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C2 Ep. 84 Wanton Vengeance Chapter Four
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The party attempts to deal with the threat in the Cogs, but will their target get away before they can get their answers?
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Acknowledgements and Introductions
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The following episode is brought to you by the generous donations of Laura Pickron, Darryl Delaney, Darren Katska, Deavius Poptart, Irene Villarito, Ryan Royce, Andy Dossett, Danielle Bramhall-Smith, Elizabeth Clark, Eric Whitman, Jessica Smith, Charles Compton, Natasha Rallerson, Richard Cree, The Cam Family, David Scrams,
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Hello, and welcome to Ever On Renewed, an actual play podcast set in the Ever On campaign setting. I'm your game master, Eric. And I'm Phillip. I'm Trev out. I'm Randy. And I'm Jeff. Welcome to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Did I have a toad or something? Another Milo taking a, having a deep sleep? Street smile, yep. Yeah, we're, a couple of us are kind of getting it handed to us.
00:01:41
Speaker
That's a risky take. Marlow's already had it handed to him. Eris is fine. Eris is distinctly fine. Catherine Sonner doing okay. Sigils. Sigils great. I said some. Wherever they are. We know exactly where they are. Hanging out with Smith. Yeah, where we put them. That was it.
Discussing Lord of the Blades
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Now the problem with the Lord of the Blades is that he's a radical, you see?
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Right. Okay. So the end of the Warforged turn, they are going to run to one of the buildings since they're surrounded on both sides by the street. And you can tell that they're moving to the edge and like looking to clamber up the side of the building once they are afforded that opportunity.
Eris Attacks the Ram
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So PC slot.
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Um, we had hob went correct cause hob knocked them back in between everybody. Um, who took the other, uh, pieces Milo because Milo Milo webbed. Um, and then got gas. So, um, Reynard Eris.
00:02:58
Speaker
Well, I was going to turn my attention, but now somebody's got blasted across the streets, so Eris won't do that. Also, Eris hates this person. So Eris will shoot the ram. Also, I think for this brief astonishing moment, the ram is not engaged with anyone. Yes, that is correct. So I can potentially blow them up.
00:03:29
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So Eris flips a toggle on the Fletcher to engage the blast disc launcher and Weapons here we go. Am I still at long range? She's been running down the street towards me or along me? I don't know. Yeah, it's been more
00:03:52
Speaker
perpendicular to you. Fair enough. So, yes, but only two red, one purple instead of three red, so. Because no one's engaged. Yeah, that's remarkable. And I'm still augmented and I shall maneuver to aim because Tasha's already in position. And so,
00:04:18
Speaker
Two success, one advantage. One purple difficulty. Yep. And two strain rank. And let's go and upgrade that purple to a red.
00:04:37
Speaker
It's stressful. It's a stressful situation. Milo's dying on the ground. And you're healing you. You know what? I'm going to a yellow then. How about that? Here we go. Here's my despair. So you success to advantage. So you heal two wounds and two strain. Kath and Sana. They're going to run up and try to attack the War Forge.
00:05:07
Speaker
Sana will go first. She runs up and attempts to kick them in the back of the knee. No success and no failure and one advantage. So she misses, but she can pass to boost die to Kath. Three success, one threat. So Kath's gonna suffer a point of strain. And she is going to deal
00:05:35
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Nine damage. Okay. Top of the round. So Kath and Sana are engaged with the War Forge who is now up against the edge of the buildings. Hob, everybody else is short distance except for Eris who is still long distance away. And at the top of the round you hear
00:06:05
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All of you can hear this now at this point. Dude is fed up with this. You hear a shout from up above. Eris, you can see the source easily, is the other person just saying, Commander! Let's go! Interesting. I mean... Part of me wants to try and blow up the stupid balcony that her...
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But it's there. I don't know where I got her. That their spotter is standing
Debating Targets
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on. Yeah. Just because. I don't know that's helpful. I mean, I got obviously just shoot at them. Yeah.
00:07:01
Speaker
I mean, I think either option is good. Sounds good to me. I don't know which person is... I mean, this person just called the commander, so... Because I was thinking, if this person's just a tool who's been hired, then the other guy's important and we should try to apprehend them. Apprehend him. It also doesn't sound like they're leaving without the commander. But that, I mean, I think that without the commander includes
00:07:31
Speaker
once they go down they're going to leave so i support you going first for sure because hob's gonna attack obviously yes and likely do so with the second turn of this round without any objection barring without any objection do you hear me barring any objection none of you shall object hob will go the second turn
00:07:58
Speaker
Yeah, OK. I got one more round of blast. I got this my last term with blast, so I'll make use of it on something that no one's going to be engaged with. Aeris, so this guy is how far away from me? This dude who's shouting? We established long range when the initial. OK. Yeah. I got one more blast disc in the magazine. So Aeris shifts her aim over across to this guy. OK.
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Let me tell you a difficulty here.
Eris and Tasha's Vision
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Long distance, no adversary ratings on this guy. I am going to flip a story point to change one purple to a red. So one red, two purple. One red, I am augmented.
00:08:53
Speaker
No, I will aim. All right. Oh, he has ranged defense one. Sorry, one setback back. Okay. Two success, three advantage, and a triumph. Now, Eric. Okay. Yes.
00:09:19
Speaker
On a recorded audio, you have multiple times described this person as standing on a balcony. Sure. Excellent. If Eris wants to cause structural damage, then that is an option. It's a balcony. It's on the outside. Building's not going to come down if I blow a balcony up.
00:09:44
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I'm just, she couldn't just blast them off the balcony. I'm just saying, if I can with a single blast disc down here in the base of Sharn, bring down a tower, this city deserves its fate. That is 11 damage pierce two, okay? Additionally, I will use the triumph
00:10:14
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to blow up the balcony this person is standing on, cause the balcony to crumble away. And for two of those advantage, I will trigger blast and deal them another five damage. So Eris, seeing the others have more or less cornered the ram,
00:10:41
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Brings the Fletcher up, launches this little blast disc, flies over, smashes into the balcony at the feet of this other guy, and the balcony just crumbles away in a burst of fire. Okay. Yeah, so you just see an explosion and then just ash and, like, dust where the balcony once was. And the figure is gone.
00:11:12
Speaker
Oh, gone? Well, you blasted the balcony, right? Right, but where'd the finger go? Down! Right, but I would, presumably I would see the person fall. There's buildings and stuff, like in between you, like they fell down to the... Oh, I thought they were just like right across from us. Yeah, I thought they were on the same street. No, they were, they were scouted out in a, like,
00:11:33
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Sorry, you described them as being able to shout in a way that we could hear them and that made me think they were much closer than apparently they were. Long distance is like shouting, like if they were to talk in a normal room volume, you wouldn't be able to hear them kind of thing. Does that change what you want to do? No, it's fine.
00:11:55
Speaker
Just wanted to see them smash their face on the pavement, that's all. Yeah, now they're just hurt out there somewhere. That's whatever. Hah! False. Tasha can see and Eris' goggles let her see what Tasha sees. Oh yeah, falling damage is brutal in this game.
00:12:19
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We're gonna disintegrate this person on the ground. I'm in a gamer nation con and it was awful. Oh, it's by range bands, interesting. Yeah, short range band, they take 10 damage and 10 string. Boy, yikes. If you fall a long distance, you take wounds equal to your wound threshold plus one. I had a critical injury at plus 50.
00:12:49
Speaker
That'll take care of you. I mean, I'm just saying, I'm long ranged from the ram who's right below me. No, the ram is not right below you. You have a zip line to the ram. OK. So yeah, I will mark that. What does Tasha see?
00:13:14
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Tasha sees all of the debris fall onto the street below in kind of the the dust and ash and you, Tasha sees a, sees the figure kind of sit up and is grabbing at both of their legs just dazed and kind of that like sit up fall back like trying to rock themselves up but not successful in any meaningful way. They are effect over like
00:13:44
Speaker
Over the comms. Got him. Tasha will never be the same after what she has seen this. Okay, so second piece. Tasha's an air elemental. She's just confused why he didn't just blow away. Who would like to go?
00:14:05
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Reynard, you could try to heal Milo now that your wound situation is under control if you want. Hob, you could run up an attack. Cath Sonic could attack. I mean... If the Ram... You also have healing potions so one of you could use your action to just sling one of those down Milo's throat. I'm down with the Ram's next attack.
00:14:33
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Just if he gets one success, I'm down. So I recommend you smite the ram. Uh-huh. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do the exact same thing I tried last time. Which remind me, Eric, did you use a story point to make it three reds last time or was that?
00:15:00
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No, it was two red, one purple
The Ram's Downfall
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because you were voluntarily increasing the difficulty. And then I spent a story point to upgrade that purple to another red. So base difficulty is two red, one purple based on what you're doing with the double or nothing. Right. So are you going to use a story point? Sure. Three red.
00:15:23
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Okay, then the pool stays the same because I'm doing the same thing. I already got it, already got it. And I get a boost because he's the only adversary I'm engaged with. I cannot... Let me try again. It would take two strain for me to aim because I had to maneuver and do engaged, right? Okay. Screw it, I'm doing it. All right.
00:15:51
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I got one more blue, that's gonna make all the difference, here we go. Four success, three advantage. That blue got you the advantage to crit if you want. Well that's eight success and six advantage because it all doubles. So that is 16 wounds.
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And with those six advantage, I would like to hit him again for 16 more wounds and also crit. And then that still leaves me with one more advantage. I'll take a piece of straight back. So shall I roll the crit? What do I do? I just need to roll the 100 and the 10.
00:16:41
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and the tin, right? I just couldn't remember if there was that roll crit button we were looking for. And have they already suffered a crit? I can't remember. Yes, they did. I think that, yes, two even. Have they suffered two?
00:16:53
Speaker
Philip Harris critted once and Milo critted once. Milo did not crit. Milo's only been casting magic. Right? No, I didn't. I have crit. Oh, then I have crit three times because I crit and didn't take the plus 10 and then I crit and took the plus 30. Right, so plus 20 to your roll. All right, so I'm just gonna roll it and we can add 20 with our green magic. 84. 84.
00:17:24
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He took 32 wounds and Eric didn't even finish. I mean, he's not... They're not doing great. Like, don't get me wrong. Wow. They're not doing great. They're doing terrible. The crit is 84. But they have a high soak. They're made of metal. When did? The target cannot voluntarily suffer strain to activate any abilities or gain additional maneuvers until this critical injury is healed.
00:17:49
Speaker
So I've been writing down every single crit that they've gotten. I knew that they took two crits. I'm a dummy. So don't worry. I'm still engaged so he can still hit me and put me on the ground. OK, NPC slot. Maneuver, they're going to clamber up this building. Oh, interesting.
00:18:13
Speaker
athletic check to claim rep this building with just one maneuver. It's it's a lived in building. There's lots of handholds. I'm inclined to say easy difficulty is anybody opposed
00:18:37
Speaker
I mean, I'm a close, I just don't necessarily have a good reason to be. Wait, wasn't he, wasn't he paralyzed or something? That was only while Milo was up, Milo's down. So, um, yeah. Um, how about, uh, yeah, I mean, I agree that it should be easy, but I also think that if he's that banged up, that maybe a setback isn't the worst thing in the world. I'll allow it.
00:19:02
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One success, one advantage. So they're going to cover a point of strain.
00:19:08
Speaker
Um, or actually, yeah. Um, so Clamber up, um, with their action to get to the top of the building and begin to take off. Then for their next turn, um, they will downgrade their action to a maneuver to take two maneuvers to take off, uh, across the rooftops. Um, basically they're on the precipice of dropping down where that guy fell Eris. So, um, next round they'll be out of sight, but they weren't able to quite make it there.
00:19:38
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We have a PC slot. Hob and Aeris have both gone. Reynard, what would you like to do? You could... Well, I...
00:19:56
Speaker
You do have a healing potion. Sana will run over. Sana will take this slot, run over, and pop a healing potion in Milo's mouth. So Milo, you remove six wounds. That's right, yeah.
00:20:10
Speaker
then i'll shoot an arrow at the climbing metal man okay so short distance or well no actually their turn has already happened medium distance so two purple uh two red because of the adversary so i need the uh i need the picture painted again because what i was picturing
00:20:33
Speaker
This is impossible. So they have climbed to the top and they're standing on the edge of a building? They've gone across some buildings. Rainard has an angle to where Rainard can basically shoot at the top part of their body, like one last kind of shot. But they are running away from the group. So two red? Two red. And they technically would have covered this angle, so add a setback. That's black. Are there any boosts on the table?
00:21:03
Speaker
You could use a maneuver to aim. Okay, sounds good. You could flip a story point to... I'm going to. Goodbye green, hello yellow. Here we go.
00:21:20
Speaker
But success, three advantage. I bet that crits. Yeah, I think with a longbow that's a crit. Longbow has a crit rating of three. So yes, you can crit with a plus 30, Reynard. Okay, that's a 40. Bummer.
00:21:37
Speaker
You rolled a 10, guys. Yep, yep, that's disappointing. How? No. Wait, there's not... Yeah, that is what it is. If it's three zeros, then it's a hundred. If it's zeros... Oh wait, but wait, wait, wait, that would be three zeros. Oh, yes! Because digital doesn't have a hundred side, or one side. So that's a hundred and thirty. Wait, how do you roll it? Oh, because it would be a ten and a zero. That's right, yeah.
00:22:02
Speaker
Yeah, that's a 100. Yeah. It's the opposite of a fail. Goodnight, Ram 2.0. Surely 130 is just plain dead. There is no way 130 is just plain dead. Oh, wow. That's remarkable.
00:22:26
Speaker
I bet he wishes he was dead at that point. Hey, I did that. We've done this before to this specific physical entity, at least. I'll take you over high. Just comes back through the hole.
00:22:45
Speaker
Seven. This is actually more impactful than it would have been when Aeris did this. Intellect. So you have permanently reduced the intellect characteristic on this character by one. So it's like the dunce arrow through the side of the head. I don't know why you had to make that point, that it was more impactful than when I did it. Jerk. No.
00:23:10
Speaker
What you did was also very... I'm talking about the specific characteristic, not the crit. Yours was very good dude, Philip. Raynard, your arrow just pierces the metal, buries into the wood as you hear a pain-filled cry out as this arrow lodged itself into this person's head.
00:23:39
Speaker
Sana went, Milo, you are alive again. What would you like to do? Yes. What happened? What happened?
00:23:58
Speaker
I got it. I need to go to a bar. Sana is standing over you. And you're calling her Raynard. Milo, it's Sana. I know. Pointy ears. We look similar. You got? Oh, hi. Hello, Sana. You got shot. But you're OK. The thing is running away now, so we won't have to deal with it.
00:24:28
Speaker
No, he can't run. I remember, now I webbed him, he can't run. Your web doesn't work when you go to sleep. So, yeah. Really? Yeah, that's how magic works. So it's over then, he's run off.
Milo Reflects on Battle
00:24:54
Speaker
They're trying to right now, see there's their head, Reynard just shot him. But you just stay down, you'll be fine. I want to try to shoot him. Why? Last time you tried to shoot him, he shot you back and that ended bad for you.
00:25:21
Speaker
That is a valid point. I'll just lay here and rest a bit. I'm gonna take a little napkin out. That wasn't me trying to discourage you from fucking an action, Randy. That was just not as genuine like... That was so great. Everything about that was so great.
00:25:49
Speaker
Well, I love it. I love it. OK. So Randy, are you going to do anything on your turn? No, I think Milo's woozing. I mean, unless Sana tries to convince him to do something. Quite the opposite. If you're looking for somebody to encourage Milo to put himself in harm's way, I think you found the one person that
00:26:18
Speaker
Exactly. Oh, Sigil. Sigil would probably also encourage Milo to just take a break. Yeah. OK. Kath's turn. Kath is going to do an athletics check to try and climb up onto the building to give chase. So because that's imagining Sigil. Just breathe. You breathe, right? Yes. Breathe. I don't know. I've heard in and then out. Yes. I don't know what that means. But what is going in?
00:26:47
Speaker
All right, one purple difficulty, one yellow, three green. Cath is going to try to climb the building. Two success, three advantage. Aeris, you see Cath play more up onto the building and use the maneuver to get halfway. Just use the claw gloves that Aeris made? Yes, yes, just, yeah.
00:27:11
Speaker
And yeah, that's where we're at. So, Cath has short range away. Top of the round, PC slot. Top of the round to you. Okay. Eris wants to shoot at this retreating bad guy. Okay. Well, he is not engaged.
00:27:37
Speaker
We still have to work that out since it seems to be a new person. Long is still the range. It must be because they're between me and where the other guy was. Two red, one purple, I'll flip one, so three red. Of course you will. I am augmented. I will not aim because I have something I want Tasha to do.
00:28:08
Speaker
You don't spend too straight to do both, I mean. I can't, because I'm hasted. So currently, I'm using my free maneuver to keep the spell up. Gotcha. So I've got, so yeah. And you can only use max of two. Tasha is still hovering above where the guy fell. Is Tasha within medium range of the ram? I would say, yeah.
00:28:38
Speaker
Okay, then yes, I will use my maneuver to order Tasha in a minute. Okay, here we go with the shooting. For success, one despair. Noted, so just first things first, 13 damage, Pierce two. Okay. Nope, all right, fair enough. And would you like to determine the despair before I order Tasha?
00:29:09
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or do you need to think? And I can order Tasha while I'm at it. What are you going to order Tasha to do? Tasha has a special ability called Dive Bomb, where she can make a loud screeching noise and potentially stagger the ram. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. The despair is, OK.
00:29:37
Speaker
from Tasha's vantage point because you can see through Tasha's eyes. The explosion, the guy on the ground, you see six figures in similar colors that this guy was in rush out from the building that he was standing on the balcony and like
00:29:58
Speaker
A couple of them run over to tend to him and begin like trying to pull him up. A couple others see the warforged and begin like waving them down. So like basically reinforcements have arrived. There's reinforcements on the other side of the building. Cath, don't follow him down. And that's what I think Strider. And that's the despair.
00:30:28
Speaker
Tasha, settle. That's the noise that Tasha is about to make. No. Yeah, I'm going to order Tasha to dive. So with a loud shriek that reverberates through her metal body, Tasha dives at the ram. I need the ram to make, well, no, this is versus cool, so they don't make a check. What is the ram's cool? So cool. So cool. Cool is pinged off of what?
00:30:58
Speaker
Uh, will power. No, wait, that might be cool. Might be presence. What is it? Uh, cool is presence presence. Okay. Vigilance as well. Um, so they have two ranks in cool and three presence. So do that. Do it that way. You will.
00:31:27
Speaker
Gross. I will spend a story point. So will I. Go ahead. You monster. So I need to flip one of them back, right? Oh, I can do that. I got it. Okay. I think I can do, you know, this is just an action and I can give her a maneuver. Tasha will aim.
00:31:55
Speaker
Okay. And is this a combat check? Would this be considered a combat check? I don't know. It's a special ability. It does not. I mean, it's, it's already, it's aggressive. It doesn't deal damage, but it's aggressive and we're in a combat encounter. So I kind of, I mean, it's not a combat skill, but yeah. Yeah. So go ahead and I guess it would be adding an additional red because upgrade, arbitrary to upgrade twice, you would add a purple and then
00:32:24
Speaker
Oh my god. Well, this hardly seems worth it anymore. But I said I was going to do it. It's incredible that that's a wash. Took like six minutes to describe that and work out the mechanics of it. Nothing happened. It's a fun game. OK.
00:32:53
Speaker
so she screeches and dive bombs but uh you don't have to describe it nothing happened okay um all right so next pc slot uh kath is the only one like that can still like is in range reynard i guess could still get a shot hob if you're gonna give chase you could do that milo you still have line of sight um
00:33:21
Speaker
I think Reynard should shoot because I think I don't think Cass gonna stop him. Yeah. Reynard. And Hobbs got no chase to give, frankly. Okay, Reynard. Two red difficulty. Okay. You can spend a maneuver to aim to get a boost. And you could flip a story point, if you like. And will to all of those things.
00:33:53
Speaker
Here we go. Do good. Yeah. Hey! I did so good. I did so good. You did. Well done. I did all of the good. Do success. Two advantage and a triumph. Yes. Crit. Would you like to crit? That would be plus 30 to the crit, or 40. 40. Yeah, let's do that. I didn't write down the fourth one. Sorry.
00:34:22
Speaker
Let's do it. Let me roll that crit. 9. Oh, 9. 9. It's just 9 this time. Oh, plus 0. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. So plus 40. 49. OK.
00:34:47
Speaker
I, uh, when, when that was double zero last time, we said that only when it's paired with the 10, but you can't roll a hundred and 10 plus double zero versus nine. Um, listen, I've been told to give 110% a lot of times and this is a D% so nonsense. Um, okay. Um,
00:35:12
Speaker
Take back that crit. I didn't calculate. So your arrow finds purchase, and you just see the figure of the ram fall out of line of sight of you. So from Tasha's vantage point. I also can just see the ram. Well, the ram fell down where the other dude fell, basically. Oh, they went over. Yes, yeah.
00:35:40
Speaker
and because they were on the edge of the building about to hop down. So yeah, Ram tumbles down out of sight, but Tasha can still see body falls and the other people that were beckoning them to come down are shocked and begin diving out of the way. Well, yeah, initially dive out of the way and then immediately try to tend to. So you have a triumph that you can still use because it was not necessary to use that for the crit.
00:36:09
Speaker
Do they take a crit for falling? Well, they didn't exceed their wound threshold. So sure. We can say that the- I don't know if it applies to enemies. Yeah, the fall caused a crit. 85. 85. There we are. There we go. 125. Knock senseless. The target is staggered until the critical injury is healed. So staggered in perpetuity.
00:36:38
Speaker
Um, so, um, they're down. So they're trying to get the bodies inside. Um, is what Tasha sees. Um, and Eris, Eris said that they're down, but
00:36:58
Speaker
And Milo grins up at, uh, Sauna sheepishly and says, I knew we were going to win. Eris said reinforcements have arrived. I didn't hear that. Sorry. You did good, Milo. You did great. Let's, uh, let's get you to a pub.
Team's Retreat Decision
00:37:21
Speaker
You also don't hear that, Eris. I know. OK, so there's a bunch of omen on the other side of that building. I think we should remove ourselves. It's probably a good idea. And apparently, Eris has assumed leadership of the party. Hobbes hurt. Hobbes didn't go down, but Hobbes is just
00:37:49
Speaker
down. Good. Got it. I got to go. Let's, let's not be, let's not be here in case they want vengeance. Right. Right. Um, is there someplace that hob can just get into hop? Hob's a good sneeze away from going down is what I'm saying. Um, I mean, Smith,
00:38:15
Speaker
Like obviously, I know we're out of combat, but pop doesn't. Smith is your contact in this district, so he could point you to some place that you could rest up and lay low for a minute if you want to go check in with them. I have a healing potion, I just want to go somewhere else. We got a potion. Yeah, let's get in it then. Maybe at the pool I'll bring Tasha around.
00:38:40
Speaker
All right. Yeah, and then once we're in, what do I roll? Nothing. You drink it. You get six. Six, that's what it is. Hey guys, lots of explosions. How'd it go? Sorry, I forgot. It's so delightful. Yeah. Uh-huh.
00:39:07
Speaker
I think we took care of them. Good. We shot them a whole lot and we threw them off a building. So I think that's that. Yikes. I don't know how to tell you this. I don't know that we've put an end to it. I think we took out their leader. Also one other guy.
00:39:35
Speaker
and one other guy but there were more and depending on their their zealotry you know power vacuums and all that such things no it's like um it's an old uh old bralish unit the west wind riders oh racist okay
00:39:55
Speaker
Yeah, glory day search and, you know, I know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Westman right is a bad folk. They're not even recognized by the military anymore. They're just, uh, they've been disavowed. So, but they, they, uh, wait, what, what was that? Why? How was, what did we do to the Ram? Who? She faces, she's giving attention to the others.
00:40:25
Speaker
That, cause like the Ram wasn't that way. Or like, you know what I'm saying? Right. You know, here's what, here's what Hob does. The Ram was a brother soldier in the last war. It doesn't make, so he says something to, um, I wonder if, um, dying once, uh, might have, um,
00:40:54
Speaker
changed something and he also wouldn't do in his, um, mist thing. And his mutations and that sort of thing that he used to do. Frankly commander. It was all strange. Um,
00:41:19
Speaker
I don't think I gleaned any more than you did. No. Um, just, just because I saw the size of the guy and, uh, he was definitely not a Westwind writer, whoever you were encountering because they did not recruit. You couldn't put that guy on a hypocrite. No, that's true. And also the whole racist thing. They were, they were not, uh, open to, uh, many.
00:41:43
Speaker
Species joining them including warforged. They did not allow warforged to join the ranks. So yeah Eris did you see him die? I saw him get shot and Fall off the building and smash on the pavement head first and then head first and then they dragged and
00:42:14
Speaker
them, it, into a building. Right. Hardly enough. Well, thanks for your help. Surely it's got to be dead. I mean, one way or another, I think we did the job, right? I mean, that's the job. We killed it right good.
00:42:44
Speaker
If no one wants it killed more, maybe now I can come down here and do it next time. Right. I think that what we've done is established that it was the Westwind Riders perpetrating these crimes. And I believe we've taken out their commander, so they're weakened. And I don't know how else to say it other than the types of
00:43:11
Speaker
beings that they've been targeting are themselves quite strong. That's true. We are glad that we loosened the lid of said pickle jar. And I believe it is now the cogs responsibility to eat them. I let it got away from me. We eat in Westwood, right? I don't eat personally, but eat.
00:43:43
Speaker
It was the pickle, you know what? I have had a troll's will. I didn't want to go, I guess I didn't want to go down that road. Hop's part delirious, and Jeff's also dumb. So that's how that happened together. No, what I'm saying is, I think we've done all we are going to do.
Mission Outcome Discussion
00:44:12
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with your West Wind Riders problem, Smith. Great, thank you. I appreciate it. So, do we know, I assume, since the reinforcements come from nearby? They were in that building, the guy was shouting in front of him. Yeah, it's the one that's got a bunch of rubble at the bottom of it, and it's missing a balcony.
00:44:40
Speaker
Yeah, I think we obviously tell Smith, hey, here's where we think they might be hiding. We have a location. We would like to carpet bomb it. I'm not gonna do that, but I will let people know. Yeah, you shouldn't do that. I didn't mean it. That's something that they would do, actually. Anyway. I don't think we're all right. You guys look terrible.
00:45:07
Speaker
I mean, it's been a while since I could clean you. You're not wrong. You look fine. Thank you. I think, I think, I mean, how do you want to look? I'm happy with how I look, thank you. But then you look fine. Thank you. I'm happy with how I look. No, I mean, you look like someone just smashed you a whole bunch though. Right, I'm not pleased with how I feel. Right, I'm saying that some of that feeling is registering externally on your body.
00:45:38
Speaker
in the form of bruises and abrasions. In fact, leaving your body in the form of blood. So we should go away from here, right? Sigil asks. I think that's a good idea. Excellent. All right. Let's do that. Sigil, lower Memphis? Is that what you said? Yes. Great. Sounds good.
00:46:09
Speaker
get on the, on the, aboard the ship and he's like, what? What? What? I need more context for that question. What was Smith talking about?
00:46:26
Speaker
Oh, I just shared with him where me and the other Warforged lived that I've been talking to about stuff that I've been working on and things like that and things that concern other Warforged and Smith seemed interested. It's the schema thing.
Warforged Control Concerns
00:46:45
Speaker
It's just some findings that I've been disturbed by. What are they?
00:46:58
Speaker
basically if if someone is in possession of a schema of that same design with a warforged ghoulra on it then in the right type of eldritch machine you could gain control over the sentience and willpower of that warforged and the greater concern with canith being the one behind this is if they produce something like that in mass and they have
00:47:26
Speaker
a working directory of Warforged Ghoulra than they could potentially. Did they have a working directory of Warforged Ghoulra? I can't imagine why they wouldn't mark it when we come out of the Creation Forges. Right, but don't you think they were all, like, destroyed in Kyre? There is no house that sends out more expeditions into the morning than House Caneth.
00:47:56
Speaker
Oh, I see. So, and the morning was devastating to life and the culture of Khayr, but there are many non-organic things that survived quite well. I understand why you would have framed that as of being of concern to the war-forged. But Sejalay,
00:48:25
Speaker
I need to let you know that that's concerning to all of us. Oh, I didn't mean to imply that you all wouldn't be concerned by it, just that it's... It's a theory. It's a theory. Of course, of course, Sigil. You are, of course, under no obligation to share your anything with us, but I would really appreciate learning more about this as you... Wait, I thought we had a conversation about secrets and...
00:48:54
Speaker
and and not if we did i wasn't present for that no you weren't i was just checking the hub because i've been operating like like we don't do that i would like to be grandfathered into the keeping of secrets thing don't don't elucidate it to such a degree that i don't like it
00:49:27
Speaker
That was amazing. And if it's all the same to you, I'll lie all the time. No, it's just right now it's small. It's just, you know, a group of warforged, a growing group of warforged that are concerned and disheartened by this revelation and we're just
00:49:51
Speaker
talking about what to do if things escalate and become worse. You know, the episode of The Office where Jim pretends to be planning a revolution. Yeah. It's a social club. It's something. I'm sorry. It's late. It's fine.
00:50:20
Speaker
digital um Thank you for sharing it and Know that much in the same way that we count on you you can count on us if we're needed I'm gonna amend us to me. I am doing my best to not speak for everyone else. I mean probably but there were a lot of like variables in what you said and
00:50:45
Speaker
as far as like what to do if something happens i would want to know the ifs and the somethings before i said you could count on me because it would be important of course because there are some you can you can count on me to listen yeah yeah okay i mean i'm i'm i'm in with that well what did you say grandfather me yeah that one so yeah that's my grandpa the conversations we were having the the concern is either um canith
00:51:14
Speaker
finds a way to mobilize Warforged under their direct control, again, which would be concerning, but also very overt. If that very bad, like people would notice if our old art started glowing, and we were very powerful and just started zombies. Yeah. Marching locks, so then the the natural progression of that concern then becomes, well, what
00:51:39
Speaker
could they do that would be more subtle and obviously if they have the ability to control us they might also have the ability to, as they would put it, shut us down and then basically hold Warforged hostage to some end so that we would have to operate for them
00:51:59
Speaker
but in a more subtle manner, if that makes sense. Couldn't they just control some of you like just like individual warforged to do things so it would be less noticeable? Yes, but I guess the yes they could do that or they could just inform let's say me we have this now so we want you to do this else we will do something drastic which would go even less noticeable.
00:52:26
Speaker
So can we build a machine to test it without hurting anyone? Um, well, we saw the Eldritch machine in that warehouse. Uh, so you and I might be able to reverse engineer something. Yeah, I had a good look at it. I'm pretty sure I could build it. So, um, uh, you just need a workspace to work in, but, um, I have that really, okay. Well, sort of, I share that. Yeah, that's what it is. Well, we can, but I share it with someone.
00:52:57
Speaker
I need to talk to someone. Okay?
00:53:05
Speaker
Hobbs sneezes and begins to tear up with pain. Rainard still has a crack sternum also. Rainard sneezes before he blacks out. This resembles nothing so much as a care flight. Every teardrop is a waterfall for Rainard. Do I need to take you all to a hospital?
00:53:28
Speaker
I don't know, maybe. It's a bit hard for me to think right now. Ever since I was up. Hob says no to the hospital. Where should I... I mean, do you really just want me to take you? As obvious, you look pretty beat up. Yes, Hob does actually just want to go home. Hob's going to do some monastery things he learned, and if he doesn't feel better, he will take himself. Sana looks... Milo, are you... You said you can't think well? Did you hit your head, Milo?
00:53:58
Speaker
I don't know what happened. It just seems like, I don't know, like my head might be just still a bit fuzzy. Is it currently billowing smoke? Yes, it's always billowing, wisping a little bit. Yeah, I know it's not actually like. No, I mean, it's just like black, black and vapor. Paris stares intently at Milo.
00:54:28
Speaker
It just seems harder to concentrate for some reason. Well, maybe a good night's rest will help. I'm sure some rest will take care of it. Or perhaps maybe falling asleep, not something we should do right now for Milo's head injury. I mean, I don't know how I worked in shard as elevators.
00:54:49
Speaker
Listen, we just needed we need to observe him for a solid 30 minutes, and then then we'll be fine.
Post-Battle Health and Care
00:54:55
Speaker
So, so someone dilating alternately. Do you need to take someone who can do some healing? Do you need? She says that she's heading towards obvious.
00:55:10
Speaker
Where do people need to go so that you don't die, all of you? We absolutely know an underground doctor. There's no way we don't know. Among the four of us... Yeah, surely we have a Sawbones. I just know a dentist, but... That's the same thing as an underground doctor.
00:55:29
Speaker
That's just... The level of shadiness to need an underground dentist needs to change my dental record so they can't identify my body. Or insurance won't cover this and you're actually cheaper. Yeah, you all know there's a clan guy that's
00:55:54
Speaker
I was gonna say, isn't the clans head married to someone from the House of Healing? Surely we've got an underground hookup. Yeah. Okay, Eris takes them there. Okay. Well, I guess Hobb said go to Sabia's. Eris takes Hobb to Sabia's. Unless the establishment of an underground doctor has changed your mind.
00:56:21
Speaker
It does, I'll just say what Hob was going to do. Hob was going to, cause he's not magically affected or anything. He just got the crap kicked out of him. And one of the things that, I mean, he's been training and combat his whole life. He knows his way around like Epsom salts and herbs and a hot bath. But I think if you guys are going to the doctor, he will go and maybe ask for some ephemera, not ephemera, herbs, errata to make a bath with at home.
00:56:50
Speaker
and just kind of re-up his supply. So yeah, he'll go, he'll go because that makes sense. Harris drives them to the underground care now. What's the guy's name? Another person's name? Arek? You already used that one. Unless you want that character to return. No. Want me to go to the null generator again? Oh, Lord. We do not have an underground null doctor.
00:57:21
Speaker
Eris will not take you to an underground Knoll doctor. All right, fine, but you had a chance to meet Dr. Pebblefist. Okay, we are meeting Dr. Pebblefist, but they're a gnome. They're a rock gnome. There, there, there is a try grapple dance. What's a grapple dance and why do you want me to attempt it? Hey.
00:57:48
Speaker
The name is Try Grapple Dance. It is a name, not a directive. Don't touch me. Try... Definitely vote pebblefist. Yeah, Maris pebblefist. There you go. Doc... Crackmouth. Doc pebblefist. Lard skin. Yeah, it's Doc pebblefist. A stone
Conclusion and Next Session Preview
00:58:09
Speaker
gnome. A rock gnome. A rock gnome, yeah.
00:58:12
Speaker
There's no way that the pebblefists are not. Cousins to the stone knuckles. Somehow and legally the stone knuckles. Well. I mean they can't be cut dwarves and gnomes to their lines. I mean pebblefists can be a dwarf if we're going to establish a connection to the stone knuckles because I love that. Little brother. Pebble fifth. Okay so.
00:58:37
Speaker
He's having a real hard time because Uncle the Accountant isn't legal trouble. If you haven't... Oh, this is what happens when the end of the episode is this late. Just, we can't end. So Dwarf Doctor, Marist Pebblefist, the lesser tribe to the Stone Knuckles. Don't you forget it. Okay, so yes. Make a medicine roll, Eric. Just make a medicine roll and heal people.
00:59:05
Speaker
Okay, Hobb is the worst. Nope, Hobb's not the worst off. Yep, Hobb's the worst off. But it's still less than half. So, over the wound threshold. Hobb, heal four wounds and three strain. Milo.
00:59:28
Speaker
heal two wounds and three strain. Reynard. Does that take care of any criticals? No. One failure, one advantage, one triumph from Doc Pebblefist. Reynard, you got the wrong medicine from the Doc.
00:59:52
Speaker
but it cured something else you didn't know about. You feel real good. You are. You accidentally got inoculated. Now you're not going to catch something else later. That's your triumph. He just looked at you and was like, I don't know what to do for you, but take this. And he just, he just named you his prescription pad just to play. You forgot to, you forgot, you've never dropped the illusion. He tried to treat a null. There it is.
01:00:19
Speaker
He goes, he goes, man, I don't know. And he just opens his cabinets and goes, go nuts, I guess, whatever. See what happens. You're, you're beheaded, Jackal. Oh my God. Or thank you, Doc. It's all right. It's all right, mess. I'm in it. In it. In it. And as the sun rises over shark.
01:00:48
Speaker
End of episode. Just get us out of here. You all got paid by Narn. You all got three gold each, let's say.
01:01:04
Speaker
15 XP to spend... But as does Narn pay any better than the clan? And the answer is no. He's got a corporate stipend that he is allowed to use for freelance work.
01:01:21
Speaker
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01:01:45
Speaker
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Speaker
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01:02:38
Speaker
I'm Jack and I'll see you next time.