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C2 Ep. 168 Slaughterman's Legacy Chapter Eleven
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A House Divided
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Introduction and Episode Setup
00:00:09
Speaker
D20 radio, your game is roll.
00:00:42
Speaker
Hello and welcome to everyone in your new National Play Podcasts and Game Run Campaign Setting. I'm your Game Master, Eric. I'm Phillip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. Welcome to
Revelation of Ghost Tiger and Allies
00:00:50
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another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? A fight with Ghost Tiger. We fought our friends and their pets. A friend and her pets.
00:01:04
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Sana ambushed us when we went to check on Kath's victims, and we fought the tigers, and then Kath showed up, and we have now separated them, exposed them for who they are, and I told them if they want to kill themselves they can, which I realize now is not the coolest way to go. Okay, so yeah, you are holding them back, and that is the end of this round of combat.
00:01:32
Speaker
as Sana looks at Kath and says, somebody had to try and stop you. You were going too far. Are you all staying on Tasha or are you getting closer? What's your intent? I was just staring. I'm Milo as well. Okay. I need to do a thing real quick. I don't like that. I don't like that we gave an answer and then you need to do a thing. You have to do a thing.
00:02:01
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Randy and Philip probably want to do something but it doesn't seem appropriate. Stunned seems more appropriate. Whatever thing Eric just did rolled a triumph.
00:02:17
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Maybe it was Kat deciding. It's the Ram. It's the Ram. Still now. Do you need a distraction? With the triumph. Because it's effectively a despair. Cool.
00:02:45
Speaker
We're going to do a brief cut to you, but... No. Those are never fun, because then they happen later. I sit here knowing something happened. I need to. Sorry. Give me just a second. I have to send a quick text to somebody. Oh. It's to somebody at the table. This is the worst game show I've ever been on. We've all reached for our phones. Everybody act like you got the text. I'm just going to read it out loud. It's like a Sucka Sucka movie.
00:03:17
Speaker
I think it's gonna be me. This is Eric's definition of a quick text. I think he's kicking one of us off the podcast. Look, there's not an easy way to say this. Your years of service are appreciated, however, tired of you. I guess it was an easy way after all. Sorry, Randy, you've aged out. I'm waiting.
00:03:46
Speaker
Oh god. Wait, so only Philip knows what is happening in the cutscene? I'm asking Philip to roleplay a character in the cutaway scene, so I'm giving Philip the context for the role that he needs for all of it. Oh, no. So we don't even know. You will. We're about to. We're about to roleplay it. I just need Philip to have a bit more knowledge. Who else is in this scene? You'll see. Is it someone? Oh, me. It'll be me. Is it someone Philip's played before? No, no, no. We're cutting away to another person. Is it someone Philip's played before? Oh.
00:04:11
Speaker
No. So we'll know but our characters won't know. No, it's just that Eric trusts Philip to roleplay more than he trusts you. I was like, that's what's important. Because Philip's played my dad. Oh, that's true. Oh, very well. To be fair, I didn't listen to it. I just knew you did it. You were in the scene where you're not paying attention to Philip in the moment. Was I? Yes, he was talking to you. I just remember you being my dad.
00:04:38
Speaker
The first time I was Ruth that was three years ago. I don't know how they're Jeff was Alastair That's right. That is yes. That rings about questions Philip You know it also rings a bell I ate french fries last night. I have no idea where they came from Like they were in your fridge stop distracting Philip
00:05:07
Speaker
They were in front of me at the bar I was at. Were you tipsy? Or were you just hungry? They were also covered in meat. You're gonna be patient zero or something real nasty one day. They were really good. It was like a sauna fries? It was like a baked potato situation. No, clearly it was a fried potato situation. I had the meat and barbecue and cheese and chives and
00:05:34
Speaker
I'm assuming. I don't really remember. It's dark too. You good? I think so. Okay. Okay. That is, they said they're a bit cut to. We are in a corner of Lower Memphis nighttime.
Mysterious Encounter and City Secrets
00:05:51
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Ace is walking home from the four sails, looking down, just shuffling, kicks a bit of trash down an alleyway. And then he looks up and sees a figure standing there. Throw the trash back out of the alleyway.
00:06:05
Speaker
You really shouldn't litter. It's very against the law. I was, I didn't. Okay. You look. Yeah. It's not a big thing. It's just frustration with some friends, but it's not a big thing. To trapped in their own ambitions and projects to attend to you.
00:06:31
Speaker
I just want to help. I feel like I'm competent, but they don't see that. And then they tell me to go do something. Then when I do it and come back, they act like I shouldn't have done it. I just wish they could see me as an asset and somebody that could help them, but they could. If they would give me a, you just need to make them see.
00:07:01
Speaker
What do you mean? You need to be able to do something bigger. A big job? Yes. Perhaps they don't see your prowess. I see it. It's obviously there. It just needs coaching.
00:07:30
Speaker
Are you like a master thief or something? I would not put it that way. I'm more of a life coach, a mentor, potentially. Okay. Very good at spotting the potential in people and helping them to draw it out.
00:07:56
Speaker
I don't have a ton of money or anything to like, I imagine services cost something and I don't, I wash dishes at a restaurant, which is part of the problem, but. Certainly, but I'm doing money precisely.
00:08:21
Speaker
I can show you how to unlock that potential in you. What I would need from you would be more... I'm trying to find some things out about this city. Something in this city is
00:08:47
Speaker
Inflating the ambitions of people, causing them to seek power through foolish unwise means. And that has rather dried up my recruiting pool. So you would be really doing me a favor in a way, helping me find out
00:09:15
Speaker
the nature of this phenomenon, what exactly it is that's wrong with this city. I'm sure that our discovering it together would be of great help to your. Oh, okay. Yeah. I mean, if I can help them and help the city and then they might
00:09:39
Speaker
what I'm capable of. Yeah, yeah, that's of course. We just need to drop a little paperwork. Okay, the figure like an office. Oh, everywhere is my office. I'm a man of the world. No, that's not a thing. I'm sorry. The figure reaches into the work situation. She pulls out a phone. This is my office, baby. Get to the now.
00:10:05
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reaches into his code and pulls out a roll of very old parchment and unfurls it with a flourish and the letters are only faintly glowing for just a second and it's just regular old letters. I do feel free to look it over. It's quite...
00:10:20
Speaker
standard just to understand what each of us would do for the other. I'll help you unlock that hidden potential inside you and you'll work with me in my efforts to protect the city from this force of disorder that endangers everyone here. You'll help me
00:10:46
Speaker
We shouldn't have put a time limit on such things. We don't really know how long either. We'll take, let's say, for the duration. Okay, yeah, just until it's done, okay. Until my tasks are done, yes. Okay, and Ace takes the scroll and makes a show of...
00:11:05
Speaker
looking it over very carefully while not knowing at all what he's looking at. Ace probably has a second grade reading level, probably generously speaking. And so this all looks pretty, pretty basic stuff. Yeah. Yes. Elemental in a sense. Yes. Yeah. Do you have a quill or? Of course. Of course.
00:11:31
Speaker
produces a long inky black feathered quill. Okay, just on the line down
The Battle with the Reptilian Foe
00:11:40
Speaker
here? Yes. Ace makes his mark. It's giving very Ursula. Hands the quill back. Ace? Is that really? Ace? Is that really your name? Yeah, it's... Work on that. We'll work on that too. Okay.
00:11:57
Speaker
Sure. There's a potentially more impressive name somewhere in there. Okay. So what now? Ah, obviously you're not ready to take on big tasks immediately, but start unlocking some of that potential. And then I find a way to show everyone who's ever doubted you how very foolish they were.
00:12:29
Speaker
And we'll cut back to the combat. A thread I will never pull on purely out of spite. You don't know how frustrating that is. I've said every since we recorded last time and we had that little ace showing up. Yeah. I was the entire time. I was like, can't wait till we record. I really want to try to form a relationship. I started thinking about our last
00:12:57
Speaker
Campaign is like man. We lost Randy. I think he's had about a hundred and thirty episodes at this moment was that Was that everything that just happened was that the triumph you roll? Yeah, we are never gonna get through this campaign Okay, so top of this round that role there which is one success five advantage in a triumph so that's gonna add a
00:13:28
Speaker
Another NPC slot. Rooftimes, I almost inserted myself into that theme. Like you're a little henchman? Yeah, tell him! It's so great! He's making the contract!
00:13:42
Speaker
Okay, so the... Lots of jets from now I got her boys. That's all I can think about. This is very Ursula. It also was very the... Have you seen Big Mouth? Yeah. The floating... Oh yeah. Is he depression? What is he? Shame. Shame. Shame. Okay, so now the new initiative order is NPC, NDPC, NPC, PC. Got it.
00:14:09
Speaker
Okay. You all hear, or you all, everyone give me, or no, not you two, cause you're still on Tasha. Raynard and Hob, give me perception checks. This is going to be two purple difficulty. You all have. I just forgot what my perception is. I think it's three and one. Oh, sorry. Two and one. At the end of that last round, I flipped this story point to trigger the other entity arriving. So you all have all the story points. Okay. What's the difficulty? Is it too purple? Yes.
00:14:45
Speaker
I did not succeed, but you rolled a triumph. So now what do you want to cut to? Yeah. We need a distraction. No. And I think that's it. Just the time. Yeah.
00:14:58
Speaker
Only we were a video medium. We could demonetize so quickly. I got it. Not that we're monetizing. We needed to be monetized first cover. I gotta watch Three Advantage, but no success or failure.
00:15:16
Speaker
What'd you get, Trevor? Triumph. That's it. That's it. Wait, is the triumphant uncancelled success? It's cancelled success, yeah. It's cancelled success. Cool. So triumph and then three advantage. See, you all don't see this coming, but... Boy, you're right. I'll reveal what you all were trying to spot and then you all can decide how you want to spend your advantage and your triumph. You all don't feel the building kind of shift with weight as... What?! The building?!
00:15:40
Speaker
Claude Ham comes up around the edge and another one as a large reptilian figure launching itself up. I hear you've been looking for me. No, absolutely not. They're looking at Kath. It's not all about you. It was my perception. Meanwhile, we want to use this triumph. We want to cut back and Ace is walking a little further down in an angel steps out of an alley.
00:16:15
Speaker
Angel and a lawyer Okay, what have you bad to use the triumph to like get those two innocent people inside?
00:16:25
Speaker
wouldn't be bad. No. Because what else? This is progress because I feel like a few months ago Trevor would be like the triumph is the lizard thing falls off the building and just its own. The credits roll. We're done. You say that but if you had said no about the people getting in the building he would have fit that. Can I just get the lizard off the building?
00:16:46
Speaker
Yeah, if you want to say that some this is like a residential building or there it's a building with people in it They've come up to investigate the noise and see these people Okay, not like innocent people laying there and they drag them through the door that unless we think we need to do something else But I feel like they need to not be here a hand reaches out and drags them through the door I
00:17:07
Speaker
Did you have good intentions Are you dressed up like some feline creature no, okay, then we're cool with you interceding a bloodied hand veins glowing blue It's a bloodhound wearing a trench coat that just reaches out this It's probably fine. I think that's a perfectly fine. You said then we don't have to worry about that anymore I am in between
00:17:34
Speaker
calf and sauna, and now a lizard who wants to hurt sauna, calf. Well, all of us. A lizard of indiscriminate violent tendency is also here. I would like to use those three advantage to install a safety net to take a maneuver to have a healing potion real quick. How is that not the despair?
00:18:00
Speaker
That was a story point being flipped. There's six, right? Five? Six for the first one. I'm going to spend a story point. If you guys don't mind me using the advantage for that. We very much want you to stay on your feet. Feeling better.
00:18:19
Speaker
And just a reminder, the lizard thing is silhouette too, so it is very big. Silhouette. I heard still wet too. How big is the balcony on which our scenario is right now? No, you all are on the top of the building. So you're on the roof of a skyscraper, effectively. OK. So there's substantial space. There is maneuverability. Yeah, from one side of the building to the other is medium distance. OK. I hate that. NPC slot.
00:18:49
Speaker
Okay, great. I was hoping they'd get to go. What is going to happen is the... It's gonna rush up and... Attack Hob.
00:19:03
Speaker
Sure, I heard you've been looking for me. I'm going to attack your friend. It remembers last time. Hob hit it very hard. I wasn't there. You absolutely were. He's thinking of a different guy that looks like this. That guy didn't have these tattoos. Harris locked the door that got him a meal. So you're a friend. Hob. You know, I think up until this point, it hadn't occurred to me when he was dead. He ate foru. I didn't think that either. No. What fun new thing have we learned today? Turns out namans are real.
00:19:32
Speaker
They just look like lizards. I got some websites. Really, flesh that out for you. Yeah, the defense for Hobbs. So that is... Yep. Y'all want to do anything? Upgrade a die or no? And we have all the story points. Sure, let's upgrade a die and maybe we'll get a despair. We can use against him. Nope. I have been attacked. Wolfen can sell a soul too. One success, three advantage.
00:20:07
Speaker
He's like Pierce four or something. He did it. Nine damage Pierce four. Okay. And he's going to crit. Vicious four. So if you'll roll D100 when we fill up.
00:20:23
Speaker
What does vicious four mean again? Add 40. Oh! 20. So it actually only adds 30 because I have the... Okay, so 50. Okay. Head ringer. So the target increases the difficulty of all intellect and cunning checks. Oh, not me! So if you need to do any perception checks, that is going to... Yeah, that's the only real bummer, I think. So yeah, this thing walks up and just... Guys, I can't operate anymore. Hits Hobb upside the head. And then with the extra advantage left over,
00:20:51
Speaker
Hob. Link. So it's going to slash at you again immediately. Nine pierce four. Again? Oof. As it just rocks up and knocks Kath and Sana away as it comes at you, Hob. And now we are to another NPC slot. I mean, I am barely a part of this. I can't, we felt just so long. So for the sake of the rest of the encounter, I'm going to do what I normally do with Kath and Sana slots. Okay.
00:21:21
Speaker
I'm going to switch them to PC slots, since they are allies now and you all can determine when they go. For now. So we're all attacking the lizard right now. Yeah, they understand that. Yeah, perhaps now is not the time. Yeah. Although Sona is still very hurt. Yeah, she's not doing good. Aeris. Threw a tiger at you. There's several tigers at us.
00:21:48
Speaker
We gotta find out where those tigers came from, because they aren't getting them back. Boredell's gonna be pissed. Okay, so with converting them to PC slots, we now have a PC slot up, so who would like to go? It's all of us now, right? Basically, until the lizard's next turn. Yeah. So, unless someone's got something that's gonna set up someone else, I'm just gonna shoot the lizard. Yeah, shoot the lizard. I'll attack later. Adversary two. Gross. Ranged defense one. Just forgot my pool.
00:22:18
Speaker
How big is he? Big. Silhouette two. So he's like the size of a troll. What's his melee difficulty? Two purple.
00:22:26
Speaker
All melee difficulty is 2 purple. He has adversary 2 so it would be 2 red plus 2 melee defense. I don't think him laying down helps me with election attack. It would help Hob when Hob goes to punch. I will aim. He's got ranged defense of 2. Ranged defense of 1. And adversary readings. My range is short so his adversary reading was what? 2. So 1 red red purple.
00:22:55
Speaker
Okay, all right That is just one success But all the advantage two four eight and that's nine advance Wow Wow Oh, it's superior ten advantage. So how much damage ten damage Pierce to and I'm going to crit two of them
00:23:24
Speaker
Plus 40. Plus 40? Okay. I damaged him. I guess I have to actually damage him. So Tangram, soak two. Pierce two. Pierce two. The Fletcher Bolt rips through the scales and green blood spurts out and gets on Hob. Hob, you're going to suffer three strain. I forgot about that. Now I remember. The Centipede, guys. I don't forgot, the lizard does it too. Yep. The Centipede's messing me up. With the plus 40, 92.
00:23:55
Speaker
That's high. Go ahead and make it 1-12. 1-68. Ooh. At the brink, target suffers two strain each time they perform an action until the critical injury is used. So I tear something bad. Yeah. Rips through some of the shoulder tendons and just, yeah, blood spurts out. And. And Eris. And Eris shouts.
00:24:22
Speaker
Okay, can we all get over our issues for a few minutes now? Wow, Eris, how suddenly level-headed of you. How suddenly level-headed? Take a moment to get over your own issues. Sana and Kath at that from Eris still locking eyes with each other just shout fine in unison and turn and look at the lizard. They both roll their eyes at the irony of Eris saying that, and that allows them to work together for a moment. Eris doesn't try to kill people with whom she has a disagreement.
00:24:50
Speaker
To be fair, they were just hunching each other. Eris doesn't try to kill people with whom she has a temporary disagreement. It usually involves someone having tried to hurt someone Eris cares about. That's usually what pushes Eris to murder. And you disagree that those people should be hurt. You disagree with the person trying to hurt. Oh yes. We're playing a semantics game that is not fun on this podcast. PC slot. What are you trying to do? Our sauna and hob.
00:25:20
Speaker
close enough together that I can barrier both. Sure. Okay. Before I do that, I'm going to do an incidental and recover four strain. Okay, so you are short distance, adding an additional target. So that's hard difficulty. If you're engaged, then it starts off easy, but you have to add a range band. Make one a red.
00:25:49
Speaker
You already have a red. Keep it. Would you like to flip a story point to... I will flip a story point to add for boost. Okay. Nice, nice. Whoa, that's so much advantage. Holy cow. Holy cow. Not a whole lot of success, though. Yeah, I'm worried this is not successful. It's not. No. Yeah, it does get canceled. And that eats that one.
00:26:17
Speaker
That is. How much strain can I heal with all that? A lot. Probably more than your threshold. Nine. So you could heal nine strain. I'm going to heal eight strain. Okay. You have one. You had eight strain to heal. Wow. Pass a boost to the next. I got four. Oh yeah.
00:26:33
Speaker
And then, can I pass a boost? Sure. Pass a boost to the next shot. Okay, good. Now I can throw some spells around. Okay. Hopefully. The magic bounces off Hobb, and Sana, another PC slot, Raynart or Hobb. What does prone do for me? If the lizard were to be made prone, I can do that within this Diddle. On melee checks, it gives you a boost die, but it imposes two set back to any ranged. Right.
00:27:03
Speaker
Do what you need to do. Okay, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do my... I have to take two moves. Do I have those to give first? Let me check that.
00:27:16
Speaker
No, that's closer than I wanna go. Okay, so I'm not gonna do the prone thing. I forgot, it's not too strange to wounds to do the headbutt. And that puts me at 15 of 17. I am going to suffer... Oh, it only adds one setback to all ranged attacks, but... I'm still not worried about it. Okay. I am going to do an attack on my guy. It's two red, right? Yes, and two black. Two black. I am going to voluntarily upgrade, add a purple. My boost.
00:27:44
Speaker
Yes, your boost, my Ring Fighter boost. And what's the extra purple for? This is me upgrading the difficulty for my leaping attack. Okay. Sorry, this is for my double or nothing. Leaping attack is strained. Let me add those. And I'll flip one of my story points to make that one that you upgraded into red. So three red. I'll take two of those strained back. Okay, so this is the bad side. Now I got to build the good side. I get my standard.
00:28:14
Speaker
One, two, three. It's four and one, right? I don't think you got it. He needs to get rid of a purple. Get rid of the purple. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. Okay, so that's my standard. That's Ring Fighter. This is from you. Would you like to aim with a maneuver? I do want to aim with a maneuver. Or one of those things that you did. Double or nothing or leaping a maneuver. No, neither one are maneuvers. They're both passive.
00:28:43
Speaker
All right, this is quite a pool. Oh boy, despair could really hurt me here, but. As opposed to those other types where despairs are fun. Harmless, yeah. This is everything, right? Yeah, that's it, okay. Okay. No despair. Those three, take out those three.
00:29:12
Speaker
That one takes out that one. Those. Okay. At two success and four advantage means four success and eight advantage because I double or nothing. At four success, that's 24 damage. Holy. Pierce, four, Breach, one.
00:29:36
Speaker
Okay. It doubles my brawn when I do the leaping attack. So that automatically adds 5 to my damage too. So wait, so you're... Okay, so 24, Breach 1, Pierce 4. So they're just gonna take all of that. And Hob's gonna take 12 loons. Or 12 Strain, sorry. I didn't make him bleed, those are blunt attacks, I'm just punching. Whenever this character suffers loons.
00:30:03
Speaker
His skin's acidic. So I take 12 strain? Yep. Okay, then I'm down. That's all I got to give. Let me...
00:30:15
Speaker
Can I, before I fall, can I use my two advantage to go ahead and hurt him again? Get, key monk it and knock him down, get, got, get, got for good. Get, go, go, get, go, go. Hang on. Yeah, man. So we see Hob do this amazingly epic thing and then go clunk. Pretty much. What? I grab, I jump up, grab his head, smash it into the ground, and then I come up and my hands are just sizzling. Yeah. How fun for all of us. Woo!
00:30:45
Speaker
Not you. I think Hobbs comes back up from this maneuver, hands sizzling. It probably splashed up on him some. And so he's just woozy. I have to assume really hurt this guy. Oh, yeah. Part of the scales have been caved in. You felt bones crunch underneath the blow, barely standing. It's still on its feet, but just barely. OK, so again, I have eight advantage.
00:31:15
Speaker
Can I do something with them or does this strain happen first? As soon as they suffer the wounds, you suffer the strain. So the only advantage is to pass it around. Yeah, you could do something narratively. Just Hob is knocked out. Am I knocked out? Am I on the ground? Because we strain different ways. Yeah, you are no longer able to engage in the combat. However you want to say narratively that is.
00:31:39
Speaker
Because in the past when we've had Eris still be conscious, Eris still is like non-verbal, like barely... One time I got full strength. It was a centipede fight. I got full strength. This exact same thing happened. Because I hit too hard. This exact same thing happened. And yeah, I just babbled and walked with you all. Yeah. Eight advantage. Can you guys think of anything narrative? Something huge. So does that. Stop it. That's the wrong kind of huge. We'll just summon all the bad guys now and finish. Take care of it. Finish the dead. One way or the other. Kill them all.
00:32:11
Speaker
I need to use some of this advantage to say that I'm able to at least get far enough away. I don't catch any more of this splash all over me when the next person hits them. Oh, yeah. Because I got hell when Aeris hit it too, because I was too close. So I don't want to be that close anymore. Yeah. I mean, if you want to use three of the advantage to say that I do, it stumbles back. I know I'm out of this fight. I think pass an upgrade.
00:32:36
Speaker
Because obviously we should let Kath go next and have the opportunity to kill this thing. Yeah, that sounds great. Absolutely. Okay, you still have two advantage. You pass two boost or can I go too straight?
00:32:53
Speaker
I don't think when you're out of, you have to do a check. So that she can also immediately pass out. Cat's at full health. I don't know what y'all are talking about. It was strain though. But yeah, cat's also full strain.
00:33:12
Speaker
So was I? Now wait, important question. Take most of us down. An important question. I have the talent that allows me to recover strain when you flip a story point. Is that also negated because of this? What's the name of the talent? Oh, who knows? It's called... Zealous Fire.
00:33:36
Speaker
Let me look at my document. Sure. Yes, it would seem that you do still heal. Okay. So I will keep an eye on that. Hob just all of a sudden, hang on. How far negative did that take you? How many was it? I was at zero. I was clear and you said it was 12. What's your max? Yeah. So my max is 12. Okay. So I got right up to my threshold. Cool.
00:33:57
Speaker
So then you're not down. It's when you exceed your threshold. Oh. Oh. I thought it was when you meet your threshold. No. Because when you meet your threshold of wounds, you're down. No, it's always because we've gotten that before in Discord and comments. It's when you exceed your threshold. OK. Then I don't necessarily need to take three boosts to get away. I can just use my movement. Yeah. So there's three boosts back out there. Heal some of your strength. Let's heal some of my strength. Yeah. OK. Set up Cath real big and heal some of your strength. Cath still gets two. I set an upgrade and a boost, right? That's what we gave her. Killing me. Yeah, go for it.
00:34:27
Speaker
They're very good. I've had way more than I should have. Okay. Are we still letting Cath go? Yes. She better attack the lizard. Cath's gonna punch Sana. I'm shooting her. They're both dying. We'll all be very sad. We'll lie at the funeral. At least it'll be over.
00:34:45
Speaker
That's how we started solving problems. That's how we've been solving problems. We've been lying at the funeral. Hey, solve problems with our friends. Fair. OK, so her brawl is for yellow. I'll be honest, demonically possessed ace is not going to be a hard call. Yeah, no. Let's give you that meme with Wesley Snipes crying, holding a gun. Diabolically possessed. Aim, then two boosts from the check, two red, two black.
00:35:12
Speaker
And the upgrade already. You put the upgrade in. I thought there was only two advantage. No, we, we spent seven advantage on her upgrading and one upgrade, one boost and a boost. Okay. So add a green to it and spend a story point upgrade again. Okay. Hey, better succeed. Yes. Yes. Success. Yeah.
00:35:39
Speaker
That is three success, two advantage, and a triumph. Everything possible to kill the lizard. Yeah, if it takes the triumph to finish it off, let's do it.
00:35:52
Speaker
Maybe Cass can retire from her vigilantism and the whole problem is resolved with violence.
Victory and Moral Reflections
00:35:58
Speaker
For the vigilantism that she doesn't even do with us. I'm still not talking Sama. That's criminality. That's different. Neither am I because she choked me. Or hit me. What'd she do? She tried to hit you and punched the wall. She didn't actually hit you. I thought she grabbed you though first. Yeah. Well, spun him around. Tried to hit me. That was her. Don't forget the tiger part.
00:36:20
Speaker
We had a one-on-one, and she chose to try to hit me. Got me there. But have you noticed how often that happens? Do you think maybe the common denominator is Raynard? Or... Maybe, but I'm not dealing with that right now. I haven't done anything to Sana besides make her feel uncomfortable in a walk-in freezer. Which is grounds for dismissal. With good intentions.
00:36:50
Speaker
We're getting a spin off. Eric's just waiting. Yeah, you're the one that has the place to be, man. All right, go, Eric.
00:36:57
Speaker
Okay, so Kath plants a boot on the inside of the lizard's knee and uses the momentum to hop up and the claws rake up and get caught on the lizard's collarbone as she pulls momentum goes over its shoulder as she pulls down and the bone snaps as its back hits the ground and she mounts the chest and the claws just begin raking down as the acidic
00:37:23
Speaker
Blood is spraying everywhere, and the lizard creature ceases to move. Cath does not cease moving, however. She's going to, she keeps moving. She eventually will. Yeah, just let her tucker herself out. Once it's dead, it's no longer suffering wounds. That'll make it even once she and Sana re-engage.
00:37:47
Speaker
Yeah, Kath just starts tearing into this creature. You still have the triumph on the table, though. That was not needed. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Cut to. Hey, I thought we could calm some nerves with this triumph somehow. Yeah, Sana. Knows what this must mean to Kath.
00:38:17
Speaker
And at least in this specific scene, they're not going to resort to violence against each other again. There will be an opportunity for this scene at least to conclude.
00:38:32
Speaker
Well, you grant me dramatic shoving, at least. Sure, absolutely. You can shove yourself as much as you want, Batman. They will not harm each other for the duration of this scene. No, that's fine. Physically. They won't even allow emotional harm. Anything that would have gotten them in trouble with their parents when they were kids. Yeah. As this scene is quieting down, you still hear the sound of Cath tearing into, and this, you all also begin to see the creature begins to become smaller.
00:39:02
Speaker
This is about to be a lot grosser. It's a person. Yeah, we knew that. Yeah, but it was always. Did you work for which one? Okay, I was like, do we know who? I thought we did. I thought we do. I thought we knew it was the tithers. That's right. Yes, we do know it's turned into tithers. Hey, Eric, you go ahead. So the body begins getting smaller. Cath is still mounted and tearing into the flesh of this
00:39:26
Speaker
creature slash person, Sana begin to move walking over to wherever Hobb would have thrown her mask and she bends over and picks it up and she looks over at what Cap is doing but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot registering facially. What would you all like to be doing? I would like to know and be reminded
00:39:50
Speaker
Does olive know the secret identity of this person? I don't think so. Okay. Eris is not. The socially competent enough person to think of that right now. Um, no, I, Eris understands. Cath's motivation here and is not going to do anything to stop Cath from taking it out. That would be very hypocritical. Hmm.
00:40:17
Speaker
So I yield the floor to anyone else who wants to engage here. Reynaud, I believe you're quite better at healing than I am. You might want to check on Hob, please. Can we say all of it at this point? Let's see if there's any I can possess. Can we say that all of the text is in just so that it's simpler? Yeah. You're not trying to resurrect Hob, so there's less likelihood. You want some health back, baby. Not anymore. What is that? First? Yeah, please.
00:40:48
Speaker
Ooh. Don't call me that. Easy difficulty. One purple. So one purple. And you're engaged so you're putting a hand on a hob. So that's, yep, that's it. Ah, we can do it. Okay. Why not? Oh yeah, it's too strange. You gotta heal. We did it. We did it. It's a four success and two advantage.
00:41:18
Speaker
Success is one of the advantages of strain. I feel a lot better. You're welcome. I didn't thank you. You didn't have to. Thanks Milo for the idea. You said it with your eyes. Great call, Milo. You didn't have to. Milo, what are you doing? Making suggestions. Milo is just, I don't know.
00:41:47
Speaker
He's a little bummed that his little barrier didn't work, so he's frustrated with himself. Someday he'll be able to do all of this, the way it's meant to be done, hopefully. And he's just, no, he's not really, I think he's just lost in the moment of everything that's unfolded. I'm gonna add one, so can I flip a story point to have a second healing potion to offer to Sona? Shouldn't have to take it, but I'm just gonna stand up after he heals me and walk over with a vial.
00:42:15
Speaker
and offer it to Sauna because she's clearly injured. Yeah, I mean, she's holding her gut and she takes it from you and drinks it and hand you the empty bottle back. And I say to her, I say, I've just remembered that Eris looks absolutely withdrawn into herself and extremely shame faced about this whole situation. That's, I was going to say, and Hob says, she, she had no idea that it was you. She just saw the tigers. Yeah, I know.
00:42:44
Speaker
By the way, you knew it was me in the title. He doesn't say that. He thinks it. She didn't know it was you. Anybody looking in cast direction, you notice that the blood that's coming off as she's like clawing has shifted from green to red. Yeah, it's getting foul up there. Eris is not looking at that. I'm not pulling her off. I'm just saying, anybody that does. Yeah. She's going to turn that guy into Burger, and we're going to let her. And Sana just nods at Hob and says, I guess I'm done here. So I'm going to go home.
00:43:13
Speaker
Actually, you know what? No. Hob's gonna say it real quick, he's gonna... We were never helping her do this. We were trying to stop her just like you. I feel like you should know that. He leaves out the have. Should have known that. But... She is kind of... trans. It's getting worse. And... didn't see anything.
00:43:46
Speaker
I am. It's over now, I guess, so. I hope so. Good for her. Not getting into that. Hop stinks. Has ceased, not ceased moving, but she's just still sitting on
00:44:03
Speaker
the body's chest just looking down, and you see the shoulders moving slightly as... Her shoulders. Her shoulders. Her shoulders. Yes. Her shoulders moving slightly. She's shaking. There are no identifiable shoulders any longer on the hardest of the tigers. Hob, give me a easy perception, but it's going to be too purple because of your crit. That's right. That is a failure with one advantage. Okay. You want to heal a strain? You are. Imagine so.
00:44:32
Speaker
Yeah, Sana looking at Kath and it's just inscrutable. Reynard, what are you looking at right now? Probably just a little bit mean mug in Sana. Okay. Yeah, that's Milo, too. Okay, looking at Sana right now can give me a perception check. Easy difficulty, one purple. Oh, Milo can't ever see anything.
00:45:01
Speaker
I did not do it. But you have two advantage. No, yeah. I failed and didn't have two advantage. You want to pass two boosts to Randy? Sure, Randy. There you go. We're going to find out what's going on with this lady. There it is. Yay. One success. Two success, four advantage. With the success, Milo, as you're looking at Sana, you see her look at Kath.
00:45:29
Speaker
that there is an impulse and her body language starts to shift like she's going to walk over to Cath, which is what you would typically expect to try to provide comfort or counsel and she stops herself and just turns and walks away from Hobb towards the edge of the building. Do we have a number of how many people Cath
00:45:51
Speaker
killed in pursuit of the lizard. She would even know that she killed anybody. She attests that she did not kill anybody. She enhanced, investigated information out of them. That means a great deal to Hobb. The difference between those two is vast to Hobb. And unless somebody's stopping her, Sana goes over to the edge of the building and begins to put her mask on.
00:46:20
Speaker
She needs to put the mask on. Just go home. You're going to have to just go home. Eris will go over to Sana. Okay. She is not carrying the Fletcher. You should... You should let Reynard look at that before you go.
00:46:53
Speaker
care of too. I mean like if he wants to um you can get him over here but. Raynard. I have close enough too. Raynard come here. He doesn't really want to. You can say no. Raynard get over here. I want to be a terrible person. Raynard. Live your truth man. Do what you want to do but Raynard she she's hurt really bad.
00:47:22
Speaker
And here's a potion. I'm going to do it. What are you doing? Stop it. Who else is here? No one else can show up. Son is looking at Raynard and seeing that he has no interest in helping her and that he's being cajoled into it by. OK. Eris and Hobb and she just puts a hand up. It's like.
00:47:47
Speaker
I fucking thought she will heal a strain with that advantage. I helped. And we shot her and we were supposed to help fix it. I shot her too. And we were supposed to hurt her. Eris, Eris not like puts a hand on Sana's arm because presumably Sana's about to like, you know, Batman disappear on us. With the... I can track her mask.
00:48:17
Speaker
I've touched it now. It's true. I don't think I have to have touched it, but I can definitely track her mask because I've touched it. But triumph, so I see what horror you bring upon us now.
00:48:31
Speaker
She's just going to do the crucify fall off this. Assassin's Creed it. According to the logic of Assassin's Creed, as long as there's a hay bale at the bottom of Sharn, she'll be fine. A pile of flowers. Yeah. That's true. Just a bush. Yeah. The piles of flowers. One of the tires. That tire that got thrown off the roof. Oh, that guy's flat. There's no way that thing's got three dimensions anymore.
00:48:55
Speaker
That's gonna be in the newspaper tomorrow, though. I don't see anybody was injured. Anything harvestable? We really shouldn't. Really don't think we should approach the scene of that. It could have gone through the cogs. Like, there's no telling how far it went down. The cogs might have felt horrible right now. Probably always do. Okay, Aris. Come here, punch you today. As you put your hand on Sana's arm, your communicator turns on and you hear Verlet
00:49:24
Speaker
Hey, are you on a roof fighting a giant creature in the city? No. We were on a roof. Is one answer that easier for you than another? This is a warning because if it is you, which you all have very distinctive looks. Now I have my mask on.
00:49:51
Speaker
there's a lot of people in sharn city watch on the take with bormar and we got calls about massive fight and a tiger that fell off a ghost tiger that fell off of one of the towers or what anyone think that had anything to do with us they saw it get there there were witnesses you're on top of a building anyway regular tigers are normal ghost tigers whoever falling from the sky
00:50:12
Speaker
Yeah. Watchmen on the take here have let Boromar know where you are, so you all need to beat feet and get out of where you are.
Escape from Boromar's Attention
00:50:18
Speaker
Right. Thank you. Yes. Trying to help. Thank you. Aeris does not take your hand off his sign. We need to cheese it because we just made a big scene and threw a tiger off the top of a tower. And Boromar owns have to watch so they know where we are right now.
00:50:39
Speaker
I tell Raynard he's with Tasha and I go to- Don't leave the corpse, it'll be pinned on us.
00:50:45
Speaker
You guys need to take it in, Taja. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to throw it in my sidecar. I'm offering Cath. Please don't ride around with that in your sidecar. The corpse. Do we have a barrel to put it in? It's just liquid now. It's a lot of liquid, but there's enough there to identify. As you all begin talking, you hear footsteps on the rooftop as Cath is walking towards Sana, just looking at her and Sana's locked eyes with her. And Cath walks up like,
00:51:14
Speaker
nearly toe-to-toe, just glaring into Sonnet's eyes. Does this look hostile? Anger, but you're not seeing any kind of body language indicating that Kath is walking up to attack. It looks like Kath is about to say something, and then she just hits a rune on one of her bracers and a sore sled that was parked on a nearby.
00:51:38
Speaker
Does it look familiar? She got the green goblin sled. No, it's not. It's not. Yeah. No, it's different because actually it's a sore sled in shape and function, but there's actually handles underneath it. So like she rides under it. So yeah, she, it comes down and floats above her and she just looks at all of you. And unless somebody's stopping her, she grabs one of the handles and it begins to come on. Let's not do that. Give me a check. It's all goodbye forever. Now that she's made all this gadgetry, does she count as a gear head?
00:52:09
Speaker
She didn't make the gadgetry. She's a gear enthusiast for sure. It is very clear that whoever made both of their gadgetry is the same person. Yeah, I know who it is. He should probably have figured something out at a certain point. What's my difficulty? To be one red, two purple. That's very funny. If I offer to buy drinks, does it turn into negotiation? Sure.
00:52:39
Speaker
He just thought his two kids were having a team up somewhere. There's no way about that. Drawther is now a bad person. I'm sorry, I'd say that difficulty again. One red, two purple. Bad person, good art of dessert. He made some cool stuff. That thing's cool. It's fine. It's not very cool looking. Can my speeder come when called? Yeah. All right. Actually. Okay, great. Two success, two advantage. Yay.
00:53:05
Speaker
Kath, like, just as her feet are about to lift off, just stops. No place. It'll be fine. Sure. Eris produces a tarpaulin from Tasha, and...
00:53:21
Speaker
does the necessity of removing whatever is left of TARDIS. From the neck up, nothing. Yeah. Cool. All the same. Well, it's left. It's just not gatherable. Milo affects some magic to clean the area. We just need to go. We've done. File in. This is essentially a murder kidnap, and it's time for us to leave the scene. Sorin spirits. I can still clean up the spot. If you want to try to mask the evidence, you certainly can do that.
00:53:48
Speaker
Okay, so someone stuck their hand out and dragged those two guys in. Are there still witnesses? You don't look around and see people like, you could probably see faint figures of windows and balconies looking down on the roof of this building. So if it's just you're trying to press to digitize it away, then that's just going to be an easy difficulty.
00:54:10
Speaker
Stairs. Stairs, okay. Force. One, two. You did it, yeah. Three success, four advantage. You pressed as you take. You want to heal four strain? Huh? Heal four strain, or do you have strain? That caused you two strain. I'll heal two of them and there's still what? Two advantage left? Let's cheese it. Yeah. Yeah. Who's on my bike?
00:54:32
Speaker
I offered to Kath, but she wants to take her source. Yeah, I mean, Sana heads to Tasha and Kath seeing that goes and hops in the sidecar of Hobbs bike. And then Tasha.
00:54:46
Speaker
Reynard, are you Hoppin' in Tasha? I don't have a choice, do I? I mean, you could say... Hopp's day! Hold on to Hopp's hips as he rides away. I have a say in that. You can take the sword slid. Tasha it is. Can I just... I want to try. Can I try? Let me try. For my troubles. She hits the rune again and it takes off in the vague direction that you all came from. Back to sword experience.
00:55:13
Speaker
Okay. And we'll call the episode there.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
00:55:15
Speaker
Thank you all so much for listening. If you want to be part of the conversation surrounding this episode, you can head on over to our Discord, the link to which you can find it on our Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter. We also have a YouTube channel, youtube.com, slash the pantheon, where there are videos on tabletop role-playing games over there. And Philip has something else he'd like to talk to you about. Oh, right. Yes. On the YouTube's Laughing Tree, YouTube channel, Kyber Shards is an actual play that I run in using 5e in Stormreach. It's cool.
00:55:42
Speaker
Sure. Yep. Jeff. Yeah. Twitch.tv slash the real J-W-R-F. The real is spelled the way you would. Follow for notifications. I'm tweeting or streaming sporadically right now, but I'm going to get it back together and watch Kyber charts. Trevor. You can find me on social media on Instagram and Facebook. Patty Bure. P-H-T-T-Y-B-O-U-R-E-Y. I'm also on TikTok. And yeah. Randy.
00:56:12
Speaker
Halloween's coming up here in a little bit. If you're in the Oklahoma City area and you're interested in some bizarre magic and storytelling for Halloween, let me know. I guess in the discords.
00:56:29
Speaker
Okay? Thank you all so much for listening. I'm your Game Master Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Trevor. I'm Randy. I'm Jeff. See you next time.