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Ep. 37 Time Is Short - Bellum Draconis
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In a twist of fates, new hero Magnus has been defeated by the Guard Drake. The remaing party plus Jander attempt to slay the fearsome beast.
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade
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Transcript
Ian's Concerns About the Game's Direction
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I don't fucking care I'm dead. You look sad Ian, you look sad. I'm gutted with how this is going.
Episode Introduction: Fellowship of the Tabletop Bellum Draconis
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Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop Bellum Draconis. We are all playing a live play 5D D&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Erith in the Kingdom of Sleepguard.
Dungeon Master and Character Introductions
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My name is Mark and I am the Dungeon Master and also with us for this week's episode we have Callum who plays the Warforged Artificer Alpha
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Stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Oh, too soon, man, too soon. Danny, who plays the lizard folk fighter, Yander? Bonjour. We've got Willy, who plays the human cleric, Enron. He was older. Oh, and we've got Darren, who plays the high elf, artifice of rain, Tadao. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done, Mark. Sorry.
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special level of health killing off a character who's just joined. Oh Christ, I know. And if you don't know what we're talking about, I recommend going back and listen to the last episode because it was a bit of a nail biter and bit of a cog crusher. Oh, too soon. And to hear a little bit more of the update, I'm sure it's gonna be quite a quick and chronicle return from what happened last week. We passed over to our chronicler, Danny, for an update on last week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop.
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in the last page of our adventure, our not-yet-heroes, the original trio of Emron, Rains, and Alpha, alongside their traveling companion, Orla, and alongside their two new friends in Yanda and Magnus.
Recap: Magnus's Tragic End
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They attempted to defeat the guard drake they had been hunting as part of their contract. In the concluding moments of last week's episode, Magnus sadly perished.
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What's left, we shall find out.
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We're all take this in before we all realize this needs to end before any kind of processing can take place. We pick up at the end of the guard drake's turn. Just a reminder for those listening and for those playing, obviously, the order is Yander, the guard drake, Rains, Alpha, Emron, Orla, in terms of our round. We just had the guard drake's turn passing over into Rains. Rains, your turn. You're currently behind,
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Speaker
A series of trees to the east of the guardrake. The guardrake's on the edge of the river. You're also on the edge of the river, but more to the east behind a series of trees near a tent. You're also close to Enron, about 15 feet. He's about 15 feet in front of you and a little bit to your left.
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yandere is up close and personal with the guard drake alpha you're off to the northeast and all it is directly off to the north stood atop of a rickety structure made by the grungs who inhabited the space prior to your desolation of their home and destruction of their lives. Reins it is your turn what would you like to do?
Rains's Melancholy Attack
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Reins processes what he's just seen and the advice that he was given from yandere
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just goes from his brain. He's going to walk back up next to Enrom and when he gets there, NC's going to fly over to him and land on his shoulder and the interface is going to come back onto the Rubik's Cube and it's just going to be dot dot dot and this very kind of like sad almost like melancholy feeling can be felt from
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from NC almost as if there is some kind of hive mind that in this very brief time has been interlinked and allowed this creature to develop in a way that it hadn't before. NC feels kind of like when Order 66 happens and Yoda can feel it happen. NC has felt whatever has just happened.
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And Rains is just going to look at Emrom and is then just going to say, you know, let's hit this fucker with all we've got. And Rains is going to cast Magic Missile at the Drake. All right, how much damage do I take? Because there's no role for it, is there? Yeah, I'm just trying to find it. Apologies, I haven't done Magic Missile for a while. It's all right. I'm just going to move NC back towards you. Oops, I've grabbed your hand.
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It's rolled max damage, which is good. So it's four darts, five points of damage for each dart. It takes 20 points of damage. These arrows come smashing in at all angles, across the neck, across the nape, across the injured tail. It kind of homes and seeks out the damaged points of this guard drake hitting it hard as it groans loud into the air.
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as smoke starts to fill the area around. Sorry, anything else you want to do to Rains? Rains is going to just say to Emron under his breath. I'm sorry, I didn't know. We need to kill this thing quickly. Okay, nice. Thank you very much, Rains, for that. Alpha, your turn. Alpha's stunned at the moment. He's seen
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for the first time, somebody who is like him, somebody of his kin, somebody of a construct, an automaton, however you want to word it, and he's basically seen this creature, vital, disgusting creature attack and then begin to
Alpha's Rage Unleashed
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dissolve away and engulf and eat this creature that Alpha had almost an instant kind of rapport with, some of the unspoken, some of the between senses. And there's going to be a brief moment where voices kind of echo.
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in alpha's mind and for the first time from m1 and range perspective alpha is going to go full rage mode at this state it's something he's not done since the actual days nixon morota and his eyes are going to go bright glowing red and he is sprinting towards this creature as much as what he can do 30 feet worth of movement are going to put me just onto the
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other side of Yandar, but as I'm running, I'm shouting at the top of my lungs, get out the way! I'm hoping Yandar will actually do what he says, and I'm going to move towards, as I said, the left side of this creature.
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Speaker
And straight away, as he's running sparks are going to be flowing away from him. And I am sincerely sorry for this, Danny, especially singing to you. I've got a new character. I'm going to use a spell. I'm going to cast Thunder Wave on this creature, which is a 15-foot cube around me. The rage has just ignited this live energy within Alpha. Oh, no. This nearly killed me when Narota and Nick died. This is what he did when Narota and Nick died.
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In all fairness, yeah, it actually is. It's a constitution saving throw. My dump stat. You've still got a heal, it's fine. Unless he takes enough health to take him over his hit point maximum, which case is instant death, but it's cool. The power of the spell is very unlikely that he will actually do that. You say that now. That's good.
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19 cools and then obviously one for the guard drake as well mark At 9 19 plus 3 3 22 22 okay, so you both pass so you both take seven points of Thunder damage just a spark begin flying away. And if I doubt if I've downed you Danny, I'm very very sorry. I mean
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I don't know what you achieved there, but as long as it made sense to you. It makes sense to my eyes. Are you dying? No, but I might as well fucking be. Oh, God. Well, you're like one, Jesus. Oh, God, this is... Oh, this is like a TPK and I'm not even in charge of it. This is PvP, Mark, so step back and look, have them do the rest. Yeah, I'll finish everybody. It's fine.
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Cool, cool, cool, okay, okay, okay, okay, we're good. Okay, we're fine, we're fine, we're fine. I'm like, oh, oops, sorry, god, that's too soon. It's not your turn now. Well, anyway, Emron, shit, your turn. What would you like to do? Everyone will see Alpha explode in electricity. Everyone's felt that before when we were on the top of that cliff top and it nearly downed Emron and he's gonna see this and be like,
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Oh, for fuck's sake. And he's going to charge forward, screaming Alito's name. And I'm going to flank the creature. And as I do, I'm going to cast searing smite. So as I'm running, the head of the hammer is going to instantly burst into flame. And I'm going to try and attack the creature with my searing smite. All right, roll to hit. Come on. With advantage, because, you know, I'm... Yep, we're flanking.
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The hammer is still on fire until the spell ends.
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Speaker
So you can't even use your spiritual weapon? No, the bonus weapon is the things that anything else I can do. Hang on. Sorry, the Sivering Spire was your bonus action, is that right? Yes. Ah, right, okay, I get it. It's a spell. It takes a bonus action, activates on the weapon, and it's until I hit with a weapon, the spell is active. So, it's a concentration spell. No, there's nothing else I can do. I don't have any more actions I can do.
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All right, cool. Thanks. Sorry about that, everyone. Ola is going to ditch the bow. The Ocrossbow has been fucking useless so far. She's going to pull out a little dagger, seeing this creature eat the strange person, that person that just approached her, that she feels responsible for. She put the notice out.
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she feels responsible. So she's almost got a tear in the eye. She jumps down the 10 feet front of the ground and will start sprinting towards this creature, letting out her own war cry, similar to that of Emron as he did the same thing. She's going to run all the way, going to use a burner action to get it within range of this creature right up in its face so that you've got Alpha, Orla, Yanda, and Emron and the spiritual weapon almost all surrounding this guard drake.
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Speaker
That is the end of all his turn. Yanda, top of the round, your turn. What would you like to do? Okay. So trying to process the loss of his travel companion for the last however many months it's been. Then getting almost destroyed by something that looks like his travel companion. I do apologize. Yanda sort of just going to look over his shoulder towards Reigns.
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and give a firm nod, and then say quietly, I mean, everyone around him would hear, may Selen guide your steps into the dark, my friend. And he's going to raise both of his axes again, and he's going to aim for the belly of this beast if he can, so sort of swing low and under. All right, nice, thank you, roll to hit. I don't know if I'm in flanking, that's the only problem, because there's no one opposite.
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No. No, isn't it? If a creature is flanked, you get thanking? No.
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Speaker
I don't know, actually. I thought you would have to be part of the flanking maneuver. I mean, it might be something quickly worth having a quick look at while you are... Yeah, because that's certain how pack tactics works. Pack tactics. When a creature, and at least one of its allies are adjacent to the enemy, and opposite sides of the corners... Yeah, so unfortunately, just because it's flanked, we don't get that. Yeah. Sorry. I think Darren's right. If it's something like pack tactics, it does kind of. Yeah, pack tactics would make that count, but none of us have it.
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Thanks for checking that, Will. So no, unfortunately you don't have flanking, it's just Emon and Alpha that would have it. Ola wouldn't have it either, so you wouldn't be getting advantage on that. Okay, first roll to hit was a 13. That misses, unfortunately. The head is ducked at the last second. And then my offhand is an 18 to hit. You catch it under the jaw, it does make contact, roll damage. Nice, five points of slashing damage.
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Speaker
Boom, nice. Good as you catch it under the jaw. One of the kind of weak area under one of the femoral arteries. Does it have femoral arteries? I don't know. It's got someone under there. And kind of a little bit of blood bursts and trickles down its neck a little bit. It wasn't a big cup, but it was enough. It starts to cause some damages because she says, twill do, twill serve. Oh, fuck, as if I just quoted Shakespeare. Right. Anyway.
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I'm such a stereotype.
Guard Drake's Desperate Gambit
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Sorry. Okay. Whatever I've got left. I'm just going to let out a cough and just spout our blood onto the floor. No. Okay. Okay. Okay. Right. It is the turn of the guard, Drake. I'm just trying to think like the creature and we're aiming for stuff that's hurt it.
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an emeron if you just rolled better.
00:15:34
Speaker
Oh, you're close. Okay, fine. I'll kill you instead. He's the only throwaway character strike, Danny. Yeah, of course. Yeah. No. Okay. I'm just going to roll a dice instead because I can't, I can't decide. I'm in my own head about this. And I'm still, I'm still sold to characters. You can have two or three, four. I'll do four. I'll do four.
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Speaker
Okay. Um, so the first thing he's going to do is take a swipe against Yanda. I rolled a three and it went one, two, three. Um, with its claw. Okay. Okay. 5919 hits. It's claw. So it's a D four. Okay. One plus two is three, three points of slashing damage. Nope. Okay. Oh, you're not. No.
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Speaker
Okay, so it's gonna turn from you to the next person who's got the most damage, Alpha, and let's take a bite against you. Fuck it, I'm rolling really well, I'm sorry. 22 against your AC. Reaction shield. The shield that's on my arm, just gonna get bigger as this creature lunges or drives at me. Just gonna take my AC up by five, up to 23.
00:16:56
Speaker
Okay, doesn't pass then, so I'll draw the damage for that. Misses. It's going to take its round action, which is engorging. The guard drake moves to the easiest source of food and takes huge bites from it. It recovers 3d6 plus 2 health.
00:17:20
Speaker
At our current situation, the easiest food, I thought it'd be, in my mind, it was the grongs. The grongs were always going to be the source of food because they're dead and they're right there. At the moment, it's surrounded. But Yanda is down. It is going to try and have a little gobble.
00:17:43
Speaker
What's going to succeed? I can't move. Yep, it is. Okay, that's not too bad. Okay, that's bad. Okay, I hope this doesn't take you below. Okay, so it's 12 points plus two, 14 points of, I mean, just damage, damage. Now, just to double check, fucking hell, this is TPK. Each point of damage is a fail.
00:18:08
Speaker
each point of damage each attack each time you each time you take damage until you hit my max okay so that's do i say 14 points of damage so it recovers 14 points
00:18:22
Speaker
you take a fail yes you take a fail so down to one one fail so far no passes just fail pass oh jesus god my heart is like fucking um shaking uh right oh jesus christ have i have i missed no it's fine okay i can crush myself later so that's that's that that's that it can't do anything else it's had its
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Speaker
thingy. It's done two attacks. Okay. It's done. Okay. It's done. It's done. Please kill it now. Hurry up. Kill it. Reigns. Kill it. Kill it. Kill it dead. Kill it dead now. I'm so annoyed at Callum. What I also know is how he had the spell to heal you, but he chose to not get hit himself after hitting you.
00:19:06
Speaker
Okay, Rains needs this guy alive. Rains knows this thing needs to die, but he needs one of these people alive. They have travelled half the world to deliver a fucking message. I haven't got a potion, I'm out of spell slots, but I'm going to at least try and... It's helpless, it's desperate, but Rains will walk forwards and will just throw himself at the deck.
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next to Yander and he's going to try a medicine check just to try and stabilise him. As he jolts down to the ground, he's going to point at Alpha and he's going to go, stop hitting our guys, as he does that. Quite angry at him as he does it. It's just going to fall at the feet and he's going to try a medicine check.
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Speaker
Just to check, does the medicine check negate any negative health that's in place? No. Negative health still matters. Do we just stabilise him and stop him? The negative health is just there to give you a total absolute zero, which is your total health as a negative. All the negative health does is give him a fail. If he takes enough damage to take him to his health maximum, but that's only if you take damage anymore. So I don't think massive damage actually affects him.
00:20:16
Speaker
Yeah, if I take damage equal to the amount my maximum health is, I die outright. Yeah. I was desperate to have a potion, but I don't. So yeah, I'll throw myself on my knees and I will just try and stabilize this guy. Nope, free. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
00:20:43
Speaker
Thank you. Okay. Sorry about that, Raines. Unfortunately, as you're down there, the guard rig is literally right over you. And as you try to concentrate on your newfound companion, the anatomy of the lizard folk, you haven't spent much time around them recently.
00:21:01
Speaker
Oh, they go even more than just the basic anatomy is going to be the same, but this guardrakes right there and the combat and the pressure you're feeling around it and the necessity to keep him alive is all right there. And it becomes a real, a real worry for you. And you can't concentrate and your mind gets taken away from it. And blood continues to pour from him. He's still, he's downed. He's still kind of, he's still alive, but he's down one fail so far.
00:21:27
Speaker
Alright, Reigns, that's you done. Alpha, your turn. You've just heard your father or dad? Father. Dad. Sorry, dad. Call out. Stop hitting our guys. There's some anger in his voice. This creature is affecting you and your group. What would you like to do? You're still feeling that rage emanating through your body. All this just joined you. You're left shoulder. Yandar opposite. Reigns opposite. Emron opposite. It's guard drag right in front of you. What do you want to do?
00:21:52
Speaker
Emron's, not Emron, I'm not Emron, Alpha is a little bit shocked at this. I don't think he's ever really been yelled at properly by Reins in my anger and frustration. He's going to try and fight the rage a little bit in his head. And I don't think there's room for me to do it. But yeah, I'm going to use my movements just to try and skifty over to
00:22:22
Speaker
yander and just try and get him to stop making these death saving throws. I want to do the medicine check for him if I possibly can do. Yeah, sure.
00:22:36
Speaker
Is there an issue with you being within combat range, trying to do a medicine check whilst... No. And there would be an opportunity attack though. I think also you might need healer's kits to do it. No, healer's kits make it easier. You can stabilize, but healer's kits basically give you a 10 and then you add whatever your roll is on to. Gotcha. Ah, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. But no, you know you can pass through Marota, not Marota.
00:23:04
Speaker
Making this worse. You can pass through aller and not leave combat range. Just kill the thing. I don't know how much health it's got. That's a 5 on a medicine check. I do apologise. Thank you for trying everyone.
00:23:26
Speaker
Okay. Thank you very much, Alpha. Emron, it's over to you, but something before you get a chance to have an action, something actually happens to you from your kind of perspective, as you notice. Has you stood there after the flank of this creature? You can see it's eye. It's small lizard-like, yellowed eye. Sorry, lizard-like, no offense, Yanda.
00:23:47
Speaker
something strange happens in your field division ever so slightly. For a second, the eye kind of flashes red for a second. And then again, red with like a black pupil, kind of like eye of Sauron style. We got to get those references in somehow. And you get this deep set loathing, not just wanting to attack and defend, et cetera, but a loathing for this creature in front of you. And you just hear
00:24:14
Speaker
you or something within you, just this kind of echo of this word kind of reverb right through you. It's just the word fiend echoes through you and this sense of rage and anger attaches to it. Okay. Something starts to happen. Something happens to your, physically to your body and happens to your kind of what you might, my reference is your soul, your connection to your, to your God.
00:24:42
Speaker
Something starts to change within you that you've had deep within you for quite some time, given the rage, given the anger, given the necessity of connection to Alito.
Emron's Celestial Transformation
00:24:52
Speaker
Would you like to describe what happens?
00:24:55
Speaker
Yes, so at this point, all of a sudden, light streams from Emron's eyes and two giant golden incorporeal wings sprout from his back. And all of a sudden, he starts to almost float slightly off the ground. And all of a sudden, he looks and his expressions change. It's not Emron's expressions.
00:25:23
Speaker
And he turns to the three, four people next to his right, looks down to them, and then looks at the guard drake. And because I don't have an action to be able to actually attack this round, he's going to turn and in celestial, he's going to speak to the drake and say, draco in mi punyare, which is Latin for fight me dragon.
00:25:50
Speaker
But is it in Yorkshire? Fight me dragon. No, no, it is in. It is in. It is in almost refined RP. This is not. It's not anyone's voice. It's almost. It's like it's neither a male voice nor a female voice. It is both voices in one. Nice. I'm at the end of my turn. You're still muted.
00:26:16
Speaker
Sorry, it's like lockdowns all over again, isn't it guys? I'm so sorry. Orla is in absolute shock at this. Despite everything going on, she just almost drops her dagger as she looks up at the person, everyone that she thought she'd known all this time for six, seven, eight months that they've been companions and just stands in absolute shock and disbelief, not really know what to do and will not take an action.
00:26:43
Speaker
Yanda, top of the round, please, could you make a death saving throw? Here we go. What do you add? Do you add a thing? You don't add a thing. So what did you get? Solid five. Which is a second failure, one more fail and
00:27:08
Speaker
How many times do I lose characters in this game? Like, in just playing this Dungeons and Dragons thing, we do. Okay. The creature, the guard, the guard drake, isn't, this is me, isn't me, I'm gonna do, as I've, as I accidentally took a screenshot of a last turn and then sent it to you, you know what this fifth
00:27:29
Speaker
turn around attack is. For those of you who aren't on our WhatsApp page, aka the people around the table, I will just explain what I accidentally sent the group. I sent them the while while the iron is hot, the guard drake consuming
00:27:46
Speaker
consuming Magnus from the last episode. But this one, this last one is Desperate Gambit. It's not going to take his claw action, not going to take his bite action. It's just going to take the Desperate Gambit, which is a chance for it to try and escape by leveling the player for a little bit. If the guard rig is reduced to 50% of its maximum hit points or lower, it is. It's on 48 of 202 hit points. It makes a Desperate Gambit to turn the tide of battle.
00:28:08
Speaker
It unleashes a deafening roar causing all player characters within a 30 foot radius to make a constitution saving throw. On a failed save they take 3d 10 thunder damage and are stunned to the end of the guard drake's next turn. On a successful save they take half damage and are not stunned. After using this move the guard drake is weakened has disadvantage on attack rolls and will try to flee and try to run away.
00:28:30
Speaker
So, let's just confront the lizard in the room, the elephant in the room here, that either way you pass it or you, let me just check if I've read the thought that's right. If you pass it or you fail it, you die. Right.
00:28:55
Speaker
So even if, because it's still taking damage, so any form of taking damage means you lose, you lose a death save. Even if, even if it's like, okay, so we're gonna add to this case in point that Danny, sorry, Ian passed. Ah, right, okay. Okay. In the chat with Wood.
00:29:17
Speaker
Let's, um, thank you. Let's, let's just run through it. Okay. Let's run everyone else first and make sure we haven't just TPK'd everyone with this, uh, last attack. So could I ask please that, uh, fuck it, Danny, you can roll one as well. If you want, can everyone just roll a constitution saving throw? Okay. It's a DC 14. I'll tell you, you can just tell me if you passed or if you, if you failed it. Okay. So, um,
00:29:40
Speaker
I give you a second to roll. I can tell from your reactions. Some of you are okay, some of you are not, and some of you, I think, are just a little bit stunned. So let's go with Callum. Callum, did you pass or fail the Constitution saving throw? I rolled a nine. So you failed. Okay, that's our first fail. Where is your name, Alpha there? Fail. Raines, what did you get? Pass, 19. Thank you.
00:30:09
Speaker
Will, what did you get? I got a 9. Fail. Danny? I mean, I'm not sure I can make these rolls while I'm dying. Can you make a con save? You can still make save. I rolled a 7, so I failed. Okay, let me just roll the damage and then we'll work the site from the way down. 3d10, 4... This is not as cool as I thought it would be, turning into an angle.
00:30:40
Speaker
and everyone dies around you. Right, so it's 11 points of Thunder damage, but Rains you half it, so you're taking 5 points of Thunder damage, Rounded down, Yanda you're 11, Alpha you're 11, Emron you're 11, everyone accepts.
00:31:00
Speaker
Reigns is, oh, Orla, what did Orla roll for it? Yeah, she failed that. She is down as well. But she only had seven hit points, so she's down as well, but not dead, she's just downed. Right, okay, let's just work this out. That's downed, so Orla's downed, Yanda has taken it, Reigns, you're up and awake and not downed.
00:31:27
Speaker
Okay, good. We've got one person alive. This is good. We can build a party with one, Darren. You and I, we can rebuild- Sorry, I was talking. I should have asked for words, but yeah, I'm up. Cool. Alpha, you're still up and- I'm still up. I'm still up. Okay. Imran? I'm still up. Okay. But we're both stunned, aren't we? You are stunned until the end of the guard drake's next turn. Yanda? He did.
00:31:53
Speaker
I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, if you want, it's your call, it's your call, Danny actually, it's more your call, and I've still got, we've got to finish this off a little bit first, but I'm going to give you a little, a little bit of life after this, because it's going to try and run away. It's either that or it'll die.
00:32:10
Speaker
to say some stuff if you want, so I'll let you hold on. Oh, because Magnus was mid-combat, it's difficult to let that happen, so I think there might be a chance here a little bit. But no, we'll see. Danny, if you want to just die off, it's fine. It's totally your call, but please just think of your obituary.
Guard Drake's Attempted Escape
00:32:28
Speaker
Right, the guard drake is going to try and skulk off. It's got a free turn to move. It's going to move.
00:32:35
Speaker
there. It can't take its action to move because it's already taken its action. Oh, sorry, one mile back because it's got 25 feet. That's the end of its turn. It's to the end of the Godreks next turn. So we go all the way continuing down. Rains, you are next anyway though. You get a chance to do something. You've just, it's just released this roar of energy and push everyone down onto the floor. Some of your companions are incapacitated. You're still upright. What do you want to do?
00:33:05
Speaker
Did you say that any attack against it now is with advantage? Correct. It has disadvantage because it's weakened itself, so you have advantage on every attack you make against it now. Okay, Reigns will see this and look at disbelief and anger will flare. He will pull down on the gauntlet as he's done before and he will just point it at the drake and he's going to fire a bolt of lightning towards it. Roll to hit with advantage.
00:33:38
Speaker
That's a 15 to hit. That misses, bounces. In your rage, you just get aim two high and it hits the Motti covered. A wall just above you there, unfortunately, missing. Moving back down through the list, all it takes are first death save. That's an eight. That's a failure.
00:33:59
Speaker
We roll back up to the guard drake who continues to skulk up round to the corner and starts to try and prepare itself to climb down. It's a bit of a tight gap for it to get down, so it's not going to be able to move all the way down just yet still there at the time. Everyone else is now free from the stunned condition for this round, okay? It no until the end of its next, well, let's say the end of its next turn.
00:34:21
Speaker
He's at the end of this turn and end of its turn. We're now. Yeah. And at the disadvantage or attack rather until the end of its next turn. It's the end of its next turn. So the disadvantage is worn off on it. Um, Raines is back round to you again. Raines will want still here because he's still angry. We'll pursue just getting to a point where he can see it and he's going to fire another shot at it. Okay. Roll to him.
00:34:52
Speaker
Come on, let's get this thing. Sixteen to hit. Sixteen hits, meets it beats. Come on. Okay. Is the damage still doubled? No. Okay, well, it will take six, but I'm going to choose to add the additional d6 to it. So it's taken six points of damage. I'm now going to add the additional d6. Okay. Come on, high damage.
00:35:25
Speaker
Sorry, I've accidentally clicked eight d6s, which is a bit... That's what you'd like to roll, though, I think, wouldn't it? That is what you like to roll. It's another three points of damage. Okay, not bad. Not in total. Okey-dokey, taking it down a little bit, but not all the way down. Okay, thank you very much for that. Everyone else, you're back up and ready to rock and roll. Let's take this thing out. Come on, Alpha. Your turn. You are no longer stunned. You got all in front of you. The creature is just very little corner. You have to move a little bit in order to see it, to take a shot at it if you wanted to fire at it.
00:35:57
Speaker
I think Alfred's still very stunned in all fairness, but yeah. I think men actually physically stand by. I get what you mean. Sorry, ignore me. Yeah, sorry. Character-wise, he's stunned. Yeah, okay. I'm just going to move over a little bit just to get a bit of a line of sight. I'll take a crack at it, try and shoot it. Yeah, I rolled it. Oh, no, not that one. Yeah, you get the loaded dice.
00:36:22
Speaker
uh 22 to hit yeah that hits um six points of piercing damage that's not doubled if that's the thing that you're doing no no just regular for now absolutely uh yeah that comes in uh catching it on his left flank blood again pouring down it's still it's still upright still trying to trying to flee from you emeron your turn you're still in your angelic form at the moment so you're still at the ground
00:36:50
Speaker
Emon will float forward almost to stand or hover slightly just to the side of Alpha. He's going to lean down and his hand is going to cut the side of Orla's face and he's going to say, Awaken, child. And I'm going to use Lay on Hands to heal three points of healing on Orla. Okay. She is stable and up and conscious. And then I'm going to use the rest of my movement.
00:37:21
Speaker
because I've moved 10 feet to continue gliding towards the drape now that Ola is alive. Lovely, thank you very much. Ola is going to take a turning sheepishly kind of look over at Yanda and approach Yanda and trying to complete some kind of medicine check, trying to do something to save Yanda, but obviously she's going to be
00:37:45
Speaker
unable to do so. That's going to be her action. The guard drake is going to do like a 1-2. It's going to duck its head down like it's going down and then it's going to use pounce and it's going to jump 20 feet back towards you and try and attack Emrom. Spin around, boing, jump forward and try and catch you by surprise a little bit there. That is 12 against your armor class.
00:38:14
Speaker
And they're the claw, ah, natural one. Nothing fun happens. Both those myths. I don't have any more round actions. I didn't have to realize it go on this long. I thought I'd had too many anyway. And so it doesn't have a right action. That's it. It spent them all. That's, that's, that's all we're going to go with. That's the end of its term.
00:38:31
Speaker
Rains, your turn. It's now face to face. It's about five feet away from you. Ray, Emeron is right directly in front of you. The guardraker is just the other side of that. Emeron is floating over the pile of grungs. This guard drake, bloodied, blue blooded guardraker is just the other side of the pile. What would you like to do? Rains is going to arm up the gauntlet. He's going to take a step back, not disengage this time, provoking an attack of opportunity. Okay. That's a dirty 20. Yeah, it hits.
00:39:01
Speaker
And that is six points of slashing damage. Okay. Oh, it's all gone very serious, guys. I'm really sorry. I'm going to take a shot at it. Okay. Roll to hit. 19 to hit. Hits. Come on, kill this thing. Okay. Five points of lightning damage, but I'm choosing to add the d6 again.
00:39:31
Speaker
Okay, this might if you were high enough. Four points of lightning damage.
00:39:39
Speaker
Okay, it is up. The shot hits on its eye. The eye kind of bursts an ichor kind of pause down its face. It continues to kind of groan and moan as it turns its head so its one good eye can kind of see Emmer on the sea, the other remaining party members. It is still upright, however, that you did burst its eye. And if you're keeping score, it's used its reaction hitting me, so it doesn't have a reaction now. True that, true that, true that. Thank you very much. Good stuff, Rains. Thank you very much. Alpha, your turn.
00:40:09
Speaker
Alfred's gonna try and get into a better line of sight against his creature and just take another shot with his pistol. Okay, roll to head. And this is what happens. Finish him. And I get a crit. Nice. Nice. Okay, right. Get that damage done. That is seven points of magical piercing damage. Could you please describe how you kill the guard, Drake?
Alpha's Final Blow to the Guard Drake
00:40:41
Speaker
I like to think there's a brief moment of focus and calm that just kind of washes over Alpha at this point despite the chaos. And this calmness just guides his hand a little bit as he pulls the trigger and this burst of magical energy shoots forward and just straight in between the eyes. Energy forces its way down and into his skull and just finishes him off.
00:41:11
Speaker
there's a slight groaning noise from the guard drake as it slowly almost like just sits down legs flail out jaw comes to rest down near the grongs as its final breath helps
00:41:30
Speaker
and there's silence, save for the eternal squawks of the birds of the marsh and the buzzes of the insects across the swamplands and river, the rush of the river behind you, Rains. Rains will immediately, like Arangorn, aim on him when he's chopped that orc's head off, will just run and drop to his knees at Yander's feet.
00:41:57
Speaker
So he's just turned back and he's immediately run. He's dropped to his knees. And whatever life is left within Yander, he's just starting to just put his arms on his shoulders and just delicately looks at him and says, the message from my father, friend. Come on. Come on now. You can't go down that disc. Come on. What was it? Message from my father. Danny, does he have any life left in him? Yander's eyes will roll.
00:42:27
Speaker
to the floor where he last saw Magnus. And then his index finger will rise where Magnus was last stood. Message. He says in Elvish, I am older
00:42:58
Speaker
Find the door. Find promise. And then everything will leave his body. I will. I will, my friend. Thank you. I'm so sorry.
00:43:29
Speaker
The sun reaches its apex in the sky. The cloudless blue above seems oppressive now, where it seems so warming and comforting not a number of hours ago. The grongs lie slain, the guard drake too. But at what cost? Four entered the southern marshlands of Sleetgarde.
00:43:58
Speaker
And only four leave again. Sorry, five. No, four, four. I was right, Will. You can go this way. Shut up. Four leave to get back their mojo, to sort themselves out, to bring themselves back into their place, to get over the loss of their friends, and in doing so,
00:44:24
Speaker
have much to process given the events deep in the shallow-mend marshes. And to find out what, how, when, what, when, how, any of this is going to get sorted, you will have to join us next week for another episode in Stormwind of the Fellowship of the Tabletop. My
00:44:47
Speaker
God, that got intense, guys. I think, ah, right. So, I want a couple of things I've done about housekeeping. I just want to quickly say to everyone out there as well, this, I've been sharing with the group to make sure they've seen, they've been very honest with it, with the character I've created. It's a home-brewed version of a guard drake. Obviously, if you look at the guard drake on Volos, it's a CR2, I think. If that, no way would be a match for the party and the knowledge of our crew as well. The round,
00:45:18
Speaker
Specific moves that I generated is a borrowed technique from Big shout out to Matt Colville and his idea of taking on single enemies and how you can make them more interesting and make them more actually possible for fighting and I just went off the wording of that and so it just the way things have fallen the dice I mean
00:45:36
Speaker
I mean, the failed medicine checks, two failed medicine checks. We came in as three members. We left as three guys. If you could see, Listener, the faces of everyone except for Danny, who is having a stoic smile on his face, everyone else has hand
00:45:57
Speaker
It hurts. It hurts. Hand-covering mouth, trying to figure this out. Despite these characters only being around for one or two episodes, they've had a massive, massive impact. So massive shout-out to Ian and Danny for your characters. Thank you so much. I think we need to just point out as well that these are characters. They weren't plot devices. This is awful. Genuine devastation.
00:46:23
Speaker
And as fun as us sitting in silence trying to process this, I'm sure we need to have a think about it, we need to have a chat about it, we need to let our listeners have a process of it. I hope you're not driving to work or something in the morning and we've just, we've totally bummed you out for the day. If we have, let us know about it on our various social media platforms. Sorry, I'm taking the mantle and rolling with it because I want to end this because I want to cry.
00:46:46
Speaker
We can get a hold of us on Twitter. Thanks Elon Musk, it's still the best place to get it. Give us that blue tick, baby. And we are on Twitter at fellowship table. You can find the rest of us all over the place. I'm going to switch things up. You can find me at hastily rolled DM. You can find Will, big Willy Will at... Natural20Will. You can find Callum at BD20Gamer. You can find Darren at... DarrenKJ6.
00:47:14
Speaker
And you can find our most wonderful, until very recently, very alive, first ever lizard folk character in First Ship of the Tabletop. You can find Danny at Total Party Thrills. And until next time, guys.