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C2 Ep. 174 Cursed Legacies Episode Four
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Transcript
Introduction and new mission
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Speaker
D20 Radio, your game is roll.
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Speaker
Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, where we play podcasts on the Eberron Campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, previously on Eberron Renewed.
The heist plan: Emberstone of Impenetrability
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Speaker
You know what? Why don't you guys tell them? Right on. Made some new friends.
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Speaker
And got a new mission. Wait, new friends? Yeah, everyone's very not spread. That's true. And they went on a. At the bottle. Steak out an area that they're going to try and steal an item from. How'd it go? Ideally, but it was successful. Regardless of what.
00:01:27
Speaker
Thadon's character sheet implies he's not quite that good yet. We were doing some difficult stuff. Yeah, we have the manifest. We are going to be able to get a ballpark idea of where the thing is. The stone. The stone. The amber stone. Yes.
00:01:50
Speaker
Emberstone of impenetrability. Yeah. That's what it's called, right? That's what they name things around here. Yep. Probably Castille would call it. Calvair. No, I don't know. Now I do it for you. No booboos. So yeah, you all have a manifest, you're still in Terminus, like you're in that area of the city. What now? I guess we need to figure out what this manifest is going to tell us. Mm-hmm. Yep.
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Speaker
We have to go somewhere to meet up. I suppose we can... God, we can't yet. Can you... All right, here's what I'm thinking. You read the manifest, try to figure out the general area, not general area, a reasonably specific area where this thing would have ended up. Because then I can go over there and do a spell to find out exactly where it is. I've come up with some reason to be over there. Trust me. And then we can...
00:02:48
Speaker
I almost used a cosword. Then we can leave until we have to come back and actually talk and play without people staring at us wondering why we're casing the joint. But, alternatively, you find out, no, what am I talking about? I don't know. Hang on, cut everything. Absolutely not. People need to know. Oh, there you go. Oh, do people need to know I'm a dummy? God, how will they ever figure it out? Do we have several hundred hours of evidence?
00:03:14
Speaker
why don't we just leave and read the manifest and then when we come back to steal it i can do that stupid spell because that would also make sense and be perfectly okay would the manifest just tell me the loading dock or like what time or
00:03:31
Speaker
Take a look at the manifest and I'll tell you what it says. Okay. I'm going to stand around and look for... It screams. Amber Stone of No More Boo Boo's. You're not one of us! A name for this item? Or would I
Decoding the manifest
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know what to look for? Knowing house business, knowing your dad, etc, etc, etc.
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Speaker
There's going to be layers of code. It's not going to say the amber stone of no booboos in shipping. That's pretty coded to me, I think. Give me, I'm going to need a check to parse out what your dad or House of Yerlin would have coded this shipment as. But since you're a member of the House, I'll give you an automatic upgrade on the check since you are familiar with it.
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Speaker
Pitch me a skill. What skill do you think makes sense for Raynard to be able to know this information forever? The best one. Skullduggery? I take Skullduggery. Skullduggery makes sense 100%. So this is going to be a three purple difficulty because they're good at coding stuff. But you get the free upgrade. So normally it's two yellow, one green, but it's three yellow. But because
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at a setback because Calvary, as the timeline moves forward, Calvary is getting more and more paranoid about everything. He would have put a little bit extra effort into it this time around. What about a story point that your dad has some kind of quirk he likes to put on a code that maybe you recognize that quirk?
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Speaker
Yeah, if you want to add a green to that. If you want to add a green. Sure.
Humor interlude: food chains and ghost kitchens
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What? She likes to get cute sometimes or something. What genre of fiction does Calvert love to read? Oh, I want it. It's a romance novel. Spicy romance. Yeah. So. Honest Ripper is just the real. It's real under five. So yeah, you know that Calvert typically will use like character names
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Speaker
or like proper nouns from the books that he reads and you're familiar enough with those to be able to. I was really hoping it was going to be like innuendos for, for, uh, axurd organs. Okay. Oh, no, probably not. Yeah. Oh, one success. And that's it. No, you're reading it wrong. No success. And that is a wash.
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Speaker
It's a total wash. It is a complete wash. Let's just walk in, start murdering everybody we can. Let's start blasting. Exactly. Let's just go start blasting until somebody gives us the rock. I have a thought. Would knowledge lore work to try to do a code of a family that I was a part of as well?
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Speaker
Because I'm not super familiar. I know it's from Star Wars and it's about a galaxy move. And even in realms of Terenath, it's like the equivalent of the D&D 5E arcana check. What do you know about magic and the supernatural aspects of the world? I hadn't seen how it works in Terenath.
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Speaker
Cause if we leave, then I might be able to take a look at it, but I don't have the only thing that would be my knowledge more, but that's not going to do it. Or if I could use a utility. I've never been a magic person. So I'm like wanting to screw around with this stuff. If I could use a utility spell to just translate. Oh, I can't read. This thing's real squiggly. You can't decipher, like maybe he picked up a new book and so the proper nouns aren't like ones that you're familiar with. So yeah, unfortunately you can't really.
00:07:16
Speaker
Just a total wash, no advantage, no threat, no nothing. Absolutely nothing. I imagine we're all looking at this manifest, trying to figure this out. I didn't think we were, because we're still in the middle of the train station. Oh, I thought we went somewhere out of the way. I said that, but then Trevor was like, I'm just going to read it. Invisible. Yeah, Trevor is invisible, so there's a floating manifest. So there's a floating manifest.
00:07:39
Speaker
It's your standing. We're just walking. There are restaurants, cafes. There are a bunch of places you want to sit. Let's go someplace instead of here in the open and take a seat and take our time and look over this manifest. Yes. Let's go to Haskalanda to go.
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which I believe is what my friend suggested to you to begin with. It's Golden Dragon on the Fly, by the way. Golden Dragon on the Fly. Golden Dragon on the
Failed scrying attempt and further planning
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Fly. Is that legit? Have you written that one down? Golden Dragon is their franchise. That's right. Golden Dragon is what it's called. That's very funny. It was a Chili's to go joke.
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Speaker
You know what I don't like about Chili's. I'd love to hear it right now. They got a whole separate restaurant up there on the inside of them called It's Just Wings. And they're trying to tell me I can't get curly fries if I go into the Chili's. They're making them and giving them to go.
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Speaker
Yeah, you're right. In their kitchen. And I can't get some of those sauces. It's Henson's Burgers is Chili's DoorDash Burger Place. Is it? Yeah. Because there's a Henson's Burgers that's owned by a dude with the last name Henson and Harry. No, like if you go to DoorDash and Shawnee, there's a Henson's Burgers. There's also like a Burger Hut or something that's out of Denny's. There's the Burger Place that's out of Denny's too. I think Chili's has just a chicken tender specific restaurant. That's just a ghost kitchen for DoorDash. Yeah, ghost kitchens are bad, guys.
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Speaker
I'm going to walk in there and I'm going to say, I want curly fries. I know you make them here. Wow. Just push whatever button you got to do to get it. It's just wings and let me order both. Like when we lived in Yukon, I door dash from a burger or a chicken sandwich spot that looked pretty good on door dash like the pictures looked and ordered it and showed up like.
00:09:18
Speaker
it was during the pandemic so bag just and there was a hooters bag on my front porch i was like oh did not realize that i was ordering to go for hooters i got ferris a mr beast burger when we were in chicago and it came from it was a local place but it was very much it was like a italian beef place that happened to make the mr beast burger in the back anyway where are you going to golden dragon on the fly going to sit down there yeah that yeah is thayden what's the abberonian margaritaville
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Speaker
I'm sure someone who listens will have an... Who's the Eberonian Jimmy Buffett? Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, there's got to be a... Because I didn't make a joke about Luca Ciara, but she's too classy for a tie-in restaurant. The parrot head, only another kind of a bird. Or Rainforest Cafe, is that a thing? Yeah, that would be... But only in Stormry, only in Zendric. Yeah, that would be the destination Zendric like because... Micronic things. It rains every hour. Course of the traveler would be...
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Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Course of the traveler. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. There's lots of tropical plants everywhere. There's a dinosaur head poking out of some. We work is very much a goth. So he does stick out here, but it's okay. Anyway, somebody else is going to look at the manifest. Yeah. Well, no, cause I can't use knowledge lore. I just imagine we would be looking at it, trying to figure out.
00:10:39
Speaker
and hoping that our friend could... What did you roll against, skullduggery? Or... Yeah, I got it. I've got skullduggery, if I could try to use that on it. What are we doing with the mana pets? Can I do a skullduggery check on it? Three purple difficulty. With one setback. I got two yellow, two greens, three purple, and a setback. Go for it. Um, actually...
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Upgrade the difficulty. Take a purple into a red? Yeah. Eric does not want this manifest to work. That's a lot. Should I get a... If you would like to. Upgrade. Sure. Go for it. I believe in you buddy. You said that before. Against all evidence. Today.
00:11:32
Speaker
No, no, not even close three failure and two success. And yeah, so I got what to advantage. Yep. Okay. So I mean, here's the deal. We're in our check was to try and
Spotting Calvair and decision time
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spot something straight away. You're trying, you all eventually figure it out. It just takes you time. That's the cost of the failure. It's not that you can't address. It's just you all are having to spend some time go over, try to decode it and stuff. You have two advantage. What would you like to spend it on?
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food's amazing retroactively did something to mask what we're looking at this table at a busy restaurant I just thought of that you're just looking at stuff it's not a big gold book that says manifest yeah eventually one of us just says a particular name and
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Speaker
drain the air, goes, oh, that's one of my dad's books. That must be it. But now, to advantage, guys. If we can hold it to make it, if you want, if you could target a boost so that I have that much more of a chance of when we get over there actually finding the exact location of this thing, that feels like it would be beneficial. Yeah, I was thinking that. The two advantages, there's pictures of everything in the manifest. And we'd say that's what we're looking for. That feels like a real OPSEC issue.
00:12:53
Speaker
Yeah, they would not do that, I'm sorry. Actually not of the super powerful secret item that's in code. Well, here's what's in this. They're poorly drawn, but color coded. We obscured the names, but we're still going to draw the thing. I like that, or perhaps we're less noticeable since so far I've been very noticeable.
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Speaker
But I like the chance to upgrade your check to locate the specific thing. The waiter approaches the table. Welcome to course of the traveler. Is it our first time dining here?
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Speaker
You know, they always ask that everywhere you go. I've eaten food. He says quietly. Yes. It's your first time here. OK. Yes. All of us. So invisible. Fun thing about here is obviously themed after Zendric. All of our food is based around the culinary delights that you can find down there. Do we have to like get up and switch tables occasionally? What is it? What do you mean? Zendric jungle. Anyway, do we know what we want to get started in terms of drinks?
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we have a bar what do you have what's your signature we don't have any signatures right yeah i did not have time to prep of course the traveler menu i'll take a now i'm just trying to get tropical drinks and change into an eberron the sex in the cogs sounds terrible just give me your finest top shelf of a fuzzy bug bear finest top shelf whiskey please all right can do i'll be back i'm invisible so yeah that's why he did not talk to you
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Speaker
I'm just thinking of a legacy to be one of your dad's favorite characters is named Amber Stone. The whole time we're looking for a code. That's why it took us so long. No way he would do that. Yes. From the book, The Ballad of the Cavern of Amber Stone. You know the location after looking through the manifest for a bit of time. And yeah, it's about. Early to mid afternoon ish, like three o'clock by the time you get everything sorted and figured out.
00:14:52
Speaker
We've enjoyed our meal. Yeah. So what next? We need to leave in order to come back at night. We cannot spend all day here. Well, do we know what's happening at night?
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Speaker
We are stealing a stone. Do we know that they're moving it at night? Are we doing it before they move it? I thought, oh, they're moving it tonight. OK, I missed that or forgot. Probably the second. So do we want to try and steal it before they move it or as they're moving it? I guess we need to. Oh, after they move it. I don't know. Cosmically, for some reason, Leoric has an aversion to moving, tickling things while in transit. He doesn't know why. It's almost like another life he's led. It never goes well.
00:15:36
Speaker
If we know what we're looking for, then perhaps if we could get eyes on it and see where they take it and then infiltrate that location. I have a thought where I am confident that I can determine exactly where it is very easily.
00:16:04
Speaker
Oh yes, I've seen you do that before, yes. And in this case he means getting close enough to do it without raising much awareness. Yes. I have a stupid plan, because it's what I do now. It's what Leoric does, for sure, evidently. Once we've done that, is there a way? I'm the magic person, so I guess I would have to know this. That I can mark it. Using some sort of utility spell. If I can find it, can I mark it?
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Speaker
from a distance? Yes, and not necessarily to follow, just simply, or sorry, let me try again. Not necessarily to physically mark it, but to be able to put a ping on it. Is that something I could do with, I assume it'd be a very difficult check. I think that would be dependent on your scrying check. If you roll some advantage or a triumph on it, you could make it easier to scry on it next time kind of thing. Okay. I don't want to take it while it's moving. Oh, that's highly dangerous. I would probably have to kill somebody.
00:17:00
Speaker
Let me do this. Let me go see if I can figure out exactly where it is and I'll come back to you and let you know. I'm still invisible, so you sure are. I'm still invisible, so I could go with you. I think I would prefer that. I hate it when you go off and do these things on your own. It makes me nervous. Sure. Did we get a waiter's name?
00:17:20
Speaker
on this dog draft Kimbo David you let Kimbo know that I've gone to pick up our friend and you can drop the invisibility when we get back that way you can be around and we won't look like insane people talking to you I'll be the friend yeah but you sure will and you will take care of Leoric I thought we weren't killing people I'm yes I know I thought we were
00:17:49
Speaker
People may try to kill you. It's a lot easier to discount the things that you say when I can see how pretty I made you. And I'm assuming that Leoric being a caster is squishy. Yeah, I'm not doing great. He's no hog. Yes, yes. And take care of my friend. Oh, in the good way. The good way to take care of. Yes, okay.
00:18:14
Speaker
I'm starting to understand what Verla is talking about. I am going to- But you have a tone about you that seems very negative, so I thought that negative connotation would be taken care of. Not concerning my friends. You do keep saying the word kill over and over again.
00:18:31
Speaker
Well, yes, but I said it in such a way as to protect you. Yes. I will make sure we both come back alive. As we get up and we're going to just go, we figured out the general area where I can get close enough to Scry, yes? Yes. Okay. As we're walking to that area, I'm going to start calling a name. Give me a Fiarlan name. Jiren. I have a student named Jiren. Okay. He likes fist bumps a lot.
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Speaker
Okay, so I, as I'm walking up, I start going, Jaren! Jaren! Elderan called you back, why are you still here?
Confrontation: Reynard vs. Calvair
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Speaker
Have you seen, and I go up to, I just go up to somebody who's standing guard and say, have you seen Jaren, Fjarlan? Give me a deception check, okay? Can I have a boost because it's a good one? Sure.
00:19:20
Speaker
What is my deception? Who dog? One red, one purple. Oh, we are screwed fam. I feel like I should get some kind of boost. You can flip a story point. No, then we're out of story points. Eric does like to get them back to us. Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll flip this. There you go. So now it's too red? Yeah. I just made it harder. Thanks. You just got rid of a yellow.
00:19:40
Speaker
Oh, right. Don't worry, I'm going to. Boy, that'd be a brutal. You're making it harder on yourself to. I'm going to consult the Texas again to make sure I have my pool right before I roll. So it's too red against this. Would you like to flip a story point? Yes. You're welcome. OK. Yeah, thanks. You're not materially doing anything to help. So no, you can't be of assistance. Ooh. Are you still invisible? Yeah.
00:20:09
Speaker
Great. I don't know how to turn it off. That is a success with a triumph and then a wash on advantage of the threat. Yeah.
00:20:20
Speaker
One success, one triumph. We're getting all these triumphs. Well, I really wanted the triumph on the scrying check. You could use the triumph to give you an upgrade to your scrying check that you're going to do next. Well, okay, here's the thing. The scrying check is four yellow versus three purple with a boost because you targeted that boost. I don't know that I necessarily need to spend the triumph on that, but we can spend the triumph.
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Speaker
on. He's like, the thing's right here. Don't know about it, Jaren, but I do know about a neighbor stone. The thing he's supposed to come get's right here. What was, okay, can I ask this? I didn't get it, not I didn't get a chance to. I don't know that I was going to, but eventually the goal would have been to move a little deeper in to keep looking for Jaren.
00:21:03
Speaker
Do I need to use the triumph to say, he says, I don't know, go look in there, go find him. Or is that something I can do with the success? Yeah, success is you can continue on. Okay, then for the triumph. Can we, can we see it? No, because I need to do the spell to get that. Because it's going to be, it's not going to do the sitting there. You know what I mean? As a triumph I could be. No, it could not. Okay, so as I thought we're locating it, and then we're going to see where it goes.
00:21:34
Speaker
Then we're going to infiltrate later. Did we decide that? Not necessarily. We're locating it. If I'm lucky enough to put some sort of tracer on it with a good roll, we'll have that. How about the triumph gives you the tracer? Let me use it on this one. That's what I'm saying. Good luck. Because you specifically said earlier, if the scribe won't. I would give you the upgrade on the scrying shaft. Let's do that then. Let me take
00:21:58
Speaker
So then you'll have two upgrades because he's such a one. His is a boost. So it would be four yellow, a green, and a blue, which feels like success. Yeah. Let's do that. Give me an upgrade. I'll take a green just to help out. Okay. So the guard is, I don't know, but elder incentive. Yeah. You can go take a look deeper in if you want.
00:22:14
Speaker
He goes, and I am Leoric. Eldrin is very important, but I also, you know, nevermind. Who? He's just here. We've talked about using our real names before, Leoric. Except I don't know, where is David? What did David do? What, to go tell Bilbo back in something? You are sitting at the booth. Kimbo is the waiter. You're sitting at the booth. If Kimbo comes back with our drinks, you're just there to be like, they're coming back. Or he's coming back with a friend. Okay. Okay. In that case, I think I see...
00:22:41
Speaker
Oh, thank you for understanding. We really need to get Jaren home. And I go in and just cut around a corner and try to do this spell. Okay. I don't know if it is something that has physical components. I'm waving my arms around or something, but turn one of those purples into a rice. Eric was a possibility here. That looks pretty hot though. It feels pretty cute. Huh? It's four yellow. Okay. Far yellow. And I want you guys to have some story points when you do things. So I'm going to leave that there.
00:23:11
Speaker
You like that? Yeah. You like that, listener? Lots of darts. Triumph. Three triumphs. Oh, my God. I have failed spectacularly with three triumphs and an advantage. No, no, no advantage. There's three triumphs. Failure with three triumphs. That's a first. I cannot explain how mad I am right now that I failed that. Two failure and three triumphs.
00:23:36
Speaker
but that's like, we're just walking in and walk out. Story's over. Okay, I did fail to find it. Like that, I don't know where it is. The scrying spell did not work. Unbelievable. Wow. But three triumphs. I don't even know what to do. I can't do anything. You guys, what do you want to do with three triumphs? Three triumphs is like we win the game, right? You're just here. It's right here. You could find it. Yeah. Okay.
00:24:06
Speaker
I'm so mad. I cannot believe this. I'm going to have a conversation with Trevor away from the table real quick. Oh no. Okay. The principal's office. That should be good because it should involve three triumphs, I'm thinking. Oh no, Eric has three triumphs. The Rams coming back. Sauna hates us now.
00:24:27
Speaker
That's unreal. Yeah. Go ahead Trevor. Do the thing that Eric's making you do. Trevor and I have talked about a possible use for the three triumphs and I just wanted to clarify with Trevor as a player if...
00:24:39
Speaker
this would be a satisfying thing for him to have happen here and now. You're sitting there trying to figure out, like, scrying, doing the magic, your eyes are closed, you're trying to picture your mind's eye, and Reynard standing there, invisible, into one of the warehouses that you all are right next to, Calvair walk in, by himself, unarmored, just like he's clearly going to check stuff out, no guard with him, nothing, just by himself, and he looks around and walks into one of the doors.
00:25:08
Speaker
Can I tell you what I legitimately was going to say three triumphs was for? It was a joke, but there's a sky ship passing overhead and campfire falls overhead and slaps right in front of us and our problem is solved. Because sometimes I don't want to play the game either. I will say, just for in addition to the packaging of the three triumphs, Eldrin, like you all doing enough jobs together, you all would have sending stones similar to what, like you can communicate with Fadin from a distance is all I'm trying to say. Okay. So, yeah. So that's what...
00:25:40
Speaker
Man. Now the thought is, do I tell you or do I just go take care of it? Would you like assistance in having it taken care of? Because, come on, dog. I think Elderin says... Nope, not Elderin. Who am I? Leoric says... Johnny, are you here? Because you're invisible. Yes.
00:26:02
Speaker
I I don't this never happens to me But I didn't manage to Do the spell correctly. Oh, it happens to me all the time. Um We need to go now Because I don't know if you realize this but there's no chair in here. I made him up there is a Calvary here Who
00:26:30
Speaker
Did he come into where we are or across the? No. You all were tucked away and he's in the same building or no. I didn't think y'all went into it. We're outside. Because the buildings would be locked. That kind of thing. Okay. I just wasn't sure if we went in when I got past the first guard. No. Okay. Gotcha. Okay. You saw, you saw your father. He went into that warehouse. Alone. But, assumingly. Raynard, it appears you have a decision to make.
00:26:56
Speaker
Sure would make this job a lot shorter. How good at distractions are you? If you need me to be a distraction, I can make one. Do you want a distraction or do you want to just go do it? You are invisible. Maybe we call Theden to draw out anyone else who's in here. Go for it.
00:27:21
Speaker
I don't have the stone for him, you do. I thought we did. You all have it, yeah. Okay. Eldrin tossed you. Theoden? Yes. Dinner's over. We need you to come to where we are and cause some sort of scene for the guards in the front. Causing a scene? No, you are causing a scene.
00:27:46
Speaker
No, I'm at a table with drinks. No, no, you're going to leave the drinks. Come here. Oh, you want me to come there to cause a scene? Yes. I see. I've been presented with an opportunity to complete this job. How? Not going to say it over a sending stone. Very well. I will head that way. Thank you.
00:28:15
Speaker
Now, we need to get to that warehouse. Yes, we can just leave here. I can say I didn't find Jaren and we can just leave here. The warehouse is, you can just walk straight to it. It's across the way. Is it another Fjarlen warehouse? Yeah. Okay. It's a whole little pocket. Yeah. So we're just going to go check that place next. I walk out, Jaren's not over there and start walking that direction.
00:28:40
Speaker
Yeah, so fading catches up. Okay, great. No, no, I was just on the sendings. Oh, like, yes. Where exactly are you? It's where you explained. Yeah. Where the book said it was. There shortly. I'm in the warehouse. Now you. Okay. I can't go in the warehouse because I'm not invisible.
00:29:05
Speaker
Make yourself invisible. Let's give it a shot. You and Faith. Oh, I owe some strain to the game. I've done two strings. Yeah. So you can do the mask stuff. Interestingly, I can't add them because I don't have control of the character. I can just see him. OK, what's my invisible spell? It's mask with the invisibility. OK, so that is hard. It's going to be hard. Five purple.
00:29:32
Speaker
So that's short range, so it could be engaged. Okay. We'll drop it onto four. Okay. But then if you're wanting to do it to both you and Thadon, then you would add that, which would make it five. So yes. And it's just Arcana? Yep. Yep. Five purple and are you gonna do a thing? Sure. Four purple and a red versus four yellow is not a good roll, guys. Wanna flip a story point? Yeah, just give it to me. Wow. I'm not, here's the thing.
00:30:02
Speaker
Without a despair, the worst that's going to happen is I just remain not invisible. So I'm okay with this. I'm going to stab Eric. Don't tell him this. There's despair. I'm going to stab Eric. Okay. Okay. Would you like to use this? Oh, good.
The moral conflict and battle
00:30:19
Speaker
Okay. No despair. You're fine. Two success. Two success and some threat. Two success, two threat. Okay.
00:30:27
Speaker
No, one threat. One threat, yeah. One threat. Okay, as Draneir is entering Thadyn and walks up slowly fading from Thadyn. You all become invisible as well. You all enter the warehouse and Calvair looking at, once again, a manifest kind of looking for the right box. The threat is he immediately turns as the door opens and shuts and knows that, like, can't see you all, but the door just opened and shut on its own.
00:30:52
Speaker
I quickly get out of the way of the door so he doesn't know that we're standing right by it. You guys as well. We also don't know where each other are from the rest of this, by the way. I think Reynard's just too focused. He's just walking. I think that's great. Hello? Someone here? I know you're here. Who is it?
00:31:15
Speaker
It doesn't say anything. Are you trying to be quiet in your walk? Are you trying to be stealthy as you approach him? Or are you just walking with a purpose?
00:31:25
Speaker
I'd say it's a very focused walk. I wouldn't say it's necessarily stealthy or hasty. But you did have Dalen put up on the bottom of your shoes. So you're not trying to be quiet, but you're also not like stomping across the room. Yeah. So he'll make a perception check to see if he can hear the footsteps coming. So if you'll hand me that dice tray with all of it. So, Raynard, what is your what is your stealth? Because that'll just be the base of his perception. It's too yellow and green.
00:31:54
Speaker
Or one yellow, two green. Yellow, two green. So one red, two purple. His perception. I think there should be a setback since I'm invisible. It's a two setback, in fact. Work, D.Va. Which one of us was D.Va? Everyone. Oh, great. Everyone's D.Va. He's a perceptive. Would you like to flip story point to upgrade a purple to a red? No, I got a story point for something else in a minute.
00:32:18
Speaker
So that is a success. Pretty definitively those go away here, those go away there to success.
00:32:26
Speaker
so yeah he hears your footsteps approaching i can hear whoever you are and i know where you are so might as well declare what your purpose is and he's looking like he's looking at where you are obviously he's not making eye contact but yeah they didn't lyric are you just standing back waiting to see what happens things looking around to see if there's anybody else in this place at all part of the three triumphs is yeah
00:32:49
Speaker
Nobody was even in there at all. Then things just trying to be quiet stealthy like I stepped out of the way if he threw a blast at the door I wouldn't hit and then I pulled out What kind of arcane focus do we think Leoric has I don't know
00:33:06
Speaker
Cool, thanks. Such a giver in the improv game, Trevor. What do you mean? I think New York has a crystal dagger. Yeah. It is not a dagger. It is purely decorative. And that is his arcane focus. So he has his dagger pointed ready to blast a spell. If either Reynard starts it or Calvair does an offensive defense. He like us to have worked together. We would like one way. Yeah, we would be.
00:33:35
Speaker
flanking. I mean, I don't know why it needs a role. My goal is just to walk up to him and shank him. Okay. So basically, he knows that you're coming. So it will be just a regular attack, but with some boost die. Yeah, but thing. So once the footsteps get close enough, cover is also a spy and assassin. So he's not going to let an invisible person just walk straight up to him. Let
00:34:06
Speaker
Just because it will make the most sense, let's do initiative. Just because so we know what order people are getting to do stuff. All four of us are just these two right now. And mine will be vigilance, I'm assuming, or cool. Cool. Because you're trying to do... I'm in control of what I'm doing. Does that feel good? Yeah, it's got four green. Not cool, nothing. One success, four advantage. Triumphant success.
00:34:40
Speaker
I'm going for the whole mental thing. This has to be heartless or else it's not going to happen. What the heck? What is he rolling? He is a master spy and assassin. Four yellow. Oh my gosh. That's his vigilance. Yeah. Nice. He's going first. I can't. I have to try. I have to try. I have to try.
00:35:06
Speaker
He rolled three and one. He's going for it. Raynard's dead. I've got this new armor. Give him a plus one. Okay, Raynard, what did you get on your initiative? Four advantage, one success. Can I ask, still in the area that we would have gathered from the manifest, there's a chance that the Amberstone is in here? Oh yeah. Okay. I just want to make sure. Yeah. Faden, what did you get? I got a... Triumphant success.
00:35:36
Speaker
Leork. Zero and three. Remind me, as I've never... There's no concentration here, so I stay invisible until I say I'm not invisible, or until somebody breaks this spell. So there is concentration, it's a maneuver. Okay, maneuver to stay invisible if I want to attack. Okay.
00:35:56
Speaker
Okay. So the initiative order, um, NPC, NPC, PC, PC, NPC. He normally gets two initiative slots, but with a triumph, he can add an additional one for each triumph on his initiative. Say it again. Normally he said, I'm sorry, just the order. I get what you're saying. PC, NPC, NPC, PC, PC, NPC. Okay.
00:36:20
Speaker
Are we PCs or anything? We're PCs. You get to go first. You get to go first. Work. But Satan, because you rolled a triumph, his triumph has a specific use, but since you rolled a triumph, you can take a free maneuver before initiative starts. If there's something that you, if you want to move into a certain position or if you have a maneuver that you want to do beforehand. He's going to get in cover. Okay. PC slot. You are short range away from Calvair. Yeah. So you can use a maneuver to engage with him and then make an attack if you like.
00:36:51
Speaker
That's the goal. Okay. I would like to spend a story point to say at some point I have commandeered a Theron-y knife. Okay. Ooh. Oh, one of the ones that he was used to kill Satan. Yeah. Okay. Dude. So that way it's not going to get, that way it's not going to get pinned on me. Yeah.
00:37:20
Speaker
And also he can't be resurrected. Boom. Man. OK. So yeah, you pull out this. But I don't have information for that, so I don't know what to roll for that. I have a dagger, but I don't know if it's a different. This would be a different thing. So it's still going to be melee light, which would be, does Reynard have finesse? Can you use your agility for? I'm trying to remember. Can you use the fact that he's invisible to get a boost from an inability to even try to block?
00:37:48
Speaker
Oh yeah, he'll get boost for being invisible. Trevor, you're going to spend five of your horde of XP to take the finesse talent, which means with melee light, you can use your agility instead of your brawn. Oh, I don't see agility. That's a different thing, right? Yeah. So you get to roll three green instead of two green. Yeah.
00:38:05
Speaker
Or you could throw the dagger and do ranged. I'm fine with that also. I have way more range. Yeah. Like I said, I'm fine with that. My range is three yellow, two green. You can say it's short range and just try to throw the Thrawny dagger at it. Yeah, let's do that. OK, so it's two purple or no, one purple because it's a short range attack. But Calvary has adversary three, so it's going to be upgraded three times. So it'll be two, two red will be the final. OK. And do I get anything for being invisible?
00:38:33
Speaker
You get two boosts. You can either move her to aim. Move her to aim. Sure can, that's another boost, right? Mm-hmm. Um, would you like to flip a story point to upgrade? That's all the story points. Yeah, dude, let's do it. If you want to do this, this is... This is kind of Raynard's big thing. Can I use that box just so I don't lose any of these? That's a lot of dice. I'm so nervous.
00:39:02
Speaker
Oh, it's a triumph and a despair. But a success. There's a lot of success. So these just go away. So those cancel out, right? The success and failure. This is a success and failure for them to cancel each other out. We'll pull them out here so they stay in march. So then one, two, three, four, success, one, two, three, four advantage. Plus a triumph, plus a despair. Four success, four advantage, plus a triumph. What's the, is there like, does this knife have a vicious rating?
00:39:31
Speaker
Or anything? The despair? I thought I had poison or something. Is that not a thing?
00:39:37
Speaker
So the poison on it was to basically keep the person from being revived like the imagine. Yeah, they can't resurrect. We didn't have that on us. OK, I mean, you know, you got the knife, the despair. Come on, you're you're killing your dad. That's the despair. You feel bad when you're done. Turns out Calvert was your father the whole time. He really was a vicious three rating on it and it's a crit rating of two. So with the four advantage, you could crit plus 40 plus 50 if you want to use the triumph on that.
00:40:07
Speaker
We don't have those dice right now, do we? We're in Eric's. I can get the dice. So three crit? It's vicious three normally. So you normally have plus 30, but you only need two advantage to crit. So you can crit twice with the four advantage. That would be plus 40. Then you could use the triumph to crit again. So plus 50. That's not bad. Should we hold the triumph and just crit 40?
00:40:30
Speaker
Just in case what else would you like to do with the travel to grab the dice? Yeah, we can't hold the triumph if you have something else you would like to use it for right now We get the stone the only I don't know if the stones gonna be like when he's dead We could if we win we get this we can get the stone and get out of there Yeah, that's not bad. My thought was You could try to use the triumph to change the initiative order and get one of us a shot at him to kill him right now if you do Because the job was getting the stone, right?
00:40:57
Speaker
Thing is just preventing him from having him. The job is immaterial right now. You just stabbed your dad. Fair. The job is to prevent him from getting the stone. He's dead. He will still not be getting the stone. Fair. Now, one of us might want the stone. That would be neat. It would make for a pretty boring show after that point, if one of us can't get hurt, but we can sell it or something. Yeah. But could we, could we, you're saying, could we use a triumph to put one of you higher in the initiative? Is that what you're saying?
00:41:23
Speaker
If Eric would allow that as a use of the triumph is one of us, he's so distracted. He doesn't use, wait, is it one or two in PCs following the first PC? So maybe Eric would let us lose one of them instead of got so distracted. He only gets one hit off with this triumph. So, but if you want to add 10 to the crit, let's just add to the crit.
00:41:40
Speaker
roll first and then I'll let you make the decision. So I need to take two of these advantage away because I'm using them right now. You're using all four. All four. Okay. So these are, like I said, I don't need to know that these are no success, but I'm just in case. But do we want to resolve damage before the crit? Sure. So you wrote for success.
00:41:57
Speaker
This dagger does 9 base damage, that would be 13 damage. Breach 1, so ignores 10 points of soak. That's pretty good. Wait, Breach 1 ignores 10 points of soak? Yeah, because Breach is vehicle level. That's right.
00:42:15
Speaker
Pierce ignores one point. That's right. You really heard him, I think. I hope so. He's not dead. Sure, of course not. Because I only have 14 wounds. He can't be that much stronger than me. But he is real goofed up. Yeah. OK, so this is for... This is the crit. The crit. That is 86. Plus 30 immediately, right? Plus 40. Plus 40. Because that's 126. Do you want to add another 10 or do we want to... Can we see first? See if we can snork one of his moves away.
00:42:45
Speaker
I don't know, is that fair for us to know what they are before we make a decision? I don't think that feels fair. Well, it doesn't really. Maybe the one we roll, then we can set up. So 136 is what we have currently before you use the triumph. 126 is what we have currently, right? 80 plus 40? 80 plus 40, yeah, 26. It's 8 plus 4 if it makes it easier for you to get rid of the zeros. Didn't know. So does it just go by tens? This one does. That one goes by tens. Yeah, I was just saying 86.
00:43:15
Speaker
So we're at 126, which is a significant number. Yeah. It's over 100. And you don't 13 damage before soak, before soak, which reached 10. So it doesn't even have 10 soak. It took Hobb some effort to get 10 soak. My soak is now 3. I would use the triumph to add 10 to your... Let's do it. That's what I was thinking. So 136. Bleeding out.
00:43:41
Speaker
Until this critical injury is healed, every round the target suffers one wound and one strain at the beginning of their turn. For every five wounds beyond their wound threshold they suffer one additional critical role on the chart suffering the injury. Basically what happens is
00:43:57
Speaker
you pull out this dagger and where would Reynard be aiming for in terms of- Right in the heart. In the heart, Calvary turns and reaching for something and just as soon as the dagger leaves your hand it materializes and just hilt deep into his chest as he like eyes go wide and he coughs in a little bit of blood immediately and he like falls backwards against some boxes and is leaning
00:44:24
Speaker
He's still up, so he's still going to get to act. But just to pull the meta back, he basically has two hit points after your hit or two wounds to give before he hits his threshold. And even if you all do nothing, he's going to suffer one per round. Yeah.
00:44:41
Speaker
the yeah he is he's about to be a struck dog just absolutely flailing until he dies yeah it did it reynard he is going to leorik says very loudly in front of him he sees where the dagger came from so he is going to make an attack have some movement after you throw i'm just kidding throwing dodge
00:45:05
Speaker
finish pulling the dagger out that he was reaching for, and he is going to lunge at where Reynard is standing. But he'll have two setback because Reynard is invisible. It's a melee check, so it's two purple difficulty. His melee is two yellow, one green. He has two setback because Reynard is invisible. He's using maneuver to move. He'll take the strain to aim because strain is not his concern right now.
00:45:33
Speaker
We ain't got no story for ya, so. Just do it. I'm gonna get those back to you. That was not part of my check. That goes away. Two failure, three advantage. Okay, all three advantage is he goes to stab you, Reynard, misses, but falls forward and the blood kind of gushing from his chest smears on you to where there is a
00:45:58
Speaker
smear of blood floating in the air. So the benefits of your invisibility are now gone. Okay. Um, if that makes sense. Any, whatever your pain, I'll pay you double. Just hit the guards. You say anything? Yeah. What do you say? Raynard says, you've turned me into a joke.
00:46:28
Speaker
And now it's time for this joke to bring down the house. And Calvaryon, fire in his eyes. I've only made one mistake in my life. And it wasn't doing this sooner. And he goes to try and stab you again. This is the new. Yeah, make one of those reds. Actually, make one of those reds.
00:46:58
Speaker
One success, one advantage. You are going to take pierce three, so ignore three points of soak, but eight damage.
00:47:08
Speaker
So that would be five. Five. As the... Wait, ignores all my soak, right? Is that what you're saying? Ignores three points of your soak. I only have three. Yes. So yes. So eight. So I get eight. Okay. Yeah. I'm still pretty good. As he goes to stab you and the dagger light goes in like right here as he's like holding you close, as he can't, doesn't know where your eyes are, can't look you in the eye, but he's just raging.
00:47:34
Speaker
And do you make any kind of sound as you get stabbed? I'm just watching him die now, because that was his last point of health, right? Because of his critical injury? Round. Oh. Yeah. They'll get to act first, and he'll get to act one more time. Yeah. I think I just kind of laugh. OK. PC slot. So here's the impasse that we're at.
00:47:58
Speaker
One of us is going to kill him and take that away from you. Thadon's not. Thadon just sits on a crate and says just kind of to himself, Abigail, no work for you today it appears. That's embarrassing because my crystal dagger is also named Abigail. Could you just cast healing on me for your turn? Our kind of users can't heal. I'm going to shake my head like I knew that.
00:48:23
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, you could just let it play out if you want, or if you want Leoric to do something. He still gets another turn, though. I'd say the problem with letting it play out is he has four more turns before he dies, actually, and could very much kill you in them. But you have another turn at the top. Yeah, I'm gonna sit. We only have one after you, right? One after me, and then you get to go. That was my... For some reason, I thought he was top of yours. But you very well could still take me out, because... Was one more good one? I only have six health points, I thought. You could curse him, which would decrease... You could curse... Yes, thank you. Give me some magic health.
00:48:51
Speaker
Ooh, could I cast Barrier on Raynard to help him take one more hit, maybe? Trying to think. It's going to be so embarrassing. Because I'm short from Raynard right now, so it'd be an average difficulty barrier.
00:49:19
Speaker
Basically what that's going to do is barrier lowers his damage that he can do to you. I could take another purple and... Or is there anything you can do to restrain him or limit him?
00:49:36
Speaker
Well, the curse would limit him. What does that do? It decreases the ability of any skill checks made by one. So he would be removing a green, effectively. And you could add doom, where after they make a check, you can change any die in their pool, not displaying a triumph or despair to another face of your choosing. So if he rolls double success on something, you can just flip that to a blank space or a blank side. I was fortunate if he rolls a blank.
00:50:05
Speaker
Oh, no, it has to be a setback, which you wouldn't have any more anyway. Yeah. Okay, so that's not gonna help. Well, Reynard has defense, so he should have rolled defense on his check against you, Reynard. You have defense one. So he did not get the advantage, which I hadn't spent yet, so yeah. So he would have a setback. If it rolls blank, I could switch it to, or if it rolls period, I switch it to it. Yeah.
00:50:27
Speaker
There's also still a Triumphian Despair on the table. Oh yeah, we used the Triumph to get the plus 10 to the... great, so there's Despair. What's up, Scrimp? You had to open your big dumb mouth. Big tall mouth. Yeah, Raynard feels remorse afterwards. There you go. That's despairing. Effectively getting rid of his invisibility was a hell of a thing, but I know that was not the Despair.
00:50:53
Speaker
I'm so effectively mechanically what it's going to be is I'm just going to impose an upgrade to your next check, Reynard.
00:51:01
Speaker
However you want that to manifest, whether it's like the reality of the situation sinking in or just what's going on that causes it to be a little bit more difficult for Reynard to where there's an upgrade. You can manifest that however you want. But yeah, you're going to have an upgrade on your next check. That's the despair. Just keep that simple. Or a setback. No, it's an upgrade. He's going to up from purple to a red. Yeah. Oh, OK. Whatever. However that would manifest with Reynard in terms of it being more difficult. Yeah, I'll leave that in your hands.
00:51:29
Speaker
Those fond memories of childhood, the one that there was. When he would send you off for the summers to not see you. I still need more just knowing what this is gonna do to Ruth. You're close with your mom, you know that this is gonna be hard on her. Can that happen right now? Yeah. What do you mean? Can I just say like I don't get the kill? Like it hits me right now and I just go do it.
00:51:54
Speaker
Yeah, you can absolutely do that. Yeah. I'm gonna suck. No, narratively, that's great that you just, you finally hit this point and you realize, yeah, I don't want to do this. Right now we're, well, you can't see me. But you could say, yeah. Yeah. Finish it. No, I just sat down.
Conclusion and emotional aftermath
00:52:17
Speaker
Okay. You want to take it? It's fine with whoever. You haven't wanted to kill somebody.
00:52:21
Speaker
Yeah, but I think Faden is like, this is your thing. This is your deal. Yeah. And I'm family. Sounds like Ellurk is going to. Yeah. So do you want to do a blast? Yeah. Your arcane spear. Yeah. May as well do the big one, right? Yeah. OK. Is it more difficult? Yeah. Raynard, you kind of let him drop. Like you step away as he falls to his knees. As you say, finish it and step back. All right. Is this just as is?
00:52:50
Speaker
Upgrade one. Alright, and now we're... Oh, so he is adversary three. So whatever it is, it would have been three upgrades. Oh, three upgrades? Yeah. Okay, hang on. It was this, so that's two random purple. Yep. And I won't flip that. Okay. Just leave it two random purple. And they're engaged, so if I roll a despair, I'm hitting... We're saying narratively at the end of his turn, Raynard took a step back. Oh, that's right, he didn't say that. Okay, cool. Here's the thing. Would you like to aim? Yeah, I should aim. That doesn't look bad, right? That looks pretty good. We're probably going to get a despair because...
00:53:21
Speaker
Yeah. No, but I miss success. I miss with due advantage. OK. That's it. Wow. I blast and it shoots past him and goes into the wall on the other side.
00:53:41
Speaker
If you want to say that it's not incompetence on Leoric's part, it could be like a magic ward comes up that Calvair blocks it in. I was actually gonna say he falters. Okay, yeah, yeah. He's going, he tries to step towards the bloodstain that's walked away and falters a bit and just goes over his head. Okay, yeah. Because I want him to look weak when he's killing. Yeah, he's actually coughing up blood now. Right. Next PC slot. Oh, dear.
00:54:08
Speaker
they whips the crossbow abigailer and looses a bolt. Okay, so you're short distance away, so it's normally one purple, but with his adversaries it's going to be one red one purple. You can use a maneuver to aim. Okay, that gives me...
00:54:32
Speaker
Would you like to flip story point to upgrade? Just do it. No, do the story point. Do the story point? Yeah. And so that's going to give me another year. Unbelievable. Wow. What? Seems like fate wants a certain person to do this. I don't believe it's rolling again. So this is just an advantage though.
00:54:53
Speaker
What if I can find it? Jesus. Go this way. And that goes away. And that's to go down now. So there's three advantage. Did you like to pass an upgrade to the next attempt? Did you have any advantage left over on yours? No, I had threat. Threat. And you used it for... Did you use it? I had one threat, I think. Okay, take two points of strain. Abigail. No, literally, you have to do it. I can't. Abigail, what is going on here?
00:55:23
Speaker
He's not even really moving. You know what? I believe this was meant for you to take care of because Leoric really misses. I rarely miss this man. He's got to do something for us here. Give you whatever money you want to stop this now.
00:55:49
Speaker
York's loyal to Eldrin, and Eldrin likes Reynard. Okay. And doesn't need money, I've decided. New York has money, because he's up to Yarlin too. I don't know enough about Thadenden. And now I'm not up on him, because you said I stepped back, so he can't just stab me. His legs still work. He's on the ground. He already said that narratively. He is going to- This is when I get to use his words against him. Sorry, I'll shut up. He's going to throw his dagger at the bloodskewer then. You should have turned around. He gets to use his rage.
00:56:20
Speaker
Probably good. Good. I only have six health points. Y'all might have to do it anyway. I can't think of a set-back or anything. You have three advantage. You could impose an upgrade to the difficulty of his check. Let's do that. And then do you have his one defense in there this time? Yeah.
00:56:52
Speaker
Four advantage. Wonderful. With four advantage he is going to... That sounds like a crit. He has to hate you. I already did. On this one. On this one. We can just pull him from whatever. I hit the ramp ages ago. I'm going to use these four advantage to crit.
00:57:15
Speaker
Okay. He's going to use a talent that he has for all four advantage. He is going to steal a story point. So now you have none. Okay. That is the end of the round. So he takes one wound, one strain. So he is down to. No, he's at his threshold. Basically because you have to exceed your threshold to die. He had two wounds to give. Now he has one to give.
00:57:40
Speaker
as blood just continues to pool and he begins to... He's still on his knees, but he's trying to get up and we have a PC slot. Oh, I was hoping he's going to be laying down. My thing's not as cool now. You can kick him down without a check. You can narratively... Oh, okay. He's pretty weak. Yeah. But my thought is I really want to become visible again. But I know it's not going to be good when leaving.
00:58:09
Speaker
Trevor, this is your narrative moment. What you want. Yeah. So I think right now walks up to him. Just taps him with his foot to knock him down. Yeah. Very gently like an elf would places his foot on top of the knife in his heart. Yep. Becomes visible and just says goodbye and pushes down with his foot.
00:58:37
Speaker
Give me an easy, so one purple, uh, coordination check. No adversary rating on this one? He's lost his adversity. Because it's technically combat checks and this isn't a combat check.
00:58:51
Speaker
The blood on the deck or your foot slips off of it. Oh, well, you did. That's one, two, three, four success, one advantage. OK, so yeah, you just. Your foot plants on the presses down and you just hear it and you see the eyes kind of glass over as he's staring at you as you become visible and the blood begins to cool underneath him and there's quiet in the warehouse.
00:59:20
Speaker
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Speaker
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