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C3 Episode 39 Little Boxes on the Hillside Chapter One
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Who do you protect? Who do you serve?
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Introduction to 'Eberron and Newton'
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D20 Radio, at your
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radio
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Hello and welcome to Eberron and Newton, an actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting.
Host Introductions
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I'm your Game Master, Eric. I'm Mia. I'm Phillip. I'm Madison. I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode.
Recap of Escaping the Time Loop
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Folks, what happened last time?
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We're out of the time loop. We're out of the time loop. Finally. I honestly would give anything to be back in that time loop instead of the conversation that I had after
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it.
Kaz Meets Marina and Plans at Starz Lasker
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Kaz met Marina Veldren and learned a little bit about Pella's Watch. It's true. And learned how to say the name of it. And his family. And a little bit about his family.
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And gave her Javier's name for a potential job. of Yeah. Still not sure if that was the right move, but it definitely was the move I did. Sure. Yeah.
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No one looked at me like I was a complete idiot when I did it. And we got some cryptic hints about Vauk's past. and Yeah. Oh, yeah. Traveling conversation. Yeah. Yeah.
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Cool. Well, yeah. So you all are in Starz
Stagecoach Plans to Pella's Watch
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Lasker. You have crashed at the Gilded Griffin. And it is morning time. So any preparations that you all are wanting to make before you head out? Oh, it's the next morning. Okay.
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No, I don't think so. Unless all had anything else you wanted to do that evening. Particularly. Okay. yeah So you all wake up. And are you getting stagecoached? Okay.
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I'd like to grab some breakfast to go. Okay. They have very simple offerings, no elaborate menu or specials. I just want to be EC. Um, so yeah, you all are able to, there's a stage coach service for, I mean, it is advertised as for from star slash skirt of at the Ron, but you all negotiate to go to Pella's watch.
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Um, great that, you know, it's,
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Those of you that have traveled around the country, it is way more expensive than the like duration of the trip would justify. But the driver knows they're not going to be able to pick up anyone in Pella's watch to bring it back. So it's like trying to get an Uber to the airport from Shawnee. It's like, sure, but there's going to be a crazy surcharge because this is a one-way trip for me. So anyway, that's a relatable thing for the audience to hear.
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I just park in the garage. that The burger place? So, yeah you all begin to take off. and Do we occupy a whole stagecoach?
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There are smaller ones that, like, can be just for oh good a handful of people.
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How long is our stagecoach journey? but You all are going to Hell's Watch about midday. It's a it's couple hours. So...
Confrontation with Silver Flame Paladins
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What are you looking for? Jeff. Roll a d12. Roll a d12. That'll work.
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Five. Okay. First hour of your journey goes by unemountfully. Madison, roll a d12. Nine. Okay.
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Second hour of your trip goes by unemountfully. Mia, roll a d12. Is that the right? Yeah. Okay. An eight. Okay. Philip, roll a d12. Eleven.
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Eleven, you say? It's so hard. don't like how heavy those slams. All metal dice for next. Philip's using uranium dice. It's just so dense.
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All right. Ewald... hear voices on the road as you're traveling. That's weird. We should be moving past those people really fast. In fact, you feel the stagecoach begin to slow.
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And you... Robbed again. You hear a voice say, By the authority vested in me by the Silver Flames Codex of Military Justice Section 12.7, you are hereby cited for...
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traveling without property documentation posted, disrupting lawful commerce and failing to maintain regulation, marching order you will submit to lawful detention and processing. And you see... Did we get a phantom cab? Those words don't make any sense. You see four... Mix. You react however you want.
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You see four paladins of the Silver Flame ah beginning to walk around the stagecoach and... Whoever I want is exactly how I'll react, Eric.
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react how I tell you and
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ah one of the paladins like walks to the back of stagecoach and like brings the flap the side looking at all of you and says resistance to lawful authority is punishable under code 23.7 submit proper procedure or face escalating enforcement measurements please step out of the stagecoach you're just leading off with how you're going punish us if we don't know what we what's going on with this person's manner of speech So your final opportunity to comply with lawful order, failure to submit result in implementation of protocol seven. like gathering my stuff you Can I see a badge?
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I mean, he...
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He gestures to his adornment in silver flame armor and says, We're not in, Thrain. um And he turns to the side and says, Failure to comply.
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And... Sold. Sold. Resisting. You see... Is there something weird? This guy sounds like he's part of the Borg Collective. Is there something weird going This is weird. Okay. Yes. All right.
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You see another paladin walked to the back next to this one, ah who, Nix, you can immediately tell is like a captain of the... Is is he also moving like a soulless automaton? eight He says... are their eyes looking like?
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their Their eyes look normal. You have failed to maintain order. Please step out to the stage, coach, so that we can commence lawful detention and processing. Right. Show me the Brelish authority badge that you are, ah because the government of Breland is not the Silver Flame.
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Next we'll get out of the coach, though. Are you getting out of the coach? Sure. Okay. Okay. I think I was going to do whatever Nick's does. I can't fight them from the coach.
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I'm sitting. you You're not getting of the coach? No. Okay. i Have we been told what we did wrong? Nope. They did say we said something to the coachman traveling without proper documentation, post disrupting lawful commerce, and failing to maintain regulation marching order.
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Aren't they disrupting lawful commerce? Yes, that's what's happening. Applied to the passengers in the vehicle, that is not my charge. you're not getting out? No. Okay. Kaz, are you getting out? Unfortunately, Kaz doesn't even understand the idea of not doing what the authority asks him to do. Jeff wants to scream at Kaz for what Kaz is doing, but Kaz gets out of the car. So this go is this Coachman?
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this Is this House Orion? Or is this just private? Okay. Yeah. Nick looks up at the Coachman and says, don't think about leaving.
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like well, now all I'm thinking about is don't think about an elephant. And one of the paladins, as you all are stepping out, says, stand over there on the side of the road, please.
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Nyx looks around as if judging the ground for a fight and steps just a little bit away from the coach so that there's room to swing a sword if necessary.
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Okay. Your badge from... I don't know who the king of Breland is right now. Philip doesn't know who the king of Breland is right now. Is it Boronel yet? Yeah. I thought it was still the princess. Because he's an old man. No, that's it's that that's like the beginning of the war. Okay, okay, okay.
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Because he's an old man in regular Eberron, so I can't remember how young he becomes king. Yeah. um
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Look, I did crash courses, and they did not go that deep, so I can't help...
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yeah yeah I've been under the wrong and impression about how deep into the world we are this entire time. i thought we were much submerged earlier on it. I'm learning it all as we go. Yes, he's king starting in 961. Okay. ah your Your documents from the government of Boronel Irwinon.
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Part of the Codex of Military Adjustments, Section 12-7 does not regard civilians asking for documentation. Please step to the side of the road. Ah, well, no then. That would make you a brigand, I believe.
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Disrupting lawful commerce, actually, because we hired this fellow lawfully and he's a coachman and ah legitimate businessman. So I you i think, I'm afraid that under, and I quote back the the Codex of Military Justice that I definitely know, I'll need to arrest you as you are currently acting as a highwayman.
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Kaz is standing exactly where he was told, but like laughing, smiling so big at this.
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The, while this is happening, failure to comply will result in escalating punishment. Yes, that is correct. Yes. yeah yes also i like So you can just deposit your sword belt over there on the side of the road and take six steps away from it.
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While this back and forth is going on one of the paladins is standing at the back of the stagecoach and telling about, please step out of the stagecoach before we must escalate in
Battle with the Paladins
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enforcement measures.
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But what have I done specifically?
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Traveling without property documentation, disrupting law of commerce, and failing to maintain regulation marching order. You have not asked for my documentation. We have documentation. Do you have your proper documentation? I do. Let me see your proper documentation. I pull out the proper documentation. This is documentation documentation from the nation of Kaya. Do you have documentation from the nation of Breland?
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Do you documentation? You documentation from the nation of Breland. You're not here. You're not having this conversation. I said the same thing anyway.
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So no, you do not have proper documentation from the Nation of Breeland. And neither do you. Yep. Very well. If you will not step out of stagecoach, then we must escalate in enforcement measures ah and ah private.
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And one of them reaches into their bag and pulls out a torch and begins like, I'm going to light the torch. Nyx takes a sword. Okay. Nyx takes sword and applies it to the nearest paladin. Initiative. Oh, they gotta put that back in. Good lord. Ooh.
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Who are these people? There's the lesson. There's something wrong with them. Okay, let me roll my dumb stuff.
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Not flying. and I to zoom in. Where am I? Okay.
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I'm at 12. 16.
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sixteen
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Did escaping the train end an arc? Okay.
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How many people are in this battle?
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There are three paladins, their captain, and then you all. Okay, so eight exactly? Eight. One, two, three, four. The Coachman is also present. i don't know if he counts whatever you're doing. So what I rolled is one random creature in the battle other than you teleports next to and is engaged by one of its random enemies other than you.
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So... Okay. I'm going to roll... Since I'm out Coachman is not an active participant. All right. So there's seven people. So two through eight, basically. Yeah, there eight people. I am not... it well It's other than you for both of them. So...
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So one, two, three, and then let's make the captain seven. Sound good? You're rolling eight. I rolled a one. Oh, it's me. Yeah. So you teleport to x you a random enemy next to random enemy. we're engaged with roll a d4. Okay. I didn't know. All There you go. There it's a three, three. Okay. The one trying to light the okay torch. Oh, that's really ideal. It's a sword. It's getting ready to swing it towards the ah towards the other guy. And then bam. Sorry. Selena, what was your initiative?
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16. Valk? 12. Kaz? 24. Nyx? 19. Okay. The initiative order is Kaz, Nyx, the captain, the other paladins, Selina, Valk.
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So... Kaz, you are up first. Um, explanation is the why I think Kaz is intending like, he's like, Oh no, a torch. And is about one. It's a zero is about to aim and attack at the torch bear. When Nick shows up there, like, okay, handle. And I turned back to the one that was talking to us and I am going to cast chaos. Ray on the captain.
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as he talking Yeah. Yeah. I'm the captain.
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That's not going to hit probably plus charisma plus level. So it's a 12 to hit.
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ah Versus physical defense. Physical defense.
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One, I feel
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two. Can't imagine a paladin captain has a 12 physical defense AC. But I guess we'll find out. Maybe he's a fake one. was going to say, I'm wondering if they're imposter. In that case, another nearby enemy, I don't care who, not the one Nix is next to, takes three points of damage.
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Because I missed, and that happens.
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Okay. And... The one that was at the back of the stagecoach talking about is the one that takes it. Okay. and And I think I will...
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Move up to engage. Not the captive, but one of the other grunts that's kind of close to me. I'm feeling bold and punchy and angry. Yeah. That's what I'm going to do. and next I'll go ahead roll or pull my next one.
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It's a defense, so nothing special. Okay, cool. Nyx, just before... Before murdering these people, is there something, some way, can I know what in the world is going on here?
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i will let you make, use a quick action to make kind of an assessment check to try and figure out, like, intelligence or wisdom, try and parse out what the heck is going on. Reliquor runaway? Sure.
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But that's a crappy roll. ah So...
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No, it's like 12. 12. You're not quite sure. they They are acting strangely, but you have no idea why they would be acting like this.
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Okay, well... because Because the thing is, like, they're not even acting... and this This is what you get with a 12, just being, like, above, like, in the double digits. Silverflame paladins that act this way are typically scared. Like, they they're, like, twitchy, jumpy, especially around someone like Nyx.
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This is... There's not, like... We're about to burn people, but there's no, like, fanaticism to this. Yes, there's no emotion. It is just like, well, you didn't do what I said. Here's the next logical step as to what I need to be doing. Okay, so, yeah. Yeah.
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Okay. Well, fine. Then going to aim with sword. Okay. Yes. That's a natural 19, so a 27 hit. Be really nice to crit with this sword you gave me every now and again.
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think That is 11 points of damage. Okay. eleven points of damage
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Nice. All righty. I have none of my add-on stuff available because we had to do the train fight five times.
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um I will extend the... We didn't... You were able to do the quick rest, like post-fight, recharge roll, stuff like that. But basically what... When we get to Pella's watch, but at the end of this session, basically, you all will be able to do a full rest up. So all of your once per arc stuff will reset, all that kind of stuff.
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So um
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I will extend the assess check to the rest of you. If you want to use a quick action to make an assessment roll, you can do that. Yeah. But the captain gets to go now. On your turn. Insider intelligence, though, when we do it. Sorry.
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Intelligence or wisdom. Either one. Wisdom. Sorry. Okay. So the captain... you is going to, he's going to issue a lawful command. So he is going to affect Nope, he isn't. So that is two of you.
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So it will be since the two that ah have attacked Kaz and Nyx. So this is against your mental defense. That is 22, 27. twenty seven so yeah ah Six psychic damage against the two of you um as he ah shouts ah get on the ground.
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So each of you need to pass a an easy save. So roll a d20 and you have to get a six or better.
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seventeen 17. Three. You dropped to the ground prone. It makes sense. It's just a good little guy. i attacked him and i was like, yo, know you're right. You're right.
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Um, okay. And that was his action. Does he have a quick action? I don't believe he does. So no.
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Um, Okay. The other paladins, the one next to Nyx, is going to attempt to de-escalate the situation with violence.
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That's what Nyx is always trying to explain to people. Um...
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Hit your friends. he He takes the hit from Nyx and then pulls his sword. Executing combat for a protocol 4.2. Measured sword strike. And he swings. What is happening? They're straight from the training catalogs, bro.
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That is only 13 to hit. Okay. All right. Nyx underwent first level of this kind of training. That's not a thing, right? Correct. Okay.
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Um... um Engaging annihilation protocols. Yeah, like, sort sword stroke 4.26. Like, that's not, like, okay. Something's just way It's in the pamphlet after you. you I didn't get to that level. You didn't get to it.
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um and And then the the other paladin that was next to the captain is going to ah say to Kaz, prepare to be detained for proper proper processing.
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And he's going to attack. Did he do anything with his standard sword stroke? he' so He's one of missed. He got a 13 to hit.
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That is a 16 versus your AC. Yeah, it just gets me. So this is his by the book smite. So you take eight damage and you are stuck until the end of your next turn.
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So you are you are on the ground stuck. So he hit me on the ground while I was on the ground. These aren't good cops. Um, you just, but yeah. You just hear from the, from the car, just obviously. Um, and the other one is going any kind of cops. They're any kind of good. Rush to Selena, a spotting grub, lacking licensure for exotic pets.
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Ha ha ha ha ha! 16 versus AC. It is about the most exotic bit. Yeah, that hits. Six damage. okay Okay. Plus one ongoing damage. A save ends at the end of your turn.
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And that is their turn. So, Selena just ran up and got stabbed. Yeah. yes I will do... Please get on the ground for proper processing.
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Does Grubb get an attack for being insulted us? Right? but he was's called it He was called exotic. Grubb might like that. be like Okay, I'll do color spray. Considering the closest friends of his owner call him a garbage bear. True.
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true Okay, we're going to do color spray. called him a trash pan. And I called him a rat. A giant rat. I can target two, so obviously the one that came up to me, and then whoever else is closest. The other closest one is the one just hit Kaz while he was on the ground. Okay, let's do that one.
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Okay. Yeah, get him. Yeah.
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Okay, well, that's a... Nine versus mental defense. That is not going to do it. And this is color spray. So as you extend your hand and try to cast the the spell color spray, just a solid white beam of light shoots out of your hand. Like the colors were restricted from splitting off of each other. They stayed uniform into one singular beam.
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but
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And now it is Vax turn. Oh, do i need to do a save? Yes. for ah Yeah, take one point of damage for the ongoing damage and then make a save. You need to roll 11 or higher damage.
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Well, probably not going to happen. I've been rolling today. Oh, 15. Nice. um So I'm going to gain my focus. I don't know that the cart is trying to be lit on fire. Do I?
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No, the one that was going to light it has been attacked by Nix. So there's no one at the back of the stagecoach because that one ran over to attack Selena. So there's nobody really in your line of sight, but you lean out the back of the stagecoach. Okay.
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I'm actually just going to get on the edge. I'm just going to like sit on the edge. Okay. um Gain your focus. Gain my focus. Okay. Do you want to use a quick action to try to assess the situation? Yes.
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Intelligence or wisdom. And sorry, Slaney, you could have done that. Yeah. Oh, shoot. I forgot to leave. If they want to do it first. Yeah. If if you want to go and do it. I took my turn before that became a thing, so I've got to wait.
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That's all right. 25? 25.
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you definitely like pick up on kind of the absurdity of their commands and stuff as like Philip was asking and Nix is aware that this kind of stuff isn't a thing.
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um you, Working in the library with Aurora and her kind of work on the categorization of planes and stuff like that, you're thinking that this is like ah highly, like there's some influence on these individuals and the magic is highly regimented, highly lawful, something that causes them to follow like super high logic, something along those lines. Okay.
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If it were a plane, you would probably pin it on Donvi, which is the plane of lawful order, if there was any kind of planar influence going on here. So, yeah. Okay.
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That is... i don't think that's any better. Yeah, that's 19. nineteen 19? Yeah. i mean what's that will that Would that be impacted by paranormal investigator?
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Probably. Okay. 23? 23?
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So kind of a lot of the same things that Selena picked up on. Both of you also pick up on these individuals.
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as opposed to in a lot of like manifestons and stuff like that, where people are still themselves, but just like influenced by the nature of the plane, you definitely pick up on like, there's, there's a greater personality shift than normal going on here. Like, ah you don't know if they're being like puppet controlled by something or if they are just like super, their minds are super impacted by so my magic. But yeah, that's how far are we from Pella's watch?
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This was like the last hour of travel. So you are less than an hour from Pella's watch. And how far was the military base mentioned from Pellet's Watch? So it was kind of up off. So you would basically had to take a like a left sooner.
00:24:49
Speaker
So you've gone past Lurching Tower. but So you probably have to go back about 45 minutes to get to it. In like a radius? I mean, potentially, yeah. Okay.
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Manifestos sometimes are like, yeah, miles upon like tens of miles long or it's a single house. Okay. That is it. Okay. You've gained your focus. So now the Escalation Die is at a one.
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Kaz. Yeah. So I got a defense and I've taken some damage. So I am going to heal myself. Okay. Okay.
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Is there anybody else who could use a little bit? It's that same thing where one of us is going to grow something. I'm really pretty good. Slayna got hit. I could use a bet, yeah. Okay. One, two, three, you're going to something. Okay. I'm going to grow something. You get 10 temporary hit points, is that right?
00:25:46
Speaker
No, you get to do a recovery. I get 10 temporary hit points. and Roll a d8. Yeah, d10. Two. Two.
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Your... Um... Is it grow? So it's grow something specifically. Yeah, it says grow. Appendage. Out of your right, like shoulder blade. Okay.
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A medium size mechanical wing. Just one? Yeah, just one. oh no. Do you think I don't start flying? You're so in good. You're not going to start flying. You only have one wing.
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But yeah, it's very clockwork, like mechanical. Okay. Okay. That's what happens to me. I'm still standing next to this dude. i don't want to disengage from him. I think you're stuck on the ground. Well, that's right. i am I am prone. That is right. so i Okay.
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Let's see if I stay on the ground or start flying away. Oh, right. You're just stuck until the end of your next turn. So when pull that, it's the end of your turn. So yeah. Okay. I just looked out of the bag. I'm not supposed to do that.
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Shameful. Another defense. We're good. Cool. Okay. Nyx. I'm going to hit this guy again. Okay.
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Speaker
Uh, that is a lot. 26. Yes. yes That hits.
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but
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ah that is 11 more damage. Okay. So, I don't know. This guy swung and missed. Nick's just back steps little bit and then hammers another blow on, on his armor, trying to drive him back.
00:27:30
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Nice. right. Um...
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Okay, he is going to say, please stop resisting and prepare for being detained for proper processing. He's going to do by his by-the-book smite on you. That is a 22 versus AC. Yes.
00:27:50
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Eight damage, and you are stuck until the end of your next turn.
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I wasn't planning to leave. think um
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Oh, the captain should have gone first. I mean, they had right next to each other. Okay, the captain is going to look at Valk.
00:28:11
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Fall in love. I'm just so beautiful. If you want to be. I transform into his wife. um Darling, why are you resisting? He's going to walk up and attempt to forcefully pull Valk down off the back of the stagecoach. By my hair?
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no with um 23 versus your physical defense. Oh, absolutely. Eight damage.
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And you are stunned until the until your next turn. So the way stunned works in this system, because I think this the first time someone's been stunned. You take a minus four penalty to all your defenses and you can not take actions, but at the start of your turn, you can roll a hard save, which is a 16 or higher.
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If the save succeeds, you can take one action on that turn. it doesn't solve the stun condition, just lets you take one action. So this will last until the end of your next turn. So you'll be able to roll the save at the start of your turn to see if you get to take an action.
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And then after that turn, it'll go away anyway. Does it make sense? Yes, but my spells are interrupts. the So does that stop me from gaining focus or does that stop me from casting spells? So you can't take any actions until you've saved. So from now until at the very least the start of your next turn, you can't all do it interrupt. Yeah.
00:29:36
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Okay. Yeah. Woof. And the other two paladins are going to go So the paladin that is standing over Kaz is...
00:29:50
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yes is
00:29:54
Speaker
Kaz is still on the ground, so he thinks that Kaz has been detained for proper processing. So he's going to go stand next to ah the one by Selena and attack Selena.
00:30:05
Speaker
good That is an 11 versus AC. Nope. And the other one is going to attack Selena. That is an 18 versus AC. Yep. Six damage. Okay. One ongoing damage savings.
00:30:17
Speaker
Great.
00:30:20
Speaker
Um, Selena, your turn. You have two adjacent to you now. And I already tried my close quarters. One thing I can do and it didn't work. I'm to to try to disengage, I guess.
00:30:33
Speaker
Okay, so that's your move action, but you can only disengage from one of them is part of the problem. So... Shoot. So you can reduce it down to one opportunity attack if you want to run back. You can also try your close quarters again, like, just because it rolled... Once per battle. So I have literally nothing I can do.
00:30:48
Speaker
um Okay, yeah, I'll just try to disengage from one, I guess.
00:30:54
Speaker
You mean 11 or higher? 18. Okay, so you can successfully move away from one of them. The other one will get an opportunity attack. Okay. Okay.
00:31:05
Speaker
That is 17 versus AC. Yeah. Six more damage. Okay.
00:31:17
Speaker
But you backed up. Great.
00:31:23
Speaker
Okay, we'll do Ray of Frost with the one that just
Gaining the Upper Hand
00:31:28
Speaker
ah attacked me. Okay. Oh, good. Okay. 25. twenty five That hits. Yes. Wonderful. damage.
00:31:46
Speaker
Nice. Great.
00:31:51
Speaker
Valk, give me a hard saving throw. 16 higher. No. Okay. Okay. breath so but no yeah So you can not take any actions this turn, but it just lasts until the end of your turn. So now you can, now that your turn is over, you can take actions again.
00:32:11
Speaker
Oh, I needed to try to save. Wait, so I can do an action? Yes. Now or next time? Next time. Okay. That was in... You'll able to use your interrupts. Why not my focus? Your focus. Then I can't do a quick action to do stans of... Yep.
00:32:26
Speaker
Natural 20. Nice. you it You saved. Yay, great. All right. Escalation die is now at a two, which means
00:32:39
Speaker
dance break. Yes.
00:32:44
Speaker
Through descriptions because i can't see.
00:32:49
Speaker
Kaz looks awesome and does do it. Here's my description. Yeah, as stab dance is much better than I can. There you go. This is the part that Eric will edit out. do he Singing my song.
00:33:06
Speaker
Please edit it.
00:33:09
Speaker
Just that clip. Just that clip. Anytime there's a long pause, you just insert that clip. New regulation has been enforced for the battlefield.
00:33:20
Speaker
Weapons must be declared before use. So you must verbally declare the weapon that you are about to use or else you take a minus two to your attack roll. We're not playing by anime rules.
00:33:34
Speaker
as it encounter her How do we know that that has happened? The captain shouts like, regulatory enforcement, all weapons must be proclaimed before use.
00:33:47
Speaker
And yeah, you all are in tuned enough to like like, you kind of think that it might be oh true. Like as Nyx, as you're holding your sword, it feels like almost like the air is resisting against it.
00:34:00
Speaker
Oh, there's a haze here. and yeah It is your turn. Okay, I mean, it's it's got to be a defense spell. going to be the only one that i have, because one's once per battle, and I just did it. so
00:34:10
Speaker
The results of this is I get seven more temporary hit points. And did the torch get lit and then knocked down? Okay. I was going to go stomp it out and it got lit. It was not getting lit yet. Then I can't imagine I'm going to go engage with somebody else after they knocked me down and hit me while I was on the ground.
00:34:24
Speaker
So I think I might just stand where I'm at. Okay. So you stand up, feel a little stronger. And that's, I eventually get quick actions as we level up, but I still don't have them right now. So, okay.
00:34:37
Speaker
I feel better. Thank you guys. Your turn. You still assess if you wanted to assess. Oh yeah, I didn't need to assess last time. So let me see what I learned about what's going on around here. 19. What is Wisdom check? Wisdom or intelligence. That's like 24. 24?
00:34:53
Speaker
twenty four um yeah with 24 i mean that's what selena rolled so you learn a lot of the same stuff like cask kind of puts it together you do get a sense that like these silver flame paladins probably aren't in total control of their actions right now so yeah and i rolled or i pulled an icon die and the icon i'm going to be with this time is
00:35:19
Speaker
That big old tree again. Oh wait, Link. away Cool. um Not Deep Root. The other big tree. The good big tree. Not my friend, the big tree. The other big tree. Okay.
00:35:31
Speaker
Nyx. Well, if we're declaring weapons, my name's Nyx.
00:35:37
Speaker
One unique thing is my soul is a weapon. Kaz goes, yes! Much. 1-E-2.
00:35:43
Speaker
ah
00:35:47
Speaker
much that's twenty two Okay. Oh, 24. pesished Oh, that's going to be a lot of damage. That's going to be 20. Yeah. 20 damage, 20 damage to the dude with the torch.
00:36:03
Speaker
How do you, and do you kill the guy with the torch? Yeah. Okay. This does not know fully what's going on, except that these guys are acting weird, but how do you kill the guy with the torch? Um,
00:36:15
Speaker
It's not especially amazing, but Nick says that and then just sweeps his head off. Okay.
00:36:26
Speaker
Uh, and then I will move to engage the captain. Okay. Thanks. Um, boom.
00:36:38
Speaker
The captain says, escalation of criminal activity dictates escalation of force used to apprehend criminals. That is what I was thinking. And he is going to...
00:36:57
Speaker
oh that guy wasn't a mook, right? No. He is blade polished in blood since I get it once for battle and take a recovery. And that's it.
00:37:14
Speaker
Okay, he's going to attack you with his blade. 24. Yes, 24 hits. You give 10 damage.
00:37:28
Speaker
Glad took that recovery. And now the paladins are going to go. So the one paladin sees Kaz stand back up. So he is going to rush over to try and tell Kaz to stop resisting.
00:37:44
Speaker
Um, He's gonna use his by the book smite, 17 versus AC. 17 does get versus AC, yes. Eight damage and you are stuck until the end of your next turn.
00:37:55
Speaker
And got it. And hey, you made it to your feet. You're standing again. Slay, the one that you shot with Ray of Frost. I'm gonna rush up to you. That is a 17 versus AC.
00:38:07
Speaker
Yep. That is six damage and one ongoing damage savings. Okay. Okay.
00:38:20
Speaker
The other one is dead. Selena, your turn. I got to use a recovery. Okay. So going to rally. Yeah.
00:38:31
Speaker
Just so y'all know, if you want to rally more than once in a battle, you have to make a save before you rally a second time. you Just so y'all know. Okay. And then I need to do the save for the ongoing damage.
00:38:46
Speaker
okay You save. Yay. Valk, your turn. As a quick action, I'm going to do stance of necessity. Okay. So that is whenever I don't have my focus, I get plus four to all of my defenses. Yeah.
00:39:02
Speaker
And it lasts until the end of the battle or if I get hit when I don't have focus. Okay. um And then I am going to gain my focus.
00:39:17
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:20
Speaker
That's it. Cool.
00:39:24
Speaker
Escalation eyes out of three cats. You got one up on you. Yeah. There's three left, right? There's the captain and two paladins. Okay.
00:39:35
Speaker
All right, fine. The one that's up on me. Okay. That sucks. This is going to be really cool. i I think we're a wooded area. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I think Kaz kind of yells out. He's like, Hey, Falk, that was a good idea. then he looks Captain dead the eyes and he goes, trees! Raises his arms up. Trees begin to shake and pine needles shoot out of one straight into the guy that is, that's stressing me.
00:40:05
Speaker
And think I had it looked up
00:40:11
Speaker
and he does, where is it?
00:40:20
Speaker
And I had the extra. Yeah. It's just four force damage is all it is. It's, it's, it's, this feels good. Cause it might hit more than one person, but it didn't. Yeah. so but anyway, I just wanted to yell trees at the guy. Tree.
00:40:30
Speaker
That's what I use. Okay. And now
00:40:37
Speaker
Another icon's spelled.
00:40:42
Speaker
And this time it's the...
00:40:46
Speaker
Cabinet. Okay. Secrets, right? Cabinet face Stasis. It's the changeling mob. Mm-hmm. Okay. Nyx. Nyx can attack the captain.
00:40:59
Speaker
Don't attack the captain. I'm doing it anyway. 25. twenty five Hit. so More because of the squelch.
00:41:10
Speaker
That's very good. 17 plus 21. Okay. eight Points of damage. Nice. I'm going to interrupt on that too.
00:41:21
Speaker
With better yet here. Okay. Oh, there's already one in there.
00:41:29
Speaker
Oh, that doesn't look good. so
00:41:36
Speaker
Would you like it to be a 15? I don't think it's worth it. Okay.
00:41:42
Speaker
It's 14, anyways. so So, against... You had the Escalation 9? Yes, I did. Against Mental Defense. Did you level? Yes. That misses.
00:41:53
Speaker
Okie dokie. Okay. Oh, wait. It takes and two damage. like Got natural 15 sitting over here. How much would it deal on natural 15? I have 2d6 plus wisdom.
00:42:09
Speaker
Okay. Up to you, sir. I guess. I guess. I'll take it. Okay. Does that even hit? Did you just lie to us? A natural 15 plus all the stuff would get hit. Okay.
00:42:23
Speaker
So... Oh, yep.
00:42:28
Speaker
That 7 plus... Hold on. on. I... seven plus hold on hold on i Touch the thing. doing sort Don't rush me.
00:42:40
Speaker
I get nervous doing math. Same. he Plus 13. No. Yes, 13. So I think it's just, it's Valk's normal thing of channeling Nyx and doubling the previous attack.
00:42:58
Speaker
What does the Nyx double look like? Um, the same unsettling there demon shadow. Yeah. of of Demon, demon nix. The one thing that Vaux knows that is very scary and damaging.
00:43:11
Speaker
Okay. Cool. Um, so that was Nix's turn. Vaux interrupted. so now it's the captain's turn. The captain is going to,
00:43:30
Speaker
try to enforce order on nix 14 versus physical defense better people have tried that yeah all right and then the paladin kaz who just got pine needled his That would hurt so much. yeah yeah Thousands of pine needles. Yeah, he's these's he's really prickly looking. 23 versus AC.
00:44:01
Speaker
Yes, in fact. Six damage plus one ongoing damage. Okay. Selena. Mm-hmm.
00:44:08
Speaker
That is a 15 versus AC. What's causing the ongoing damage? Just their sword blade. Yeah. yeah This is a ah un bleeding wound. Yes. Six damage plus one ongoing damage. Save ends.
00:44:21
Speaker
Okay. On combat protocol for dot two measured sword strike. I like these dorks.
00:44:30
Speaker
Selena, your turn. I'll do Ray of Frost again. You're going to have to disengage from him. apparently ah Well, I have to. i decimal so Nineteen. Okay, so yeah, you can move away from him.
00:44:41
Speaker
And this is what they used them for. Natural 20. Kill that dork. Okay, so we do whatever it was and then like... Yeah, so it's normally 3d6. So roll 6d6.
00:44:54
Speaker
Oh. You borrow some d6s from Jeff. He's getting obliterated. A handful of dice because that's fun to do. Okay. How many? Thank you, thank you.
00:45:07
Speaker
You five? You got six. Okay. Okay. There's so many numbers. My tits. Yeah. yeah
00:45:20
Speaker
25. Nice. I think. Yes, yeah that's what I got. How do you utterly wreck this paladin? Do you kill him? Oh, yes, I kill him.
00:45:31
Speaker
Fully freeze and then he just shatters. Right.
Post-Battle Reflections
00:45:35
Speaker
Can't fix that. We're being asked if we kill them. Yeah. Eric's going to try to make us feel bad about it later. I'm not going to try to make you feel bad. Just some of you know that they're being mind controlled. so Oh, yeah.
00:45:50
Speaker
Nick's not one of those people. That's true. It is kill or be killed at this point. Yeah, I'm killing him. Okay. Oh, and a save. Yes. With an eight.
00:46:03
Speaker
So you do not save against the ongoing damage. Might kill and be killed. It's cool.
00:46:09
Speaker
Valk.
00:46:13
Speaker
I don't even... Who is left? The captain and the paladin on Kaz. Okay. I am... I'm just going to... read or Gain my focus.
00:46:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:46:35
Speaker
And then... this an... Well, that's an action. Is it an action if I try to speak to them? No. Okay. Okay. if you try If you're trying to influence the battle, so if you're trying to get them to stand down and you want to make like a charisma check or something, that would be an action. but i feel like it might be a check, though. Because I wanted to i want Valk to... Maybe not the captain, but the other one.
00:46:58
Speaker
Just to be like, if you... no because I don't think... Valk knows it. Now, do I know that they're mind-controlled? You know that their minds are certainly being heavily influenced by some kind of magic. Like they they are acting well outside of their normal personality. Because I want Valk to ask if they are if they are aware they are doing things against their will to give a sign.
00:47:23
Speaker
Okay. You can ask them that. Oh, okay. Then I ask them that. I think Valk will look between the two. and just say both of you are acting very oddly for people of authority.
00:47:36
Speaker
If you are acting against your own will, please, as well as you can, give us a sign.
00:47:49
Speaker
Neither of them do anything other than they've been doing.
00:47:53
Speaker
Um, you regained your focus. That's all I can do.
00:48:00
Speaker
Um... Escalation die is now to four. The captain shouts out, all combatants must maintain five foot spacing. Basically, give one if you end your turn adjacent to someone, you take three damage.
00:48:17
Speaker
Oh. I thought we were social distancing. Kaz. you end your turn. Yes. Okay. And I'm currently engaged with someone. Yes. I mean, let's just see if I can end my turn with him on the ground first. Yeah. Um...
00:48:38
Speaker
Sorry. I almost changed my mind.
00:48:43
Speaker
Thank God. You didn't. I know. Well, and now I can't find what I was going to It was an icon spell. It was. It's true. Tied to which icon? The chamber the cabinet of faces. Cabinet of faces.
00:48:56
Speaker
So I'm going to do the twisted beam. I don't know how it relates the cabinet of faces, but it's the only not once per arc spell I have in this particular list of icon spells. So that's what i'm going to do.
00:49:16
Speaker
Oh, it comes up to a 20 versus physical defense. I got the one that's right next to me. And this is a close quarter spell? ah It's ranged, but I took a talent that ranged counts as close quarters.
00:49:27
Speaker
I don't take a negative to my
Preparations to Investigate Pella's Watch
00:49:29
Speaker
ranged spells if close quarters. Yes, that hits. Okay. Okay.
00:49:37
Speaker
That's 10 fire damage and on a natural, wait, that was the even hit, right? Yeah. So 10 fire damage. Okay. And I guess I will disengage disengage yeah with my quick action. Right. And no, so disengage is a movement action, but you have to roll your D 20 to see if you can successfully disengage. Gotcha.
00:49:58
Speaker
So three, three. So you take three damage because basically the way disengage works is so, okay, Jeff, I will, you either use your move action to try and disengage, and then normally if you fail, you can use your regular action to then just move away if you really want to, but since you've already used your standard action, that's not option. Right.
00:50:18
Speaker
So you could have just moved and taken the opportunity attack, but that's probably goingnna be more than three damage right they hit. so But so have I moved away with this failed? If you fail to disengage, then no, you do not move. Well, it...
00:50:30
Speaker
And I'm taking how much damage if I might turn five feet from him? Three damage. Either way. as so say So I'd be taking three damage and then three damage because I failed my check.
00:50:41
Speaker
and What is the three damage you just said? That's because I'm ending turn. made your turn adjacent to him, you take three damage. Okay. I knew that one. Okay. So that was the three damage you told me to take just now. His melee attacks typically deal six damage. Right.
00:50:54
Speaker
Okay. So if you try to take an opportunity attack, you might take six damage. Understood. i was not sure. I've never had to roll to disengage. So when you told to take three damage because I rolled a three on the die. Oh, no, no, no, no. I was confused the moment. Now I'm on board. I'm still going roll to try to heal my bleeding wound.
00:51:10
Speaker
Okay. That's an 18 plus. So yeah. So you no longer wear the ongoing damage, but you do take three damage. Not a problem. From failing to comply with regulations. And I did not want to comply with those regulations.
00:51:22
Speaker
Stupid regulations. Don't regulations. I did like yelling trees, though. That was pretty great. I'll answer that too. Nyx. Nyx is staying on the captain. Are you announcing your weapon?
00:51:33
Speaker
Are we to do both of those things? Regulations compound, man.
00:51:44
Speaker
big My name is still Nyx.
00:51:51
Speaker
<unk> gotten away but that plus eight 24 28 okay uh that's 17 more damage how do you kill do you kill the captain yes okay how do you kill the captain i think like nyx is nyx hates this nyx doesn't exactly know what's going wrong you know something is wrong about this situation but she hasn't quite worked out that it might not be these guys fault.
00:52:22
Speaker
yeah Um, and so to, to her, she thinks the most likely the Occam's razor of this is these guys are play acting as silver flame paladins. And this is just sort of their, their bad impression of it in order to shake people down along the road. yeah And This just, this really pisses her off.
00:52:53
Speaker
And, and so she is just going at this guy, very little technique to it, just swinging a big sword as hard as she can. and at some point, don't know, at some point takes the guy's arm off at the shoulder oh and then jams her sword through him.
00:53:11
Speaker
Okay. Cool. I mean, not really. but um What's the last guy do? ah He attempts to detain Complies with regulations. By the book, smite on Kaz. 25. Yeah. 8 damage on Kaz and you are stuck until the end of your next turn. Kaz almost did.
00:53:33
Speaker
Oh, ah you killed him, so no. Yeah, him I'm not engaged with him. Slaves that regulations. Does he take damage from ending his turn next to me? ah Yes, he does. Thank you.
00:53:44
Speaker
Oh, you're welcome. I i will do Ray of Frost.
00:53:55
Speaker
Okay, that's cool.
00:54:02
Speaker
I like when you slightly sing song announce your attacks because it makes me picture Selina as a like necromantic Disney princess. I mean, pretty much. I can't help it.
00:54:12
Speaker
meant that genuinely. I love it. 21. That's hit. Yay. 13 damage. 13 damage. How you kill this one? All right. and that's a hit yay
00:54:25
Speaker
thirteen damage thirteen damage how do you kill this one right Freezes and chatters. Nice. Okay. So quiet washes over ah the kind of thrum against your sword.
00:54:40
Speaker
Nyx, you, you still feel actually now that the battle is over. It's like it's influence of the area almost. So, um, yeah.
00:54:53
Speaker
Do we have healing potions? Kaz looks really bad. If you haven't already used it. it as say every Each of us has one. okay i haven't used it yet. that i need to I have two hit points.
00:55:06
Speaker
I recommend using it. We're post-battle. You can use recovery. That's just a way where you can... that's just a way that where you can use it in battle. So yeah, just use a recovery post-battle or as many recoveries as you want. I'm going to go over the two bodies that aren't shattered hunks of ice and see if they actually have any kind of documentation or identification or anything like that.
00:55:30
Speaker
Okay. um
00:55:35
Speaker
and put you that's
00:55:38
Speaker
So you you do find documentation that they are like
00:55:45
Speaker
certified quote unquote, Knights of the silver flame. Sure. Sure. Bonafide. He's a suitor. You, you find, you also find documentation that they are deputized under the banner of the nation of Breland.
00:56:00
Speaker
To what? law enforcement, like enforcing the public good and order. um but you find that they are stationed out of Pella's watch and you find on one of them, a small, like handwritten flyer, basically for a reopening of a tavern called the ordered hearth in Pella's watch.
00:56:29
Speaker
yeah Terrible tavern concept. Hey, put that back. ah I'm going to take those documents.
00:56:42
Speaker
Okay. Do they have badges or anything like that? It's that is's just the paperwork that they have on them. They don't have like physical badges or anything. Give me a, well, actually this would have been like boom, boom, boom happening into the battle.
00:56:59
Speaker
they They indicated that you indicated they had some sort of regalia tabards or something like that. Like what what's what's marking them? How do I know they're knights of the silver flame? what I mean, that they have like the silver flame insignia on their chest, like very, very large, like that you would recognize. Like there's no, it seems very, there's no additional order or rank or like subset of the silver flame or the knights. It seems like these were just like,
00:57:25
Speaker
the basic standard like went through the first level of training knighted the silver flame but like nix also knows that like the silver flame isn't exclusive to serene in terms of a religion you know yeah yeah funny yeah finding silver flame knights in brayland makes sense yeah I want to take enough of their gear to fit myself out as an official knight of the solar flame. If that were to appear profitable to us in, yeah in this, you could absolutely, obviously an orderly place that we're headed.
00:58:05
Speaker
Yeah. So I, cobble together enough of their undamaged gear and maybe, i don't know they've got a cloak or something like that, but for sure enough stuff and bundle it up and sit in the back of the stagecoach. If you want to note on your character sheet or something like the temporary background, almost, I guess, like silver flame disguise flame disguise with a, we'll say a plus two.
00:58:26
Speaker
Okay. Um, and then I, I'm going to drag their bodies off into the brush. Okay. over I'm not going to worry about the pieces that Selena left behind. me Those will melt. the fall i think Valka's going to dust himself off a little bit and then kind of announce broadly.
00:58:51
Speaker
i think with being in the radius of Peles Watch and knowing that there is a military base that those people were not of their own mind and might even have been swapped in behavior with the folks of Peles Watch
00:59:11
Speaker
or of the same influence. So we may want to be a little more careful
00:59:20
Speaker
hurt was who we are attacking.
00:59:25
Speaker
End of episode. Before we do the outro, you all can go ahead and take a full heal up going into the Pell's Watch investigation proper.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
00:59:35
Speaker
Since you all have had a handful of combat encounters.
00:59:39
Speaker
um So get all of your once per arc spells back, back to full health, et cetera. I get once per battle? Yes. Once per battle back. Okay.
00:59:50
Speaker
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01:00:02
Speaker
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01:00:17
Speaker
Thank you all so much for listening. I've been your Game Master, Eric. I'm Mia. I'm Phillip. I'm Madison. I'm Jeff. We'll see you next time.