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Ep. 55 Bargain - Bellum Draconis
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This week our party find that, even if he isn't with them, Ol Gell creates mischief.
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade
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Breath-Holding Antics
00:00:00
Speaker
I want to talk more about holding your breath. Callum, how long can you hold your breath for? Hold it now. Hold it for an hour every episode. Oh my god, I'm on fire.
Introducing D&D Podcast
00:00:42
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. We are a live Play 5-E D&D podcast set in the Magical Homebrew wall of Eryth in the Kingdom of Sleekguard. I've recently watched a documentary about people who deep dive down to the bottom to see how low they can get. That would be awful. That was like half a breath. My name is Mark and I'm a dungeon master. And also with us this week's episode, we have Danny who plays the half-orc monk Roserboke task. Bonjour. We've got Ian who plays a Tiefling Warlock, Nyx Carell.
Underwater Breath Training
00:01:07
Speaker
Three minutes and 20 seconds is how long I can hold my breath for underwater. No way. What? No. That's lies. I can barely do 20 seconds. I can't hit the four minute mark, which is like the, I think that's the SAS levels or something crazy, like crazy stats or Tom Cruise can do four minutes. Prove it in, go fill your bathtub up. Okay, three minutes 20. When I was getting my Paddy license, it was all fun and games.
00:01:35
Speaker
The PADI license? It's dive, deep sea diving. Any snorkels or shit? No, no, no, with the apparatus. That's why you have a license. Why do you need it then? Why do you need to survive underwater just in case your fucking air supply goes? No, that's fair. You take the regulator, your regulator gets pulled out of your mouth. All of a sudden, what are you going to do? I didn't
Deep Diving Dangers
00:01:58
Speaker
train how to hold my breath for a long time.
00:02:02
Speaker
So three minutes and 40 seconds. No, no. Three minutes and 20 seconds is what I got on the stopwatch. Callum, who plays the waltz of Artificator Alpha. Hello. Have we done Will? I think I've lost track. Darren, who plays the high-artificator Raine Taddow. No, we haven't done Will. Will, who plays the human Eric Kahneman. Can we play D&D now? I want to talk more about holding your breath.
00:02:29
Speaker
Callum, how long can you hold your breath for? Hold it now. Hold it for an hour every other side.
00:02:39
Speaker
Oh my god, I'm on fire. Everyone can hear that twice that he's got to be heard twice. It's it's it's worthy of a burn twice. Yeah, I couldn't read this. No, that was very good. That's very good. I was actually in the middle of holding my breath. He just called me to like, I don't call for my guts.
00:03:03
Speaker
About four seconds on that one occasion, yeah. I'd make a really good scoop, guys. Yeah, new record, yeah. I heard that, Ian. I heard that. One-shot Callum. Gross. What are we doing? I don't know. What happened last time?
00:03:21
Speaker
No, I've got the shit beaten afterwards. Danny, how long can you hold your breath for? I haven't done it like... I'd never knew Ian had done it professionally. 90 seconds when I was like seven? I don't know. Just within the diving school. That was all. It wasn't like...
00:03:37
Speaker
It was a professional setup, I guess. Yeah. Anyway, when I was when I was watching it and the first shot, I don't know what it's called actually on Netflix. It's really good. The longest breath or something like that. Anyway, and you watch the entire world record attempt dive all the way down, all the back up. It's one pretty much continuous shot. And I tried holding my breath and got like
00:03:57
Speaker
to the 10 meter mark that she was swimming and then was like, Oh God, I can't do this. I have no idea. I mean, she got to that dive. I think it was like 90 meters or something like that or the ocean and not the actual word record attempt, but yeah, man, it's fucking intense. We've got a swimming pool. Aren't we next week?
00:04:13
Speaker
We have, yeah. But we can't, you can't use any scurvy gear because they have to, you would know, don't you Ian? You have to pressurize, depressurize as you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or you get the bends. You can't do that when you're holding your breath. You can't have people. You can't equalize.
00:04:27
Speaker
So the other people who can save you have to be other people holding their fucking breath. Yeah. So you've got someone 30 meters down. They've probably got portable, uh, they are, they are other freedivers who are trained and will go down and will hold their breath for a minute and wait for you to come up and swim up with you. So they have the people who are the safety checkers have to be expert freedivers as well to make sure you don't drown. Like it's so good. Anyway.
00:04:56
Speaker
free diving as well, just being able to move your body while, when I'm touting the whole three minutes thing is motionless holding breath, but trying to swim while holding your breath now. She swam 200 meters. That's crazy. On one breath. It's crazy. Right, anyway, speaking of insane. This is a diving podcast now. Man. For those of you who are interested in getting your PADI license, you can do so in one of the various locations around the UK, and I do recommend it. It's great fun.
00:05:27
Speaker
You get to see parts of the world that is literally untouched, mostly from humanity. And that is a... It's a beautiful thing. Rubbing it in, dude. I'd rub it in nightly. Can't scuba-give. Scuba-give, I've lost the... Scuba-give!
D&D Session Recap
00:05:44
Speaker
Right, anyway, Danny's been waiting very diligently, patiently, our chronicle has forgiven us an update on what happened to last week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop. Over to you. In the last... In the last few pages of our adventure, the party...
00:05:58
Speaker
engaging the ridgeback swords in combat in order to free their friend the old girl turned sour as the weather itself turned also over a series of turns. See what I'm doing here with turns.
00:06:15
Speaker
The weather conditions got wetter and wetter stormier and stormier and this magical storm seemed to conjure up these mud beasts from the earth below that now have wreaked havoc on the party. What happens now is the third result of this environmental phenomenon.
00:06:37
Speaker
phenomenon indeed. We are yes as Danny rightly said fighting some mud methods and also the remainders of the fridge back swords. The mud events don't see between ally and foe except for themselves and therefore are either attacking any of the human or any of the mortal characters they see that aren't other mud methods. A quick reminder for those who were listening last week and where we kind of find ourselves I'm going to pass over to Will, no I'm not going to do that to him because he's not looking,
00:07:03
Speaker
and we've got ourselves split into two forms two areas of combat the first major form of combat or three actually the first major form of combat is by the tented area where old gel is being held up there are two of the ridgeback swords and there is one of the mud methods we have nyx and emeron fighting amongst the embers of the fire that is now well and truly out given the whipping winds and flame no not flames iced ridden
00:07:28
Speaker
rain that's falling down around them.
Battle Against Magical Storm
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Speaker
Gosh, I shouldn't have had that beer. To the north, we have Rains in Alpha Alpha. You just backed up towards Rains. Rains, you just recovered from a series of blindness where there is a mud method and also what seems to be a well-armored member of the Ridgeback Swords standing toe to toe. Morota, you'd been off to the east, always to the east, fighting one of the Ridgeback Swords. You murdered him or killed him and then ran back into the opening of the main road
00:07:56
Speaker
north to south when he came across these five mud methods seem to be chanting and swaying in some kind of weird sycophantic position. And that's where we find ourselves at the top of the round, where a weather effect was going to take place. A reminder of the order of initiative, we have the methods, followed by Marota, followed by Emron, the Ridgeback, Nix, Rains, and then Alpha.
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Speaker
Nick, at the end of last episode, I asked you to roll, and if I remember correctly, I rolled a d10. You rolled a six. Is that right? That is correct. Thank you very much. The winds of resistance. Could you all please make a DC? I'm not going to tell you that. Could you make a strength saving throw, please? As will the characters. Do I add a d4 to that? Yes. You are blessed. You are still blessed. Yes, you can. I don't think that will help at all.
00:08:51
Speaker
because it's so good. Right, we'll go around the table again and you can just tell me, oh, table. Tell me what you got. Alpha, what'd you get? Eight. Okay, you failed. Emron, what did you get? Surprising. Eighteen. You passed. Reigns, what did you get? Moving on up in the world. I rolled a two this time, but my modifier is minus one, so I rolled a one. You failed. Danny, Maro, so what did you get? Ten. You failed.
00:09:21
Speaker
Next, what did you get? Six. Oh, shit. Powerful gusts threaten to push the players back. Those of you who have failed your strength saving throw have been knocked prone. I anchored myself on everyone with my tail. Does that give me anything for this? Roll it with advantage. Yes, come on. You get to roll the d4 as well.
00:09:51
Speaker
No. I got a fucking eight. Fuck this shit. You're pleased to know it affected some of the Ridgeback swords as well. The guy near old Gell has also fallen prone. Nick's the one near you has not fallen prone. And Alpha, the chap who was facing up in front of you and reigns, he has also fallen prone. You do also notice that the mud methods are not affected by the weather condition or the conditions that I call out at all. Top of the round. Morota.
00:10:21
Speaker
You've come across, about 25 feet away from you, this group of mud methods. They haven't really noticed you. They're too busy. The weather is buffeting. The sky is dark. The winds are howling. The ice rain is cutting almost. What do you want to do? That's lovely. I thought the methods were before me.
00:10:39
Speaker
Yes, the methods are before you. They all turn and step. No, yes, sorry. They are totally before you. I've scribbled the top of my order to put the methods in. I forgot to do them. The methods to the north near range in alpha and near our chap is going to fight the man next to him and hit.
00:10:57
Speaker
some damage. This is me just playing a game on my own now. I'm just killing off my own characters. I'm having a great time here, guys. Thank you very much. And that is the end of their turn. The five in the centre are going to continue. They're making noises. What do I think they sound like? Making a noise. The method that's next to Abba Chappi who's not prone.
00:11:17
Speaker
and gets advantage because he's proned, still misses. Misses both times, he has got his greatsword now. There is one method that is not involved in the chancing that is hidden in the trees that is going to spy Marota.
00:11:31
Speaker
25. Oh, he can't move 25, he's going to move 20 feet, but he's moving towards you. And not only is he moving towards you, he's flying towards you. Spits and spurts of mud slapping on the ground behind as this thing floats three or four feet above the ground towards you at a rapid pace, but not quick enough to get to you.
00:11:50
Speaker
He's out of range for anything he can do, unfortunately. I say he, I'm assuming he's gender, I don't know. The method to the very south that has yet to thank you to be used is going to push slowly through the trees towards Emron and Nyx. And he's just gonna observe for now. That's the end of the methods' turn. Now we go to Morota, what would you like to do?
00:12:18
Speaker
So I'm gonna just step up to this one that has approached me from the south and I'm going to use. So we got goodies a little while ago. Was there enough time to attune to them?
00:12:44
Speaker
We hadn't rested to a tune or anything to a tune to it. Yeah. Right. Okay. That goes that idea. Sorry. Well, after this. I know, but I might have killed the thing I can speak with because I can speak with animals. Oh shit. You want to talk to the method. Oh, I'm just going to punch it. No, I won't do that. I mean, if it's an animal, it might be a monstrosity or something. I'm going to.
00:13:11
Speaker
I'm going to... Damn. I haven't seen these guys hurt anyone yet. You have not. So I'm going to take the dodge action and what I'm going to do is I'm not going to walk... Can I slightly wreck on that because I thought I could use the mask? Sure. Yeah. Okay. I'm not going to walk close enough for that thing to take a bite at me, but I'm going to walk towards the chanting group in the middle.
00:13:42
Speaker
uh right up to them i actually watch them unsure i'll take a dodge action and that's my turn fuck okay cool nice no nice nice nice cool uh emeron it's over to you you have the same situation you had previously so if someone is attacking next next is
00:14:04
Speaker
You feel him shuddering and shaking behind you. You know there's a guy just off the left shoulder. Yep. And this, this method is stood in front of you fighting now the prone bridgeback sword fighter you see in front of you. What would you like to do?
00:14:21
Speaker
So feeling next or to start to lose it a little bit behind him, Enron is going to sort of turn so that now he's facing the woman with the rapier that's been attacking them both. And he's going to turn to next and be like,
00:14:36
Speaker
Don't worry. A leader is with us. And I'm going to cast Healing Word as a bonus action on Nyx. I had three points of health. This is so needed. So that gives you five points of health. Very nice. Thank you. And then I will look to the woman who are like, right, now it's yours. And I'm going to hit her with my hammer. Nice, Rotterhead. Bam.
00:15:08
Speaker
I will. Good. I'm going to enjoy the outcome either way. This is great fun. And I'm going to add four to that. So that's 15 at the moment. That hits. Okay. I won't bother rolling my four. And then, oh, that is 10 points of bludgeoning damage. 10. Yes. Splats.
00:15:34
Speaker
her head dying on the skull. She slumps and falls into where the fire was. Her body slowly soldering, simmering something else in the sodden rain that falls around you. She is dead at your feet. Nyx, as your eyes slowly begin to open. Anything else you want to do, Emron? No, that's it. I will then turn back to the person to the south. There's five feet between you both at the moment. Do you want to close that gap or just do anything? No, I'm going to stay next to Nyx at the moment.
00:16:04
Speaker
not to play you for you. Awesome, thank you. So the guy that's down there next to you, Emron, that's fighting off this method at the moment, he is going to just wildly, now the blindness is leaving his eyes, swing with his own great axe down on this creature, hoping just to end it and turn back to you. It's a 15, which does beat his armor class. And then he's got disadvantage on attack rolls.
00:16:27
Speaker
If he's praying still, he's praying. Oh, well he's going to use his action, his movement to stand up. Sorry. It's a very important detail. D12. Oh man, a one six, six points of damage on this method. Splat doesn't kill it. But takes it down a good chunk of its health. Um, and that is going to kind of turn looking panicky towards you. And I'm going to take a liberty here and just say, get your others inside the camp now.
00:16:59
Speaker
And that's all he's going to do. The guy that's up against. Have I done him already? I feel like I have the guy to the North brains. No, I did the method. Didn't I? Um, he's going to swing back at the method as well. That's a two. He's going to miss brilliant. This is, I love these guys. These are fab.
00:17:21
Speaker
And that's it. The others are all dead, so his turn is over nice and quickly, which is great. Leading straight into Nyx, your turn. You are now no longer blinded from previous turn. You are still blessed. The enemy that was to your right is now dead, and you are healed. The world is literally your oyster. You can do anything you like now. Ah, bless be Akido. Alido. Akido's something from anime. I know.
00:17:46
Speaker
Uh, Nick's will stand up, which takes half the movement if I know D&D. Yeah. No one's confirming. Yes. Awesome. Okay. You can D&D. It's okay. I can D&D. Uh, did I hear big fella near old girl say, get your party over here? Yes. Drago said that exactly. Yeah. All right. Okay. Uh, I can do one low voice. Um,
00:18:15
Speaker
That changes everything. OK, Nix is going to, after hearing that voice and standing up, there's going to be a pat on your shoulder, Emron, and a thanks. That was close. And he's going to spin out from behind Emron so that he's stood right next to him and from like within Nix's
00:18:46
Speaker
coat, his big blue leather coat.
00:18:50
Speaker
he brings out one of his hands and
Strategic Combat Moves
00:18:52
Speaker
there's a tiny little fire element in there and he's just gonna jut it out with a single hand and there's this purple energy that kind of comes down from his horns and as he thrusts his hand out it's gonna push this purple energy it's gonna push this little bit of a fire that grows a little bit larger as it makes his way towards the Miss Muffat. Muffat? As I cast Firebolt. Little Miss Muffat. Little Miss Muffat.
00:19:20
Speaker
11. Oh, shit. What is the AC? Hits. Oh, well. Blur me down. That's four points of fire damage. That one has been hit before and splats. It's dead. What was that you used? Firebolt. Oh, Firebolt. And the mud bursts into bubbling, oozing flames and will is muted. So we can't talk over me and talk about consultant rules. And I'm going to continue. Why does it come out? Because they'll just blast on the. I rolled the wrong thing, but they both want D10. Doesn't matter.
00:19:52
Speaker
Thank you, Will. Never change. And it's dead. It's flat. It's gone. Anything else you want to do? You've still got some movement bonus action. Anything else you want to do? Any fun you want to have? Any diddling quiddles? I'm going to look towards the guy who's told us to get our party back together and slowly walk kind of like with a hands up approach towards old girl. I believe old girl's next to big matey boy.
00:20:20
Speaker
Yeah, tell me I'm wrong behind him slumped on the on the stack of boxes behind him. Yeah, right. Okay. So with my remaining 15 feet, I can get next to old girl eyes on the big guy just measuring him. And if I do get to old girl, Nick's is going to take a knee down and
00:20:40
Speaker
Go towards old girl. Hey, we're here. We're here. You're okay. Even though all girls unconscious, there's just a hand and Nick's leans in as he says that.
00:20:52
Speaker
But Aiza constantly on big guy. Big boy. Yeah, big boy. Just eyeing him up. Reigns, over to you. You've got a fighting method and member of the Ridgeback Swords fighting and amongst themselves. Alpha is backed up next to you. You're side by side. You are 20 feet apart from these two enemies that seem to be fighting each other, but soon may turn on you. What would you like to do? Reigns is going to use half his movement together.
00:21:21
Speaker
Raines will then look at Alpha and he'll go, we're not doing this again, we're not having a divided fight, well, we don't know where our friends are. And Raines is gonna go, come on, Alpha, and is going to dash in the last direction of where Emron is, which I believe is, he's heard him coming from the campsite. So I've used 15 to get up, I have,
00:21:49
Speaker
because I get an extra five feet of movement with this armour glass and the armour thing. I've got 20 feet to move and then I've got another 35 on top of that because I'm dashing. Okay. Do you want to work out how far you go and then you can get that sorted. Anything else you want to do after that movement?
00:22:07
Speaker
much you can do really isn't it? No, I dash. That's my turn. Cool. All right. You figure out your movement on that and get yourself moved. Just be aware of a tax opportunity, given the method's position as well, who's directed to your south. You might have to arc around him slightly. And Alpha, range is just bugged off. Coward.
00:22:26
Speaker
I just imagine Alfred's kind of focused on the big bad that done a lot of damage to him. You're going to turn to the right and you'll see Reigns dash ahead of him and say, oh, I've only just got the fuck back here. But yeah, I'll follow Reigns. I'll stand up with half my movement and then I shall attempt to be in, well, not in pursuit of Reigns, but following Reigns' path down south, leaving
00:22:51
Speaker
these muddy creatures that can fight the captain that's left over. Marvelous. I think you'll be a little bit behind given that. I will be. I will only be able to do about 45 feet if I dashed. So yeah, I'm literally five feet behind. Reigns. Does that work? Have you got moving squares diagonally? You can move in square diagonally. We always have done. Oh, you can move diagonally. Can you move traversing only five feet?
00:23:19
Speaker
Yeah. This is true. This is true. Okay. Sorry. I'll go there if you want, but not too fast. Honestly, that's fine. It makes sense. Bear in mind, if you're going in a straight line, though, you will trigger an attack of opportunity from them. Yeah. And that's why it was out a little bit straight off the bat. But again, they actually got like 15 feet there and then another 30 just to get there. Yeah, I'll put it there just to make sure. I'm sorry. You weren't prone, were you? So that's why. No, I was prone. I had to use 15 feet to get back up first and then 50 feet worth of movement plus my action to dash.
00:23:49
Speaker
Um, Joe, I only get the 45. Soz, babe, that was on me. Don't worry. I've forgotten. No problem. Thank you very much. All right. Um, though the storm continues to swirl and become more prevalent. Darren, please. Can I ask that you give me a D 10? And if you roll a five, six or three, just re-roll it for me, please. Certainly. Make it good. You guys will hurt you.
00:24:16
Speaker
Well, it's not one we've had, it's a nine. Oh, excellent. Ooh. This is never good. It's worth going to full health. Ooh, donkey.
00:24:28
Speaker
Like everyone's best. Could everyone please make an intelligence saving throw? I know this is a Nick's favorite as well. Hey, Nick, we got a plus four to this, don't worry. This bless tell you everyone needs a bless. I wish I had a bless. Everyone needs a bless. I think that bless might have pushed me into the success here. So, everyone, I am. If you didn't get the success on your own. Taking you in my mouth after this battle. Oh, God.
00:24:59
Speaker
Oh, Matron. Matron. Matron. Matron. Okay. So, uh, Nix, what'd you get? Fifteen! Wow. Uh, you can't. Yes, okay. I really wanted it. Fail. Emron, what'd you get? Eleven. Fail. Alpha, what'd you get?
00:25:24
Speaker
12, fail, reigns, what'd you get? 22, fail at the pass, and motor, what'd you get? 10.
00:25:34
Speaker
fail. Both the other ridgeback swords also failed as well actually. So this is applying to all of them as well. There is a temporal distortion given the intensity of the storm and the swirling nature of it. The storm's magic warps time momentarily. Players must make an intentional statement that it will be affected by the slow spell for one thing. So you are
00:25:54
Speaker
your speed is halved for this round that's approaching and you take a minus two to your ac and dexterity saving throws you also cannot use reactions and it's turn it can either it can use either an action or a bonus action not both
00:26:16
Speaker
Oh, there's something about casting spells as well. I think you can cast a spell, but... If you tried to cast something with a cast time of one action, roll a d20. On an 11 or higher, I'll take effect until the creature next turn. Ooh, that's quite cool, so it's slow getting out before it gets to you. So, many of us are affected by the slow spell, which can be quite far. Everyone apart from Rains and Nyx, I think, which is chaos. Is it just for this round, or is it... Just this round, yep, just this round, and then it gets replaced with something else horrific, probably.
00:26:44
Speaker
They aren't too bad though. So top of the round are the methods. The one that's facing off against the soldiers of the north that you both have scarpered away from is going to run after you and provoke an attack of opportunity. And it's going to get absolutely splattered by a soldier boy.
00:27:03
Speaker
The method that's been hiding in the bushes just off to the right of where Enron and Nyx is, it's going to move its 20 feet in.
00:27:16
Speaker
up near to where the fire was, where the initial shove of one of the other retract swords took place. Another one of the methods who's been skirting on the edge 5-10-15-20 is going to appear just over to the right of where old Gell is. Nix can't see everyone else at the moment at the back to them. You can't you see it? So two of them are encroaching on Enron and Nix. I confirm. I can't see that.
00:27:40
Speaker
No, you can't see that because there's a series of boxes. I heard you say it. I just wanted to make absolutely sure. Okay. Shit. The first... Oh, I haven't been playing them right. Okay. I'll play them from this round. Okay. We're missing something that happens when they die. The first Mephet who was approaching Morota is going to take its 5-10 feet towards Morota and it's going to attack.
00:28:10
Speaker
16 against your AC. The road took a dodge action. So I roll with disadvantage. That is a 7. A miss. The one that's opposite the other side of you, not quite in a position to make it.
00:28:32
Speaker
What's it called? Gosh, I've forgotten the word. Flanking. Flanking. It's not quite flanking. It's also going to turn, break the sway. It's going to switch its head and snap its head and attack you as well. But you're still dodging. Straight, straight. Come on. Yeah, it's not flanking. Yeah. So it's disadvantage as well. Eight. Miss. Balls. The other creatures are going to break out and instantly or snap their heads towards where the
00:28:58
Speaker
where the centre of the party is, where Emron and Nix and Old Girl are at the moment, where Reigns and Alpha are careening themselves down towards, to try and get closer, they are going to start making their way towards them, 5, 10, 15, 20, 5, 10, 15, 20, in almost like a...
00:29:18
Speaker
a line of four where they'll meet up with one of the other methods that had entered from a different angle, making this group of five that's just pummeling down towards Enron, towards Nyx. Will Rains and Alpha get there before the methods get there? Can Maro to break out the two methods that are stuck kind of combating her and off on the road in front of the storm continues? Gotta find out next week's, no, we've still got time, we can do this. Right, I was gonna say. He's not here. He's not doubled down in on this. Anyway, work.
00:29:48
Speaker
You okay, Mark? I've had two beers. I'm having a great time. I can't talk anymore. Right. That's the end of their turn. They ain't got fuck all movement. Ain't got fuck all movement. What an awful sentence. They can't move much. Moving on down the list. Morota, you've just been sidelined. You thought these things, they haven't attacked anyone. Like you said, now they have definitely attacked you. What do you want to do? So I'm slowed. So I have very limited choices.
00:30:12
Speaker
I am going to probably regret this, but I'm going to break away from these two that are sort of flanking me and I will get hit by their opportunity attacks and use my half movement to catch up with this wave that's now approaching the camp of the party. 13 and 9 to hit. Both miss. Are you minus 2? No, 1 hits.
00:30:39
Speaker
Okay, one hit, some sort of fist worth five points of bludgeoning damage of Kidoki. Uh, you're putting yourself kind of nestling in this group of three that are approaching. Yes. And then I'm going to take a swing with my, uh, whip on going to reach.
00:31:08
Speaker
No, not the whip. Ah, I'm gonna...
00:31:12
Speaker
So there's now three around me immediately. I'm going to reach over to the one to the southeast with my whip. And I'm just going to make an attack to grapple with the whip to try and just like hold it back. So I have a bit of a control over that cluster. So it can use acrobatics or athletics to attempt to break this. Well, I use the whip to try and restrain it. Five. Eight.
00:31:44
Speaker
I didn't roll well either, so that's good. So this one, that is to the south east of this wave that's coming in is grappled by me. Amazing, good stuff. So you've got kind of a little bit of control over these four. If they move out of where they currently are, if they move towards the party, attacks for opportunity. But on the other side, you're surrounded.
00:32:13
Speaker
pretty much, and if you try and move, there are three attacks of opportunity coming your way. Yep, at the moment you're holding back four, holding back a wave. Okay, very nice, very nice, very nice.
00:32:23
Speaker
Up next, we have Emeron. You can now see this group of five methods break through the bushes, heading towards you, and also Mirota then, nicking behind in fucking Indiana Jones, one of these methods, pinning it down for a few seconds. What do you want to do? I cannot see the one further to the south, by the blue 10, yeah, okay. If I look over to my right, how wounded does the mercenary look?
00:32:52
Speaker
relatively battle-worn, but still relatively upright.
00:32:59
Speaker
Okay, but he's taking a few hits and Nick's look took a few knocks. Okay, I've got lots of creatures coming towards me and no idea what to do and I'm slowed. Okay. I'm going to activate Angel mode. That's okay. So as an action, I'm going to transform. So all of a sudden, everyone looks around sees this.
00:33:25
Speaker
quite dire with the weather, the rain lashing down. He's less than half health and it looks like they're about to be outnumbered. Everyone's going to shake his head a little bit and then his eyes are going to roll back into his head and then the giant glittering wings come from behind his back and his eyes glow and then he starts to hover slightly off the ground. Shit, is that your whole action to do that? That's my action, to become an angel.
00:33:55
Speaker
That's pretty cool. That's awesome. That's the first time we've seen it since the death of Yanda and... And I've never seen this. Yes, not me. Absolutely, neither if you do. And it illuminates the space and suddenly this darkened aerial, this light just appears, a white radiant light beams out, the method squints like, oh, here it's like noise emit from them as they kind of like squelch away, squelch away, squint away from it and probably squelching in the process, they are made of mud away from this creature.
00:34:25
Speaker
There seems to be kind of spewing forth a radiant light, lighting the space, giving you all the sense maybe of hope of the future.
00:34:43
Speaker
The guy that's near you, Emron, is going to look firstly in shock and then trying to break away from that and quickly peel off to the south to take on the method that's to the south and hopefully block up that entrance there. He's going to swing at it. Oh man, going to eight for that. And that was a nine. Okay, nine, no, still misses. Wait, hang on a minute, I haven't added anything to it. Nine, 14. Okay, it does hit, actually. You know, I should do, you know, actual D&D things. What did he have? A great axe.
00:35:13
Speaker
Oh shit, he's killed it. Okay, cool.
00:35:15
Speaker
Fair dues, this guy can wield a great axe. Splat. But something I hadn't been playing before, which I should have done, is a death burst. Five feet range around it. DC is 11 on a dexterity saving throw, or he'll be restrained to the end of next turn. If I remember correctly, dexterity saving throws are disadvantaged. No, minus two. Minus two, minus AC and dexterity saving throws. So his dex saving throw gives him a zero anyway.
00:35:44
Speaker
Oh, that's a natural 20. The guy manages to ditch as suddenly this mud explosion fires out and actually manages to miss. He manages to duck out of it at the very last second. So he's fine from that, but that method to the south has been killed by our friend here. Well, friend, current ally, friend, enemy of your enemy, if you will. The other guy to the north, he's going to take the dash action.
00:36:16
Speaker
and run away. Well, he can almost run away. He's leaving to the north. He's ditching this. Fuck this, he says to himself as he runs off.
00:36:29
Speaker
That's the end of the Ridgebacks turn. Nyx, you're up next. You're side by side with the old gelt. You've seen the mercenary runoff down around the corner to kill one of these methods. Enron's turned into an angel, and this is something that you have never seen before. It's a day of firsts for Nyx yet again. Six months of slowness. Such is life. Such is life. Nyx's eyes are wide, like his pupilous dark eyes just
00:36:58
Speaker
in shock, confusion, or on this luminescent light that's just up a vest from Emron.
00:37:11
Speaker
Old girl's unconscious, right? I've touched and I've done a physical contact, completely unconscious. What's around me in my five foot area? Okay, directly behind you is about a four foot tall brown crate. The area in front of you
Emron's Angelic Form
00:37:31
Speaker
the crater sealed at the moment the area in front of you though is a slightly larger maybe six foot by six foot by six foot crate where old gala slumped upon he's being held up by his back against the crate that is stacked on top of that which is like a six foot by maybe like 20 foot crate very long crate that sat on top of it she's also balanced on the other end by another crate as well
00:37:53
Speaker
anything else around there you can see it's just kind of general wear and tear and kind of camp rubbish stuff that's been strewn to the side. There seems to be the kind of storage area for the Ridgeback Swords in their encampment. Did you need more specifics? No, just like if there was any of their supplies, maybe they had bombs, maybe they had any sort of weapons or anything like that, but without also leading you towards there. So hence the question. You look to the left and there's a controller for a nuclear bomb. Yeah, yeah. Call a duty style press here.
00:38:25
Speaker
Nothing like that, no, that you can see. Appreciate it. And can I see Marota, sorry for the questions, can I see Marota as well? So a hand on, a girl on kind of crouched down in a running position, not in a prone position. Can I see Marota?
00:38:39
Speaker
Yes, you can. I would have said no previously because of the thicket, but Angel Boy has just lit up the entire space and yeah, you can see her squinting and you can see around with these sprawling, writhing shapes of the methods surrounding her. Yes.
00:38:57
Speaker
Okay, because it's Marota and there's six months of deep history there, Nix is going to just go, you're going to be okay. I promise you to old Gal and he's unsheathing both his daggers in one fluid movement and he's just going to make a B line for the method that's going towards Marota. So whichever is the nearest one to Marota, I think it's going to be.
00:39:26
Speaker
Don't forget you we're slow. Don't we? I'm not. Oh, sorry. I thought you were
00:39:32
Speaker
and I can make it there. So I go straight into their space and I'm gonna slice at the nearest one, all in one, fluid running action, think anime style as I run, daggers blowing in my hands, and then I'm just gonna crash down on one as the daggers kind of held underneath my fist. So it's almost like a punch, but because Nyx has no upper body strength and no, nothing like Marota, but it's gonna be a punch that's kind of,
00:39:59
Speaker
learned by Moroto in the same sort of style. He's going to throw all his weight from his shoulder down to his wrist, but instead of connecting with the knuckles, he's going to connect with the blade that's kind of hinged underneath his hand. There's currently an enemy to his left, which is the one above you, and the enemy to her south, which is the one to your right. Which one? I'd go for the south.
00:40:21
Speaker
Okay, so the one to your right. Fab. Okay. Royalty damage. I'm sorry. Am I still blessed? Yes. 17. Oh, nice. Holy shit. Literally. 16 even. Sorry. 16. That's because my dagger says shit for piercing damage.
00:40:40
Speaker
damage is good you slice through and part of its shoulder joint kind of epic splats out across marota but yes you've done some damage to its arm slumps to the ground it turns towards you it's unhappy you know why would you be okay and then with my free hand I reach out towards marota
00:41:00
Speaker
No, I haven't got a free hand. I've got two daggers in both my hands, so I just look at Marota and go, hey. He's a free eye. Free eye. With that though, Nix can take a bonus action to make a second offhand attack because he's got two daggers. Yes, you can. I didn't know. I didn't know. Thank you. I was wondering.
00:41:21
Speaker
That's awesome. Sorry about this guys. 13 to hit. You don't add your modifier to the damage here, it's just the roll for this one.
00:41:44
Speaker
So it's just a two for your damage. Thank you. Two piercing damage on the same creature. Lovely. Nice. Yeah, absolutely. Still up, but it's not looking particularly nice. These are quite squishy, but not particularly happy. Nice. Good stuff. We've got one of theirs on our side now. That's it. Oh, you said that to Morosa. Got you. Cool. Nice. All right. And then alpha. Sorry, not alpha. Rains and alpha. You guys are to the north of this barreling down.
00:42:14
Speaker
into the space directly in front of you, you see the two tents, the fire that is now subdued. You can make out Emron, you can make out Nyx, you can make out Morota. Rains, what would you like to do? Rains is going to continue to make a beeline for the clearing and then the path of least resistance. So he's not going to veer left and head through the trees. He's instead going to veer right and just come through the clearing round past the tent, at which point he will see Tilwa.
00:42:39
Speaker
This magical deity that is Emrom, that reigns I think is the only person here who is fully aware of what Tilwar is at this point. We'll take that in, squint at the light himself and then we'll immediately see the disgusting creature whose name's completely eluded me. That's in front of Emrom.
00:43:00
Speaker
Muffet. Immediately we'll just point the lightning gauntlet and go node two and it's going to fire a shot of lightning out of the Rubik's Cube in the bright red gauntlet towards the Muffet. There are five to pick from. The one directly in front of Emron. There's none directly in front of Emron.
00:43:29
Speaker
That is a 12 to hit. Sorry, damage is taking a while to come through. Slow roll.
00:43:51
Speaker
I think it worked better because... It takes four points of lightning damage, though I'm going to use my bonus feature to be able to add an additional D6 of lightning damage to it. Ooh, nice. So I'll roll that now as well. It takes seven points of lightning damage total. Okay, so three more on top of that. Lovely. Okay, as this thing works through the water of the mud mafet, I'm calling it a mafet now, mafet.
00:44:18
Speaker
It is still upright, but it is soldered slightly and soldering, it's not soldering, smoldering slightly. God, my S-words today. As you fire at it, anything else you want to do, Reigns? Yeah, Reigns will just say once more, to a while, once again, I want my friend back, but if you could help us out before you go, I would appreciate it. Very nice. Alpha, over to you. Reigns is, buggred off again.
00:44:41
Speaker
Yeah, Alpha's still slow. I can literally just move 15 feet down. That is about it. I like to think that there's a moment where Alpha thinks he's rusting with some kind of magical rain or something like that, and that's why he's going very, very slowly. I'm ending in a thicket of trees. I don't think I'd be able to see anything, so Alpha's just going to try and
00:45:04
Speaker
He's going to look at some wounds that are on his arm, he's going to hammer plates back into his arms and his chest, and I'm going to cast a Cure Wounds on myself. I have no seven points of healing is what I get, which is always good. That is needed, and that is literally all I can do right now. Oh, wait, no, hang on. Before I do that, wasn't there someone with spells if I'm slowed? Yes, you have to roll a d20.
00:45:33
Speaker
and on a 11 or higher. If it's casting time, it's one or more, yeah. Yeah, it can stand one direction. 11 or higher, the spell doesn't take effect till your next turn, and the creature must use an action on that turn to complete the spell. If it can't, the spell's wasted.
00:45:48
Speaker
Okay, so I've just wasted it, then I rolled a three. No, you passed? No. Oh, is it lower? I thought it was higher. Okay, fair enough. Cool. Yeah, I got a three on that. So yeah, I get some healing. Very much needed. You say clanging and banging coming through the trees. Very slowly. I'm just weightlifting through the trees. Yeah, that's all I can do. Lovely. Okay.
00:46:18
Speaker
It's the top of the round. Another round. I'm not going to get one of you to roll it because I've rolled it to speed things up slightly. I need everyone to make a dexterity saving throw. Are we still rolling minus two? No, you're not. It's the start of the round. So it's all that. Oh, okay. That's a fucking joke. That'd be a kick in the dick, wouldn't it? No. So you're all back to normal. No one is slowed anymore. No, but I'm going to die.
00:46:48
Speaker
Yeah. Right. That's some shit rolls, guys. Yes, that's heard, isn't it? Marrota bringing up chomps. Okay, I'm going to speed things up slightly for this process. Everyone, apart from Marrota, failed. What was the DC? I got a 13.
00:47:05
Speaker
Did you? He told you you failed. I got 11 plus my 2 for my bless. I got a 13. Oh, there's so many dicking rolls here, M1. I got where? I get 11. And then you rolled separately too. I didn't look at that. I had time to read names and show you. Can't add a d4 to the roll manually, but yeah. No, you can add a d4 to the roll, can't you?
00:47:22
Speaker
I just couldn't physically see it. You pass as well then.
Battle Conclusion
00:47:26
Speaker
Apologies. So everyone apart from those two, the three of you fail. Now what's happened is that suddenly this massive gust of wind and has actually kind of buffeted you up into the air, all of you. The two of you who pass just land back down in your feet fine. Everyone else just needs to make a deck saving throw or be knocked prone. So you're knocked prone. And if you fail the save though, you can choose to land safely.
00:47:53
Speaker
by using up your reaction for this term. If you want to. Done. Done. And take no damage. Cool. You don't take any damage and you just end up prone. Yeah, fine. Burn my reaction. No reaction. Yeah, take my reaction. I think it would actually be almost a reflex that you would try to land on your feet. No one's going to willingly fall prone. So yeah, I think by reflex alone, reaction's gone.
00:48:19
Speaker
And, uh, average back swords guy does the same. He chooses to forego the prone and land on his feet again. Cause he failed it as well. Uh, the, it's the turn of the, of the, of the methods and they are all going to turn their attention towards. Right. Because they are surrounded by him. Bring it bitch. The one to the left. Bring it bitch. 15 against racing hits me.
00:48:49
Speaker
three points of bludgeoning damage out once once you're right these are with through these advantage oh shit i think that one's advantage yeah 12 okay so uh 15 hit two points of bludgeoning damage come on this one does not have advantage that's but that's an 18 20 hit natural four points of bludgeoning damage
00:49:17
Speaker
Now the one that's grappled, I always forget grappled. You can move. No, speed is zero. I can't move. Okay. It can take an action to try and break out the wrap. Yeah, so we can do another contest, but that would spend its action. Yep, it's going to do that. Okay, give me two ticks. I got a 13. I got a 24. You pass. The one below Nix is going to move up towards him.
00:49:48
Speaker
11 against your AC. That misses. Fucking hell. Okay. That's those. My tail slaps it in the face.
00:49:59
Speaker
The ones, I forgot about these, to the north, that had skipped past Marota, 15, 20, are all going to move in towards you as well. Taking two more hits at you. First one with advantage. Who's you? Me. Marota. Hit. Unnatural, 25 points of bludgeoning damage. I'm down. Okay, the last one's good to get a hit at you. But it wins, it succeeds.
00:50:25
Speaker
Yeah, that's all it is, I guess, isn't it? That's a fail, isn't it? That's a death save fail. Bollocks! That's all their turns done. I had to go for the nearest one. Sorry, that was the way I had to work. Oh, that's their turn. Yeah. Morota. Death save. Oh, shit, death save. Here it comes. Oh, come on. 19. Okay, pass.
00:50:56
Speaker
It got real very quickly. It got real very early. Last episode it got real. This has been brewing. This is brutal. I'm killing people off already.
00:51:09
Speaker
The same two! Play the game, Mark. Play the game. You're saying the same two. I was down to your normal three hit points. This is a nice level of peril. Right, we are leveling up after this. If we survive it, we're leveling up. I've decided that right now. Okay, Emron, not Emron. No, it's my Rotor's game. Rotor's done it. I did it. Do you not have your thing to be able to get up? No. She's dead, man. Yeah, sorry, I thought.
00:51:37
Speaker
See, down. Half walks, no other thing, if they drop to zero hit points, they can choose to bounce. Yeah, I thought you have your half walk ability. Yeah, but I was down... I've had three hits. So even if I used it, I'd be down and I'd be in this position. Fine, sorry. Ah, no, no, no, no, no. You wouldn't have to make a death save, then. Like, you wouldn't have had to fail one. Yes, and I would have had to make an actual attack roll, which I could fail. I could miss.
00:52:06
Speaker
Okay. Well, so I think record that slightly. So I am down. No fail. No success. Yeah. You have to attempt. No, no, no. You'd used your, what's the orkability? If when I'm hit, I don't, when I get to zero, I go back to one once. Okay. So you're at one now. Now I'm going to swing at you with the final method, the one that gave you your first death save. Got you. Okay. That's one advantage. Five. Okay.
00:52:35
Speaker
Missed, which means you are on one hit point. You have no death saves. I get a turn then. You get an actual turn. Well, I'm surrounded by one, two, three, four, five. Fucking run! Five methods. I will take the dodge action, please. I think that's a very smart idea. Yes. Any movement?
00:52:57
Speaker
No. Five opportunity attack. Absolutely not. Okay, okay. Right, over to the rest of you guys. All I want to say is, if we're giving this an hour, guys, and I could have worn my mask, I could have spoken to these chaps in Animal, and it would have all gone differently. I don't think chaps be in the muffets, yeah? Yeah. Muffets. Right.
00:53:22
Speaker
M. Ron save the day. Okay, so M. Ron or Tilwa. You better have some holier than thou meet you all right now. So M. Ron in flying mode, he's going to, his wings are going to flap and he is going to... That's not good. That's not the move we want. Move over 25 feet over to where Nix is.
00:53:44
Speaker
or just the south of Nix, where those other two are. No, fuck it, I'm gonna go in between all of them. And he looks, as he's hovering there, he looks down at Marota, like, elitos blessings upon you, Marota. And I'm gonna use healing word upon Marota. Lovely. Is that Marota's response? Yeah, lovely. Lovely. It's not a lot. It's only four points of
00:54:14
Speaker
It's four more than I had. I know. It's only four points of healing. Thank you. And then I'm going to use my hammer and start attacking these creatures. I'm going to do the one to the left of me, just behind Nyx. Okay, yeah, roll to hit. I need to do four with that, please.
00:54:47
Speaker
Oh, no. That's going to miss. What is it? It's a seven. Yep. Seven misses. Seven misses, unfortunately. Swing and a miss. Swing and a miss. Okay. And there, yep. Ridgebacks. Well, the one Ridgeback is going to come. Actually, no, he's going the other way. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. No, he's not.
00:55:17
Speaker
It's gonna go where he is as close as you can get. He's gonna absolutely pummel down with his great axe on this first one he can see behind Nyx. Oh, for fuck's sake. Rolling a three, but he up and he gets advantage because of flanking. Okay, this is good. Natural 19, no, he got 19. It wasn't even natural, it was not a natural 19. The fuck's wrong with me? And then he gets six. Okay, seven points of slashing damage on this guy.
00:55:48
Speaker
She's good, doesn't quite take him down, but does some good damage on him. That's his turn. Does he have a thing? Wait a minute, which one is he? Which one is he? Frenzy. I'm so glad I didn't kill this guy. Okay, he has got a thing. He was going to use it against you guys, but Frenzy, I should use this now. He's at half health, less than half HP. You can add one attack. So he's going to add one attack.
00:56:11
Speaker
16 hits d12 four plus three seven kills it okay nice splat you're listening to math with mark there you go probably got halford wrong but who fucking cares i made it all up lovely oh i could use reckless that's god this guy's good okay anyway right um he killed some good fun guy anyway right that's him done he's done he's done nyx
00:56:37
Speaker
You feel mud splat against your back as you turn around and see one of the largest, last of the Ridgeback Swords pummeled down one of these guys. What do you want to do? Not my coat! Surrounded. D&D question. Maro is in front of me, surrounded by the big bads. Is there any way I can pull her and get her either on my spot or behind me? Opportunity, I'd get slaughtered.
00:57:03
Speaker
Oh, would that all happen? It'd be like stabbing season. Oh, you come, sink, sink, sink. I am pretty sure there is a move action in which you can swap places or something. It's a bait and switch. A bait and switch, but that's not it. It used to be a high level, it used to be a fighter. Or you can shove Marotta, but again... Oh, there's nowhere to shove her. No, that's okay. I just...
00:57:25
Speaker
I've never done a helpful character. Hang on a minute though. Hang on a minute. Are we metering it slightly? And I remember a long time ago when an old character, Robin, had the ability to push characters, and we always played it wrong because it doesn't actually trigger opportunity tags if it's not agreed upon, right? So if Marota doesn't want to get shoved, but Nyx shoves Marota anyway... No, so you have to willingly move out of your space.
00:57:52
Speaker
You have to willingly remove. Yeah, but if you don't, if you... Being shoved doesn't willingly move you. It sounds like a strength-off as well. It sounds muddy. I just wanted to know if there was a... Because I'm reading through these actions. There is an action you can take. You can take the help action. And that would give Morota an advantage on the first attack roll they make. No, I may as well attack. All right, okay. It was just... Yeah, it's become a bigger thing. It's all good. It's all good. Instead,
00:58:23
Speaker
to try and aid your escape route. Nyx is going to slice and dice the one that he hit last time, so it's the immediate one. Yep. To the right of Nyx, just with his dagger. Brought a hit. Oh, come on. Am I still blessed? You're still blessed, always blessed. 14. Yep, hits. Six points of piercing damage. Splat. Dead.
00:58:53
Speaker
Amazing. You still got your offhand attack. Uh, yep. Going for the newest one. And that one has also been damaged as well. Uh, that's a 23 to attack. And that is a two. That is a two. Yes. It's on. Yeah. It's on one health. Here we go. Before you killed it.
00:59:19
Speaker
Don't you fucking die on me. As, uh, Nick's looks more. It's really been like a three on seven so far, hasn't it? Okay. But here income, the reinforcements.
00:59:31
Speaker
I hope. Our Artifices, more like Fartifices at the moment, and our Artifices that can do stuff, and Alpha. Right, Reigns over to you. Even his odds. Bright yellow circle I'm holding from where NC has been situated this whole fight. And we'll just flash up on the Rubik's Cube and NC once again uses the magical tinkering and goes, is this what you were holding?
00:59:58
Speaker
the spare option for for and rains will go do you know what I actually think it is and what will happen is the two the guy in this thinks and Andrea thinks mouths will open again and magic missiles are going to whirl towards these
01:00:12
Speaker
discussing Muffets and what they will do the magic missiles as they come out they're going to whirl around my allies and friends and just home in on the Muffets. First one it's going to go for is the one that's between three people and on Raine's side so the one that's between Emma and the one that's between that's where the first one's going. I got you yeah. I will reel them now. We're hoping for high. Okay first up three points of damage into that one.
01:00:41
Speaker
Dead, as it splats, it's mud all over the space around it, it's been killed. What Rains is doing is that he's kind of almost now using his fingers like finger guns and he's just aiming at another one and going... And the one he's aimed for is the one that... He's going for the ones that are now surrounding Marota, so he's going for the one that's directly to the north of Marota with the next one. Yep, okay, that one hasn't been... So that's three points of damage. Hits into it, yep.
01:01:09
Speaker
Okay, he sees it's still alive. He's then just going to whirl his fingers in the again motion and send another one into it for six points of damage. Still up, but limping. Son of a bitch. And then send the third one into it as well. Splat. Takes it out. Clears that one out as well. So it's now two near Marota, one near Emron. Odds are slowly swinging in our favour. Okay, anything else you want to do with Reigns? That's the end of Reigns' turn. Lovely alpha over two, bottom of the round. What do you want to do?
01:01:38
Speaker
Yeah, Alpha, now we've got his pace back up. He's always going to see the crowd gathering, all of the moonlight creatures, and he's just going to take his sword out. He's going to almost like...
01:01:48
Speaker
Try and pick up a little bit of pace. See the sword wafting really carelessly. It is running towards one of these creatures, one of the ones behind motor. Motor? Morota. And it's going to try an apathetic swing at it for a six. That's about right. You jinxed it by calling it apathetic swing. If you called it a heroic swing, you would have rolled a natural 20. Yes, I'll remember that for now. I'll try that next time. It misses. It misses. Yeah, that's fine. Alpha in.
01:02:17
Speaker
frustration. Yes, at the moment, I'm afraid that is all I can do. I'm sorry. I do need to get my gun fixed. But I prefer OP alpha to Bethesda. In all fairness, I think my useless alpha is a bit funny. You know, what would have been on brand there for you, Cowan? You just run in and thunder waves everywhere.
01:02:36
Speaker
You know what? I was really, really tempted to do so. I'm not gonna lie. Just like... And you could kill another Danny Carat to a fun point. Yeah, absolutely. I couldn't do it, but I thought I'd kill myself. Could I ask everyone to make a perception check, please? I knew that would make you all silent at the same time. Let's go with Morita. Would you get actually hands up? No. Yeah, I do fucking for whatever. Hands up if you got higher, 13 or higher.
01:03:05
Speaker
We've got Emeron, we've got Morota, anyone else? Cool, okay, so Emeron and Morota, I'll explain something for you in just a second, but this is something everyone sees, first of all. The three remaining methods, not Moffat's, methods see the odds quickly turning against them and are gonna just disappear down into mud below and just become a puddle of muddied water.
01:03:31
Speaker
the storm continues to rage around you. You will notice this as the six of you stand around the space looking around, Enron and Marota, maybe Enron through your kind of angelic eyes and Marota being in the current locale you currently are, you see something.
World-Shift Mystery
01:03:49
Speaker
You see something off in the distance, a shape appear. At least you think it is. It seems to be a man.
01:03:57
Speaker
draped in some kind of regal purple garb, standing resolute on the forest's edge, its form a stark silhouette against the raging tempest that surrounds you. Its chaotic dance seems to almost respect its presence, however, parting before his enigmatic figure, deep and shrouded these kind of almost piercing
01:04:24
Speaker
clear white eyes lock onto you with unnerving focus you feel a sense of foreboding in your body like a hidden power waiting to be unfurled amidst the elemental maelstrom his unmoving stance flicks and in a flash of the iconic lightning the figure disappears and at the exact same time the entire storm subsides the clouds part in almost an instant
01:04:53
Speaker
At a mid afternoon, a warm day continues to rain over the area. The mud piles, the puddles disappeared. The ground is hard and dusty at your feet, save for the corpses of the ridgeback swords which litter this part of the forest.
01:05:16
Speaker
And that is where we're going to leave it for this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop. That was skinnier ball stuff, guys. We almost lost a Marota. I think if Marota hadn't gone down, that would have been a bit more. I think going down is overrated. I think you can take three hits. It's like having three shields.
01:05:42
Speaker
But it's the fear, isn't it? Of the one. And the fact that your permanence of death rests on three things. Autonomy's gone, right? It's dice rolls. The autonomy's gone. There's no control. Until everyone gets to a certain level and then all of a sudden it's a bit less threatening.
01:06:02
Speaker
Sure. Yeah. I assume I've got the resources. Yeah. It could be a bit of money. Always keep a diamond on hand. Speaking of level, uh, did we, did we achieve said level up survived? We have all leveled up.
Leveling Up & Closing Remarks
01:06:14
Speaker
We have all leveled up. Is this a thing like at the start of next episode, we can, we can say what we've got in level four territory. I definitely want to know all about that. Cause it's something for some of you, it's a bigger, bigger jump than others.
01:06:25
Speaker
It's ASI for all of us, isn't it? Ability score on pretty much everything. Yeah, ability score on some feet. I need to tap to Mark, I don't know whether I take a level one dip in something or not.
01:06:33
Speaker
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01:07:02
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