go, Ta-da! I told you I'd get you here. And he turns to you.
00:30:39
Speaker
Will, what do we see? So it couldn't be more different from what Charlie's character is like. ah You can see a seven foot two Goliath.
00:30:51
Speaker
They have ah kind of a ah dark gray skin. They are absolutely shredded. So like muscular, not like bulky muscular, ah but kind of like ah lean, but absolutely shredded. We're talking six pack. We're talking cum gutters. We're talking the works.
00:31:08
Speaker
um they i had to get it in there. They're bald, but they have this dark kind of black brownish beard um that is about a half a foot long or so, but it's braided, perfectly braided down their chin.
00:31:24
Speaker
And it looks like it's kind of held together with some sort of woven... ah material or ribbon at the base of it there. His head, chest, arms are all tattooed, like runic style tattoos spreading over um the works of them.
00:31:40
Speaker
He has on his wrists these kind of hand wraps that like are interwoven, they almost look like ah like a latticed top of an apple pie. um And he also has this single shoulder bronze, kind of orangey tiger-ish coloured tank top vest that's draped down over one shoulder, down to a belt at his waist.
00:32:02
Speaker
um He has these dark red baggy pantaloons down to his feet, um which are also wrapped in that similar style of ah kind of material there.
00:32:13
Speaker
He has over his back a big backpack. um You can see that there's like a rope attached to it in there as well. It's filled with various different supplies. um And he also kind of across his back as well has this um Just big wooden staff, nothing ah unique about it, like it doesn't look like it's uniquely carved, doesn't look like it's as much to it, looks basically like it's just a big long stick, um but that's what he's got across his back, that's who you see um entering with ah drift.
00:32:48
Speaker
And Drift again looks to you, he's got mess of brown hair, kind of covering his forehead and slightly over his eyes, his tattered clothes, same as you saw him not, you know, 20 minutes ago, promising to help you wherever he can ah be your guide.
00:33:02
Speaker
And he turns to you, so, ah ah sorry, ah couldn't remember your name again. What was it again? Oh, ah sure. My name is Raka Harangui Likopeculasa Hokea Fetulia Moi.
00:33:17
Speaker
um It's not a problem. Some people have ah a little bit of ah a difficulty there as well. um Before we go further, do ah okay you... Are you okay?
00:33:28
Speaker
Could you just say that again? I just missed the ah and ah beginning, middle, and end bit of it. Sure. ah Raka Harangui Likopeculasa Hokea Fetulia Moi.
00:33:41
Speaker
okay Yeah, I thought so. Have you got a different name I can call you? Something like Tall Boy or Muscle Man? My friends back home call me Rokaharangui Likupeculasa Fetuliumoi. Yeah, so I was going to say that. Okay, but I mean, choose if you want.
00:34:01
Speaker
so I'm not too fussed. it's I don't take it kind of to heart. Okay, Rokaharangui Flungamui. Here's the... Storm Spire Market. I told you get you here. um We were looking for so um people, right? I was going to get you to people. People, you needed to get to people, yeah?
00:34:21
Speaker
ah Well, yeah. that I mean, the flyer, and he's going to kind of reach into his backpack and just pull out this kind of flyer that he's got there, and he's going to quickly scan over it. ah Like the the the wave riders, they they've got a meeting here somewhere. ah Do you know anything about this? And he's going to kind of pass it over to Drift.
00:34:41
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I can't read. But yeah, they probably there's a meeting house. Oh, right. um Where is that? And he's going to kind of point.
00:34:52
Speaker
And he's going to point both fingers towards the bridge, over the bridge, directly past the stalls. There's an old lady literally grasping at your ah your side. just Welcome to Stormspire.
00:35:03
Speaker
Oh, thank you. um Hi. Come here. Let me show you my wares. ah Okay. And I'll go with ah Come, come in. And it's literally just a little awning over there. i think it's a red and white striped awning, quite wide, fat stripes.
00:35:18
Speaker
And takes a step or two in and you you enter into what smells like quite a salty, briny stall. And it's a wooden table and upon it are just what seemed like an array of coral, lots lots of pieces of coral.
00:35:29
Speaker
Many of them, again, given this faint glowing color. I've collected these. My brother and i used to collect these when we were children from the tidal surges many moons ago, and now i sell them as ornaments to the surge.
00:35:45
Speaker
Would you care to look at them? I mean, it smells amazing. Are these... can you eat these? Are they... like, what do you do with them?
00:35:56
Speaker
These are ornaments for lighting or for giving prayer or returning back to the waters when the wave approaches. ah Or you can just keep it upon your person for very good luck.
00:36:08
Speaker
I have kept these myself and no harm has come to me so far. ah Yeah, sure. ah How much are you selling these for? And she's going to, her hand's going to kind of lean over a few of them, kind of pause on a few items. And then there's quite a small one that glows a slightly pinkish-purply light. Quite small, almost looks like a floret of ah cauliflower. Quite tiddly and so on, or big cauliflower, like a little one.
00:36:34
Speaker
And she's going to pick it up. This one was one of the earliest i collected. You have been the first today to be affable to my...
00:36:45
Speaker
ways and my language and i wished and my culture and I wish to give this to you. No money. Oh, are you sure? It's beautiful.
00:36:57
Speaker
Okay. And he'll hold out a hand and kind of collect it and and just look it over in his hands. Does it does it look... um I know that she said it's got great sentimental value at all. Does it does it look kind of shoddy or does it this
Mysterious Chaos in the Ravine
00:37:13
Speaker
look like it's actually some care has gone into this?
00:37:15
Speaker
I they're not made. They they they look like coral. Oh, they're found. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're pieces of, they have the same texture as coral. theyre small pieces of coral that have the image of kind of like almost like a small, think part mushroom, part cauliflower head, the kind of spriting up that way, but it's hard like coral, but it still has the slightly luminescente kind of glow.
00:37:33
Speaker
And at the base of it, it seems to get darker towards the base. The very top of it is the lightest color and the darkest bit is, is almost quite earthy in, in, in color at the other end. Oh, this is beautiful. Are you sure that I can't just... I mean, i can give you something for it, at least? i All I ask is that you pass on the favor to someone else further down the line.
00:37:56
Speaker
Not necessarily with that, but with kindness and with heart, and have the search always within you. Oh, sure. Thank you. That's that's really kind. um I got this.
00:38:08
Speaker
I can kind of smell ah sage boot. Is there a is there a stall nearby that that that's selling that? it Oh, it just smells so good. Very good nose. You have a very good nose on you and some lovely abs. Up there on the left, nearest to the ah to nearest to the to the ravine, you see, next to the bridge, the man with the milk passed him.
00:38:33
Speaker
take a left before the bridge along the ravine past him. And there's a little store there with some food and some sage food. I think he's got a bit of everything there. It's all tidal stuff. ah You've got the glow moss fruit as well. Flood fin, your usual. if Okay.
00:38:49
Speaker
You seem to have been away from home for some time. Oh, I've been on the road for a while, but it's it's nothing new. It's just, I mean, part of my yeah ah regimen, if you like, it kind of gets me a little bit worked up for an appetite. So I'm i'm definitely gonna fill up my stocks, if you like, from from the shop down there.
00:39:06
Speaker
Very good. So, couple of steps up there. If you get to the halfling stuck in the bridge, you've gone too far. Turn left, and they'll get you out. Don't worry. It's very normal. You'll be fine. You're very athletic. You'll pass fine. it's ah They like to have fun.
00:39:20
Speaker
Turn left, pass the milk, and he's just there if you need him. And may I please say, have a wonderful time in Stormspire. You are just a delight. What was your name again?
00:39:34
Speaker
Well... What a question. No one ever asks my name these days, but ah my name is Serena. Serena? Serena, yes, yes. Well, thank you, Serena.
00:39:46
Speaker
I'm Raka Harangui Likopeku Lassa Hokea Fetulia Moi. It's a pleasure to meet you.
00:39:52
Speaker
I think I just had a stroke. ah I'm joking. i' Very nice to meet you, sir. Likewise. I do hope you enjoy your time here and do stay.
00:40:07
Speaker
Okay. ah Sure. Thank you, Serena. That's that's really kind. Is Drift near me? He is stood directly on your shoulder looking bored and he is just like proper full on teenager mode.
00:40:22
Speaker
Like just, oh, but not out loud. And the minute you turn, hey, and his expression fully changes back to this kind of like, oh, I'll do anything. Are we done? ah Yeah. I mean, look at this.
00:40:34
Speaker
And I'll kind of show off the trinket that was given to me. How cool is that? um I just need to stock up on my supplies of some of the... I mean, I'm here for the sage boot, but ah so Serena here was telling me that they got all sorts.
00:40:48
Speaker
I'm just going to stock up on that. And then if you can take me to this this meeting point that you're talking about, then I mean, I'm sure I can make it worth your while. um You already are. I'm loving this.
00:40:59
Speaker
It's so good to meet to meet you o You're going to do the thing, aren't you? You're going to do the the the diving. do they call it? The surge diving. You're going to do you're going to dive.
00:41:10
Speaker
Oh my goodness, that is the dream. If I can, that'll be me. But, you know, baby steps and all that. I don't want to i dive right in. Excuse the pun. Do you think you can make the three?
00:41:23
Speaker
The three? What's the three? Well, the three is surviving three. They say the first one, you survive dumb luck because you're being scared and you're careful with it. The second one is normally when you die because you get a bit foolhardy and you go for the gold.
00:41:37
Speaker
And then by the third one, you're definitely dead. No one's made it to three, apparently. Well, there's one guy, apparently, but, you know, I think it's a lie. Do you think you could make it to three? You look like you could make it to three. ah Do I? Well...
00:41:48
Speaker
I'd like to. I mean, if i if I make it a three, that'll be a great, so long as I don't die first. Yeah, obviously. that's That's the important thing. Not not dying. You've got to try and not die, because if you die, it doesn't count, apparently.
00:42:00
Speaker
And then your body goes downstream and ends up at the thunderst... It's a big old thing. There we go. I haven't died yet, so I'm already winning, surely. You have not died yet. That's true. That's true. Right. um Sage Boot.
00:42:12
Speaker
that what we're after? oh gosh, yes. um Serena, she told me where to go. there, to the left. Thank again, Serena. and Good memory. Okay. Yeah. Let's go. um and And Serena, thanks thanks. Thanks for the, yeah, no problem. Drift off you go. And he's going to head on up and he's going to just walk on ahead.
00:42:30
Speaker
He's going to pause for a second as and he sees the, the, the herald from the other side, start approaching the bridge towards what seems to be a kerfuffle taking place on the bridge. He turns back to you. We won't cross just yet. There's, there's a bit of traffic on there, but down here for the, um, down here for the sage boot.
00:42:46
Speaker
And suddenly you approach the very edge of this ravine and there's no barrier, there's no anything. It's just cliff and it's just sudden. And there's a stall on the edge selling liquids and milks and things like that. And it's only about a three foot gap between the edge of the stall and ah your certain doom as you approach. um And it's quite a thin, narrow walkway. But as with any of these kind of settlements that grow in places of extreme danger, it becomes and common commonplace and normal after time.
00:43:16
Speaker
And Drif takes it with quite a, almost skids around the corner, uncaring as he just makes his way ah along. And there's one more store, the milk store. And then just beyond that, tucked away in a whole kind of a collection of barrels is a single stall selling food.
00:43:33
Speaker
And just behind it is a very board, what looks to be ah dwarven, slightly dwarven in stature. dark skinned, middle aged kind of female dwarf, ah kind of sat on top of a barrel next to the supplies kind of ah with the finger on the edge of a knife, but just kind of twizzling around as a kind of sharp dagger, almost twizzling around against her finger. She's got really quite grubby fingernails and and the clothes are what looks like ah a kind of a farmer or an agrarian job.
00:44:03
Speaker
As she sees you coming around the corner, she doesn't move. Yeah, as Roka Harangui, Likopeculasa, Hokea, Petulia Moi makes his way there, he's he's not going to worry about being near the edge of the ravine. In fact, he's probably going to get a good look down and be like, whoa, that is a long drop.
00:44:18
Speaker
Cool. Okay. And yeah, he's going to make his way to that shop, see that lady and go, oh, this smells amazing. Um... I have heard that you have got pretty much everything in stock.
00:44:32
Speaker
And he's just going to reach into his backpack and kind of pull out a smaller pouch and just open it up and go, i mean, I'm here for the sage boot, but I'll stay for the tide claw shrimp, the flood fin, you name it, whatever. And he's going to pull out 10 gold pieces.
00:44:47
Speaker
Whatever that will get me, please, just any of this delicious stock, I will gladly take off your hands. She goes from placid expression to eyebrows raised and the knife stopped spinning for a second.
00:45:00
Speaker
She looks down at the gold, picks one of them up, looks at it, nods and pressed, puts it back in your hand. turns and whips out very quickly a basket and then just starts filling it. And the stage boot, uh, this kind of corn, like, uh, husk husky kind of corn things all get thrown in.
00:45:20
Speaker
There's a couple of these weird, um, almost like, um it's like moss, but if moss grew berries, this glow moss fruit appears as well. There's kind of husk. So that get thrown in all the flood fin, which these kind of, uh, mackerel, like sleek fish that have a slight glow to it.
00:45:35
Speaker
And, uh, entire box of Thai claw shrimp, the entire thing gets empty. You've pretty much cleared her out. But then she looks at it and takes one. She counts out six gold and stacks them up and then looks at the four gold left and then looks up at you.
00:45:51
Speaker
kind of does a, all right. And then goes behind the back and you hear this chum, chum noise and kind of wood on wood as something gets yanked out. And she pulls out this single sea strike eel, this long, dark, muscular, almost like if a tuna hat was on roids and was an eel, kind of big, powerful fish that's been salted and preserved and ah kind of,
00:46:17
Speaker
She puts that on top of the pile and then takes the four last gold and puts it in her pocket. Without saying a word, she pulls the top of the awning. It just closes up. You've bought her out of everything she has.
00:46:31
Speaker
Drift is just stood there looking amazed. but well Was that all your gold? Have you got more of that? Are you really rich? No, ah that was a good chunk of it. I misjudged this completely. i have never seen a sea strike eel before.
00:46:48
Speaker
That's a really big one as well. I don't know. How are you going to carry it? I mean, how much can you carry? I can carry very little, but I can try. Okay, can you take this and I'll lift one of the boxes and just kind of hand it over to him.
00:47:01
Speaker
good It's a bit heavy. No, I got this. I got it. um Can I eat one of them while we carry it? Of course. I have more than I expected.
00:47:13
Speaker
um And he's going to take his backpack off and just literally pile some of the things into it as well. And then whatever's left, he's just going to try and carry um with him.
00:47:24
Speaker
You could probably fit most, you could get most of the sage boot and glow moss fruit in there. um The shrimp are quite small, so they'll kind of slop in as well. ah The flood fin probably on the top kind of sticking in, you're getting a bit full.
00:47:36
Speaker
that That sea strike eel, you ain't going to fit in there. No, I'm carrying that. Yeah. And some of the leftover stuff that the leftover flood fin that couldn't fit in is in a small box that Drift has got and he's kind of holding it in his hands, much more reasonable weight for him to carry an all be the arm run as he is.
00:47:52
Speaker
And it's just this big old, i mean, you're a big old, but this is a big old, I'm going to carry the, the eel myself. I just kind of turn around, like looking a little bit shocked, but also like almost like a kid in a candy store.
00:48:06
Speaker
um Just like eyes wide, like, this is oh this is amazing. um But ah just kind of overflowing with it. He's seen that he's got little bits left behind as well, and he'll just kind of go...
00:48:18
Speaker
Um, if, if anyone wants any, I've, I've already bought it. It's not stealing, but I can't carry it. So genuinely help yourself. Um, and as you, as you, as you say that you, um, you look across and around the area, you're in a bit of a corner of the, of it the main market thoroughfare is that kind of main stretch where the, where the, uh, bridge spans either sides of the ravine. You notice on the other side of the ravine, uh, that the gap, the problem that was on the, in the bridge in the middle is gone.
00:48:45
Speaker
And, um, it's kind of totally clear now in that area but you do notice um something strange happen on the far side of the of the river there's a man with crossbow that's just been kind of it looks like he's been talking to one of the other patrons and he turns to look over across the ravine towards you it's about 40 feet away and then something feels wrong and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and drift is looking up to you talking but you kind of volume kind of sinks down a little bit as that fades and you're focused on this man something doesn't feel right here and then you real realize why
00:49:24
Speaker
as his body just slumps ah down to the side, blood leaks from the sides of his mouth and his body falls down into the ravine. And you see just behind him, this figure dressed in what seemed brown and greys with a small low scarf over the bottom part of his mouth, holding a pair of daggers over his shoulder. You see what looks like probably some kind of blacksmith draw a weapon.
00:49:51
Speaker
And then we're going to roll back one final time. And we find ourselves again back at the opening and the end of this, the the high jade heart dwarves will come for our title search.
00:50:04
Speaker
And sat quite awkwardly at the gate of the palisade. not yet in, but you can hear this man's voice kind of echoing through is a figure that's, I think, sat maybe on a low stool or a rock just to the left of the ah of the entrance and this palisade towards the entrance of the small Storms by a market.
00:50:27
Speaker
And we see this huge hulking Goliath figure walk on by with the little boy following. And over his shoulder, we spot this chap, this person, this individual sat down low, kind of not squatting, but just kind of sitting, maybe catching their breath.
00:50:42
Speaker
maybe in prayer, we're unsure. Ian, who is it that we see? So as your eyes turn to this man, and he is indeed sat deep in prayer, and your eyes gloss over him,
00:50:58
Speaker
you'll find that what you witness is a human, medium build, about 5'7", on a good day, he'd say. Broad shoulders, looks powerful, muscular build, has been hardened by years of rigorous training and relentless battles.
00:51:16
Speaker
His skin is tanned and weathered from exposure to the elements. He's got short, dark hair, streaked with strands of silver, though you look at his face and he looks relatively young.
00:51:28
Speaker
It's got piercing, dark grey eyes that always seem to reflect the weight of the world. chiselled face, often set in a stoic expression, betrays little emotion. And a thick, well-groomed beard frames his jawline.
00:51:47
Speaker
And a faint scar runs from the right brown down to his cheekbone. A souvenir of one of the many battles from defending his home. It's clad in well-polished silver plate armor, engraved with a triangle and a 20-sided...
00:52:08
Speaker
Hang on. I was doing so well. You did well, man. Yes, you got it.
00:52:15
Speaker
A triangle. And in the middle of the triangle is a 20-sided star emblazoned upon it. That same sigil is on his shield. That's always on his right side.
00:52:28
Speaker
And down on his left is a morning star. Oh, shit. Very nice. Okay. And um as you're down there, like said in in prayer, you're just going to feel a tap, tap, tap on your shoulder.
00:52:46
Speaker
Sorry, I'm deep in prayer at the moment. Give me one moment. I thought you were having a shit. A slight frown across Garrick's face.
00:52:59
Speaker
You never want to accept the religion and the deities. Fine. What is it?
00:53:07
Speaker
just wonder what you're doing here. That's all. Just head in. and As you turn around, you see this chap in kind of a weathered white shirt and some trousers. he seems to have a little dagger or something on his hip and short black hair, dark black eyebrows and kind of like slightly brown skin, probably from the sun. And he's just rolled up white sleeves, kind of earthy fingers. um Just wonder what you're doing is you're just outside the palisade here and, uh,
00:53:35
Speaker
We just, uh, just, why don't you go in?
00:53:40
Speaker
Garrick will stand up, trying to look tall. I'm here to oversee transportation of goods.
00:53:50
Speaker
I'm from Cliffsco and keep.
00:53:57
Speaker
right. Just thought you were a shit is all. Do you know where going?
00:54:05
Speaker
Of course. ye Yep. Right, you are you're gonna you finish your arms you and you finishing your prayer or are you heading it? I'm just going to let you go first because that big old doofa on your shoulder looks like it will fucking knock my skull out. So I'd rather see it so I don't get hit by it if you know what mean.
00:54:25
Speaker
My apologies. You're following my do you?
00:54:31
Speaker
What you get want? I was just going to let you go first, so you don't club me in the head with your big fucking jobby and smash my skull in all over the ravine, you know?
00:54:42
Speaker
Right. I didn't want you to kill me as I walked into Stormspire.
00:54:49
Speaker
I'm not armed. My Morningstar is not attached to me right now. Well, yeah, but look, you can do this, and he's going to go to pick it up.
00:55:00
Speaker
Uh... Have I offended you in some way? no I was just saying how easy it was. just Pick it up and then, bonk, you could... Alright, I'll leave it. Sorry. You seem quite hostile. What did I Absolutely nothing. Just checking on your welfare, that's all, my friend. I just making sure you weren't pooing in the street, that's all.
00:55:20
Speaker
And I was going to let you, you know... If you're going to do it, you know, it's not, you know, poo in the ravine. That's what I'd say. It gets wiped away, doesn't it? But, you know, you do you do what you, you know...
00:55:32
Speaker
By the deep you do what you like, mate. You do your thing. Yep.
00:55:37
Speaker
If I have wronged you in any way, shape or form, I hope I can put it right. Oh, I'd take you. No, you ain't offended me, mate. I was just letting you know about, you know, where you were and as you were if you were even a shit, then now is not a place to do it. But you're not. You was in prayer. So you ain't offended me. Just making sure that you were, you know, ship shape.
00:56:00
Speaker
Right. And it would be quite hard to take a shit with my plate armour still on. I hadn't thought that. Yeah, it would be. but Don't you got little hatches?
00:56:13
Speaker
I saw a lord a while ago. Are you our lord, by the way?
00:56:18
Speaker
No, I'm a paladin of Cliffstone Keep. Lordy, paladin. What is it you guys do again? Is it all the god stuff?
00:56:29
Speaker
We serve a God, yes. Valtinus, blessings be upon you. Yeah, yeah. And he's gonna um he's going to just like touches touch his head and touch his nose thinking, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. But it was upon you as well.
00:56:46
Speaker
ah But ain't no tidal surge, is it? Let's be honest. You know, the big difference, pretend God in sky the wave, you know. You've seen one, haven't You know, it's that's...
00:56:58
Speaker
That's quite God-in-form, isn't The waves are nothing but the God-in-form. Where do you think the waves came from in the first place?
00:57:09
Speaker
Yeah, but a wave can kill me. Just some imaginary person can't, can't they? I watched up into that. I am dead instantly. I've seen a guy. I saw a guy fall in once.
00:57:21
Speaker
The title surge is but an arm of the God. and So if you would indeed to walk into there, as you suggested, and die, the gods will it.
00:57:35
Speaker
Oh, well. You know, you agree with some and you don't with others. And you, my friend, I do not agree with. But, you know, we can agree to, you know, a disagree, as they say. I feel like I must clarify.
00:57:48
Speaker
don't walk into the tidal surge. I was going to say, that'd be worth watching. You know, if you did walk in, my man, that would be something to watch because you would die instantly. That armor would not protect you at all. But you draw quite a crowd. It'd be quite interesting. People love those who jump in after the wave.
00:58:05
Speaker
It's old event, especially around We've got a good bit. We've got we got a moor up there. Any points up? Kind of... the left side, see me means up there. You got a moor up there and the grass, great areas where all the gear cat gets caught. No one who knows why, ah but they do. And then we dive. We don't dive. I ah don't dive. I was going to do it once, but I, uh, I did what I thought you was doing beforehand and then couldn't bring myself to, uh, to jump into the water with poo down my leg. You see, it's a bit embarrassing. There's lots of people watching. My mum was there, you know?
00:58:37
Speaker
Yeah. It was a long time ago though. Right. Are we going in then?
00:58:43
Speaker
Not into the wave. I mean, I'll be going in. You going in. Like I said, I still don't want you to walk behind me and then i you cudgel me with your bonker and you knock my blood skulls out, you know? Very well.
00:58:54
Speaker
Yep. You like sage poop, by the way.
00:59:00
Speaker
What? Food. Sage poop. You know? The little blue ones on a stick. Not while I'm at work. At work? You're working? I thought you were pooing.
00:59:10
Speaker
I'm really confused here.
00:59:15
Speaker
What would end this conversation sooner? Walking. You.
00:59:22
Speaker
Right.
00:59:25
Speaker
And Garak will turn and walk away.
00:59:29
Speaker
And you start walking walking up in towards the place. My God, I have not rolled higher into apart from once 16. And you start walking in and this chap follows you behind. And what you feel, Garrick, is a very, very obvious tug at what could be perceived as a coin purse.
00:59:50
Speaker
So wherever you've got kind of money or goods stored, you feel a very obvious, very unsubtle tug. not successful and pulling it away it was a two uh but it says it's a you feel a tug towards it a gag will just keep on walking if he didn't feel anything depart from his body nothing departed And then you feel... I'll get there eventually. I hate this dice. I need to get a new one.
01:00:19
Speaker
ah You feel about two strides in. You see the lady, and welcome to Stormspire, as you walk in, and you feel another tug at the same point. Slightly harder this time, just as obvious.
01:00:33
Speaker
At the second tug, take a deep breath, turn around, and look at who's doing the tugging. ah You turn around and you see... Who's tugging me? He's just been talking with thick black eyebrows, but he's kind of like...
01:00:46
Speaker
and kind of looking around and kind of pointing over to the stall to the left, which is the opposite side to the the old lady welcoming you into Stormspire. Oh, it didn't I have them in at the moment? Okay.
01:00:56
Speaker
May I help you, citizen? What? You yeah seem
01:01:05
Speaker
quite taken with my but coin purse. i was just ah I was looking at the thing. And the stall, this is lovely lady, it's a male dwarf, is selling some great items here. There's a shell there. There's some there's some ah things there.
01:01:23
Speaker
Oh, he's been looking at them and interested in them. That's
01:01:29
Speaker
in em
01:01:36
Speaker
ah so Right, right, that's all. Has you got a problem? Because I has not got problem. I was making sure that you indeed did not have a problem.
01:01:47
Speaker
I have not, I have a problem with the night vanilla, fatinous. Vitinous. Bless you. vius but bless you No, I'm joking. I'm joking. No, of course, yeah, Vatinis. I've heard of it. It was the original Wild Heartian, one of the proper ones of the Tronfrew. I'm with you. I'm with you. Don't you worry. Yeah, Vatinis.
01:02:10
Speaker
All the way. Who are you? Vatinis. Vatinis. Yeah. ah Right. we oh Should I go? I'll go. I'll go this way. And he's pointing over his shoulder towards the Palisade. Oh, I'll go. Yeah.
01:02:22
Speaker
Good day. so Great one. Have a great one. Salt Storm. Have a great day. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye.
01:02:32
Speaker
you are If you turn away, you feel and another tug at your, like a really obvious one, and it comes loose, and you feel lighter on your side that your coin purse is on.
01:02:47
Speaker
Wow, shit. Ain't nothing can do? Can I catch it? Can I grab his arm? Is the time there for that or is he grabbed and gone? You can whip round. I don't think he was expecting to be successful even a third time. ah You can whip round and try. What do you want to do draw Grab his wrist? You're trying to tackle Just grab the wrist if it's possible. But it's ah the the armor that Garrick's wearing does not make for quick reaction.
01:03:10
Speaker
It doesn't. So give me a ah let's go with athletics. At disadvantage. Yeah, fair play.
01:03:23
Speaker
It's quite a low DC though. Oh, um, two 19s. Instantly there, even with the armor, you move with some sudden haste. It's like the air's clearer here. Your body feels alive and refreshed after the prayer. And gosh, you grab this guy's wrist, coin purse still in his hand. He's sweating at this point, looking up at you.
01:03:43
Speaker
He doesn't move. The gods are not with you on this day. i suggest you drop this.
01:03:50
Speaker
you want to give me a persuasion or an intimidation check, depending on how you want to of work have... Going with persuasion for 23. He doesn't move, and then his fingers just open and the coin purse leaves. And again, unlike him, he's going to silently...
01:04:12
Speaker
very slowly kind of back off. You can see a look of kind of awe and shock in his face as he does physically back away towards the Palisade door. And he's going to stand there still looking sheepish, like a boy who's been caught doing something he shouldn't, not masturbating, but you know, just, no, no, and no, allowed but he's, he'ss he's all, he's he's just stood there kind of like bashful, like he's been told off by a teacher or something like that. He's kind of stood there looking quite forlorn, even though he's in his mid thirties and doesn't move.
01:04:40
Speaker
He's a good 15 foot away from you now. that Garrick will just calmly keep eyes on him and then bend down, pick it up, stand back up straight, begin to walk off again.
01:04:52
Speaker
Okay. Whereabouts you heading? So my ah mission here is to oversee the transportation of goods, medicines, food over from
01:05:10
Speaker
Where are we? We're in Stormspire. Stormspire. I've got two names here and have to take a guess. From Stormspire Clifestone. I don't have too much to go off in terms of information of where I can expect to find the goods.
01:05:26
Speaker
It was just a command from my ah party ah to locate the goods. Okay. Locator way. How would you want to go about it?
01:05:40
Speaker
So as I'm walking through, what am I seeing? Where am I? So ah you're a few steps away. The old lady is past you now. You've got a couple of stalls to your right and left selling any number of wares. You've got um textiles. You've got some...
01:05:54
Speaker
thin piece of clothing and armor. You've got a milk stand, as previously mentioned. And back you have got a stall that was selling kind of weird glowing items, which you recognize as small flora from the base of the ravine.
01:06:06
Speaker
And in front of you is a ah long rope ladder. You've seen a few of these in your time at Clifestone as well. They're quite used for getting over the um the ravine, especially in a bit of a jiffy. and And you notice a bit of a kerfuffle as what looks like a dwarf and a dwarf or a halfling or someone on the other side is being bustled off ah rather brusquely on the other side with by an elven figure.
01:06:28
Speaker
And they're off on the other side. and You can see to your left, there is another stall that's just closing down. um And then to your right, just a series of old trees and packs and packs of old barrels that seem to be used for storage for the um the current wares. But that crossing the bridge and over to the other side, which looked a little bit more like the center of the the market, there's not much else you can really see at the moment.
01:06:50
Speaker
Uh, so I'm looking around, taking his time. Every movement just comes at half a bit slower with Garrick. His eyes will narrow in at the, um, the only person that came up to him, apart from the one who tried to steal his coins. He's going to go back to the old lady.
01:07:12
Speaker
Because he hasn't seen anything here from that description that would pip his interest. think I've done too many NPCs in this. I've forgotten it. Oh, I've got it. Okay. Oh, hello. Welcome back. Do you also wish to partake in some of the items of the Tidal Surge?
01:07:28
Speaker
Historic.
01:07:32
Speaker
I seem to have... Oh. Pardon? Have you finished... Oh, how rude. No, ah I think I have, yes.
01:07:47
Speaker
I did not mean to talk over you. o I didn't mean to talk over you, but sometimes, you know, stuff happens.
01:07:56
Speaker
Blessings upon you. Thank you, and, you know, may the surge tide bless you. ah What can i help you with? you interested in some of my wares? i have small ah hardened stones from the base of the from the ravine, if you would be interested. i have a and little nugget here that might be of interest to you.
01:08:21
Speaker
My name is Garrick Bladeheart. I am a paladin from Cliffstone. Oh, that's a lot of information. ah Hello, Garrick Bladeheart, paladin from Cliffstone.
01:08:32
Speaker
ah I've been appointed by my order to oversee the transportation of medicines and foods up to Cliffstone. However, I'm a bit of a loss as where I can find these goods.
01:08:45
Speaker
It's my first time here. okay. Yes. ah I've met three people so far. One thought I was taking a shit.
01:08:57
Speaker
One tried to steal my coin purse. And you... I'm hoping I've come to the right one of the three to give me some information.
01:09:10
Speaker
Wow. going to pause for a second. She's going to look side to side. Well, I can guarantee I'm not doing either of the actions of the first two. oh Well, I am old. I might be. Who knows?
01:09:20
Speaker
But the main thing really here is, i believe Cliffstone slavers. It's to do with the slavers, isn't it? There's a... The freed slavers, is the medicine for them, is it?
01:09:34
Speaker
No? A cliff stone has a few of them. The medicine for the protection of the citizens. Okay. Well, the only person I know that does anything similar to that is... um God, what's his name?
01:09:52
Speaker
ah If you do not know, that's okay. Send me on my way. No, no, no, I do. His name is Tashlin Violetta. Tashlin Violetta.
01:10:04
Speaker
And he is as a merchant that works out of out of the inn up here. ah He likes to... I've known him since he was a small baby. when Not 80 or 90 serges ago.
01:10:19
Speaker
Tidal serges, sorry. don't want to say, I know the dwarves. And that he... He's eccentric, and he likes to put up a hard front, but really he does a lot of good for the community, and I know he has lot of wares that travel up. So across the bridge, up through second tier, you'll find the inn there, great views over the ravine, and he will be able to to point you in the right direction. It'll probably be his wares that are traveling north towards Cliffstone. So here's the chap to speak to, Tashlin Violetta.
01:10:53
Speaker
Thank you. now Long pause. I saw thought thought you'd stop working for a minute there. Is everything okay?
01:11:04
Speaker
I bid you good day. Okay. Bye. Goodbye. And as you turn, ah we'll be right back again. directly where she instructed over the bridge.
01:11:15
Speaker
Cool. ah Okay. You, um, you get to the bridge. Fucking oh here we go Second time. i'm Lucky. Uh, we cross it over. ah if you are, could you make a dexterity dexterity check, please? So just dexterity and then pop on your modifier onto that bad boy.
01:11:35
Speaker
Oh no, come on. The first crit of the campaign, oh but with a minus one. So 19. Okay. That's all right though. That's fine. That gets you. Play armor and a crit.
01:11:48
Speaker
So you step on with that first step and you hear the creak, the audible creak of the wood and the hemp ropes underneath you. And you pause maybe for a second and and then just step, step, step. And you realize this is a well-made bridge.
01:12:01
Speaker
step step step over and um you get to the halfway point you can feel it rocking you are quite a heavy and hefty boy with all your plate armor on as well and ah step step it creaks and bows down slightly and you get to that middle point and step step and you make it onto the other side and just as you do that just as you step onto to the other side of the bridge you notice something happen to your left.
01:12:27
Speaker
You notice a rather flash looking halfling talking to a Smith. And it looks like there's ah a bit of a problem going on there because the smith has just drawn a sword. But the smith isn't looking at the halfling. The smith is looking and you follow the eyes down to your left, to the edge of the ravine.
01:12:43
Speaker
And you see this figure, this chain mailed crossbow holding figure, just buckle at the knees and tumble 100, 150 foot into the ravine.
01:12:55
Speaker
and this chap with two daggers standing behind. You hear a scream from behind you as well. And now we're all back on the same time wave. Could I please ask that everyone rolls initiative? Hey hey gang. Hey.
01:13:11
Speaker
Just so I'm not calling it Charlie's character, Charlie. What is, what is, what's his name? Falco. i Falco. wow amazing Falco. And we've got Garrick with Ian's character and ah I'm going to show it to rock. I was going to try and learn it will, but genuinely I'm having issues.
01:13:32
Speaker
That's right. It's not different. It's just Rocca Herangula Capeculasa. Okay, Fetuliumoi. But so you can shorten it. Make that my mission to learn that. kind of that I'm not shortening it. What kind of mind thinks up such a name?
01:13:46
Speaker
A fucked up mind, friend. But you know this about me. so Boom, nailed it. Okay, um we find the majority of ourselves, if you zoom in, hopefully you can see your name tags on you. We've got Garrick the wrong place. There's Garrick just on the bridge. File code's over by the stall with the individual talking
Tension and Initiative at the Ravine
01:14:02
Speaker
to.
01:14:02
Speaker
Everyone else should look a little blurry and then nondescript because you can't really tell friend from Foe at the moment. Rock, you're on the other side of the ravine, hopefully I'm pinging you now, um yeah near the stall that's just closed up with a couple of other individuals and innkeepers around and about.
01:14:19
Speaker
So a few things. The chap that's in the water is the corpse that's fallen to his doom, unfortunately dead. And the figure that one or two of you, Garrick and Falco, actually no, Falco, you haven't, you've just seen the reaction, but Rock and Garrick, what you've seen ah is stood in his place just on the very edge of the ravine with a couple of weapons.
01:14:38
Speaker
You all, I know I mentioned it to Garrick, here's this scream, but you all hear a scream. It's coming from the Garrick Falco side of the ravine, and but there is a hustle and bustle on the ah on the Rock side, the entrance side of the ravine as well.
01:14:53
Speaker
Rock, one other thing you notice is that the lady... who was at the stall right at the very entrance who welcomed you into storm spire stood near the edge looking perplexed and confused down towards this person as well as you look eye over it so can i just take your um initiative roles please so did anyone get more than 20 okay above 19 for me okay so far 17 for garrick seventeen for garret And a 15 for Rocca Harangui Liquepecu Lassia... Lassia Hattaha! I can't even say it now! I was trying to read it instead of saying it off by heart. Shit!
01:15:36
Speaker
Excellent. and So, Falco, you've just seen... with your perception now you've sorry you haven't noticed this but you have noticed this this dwarf and not dwarf was he dwarven halfling and anyway squat uh uh individual that the words what's he called making metal smith smith just draw pick up pick up this weapon and look drop into like ah a stance a military stance um what do you want to do ah I'll take a step back like I'm a bit intimidated by him and turn to see what he's looking at.
01:16:12
Speaker
Okay. And you see this figure with two daggers and you just, as you spin your eyes around, gather this kind of retraction motion from his arm and this person starts to fall. It's kind of hidden, obscured behind this awning that's in front of you, but you just see the elbow come back and you see the blood covered face.
01:16:29
Speaker
blade underneath it as you hear the scream ah from the market and scream from across the way. that's what you've just That's what you've just taken in right now. That's where his eyes are looking towards.
01:16:42
Speaker
Okay. um And is he, sorry, which, is it the one to the north of me or to the west? that Oh, that one. covered It's to the yeah kind of north and there's a big kind of ale cask barrel in front of him just between it and an awning. There's about a foot gap and that's where you've seen a kind of a gap through to the ravine and that's where you've seen this individual um with with the with the dagger. You've just seen
Garrick's Tactical Approach
01:17:02
Speaker
the dagger draw back blood um and kind of brine material. That's where you've kind of really seen. And then this figure hunch over and fall.
01:17:09
Speaker
Okay, but I can't see the assailant, just the the damage done. In that case, um I'll are' slowly back behind the smith and I'll say to him, smiths staying together for life, right? And I'll take cover behind the smith.
01:17:26
Speaker
ah Fantastic. So I'll just move the chap that is the smith for you. ye And end my turn. Very good. Okay. um Garrick, you are probably the closest, though you are a bit obscured, you are probably the closest to this incident that's just taken place um about 20 feet away directly to your left along the edge of this ravine to get to him.
01:17:52
Speaker
The only difficulty, if you're thinking what I think you might be thinking, is that It gets very narrow at one point where there's only about a foot gap between the edge of this awning of another shop that's right in front of you and a certain doom with the ravine's edge where the where the body of this person has just fallen. How out deep is that? How far down is the ravine?
01:18:13
Speaker
ah From your perception. 11. as where you look down, um just a rough guess, the body is still falling. Whoa. If it's six, you've got six seconds worth of falling. It's, it's just about to hit the ground.
01:18:28
Speaker
Deep, deep. Yeah. We're talking, we're talking. Yeah. We're talking death.
01:18:36
Speaker
Um, if you fall, obviously not, if you don't, yeah well, maybe. So am I, I'm looking at the map and obviously you said that it's quite precarious, the direct route to, uh, this would be attacker.
01:18:55
Speaker
um which is a bit of a shame. So Garak's just going to... Bollocks to it. I've already given you a conundrum.
01:19:08
Speaker
but Yep, straight up, just in terms of position alone. Isn't that glorious? ah he's china In this time, he's trying to work out... so he's Before this go, Garrick will make sure that his shield's equipped.
01:19:23
Speaker
ah So he's tightening the leather straps that are going up his arm. And then he's putting the final one. He loops it over his right hand. And then he's going to um whip out his Morningstar and hold that kind of loosely.
01:19:38
Speaker
He's not in a in a strong stance here. It's more getting ready. And he's just surveying whether or not he could make it tiptoeing across. um But then he kind of shakes his shoulders to weigh up the weight of his plate armor.
01:19:55
Speaker
if I could just throw a spanner in the works, I'd be sorry. If could turn back down. Go it. Just say that the awning is is made of wood. It's quite thin bits of maybe an inch wide pieces of wood ah held and then kind of wrapped around in material. you've They've all been like this on the way in.
01:20:13
Speaker
um just putting it out there if if you wanted a direct Is there a door into this? it's It's like an open front um but then the back bit which is a bit the butt's out. Am I facing the back? Am I facing the front?
01:20:28
Speaker
The person is at the back and the the back corner is what's blocking you so you could go in and through or you could go around or you could go around the entire thing and take a route directly this entire thing is my go ah so he's just he he's looking around at the option slowly is you could imagine his head
Rock's Protective Instincts
01:20:47
Speaker
just moving and there's the image and then his head moves and the image changes and it's with that kind of detail that he's taking each of these images one look over at the the the corpse and
01:20:58
Speaker
one look over the precarious walkway to the the attacker and another look on the on the the canopy as it were and um that's my entire go making sure the shield's ready morning star out and he's just that if you could peer into his mind it's hmm which way fabulous i love it um We've got a team of passives coming lot away.
01:21:24
Speaker
Brilliant. Um, let's see what happens next. So rock over to You've got drift just off your left shoulder behind you. You've seen the body fall and, uh, you notice that, uh, the, the lady who gave you the little gem or treat for entering into so storm spies also on the edge, kind of looking over, there's a few of them starting to move towards it. Looking concerned as what, what's just going to happen.
01:21:47
Speaker
um What you also notice, and your perception is relatively good at 14, your passive, is that this figure that you've seen behind with the daggers, as you look to your right down along the edge of the ravine and to see where the old lady is, you notice behind her another figure appear onto the street wearing relatively similar ah clothing, dark browns and blacks with a piece of material covering the nose and mouth with just the eyes and a hood up, similar to this other character.
01:22:16
Speaker
He's just peering out. do You do also notice a single dagger held in right hand as he looks towards the bridge.
01:22:26
Speaker
ah Okay. We're the moment. does ah So you just said that he's armed. He's wearing a similar garb to the one that's kind of pushed something into the river or into the the ravine, sorry. um But does it look like he's he's threatening in any way or does it look like he's kind of looking around? or ah you know this this is like a split second thing, isn't it? Give me a go give me a perception check.
01:22:47
Speaker
I know we've got our passive. but um An active one, yeah? Yeah, see if you're properly, properly looking for it I'll give you this as a reaction. A 10. Okay. yeah you can't tell from that distance. There's a few bodies in the way with the body and the noise. It's just a little bit off putting. And suddenly you feel a tug at your shoulder as well with drift kind of around. What are you going to What's happening?
01:23:06
Speaker
What's happening? ah Rock will just quickly kind of, he's I mean, he's got this, he's got the eel, like, still in his arms at this point. um His pack's kind of gotten a little bit heavier as well, but but um Drift that's behind him is carrying some more stuff. He's just going to quickly turn around and go, oh my goodness, it looks like there's some, I don't know, ah is that,
01:23:27
Speaker
that guy looks like he's just pushed this, wait here, just wait here. And with the eel in his hands, he's going to use his full movement to get um behind ah Serena, the lady that was kind of, ah yeah, that helped him at the beginning and say, ah Serena, you need to get back from the edge. I don't think that's overly safe.
01:23:48
Speaker
um And he's going to turn and kind of just take in this guy that looks similarly garbed as well. And, and I think it's difficult to to immediately piece two and two together but if can I do this if it looks like this person might be yeah if this if it looks like this person might be um dangerous or might be or tries to attack either myself or um Serena nearby i just want to ah hold an action to kind of shove him back okay
01:24:26
Speaker
Okay, nice. And you've got yourself just on the precipice of the kind of the the lower south side of the... So, the yeah. not yeahve I've not kind of interposed myself with Serena in the edge. I'm kind of a little bit further back in if she's right at the edge.
01:24:37
Speaker
um But he's he's gone into more of a defensive um position, similar to the other guys, it seems. But but yeah he's not b he's not acting yet. Okay. And ah thank you very much for that. So it is going to be the Thiefstone and let's let's play out that action then. He is going to see that and he's going to sprint towards at the moment, seems like you. And as he gets closer, you realize his eyes on aren't on you, but on this old lady, on Serena.
01:25:03
Speaker
And he enters into your kind of zone, if you will. Is that when you wanted to... um He's not going for you. not if he's... You get the intention that he is going to be aggressive towards okay Serena. Okay.
01:25:15
Speaker
If he kind of comes in to kind of put a blade in towards her, what he'll do, because his hands are full with this fish at the moment, he's just going kind of go for a kick and just a point blank, this is Sparta style kick, just to not to try and push him off per se, but just kind of just bash into him like an unarmed strike. In D&D terms, is this an equivalent of a shove? Are you pushing back or is it a hit? I did say a shove, didn't I?
01:25:44
Speaker
um He can technically, with because he' of his D&D 2024 starting feet, ah he can technically shove and hit at the same time.
01:25:55
Speaker
Makes sense. You have got
Falco's Strategic Taunts and Garrick's Defense
01:25:57
Speaker
you have got an eel in your hand, so you can yeah I'll let you back with that and... Yeah, I'll roll to hit, which will be a natural one. Are you proficient an eel?
01:26:06
Speaker
now I am proficient with and ah with the improvised weapons. They are fucking brilliant. if I was to hit with it, I would be proficient with it. ah But I'm not hitting with the eel. I'm going for a kick, but I've just rolled a nat one on the yeah reaction. so Okay. kind Could you roll a dexterity saving throw, please?
01:26:22
Speaker
I would say gladly, but I'd be lying. 10. Okay, no, it's fine. um You kick out and the weight of the the eel almost pulls you back as you're not ready for it and you slip a little bit.
01:26:36
Speaker
um and but managed to catch her footing at last minute. um Luckily, ah something manages to, almost the ground seems a little bit loose there. ah He steps again forward one and you see him grab Saruena's collar and whisper something into her ear.
01:26:51
Speaker
This is grabbing with the left hand, dagger in the right. You can't see what's being whispered as he draws her very, very close and whispers words into his ear, her ear. That's all that happens from that angle.
01:27:04
Speaker
ah The other chap that we can see that did the deed and killed what was the guard or the guy with the crossbow that's now, um, an ex guard. He's going to, for Garrick for all intents purposes, he disappears from review for Falco though.
01:27:21
Speaker
What you notice this, this figure bustling and and kind of brimming through what looks like detritus and, um, uh, boxes and kind of tucking himself behind a series of boxes but you kind of keep eyes on in the majority of the time each time he disappears he then pops back out falco between these gaps and you see him just kind of crouching down behind a series of crates about 30 35 feet away from you garrick you've lost all eyes on him altogether okay um but but you do also notice Garrick is another figure up here from your right, the opposite side that you've just been watching, as this fiend, this other devilish chap ah with a rapier steps out. He's got kind of like a leather, not a bodice, what am I thinking? A leather piece of armour, but it's not the arms. It's just that it's just a chest piece.
01:28:13
Speaker
um I'm thinking of the studded leather pieces from Diablo 2. I'm thinking of Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Calibian.
01:28:20
Speaker
Orlando, what are you doing? Just does the, what do you call it, run? dinting did it yeah ah he doesn't He's serious. He's a serious character played by a serious person. And he's got a rapier and he's looks and you he's got like a a mohawk of kind of golden hair.
01:28:37
Speaker
and Yeah, that makes him serious. The mohawk. Well played. Yeah, yeah, yeah. ah With deep ah deep blue eyes. and This rapier. Shut up. I see my very soul in him. Right in his piercing blue eyes. And he snarls and he is going to run at you.
01:28:53
Speaker
And he's going to try and shove you. He's going to try and shove you off the cliff. Sweet.
01:29:03
Speaker
so And I do what exactly? You need to make a strength saving throw a deck saving throw. Depending on whichever is obviously strongest for you. And you've just got to beat that with whichever one you choose. so It's definitely going to be strength.
01:29:18
Speaker
And that is a ah nice 13.
01:29:22
Speaker
I put that... that's That's different, that, because it's not even like a contested role. I can't even fudge that if I wanted to. That is... That's fully... I said it and then I realized there's no coming back. the year Cool. Okay.
01:29:36
Speaker
Oh, fuck it. Okay. it's So yeah, you passed it though. So as he goes to push you, it's like, it's a hand that just kind of squeaks off you as is he he tries to shove you with his hands first. And then the weight of his body pun bangs into your podron and yeah into into your chest pain he play up chess plate and you don't even move.
01:29:51
Speaker
You just kind of stand stoically there, maybe still looking towards the other chap, not noticing this guy just runs straight into you. Sounds right. um And that's, that is his turn.
01:30:07
Speaker
Then ah the only other move that really needs to take place are are ah named NPCs at the moment. There's a little bit a hustle and bustle and a few people shimmy around and shift. ah Some of the merchants move back ah out of the way. One or two of them move towards the combat, including ah Falco, probably most importantly for you, the smith keep getting the smith who stood in front of you after you said that smith sticks together he's going to move 5 10 15 20 25 25 feet up to where he originally saw this uh person stab one of the guards and uh kind of be looking around trying to figure out where this person has gone a short sword in hand uh serena's going to take your advice rock and ah oh no she can't she's currently being grabbed by this individual so she's not going to move she'll try and move away and
01:30:55
Speaker
ah tries to pull, but doesn't manage to get away from the hold that this person has. ah Drift, on the other hand, is going to pummel it down towards you and it's just going to be kind of mirroring your stance, Rock, almost unaware of the fact that this cacophony of violence is taking place around this teenager who's just interested in and being like you and just takes your stance and kind of leans back slightly, ah puts his arms up in kind of like a...
01:31:22
Speaker
bicep pose pretending he's also holding a large eel and kind of tries to position his chest wide and stand in the similar stance to you. This is a stance I assume of you just stopping yourself and falling over. And this is what he's trying to imitate.
01:31:37
Speaker
Apart from that, like i said, a little bit hustle and bustle on the other side as individuals move around. um But that's the end of kind of the NPCs and Drift and Serena's turn. ah Falco, back up to you. Your human shield has run away.
01:31:48
Speaker
ah and all we where are you going? Guards, guards. And then I'll point and I see the one, um, the, the red cloaked one that's going between the boxes. Yes. You can make up.
01:31:59
Speaker
I can see him. Yeah. You've still got eyes on him. You have an, you have an unbroken chain of line of sight from where your current location is through the awning and between the boxes. You can just see him squat there, sat there. and Like he's just kind of thinking he's hidden. um No one else really has eyes on it except you.
01:32:17
Speaker
Okay. So when I'm done screaming for the cat, I'll point at him and go, I spy an asshole! And I'll cast vicious mockery on him. ah Brilliant. Brilliant. All right. Is that a saving throw from my end?
01:32:29
Speaker
It's a wisdom 13 saving throw, yeah. I got 11.
01:32:35
Speaker
ah So he has disadvantage on his next attack roll. Okay. And damage is enrolling.
01:32:46
Speaker
Oh, sorry. Roll twice. be the first one.
01:32:50
Speaker
ah Six, six points of damage. Ooh, that's pretty good. Not too bad, not too bad. And it's psychic damage, isn't it? It is, yeah. And you just you just see him like hold up the dagger to his head and he hits himself in the side of the head a little bit like he's just pushing out a really violent migraine. And as he looks round to try and get eyes on where that comes from, you can just see a little trickle of blood um coming out of one of his ears as he ah quickly wipes that away. But he he still thinks he...
01:33:18
Speaker
He can't see you or hear you, apparently, and i can't make out where this has come from. So he's still just squatting down there thinking he's he's in the clear. um Just with my movement, i'll ah we seeing this happen, I'll give myself like a little fist bump and I will dive behind this crate next to me and go prone.
01:33:35
Speaker
Nice. Okay, cool. Brilliant stuff. Thank you very much. ah Garrick, you've just been um what feels like someone's just come in and just... tapped your armor. ah You didn't really notice, but you see this chap with a rapier looking smarted and slightly bruised as he's just headbutted your chest piece pretty much.
01:33:53
Speaker
It's difficult because you're not particularly tall, but he's done it nonetheless. What would you i like to do? He's armed. He doesn't look happy either. That's fine. Garrick will look from where the the guy in red was dressed um to this new attacker and just say,
01:34:10
Speaker
You've placed your hands upon the Paladin of Cliffstone. i to believe you mean to do harm to the citizens here. For that, I will put you down.
01:34:21
Speaker
But there is Fatinus waiting for you on the other side. And with the Morningstar, I'm going to pump him down. Amazing. All right, roll to hip.
01:34:32
Speaker
Let's go.
01:34:36
Speaker
Oh, that hovered 19, literally, and then just bumped over ah for seven. seven. Okay, unfortunately, that is going to miss. He's a bit too close. He's right up in your stuff and you can't quite get the swing. Wait, I keep going, give you is the Morningstar the thin...
01:34:53
Speaker
the the the kind like sauron short thin and it's got a like a spiked ball on top of it it's not the one that's the club with a ball and a no no chain what's the chain one don't called mace you're thinking of a flail flail that's it flail come on i'm playing enough diablo 2 i should know this i love that game i need to get back into that fucking hell right anyway um Yes. Right. So yeah you miss, unfortunately.
01:35:21
Speaker
And he's goingnna look and feel quite happy with himself. Anything else you want to do with your turn? Nope. Difficult level one. You just get one little fang to do, isn't it? Right. Okay. ah Rock, you've just realized this this person does mean harm upon upon Serena. And dagger in one hand, he's he's grabbed the collar of her. You've got drift off your shoulder there. what do you want to do? You're holding a fish.
01:35:41
Speaker
A seal. Yeah, I'm holding a fish. Yeah. Exactly right. He's just going to kind of see that, see her try and get away and just be like, ah get your hands off her, please. And he's going to try to slap him around the head with the fish.
01:35:55
Speaker
He's going to do an eel strike. Eel strike. Oh my God, if this becomes a thing and you're just armed with a fish, that'd be fucking great. Anyway, all right, roll to, roll to, roll to Smirsham.
01:36:06
Speaker
Yeah, it's not worked. is I rolled eight to hit. Oh, no. Okay, you've managed to hold on as you swing out, like baseball bat style with this fish, your hands sliding down towards the thin end of this eel.
01:36:17
Speaker
You manage to get a good grip on it. Like, the head the head is in your hand, I imagine, since the bit you go you're just flacking with the tail, like a whip. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. And it's just... you you haven't swung a fish in a while. So you do unfortunately miss and luckily goes over the head of Serena and drifts too short to be encompassed by that. You kind of swing round for the, for the rafters and and you miss, unfortunately.
01:36:39
Speaker
Yeah. yeah With that motion, then if he's kind of swung and missed, he'll do like a, another standing kick as a, as an unarmed strike as a bonus action um with him being a monk.
01:36:51
Speaker
Hooray! For a 23 to hit. That does hit for the damage. Amazing. Finally. ah So that is five points of damage, and with my tavern brawler feat, whilst damaging him, I can also push him back five feet.
01:37:08
Speaker
Oh shit. Yeah. From where I am, it's not my intention to kick him into the ravine, but obviously with the fish missing as well. And with the, the kind of the kick happening, he, he, there is no save from this.
01:37:23
Speaker
Um, it literally is just the the wording of the feet. Yeah. Uh, is that if, uh, when you hit creature with an unarmed strike, you can deal damage to the target and also push it five feet away from you.
01:37:33
Speaker
I can only do it once per turn, but it's, yeah, it's, it's like a, a guarantee on a hit. Cool. ah Yeah, that's going to happen. There is an issue, though, attached to this as well. In as much as he's currently still attached to Sabrina.
01:37:48
Speaker
If I know that he's attached, it says um you you can also push it five feet. It doesn't mean that you have to use it. you have concern So if if I can see that he's kind of holding on tight, he's not going to try to kick him away um and and kind of drag her with her. So yeah, with with that information, yeah, for sure. He'll just yeah still that again place the boot.
01:38:09
Speaker
You know, it's kind of getting like in the ribs under the back because his back's kind of almost turned to, he's ignoring this Goliath actually, and just more interested in this old lady, which seems odd. Yeah. im Yeah. You kick him, but without now the intention tap him for all the feet, you can, like said, can. I'm absolutely fine with that being case. Nice one. Awesome. And he'll just also with that kick, just quickly ah turn back again to drift and go, ah you do not want to be here. Just move yourself back.
01:38:33
Speaker
Look after those fish for me. And that's the end of his turn. Okay, we'll keep up with that scenario while we're there with the four of you kind of intertwined closely next to each other. You see the dwarf, excuse me, you see the, you not the dwarf, you see the this individual with the knife and suddenly throw the knife into the ground, but bit of into the wood by his feet.
01:38:53
Speaker
And then he dives a hand into what seems like her other hand and drips something, an item from that hand. and then turns up to you and he, you can see his mouth is open. He's kind of panting and you see these gap tooth missing kind of one of the incisor teeth as he just turns and I kind of have one cheeked grin, just a one side grin.
01:39:15
Speaker
And just with his hands still on Serena, just pushes. lightly and she loses her balance but going forward and he's begun a fall there and he's going to turn and try and sprint across the bridge. His action has been to, it's been a shove action um but it will do slow-mo fall because it feels.
01:39:35
Speaker
And he's then going to try and sprint across the bridge. He will be entering your, exiting your zone so I think you'll get an attack of opportunity unless the bonus action counts. No, it's not. It's a reaction, isn't it?
01:39:46
Speaker
It is. Yeah. um ah Yeah, because I don't think I can use my reaction to do anything about her, can I?
Enemies' Final Stand and Defeat
01:39:56
Speaker
which is Not the moment, no.
01:39:58
Speaker
No, no. um But my I mean, I've got an unarmed. i can I can technically take an unarmed strike as a reaction then. Okay, if you want. But instead of going to kind of...
01:40:12
Speaker
ah hit him or kick him, I'm going to take the the grapple feature of the unarmed strike. Okay. So I need him to make a saving throw, either strength or dex. um I believe the saving throw, ah because I'm a monk, I can use my dex score instead.
01:40:28
Speaker
yeah um So the the DC, I'm just trying to work out live because it doesn't explicitly tell me yet, which is overly helpful. I believe is 13, 13. Okay. dc thirteen um He rolled a six plus two, so we got eight.
01:40:41
Speaker
So he was unsuccessful. Okay, so when he kind of does that, pushes her, tries to run, he's got these his hand on these two fish here. He's just going to drop it so that the fish the the eel kind of slops down to one side and just reach out because he's a big old Goliath and just grab this guy kind of almost by the scruff of the neck as he tries to run off um as my reaction to to grapple him.
01:41:01
Speaker
Okay, nice. And she is on the brink here. Thank you very much. Great turn there, Ruck. It's the... Oh, no, that your reaction. It's the Thieves' turn, isn't it's still his turn. So he can technically use his action to try and break from the grapple? I treated the shove, the push of her as his action. So that's that's all i'll give him. I'm not going multi-action these guys if we we're a level one. We right we are a level one, by the way, listen, in case you were...
01:41:23
Speaker
Everyone's got one thing to do. ah Right. The chap who's squatting with you, Falco, is going to look around and he's goingnna he's going to be properly looking here to see if he can find you. That's a five. So he doesn't notice that you've got aisles on him.
01:41:36
Speaker
And so he just kind of lowers himself down another little bit, kind of pulls up his collar and tries to be really still like he's a, i don't know, fucking mannequin or something. don't know. He thinks he's he's he's like... jay not james bond that's not a good example he thinks he is the shadow personified no one can spot him so he doesn't notice and he stays perfectly still garrick the one opposite you is going to flick back with his rapier and going for a kind of strike against a gap in your armor somewhere oh my god this dice uh that's a seven that's a miss um he's then also going to draw it back uh and then uh
01:42:13
Speaker
Try and run. And he's going to run directly away from you, which will again give you an attack of opportunity, if you wish. Yes. um Yep, we're just with the Morningstar going for it.
01:42:27
Speaker
So as he turns to to whip back. Oh, man, that's an eight. Woof. Okay, you just get nothing. One better than last time. So next time might be a nine.
01:42:40
Speaker
Maybe. One can dream. And... dream, I dream, I rolled a nine. And he just starts absolutely tanking it away. 20. 10, 15, 5,
01:42:52
Speaker
and it's up there, 25. He's up, he jumps up onto the stage and is running across the stage as well. He gets to the kind of backside of the stage, two steps down, um and he is gunning for the rest of Stormspire towards the kind of the sprawling tiers above ah the kind of busier metropolitan side of the city and to lose, maybe to lose himself in there.
01:43:10
Speaker
Not that Garrick would think any of that, but that's the general direction for you guys. It's the... npc's turns and most people just are in shock this is happening so quick for most people they're not realizing what's happening but sticking with the scene we've got at the moment um you do notice falco a sudden ballpoint turn a a athleticism of your smith is suddenly he turns on a dime and switches direction 5 10 and is going to kind of try and traverse and catch this guy as he just tries to peg it away from garrick
01:43:42
Speaker
As he comes down the steps, technically it's gonna be a grapple, but he's gonna go for like a leg sweep. That's what you'll see him do to kind of pin him down to the ground quite in a quite fancy way. But let's see if it works firstly.
01:43:56
Speaker
Oh my God, yeah, it's a natural 20, fabulous. Okay, um that's right, isn't it? Yeah, because it's his is yeah his score is set. the save that he needs to make. So the roll is from the person trying to be grappled, um not the grappler.
01:44:11
Speaker
Okay, well, he breaks it then. He breaks it with a natural 20 and kind of flips over the leg of him as he tries to to to get away. And he ah yes, he's going to unfortunately miss that bugger. I thought it was the around. Shit. Okay, no man.
01:44:26
Speaker
I'm still learning. I should know this. and So Falco, you're the, and Garrick, you're two with eyes on this at the moment as he starts to peg it away. The Smith has been pretty, it looked cool, but alas to no avail.
01:44:37
Speaker
And that's the end of their turn. And Falco, back up round to you, round three. um You've got this chap in front of you who's, from your perspective, looks like he's running towards you, even though you're hiding behind a crate. But you've also got eyes on the chap popping a squat, ah thinking he is the the shadow personified. what would you like to do?
01:44:54
Speaker
i'm I cleverly put myself prone, so I'm going to stand up using half my movement. And I'm going to step into... It looks like he's kind of running straight towards me, which is worrying old Falco. So he's going to step out into the path um into the path of this assailant to kind of about there.
01:45:16
Speaker
And I'm going to be waving my arms in the air, like trying to get his attention be like... No, don't go this way. There's loads of guards. Go that way. and I'm just going to point in my right-hand side and try and convince him that I'm on his side.
01:45:28
Speaker
Oh, okay, nice. So... ah do but persuasion or yeah i think persuasion wouldn't it do you want to give me a persuasion check probably more likely deception if you know he's trying to deceive oh okay okay to convince him true true true we'll go with deception especially there's a big pile of crates off to the right very obviously not path but he's in a rush he's just on a front flip over a guy trying to take his legs out i'll negate the disadvantage that's just a straight deception roll please It's a 13.
01:45:58
Speaker
Okay, that's cool. and You're not going to see if it's worked or not until obviously it comes around to him. But um cool, thanks for that. Anything else you want to do with your turn? I'll look straight past the guy that's running towards me, opposite side of the stage, to see the big shiny man. I'm going to do finger guns at him and just go, keep swinging, buddy, and I'm going to give him bardic inspiration. Oh, Bob. That hasn't changed. That's still a D10...
01:46:26
Speaker
At this level, I think it's a D6. Back to any role, I think. D6 on any role. For the Tin Man, yeah. Right, maybe you're hit now, Ian. Maybe, one can hope.
01:46:37
Speaker
one I want to drive by. yeah um Speaking of finger guns, awesome, I love it. Thank you very much, Farco. Garrick! It's your turn and you feel, you see this very well-dressed man, boy, boy, man, not really sure, and just pointing his fingers at you and his thumbs just drop down.
01:46:57
Speaker
Maybe it's a kid thing, who knows? But you suddenly feel invigorated with an energy of your God and of of of of helping those around you. And what do you want to do with your turn? Oh, your baddie has run away.
01:47:09
Speaker
Yeah, I'm all alone. ah Garrick will turn to Falco, obviously not knowing Falco, but you'll see Garrick put his shield up to his chest. It's actually his open palm as he um just touches his heart and bows to you ah with a nod of respect.
01:47:25
Speaker
And we'll then... chase after and by chase long strides in very sweaty armor the the assailant that got away from him and with 30 feet of movement he can get to his back you can it's a i'm treating five feet of that to kind of get up onto the stage but yeah you still can get oh yeah apologies no no you can get on it you can get on it and that will take you to 25 take it to 30 and you'll be you'll be diagonally one square away so you will still be able to smite a fool
01:47:58
Speaker
I can't smite for shit, but I can try and hit it with my morning star with a... Now, did I get an extra D6 for that? I'm all right thinking you can see the score and then add it if you choose afterwards before you know the outcome. So you can roll, look at it and go, that might be dog shit. I'm going add it. Or I rolled a 19. I'm not going to roll it. You got that. You got that control. Yeah, I'm going to roll that D6 because I got a 10. Okay.
01:48:24
Speaker
Okay. ah And with the extra five, that makes it a 15. My rolls tonight, my lord. ah know. Well, that that meets the AC. He goes back to you anyway. And actually, technically, no, you're not actually. um Yeah, that absolutely hits. Roll your damage.
01:48:39
Speaker
I got a one on the damage plus two, three ah points of like that whatever damage, this piercing damage. However, because I am proficient with my Morningstar, if I hit a creature with it, that creature has disadvantage on its next attack roll before the start of my next turn.
01:48:58
Speaker
Very nice. Excellent. Thank you very much. Sap has been applied. I sapped him in the face. Weapon Masteries, baby! Yeah. Straight in from level one. Makes level one a bit more interesting, doesn't it? Okay, Fab. Thank you very much. It is the thieves' is the thieves as the people's turn.
01:49:18
Speaker
and Let's start with the one we're currently ensconced upon. ah He is going to... He's kind of stepped over um the... Smith anyway, and he's going to turn he's going to swipe at you, Garrett, because you just bonked him on the schnoz.
01:49:34
Speaker
Swipe at you backwards whilst kind of, he's going to continue to run away, he's going to have a quick swipe at you. And that is with disadvantage, didn't you say? Because of the set. Yep. Okay. Yeah, that worked. Just misses, hits air. It kind of swings the blade in front of your neck, but it's it's well clear as he's still kind of falling backwards.
01:49:50
Speaker
And then he's going to continue to take a few steps ah down the steps. And then he's going to start arcing. And this is strange to you. He starts arcing towards your left, towards Falco's right.
01:50:02
Speaker
five 5, 10, 15, 20. He's going to do 20 feet of movement. And he's going to be just in front of Falco, kind of twisting in front of him towards Falco. what is nothing but a storage area of boxes you will have gotten got an attack of opportunity against that gara because again he left your field of um i really wish i could grab him but i can't my hands are full so i'm gonna bonk him again okay bonk away 12 that hits it hits Okay. shit
01:50:33
Speaker
It's nice being level one. Everything's bit easy. Four points of piercing damage as i as I swing down low to try and hit his Achilles. Very nice. You catch him, not quite the Achilles because it's not a great roll, but more up at the knee. Damage is done. You see him, it slows him down actually. And that gives me the reason why he's only moved 20 feet and not 30. It's that you've kind of not...
01:50:57
Speaker
in probably probably injured and but it's he's limping a bit as he tries to kind of drag himself away. The rope is almost being used as like a, you know, ski poles to move yourself along in the snow. It's like using it one of those to kind of hobble himself round. And Falco, you do notice with your, you don't notice. you he You see him as he approaches. He does something in your direction, but you're not really sure what it is, um but he doesn't attack you. He kind of moves in front of you and he passes by, but he's still within your zone of opportunity, opportunistic attacking. So there's no choice there.
01:51:25
Speaker
uh that's his turn the guy okay here's here's interesting uh garrick suddenly from uh your left-hand side you feel someone trying to hit you as the chap who was popping a squat has popped out as you realized no one's actually paying attention saw this big shiny fellow hit his mate and wanted to bonk him back that's a nine against your ac nope I need to get any fucking dice at this right. Jesus Christ.
01:51:52
Speaker
Um, it's fine for you guys, but it's, it's either natural 20 or two. thats That's all I'm getting at the moment. Anyway, i got that really shiny armor. Like I've just polished it. Garak's just spent the trip shining in it. So the sun is like, it is a mirror.
01:52:06
Speaker
You think it's like a, um, he takes out his kind of pent up sexual frustration and just polishes really, really hard. garric does Yeah, sure. Why not? Now he looks like he's got a disco ball.
01:52:19
Speaker
the The pommel of his mace is particularly
01:52:23
Speaker
tiny. And speaking of squeaky, squeaky bum time, let's go to the other side of the ravine. And um we've got Rock, you're holding this guy. you've you've You've grappled him, but he's just gently shoved Serena enough that she's starting to topple over forward.
01:52:37
Speaker
And he's going to try and break the grapple and get away from you. Is that just another... So yeah, can use his action, I believe, to break the grapple with a DC 13. If he needs his movement speed back, yeah. I think that's still how it works. I'll just double check whilst you're looking. Okay. um He did roll a 13. So if it 13, meets it beats. So he will then try and ah rip away from you. I think you seeing her fall, the eel in your hand, it's just too many factors. Edge of a bridge.
01:53:07
Speaker
and he just wriggles out and he's quite wily and small, wriggles down low and like, you can't catch me. And then he's going to sprint. He doesn't say that, but then he's going to sprint across the bridge. He will be leaving your, um, you'll be having attack for opportunity against him again. If you want to, uh, I won't cause I haven't had my turn yet. I don't think. Oh, of course you've been around to me yet. So yeah, my reaction's gone.
01:53:29
Speaker
Hang on a minute. It's your turn. Why have I just jumped ahead? You haven't had your turn yet.
01:53:35
Speaker
Sorry. I haven't, I wasn't sure if I was before or after. You were before. I'm so sorry. I missed, um i I ticked you off and then didn't actually do it. So before any of that's happened, luckily the other side of the road doesn't really matter. It is actually your turn before any of this happens. So you've still got him grapple. That hasn't happened yet.
01:53:50
Speaker
If it gets around to his turn, nothing changes. He will break the grapple with that score that we had last time. Yeah, of course. No worries. You've got for all intents purposes. Serena's falling and drifts off to your left. So he's got one hand on this. She's falling. He's got one hand on his eel. That's not an innuendo.
01:54:04
Speaker
And he's just going to say to drift, ah hold my fish, hold my fish. And he's going to quickly kind of throw it and like into his into his body. like Not like placing it to him, but like like if someone right next to you just kind of throws something to catch right at you.
01:54:20
Speaker
I'm hoping that he's going to catch it. I have no idea. um But with his spare arm, now now that he no longer has said eel, ah he's going to try to grapple and catch Serena as she's falling.
01:54:36
Speaker
Now, this a tricky one because she i'm going to get make her I've got to roll, don't I, against the grapple. ah Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. This is where it gets a bit tricky, I guess, because if it's if if she's contesting it, then yes, she'd make the roll. But also the fact that she's falling gives the impression that she can't just accept the grapple.
01:54:54
Speaker
yeah I don't know whether the the rules explicitly kind of point for that, so it's up to you how you want to... Let's make it up. For me, it feels, i agree. I feel that like it's it's not one, it's not the other.
01:55:04
Speaker
So she's not contesting it, but she's not agreeing to it because she can't see it. And she probably would go on with it. So i want to make her roll the grapple, but a disadvantage. Yeah, sure. As in center to try and break out of it, to accidentally fall out of it. do you mean No, as in for you to for you to physically grab her in time.
01:55:22
Speaker
i'm I'm thinking she's it's the grapple's not so much she's fighting it, but just can you get to her? So more with the grapple, it's a saving throw from their point. Do you want me to make like an unarmed strike against her?
01:55:34
Speaker
um i know that obviously just okay the rulings don't have account for this. I can make an attack against her with just like a a non-damaging grapple. Let's change it. No, let's just change it. bless give me a gime a like Give me an athletics. I was going to disadvantage it, but because of the size and how small feral she is, let's go athletics check.
01:55:53
Speaker
Straight athletics check. And we'll that. 18 on my athletics. Very good. Okay. That makes more sense because it is, it's you're holding with him. You've got the fish. It's lots of movement, moving parts and doosh.
01:56:05
Speaker
And you go, I'm imagining like, you know, Tom Cruise in, uh, in, um, uh, Mission Impossible 2 at the top of the cliff holding on. ah the reverse thingy like that but with a with a little ruffian and this old bitty about fall into the river but you catch her literally by the at the back of the neck as as she's kind of hanging over this waterfall not waterfall this ravine kind of held there but she stops falling backwards and you kind of rock her back on to to dry land again awesome yeah So ah because I've got two hands now, I've got one grappled there, one grappled there.
01:56:36
Speaker
um ah believe I can still make an unarmed strike as my bonus action, ah which is going to be a headbutt to the guy that I've got grappled. Yeah, he's a fucking idiot. did you Here's payment, bitch.
01:56:51
Speaker
ah Right. Yeah. So that's my intention. Unarmed strike, the obviously the bad guy, um but I rolled dog shite. It's a nine to hit. ah Yeah, that misses, unfortunately. You've literally got your hands full, so it totally makes sense that he just manages to dodge out the way. You're concerned about the lady falling, and and you know he's making it hard by wriggling around like a little bitch. yeah and then he Can I use my movement as well? Because I've got them grappled. Can I pull them both further in towards the market?
01:57:18
Speaker
ah is it i can move Does it halve your movement or anything like that? halves my movement, but I've got two grappled. So if you want to quarter it, I don't mind. Yeah, yeah no worries. I've got um quite a lot of movement speed, but it looks like I'm only going to be able to move them effectively if it's quartered five feet back.
01:57:34
Speaker
Um, so if you're happy for it to happen, I'll drag them both just five feet away from the bridge. And what you notice as you pull them back is that Drift is stood there with nothing, but just, he's holding the head of the eel. It's still the eel is still there, but he's just holding, he's just holding the head. The rest of the eel is down on the floor. It's taller than he is.
01:57:51
Speaker
he's just holding the head, like just wide-eyed, amazed at this, as it takes place, just holding the eel head, like almost like a little snuggle blanket, holding it close to him, wide eyes, as you watch as this take place.
01:58:04
Speaker
Don't let the bottom touch the floor. It's going to get dirty. No. That's what he's going to say. is he's kind zo It's good life advice in general, though, as well. And and with with that, he's going to the the the thief that's on your side is going to break the grapple. We'll keep the roll from the board. should break out of that and is going to, again, make make ways across the...
01:58:25
Speaker
the ladder, sorry, the bridge if he can. Again, get attack of opportunity. I get an attack of opportunity now as he kind of breaks through as he's pulled out? I'm rolling dogshot. It's a 10 to hit.
01:58:36
Speaker
Ah, misses. Sorry, again. Yeah, worries. A lot of things. You're concerned. The eel's now dirty. What a waste of money. It's full girl down the drain, pretty much. And he gets away in 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. He gets to the midway point on the bridge, and then he's going to look back towards Serena and just points with a single finger towards her, quite menacingly, or trying to be menacingly, at least. That's what you think, Rock.
01:58:56
Speaker
And then turns away again and... the impression is that he's going to continue running in this six seconds. and The NPCs, again, people are just turning and watching this unfold now.
01:59:07
Speaker
The Smith has just tried this kind of swinging leg kick and is ended up prone. He's going to stand up and is going to announce to you, Garrick, Behind you! There, and he's going to turn towards where Falco is, and he's going to say to you, Falco, Smiths stick together! And he's going to run towards 5'10", 15 feet, towards ah towards this other guy, and he's going to take a swing at it, and you see the the blade just...
01:59:33
Speaker
who fucked me another two that's a fourth two tonight <unk> just high above this guy's head as he ducks down underneath the swing of this blade but falco you notice something when this blade swings you notice like an ephemeral uh foggy mist hang in the air that's a similar color to the blade that hangs there for a second as the blade swings and then it quickly dissipates over the next second or so Everyone else is again, kind of just, there's a little bit of movement from everyone, but most people are kind now static, hiding behind awnings, hiding under barrels, keeping themselves out of the way, apart from the two or three individuals that are being shitters.
02:00:07
Speaker
the did do did did You've moved, you've moved, you've run away, you've hit, you've tried to kill an old lady. Cool, that's done. ah Back to the top of the round. Falco, you and your Smith are now um arm and arm comrades against this foe.
02:00:20
Speaker
What do you like to feeling overwhelmed with companionship, I'll look keep him straight in the eyes and I'll say, stone and stars, baby! And I'll flip my war pick up and I'll double hand it into the back of this guy that's just trying to run past.
02:00:36
Speaker
Amazing. Yeah, roll to
02:00:47
Speaker
hit. I love that line. was going to do it on the thing, so... Is this a war pick like um the the sharp? I'm talking like a pickaxe kind of pick. Yeah, it's kind of like, you you know, like a light war hammer, but it's got a single spike, a curved spike on it. i said it's into it We're going to spike end in.
02:01:04
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
02:01:07
Speaker
Okay, yeah, 12 hits. Yeah, it does. Awesome. Get that damage. Well, this could be brutal.
02:01:16
Speaker
It's going to be brutal deaths. Oh, it's not linking some reason. I'll just do on there. Yeah. That's four points of damage. Okay, not too bad. You catch him like in the arm, the closest arm in, and it kind of pierces through the tricep skin and kind of you rip away part of the arm and it screams out in pain, drops the rapier as it continues to cover that and gives the impression of continuing to try and skidaddle far away. Anything else you want to do with your turn?
02:01:41
Speaker
No, that's it. Fabulous. Garrick. ah What? The baddies that way, but something just tried to hit you that way.
02:01:51
Speaker
You just try to lay your hands on a paladin of Fertinus. And for that, you shall suffer. Fertinus awaits you. And Garak will jump down and simultaneously bring his Morningstar down and try to aim for the head of his would-be attacker.
02:02:13
Speaker
Okay, roll to hit.
02:02:16
Speaker
That's more like it for a 16. Very good. Right, that hits. That's more like it for a seven points of piercing damage. And because of Zap, he too now has disadvantage on its next attack before the next Is it piercing with a Morningstar? I thought it'd be quite blunt. It says piercing. I thought it'd be bludgeoning.
02:02:35
Speaker
Or is it sharp on the edges, maybe? I suppose they've got pointy bits on the... Yeah, okay. It depends on the Morningstar, doesn't it? I would assume bludgeoning, but it does say piercing. we'll go we'll go with piercing because D&D is never wrong.
02:02:47
Speaker
and So let's go with piercing.
Post-Battle Camaraderie and Reflection
02:02:49
Speaker
and Where are you hitting this chat? What are aiming to hit him at least? So as because, i correct me if I'm wrong, I'm on a platform. Yeah, you are. And I was going to jump down next to him, simultaneously bring the Morningstar down. I was going to bonk him on the head.
02:03:03
Speaker
Bonk him on the schnoz. Okay. and As you you kind of hoof your body up and you come down with this Morningstar, expecting him to be wily enough to move out of the way, half. um And what instead happens is he accidentally mistimes the movement and kind of about half jumps into your strike and head first and you just hear this sickening crunch as this skull just caves in and instantly just slumps to the ground and then you hit the ground so it's jump bang fall and then you hit the ground and there's a slight rumble to the ground beneath you as you land a little bit bit dust comes up as well yeah powerful i like and thunder in the distance you know you hear like acdc thunderstruck
02:03:49
Speaker
playing that you know like good stuff you know um slow motion as i get up from my knees as well um yeah yeah you got it um now do the splits in the air yeah now do the splits of the air he's fucking bleing Right. um Cool. I'll leave him marked there just because he is a corpse and you might want to do things to him.
02:04:15
Speaker
Not like that. but and and That was the line. Not like that. Not like that. we The line is a dot. To us? No, let's be honest. Right. There you go. little marker there. Cool. All right. Anything else you want do? You've got plenty of your mood.
02:04:30
Speaker
Am I right in thinking, looking at the screen and where the death just occurred, there seems to be some civilian right next to the scene. Yep. There seems that there's there's seems to be some iconic merchant stood literally next to you and she gets a little She's wearing kind of blue robes, dark black skinned.
02:04:50
Speaker
sort of dark black clothing with kind of a dark brown skin. And, she's holding what looks like some kind of small orb in her hand, just kind of low down to her side. and, um, she is now splattered with remains from said, uh, corpse, but she looks shocked up at you and very still.
02:05:12
Speaker
uh gary will just turn to her and go so civilian get yourself to safety and we'll turn he's such a creep and uh roll for arousal you you made him i know i but I knew what I wanted to say.
02:05:33
Speaker
and then I said it and my brain just instantly just chastised myself for it. I love him already. ah i He feels like a ah a savant version of... an What's the dude from Guardians of the Galaxy? I would catch it. Drax. Drax, yeah. Oh, Drax. Like a holy Drax.
02:05:52
Speaker
Holy medieval Drax. Holy Drax, yeah. You saying? Yes. So...
02:06:02
Speaker
Take a quick look around. Who's my nearest ah enemy? So you notice this child um with a war pick trying to stab a dude in the back of the head next to you. What looks like. Oh, that's the same guy that attacked me first. Cool. Yeah. I would use my full 30 feet and move towards.
02:06:22
Speaker
they the first would-be attacker. So you can get, sorry for moving you there, apologies for laying hands upon you digitally, but you can actually skedaddle around because the corpse, the body is down. You can use the rest of your movement. You've used five foot already. That's 25 foot to get within range um of the attacker. You've used your attack action already, so you can't be able to attack him again now, but you're right there and you've got to your left an old Wisen smithy, late 40s, and to your right some child with a pick and some rather rather fancy clothing and then this this you're all kind of pummeling down on this one guy trying to get away.
02:06:59
Speaker
i will just turn to Falco. You were the one that helped me magically earlier. You have my shield right now. and that's it. like Brilliant. Thank you very much. This is going to be wonderful.
02:07:13
Speaker
I love this already. And finally, Rock. We... We've gone round? Yeah, we've gone round again now. Yeah, Rock, he's managed to skedaddle. Serena's saved.
02:07:25
Speaker
the The eel is safe as well. You're pleased to know. um You're about 10 feet away from the bridge. The enemy is about 15, 20 foot onto the middle of the bridge at the moment. ah What do you want to do? Okay, he's just going to very quickly turn to Serena and go, are you okay? Did did he like hurt you? Are you all right?
02:07:44
Speaker
Did she respond? She just looks shocked at the moment. That's you can really get in those couple of seconds. Okay. She says, it's not my turn. I'm sorry. It's not my turn. Oh, rules. Of course. Sorry. Come on. It's We shall pretend. I'm not real.
02:08:01
Speaker
You remind me... Sultan Storm, get after him! Surgeon, you're right! he's just going to go full Terminator. de and du Sprinting after this person as he goes past ah Drift.
02:08:18
Speaker
Just make sure the tail is not on the floor, please. And he's just going to launch himself at this person on the bridge. um And by launch himself, I mean just go in for a kind of charging shoulder strike, not to knock him to the floor, but to like actually hit him. So basically a flavored unarmed strike again against this guy. And let's see if I can roll above a fucking four. Yes, I can. 22 to hit.
02:08:41
Speaker
Yes, hits. Wonderful. um I am going for non-lethal damage. have five to hit on the first strike. ah okay Sorry, right five to damage on the first strike. Oh, five damage. Yeah, sorry about that.
02:08:56
Speaker
He takes this of big hit and he sees his nose. I think you try and not tackle him, but I know what you're trying to do. Just kind of just like check him. And ah your the top of your head catches his nose and you just hear this crack and his nose just burst, not bursts physically, but starts to run with blood as he holds his hand up to his nose. But he's still still up.
02:09:16
Speaker
Also, I might change this because as one of my racial features, um I'm going to use Hill's Tumble. When you hit a large or smaller creature with an attack roll and deal damage, you can give it the prone condition.
02:09:28
Speaker
No save. um's It's literally just as part of his his racial heritage with the the type of Goliath that he is. As he's gone in and charged that and it smashes into him, he's kind of knocked him prone on the bridge as well.
02:09:41
Speaker
da And he ah works really well. His nose is just burst open. He just crumples to the floor, oh holding his nose as his eyes are running. And he just, for a couple of seconds, it just, it just takes the wind out of his sails and he just crumples down, holding his nose for a few minutes, but he's still alive. He's still up. He's not, yeah you know, downwind, but he's prone for all intents purposes.
02:10:04
Speaker
So over the top of him, again, he's just going to say, ah What you did wasn't very kind there, sir. And he's going to grab him by the lapel and go for a palm strike to the face. um Non-lethal again, but with him being prone, would you say I've got advantage?
02:10:20
Speaker
I guess the rules. You're the rules lawyer in this situation. I am the rules lawyer. Basically, I'm telling you I've got advantage. Tell me then. I think I roll the rules i've rolled absolutely balls there again. I can't tell with the where my... my my No, I rolled nine. Fucking hell.
02:10:37
Speaker
Wow. that All of my rolls. Yeah, yeah. Well, I've rolled a two and a four. and All of my rolls have been five or lower apart from the two that I've hit. Somehow you miss. That's rolls per match. I think maybe we're in the middle of this swinging bridge and you've just rocked it with the weight of your Goliath form on the bridge, running on it.
02:10:54
Speaker
And maybe it's just, you've just, you've just missed slightly or your, your hands squeaked off on it on the bloodstained nose and you just not caught it at the right angle. and it just manages to somehow dodge or cover his face in time. He's still cognizant though.
02:11:08
Speaker
Thank you for describing that and making me making me feel cool rather than a complete and utter knob. I appreciate that. It's episode one, man. There's plenty of time for that, you worry. Yeah, exactly. Set you up as cool, then I'll just slowly break down all your... um That's fine.
02:11:23
Speaker
Yeah. What Hokea Fetulia Moy is going to do is just ah kind of with that stand up and you'll see if anyone is watching him, he's going to kind of go through these ah like martial arts motions with him as well and kind of bring himself back as as his kind of ah hands are kind of spinning through the air. So we'll bring himself back and hold a pose ready to once again deliver some sort of beat down to this guy at his feet.
02:11:51
Speaker
For me, that's kind of like Matrix 1. Getting all the positions. but With less of a beck and yeah more of a... No throat. No throat move. None of that. Sadly not. Not yet.
02:12:04
Speaker
None of that. He hasn't learned that one yet. Oh, he needs to do soon. All right, anyway. So it's the Thieves' turn. I'm returning. He's standing up. Bleary-eyed. He's going to use Havis' movement to stand up. and he's just going to try. And he's still got Dagon in his hand. He's just going to... Fuck it He's going to try and push you off the... He's going to try and push you off the... and Off the bridge.
02:12:21
Speaker
Push. He's not as big as you. I've forgotten how this works again. I've got set score, haven't I? We went with a one with eight. No, nine, didn't we? one with nine do You do. um I think just I'm just going to double check my features as a monk. I think I might be able to get...
02:12:38
Speaker
advantage on the saving throw. I don't know. I'm just trying to be like, have I got this? Please, please, please, with my bullshit rolls. We are rocking.
02:12:49
Speaker
Yes, we are. When you use... There is a rope behind you, though, but it's for you, it's kind of perfect. It's perfect kind of hamstring height because of how tall you are, ah kind of just under the butt cheek. So yeah your center of gravity, you you're going over if... um Yeah, no worries.
02:13:04
Speaker
I think there is there's something in one of the features that i know I'll have a little read of in a second, but the first roll, regardless, was a 19 to save against the push. Just about. Just about to save it, mate, yeah. He's problem. He tries to push you and just, you you're you're in that kind of pose and you just it just hits against your rock hard chiseled body and it just doesn't move. There's not even a ripple of any kind of fat there. It's just like he's he's he wants to ask you diet advice, but he um he doesn't have the capacity or knowledge really with nutrition at the time. So he's just impressed nonetheless. He's not, he wants to kill you. But that's the end of his turn. And he is a little bit of a man crush on this Goliath. And the other guy who is running away from,
02:13:45
Speaker
Everyone else practically trying to escape is going to turn. And again, in a quick motion, he's probably been kind of using it as like a ski, ah kind of a cane to hold himself up as his legs damage. Now his right arm's got to fucking pick through it. He's going to put the sword into his left arm and just kind of swing back over his shoulder towards the side that the pick came from.
02:14:09
Speaker
So Falco, he's going to swing at you. Okay, that's 17 hit.
02:14:16
Speaker
Yes, that will hit. You're going to take three points of piercing damage. Nice. Okay. And then he's going to... He's going to realize his predicament.
02:14:28
Speaker
He's going to turn away, realize there's just crates, and then turn back and just stare at all three of you. And that's all he can do. ah The NPC. So the Smith's going to take a swing at him to begin with. oh That's an eight. Misses that one.
02:14:45
Speaker
um the Anyone else in particular question? ah There's some behind you, Rock, but your eyes are on this guy. So Serena and... What Drift are doing kind of out of your field of vision for now? won't bother moving them. Everyone else, again, we're not really paying attention to at the moment. They're not really cognizant or involved in it. So we're not going to notice them.
02:15:02
Speaker
so that's the end of their turn. Top of the round, Falco, you've just been pointy, pointy ended by this hoodlum. What would you like um i'll I'll look up at Garrick in front of me and as he as he delivers the epic line, my shield is yours. I'll look up at him with like puss in boot size and I'll say to him, i have never been harder in my life.
02:15:26
Speaker
And then as the sword whips back and catches me, out i'll I'll turn and I'm really angry guy you just fucking ruined that moment, asshole. use It's just mockery on him. Nice. right' That's a wisdom saving throw, isn't it?
02:15:41
Speaker
Yeah, 13. I got 13. Meets it beats. Sorry. Love you. So he... Half damage? Unless it's changed, I think it's a save or something.
02:15:54
Speaker
Yeah, nothing happens. I just shot him. Well, he's... yeah he's not fat. But in that case, I'll use my bonus action to deliver another Bardic inspiration to Garrick.
02:16:07
Speaker
And I'll say, fucking end him That's 1d6 again for yourself, Ian, for Garrick. And speaking of which, it's working well, this tag team, you two at the moment. I am loving Falco, man. it's It's over to you. You've had this you've got this guy start just giving you, yeah I don't know, he said words about being hard and you're not really sure. It doesn't look like he's wearing any armor, but nonetheless, you feel again that pump up of energy again. What would you like to be Oh, and he gets stabbed. He fully gets stabbed as well by this but this heathen in front of you.
02:16:40
Speaker
Yep. So with that, Garak's going to turn to um the enemy. And as he, as he rains down with this morning star.
02:16:52
Speaker
Again, you make me feel mightier than I was before and we strike.
02:17:02
Speaker
Ah, he's going to use that D6 right now. Right now he's going to use that D6 because he got a nine, but he got a six on that 15. Shit. Nice. Yeah, that hits. Nice.
02:17:14
Speaker
Team friendship for five points of piercing damage. Boom. And again, are you hitting him? Where aiming? ah The head again. Across the back of the head. think likes the glancing blow and you just see Falco, Garrick and the smithy.
02:17:27
Speaker
You see this chip lads, bit of skull just... kind of skimmy off into the air a little bit of a moment and then he just topples forward falling face first dead um he is also an ex baddie which leaves us just with our only one on the bridge but garrick anything else with your turn you're now kind of you've got your movement still if you want uh
02:17:51
Speaker
A quick check around, i guess, just in a ah slow, in Garrick's way, 360 movement to see if there is anyone nearby. And you can see to the north, just over the shoulder of the smithy, there seems to be a, ah she looks like she might be early 20s and just shocked at what she's seeing and just kind of she kind of shaking, stepping out. She looks a bit uneasy on her feet.
02:18:15
Speaker
ah but no but big bad, big bads or anything like that. Oh, sorry. No, apart from that, no. for um to to to do I'm not looking at anyone to throw a one-liner to you. No, no. You notice, please. You do notice a kerfuffle on the bridge and you see two individual, well, one what looks like a giant and one individual back and forth thing and the bridge is properly like swaying five feet to the right, five feet to the left of these two figures upon it.
02:18:42
Speaker
ah One of them seems to be similar to the others that you've just been ending pretty much but that's quite far away on the bridge hmm it appears that bridge won't hold much longer I'm going to lend a hand and with that caracal turn and walk 30 feet movement does he just has he got like an external monologue like everything is just external and he in the sickly is that I'm here for it I'm here for i'm all about it feet the same
02:19:14
Speaker
ah Yeah. And also it lets Falco know what he's going to do. You can get to the base of the bridge on the... um on the kind of the, the north side, the built up side that you're on. And you can just make eyes now that there is a very bloodied individual similar to the others that are dressed. And, uh, this, this hulking Goliath who seems to just be posing on the bridge that this over this guy. Um, so he was posing obviously well rock. We know it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a measured,
02:19:44
Speaker
monk stance but to gary just appearing it probably just looks up posing uh that's anything else for your turn no as he's walking over he'd uh he'd put his morning star back on it's not like there's no sheath because it's not a sword so it's almost if you could imagine at the base the butt of the the weapon there's just this kind of hook and it will just hook onto kind of uh like a side part of his fucking armor so it just kind of swings there um but it just enables his right hand to be free to grab the rope in future that's me done nice awesome thank you very much uh rock it's your turn bridge swaying on the brit on the bridge man bloodied what would you like to do
02:20:27
Speaker
I need my bonus action to start with to try to punch the guy in the head. But first he'll just be like, I swear Master Kosher was like, it's just one of these. And he's just going to try and go for another big fucking punch. Again, non-lethal.
02:20:42
Speaker
ah My fucking rolls. Oh wait, no, that's better. That was a nine, not a six. It's 14 to hit. ah That hits. Yep. Amazing. With a tasty eight points of bludgeoning non-lethal damage.
02:20:54
Speaker
um He's down and what you also notice is that out of his right, as he kind of crumples to the ground, knocked out, um you see the dagger fall onto the bridge in the middle and you see what was in his right hand, the thing that he was going for from Serena, ah tumble out down and it's just his arm leans out and this large shell, a circular um shell getting smaller and smaller into the very centre that's glowing with almost a reddish orangey glow um, tips out of his fingers and hands and rolls and falls and falls andage and falls deep into the ravine below.
02:21:32
Speaker
and that breaks us out of initiative as that's all our combatants at the moment. and Rock, this bridge is still, yep. Is it okay so if I've just kind of knocked him out? I don't know about the guy's and ending at the end. Yep.
02:21:44
Speaker
So I'm basically going to grab his body and use my full movement to get to the other side of the bridge and basically drag him, if I can, towards where Garrick is off the bridge. Yeah. which is What's your movement? 35 or 40? 35 foot, but I haven't used my action, so I can use a dash to get 35 feet yeah off the bridge if if needs be. yep um but I'm literally just dragging this guy with me, and I'm going to get to the other side. like ah the others are they oh ah and i'm going to let go of the guy that's kind of in my hand and just let him drop to the floor. He slumps to the floor.
02:22:19
Speaker
that That was kind of the the turn that I intended. Obviously, i know that now that we've got um initiative over. Yeah. So, Garrick, you're face-to-face with this hulking Goliath. ah Falco, you've just heard this knight, for all intents and purposes, one liner himself and then walk rather slowly off towards the bridge and i become face-to-face with this person.
02:22:41
Speaker
The other townsfolk start to come um and... The Smithy takes a deep breath and takes a foot to a step towards you, sheathes his sword and kind of puts his hands on his hips, looking over towards ah Garrick and Rock Falcon, just kind of stands there, not looking at you, but just stood with you watching them.
02:23:00
Speaker
Is there anything you want to do? I'll lean into his waist and just direct my voice up towards him and looking at Garrick, I'll say, what a man.
02:23:13
Speaker
He did some real damage back there, didn't he?
02:23:19
Speaker
Yeah. And that's it. It's going start a beautiful relationship. And the smith's going to make its way Farrakh away from you and towards Garrick and Rock. Garrick and Rock, you've come face to face.
02:23:34
Speaker
ah Garrick, what you see is a man carrying a man walking towards you and behind him, a smaller man carrying an eel. crossing the the bridge and standing directly behind him and, um, oh you' just stretched him out to make him double the size. No, silly me.
02:23:52
Speaker
And yeah, that's, that's what you've seen just approach her, the bridge. Um, what did you do?
02:24:02
Speaker
I saw a ah guard being ah pushed into the ravine from someone up here. He kind of looked like this guy. um ah ah die No one up here fighting.
02:24:15
Speaker
Did they get away?
02:24:18
Speaker
no Oh. We killed them. Oh, oh goodness. Um, I know that um, this guy, i know if I did this properly, i've I've done it a couple of times before. I don't think he's dead. I just kind of beat him around the face a little bit. He should, he should wake up in in in a couple of hours.
02:24:39
Speaker
Um, this one's not dead. Uh, so are you one of the the local guards for this place? or Are you in charge of, you know, how this, how this all works? Do I leave him with you?
02:24:53
Speaker
My name is Garak Bladeheart. I'm a paladin. It feels like an NPC. Like someone else Skyrim we're just playing with.
Raka Harangui's Introduction and Drift's Heroics
02:25:11
Speaker
I used to be an adventurer like you. And then I it out to the knee. Oh, God. Right. Okay. a paladin. I'm a paladin.
02:25:23
Speaker
ah Based in fucking Clifestone, that's who that is. I'm a paladin from Clifestone. Okay. ah Hi, I'm Raka Harangui Likopeculasa Hokea Fetulia Moi.
02:25:40
Speaker
ah Kind of... I'm from... ah not Not in town. ah I wasn't expecting this. I've literally... Oh, thank you, Drift, the eel.
02:25:53
Speaker
Yeah, no, I've seen that you've you've dusted it off. that Thank you, i'll I'll just take that back now. um And you see kind of this guy turn around and just take this massive eel back into his hands and just kind of be holding onto it somewhat. There's ah there's an unconscious ah villain, if you like, at his feet, and he's just turning around kind of awkwardly back to you.
02:26:13
Speaker
Do you need for Tinas to take this one's life as well?
Discussion of Threat and Tidesworn Vanguard
02:26:18
Speaker
ah Who's Vatinus? Are they here? Is that... And he's kind of looking over your shoulder.
02:26:24
Speaker
Vatinus is... the god.
02:26:30
Speaker
The god Vati- Oh! Oh, of course. No, sorry. Yeah, no, I've heard of that person. The god a thing before. Of course. No.
02:26:40
Speaker
um I mean, ah we don't need to. He's not a ah threat. I mean, the the dagger, I think it's fallen off the bridge. But... But ah did like did they usually, i don't know how this works. I don't really kind of apprehend people like this usually.
02:26:59
Speaker
um ah if If someone wants to talk to this guy and be like, wait, why are you being really nasty and and and and teaming up with people and and and trying to push people off of bridge. He tried to push an old lady back there. Not an old lady, sorry, Serena. She is a beautiful soul.
02:27:15
Speaker
And he just tried to push her off. And I'm talking too much. I'm sorry. um No, don't you don't need to kill him, I guess. ah Are there any guards here that can look at ah ah people that want to want to talk to one of the bad guys?
02:27:34
Speaker
They're here, they're um unconscious, he'll say as he's kind of looking around the group. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. And you just see at the corner of your eye, Rock, Garrick, you see it full on, this boy who did have the eel put his hand up in the air like he has a question at school. Oh, oh, oh.
02:27:52
Speaker
Yeah. what What's up, Drift? I know. I know where we where you take him. Oh, great. ah Where is it? That way. And he points across.
02:28:03
Speaker
ah The Tidesworn Vanguard. that that That was what one of he was. Well, was. Used to be. Before he's now died. Like, you're not going to die. That was close, though. You almost did a couple of times.
02:28:17
Speaker
You promised me, remember, that you were you know, team. You and me, yeah? ah is Was that what we said? We we were going to be a team? I mean, i suppose you are carrying the fish for me.
02:28:29
Speaker
ah Tidesword Vanguard, that way, you're saying. Is this the same? Is this a meeting point? You know, what like where you're trying to take me before? Nope. Tidesword Vanguard are the group. They're they one of the factions here. They're the good guys. They look after everyone and make sure some of the...
02:28:44
Speaker
other areas are kept safe like the capital and here and a few other places. Um, and they keep everyone calm and cool, you know, and ready and, you know, keep everything in the right places.
02:28:55
Speaker
Um, they're the good guys, but, um, they deal with all the, all the, all the baddies and the criminals and, you know, murderers all that good stuff. All those people. I was going to join them, but then I actually seen you and I think um'm I'm going to join you on wherever you are. Wave diving, wave diving. We're going to do wave diving.
02:29:11
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Well, it looks like that that's where someone can can take this guy. If anyone wants to take this this person to the Tidesworn Vanguard, that'll be... They're there for it.
Resolution and Garrick's Heroism Acknowledged
02:29:24
Speaker
And you see this... ah large forearmed bulky kind of big chap wander over. And again, he's kind of pretty much topless apart from just these trousers tied up with some rope.
02:29:37
Speaker
And, uh, he has a sword, i kind of a short sword at his hip. Uh, Garrick, you saw him fighting or trying to stop the, yeah one of the villains getting away from you rock. the First time you've seen him and he walks up ah to your shoulder and, uh, I know where I need take him.
02:29:53
Speaker
You leave him with me and we'll sort him out.
02:29:58
Speaker
Wow, your voice is amazing. ah Sure, he's yours. to Help yourself. He's unarmed. Attack that lady. And he kind of points behind him. Serena?
02:30:10
Speaker
Yeah. No, he he went full up to her and kind of held a knife up to her. And and i yeah I tried to kind of stop that from happening because she was so nice earlier. He tried to hurt Serena?
02:30:21
Speaker
Yeah. The woman who hands out the little blessings when people come into Stormspire? Yeah, sure. I've got one myself. You've got one. Okay. Okay. I've got this. Don't worry.
02:30:33
Speaker
And he's going to pick up. It's quite difficult at first. Then he kind of gets them up onto his shoulder and he's standing kind of face to face with you rock. And he's got the chap up on his right hand shoulder. um and he turns and says, you've done a good thing by allowing me this pleasure.
02:30:49
Speaker
And he's just going to drop his right arm and let, allow the body to roll off the idea of letting it roll off into the ravine unless unless you or maybe garrick intervenes
02:31:02
Speaker
uh i mean this is the person that that i've been told is the one to give the the thing over to is that right that's ah he's obviously he well he looks more official i suppose uh as he kind of rolls off okay yeah y'll know about that that that's that's a sign of authority absolutely yeah
02:31:23
Speaker
raka hareni liorpaculasa kf e tulia moi is just going to um watch it kind of roll off and as he kind of starts drifting towards the edge to go, oh no, he was he's not dead. Oh, okay, he wasn't dead. As this figure just kind of drops into the ravine. And he just stares at you for a couple of seconds then you just hear a... He is now.
02:31:45
Speaker
he's going to reach out hand towards you to shake a hand. Thank you.
02:31:54
Speaker
Sure. You did a wonderful thing by looking after Serena. She's one of the oldest here. Like, like I said, she's a, she was a sweet, sweet soul. And I'll, I'll shake his hand. Still is.
02:32:06
Speaker
She ain't dead yet. And shakes your hand as well. Turns to Garrick, uh, well, doesn't know you as Garrick, but knows you as the knight who, who's basically de-scalded two of these fools. but You.
02:32:20
Speaker
Excellent fighter. I've seen a couple in my time. Thank you again. And he goes to shake your hand, Garrick. Garrick will shake his hand. We'll do with corpses. Don't worry. By we, I mean me.
02:32:32
Speaker
And by me, I mean the ravine. And he looks over your shoulder, Garrick, confused for a second. And he's he's looking for... the other Smith in his mind. Uh, and he's kind of looking around and Falco, where about to you in this situation? Cause he's looking, he's looking for you. Would he, would he see you from your current position?
02:32:49
Speaker
Um, he'd see me stepping up onto the stage in the middle. Yeah. Okay. I will walk towards you with the impression of kind of reaching out and thanking you as well and and getting your name. And unless, unless you stop and that's his aim, so he'll walk up towards you and kind of reach up.
02:33:04
Speaker
I never got your name Smith.
02:33:08
Speaker
um I'll take my hat off and like fans sweat away from my face. Falco. Falco's my name. Well, Falco.
02:33:19
Speaker
Well met. And he'll go to shake your hand as well. Oh, you're a big boy.
02:33:30
Speaker
i am my mother's son. don't know what that means, but don't yeah. ah I'll shake his hand with my little like Deadpool arm compared to his, you ah Yeah, poppa but Popeye forearm. Yeah. yeah and The elbow sticks out and he yeah shakes your hand and it's a gentle, it's a it's you know, he he works with his hands, he's good with it. So it doesn't feel like a crushing, it's just a, it's a respectful handshake he gives you. And it's a nod of respect as well from him.
02:33:56
Speaker
What did you need before all this, this kicked off ah Falco?
02:34:01
Speaker
um I'll... That is a perfect tee-up. um I'll look up at Garrick um and ah I want Falco's eyes to tear up a little bit.
02:34:16
Speaker
Don't worry. i found it. um And if you allow me, i I'll to turn back to the people in the square and I'll say...
02:34:29
Speaker
People of Storm Spire, gather your eyes, gather your ears, for before you stands a hero unlike any other. The Knight of Stone and Stars. And I'll point at Garrick.
02:34:44
Speaker
Today we stand as witness to his strength, his compassion, his unfaltering duty to the realm. Raise your voices, people of Stormspire, and honor the knight who stands among you.
02:34:56
Speaker
For so long as the stars shine above the mountains and they stand firm, the Knight of Stone and Stars will be your guardian. I'm like, hold my arms up expecting applause.
02:35:09
Speaker
And there's silence for a second. And then clipboard man, who's been stood off to the side, drops his clipboard and starts... a slow clap, which starts to pit it into other claps around you.
02:35:24
Speaker
And before you know it, there's a cacophony of, there's only about 10 or 11 people there, but they are cheering wildly.
Conclusion and Additional Content
02:35:30
Speaker
Um, rock you here off your shoulder. There's really, really quick, fast tapping. No, doesn't stop that. But, um, drift is drift is just clapping so fast. He's just like off, off his nut. He's enjoying it. Even Serena on the other side of the, of the, uh, ravine is giving it a, yeah, from the far side, from what she thinks she can hear. And there is big applause. And and and ah Falco, as you look around, you see these this adoration up from individuals that don't even know you're going up.
02:35:57
Speaker
You see the, looking up at you, you feel the the power of performance kind of leaking in through all these, it's just a few individuals that seem to be standing around you. And then you see this knight, this person, this this idea in front of you that could be what you need.
02:36:17
Speaker
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02:36:28
Speaker
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02:36:38
Speaker
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02:36:50
Speaker
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02:37:02
Speaker
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