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Ep. 75 Fiery Tempers - Bellum Draconis
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After some miscommunication, feelings in the party are started to get heated.
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade
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Confrontation with the Robber
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And we go to the robber and say, give us back that stuff. And he goes, oh, no, I'm a faith of elido. Everyone's going to bend over. And so he's sticking up my heart. It makes no sense.
Introduction to 'Fellowship of the Tabletop'
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. We are a live play 5e D&D podcast set in the magical homebrew world of Aerith in the Kingdom of Sleetguard. I'm currently spitting blue-brained vanilla calico whole grain hot low-fat white rice and corn cakes all over my microphone. But joining you for this week's episode we have Will who plays the human cleric Emron. Princess? We've got Callum who plays the warforged broken water forged artificial alpha.
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princess we've got a only place the tiefling war or sarah nyx karell princess darren he plays the high elf artifice of rain's haddell princess princess princess princess princess will he plays the dragonborn druid barl valkon princess my name is mark and i'm playing the prince no the human bladesinger sephara river and by last but my name is vista master of magic our commander of combat dmd of dnd dungeon master danny incest
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a different podcast, leaning over his wooden rickety desk in his shop. We see old gal peering pensively into a crystal ball.
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Oh, testicular tension! Damn! The group was deciding whether or not to help with that little birdie bird that came a-flappin'. They decided that they was gonna do it, so they kept on traveling in the dust. They done found a fire with some people. They decided to approach with caution. They saw four people loading up the back of carts and lots of deadies lying on the floor. The group thought it would be a good idea to put in some sort of tactics, but it turns out they immediately revealed their hand because they're
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fucking idiots! Those dead things were wild orchioks and the alive things were some, well maybe not wild orchioks but we'll find more about that later. The alive things were two halflings, an elf and a half elf and it turns out them one of them bitches at least
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was up Chris Crow! Damn bumping into them bastards again! Anyway we met a high elf Captain Gellnoth that you gotta hand it to him literally because he got one fucking hand. Seth decides to sell some sort of excellent bullshit and it seems to work.
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And then the party kinda get a little bit of law-dropping, finding out all kinds of shit about the merchant republic and who runs Dralak. And also the fact that when they finally get to Snake Run, there's gonna be orcs everywhere, so don't be a little bitch. Finally, Alpha starts breaking down and says, Princess, constantly like a fucking fool!
Mystery of the Mysterious Bird
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So Nix has to cast Silence on the group and starts drawing a bit of attention from them CRISPR folk.
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So we're left in this palpable silence. Nick, you're concentrating on this spell from outside of the sort of group. What do you want to do right now? As everyone is just sort of huddling around, silent sort of, I guess some of you are trying to like cover Alpha's mouth or inspect Alpha in some way, but Nick, what are you doing as you're controlling this? Nick's ain't gonna lie. It's the first time he's ever done this spell.
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And it seems to have been successful. He's giving himself a mental high five right now, because shit's going well in his Arcanic abilities. So he's kind of just getting off on that a little bit. At the same time, he is concentrating as well. He's just trying to keep half a mind on the spell as he's repeating it in his head, repeating his head, and he's trying to kind of survey the scene, read the room.
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depending on how long this is. He's not moving from this spot, basically. He's watching the group.
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when he feels like he can hold the concentration, because every now and then he's still new to this. It starts to slip and he grasps it again, regains it. There's almost like a flex in his hand as he's trying to concentrate again. When he feels like he's got a good hold on the spell, he's casting his eyes to the kriska and seeing how they have dealt with this situation. If they're moving towards the group, if they're huddling, kind of getting a read on
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body language because obviously you can't hear anything being so far away, just getting a read on the body language and what's that telling him if there's a sense of urgency, if something's changed in their temperament since Alpha started going. Yeah, so the two halfling prospectors, the brothers who are, they're sort of out in the field rapping
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deceased members of the grisker up they sort of looked over and marked the yelling and then have heard like absolutely no sound coming from them whatsoever so just sort of carry on you spy them occasionally just going through pockets of the grisker as well to see why am i thinking it's george and lenny what's that about
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carry on sorry just in my head it's like two prospects i just went one little on large george no they're both a little they're both like i was seeing the horse rustlers from red dead 2 the ones who take the horses too uh but the chris great the the captain doesn't really get up over that they're they're
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You got the impression that there was a bit of a performance and a flex and an intake of breath to be able to have the communication that he had. Afterwards, he was just so exhausted, he's just slumped. The only one that is sort of really interested is the female lower ranked, Chris Criss, who has been doing a lot of the sort of talking and accommodating of the party being there. And she just continues to look over the top of the cart
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past the hawk towards the group with a bit of suspicion. You study for a while. At one point, it just looks like she goes to hold onto a blade, but more out of confusion than anything else. And then just watches from afar and seems to just be muttering back down to the captain about what she's seeing.
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but no sort of
Chaos of the Silence Spell
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two arms and a media aggression. So as time is going on, and Nix has noticed this, he's going to... I was going to ask Will if this is possible, but I'm going to play it in character anyway, because Nix doesn't know, and he's still new to this world, but just one hand kind of goes down into his pocket of his jacket,
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and finds just a small bit of copper wire and he starts to kind of twist it, almost dialing it in like a radio internet. How far is Raines from
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Alpha. I imagine you're all huddled round at this point. Five feet. Five feet. Ah, lovely. So he's just going to twist some copyright around as he notices that they're all too fucking close to the silent spell. And that is me. I am watching from afar. Both groups of people concentrate on the spell. If 10 minutes passed, please let me know. Okay.
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So the rest of you, you're in this huddle, you're unable to verbally communicate. What do you want to do? So, yeah, Rains will have immediately noticed that he's almost like when your internet crashes out, he will have just noticed that the lines on his fork have just stopped, like whatever was transfiguring of trying to cast this spell as a ritual has just stopped because it has a verbal component to detect magic. And what Rains will do is he will just just shake that and he's turning and what Rains thinks he's saying is,
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I think someone's cast a spell. I don't know what's happening right now, but I think we're under some kind of spell. But of course, what the others will see is just a very animated face of rain appears to be saying something without any words coming out. Okay. It was Alpha can I just ask because I'm repeating these words and obviously I am now silenced as well. Am I in like a trance or am I aware that I'm saying these words but don't know why?
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You're aware you're saying that word. You're cognitive. You are coherent. You are with it. You just feel compelled to just ascend progressively louder and louder the word princess.
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Okay. I think what I would actually try and do, you're going to try and cast message with rain. So you've probably stood in front of this fork and range. You're just going to hear the message constantly over and over. Well, is there a verbal component? You wouldn't be able to do that.
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Can you just see if there's a V next to the spell? Oh, yeah. No, ignore me. I can't do it. My apologies. Oh, that's what you were trying to do. I lawyer it. I would have tried to do it, but, yeah, would not have successfully done it. So, yes, that's fine. You're just going to see Alfred's mouth move in silence. Like, you were just convinced that the princess is the right thing to say and louder and louder. Yeah. I wonder if that burns the spell slot if you try it anyway. Is it message? It isn't message because it's cantrip.
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The moment silence fell, anyone would have looked towards your chris-cro thinking it's them and realized it's not So he's sort of looking out and about trying to work out what is happening and are they about to under attack? Okay, you can make a Investigation check as you're sort of looking for that level of threat. Okay. Thanks A 15
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You look out and you're looking for what horizon you can see in the dark. You're then looking at the corpses to see if anything has still got something left and it's trying to pull a fast one. You're reminded that Nyx is out there somewhere and, you know, you're protective.
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Mentality just kicks in for a moment and you have a moment of concern. You second glance at the criss-cross and they seem equally as confused but they don't seem to be animated like you are, like you are under that silence. You don't detect anything that's threatening other than that.
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Reigns is now racking his brains, like someone who's now just trying to figure out what's going on. And obviously as someone who studies the arcane, I was wondering if I could make a karnik check just to go back through my understanding of magic to see if I identify the spell. Yeah, go for it. That is Bay 15. All you really deduce from that is that
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The silence exists through magical means. That's what you gain. This isn't a natural way. Like you are trying to communicate and you can't and you can, you're pretty sure you aren't
Misunderstandings and Conflict Escalation
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deaf. You had your hearing seconds ago. You're pretty sure that you are trying to vocalize and nothing is coming out. You're pretty, you can ascertain that it's a magical effect that's causing that. Yeah.
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Great. And what, again, what Reigns is doing is that just almost you can see the animation. Oh, God, I know this is some kind of spell. Oh, my God, this is coming back to me. I think this is definitely magic. And it's not my ears. It's definitely my voice, which means something's happening here, but doesn't explain what's happening with Alpha. And Reigns is quite animated and getting excited that he sometimes does around magic. Still hasn't really dawned on him that that in his animation is just silence. And you can see he's quite animated, like trying to piece this together, but actually is not making any noise.
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Seth's gonna watch Reigns point to his ears then point to his mouth and then kind of nod and shake his head and then Seth's just gonna very slowly and very obviously mouth the word yes and nod his head
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like with very open eyes, like you think? Could I separately run a similar kind of check to that? Again, this sudden disappearance of sound, he's very mentally, he's very, you know, iconically attuned, very intelligent. And can you just have a quick kind of, I'm thinking,
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He'll think magic. He'll look to the Chris Grey. He's looking for the telltale signs of concentration on smells. This is more perception. Yeah, you're trying to see the source of this.
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Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Well, yes. Okay. Fine. I had a higher. Yeah. I'll go with the perception. I was looking for a higher game, but anyway, I like that. That is a naughty one. Damn. That is a high fucking perception. No, it isn't. It's yeah. It's doing that. It's way. No, that's weird. It says one. Huh? Anyway. Okay.
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You rolled a seven and got an eight. Oh, I thought it was a one. Yeah, it's okay, eight. You can't see the origin of this. You can't see the radius or the area it's affecting. Cool. He'll then just grab his spell book, flip it to a back page where there is the picture of the cart, and he'll place himself very quickly next to Baal, open it up, and kind of hold his finger out to Baal.
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Hang on, I'm not his head and kind of like... Yep. Yep. Reigns hasn't got the sarcasm and has tried to engage in a silent conversation with Seth. He's like, yeah, that is weird. Like, do you know what that is? And it's just looking at Seth. He stopped looking. Yeah, totally not looking. Reigns will think he's now looking in his book for the answer. So Reigns will come over and he's just peering over Seth's shoulder. He's like, oh good, this guy's got something to study. And we'll then clock on that he's probably not paying attention to Reigns anymore.
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And Baal is not paying attention to Seth. Baal's eyes this entire time have been locked on the Abcriskra. He would know as well, obviously, the sound change that something's come over them. He's been watching them the whole time, so he probably would have pieced together. This isn't their doing. Shield is still out. Shield is still attached. Minor twitching still happening. But he is at current, still just waiting and watching. Okay.
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All right, with no response of that, Seth's gonna get out of a bit of charcoal. Get out of a bit of charcoal, roll his eyes, open it up and write in his book, in relatively scrawly handwriting, he's gonna write, we have been silenced. Don't look like an idiot. Or they'll know.
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And then kind of look up to range. That's kind of look to range kind of tap him on tap, tap ball on the arm to try and get his attention to get him to look at it, whether he does or not. That's not my call, but he'll kind of point to that for the two nearby. Yeah. But we'll obviously see that look down, read it, grab the charcoal off you and scroll underneath saying, basically just writing.
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three words, let them live with a question mark. Uh, Seth's gonna kind of pout his lips down, kind of like, and look up towards Reigns with a slightly mischievous twinkle in the eye. Reigns' animation completely stops at that as he, as all of a sudden he sees those words and it's like, Oh, um,
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and Reigns is just going to basically return Seth's gaze as if to go, oh. Then Seth will take the charcoal of Baal and then circle that and put
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TBC. And then below that, he's just going to write Princess? And then look up towards Alpha, who is probably still mouthing Alpha the Princess. I think you would kind of see him still mouthing it, but Alpha's going to be kind of lost at this moment because he's
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voice is being controlled by something he is not aware of. This is a very shocking, very frightening thing to him. He's turned to reigns and has just been moving his arms and hands around with obviously no kind of sound. Just to clarify, you don't feel controlled. You feel that this is the appropriate thing to just repeat.
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But I'm aware I'm saying it, but would I be right in thinking that even though I know I'm saying it and it feels right, would there be any conflict that I feel like my person? No. Absolutely none. You feel like this is the exact piece of language that needs to be communicated. You were probably seeing Alpha trying to engage you in conversation, but you're still saying princess. Like a tickle.
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It's
Failed Attempts to Restore Order
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worth noting that in this time that you've been sort of communicating through writing, one of the halflings has sort of come up and is presenting a bottle, sort of walking with a bottle in front towards your general area. I think my reading of that situation is that Seth is the closest to that, it would be the first person that he'd bump into. He's about 10 feet away and walking in the direction.
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It's going to push the book into Paul's chest and quickly get up and walk towards the halfling hoping to leave the silence before the halfling enters it. So we'll make a hop, skip the jump and a little sprint run like arms outstretched like, oh, thank you. Hoping to
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get out of it in time, whether or not he does or not, that's the point being is trying to avoid that suspicion from the halfling. So the radius is 20 feet, so you only need to be 10, sorry, the radius is 20 feet. So you need to be 20 feet away from alpha in order to be outside it. So you're able to just get on the edge of that. And you don't know at the time, but as you step out, you just hear the halfling say,
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Speaker
I found this on one of the bodies and I don't drink. My brother, he certainly don't drink. As a thanks for keeping watch for us tonight slash helping us get home. Thank you. And he's just really reaching up above his head, arms extended to pushing this bottle into your waist.
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That's very kind of you. Thank you very much for your hospitality. We'll do our best to help. Thank you. But we're having a, not to be rude, but a very private conversation at the moment regarding some very important Chris square stuff that I should get back to you. But thank you again. If you need anything, just give me a big wave and I'll walk over to you. You guys have been busy enough. You must be tired. I will come to you. You stay and just wave if you need me. If you're sure, the name's
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Speaker
Name's Dendy Bloom by the way. Dendy Bloom, what a great name. Rollo Dendy Bloom, that's my brother Gabe. Rollo and Gabe.
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Speaker
I'm lovely to meet you again. I'm sorry for your loss of prospecting. Nonetheless, I'm glad that my brothers were here. I really must. I'm sorry to be so abrupt. I will never be considered a poor host. I will not infringe on your privacy any longer. If you need me, I'll be going through the pockets of that individual on the floor over there.
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at a brilliant time and I hope it brings you the spoils of war. And he sort of pops his collar, dons a nod to you and strolls quite happily back as though you've accepted his gift. Seth will reciprocate the nod, wait a second or two and then, oh fuck me, and we'll turn and try and run back into it. No, okay, so as soon as someone steps
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Speaker
And that copper wire that I'm twiddling starts to just vibrate. There's got to be something linked to me and that copper wire that gets a ping, like your Facebook message, you finally find signal, it's connected. I want to cast message. Nick doesn't know if this will drop his concentration, but he just knows he can do it. So he's going to cast message to Seth and say, it's me doing this. Shut him the fuck up.
00:21:12
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Yep. Seth, you hear that. Yep. He's going to turn him off. He's going to be appreciated and understood. The spell message understands totally. Here's the voice. Knows it's next. Holds his breath, turns around, runs back into the silence again, and is going to beeline it for, uh, for alpha and is going to try and drop him by the collar or something and drag him behind M Ron. Uh-huh.
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and then start punching him repeatedly in the face. Knock me the fuck out. He doesn't have an off button. Very well then. I'm going to use my last second level spell slot to summon my shadow blade. You need a verbal component.
00:22:04
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He's gonna burn the slot, he's gonna burn the slot because as Will said I would have tried it like I did with the orcs previously when I burnt through every spell slot not casting anything but that's the way it is and he's gonna fuck, he's gonna mouth the word fuck to himself and then he's just gonna try and repeatedly and kind of like drag him out and then kind of like with a smile on his face like yeah yeah yeah
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and just start punching him repeatedly in the face. Yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go, go, go, and wave that ball and it rains and keep everyone there and just keep pummeling him. He's still the eye of princess, princess, just punching his mouth. You know when you picture something in your mind in the following actions, the only thing that's happened is silence and everything else just not in my mind, just completely just self.
00:22:49
Speaker
Well, he's just panicking. You know, Seth knows that it doesn't last too long, and so it's going to end soon, and he doesn't want Princess to keep going off, and so he's just going to shut him up. He doesn't know. He's gone, hmm, instead of going technical. Like, what could this be? Is it mechanical?
Captain Gelnoth's Dilemma
00:23:04
Speaker
Is it this? He can't talk. No one could talk, so he's just going to punch me in the mouth. If you could let me know, DM, when Nick starts to feel this spell wain,
00:23:13
Speaker
That would be great. I think it's only been about five or six minutes. You've got about three or four minutes remaining I don't know if Nick's would know that I don't he's not strong enough to know Like yeah time how long a spell can last I get a sense As Nick's that he would know when something starts coming to an end. Yeah. Okay, so here's what's gonna happen Seth I need you to roll to hit and I need you to just speed roll it like you're are you just punching? I
00:23:41
Speaker
Yep, yep. I'm going to be able to use what's your strength? What's your strength score? Fucking it was my strength score. Uh, uh, 12 plus one. Okay. So it's a one point, one point of damage. Okay. Alpha, how much hit points do you currently have?
00:23:59
Speaker
26. OK, so you need 26 hits essentially in order to do this. What's going to happen is you're going to roll and then I'm going to allow everyone a chance to react. OK, I won't put as formally into initiative because it's not clear whether or not that's the direction it's going. But at least do your first punch and then we'll see what other people want to do. The first one I've rolled a couple to try and speed. Right now it's an advantage because you have an ally within five foot.
00:24:25
Speaker
oh nice okay okay okay okay it's a 17 to hit the first one yes okay so you take one point of damage i've got here there's two points i don't know if that's wrong i've got a plus one second oh proficient standard one
00:24:45
Speaker
Maybe it's one plus strength. Okay. Yeah. So we take two points. So alpha remove two points. Everyone else, you have just seen Seth wack alpha in the head. I don't want to do anything before the second punch comes in. You will see in this, the, um, Chris, the non-captain has instantly reacted sees you, another Chris remember attacking, um, this mercenary and they are coming out.
00:25:16
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around the cart so they've just sort of gestured that that oh shit and they're running to your age it looks like.
00:25:22
Speaker
In all fairness, I think for Alpha just getting punched, he would probably return in kind because, as you said, Alpha doesn't realize what he's doing. For him, it's just a thing. So for him, Seth has punched him with no good reason. This is going to get messy if we don't do this. So please everyone, roll initiative, please. Yeah. Oh my God. If I end the chaos is ruling. I love it.
00:25:50
Speaker
Do you want me to roll initiative, or can I be the orbit master? Yeah, you're part of the scene. Ah, shit! You all go through all Christopher to this entire thing. Now I'm going off with the Upriska. Me and them are going to take over, Aerith. Let's go. Okay. I'm going into survival mode now. This is going to be interesting. Anyone above 20? Yes, 22. Sorry. It ranges on 20. Okay, so it's sapp on 22.
00:26:17
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Nick follows that with a 19. One second. Of course. Anyone above 15? So Nick's? 19. Yeah. Anyone else? Above 10? 14 for ball? 11 for M run. OK. And then that leaves alpha? 9. Great. So here's what happens.
00:26:43
Speaker
Just to call that again, Seth goes and smacks Alpha in the head. Immediately, the unnamed of Kriska so far, she runs over to help Seth since sensing some sort of danger. And then we are top of the initiative order. Seth, over to you. We'll do that. Like a surprise round is what just happened. But because the Kriska are also like keeping an eye, they're reacting instantly as well. So now we're top of the order, Seth.
00:27:13
Speaker
Seth's going to look slightly perplexed at Alpha. Why are you fighting this? What's wrong with you?
Reviving the Unconscious Ally
00:27:25
Speaker
What the fuck do you want? And realize that every single one of his chem trips
00:27:31
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apart from one that is useless, involves a verbal element. So he's going to punch him again in the mouth really hard and hope that the two points of damage that he gets to the hint, like, get over it. Listeners, this confusion you're feeling is the same. When you ended last episode and you thought, simple silent spell, that's an easy win. And now it's devolved. Who would have said in party fighting, like, put your hand up.
00:28:00
Speaker
This is where we're at. It's crazy world. I'm here for it. 22 to hit. Do you know what? That little hit. Okay, yeah. Two points off Alpha. And I've seen the Ununstrike is equal to one plus your strength. One plus. Thank you for that. And this one is going to be a headbutt. Okay. Headbutt in. Okay. Nice. Nice. So, Rains, you've just seen Seth land two solid blows on Alpha. What do you want to do?
00:28:23
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Raines takes almost like an incredulous face and what rain is gonna do is he's gonna just sprint over and he's gonna pull out one of the Rubik's keys and he's just going to use his arcane tinkering to have the words what the hell are you two doing appear on it and he's just gonna hold it first towards Seth and
00:28:40
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And he's then perplexed, just kind of like going to turn and hold it towards Alpha as well. So he's just turning this Rubik's Cube that has the words, what the hell are you doing on it to both of them over and over. And that's just looking confused. And that's pretty much what Reigns will do. Okay. It is the unnamed sofa.
00:29:03
Speaker
Chris Chris turn and she is gonna run straight in unsure what to do But she is going to just follow suit and alpha you're gonna spin a feel this sword scratch you on the back Scratch well slash you on the back
00:29:35
Speaker
13 points of slashing damage from this scimitar that just comes straight across your back. And then you watch as she sort of stands shoulder to shoulder, gets really in tight with you, Seth, almost like holding formation and just raises her blade again shoulder to shoulder against yours. Well, not your blade, but like next to you in the same mirror in the body language and just marking, I'm guessing in my mind, Emron is just sort of 45 degrees there and sort of in that arc, but she seems really uncertain about what she's doing.
00:30:05
Speaker
It is the halfling's turn. They're just going to sort of burrow underneath corpses and look really cautiously at the scene. Nix, you have definitely been the person responsible for what is happening. What do you want to do? I don't know. I don't know if I want to drop the spell, if I want to keep it. I don't know if I want to grab some popcorn and just be like, yeah, let's see how this happens. Kasef's the only one who knows that I've cast this. And his instant reaction was to batter him.
00:30:35
Speaker
We're never going to get to that all day session. We're going to be dead. There is nothing I can do. Can I sense the spell? Is it still strong in my head? Yeah. That's how we got into the five rounds or so. That's how she rolls them. I watching. How far am I? Would you say now? Let's use. So you haven't really advanced. You're trying to stay hidden.
00:31:03
Speaker
Yeah. You're about the limit of the spell, so you're about 120 feet. 120 foot away, okay. I'm aware that I've been seen, I've been keeping a low profile, not necessarily like stealthing up. No cardboard box here, solid snake. I will, all right, I'm gonna move closer. What's my, I've got the shoes on.
00:31:29
Speaker
I'm gonna move 30 feet closer, so I'll be 90 foot away. Yeah, so just ahead of you will be... Gabe will be just sort of sheltering underneath one of the corpses of one of the orcs looking about 10 feet ahead of you from the point where you stop. I'm cool with that, let's go. Cool. Baal, here's what you've seen. Seth just turned Renegade on the party.
00:31:55
Speaker
The scene in front of you is a bit tense. What would you like to do? Would Baal be aware of where the outskirts of this silent zone lie? No, it's an invisible radius. Yeah, but he saw Seth step outside of it and converse.
00:32:13
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Yes, his eyes have been purely on. Yeah, it was facing that direction running. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, the one that was running is caught up in his down Yeah, yeah, yeah as in they're in there. They're there in there you see them go past but he knows full well that Seth was there Chatting away with and he knows as well from the writing in Seth's book about the fact that they've been a spell's been cast them about silence. Mm-hmm. So I
00:32:35
Speaker
I think Baal would have been able to put two and two together. So what Baal is going to do is he's going to kind of jog forwards to the spot that Seth was in when he took either. Did he take the wine? Did he take the drink? I think he did. Okay. Sprint forwards to that spot. Turn. Eyes are going to flame up in Draconic.
00:32:57
Speaker
He's going to look at the Obkriska that has run in and just, I mean, no one can hear it, so there's no point. But he'll say, Vorkal shal kriekt ra falkar. And he's going to upcast heat metal on that guy's armor. Girl, but yeah. Oh, fuck.
00:33:21
Speaker
So if he's wearing it, I mean, she can't say, but sorry, she, sorry. It's 13 points of fire damage with no save. I remember you said that she was wearing plate. I might be right. Yeah, excellent. Yeah. Okay. So that just with that becomes kind of red hot, almost white hot.
00:33:43
Speaker
Those 14 points of fire damage come in, and yeah, on her turn, she'll need a con. I don't know whether it's on her turn. It says the creature must succeed
Threats and Final Attacks
00:33:54
Speaker
on a con save. It's on the point of casting. She's wearing it, so basically she's going to have... She can't drop it easily, so she's going to have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the start of my next turn.
00:34:09
Speaker
But yeah, Baal's gone full. You're about to cook her from the inside out. Preferably. A seared steak. Okay. Fuck. Thank you very much.
00:34:23
Speaker
It is, Emron, your turn. You've just seen Seth start pummeling Alpha. You've seen this, McRisko just sort of hit Alpha as well and then look at you really confused but has it laid out. Bala stepped out and burned her and Reigns is just hovering around with a little digital sign saying, stop guys.
00:34:47
Speaker
What's the other of Chris we're doing The captain was injured and sort of laid against the other side of the car. So you can't currently see him. Okay Fuck's sake What to do what to do
00:35:11
Speaker
Um, everyone's going to like hold his hands up in a gesture to everyone in a sort of trying to calm the situation down. Um, he, he's not gone for his weapons. He's, he's gesturing at Seth and the Crisco lady. He's gesturing at ball. Who's trying to cook her. He's just gesturing at everybody. Just trying to get them to calm the fuck down without using words. Cause I can't.
00:35:38
Speaker
Okay. Make a, you can make a performance check if you want to see how that translates to NPCs. Not well. I've got a five. Okay. But everyone marks your gesture nonetheless. Thank you very much. Uh, it is the captain's turn and the captain is just going to sort of stand and use the, the, the, the cart as a, as a, uh, uh,
00:36:07
Speaker
A prop, like a support, and it's just going to lean over and look at the scene. And then it's sort of studying the body language of everyone in it, and then begins to look around the periphery. Just looks at you dead in the ianics.
00:36:25
Speaker
He just stares at you and then raises his eyebrows. He knows you're there. He can see what you're doing. What's your play here? That's it. Top of the round. Seth, look what you've caused. What do you do now? I've not had... Oh, I'm sorry, Alfred. You are now. You are now. I didn't store down.
00:36:51
Speaker
I'm way, way down at the bottom of my nine. You've just been punched headbuttered and then slashed. Yeah, everyone's less than convincing performance. I am obviously just going to punch Seth back in the face.
00:37:15
Speaker
20 to hit unnatural yeah that hits yes he's not got his gun three points of damage i'll take that away from the the fourth points of temporary hit points yeah um speaking of my eldritch cannon is going to add some temporary hit points to myself okay fuck me i'm both doing myself okay seven
00:37:46
Speaker
I get 11 temporary hit points. Seth, top of the round. Alpha has punched you back. What did you use to get a three? What weapon? This is colossal mammoth metal and wooden fist.
00:38:06
Speaker
You're just locked into this game of, um, uh, uh, what's that boxing game? That robot box set up the round. What are you doing? Ah, fuck this. Um, Seth's going to shake his head off to get him punched in the nose, bleeding from the face. Shake his head. He's going to run away. Um, opportunity if you want to take it. He's going to run exactly 21 feet away. That's Seth disengages. Nope.
00:38:37
Speaker
Yeah, I can imagine there's going to be like, I'm going to start trying to kick him in the back as he runs away. Okay. Go for it. 12. That misses. Okay. Seth's going to run, like I said, exactly 21 watt. He's going to be humming to himself. And the minute he can hear his hum, he's going to stop. He's going to turn and he's going to reach down to a spell book and he's going to pull out one of his spells. He's going to say,
00:39:07
Speaker
When he pulls down on the words, bookmark, it forms this kind of small bell which flies out and starts playing this large sonorous note. I'm casting Toll the Dead, basically. I'm going to tell
Battle of Magic and Morals
00:39:24
Speaker
you to die. On Alpha. On Alpha, yep. I'll be needing to make it save. Is there a save for Toll the Dead? Yes, sorry. It's a wisdom saving throw.
00:39:40
Speaker
Ten. That fails. You take two points of necrotic damage. You take four points of necrotic damage, Alpha. Goodbye, temporary hit points. And then he's just gonna, if you permit me this, he's gonna shout, knowing full well that he can't be heard, but just shout, just shut down, Alpha!
00:40:09
Speaker
But you can be hurt because you left. But not by us. I can rage. Battle here's you. He's shouting at Alpha. He's seen Red. He's gone army. He's got his target. He's got to shut him down. Non-mortally. Non-lethal. That's the aim. All my attacks are non-lethal. I should have made it clear earlier on.
00:40:33
Speaker
The spells on. The spells that you can't decide. The spells can't be non-lethal. He's learning this the hard way. It's all right. It was a non-lethal fireball. Honest. Raines, you're up.
00:40:47
Speaker
Reigns is just complex, confused, is unaware that Told the Dead has just hit Alpha because Alpha is not a biological creature and his nose won't start bleeding and some of the other stuff that happens with Told the Dead. So Reigns has no idea that's happened. What Reigns is going to do is he's going to turn and he's going to run back in the direction of Nyx. He's going to dash in Nyx's direction. Now, I think Reigns
00:41:12
Speaker
If I'm reading the score correctly, is that in switching to my armor, I have, this is just at normal movement because he's not wearing the sandals anymore. So the dash will take him up to basically normal movement, which in this armor is 35 feet. So he's going to dash in the direction of Nix. Um, I don't know how close he'll get to Nix this term with 35 feet. You'll be 90 away. Yeah. You'll, you'll close the gap to 60, sorry, 55.
00:41:42
Speaker
But you'll leave the radius of the spell. Yeah. Yeah. And Rains is just kind of like just going, next, there's some, there's some really freaky stuff happening with Alfred. There's some freaky stuff. Oh, I can hear myself. There's some, there's some stuff happening.
00:41:57
Speaker
And that's pretty much as far as Reigns is going to get. I don't understand it. It's just a decent spell, but now I know I'm confused because Seth is coming and punched. And basically Reigns is just on this rant of trying to explain to Nick what is happening quite frantically as his six seconds expire. Okay.
00:42:17
Speaker
It's the unnamed sofa of Chris Crear, half-elf's turn, and she immediately succumbs to this overwhelming heat she finds herself in, runs out back in the direction of her captain, screaming, and just all of you here who can hear,
00:42:39
Speaker
pained cries to Alito to save her. And she just repeats, save me, Alito, save me. This is going to hurt. This is hurting. I'm an interfaced by lots of intense screaming. And she just runs to the captain and just manages to get this flask and is just trying to just throw this flask of water down the sides of the gaps in her armor. But that's all she can do. It's the halflings turn. They see her screaming, and they start to throw other liquid that they have available.
00:43:09
Speaker
Unfortunately, all Gabe is finding is alcohol. Oh shit. Oh God, Gabe. And as he's throwing, it seems to be getting worse. Nix, there are people trying to cool down an incredibly pained woman. They are your friends beating the shit out of each other.
00:43:39
Speaker
What do you want to do? I'm zeroing in on the reason why I did this in the first. Is Alpha's mouth still?
00:43:53
Speaker
Open and closing and open and closing in the form of princess. You can't see from this distance. I am going to drop my fucking silent spell. So that's what happens. That's the action. You drop the spell and you are just hearing this woman scream. And now, you are hearing those calls to Alito now from her. Alpha is saying nothing.
00:44:22
Speaker
other than, other than Alan, like rubbing the back of his head and like holding the back of his, his, uh, resting a hand on his back where he was slashed. But the overriding sound right now is this woman screaming. Uh, sure. Wish I could help her. Maybe I'll put silence on it. Shut up. Um, cool.
00:44:51
Speaker
Artily bewildered by what's transpired from one spell. How far is this this screaming woman? She would be to your left about 10 o'clock. About 40 feet. You've got rains charging at you from the other direction. You did this. This is all you.
00:45:24
Speaker
Nyx has just stood there and unsure. He couldn't have predicted this. So he's kind of having a mind blank at the moment. So we'll just... That's it. That they'll expend his bonus action just going... Why? Done. I'm done. Okay.
00:45:45
Speaker
Baal, your turn. Right. So he's seen Seth going in and punching Alpha. He's obviously ignited Lady's Armor. He's then seen Seth run and turn and cast another spell on Alpha. This is a spell that he's seen Seth use before. I believe Seth used it to put down the
00:46:07
Speaker
vulture in the original kind of, um, eggy camp. So we've seen Seth attack alpha twice now as well. Seth is wearing purple robes. The of Chris group come in to help Seth fight alpha. That's going to explain my next action as I summon my wildfire spirit with my action directly in front of Seth.
00:46:39
Speaker
Whilst I shout, have these your true colors, Seth? And yeah, I need you to make a deck save, Seth. Yes, of course. I'm fucking out. Why can't we all just get along? That is a 19.
00:47:02
Speaker
Okay. Uh, which is, yeah, you take no damage, um, whatsoever from it as this serpentine dragon wildfire spirit appears almost directly in front of you in this kind of small fire explosion. Uh, but yeah, you take no damage whatsoever from it. I'm going to use my bonus action to once again, blast that heat metal into, um, the of Chris related.
00:47:27
Speaker
Can I roll the damage? It's not a good roll. Is there a verbal physical component towards that? I just need to use the bonus action to cast it, it's verbal. Yeah, but I got out the thing. I just don't know whether mechanically... Is there anything... because it's fine. I'm just trying to think what I'm going to do next. Until the spell ends, you can use a bonus action on each of your subsequent tasks. I know what it's said. It's fine. It's mechanically, is what I'm talking about.
00:47:55
Speaker
within game terms, it's fine. Yeah, it was a, it was a dog shite roll. I've already forgotten it now. Five, only five points of damage this time. Okay. On them as Baal's eyes are flicking back and forth between the three, in his mind's eye of Kriska that he sees before him. So as you reactivate that spell, you just hear the screams of pain stop.
00:48:25
Speaker
Oh no. Oh shit. Emron, your turn. In the last two seconds, your silence was lifted. You heard screams to Aledo. You heard Baal shout to Seth. And now there is silence, but not magical silence. There is no sound.
00:48:54
Speaker
In this scene. From where I was stood, was I able to perceive... This is why I was asking whether there was a... Visually, you've seen everything. But my question is, was I able to see... a bowel gesture towards the woman to initially put heat metal on her? Because I think there is a semantic...
00:49:21
Speaker
Yeah, I'm looking at it. You would have seen there would have to have been a direction. You would have seen the spell move from Baal to the woman. Okay. If she's unconscious, does the spell end? No. Oh, God. Okay.
00:49:43
Speaker
God, it'd be a good time to have Tiloar here, but he, you know, was used up saving Nyx from falling. Hey, that worked out well, right? Look where we are now! Right, okay. Emon is going to turn, and he's going to run in the direction of the fallen woman. I assume, as he's running, I'm going to turn towards Baal, and he's going to shout.
00:50:10
Speaker
This has all just been an absolute clusterfuck. End this now. Let's stop fighting. And he's going to then keep running towards the woman.
Moral Dilemma: Reviving vs. Threats
00:50:20
Speaker
And I'm going to cast... I mean, if it works, I'd like to cast Healing Word on her, please. And do you want to head roll?
00:50:34
Speaker
for recovery. Yeah, so I'd go over and I'd go over to her and like a leader of light fill you and if she receives it, she'll take seven points of healing. Great. And as you feel that restorative energy leave your hands and go into hers, you just see her eyes open again and she takes a breath. It is the captain's turn.
00:51:02
Speaker
who, Emron, you now find yourself almost face-to-face with as you turn to the side. He just stands. He assesses the scene. And then from under the cart, you just see this huge broadsword appear. How big? It's about a six-foot blade. That's all right.
00:51:33
Speaker
And he manages to hold it with the one hand he has left. Second biggest blade of the story. And he's looking around unsure who is causing this. Oh, fuck. And he's just trying to figure out what's going on in the scene and just announces. Choose your next actions wisely.
00:52:03
Speaker
I suggest you put down the toys. And he just holds that. Alpha, what would you like to do? Was the captain behind me when he was saying that? He was the other side of the cart from you. You were looking at him. Everything is sort of in that perceivable direction now for you. So you see him in front of you.
00:52:36
Speaker
You also heard me shout about Ennius and stopping this madness, but yeah, cool. Yes, and I think that's why instead of a violent action, I'm going to run towards Seth, and I'm going to use my action to attempt to grapple him, rather than actually go
00:52:59
Speaker
for anything DDT just literally this is a little bit of a lockdown I'm trying to take in M runs idea of restraining just by stopping him from actually using any more capabilities to do it's like a grapple moving on to a strain kind of idea I know the grapple doesn't do it at the moment but doesn't set for the fire snake currently dancing in front of him
00:53:26
Speaker
Yes, yes, I do. Ah, yes. Okay. No, I forgot about the fire snake. I wouldn't run towards him with a literal snake of fire dancing in front of Seth right now. At least you're paying attention. I mean, that's the main. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Okay. What I'm going to do that I'm going to use my,
00:53:53
Speaker
Oh no, everyone's run away as well, so I can't actually do that. I can't use that yet. I'm just going to hold an action. If somebody looks to be making an aggressive action towards me, I am going to...
00:54:10
Speaker
Counter act I'm gonna throw a dagger at them. I think okay if someone makes an aggressive action towards me you go Yeah, I want to throw a dagger at and probably very poorly. Okay. Thank you alpha Seth top of the round Can I check is alpha still saying princess? No Then I stopped. Oh did it he's gonna turn to Nick's thumbs up? Oh
00:54:34
Speaker
And he's going to drop himself out of initiative. Well, I'm not going to drop him. He's just going to stop. That's your turn. And just kind of like wink at the snake and just done that. Okay. So if we get back to Seth and no one is making hostile action, I will end initiative. Okay. Reigns. Yeah. Reigns is continuing to go towards Nick. He's like, seriously, I have no idea what's happening. There's really weird shit happening right now. Alpha keeps saying princess over and over.
00:55:03
Speaker
Hold on, hold on, hold on. I think he's stopped. And that's, that's Raines' turn. It is the unnamed of Chriska's turn. And she is still wearing the object that is causing immense heat. She has been doused in both alcohol and water.
00:55:36
Speaker
She falls back unconscious, Emron, in your arms. It is the halfling's turn. They now no longer have anything to throw at her and seem really uncertain. They seem quite intimidated by all of you and they begin to back away. Nix.
00:56:12
Speaker
just nods. Incrediously to Seth,
Captain's Ultimatum
00:56:18
Speaker
just incredulously even just nods. It's just like, yep, I see you. I don't know. I don't know. Nick's don't know. He's dived into his book and this is what's come out. He doesn't know.
00:56:41
Speaker
Just like me. I just, I don't know. All I'm doing is looking from one person to the other and trying to anticipate the next move. So Nix's eyes settle on big old Captain Blade and Reddy's in action.
00:57:07
Speaker
as his eyes take in the huge blade and the severe look in his eyes. And if
00:57:20
Speaker
There is a hint that that sword is going to be swung at any member of this party. He's going with his tried and tested Warlock spell Shatter. And he's going to direct it right underneath that captain's feet. Okay. So if you're ready, I'm right in thinking that this spell will now be used up. Yeah. So mark the spell as even if it doesn't. So I'm using it now. Yeah. Uh, so.
00:57:49
Speaker
As Nyx has surveyed the scene and he spies the sword, he spies the hard look and he kind of reads the temperature change in this captain. With eyes still locking on to the captain, he's just going to kneel down on one knee and start tracing out like a circle pattern around him and both hands just start to dig into the sand.
00:58:15
Speaker
and purple energy is starting to kind of emit from Nix's horns. And as soon as that sword, if it swung at anyone at the party in a, in a, I'm going to fucking hurt your way, that energy from my horns will just go down through my body, down through my hands, hit the ground and Shatter will cause underneath him. Bam. They will also hit M run as well.
00:58:38
Speaker
FYI, it's a 10 foot radius and M1 is next turn. I will center it from away from M1. So I could do one five foot away. Okay. Uh, from, I, I, I didn't know that M1 was that close. Yeah. Despite you saying face to face earlier. So it would be like one step away. What is it you said to Callum earlier? Well done for listening. Nice. Thank you for preparing that. All eyes are on Baal next. Yeah, they are.
00:59:08
Speaker
Yeah, they are. Seth, his demeanor has somewhat changed, hasn't he? He kind of dropped his arms a little bit. He had that cheery chat off towards Nyx. Baal is confused. Seth has smiled at the wildfire spirit in front of him.
00:59:26
Speaker
Baal's looking round, he's still got the concentration up on this plated lady and the captain that stood up, you said they've withdrawn this massive sword. This is what player Will is considering and Baal, I think,
00:59:45
Speaker
would probably be considering this also. This is the second giant fucking six-foot sword that a captain of the Obciscra has been wielding, if I'm not mistaken. This was the same thing as Captain Yor.
01:00:00
Speaker
in that fight am i right in thinking that looks entirely differently okay so it looks it's not like a similar with the big swords guys like no in my in my head i was like right this was compensated captain captain of of chriska that turned into big devil bitch uh able to wield massive sword in one hand he's surveying the scene there you said were about 14 or so dead orcs on the floor maybe maybe less maybe 10 or so it doesn't let's talk about yeah
01:00:29
Speaker
and there's only two of Chris Cruella.
01:00:33
Speaker
So, I mean, it's... There's two living at Griscara. Exactly. And you mentioned there were some that had died before. Griscara corpses, yeah. I'm with you. I'm with you. These are all kind of thoughts that are racing through and colliding in Baal's mind. His teeth are bared. He's still unsure on Seth. He's still got, like I said, that concentration up. A hand is almost semi-outstretched towards this unconscious lady on the floor, but no one else has done anything.
01:01:01
Speaker
Everyone seems to have stopped including Alpha at this point.
01:01:10
Speaker
So I'm not gonna drop concentration. I'm not gonna use my bonus action to keep that fire going, but I am gonna use my bonus action to get my wildfire spirit back to my side, 30 foot flying directly to my side. And almost like Mexican standoff style, looking at Seth and looking at all the shit that's unfolding.
01:01:39
Speaker
Okay, thank you very much. Emron, in your arms is this unconscious, a CRISPR agent. You struggle to hold her because if you hold that chest piece, it is so hot. You have to sort of place that on the floor and you've got like one hand on the head, one hand like by her hip. What do you want to do?
01:02:10
Speaker
Okay, everyone's going to lower to the floor, disregarding any damage he will take from handling the hot metal. So he'll willing to take that and he's going to look over to the cowering halflings and be like, help me get this offer now. And I'm going to start removing the hot pieces of metal.
01:02:36
Speaker
from her and that will be my action. Okay. I know it takes five minutes. Yeah. And you're going to sustain damage. You take six points of fire damage as you spend six seconds trying to remove pieces of red hot surface. Yep. And I hope you try and get the half of the help. It is the captain's turn. The captain is
01:03:05
Speaker
Going to walk towards you,
Desperate Measures and Reflection
01:03:08
Speaker
Baal. Quite controlled, unemotive. It's going to look at you, Seth. Study you. Where do your allegiances truly lie?
01:03:35
Speaker
and then turns back to Baal. This is your last warning. I see what you're doing to my friend. I ask you to stop. And that is his turn. Alpha.
01:04:04
Speaker
I think Alpha will want to... He lowers the aggressive stance. It's been pretty much a full round. No one's attacked him. No one's come aggressively towards him. So he will relax the dagger, put it away. He will go and stand next to Baal.
01:04:35
Speaker
not say anything to him, but just kind of a... It's a side-by-side moment, really. I'm just standing by while standing there just in case things go to shit again very quickly. That's all I'm doing. Seth. Seth's going to hear what the captain's just said. Look quickly around at everyone.
01:05:06
Speaker
catch someone's eye, whoever that might be. He doesn't really know. He's going to shrug his shoulders and then say, if they were back at the camp, we would have killed them by now. There's no escaping this. Whatever's between us, that's between us. This Lord are going to talk. And he's going to summon his shadow blade and run for the captain. Okay.
01:05:32
Speaker
And that's my last spell slot I have used. Second level. And yeah, then you use the rest of his turn to run towards the captain. If he's in range, he's going to swing at him because Shadow Blade. You're only about 10 feet away. Cool. Then I'm going to run at him and then hit him with the Shadow Blade. I'm right in thinking it's dark.
01:05:56
Speaker
With Shadow Blade, I gain advantage on attacks made in dim or darkness. So I get to roll this with advantage. I am still casting a light. And you are not... Your light is a five foot radius of bright light. The light can trip. No, it's 20. Bright light for 20 foot and then dim light for additional 20 foot. You are technically in bright sets, but you do... Alpha is there, you do have advantage.
01:06:24
Speaker
If Alpha, Alpha are you an ally right now of Seth? I don't even know if I'm an ally of Seth right now. That's a bit of a double-edged question. Either way, I would say I'm a neutral. Fucking. I rolled, I rolled the 22 and the 24. Okay. So it's the 22. We'll go with that just to save Callum, his answerable, shittery, his politician. Oh no, fuck you. 22 hits.
01:06:52
Speaker
Lovely. Oh yeah, he's rolled damage, I don't know. I clicked that twice, that was a waste. Okay, that gives me 10 points, ignore the second one, 10 points of psychic damage. Great. As he manages to sidestep the blade, he has and he swings up through his navel, up through his midsection. Great. Thank you very much. You're very welcome, Danny. I'm sure this is exactly how you expected it. This is very interesting. This is very interesting. It's an unusual.
01:07:21
Speaker
So Nix, I'd just like to remind you of your health condition for your shatter spell. Yeah, I'm guessing it's fizzled. So your condition was if the captain's blade is swung, but it was focused on a point that the captain has now moved away from. That area will just essentially shatter the cart.
01:07:50
Speaker
Oh shit. I should have said that. Nevermind. Okay. So if, if he swings.
01:08:01
Speaker
Yeah, if he swings on his turn and it causes your trigger, you're going to shatter the cart, because that would have been the only point that didn't hit M. Ron as well. Can't Nix can choose not to execute the reaction, though. Yes. It takes a reaction. So Nix can choose not to do it. Yes, but I'm saying if you choose to do so, because it's not fixed on him, he's no longer in the space. So in future, when I make such things, should my words be, I choose a target and follow that? Right. It depends.
01:08:31
Speaker
Good lesson. Your choice was valid because you didn't want to hit M run. Yeah. You didn't know he would move. It's the gamble you take with a held action. Okay. So we just did Seth. So it's Reigns. Reigns, it's your turn. You've just seen Seth go for this guy that was asking you all to stop one last time or twice actually.
01:08:53
Speaker
What do you want to do? Yeah, Rains hasn't even processed that because the last thing that Rains has heard is that there are two voices that will always sound loudest over the battlefields, which are Emron and Alpha. And the last thing that Rains has heard is
01:09:08
Speaker
Help me get her out of this so range is eyes immediately dark to emeron He can see that whatever is happening over there is looking terminal rains ain't getting there anytime soon but range is just gonna go and see go and then see it's gonna fly out of the bag of holding and dash 60 feet towards emeron and this person with a healing solvent
01:09:30
Speaker
on the way for next turn. You're not far away, like you're only about, you wear nixes, so you're 30 feet away. You could not need to dash and still apply the salve if you wanted to. Yeah, I've got to play this is what, what Reigns would do. Reigns is not even focusing on
01:09:52
Speaker
The sword fight, he's focusing on everyone trying to save a life. And then C will just fly in, drop down, kill wounds on this person who is in a very bad way. And what's the recovery? I'm going to do that for you now. This poor woman.
01:10:17
Speaker
I mean, she's going to die if we don't do it, right? So, um, essentially 12, 12. Okay. Essentially what you're doing is you're reset. You're resetting the, um, the death save count. Uh, thank you very much for that, uh, reigns. It is her turn. She is now, um, conscious and all she's going to do is just look at you with desperation and Ron. I just say, I see him.
01:10:46
Speaker
I see him in you. Alito guide me as he guides you. And you just see tears falling down her face. And then that agony scream comes back in. She is going to
Resolution and Conflict Reflection
01:11:05
Speaker
take. Fuck me. Gotta die.
01:11:10
Speaker
she was giving her a life she is unconscious again from the heat of this heavy heavy metal upon her it is the halflings turn they are hearing you emron they are too scared to do anything other than to respond to you and they go in themselves and immediately start like pulling back and flinching but they are trying their best they sustain some fire damage they sustain some decent fire damage but they they are
01:11:35
Speaker
They are now aware that the numbers suggest that you are the people to listen to, but they have lost some health. Thank you very much. Nyx, it's your turn. Your held action has ended. What would you like to do?
01:11:51
Speaker
I will. How far is the captain from me now that he's close to Seth? So you're like 20 feet from where Emron and the halflings are helping this woman. About 10 feet. The other side of that car is the captain and Seth and Baal. So 30 feet away. And Alpha. Yeah. So 30 feet away. Sweet. Oh.
01:12:22
Speaker
And just to clarify for my little head, Seth has just ripped out Blade and is running hard towards Captain. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We'll go in there. And we're just full on Smash. Okay, cool. There's no, there's no stuff in this. That's what I thought. I'm going to
01:12:53
Speaker
I'm going to run around the outside, around the outside, around the outside. I'm going to get within two trailer park girls. There you go, around the outside. I can feel the silence. Because then Ian has to edit it. No, no, no, no, no.
01:13:21
Speaker
You can see the cogs turning in his head. I can't do it because I don't have the spell slot because it fucking left me. So instead I'm going to run towards the captain. Oh my god, what am I doing? Fuck you captain, it's going down. It's got legendary actions I hope.
01:13:44
Speaker
I am going to grab on to I've run towards the captain side by side with Seth and I'm going to grab the hilt of the blade that the captain's wrapped his paws around my hand on top of his and cast shocking grasp as electricity rides from my horns down to my neck through my arm and then on the same hand that's holding the blade. Okay.
01:14:15
Speaker
Instantaneous touch. Here we go. How is a 18? That hits. Go ahead, roll damage. So the purple electricity flashes up through his hand for five points of lightning damage. Of lightning. Thank you very much.
01:14:36
Speaker
Thank you, thank you, thank you. And you just watch winces and sort of respond to that jolt as it comes in. And doesn't really mark you because you sort of come from behind. He's really just got one eye, one eye fixed on Seth, one fixed on Baal in that sort of that arch, arc. Okay. He doesn't drop the blade out of shock to Zekus, you know. No, he certainly winces that he wasn't expecting. He was a motherfucker. It was worth a try. Okay.
01:15:06
Speaker
Bals, your turn. The last thing you would interaction with the captain was I'm asking you to stop hurting my friend. What would you like to do?
01:15:17
Speaker
So what I imagine is, I imagine this all happening at the same time in my mind. It might not be that way, but seeing Seth pull that blade and start charging forward his eyes on the captain, seeing Nyx starting to sprint down the hill towards captain as well. Captain's obviously just said that request to me. I'm going to look him back in the eye and say, I have seen what you've done to my kin. You know I cannot stop.
01:15:46
Speaker
bonus action first, pump back in that third level heat metal onto a poor old lady on the floor for 10 points of fire damage. Great. It's just an automatic fail. Yeah.
01:16:01
Speaker
and as that happens as well as that hand is kind of outstretched and clenches Baal is going to move that hand across the shield in front and just draw the flame into their hand as this long wreath whip like
01:16:19
Speaker
Basically whip like weapon kind of but it's just made of pure fire arrives in his hand. He's gonna cast An altered version of thorn whip flame whip literally just a change in damage on this guy in front of him As his action go for it 24 to hit the hits
01:16:39
Speaker
would be seven points of fire damage. Seven points, thank you very much. I just want to reposition myself to the side of Seth as well, so there's kind of like a trio of us, rather than be completely opposite side to him. I want to be within five foot of Seth, if possible. Yes, I'm seeing Seth, I'm seeing you, I'm seeing Alpha, and then behind is Nyx. Perfect. Okay, that's fine. Great, thank you. Emron.
01:17:07
Speaker
this woman alive for a moment and then taken aback. What would you like to do? You bond over a moment of a leader worship. How far away is Baal? How far away is Baal? He would be 15 feet the other side of a cart behind you.
01:17:36
Speaker
Everyone's going to stand up. He's going to look over towards Baal, and in the loudest voice he can possibly muster, his eyes are going to flash, almost with an echo of Tillward, but without actually channeling Tillward. He's going to look over towards Baal and say, Baal, end her suffering now, or you will feel the same. Then I'm going to
01:18:05
Speaker
stabilize. Well, if they're going to take the armour off.
01:18:13
Speaker
I'm going to try and stabilize her, maybe use water from my pouch to cool her off. I'm basically trying to stop her from dying for the moment. So make a medicine check problem. If you're just going to empty water, then that's not necessarily needing a check. That would be the way I'm stabilizing her, if you follow me, because obviously it's the metal. Then make the medicine checker advantage, because it's not really deaf to work. You are literally just spilling the bottle over it.
01:18:43
Speaker
Ah, that's an eight. Okay, thank you. That's your turn. It is Captain Gelnoth's turn. And in this moment since he asked you to spare his friend, he has been stabbed with a shadow blade, he has been shocked with a lightning grasp, and he has been whipped by a flame whip. He nods to all three of you who hit him in turn.
01:19:14
Speaker
holds his blade above his head, and just says coolly, I am Gelnoth of the Empire Hentis, devout paladin of Alido, captain of the Obciscra. Today is not my end. He just pulls back his blade.
01:19:45
Speaker
and lunges it forward into you, Baal. And as he does, you just see this blade glow yellow as he casts a divine smite upon it. Erfeck. This is the end. This is going bad. So 26 hit your armor class. Naturally, yes, it does. Nothing like things about that.
01:20:14
Speaker
Sorry, I've got to find the twelves and the eights now. Oh, God. Why was it multiple? Why was it multiple? It's pumping divine smiting to it. It's smiting the infidel. OK.
01:20:29
Speaker
I did five points of lightning damage to him. Yeah, you did next. Yeah, you did. That's just like holding up on fucking... I mean, this is only his first attack, guys. This is like one of those... 29 points of damage on the first hit. Shit. First hit. I'll make a con save, bear with me, see if I can... Yeah, he now has gone... Yeah, no, that's dropped my concentration as well. You said 29. 29. Okay. Second.
01:21:00
Speaker
is a 19 to hit. I'm going to use my reaction and you will see after this massive strike come in
01:21:09
Speaker
Uh, wings unfurl from the back of bile, not re not a material, but fiery as I am using my feature. Um, I just need to read the name of it, but with the gift of the metallic dragon protective wings. So it adds a, uh, oh wait, sorry. No, it still meets and beats in 19. We'll still meet and beat. So fuck it. I'll still spunk off the, uh, reaction, but yeah, that will hit. Okay. Another.
01:21:39
Speaker
charged blade this time 31 points of damage yeah i'm down i'm not instantly dead so that's a plus right i still had your temporary hit points i had eight left after the first thanks to temporary hit points but yeah i'm definitely down now
01:22:06
Speaker
And then he just rests the tip of the blade between your shoulder blades and looks around. Make your choice. If she dies, he dies.
01:22:29
Speaker
Does that drop the concentration of the heat metal? Yeah, that went until the first year. Alpha, sorry, sorry, I wasn't listening. Okay. Alpha, your turn. Fuck me. Alpha's going to hesitantly kind of reach into his rough sack and just pull out a tiny little small bottle
01:22:57
Speaker
and cautiously, this has been a whopping sort of balls gone down two hits, it's kind of gorgeous. I just want to apply cure wounds to Baal. I think this guy could actually kill him if he wanted to straight away anyway, but I'm applying cure wounds to Baal. It's a spell, right? Yes. Doesn't work. As you go to perform the incantation needs, you are counted.
01:23:26
Speaker
I will burn the spell slot anyway. You have to. Correct, you will. Yes, you have to. Fuck. That's the rules. Shit. I can't do anything else. Aye yai yai yai yai is the word you're looking for. Top of the round. Aye yai yai. Seth, it's you.
01:23:51
Speaker
Seth's going to take this whole situation in for a second and then very almost nonchalant, he's going to throw up the shadow blade, just going to up into the air and as it spins in the air, it just dissipates into red mist high in the air. But before that's even happened, he's turned, he's leant down towards Baal and has reached into his pack, pulled out a small bit of like
01:24:12
Speaker
leafy salve and has rubbed it on his mouth and it's kind of applying it to wounds whilst what he's going to be kind of chanting to himself the same thing he said to his lovely chap uh god prego prego back in the day um amidst the shadows and now shall find purpose grant be skilled to be the singer and give me the strength to strike without mercy in the chill of the night under the moon's gates i embrace the silence blah blah blah as i achieve my blade at the weight of memory fortified my resolve
01:24:40
Speaker
And he goes on just kind of muttering this round to himself. He's just going to try and stabilize Baal, but again, using just using a medicine check, basically. It's a very fancy medicine check. Yeah. As you're having that intimate moment with Baal where you're having contact, you begin to feel your arm tickle. That's what I'm worried about.
01:25:05
Speaker
but not the arm that has recently changed. Your unaltered arm begins to tickle a little bit. Oh, no. Oh, no, this is like biff. This is like fucking Back to the Future. Go ahead and make your medicine check as an attempt to stay. Earth Angel. Earth Angel. I was talking about this song. That is a 14 to hit. No, 14 to heal, to stabilize. You're stable, Bo.
01:25:37
Speaker
as a result of that. Thank you. And hopefully with the kind of recumbent position I'm in, my kind of neck kind of facing towards this captain, he takes that as the idea is that it's a very obvious sign that I've reneged my position and I'm no longer hostile and have kind of given over to his will. Okay.
Advocating for Calm
01:26:02
Speaker
In lieu of protecting my friend. Reigns.
01:26:06
Speaker
You've heard this, Ultimatum, everything is audible. Yeah, Rains is going to just turn to this and go, okay, okay, okay. I can't speak for everyone here, but there are some of us here who just want this to calm down, myself,
01:26:25
Speaker
And then run over there. We've tried to save her life. I think you're smart enough and intelligent enough and worldly enough of what's. Of what me and everyone have just done in terms of spells and terms of help to, to know that we don't want her to die. We don't want anyone to die. Let's just everybody calm. Let's meet them. Thank you very much. She is making another death save.
Sword Threat and Defensive Measures
01:26:57
Speaker
You will not know the outcome of that role. You bastard. It is the halflings turn. They are continuing to try and get this play off. And now some, for some reason it is cooler and they are having more success, but it has been 24 seconds of a five minute task. Nix.
01:27:21
Speaker
In response to the on scene that is played out literally before nix's eyes as bow lies at the foot of me and there's a big old motherfucking six foot that big sword. Line directly at his neck nix's hand.
01:27:43
Speaker
weren't near his daggers because he used shock and grasp. So his right hand is just going to pull at a chain around his neck as his kind of two fingers kind of go underneath the white collar of his shirt as if he's just grasping something. And that's the end of my go. Okay. Thank you, Nix. You are stable. You have one hit point
01:28:14
Speaker
No, not on a stability check, sorry. You are not making... I'm unconscious. Yes, not making saving throws.
01:28:24
Speaker
I think you'll regain one hit point in one D4 hours, if that helps. So you are hearing what's going on, but that's essentially your contribution. Yeah, no worries. But my wildfire spirit is still up until I die or it dies, and it can take any action at once. So what it's going to do is... Burn a fall. ...coil around me on the floor.
01:28:54
Speaker
And that's all it's going to do for now. I don't know. I don't think it can hold an action. It can take any action of its choice, not just dodge. Can it take reactions?
01:29:11
Speaker
Well, the wording of it, I don't know, it doesn't have that in its stat block necessarily, but the wording of it says, if you're incapacitated, the spirit can take any action of its choice, not just dodge. I don't think it can, because I think it's similar to the homonculous. It takes its instructions from its maker, so therefore reactions aren't necessarily something that's in its stat block. Yeah, because if it's a wildfire spirit, isn't it?
01:29:35
Speaker
So the only action it can take on its turn is the dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command an action. Unless I'm incapacitated, then it can take anything that's, yeah. Yeah. No, all it's got is dash, disengage, help, hide, or obviously the ones that I can. Yeah, I'd read that as it can't hold an action. No, that's fine. It'll coil around me for now and not do anything else this turn. Okay, Emron.
01:30:01
Speaker
Well, having threatened Baal to burn him from the inside and try to stabilise the woman, I am now going to look down, obviously feeling the metal is no longer hot, and probably also seeing the fact that, have I seen Baal get taken down and turned into the paladin's bitch? I mean, it's by the side of the cart and you are down with her, but it's a free action just to turn your head around. I'm not going to...
01:30:27
Speaker
Okay, I'm now going to cast second level Healing Word upcasted on her. So she will receive 8 points of healing as Enron places his hands on her and says out loud, Elida was not done with you.
01:30:51
Speaker
A leader's faith is with us always. And he walks our path and we walk with him. And then I will cast the healing into her.
Philosophical Captain's Disappearance
01:31:01
Speaker
Excellent. Thank you very much. It is the captain's turn. The captain steps away from Baal. Steps away from Seth. Assuming Seth, you do not wish to take an opportunity attack.
01:31:19
Speaker
Alpha and Nyx, you also have that luxury if you wish. Hey, oh no. No, no, no. Walks around to his friend. Kneels and says to you, Emron. I do not think Alito takes comfort from the company you keep.
01:31:54
Speaker
We are His chosen. We are to carry out His will. We are to be His voice on Erith, all of us. You must find that voice, young cleric, and use it more.
01:32:24
Speaker
takes his friend, looks at the halflings and says, I wish you get home safe. And then in a moment, the two vanish.
01:32:50
Speaker
and it is just you all and the halflings at the scene.
Reflections and Seeking Direction
01:33:02
Speaker
Is Rains stood near Emon, correct? At this point, Rains will be near enough, yeah. That's the other person who had the vested interest in keeping her alive. Emon's going to be sat on the floor.
01:33:18
Speaker
And he's gonna look up at Reigns. And he's just gonna look exasperated. And he'll say, what the fuck do we do now? Where do we go from here? Why the hell is, I don't understand what's happening here.
01:33:43
Speaker
Why is it every time we meet people they seem to be helping on just killing people for no reason? Is this that loud? You're all within... You're all relatively close. Just while the conversation's going off, I'll be attempting to cure wounds again on Baal. I know he's stabilised, but I'll still be just kind of dabbing up some open wounds and just trying to wrap him up and seal him.
01:34:12
Speaker
all that kind of stuff. So you get five points of healing. Oh, legend. Thank you very much. Get you back in the game. I think range, you're going to see genuine pain in everyone's eyes. And he looks at you and he says, I don't know what to do. Before we do anything else, we gotta save Alpha.
01:34:42
Speaker
Let's not think of anything else other than that until we've done that. That's all we got, everyone. Can I just ask, uh, if Seth's going to answer the group, it feels like this woman was someone's sister.
01:34:59
Speaker
or maybe a mother or maybe like a loved one. Did you guys know her or was it just spouting out a religious name? She was a faithful of Alito. Okay. And if she did not deserve what we just did to her. Yeah, man. You kept keeping her alive. We should have just let her die. Listen.
01:35:14
Speaker
If I... Hey, Jeff, shut up. I know the whole reason Biles is alive, because if she was dead, I promise you right now, Biles is dead as well. Yeah, I know. But we're getting a bit heated here, guys. Just take a step back. Yeah, you cry like we are. What the hell was that? You start punching Alpha in the face and then you start throwing spells around? What the hell were you doing? Just take one thing at a time. One thing at a time. The punching in the face thing, like... So I... mix his hands up here.
01:35:44
Speaker
put a silent spell on Alpha because he kept repeating Princess really loud and it seemed like from my far vantage point you guys were trying to separate yourself from the Acrisca and that was drawing a lot of attention
01:36:04
Speaker
unnecessary attention so I thought it was just good while alpha had I can only assume a malfunction excuse me if that's not correct I thought it best just a silence in for a moment and then I was trying to communicate because you guys seem to be confused about what had happened
01:36:25
Speaker
to one of you, but the spell was blocking me, so as soon as one person, and it just so happened to be Seth, stepped outside, I sent her a message saying, it's me doing this spell, shut him up. And I did, and it worked. It was unorthodox, but if you're wondering why that suddenly happened, I can at least clarify some points. Obviously, I hope you know me well enough to know that.
01:36:54
Speaker
that what transpired after was not in any way shape or form my intention. I mean, I was out to know that. I haven't got a squirrel that can relay messages and time was of the essence given the way they were looking at us. I tried to drag him behind your big bum and shut him up. And it almost worked, but it didn't work. And who the hell? Why was she roasted alive? Who the hell did that?
01:37:22
Speaker
Yes, that was me, Baal will say, from still on the floor with Alpha over them. And in case you hadn't noticed, she was slashing up your friend Alpha here. Yet you blame me for coming to his aid. Whose allegiance are you with? Alpha, do you trust these people to have your back?
01:37:46
Speaker
All it would take, all it would take, Paul, is them, listen, any fucker on the street, let's say they're going to rob Nick's and we go to the robber and say, give us back that stuff. And he goes, oh no, I'm a faith of Alito. Everyone's going to bend over. And so he's sticking up my heart.
01:38:01
Speaker
It makes no sense. Two days ago, we were all for destroying the Epchryscra, sprouting fire across the kingdom to relieve us from them, to save the eggs, to save the kingdom, to save the world. All of a sudden, she says to Hail Marys, and all of a sudden, she's the fucking
01:38:18
Speaker
the god of the world, we must save her life. What if she was the rest of us? What if what if the other day when we were fighting to save the eggs, she was there? Do you? Amron, did you check all the corpses to make sure that they want people of the of the of the of your religion or leader?
01:38:33
Speaker
Did you attack me? What if your, what if your was one of the Alito, the big spider fucking lady? Are we going to cross our faces and pray to the temple and, and forgive her as well? I think it's, I think it's close minded. People are good in religion and people are cunts in religion. And I think you are one of the good people and that sometimes you have a nice voice and you, uh, you say some pretty words and yeah, you get roasted alive, but you know, that's part of the deal of being a soldier. You get put in fucked up situations.
01:39:01
Speaker
The last of CRISPR we met was stealing dragon eggs. These two people were helping people last in the dead. No, no, no, no, wrong. They were not stealing dragon eggs. They were completing orders from their captains. Your and this guy, they are part of their next hierarchy. They set the tone. They make the rules. So they were following orders, actually. So we killed people following orders the same way that we are all following. Yeah, you seem to know an awful lot about the CRISPR for the time. Yeah, we all just like simmer.
01:39:39
Speaker
Everyone's alive. Reigns, you brought up a wonderful point about we need to help Alpha. Like, let's not lose focus on that weird situation that happened. Yes, we can return to what's just happened and maybe unpack a bit more when it's not so fresh, but I'm just very aware that we are not in our home place and we are at each other's throats where maybe if we just put our differences and maybe this different situation just to one side, we can
01:39:50
Speaker
with them for a couple of months.
01:40:06
Speaker
just focusing a little bit on why this happened in the first place, which is Alpha. And also, we can head to our destination. Seems like we're not going to snake run. I suggest Scorch Helm, as it's just that way. And maybe along the way, we can maybe just look for each other's backs, watch out for each other a little bit. I don't know. I just feel like this is not going to get us anywhere. And time is of
01:40:37
Speaker
finite resource a very faint voice goes um don't suppose you could help us get home now that they've gone yes of course gabe right rolo that that's gabe it's the other one sure you're not going to try and kill us
01:41:06
Speaker
Um, sort of looks around at what he's carrying. I don't know. Where's home? Snake run. Bollocks. I'll take you home. Which means we'll all take you home. Welcome aboard. You're part of the clan. Thanks. Are you going to be killing everyone all the time?
01:41:34
Speaker
I cannot promise you that we won't, given our history. But, but, but if we, if we like swear you in on this here group, uh, we haven't killed each other. We try and save each other, right? Some of us try to save each other. Stop the shouting.
01:41:58
Speaker
Sorry. We'll be safe with you. You will be safe. I can't promise that either. I give you my word that you'll be safe. You just see what happened. I won't let any harm come to you. No, I can't promise that. Definitely can't promise that. You can't promise that. It will keep you alive as you burn. It will do that as well.
01:42:19
Speaker
We will try. Your odds are far better with us than without us. If we are going to snake run. I'm not convinced, but... I can't convince you past that. I am just telling you as it is. Okay. Okay. Well, we're gonna take the cart and you're welcome to protect us along the way. That sounds like a...
01:42:48
Speaker
Well, for a lot of work, what's in it for us? We can pay, or we could, like, appeal to your moral sense of goodness. No, you don't need to pay us, don't worry. At least one of us will walk you back. I feel like this is a mercenary mission.
Debate: Snake Run or Scorch Helm
01:43:12
Speaker
How well do you know Snakerun?
01:43:14
Speaker
Good. We need insights when we get there. Right, yep. But also, like, hold on. Big meaty sword boy is going to Snake Run. Why the fuck would we follow him? Well, it's... You don't have to call Nix. But the Scorch Helm over here, we were originally, before this day started, before the sun rose on this clusterfuck of a day, our mission was to go to Scorch Helm to find a healer for Alpha.
01:43:43
Speaker
I don't understand why that has suddenly switched and we are now after meeting big bad boy with a sword who then almost tried to kill Baal. Yes there's a whole lot of other clusterfucking reasons in there but let's just call the spade or the sword in this case as it was trying to kill Baal and now is going to snake run. You think we should ignore what we did at the start of the day?
01:44:04
Speaker
A go to snake run. If you remember, Nick, snake wins on the way to scorch arm. It's also where Marota was going, which you were quite insistent on following it. No, I was very hard on not following Marota. I said that is a wild goose chase.
01:44:18
Speaker
And I underlined that in saying that you cannot try and find Marota if she doesn't want to be found and it would waste time. My whole thing was trying to find a healer for Nyx and we settled on Scorch Help. Why has that changed? To go to Snake Run? When there's people there, you can imagine we walk in, you don't think he's fucking telling his other members of the Acrisca along the way to look out for an
01:44:46
Speaker
inconspicuous group that's carrying a big metal man. You don't think that they're going to be on high alert and the mere presence of us stepping one foot into Snake Run is going to just send up the alarm. Let's travel around Snake Run to Scorch Helm to try and find a healer. Rolos, Rolos raised a hand through all this, but it barely makes it above the waist of most of you. Yes.
01:45:12
Speaker
Snake runs only like a day away, Scorchhelm's like a couple of weeks, and there's more of Kriskra in Scorchhelm. Like, if you're trying to avoid them, you're in the wrong place. They're actually good guys, like they look after the road, they came to save us, they really are decent folk if you don't do what you did.
01:45:44
Speaker
I stand completely crazy. This is why I don't lead a group. Someone else take the helm, the reel, everyone, as you were, clearly, I don't know what we're doing. There are more sides to Chriska than we have been given led to believe from what all we know about this, about the eggs, is what Bar and his mistress says. We've seen what they've done in other places, but we don't know whether it's one group or all groups.
01:46:17
Speaker
If we're going to snake run, these fine gentlemen need a squirting back. I'm happy to do it. If you want to go around Nick's,
01:46:28
Speaker
That's fine. But I'm walking with a... Don't point that comment at me. You understand that I'm coming from the preservation of Alpha, right? Can you clarify that? Hold up, hold up, hold up. Nix is right. Everyone is right. We can take these folk as far as Snake Run. We don't have to go in. I'm aligned to agree with Nix, which is they can travel with. We have to rest tonight. We have to think about what's happened here.
01:46:50
Speaker
whatever that CRISPR was, they made us a deal, which is if she lived, Baal lived. And as far as I can see, everyone has come out of that agreement with what was offered. So here's what we need to do. Hot words have been said. We need to rest. We need to heal. And then from there, we need to make towards
01:47:09
Speaker
Snake Run and by extension, Scorch Helm tomorrow. Now, when we get within proximity of Snake Run, we can make a decision about whether we go in or not. I'm with Nix. I don't think we should. I think we got to press on as soon as we're within proximity of Snake Run to get to Scorch Helm. We have enough supplies to do that. We deliberately stocked up enough to do that.
01:47:27
Speaker
That is what I think we have to do. I'm not prepared to waste Alpha's life on any more standing around and disgusting. So I'm going to go set up a camp, I'm going to get some sleep, and then in the morning, I'm going to go and try save Alpha's life. If these people want to walk in that general direction until we're going any further, then fair enough. But that's what I'm doing. Anyone else who wants to come with me is more than welcome. Rain's going to walk off. Just before you do, maybe not camp near the orcs. Just saying.
01:47:57
Speaker
That's a good idea and Rains will turn around and start walking in the other direction. Okay. That is a fucking plan. I like that. I can get behind it. Listen, uh, um, uh, Gore, Gorak, uh, he's looking at the halfling here. Your God, Goran. Gabe. Gabe. My brother Gabe, he don't talk much. And me, Rolo, I can talk.
01:48:20
Speaker
Yo, Rolo, listen. Yo, you can come with us. I can drive your car for you. I'm much better at driving it than you. Just so you know. It might be able to get us there a bit quicker, if you'd like. No pressure. I know I just tried to stab a guy, but, you know, there's a lot of stuff going on there. It's essentially a wheelbarrow. I don't know how you drive it. Oh, it looked bigger from further away. Never mind. You got that. Uh, yep.
01:48:50
Speaker
And he's going to walk off and lay in the sand somewhere and sleep. Okay. And is the cart right next to all of the bodies? Yeah, so the sort of, the four of them that were loaded that Gabe has just sort of begun unloading because he doesn't really understand why he's going to be carting those corpses anymore. But yeah, there's lots of corpses around.
01:49:18
Speaker
Okay. Have those, of course, have got their cloaks on?
01:49:23
Speaker
Cool. What Baal's going to do, and I'll just describe it all in one, if that's easier, is get the cloaks off them, move them away from the cart that wants to be saved and helped with these halflings. And then he's going to use a second level spell of Flame Sphere and just move it over the corpses of
01:49:50
Speaker
the Orcs, the Acryscra, everything, and just burn all of the corpses that are left, but save those four, if there are four intact, four cloaks. Yeah, and without much more of a word, he'll go back and he'll probably on his way past Alpha, just say in Draconic, we need to talk. And yeah, head back to the camp that we can set up.
01:50:21
Speaker
And as everyone sort of goes in those separate directions, there is a palpable silence. Not by me. For a moment. And then Nix speaks.
01:50:43
Speaker
No, as I was making it. Sorry. I thought you wanted to say something. Ruined. A few moments pass. A few minutes pass. An hour passes. And then there is this, this sound.
The Mysterious Second Moon
01:51:10
Speaker
The sound that sounds like a jet plane overhead. But you look up, you can't see anything. And, Bao, you're the only one who would really have a key reference to this. Maybe, Seth, because you've been out in the wilds for so long. There are two moons. There aren't two moons.
01:51:40
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on Aerith, but as you look into the sky at the moment, there is the regular moon and there is another moon-shaped disk. And that, that is where we're gonna end this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop.
01:52:06
Speaker
My lord. Didn't know you'd bring the Death Star in, Danny. That's no proof. The Chris Groove just leveled up their firepower. Fuck me. Oh, Jesus. You guys just curated that whole event.
01:52:23
Speaker
there is so much all you nicks i've got a great idea silence it was so much to unpack that was a great idea i don't think nicks will use that spell again for a long time seriously considering choice words have been said by many it was the perfect storm though wasn't it like oh god yeah all the stuff that happened it made sense to happen but oh fuck me did it have to the moral twist the ambiguity and the moral twist for the of chriska being so
Moral Complexity and Group Dynamics
01:52:53
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convivioli. Yeah, I love that. That they're not all sexy. I loved it. Yeah. That was fantastic. Oh, it's difficult. Oh, stiffy. Stiffy cult. Yeah. Stiffy cult massively here. Shit. Yeah, you're right. The world that everyone like it's totally makes sense. Everyone did. But at the same time, you're like, shit. Fuck.
01:53:14
Speaker
And I think everyone played it really well as well, that idea of, I don't want to do this, but it makes sense to do this. Top of my character would do. Oh, yeah. I'm just flabbergasted. I'm going to delete that spell. Keep it, do it again. If you have another flat period, go, and silence. And what do you think? Silence.
01:53:44
Speaker
Oh, it was a paddock storm. I don't know how to end this episode, so I've just told it as it is. Thank you for tuning in and listening to us make us a party every week. If you wanted to like, rate, review, subscribe, do all that good stuff that all the young people on the YouTubes say, do that for us. I don't think we have a bell, but we have bells on all of us. And if you wanted to DM them, you can do so on our X pages.
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