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Ep. 2 Sneaky Sips
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Joxxer and Davon aren't satisfied to just settle in for the night. No, they have to go getting into trouble around town. Let's hope they're as good at fighting as they are at sneakin'! Then again.. they might be better at dying than they are at fighting! Let's find out together!
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A New Beginning in Wild Hill
00:00:04
Speaker
Previously on the Hired Sword. I know a town and some new friends. Oh, with a world so vast, we can only hope to find a place for ourselves. A place to settle down and comfort on. Well, within the hope, some coin.
Exploring Wild Hill's Hunting Culture
00:00:19
Speaker
Seems Wild Hill here is all about the hunt. I've never done it before, but I can hunt. I know companions here will also see a little bit out of their element. My guess is none of them have ever shot a live critter before in their lives. I've done that much at least.
00:00:32
Speaker
Greg's here looks like an old war veteran. Doctor, maybe a spoiled boy ran away from home. And Gwen, well, haven't figured out Gwen yet. Still, they all seem like good people. I would mind some good trustworthy people in my life for a change. It's been a few years. Yeah, I could see myself getting to know these lads better.
Navigating the Town's Landmarks
00:01:17
Speaker
You're listening to the Hired Swords, a Dungeons and Dragons podcast with all that character flavor you savor.
00:01:36
Speaker
Where do you guys want to head you see the there's four identical buildings kind of to the the northeast there a little bit you do see the roof of the mill that is over to the Almost directly east of you guys right at the edge of the forest those four identical buildings You you saw several adventures come come out of there when they were headed towards the tower of testing and then obviously up and
00:01:59
Speaker
Further up the road, you've got the tower there, you passed the longhouse, which was where you had some folks that were outside of that place drinking when you
Evening Choices: Where to Go?
00:02:08
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came in. Then also, the lamppost inn is over there that you saw. And these barracks, these nobleman's barracks that a couple of you heard mention of when you were talking to folks over at the lamppost inn, or trying to get into the lamppost inn. Excuse me. Well, Chuck, sir, I'll let you lead the way. You seem to have a destination in mind.
00:02:26
Speaker
From our perspective, if we kind of leave the camp kind of north, does everything seem like I'll ask open or do the lights seem dim in places or anything specific?
The Nightlife: Inn vs. Longhouse
00:02:38
Speaker
Yeah, as you're walking through, you can tell there's a few shops and stuff that are that are kind of around, but they're very much closed. You can tell that they've been shut down for the evening. The only things that really seem to have any kind of hubbub lights and things going on are the lamp post in the as you continue to walk north, the longhouse definitely has some activity. And it seems like it's kind of the most ruckus like crazy place in town right now.
00:03:04
Speaker
Basically, once we made it to this statue, I would probably look back at Daven and kind of... So this place looks like a little confusing, but the area up north here seems like it might be of interest. Well, I did see that long house as we came in. It looked like it was a lively place. I suppose we can go check it out.
00:03:25
Speaker
then I would probably just start heading that way to see what's happening.
Entering the Longhouse Chaos
00:03:32
Speaker
I follow, but I stay about three or four feet behind him. I don't walk next to him. Okay, cool. You walk down the road that direction and you see the classic couple of guys walking together from that area. They could barely
00:03:45
Speaker
Walk a straight line kind of one of them leaning on the other and the other and has no business trying to help the other one from falling over you know they're both in pretty bad shape just walking down laughing and one of you kind of get one of them kind of gives you a side eye and he's like watch it you you better watch it like that and he's obviously just angry when he's inebriated and this
00:04:05
Speaker
Then you turn the corner and you see a couple of young women kind of being courted by a couple of these adventure types and being taken into some little hobbles there nearby. Then you approach the longhouse. The longhouse is exactly what it sounds like. You walk up to a doorway. Sitting next to the doorway is the same old man sitting there. He's passed out laying on a bench by the door. When you walk inside, you see four wooden and canvas walls.
00:04:35
Speaker
a thatched roof, several tables stretched from the front door to the back to make it look like one long it's like it's one long picnic table from the front almost at the door all the way to the back of the room. This is where obviously you can see all of these adventurers are here drinking, talking, you see them arm wrestling there. There's a oh my my phone's telling me it's time to go to bed. There's a a
00:05:01
Speaker
There's a Target on the back. They're throwing daggers at a target near the back. You see some Just common folk running here and they're serving them Meat and you know dried meats and some fresh roasted meat some vegetables and root vegetables and stuff and as you guys walk in and
00:05:22
Speaker
barely anyone even really looks up at you you're just kind of you just kind of walk in and and you can also see two of these two of the three leaders from the announcement earlier that day actually only Daven would know of this but the the two male leaders Sabre and Almar the dwarf and the gnome they're sitting
00:05:46
Speaker
At the table right across from each other and they're kind of surrounded by guys who are They're just all talking and and there's guys and girls around them that look like they're part of their teams or their party hunting parties just hanging out and stuff before the next day's hunt and yeah, so it's kind of they're not really paying you attention when you walk in and But there is you know stuff going on in here and there's plenty there's like a buffet of food and several kegs with different drinks available and
00:06:15
Speaker
there on a long table near the wall on the backside of the building.
Unveiling Hunting Team Secrets
00:06:21
Speaker
Does it specifically look like anybody would care if I just partook in the drink that was there, or does it look like this is not meant for our teams?
00:06:37
Speaker
It looks like you obviously there's no one of your of the new group in this in the longhouse currently no one's in there you know the anybody that's there you you pretty much know they
00:06:53
Speaker
They have been with these parties. They kind of went over to the party to hang out with, they're kind of hanging out with some of these leader types. If you want to make an insight check, you can kind of see if you get any kind of vibe from anybody if you were approaching the drinks or anything like that. Yes, I will take an insight check if I can find it and there you go.
00:07:19
Speaker
Insight check for joxer is a five You feel like you could do whatever you want. Like just go get it to something to drink And I do I do I just go in I try to like flow lightly into the the crowd and and Maybe make as little ruckus as I can and hope they're all drunk enough
00:07:47
Speaker
Devin kind of leans against the wall in the back with his arms crossed to see how this plays out. Okay, yeah, there are, you know, there's probably two dozen of these kind of warrior types in here. Plus, probably four or five commoner, you know, young women, young men. And but when you approach the first table to your right here with the kegs on it, the
00:08:10
Speaker
The young woman who's she's actually filling mugs and setting them on the table for these other Young men and women who just seem like townsfolk to come grab and take to the tables You know, she's just like loading this table up with drinks for them to take to the tables So as you walk up to grab one of the drinks
00:08:32
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she kind of looks up at you and kind of gives you a side eye like she doesn't recognize you and Just kind of raises her eyebrows. That's like, okay like that So I grab it and I just start it start drinking at it All right, and I judge it a little bit Okay Sorry, I'm doing a roll here for my own purposes. Okay. Okay. Okay. I
00:08:58
Speaker
So you do catch the attention of a couple of the guys sitting nearest you. They're actually sitting on a table right across from where the drinks are being served from, about 10 feet from you. And they kind of turn and look at you and they're giving you that same kind of stank eye. And one of them stands up and kind of walks over to you and he goes,
00:09:26
Speaker
What exactly do you think you're doing here? Oh, I noticed there was a lot of ruckus around here. I just figured I'd join in.
00:09:40
Speaker
I see. Well, keep your distance from those folks up there and you'll probably be just fine. He points up to where Almar and Saber are with their kind of groups and he says, my table's full, but if you want to stand there and drink, you're not in my way. He turns around and walks back to the table.
00:10:02
Speaker
Before he starts to walk away, I was like, can you give me a bit more information about the groupings that I'm seeing here? I'm not from around here. He says, well, many of us have been hunting together for a long time and we don't like to
00:10:25
Speaker
We don't like to add new folks to the hunt because that usually means we've lost somebody we got used to being around. You know what I mean? So if you guys get in one of our teams, you're probably filling some shoes. We're not real happy to have to be filled. So we don't like to get to know you very well right away. You can't blame these guys. I haven't been here as long as they have, but you can't blame them.
00:10:50
Speaker
Yeah, you notice noticeably a jocks who kind of has that like he understands and and a little bit more somber in that scenario and he kind of Takes takes a drink with him and walks over to Devin. Okay? His hands like One drink you can't get one for your new friends
00:11:15
Speaker
I thought we were friends. He looks at him and he's he just hands it over. You're welcome to this one. It's nothing special. Nothing special still better than nothing. And so he takes a drink. OK. So you
00:11:42
Speaker
What are you guys doing? Are you just kind of hanging out kind of by the door there or? At this point, I kind of hung out over there. I could probably smell maybe me kind of spilling on the floor and I'm not really that interested in some of some of the sweeter stuff. So.
Clever Tactics at the Lamppost Inn
00:12:02
Speaker
Yeah, I'll probably be more so and be a little disinterested in that scenario unless I see something that really piques my interest. Okay. Yeah, well... Go ahead. Devin says, if this isn't to your liking, why don't you follow me? I'll get us something a little bit better to drink when he walks out the door. Jotter follows immediately.
00:12:27
Speaker
OK, and I'm going to head back toward the lamppost in. Is there like an alleyway or anything like heading that direction? Yeah, there's a if you between the tower of testing, there's a well there and then there's a big old tree that you can kind of walk through an alleyway next to that tree between the tower and the lamppost in and go around to the backside.
00:12:51
Speaker
OK, I'm going to go that direction, have him follow me and I'll say, so I'll go get us a couple of drinks. So you just stand outside and look a little tough. All right. And then I'm going to cast alt yourself and I'm going to make myself look like Lyra. OK. And then I'm going to kind of without saying anything, I'll have my friend follow me and I'll kind of point for him to wait outside and I'm going to just walk inside the front door casually.
00:13:14
Speaker
Okay. So, yeah. So, you make yourself look like who? Was it Lyra? Lyra? Sir Lyra? Who was it? The leader of the ice party. Oh, that's Sariah. Sariah. Sariah, sorry. Yeah, Sariah. Sorry. Okay, I understand. Okay, cool. So, you make yourself look...
00:13:40
Speaker
look like her and you go around the backside there and you're just going to go back around to the front and go in. Yeah, I want to like just go to the back just to be able to change form and then I'll go to the front and then just casually walk in the front door as if I'm supposed to be there. Yeah, you walk past the big guy who as you walk by, he just kind of nods his head at you. And
00:14:06
Speaker
You open the door. When you walk inside, you see a bunch of tables. There's like eight, ten tables spread out with tablecloths and candles on the table.
00:14:22
Speaker
There are plates of food that have been served you see mostly these noble men and women standing around there standing there or sitting around there sitting in chairs around these tables eating talking as you walk in they kinda look up at you and just kinda like.
00:14:42
Speaker
Look look over there no like look down their nose at you i think the phrase right they look down their nose at you and and look back at their meal and eat and and most of them have a, a their own little like bottle of moonshine or wine or something on their table,
00:14:58
Speaker
You walk in across a green rug on this wooden floor. This building is a square in this room, except there's a wall directly to your right as you walk in the door. You walk through this a little ways, and you can see that as you turn to the right, there is an entryway to... There's just an opening there where there's a bar. And at this bar, you see a couple of townswomen preparing drinks and taking them back and forth to the tables.
00:15:27
Speaker
near the bar there is a doorway that opens into a small kitchen. You can smell food that's being cooked and prepared. It smells very good coming from this kitchen. Yeah, so you're in there. Nobody seems to – they looked up at you. They saw you come in. It didn't have any effect on any of them. Nobody's paying too close of attention. Is there – like for the drinks, it's all behind the bar. There's no – like the other one where you can just kind of go take what you want?
00:15:53
Speaker
Correct. It looks like it's being served from the kitchen and the bar. Full service restaurant kind of thing in here. I'm just gonna walk right up to the bar and I'm just gonna hold up two fingers to the lady behind there. Okay. Make a persuasion check with advantage. Persuasion. With advantage.
00:16:13
Speaker
Let's see, that would be a, I don't know why the second one didn't roll. The 16 was the second one. Okay. 12 plus four. All right. You walk up to the bar and you hold up two fingers. She looks up at you, a wide-eyed, and she says, oh, you're not working for anyone tonight, are you? And sets two wooden like goblets of wine in front of you.
00:16:36
Speaker
Okay, I'll pick them both up and I'll just give like a raise a glass like as a cheers kind of thing and start walking away and see if she says anything. She says as you turn to walk away, she says on your tab then.
00:16:48
Speaker
I'll turn back and smile and just go... When you go like that, she kind of makes this weird face like, what the heck was that? And then kind of chuckles like, wow, frog in her throat or something and just goes back to work. Okay, I will slowly start walking as if I'm going to take a seat and then I'm just going to take a shark train and walk out the door.
00:17:15
Speaker
Okay. All right. So you successfully get a couple drinks and head out the door. I just give the big guy a nod at the door as I walk past. All right. As you walk off, he goes, that was quick and just kind of scoffs to himself. Yeah, I don't say anything. I don't look back. I just continue walking and when I find jocks are kind of sitting around the corner, I just kind of like give a like a head tilt thing. Say, come on.
00:17:42
Speaker
Okay. As we get a little ways away, I'll try and find another alley and I'll switch back and then give him, give him. Okay, great.
00:17:50
Speaker
Whichever alley we make it in, they'll hand me that and it's a familiar wine taste. This wine is pretty good compared to most wine. You get the feeling this wasn't grown around here. This has been imported from somewhere. It's better than you expected, maybe not the best you've ever had, but definitely better than you expected around here.
00:18:16
Speaker
So at that moment, I kind of like take a sip knowing, almost like I'm going to be annoyed about it. And then I'm like, yeah, I just kind of give like a nod. And I'm just like, this, well done. Well done. I suppose it's a little bit more of to your liking, huh? He just kind of nods, Devin. Yes. Yeah.
00:18:44
Speaker
So, what's it with you and these drinks, huh? What's your perception with wine and with beer? My family, they're all winemakers. I'm not sure you've, you wouldn't have heard of the more tail drinks, the more you drink, the more tails you have, more tails, detail. It's catchy. Yes, it is. I've kind of separated my way for most wines.
00:19:10
Speaker
And then I went to a monastery and they brewed beer there and I gained quite the appreciation. So I've come to tinkering a little bit of alchemy and brewing, I guess. I can't say I can tell much of a difference between them, but this one tastes all right to me. It's definitely a little different than what I've been used to. I've tasted some of the family drinks, at least at par, but those are much, much higher rated and much more expensive.
00:19:41
Speaker
I appreciate it. Well, to be honest, I really want to see what was going on inside that place. Other than that, I've got no interest in the rest of this town right now. I'm not expectant of the stores holding much. And I don't think it'll be many months until I get the fruits that I need from here.
00:20:01
Speaker
Well, what kind of fruits are you looking for? They seem to be very, very uniquely grown here. The monks called them quatsika, but I'm not sure what the locals would call them. Well, I figure if it's anywhere, I'd probably be out there and he points off to the forest.
00:20:19
Speaker
It's true, there could be some extras or something beyond that. The farms might have something, but I'm unsure. It still seems that the growing season's not around now.
00:20:32
Speaker
Like what time of year is it? What kind of weather is it right now? It's early spring. It's kind of a cool... It's cool in the evening, nice and warm in the sunshine in the day. Lots of sun and or lots of rain probably rains three, four times a week up here during this time of year. Trees and stuff are blooming. Most of them are not producing fruit yet and so yeah, early spring at the moment.
00:20:58
Speaker
Devon kind of looks up around and he says, well, if this isn't the right weather for fruit, I don't know what would be granted. I'm not much of a farmer. Josh, you're just kind of like nods and kind of chuckles. True. Well, I don't know about you, but I think I'm going to head back to the camp as we got a big day tomorrow from the sounds of things. I'll head back to the camp. All right. Krigs and Gwendolyn. What have you guys been doing? They were probably gone an hour. So what have you guys been up to?
00:21:21
Speaker
I am wholly passed out by the foot. Okay, got it. It's been too long on the road trying to get around and yeah, tired, drunk, full, happy. Okay.
00:21:36
Speaker
Great. Gwendolyn is probably watching over, making sure no one steps on Krigs while he's just passed out there. Okay. And she's just looking at the journal this whole entire time after she talked to the elves. Looking at your journal. Okay. All right. Cool. Well, as you guys, I guess, as you're sitting kind of keeping watch over Krigs, Daven and Joxer come back in. Is everyone just planning to retire for the night at this point? Or is there more that you'd like to get done?
00:22:04
Speaker
No, at that point, I would probably, uh, I'd be fairly used to, to Krigs and I would mostly be able to muster him up and move him to, to an area. Oh, you're back. Come on, you bed lug. I imagine you're just picking him up like that little two year old kid that fell asleep in the fire. For reference, Krigs is only like 120 pounds, but with armors.
Rest and Morning Routine
00:22:36
Speaker
Just find a tent that has an empty spot and curl up for the night. I hobble to the tent and just collapse onto the bed full armor on, not even care. Okay. Perfect. Yeah. There's, um,
00:22:49
Speaker
A couple of folks sleeping outside already, not sure if they passed out or they chose to sleep there and then there are, there's plenty of space in the tents. So you guys make your way in there, you lay down and you get a nice resty poo. So that's great. You awaken at sunrise to the sounds of people moving about the camp.
00:23:11
Speaker
Their bed rolls are being rolled up and taken out of the tent. The mess from the night before is being cleaned up. You see townsfolk coming and going with empty giant empty barrels and baskets that have been kind of torn up or empty.
00:23:26
Speaker
Two of the hunters that you had met the night before are standing around the fire nearby. They are sharpening their weapons. They're strapping on their armor. Looks like they're getting ready for business. You can see people coming and going from the shop that's kind of to your north. You can see people coming and going in and out of these shops and places like that. It looks like the town is opening up for the morning. Obviously, you're unaware of
00:23:53
Speaker
anything about what's happening today other than at some point you'll get your assignment and everyone will get their assignments. So what is it that you would like to do this morning with an open town more than just the bars are open at this point? I wake up at the break of dawn just ready to go. If anyone else has woken up they'd probably just see me outside doing like standard calisthenics.
00:24:16
Speaker
Ah, nice, nice. Feeling good. Gavin sees it and he rolls over, he says, morning people. Don't forget to stretch your hammies. Yeah. I feel like Gwendolyn fell asleep by the fire, so she sees Krigs and she's a bit dissevelled, but she starts to wake up. Jox here from being in a monastery, he'd have been up with Krigs and probably just kind of walking around and inspecting the area a little bit.
00:24:46
Speaker
Yeah, as you walk around doesn't get up until he smells food. Perfect. Yeah. As you're walking around, you're noticing, like I said, the shops are starting to open, doors are being propped open and people the classics sweep in the front porch of the shop and giving you a wave as you walk by some of the shops. You see a couple shops that have one of them is has a sign that says Hurley's knickknacks. And you see one a bigger building, it says the armor bearer on it. And
00:25:16
Speaker
I would have walked into the armor bearer if it was open. Okay, so you walk into the armor bearer shop that is is full of different kinds of armor. Everything's kind of set up on tables and stuff. It almost looks like a garage sale in here. But with leather armor over in this corner over on that wall, you see some of the some
00:25:38
Speaker
few pieces of chain armor, that sort of thing. And there's just stuff kind of all over some a couple shields hanging from the wall on the wall that the entrance door is in and you see a a dwarf standing there in a leather tunic.
00:25:55
Speaker
You can tell she's a female dwarf with just a little bit of whiskers on her chin and white hair falling down around her shoulders. As you walk in, she says, oh, first customer of the day, welcome.
00:26:16
Speaker
Sorry, what was that? Sounded like Miss Dwarf Fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, tired. Jackson would have been a little alerted at the moment. She's like, oh, hello there. I'm just perusing for a friend. I don't really maintain many of these things. Do you do many repairs?
00:26:44
Speaker
Oh, yes, that. Excuse me. Yes, I could do some repairs. Mostly, I would refurbish, but yeah, I could do repairs as well. That's good to know. What kind of prices do you normally or is that really per item?
00:27:04
Speaker
It depends on what the problem is. Most patching costs 10 to 20 gold or so, but if it's a little more extensive, it'll just depend on what it is. I appreciate that. Joxie would have walked around a little bit, just like a window shopper and then just walked out and waved on his way out. You're just perusing or are you doing any serious looking around?
00:27:29
Speaker
Just perusing, just getting a feel for the town. Nothing important. This stuff, it's all patchwork stuff. It looks like most of this armor had been used and has been refurbished and put back together and is for sale now. That's as much as you can tell, just perusing.
00:27:49
Speaker
Okay, that would be something to return with information. So I'd probably kind of walked back to the camp at this point. Okay.
Daytime Activities and Local Interactions
00:28:00
Speaker
Devin would like to go and see if you can find if there's like some sort of like a post office or like a place where you can send off mail in this town.
00:28:05
Speaker
Okay, so you can kind of walk around to you actually don't have to walk far and you see there. Hurley's lodging and knickknacks right there. There's those four identical wooden buildings that are kind of built up on a platforms over the hills. So you walk kind of up a set of stairs and you go into this building here. And it's just kind of the kind of shop that that
00:28:30
Speaker
just there's people coming and going. It's kind of the busiest one, so it draws you there. So you make your way up inside there and you find a gnome, very, very light skinned gnome with blonde hair, blonde eyebrows. He is in this little knickknack shop, inside this knickknack shop. It says knickknacks, but it's really kind of a general store. So there are little bits of things. It looks like somebody has been like whittling
00:28:59
Speaker
little monster miniatures. It's all of them at the bottom say Wild Hill on the bottom, like there's little platforms on them. They all say they've carved Wild Hill into them. They're like little souvenir knickknacks, right? So they're not like D&D minis. This isn't like a D&D game inside of a D&D game.
00:29:14
Speaker
No, it doesn't seem like that. Maybe. Maybe it is. Maybe they could be used in that way. Yeah, they are. They're little wood hand-carved. They're not 3D printed or anything. They're hand-carved wooden little miniature monsters and animals with the name of the city etched in them. Devin will pick up whichever is the most unique looking one. Cool. Yeah.
00:29:36
Speaker
Yeah, you see one that is it looks like a bear, but it has the body from the waist down of a snake like a serpent and the top half is a bear and it's very weird looking. It is you see you look at the price tag. Yeah, there's one three gold.
00:29:53
Speaker
Okay, three gold. And the rest of the place is more like a general store, you see that like sacks of grain and stacked over in the corner, you see a barrel of just like water skins and things like that. It's just basic adventuring gear, you can see some rope stacked over on some shelves and some other stuff like that here and there. And then behind the counter is slim. He's standing on a on a stool behind the counter and just kind of lean in
00:30:19
Speaker
Leaning with his elbows on the counter, looking down at a piece of paper, kind of writing little notes and stuff to himself as you're looking around. I'll walk up and I'll place it on the counter in front of him and I'll say, this is a nice work here. Is this your doing? He sees it and he goes, no, sir, that's their Hurley's work. He sits and carves these things all day over at the estate. He thinks people want to buy them, but I don't know. I haven't sold very many.
00:30:48
Speaker
Well, uh, I've always been a fan of whittling work. I'll take this one. Well, that's, that's good. Isn't it? How nice of you. Great. Uh, this will, that'll, that's a run. Yeah. I believe, I believe it says, uh, two gold on there. Is that what it says? Three gold. What did I say? I can't remember. He said three is three. Wow. What a bargain. They're haggling with themselves. I like it.
00:31:12
Speaker
I think he said negative five. I'll slide three gold for it. I'll say, by the way, is there a place that you can maybe send off some mail here in town? He says, yes, you can get that stuff done here pretty easily. We send a runner off about once every other week. All right. When is the next one coming through? Do you have any idea?
00:31:36
Speaker
Let me see, he grabs a little notebook thing out from under the shelf in front of him and he looks at it and takes through a couple papers and he kind of looks and he goes, it looks like they just went off about a week and a half ago, so you're about halfway between, so another week and a half and somebody will go.
00:31:54
Speaker
That's good to know. I'll be back to send off some packages later on. What was your name again? My name's Slim. Slim, I'm Davin. Nice to meet you. It's nice to meet you too. It's good to have a conversation with someone. Usually people are just in here buying things and out of here. So thanks for coming in. Well, it's my pleasure. I hope we can get to know each other better in the future. But for now, unfortunately, I have to get going. Seems like we have an adventure to go on.
00:32:20
Speaker
Ah, today is the big day, isn't it? I didn't think of that, but you're right. Have a nice one. I hope you're safe. I hope to see you again. Thank you very much. Do you gift wrap by any chance? Um, you know, I could probably figure something out and he kind of looks around and... He kind of waves his hand. He says, don't worry about it. I'm sorry. I'll be back later on to talk about things. It was good to meet you, Slim.
00:32:43
Speaker
It's nice to meet you too. You didn't say what your name was. Daven, Daven Meinsteiter. Daven, Daven, it's a pleasure. It's a pleasure. I think he gives kind of like a curtsy kind of bow, weird, awkward sort of thing and then he picks up, swipes up his little wood statue and he kind of walks out the door. Alright, Slim. Slim's already kind of leaning down back to working on whatever he was writing in but he's got a little half grin on his face now. You kind of, you could tell he kind of was happy that there was some sort of interaction with somebody that day.
00:33:13
Speaker
I made somebody's day. No. Back at camp, if you're heading back that direction, I believe, I have since just kind of finished calisthenics and dressed myself ready for the day. I have my shield. Wait, whoa, whoa. Were you doing naked calisthenics? Yes. Oh, okay. Quinn looked away. She's not about that. I tease.
00:33:40
Speaker
No, I have art back full armor and everything like kind of ready to go just waiting for the day to start I know that that they have some kind of announcements and stuff going on that I gathered from listening But I do have my shield which is still sort of wrapped in the cloak kind of laying in front of me face down and I have Deck of cards that I'm kind of fiddling with and playing a little one one-person game. Just kind of waiting. Okay, great Jockster, did you just come back to camp?
00:34:10
Speaker
Yeah, after kind of mildly perusing the lower end, I would have just walked back and then seen him kind of doing his own thing. Okay. Yeah, so you saw him doing that. Gwendolyn's trying to avoid eye contact. And Daven comes back in and there is the tables that previously the night before had food on them. They currently have just like ration packs kind of set out wrapped in cloth.
00:34:39
Speaker
And you see the two hunters that were there when you guys got up and that you spoke to last night, they walk over and they kind of load their packs with the rations and start eating. They eat one, each of them eat one before they kind of start heading back, heading out towards the tower to hear a horn blow again like it did the day before.
00:35:02
Speaker
at the tower of testing. Well, I'll grab a couple of Russians and I'll hit that direction. Same. Um, at this point, I'm, I'm pretty sure this is a thing that we have to do. Gwendolyn rushes to just pick up all the papers that she had laid out the night before and then just stuff that in her bag. Like she's hurrying and grabbing rations and ready to go. Great. Yeah. Just collect my cards, go ahead and rations and follow along.
00:35:26
Speaker
Okay. You kind of walk into the tail end of, or the, not the tail end, but right after everybody has kind of gathered, you're kind of in the back of the group. The chief comes out of the tower again and he stands there and he has the three heads of the parties standing next to him there. He speaks again and calls out.
00:35:45
Speaker
and says, the assignments have been handed out. See the head of your party to begin your hunt. The gods have forsaken you. May the elements bless you this day as you travel and the next days as you hunt. All of the hunters raise a fist and shout, as we hunt!
00:36:01
Speaker
And then they all disperse and start finding they're going towards their leaders. You guys kind of stand still kind of clustered in the back of the group. Kind of shouldering his way through is the same little halfling, old halfling man. And he runs up to the two of you and he says, sorry, the four of you. And he says, don't worry. I have your assignment. Here it is. And he hands you a rolled up piece of parchment. Good luck, he says. You'll probably need it.
00:36:31
Speaker
And the note I will share with you right now so you can, somebody can read it for the people who might be listening to us right now. I will read it. Okay. It says, the great elk of the wilds has grown too powerful. It is time for it to be replaced as the alpha of the herd.
00:36:50
Speaker
bring its antlers as proof that you ever moved it from its throne. This elk isn't like most its size has made it a new nuisance to the balance of the forest. This is why you must destroy it. Their herd should be near the foothills two days journeys south of here. There you go. You are handed an assignment after you kind of read it to everybody. The little halfling man kind of nods his head at you like that. And he and he says, any questions. Is there a direction?
00:37:20
Speaker
I'm sorry. It says south of here. Yes, two days travel south there. They're always grazing at the foothills at this time of year. Yeah, that's where you'll go. And we're bringing the antlers back to who? Break them, break them to the tower when you find them. If you get them. Oh, get them. They're just antlers can't be that hard to find. Yeah, yeah. Good luck. He turns off turns and kind of limps off. He's got a cane, but ever actually everybody make perception checks as he walks off.
00:37:48
Speaker
I got an 18. I have an advantage, Tom. Perception. You have advantage, but it would have been 23 for your first one. Yeah. Yeah. 11 and 10 for David and Joe. I don't think I can privately speak to two of you.
00:38:06
Speaker
Not you can you can do a whisper via GM That doesn't help the audio though. Oh Sorry, yeah. All right. It's okay. You just your characters don't know this but Krigsgalder and Gwendolyn noticed that he does not need this cane He's a pretty spry old man, but he's carrying it around. Anyway, you can just tell by the way he's using the cane It's not like he's not using it like somebody who's depending on it. Does that make sense?
00:38:36
Speaker
I've got it. I mean, I don't have it, but yes. You don't have it. You don't have anything. I have it, you fool. So yeah, so your assignment has been given to you to take out the great, the alpha elk of the herd, bring back. Are those other threes coming with us or is it just the group of the four of us?
00:38:55
Speaker
The other three have wandered off to meet with this halfling guy and he has handed them a different assignment. I got it. All right. Gwendolyn has like a disgust on her face because she doesn't like to harm animals, but she knows like population control is a thing. She just is just like, she just spies.
00:39:20
Speaker
Why me? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I must admit to you folks, I'm not really the best when it comes to tracking or well even knowing directions all that well, so I don't think I should be leading this expedition. I can try and all of a sudden I just turn into a wolf. Okay, cool. So Gwendolyn just turns into this wolf. Do you just run off? What are you doing as you become a wolf?
00:39:49
Speaker
I try to smell and see if I can gain a scent. Sure. Makeup perception, check smelling. Take advantage, right? Because you're a wolf? Yes. Ooh, she don't even need it though. It's a 21. Why is that happening?
00:40:07
Speaker
I rolled 11 and a 21. Let's pick the 21. Yeah, let's pick that one. As she's like sniffing in the air, Jockster just kind of pulls out a small flask and just starts drinking out of it. Just saw her like swap and like, well, here we go.
00:40:31
Speaker
What was in my drinks last night? Yeah, so you start sniffing the air and you don't smell any elk.
Gwen's Wolf Instincts Lead the Way
00:40:41
Speaker
What you do smell is you smell the campfires all over the area that have been put out.
00:40:50
Speaker
overnight, you do smell the smell of cooking meat coming from the direction of the long house, the lamppost in and further north of there. You smell these guys around you, you can smell the sweat of the calisthenics from Krigs and it's not pleasant. You can- She sneezes when she smells wet.
00:41:10
Speaker
Yeah, as you as you as as joxer takes a swig of his drink, you smell the alcohol and I mean, everything is just extra, extra vivid, all the smells, it just, it takes actually half a second for you to get used to it as Gwendolyn, you know, going, Oh, she's okay, okay, I got to process this like a wolf now, because it's it's strong, it's intense. You do, however, as a wolf know,
00:41:37
Speaker
that just your instinct kicks in and possibly some of the smell that you definitely need to head southward, which is the trail that is... There's a southward trail that heads past the farms and along the foothills between the forest and the mountains that goes out of town here and that's the direction you're being led by your instincts as a wolf at this moment.
00:42:01
Speaker
I start making my way south and once I feel like I have a scent, then I turn my head back at the party and I try to whip my head back this way like we should go this way. Making my way down south, Wilson past. I was going to say, I whip my head back and forth. I whip my head back and forth. That's the five druid, one bard. Yeah.
00:42:32
Speaker
I will follow the wolf. Cool. So the wolf takes you guys south and you begin a two days journey south towards what they have called the grazing area that these elk usually reside in this time of year. As you travel, you get out of town, not too far out of town and you realize these pathways are very worn here. They've been used quite a bit.
00:42:58
Speaker
There isn't much around except trees, a hillside in the distance. After most of the first day of travel, the path grows narrow and the forest begins to creep ever closer. I would like someone to roll a d6 for me. Anyone that would like. Jacks are not just one of us. Yeah. One d6 done. I only got pause can't roll. That's a six. So we're gonna go with that.
00:43:26
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah, you are continuing to travel and the sun is shining bright. It's very clear on the path that you're on that this is a this is kind of a worn path, but after a little while it
00:43:43
Speaker
it kind of starts to wind through brush and briar and you begin to understand why there are no stables and no horses in Wild Hill. It doesn't seem like there would be anywhere for like this wouldn't be any kind of terrain for riding mounted. And so it's barely enough for the party to walk in single file through this briar and it's more like a trail that
00:44:09
Speaker
that wild animals would have taken to get somewhere that is barely noticeable, but because you're coming from where you were, because you're coming from a trail that you had been on a pathway, and because you've got this wolf sniffing around and looking so far, you feel like you're able to make your way pretty safely, but it is becoming overgrown. I would like whoever's leading the party, if it's still Gwendolyn as a wolf, I would like for you to make a survival check for me. It seems these hills are pretty wild.
00:44:42
Speaker
Oh, that's 25. Wow. Well done. So yeah, you're keeping track of this. You're on a wildlife trail. You're starting now to get the scent of several days ago, probably, there were some sort of deer or elk or something that passed through this area. You're even finding little bits of droppings and things that are making it pretty clear to your elf or not elf. I was going to say your elf I see to your
00:45:11
Speaker
To your wolf nose, now I need if Blaze, would you roll a d20 for me? Sure. That is a 17.
00:45:21
Speaker
Awesome. So your travel through the rest of this day along this path is pretty uneventful. You make pretty good time. The sun begins to set after a day of travel through this kind of wildlife path, briar and trees. You're basically in a on a trail that is just barely big enough for you guys to walk on winding in between these foothills and the trees foothills on the east side of you.
00:45:49
Speaker
or no, trees on the east side of you, foothills and mountains on your right or on the west as you walk south. And so it's dusk, it's becoming nighttime. Would you guys like to continue traveling or are you going to make camp? I suppose it's probably about time for us to make camp for the night. I don't think we should be traveling through the night. I'm not sure my dwarven legs can go that much further this evening. Anyways, I would much prefer camp if possible. Is anybody else parched?
00:46:17
Speaker
Oh, yes, takes her head. She's just going to say it will form for a little bit. OK, sure. Booze, do you carry with you, my friend? That's a question, isn't it? He doesn't answer beyond that. Daven doesn't pry. He'll start gathering some stuff for wood for campfire.
00:46:35
Speaker
Yeah, go out, make a investigation check as you go look for firewood. Sure. Just for fun. Just because rolling dice is fun. It's the best part of the game. Heck yeah. 20 total. I find all the wood. Nice. I got to get all these high rolls out in case there's combat. Yeah. I can get you guys rolling low for combat. I feel outdone. I'm going to attack a tree with my hammer and see if I can get some to break off.
00:47:00
Speaker
Okay, do it. Make an attack roll. Here we go. Attack roll. Who's going to roll straight for me for funsies? Oh my god. Natural one. Natural one. The tree hits back. So yeah, you hit this tree and this giant acorn falls off this tree and just clocks you right in the head. And you take a d4-2 damage, bludgeoning damage and you're noggin.
00:47:29
Speaker
I think I might just sleep right here. As you have like a cartoon style knot growing off your head, like a three inches tall little bump on your head from this acorn hitting you on the head. You're learning that the trees in the wilds, they don't play games, man.
00:47:53
Speaker
Davens, he's got like one, one handful of, uh, for kindling and he's out, he picks up the, uh, the acorn that landed on. So he's like, these things actually catch on fire pretty easily. And he just walks back to it. And she just does that thing where the dogs do the little paw, like they're there.
00:48:13
Speaker
And then he goes and makes like goes around the perimeter to make sure there's nothing she smells or sees. Well, while everybody else is slightly distracted, Joxer kind of makes his way off into a little bit of a slightly private area, lays down and kind of disappears and then does his his little thing. Yeah. All right. You're rolling that. Yeah. Roll your.
00:48:42
Speaker
Oh, yeah, nothing came of it. There is no extra. Got it. So, he's not successful in his attempts to do whatever it is that he might be doing. Secrets. All right. And so, I'm looking at something real quick about wild shape here. Do you have a certain number of times you can do wild shape? Yeah.
00:49:10
Speaker
I think so. It is. But we'll just say you're just going in and out of it when you need it kind of thing for the day since it was just traveled. Yeah. At night, I'll probably go back to being half. Yeah, sure, sure. When it's time to do like, wait, are we where we need to be? Okay, let me turn back into a wolf. And so you do it, you know how many times you can do it. So we're coming in, getting the campfire set about when the campfire starts to get lit or well, anybody helping with getting the campfire lit? Davin, are you wanting to help out with that again?
00:49:40
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I'll just use press the digitization and like that it's lit. Okay. Fire lights pretty easily. You guys are able to have your, able to have your your night. Does anybody want to do anything else as you get ready for your rest here or and if not, who is going to start with taking first watch for the night? Joxer will take first watch if no one else is doing anything. Okay.
00:50:08
Speaker
At this point, all I've done is basically just cursed the trees and blooming, plastered trees. Yep. This is why I stay in the mountains. Yeah, everybody's kind of around the fire. He's just kind of jocks. He was just kind of annoyedly kind of tossing like little twigs or something into the fire, just looking a little irritated.
00:50:33
Speaker
All right, I'm gonna have a little roll here for reasons. Okay, all right. Through the night, Joxer takes first watch and no real, nothing of interest really happens. Go ahead and make a perception check for me while you're kind of keeping a lookout. Joxer. Let's see if Joxa is a distracted perception.
00:50:59
Speaker
All the good rolls that I have. Let's see here. Natural one. It's cool. So a total two. Awesome. Well, so you actually find it a little difficult to stay awake after the time you spent working on your little alchemy brewing efforts earlier. You kind of, you're just drifting off thinking about that and why it didn't go as well as you had hoped it had. It would not really paying much attention to what's going on around you. We need somebody to take second watch. Who's going to do that?
00:51:30
Speaker
I'll do it. Okay. Daven will stay up. All right. So, Daven make a perception check for me now. Perception. As you keep a lookout. It's a five total.
00:51:42
Speaker
Goodness. We are some distracted. That's not my strong point. That's all right. It's all right. Daven is actually dozing off as he's sitting there. Just every now and then he'll wake himself up snoring. He's just sitting there looking off into the woods and then he's like, oh, no. He's gonna actually, he's gonna pull out his little statue that he made.
00:52:01
Speaker
Uh-huh. He's gonna pull his little statue made and he put it on the ground. He's gonna practice making like a minor illusion to just to mimic it. So he's not really paying attention around him. He's just making a copy of it. Yeah. He's making a copy of his, the little bear snake thing. Yeah. Just working on the details, you know. Yeah. Awesome.
00:52:17
Speaker
Now, your time kind of goes by pretty quickly past the time doing that. Thankfully, nothing seems to be interested in you through the night. You do hear some howls here and there and some things in the woods, some owls like hooting and things like that, but nothing threatening, nothing nearby. So, that kind of takes you through the night, you two guys doing your keeping watch. Doing everything but keeping watch. Yeah.
00:52:48
Speaker
Goofing off at nighttime there, staying awake. I'll take care of you guys, don't worry. And so morning comes and it is a nice dawn. Somebody roll a d6 as we start this morning. Might as well. Gwendolyn. Gwendolyn, roll a d6. All right.
00:53:07
Speaker
That's a three. Not great. So this morning, the sun comes up and the sky has got a purplish pink kind of hue as the sky is filled with clouds. It is not heavy, heavy clouds, but enough to kind of feel little trickles of drops of rain here and there periodically as you gather your camp up and stuff and get ready to go. It's not full on raining, but it's
00:53:35
Speaker
There's little drops here and there, kind of a pre-rainstorm drizzle starting as you guys get yourselves moving for the day. I'm going to roll my d20 roll for your travel for the day. As you guys go through the next little leg of your journey, it's
00:53:57
Speaker
Very much a lot of the same as you travel through this forest. The forest now has kind of come to where it meets up with the hills and the hill, the crests of the hills are now mostly covered in trees here. What order are you guys traveling in now? I'd probably be in the lead if I'm the wolf. I'd probably be the wolf. Yeah, I'll be in the back.
00:54:24
Speaker
You're taking the very bottom. You can have the very back. I'll be right in front of you. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry. I thought you said you were holding the beer, not. That's your job. Yeah. And Gavin, as he walks, OK, Devin, as he walks, he's going to kind of keep an eye out in the trees and see if he just sees any kind of weird or different fruits that he's never seen before. Just thinking to his conversation with his new friend and what he's looking for.
00:54:49
Speaker
Okay, most of these trees are out here at the edge of the forest are kind of the evergreen type trees. You do see some berries here and there on some of them. As we walk I have my shield above my head just anticipating getting.
00:55:05
Speaker
This is PTSD. And it does start about halfway through the day, a nice steady drizzle starts to rain. And so your shield actually starts to sound like it becomes an umbrella for you. The forest canopy
00:55:21
Speaker
It's kind of blocking the rain but what it's ending up doing is the rain is kind of pouring off the leaves in larger chunks, you know, so you're getting these larger drops here and there instead of a steady light rain you hear that steady light rain hitting the trees above you, but it's kind of trickling down the branches becoming a little bit larger so
00:55:39
Speaker
It's getting a little muddy, a little wet as you guys walk.
Tracking the Elk Herd
00:55:43
Speaker
You're traveling through this forest area along this path. Go ahead and make another survival check for me, Gwendolyn, as you are a wolf trying to find your way through the woods. Okay. I'm gonna roll it this time because I was rolling my survival last time. So it'd be 8 or 13.
00:56:05
Speaker
A 13. Okay, so you definitely smell a herd of elk in the distance. You don't know how far away it is from the smell, but you definitely can tell that you're on the right track and if you just keep moving forward, you're going to make your way there.
00:56:27
Speaker
maybe the rains wash some of the scent away, maybe the just the smell of the rain in the air is kind of confusing the some of the message but you definitely smell that you're on the right track. So I start to pick up my speed once I get a smell.
00:56:44
Speaker
Great. All right. So you pick up your speed. You continue to travel that way. And about the middle of the afternoon, the rain has kind of led up. But you kind of find your way from the forest to a small meadow of sorts. It's not very small. About a pretty good sized meadow ahead of you.
00:57:09
Speaker
You see this crest of the hill on the backside with trees coming up on it. Trees are surrounding about a 90-foot diameter circular meadow of tall grass with yellow and white flowers. As you stand kind of at the tree line and look over this meadow, please make perception checks. All of us? Yes, please. Okay. Just make sure. 17 for Devin. Okay.
00:57:40
Speaker
Oh. Oof. Jock, so I saw that natural one. Yeah, I know. None. As a question, do I recognize anything in these flowers? These flowers, yellow and white? They're so pretty. I think these are flowers. Is this a plant? So Gwen got a 13. Daven got a 17. OK. One second.
00:58:09
Speaker
Sorry about that. I don't know if I put my headphones far enough away. Oh, bless you. Yes, thank you. So let's see. I got to look at your scores again real quick here. Joxer, you see flowers. Krigs. Barely.
00:58:31
Speaker
Krigs, you can see definitely that the tree line is about 90 feet away. Gwen, you see a large herd of elk grazing just in the distance near that tree line where the crest of the hill is ahead of you.
00:58:46
Speaker
Gwen and Davin, you both can also see that there are three big bucks, big giant elk deer standing kind of in the center of this herd. And you can see that they're alternating between. A couple of them will get their head down eating grass while one of them has its head up looking around. Never is there a moment where all three of them have their heads down as they are kind of looking around.
00:59:14
Speaker
And then Daven, you are the only one who sees that just beyond this herd of elk, you see an elk three sizes larger than any of the other before you. It's antlers tower above its head as it stands proud overlooking these this herd that it seems to be guarding as well. So Gwen and Gwen, you and Daven are both aware of the herd and three bucks.
00:59:41
Speaker
Daven, you're the only one aware of the giant, massive elk with antlers the size of two or three of these trees standing in the distance. Daven will say, holy hell, they weren't kidding about that. Can you guys see that type over there? Joxer starts grabbing flowers. I'll point off. Craig's just a what? He's like, the thing is massive over there.
01:00:11
Speaker
Cool, so as he points it out, it's so big, as he points it out, you kind of, Krigs, probably not Joxer, I think he's really into these flowers, but Krigs, you kind of squint and look in the distance and you kind of, the tree branches that you saw in the distance, kind of the shape of them kind of becomes clear and you can see those are antlers attached to this giant, giant elk that's standing in front of this tree line.
01:00:43
Speaker
And for reference size, like you guys are normal humanoid size or whatever, the three elk that are out there, the three main bucks, they are a large size. They're twice your size as far as that goes. But the other one is twice or three times as big as they are. So you've got this huge
01:01:09
Speaker
huge elk in the distance there. Gwen, are you still in wolf form? Currently. Yeah, I took her off. I saw the elks. I just started sprinting. Towards them. Like around them. Like she found the scent. She's going to be careful. I kind of laugh. I'm like, damn it. I'm trying to ride it.
01:01:37
Speaker
He smiles at you and says, well, I'm not really sure that's the mission we were trying to get, but that's kind of a fun idea. I do like this idea myself. Gwen, are you trying to be sneaky as you run around? Yeah. She got the scent and she's like gunning for it, but she doesn't want to scare it. All right. Make a stealth check then. If you could ride that for eight seconds or more, I think I'd give you my shield.
01:02:07
Speaker
15. Okay, so I'm going to take us to a map to see what you're looking at here. Yay, maps. Maps. Oh, maps. All right. Can you guys see the whole thing here? It is very dark. This is black. Did you put on the lighting effect? I'll turn it off. Oh, there it is. There you go. I was like, these are- Sorry, I think I set it up.
01:02:34
Speaker
Then I found the big guy. Yeah. Yeah. You seen your size. That's a big boy. Yeah. Big guy.
01:02:44
Speaker
All right, so what we're looking at here, for listeners sake, is our four heroes about 30, 40 feet away from the three main elk. That guy should be a little further. So yeah, about 30 feet away from the three main elk. The big guy is almost 50 feet away back there behind you, right at the edge of the tree line.
01:03:08
Speaker
And they're in this meadow filled with flowers. Currently Gwendolyn, go ahead and move where you are right now if you're kind of running around the outside, yeah. So she's gone around the right side of the elk trying to stalk through the tall grass. And this is tall grass, so a wolf definitely is crouching down inside this grass. The rest of you, would you please make stealth checks for me unless you're wanting to just haul booty in there?
01:03:34
Speaker
Uh, the first thing I'd like to do is seeing her kind of jump off on the coil. Here we go. And I'm going to cast mage armor on myself. Great. Okay. Perfect. Uh, and then I will still perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Okay. I might with my roles tonight, it might be with major armor, you're, you're casting it on yourself and that'll give you a plus a bonus AC plus text. Yes. It takes my AC from 12 to 15. Okay. Good. Wow. Self was 10 a whopping 10.
01:04:02
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Um, we're going to re-roll that and use a luck die. Oh, look, jocks is using luck. Craig rolled a nine. Okay. Are you kidding me? Now, Craig's hold on for a second. I do believe that you do have disadvantage, don't you? Uh, no. What kind of armor are you wearing? Medium. Okay. All right. Two luck right out of the bat, man. Wow. All right.
01:04:32
Speaker
Wow. All right. So knowing that this is important and these are pretty flowers, I look into the sky and I'm like, all right. No, I'm really stealthy today.
01:04:46
Speaker
and then starts walking forward slightly, you know, slowly. Okay. All right. So the main herd of elk that aren't on our map here, the does and some of the young fawns and those, they look up and see, there's a belt from this middle
01:05:12
Speaker
male elk buck. He does he just left this belts out this this honk this and all the the herd just dash into the trees. When they do the other they obviously have heard something over here towards where you guys are. And so all four of these elk the the alpha elk and the other three giant elk, they all turn and look your direction.
01:05:40
Speaker
Not Gwendolyn's direction, but they look in the direction of Krigs, Joxer, and Daven, and I need everyone
Confrontation with the Alpha Elk
01:05:46
Speaker
to roll initiative. Oh, boy. Yeah, it does. Welcome to my bad initiative. Oh, thank God. I got an 11. Did I really? I rolled 11.
01:06:07
Speaker
Alright, is this everybody's initiative? So we are in Giant Elk rolled a 16, Joxa rolled a 14, the Great Alpha Elk rolled a 12, Gwendolyn rolled an 11.1, Chris Golders an 11.0, and Gwendolyn is a 6. So these Giant Elk... Let's see, what are these guys gonna do?
01:06:29
Speaker
First giant Elki, this guy in the center here, he does a full-on charge against Krigs. He's going to charge Krigs. Oh, boy. So he charges and makes a ram attack immediately. His ram attack is a... Sorry, it's asking me questions. His ram attack is a 23 to hit. That hits.
01:06:56
Speaker
I know and so it does I just wanted to hear you say it so it does 2d6 plus 4 damage 11 damage and you are now prone because it charged to hit you so he's knocked you prone now on the ground so this always picking on a little guy
01:07:23
Speaker
I know this elk runs in just and just kind of snorts and runs towards you to defend the herd lowers his antlers and just pounds you right in the face knocks you on your butt. You are now prone. I'm gonna put a little net marker there that shows that something's up with you a little different that'll remind us that you're prone.
01:07:44
Speaker
So that's that giant elk. This one is going to back up towards the tree line to get in a defensive protecting position for the rest of the herd. This one, this third giant elk is going to see what the distance is down here.
01:08:05
Speaker
Yeah, he's going to try and try a charge as well. This time he's running down at Joxer. Yours was a low stealth, right, Joxer? 17 stealth. No, yours was good. Yeah, yours was good. So he's running at Davin. Davin was a low. Yeah, less than 14. So that's initiative. Sorry, I'm going back and looking at your stealth check here. Mine was 10.
01:08:28
Speaker
Okay, yeah, you had to be less than 14 so because that that was his so yeah, so he runs in and he tries an attack on you as well. So let's get his ram attack. Oh, that comes in much is that a is that a crit? He crits you. Holy man, I might be dead right in this first fight. Oh, no. So he comes in with the 2d6 plus four.
01:08:57
Speaker
Oh no. 13 damage. No, no, no. It's five, six, seven, eight, nine. Eight plus four. Nine. Eighteen. Twenty three damage. I'm still alive. A lot. Just started playing.
01:09:17
Speaker
hail and well met mercenaries. Krigs here. Tune in next time to find out if Daven needs to print out a brand new character sheet. How much booze does Joxer actually carry with him? And can Gwyn the Wolf save the day? Thank you for listening to the Hired Swords. Be sure to follow us at thehiredswords on Twitter and visit us at thehiredswords.com.