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C2 Ep. 167 Slaughterman's Legacy Chapter Ten
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I heard you like ghost tigers...
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Transcript
Introduction of the Hosts
00:00:09
Speaker
D20 radio, your game is roll.
00:00:48
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Eberron. You need an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. Jeff. Welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? We're trying to rescue people from, we think, Cath, but they may have already been rescued. We're really not sure. They might have already been rescued by the Ghost Tiger. The Ghost Tiger. We all have our assumptions about it. Yes.
00:01:11
Speaker
Sorry, Trevor said yes along with everyone, then looked at me and shook his head. You did last time. I know, I promise. I was just being a goof. And we are, we're in pursuit. We've left Cath.
00:01:25
Speaker
having not... Like a couple of geniuses. We just left Cath. You invited Cath. Cath declined the invitation,
A Rescue Mission: Analyzing the Ghost Tiger's Involvement?
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Speaker
right? Having not successfully resolved anything, we've left Cath and are now in pursuit of the person who has maybe already rescued the hostages and therefore maybe everything's fine. I don't know. And didn't we lose that person? We've seen the general direction they went. Yes. So you saw some... you all detected magic and found markings on the ground of their teleportation magic.
00:01:54
Speaker
that the markings are similar to House Ori and Dragon Mark, but also similar to the frequencies of the plane of Kithri. Yeah. So you all
Teleportation and Markings: What's the Connection?
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Speaker
are in the... Tasha took off first, Hob and Reynard, you are catching up. So I guess you all also still have 13 advantage on the table from the last session. Baker's does. Utilize, is there anything you would like to do out of the gate to make this whole affair easier?
00:02:20
Speaker
Whoever abducted them made a mistake. And allows us... Nature of mistake. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. They dropped breadcrumbs. They dropped some breadcrumbs. I thought you were implying that Kath realized she's made a great mistake in all of my chicken. Oh, we could, if you'll go for it. No, there's a hole in their elemental tank and he's leaving a trail of elephants. The ghost tiger paused for lunch and left their packaging behind. I've got time. Could we...
00:02:50
Speaker
use some of it to tell.
Breadcrumbs and Clues: How Did the Captors Slip Up?
00:02:54
Speaker
We don't find the location, but we do find a spot to where we can discover if they still have those people or if those people are no longer with them. I see. If they still have the hostages or they've stashed them somewhere kind of thing. Sure. How many advantages are you willing to offer? We found an ID or something, didn't we? That was trying to track Cath down after she had taken them occasionally.
00:03:21
Speaker
Please forgive me, I've had equal amounts of sleep and driving time today. Randy, I'm sorry, tell me, clarify what you're saying. To find evidence of whether whoever possibly rescued the hostages, for us to be able to find out if they still have the hostages with them or if perhaps they stashed them somewhere or let them go. At the end of this, or are we done chasing? On our way to finding and chasing, maybe we find some evidence that lets us know.
00:03:51
Speaker
some footprints in the dust that head this way and one set going the other way or something. Okay, okay. I was just hearing like we found their lair and they are there or not.
Rooftop Discovery: Are the Hostages Here?
00:04:01
Speaker
No, no. But okay, I'm with you now. Something like that, yeah. Quality of the information is gonna be dependent on how many advantage you're being offered up for. We have 13. How many do you guys wanna put on this? Enough to get old. Four or five? Sure. That's a big, that's a, yeah. Yeah, that's a hefty amount.
00:04:18
Speaker
Five advantage? Sure. Okay. So as you all begin taking off, you all see that the, so Olive had seen them with bags on their heads. You all see a couple of bags that Olive
00:04:36
Speaker
verifies matches the look of the bags that were on their heads so the the bags are off of their noggins and then a little ways further you actually yeah you for five advantage on a rooftop of one of the towers of sharn two figures set against what's like on skyscrapers where there's the roof and then the door that leads up to the roof access they're against the side of that little outcropping that the door sits in
00:05:04
Speaker
Are they in Mill Hatch? Work clothes? No, because they were at the gala, so they're nice academic clothes. But they're recognizably our missing persons. Yes. Signs of the ghost tiger.
00:05:20
Speaker
Perception checks. Whoever would like to make one tread lightly, though, this is a three red difficulty. Oh, no. I feel like maybe just one of us should take that red. You have eight advantage, so we could do some upgrades. I rolled four green. Or we could just talk to the guys and say, hey, did you see which way she went? So he went. If I took an upgrade out of those advantage, I... Two yellow, one green. So with an upgrade out of advantage, you'd have three yellow. Three yellow versus three red. So would I. So I'm happy with you doing it. Sure. I'll do it.
00:05:48
Speaker
Okay, so you're spending three for an upgrade. Would you like any boost die? You still have five advantage sitting out there. Or you can flip a story point. This is scary. You have three
Potential Trap: Is Cath the Target?
00:06:01
Speaker
story points, right? Yep. Sure. Let's flip a story point. Are we the circles? Yes. Okay. I don't like this.
00:06:20
Speaker
I hate it. You got no perception talents you're forgetting? No. All right. It helps because I don't ever get anything. I have very little to remember. Well, no despair. You succeeded. Yeah, so this goes away. This just becomes this and that goes away. One success, three advantage.
00:06:49
Speaker
Okay.
00:06:51
Speaker
Yeah, Raynard, as you are looking from the sidecar as you all approach this rooftop, you see briefly as another sky skiff kind of driving through the night in the city, drives past this rooftop. You see in the Predator movies when you see like the outline of the Predator being invisible. So you see the outline as movement happens behind this invisible figure who's crouched near the edge of the roof watching the two hostages.
00:07:19
Speaker
Okay, don't think it's some kind of trap. We all think it's not right Who's asking me
Strategic Approach: How to Avoid Ambush?
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Speaker
Trevor? Okay, I do I would have sounded like this Question is would Raynard have any inclination that it's on the one who talked to her Because you did not recognize the voice but it was that's fair. I guess their managers may not know or may not think But we do
00:07:51
Speaker
I was going to say, let's just call her on the sending stone and see if we hear a ring. Or our voice echoing. They were not included on the group chat. Dang it. She's rich. She definitely has a sending stone. Just not on our frequency. I think we've called her before.
00:08:10
Speaker
i sure you have not sauna hey no kidding okay so i got i relay that information as subtly as i can i mean you you all have sending stones so you can whisper into your sitting stone does anyone have any freak have any idea what the frack is going on oh but i i think we'll find out if we go on that rooftop is that person waiting to ambush us yes or
00:08:37
Speaker
or it is watching or what? Perhaps if we go to the rooftop and approach from an opposite direction of where this figure is and we just shout out and ask these people, are you okay? And then that would let whoever that person know that we're not there to take them back, we're there to help those people. And then if they attack us, we will know.
00:09:02
Speaker
Additionally, given the level of specifically V2 of intelligence and cunning that we're talking about here would also probably, it would be within
Invisible Foe: What's the Plan?
00:09:11
Speaker
the realm of possibility. This might be a trap for Cath, like they might be trying to trap Cath in some kind of traps. And typically Cath would be the one to come after the stolen hostage. Just trying to say it's not all about eating.
00:09:26
Speaker
We're the adventuring party, Eric. It is. Story is literally about us. Well, we confront that figure and say, are you aiming to harm these individuals? Because we're here to help them.
00:09:45
Speaker
I'm having a hard time not going up and seeing if these people are okay. Yes. All right. You give a medicine check from a distance if you want, just to kind of get that. I assure you, I can't. All right. All right. So you go and see if they're all right, because that person springs on you, your
00:10:11
Speaker
I'll be more alright than other people might. You'll be fine. I'll sit here and cover you. Yeah, ready to come. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or shoot them. Whatever happens. Ray Rayner, are you coming with me or are you hopping into the Tasha? I'm with you. Okay. Ha ha. Randy has grabbed a handful of dice so I'm interested to see what Randy's thinking. I will try to assess how they're... Oh, medicine check from a distance. Yes, from a distance. Sure. Okay, roll. The difficulty is going to be too purple. Roll what you got in your hand. Roll them. Okay.
00:10:44
Speaker
Yeah. One, two, three, four, five success. And how many? I think one threat left. Yeah. Was that two success? No, there's no failures. That's five success. Just two threats. So what are these again? Those are threats. You have one threat left. One threat. Yeah. Five success. Yeah. You can tell that they, they were never even in super dire medical straits to begin with. They were, they seem to be a beaten up insofar as they were like knocked
Mysterious Figures: Who Are They?
00:11:12
Speaker
out, but that's it.
00:11:14
Speaker
and they seem to be stable based on your assessment. Take a point of strain, Milo. Okay, so Hobb and Reynard are headed down to the rooftop.
00:11:24
Speaker
you all. I feel like we're gonna get arrested. Me, maybe. Thankfully, you're great friends with the cops. It's true. It's true. It's dating, why? I don't think that's right, bud. That's the massage therapist video. Not exactly dating. Lord, you gravely insulted. Possibility of a date. That doesn't narrow anything down. And then my new love interest.
00:11:51
Speaker
Oh, you failed that check. Hot to get. Eris crouches down on one side of Tasha and rests the Fletcher on the edge of the vessel and will act as overwatch for whatever is about to happen. Yeah, you all get down to the roof, park the skiff bike on it, hop off. Do you just approach the two figures or what's the... I think I shout.
00:12:20
Speaker
to the two figures, something like, hello, are you all right? You look distressed. I was driving by. I let Hob do that and I keep my eye on the outline. Okay. So, Hob, as you're calling out to them, are you getting off the bike or are you staying, have you just pulled up over the rooftop? Yeah, I think I'm ready for an egress if I need it. Okay. So,
00:12:49
Speaker
You, they're very much in like a daze. They're barely conscious. They're not in any position to verbally respond to you right now. Can they write it down? Reynard, give me another perception check. Okay. A three red one. Well, now we're just, now we're just working to do things. Okay. You still have five advantage sitting out there. So you can use three to upgrade again, if you like. It's not easier. Cause I already saw it. You can have a boost. Okay.
00:13:20
Speaker
What's that one, right? Do we wanna? I mean, we're not using the advantage for anything else. Yeah, go for it. Sure. Would you like to flip the story point? Add another green? I got the blue one this time. Okay. Almost the same. Surely the results will be better.
00:13:36
Speaker
Probably not a lot of damage, but yeah. I failed with five advantage, so I got that advantage back. I managed to re-roll that. That's a net gain. Okay. I blinked a lot. It's windy up here. You're on the roof of a skyscraper. No, you still have a good beat on their general position, but you can't really make out what they're doing or anything like that, so they are going to make a roll.
00:14:03
Speaker
Of curiosity, as you're gathering that dice pool, I remember that the goggles that I got from Cassian are deeply privacy invasive. So if I'm looking towards the figure, the spot where Reynard pointed out through the goggles, do they tell me anything?
00:14:30
Speaker
Do they tell you anything? Erik says gesturing at the story points.
Battle Begins: What's the Threat?
00:14:35
Speaker
I'd like them to tell me something. Yeah, absolutely. It's been the story point. I'm very interested to see them tell me something. And then give me the story point back because I'm a human. Yes. Yeah. Pulling the goggles down, looking at this figure, you can tell the following information. They are... I'm trying to think of...
00:14:59
Speaker
No, I've never actually used this feature of the goggles. Yeah. I'm trying to worry exactly what the feature said. Did not bring my notebook out. It was the narrative description has been that it's a threat readout. Yeah. So what you can tell is there is a lot of artifice magic involved in this suit. Not quite on your same level, but fair enough. Additionally, the figure
00:15:30
Speaker
You get, the only information you get about who they are as a person is that they read as a half-elf. Can she tell male or female? No. And their heart rate is really high. They're very stressed right now about what's going on. They are not, unlike a lot of people that you think are about to spring a trap, they are not like
00:15:54
Speaker
anticipating like looking forward to it, it's oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap is a reading that you're getting. And they have a three bean salad for lunch. Excellent. Yes. Yes. Three bean salad? No. They're really hot ones. It's going to be another Jeff character. Three bean salad. They call me three bean salad. Next time we have a Western game. You can call me three. Three beans. Three beans.
00:16:24
Speaker
Also, yeah, you can tell that teleportation slash K3 magic is really infused into this suit. Yeah. And it's recently made. It's very new, I guess is the other bit of info I'll give you. I'm going to go ahead and flip a story point. Just to upgrade my check. I'm about to get blasted out of the sky. So this is the current goal. Me too. Three on your bike. Three yellow, one green, three purple.
00:16:51
Speaker
Sure. Any of your advantage to impose a upgrade to the difficulty? That would be three. Sure, we have what, five? We have eight. Yeah, let's do it. Now we have five. Oh. What? Sorry, I don't know what happened. What?
00:17:18
Speaker
Okay, I'm tired. Oh, I see something on that yellow one. Yeah, that's not great. This is bad. What we got here is a triumph rolled, but not by a player. And a very successful roll with one threat though. So they're taking some strain. Who's that half elf? What? Cath is a half orc. Okay. Yeah. Okay.
00:17:45
Speaker
This whole time mom's a human we've met all of their parents. I thought they were both I was a family. It's a complicated family No, because I saw I think it was on Twitter or something the idea of half siblings being a half elf and a half orc And I thought that was fun. And so I okay did
Ghost Tiger Attack: How to Survive?
00:18:01
Speaker
it in the campaign. You mean X I can't remember which dad's which but what it's not Twitter author author author is Kath's dad and I don't remember sign his dad's name. I
00:18:13
Speaker
prize hub like Dave. Because Cath's dad is an artificer. That's three beats out. And so he's paying attention to that person. Oh my gosh. Three eensalad. Maelin is on his dad. Maelin. Yeah, it is. There we go. Hey, what are you looking at up for? Are you supposed to be hurting me somehow? And Maelin's the one that worked in... Do your evil math. What's Solomon Callaway? Callaway?
00:18:38
Speaker
No, that's drawther. That's drawther. Okay. Okay, as you all, the skiff bike pulls up. Hob, you start hollering. Raynard, you're looking. You all, you above, see manifest out of nowhere. They... Yeah, we'll just... Three ghost tigers emerge onto the roof and go to pounce onto the skiff. Initiative. Onto the skiff? Or onto the bike.
00:19:06
Speaker
There's not enough room for them on here. I don't like this. Okay. Which variety of... ...initiative... And this is vigilance, because you all did not spring the trap. I got one green. Well, thankfully my vigilance did. Oh, that's pretty good. One and one. One and one, too. One and one, one. But at the same time...
00:19:35
Speaker
Ghost Tigers then, huh? Milo, what'd you get? One and one. You can't kill a ghost. Eris. One and one. Reynard. One and one. Hop. Two and two. Hop, pull out a three-bean salad and attack with it. My absolute first move is to move the speeder out of the way of the Ghost Tigers jumping at it. Okay, so...
00:20:01
Speaker
NPC slot first. So the ghost tigers are gonna go. Oh, nevermind. Nope. Um, they got three and one. So it's not going to go well. We're going to have to talk with Sauna after this. I think I'm already hurt. One of them is going to, what happened to you? We haven't done anything. Or we've done a lot, but did you get hurt in the, in the, the mess? I have seven wounds. You had eight wounds somehow. Yeah.
00:20:30
Speaker
Okay. Before you all went to go talk to elder I think it's just I think I think there's something weird with the website. I think I if you don't save it after you drop your wounds back. Remember, you only slept one so you only heal right every night. Oh, that's true. Unless you all been taking healing potions. That's been nine episodes. Yeah, I have to say that.
00:20:55
Speaker
All right, Hob, you're getting attacked by the first one. This is the pool, anything that you'd like to do. Besides get hit. Check fry. No, we're good. Oh. Okay, there's some failure there. One success, two advantage. My soak can probably handle it, but I don't know if this bike can. Yeah, really, can the bike handle the weight of three tigers? Exactly. They're ghosts.
00:21:26
Speaker
Are they actual ghosts or is that just they look like white? They're white tigers. They're white, yeah. Guess we're about to find out. Are they real? Or... Fantismo. Or spoopy. Or that. Okay, so that is going to be 7 damage, Pierce 3.
00:21:48
Speaker
Alright, cool fun. And they're gonna use the two advantage to trigger the knockdown ability as part of their pierce. So they knock you off the skiff. What? They're not knocking you off the- no, yeah. Okay, so Eric's going horde. No, no, no. So yeah, you are knocked off the skiff. The second one is going to attack Reynard.
00:22:10
Speaker
I'm gonna die. Oh you had melee defense though right? Oh yes I do. Yeah three. I have one. Oh those are all mine as well.
Injury and Recovery: Is Reynard Okay?
00:22:25
Speaker
So they end up with only one advantage so they don't hit you.
00:22:28
Speaker
and they can't knock you down, so they'll pass a boost to the next one who will attack Hob. Rainard. No, they're attacking Hob. Because it didn't get hit the first time and there's these people in a lesson. And he's bigger than me. The driver of the getaway vehicle needs to be off the getaway vehicle. We said the same thing in different words. Oh. That one did it. I don't like that role as much as the last one. I liked the role before. To success in a triumph. Boo.
00:22:56
Speaker
Oh, we're all dead. Let's die away from him. Ah, not one. Not one, this one too, by the way. Eight damage pierce three, and rather than hob off the bike as it jumps up and attacks hob, the weight of it causes the bike to tilt and over and so you both spill out. Okay.
00:23:20
Speaker
Goes knock toward my bike. And now the last one will attack Raynard. Cool. Who is now prone. What? Yeah, dude. Sorry. I didn't even do anything. Nice kitty, kitty. That's true. Oh, they all had nothing to do with me. Do you have melee defense, Raynard? One. Scratch it behind the ears. Nice kitty. Oh, boy. Not so nice, kitty. Yeah, that's. Five success and a threat. That's bad. I'm a dead elf.
00:23:54
Speaker
Kind of think you're gonna need these in a minute. No. No. We don't need those. I don't know how many wins you got to give. Seven. Okay, maybe. I don't know. What's your soak? Not a lot. You got new. Wait, his new armor's not ready yet, is it? No, I don't have it yet. Ordered it this morning. I know. It was a long time ago for us. Should have given us delivery in sessions.
00:24:24
Speaker
range defense one that i have not been using either that is 12 damage pierce three bye if you're unconscious which means that a crit occurs i'll just go lay down with the other two that is a 58 do you have any other crits i'm currently carrying one around i don't think so you check because it adds 10 if you do
00:24:49
Speaker
Oh, this is the game table. Why is this not loading very well? Hold on.
Targeting the Summoner: Can Eris Break the Spell?
00:25:04
Speaker
I don't think I have that. 53? 58. 58. 58. Agonizing Wound. So, Reynard, the claws just scratch across your chest and get the tendons in your shoulder. So, increase the difficulty of all brawn and agility checks by one until this critical injury is healed. Cool. Sounds like we're going to need that. Yeah. But I can't do anything because I'm dead. And that's all three Tigers.
00:25:32
Speaker
Uh-huh. Good for them. It's a PC turn. Eris, Milo, what you've seen three ghost tigers emerge. One of them leaps at Hob and misses. The other one knocks the bike over and the last one pounces on Raynard. Milo, I don't necessarily have to be my turn, but I can, Milo can still speak correctly. Yeah.
00:25:52
Speaker
I don't know if you can speak correctly. No, it's up to Milo. So Milo just shouts out, why are you attacking us? You seem to have rescued this people, which is exactly what we were trying to do. Unless you didn't really rescue them. Have you Russian? I lose my voice.
00:26:15
Speaker
The tigers just look Serbian, okay? That's his upset angry voice. I don't know. Who falls back into the old country? Why do I have tiger? Why do I have tiger in city? I said Serbian, I didn't say it all again. I was like, this doesn't sound right, this doesn't sound right. I wouldn't know anything about falling into the wrong accent. Eris' plan is to shoot what she presumes to be the summoner and controller of the tigers. But you cannot see them.
00:26:46
Speaker
But with the goggles, I thought we had... Yeah, the goggles identified that they were half ill. Oh, yeah. I assume I would have some substantial hindrances from shooting at them. Yeah. But that's still my intention. Yes. That's right. Is to shoot where I think they're going. Unless Jeff wants to claim it as the person with the tiger on top of them. Just so y'all know, you have one PC slot and then the NPC slot. Which I assume is the person. Yeah, the tigers can't go again. So if you want to do something, you can let her do something. I will shoot...
00:27:16
Speaker
at our... Because I can't do anything. I can't imagine the tigers are going to despawn if you get rid of the summoner, but... You never know. I think summoning is a concentration. That sounds right. It might, actually. I'm going to eat this cookie and feel better about balloons. Shooting the summoner won't do anything, but if I were to render the summoner unconscious or something. Okay. Anyway, I am going to shoot... Yes, conjure is a concentration. Okay, so if we're right about that...
00:27:46
Speaker
That, that, and I'm gonna aim. I'm gonna take two strain and aim again. Good grief. What's the difficulty of shooting at this personage? The difficulty, you are long distance away, so that's gonna be a hard check, plus two setbacks since they are currently invisible. Logical. Are they adversary? Adversary...
00:28:13
Speaker
Yes, they are. Adversary two. Dang. Adversary two. Just in case I forget to mention, the tigers are adversary one. So as you're attacking tigers, it's an auto upgrade. Okay. We've got most of the story points. I'm going to spin one of those story points and upgrade.
00:28:39
Speaker
That one's lost. It's a set back. Okay. I'll get it in a minute. I see where it is. Okay. Here we go. It's on the table. This is, I don't know that I've succeeded though. You don't have any failure on there. I have. Yes. Okay. I succeeded. Yeah. Oh, you got him. Okay. That's fine. Yes.
00:29:06
Speaker
All right. I have one success, which is a triumph and I have a whole large amount of advantage added to the bank account for six, seven advantage. I have seven advantage, a success and a triumph in shooting at this being. So.
00:29:37
Speaker
Yeah, I was gonna say if you like distraction I have an idea Okay, first off base damage is 10 with Pierce 2 And
00:30:00
Speaker
am inclined to just crit really hard unless someone can suggest other things to do. Okay, I'm going to crit and I could theoretically add 30 to the crit.
00:30:18
Speaker
And now we have to spend the rest the advantage also to bump it up even more now We have the dilemma of we're pretty sure it's sauna Eris is not Eris knows this person conjured creatures and that there's a tiger on top of hob and
00:30:34
Speaker
to a lesser extent, there's also a tiger on top of Reynard. But I'm dead. But Aerys is actually concerned about that, which is character growth. A couple of days ago, it would have been there's Hob, and there's these innocent people I don't know, and also Rhys. So I'm going to do that. What's the crit rating on the gun? Two. Two. So you could use the other three to do a plus 40. I'll just use the ones I rolled, and I'll heal a string, actually, with my leftover one.
00:31:05
Speaker
And then I will roll. 7,707. She still believes. They didn't already have a crit on them, did they? Because that's another 10. Roll a d10 for me. They did not have a d10. It's like, I don't have a d10. Yes, I do. I just rolled one. If that sauna she dies, cats coming after us next. 10. 10. 10s across the board.
00:31:30
Speaker
This sucks. Yeah, it does. It really does. Why didn't one of you go? Does it? Because she knows who we are if it's Sana. It's true. She just set tigers on you. Yeah. Does it suck? No. But it still sucks. It's just... Horrific injury. Yep. Yep. I've done this to a lot of our... Yeah. It affects their willpower. So they have... Until the critical injury is healed, treat that characteristic as one point lower, their willpower.
00:32:00
Speaker
And what body part would it make sense? I'd have definitely picked a leg or an arm to hinder their escape if I could, but here we are. Yeah, willpower's like what, their gut? Rolling tension and I get to pick. I agree, actually. Maybe the force of the attack just
00:32:22
Speaker
brings them to their senses. So are willpower and concentration similar because we could attack their concentration. That sounds great right now. Concentration is basically. It's just a function of strain really as much as in the maneuver. Yeah. I'm going to say it's like Kylo Ren-esque gut shot, like just right there in the side. So you see the fake figure of them bend over and you wouldn't hear anything.
00:32:50
Speaker
Is Willpow the relevant statistic for strain, for setting your strain threshold? Does that lower her strain threshold by one? No, I think strain is in. Discipline. No, maybe it's discipline. It's vigilance, coercion. No, it's a separate. It's not a stat. It's a pair.
00:33:21
Speaker
controls these, right? Screen threshold is willpower. Yep. Cool.
00:33:40
Speaker
Okay, so their strain drops a little bit. Okay, and that is Eris's turn. Did you want to do a maneuver or anything? I aimed. I aimed twice actually, so I cannot. Okay. And you took the strain forward. I did. Cool. Okay, then it is their turn. So... Am I going to yell back at me? They're probably hurting right now.
00:34:04
Speaker
They're gonna make a check. Check. Give me a formidable check, so five purple. Oof. Story point. Huh. That's the pool. Okay. Four yellow, five purple. I don't need a despair, I just need a failure. Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. That's mostly a lot of threat. Yeah. To failure. They failed. No, they succeeded. With threat. With a threat. It was a lot of everything, so. Okay.
00:34:34
Speaker
They are going to... I guess, you all, what happens with threat? I would give them strain because I want them to not be able to concentrate on this and run away. Exactly that, in fact. Yes. With threat on magic rolls, you can also give them a wound. Just... I feel like we're really capable of wounding this person if it comes to that. Okay, so these tigers first. Yeah. Sure.
Dispel Attempt: Will Milo Succeed?
00:34:58
Speaker
With the success, Raynard disappears. Oh. What?
00:35:05
Speaker
Okay. I died. Talking tree action, right? Yep. Raynard, say something if you're still just invisible. Raynard says something. Nothing. Okay. I'm also unconscious. I forgot that part. I like super died. Is he near me? Is he near to me? I want to reiterate, even if I was... There was a tiger on top of him and there's a tiger on top of him. Is the tiger still on top of something?
00:35:33
Speaker
the tiger is no longer like standing on uh okay even if i've been at full health i still would have died they rolled a lot of success okay that is that check and the tiger hobby you see the tiger like turns its attention towards you with raynard no longer being there okay grand and i think that's everything that they are going to do
00:36:02
Speaker
PC slot. Cobb, Milo. We saw them use magic to summon these. You didn't see anything. The tigers appeared out of thin air though. They just appeared out of thin air though. This figure is invisible, so unless you are making a concerted effort to keep your eye on them like Reynard was, Aeriswyth, their goggles can have a vague idea of where they are. Then I really don't have to. Can you dispel? That's what I wanted to do. But you would target the tigers for that, right? You'd target the magical effect? That's my question. Yeah. Okay.
00:36:33
Speaker
that's what i wish to do and that's a hard according to my little sheet you are long distance away so it is well i want to i want to move up you got to talk to tasha oh if you could get me close perhaps i could dispel if you're going to target a if you can target a single tiger i must target both okay don't there's three
00:37:02
Speaker
Honestly the one on me should be the least of your worries You can target a creature under a magical effect if I do multiple targets it says Yes, but unless you are closer because because formidable as the size it goes yes, so I mean it would would be the What would be the mechanical procedure? I don't have an action so I can't
00:37:26
Speaker
Pilot Tasha, because it's not my turn. Yeah. Olive is in the vessel. Yeah. And obviously knows how to communicate with Tasha. So you could express the desire. Olive doesn't have an initiative slot, so we would just do it like Olive X at the end of the round kind of thing. If you wanted to communicate to Olive, hey, get us closer. But that would be how I would rule it. Yeah. So Milo shouts out to Olive, please, can you get us closer? And perhaps I can dispel.
00:37:56
Speaker
some of the Tigers. Okay. What would you like to do with your turn now, though? Good. Black's at the end of the round. If I'm thinking, if Hob wanted to go, Milo just shouts that out. Does not necessarily have to take his turn now, or do I need to take my turn?
00:38:11
Speaker
The end of the round, so after everyone is acted, Olive will get the axe. So you'll have to take your turn before Olive acts. Right. Either way. So it doesn't matter. So you can target one of them at least. Yeah. You got a turn to give, you may as well, and you want to target one. There's a thing is... There's three, so it would take you a couple rounds in a row. With the additional target, you're adding the possibility. You still have to spend an advantage on each additional target. So if you spend that and you don't roll any advantage, you still only affect one. Yeah. Okay. So you want to try? Yeah, I'm gonna...
00:38:39
Speaker
try to get one of them but one is on hob and two are where one is near hob because it tried to attack hob and didn't successfully do it and the other one is near where Reynard just was but Reynard's body is gone so and the other one is on me
Physical Struggle: Can Hobb Defeat a Ghost Tiger?
00:38:56
Speaker
Yeah, I got attacked twice. The other one missed. One missed, but one is on me. Yes. Don't do that one. So the one that is not quite on him, that's the one Milo's going to try to dispel. So five purple. I'm going to flip a story point to make one a red. Four purple and one ugly.
00:39:23
Speaker
Make sure they don't have any kind of property as it relates to one green. Nope. And I'm going to do brilliant casting since we have all the story points. And I'm going to get four boost dice. Brilliant casting. So one red, four purple. That's a lot of dice.
00:39:48
Speaker
Somebody figure that out for me. It's a success. It does, isn't it? That's the only failure, right? So that one and that one go away. And so a whole bunch. One, two, three, four, five threat. And that is wiped out by advantage. So I only had two advantage. So that's three threat. And one, two, three success. Four success. Five success.
00:40:16
Speaker
Five success. Five success and three threat. Up to eight strain. I don't know what I strained on before we got to this point, but I did some way. I had a fox use a threat, but I don't want to make Eris even more mad at Milo. Please don't.
00:40:33
Speaker
One of the strain, Milo suffered two additional strain and the other two strain. It works, but it doesn't take effect until the start of your next turn.
00:40:47
Speaker
Okay. So how do we know what works? You can see the magic, like the ghost tiger is like getting pulled out of this. It works means this ghost tiger will be gone next round. Yeah. At the start of Milo's next turn. And that was because of the threat or that's just how it works. And you do not start the top of the round. That's right. They do get one. What? Was it because of the threat or that's just how it works? Because of the threat. That's a two threat option is the spell takes effect, but yeah. Okay.
00:41:17
Speaker
It is now Hobb's turn, unless Milo wants to do anything else. Uh, no. Couple questions. How far down is it from this roof? You can't see the ground. Okay. How close to the edge of the roof are we in this tiger that we're unraveling? Short distance. You're not engaged with the edge. You're not teetering, but you're... One rage band? Yeah. Okay, great. I'm gonna blast this spot off the roof. Okay. Alright, let me get my...
00:41:43
Speaker
pool together what's my difficulty it's just a it's just a brawl just a melee check melee checks it would be one red one purple because the adversary rating you got it dude i'm really pumped about doing something and i really want to be so sad if it doesn't work okay one red one purple all of these it just takes three advantage and aim oh and i get a boost because of yeah you're one one
00:42:10
Speaker
My ally is no longer engaged with me, is he? Gotta be awake to be engaged. Okay, let me... Oh, and do they have melee defense? Sorry. Oh yeah, I can call, thank you. Melee defense, two. So it's two black? Yep. Okay. There goes my two blues. It's almost like their machine's designed for killing. It's a lot like that. That's not defense. This machine is designed for saving versus existing, surviving. Whatever, roll these.
00:42:39
Speaker
Oh boy. That's a lot of threat. Oh boy. Okay. So that's five threat to counteract these five advantage. So that's fine. Three success, two advantage. Okay. And how many advantage you need to act when you're not back.
00:42:53
Speaker
Unfortunately, it takes three, I believe, right? I'd have to go find it. We have a button in our bank. I think you still have three in your bank. Oh, that's right. We have them banked. Which we need to spend those so we don't just have a rolling bank going on. We like a rolling bank. I was wondering why you were going to say that. I don't love it, but I'm going to use those three advantage to send this tiger over the edge. Okay. You got two, didn't you?
00:43:20
Speaker
I'm using the three stored ones and then these two I'm just gonna pass a boost to the extra rolls so all of our advantage are gone. Okay. Nice. So yeah, you describe how you get this thing off the roof. I think it's just the standard kind of judo roll thing and I kick him off of me because I'm prone on my back and he's on top of me, right? So I just start that kip up maneuver and roll backwards instead and flip him off me. Not genuinely
00:43:45
Speaker
Jeff is intending to throw this thing off the roof. Hobb was intending to get a tiger off of him, and it goes off the roof. Yeah. Jeff's a bad guy. Hobb's like, look out below. And then it's down. OK. We can safely assume it's out of the fight. Yes. OK. Until it teleports back on the roof. Flying goes tiger. Our wings proud out. And I say, I'm sorry about your cat.
00:44:08
Speaker
That is the end of this round, so I need to...
Cath's Confrontation: Who's the Invisible Figure?
00:44:12
Speaker
So all those maneuvering, yeah? Yes, all the maneuvering. That felt good. Yeah, that was good. You don't get to use that very often. Uh-uh. Especially not to good effect. In shard, it's murder. Yeah. And I know that we murder a lot of people, but...
00:44:27
Speaker
not gratuitously okay with a roll of four and one there's now an additional NPC slot at the top of the round as you all olive bringing Tasha in all is able to get you all within short range of the building with a single maneuver a figure above you all
00:44:46
Speaker
Drop in above. Yeah drop from where they were flying in some capacity Interesting and the ghost tiger that was just on Raynard a figure comes down and kicks the tiger So they're gonna make a melee check this good pop What's the figure look like it looks like Kath Kath in her vigilante outfit church
00:45:12
Speaker
Vigilante is a strong word for that. It's like a black tiger outfit.
00:45:17
Speaker
It's more, uh, didn't you make it? No, I just, I just made the claws. It's displace your bees. Okay. Without the weird tails. That's a complete wash. They look so cool. They both look so cool. Yeah. Kathleen's next to, Kathleen's next to the tiger does not, they pivot out of the way and kind of snarl as Kath still full mask on, does the superhero landing pose and stands up. And then with the next NPC slot,
00:45:45
Speaker
You all see invisibility drop as this figure comes sprinting at Kath holding their side as they're going to jump up and try to hit Kath. I would think Milo might start putting two and two together at this point. My goodness. One advantage. They're going to keep it pointed straight.
00:46:07
Speaker
As the figure comes, you just hear ahhh as they go in for a superman punch as Kath like blocks and side steps and they just begin scrapping like going at each other. But Kath is definitely on her heels like the the other figure has gotten the best of them in this exchange and that now we're at a PC slot.
00:46:26
Speaker
Yes. Yes. Get rid of the tiger. The tiger must go. Okay. So the other tiger started Milo's turn. That's near Hobb disappears. So there's just the one that Cath just tried to attack. And that's three purple. Oh, sorry. That's yours. Rainer you're awake. You have six wounds.
00:46:52
Speaker
What? Where am I? Her eyes open. You see a tiger right next to you, snarling, calf, and another figure fighting, cob, right there. You're on your back. Yeah. Okay. I have six wounds that we can use. None of you can still see Raynard though. It's not going to cost me. It's not going to cost us about a story point. So we can't see Raynard. Correct. Huh. Can he see us?
00:47:19
Speaker
We're now you're used to this kind of magic. You can tell you're invisible for some reason. Yeah. All right. This is the tiger. Okay. He wants to dispel the other one. Yeah. The other one. So that's going to take. I would have, or I don't have sword points. So no, I wouldn't have. It's true. I gave you one back when I did. Oh, but you can't use one. You just got it. So those two, right? Yeah.
00:47:48
Speaker
Basically this goes, this turns into that and that goes away. And I think that's it. You rolled really well. One, two. You have two success and one, two, three, four, five advantage. Two success, five advantage? Yeah. Okay. The third tiger that was near Reynard disappears and you have five advantage to use. Milo, what would you like to do with it?
00:48:16
Speaker
quite a bit. So all this left is just the figure that's tangled up with Cath. Yes, currently. I have an option for you if you want because it would cost all five because you didn't upgrade the difficulty to have this effect. So you'd be adding the effect and activating it. The dispelling of the magic could also target Reynard
00:48:45
Speaker
accidentally and remove the invisibility from it. Hey, with Milo's magic, that kind of makes sense. So yeah, the dispelling magic that you shoot out at the tiger that was right next to Raynard Raynard, you see the tiger disappear as all of a sudden the magic off of you washes off and you all see Raynard reappear right where he was, but awake now. Welcome back. Get up. Next BC slot.
00:49:14
Speaker
Okay, so we can see that these two are fighting. Trying to think, obviously under normal circumstances, Kath is fighting someone, this person is attacked as Eris shoots this person. I'm trying to think, is there anything on the table right now that would make Eris hesitate to do that? And at the moment, I can't think of anything. Sounds like you know what you must do. Okay.
00:49:42
Speaker
So you are now short distance away. Oh, cool. So adversary two, so it'd be one red, one purple. But they are engaged with someone else, so it'd be. Yeah, this could get real bad. I'm an aim. And ranged defense one. And you had a boost, you sent a boost. Yeah, I did. Wait, did you use the boost I sent up? No. OK.
00:50:11
Speaker
uh okay so those go away and those go away to success for advantage okay that's 11 damage pierce to for advantage a crit in plus 20 because they have a crit currently yep oh three so 23
00:50:38
Speaker
off balance add a setback to the target's next check so so the the bolt is deflected off there the like helmet of their suit or mask or whatever
00:50:52
Speaker
And you hear the figure say to Kath, I knew they were helping you. And it is now PC slot, Reynard
Reynard's Awakening: What's Happening?
00:51:01
Speaker
or Hobb. Did Hobb or Reynard recognize that voice? It's mine. Ken, please. Wow. So they're like fighting on top of me, basically.
00:51:10
Speaker
No, like near issue, but like they're moving as they're fighting within a short range band. They're not just stationary, like standing there rocking sock them, punching at each other. If they're around top of me, I was going to try. But you can try it. No, if they're not, I was just going to try and kill myself or heal myself. OK. So you all have healing potions, so you could just take one of those. I think we've said those are that's a maneuver that would get you five more wounds.
00:51:39
Speaker
Awesome. I'll just do that then. But I still have an action, right? What happened? Hello. Okay. We're all still trying to figure that out. That's the theme of this session so far is what happened. Why are you doing this? Again, also very much what we're trying to discover. Okay. It's not letting me take my wounds. I have one wound. Okay. Uh, gosh, now I use as a maneuver. So I guess I probably can't.
00:52:07
Speaker
not shoot this person so i guess i'm shooting this person okay so same deal two red difficulty one black okay what hob know their fighting style well enough i see that's what i was there thinking i was gonna start watching this see do we know yeah i'm trying to roll for it sure
00:52:35
Speaker
I did it. Three success. Okay. And you're just using your longbow. Yeah. So that's 10 wounds before soak. I know, but still taken quite a bit.
00:52:52
Speaker
Okay. That's a maneuver and... Did you stand up also? No. Okay. So you're just... That guy sat up, but... Okay. Hob. Okay. Team. Let's talk. Because I was going to use this turn to see if I couldn't get those two people inside that door.
00:53:15
Speaker
into like the stairwell to safety sure but i'm pretty sure we're about to kill sauna i'm worried about that yeah and i think i just need to break up this fight now so i should just go tackle kath right why was why would we tackle kath so maybe sauna stops attacking all of us no i know why we the players would tackle kath why would hob tackle
00:53:42
Speaker
But if one of them, we've seen these people fight. You've seen them fight together. Yeah. Yes, but I would think if they have a certain style that they don't, they have a particular style. If this is Sana, Kath knows it's Sana. For sure. They've been fighting, they've sparred their whole lives. Surely. I think so, yes. So let's just let them hash it out. Absolutely not. Because if I attack Sana, she might die.
00:54:12
Speaker
I'm very worried that we're about to kill Sonnen. When I heard I knew they were working with you, I feel like that might... Hob might want to show, no we're not. Sure. Can you just grab them both? Grab, yes. Do anything with, after grabbing, probably not. Lit up. But I can tackle one way to break up the fight, at least.
00:54:35
Speaker
open up an opportunity for someone to yell something. And if they think that we're with Cath, if you did tackle Cath, then... If you break up their fight, wouldn't that technically... I'll let you do an athletics check to try and just grab both of them to intercede yourself if you want to stop the fight that way. I will go down, if they both turn on me.
00:54:55
Speaker
just so you know and then we're going to kill sauna sorry i just letting you know like at this point i will go down if they both decide to attack me i simply don't have the looms to give if we're not gonna fight them right now because i think that'll be true if you tackle kath if you tackle kath and kath attacks you yeah like it'll be the same thing i think
00:55:14
Speaker
I think separating them makes a lot of sense in the moment. I yell things while I'm separating them. But not too vigorously. I think I'm going to I'm going to yell calm down before somebody dies while I'm trying to pull them apart. I'm guessing that can't be a brawl check. Or could it? Athletics. You also have. Yeah.
00:55:39
Speaker
your divine casting ability once per encounter, you could try to paralyze somebody from a distance. That way they can't immediately attack you. Just a thought. Let me pull up my little cheat sheet. It would be a five purple difficulty, but Reddit's getting out of hand. I just had to click that I was okay with mature content to read about the Genesis Magic cheat sheet. But it's not even the link that I wanted to follow. Okay, I've lost it. Okay.
00:56:08
Speaker
My divine sucks. I have a much better chance. I was just offering up that. Physically manhandling them is probably...
Unmasking Fighters: What is Cath's Personal Conflict?
00:56:15
Speaker
Yeah, like four yellow versus one yellow. Yeah. Again, if I can use brawl to pull them apart.
00:56:22
Speaker
It's also my coercion check, is my brawl check. What would it be otherwise? Just athletics? Here's the thing, it's four yellow, one green versus three green, three yellow, two green. So it's just basically losing out on opportunity for a triumph either way. So athletics or brawl? I was going to rule athletics. Then I can do athletics, that's fine. And it's how hard just to pull them apart? By your shoe. My shoe? No, Philip's shoe.
00:56:52
Speaker
It is wearing your shoe in fact. How hard is it my guy? You know what actually I'll let you do brawl just so it's a combat check so it makes it easier on my brain trying to calculate this difficulty. Okay. Base would be too red because to target one of them so add a purple just to target both of them and why not? Make it three red. Okay then go ahead and flip that back and I will make it
00:57:20
Speaker
Five yellow. He wanted to call him gold. And I was going to say, so I lose my ring over there. Okay. And I lose my ring fighter because it's two people. Yep. Do you get anything because Kath is your friend?
00:57:37
Speaker
Do I get a boost because they don't really want to be fighting? They really do love each other. Okay, fine. Do I get a boost because one of them has gotten a crap kicked out of them? I think I think this is all I can do. Alright. I'm not trying to hurt anybody, so it's basically just a success or a failure. But boy, it's close. That's tight. It's a success with three advantage, I think? Yes. Change that to that. And those go... Wait, what?
00:58:06
Speaker
And one of these just switches. Yeah. And then that, so yeah, it's a success with four advantage. Okay. One success, four advantage. Okay. So you intercede and pull them apart from each other. You have four advantage. So what would you like to do with it? You have a really good hold on them. Well, I was, I don't know. I mean, you pulled the mask off.
00:58:36
Speaker
I think they both know who's who, so that would be for us. That would be a very great benefit to your sniping frame over the ass. I forgot you were doing that. Yeah, that might be it, thanks. If I could get both masks off, I could do a double Scooby. That would be fantastic.
00:58:54
Speaker
But if I could only do a single Scooby with forward advantage, it would be sawed as mask I pull off. Cuz we all know. But then if the mask come off, you're just holding their masks like we're no longer holding them. But then we can still see. They're grappled. Yeah, they're grappled. For forward advantage, I'll let you pull both masks off. Yeah. Exposed.
00:59:19
Speaker
Things we knew, but that's good. It's actually Harbin. I had just this slide of- Is it drawther? Is it drawther somehow with all the artifice stuff? It's Ferla. That also makes it that she would want to kill Raynard with a ghost marker. And I knew you were working with them. Oh, why'd we stop her? That is the end of the round as
00:59:46
Speaker
Kath's eyes go a little wide because it's the confirmation of it and you just see rage burning in Sana's eyes as they're struggling against you, Hob. And Kath just looks at Sana. Why would you do this? I really want to say something to end my turn. Yeah, say it, say it, say it. We would like to take these people home if you two are going to kill each other. I suppose there's very little I can do about that right now as I'm standing between them.
01:00:16
Speaker
because you let them realize they're about to kill each other because they're sisters and they shouldn't want to do that.
01:00:22
Speaker
better than us. That's the other thing. If you want to kill each other, go for it. We're done fighting you. Please be done fighting us. End of episode.
Conclusion and Announcements
01:00:32
Speaker
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Speaker
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Speaker
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Speaker
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