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Ep. 119 Chromatic Awful - Bellum Draconis
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Our group runs through Scorchelm trying to get to safety but many obstacles line their path.
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Introduction to Dralak and Setting the Scene
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Come on, this is a natural one. I'll scream Okay, let's possibly is now rooting for that I said natural one
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop Bellum Draconis.
At Sea with a Magical Orb
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We are a live play 5e D and&D podcast set in the magical homebrewed world of Dralak. In the homebrewed world of Aerith in the kingdom of Dralak, that was weird. Joining you for this week's episode we have me who plays the human blade singer Seth Farah. We have Will who plays the dragonborn druid Balvalcon. Feeling hot, hot, hot.
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Ian who plays Tiefling Wasser and Nyx Carell. Hi! The Edgelord Callum who plays the war-forged Artificer Alpha. That's a spicy mitral! Poobear who plays the human cleric Emron. We're gonna save everybody. And Darrin who plays the high elf Artificer Rains Haddow. Why, hello! But last but not the least is our Maestro of Magic, the Commander of Combat, DnD of DnD, Dungeon Master Danny! Bonjour!
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There is a salty waft in the air, and deep out in the recesses of a far-off ocean we see an old wisened man in the crow's nest of a small shanty ship as it sails out to sea.
Scorchhelm Under Siege
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We see the wisened long wispy beard, ah the tell-tale glint in his eye, the bald and grey hair, the toothy grin,
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and of course the long toes, and the orb in his left hand he holds affixed with his right to the mast of the ship as he looks out into the ocean through the orb. He loads the orb and smiles.
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Oooogle maps! Scorchhelm is under siege! It's lots of loot and lots of chaos, oh shit!
Strategies to Tackle the Chaos
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Rains decides to drop his MC infusion to give Baal a bag to carry the egg, and then they're like, to the Esmeralda! Emron's like, oh shit, there's some Alito worshippers getting fucked up, I'm gonna step in there. And the party splits with Reigns, Nyx, following suit. Meanwhile, uh, Seth and Bal and Alf are like, we're just gonna hang back, we're gonna sit this one out for us. Nyx, once again, uses that helpful spell, darkness.
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But then, actually it comes in spidery clutch and it kills the Gribbly. Seth takes the egg off of Baal and it starts to burn the bitch up and the group Baal, Alpha, and Seth, that is, head to the docks. They ignore some helpless civilians being attacked because fuck them, apparently. Seth's getting all burned up so he's like, Baal, take the egg back, boy. Well, he doesn't say that, but Baal's like, give me that fucking egg. Nyx is like, I got some serious PTSD, boy, and starts to kiss.
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by to climb his way up for a vantage point he sees fizzle bangs leash under attack he sees milk gate getting pretty wrecked up and he sees a lot of the ships in the docks on fire oh shit and finally he sees he sees oh the start of this you'll have the chance as a Six to move collectively through the city and everyone choose faith over friends and we find ourselves in this party split as a result. Before we find out the result of Nix's Six role on
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the flowchart. I don't want to find out what's happening in the alleyways. We are just going to pay a quick visit to Seth, Alpha and Baal, who are just meandering through various different alleyways heading north. That smell of brine is hitting your nostrils, but I need Baal who is leading that group to make a d20 roll to see what else you will encounter in your alleyway journey. Sorry, I think we switched. I think I took over, didn't I? Oh, you did, yes. Seth, then you will take the d20 roll.
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nice it's just a straight straight to 2020 one of 20 different outcomes for you to find and all right how say very lucky 13 fit your pickle 13 on front of a 13 sorry you head through And youre quite clearly, the architecture changed towards the Harbour District start. In this alleyway, there is this collapsed building where there has been a a recent scene of skirmish.
Navigating and Collaborating Through Danger
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You see bodies of a particular bodies of orcs and sort of metallic stone ah remains.
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This building that has been knocked over as a result of this combat is ablaze, but not unpassable.
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You do spy inside, however, two chests. You have to jump or clamber over this blazing building to continue down this alleyway. But in doing so, you will see that you're in this like basement vault of quite what looks like quite a wealthy villa.
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so how do you three want to navigate over sort of like a fiery debris?
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There are houses either side of you, this is stacked pretty tall, but you three have to either have to get over this, turn back, head out onto the main street, or dare to venture into the blaze building for whatever is in those chests. So is there anything stopping us just running on the streets of the building? Yeah, there is like a small layer of debris that is a blaze, that is hot, and the smoke is layered, so you do have to climb over it somehow.
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um oh Oh, I've got a thing. Any skills, any spells, any abilities that you three would use, plus the egg. Okay, um I'm going to ah reach ah reach right reach down into spell booking and grab a hold of one of ah of the broad the tabs that yeah he's just going to literally pull on. i but damnper damnper damn ra I'm going to counter up this bitch. And he's going to just whip out Gust.
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And he's literally going to flick it out like you would flick a stone over to skim out over water. He just pushes back and some of the major parts of the flames. It's quite a quick gust. I mean, he can push someone five foot back, so it's not going to and My thinking he is it wouldn't necessarily fan the flame straight away. It would kind of push back. It might fan the stuff at the other side, but I'm thinking of it's ash and low level fire that might just douse enough for them to kind of walk through. If not, balls just, sorry, want I keep stealing people. i Seth is just going to keep moving anyway and just kind of take, he's going to take it as he goes. They need to get forward. His mindset is, you know, military. If you need something broken, you headbutt it.
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So Seth sort of blows this channel directly through the debris, presumably straight over to the other side so you can keep running. You're not like blowing a root into the building. and unless Unless something happens to blow him of course or change his direction because of any reason, that's just what he's going to think everyone's doing. He's going to clear the way for Ball and Alpha and the guys afterwards, hopefully to follow a suit.
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You're right, it doesn't douse or fan the flames, but it does subdue them temporarily for the DC to be lower, so you sort of create this safer channel through the flames, but Alpha or Bar, as you see, Seth, just below this temporary space for you to traverse through, do you two do anything? ah Yeah, I'll i'll quickly turn to Alpha and say, can you just
Ambush by the Ridgeback Swords
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hold this for 12 seconds for me?
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Okay. I will hold the egg. I'm assuming for 12 seconds. I'll pass it over and say this is literally my shit. Uh, I've got control fucking flames as a cantrip. It can do ah cool. It is so uniquely specialized, but one of One of the things it says is that I can instantly either expand or extinguish flame within a five foot fucking cube as an action, aka six seconds. I can also make it like double in bright light and do shapes and shit, but no!
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this. I'm a fucking fireman. ah So i that's what I want to do with, like, I've seen self make that channel. And Baal's gonna basically aid that by quite literally extinguishing the flames um in in the the the closest or or the most obvious route with that cantrip. Okay.
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So Alpha, you sustain eight points of fire damage as you pull that egg for 12 seconds as requested. But Seth sort of almost sort of reduced those flames and then you're able to just remove them entirely. So you three are just walking over ash, hot ash, as you find a safe entry point, a safe exit point. You're dissecting this building rather than going into it, but there is a safe route through. Do you just continue to press on to the, to the, to you see the sea?
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and it all Just before we are were actually pushed through the flames, um you said we saw a couple of ah chests that I assumed would contain something. ALICE And like scarring bodies as well. ALICE Yeah, I would possibly just make a quick gesture to Baal. Is it possible to use them to assist in carrying the egg? They would possibly not conduct heat, but you would at least have a hand free in transportation?
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It's worth a fucking shot. Another bit of control flames. Yeah, another bit of control flames to kind of extinguish um to get to said containers. um You could spend a couple of minutes here just i completely manipulating and everything so you could easily walk up to these two chests and no one would incur any penalty.
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apart from Alpha getting burnt the fuck off. You would need to do something with the egg, either you lay it down amongst the planes. If I know that's what the procedure is, I would gently put it onto the ground, but I am not moving away from it whatsoever. I am kind of huddled round the egg without touching it, so I am pretty much a covering for the entirety of the egg. Oh, shoot, Alpha, you're made of metal. Scrambled. Oh, shit, yeah, I forgot about that. You take 16 points, not eight.
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ah Fumbles the egg. Fuck. Shouldn't have given it to you. I should have just put it on the fucking floor. Sorry. It's on the floor now and I'm still trying to protect the damn thing. This is like a D and&D side game that we're selling. Hot egg. Hot egg. How long can you hold it for?
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that's while the game are clearing ah Yeah, in which case then, Bar will use that. I mean, he's got a way to extinguish all of this flame instantly, but he's not going to use that because that's that's that's one off. um So yeah, he'll he'll kind of use the cantrip to literally reduce, reuse, recycle, and he's going to kind of, I guess, motion in towards the chest or make his way in towards the chest. Can you completely destroy a flame as part of that cantrip?
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ah that's It's what it says. It says you instantly extinct. Within about a minute, there is no more fire. If if you just sort of diligently, desperately cast this in every corner of this collapsed building, the fire is gone. Cool. Would you like to see what's in the chest? Fuck yes.
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And he's used to loot. An elaborate way to be like, maybe we'll use the chest, but what's in it there? Yeah, let's have a look see. Let's have a look see. Let's have a little help. Excuse to loot. Event 80 gold worth of jewelry. Oh. During this whole thing, Seth's on watch, by the way, he's not, he's not there, he's on watch. He just keeps running. I'm just emptying the chest to use it as a container.
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lu body lu that but
Combat and Negotiations
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I feel that both me and Baal will literally just be emptying the chest out frantically, going straight into the satchels and pockets of less certain than characters. ah You find two vials of green dye, green fabric dye. You find one grocery list. It's just fresh produce, cheeses, fruits, vegetables. You find a torch. You find a dagger.
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with some unknown magical property, and you find a potion of water breathing. Ooh, these two chests.
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Yeah, all of that's just gonna, he'll just literally pour it into the bag of holding, because he's seen people use these before, he's never had one himself. Just be like, right, container, okay.
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I will also take the, um, I've still got in my inventory, the cloak we got from, um,
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crash before we even got to snake run, uh,
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the cloak we stole from those people who were trying to kill us all when they had old girl captured. and I can't remember the name, the Raiders. You better remember those name that name. I can't remember their name. I definitely can't remember the name. Very similar. Okay, you have a spare cloak. I have a spare cloak.
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I'm aware that this is probably going to engulf in flames, but fire is good for this egg, so we're going to kind of put it down as a little bit of a bedding, or most for the egg, just before we put it in. would it Would the egg fit in the chest? Like, would it actually? No, these these are quite small chests. Okay, I'll shout. Well, bollocks. Never mind, then. Yeah, good excuse, guys. I'm putting both chests into the bag of holding if they'll fit there. They're quite small. And be like, when we got closer, it turns out they're a lot smaller than we thought. And he'll shrug.
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You've got some loot. Do you continue on your direction? we done pillaging Are we done pillaging? Can we go? Can we go? We had an idea. ted like Not the best, but who has the egg? Uh, Baal's definitely going to pick it up. And like as he's carrying it as well, he's just going to be whispering to it, basically just like. doorrrahand but and roor real ka roth creation And with Alpha next to him effectively, he's just hearing Baal saying, in Draconic to it, you're safe with me. I will protect you. ah Various things like that. um And Alpha, you hear all this. Yeah. And I understand it all. And I am also going to be repeating it just in a very low, dull tone to the egg. I'm just doing what Baal does for it. So, imitating. You've got a chorus.
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fouroo yeah um Okay, so the group U3 continued northward towards the Harbour District following Seth's lead. Then we bum boom boom zoom out of where you are. We both them zoom back in westward to where we find out the result of Nix is six. Nix is six. That's such a satisfying phrase. Nix is six.
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is is ne What's interesting, Callum? Future name of the group, just saying. Every single one of you, for the listeners point of view, ah as you could imagine, i'm like, by or into their throat, it was it was a hard no. Everyone quits.
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Nick's a sexy six. As we zoom in on Nixx's three Nixx's trio at the moment of Nixx. Minage a trois. Nixx's Minage a trois. You find yourself in an alleyway and just, you're really confident that this was the quietest route Nixx.
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but you rolled a six and it's really apt that Alpha, Callum, you bring up what was the name of that mercenary group that we fucked over that might come back and visit and haunt us one day. As immediately as you turn this corner while sprinting, you see a group matching that of the rich-backed swords.
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ahhh come on in ambush essentially as i reveal this alleyway on roll 22 fuck fuck fuck and just as you turn this corner you see them two more step behind you and block off the route you just took
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And all three of you were there. Seth and Dahl weren't in the party at this point. The one that got away... is closest to you. Announces. Well, what an interesting circumstance we find ourselves in.
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I'm minded, Trump.
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Adopt the old eye for an eye, for us to fear. I didn't catch your names. But we're the fucking Ridgeback Swords, and you're gonna regret what you did to us.
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Anyone got anything here? Fuck off. Okay! Can you watch this one by one? Yeah, I'm sure you want to do this. You just hear the and so unsheathing of long swords and they say,
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a thousand gold and we're on our way. Or we'll take one of you as slaves. Or we could not kill you and you fuck off.
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this is We've been watching you in the games. I don't fancy your chance. I fucking came second mate, so I don't fancy your chances. o Yeah, you're catching him on a bad day. and Like, you can hear it in his voice. Like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't fuck with him. I wouldn't fuck with him on a good day, but he's really pissed off. He's gonna fucking own you and the people that sired you. Seriously, this doesn't stop here.
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This guy steps up to you and says, this is to you, Emron. That first round of the duel that you were in was the most bullshit display of balls I ever seen in my life. I'd like to headbutt him.
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Rolled it. So we're going to talk our way out of this.
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I'll do that. I'll detect that. Yep. So 21 to hit. That hits. Roll damage. He takes three points of bludgeoning damage as I headbutt him in the face. Thank you. Make an intimidation check at disadvantage then. Okay.
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ah How's a two? So natural one. You headbutt this guy, square in the nose. You don't recognize the others, but you recognize this one as the one that got away. It just spits blood out of his mouth onto your shoe.
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I see. It's gonna be like that, is it? Well. You can either die by the sword, Or give me him, and just points... to Reigns. Marchify and bounty on... that war.
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And I will make myself a rich man. I should probably point out the person who probably issued it. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Define rich.
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God. Fucking lots of gold, mate.
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Hey, fuck you, Nick. Everyone hits the guy with his hammer. I mean, if he's going to try and buy rain... This sounds like a mischief. This sounds like a mischief. I'm not selling rain. Fuck that shit. I was going for the more comedic line there than the actual sell.
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Uh, yep. Okay. Let's do this. It's not horrible. Okay. Anybody have 20? About 15. 19. About 10. 13.
Reunited and New Plans
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About five. Seven. Okay.
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Thank you. So, top of the round. Sorry, I'm just going to relocate the one that you had butted and run just to be a bit more realistic. So, you're on this small channel between two houses, it's quite tightly squeezed, this bottleneck. Behind you, two Ridgeback swords, crew members, sort of blocks your escape.
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three are ahead of you in the the wide opening of this alley, in this small bottleneck, one step forward to have this exchange, the survivor of your last encounter. Stairs you directly in the face, Emron, points at Reigns as he requested it, but it is Nix's turn to go first. Nix, what do you wanna do? Fuck's sake. Kinda wanted to talk our way out of this, guys.
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oh of vast Vast motherfuckers. Nyx will turn around because with where Rains and Emron is, like you said, it's close quarters, they're in an alleyway. There's three in front of Rains and Emron, and there's three directly behind Nyx. So Nyx is going to turn around.
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ah Okay. I guess you asked for this. Just give me a moment. This is brand new for me. Just take a moment as this energy starts to kind of animate from his horns. Don't look at me.
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I get anxious the first time. I'm nervous. First level spell slot, chromatic orb at the enemy right at the back. Four DA of acid damage. Three DA of acid damage. Jesus Christ, Ian. Sorry, Ian. No, don't be sorry. But I've got a hit first with a seven. Let's go. Come on. This is a natural one. I'll scream.
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Part of me is now rooting for that. Oh, it's a natural one!
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Oh my god, what did I just pass? Oh, Nick's got major performance issues right now! It's a That whole bullshit! That entire, the entire move from when I stepped up to the plate to now has been a natural one. Okay.
00:24:39
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but So by the one right at the back, do you mean the ones covering the way you came in or the ones in the alleyway you were heading? So, um, there's three in front of range. Oh Jesus. West. Okay. So the ones you were heading into the eye towards. Yes. And the furthest away. Chromatic orb. Can you tell me truthfully which element of spell you were hoping to use? Acid. Okay.
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A small child passing by gets hit. Not a small child. So you fling this spell. Hoping to hit your target. You miss quite spectacularly. I need to roll d20 in a Tizer Chaos roll, please. Oh, geez. And a Wild Magic Surge, please.
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15. Never mind. But your orb impacts. A building that sits just behind the furthest away enemies. It's an orphanage, isn't it? It's a fucking orphanage. It's not an orphanage. Now you know how it feels. It's not an orphanage, no. But you see at the end of this alleyway that it sort of opens up to a... Returning to what?
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a continuing route to the northwest, but you're pulling the spell due west, and as it hits this building you just hear the scream of a sleep guardian who's been hit by acidic damage. um Mark, if you'd have just announced that sound of someone being hit by acid, what would it sound like?
00:26:21
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ha ha You just hear that voice ah exclaim that in the shadows. Sorry!
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Is that the rest of your turn, Nix? Oh, yeah. Do you want the damage? I do want the damage. Okay. Don't forget you get your Tides of Chaos back, because Danny made you roll in the wild much more stable. Ah, seven. Thankfully, two rolls, two ones and a five. Could have been worse!
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Thank you. everyone ah Don't use water. You'll spread it everywhere. Average HP, four for a couple of days. It is the turn of the Ridgeback Swords. There are going to be two arrows going into Emron, three arrows... Sorry, two arrows into Rains, a melee attack into Emron, and three arrows into Nyx. It's Rains behind me. Why give him cover?
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You have to say that again because you're not covering anyone from the... Sorry, I thought it was the two at the
Kennard's Assistance and Sailing Plans
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back down the steps. So the two that you see, they are above you. They're flying over the top. Oh, sorry. I thought they were down. Poly is my interpretation of... Illustrations. I'll take it up with the illustrator. Yeah, thank you. Reigns, how do a 19 and 20 do to hit you?
00:27:50
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ah Yeah, I can't do anything about that. They both hit.
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Take 12 points of piercing damage as you take two arrows to the chest. Nix. Hello.
00:28:13
Speaker
20, a 10 and a 10. Oh, you want the 20 hits. Okay. You take seven points of piercing damage. Yikes. Have a reaction if you wish to use it.
00:28:29
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ah Okay. Emra, the one that is squared up to you, the one that you have fought before 60 episodes ago, it's going to hit you with a long sword. You can try 20, 40 hits. Yeah. That's a good try. Good try, bro. Good guy, bro.
00:28:55
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14 points of slashing damage. This cleaves your chest. Okay, I can take it, I can take it. That's all they're going to do. With their turn, Emron, it is your turn to reply. Okay, ah Emron takes damage like, oh, fuck this shit. ah And I cast searing smite and my hammer and my hammer lights up. And Emron sort of bellows.
00:29:18
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um a war cry from a very long time ago and just streams blood and death and he's going to smack this bitch in the face. okay So let's do the hammer attack. Does a 16 hit him? It does. Marvelous. So he will take
00:29:46
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three points of ah budgeting damage followed by
00:30:01
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um
00:30:05
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two points of fire damage ah hu and he needs to, so he's now on fire and he needs to make a constitution constitution saving flow on the start of his turn. I will keep that. Okay. And, oh, he also move five foot towards his comrades in the east.
00:30:31
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He gets pushed back. Yes. Because of my bludgeoning damage from Crusher. Great. Thank you. That will mean it is Reigns' turn.
00:30:43
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Hmm. Yeah. Reigns is going to fire as this guy's moved away. He's just going to shoot two rounds of lightning into him.
00:31:05
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Go for it. Yeah. First one's a 15 to hit. Misses.
00:31:15
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Second one's an 18 to hit. That'll hit. Are you going for the one that was engaged with M run? Yes. I knew moving amount of combat range for you would work.
00:31:35
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He'll take eight points of lightning damage. He is down. The Bridgeback Swordist that you left alive when Marota killed his companion is down. Rainfall then set the end of his turn. Anyone else fancy trying to take that bounty? I punched a gulp thing in the head and it exploded and I'm quite happy to kill a few more of you.
00:32:07
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Keep making an intimidation check. Yes, Reigns. I can.
00:32:19
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Two. Goes down like in a fucking lead balloon. You just killed our mate, you bastard. I want the money. But, Nix. Hi. This...
00:32:35
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This wayward spell that you flung off. That hit and then you heard the scream of a, you assume humanoid just steps into view. And what does that humanoid say, Mark? They did it. There's a spit off to the side. There's a black head figure steps out of the darkness and just looks up, knocks an arrow in the bow. Let's keep the seven hells busy boys.
00:33:08
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Yeah, he's going to draw and let one loose directly for Nix. Oh, no, no, anding yeah for the ridgeback sword that is, um yeah, the one with his back turn that's closest to him pretty much the furthest away from the group.
Boarding the Snowdrop and Departure
00:33:27
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um and is just going to roll. Your roll at advantage because you have hiding. Nice. Okay, so I'm just going to roll straight rolls and then just add to this. That is awful. So that's going to be 18 to hit. That hits. It's a 1d10. Hang on a minute. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. A 16, 16, 18. Meet and beat.
00:33:49
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Okay. There's a 1d10 plus four, please, Mark. Thank you. That is going to be plus four. Nice. That's max damage. 14 points of piercing damage. Great. And into his back shoulder. Can I, can I take that and and accept that as Nix's damage? Cause he's the one who kind of called this Pokemon into the battle. Like, cannot I choose you? This man with a half melted face, like two face. Yeah. Looks better on you.
00:34:19
Speaker
Canard, you're above level five, so you have two shots per turn, so take another shot. Oh, shit, man. Yeah, Canard. He's OG. Okay, and let's just have another go. That's still with advantage, yeah? Mm-hmm. Okay, that is... That's interesting. Are you still hidden after you've...
00:34:37
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I think it's until the end of your go, isn't it? I thought so. Yes, it will be advantage. I thought that is going to be an unnatural 20 to hit the armour. That will hit. And then it was a d10 plus four, was it? D10 plus four. Nine points of piercing damage is the second, arithud's probably into the leg or the... some art. But when you watch this again I'll just pew pew pew and at least just these two arrows very deftly with pristine accuracy into the back of this richback sordian and he falls limp instantly. Top of the round, Nix.
00:35:13
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You're watching this tree, this rooftop that you just misplaced this spell at and an ally appear. That was them. That was them. i I said don't do it and they did it anyway. ah Welcome to the fight. I'm Nix Correll at your service. ah let's Let's get the baddies, yeah? And Nix is just going to No, if some butts just fire a Firebolt, his he's just a damn good old-fashioned Firebolt at the one nearest to him facing Ken Hart. Go for it. natural you know not None of the enemies are in a direct like point of view, so there's no way of a Wayward spell hitting Ken Hart. That is a 22. The hits.
00:36:04
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Lovely. So this purple fire just comes shooting out a Nyx as he does the double finger guns towards Ken Hardy, then just turns them and double finger guards at the yeah as the nearest one for 12 points of fire damage. For the southernmost one or the northernmost one? two lesson and That'll be to my left, he's the closest to me. And after trying to hit the one furthest away from me and and failing hard, he's going ah he's taken the easier quote unquote target for throwing stuff.
00:36:33
Speaker
Thank you. Anything else for your turn next? No, that's me. All good. So, the two remaining who are blocking your exit, the one who's been hit by the fireball and the one who is also in the opening of the alley, but has yet to make an indication of what they're doing. once The one to the east just steps forward and says, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look. That was his idea. He was the one, the one to revenge.
00:37:02
Speaker
Just give us him points at reigns. We'll give you 2000 gold be on your way.
00:37:12
Speaker
It's a free action. It's just announces it. Hey guys, gun father sal um I say, I say, I say we ah take it off their corpses.
00:37:26
Speaker
And that panic just turns to concern as all four of them knock bows and aim at your direction range.
00:37:42
Speaker
Uh, four shots there. The lowest one was a 21. Oh, they all miss. Sorry, mate. Now they all hit.
00:37:51
Speaker
You can take it, right? We'll find out. You've got this. You've got this. It's fine.
00:38:00
Speaker
No, they don't hit you after you're downed. For a combined 30 points of piercing damage. Uh, range is down. Were you down? Don't do it individually. What did you have left? I need to calculate here. 26 hit points left. i have You have one death stack already.
00:38:21
Speaker
Good. Okay. If you're hit while making death saves, is that just one fail? Yes, but however would that would it have changed the fact that once he would have been hit and downed, he would have gone prone and an arrow would be at disadvantage?
00:38:40
Speaker
not to suddenly renege on. It is, but it depends on whether all the attacks happen at once. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's your call Danny, either way. I just want to double check that it's not to fail. I'm relating to the two death saves as if it's a melee attack within five foot. Great. Because it's an instant crit. Great. Okay. Yeah. So it's only one fail technically if it does hit. And then one of them.
00:39:03
Speaker
The one that's been speaking, it's just going to put the bow away, draw a sword, and it's going to charge straight into attacking Reigns. You can fuck right off. You're prone to disadvantage. Oh fuck. Making death saves.
00:39:28
Speaker
17 hit your armor class. No.
00:39:33
Speaker
Okay. Damn. That's their turn. Emron, you're up. Your friend is down. There is one Ridgeback Swordian. Engage with the reins with the sword out and three shooting arrows, Featherfield and this this familiar looking um member of the winged watch who has appeared on ah on a rooftop in a distance.
00:39:58
Speaker
Everyone's going to scream, get off him. And I'm going to swing my hammer to smack this guy. Um, that's attacking him.
00:40:13
Speaker
Oh, for a tender hit miss. Okay. Uh, then as a bonus action, I'm going to burn my last spell to cast healing word on reigns. Okay.
00:40:29
Speaker
Rains, you take four points of healing. That's the least I can do. What level is the spell? Level one. You are counterspelled. Fuck. As this one who has drawn a blade and is resting it over Rains' head is just able to absorb your spell. I've got nothing else. I'm out.
00:40:55
Speaker
Rains, it's your turn. I need you to make your death save.
00:40:59
Speaker
Okay. Oh shit. Can I guidance him? Can you guidance a death save? There's a success. Nevermind. We'll find out. That's why I asked.
00:41:20
Speaker
Kennard.
00:41:23
Speaker
um
00:41:26
Speaker
I might be taking a liberty here, but I understand Kennard's relative perception give him his exposition as the leader of the Blackmouth Rangers in Blackmouth all those years ago, and and yet being the sully-eyed owner of a half-hoof in Sleepguard, he'd still have his eyes about him, his perception about him.
00:41:43
Speaker
And again, Donnie correct me if I'm wrong, he would perceive the threat of this chap standing over at the counter spell. Might not understand what the hell it is, but understands that's magic. That's not good. This is ah this is a sword and shield and arrow fight. He's brought something a bit more deadly. So and he's goingnna there's a lot of boxes of like fruit and veg that's that's kind of distributed around the place in front of him, which he's going to dexterously kind of dive roll out from behind it to get an angle.
00:42:09
Speaker
on um the individual that's standing over reins and is just going to loose two arrows into this guy if he can. And these are just straight rolls, aren't they, these ones? There's no um hiddenness. It's just a long bow, yeah.
00:42:25
Speaker
Nice, okay, so the first one is ah it's going to be 25 to hit, and the Zero Speed Roll on both for expediency, and the second one is going to be a crit, 26. Oh, shit. So, the 25 will miss at the moment where you look to make impact. A very similar spell to Seth's spell just appears. but um Can it cast, can it use your reaction to cast Counter, didn't it?
00:42:55
Speaker
Ah, it did. It has to be spelled this term. Sorry to rules for you. Sorry. Yeah, buddy. Hell yeah. It has to be spelled this term. You now know it has shield and counter spell. Um, so both hit. Lovely. Um, I'm gonna roll all the straight determines and then add, uh, that is dog shit. Okay. Fifth. Uh, you have the proficiency once, don't you?
00:43:21
Speaker
No, it's both attacks. No, the attack action. No, efficiency is added once you double the dice roll. Hang on a minute. I want attack to attack. Yes. It's 3d10. I was supposed to roll. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So, uh, 18 points of piercing damage to two arrows and the chesticles. Thank you very much.
00:43:46
Speaker
or hip. That can bind damage. Yeah, that is. Yeah. Thank you. Roll the shirt for the damage. And yeah, and then with any other spare movement, he been five turned to fifteen ah he's just going to run ah just to be closer. He's still quite a distance, probably about 25 foot away from the nearest of his foes, but he's um he's making a beeline in because he sees the the threat at the time.
00:44:12
Speaker
It you go won't go as far as that because you've had to sort of descend a little bit so it'd be sort of difficult terrain on the way down. But yes, you'll be able to sort of climb down, get into view and be on ground level with everyone else. Apologies, I forgot it was on the roof. Thank you. Cool. Thank you very much. Top of the round, Nix.
00:44:32
Speaker
I'm sorry for having to ask what I'm gonna, I just need, just did some more detail with, Reigns is behind me and there is matey boy stood over his head, over his body with a sword to his neck. A sword just resting against his head.
00:44:52
Speaker
And is this the one that was asking for a price before and or um and yeah trying to bargain with us? It was when I was trying to bargain.
00:45:11
Speaker
I've got to choose this very carefully. um And well, this is a question for you. i Were we given? How many potions of healing and were we given before the tournament? Every person was given two each before the tournament. It depends on how much you then use yourselves. No, that's good. That's real good. I marked that I had used one and I couldn't remember if I had because I've used one already, but I didn't know, like, I've got one extra. I was pretty sure we were only given one. say feel shorty and we We basically took all the total, the ones we bought and went out, everyone's got two. quick So, that being said, how do I get this potion into my friend's mouth when there's a sword next to him? Well, you can do an action to
00:46:02
Speaker
and I'll do both. Okay, i will so Nix will go to the opposite side of Reigns where the blade is. He'll look up at the guy with the sword and ah say all of this at the same time while giving Reigns a potion. i can pay I can pay our way out. you want to You wanted gold beforehand and you're trying to give us gold. Look, you've lost guys, we've lost guys.
00:46:29
Speaker
We can all make it out of this and you can be on the lighter side of financially secure. Just name your price.
00:46:42
Speaker
And you're giving rain to potionists. Yes, I am. Okay. That's your turn. That's my turn.
00:46:52
Speaker
The one you were speaking to directly, the one that holds his blade above reigns, just spins the tip of his blade for a second above reigns, but marks this bowman in the west.
00:47:09
Speaker
Give us him. Give us him. Give us 2000 gold. We're on our way.
00:47:21
Speaker
Nick's free to respond to this. He's worth, he's worth a lot more alive. He's worth more than that dead. Two thousand in gold, we're going to walk out of here.
00:47:33
Speaker
i So Nick's his face. You have a six second free action to respond. Yeah. Oh, god damn it. This group is costing so much. Fine, fine. If that's what it'll take.
00:47:49
Speaker
just leave him mal alone everyone back away my guys won't attack your guys won't attack and we can just get the fuck out of dodge 2000 gold savvy we have an accord and nix will hold up because nix is still on one knee a hand takes hands and shakes it okay yeah like um the as sorry has the potion been applied to Um, range. Yeah. That mix uses action to do that. So range or receive that benefit. Yeah. 2d4. How much 2d4. Okay. Do you want to roll that or do me? I'll roll it. Four. I had two to that six, six points of healing damage, damage healing life. Shit. It was an acid bar. I'm sorry.
00:48:54
Speaker
As this sort of accord is reached, everyone's just staring at this, this, this, this mercenary, just breathing really hard.
00:49:09
Speaker
They all slowly, 2000 gold richer. Next 2000 gold. Yeah. Bye bye. Begin to leave the space.
00:49:24
Speaker
as the three of you are reunited with Kennard once again.
00:49:35
Speaker
since when do we pay our way out of fight we have them i've lost ah don't one friend today i don't want to lose another one ah where you show's look like you've been through the fucking mail Well, we just killed like out sha get out of here to this. Yeah. Um, and everyone's going to just sort of kneel down and help brains. Also. So sorry for the, the awakening. That's fine. My own full variety in the shadows like that. What's the plan then? Where are you going? We're going to the Harbor district. We're going to piss new brains. Are you ready? I really want to make haste.
00:50:20
Speaker
so I look pretty. No, but you look 2,000 gold. Better, let's go. I'm gonna use my... um Uh, my lay on hands. Well, not great on that, but please, my healing hands to give rains an extra five points. Cool. Rain's your five points up. And then Kennard's going to go over and he's going to look at his hands for a second. He's going to whisper something to him self and he's just going to pat rains directly on the top of the head. There, there you'll be fine little boy. Let's get going. Come on. It's not a spell. He's just back in anger. Thanks for that one.
00:50:59
Speaker
i've heard that one before it's not the first time someone's made that reference though that was a long time ago on a different group of bastards come on you know the way no i ain't got a fucking clue i know the way i know the way i know the way okay it's it's cool let's try not to run into the slot again we continue to head north through this this alleyway if nyx is continuing to be your leader nyx one more d20 roll please for me don't roll a six again fuck They'll turn up again. We're back. It's 5,000 gold. We lied. We want more money. 18? 18? 18's got to be better, right? yeah Just in terms of like... You find a dragon. Hey, look, a bit older. Danny's face didn't give me the confidence that 18 was better than 6. Doesn't give me confidence either. Reigns, you know, you've come from a royal bloodline, is it? Like, quite a... ah a well-off oil bloodline?
00:52:00
Speaker
ah it's yeah I mean, it is, yeah. I'm not talking to... This is out of character while Danny's doing his... It's quite well-off, yeah. that Good. Okay. Nix is putting their best books with the Royal Family, but you know. Yeah. Okay. As you're running, Emron and Rains, can you just make perception checks? Of course.
00:52:26
Speaker
Mark, if you could make a d20 roll and add two for me, that'd be great.
00:52:41
Speaker
Everyone's doing it. Take mine, take mine. No. yeah take like shit andron what yeah I got a seven rain also so passive of 13 technically. Yeah um pass over loud passive passive of 14. Yeah, 14. Everyone in rains you sprint on with with Kennard.
00:53:10
Speaker
Nix, just as you're approaching the Dock District. Oh fuck, I went the wrong way. You're frozen in place temporarily and you're held and you feel this hand on your shoulder. And it is this figure, the black cloak. You can't make out their face, you can't make out any feature but the hand.
00:53:37
Speaker
grasps your shoulder in this metal gauntlet over the top. But the hand has eight digits.
00:53:58
Speaker
The watcher of the skies. Remember,
00:54:14
Speaker
big Something going on around us right now. I don't know if you've seen the skies falling down and... and... and... He just... I don't know where he is! I will protect you. Always.
00:54:34
Speaker
That's so... comforting to hear.
00:54:43
Speaker
And this hand squeezes your shoulder, hits pressure points, and you are in agony.
00:54:55
Speaker
And just says, one more life, and you are free. but
00:55:11
Speaker
so ah Sorry to ask, but defy define free.
00:55:23
Speaker
We'll protect you unconditionally. And you won't be asking for any more lives.
00:55:42
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:48
Speaker
Can let go. And they don't, straight away. You're caught in this grasp for an uncomfortable length of time before eventually the gris- the, the grisp, the grasp.
00:56:06
Speaker
It slowly dissipates into hundreds of spiders that crawl down your shoulder, into your cloak, into your chest, sort of garments.
00:56:19
Speaker
I'm so glad you're on this journey with me. It doesn't feel weird at all. Eventually, you breach as you follow your friends into that bay view. You see your two friends, you see Kennard.
00:56:36
Speaker
And further up the bay, about three or four dozen, you see the unmistakable grouping, the footprint that is of Alpha, Seth, and of Baal.
00:56:53
Speaker
The two parties, do you sort of turn and converge? Do you continue to stay at the bay? What are the six of you doing as you're staring out into the sea? Where have we come out to on the map? If you look on the map, where abouts we come out? Great question. So group, Byle, Byle's group, you have come out literally one building away from the pissed Newt. Whereas Nick's reigns in Emron, you've come out much closer to the whispering sands.
00:57:23
Speaker
you're you're You're about 300 feet away from each other. ah well You look out amongst this bay, this bay that is being lit, this this shorefront that is being lit by fire from the ships in the ocean. I'm going to just cut in because it is such an important thing, but the fucking first, because Nix had seen the fire from up the top of the building, he is now closer than ever, and he knows where the Esmeralda was maroled.
00:57:52
Speaker
What, what's the news? Make a perception check. No, come on! Guidance my fucking self as my eyes scan the horizon. For my, I'm so glad I did perception. Let's go.
00:58:12
Speaker
Uh, bollocks 13.
00:58:17
Speaker
The ship that the Esmeralda was tethered to is still out there. There is this Armada that's much further into this bay than the ships that are jetted, are docked, unaffected by this blaze. You can't quite see it because there's a lot of sails, there's a lot of smoke, there's a lot of fire. It's night. But the ship, the warship that it was tethered to is Lord Vossen's ship. yeah One of the Lord Vossen ships, yes. Okay.
00:58:47
Speaker
ah it um done
00:58:50
Speaker
and cannot looks so you confused and just says ah going to the pis du have the others in that direction let's go over there that like the best place to go I don't care as long as it's off this street. It's kind of secure. And this boardwalk is ah abandoned. There is either nautical folk in their ships. You do sort of spy, those of you with a higher perception, that three or four dozen ships that are just sailing northward out of this bay, out of this kingdom. we could The bay itself is just abandoned. We could get on a ship. We could just sail away. We've got stuff to do here.
00:59:30
Speaker
I'll vote to go on a ship for a little bit and come back when it's not raining on metal and iron. I'm plus one with Seth on that one. Like sure he insect within seconds you're reunited. We could get on a ship, get out of here. I mean, we could come back, we but we might think about it. Might not have to see this place again. Might not have to deal with any of the people that's here. Any of the people that's here. dealing with sparrow hot we We agreed to steer. We gave him our word.
00:59:54
Speaker
Yeah, but we can still get banks to we we can still get on the ship and just be out of the way until the death stops. And then when the death has ended, we can return safely that when we don't have the thing that cost us so much on us, AKA the egg, AKA the thing that Baal is holding in that burns my hand. and the so seven say about wreckages but we've got We've got Nyx, he's a good boat steerer. We've got Baal, he can control ah flames with his spells. We've got ah you know Alpha, who can remember it all. And Racy wanted to learn how to sail a boat. There's no better time than the present. You feel a shoulder barge into yours, Seth, as Kennar just knocks very tightly into you and places this potion into your hand, Seth. And just announces the rest of it's a po of healing so andnouns the rest of the group.
01:00:49
Speaker
I'm fine by the way.
01:00:55
Speaker
I can take you to him. To Sparrowhawk. On his ship. He'll be there. Motherfucker! We want to get the rest of our stuff from the Pishnoop first and then go to see Sparrowhawk. Save us after coming back. In case a place burns to the ground if the city does fall. It won't fall. We won't let it.
01:01:20
Speaker
I can get it. You can go. It's up to you, but I can get you to him. I mean, maybe we could have a quick pint in the piss now. Nick's, Nick's just your fucking guns. We're getting on a boat. You wanted to get on the boat. I'm just saying.
01:01:41
Speaker
On sea, or on the docks. You choose, but I gotta get you to safety. I've, I've, I've, I've boat. I don't care how long it's safe. Right, the Prince says something there. What do you say? I said, I said, I said, I do not care as long as it's safe, whether it's in that pub or it's on that boat, I don't care. Well, let's go to the piss noodle, let's get your stuff and let's get on that ship. Agreed.
01:02:07
Speaker
and he sort of hurries you, and you're stepping over like, at this point in this chick there are no orcs, there are no kriscra, there are pirates fighting back against other pirates, like this is this is like civil war territory here, there are looters that are that are pillaging, this has turned into almost like raids for some pirate groups, there are some groups that are just putting out flames on their ships, you are passing over all sorts of chaotic scenes,
01:02:32
Speaker
You get to the piss-noot, and there is this vigilant line that Gumma, the dwarf that is the size of two dwarfs, is just heading. No one is in there. It is it is entirely empty, the frontage. And he just marks as you come in. Looks concerned for a second. Looks like he's going to grab some sort of improvised weapon. Marks cannot, then then sort of marks the more finer details of U6, and then lets you in.
01:03:03
Speaker
And as you step into the piston, it is pristine, it is untouched. But there are about four or five dozen families sheltering, cowering, not armed, not any folk that that would which would survive in any combative space, but being protected by the solitude of this inn. You make your way downstairs, I presume.
01:03:30
Speaker
Yep. Nix. Sorry. um Given the location that we are, and I'm not looking as hard for the Esmeralda in this group of people, but as Nix follows from the back, because his mind is a chaotic mess, ah he he would just have like half an eye out for Vlad and his family.
01:03:59
Speaker
Sure. Make a perception check a disadvantage because this, set this is chaos. Yeah.
01:04:09
Speaker
13. Don't see him. That's it. Don't see him. but Just follow. You know, you haven't seen everyone. Yeah. I'm not actively like pulling people out. It is just a half a casual look. And this gives you time to head downstairs, gather the rest of your belongings. Is there anything else you do?
01:04:29
Speaker
while you're in your your sanctuary space below the piss new yeah definitely for ball mm-hmm she's gonna quickly set down the egg in his room if there's a can I imagine there'll be a candle or something in his room and what we'll do is go over he'll get the note that was left on top of the navigators cane and that he had and he's just going to immolate it. Immediately, nothing left of that letter that he had left. Take the cane, stow it, get the egg. and So he's got his his full gear set. Yeah, that's where I've got the gear we left. Yeah, you're charging, you go to your room as you grab provisions. The door slams shut.
01:05:14
Speaker
Yes sorry it was just set up holds everything on his person and he doesn't leave anything anywhere csinglish leave i would just spend the time out there again kind of watching the rear in case the door gets raided by pirates etc and with the one i to the door he go around to the families and He's coming to the most money he's ever um had in his entire life and doesn't have a very expensive spending habits, so he's going to go up to each of the families, ah so ah if whatever time they've got to the first one and just, oh wait, where are you from? you know The usual kind of small talk and then he's going to give him give the first ah kind of adult figure a gold and just say, use this to rebuild and remember.
01:05:54
Speaker
things can be different and just kind of not so dissent, but just a sense of hope in a few of them. You've seen kind of sergeants and those higher up in the Sligard surge do this kind of thing, give an offering and words of advice to kind of perk up morale. He's just having to go out there himself while he's waiting for the others to come up.
01:06:12
Speaker
There's a real mixture here of people with displays. There are people who wouldn't ever frequent the Harbour District and found themselves here out of just fear. There are nobles, there are slaves, there are sort of tradesmen, there are Uh, guildsmen, this is, this is ah an eclectic mix of people and yeah, equally you're able to give out that charity. And those who would want to turn the nose at like a single gold coin, like it would make a difference now know that their homes are nearly lost. Perhaps take an inspiration. Look at that flippin' heck.
01:06:56
Speaker
literally spent 2,000 gold saving a character. And all it takes is for Seth to go around doling out just single gold coins to some yuppie fucking homeless people and get his inspiration. You can't buy the DM. You can't buy the DM. This is the thing, Nick, the things that motivate you in life don't involve spending 2,000 pounds to get your buddy out of jail. The things that motivate Seth is charitable acts of saving the world.
01:07:25
Speaker
Damn it. We'll look into that. We'll look into that another time. But Seth, mark off that 14 gold pieces from your total. That's basically subtext. We shut the fuck off and go murder someone. Pretty much murder someone for your spider overlord. and fuck Fuck someone over and then we're talking your region and you know, you can get all the inspiration you want.
01:07:45
Speaker
um Really sorry Danny, but I just have, I had 1,014 gold pieces and you definitely said mark off 14 gold pieces. You brought me to the lovely round 1,000 mark. I'm a happy man. I can never spend it for fear of just changing those four digits. Absolutely. As you will bundle in step the last after just taking your time to make sure everyone has some sort of way of feeding themselves in the morning or getting out of the capital, the door slams shut.
01:08:18
Speaker
Sebastian, sleep guard. With a cane. A bloodied face. Just says, I'm fucking glad you're here.
01:08:35
Speaker
Wow. What the fuck's going on? Metal men from the sky. Metal men from the fucking sky.
01:08:47
Speaker
Whoa. Does anyone hurt? Has anyone fucked? I think we're all exhausted or hurting. That's it. Rain's hurting the most. app What are you doing? Where are you going? What's the pattern? We're getting our stuff here. It is pretty secure. Kennard mentioned going onto the boat that um the ice barrow's at and, you know, waiting out there until it all blows over, but... Who the fuck's the ice barrow? Your boss.
01:09:19
Speaker
He doesn't have a boat. Can I say he had a boat? I have a boat. Oh, you've got a boat. You're Mr. Ghostwing is the high boss. What are they called names? He just turns to Seth. I can't deal with this lot. What the fuck are we doing? We're going to a boat. You want to get out of here?
01:09:45
Speaker
We'll just get out of the bay at least just and until it's calmer and then we've got a rather, when he kind of looks towards Paul, a rather precious payload, if you get my meaning, and we'd rather look after it somewhere secure than and not.
01:10:02
Speaker
We'll figure out what that means. I'm assuming it's the egg. Yeah. Got an egg. Yeah, we got an egg and we're all fucked. and naked and died and died of anything to defend ourselves with particularly. Yeah, right. We're gonna get out of here then. We'll figure out, we'll lay low. I have no personal guard. And there have been three attempts in my life in the last month. As of right now, you six, I'm enlisting you as fucking
01:10:34
Speaker
Whatever. Royal Knight is a sleep guard. Here we go. Don't need to enlist us. We'll volunteer. Seth's down on one knee. I accept your generous offer. Get the fuck up. the get I need you to keep me safe. I need to keep you safe. We can't be here. I get that. I get that. So.
01:11:01
Speaker
to the fucking ship then, I guess. And there is fear across his face. Let's go on a boat. We will. Let's go to sea. I don't know if I'm going to sail. And it looks at you, Nick. Do you have a crew? No, not anymore. A lot has happened. Is it a coral? Can you say on a fucking ship?
01:11:32
Speaker
hi um it Are we set on sailing? Yeah. That's how I checked. We can just get out to sea for a couple of days. Lilo, someone will come out and find us.
01:11:44
Speaker
Just get us out of the bay. Can you get us out of the bay? I i can. I can sail. Why sail? I've got to sail over here. ah my my My Greg Lige, wait one second, is going to turn and go to the family that is just you know given a sizeable donation to their lives and go, is anyone here seaworthy and now he's that way around the ship and would be willing to join the crew to to to come with us just for a couple of days before we bring you back?
01:12:11
Speaker
I didn't mean to give you money and then ask you this and of course we'll pay you actually for your services. Would anyone be willing to volunteer a few days work under the Captain Nick's corral? Yeah, the the giggling one in the corner. yeah There were a couple of people that slightly began to muster.
01:12:33
Speaker
And you said Captain Nick's Correll and one of them... No, don't do this. Don't fucking do this. Doesn't continue to muster. But there are two. There are two who stand. You. One a human. One an elf. The human just says, I i used to sail in the Navy for the Osrin Isles. I could climb a rig in. Did you know someone called Flood by any chance?
01:13:02
Speaker
No. No. Okay. It's not as small an island as we all think. Yeah. But if you'll take off family, ah yeah, I can help yourself for a couple of days. And he has three children with him. Can you climb up a closed nest? You can point to one of the kids, the eldest of the three. Um.
01:13:29
Speaker
I was going to turn it to the others like, huh? Yeah. Just looks at his dad, complete and uncertainty. Nicks, what do you think? Can we whip them into shape for a couple of days on the seas? Yeah. Yeah.
01:13:42
Speaker
um you
01:13:45
Speaker
Yeah. Rousing words for my captain, Nicks Crale. All right. and And you, you could say, my friend with the family. what What did you say your name was? This isn't...
01:14:00
Speaker
This dwarf hasn't got anyone else around him. Just stands... name, Bovrin, I like it. I... I've been on a ship before. I used to sail... on a holy ship of Atinnis.
01:14:28
Speaker
Oh my God. One of the MSN ships. I can load a lolo gun. I can repair a deck. I can build. I could.
01:14:46
Speaker
Yeah, I know to stand up on a fucking deck. Boverim my boy, you I was sold with you. I've been on a boat before. You are well above your station here, my man. If you were willing to join us for a few days, we will pay you an assembly. Thank you very much for your volunteering. Wait, we we're paying them?
01:15:05
Speaker
Well, I will pay them, okay? Don't worry, just fucking chill. We need a proper- Pay them in safety! We're paying them in safety! We don't do things like that. I don't do things like that. I'm the- I'm the final CA of this. Captain Nix just deals with the, uh, big speeches. I will pay you, okay? Both of you and your family will sort you all out, okay? No problem. Alright, alright. And- and- and Bovrin just sort of nods, and then you watch as the human sort of turns to his family and- and musters them up.
01:15:28
Speaker
umm Come, come, come. My dreadlord, siege lord, man, ah will there be enough? How big is your bite? We are talking a big bite, a little bite. What are we what are we looking like? It's not fucking big. It's the snowdrop. And Seth, you notice it's sort of like an 18 person dignitary vessel, the snowdrop.
01:15:49
Speaker
and But he was commissioned for the the Queen of Sleekard. Not Helena, but Lucian's Queen. Big enough, Nix? Yeah, we can take him, yeah. Nix is slightly smaller than the Esmeralda. Yeah, I know that one.
01:16:09
Speaker
um I look just fine, fine. Yes. I can captain all those. Nick's tries to start to get his fucking shit together as he realized he's, he's got no choice. Yes. All those who are seaworthy and are able-bodied follow us. We are sailing out of here. We'll find our sails full of wind. We will get.
01:16:39
Speaker
Most of you to safety. All of you to safety. Let's go. This Barahawk or Sebastian just sort of turns to Seth and says, we should take all of them. We can't leave them to die in this pub.
01:17:02
Speaker
ah yep What do you say goes, my lord? Everyone up. Come on. We're going. Let's go. Like Nick said, looks like, like, uh, lord Lord Commander said, we're getting the fuck up. Let's go. Let's get out of here. Oh, yes. More of them area. Spills out, begins to spill out. And you watch a spherical cane in hand.
01:17:21
Speaker
really leans into you Seth for support but tries to hide it on a few occasions, stumbles but hold on to your core just to temporarily to resteady himself. And and Seth will try and make it look as subtle as possible that he's giving him support. He's very aware that he's giving him support but he tries to kind of play it off and just kind of over his shoulder kind of distract subterfuge kite cape to try and make it look less like he's propping up um this this a kingly figure. Cool. So Seth and Sebastian Sleekard fan out, Nyx sort of leading this bigger group. He watches Kennard and Gunmar begin to just support some of those pirates that ah that are in peril out on the boardwalk. Emron, Rains, Alfa Bao, you collected your stuff from the storeroom. What do you guys want to do? ah Rains would try and fall in next to Nyx while he was clearing stuff up and would just say to him,
01:18:24
Speaker
your ship is out in that bay whoever has it is not going to be preoccupied if we're going to try and take that thing now might be the time now best best best foot forwards my ship can rate it's not even my ship nix you turn and look at him and he's just not all there eyes are wide he's looking from person to person He keeps shaking his hands, he keeps shaking his head and you just, you get the sense that he's really nervous and he's scared and he's not excited about being a captain of a ship like he's always dreamed of. Like there is, there's just this
01:19:23
Speaker
nervous en energy about him. so look we can go back for the esmonalda and i mean and I don't even know how damaged he is right now. We don't even really know how long we'll be out sailing. We might be sailing out there a while, so we best take all the provisions that we have just to make sure that we can sail for I don't know they say a couple of days but it could really be a long time this is a big place is a big big big place so we could just be we could be out there so we make sure you got everything everyone form a line with just gonna we're gonna heads down and go through the doctor.
01:20:00
Speaker
All right. Cool. Cool. Cool. Um, ah just, uh, okay. I know you've been for a lot today and I know, but as range was just follow alongside next and we'll go, but, uh, just wanted to say that, um, real sorry about my role and I really appreciate what you did for me. And I've, I've been working on things to, to help you get the boat back when you're ready. That's all i'm um um I owe you. Nick's next. We'll put a hand on your shoulder at the mention of Marota.
01:20:30
Speaker
And it's like that nervous energy stops for a moment as he turns his eyes on you. And they are. That's a dark look that crosses it's the features of his face, just at the mention of that name. We don't talk about that now.
01:20:50
Speaker
how but You know, there's time for that later. There's time for everything later. You're welcome. All good. You do the same for me, I'm sure. And Nix will just turn on a heel spin with a flourish of his coat and walk onwards. And I imagine rain's in tow? Yeah. Okay. So we're left with Baal, Alpha, and Imran in the pub, and lots of people are finding out now we're heading to the snowdrop. I'd be following. When I see the Vatinis Wishing Dwarf,
01:21:20
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Do I recognize him from a dream?
01:21:27
Speaker
ma Make a history check. History feels the most appropriate. You're trying to recall moment from the past. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's a 10? No. Okay.
01:21:47
Speaker
and Everyone's just been, you know, looking out and he's he's had a theory about, he's actually heard the tenor said the wolf and like, shucks himself. We, we, we got everything. He's sort of trying to make sure everyone, nobody's left behind. Alfa? I think Alfa would still just be, he didn't really leave much there. He hasn't gathered. He's gone back. He's gone down with everybody to what they all,
01:22:16
Speaker
grab their shit um and he's waiting until everybody's kind of come back up before following them. I think Alpha at this stage is still just kind of and sticking by or close by Baal. We've gone through so much to try and keep this egg protected. This is what Alpha's goal is at the moment. um He will be waiting on Baal and just kind of following him, making sure he's covered, making sure he's protected, making sure the egg is the exact same. but He doesn't know what's going to be happening on the way down to the docks, so wherever the ball goes at the moment, Alpha's following.
01:22:51
Speaker
paul um And yeah, Baal's looking exhausted. He has been carrying this really fucking heavy, like two full bags of autumn grass throughout the entire city. He's put it down a couple of times, but he's reluctant to do so. He's not the strongest for a dragonborn. He's kind of the agile of build instead. ah he's He's exhausted with carrying this, but he's still not going to put it down. So he's probably just kind of still muttering under his breath, still whispering in Draconic um to the eggs he's carrying, because obviously he's seen it kind of not erupt, obviously, but but letting off a lot of heat. And whilst he can bark and take that with his natural affinity and resistances, he's he's exhausted carrying this. So he's very graciously going to accept how any ah support Althas got with him kind of moving and protecting.
01:23:48
Speaker
Alpha's doing whatever you need to know. If it's carrying your shit, if it's carrying the rods of True North or whatever the hell it was, anything like that, Alpha's basically there. Taking my rod for me, thank you. Absolutely. absolutely
01:24:04
Speaker
And you will follow this procession that's sort of begun out of the piss newt down a couple of jetties and onto this ship that is very humble in size. Maximum capacity is about 60 at best before it wouldn't really function. Has no guns, has one single sail.
01:24:29
Speaker
in comparison to some of the warships, the galleys, the sloops. It's none of those. This this is this is ah this is a missionary festival vessel. so This is a passenger vessel. Its sails aren't of any kingdom, but are of Tiriani.
01:24:51
Speaker
And Nyx has used Epondek.
01:24:55
Speaker
You go to that slightly raised platform towards the wid the the wheel, the rudder. Hmm. I need to brush up on my ship terminology. I've got this, I've got ship terminology. I have your document, the butt end, the bow or the stern? The bum. The air is the back booting. yes booty ah stern is where the the the bow is the front. The stern is where the helm is. Yeah. So you head towards the stern.
01:25:24
Speaker
You step up three steps and Sebastian just places into your chest. It's triangular hat. Oh, come on, Danny.
01:25:48
Speaker
A captain should wear a hat. Get us out of your mix.
01:25:56
Speaker
Please. Fuck you. Fuck you so much.
Nyx's Leadership and Crew Evaluation
01:26:02
Speaker
Now's your fucking time.
01:26:09
Speaker
And otherwise, do you comply? Yeah, Nick's complies in that same kind of... Yeah, a long, deep breath, accepts the hat, shoulders dip, as he strikes it out to his right, and then he puts it on his head, and it takes a deep breath.
01:26:36
Speaker
And he just starts shouting out, Way Anchor! And he's going to flood his mind full of the Esmeralda.
01:26:47
Speaker
and Captain Hildegard and the numerous times that he would stand at the helm of the ship. Make a performance check for me. As usual, embody your mentor.
01:27:04
Speaker
Thirteen. What's useful here is there are about three people who know what they're doing sailing under your command. There is Sparrowhawk to an extent.
01:27:18
Speaker
There is Rains who is very, very early in this journey, but learning core essentials. There is Bovren who has been just a ah ship hand and understands following that instruction. There's this human you haven't particularly met, but has some sort of seafaring ability that has sailed before. And they're able to sort of demonstrate to others
01:27:47
Speaker
This ship will not survive in open waters. This this this ship will will capsize. This is this is sort of shallow water, quick transport ship you're in. So instinctively, you just you just you can head out of the bay, and that is your your core direction. It's plain sailing. this is This is not a turbulent night environmentally. There is something else happening. And what's interesting is that this object in the sky hasn't really affected the tides in any capacity. like like The moon has a direct relationship with the tides. This this hasn't altered that.
Reflecting on the Journey and Leveling Up
01:28:19
Speaker
and you sail northward about 15 minutes and you have to steer around these larger clumps of a blazed ships and you move further and further away from this cluster of Vossan warships but you do see the Esmeralda it's there intact untouched but tethered after about 40 minutes you were out of this bay and as you all look back The six of you just stand shoulder to shoulder looking southward towards this city.
01:28:56
Speaker
That clang of metal on metal, that grunting, scream the the announcements of the fizzle bang, just saying, get to your homes, get to your homes, get to your homes, just continues to ring out until dawn.
01:29:13
Speaker
and you slowly, there is no wind so you're just you're just counting on the currents to take you. Take yourself out of this bay. You will benefit from the long rest. You are all level 6.
01:29:29
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, glory be to the heavens. So we'll start the next episode, finding out what you want to do. But there are some early adopters at level six because of recent events. So, so Raines and Nyx, just to see out the episode, if you do could perhaps tell us what Raines and Nyx look like at level six, that'd be awesome.
01:29:46
Speaker
Broken couldn shell of a tiefling carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but he did take ah two... ah so he He didn't take any feats because with with everything that's gone on.
01:30:03
Speaker
The level he chose was in Warlock, because that's essentially where the level came from. It didn't come from Nyx himself, it comes from the spider who swims. so With that power imbued in Nyx, there were no fancy feats. As much as I wanted to take him, the most story thematic sense was that Nyx would gain more power in the spell casting ability. So he dumped two into, I believe it was Charisma, ah which enabled him to go from a plus six to hit to a plus seven to hit across all his spells. So that's how he gained that power. With that, there was some more choices of ah
01:30:46
Speaker
bells the actual spells themselves to choose from, and you can either select them on the day and then after a long race, these kinds of spells that you can just go through your book. um ah However, just to keep in character, one of those spells was called Spider Climb, and from this day until his last, which with Nyx we never know how soon that will be, he's gained the spell permanently Spider Climb again.
01:31:16
Speaker
in lieu of the the spider who swims. That's me. That's Nick's. He's so happy about it. It rains at level six. Rains at level six as he continues to nightly during the long rest, spend the time that he can doing outside of his meditation, some form of light tinkering. Eventually all of that's going to click, the Rubik's Cube will turn a little bit easier, it will all become much more proficient, it will all become much more intuitive. He now can double his proficiency bonus for any check that he makes with his tools, with his Artificery tools.
01:31:51
Speaker
Also, his ability to cast infusions goes up. So some of the stuff that he's been studying about trying all to self and working underwater, he's about to have a eureka moment or he has has without even realising it yet a eureka moment somewhere in his studies and his rubrics cubes.
01:32:09
Speaker
will now be the instructions for the cloak of mantra ray which will allow him to do a lot more underwater excursions it's the big one that he's been working towards alongside that as well his ability to handle infusions will go up he will be a bit more in tune with his armor, he has the ability to bolster his armor class, he has the ability to do some so um other things that he'd pick up from Alpha including the armor of ah a strength boost and also as well he's got some pretty nifty stuff that he can now do with a shield as well um as he becomes more and more in tune with using this armor both to protect himself which is important given what's happened over the last 24 hours and also to
01:32:55
Speaker
to to be a weapon in this quest forwards. So he's a better artificer. He's a more innovative artificer. Whilst there's been no core material gain to his abilities, what he can do and innovate has improved. He can also now have three infusions active as opposed to two. Great.
01:33:23
Speaker
And so what happens next? As it rains, you you know just take a moment to sit down and you're so exhausted from so many near-death experiences that you fall asleep pretty quickly.
01:33:46
Speaker
Bow.
01:33:49
Speaker
You look upon the sands. I don't think you've ever been on a ship. This is an entirely, perhaps, new experience to you. But you look upon the sands you're departing with an incredible sense of hope within your hands.
Dreams, Visions, and Reflections
01:34:07
Speaker
And you spend every waking second in contact with that egg.
01:34:17
Speaker
emron
01:34:19
Speaker
As you drift off into an exhausted state of slumber or so, it's almost like that. You fall into that dream again, and second by second it replays itself. And you're on that platform. You fall. Something with fiery wings picks you up.
01:34:47
Speaker
places you back on that platform and you see Baal's face holding you.
01:34:55
Speaker
And Baal is looking straight up, gesturing for you to climb. You look to your right and you see this dragonborn. You look to your left.
01:35:09
Speaker
You see the figure of a dwarf. And then like Gandalf the White, as he reveals himself for the first time, that light that's shrouding the facial features dissipates. And you see the same dwarf that just presented himself at the Pissed Noot,
01:35:31
Speaker
Bovrin, an incredibly young dwarf, 1617 at best.
01:35:40
Speaker
but he's no longer shrouded. You see him. Next time you wake, it's morning, Hemron. I'll feel it's sleep. You don't have a sort of slightly power down.
01:35:57
Speaker
But you have that dream again, that vision of running through a courtyard, being chased by someone who looks identical to reigns.
01:36:10
Speaker
And you wake up and you're just staring at this white disc that's floating in the sky with 12 tethers coming out of it now.
01:36:23
Speaker
Seth, finally able to catch your breath. Perhaps assessing the killing blow that you landed on Nix's friend.
01:36:39
Speaker
perhaps bolstered by the fact that you're back to your regular duties, you're protecting a family, you're protecting a kingdom you care about entirely.
01:36:50
Speaker
Cautious and alert to the fact that Sparrowhawk is injured and without guard and you feel that sense of burden like you are solely responsible for protecting the heir of the kingdom at this point. Just catching your breath.
01:37:07
Speaker
and enjoying the stillness and the quiet for once. The quiet is not difficult. The quiet is not complex. Everything else for you is complex. This is not. You're going out to sea to be safe. And you feel safety.
01:37:25
Speaker
And then the captain. Next, Corel. It could be really cheesy here and say, drink up Miyachi's yoho and then the credits roll, but that would be super infringement.
01:37:39
Speaker
You just feel this like pull in your chest. Like this is this is right. Like this is the moment you've waited for. To be here in this position. To be the person that everyone on this ship is looking to for guidance.
01:38:00
Speaker
Shadowhawk. Sorry, Sparrowhawk. Goes below deck. To take rest. He took the first watch.
01:38:10
Speaker
And as he goes below depth, and you look out on the horizon, it's very still night, moonlight reflecting off the water. You just see this arachnage reflect in front of the reflection of the moon back at you. And if you feel cold.
01:38:38
Speaker
And just as you So look up.
01:38:46
Speaker
That is where we'll end this week's episode. The Fellowship of the Tabletop by Leimdraconis. I got a really nice image of them all stood, like silhouetted with the flames of the city behind them and like to see their different shapes and this tiny little boat. That's lovely. Thank you, Danny.
01:39:08
Speaker
We're going to have to defend the boat from water spider Gribblies and not going to know why.
Conclusion and Social Media Shout-outs
01:39:21
Speaker
Shit, that's all going to happen next episode, isn't it? At least we'll have long rested. Level six, baby. You know all the good things happen. Before you needed to actually recharge stuff.
01:39:31
Speaker
yeah I had high level so and just like this idea that 117 episodes ago, we all did this in Goldview. Now we're doing it in Scorchel.
01:39:44
Speaker
Did it the capital like destroy all the capitalists of areas? Yeah get t-shirts come they can't be a 13th Kingdom if we destroy them all a one way to pop you My lordy so
01:40:09
Speaker
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01:40:24
Speaker
um yeah that that's That's scary. I bought you reigns, I bought you life. ah This just moves and countermoves my friends.
01:40:37
Speaker
I bought Coreport Keep, come on guys, come on. ah You can't have a life. I'm playing the Monopoly game here. um I'm out, I'm out of one. Callum's out. The d20 gamer Pooh Bear is out. Natural20will. Will is out. Fellowship and PC PC.
01:41:01
Speaker
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