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Ep. 34 A Ghost With A Contract
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We had finally done it. We had finally overstayed our welcome in Wildhill. Someone was clearly out to get us as a barrage of arrows and magic blades assault us from the trees. Goblins, surely under the employ of Darnaldi. We're outnumbered, but hopefully not outmatched. Gwen has shown her prowess as she embodies the animals of the wild. Davon has unleashed raw power from his own hands, weaving magic with ease. Joxxer has rained a flurry of fists and slashes with otherworldly speed and agility, and I, Krigs, I've used tactics and cunning to weigh the battle in our favor. But I still worry it might not be enough as, in the chaos, the ghost like-leader of this ambush emerges.
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Introduction and Setup
Ambush in Wild Hill
00:00:13
Speaker
Previously on the Hired Swords. We'd finally done it. We had finally overstayed our welcome in Wild Hill. Someone was clearly out to get us as a barrage of arrows and magic blades assault us from the trees. Goblins. Clearly under the employ of Darnaldi. We are outnumbered, but hopefully not outmatched.
00:00:42
Speaker
Gwyn has shown her prowess as she embodies the animals of the wild. And Daven, Daven has unleashed raw power from his own hands, weaving magic with ease.
Battle Tactics and Leadership
00:00:54
Speaker
Joxer has reigned a flurry of fists and slashes with otherworldly speed and agility, but I... I Krigs. I've used tactics and cunning to try and wade the battle in our favor.
00:01:09
Speaker
But I still worry it might not be enough, as in the chaos, the ghost-like leader of this ambush emerges.
00:01:44
Speaker
You're listening to The Hired Swords, a Dungeons and Dragons podcast where robes and wizard hats are optional. You see standing there under the tree just about five feet away from you, you see a
00:02:13
Speaker
a human man in robes and leather pants, and he's got a cloak on, and he's holding, he's lifting his hand up to draw his daggers back, and he has a rapier in the other hand, and he grins at you, and gives you a little wink. And Gwyn, we're at your turn. Who saw that? Josh. Josh, sir. Yeah, I'm so livid.
00:02:40
Speaker
I immediately stand up glaring at this guy in front of me and I... Oh gosh. I'm gonna do poison spray. Okay. Gwendolyn with some nasty stuff. Yeah. Get all over him. All right. So constitution saving throw.
00:03:07
Speaker
I don't know if a goblin's constitution is going to be real good. It's a plus zero. Oh, great. Beautiful. Thirteen. No. Fails. It's got. So get them with a d12 poison damage. It's a seven.
00:03:26
Speaker
That's exactly what you need. Whee! So again, this one gets poisoned like the one did up in the other tree, and it just... And this foam starts to come out of its mouth and it grabs its... It falls to its knees and looks up at you, its eyes get really big, and hits the ground dead. As soon as I get him, I'm going to start looking around. Okay. For anything in particular? For other creatures that are hidden. Okay.
00:03:56
Speaker
All right. Uh, I'll say make a perception check with your bonus action because you know what? Why not? It's not going to be great anyways. Um, four plus seven, 11.
00:04:10
Speaker
11. You currently, you now notice the guy that's standing, the two that are standing over there by Joxer, the rogue-ish looking guy, and then the goblin with a little more heft and armor, but that's it. So I guess that'll do your turn then? Correct.
Mishaps and Struggles
00:04:28
Speaker
Okay, Krigs. Do I see the goblin in the tree with me, and is the rogue in a different tree? You see the goblin.
00:04:39
Speaker
The rogue is not in a tree. He is on the ground. Okay. Um, how, what is the overall distance from me to the goblin and me to the road? You're about 10 feet away from the goblin. You're about 35 feet away from the, from the rogue. If you were to just like go straight towards him, but going down, you'd be going down the tree 15 feet. So you'd be about 30 feet away from him climbing down the tree and then going to him. Okay.
00:05:10
Speaker
I am going to. Is the goblin higher or lower than me? He's right about level. OK, he's he's been climbing down towards you now, so he's close to I'm going to just take I mean, I'm I'm I've got footing on the branches and I'm assuming that the branches here are.
00:05:32
Speaker
It's a dense forest, so it's not like a rickety tree. I'm going to run at this goblin and try to wrap both my arms around it and with all of my force, leap forward and try to take both of us to the ground and have him land, softening my landing.
00:05:57
Speaker
and hopefully doing damage to him okay so you're gonna make a acrobatics check first one diving with the goblin and then you're gonna make a grapple check to see if you can bring him with you okay cool which one are you gonna make then you're gonna make another acrobatics check to see if you can turn him in the direction you want to turn him i mean so let's see if you can leap to him first with that first acrobatics check oh well that's a nat one
00:06:23
Speaker
Okay. So you, as you kind of step to leap off the branch of this tree, the branch snaps crack and you fall straight down, but first down to the ground and you take six points of bludgeoning damage as you hit the ground 20 foot fall. And, um, and the, the goblin is unfazed.
00:06:52
Speaker
He's laughing. He's incapacitated out of laughter. Yeah, right, right, right. So now you are on the ground, a little bit more damage, but you are able to probably move another 10 feet if you need to, and then do, you know... Too far away from you to the rogue, I'm assuming. Yeah, by about five feet. Cool.
00:07:16
Speaker
I think I'm just going to walk over to the the Gerblin that is currently being held by Joxer. OK. And basically try to free him up protecting the fact that we have this goblin captive and free Joxer up because he's probably more inclined to be able to take on this roguish guy than I currently am, because I just fell 20 feet.
00:07:42
Speaker
OK. Yeah, and he he should be completely tied up, I think. I just want to make sure he's not like squirming and getting out of here and try to keep him protected from, you know, whatever. OK. All right. So that's that's the end of your turn, then. So you're going to do. Yeah, I'm not going to. I don't I can't do anything except.
00:08:05
Speaker
Be lame. All right, so except be lame. All right, so then we've got three more goblin arrows fly towards you, Krigg Scalder. The first one is a 22 to hit, another 22 to hit, and then a four to hit. I got, that took two. Okay, so the first one does five damage, the second one does five damage, weird.
00:08:34
Speaker
I don't like any of this. Ten Total Demage. And then you can see now after those arrows fly kind of exposing themselves as they feel not exposing themselves, but showing up coming out of hiding where if you feel like they are they are they feel like they're they're doing some damage. Two more two of these other goblins finally appear that have been firing at you this whole time. OK.
00:09:04
Speaker
And they're down across the path to your west. And then the big goblin that that the big boss goblin guy that Daven had is just going to struggle to try to get out of the restraint. So he is going to. The one jocks are had jocks are sorry. Did I say Daven? Yeah. Can we both contest his strength check as we're both right here? I'm trying to think because he's fighting against the ropes now.
00:09:32
Speaker
I will wrap him up in a bear hug. He's going to answer questions. Get him. The creature struggles and struggles and is not he's there's no way for him to break free from free from this with the two of you standing there. He he's he's trying to get out and he's just restrained and stuck. So he just starts yelling out in goblin and he's just like, does anybody speak goblin?
00:10:00
Speaker
I don't think I do, but let me double check. Is it similar to common? It is not. Then I don't speak it. No, I do not.
00:10:09
Speaker
OK, so he's just you just hear him just kind of like gibberish, just like. But he's
Magic and Combat Developments
00:10:21
Speaker
like furious and he won't take his eyes off Joxer as he's cursing out Joxer in Goblin. Davin takes us to your turn. Am I within 30 feet of Krigg Scaldor? 30 feet of Krigg Scaldor. You are.
00:10:39
Speaker
I'm going to rush that direction. And as I do, um, I am going to pull the roguish type person directly toward jocks or five feet. So that's it with the bonus action mage hand. Okay. He has to make a save. Yeah. It's a strength 15. Okay. Strength saving throw. Okay. Well, that's the one thing 15, he rolled a nine. So where are you pulling him towards five feet closer to jockser? Okay. So
00:11:11
Speaker
Check something here. That way it makes it harder for him to escape. OK, so you grab him and you and he shoves forward right towards Joxer and now he's basically right in your face and he looks around like what just happened? And he lifts his sword up to his face as if to like salute you and
00:11:38
Speaker
And that's, yeah, he does that. Davin, is that your whole turn? No, that was my bonus action. So for my action, I'm going to place my hand on Craig's Galdor, and I'm going to use one sorcery point. No, I'm going to use two sorcery points to cast Twin Spell, and then I'm going to cast Cure Wounds on both of us at the same time. Okay. So that's going to be 2d8, which I have right here. That's going to be 16 healing to both of us.
00:12:09
Speaker
16 each. Nice. And that's going to get you the end of my turn. Thank you very much. As I pat him on the shoulder and I heal him, I say, remember a trained warrior killed. Nice. OK, so that takes us to Jox's turn.
00:12:27
Speaker
Oh, man. I guess after seeing him wink and then raise his sword, assuming this is a rapier-style item, Joxa will reluctantly raise his sword a bit and then attack twice with his rapier. Okay. Basically saying, looks like you are the one to talk to about Dernaldi.
00:13:01
Speaker
and then a 22 for those attacks. Okay, so the first attack, you swing and it's swinging true, but he lifts his frigid, his rapier up super fast and strikes it out of your, out of the way and parries it, adding two to his AC and you miss him. And so then the second hit, however, you've come around and you're able to slice right across him. So roll your damage for the second attack. Okay, where is the D8 again?
00:13:19
Speaker
So that is a 17.
00:13:31
Speaker
There it is. That is... That one's hard to read. Five plus three, eight. Eight damage.
00:13:44
Speaker
All right, so it slices across him and he gives you one of those laughs. And then, yeah, I'll spend another key point and kind of turn my rapier down and get closer and then swing twice at him with my fists. Is this the Dread Pirate Roberts? Yeah. I know something you do not know. OK, so that's 18 to hit.
00:14:11
Speaker
18 as you swing he once again He lifts his sword up and the the guard on his sword catches your fist and pushes your arm away And he parries your your swing So is he actually am I missing is that what or no? So 15 to hit on that end Well, no wait, what was the first one? I
00:14:34
Speaker
That was a 17. Okay. Yeah, so that one misses and then the second one was a 15 Yeah, okay, both of them miss him without the Perry and I shouldn't I narrated the Perry which he shouldn't use because he already used it once it's a reaction So yeah, he didn't need it anyway. So yeah, so both of those he pushes one out of the way and then dodges out of the way of the other one and
00:14:57
Speaker
and then kind of leans back a little bit like he's ready to actually, he's done toying with you. And at that point I'll pull up my rape here and just be prepared. Okay. And then a goblin drops down out of the tree behind you, Gwendolyn. And another one comes around the corner there behind you and they both shoot bows at you.
00:15:23
Speaker
The first one is only a 13. The second one's a natural one. His bow breaks. He can't shoot a bow anymore. And that takes us to...
00:15:38
Speaker
The guy in your face jocks her as he leans back on his back foot and he begins to make his two attacks with his rapier. The first one is a 15. Does not hit. The second one is a 28. That hits.
00:15:59
Speaker
So he stabs directly at you and catches you just on the left side of your stomach with the rapier and it goes in pretty good doing 12 damage. And then as he pulls it out, you feel freezing cold on your, where the rapier is pulling out and it's like ice starts to spread from the wound and you take 10 cold damage as well.
00:16:29
Speaker
Oh, so. All right.
00:16:35
Speaker
And he turns to the side and kind of points the rapier at you over in front of his face as he kind of arcs his arm over and strikes this fancy fencing pose with you and kind of settles himself for more. Gwendolyn, it's your turn. I'm going to turn around.
00:17:04
Speaker
and notice these guys behind me and I want to do something I've never done before. Okay. I'm going to conjure minor elementals. Oh, that sounds fun. Okay. Nice. Why does every spell you have at it? It's like a book. I know, right? Sorry. Read any spell you have.
00:17:31
Speaker
All right, so Gwen, is that your whole turn then? Yeah. All right, Krigs. All right. Having gotten a little bit of inspiration from Daven, how close am I to this fancy rapier guy? Well, he's right across the side of the tree trunk from you. You'd have to go around the tree to get to him. So we're talking like five, 10, and then
00:18:00
Speaker
five, 10. So like 25 feet to get around the tree to get to him. Perfect. I'm going to go around the tree and get right up there right behind him. Okay. And I am.
00:18:13
Speaker
hopefully not observed having just snuck around and he's in a deadlock with jocks here but I'm gonna I'm gonna swing my war hammer two-handed as hard as possible um at this guy from a flanking position remembering that I am a soldier and have tactics good so yeah make your attack roll with advantage uh 19 plus my seven so yeah hits
00:18:43
Speaker
And that was two-handed. Let's go ahead and add my damage up. You added up. Dimash. 9 plus 8, 17 plus 2, 19. All right.
00:18:56
Speaker
So you run up behind him and kind of run around the tree and when you get to the backside of him you just swing and you crack him right on the backside with his hammer right below his neck and then between his shoulder blades and just is as loud thump as you hit him.
00:19:13
Speaker
And he kind of cries out like that. And you hear something crack inside there. And he leans up and kind of rolls his shoulders back. Like, that was a serious thud for him. It did not feel good. But he's standing strong. Anything else you'd like to do? I'm going to take another swing at him after. As soon as he's still shaking it off, I'm coming back overhead with another two-handed attack. OK. Would I still have advantage? Yeah.
00:19:43
Speaker
Yeah, that's just because you're flanking. It's just because you're on the other side of charts or rules. So the idea is not able to keep your focus on both at once. So 22. Oh, yeah. Heady hit. 10 plus what is my bludgeoning? A lot. Hold on. OK, yeah, 10 plus eight plus two 20 damage. All right.
00:20:13
Speaker
Again, you swing again and crack. He feels like maybe you crunched some ribs or something as he just thuds against his side. He just kind of bears down with a pain ready to act again when the time comes. Is that all you're going to do? Yeah. That was a lot. I'm not saying that was, you know. That is pretty much what I have time for. I might kind of in the moment
00:20:43
Speaker
Just sort of like chuckle to myself and give a wink over to Daven from around the back into that tree. Okay. Lean back and wink. Got it. All right. So these other three goblins that are down, two of them are down on the ground now. One of them's up in the tree. The one in the tree fires at Daven with his bow and fires a 17.
00:21:06
Speaker
I'm going to use my reaction again to cast Shield, so it misses. So that misses, and then the other two come up to you, to your face. Yeah, I can reach. So they both get up there to your face, and they both attack you with their scimitars. The first one rolling a 18, the second one a 14. Both miss thanks to Shield.
00:21:30
Speaker
Oh, is this day at the whole turn until my next turn? Yep. Oh, yeah, that's great. All right. So, yeah, it's they swing their scimitars and that your your magical shield kind of pulsates with every time the scimitar hits it and they look at each other like, what is this? And that is that orange guy still just struggling.
00:21:51
Speaker
the other gobble, the big goblin with the with the mohawk and stuff. He's still struggling. He's still swearing and and at Joxer and Davin, it's your turn.
Power Moves and Strategies
00:22:03
Speaker
Not a big fan of things being my face. I'm going to. Again, I'll use my bonus action to pull one of the goblins, the one that's just south of me to try and pull him five feet away from me.
00:22:18
Speaker
Okay, so it's a 15 strength check again for him Roll the 16 17 minus 1 fine. He says yeah, okay So you your mage Hank grabs him and pulls on him and he leans forward and slips out from its grasp All right. All right I'm tired of these guys the one in the tree is he within 30 feet are he's within 120 feet of me of course Oh, yeah, is he within 30 feet of me? Yeah, just just within 30 feet okay at the edge of 30 feet I
00:22:46
Speaker
Once again, I'm going to cast Chaos Bolt at second level and I'm going to use two sorcery points to Twin it and cast it on the same guy. Just tried to pull away from me So it's gonna hit split off one's gonna hit the guy in the tree and one's gonna get the guy right next to me
00:23:02
Speaker
Okay. So the guy in the tree is a 13, but I'm going to use music everything. I'm using favored by the gods, which allows me to roll 2d4 and add it to that. So that's an extra four. So that's 18 to hit the guy in the tree. And then the guy in front of me would be with disadvantage, right? Because he's within five feet of me on a range attack. Yes. But even at disadvantage, that's a 19.
00:23:32
Speaker
Nice. Wow. That's a good rolling there. Both of them. So the guy in the tree is going to take 14 damage of, man, I, it's real hard to remember all these different damage types there. 14 lightning damage. Oh, plus an extra D eight, right? Yeah. D six. That's right. Plus an extra six.
00:23:57
Speaker
So your white lightning damage crackles out from you and wraps around this thing and then this blue crackle kind of emerges from it too and wraps around and just destroys this guy. Turns him into ash basically. Nice. And the one just south of me takes 15 total points of force damage.
00:24:17
Speaker
All right, so the force damage hits him and just thuds and it like rattles his insides and he looks at you and as he opens his eyes wide in his mouth, you see the crackle of lightning inside of his mouth and his eyes kind of shine blue from it as well. And the same electrical energy just shot through that that spell again. Devin turns to the last one who's there and you see his eyes just crackling of lightning. He's like, this is getting kind of fun.
00:24:41
Speaker
Yeah, and and you hear you hear a voice inside you that in your mind that says do it again That's my turn is that it okay jocks are okay, I'm feeling a little bit more confident now that I have Krigs flanking the other side. I'm gonna do two two rapier attacks I'd like to know more information stranger
00:25:08
Speaker
Twenty-two. Hits. And twenty-one. Hits. Okay. Oh, and that was without advantage. I should probably do. No, those were real bad. Okay. You can roll poorly, just when it's not, doesn't count. Seven and eight. Okay. That is... So eight damage. And eleven damage.
00:25:37
Speaker
So 19 damage total. Yeah. All right. So you swing that right here and you get him a couple of times and he just takes it, you know, like, like a man, but it's, it definitely hurts him. Anything else? I'm going to use my key point to, to settle myself and, uh, and do, um,
00:26:01
Speaker
Uh, patient defense. So I'm just going to settle, settle back and, and do a dodge action as a bonus action. That'll be my last key point. Sounds good. Sounds good. All right. So these two goblins behind you, Gwendolyn, they're going to try, they're freaked out a little bit by these creatures you just summoned. So they're both going to, well, one of them is going to fire a bow at, at one of them.
00:26:26
Speaker
because the other one lost his bow, remember? So 10, 10 doesn't hit them, I assume. Yeah. So they both fire and then they run away. One of them can only go half or the regular speed. The other one can go twice that. So they start to run away. The two goblins do. Carl's turn. I'm going to have.
00:26:55
Speaker
Carl fly to him. Okay. Um, well, Carl's going to go to this first one. Okay. And I can't move him. Uh, he is going to do claw attack at the far, the guy who ran the furthest.
00:27:22
Speaker
The closest they can only go 30 feet. Okay, so he's flying to the guy this goblin that was only able to run after trying to fire fire an arrow and Makes a claw attack make that attack Well, does he have armor on the goblin? Mm-hmm. Yeah, he's wearing leather armor. Oh leather interesting No, we're gonna do the claws. Let me roll. Okay, I
00:27:50
Speaker
10 plus 3 13 13 damage or 13 to hit 13 does not hit
00:27:58
Speaker
Oh, it's okay. I didn't want to play with him anyways. The creature swings its claws down and scratches at that armor on the, on the goblins chest, on the back of the goblin, actually, as it start trying to run away. It's the goblins. It's like swinging its hands up over its head, trying to whack this creepy creature off of it. Quincy's turn. Hmm.
00:28:27
Speaker
I kind of want Quincy to go down here. Yeah. He's your, he's your Mephet. He's my old Mephet. Um, they have this cool ability where they have death bursts, but I don't immediately want to kill him. Nice. Um, let's see. I want to put him down.
00:28:55
Speaker
towards this rogue person. I don't think that'll work. All right. I'm just going to do claws over here towards Daven and we'll just go ahead and get that guy out of the way. Okay. So yeah, you can go right there.
00:29:13
Speaker
All right, so this creature flies right by your face, Davin. This weird, ice, almost like bat devil looking creature flies right by your face. I can't spanishment. Oh, it's not my turn. Never mind. And it hovers next to the goblin that you're fighting. Hi, Quincy. It's eleven. Eleven does not hit. It strikes down at this goblin with a with its claws and the goblin swings up its its scimitar and parries the claws away. What else?
00:29:44
Speaker
Um, Glendolin's going to be looking back and forth trying to keep an eye on both these creatures. Okay. And she's probably just hearing Dale just yell at her like, you have no idea what you're doing. Okay. It's getting so judgmental these days. Yeah. So this brings us back to the rogue and he, he lifts his rapier up and he looks at Joxer and swings at disadvantage.
00:30:14
Speaker
disadvantage because you're on uncanny dodge right yeah yeah he rolled it he rolled a 21 oh that'll hit and he says as he's swinging he says he says it's time to finish you swings at you and let's see that is a d8 plus 5 oh
00:30:39
Speaker
13 piercing damage plus plus 2d6 cold damage
00:30:47
Speaker
11 plus 11 cold damage. That'll do her. Yeah, so Joxer falls unconscious as this rapier strikes him right in the gut, and Joxer looks up his eyes wide, and the rogue slowly pulls this rapier out, and as it slowly pulls out, he leans in and he says to Joxer, and Krigs, you can probably hear this, he says,
00:31:17
Speaker
Darnoldi says, your debt is paid. And pulls it the rest of the way out.
Critical Moments and Turning Points
00:31:23
Speaker
And as he pulls it out, you see ice just kind of crigs you looking and you can see on Joxer, ice crawling up his belly where the sword has been removed and Joxer just falls down in a heap, unconscious. And then...
00:31:43
Speaker
Yeah, and that is it for his turn. Gwendolyn, that brings us to you. I can't do what I want to do. I'm sorry. Because I'm concentrating on this spell. Oh, yeah. That's how you have to keep them here. Got it.
00:32:09
Speaker
I just yell out, no, and I just yell, kill them. And I owe that to Quincy and Carl. Okay. That's all you're able to do. Uh, yeah. Okay. All right. Craig's how, how does this road guide look?
00:32:29
Speaker
He is, he looks like he can go for a little while still. Oh, great. He looks hurt, but he's, you know, he's kind of wiping the blood off his cheek and bearing down for more. Okay. I am going to very angrily just fully upset having just watched jocks or fall and having the whole
00:33:00
Speaker
The whole event just happened in a swing two handed at the most, the weakest, most vulnerable spot that I can get on this guy and just try to obliterate him. Okay. All right. Do I still have advantage? Cause he's still technically engaged. Okay. He's not engaged. He's unconscious. 21. Yeah. That'll hit. Uh,
00:33:29
Speaker
Is it possible for you to roll below a 20? Just kidding. It's unlikely. Yeah. It's pretty good. 16 damage.
00:33:42
Speaker
16 damage. All right So you swing and you go for his head and he's trying to get with the most impact as possible as you swing at his head He leans back and you catch him across the chest and it just thought it it rouses chest comes back with a wheeze and and he's he's looking he's looking starting to look pretty rough now after that hit but he
00:34:09
Speaker
turns and lifts his sword up at you next. What are you going to do now? I'm having swung side across and grabbing getting getting getting his chest using the momentum of the hammer. I am
00:34:24
Speaker
I'm going to swing my hammer back around and I'm going to attack him two handed, but coming up kind of like a, not a golf swing, but I am coming in an upwards motion, just trying to, to get as much of him as I can in an attack. Okay. Come on, baby. 17 plus. Yeah, it hits. Yep. So brought your damage.
00:34:52
Speaker
as you swing and he's trying to kind of dodge out of the way, but you catch him anyway. The big thud swinging from down to up, catching him on his chin. Eight plus eight plus two, so 18. 18. All right. So that breaks his jaw when you hear this crunch and he...
00:35:15
Speaker
He starts to kind of open his mouth and kind of try to figure out how to get his jaw back in place. And is that all? Is that your whole turn? Yeah. I'm just going to look him dead in the eye and just have that little smirk on my face like.
00:35:34
Speaker
Yeah, this is this is as far as you get is where you stand. OK, and so this guy sees this creature in its face. This this goblin looks up and you see it shriek at this weird method creature that's in his face and just runs off and starts and disengages and tries to start to run away. Can I use my reaction to make an attack with a weapon that I surely have?
00:36:00
Speaker
Not with it, not with him disengaging. Oh, yeah, he's disengaged. Damn. And then the guy that is wrapped up now that Krigs is gone and Joxer has fallen, he falls to the ground and starts to roll away. The only way he can figure out how to move. And he's only going to go. Restrain would be zero movement, right? Zero movement. Oh, yeah, he can't even do that, can he?
00:36:27
Speaker
You're right, you're right. Good call. Rules lawyering me. For the sake of hilarity, I'm saying he's rolling. Is he going to get away? Yeah. Is he going to get away? No, he's not going to get away. I was going to let him go 15 feet away from you as he tries to get around the tree to get away rolling down the... Can we say it's a slight incline so he's rolling but then rolling right back into the same spot?
00:36:55
Speaker
Yeah, he goes five feet. Yeah, I'm unconscious, so I don't really have any say on it. So there's goblins laying there rolling, trying to roll away, not able to get up the hill away from this path. And that brings us to Davin's turn. Davin will rush over to Joxer and he'll kind of get down on his knees and place both hands on his shoulders. And he will whisper a little prayer of healing and he'll cast Cure Wounds at third level.
00:37:23
Speaker
just three D eight plus four. Who are you praying to? That's none of your business. Uh, that's 16. Wait, nope. That's more than that. Um, that's 12 plus four is 16. I can do math. 16 points to, um, jocks are to bring him back to life. And then once he comes to consciousness, I'll say, all right, now we've all fallen. Now get back up.
00:37:50
Speaker
Yeah, Joxer's eyes just light up with rage. He's ready. Okay. And that's it. That's all I'm doing. Great. All right. It's Joxer's turn. I spun him around for you, buddy. So I'm going to start with the two attacks for the rapier. So that is a 23 and a 24.
00:38:16
Speaker
Two hits. All right. I can hear it in your voice, man. Ready to do this. I'm sure he's not quite there. So that's going to be seven damage. And then that's going to be nine damage.
00:38:32
Speaker
Okay. And then I have two thoughts. I'm gonna go with a different defense. So I'm gonna do, you're just gonna see me like kind of put my hands together and then spread them back out and kind of this little purple aura surrounds me in 10 feet radius that reduces all damage by half to be as my bonus action. Okay.
00:38:58
Speaker
And I just yeah, and you just hear don't need. Dornaldi is going to going to have to charge back a little bit more. He's about to get a nickel back. Look at this photograph. So he you swing that that rapier of yours at him and he tries to parry with his and it's not he's not able to do so. And it slices. You slice across his belly a couple of times and
00:39:26
Speaker
he kind of starts to hunch over a little bit and looks up at you and he looks back at Davin behind you who just healed you and looks over his shoulder at Craig's and he just kind of shakes his head and we're at Carl's turn now. Oh no, these guys have to try to continue to run away. This guy's gone. Hang on. So the goblins are running, still fleeing. So the ones up north.
00:39:56
Speaker
And this guy is grappled. Okay. Yeah, the bigger, more kind of impressive looking goblin, he's grappled. So it's Carl's turn. Carl is just gonna move this way. Carl the Lava Mephet. Okay. My magma guy. So he flies down towards where Daven and Joxer in the group is. Then Quincy is gonna come on the other side of Joxer.
00:40:26
Speaker
Flies over next to Joxer. And since Carl's making his way downtown, uh, Quincy is going to attack this guy. Well, no, let's attack the rogue guy. Okay. So Quincy is going to attack the rogue. Um, we're going to do claws. Okay. Claw attack. Uh, 12 plus three, 15, 15 will not hit. Ah,
00:40:57
Speaker
So the claws, dodges out of the way of the claws and kind of chuckles at the creature that tried to swing down at him. Quincy Dunn, or is Carl Dunn not able to do anything? Yeah, he can't really. Well, he can try. Let me measure something out. He would hit Krigs. OK.
00:41:19
Speaker
if he did this thing. Krig's a beefy boy. How beefy are you? I want to see it. Everybody's like, come on. We're going to fire breath. Okay. Maybe don't do it. A 15 foot cone of fire. Each creature in the area must make a DC 11 dexterity saving throw. It's 30 D six damage. Yeah, right. So
00:41:48
Speaker
Um, I didn't save. I rolled a two, six, 16. Oh, well. So I rolled a two and my dexterity is negative one. So I rolled a one hit. Oh, no. You go to dodge out of the way and you just dive straight into the fire. So on a failed, you take 10 damage and on a half, they take five. We Gucci.
00:42:15
Speaker
And with this, with evasion, this guy's able to kind of duck behind a tree branch or whatever really well and evade any damage at all. It's just Kriegs. Why? It's a Kriegs, a Q. I thought there was no PvP in this group. Look at one. We spent the last two episodes PvPing. Practically. Yeah. In the sky and then grappling the wolf. I don't know. All right, is that everything?
00:42:43
Speaker
Yeah, for those guys.
00:42:45
Speaker
Okay. So, so this guy that you just hit or tried to get with fire, he, he stepped, he kind of steps back out from around where he was hiding away from this, these flames. And he looks around and you can see him kind of looking and he doesn't look panicked, but he's assessing the situation again.
The Rogue's Proposal and Conclusion
00:43:05
Speaker
Yeah. And he says, listen, listen, the name's Carmen, Carmen stone. And I believe we can make a deal if you're interested.
00:43:17
Speaker
What kind of deal? He says, well, I was sent here to take down your friend here and I have done it. Let me go and you will never see me again. My job has been completed. As long as I get home in time to collect before you do, I can be long gone and game over. You understand?
00:43:44
Speaker
I understand that you're at a very big disadvantage right here. Let's talk a little bit more safely. Drop your weapons to the ground, and then we'll have a conversation on what we're going to do. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. First of all, I lost my right-hand man just a while ago. Please do not take away my other one. Can you untie him? Then I will put my weapons down.
00:44:09
Speaker
I think that that sword would do well on my person before we made that kind of deal. Well, I believe that what you seek are answers. If I was in your position, that's what I would be seeking, and so I have some, possibly. Maybe that is what I offer you, and my sword stays with me. Carmen, was it? It still is. Carmen, I would start talking.
00:44:42
Speaker
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00:44:52
Speaker
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