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C2 Ep. 43 Shifting Tales Chapter Five
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The party receives a warm welcome to the Cogs from Daask, but will this fight cause distractions for the mission?
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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D20 radio, your game is rolled.
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Hello and welcome to Everon Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Everon campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode.
Recap of Previous Adventure
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Gentlemen, what happened last time? We went to the cogs.
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Yeah, we found out that the Milhauch lower division is just simply a big old warehouse in the cogs and, um, Aransas, nay Posey led us down there. We cased the joint. Yep. And Milo got kicked in the backside. By a lion shifter. And you may say that now it's time for the main event.
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Also, Olive has a brother. His name is Jerome. You know, if Trevor was paying attention, he would have heard me snake the pun that I made fun of him for while we weren't recording. You know, I lost him out. People can take him if they want. I was doing it before the drama. I got none. I didn't do it because I thought it was a good joke. They're not my original puns. He's licking them up.
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quietly googling lion puns i believe it i really like
Surprise Attack!
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Uh, yeah, you also had a conversation with grum as you enter the district. Yes. Oh, that is important for Hobbs. Whole thing is house. The rash has a PT Barnum esque recruiting operation, right? As people get off the boat. Uh, whereas we have grum and a couple of nobodies, a booth, evidently just a costing people who already work for him.
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So we're definitely gonna have to step that game up on my side mission. Yeah.
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Okay, so where we left off was you all needing to roll initiative, so. Harris pushes Raynard towards the desk people and says, take him. So you all will be rolling vigilance because you did not see this coming and they will be rolling cool. It's true. They kicked Milo in the back. We cannot have sneak him in. They'll be rolling cool because frankly, they seem pretty cool. Oh yeah. Pretty cool.
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And this is unopposed, right? Yes. Oh, you're kidding me. Wait, we're doing what? Rolling initiative. Vigilance. Vigilance. Vigilance. Vigilance. I thought you said diligence and I was like, that's not a thing I have. No joke.
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Okay, so three NPC slots, two PC slots, NPC, PC, NPC, PC. I did roll a triumph. You do have a free maneuver. Yeah. Yeah.
Combat Begins
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I think if I do get a free maneuver just to start things off, I'm going to put myself between this lion and Milo. Okay. Cause I can't use a maneuver to cast augment on myself. So no.
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Okay. Um, so yeah, Hob, you, you rush up and step in between, uh, Milo and this lion man. Uh, may I, may I use a bit of free talking action not to try to, uh, deflate flavor. Yeah. Now listen, I don't know what you think we did, but we didn't do anything to you. We can all just end this right now.
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You're going to be fun. And he takes his club. I assure you, I have not. I never have been. We're about to start today. So yeah, he's... It is not this day. So he is going to attack Hob with his club. Okay, so that is two success, one advantage. So Hob before your soak, that is 12 damage.
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as he just takes this massive wooden club and cracks you in the jaw backhanded with it.
Strategic Combat Discussion
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And with his one advantage, he's just going to give a boost die to his group of lackeys that are about to step up and attack. So yeah. Next up is an NPC slot. So a group of the minions, so a group of three,
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Russia? Yes, Philip. How many of them are there? There are four minion groups.
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How many individuals are we looking at? Well, so we're looking at it. Are there are a dozen? Yes of desk here. There's a big talker And actually apologies. I need to roll for Faroo and Kath or it's this not gonna get involved here Blamer yeah Can she intimidatingly posed by the side? Yes, you will do she will do that for an occasional booth die when she really talks one out of the park
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Okay, so this is for Cath on her vigilance. So we have a PC slot to use right now that will be at the top of the order in following rounds. So who would like to take that hob since you're up there or would somebody else like to? Yeah, I can't imagine hob not punching bag.
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Okay. And I want to flip a story point. I want to really bring it home to this fella after he hit me with his club. So he does have adversary one, which means you automatically upgrade one of the purple dice every time you do in a post check. So when you attack him, it's one red, one purple. That's fine. Oh, here, let me flip the story. Oh, you already flipped it. Okay. Yep. Which means I take out a green, I add a yellow. And so it's versus a purple and a red. Yep.
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Yeah, okay, I'm just gonna go for it, okay. And all right, so with my Cestus charged, because that's easy to do, I'm going to aim, maneuver to aim. Add a blue, because I remember that I do that.
Critical Hits and Magic
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Good job. Come on.
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One success, two advantage. That's a lot of dice in your favor. I know. I know. So, okay. So obviously the success just means that, that he takes, um, so that is seven wounds. And I think I'm going to use those two advantage. Okay.
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just a flurry of blows and go and give him seven more wounds. Okay. So I think what happens is Hobb takes it across the chin and he's not going to do that thing where he like turns and looks all slowly back at him. He, he reflexively just two quick jabs right to the guy's face. What's going on? I forgot to take his soak into account. So I was like, Oh my God, he has so many, Oh wait, there's a soak. Okay. Take, take, take that away.
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Sorry, go ahead with your description. So yeah, so hob using his now remind me the flurry of blows is my like, I'm out of moves out of stuff I can do, right? Like that's not an incidental it's a, or it uses my incident. Let me try again. I get a maneuver and action and an incidental per turn. Yes.
00:09:04
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Yes. Incidentals are like free actions. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So the limit. Yeah, nevermind. So Hob takes that lick across the jaw and then just instinctively as the guy's kind of in his recovery motion, you know, finishing his swing, essentially Hob just reflexively, just two quick pops right in the guy's face, just to kind of set the stage for what's about to happen to him. If he persists. Okay.
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And then Hob spits two of his teeth out. He's like, yeah, how do you like that? Okay. Can I in that case, go ahead and suffer a strain to cast or to lend my bodyguard abilities to Eris? Sure. All right. So basically, they get an upgraded difficulty anytime they attack Eris. Okay.
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until the end of my next turn. All right. Now we have another NPC turn, which is one of the minion groups. So they are going to step up because Milo is right there and looks like their leader has the big guy. So they're going to go after Milo. So they have
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So this is an assortment of, once again, using the term monstrous races. So you have shifters, goblins, half orcs, just a wide array of folks. And they are going to step up and try to stab Milo with their jagged pieces of metal. That is one success, one advantage.
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Um, so Milo before any, um, soak that is six damage. Uh, and with their one advantage, Oh, they needed a boost. I also hold on because of the event. So three advantages, uh, on their check, which, uh, yep, is enough to crit. So they're going to do that. Um, okay. So that's how much damage this, I got one defense of one soak. So how much damage did they do?
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So you subtract one. Your one soak subtracts damage. So... I almost cast. And they hit me for six. Six. So you take five wounds. 81 winded cannot voluntarily suffer strain to activate abilities or gain additional maneuvers until the end of the encounter.
00:11:54
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Oh my gosh, that's so bad. No rules clarification here magic You're not voluntarily suffering strain. I think is the ruling So an extra maneuver is different than
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Casting. Let me... God, I hope so. Yes. Okay. Okay. Cause the exact wording is activate any abilities or gain additional maneuvers. Casting is not an ability. It's an action. So that you suffer strain as a result of. So yeah.
Heroic Abilities Unleashed
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I remember I looked this up before because I was like, that is horrible. If, if that's the case, cause you just take a magic user out of a fight. So yes, activate abilities is, is like your cloak or, um,
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Yeah, what Hob just suffered strain for, the bodyguard thing, right? That's an ability where you suffer strain, so. Okay, Myles, yeah, you cannot voluntarily suffer strain to activate abilities or gain additional maneuvers until the end of this encounter. So, yeah. And Mark, that you have one critical injury, because if you suffer again, then we will be adding 10 onto that. Next up is another minion group.
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They are going to go after Hob because Hob is up there and they are less cowardly than their compatriots. So they are going to attempt to... Yeah, let's go for a stab. No, you know what? You know what? These are all shifters. They're gonna go for a bite because they also have pointy teeth. Hob does not like that.
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That is four successes, two threat. They don't really seem to care. So that's seven damage before you're soak. Um, the two threat though. Um, what do we want to do with that? You can force them to suffer a strain, but minions can't suffer strain. The minions just take it as wounds. So do you want to do that?
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Yeah, let's just have their two threat equals strain for them since that's essentially wounds for them. Okay. Point fit. So they take two points of strain. It is now a PC slot. So Hob has gone. So we have Aris, Milo, Reynard, Faroo, or Cath.
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Aris is ready to go, unless Milo needs to do something to get himself out of this situation. We got another PC slot after this, so I can wait if Aris is ready. Go ahead. Okay. Aris will shoot at the lion fellow. Okay. Aris's instinct is, well, if that guy's dead, it'll be a lot easier. So Aris has the Fletcher up, sees this, doesn't at all.
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Wait, just brings the Fletcher up, takes aim, and shoots at the big guy. Okay. Okay, so three success and three advantage. Huzzah. So that is 12 damage. And I would like to crit on him. I'd like to give him a critical injury.
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Okay. And I would like to give Milo a boost die on whatever Milo's gonna do with my leftover advantage. Hamstrung. You shot him in the hamstring. How? He loses his free maneuver until the end of the encounter. So if he wants to move, he has to suffer two strain. Deal. Yes, so Eris puts a two inch metal spike
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through this guy's hamstring and he like pounds his chest and 12 damage with two of his uh soak ignored okay so that is Eris's uh turn it is now another pc slot which i believe mila was wanting to do something
00:16:23
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Yeah, I believe I'm going to cast Barrier up on myself and Hob. Okay. So an additional target. Oh, additional target. Yes. So that's going to make it too purple, I believe. Instead of the one purple. All right. Two success, two threat.
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And that I get, so you suffer two strain. Yes. And I got, I got an advantage there. No, no, I did not get any advantages. No. Okay. So nevermind with that. So it affects both of us. So we can reduce the damage of all hits. We suffer by one and further reduce it by one for every uncancelled success beyond the first.
00:17:21
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Two success beyond the first. Yeah, two successes. I guess that's why those two were there, huh? Yep. And two strain. And you know what? Go ahead and make it four for the two threat that you suffered. Strain in here. And once I'm winded. Yeah. Okay, anything else, Milo?
00:17:50
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Um, I think since Milo's winded and he's done what he can do, I just see him.
Regroup and Retreat
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There's a whole group of dudes after him or whatever these things are. So he's, he's going to back up. Okay. He's going to try to get out of their range. I guess make them chase him. I just don't see him standing there getting pummeled.
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Yeah. What's, what's my new soak? Uh, so you reduce all incoming damage, uh, by one and then every, how many success did you get on that roll? Two successes. So, so add two to your soak. You got it, dude. Okay. Uh, now we are onto another, uh, minion group. Uh, they are going to, uh, hop up and try to pummel hob.
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They're going to bite as well. Okay, one success, two threat, and a triumph on their attack on you, Hobbs. That's going to be four damage, which I know is going to be so much. I somehow get stronger. Yeah, actually, because you don't suffer any damage, they can't use that triumph to crit on you, which means I have to use the triumph for something worse. Nice.
00:19:22
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So yeah, with this triumph on their attack against you, first off, what would you like to do with the two threat? Have them suffer damage or something else? You could pass the setback die to the next group to attack.
00:19:39
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Yeah, I don't particularly care about that. Go ahead, yeah, go ahead and give them each, or give them two strain with that. Okay. I'd love to think of something creative to do with it, but I'm not. No, you're good. Okay, so with the triumph,
00:20:00
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A crowd has started to gather with your little fracas in the streets. Essentially, the crowd is closing in on the fight trying to watch and take bets and stuff.
00:20:18
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The, the, the area has become difficult to rain with people crowding in around you and trying to see the fight going on and stuff like that. Um, so when trying to move anybody but Myla, you have to suffer strain and Myla in order to move, you cannot take an action on your turn. Okay. Uh, that is their turn. Now we're to another PC slot. So we have Reynard, Cath, and Faroo. Reynard, would you like to go in and go?
00:20:44
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yeah okay um that i'm just gonna pull out my bow okay all right i'm gonna shoot at the minion group that's on milo okay the one that milo just is backing away from cool um okay what's the difficulty uh you're short distance away so it'd be one purple okay
00:21:09
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Uh, here we go. Three success, two advantage. Okay. Uh, so what's the base damage of your bow, Reynard? So that's 10 damage minus their soap. The bow's base damage is so much stronger than my fists. I mean, it should be, but that's a market difference. That's five points. Well, he doesn't take his, uh, his agility into account like you do with your, your Cestus. Um,
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Okay. So, uh, yeah. So you straight up, like you pull back and you just take out one of them. Like you fire a couple arrows and you just sink an arrow into the chest of one who crumples onto the ground. And another one catches, uh, another one of the ones that was coming down on Milo in the arm, uh, as they like, and the other one is crumpled on the ground. Um,
Battle Aftermath
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Okay. Kath is going to take the next PC slot, if that's good with everyone. And so Kath is going to...
00:22:15
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suffer to strain, to maneuver, through the people, kind of shoving people out of the way, trying to get up to Lion Guy. And she runs up on the street and kind of baseball slides and tries to kick the Lion Guy in the side of the knee where he's standing. So that is going to be one red, one purple.
00:22:42
Speaker
Zero success, one advantage, and a triumph. So she misses. Distracts the guy enough to just pass a boost to the next person to go. And we got a triumph on the board, gang. So what would you like to do?
00:23:04
Speaker
She gets another turn. Unsuccessful triumph, that's tricky. In a fight, I mean. I mean, this fight could be, I'm just trying to think of how to codify this mechanically. But I mean, this is happening right in front of the warehouse of Millhatch Industries, Lower Division.
00:23:26
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And probably some members of this crowd are people that work there try like, Oh my God, this job is so boring. There's a fight in the street. Let's go check it out. So I'm trying to think of something mechanically that could benefit you all in the break-in. Like the guy that was supposed to set a thing came out here to watch the fight and forgets to do that.
00:23:43
Speaker
Yeah, what if what if this just happens to happen when the one of the dudes who you know, he's just there for the paycheck He's not really a true believer And just as he's walking about to reset or recalibrate or whatever one of the scrying stones He gets distracted by a fight and wanders off and so at least one of the scrying stones is offline when we do the break-in Okay. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, that's
00:24:08
Speaker
Yeah. I wasn't talking to you, Eric. Cool. Fellas. I was thinking two of the Scrying Stones would be fair. Well, I mean, I would love it if there was one guy in charge of all the Scrying Stones and he just didn't make it to that round, but that's too much. I'll take half the warehouse being off out of view. Yeah.
00:24:29
Speaker
Uh, no, and you're already going to be making it past a fair amount of the stuff. So yeah, one of the scrying stones near the back, past the window that you all are going to be entering is not functioning correctly because this guy got distracted. Okay. So that's Kath's turn. Uh, she slides in and misses the knee, uh, but knocked him off balance enough.
00:24:50
Speaker
See you guys back at home. The cogs are a frictionless land. OK, the last minion group is going. I mean, they they saw trying to think of whether or not anybody would be concerned about the blue haired lady in the back with the big gun who just shot their boss in the back of the leg somehow.
00:25:15
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But that's the exit wound, Eric. It went through the front of his thigh and came out through his hamstring. God. I mean, there's a big spike projecting stuck in his muscle right now. Yeah. It's horrible. So yeah, the the lion guy still grabbing his leg after Kath misses like
00:25:37
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The one with the thing, the shooty thing. I don't want to use the term gun. I don't either. The one with the Fletcher. That weird crossbow. Specifically for your benefit. I don't. So a group takes off towards the back. But yeah, they take off. They can't attack this turn. It's difficult terrain. They can't suffer strength. So they just get in Aeris's business. So I don't like that.
00:26:07
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Okay, and now it's Faroo's turn. So Faroo, seeing these nerdy wells coming to attack Eris, he lets out a bellow.
00:26:24
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as the tattoo around his eye has red light glow around it. And he just seems really angry right now for no reason. He seems really angry as he rushes up with his axe and swings it around and errs for a brief moment you see
00:26:43
Speaker
like silvery light envelop the blade as it comes towards, uh, this, uh, this goblin's head that he's bringing it down on. Um, so this is going to be a melee attack, uh, as he swings, um, no boost, no setback. Um, okay.
00:27:09
Speaker
One success, two threats. Yeah, he just straight up takes one of their heads off. Like he brings his axe up and swings it around and brings it down. And just this one that was about to come up and stab you, Eris, just all of a sudden its head is gone and it crumples to the ground as Faroo like settles his axe. And now it is back around to the second round. First PC slot.
00:27:40
Speaker
Anybody can go. I would say give it to Hob because he's got a giant mob on him.
00:27:45
Speaker
Yeah, I'll take it. I get to do it once per encounter, so I may as well. Do it. Make it happen. What are you going to do? I was going to attack and headbutt. Oh, OK. Oh, I thought you were going to turn on your ability. It takes two story points, and I have a feeling somebody's going to want to upgrade something. I mean, I use them. Would you like to use that, Jeff?
00:28:15
Speaker
Watch that the minions that I mean, is this an opportunity where you would, where you would like to use that?
Planning the Next Move
00:28:20
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, we have three minion groups. So give us back one of your story points.
00:28:25
Speaker
Oh, you're- For I am human. Yes. So, Philip can't demand- There you go. Yeah, so- Hey man, I'm human too. Let's have a story point. What are we doing here? Okay, so I will flip to story points and I will remind myself about my heroic ability. Oh, please! I just have to succeed, right? I just-
00:28:49
Speaker
You don't have to do anything. You do it. Okay, so the minion group that actually did attack me, only one of them did. No, I don't want to do that. The minion group that is heading towards Eris, or has gotten to Eris to attack her. I think Hob, I guess to get to them I will need to take Strain, yes?
00:29:14
Speaker
because they've moved towards areas. No, this is within short range. Okay. So yeah, so you're good. I tell me you like grab a manhole and discuss it.
00:29:31
Speaker
I honestly think, now tell me, when you envision that this is, we're getting overrun by people. It's like, they're in between us. Like, like there's the Eris and these minions faction fighting. Some people watching them. And then there's me and the big guy fighting. Some people watching them. And I think what happens is Hob just lowers down, spreads his arms wide and just pushes all of humanity. He must until they just end up in a sea of those three minions end up in a crowd that's moving on. And they're just, they can't get back to the fight and they're washed away. Okay.
00:30:04
Speaker
Um, and then, I mean, if I can still go on and do things, you tell, you let me know. That was an incidental. That's so wild. This game's wild. Okay. So I'm going to take two strain. Well, no, if this is all short, short range, hang on. I just, my wounds, I'll just want to wait. Let me fix that. I guess I got to hit the big guy. Right. Do it. I'm going to turn around and I am going to spin a strain to aim.
00:30:32
Speaker
I am going to use my SESTA on the big guy. I'm going to try this in-game thing and the red means I need to add a black die, correct? Or does it don't mean they need to upgrade? It should do it automatically though. Okay. Did it automatically for me. So I add that for aim and one failure, five advantage.
00:30:59
Speaker
Oh, you had another, uh, boost from Kath from her advantage. Okay. Go ahead and roll that. Oh, if this gives me, it would still just be a wash, but that's true. Seven advantage. I love when you get it. I love this happens. This happens to me every time my crit is three. And every time I get three advantage, I failed.
00:31:25
Speaker
Okay, seven advantage guys, that's a triumph level of stuff help me out Mess this guy up in some non-combat way so that he's gonna have to upgrade everything he does negatively speaking for some period of time Yeah, could I okay? Okay. I like that for a share of these advantage could I do something a Thought
00:31:54
Speaker
I swing, he parries with his club, my electrified sesta scorch his club and he is wary of what we are capable of all of a sudden and that gives him a setback die
Drinks and Strategy
00:32:09
Speaker
or upgrade on his next turn or upgrade a difficulty.
00:32:17
Speaker
for let's say three out of the seven. For three advantages, I will let you implement an upgrade on his next turn. Okay, I want to do that. For six, you could do it for two rounds, if you like. Well, that depends on this then. I'm over half my wounds. Is there any way you'd let me have four advantage to have a healing potion or something on me to get that done a little bit?
00:32:42
Speaker
Um, do we still have healing potions? Yeah, yeah, you do. Um, yeah, I'd let you, I'd let you use your remaining advantage to get, uh, I think it's a maneuver to use a painkiller or a healing potion. Um, so I, I'll, I'll let you take a free.
00:32:57
Speaker
maneuver to do that if you want. Yeah, do that. Okay, so that's what we'll do. He gets an upgrade on his next check to whomever it is and what's my painkiller do? What do I, do I roll? You regain five wins the first time and it degrades in quality every time you use it. Okay, good. That gets me back down to a more comfortable level. I was at eight out of 12. Okay. All right. Um, so he kind of sees the scorch marks and
00:33:27
Speaker
You see a brief beat of like, I really should have gone and messed with those guys with Grom. And he, nice, nice trick. See how you handle this. And he brings his club around the same thing I did last time. I have handled it once before.
00:33:54
Speaker
And I will spend a story point to upgrade one of his greens to a yellow. Okay. All right. So that is two success, four advantage. So he's going to be able to crit with that. So that is eight or 10 damage, sorry, 10 damage.
00:34:21
Speaker
Slightly dazed, add a set back to all skill checks until the end of the encounter. So he hits you upside the head and you're seeing stars a little bit. It doesn't feel slight. Okay, NPC slot. So we have the group that Milo just backed off from and the two that are on Hob, the one that was on Eris is out.
00:34:48
Speaker
Um, so let's have, uh, the group on Milo, the group that was on Milo use their turn to re-engage with Milo. They cannot suffer strain voluntarily. So that's all they can do. So they're just keeping, keeping pace with you, Milo, waiting through the people. Okay. Okay. Um.
Warehouse Infiltration
00:35:12
Speaker
Next NPC slot is one of the groups that's up on Hob, so they're going to attack Hob with their... Yeah, we'll go with pointy teeth. Zero success, zero threat, zero advantage, zero everything. So they're still trying to get at you, Hob, and you're batting them away pretty easily.
00:35:37
Speaker
We have another PC slot. I've got my staff in the back of one of their jaws just like, come on, man. I am prepared to shoot at something unless someone's got something else to do.
00:35:47
Speaker
I'll go ahead and shoot, and I'll go after. Unless Raynard wants to go through. So, since the crowd that was attacking Eris is no more, I don't need to disengage from anything. Correct. Correct? Okay. So, I will continue to shoot at El Bosso.
00:36:08
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Seeing things are clear, Eris is kind of trying to aim around the crowd that has decided that this fight is just a great place to party. And we'll shoot at what's-his-face. Okay, I will take a maneuver to aim, gives me an extra boost. And the HUD upgrade is there. Do you need to do anything?
00:36:35
Speaker
um upgrade the difficulty let's spend a story point okay one success two advantage so he will take 10 damage here's two the other purple didn't roll oh weird i clicked a purple so no so no advantage 10 damage appears to boring um so at this point um
00:37:00
Speaker
What happens is, Eris, you shoot him again and he kind of laughs and says, clearly underestimate all of you. We'll meet again. And he like with his hand extends it down and a like lightning crash happens in front of him and thunder erupts. And once your eyes game,
00:37:27
Speaker
the ability to see again, he's gone, and all of the DAS members are on the ground, just like, like, knocked on their butts from the lightning crash. We look over and he's hiding behind a parkman. You see him in, like, an upadora in a trench coat, like, sneaking off. But yeah, no, that's one of his abilities. Lucky escape.
00:37:56
Speaker
Oh, I have to spend a story point. Not so lucky for all of his buds. Yeah, but this is a dead friend. So the crowd is like, ah, and they're like, oh, OK, I guess it's over. Whatever. So if we were to tell. I was finished that.
00:38:25
Speaker
all these dead Dask folk were actually going to join us. You talked them into it right before they were murdered and then Dask viciously murdered them for wanting to join the superior
00:38:46
Speaker
house dennis and not thrash um i think that if i say i did such a good job unfortunately they died they all died highly likely i'll be sent back to recruit some some less death prone people to do it again i think i think this is really about deliverables and not hypotheticals in this situation
00:39:14
Speaker
Um, and you hear from nearby, near a building, I'm impressed. That was well done. Oh, so if you slow clap. No, why would I slow clap? So demeaning. I just, I'm genuinely impressed. You all handle yourself well.
00:39:31
Speaker
I'm starting to think that is I am whispering to certainly Eris, because she's right there. If Milo or if anybody else is close, that's not Posey. Sorry, our answers. They can hear it too. But what was all of doing during all of that? Anyway, she stayed. She stayed. Okay. I couldn't sorry. I didn't make that clear. Yeah. I think perhaps
00:40:01
Speaker
We can be a bit less hostile to Aransas. She caught us robbing from her once and is now helping us. I think we might be able to... And is vouched for by, as far as I can tell, the only person you really trust anymore. And I hope I can... I didn't know her brother was working with Milhatch.
00:40:31
Speaker
She was in the lobby at the at the warehouse Why we assume Because We can't get anywhere if the only people we trust are each other and only some of each other at that
00:41:01
Speaker
That was directed to me. You are here. Shut up, skate boy. Actually, you probably are here. And yeah, I think it was. For granted, I'm speaking to Aerys and who she trusts and doesn't trust. I'm not speaking anything of myself, but just for the record, I don't. But Raynard can't be sure of that as much as Trevor is.
00:41:28
Speaker
Eris, you're too old for me to be condescending to you with life lessons and platitudes. But we can be vigilant without being recalcitrant. We can be vigilant and still give people some rope. I think that's what we have to do with Madame De Canath tonight.
00:41:58
Speaker
And if I'm wrong, I'll be right behind you when you put a Fletcher in her. Nope, not Fletcher. That's not what that is. When you put a bull, when you put a bull in her. I don't like how this job keeps changing. I understand that.
00:42:24
Speaker
But you know there's this guy on earth that just gets caught up in the flow of things and next thing you know he's following a group of people to the Mill Hatch warehouse. I'm talking about Jeff. Jeff got caught up in the story like, yeah of course we have to go to the warehouse now. Deal with it. You put a goldfish at the forefront of this thing my man. I don't know what to tell you.
00:42:54
Speaker
So how much do these, quote, painkillers cost? Because I'm assuming Milo being Milo would always make sure he has one on him. Yeah, you've got one. You can pop one, Milo. That's five. Five? Yeah. Hob, you can use another one, but it will only heal four. Yeah, if I've got it on me, I would do that. You would recover some. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you can recover now that we are out of combat.
00:43:23
Speaker
All right. Milo feels a lot better. Am I no longer winded? Was that just an encounter thing? That was to the end of the encounter, but you still have a critical injury on you. Right. So if you suffer another critical injury, there will be a plus 10 to the role. Right. So but no, you're no longer suffering the ill effects of that. Same with Hobb.
00:43:47
Speaker
Okay, so with the healing and the things and the... And at the end of an encounter, we can heal Strain? At the end of the encounter, you can make a simple Discipline or Cool check. Every success, you recover a Strain. Discipline or Cool. Unfortunately, Milo, you have rolled zero success.
00:44:14
Speaker
Yeah, but it was advantageous. Okay. So, uh, Aransas is like, okay. So, uh, now that that's over with, are we ready to, uh, stake out?
00:44:32
Speaker
Did we already stake out? I guess no. We cased the joint. We cased. Sorry, I got my high stalingo confused. It's fine, you'll get that. I intend to not. So there's a bar across the street if we just want to lay low there until this place shuts down. Or we can leave and come back if that's how you want to play it.
00:45:02
Speaker
Levi could use a drink about now Sure I know you can always have a drink I've been drinking is is anybody paying attention to Peru right now? Oh
00:45:21
Speaker
I, everybody was talking. I'll happily, I mean, if he's in our group and then starts to wander, I'll roll a perception to see if I notice him. He didn't move from where he was standing next to Eris. Um, so he's just where the, the bodies and everything are. Um, no, you, you see him checking him for demon. No, he's using his ax and he slices one of the ears off of the goblin head that he, uh, that he chopped off. What?
00:45:53
Speaker
But did he keep seven of their teeth? He did not. This is disgusting. This is how I honor defeated foes. Oh, I'm not going to step into the cultural side of that, says Hobb. I like to imagine that when Jeff speaks as Hobb, it's like the thought bubble in the comic book.
00:46:25
Speaker
And he takes the ear and puts it in his bag and kind of regards the head and nudges it with his foot and walks away from it. That's too far. You don't need to nudge. Rainard takes the coin purse and says, I'm just honoring the dead. As he goes from body to body, just... It's a real shame. Struck down in their prime.
00:46:51
Speaker
So, uh, what's the plan? Are you all going to Milo was down to go get a drink? Uh, bar sounds fine. Sure. Yeah. Okay. Uh, so yeah, you all it's a little hole in the wall place. Um, there's a primarily warforged, uh, in here, but there are enough, uh, of other races that are, uh, consuming drink and food to put you in ease that you all can get something here. Um,
00:47:20
Speaker
So yeah, you all are able to just hang out, stake out the place for a couple of hours, and you see the lights turning out in the last few people leaving. Paris orders a milkshake. A milkshake, okay. What does everyone else order? Nothing? Okay. I think... Honestly, I think if Paris orders... A milkshake and six waters. If Paris orders first, Hof's like, oh yeah, a milkshake, that sounds great.
00:47:49
Speaker
Milo's just gonna get a simple ale. Okay. Same. If they have pistachios in Sean, he gets a pistachio milkshake. Okay. Yeah. Yum. It's just neon green. You guys never had pistachio ice cream? Oh, it's delicious. No, that's what I'm saying. Yum. Okay. That's one of my favorites.
00:48:11
Speaker
Okay, so yeah, a couple hours past, you see, uh, somebody, uh, walk out of the front doors of mill hatch industries and they do some mechanism on the front, presumably to lock it and they take off and, uh, you could just go kill this guy. Um, Aransas says, all right, well, I believe that's how cute.
00:48:41
Speaker
So what's the playing game? You have that open window that Raynard noticed. Raynard, do you want to communicate that to everyone in fiction? Oh, I just thought it was going to be common knowledge. It was a triumph. You were the one that noticed it. He's giving you the opportunity to do something helpful. Well, then no.
00:49:11
Speaker
No. Yeah. Raynard will just say, um, yes, as we were, um, wait, what was not staking out? What are we doing? Casing the joint. Casing the joint. Yeah, get it right. Apparently. Now I got confused. Have you not seen movies? Um, yes, earlier we were casing the place. I did notice an open window. Um, which, where? Well, on the building we're trying to get into.
00:49:41
Speaker
Reynard. What did he say? I just heard Aeris say no. Go ahead, say it again Trevor. So Jeff, on the building we're trying to get into. Like Trevor, you need to understand I'm going to beat the hell out of you.
00:50:05
Speaker
The accumulated amount- That's in character! The accumulated amount I've wanted to smack you for the last 10 months is gonna come out in like, a flurry. Of blows? Which particular window, Reynard? Yes, well it was more on the left side of the building. If you don't tell me that you can point exactly to which window you saw unlocked when we get there,
00:50:36
Speaker
I'll be very disappointed in you. I'm sure I will remember after this beer. I just want to remind all of you, I'm the only one that killed someone today.
00:51:00
Speaker
I sent three people down a river of humanity and we all just watched Faroo cut an ear off a dead guy.
00:51:07
Speaker
So you want to revise what you said there? I did kill somebody. That's, that's inaccurate. What you said. Well, why is that? The measure now. Right. Well, let's go do the job. We have a window. Are they always like this? Let's just go to the window and get this over with.
00:51:37
Speaker
Yes. Okay, so you all walk on the left hand side of the building. And Raynard, you were able to easily point up at the window that clearly some kind of mechanism that was designed to, once again, from Eris pointing out that the building is old, whatever mechanism is used to properly shut this window does not work anymore. And so the window is slightly ajar. How high?
00:52:04
Speaker
It's pretty high up, it's going to require some kind of climbing to get up there. Aeris begins walking up the wall. Yes, Aeris begins walking up the wall. So are we all going to go through the window? There's only that one door, correct? I assume Aeris can get up there and secure a rope and lower it. And it's big enough?
00:52:30
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's big enough for you all to climb in. I mean, I suppose the other option is Eris could work her way around and try and get just open the door from the inside, but. Yeah, that would seem to. I so badly want to say that Milo climbs up and jumps on Hob's shoulders, but I won't. I will not have two adversaries in my party this time.
00:53:00
Speaker
Yeah, Eris gets up and secures a rope to something up there and lets it down the wall. Okay. It's a rope. You all are adventurers. You don't need to make a check to climb a rope. So you all are able to climb up.
00:53:24
Speaker
and we're assuming there's some sort of scaffolding right on the inside of this window i guess oh aris is just you know down the wall i know what i realize i realize not everyone can do that
00:53:36
Speaker
Um, well, I mean, you could, you could, once you get up to the top, like do the rope into the wind. I don't know. You all make it in, uh, physics be damned. Um, so, so yeah, you all, you all make it into the building. You're in a hallway is where you've landed. Uh, the interior of this building is stark white, the walls, the floors, everything like white, the, the ever bright lanterns aren't currently on.
00:54:05
Speaker
Um, so it's not like, blindingly like, whoa, where are we? But it's definitely clean, very sanitized. Uh, coming, coming from where you just came from night and day difference. Just looks around at the blank interior with a certain disgust. This, this is somehow worse. Um.
00:54:31
Speaker
And, uh, yeah, you are able to also, uh, spot that, um, the, uh, this, uh, this grindstone that's in this hallway, Eris, you can easily look up and realize like those runes aren't active, like something that's not an active stone. So you're able to, uh, to make that out.
00:54:55
Speaker
Are we aware of how, I'm assuming Aeris probably would be, how these things work? Like what is their range of perception? Like can they be snuck behind? Do they rotate?
00:55:14
Speaker
Yeah, Eris, you presumably were, especially working in a casino, be familiar with the concept of a scrying stone. So essentially it is a scrying spell that is focused and permanent. And so it is kind of a fixed direction. There's no rotation or anything like that, but, you know, skilled
00:55:35
Speaker
skilled folk can work their way around being seen. However, scrying stones also can pick up sound as well, so you do need to account for that when continuing with them. Now, the runes can be manipulated to affect that, but
00:55:57
Speaker
Such security measures usually also have fail safes where if you mess up the runes in the wrong way, whoever's on the other end will be notified that somebody has messed with the runes. So, yeah. That's how they work. Security cameras with microphones, Randy. That's what you got. All right. Okay, so you all
00:56:23
Speaker
Or it just kind of looks around and says, okay, so that way, and she points to the right, if you've just hopped down from the window, that way is back towards the front door. So we don't need to go that way. Main lab and filekeeping facilities are this way. So if we're going to find out what's going on, that would be the direction to go.
00:56:46
Speaker
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00:57:04
Speaker
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00:57:25
Speaker
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00:57:48
Speaker
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