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Ep. 13 - Wildheart - The Stone and His Pebble
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With the nest far behind them, Rok, Falco and Garrick face the aftermath of the alarm for The Tidecall. Suddenly, The Guilded Anchor and Stormspire start to feel a little more tense. Rif'a has also made her way into the tavern and recognises a Golliath and a human boy she headbutted not a few days ago.
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The Call to Adventure
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I'll look up at him and I'll say, it's time to get fingered. And now I'm going to hold my hands out in front him. And I'm going to cast Mage Hand.
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Wild heartland where legends grow Tidal surges rise and flow Golden treasures deep below Time to get moist, here we go
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Gold on emerald shores, glory's felt in ancient lore. Fardina sings to heal his scars, to call her chosen stone and stars.
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In wild hearts land where legends grow, tidal surges rise and flow. Golden treasures deep below, time to get moist, here we go.
Exploring New Realms
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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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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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Now, let's dive in. There's a moment's pause, a minim's breath that takes place across the tavern. Even though you find yourselves in a small, quiet room, you can notice a shift in the atmosphere.
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This, for now, a listener, involves Rock, Falco, and Garrick.
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There's a tenseness that comes with this. feels like a shift of temperature in the air, almost, like a breeze or a cold or a tingle on the back of your spine.
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Something changes. and the silence. And as one or two of you step out into the larger room, you see everyone staring up. And what they're staring up to is an individual leaning over the banister, speaking to the group.
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And you can see this incredibly, incredibly pale skinned, slender, ah it seems to be a female human with deep green, long hair and deep green eyes, long black and bluish robes hanging and draping down across her body.
Tavern Tensions Rise
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And she's staring out across as everyone stares back at her.
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there's a moment's silence when no one moves before she repeats again. It's coming! The tidal surge is coming now! They were wrong! It's happening now!
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Again, no one seems to move. At the moment, Garrick, Falco, Rock, is there anything you guys want to do?
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Rock's kind of looking to the group. is I mean, did we leave Tashlin's side or are we still kind of next to her as well? She'd kind of shooed you out. But um at the time of the at the time of the call, you were kind of making you on your way out, but making your way out. She's still in the room behind you.
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OK, yeah. Rock would definitely turn around, kind of look at her, turn back to the group. And kind of his eyes would be wide in excitement as a massive grin is spreading across his face. And he's just looking at the others almost like goonishly big old grin there if they react in any way.
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Okay, anything from the remaining members of the group? Yeah, Garak started to fade out during the last conversation, and he found some beer mats on that table that they were at, and he's just doing that flicking game where he's trying to flip them in one smooth motion on the table.
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I'll look up at Rocky. ah What the fuck are you smiling at? It's coming now. i thought I thought we'd have at least a month to train for this shit.
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Oh, this is awesome. What are we waiting for? it let's Let's go. It's yeah it's happening now. we' got to be quick. No, no, no, no. We'll just wait for the next title search. The next one.
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No, no, no, no. We go now. Come, come, come, come. please He'll definitely go and and kind of grab Garrick as well and be like, now, now. It happens now. And he's going to basically try and... It happens now. up the ah up Back up the kind of, not gangplank per se, but up, yeah.
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Up the stairs and up to where that green-haired person is. Okay. And as you as you start to make your way up, she ah no one is still moving except for ah for you you three at the moment, im you notice as you start to make you up, some people are literally like shrugging their shoulders and going back to conversations. It goes from a moment of silence and of tension to just this almost people are continuing to move on with it. And as you start to head, there's some stone steps, reaches a small square with a carpet on the floor, you turn left and it's the wooden gangplank to the exit, out, three tables on the left as you exit.
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and where this individual has stood. As you hit the first set of stairs, she deftly kind of hoicks her hips over the over the yeah kind of protective railing and jumps down onto the table below, making the drinks and the individuals below that go kind of jump back. And again, she repeats, why is no one moving? This is happening now.
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And at that, two of the individuals on the table look up at her and you hear one of them clearly say, you tired callers always get wrong, get the fuck off my table.
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Are still heading up and out? ah He'd probably kind of pause a little bit and take note at the fact that she's a tide cooler in particular and kind of ah turn back to the group but and just be like, this is awesome. Do we need her? yeah ah or I'll be honest. I don't exactly know where I'm going. I'm just super excited.
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i can tell I'm a little bit confused. We're meant to be jumping now. I guess we're making our way to the moor, where Tashling kind of told us, I guess.
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Hey, and Rock will kind of cool down to ah this green head human. ah You're saying now we're ready?
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Let's go. oh Yes, yes, we're ready. Her eyes lock with you as a group as you speak, one at a time, Rock and then Garrick, and he's piercing green eyes, almost really quite light green eyes as well, and they almost feel like they're emitting light. It might be the the sheen of the torches around you, and there's a sense of relief that someone's listening.
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someone's actually heard her um and just then you see this flicker of a smile appear followed by her face start to drop and her eyes widen as suddenly whoop she just kind of disappears from view you hear this massive so crash and thud on the table as you look down you realize that one of the individuals at the bar has swiped her legs out from under her under her and she's just crashed onto the table You see this individual now, black hair, ah quite tall, wide-shouldered, seems to be maybe maybe human, maybe elf, you're not really sure at this angle, um grab her by the kind of the scruff in front of it and leaning close. You can't hear what she's saying at the moment, but his demeanor is that of aggression. I won't make you roll a perception for that.
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Cool. Nope. ah Rock's going to vault... Sorry, that was ah Vault over the side and kind of try and get him down there as quickly as possible to
Chaos Unleashed
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ah intercede in some way, shape or form.
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Okay, yeah, um it's quite straightforward. Again, with your athletics, I'm not going to get I don't need to roll for it. You're just... Drift is, I've got randomly on roll 20, stood between you, but he would have, you know, you could have moved through his position and then it's a three foot up over the over the the side, the banister, to be directly behind this individual who's currently um who's currently got him, ah sorry, got this person kind of pinned on the bar. and as you get closer, you can hear again, just these exclamations of, you know, um you,
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you tired sir, you tired callers, riptides take you, you fucking fool. And she's getting he's getting closer and closer and every every time he gets to like ah an exclamatory sentence, he kind of shakes her a little bit and you see her kind of shaking with um with each of these pulls. It's quite a muscular man and who's who's kind of just, yeah, right up in her face. So she's kind of pinned on the on the table at the moment.
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Oh yeah, I'm not standing there at all. I mean, um I know I'm taking over. Is anyone ah up top doing something similar or? Garak would look towards Falco and just go, well, now I'm confused.
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Is this dinner and a show or are we jumping somewhere or do we follow Rock? I don't know if he's good enough quality to be in our party.
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He seems quite reckless.
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I mean, yeah, he could also just be jumping a show. Right. So just to be clear, you're expecting a show to to but be performed here in the pub. I just feel like someone stood up in the middle of a bar and started shouting. Then we started moving and and now there seems to be some some fight going on.
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Is this normally what happens in bars? Yeah. do you um Do you have regular medicine you should be taking?
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No, should I? i no, no i didn' I didn't. I was just curious as whether I could provide. didn't get injured in the last fight. Yeah. In fact, I feel pretty good. Yeah, you look good.
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So whilst they're chatting this, the rocks kind of interposed himself. He's kind of stood there and goes, excuse me, sir, would you mind awfully not being incredibly threatening to this kind person here?
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And he's kind of going to put a hand on this this guy's shoulder.
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And he's going to, as you put your on the shoulder, without almost a second's pause, the elbow's just going to come back, aiming for your face. and Does a 21 hit you? Yeah, it does.
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Four points of bludgeoning damage. fucking awesome. As this thing just cracks you. that was That was Max. um Cracks you um in in in the in the in the face, kind of knocking your head back for a couple of seconds.
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yeah I think it's only right ah if I ask for all four of you, if that's possible, to roll initiative, please. And if we're not already, and can we pop ourselves on to roll 20? And um what should befall you is our lovely ah pub of the Gilded Anchor.
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with us are located near the middle and i'll just point out a few figurines for you guys um to help fit in with the world that we've got there as well okay straight into it all right did anyone get 20 or higher for their initiative role yeah level one baby uh did anyone get 15 to 20. oh sorry no gar oh sorry no No, Falco got 19. Garak got 16.
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Okay, Garak. ah What about 10 to 15? No one in that one. Okay. ah Can't see through the haze of the broken nose. it good Okay, got 8. Yeah, I got 6.
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five to ten yeah i got eight yeah i got six Okay, lovely, so Rock. And then, which actually I think will work beautifully for what we want to do. Okay, so this crack comes in and Falco, you just see Rock's head kind of bounce back and you hear a splat and you you know that means. um And you notice one or two of the figures around the table react.
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Your perception's decent, your passive's good enough to realize that he's just hit Rock. Top of the round, Falco, what do you want to do? um I will, looking at the reflection of the fight in Garak's glorious breastplate, will then, ah sort of ah staggering back a bit, shocked that Rox has been elbowed in the face, I will call to our friend who cooed through the elbow, all the assholes throw elbows, and I'll cast vicious mockery him.
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Very good. I know do this every time. Remind me, it's a save from me. Sorry, I should say straight up. No, no, you go, you go, you go. Wisdom, 13. Ah, it's 16.
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So he saves and... think it's a no damage thing, it? It means no damage. Yeah, it's not half damage. We had issue last time, didn't we? I insulted him. Yeah, i mean mean maybe it' it's the cacophony of noise, the the scraping back of chairs that happen at the same time. Maybe he just doesn't hear it.
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um It's a sick burn, but he just doesn't doesn't quite land on him, unfortunately. um Anything else you want to see? You got movement, bonus action? i will. in In the ruckus, has has that got anyone's attention?
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Has what got anyone's attention? Well, in the in the the woman falling onto the table and the the fight that's breaking out between Rock and this guy. Give me a... You're just seeing kind of the lay of the land who's noticing. Is it all eyes on or is it ah people who are used to violence?
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want to give me a perception check and I'll let you know? Of course.
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Ten. Ten? Yeah. ah From your perspective, everyone has eyes on. Okay, I'll shift to the bar if I can. So I'll use my full movement to get to the bottom of the stairs and then just tuck into the corner of the bar there.
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Lovely, thank you very much for that. So yeah, not too far away from where we currently are, near where you were with Raelic and the others at the front of the bar before helping next. Cool. Okay, lovely, thank you much. Garrick Crack, you've heard the smack and Falcos just shouted some rude words.
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I guess we're doing this then. And Garak will leap over the stairs with his morning star in the name of Fatinas and just hit the guy as hard as possible in the face.
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right on his nose someone doesn't understand a bar fight rule okay um exactly he doesn't yeah okay uh roll to hit that's a nine ah that misses in the heat of it the it's awkward because you've got to kind of like hoik yourself over the bar in order to get ah sorry over the banister to kind of get a good position on it um and it's tight it's not quite big enough the the ceiling's high enough you've got wooden balisades behind you and stuff in the way and it just off it catches awkwardly and you just can't get a good swing on it like you did when you literally smashed the heads of individuals he's used it yeah and when he was in the fight downstairs that intensity is exactly the same intensity for all intents and purposes
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it' just It's 100%. It's go hard or go home. also get Go hard or go home. on off Lovely. ah Thank you very much. the It's the the the individual's turn at the moment, and he's going to turn on Rock.
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and he's just gonna say, stay the fuck out of it. And he's gonna roll, he's gonna go for a punch again. that's a natural one. Goddammit, it starts again. and so So, you know, you you see that you feel the punch coming in perhaps and just your training kicks in and to do the punch, you just move it aside easily, deftly.
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The elbow maybe caught you off, this did not and he misses. He is gonna follow up with a bonus strike, bonus action hit as well. ah Nope, nope, nope, that's a 10. so Thankfully not.
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Thank God. Okay. um And that's him done. But you do notice... um but but but but but Could you give me a perception check, actually, please, Rock? With disadvantage, because your nose is...
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in this bad way. fucked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. I'm thinking just, not broken, it's I'm thinking just streaming. Seven. And the second was a natural 20, so yeah, seven. ah Okay, cool. ah You very, can perceive you, you very clearly notice um there are three other individuals in your field of vision that share the same kind of aggression that the individual who's hit you has.
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ah You notice them standing up, and you notice an intensity in their eye you know with a natural twenty an intensity in their eye that says to you, I'm going to get him involved.
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They didn't say that, obviously, but you get the impression from their view. Though they are quite far away, there's two individuals at the far end of the bar, which is a good 30, 35 feet away from you, and an orc sat at the table with this individual as well.
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And there are some other folk around and a few of them are going to scatter. There's a chap, a little gnome actually with a long, wispy blue beard sat right next to this and elf, half elf, human, ah large man. and he here pretty hell And he's going to skitter away um and move away, but still going to watch intently. and A few other individuals you kind of see in your field division, not going to move more because it'll take a while, ah do move away. Some move a little bit closer, some move back, but none that's really getting in your way.
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There is another ah bartender who's currently around serving drinks. He's just going to take a step back and he's going to continue watching. and The other individual who looked like he was going to get involved as well is going to step up to your other side rock and he's going to try and grapple you.
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And again, I've already forgotten the rules for fucking grapple, but I'm going to roll a DC. It's a saving throw on my part. The DC is 8 plus proficiency bonus plus strength, um I believe, unless they're a
Mage Hand Mayhem
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monk.
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So okay whatever his strength score is. or to be And I think I get to make either a dex or strength save, going to take dex for sure, and I rolled 12.
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Yep. Okay, fine. So he kind of starts grabbing your wrist, trying to restrain you, trying to pull you, trying to grab you into a headlock. And at each one of them, your arms are just definitely moving like water. And you just manage to just every time push, push, push, push push away.
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You know, you're running on autopilot at this point, even though your eyes are streaming, your nose, you feel blood, maybe not, and but your mind's just working for itself. And you can hear, I'll give this a drift just behind you. Oh, wow.
00:18:51
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um as you just seem to like just neo in the matrix keep keep uh batting these away apart from that one elbow the two individuals at the bar on the far west uh underneath uh are going to start moving forward and they're going to have you see them conversing and then they're going to split one moves to the south one moves to the north both heading towards your location but aren't going to make it all the way there that that they they're biding their time Finally, ah the person on the table, the individual who was being threatened, is going to stay on her back and just kind of scutter back, still on the table, um but scutter back away from the situation and look petrified at what's just happened to them.
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That's their turn. Rock, it's actually your turn now. Okay, so he's obviously just been kind of taken unawares and cracked in the face, and he's going to look at the the blurry kind of Well, it's the person in front him, but you can see three of them ah currently because he's just been knocked back a little bit.
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And he's going say, I just asked you to take your hands off her and what the hell? And he's going to grab ah him by kind of both shoulders and just go for the nut. Okay, nice.
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and so obviously that's just a flavoured unarmstrike isn't it really yeah yeah yeah i'm here for it balls 11 to hit hits uh no sorry misses sorry misses i read the wrong number That's right, that's right. So what's he going to do?
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He'll grab by the shoulders and try and nut one of the the other visions of him as his kind of his vision in particular hazes back somewhat. And as he kind of shakes his head and gets but his bearings a little bit, he'll see um that he has got next to him as well, Garak with his mace out, flailing like with his mace.
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And he'll just say... Just super quickly, I don't think you need a killing blow here, ah but I'm going to try to once more, just ah now kind of now that he's regained a bit of composure, go for ah like ah an unarmed strike again. His bonus action to unarmed strike the guy in front of him. So it's technically a second attack, but this one isn't going to be with his forehead. This one's going to be yeah with his fists and it's worse.
00:21:02
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So never mind. no Yeah, that was And again, just the blurring eyes, the the the fighting two opponents at once, the the fatigue from the day, the spiders, the the the fire, everything that's happened is just a lot. And then this as well, when you think there's a title, it's just a lot. Excitement to fear to trepidation and everything in between, which covers that.
00:21:25
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Yeah. We get to the bottom. Sorry, sorry. I was going to say, there's quite a lot of blood pouring down from his nose as well. It looks it looks like it might look his nose. Oh, Rock. I'm sorry, Rock. Oh, I can't to again.
00:21:37
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I did it once. That's all I've got. Rock. um Lovely. Thank you very much. for Anything else you want to do? Any movement? Anything else? ah He's not going to move away because he doesn't have the option to safely or get into a different stance or anything. So, no. No problem.
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Okay. Riffa, bottom of the round. You are sat in one of the booths to the north of this establishment.
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You've heard some high-pitched, almost sing-songy voice for the last few minutes from a female who's in the next room over. ah In front of you is a um kind of a small archway with a curtain. And these are kind of private rooms that ah you were put you just kind of walked into, ah not knowing you should have paid for it. No one's kind of noticed yet.
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You've been sitting in there for the a little bit now. And then you hear this kerfuffle. You hear a commotion. You hear a voice you think you might recognize. You hear rock.
00:22:37
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And then you hear punching and the noise of clothes and struggle and a smashed glass. The general noise of a bar fight. At the moment you are, for all intents and purposes, completely concealed.
00:22:50
Speaker
What do you want to do? um so She would kind of already have started getting up because she would have heard kind of snippets of the the lady speaking and heard the kind of the word tide surge.
00:23:04
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And then hearing Rock's voice, she's kind of in excitement, going to kind of rush in. And i kind of imagined her getting rushing in and seeing the point where Rock does the headbutt and then the punch.
00:23:16
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And... she kind of doesn't read the rest of the room and is like, and just like, no, Rock, it's left, right, then headbutt, thinking he's kind of doing the ball game again and she's just going to rush in to join Rock and basically grab the guy in front of her and then do left, right, headbutt on him.
00:23:39
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Okie dokie. You're in a bit of a... If I can get that far. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you've got, as you step out into the space, you can see on Roll20 where I've got you now, um you step into the space, you've currently got Rock directly in front of you and what looks like a very serious knight stood directly to your right, wielding a a large bloodied mace in his hand from the from those that he's felled not not a few hours ago. And this guy's kind of trying to wail down on this dude, everyone else's fists.
00:24:08
Speaker
This one dude's got a mace. And... So you've got options to kind of pass. You can pass through individuals. talking about the mechanics of D&D for combat anyway. You could, you got the table behind him, so you could skirt around Garrick and onto the table.
00:24:22
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You could, the other way is block because there's kind of two individuals that are your kind of foe at the moment that you wouldn't be able to pass through. it That makes sense. Yeah. and um I'm right in thinking, well, I haven't had this before, but diagonal...
00:24:36
Speaker
you attack for it? It's a five foot. Yeah, you can do from five. Yeah. yeah dog was by like like can mu me You can stand exactly where you are and do exactly what you were going to do. Yeah. so yeah Just kind of... Yeah, she just completely doesn't read the room. Just kind of get his excitement ah excitement of hearing about the tide surge and hearing Rock's voice.
00:24:54
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Him being like the kind of the only person she knows. And then that game, she kind of just assumes that's what he's doing and does that. Lovely. all right. So are we going... Left punch, right punch, headbutt. that yours?
00:25:08
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I mean, I technically they can only do... Well, how many actions can I do? I believe as a fighter, you just got the the Uno.
00:25:19
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i could i could give you it as flavor. We could do it as one attack. and I mean i think i thought ah think I've got bonus action anyway, so I can do two. So I'll just do one punch and then the headbutt.
00:25:34
Speaker
Okay. Okay. do you want a roll for the the first punch then yeah
00:25:40
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then? Yep. 13. Hits. And then the headbutt. 11. 11.
00:25:49
Speaker
eleven ah That misses. So ah do you want to roll the damage for the the first? It's just a straight up five for any unarmed strike that hits.
00:26:00
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Oh, bosh. Nice. that's good. Oh, yeah. You've got beastie strength, haven't you? Yeah. You're all fucking muscle and muscle. Fantastic. Okay, cool. So um this punch kind of blindsides him on his left eye.
00:26:13
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And... ah but then he clocks you as you start coming in for the headbutt and just kind of like child, stopping child, like palm to the head as as he kind of catches you for that headbutt in. It's awkward as well. You've got two people right either side of you to kind of get the headbutt in, but you know you know the game. That's what you go for.
00:26:30
Speaker
ah Nice. and Sorry, go ahead, Alice. I was just going to say, like, he just managed to hit, like, directly on that bruise that she's still got from previous and it just kind of drops that headbutt in there.
00:26:41
Speaker
Nice. In its tracks. Nice. Nice little throwback there. Episode two, get on it. um Good stuff. Thank you very much. Anything else you want Got some movement or happy where you are?
00:26:52
Speaker
Yep, cool. Okay, okay, okay. Right, thank you very much. Top of the round. ah Falco, from your location, you've just seen this. um well I'll ask Alice to describe um to describe Rifa in just a moment's time.
00:27:06
Speaker
But there's another individual enter the fray next to your knight, next to Rock, in front of Drift, that's wailing on this this other guy, basically, that's pinned down the tidecaller. What do you want to do? um I'll linger my focus on the the new combatant briefly before I see um a little window of opportunity. I'm going to tear back up the stairs.
00:27:26
Speaker
past the guy in green who has his back to me. I won't leave his five feet, but up to the top of the stairs there. And I would like to grab the rug, the carpet, and I will shout at him, I can show you the world, and I'll throw the carpet over his head.
00:27:44
Speaker
i so Just to clarify, can can you see the name plates on these characters? Yeah. um So the one in green is Drift. just Oh, fuck. Can you not see that one? We can't see that. We only see know the character names. I got you. In that case, I'll go for an even ballsier throw and go for the Orc in red. if i Nice.
00:28:07
Speaker
Yeah, let me just quickly, just because I'll keep forgetting, because I'll copy-paste the shit out it. Oh, not me, What are you doing? Let me just... um change it so that we've we've got we've got clear eyes on him because yeah I obviously can see it but obviously you guys can't which is not fair on you controlled by there we go all players and hopefully now Bosh his name should appear right there he is yeah so you go over drift and that's fine he's he' the same-ish height as you but for argument's sake you could take a step forward though and be more over the the kind of banister if you want it's up to you are you going ballsy and
00:28:47
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not muted sorry like a fisherman throwing in a net as best I can just launch it over his head and try and cover the orc okay so the the new chap that's joined that has yet to attack yeah trying to grapple yeah the big guy cool okay umm um um
00:29:05
Speaker
what do we do for this um it's an improvised improvised weapon There's a net in equipment, which there is I guess is similar, that's got kind of updated rules for, if you wanted, or what you want.
00:29:24
Speaker
I mean, I'm not sure if we're proficient in it. Are you proficient in nets? I'm proficient in nets, mate. Okay, okay, no worries. Let me just have a quick read net and we'll make a decision. Okay, yeah, okay, and technically you've got the range. The range of a net is five foot for normal tossing and 15 foot at disadvantage, like the long range of a net. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'll take it as advantage. That's fine.
00:29:49
Speaker
It can make a ranged attack. Let's treat it like a net, then not? That'd be fun. Okay. to the throne property uh a large small creature hit by the net is restrained until it's freed and that has no effect on the creature who are formless blah blah blah uh but you can make a dc 10 strength check to get yourself out if that is indeed the case cool uh yeah like let's go for it let's go for a whether you're like your proficiency modifier give me a d20 give me a a disadvantage no just give me a No, go on. Okay. D20 disadvantaged, please.
00:30:23
Speaker
Two in the lowest. Sorry, that was a big way of working Oh, that's a natural one. Oh, okay. Oh, hang on. no I'm going to use luck if that's all right. And I'll re-roll that. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah.
00:30:34
Speaker
12. 12. twelve 12. Okay, yep, I'll give you that. I'll give you that. It meets, it beats. That's what we needed. um You manage to toss this rather nice, ornate rug and a plume of dust
Turning the Tide
00:30:47
Speaker
bellows up into the sky. It goes over Drift's head, catches rock on the back of the neck a little bit and wraps itself deftly around the head and torso of this orc. And you just hear a grunt as this ah this person is restrained. And I'm going to argue because it's not a It's not a net. It's a rug.
00:31:05
Speaker
It's a carpet. um Unless he does something about it, he's also going to be blinded um because he can't see. It's a rug. So that's where he's at the moment. Very nice. Bonus action, movement. Anything else you want to do, Falco? As my bonus action, I will look at Drift's arm and grimace and then look up at his face and say to him, think we're going to have to get that amputated.
00:31:27
Speaker
going to put Drift in the order. I'll end my turn now. Okay. Okay. We didn't have Drift in there. And it's important we have him in there. He's going to have kind of like ducked too late because he didn't realize you were going to throw it. Hear you say that. Look down at his arm. And then he's going to move back away from a little bit and just start like looking at and poking at the wound he's got on his arm a little bit and wincing. and But still eyes on rock and the awe of him managing to deftly just avoid these hits with a slight hmm at this newcomer that's ja i know that not newcomer. This person that for a second he's like, who is that?
00:32:03
Speaker
ah That's the end of Drift. Garrick, suddenly to your left, punching human appears. That's cool. um Garrick is still going to go for the one who punched Rock in the first place.
00:32:16
Speaker
um But ah you, Rock, you said you tried to get like, cool it down with fists. But um Garrick would respond by saying, ah nonsense, Rock.
00:32:28
Speaker
You are now an ally. And as such, I'm protected by the light of Fatinus. and hit the guy again with the morning star. Okay, roll to hit. 420. Oh, no!
00:32:41
Speaker
It's natural, unnatural. now no no, no, no, no. Not a crit. Oh, thank God. Okay, roll the damage. That's eight points of... ah Massive damage. Martial damage. Bludgeoning, I think, with a mace, isn't it? Bludgeoning damage. yeah No, piercing. It's piercing damage. Oh, piercing. This confuses me. I can think I get Morningstar, mace, and flail all confused. My time in Baldur's Gate is killed. um And because I have mastery with it, I hit it with sap, which ah gives that creature disadvantage on its next attack roll. nice Well, you know what? Don't worry about it because it's got disadvantage on living.
00:33:20
Speaker
He is... he hate They're like Davantinas! You've cracked him hard on the head. This third opponent's come in, distracted him, and it's just straight-up bonk on his head, and that has just floored him.
00:33:34
Speaker
As he's falling, he smashed his head on the side of the table, and his body lies limp on the floor at your feet. ah Yeah, he's he's he is an ex-person. And at that, Garrick will turn and face the others.
00:33:51
Speaker
Morningstar still swinging. Okay, nice. ah There's a hushed moment's pause again as as again this the the fight has changed.
00:34:03
Speaker
Something has changed here. What you do notice, however, is that the two individuals who had split around the tables to start getting involved in the fight, pause for a second, their eyes widen and their fists relax and not in unison, but separately reach down and open up their jackets and reach in and pull out short swords.
00:34:25
Speaker
ah Both of them have done this now. And they're going to approach the one to the south of you. was going to say honking round, but yeah approaching round through the south. I know how honking came in.
00:34:37
Speaker
He's going to... don't He's not honking at all. He's just moving. It's long week. guys how He's going to honk his way in and almost stand next to the corpse of his it's fallen person and is going to... ah He's going to gestured to his other friend and then gestured towards Garrick.
00:34:56
Speaker
And he's going to turn and then take a big old swing towards Rock. That 17. Yeah, that hits. yeah that hit
00:35:07
Speaker
tried rocks crying about it as well is it's an apt sound rocks gonna die so this guy comes in with a long overarm strike uh aiming towards kind of your trap and your neck area um with this hit okay it's just gonna hit for two points of slashing damage oh thank fuck for that i was literally i've gone from the highest to the lowest i could possibly roll with that which is handy for you i guess isn't it yeah uh And that's all that one can do. The other guy is going to approach from the other side of that kind of surrounding table, which is ended with Garrick.
00:35:44
Speaker
And he's going to do the same thing, take a swing against Garrick. Not so successful, I believe. That's a 12. Nope. nope misses uh bang just twangs against the armor and just i i imagine garrett doesn't even react to him it just twangs against the um the armor the uh just turned slowly to look at who's doing the attack nice um you do also notice as a result of this uh You've heard one or two other chairs scrape back in reaction to ah to the bonk on the head as a another chap from nearer the bar area, so technically from behind you, ah stands up and you see him reaching down. He's not joining, but he's looking intently towards, I'm going to say, Garak, you wouldn't have noticed, Falco would have noticed.
00:36:35
Speaker
This man's standing up and moving towards him, rummaging down into his pocket on his it's kind of sword side if you will but you can't yet see anything so unsure there that's uh the oh no sorry the the person who's been hit on the table is gonna step down off the table now And you see her, she's going to be looking panicking for a second, and we'll start looking down at her hands for a minute.
00:36:58
Speaker
And you'll see this this blue effervescent, almost wispy smoke-slash-mist start to effervesce in her hands before, poof, it just puffs away into nothing.
00:37:08
Speaker
And she just stares at her hands, and that's that's all that she does. Rocka Hoang Tui, I haven't got it up too long. do you want to do? You've just been brutally cleaved in twain.
00:37:21
Speaker
Punch, dodge something and then take in a sword strike as well. Rock's not looking good. and He, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he kind of knows that, but he's just also just had Reefer kind of appear.
00:37:32
Speaker
So he's, it's almost like when she comes and starts chatting, he kind of turns and that's when the sword strike comes in and he's like, ah, ah, ah, like almost Jim Carrey Ace Ventura. Ah, ah. with all these different things going in. But he's going just like, as he's starting to reefer, go, you're here. That's great. ah One second.
00:37:51
Speaker
And he is going to try to just kick at the legs of the guy with the carpet on his head. um Yep. Would that be it?
00:38:03
Speaker
I'm going to say, yeah, he can't see it coming. He's ah he's technically restrained anyway. Yeah, let's go for it. Amazing. Either way, fortunately, the first one hits anyway, I'm assuming with 24. Yeah, yeah, that hits. Are we looking to... Non-lethal damage.
00:38:18
Speaker
Okay, sorry. yeah Because it hits the legs, you're not trying to trip them or anything. It's just flavour. Well, fla I mean, I have got... It's not quite flavour, because I have got um my giant ancestry. I can basically...
00:38:31
Speaker
if I deal damage to him, which is four points of bludgeoning, make him fall prone. um So that's that's literally it. He's got this carpet on his head. He's turned to reefer. He's taken these hits and he's just going to kick down at the kind of, not at the knee, ah but like kind of at the feet underneath him to to drop him prone in front of him.
00:38:47
Speaker
There's no save or anything like that. It's an awesome ancestry to Gawsh. Yeah, so the guy...
00:38:54
Speaker
Exactly. um That's the carpeted guy kind of down and to the floor with his ah bonus action kind of strike there. And then for his action, what he's going to do is he's going to drop into this kind of low stance and take the dodge action.
00:39:12
Speaker
um because yeah he can't really afford to be hit again or but he can't afford to kind of he's not willing to run and he's just gonna as this guy's dropped to the floor beside him and also being covered somewhat he'll just say how long have you been here for what ah this is awesome but also kind of and he's saying that almost huffing that little bit more and he's there's a lot of blood dripping down him as he said all that as well. Nice, thank you. Nice, awesome, thank you very much. Riffa, works because it's your response there as you see Rock drop into a stance, kick down the legs of a guy that now has a carpet on his head and this knight continue to try and bonk things.
00:39:48
Speaker
ah What do you want to do? Oh yeah, and a body now has appeared on the floor. um Yeah, so the first thing ah she'll just kind of turn to Garak and give him this like kind of wide-eyed like look as if to be like, what on earth are you doing? And she's like, that that's not how you play this game.
00:40:08
Speaker
What are you doing?
00:40:11
Speaker
and And then... Yeah,
00:40:18
Speaker
yeah with the guy who just ah attacked a rock, she'll... Is there like an ale mug on the table? yeah Yeah, there's a few a few of them that are spilt from when the ah the individual was kind of thrown onto the table, but there's still quite a few there.
00:40:37
Speaker
Yeah, so she's just going to go forward, grab one and smack with his sword kind of in Rock's kind of trap.
00:40:48
Speaker
So he's kind of distracted. She's going to grab the mug and smack him around the face with it. Okay, nice. Thank you very much. ah We had this before. Have you got the um the bar fighting? We'd worked this out, hadn't we, prior? No, you hadn't actually had you. It was just Rock that had it.
00:41:03
Speaker
So it would be minus two to the attack, basically, because your proficiency bonus at the moment is two. So if you're proficient with an unarmed with an improvised weapon, then... Yeah, which you'd involve that, Sue. So it's a d20 plus your... um
00:41:19
Speaker
Strength, I guess? Strength, yeah. strength d twenty plus strength.
00:41:25
Speaker
okay natural twenty so twenty four whoa Yeah. Now, I should probably check.
00:41:37
Speaker
Are we going for lethal or non-lethal damage here? Non-lethal. She's going to knock him, like knock him out. c Clonk him over the head. Yeah. God, it's been so long since I've done this. It's double rolls and no modifier.
00:41:53
Speaker
No.
00:41:55
Speaker
It depends on how... I can't remember how you've kind of ruled it. Shit, it's been so long I can't even remember how I used to rule it. Two rolls plus once modifier. Yeah, I think the DMG is double the rolls.
00:42:06
Speaker
Yeah, and one modifier. Yeah, rather than overall. And I think you've got... Is it a set damage, Alice, for your... um I mean, ah for unarmed strikes, but that's not with an improvised weapon. So I don't know what you want to...
00:42:20
Speaker
D4 I think is improvised weapon. Yeah, so let's go improvised weapon, D4 twice, and then whatever your normal modifier would be for a regular strike with something you're proficient in.
00:42:33
Speaker
Or a regular... So it would be plus whatever your... Plus what it would normally be if I hit normally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
00:42:46
Speaker
ah sorry So it's ten. rush so Ten. Yeah, okay. He is, I like to think, blade still stuck in clavicle. um He just slumps down slowly and pulls the sword down with him a little bit and ah Rock will give you the free action just to kind of...
00:43:04
Speaker
Jimmy out of your of your side slightly as the wound has opened slightly up going give any more damage, but he slumps against the bar the the table next to him and then just collapses on the floor. But you've kind of hit him in such a way as that he is knocked out and not actually killed.
00:43:20
Speaker
Really nice, cool. You're now stood, Rifa, in the middle. You've got Rock to your left. You've got this weird knight guy behind you. um And now ah you you kind of stood almost on a body of a natural corpse. and then you've got this guy in front of you.
00:43:33
Speaker
There is a man covered in a carpet to your left and your right. You basically put yourself dead center, which as a soldier would make sense. You're in the thick of it. You've got a mix of enemies and what seem to be allies or half allies around you at the moment. and Have you still got movement, bonus action, anything else you want to do with your turn?
00:43:48
Speaker
Yeah, seeing that um Rock had kicked out the legs of the carpet guy as her bonus action, because she's got two weapon fighting, she's just going to take the mug and straight down onto the top of the head of the guy under the carpet.
00:44:02
Speaker
right, cool. Same again as um as our previous one, then, please. so With advantage? With advantage. Yep, because he's prime.
00:44:12
Speaker
Have you grabbed another mug for this, out of interest? Are you dual-wielding mugs? Um... I just want to show you that. That's ah another natural 20. Get the fuck out of here. Holy shit.
00:44:25
Speaker
I know her. Welcome to the Never a more masterful warrior with mugs ever seen. think Falco's erection, you can hear it a mile off, I think, at this rate. Fuck it Not to speak of you.
00:44:43
Speaker
Yes, of course it hits whatever whatever you're going add on to that. So the same thing again, 2d4 plus, what was it? Four, did you say? Plus five. Plus five, of course. plus five for that. Nine. Nine.
00:44:54
Speaker
two d four plus five for that and nine Nine. Okay. ah He's still up. But um you see little birds tweeting around his head in a circle, cartoon style, as ah he's yeah down on his knees.
00:45:11
Speaker
I like to imagine legs get kicked out. Down he goes. Bonk. Mug comes in. One hit, two hit with this mug, um this flagon. And you can you can hear a very loud grunt and and the head and body start to like sway a little bit in a circle side to side. he's still up um but is seems to be in an unhealthy state very very good double double natural 20 fucking hell very good top of the Rhine Falco this person has just stepped into the fray and just wielding naught but a mug has felled almost felled two of these individuals what do you want to do I'll say to well out loud but so Drift can hear two of my favourite things
00:45:53
Speaker
women and bows, and then will... I'll look up at him and I'll say, it's time to get fingered, and now I'm going hold my hands out front of him, and I'm going to cast Mage Hand. Okay.
00:46:09
Speaker
And as my Mage Hand... I'm commanding it. As my Mage Hand sails towards the flaming sconce of coals underneath...
00:46:21
Speaker
above the rug guy, yeah um I'm going to ask my Mage Hand as my bonus action to pour the sconce of hot coals onto the carpet man.
00:46:32
Speaker
Nice. hope Okay. Hoping that he's been drenched in a bit of ale as well. Is there a a limit on what a mage hand can move? I think it's 10... 10 pounds. 10 pounds? Okay, 10 pounds, 5 kilos, ah half a stone. If you think that would be too much, there's that candelabra next to it as well. so that's probably more yeah That's probably more realistic. you could you could You could start to tip it, but to get that apex where you'd be able to tip them out, I think at this would be too heavy. But the candelabra would be more a more simple kind of mage hand push, and it would just... Okay.
00:47:04
Speaker
okay Yeah, so yeah just to tip it over... I want to set the carpet alight, and as it tips, I will shout, For Vatinus! Very nice. Is um is there a roll I need you to make for that? Because it all just seems quite straightforward. Give me a um No, not really. It's not a sleight hand. It's not Arcana. It's just a... don't...
00:47:32
Speaker
There's no check from HN. Yeah, I guess we're going to go with that. And let's go with let's go old school with that. Okay, you can roll it, actually, Charlie, if you want. Grab a D8. um let's say it's dry i was dusty i did say it was dusty that's canon so it's definitely not wet already a little bit of booze d8 one and a two we don't have flames anything higher it starts to catch flames and eight and it it's ah bursts into flames oh buddy here we go
00:48:03
Speaker
over there one in eight five okay fine okay so there's a moment a moment where you see it feels like all the candles on the candelabra go out and then you just see from almost the back uh these flames start to flicker and become higher and higher on his back has two in a row now we've set shit on fire three in a row actually this our third fire episode yes um he is for intents and purposes on fire we've got fire it's a very wooden pub good ah Falco, thank you. Anything else you want to do with turn?
00:48:34
Speaker
just scream, burn, motherfucker. Nice. Very good. um Drift is going to... Only Falco hears this. You just hear him go, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. And he's going to run off ah towards the bar area. It goes out of kind of your line of sight, Falco, and no one else is really paying attention to him. So he just kind of disappears off that way, and that's his turn. Garrick, ah flames erupt behind the back, almost silhouetting this man, carpet man, and a figure has just stepped...
00:49:08
Speaker
not just over the body of your fallen adversary, but then almost fell to two more foes in the process, wielding naught but a mug. ah You have an individual who tried to attack you to your right, and I believe you said you've you slow turned towards him. What do you want to Yes. Yeah, absolutely. And Garret would have heard what was said about this is not how the game is played, and in response would Ha!
00:49:33
Speaker
Game. This is no game. This is a valiant battle. Bang. Okay. Right. More to hit.
00:49:43
Speaker
For 17, 18 to hit. Yeah, that hits. Murder spree. Here we go. Seven points of piercing damage. Sap as well.
00:49:55
Speaker
So disadvantage on his next attack roll against moi. Had he taken any damage? No. one He's onto that.
00:50:09
Speaker
HP 6. No, he hasn't taken any damage, has he? Okay. um How many was it? Sorry, I totally lost track of that guy. Seven points piercing. Seven, thank you very much. And he's as disadvantaged on his next attack.
00:50:21
Speaker
ah Yeah. Fab. Thank you very much. Right. Anything else, Garrick, from you? Bonking someone else on the schnoz. Other than when he hears Falco scream out for Fatinas, he goes, yes, it's Falco!
00:50:32
Speaker
Starting to amped up here. This is good. Awesome. So the guy against you, Garrick, is going to return your hit with disadvantage. Good addition because he did I did roll a natural 20, but that was also followed up by 15. sorry. I'd modify. 17. Nope.
00:50:46
Speaker
ah seventeen misses uh tries again and maybe this time you do bring the mace the morning star morning star i keep getting this along morning star yeah morning star up to turn a block it or get in the way of his short sword it's an awkward place to be fighting overhead anyway uh that's the end of his turn but he is then going to look at you and go i yield that's what he's going to say uh the individual with the ah
00:51:16
Speaker
Cover over his head is going to, it's finally his turn, he's had so much done to him this turn. ah He's going to attempt to break the whole, the it's like a strength check to get out of the net on fire that is a carpet, Christ.
00:51:29
Speaker
um And he manages just to kind of tear a hole through the flames out of it in the in the process. and this giant flaming orc now stands himself up and he's going to take some fire damage, two points of fire damage as he kind of breaks through the fiery moor and he's going to stamp, stamp, stamp his feet to put out and pat out the flames that are around him.
00:51:51
Speaker
You see his kind of back heaving up and down, panting as he kind of hunches over himself. He's not looking towards Reefer, Rock, Garrick. He's facing away, down at the floor.
00:52:03
Speaker
ah not He's not going to attack on the stone. His action's kind of been to pat the flames out that have landed upon him, causing significant damage to him. That's all he's going to do. ah No one else in the space really moves except this guy who's been reaching down to his side ah below at the base of the stairs, Falco, where you would have noticed this.
00:52:24
Speaker
And he is going to draw out a dagger and he is going to sprint up to you, Falco. He's watched you carpet a man and now he's on fire. And he's going to try and hit you, stab you with his dagger.
00:52:38
Speaker
For a 16 to hit. ah Hits. Oh, fuck. That's going four points of piercing damage. And Falco falls unconscious.
00:52:50
Speaker
Oh, he is back. He pulls the dagger out and turns and moves five feet towards the back of rock. He doesn't have a second action because that would be mean, but he's going to um he's goingnna be looking to... you can see a look in his eye.
00:53:08
Speaker
He's going to be going for you. So... recap garic the one near you has just asked for basically clemency he's oh no sir oh no damn to the depths you have thought of the word parlay the the orc that was on fire no more has uh has his back to the rest of you and is kind of on his knees panting he's just been the shit kicked out of him uh this individual has come up and shanked falco and is moving up towards rock that's where we're at And Rock, it is your turn. You hear the grunt of possibly, I don't know, a noise, a scuffle noise behind you from Falco-ish area and then steps coming and walking towards you. What do you want to do?
00:53:48
Speaker
Okay, so Falka would, sorry, um Rock would still be asking those questions like, I thought you were meant to be here like before, a whereabouts? And then he hears that shank and hit and kind of turns and sees what's going on.
00:53:58
Speaker
Is ah this person that's behind him, is he like up on the stairs? He's about five feet up and therefore about the same height as you. Yeah, perfect.
00:54:10
Speaker
I'm going to grab his feet and yank. Okay, nice. Yep. um I don't know whether you want to use this as like a grapple. What's your intentions with his ankles?
00:54:22
Speaker
I want to basically... ah Well, Rock is actually Victorian, so... well Give him some opium and a snuff box. My intention is to basically, ah if he's there, if I've seen him shank, if I've seen Falco fall, the intention is to drop him.
00:54:41
Speaker
but You've made the and you've made the you made the assumption. you put You've turned around, you've put two and two together. Falco slumping, this guy approaching, dagger in hand. yeah Okay, then it would most likely be a grapple.
00:54:52
Speaker
ah In fact, actually, shit, no, I've got i've got the Tavern Brawler feat, so I can do that whilst... Oh, wait, no, can I do that whilst punching him? Let's have a check. Let's do it now, level one. in but No, it's not. it's not it's the That's the grappler feat, which I don't have.
00:55:05
Speaker
Which I'm definitely going go to level four. Spoilers. So it would be a... I want a grapple attack, so he needs to make a saving throw... of 13 dex or strength saving throw.
00:55:18
Speaker
He got a four in total. ah Amazing. He is grappled, and I'm going to use my movement at half speed to pull him backwards and off the stairs.
00:55:29
Speaker
um So if I move up five foot using 10 foot movement speed... Obviously, I've got him grappled. My intention is to literally grab him by the legs, pull him over and kind of and drop him to the floor. I know that it's taking liberties to say to knock him prone, so I'm not technically going to do that. I just kind of pull him down to my level.
00:55:49
Speaker
And then I'm going to wail on him and just plant a kind of ah a palmed fist to his solar plexus. All right, as you roll back, um as you jack kind of jackhammer him down five feet,
00:56:02
Speaker
ah It's awkward and his his ankles catch and his he he as he falls he tries to grab hold and bashes his elbow. yeah He actually takes three points of bludgeoning damage as he kind of gets dragged down this almost ragdoll style down these
Aftermath and Reflection
00:56:16
Speaker
five foot. It's awkward, it stone, it hurts.
00:56:18
Speaker
um So he's taking a little bit of damage. You do notice some kind of groan and grimace at that before you smack him. Awesome. Say 23 to hit. Yeah, that hits. Okay, and max damage. Nine points of non-lethal damage.
00:56:32
Speaker
bludgeoning damage. And it's going to be such a powerful hit as well with it, obviously, with him having just stabbed Falco. And he's seen this. He's grabbed him. He's pulled him down. He's done this. He's going to push him back five feet directly back as well.
00:56:45
Speaker
Okay. he ah So this all happens in a blur. you You manage to grab his ankles and grab his kind of solar plexus and you drag him down. He gets hit. And as his head spins around to look at you, bang, this palm strike kick hits him.
00:56:57
Speaker
And his head flails back. He tips over the... quite well placed the back of the orc behind him and he kind of flips and lands face down ah ah still on the ground he is unconscious uh yeah he's he's he's basically moved i'm gonna take a liberty and say it's been like yeah a few more feet and he kind of stumbles down where the now unlit candles or the candelabra have fallen the other side of this orc and the orc does notice anything else you want to do with turn rock Yeah, so I've used 10 feet of movement. um Rock has got 35 overall.
00:57:31
Speaker
ah So he's going to just quickly, he's seen Falco drop. He's going to say, oh, Falco's down and use my movement to get up and kind of ah drop to a knee next to Falco's side and and kind of, not not obviously I know I can't take any actions or bonus action or anything else left, but for all intents and purposes, he's dropped to Falco to administer aid, not that he can do anything currently, but he's going to let the others know that Falco's dropped.
00:57:57
Speaker
Lovely, thank you very much. ah Rufa, you've just seen Rock complete a rather brutal set of actions dragging folk, etc. ah You can still feel the presence of an individual off your right shoulder behind you next to the weird night man.
00:58:12
Speaker
And the orc in front of you seems, at the moment, to not be paying any attention to you, but is still conscious. What would you like to do?
00:58:24
Speaker
um Yeah, so if i move kind of towards Falco, is that giving anybody an attack of opportunity or they kind of all?
00:58:36
Speaker
In theory, yes. Whether or not they take it or not, you won't know until you move, i would argue. But yes, in any other set of combat, when you have an opponent there's you know five feet within five feet of you, they they have the option to take a reaction and do that. Whether or not they will or not, we'll only know if you move.
00:58:52
Speaker
Yeah, well, based on kind of how they're acting, I'm gonna risk and seeing ah Rock's kind of concern for this Falco person.
00:59:04
Speaker
She's going to follow him up to where Falco is, and kind of take stock of the situation, and then she's got kind of a healer's kit so can use one of the her actions to stabilise.
00:59:21
Speaker
i but um' I'm not sure how you guys manifest kind of that healer's kit thing but ah basically she'll do it by kind of ripping a bit of her tunic off and shoving the material into the wound to stop the bleeding yeah nice up kind of like field healing Makes sense, makes sense, absolutely, nice. ah the One of the chaps, the jab with his back to the orc with his back to you, does not take an attack of opportunity.
00:59:51
Speaker
However, Garrick, you notice something strange with the man that you're facing off. He's kind of looking up at you with these big, almost like puss in boots style eyes towards you. And then they flicker to the side, to your to your left side, as he sees some movement. And then he's going to take a really quick jab towards Riffa.
01:00:08
Speaker
Well, towards someone, not you, someone to your side. 17 to hit Yeah, that hits. Okay, you going to take six points of piercing damage.
01:00:19
Speaker
Okay. Ouchie, ouchie, that's a good bit damage there. and But you've you've you've finished managed to move away. It catches you hamstring, thigh, somewhere low down that you manage to you can you can work through that. You've worked through worst.
01:00:31
Speaker
ah Thanks very much. um And Falco is stabilised, is that right? ah Yeah. Has one hit point or just stabilised? Stabilised, I think. Just stabilised. Cool, cool, cool. Absolutely, stabilised. No wisdom, medicine check needed with the kit. Nice.
01:00:45
Speaker
That saves that 50-50, baby. Nice. Cool. Falco, top of the round. ah There's nothing you can really do, I think, at this point, is there? No. i um Can I speak?
01:00:58
Speaker
I think you're unconscious.
01:01:01
Speaker
I feel that zero... Yeah? zero Zero is on unconscious, isn't it? It's isn't it? Because stabilized... Yeah. Because if you pass all of your saves, you're stabilized, but unconscious. But then... Yeah, i don't know. It's up to you.
01:01:17
Speaker
ah the Like, ruling-wise, I guess. You decide. to make up and Let's make up a new rule. Let's let's canonize something right now. We're going to use it a lot. We're going to go down a lot, guys, let's be honest.
01:01:28
Speaker
Uh... Let's go. no okay. Let's consider zero H like this. is This is a rare situation that we're going to be stabilized yet. Normally it's going to be boom, heal and you're back up and you're in the fight. So let's say, yeah. Okay. You are incapacitated.
01:01:43
Speaker
You're right. No, you're not. That's wrong. You're prone. ah You can't take an action, but yes, you can talk. um Okay, through labored breath, I'll say, do you know CPR? And then I'll just puck on my lips.
01:02:00
Speaker
oh um Kind of an instinct, she goes to like hit hit him with the mug, but then pops at the last moment, realizing that's probably not the best thing to do right now.
01:02:13
Speaker
I shouldn't have let you talk. I shouldn't have let you talk. Okay. CPR's in the world as well. There you Very nice, Charlie. Thank you. I changed the rules for that. I like it. um you see drift You see Drift fly back into view with a bucket of water.
01:02:29
Speaker
And as he comes in all excited, he's going to realize this's all going his shoulders just going to drop a little bit. And that's his turn. ah Garrick, you've noticed this man do a double thing, a double take. He's gone for the...
01:02:43
Speaker
the you've bested me, and then he's attacked anyway. That's what you've just noticed. He's attacked you, attacks this new person near you that is on your side. What do you want to do? ah So, Gow, I assume also heard the commotion at the back with Falco?
01:03:00
Speaker
and not? Because that changes... Give me a You... Give me perception check, please. Okay. I can perceive you. Because you won't have been seeing it because you've turned away. with You've got your back to him.
01:03:13
Speaker
But maybe you would recognize the... It depends on how you roll. It's 19. it does It changes what I'm going to do. If I hear it and I notice it, I'm going to yeet that way. If not, I'm going to carry forwards. so Yeah, you... um Yeah, you're aware that maybe a certain noise that of of pain or i know something you recognize that to be falco and you understand he is in danger and you just have a tingling sensation that he he's hurt he's in danger and suddenly all these bodies and people around you have moved away towards that noise you put two and two together very slowly and discovered actually very slowly falco falco's in danger the cogs have turned
01:03:56
Speaker
Well, in the same way that he rushed in protect Rock from the the battle, he's he's going to turn around and rush back to Falco.
01:04:08
Speaker
ah Probably attack of a opportunity from... He's already had it. He's had his reaction, so he can't use against... I mean, it helped that the guy in the last turn had said, like, oh, no, you bested me. So Garak takes that as a fucking win anyway.
01:04:21
Speaker
And we'll turn back and run towards Falco. um And I assume sees him stabilized because people are around him, but he's still going to take off... He's going to unequip his shield and lay it on top of Falco.
01:04:33
Speaker
LAUGHTER You see him puckering his... You just see his still face with his eyes shut and his lips puckered. Maybe that's where he died. And Garak will go down and perform Kiss Alive.
01:04:46
Speaker
What? Fatinus, it's a paladin. We're going in. no. Oh, yes. From my lips, from Fatinus' lips.
01:05:00
Speaker
Amazing. Is that just flavor or are you doing... No, legit. I'm doing a thing. What is this thing? He's going to blow in his mouth. yeah i yeah You don't know what to do with it. That's just what's happening.
01:05:17
Speaker
But i do drop two AC because the shield is now on top. Falco, you have a shield, a big silver shield with a triangle and a 20-sided star. Whew.
01:05:28
Speaker
as an icon emblazed on it and just your face sticking out, which had the pocket lips. And now Garrick's kissing you for with breath. and that There's no role for that. I don't need you to roll anything for that. um Except um ah you already have inspiration, so I can't give you any more for it.
01:05:45
Speaker
ah yeah that's that Yeah, that's fine. that's That's fantastic. That image now will haunt me. the new I don't have Lay on Hands. I don't have any healing spells. This is it. If you give him inspiration, he can technically delegate someone else to have it. that's It's in the new deal. I'll give it to Falco.
01:06:02
Speaker
There you go. That works. So, Falco, you've now got heroic inspiration. given the for From pocket lips to pocket lips. Take it back.
01:06:14
Speaker
You started this, Charlie. You started this. This is on you, buddy. Make it better, friend. Sleep in it. Okay, ah lovely. A bit of young love. I love it. Okay, the bar fighters. Garrick's moved.
01:06:28
Speaker
The man who was attacking you, Garrick, ah is going to turn around. And he's there's a cover and ah seven or eight foot top high ah archway that's kind of wrapped in wood and stuff like that. He's going to reach up and sit and climb it.
01:06:45
Speaker
and he's going to use the majority of his movement to climb onto the second level up and then he's got about 10 feet of movement left. He's going to sprint towards the door and then with his action, he's then going to take the dash action. One over 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
01:07:01
Speaker
ah He is legging it. The orc continues to sit there on the floor and doesn't move, continues to pant and um is slowly going to get up and sit back on his chair and uh grab a drink uh the other two individuals who are currently passed out remain on the floor but breathing um and that is the majority of turns except a few of you notice little whom yeah a few of you will notice the relic uh comes out from behind the bar and is standing over
01:07:38
Speaker
Overdrift shoulder looking part part concerned, part amused, bemused if you will, by the events that are unfolding um around him at his at his establishment.
01:07:50
Speaker
But he does nothing to intervene. That is everyone's turn so far. Rock, your turn. You are over, about to give aid to Falco, checking over him. Suddenly, Rifa runs in and shoves this cloth into the wound. Stop it.
01:08:05
Speaker
And suddenly, on the top of that, a shield comes boshing over his body, and Garrick just goes in for the full smoochy time kiss. ah He is smothered, if you will, with aid. What a loved individual. What do you want to do there, Rock? Smothered in aid. What of a...
01:08:22
Speaker
Um, so, uh, the perceivable threats are ended, it appears, to Rock, as he's kind of there, initially worried. Rief has just jumped straight in and saved everything, uh, his, and he's kind of seen what's going on there.
01:08:36
Speaker
Uh, is that usual for a knight and their squire? Uh, okay. And he's going to turn back to Riefa and just go, but you're here. Oh, that is good news. And he's going to basically grab your left arm, grab your right arm and headbutt you.
01:08:56
Speaker
In a damaging way. Roll to hit. I'm not intending to do damage, just so you're aware. It's not like a proper kind of full on how many get
Packages and Parley
01:09:06
Speaker
thing. And it's a shitty 12.
01:09:09
Speaker
um We're just making contact, aren't we? I'm not going to roll against AC. Alice D... Sorry, reef does Rifa contest this? If it's... I'll roll against your AC if it does. If not, I'm just going to... No, she kind of almost realises what he's doing and like goes for like two headbutts to him and...
01:09:29
Speaker
Nice. Okay, cool. I'm just going to make that greeting then. So from now on, you can just do it. got You ain't got to roll for it. But yeah, I'll let you do that because it's the first one I was like, maybe, oh no, I'm posh. you head like that Cool. and Yeah, du did um kind of three little headbutt things take place and between the two. We'll drop out of initiative, actually, if that's all right, um and and just roll it from there. So the first thing that happens when you drop out is ah Drift steps up to Rock and Reefer.
01:09:54
Speaker
and watches the weird exchange. Oh, then a knowing look enters his face, and then he looks down towards Falco, where Garrick is still um ah lip to lip. And then he's going look back up to you, Rock, and he's just going to say, hope you don't expect me to do that.
01:10:10
Speaker
Nope. Nope. i i I think, I mean, I've seen him transfer some healing energy to me after the spiders, and that might be...
01:10:23
Speaker
what he's like, are the lips still connected as he's saying this? Don't know, is it? How long is this kiss going for, Garrick? yeah once Once Garrick's not getting any kind of, um because ah Falco's unconscious, so obviously there's nothing coming back.
01:10:40
Speaker
ah conscious He's conscious. He's conscious. Yeah, he can talk. breathing? Yeah, he's breathing. As soon as he registers that, Garrick comes away and just goes, Fortunus has healed.
01:10:52
Speaker
We're okay. We're okay. I didn't have any heal powers left. I had to think on my feet.
01:11:02
Speaker
Or with my lips. It looked like you were calling out for it. I saw stars. The night of stone and stars.
01:11:14
Speaker
You truly earned that name. Let's get you up, my friend. would, but your shield's on me. oh Oh, sorry. Can't be heavy. And we'll take the shield, we equip it, and then offer out a hand.
01:11:30
Speaker
ah can i Can I stand up? Have I got... I might just do it in a real bad way. Oh my god, your legs don't work anymore, Fatinus. Fatinus, I implore you.
01:11:42
Speaker
awkward isn't it let's um a wheel you around real bow anyone's got a wheel bow do you want to take a little bit time i know it's it doesn't quite work in terms of but in terms of don't want to burn through like a healing potion do you want to use the elements of a short rest here um so we'll we'll continue but feel free to take any hit die ah if you expend any spell slots you get back etc have a quick check and and you can have a quick crack at that which means falco you'll have access your own hit die as well and you can get yourself up and go we can imagine for argument's sake you move yourself off the stairs and plump yourself down um somewhere in the process uh rock
01:12:23
Speaker
So if I remember last episode when you mentioned that if we took a short rest, mechanically something changes. Yeah. Is that the case? if we're kind of Because obviously it makes sense now, seeing the situation that we're in, we're in no fit state to go charging off to a ah surge like immediately.
01:12:42
Speaker
So it does make sense to to have that bit of time to recuperate. The long and short of it is, have we leveled up to level two?
01:12:51
Speaker
Yes. You've all loved it. Yeah, buddy. I'm going for the spiders, Alice, but i'll give it it's only fair. Let's all go level two. and So during the short rest, ah mechanically, you can you can up your stuff. You can do your thing. i I'm using words because I've forgotten how it works.
01:13:06
Speaker
um Yeah, take what you need for that for the for the next level up as we kind of just pace through the next little bit of this. So, Relic, Halfsworn, steps up on the bar. ah a good fight.
01:13:17
Speaker
Fantastic. And he's got to look towards towards you all. And he looks concerned first at Rifa. I don't remember you coming in though.
01:13:30
Speaker
Oh, i'm I'm so sorry. and I'm actually looking for someone. ah You don't know Raelic Halfsworn, do you? Very well. Too well, some might say. Oh, would you mind um pointing him out to me? I've i've got a package for him.
01:13:46
Speaker
He just two thumbs ups himself. I yeah like look over his shoulder. No, here, me. Me, I'm Ray Calfsorn. Oh, oh. And then I'm i'm just going to give package. I'm not going to it in secrecy. I don't know what it is. I'm just going to pass it him and say,
01:14:04
Speaker
um Drax at the diving eel, delving eel, ask me to give you this. It comes by many names. Good. Thank you kindly for that.
01:14:18
Speaker
Didn't know it was employing warriors as messenger boys. Boys? Well, messenger people, you know what I mean. I didn't... did many offence, Mom.
01:14:31
Speaker
ah It's just blankets. And he tears open to show you almost like that would somehow make it okay. Blankets for orphans. Oh, well... That's great.
01:14:43
Speaker
Well, not just orphans, people. Regular sized people as well, you know, just... Did you get hit earlier? No, I'm... This is just the way I am.
01:14:56
Speaker
yeah yeah Forgive my... I can't steal the line more. Forgive my misogyny. No, um... um And suddenly, despite there being bloodshed, death and destruction, wanton destruction, fire, arson, there's a few even more aghast looks and a few tuts towards Raelic's location at at what he's- no, no I didn't mean I- I- it was more a figure of- I'm sorry.
01:15:22
Speaker
ah Congratulations on winning the bar fight. but We won? We won again, Rock. ah Never had a doubt. And then I grab Rock's head and head for him again.
01:15:36
Speaker
Yeah, he'll he'll take it as he's also massaging his clavicle ah kind of where the wound is. That's where he's just been cut. Yeah, yeah. yeah I need to have words with our night friend there, though.
01:15:52
Speaker
Any gestures towards Garrick? Oh, this night, yes. Words.
01:15:59
Speaker
Words. You caused a death in my establishment. I did, yes. Very good.
01:16:09
Speaker
Yes, yes, in the name of Atinas. It was a mighty battle, and t he fended himself adequately. Well, I think he shit himself as he died, but, you know, you win some, you lose some.
01:16:23
Speaker
That's the way of Wild Heart. You don't come here to live long, so ah it's all fine by me. Just don't kill any more while you're here.
01:16:33
Speaker
In the bar or anywhere else in Wild Heart? Oh, no, just in the bar. I don't fucking care about anywhere else. You can... It's your... Your world is mine. You got it. You're fine. You're good. Now, we find ourselves in a situation where, uh...
01:16:49
Speaker
you've Would you mind clearing up a few of the others or just pop them in that room over there? And he gestures towards the room, Rifa, that you came from. Leave them there till they sober up and then we can just tell them the fuck off for a bit. Surely that's a manly job.
01:17:06
Speaker
And he's going to stare for a second and go... Oh, that again. um Yeah. um Well, oh yeah. Okay, fine. I walked into that one. And he's going to start shuffling off, muttering to himself as he he um me goes and grabs one of them. Come on.
01:17:22
Speaker
come on You, Goliath, come on, give us a hand, give us a hand. and he's going Jesse Rock over to to help him with the other one. ah Every now and then kind of looking over towards Rifa and kind of like, oh, like awkward, sorry, sorry faces as is as ah as much as his tusked face will allow him to do that as he awkwardly manhandles this bruised and bloodied and beaten individual into the into the back room.
01:17:46
Speaker
at Rock, do you... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rock what rock will help out, um certainly. And he'll also make sure that the one the ones that are still alive um will remain that way.
01:17:58
Speaker
ah So he'll he'll he won't patch up any wounds or anything like that, but he' just he'll make sure that there's no, like, ah tongues in in mouths, like, unconsciously head-rolled-back kind of things. Gotcha. Not referring to what Garak's just done.
01:18:12
Speaker
Oh, you beat me to it. I was teeing it up. was just teeing it up. Very good. l you plate he'll probably place them in in chairs and things like that as they go. And then look around the table and and probably place ah a mug in front of each unconscious person as well.
01:18:27
Speaker
And kind of nod to himself and and get back to the group. So ah in the bar area, there are a couple of round tables that are now emptied. um The other side of the kind of stretching rack that is ah kind of a communal bar in the area, which has a few individuals stood
Planning the Dive
01:18:43
Speaker
around it.
01:18:43
Speaker
So ah just in terms of giving you a place to to do your short rest, would it be appropriate to place you there? Would that work? If I just pop you around it, would that be all right?
01:18:55
Speaker
Correct me I'm wrong and do you go anywhere else. Rief actually I'll move you so Rock and Rief next to each other makes sense you don't know Garrick and Drift is kind of ah hanging around near between Rock and Rief as well two people he knows at the moment and then it all kind of clicks for Drift oh it's you i'll remember you from the thing like a day ago and she's just going to smile at him and just gently grab his face and do a gentle headbutt to him oh shit I thought you were going to the thing you did at the bar
01:19:27
Speaker
You won that, didn't you? i i did, I um, i beat Rockhead, didn't I? Oh yeah, you were fantastic. You fucked him up good. And look, and he's going to hold up his forearm where he's got this rather pussy festering wound on his own.
01:19:41
Speaker
I got fucked up too. What have you been doing? Giant spiders. He's beaming with glee at that comment. It's just kind of going to look at Rock as if it's all Rock's fault. have you been doing?
01:19:57
Speaker
oh Oh, no, no, no. He's right. We we um fought some giant spiders. yeah And there was fire! Yeah. And there was a really big one as well. I think that Drift still has some of the legs ah collected somewhere if you want to see them.
01:20:13
Speaker
He points behind the bar and there are a couple of, I think, relatively large twitching ah spider, hairy spider legs that are probably as long as your arm, Rifa.
01:20:24
Speaker
Ah. and Why are they here still?
01:20:31
Speaker
Oh, it was just a, it was, oh God, there's so much to catch you up on. um we we We came here to to try and get in with Tashlin Violetta for the the surge diving.
01:20:42
Speaker
And ah ah the barman turns out that he's the brother of, and basically Rock's gonna fill her in over the course of a couple of minutes. um Abbreviated for you, Alice, it's effectively that, ah yeah.
01:20:55
Speaker
they'd they'd been sent on a mini mission to gain favor and ah they had done so successfully only kind of a couple of minutes before this bar fight happened and as he kind of comes to the end of this re retelling of the story ah he will suddenly go oh ah and is the green haired lady still in the bar ah She is, and she's now leant against the wall quite close to where she was before, ah staring daggers into the one remaining individual that had was at the table of the initial altercation. He's still there, semi-conscious, sipping on what looks like a um I don't know, a storm stout or a hentis wedgie or something of that flavour at the table. And he...
01:21:39
Speaker
He is just slouched there. Sorry, i wrote down some drink names earlier and I wanted to use Hentus Wedgie, i thought. i and But she's just stood there staring at him, but not implicating anything else. But yeah, she's still she's still there, quite close to where the combat happened.
01:21:52
Speaker
Rock will very quickly um just try to get her attention and and and kind of beckon her over if if she'll if he catches her attention. ah Yeah, she does notice and she looks first ah confused, points to herself or looks over her shoulder that, oh, and then realizes and then ah goes up towards, um slowly walks up towards you.
01:22:16
Speaker
um And as see as she gets, sorry, go ahead. Yeah, that's fine. Without kind of, as he's kind of finishing the store and he's kind of done that and motioned over, he'll just say. And then she came in and said that a surge was imminent. And he'll look back at her and go, are you okay? I'm sorry about those guys. They seem pretty awful, but I mean, they're semi-unconscious now.
01:22:44
Speaker
At first she doesn't say anything and then she listens to that and Drift has moved out of the way now so she's gonna place herself between yourself, Rock and Drift and pull up a chair and she just kind of sits and slumps into the chair and of her long hair is quite long kind of down to like her, down to her forearm almost in length and it's quite flowing down her back as well.
01:23:09
Speaker
It kind of flops down around her and she just lets out a big huff and just says, we keep getting it wrong.
01:23:22
Speaker
Did you get this one wrong? Is is this not happening? No, it's not happening now. What?
01:23:33
Speaker
I did the tests. I did.
01:23:37
Speaker
did the, I did the, the symbols and the signs and yet nothing's happening. But you literally just came in and said it was happening. I thought it was.
01:23:48
Speaker
But now you think it's not? It's not.
Crisis of Faith
01:23:51
Speaker
It would have happened by now.
01:23:55
Speaker
There's nothing outside. It's all just the same.
01:24:00
Speaker
I was wrong. That's that's that's why. it's We're getting worse at this.
01:24:07
Speaker
And she's quite full on and just kind of sat shoulders down and kind of staring at the table.
01:24:19
Speaker
ah well When you say we do you mean like... And he'll kind of stop and shrug his shoulders. And she'll just very, in the silence that follows, will just wait a couple of seconds and then her eyes will flick up towards yours and just nothing back, still waiting for you to finish.
01:24:41
Speaker
Like your friends, the other... Storm... Surge... Callers... I've forgotten the name.
01:24:55
Speaker
I'm so sorry. Tidecallers. Tidecallers. that it's that It's all of the Tidecallers, or...? Aye. Oh. Across their area, we're go getting it wrong.
01:25:06
Speaker
We use it to measure time, but... Even that's wrong now. it keeps moving. The last two haven't been lined up.
01:25:16
Speaker
It's... Well, I'm going to drift up a little bit, as he's just thinking. and He's going off into his own head for a bit.
01:25:26
Speaker
Look, I... Thank you for helping me then. that was You didn't need to do that. I did deserve it. Put the fear of the gods into everyone and then nothing happened.
01:25:39
Speaker
It's the second place I went into as well, so should really go and apologize. I'm Alara, by the way. I am one of the apprentices here in Stormspire.
01:25:55
Speaker
Thank you.
01:25:57
Speaker
I, uh... Rock will just quickly go, and I kind of come back to himself and just say, oh, Rock-a-Hurangui-li-ka-peculasa-ho-ke-fe-tul-ia-moi. Um, and this is our group.
01:26:10
Speaker
I know motion to the rest to introduce themselves.
01:26:16
Speaker
Uh, hi.
01:26:19
Speaker
You, uh... Are ah you are a follower of Vutinus? And he she nods ahead towards, um, towards Garruk. Yes, indeed. Fatinus is the light and savior and I follow until the end.
01:26:35
Speaker
Are you also a follower? No. I just recognize those that are. Well, maybe if you were to follow, you might not get it wrong all the time.
01:26:49
Speaker
The title surge. cheap Faith miles is powerful.
01:26:55
Speaker
She smiles at that as small sly way.
01:27:00
Speaker
The surgeon, he speaks to those who listen. It's the silence. Petunas listens and hears everything, so they would be able to tell you. I don't think I want a theological fight with you, Knight.
01:27:14
Speaker
Theological? Religion and stuff. You know.
01:27:21
Speaker
I think I'm going to sack it off, though. i This isn't for me.
01:27:29
Speaker
Religion or the tidal surge? It all. What's the point? i just... i'm I'm getting it wrong. We're all getting it very sad.
01:27:41
Speaker
Yeah, the entire basis of my religion is falling apart, so I would be. Your religion's falling apart. Oh, yeah.
01:27:52
Speaker
We must help. What do you need?
01:27:57
Speaker
ah And she's baffled by that and takes a few seconds. The return of normality of the surge. could you fix Could you fix the wave? I think we could.
01:28:10
Speaker
What do we have to do? I don't know. Find the origin. Change the planets. Move the alignment. Falco, we might need to make a note. It seems to be the one thing.
01:28:22
Speaker
I'm being sarcastic, Knight. I'm being sarcastic. You can't fix this. At least I don't think you can. It's not for you to fix anyway.
01:28:33
Speaker
This is an internal thing. Some kind of adventure. Internal battles are the hardest.
Surge Strategy
01:28:42
Speaker
Faith is even more important in that time. You confuse me.
01:28:48
Speaker
yeah ah She looks towards towards Falco.
01:28:54
Speaker
Are you alright? I saw you go down earlier. i yeah yeah i' um i mean, I'm a little bit tender, but no, I think I'm good. I'm good. I feel a bit bit stronger after the rest.
01:29:08
Speaker
I like your hair.
01:29:13
Speaker
ye It's the surge. My mom says I was born during a tidal surge, and so this is what I was left with. Huh.
01:29:25
Speaker
And does the carpet... No, no, don't worry. It's on fire. The one that was on fire, it's unusable, unfortunately. So yeah she looks back towards it. well I'll get Relic to throw it out.
01:29:40
Speaker
I'm sure I'll get something new in there. So don't worry about it. I mean, you saved me a solid, so don't worry. ah Maybe, Falco, you can see her boobs.
01:29:53
Speaker
She's to stand up. All right, lads. There we go. And she'll look towards you, Reefer. I mean... ah and she's he's she's going to turn away and start um start walking off.
01:30:07
Speaker
Lara, hold on. And Rock's just going to quickly sidle up beside her and just say, is it... I mean, just the the the local Tidecallers, or is this happening throughout Wildheart?
01:30:21
Speaker
Everywhere. Everywhere where we are, it's not working. We've got messages from from all that this is not the way it should be. The last two, no one got them right.
01:30:33
Speaker
Normally, it's within minutes. we can We can predict. We were days out. I have no, and she looked quite haunted at this. I don't know when the next tidal surge will happen.
01:30:47
Speaker
I have no idea.
01:30:51
Speaker
None. So even the tide callers in Highridge Haven are getting it wrong now? They're as baffled as we are.
01:31:02
Speaker
All the way down to Thunderstrike, down in the south, it's... Even with the knowledge of it from the north, it doesn't, it can't, it moves too fast. It hits us too quickly.
01:31:16
Speaker
I don't know. Right.
01:31:20
Speaker
I guess... But all things considered, it's the seventh day tomorrow. So, in theory, that's when it should fall. But the last two have been off, so... I don't know.
01:31:36
Speaker
If you're here for the... Yeah, I was going to say, you're here for the diving, you can go, but I wouldn't hold your breath. Well, i um I mean, do hold your breath when if you do dive, because you'll drown, but you know what mean? like Don't expect it to be there, because it might not.
01:31:54
Speaker
Okay. ah yeah Yeah, sure. And you'll see Rock kind of... His shoulders have dropped quite considerably at that. Well, look, i'm I'm glad you're okay.
01:32:05
Speaker
Um...
01:32:10
Speaker
Okay. okay And Rock will kind of turn and and head back to the table and slump himself down. Before you go, just um give Sir Booba a slap for me, will you? And then she's going to... There's another knight here. Rock will look around the rest of the bar.
01:32:25
Speaker
Fuck's sake. i She's...
Camaraderie and Conflict
01:32:31
Speaker
She's walked off by that point. Oh my god. and She's walked off by that point and... um leaves you as as ah as a group, as ah as a five.
01:32:42
Speaker
they a Drift takes this place between Rifa and Rock again, and he looks expectantly at the group.
01:32:54
Speaker
um Just a super quick above table question. Has everyone made Int their dump stat? Is it universal thing? Have we all done that? u oh.
01:33:06
Speaker
Um... How is it a dump stat? For me, it's a plus zero. of Because dexterity wearing all the shit. So dexterity a minus one. But it's a plus zero for me. What's your Int score?
01:33:25
Speaker
Plus zero. Okay. Okay. So it's it's not as bad as it it but ah perhaps could be. Yeah. maybe Maybe charisma is a few people's dumpster. Maybe that, maybe that's the one we've gone for.
01:33:37
Speaker
Falco is oozing charisma, obviously. the Um, can I, I'd like to go up to reefer if that's okay.
01:33:48
Speaker
Um, as I make my way up to, I just like try and catch her eye with a confident little smile. And, um,
01:33:57
Speaker
Yeah, you saved me. and Yeah, you're you're welcome. Look, I don't know about you, but when I saw you rush under that archway and the way that you stuffed that gauze inside me, I just feel like we've got some kind of deep connection, you know?
01:34:19
Speaker
I...
01:34:23
Speaker
I don't know about that, and I i feel like you already have a ah deeper connection connection with them that gentleman over there, and I nod towards Garrick. Oh, no, no, it's not like... No, no, no, we're not. when that was That was like a healing thing, I think.
01:34:43
Speaker
it's yeah ah ah Sure, you know, you you shouldn't be ashamed. Oh, no, no, no, no. no and i'm I'm not ashamed. I mean, look, yeah yeah you do what you want with who you want. i'm not I'm not judging anybody, but, like, I just thought, you know, the way I felt when I felt your finger with the knife wound, I just, you know, there was a connection there.
01:35:04
Speaker
Are ah you okay?
01:35:10
Speaker
Yeah. What? And it like a bit disarmed having not experienced this kind of thing before he's gonna slowly just back away awkwardly.
01:35:23
Speaker
i'm just gonna, i'm gonna turn to Rock and just like, is he okay?
01:35:29
Speaker
Yeah, he's um he's like a squire. So I think he's quite new to this kind of fighting. Oh, he's like Drift. Yeah. Now, I'm better than Drift. I'm much better than Drift.
01:35:43
Speaker
can hear you. I don't know about that. Have you seen Drift's wound? It's much bigger than yours. He holds up. And it's oozing. Yeah, that's disgusting. need to get that checked out, you freak.
01:35:55
Speaker
You did it. You did the thing with you in the in the cavern. You made all... or Pussy. You see, Rifa's, you kind of become quite fond of Drift, so kind of hearing that it's Falco's fault, she's kind of going to like just glare at and be like, put a kind of arm in front of Drift, almost protectively, and be like, you did you did this to him?
01:36:20
Speaker
ah No, no, no, I didn't do i didn't do anything. Drift, I just completely ignore you, Drift. Tell me the truth now. Did he do this to you? This kid's very serious. No, he tried to heal me, but he'd run out of energy and it did something else instead.
01:36:41
Speaker
So, no, he tried to help. I threw myself in the middle like a goddamn hero. And Falco did try to stop it getting all infected and stuff. and I think it's getting better. I can still like still move it and he moves it a little bit past Popsite. Have you washed it, Drift?
01:37:01
Speaker
Washed? We came up and got you started biffing on some some some dudes. It's all been go since we left you. been great. I don't think I've even slept.
01:37:14
Speaker
loving it At this point, um she glides at Rock because it's his squire. and she's like, she doesn't say anything. She's just glaring at Rock as if he should know like exactly of what she thinks of this situation.
01:37:33
Speaker
ah Are you okay?
01:37:37
Speaker
Question. Because we've officially had a short rest now. yeah Have we all officially leveled up to level two? You have, yes. And that's taking a hold right now? That has, yes.
01:37:48
Speaker
Okay. godway ah Sir Rocks Squire, may I see that wound? Yeah.
01:37:59
Speaker
And he's just going to hold it up proudly with a big smile on his face. Garak will hold out a hand towards the wound and the light kind of starts from his his shield and the crest as he's drawing on.
01:38:15
Speaker
Power for Dinas will heal. And with five points of lay on hands, I purify poison.
01:38:24
Speaker
So you can expand 5 HP from the pool of healing to remove the poisoned condition from the ke creature. Hang on minute. Didn't you do this last time? Wasn't it you that did it?
01:38:34
Speaker
He did. that's what i So I was confused. and Yeah. i Because the conversation went to ah Falco. But in my head, I was like, pretty sure it was me.
01:38:46
Speaker
Because i i don' I didn't have Leigh on Hands before. during this fight because i was like oh i've rinsed it into that poison one
Stealing Maps and Making Plans
01:38:54
Speaker
instead so you did use that you remembered that drift got it wrong let's go with that so you can work on that if you want i'm gonna totally wreck on that because i didn't remember it consider it free yeah it's just us that forgot consider it free of poison because of what you did i just like the idea of it pushing the poison outside of it disappearing um but drift drift has tried to you wouldn't have read this but drift was trying to get falco out of the shit by making up the fact that he'd done it instead so every good truth is but every good lies based on the truth so he kind of stole your idea and just to he saw that he was digging falco a fucking hole so was trying to trying to save him a little bit playing with beer mats just flipping them
01:39:31
Speaker
He managed to get one.
01:39:34
Speaker
I can imagine that Garak would kind of cut a little semicircle it and put it over his nose. It's like, oh, look, it's got my face. Yeah, so Drift's going to look at everyone.
01:39:48
Speaker
So we still going to the surge dive then? Because I kind of got my heart set on that. Yeah, I do too. I just caught Alara again and they can't be certain when it's going to surge.
01:40:08
Speaker
um So we just got to be ready. They're thinking tomorrow. But what if they get it wrong again? I know. That's... Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. But, uh, yes, I mean... I'm not gonna get downhearted about it. I mean, it'll still probably happen tomorrow, right? We could get ourselves closer there tonight, or we could maybe stay here if there are rooms and get ourselves closer in the morning to this moor that we've been told about.
01:40:40
Speaker
Um...
01:40:42
Speaker
Drift's going to look round to you with a little smile on his face and he said he's going lean forward towards Reefer and go I've been a little bit naughty What have you done?
01:40:56
Speaker
I've stolen What have you stolen Drift? A map from the dude that died the one the one the one that Garrick hit in the head i am ah no When Noam was looking, I went and took some things from him. Drift.
01:41:19
Speaker
Yes. If you're a squire, you can't do that type of thing. Okay, I won't do any more from now on, but look. And he's going to put five gold pieces on the table and just did do do lay them all out. Five of them. Five of us.
01:41:34
Speaker
ah yeah Amazing. And then he's going to get a little map and it's this kind of ah quite... ornate hand-drawn kind of 3D-ish view of Storm Spire which I will pop in the chat in a few moments time when I find it um of Storm Spire and he's going to kind of hunch over a little bit conspiratorially and start pointing at things around it and explaining we've got a few hours So, there's a few places now, we've just come from the Glowmos market, down down there, and he points down to the base of the map, where we we had that other fight, you know, the the the fourth or fifth one we've had so far.
01:42:12
Speaker
Anyway, that's where we were when everyone almost fell in the chasm, in the in the in the rift thingy. and up here and he points up further up from where you are kind of through the double backs is the sky string arena it's these like practice grounds with like balance ropes and like little tests of agility and stuff like that you can bet on people it's lots of fun a lot of the dudes who do the dives go there for that training oh up here ah um but night night rate night man rock uh rock
01:42:45
Speaker
night um my liege my king um there's there's the tide callers tower which is just a bit further up there um you seemed really like in love with her so i thought maybe that's where she lives you can go and you know ah um go there there's that we've got to do to do some shops you've got a clothing stop shop there i think it's called the gold thread or the silver thread cloth the clothier c clothier something like that anyway clothing stuff they do stuff with surge resistant stuff anyway and
01:43:18
Speaker
The ah forge, there's the actual forge, not the dude with the low voice we met before, different one further down near the base of the hills there. There's the the echo chapel, the ravines echo chapel, which is where you can go and you be all quiet and you give money away and nothing happens.
01:43:35
Speaker
I think they call it like religion. Anyway, so there's a few other places there. for things to do, if we want to go be fucking heroes, um or we can stay here, have a rest, or, um yeah, um should I go give it back, Reefer?
01:43:54
Speaker
Um, maybe just, just make sure you just only rob the dead ones. Okay. Just, I did. It was just, well I just did the dead one. The one that had no head him. I did. I did. it yeah but not Yeah. Just make sure that they're dead though, because if you get a life one, it might not end up so well.
01:44:10
Speaker
We did find a child earlier. Can I, should I have done the child? No. Okay. No. No. Not children, though. Just the dead adult ones.
01:44:20
Speaker
Dead adult. Gotcha. Thumbs up. Okay. And he's going to um very quickly yawn and then um curl himself around like a dog, but not in like a mean way. Like he did prior ah earlier, Rufa, when you and Rock were at the tavern before.
01:44:37
Speaker
He's going to curl himself up at the base of the group and almost instantly fall asleep and just... He's just out of it. um He's going to have his all his rests involve complete sleep.
01:44:50
Speaker
um Short rest, long rest. He's just out for the count. um And he's just leaning up against it all cosy in the warmth of the of the tavern and just ah falls asleep there.
01:45:02
Speaker
um So looking over to the two who she's not really been introduced to yet. So you two are?
01:45:19
Speaker
Oh, may i introduce... Oh, no, no, no, you didn't need to do this. ah What? would go what you where you Sorry, yeah after you, Falco. What?
01:45:31
Speaker
The Knight of the Stars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. okay replace
01:45:38
Speaker
May I introduce the Knight of Stone and Stars?
01:45:45
Speaker
This guy. And I'll just judge it to you.
01:45:51
Speaker
just to game And i'll take off oh I'll take off my blue musketeer hat and bow deeply. And I am Falco. Falco Lador.
Revealing Identities
01:46:07
Speaker
Alice, just for just for us, because it's been a couple of episodes since we've we we've seen Rifa before, ah would you mind just really quick just overview for the for the two guys who haven't met your character before? it's a really quick overview of just kind of what Rifa kind of looks like. that be all right?
01:46:22
Speaker
Yeah, so she's um ah five foot nine, teal, tiefling, teal-coloured tiefling, dark blue hair, her horns are kind of, you know, like the little pygmy goat,
01:46:36
Speaker
horns just on the top of her head she's wearing like a khaki green trench coat just comfortable ah loose hard wearing kind of trousers military style boots and she's got a belt with a dagger, morning star short sword on and ah in between the time from the fight and coming to the table she's actually now attached a couple mugs to the other side of the belt Nice. Very nice.
01:47:11
Speaker
Okay. So you hear these two ah rather interesting paired individuals give a single greeting of Garrick and Falco. and Yeah. and Looking to Falco and and you are his drift.
01:47:29
Speaker
what ah can we can we Can we cut this comparing me lesser squires thing? I'm the real deal, all right? When you employ me, you get the best out there.
01:47:41
Speaker
My name is Falco. I hail from quite far away, actually, where I'm pretty damn famous. ah Yeah, and I'm here as a squire to the legendary Knight of Stone and Stars, the man that put fear in Father Keep, the Knight of Stone Stars.
01:47:57
Speaker
So does that make you a ah pebble? No, no, it makes me one of the best squires out there. And I'll have you hold your tongue, Miss What's-Your-Name.
01:48:09
Speaker
oh of course, I'm Reefer. Reefer? Reefer, it's interesting how they can't predict the tidal surge anymore. Hang on, you have a cycle. Do you think you could sync up and tell us? Oh, fucking hell.
01:48:26
Speaker
I don't think now's the time to get on the bike. What? I don't think now's the time to get on a bike. bike? Oh, because I guess I said cycle. um
01:48:40
Speaker
Yeah, I don't actually own a bike. No, I'm... Do you own one? Yes, Relic has returned to the bar and is ah just chatting away with patrons here. I'll shout, Relic, two ales, and I'll walk over and... Please?
01:48:58
Speaker
oh Yeah! I will look back over my shoulder with wide eyes. I've never met a woman like that before in my life. And god damn, do I like it. And I'll go.
01:49:17
Speaker
Relic's going to walk over with four ales, two in each hand, and he's going to put all four on the table for you all and go, they're on me. And he's going to start sauntering off. ah By the way, we have got rooms here as well if you want to partake in some rest and merriment for the evening. Just let me know. i'll give you discounted rate. Can't give away for free.
01:49:38
Speaker
I've had to dispose of a body already.
01:49:43
Speaker
hope you understand. Bye. And he's going to wander off back towards the bar.
01:49:49
Speaker
Oh, well, my name's Garrick Bladeheart. I am a paladin. a follower of Valtinus, and I hail from Cliffstonekeep. is very nice to meet you. Um...
01:50:06
Speaker
Garrick. Yeah. Bladeheart. Would you...
01:50:13
Speaker
um Would you know him already?
01:50:19
Speaker
i Give me a history check. Because she grew
01:50:28
Speaker
You're looking at me weirdly. Ten.
01:50:35
Speaker
Freakent eyes. He's got one of those faces and you're like, i've I've seen it before, but you're not sure if that's because of he has just a generic hero face, you know. yeah When you choose your character from a multiplayer game, he is default character. ha ha!
01:50:55
Speaker
ah he is that like you' just like is it because he looks like a lot of the soldiers i fought with like npc or is this is this because you know him you are torn between the two at this point um yeah so i yeah i guess um garrick if you're looking at her you just kind of see her eyes kind of just widen slightly when you say cliffstone keep um how long has it been since you've you've been there at the keep.
01:51:24
Speaker
When I left Clifstone Keep, or how long have I spent at Clif- I've, I've, I've, born and raised, I spent all my life in Clifstone Keep, and I was tasked with fetching purposeful and meaningful supplies for the keep, and I've yet to find them, actually. that, that must have been ah day ago, and I ran into a Well, a new friend here, Falco, and he's been, he actually said he knew where the things were that I was meant to find to deliver to Cliffstone Keep.
01:52:03
Speaker
Regardless, it's still part of my mission. And then I've met Rock while we were on our adventures and now I've met you. And you left Cliffstone Keep how long ago?
01:52:20
Speaker
Mark, how long ago did I leave Clifestone Keep to make my journey to Tidal, Wild Heart? How long does it take? Clifestone Keep's in Wild Heart to Stormspire, where you currently are. Storm, yes, where I am. How long does that take from?
01:52:34
Speaker
ah the The route and way you took that it took about two weeks if your mission was to go directly to Stormspire. That's how long it would take you. If you if you were sauntering, three weeks. If you were moving with pace, a week, week and a half.
01:52:53
Speaker
Just straight line. Straight line through the path. Over mountains. Over mountains. As the Garrick flies, just yeah straight. Open map, put a blip, follow it.
01:53:05
Speaker
yeah up Two weeks. jump Nice. Okay. ah I've been traveling two weeks.
01:53:16
Speaker
I'm so confused. I've forgotten where I'm from. It's okay, so am I. Am I from Clifestone Keep or Stormwatch Garrison? stonewatch garrison That is a good, good, good, good question. Because if it's Clifestone Keep, he should 100% know who I am. fuck. No.
01:53:40
Speaker
well fuck
01:53:44
Speaker
Mark's eyes are going left and right. like I was reading. I was reading. Alice sent me a a great um thing back in the day on what time i was just quickly checking over it to make sure i got the information. Yes, you are Clifestone Keep.
01:53:57
Speaker
ah Garrick, can you give me a history check, please? Of course. They're brother and sister.
01:54:09
Speaker
oh my God. Yeah. arch History. Rifa means Vatinus. It's spelled the same. That's a solid 15. Okay.
01:54:21
Speaker
You are pretty certain that... ah was kept in the garrisons and the armies. Yeah. You're pretty that Rifa is a rather well-known...
01:54:34
Speaker
you're pretty certain that refer is a rather well-known soldier but that also her father is a was and is a very important rather high up member of the military at cliffstone keep and of the tide watch galakson in general um you remember him being up there not right at the top but pretty high up you think and
01:55:07
Speaker
um It's only just dawning on you now. The name, the way she speaks and the and the and the slight naivety around certain things. It's all starting to click in um from what you remember.
01:55:22
Speaker
and again, whether or not this is true or not, you heard this from other soldiers and from, you know, academy people, et cetera. You were under the impression that she had been kept quite isolated, but was this kind of breakout fire, not like...
01:55:39
Speaker
She'd been kind of removed ish from a lot of you guys and and a lot of Stonewatch garrison, but had kind of almost like secretly been training and stuff like that and had this had this real breakout moment where she finally was allowed to fight and and was quite incredible in the process, um which became ah almost a bit of a folk tale in its own regard. So yes, you've heard her. What's your surname, Drifter?
01:56:01
Speaker
Reef-de? Reef? Reef-er. And it's Vatinus, not Valtinus. keep putting the L in. Are you asking? I keep changing it each time, but um'm it's now character, straight. Vat-tinus, Val-ninus.
01:56:15
Speaker
Are you asking that just as E? No, no, no, no. That's an outer character because that will follow through. What's her name? Shelmer, S-H-E-L-L-M-E-R-E.
01:56:28
Speaker
okay so And yeah, you'd suddenly click, you you're like Lieutenant, General, Colonel, shall it's it's all, there's definitely something before it, and then Shalmir, and it's definitely not.
01:56:43
Speaker
private or like or like you know light spear or something like that it's not low rank it's it's definitely up there and you're pretty sure once or twice you've saluted him and you're pretty sure it was an honorable guy from from the very very few meetings you've had but you recognize the name you remember the stories of the first of of this daughter that kind of defied odds etc and you weren't really paying attention it wasn't you you know you're busy it's not my job You're busy reading Valtina's books, apparently.
01:57:11
Speaker
and you one Yeah, yeah, you you definitely, it suddenly like clicks. Like, here you go. Breath of the Wild, Link suddenly, it kicks in and he gets it. Look at you.
01:57:23
Speaker
ah So on that slow realisation after... Been two weeks on his own and then just in a completely new place and with new people around fighting fucking spiders and then a bar fight being told that he's got to get ready for a swim and he's like, fuck, I've got heavy armor. How am I going to do that? It's going to be interesting.
01:57:43
Speaker
Realization dawns present time and moment comes together. And as soon as he realizes who he's talking to, Garak will bend the knee and look down towards the floor.
01:57:56
Speaker
Apologies, Lady Shamir. The moment he says my surname, I rush him, hand over his mouth. um What are you doing? Get up.
01:58:09
Speaker
ah ah Yes, my lady. Get up. Reefer. Reefer. Yes, my Reefer. No, not yours. Not anyone's. Reefer.
01:58:22
Speaker
to Yours. Not. Reefer. Yes. I'm sorry. you also get hit on the head? No, I just don't know what's going on. I'm just... Rock's looking around for a spellcaster.
01:58:37
Speaker
Just... You don't know me, okay? Right. But...
01:58:45
Speaker
Yes.
01:58:48
Speaker
And I'll... Take a step... back and um Garak's going red in the face as he's holding his breath for no reason oh sorry there was a spider on his face there's a spider on my face
01:59:06
Speaker
no no Garak takes out the morning star just looking at it just to see if there's a reflection it's just bloody and no I got it off I wouldn't thank you reefer
01:59:22
Speaker
um she just kind of does like a side look to Rock, see if he noticed that that was out of the norm. Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, yeah. It's really weird, but Rock's looking around for a spellcaster because Garak looks like he's under control of a spell.
01:59:39
Speaker
And just a sits back down and grabs one of the ales that Relic brought just starts sipping it. Garak's just left standing there not knowing what to do. He starts to move to the left, stops, then moves to the right, stops, and just looks around trying to... What just happened?
01:59:59
Speaker
Falco?
02:00:02
Speaker
Are you feeling all right, Garak?
02:00:08
Speaker
I just look over him and nod my head. Yes! Rock! Fine! Um... Yes.
02:00:20
Speaker
Fine. Thank you. I need a drink. Here go. I'll hand them an ale.
02:00:32
Speaker
Thank you, Falco.
02:00:35
Speaker
And Garak will try and recover himself.
02:00:43
Speaker
No. And then sit down and just take a drink.
02:00:50
Speaker
fab. his If you looked at his brow, is there's beads of sweat just kind of like forming and collecting. And he's just kind of staring down in his ale to try and process what the fuck just happened from that memory wake-up call to everything that just happened afterwards.
02:01:09
Speaker
And he's not entirely sure the spider's gone as well. So every now and then he's trying to look at his reflection in the ale. Just moving his face into different angles. Falco. Do you want me to check it for you? Is there a spider on my face?
02:01:24
Speaker
I can't tell because your helmet's in the way. I didn't even know i was wearing a helmet. It just takes it off. um And I'll be be like a monkey, like, picking flies. Make sure you check everywhere. Going through his beard.
02:01:39
Speaker
Apologies. It's been a while since it's been washed. It's actually really well-groomed and clean. Thank you. I'll linger his lips for a long moment.
02:01:55
Speaker
There's no expression there. Garak's not reading anything. It's just default face. No, no, you're all good. There's no spiders there. You're fine. Thank you.
02:02:07
Speaker
and Watching the interaction between Garak and Falco, I just kind of murmur under my breath, the stone and his pebble.
Normalcy Restored
02:02:18
Speaker
like that. I love that. I love that.
02:02:25
Speaker
ah Thanks, Alice.
02:02:28
Speaker
He's marking it down. He's writing that shit down. keeping that so name I don't think we're going anywhere tonight.
02:02:40
Speaker
Am I right? Brock will say, looking around the group. What are you thinking? We we stay here?
02:02:48
Speaker
Are you feeling better? I mean a bit better. Oh, i no I am still bleeding. But i I can walk and i can I can talk and I can fucking drink and I'll take a big sip of my ale.
02:03:04
Speaker
Okay. ah Do we know what time roughly it would be, Mark? It's a late afternoon by this point, so it's the sun is starting to close behind the peaks.
02:03:15
Speaker
You notice in these areas around the ravine of Stormspire and Wild Heart in general, because it's such a rugged and high-peaked terrain, the sun seems to set incredibly quickly. There's there's much less horizon, less...
02:03:29
Speaker
sunlight because it's it it hides itself so quickly, except on the the moors and certain areas to the ah to the east where there's more open plains. So yeah, it's about to pass that threshold and start to disappear behind, but the sky will stay lit um in one way or the other for for quite some time. Normally quite dramatic, the ground's dark, but the skies are still these brilliant oranges, pinks, blues from from the m the sun traversing through sky.
02:03:56
Speaker
the light. Oh, that was very romantic. the and Basically, yes, it's afternoon. i What I'll say is we... we
02:04:06
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as you I'll imagine maybe, Rock, you just as the conversations take place, you've popped your head outside just to to take in a breath of air and just check the the time of day, check the weather itself. And you do notice that the the um yeah as you look down into the ravine below, the river which flows, which looks minute in comparison to the size of of this rift of this of this canyon that's formed by by the tidal surge,
02:04:31
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ah but actually it's quite a large river, is continuing to flow. From your stories, you remember that the the the river stops or at least becomes a stream before a tidal surge.
02:04:42
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And that again, maybe your heart sinks slightly at that. it's It's not now. It's not happening now. As you turn in, to the rest of the group um i'll give you a little bit of information just so you just you're aware of it um some of you would anyway but areas like storm spire the capital and others that are kind of commercially driven areas for trade etc tend to have quite an active evening market, evening business, so you will.
02:05:13
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So it's not that everything shuts. um The use of Glow Moss fruit and other and natural forms of light ah feed off alongside torchlight and actually means that Illuminating spaces despite the high mountain peaks is is very easy and very cheap to do.
02:05:30
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So lots of business stay open into the evening. ah The map and information regarding the location is available. What I'll argue is that well we'll call it for this one for now, but that there is time in the evening before a long rest. If there are any journeys people want to make out, i I'll list everything in the in the chat for us to probably have a look over in terms of locations around the place, shops to visit, things to get, et cetera, before ah your decision in the morning about whether or not you do the, the title surge or not.
02:06:01
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But before that happens at rock, you've gone up ah to quickly check outside Falco Garrick and, out and, and sorry, riff is there anything you guys ah want to talk about? What rocks kind of gone out just as, as Garrick awkwardly kind of sits back down and and Falco mentions about him bleeding.
02:06:16
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and Is there anything you guys want to finish up on by saying? and No, I'm just going to fold up the map and put it in my pocket. And then the five gold coins that Drift had put on the table, i'm just going to pick up and put in his pocket while he's sleeping.
02:06:32
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Kind of like the end of episode, the other episode. Very nice. Look at that mirroring. Okay, and with that image of you ah popping these gold coins. The guy is richer than any orphan we've ever known. Popping the gold coins back into his his money pouch. little bit of dribble hanging down his mouth.
02:06:48
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and the The warmth of the candelabras around, ah sweat level dropping, heart rates back to normal. A calmness enters back into the gilded anchor. Normality returns.
02:07:00
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02:07:15
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02:07:25
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02:07:37
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02:07:49
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02:08:04
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In Wild Hearts land where legends grow Tidal surges rise and flow Golden treasures deep below Time to get moist, here we go