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C3 Episode 81 Something Wicked Chapter Two
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Train Fight! Train Fight!
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Introductions and Recap
00:00:04
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the Eberron campaign setting. I am your Game
00:00:19
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Master, Eric. I'm Nia. and welcome to eron renew natural play podcast set in everon campaign setting i am your game masterster eric i'm neara I'm Phillip. I'm Madison. I'm Jeff.
00:00:34
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Welcome to another episode. Folks,
Journey to Jarp and Suspicion of a Trap
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what happened last time? Selena got us in a fight. It's true. Selena's past has caught up with us. Darn. Yeah, we got another train fight, but not, we hope, in a time loop.
00:00:47
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we Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, whose fault was that? We have been, so or we are heading to Jarp outside of the dancing forest to look into more natural anomalies. A bunch of dire breed of animals have been appearing and people have been disappearing.
00:01:07
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I think the locals pronounce it Yarp. but yeah a yawking come on get over yourself yeah exactly yarp yeah so we're on our way to take care of that or investigate it and we're about to involve ourselves in someone else's trouble or it maybe it was a trap i don't know feels like a trap who knows but Yeah, so the, the woman stands up and the end of her prosthetic arm that's made of wood, kind of like what you'd see with a warforged without the middle plating on, on it, transforms the, like her hand, her hand closes to a fist and the wood transforms into a mace and she goes to punch the frozen
00:02:00
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Selina, you would prob, most of you would probably instantly recognize this iconography. When the woman
Attack by the Emerald Claw
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stands up, you see a icon on her chest that is green hand.
00:02:14
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The emerald claw. Fun. That does hit. So, yeah, the... Person whose arm is frozen in time it takes a mace shot across the face as you see a tooth go flying out across the train car.
00:02:29
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And people start, like, freaking out. The archaeologist is scooping all of his, like, treasures up into his bag. They belong in a museum! Wow, what? gonna hand of my business card. Hold on. Looking for a new new known friend.
00:02:41
Speaker
Last one didn't work out. He will now never discover the curse on the mummy's mask that he stole. Okay. Question for our reactions... Are the Emerald Claw disavowed and a terrorist organization at this point in time or are the Emerald Claw?
00:02:58
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Okay. They have been disavowed at this point in the war and labeled a terrorist group. Slayda probably has some additional, like, I don't know if Slayda would has shared this context. You all haven't run into the Emerald Claw yet. Uh, but Slayda's running them also with being hunted by them as well because they work for a lady bowl.
00:03:18
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So. Yeah, that's a secret, though, Selina. I'm saying that's not common knowledge in Eberron, but Selina would know that because of first-hand experience, because Lady Bowl wants Selina. Got it.
00:03:30
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Got it.
00:03:33
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So... ah So we have one of her mom's wedding presents. so That is true. Do ele are you Aw, do you? don't think so. hey shop It's a magic item that has use, oh though. you know Then maybe something's...
00:03:50
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carry around your bone altar okay now it selena's turn so selena also as the monk within the mass says i told you i recognized her the priestess who's at the other table with the emerald claw person turns and looks at selena and you see a hint of recognition in her eyes they're everywhere
00:04:16
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oh goodness who am i gonna target now Javier's behind this. He got us these seeds. There's no way. He said, let's spice things up. After that last mission, I think we could really use some team. so Okay, the one in the mask, I will mark him with Sigil of Blood. Okay. And then the one that was frozen, I'm going to...
Train Battle and Psychic Assault
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I'll have to move closer and try to use Freezing Strike.
00:04:46
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Okay. Okay. That is a 25 versus AC. Yeah. Heck yeah. Okay. There's so much to add. Okay. It's going to take second.
00:04:58
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You're good. This is going to be a lot. 28 damage. And they're stuck. Okay. So. This guy takes a punch from a a prosthetic wooden mace across the face and then Slayna rushes up with her sword and strikes.
00:05:18
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And i where do you, where do you hit him Slayna? Like, where are you targeting? Probably like torso. Okay, so you you slash, and so this this person's wearing a tabard over their armor, and you basically slice through it and like leave a deep scar in the armor and cut, at the tail end of your your sword cut, ah cuts into their side where there's a gap in their armor.
00:05:47
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But as the bottom two-thirds of the tabard falls away, you see Death Guard armor underneath their tabard that they'd had cut. thought that might have been the case. And at this point, the time stop run their arm has worn off about that was like a ah temporary stopgap as they rail back and the R-rated one looks at the one in the mask and says, I told you she was with them. They're working together now.
00:06:18
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And let's see now it's Vox's turn. I can gain focus
00:06:28
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And that is it. ah The one that Selena strikes also looks back at Selena and says, i can't wait to take you home. Why'd we do it first? but no yeah Not it's like that. All right. The... All right.
00:06:45
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It is now their turn. So they've got two people on them that are attacking, but oh yeah, what? What would their priority be? Stop.
00:07:00
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Selena hit them for more damage, so they'll try to deal with Selena first. Yeah. So their arm freezes from time, and they bring the scimitar up and try to bring it down on Selena. Oh, they are stuck after that. I don't exactly know what stuck means, but... They just can't move anywhere. ok So if you were to get out of range of them, then their their feet are frozen to the ground. Cool.
00:07:24
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That's going to be 18 versus Nope. nope Okay. Slay the parries, the attack away and the their ally is going to leave up out of their chair and they're going to, they extend their arm out and.
00:07:45
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out of their sleeve from seeming to know where like an iron iron banded staff comes out and they bring it up and try to strike at Selena at your legs. That's also an 18 versus AC. Dagnabbit.
00:07:59
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Selena's quick. oh Can I cast bitter lessons? Sure. Does he miss the attack? Yeah. Oh, well that's the right dines.
00:08:10
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Yes, it is. he said from very a ge I should know this by now. Not that one. Not that one. is That's a 23 against... That. mende That does hit.
00:08:28
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Okay. Oh, I should be more... repaired to actually hit things we will just roll these twice
00:08:43
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that is 10 plus so 18 psychic damage and selena also gets 18 temporary hit points oh heck yeah it sounds like i'm probably gonna need them I think. Because which one was that who tried to attack? That's the one was stuck?
00:09:08
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No, that was the one the one that you just did that to was the one in the mask who hopped up and came over to Slayden. I think I would want like that mask, I want it start to burn on his face. Nice.
00:09:25
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Alright. Yeah, you hear him. But there's no, like, he grabs the mask just out of reflexive pain, but there is no effort to take the mask off. Okay.
00:09:37
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do Alrighty. The woman in the robes is going to stand up from her chair and do some erratic hand motions directed at the table that you all are seated at.
Psychic Struggles and Counterattacks
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They're going to make an attack on one D three targets, Nix and Kaz.
00:10:08
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We're being attacked by the woman that Selena just there about saved. Am I correct? So have a... No, like at the very beginning, Vax stopped the sword from being drawn. No, that person stood up and punched punch the person.
00:10:26
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This is the woman in robes that also locked eyes and recognized Selina and is now speaking to attack. to ah I'm just making sure we have no allies here, but all of these people are going to die. Got it. Okay. yeah Except the archaeologist. Must protect the archaeologist. I mean, museum items are mostly stolen anyways. Certainly. Well, okay.
00:10:48
Speaker
We don't need to actively kill the archaeologist. something happens and his bag is left available, I guess that's fine. This is Alargo Jones, as I'm now calling him. 100%. That's what it says in my notes now. going to write that down. Hold on. I couldn't think of cut. Did I get to name things? but That's going to be the... have a great track record of things. going to...
00:11:06
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It's going to be Mia's first NPC portrait. It's going to be Zalargo Jones. It's not. It's Dimitri with his stupid ponytail. Nyx, you take 10 psychic damage and you are dazed.
00:11:21
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Oh, it just happens to me. Okay, that's not both fun. She wrote a mental defense. Sorry, I'm assuming Nyx has a mental defense of 28. Apologies. Hey, you know what? don't don't this you know what is You know what happens when you assume? that Sometimes you're exactly correct. so because your assumption was based on, you know, known facts.
00:11:41
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Now, you said Kaz and Nyx earlier. that i eat Different roll for each one. Okay, okay. How much damage was that now, Eric? Ten psychic damage.
00:11:51
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Ouch. And you're dazed. And I'm dazed. i don't know what that means, but it's not as cool. Minus four penalty to all attacks. Save I was right. Kaz, though. good Yeah, the points does Kaz have?
00:12:07
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Don't tell us, don't answer. it Make him, make him do it blind. Don't answer. What it's a terrible question to ask anybody ever. Make him, make him face the danger, make him face the possibility. rolled a natural 20. That's, that's the answer here.
00:12:19
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go for it. Is that wrong? Don't tell it. 20. So 20 psychic damage. Oh my gosh. Okay. Um,
00:12:34
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Really? And I, I mean, I guess that makes nothing else. out There's no other additional condition that I think this is broken. Basically, the condition changes on the natural roll. And so it's natural two or 12, three or 13, four or 14. Interesting. They don't have natural 20 in the list. It goes all the way up to 19. It's all of them. so get avoided roll because it's It's all the conditions.
00:13:00
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that would be um I guess maybe that is the balance is that you're just taking double damage. So maybe that's the, uh, the balance of it all, I guess. So you have 20 psychic damage, Kaz.
00:13:13
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Oh, great. Kaz not looking good. Well, Kaz is looking all over the place with paranoia in his heart because got 20 psychic damage. what I'm sorry, what does the table do? What what just happened? you said So, no, she targets like... She was targeting the area of the table. If it hit 1d3 creatures, she got two, so you were the two creatures that she chose to target.
00:13:38
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But what happened? Yeah, you... in your In your mind's eye, you see okay you see laying on the table in front of you.
00:13:50
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Each of you are seeing different things, just to be clear. But you see the festering, rotting corpse, the person that you care for the most. And there's a brief moment where you just see that before the psychic damage hits.
00:14:05
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And then the corpse lurches up and screeches at you and like reaches out at you. And that's when the psychic damage hits. Well, th gross. Agreed.
00:14:18
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Nix, it's your turn. And you expect Kaz to be able take a turn after that? Then then your your vision snaps back steps back to reality. Oh, there goes the gravity. There goes gravity. We must be better.
00:14:31
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yeah from this is I knew I shouldn't do it, but it just happened. Nyx, yeah, I mean, i assume our seat is fixed to the ground. Otherwise, Nyx would just sort of throw herself back from the table. So Nyx scrambles out of her seat,
00:14:49
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stumbles significantly as as the the daze takes effect and okay so i can see obviously there's someone wielding a sword down there where selena is yeah the other masked monk is where attacking selena Okay.
00:15:17
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I will say, so, Nix, as you're gaining your bearings, you do hear the one, the the woman turns to the priestess and says, enemy, enemy, and my enemy, focus on who's attacking us.
00:15:31
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And the priestess says, but she wants her. And the priestess looks at Selina. Okay. I, yeah, without... really thinking because she is dazed. Next stumbles.
00:15:48
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Stumbles out into the aisle, reaches for the sword, but in instead just sort of claws through the air. And this rent opens in the air and a bunch of small, vaguely draconic fiendish creatures suddenly swarm into the the the the train car as I cast swarming flame demons.
00:16:14
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So I can target one D three. i assume these people are nearby. Yes. I can target one D three nearby enemies. So I'll roll for that.
00:16:25
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I can target two. so I will target the two that are actively attacking Selena. This is a charisma versus their physical defense attack. oh That's pretty good. That's.
00:16:39
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What's my charisma? That's 23 to hit. to hit Yup. ah So they both just take 20 fire damage. Okay. And the next time one of them rolls a natural one through five with an attack during this battle, I deal 3d6 fire damage to that creature and each enemy nearby them as the flame demons swarm.
00:17:09
Speaker
Okay. Yikes. So yeah, Nyx sort of half bent over trying to get her bearings. selling And do I save now at the end of my turn? At the end of your turn. Yep. go What is the, what level of save or is this? It's regular. So just 11 or high.
00:17:25
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Well, that's a four. Okay. Still a weekend. I didn't do the subtraction. That would have been a 19 versus physical defense. That still would have hit both. So, okay.
00:17:36
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Turn over. Kazimir. Yeah, so first things first, Kaz takes flight. ah Sure. ah Oop, there goes gravity. Now I'm with Mia. I may have been a cult. Now Now that it's made you so pleased with yourself. And but while this first bit has been happening, up until the terrifying image that he saw, Kaz has been...
00:18:06
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Sang a little prayer and he's still not sure how it all manifests, but his goal, he heard this he heard the talk, the look, I recognize her, don't that's who she wants, that or she wants her, all that stuff.
00:18:19
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And focusing on the way that Selena fights now, he says a little prayer and this is my quick action, it's the invocation of strength. Any melee attack that any melee crit by me or my allies now does triple instead of double damage for the for the rest of this fight. Yeah, pretty sick.
00:18:43
Speaker
And then I'm going to do my trusty force tentacle at the one who... I can't tell who did that to us, can I? Who did the spell that I would have... It was very obvious. Oh, okay. She stood up and like... Well, then I'm going smack her back.
00:18:59
Speaker
Maybe. Or back? Why? Well, run around her. Actually, I don't know that I am. Hold, please. It's just a 12 to hit. Mia looks aghast.
00:19:10
Speaker
Against, uh, sorry, against her a so AC, I believe. Let me double check. I'm sorry. It doesn't matter. None of her. Yeah, I didn't imagine it did. So that's that's what happens then. I try to kind of blast back at her. i am sending...
00:19:27
Speaker
Again, just kind of comes out of the sleeves of my shirt. And this time it looks like, you guys don't understand it because you didn't see what I saw. Lace comes out of my shirt and goes to attack, like to to to strangle or wrap up this this other combatant, but then it flies past her. It misses.
00:19:48
Speaker
And let's see. And I don't fall down. I stay in the air. So that's where I remain is up for now. Okay. Escalation dies now to one and something happens. The, the one, the woman who punched the armored person turns to the priestess and says, well then do it.
00:20:11
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And now she reaches and, into her shirt and there is a inky black crystal, um, hanging from her neck and she cracks And all of the lights go out in the train.
Transported to Mabar and Undead Revelation
00:20:29
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Oh, for a moment. And then, well, like the, the ever bright lanterns were not because you all were traveling during the daytime. So it goes to complete blackness and then the ever bright lantern sensors trigger and they kind of flicker on.
00:20:43
Speaker
And you all see the landscape outside of the train is different in that it is a blighted wasteland with no sun in the sky ah and seems to be an endless night all around you.
00:21:04
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and Never taking the train again. Never taking the train again. Stop rolling random encounters when you're on the ding dang train. i even prepped in the bathroom. You did.
00:21:17
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Jeff rolled the only thing he could have rolled to trigger it and he did it. I still don't believe in the veracity of your D12 system. I think we get a fight when you make a fight you like. think Here's the thing that hurts. Here's the thing that hurts. I did a whole YouTube video on the Geek Pantheon YouTube channel that is this system. It has been public information this whole time. And all of you are like, I don't understand the system Eric uses.
00:21:40
Speaker
I have it out there. I watch Miley's channel. I don't know to tell you. I've watched your channel, Eric. I swear. Thank you, Mia. Now I am immune. Thank you. I can see. So yeah, you all have been transported to Mabar, and the priestess looks a bit different and now. Oh, good. Instead of a gaunt elf lady, she now appears to be undead. Her skin is stretched taut,
00:22:13
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over her skull, no longer has a nose, hair is wispy and thin, and her robes are tattered and torn. don't like this. It'd be weird if you did.
00:22:23
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but I mean, do does Philip, the player, not like it? On a different level, I do like this. It's really great. I love a train fight. It would only be better if we were on top of the train. That's up to you, friend.
00:22:35
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So the one um with the mace arm pulls back and the arm trans transforms again into a large spike.
00:22:48
Speaker
And they are going to try and still take care of this person that apparently tried to cut their head off, even though Slade is right there. They're just focused on, you know, immediate retribution. Good. If only they could roll. Yeah, they miss.
00:23:02
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So the ah the Death Guard commander like parries away the spike, and with their quick action, now that they're in Mabar, this person is going to bring a hand up.
00:23:17
Speaker
And you see Inky Blackness envelop their hand and they place it directly on the Death Guard Commander's chest. And they're going to just deal a base five damage. Oh, Selina, you're up close for this, so you see it better than anyone.
00:23:32
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They place their hand on their chest and the power Mabar kind of like... unlocks this ability in them and they siphon the energy and you see you recognize the positive energy of irian being siphoned out of this death guard member and turn inky black as it goes into their hand and their breath catches in their throat and they And their face sinks in on itself immediately as their skin and flesh decays as they fall backwards dead. Oh, whoa.
00:24:11
Speaker
Eric, can i ask what the natural roll on that attack was? That was a seven on the natural. Oh, yes. So, oh, we're in
Significance of Selena's Dragon Mark
00:24:21
Speaker
a fight. Sorry, I told you all that I would review your cool new abilities if we got into a fight.
00:24:26
Speaker
I think I have mine written down. Yours is relevant once we reach three. For the most inconvenient time. yeah Yeah, mine is at three, right? So I've got. Yours triggers if you get staggered, so if you reach half your hit points that lower.
00:24:40
Speaker
Okay. Vout, when you miss a target with an even attack roll, you can use their lowest defense score as target for all attacks and spells for the rest of the encounter.
00:24:54
Speaker
Neat. And Kaz, yours is when a creature attacks and rolls a natural one through five. Right. They take psychic damage. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yes. I like i know i wrote it down.
00:25:04
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There it was. no Just making sure. Okay. Salada. All right. So who is still on me? the debt The Death Guard commander just got killed. So the Emerald Claw commander and the Death Guard monk are on you, like right next to you.
00:25:22
Speaker
The Emerald Claw commander hasn't attacked you yet, but they are adjacent to Okay. Let's get the one that has attacked me then. Okay. It's with the burning mask.
00:25:36
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. I'm going to do Viper Bite. That is going to be 23 versus 23 versus AC. That is Okay. That'll be 17 damage. twenty three versus a c that is a hit okay so but that'll be seventeen damage Plus they are weakened and take 10 ongoing poison damage.
00:26:00
Speaker
Oh. Save ends. That's a lot. i think Yeah. Oh my. Selena, what does this look like when it kills them? Heck yeah.
00:26:12
Speaker
I think that when I go to hit them with the sword, like the end of the sword turns into like snake fangs when I hit them. Nice.
00:26:26
Speaker
Nice. Been hanging around with Aurora too much. yeah Okay, so they fall backwards. The poison, see the like you see on their neck, the greenish prison under their skin and it disappears behind their mask um as they fall over and die.
00:26:44
Speaker
Valk. Fairly horrified at what is happening. Should be. But I will gain my focus. And Okay.
00:27:05
Speaker
You're dead and you're dead. i am alive, sir. No, i'm I'm looking at my initiative list and the priestess is going to, since they're in Mabar, attempt, they're going to lunge at Selina, grab her by the wrist, and...
00:27:28
Speaker
Do something against Slayna's mental defense. Slayna, 1-2 against your mental defense. Yeah, that'll hit. Okay. but To everyone's perspective, except for Slayna. Slayna, I'll get to you.
00:27:42
Speaker
For everyone's perspective, this priestess lunges at Slayna, grabs her wrist, and they both disappear. Oh. Man. What was the natural rule? 15. want to use timely mistake. Okay. Fitness.
00:27:57
Speaker
Fitness. there's the la hello enough I don't know what it is. It's you and me both, man. We are just winging this. sleep It's always intelligence, man. It's always intelligence. That's a against mental defense.
00:28:19
Speaker
That, yes, that hits me. So how does that impact me hitting Selena? So you must reroll the attack. Well, ah you take 3d6 plus wisdom and you have to reroll the attack and use the lower result. Okay.
00:28:37
Speaker
So how much damage? 11. Okay. 22 before, does get you? That's what it is. now We were so close.
00:28:51
Speaker
Well done. Well done. So very close. Selina, from your perspective, ah this undead woman lunges at you, grabs your wrist, and I swear it's in my notes, Philip, you can call me a liar if you want.
00:29:03
Speaker
You're on the roof of the train. yeah Wait. Sorry. There is in an adventurer's feed on that. Eric threw a thing. This one was new. one was new. This is what was added during my during my last ah level up. Yeah. A triggering attack targets one of your allies. That ally gains a bonus to all defenses against the rerolled attack equal to your wisdom modifier.
00:29:27
Speaker
That's a... Just my wisdom modifier is a plus four. I'm safe. but Who's on top of the tree? You all have no idea what would have happened if that attack had succeeded. I know I took more the bonuses. I don't know where I've put that.
00:29:45
Speaker
Amazing. I'm disappointed too, Eric. but um Whatever. Okay, so... but know top of a training bar would be awesome I think Valk would have a flash that... Selina was going to disappear. Yeah. And I think he's just going to shout, no, she stays with us.
00:30:08
Speaker
The undead being looks at you back and says, then I guess you must die first. And it's now Nyx's journey. Little weakened Nyx. Yeah. the hoins Big talk. Nyx just sort of snarls and she is going to cast Implacable Destruction.
00:30:29
Speaker
This is a spell that I have that turns off any effects that hinder me, hinder my attacks. Whatever. Oh, Eric's getting walked. So long as I am conscious, this spell ignores any effect you are under that would prevent nor hinder you from casting the spell or making its associated attack. So I can't do it over and over again, but I get to basically, i'm I'm pushing through it on this occasion. Like it's not it's not permanent. i just For the moment, it's not affecting You threaten a TPK one time and all of a sudden everyone's got their crap together. Oh, I've had this a while. i just haven't had it. I just haven't had an opportunity to use it. So Nyx just like snarls and starts running down the train car.
00:31:11
Speaker
And as as she does, she she puts a hand back and the soul sword tears its way into reality that's... I don't know, probably a uniquely horrifying sound since we're in Mabar and just sort of drags it along the floor of the train car and then rips it up in an attack against the robed figure.
00:31:36
Speaker
And I rolled a natural one.
00:31:39
Speaker
This die going away for a while. Goodbye. i'm sorry. It's okay. i'll yeah I like to envision Philip because the base of Nyx summoning her sword is from Shavarath into the material plane.
00:31:55
Speaker
So I like to imagine that when Nyx is in another plane, the sword still has to go through the material plane because that's the base summoning. So there's somewhere on the train, there's just a moment of a... Yeah, that sounds that sounds great and terrible. Yes. so And that comes along with the sword as it like slices through someone. Yeah, i I miss and I can't do anything about it. I guess I roll to save against the daze.
00:32:19
Speaker
Yes. Eight. Kaz, are you still flying? i am still flying, which is appropriate. right, tell me this before I tell you what happens. Does a 20 hit the physical defense of the woman I attacked last time? You attacked the woman that attacked you, right? Yes.
00:32:37
Speaker
Yes. Okay. So what you see happen is while Kaz is floating, a halo begins to form ah above his head. And it's like it starts small. It starts to spread. It starts to spin.
00:32:53
Speaker
And what Kaz does is just kind of reaches up and taps it. And it wangs off the top of his head at the person he's attacking for not much for 10 damage.
00:33:07
Speaker
Okay. And then it, Captain America shield flies back to him and he catches it and puts it back on his head. And you see, he looks a little healthier. Nice as well.
00:33:18
Speaker
All right. and that also to just to be clear, I forgot to tell you what my high weirdness role was. I get a halo. And so I figured I'd work it into this.
00:33:29
Speaker
Love it thing. So, And let's see if I... All right, I might not stay in the air. Let's see what happens. I do not. I can land safely. Which is nice.
00:33:42
Speaker
Safely does not mean gracefully, though. Oh, no. No, yeah. I don't hurt myself, but I i fall. Okay. Escalation I is now to two. Selena, from your bag...
Strange Melody and Mabarin Energy
00:33:53
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A loud melodic tune begins playing that seems to resonate somehow weirdly with the plane that you're on.
00:34:02
Speaker
And it's echoing outside of the tree, almost as if it's a beacon. Oh no. And faintly in the distance, you hear screeches and cries and things like that. Okay. Oh no.
00:34:18
Speaker
Um. Oh boy. Okay.
00:34:22
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the if the commander of the air world cloth here's the melodic tune and is just confused by it like you don't get a hint of recognition in their face but they do look at selena and say bad tactical strategy you killed all of our shared enemies so now i need to come for you and she is going to attempt i hate this person ah but Yeah, pretty rude. Her arm transforms into more of like a billy club kind of thing. Like it's a non-lethal but weapon.
00:34:59
Speaker
as She's going to try to whack Selina upside the head. It's a little bit better a roll than what I've been doing. 22 versus... No, wrong card. 22 versus Casey. Yeah. That is... Yeah, never mind.
00:35:16
Speaker
You're good. oh Yeah, yeah. Can do something? No, it's just that dark none one ally you or that one enemy. It's not all enemies. Okay. 16 damage, Selena.
00:35:29
Speaker
they rolled an odd natural roll, which means they get to use their little hand touch thing. Mabarin Energy ah reaches up, and Selena, give me a saving throw. 11 or higher. Smooth hand.
00:35:45
Speaker
Because you've got some good stuff when it comes to Mabarin and Erian energy. Yeah, that's a six. Okay, Slayna, they... Rocking these saves. Yeah.
00:35:57
Speaker
Okay, Selina, this is going to sound like a weird question, but i promise it's relevant. Where does, sola in Selina's like field outfit, when she's going out and she knows there's a chance there's going to be in a ah fight, where is she not like armored? Like where is there potential for exposed skin? I know the bracer that Nix gave you obviously on the wrist, but like paint me a picture with your words of like what her armor situation looks like. I'd say she's got like...
00:36:28
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kind of a corset sort of thing on that is armed. Yeah. Then she's got the bracer, but like forearms, she's got those flowy sleeves. So there's nothing like, or not forearms, but upper arms. Yeah.
00:36:40
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Okay, so he grabs, sorry, she grabs your upper arm, and Mabarin energy is flowing around it, and begins sucking the Erian energy out, and there's obviously a lot of it in Slainith being dampened and suppressed by the pacemaker.
00:36:59
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And so you feel a tightness in your chest as you think the Mabarin energy is kind of like... amplifying the Mabarin crystal a bit more than what the doctor would recommend.
00:37:10
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But you that your upper sleeve burns away from like the intensity of the Eryan energy. And everyone can give me a wisdom-based check to notice something.
00:37:22
Speaker
Anything relevant to... i'll just say this. okay Anything relevant to identifying dragon marks would be applicable in terms of a background. 15. Do you want me to roll two? Yeah. yeah okay you said wisdom you would feel it and like look down uh yeah wisdom base track nope paranormal investigator for this particular yes i will allow it for this okay that's a 23 22 mine's just 10 don't think my backgrounds my my background might justify it but my backgrounds do not it's
00:37:56
Speaker
And then, Nick's, eat what did you get? 15. 15. Okay. So, i will just say that in the heat of the battle, people looking at different things, Valc and Selina, you're the only two that talk that as the, your upper sleeve burns away, Selina, you see that the energy is leaving your skin.
00:38:16
Speaker
in the pattern of a dragon mark. It's like a dragon mark is like burning up through your skin. In the brief moment that you two see it, it is not a recognizable one of the big 12 dragon marks.
00:38:31
Speaker
So. Okay. Now, Madison and Mia, from an Eberron lore standpoint, there are 12 recognized dragon marks. The 12, there are also things called aberrant dragon marks, which are just kind of random and can, like, be anything.
00:38:46
Speaker
And then there is a lost and forgotten 13th dragon mark. um I read one of the novels about that. All right. you've We've covered this before. Yeah. I was just making sure.
00:38:56
Speaker
So... So, oh, and you take a five necrotic damage. It is now Selina's turn. All right. Okay. Let's do burning leash on her. Oh, that was a natural one. So nevermind. Let's not, but apparently. Ow.
00:39:17
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She just did burn herself a little. Valk. All I can do on my actual turn is gain my font as a priority is to get my focus. I have other things I can do.
00:39:30
Speaker
right. I almost asked you to use your focus. And then I remember, oh yeah, you did. Okay. The undead lady really would like for this to work. So she's going to try it again. Natural two.
00:39:43
Speaker
Hey, guess what? yeah Was she, was she one of the targets? So I reread the spell and it just says a creature.
00:39:54
Speaker
And I went back to the SRD. I went back to the enemy. An enemy. I went back to the SRD and double checked. Like it's it's just, it's not, I wrote it down wrong. It's just a creature. Rolls a natural one to five with an attack. This battle deal 3d6 fire damage to that creature as the flame demons swarm.
00:40:14
Speaker
So Nyx may not be able to do anything, but her minions. Her friends. Yep. Well, that's maybe they her her workplace associates. That's like nine. So they sort of swarm around around her as she does this breathing fire at her.
00:40:29
Speaker
ah Nine damage. Nine fire damage. Okay. Nyx, it is your turn. Okay. Nyx is going to try and hit her with a sword. Like, this is just... um But I'm not going to describe it cool until I roll. Okay.
00:40:45
Speaker
let's pray This is 21 versus AC. and mean Versus which? the what the I'm sorry, the commander.
00:40:56
Speaker
to the The commander.
Return to the Material Plane and Conclusion
00:41:00
Speaker
Okay. and nixon Nix is still confused. Oh, it's not. It's not. Oh, hold on. Take a breath. I didn't add the escalation die, but I also didn't subtract being dazed.
00:41:12
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ah So it's 19.
00:41:16
Speaker
versus AC on the commander. On the commander. That hits. Okay.
00:41:23
Speaker
So, Nyx stumbles forward on the train and lunges at the to commander because she's not really in the state to tell who the real threat is. That's going to be 24 damage. All righty. Yeah.
00:41:41
Speaker
That's my help. Go ahead. No, that's it. It's saving and phased. Oh yes. Hey, 15. You're not on your date. Just needed to hit someone. Yeah. Help center next when she causes physical harm.
00:41:55
Speaker
How many enemies are left standing right now? Two. Just two. Okay. For now. And I can attack both of them. So you see the halo snap shut in above Kaz and like a light kind of enters his eyes and he looks even a little bit healthier than he did a moment ago.
00:42:18
Speaker
And then he does that primal scream that he does sometimes and hits a natural 20. Too bad it's not a melee attack, but it's a pretty good one. All right, so this is able to attack both of them.
00:42:31
Speaker
And i remind me, we do as though I roll when we crit, it's maximum you could get on one roll, then you roll again, right?
00:42:42
Speaker
Is that what, like, give it yes if it was a D10, it'd be 10 plus a roll. Okay. In that case, I do 57 damage to both of them. Oh. It's a 66 spell. it's my it's It's my once daily. what's the Heck of a time to pull that out. i Describe how you killed them. This is the same spell that killed everybody on the boat that time. I think that Kaz, once he lands and the kind of the divine thing leaves him with the halo being gone and the holy damage being done, and he looks out the window and freaks out a little bit and ah realizing what's going on. And between that and seeing his mom...
00:43:23
Speaker
dead and reanimated and all this stuff it's just enough that he just kind of in his head is like give them everything and a I mean just Kamehameha blast of force comes from him and you know without knowing how he controls it he shapes the spell to take the two of them out and spares everyone else and it just drops them okay just the timing of it all As this happens at the end of the round, right before you, you all hear above the din of the screechings and things like that, as they are answering the call of the melody emanating from Salada, you hear very clearly above all of this, a woman's voice like,
00:44:18
Speaker
screaming through sobs in response to this melody just as you all snap and the train returns to the material plate are there dead bodies yes there are dead bodies okay and we will call it an episode there Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to part of the conversation surrounding this episode, you can come over to our Discord, the link to which is in the show notes.
00:44:43
Speaker
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00:45:01
Speaker
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