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Ep. 159 Up the Poop Shoot - Bellum Draconis
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Alpha has to decide what to do with his memory rune, the group looks to infiltrate the castle where Delmond Trase is being held captive.
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Is Delma Trace lactose intolerant?
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Pause.
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Fucking sleet guard. They're torturing him with ice cream in there. bard patrol just flies out. Is Delma Trace actually lactose intolerant? ice cream down throat.
Introduction to Fellowship of the Tabletop: Bellum Draconis
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. We are a live play 5E 2024 D&D podcast set in the magical homebrew world of Aerith in the kingdom of Dralak. Joining you for this week's episode we have Peebee, who plays the rules consultant human cleric Emron. Are you logged in, Mark?
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The Granny Smith pie-smashing cumlord, edgelord Callum, who plays the war-forged Shartavissa Alpha. Don't forget to log in, Mark. Ian, he plays the tiefling war-saurer, Nyx Carell. There's a reason why I ticked the explicit part of this podcast.
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Will, he plays the dragonborn druid, Balvalcom. Make sure you're locked in, boy. Darren, he plays the half-orc barbarian, Theraxanjari. Hold on, I'm not locked in to the enderion. Fuck you all. My name is Mark and I'm logged in and I'm playing human blade singer. Seth Farrell, I'm the last but my name is the least is the Saga Sniffer. The strategist of the stank.
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The sorcerer of secretion. The steward of the safe word. The seaman of seamen.
Old Gell's mystical engagement
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Dungeon Master Danny. And my safe word is login. Speaking of which, speaking of which we find old Gell perched upon a barrel.
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near the coast of Sleetgart. On a fishing boat. On a... Waving. Just waving. Fucking troll that he is. Old German troll. He sits down on the barrel and he perches his toes. This is a metal-rimmed barrel. His long toes just kind of click into the metal rim around the barrel.
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And um he stares deep into the orb and begins. Ooh, Emron goes a-walkin'.
Orbi-Orbs and explosive cloak discussion
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Nyx makes Alpha invisible and those Orbi-Orbs allow, well, they they allow the scan to happen and the Orbi-Orbs do some scanning. And they relay their scan back to the Northwest. Hmm.
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Nyx suggests that Tharok should take that exploding cloak and Baal's like, yeah, let's convince him. They have a long rest. And Emron has no dreams. The group... We'll not get there. Well, we'll get there tonight. So after that long rest, Emron chats with Ball about the infiltration and they talk about last resort and it's all like, let's make a wildfire firework.
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Emron chats with Seth about signals and is like, hey, let's shatter my pants. Emron chats with Nix and discovers his mind fucking ain't gonna help. Emron chats with Sparrowhawk about how to hundred how close the castle will be and learns that it should all be fine to do his location of the object. And Goldview comes into view and it's a view of memories.
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The boat passes the area where Nix and Marota fell to the depths. And around the corner we see an armada of Sleet Guardian ships in the Bay of Goldview.
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And Nyx and Emeron are all like, we should probably pretend we're a merchant vessel, y'all. And the city, it turns out, is overrun pretty much by mechanical creatures just going about their business. Looks like the Gartrans are fully in charge.
Seth's tattoo removal and energy shift
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Seth's tattoo suddenly gets white hot and it dissolves off his arm. And ringing in his ears, he hears army with unwavering loyalty to Sleet Guard.
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And Seth, you can't help but fall to your knees as it's almost like all of the energy in your body is just temporarily shifted. Almost like you've stood up too fast and you need to sit back down again.
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Concerned, Sparrowhawk kneels and tries to keep you propped upright and puts a flag of flagon of water in front of you. You all see as Seth looks rather unwell.
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but would like to do?
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Seth, are okay? He shakes his head and the shaky hand tries to turn to the back of his book to write, but his his hand is shaking so much that he can't form words, so he just throws the quill down and puts his hand put his head into his hands.
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Okay, this is this is this there's a good thing about this. It means that if any of us die, you're not at risk as well, because your promise with deal with Prego's done.
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Is that just one promise done or is that both of them done? Well, both of them have lost their tattoos now. No. I've got some new ones save
Seth's liberation from Prego
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Seth. We've got new ones, but... Has he got the new one?
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No, Seth wasn't part of the ring. Is he free? That means you're free. Your soul ah is your own. Danny, looking at the other arm... You have two untattooed arms. Freedom.
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Seppuku. Heaven. Off they go. and Seth's going to look at his arms and it within the the feelings that he has around what's what this means and the rage he has for Prego and the... in and amongst it, there's a sense of elation and relief a little bit, selfishly, internally, that he... That that is gone. That thing that's hung over him for so long, that worry, that fear, that constant...
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kind of watching of the group to make sure that this doesn't happen became less so about the the legion and more about his own not wanting go to hell. And that leaving, his he doesn't realise until it's gone that that was a thing. And it is ah like ah a massive weight it's been lifted, which I think will feed into the way in which he reacts, as well as the realisation that he just kind of sits down and just come collapses onto the floor on his knees and just crumpled and stays there.
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And Sparrowhawk looks sort desperately to the rest of you. What does this mean now? Well, there was a deal that was done with Baal and Seth, maybe Praegle.
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um Baal's was achieved when we found the egg, which left Seth. And Seth was promised an army of some kind, I think you said.
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And the only thing was that that he that they had to keep three of us, and then one points to the group, alive. We didn't know which three. When Reigns passed, Seth nearly died because he was one of the three. And we did a deal with Prager to stop that from happening.
Implications of Seth's freedom from Prego
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What this looks like is that the deal that was between Seth and Prager is done because Seth's got what he wished for. An An army.
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Yeah. But I thought... Does that mean they're with Seth? Is that Seth's armada? So this means one of you is now safe from Prego?
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Seth? Yes. Well, two, technically Tharok, I don't think is... No, you would have no deal with him, nor... Seth, what did you ask for, specifically?
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He yeah again turns to the back of his boat and tries to write again, but his his hand fails him again.
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Nithravar, can you speak for Seth?
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He just looks through you and it's mouth agape, but doesn't respond. Useful. Do you want me there? Touch mines! Seth! touch my
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have he's not He's not responding to anyone.
Debating the army's loyalty and benefits
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He's kind of checked out. Twitch's mind. Okay. And you feel the familiar presence of my mind in yours? Hey, buddy. So you've kind of just ghosted us out nowhere all sudden. You had the white flash on your arms, looks like, that you've done your deals with Prego and now you're a free man. And speaking as someone who was a free tiefling at one point, but now long are not a free tiefling.
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I just... We're checking in. Are you okay?
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ah He's going to respond no. Guess what? He's not okay. Yeah, but Nick, what was the wording of the deal? it's what spur Oh, sorry. What's the wording of the deal? A battalion of soldiers.
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A battalion of soldiers. Was that it? Unwavering loyalty to Sleek Guard. Unwavering loyalty to Sleek Guard. And then Nick's gestures to the row of ships.
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I don't think that's the army, says everyone looking in the other direction at the pings on the cliff.
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no The person with their thumb up and thumb down is probably not an army, Amron. No, no, they're looking at the the the steel things that are on the cliffs that were described to us that kind of stuff. No, the ships in the harbour.
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I think Prego, being cunt, has once more shown his cuntiness and has known that this was going to happen. And now there is an army Loyal soldiers for Sleetgaard, but it just so happens to be the Gartrans.
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Following Leopold, who is a firm follower of the Gartrans. It wasn't loyal to you, Seth. It was loyal to Sleetgaard, not you. nods again. Right.
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And Leopold rules Sleetgaard.
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It's still good news, though. I feel like we're being a bit down about it. Like, we've got a Seth with no tattoos. Oh, no, that's good thing. yeah i mean It's also good news in the sense that I think if they were loyal to the Gartrans, we would know by now that they had detected Alpha on the ship. No, no Leopold is loyal to the Gartrans.
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Exactly, which means ah should those scanners that came looking for us, had they had found Alpha, it surely would have caused more of a problem than it had. Yes, and I suppose it does also indicate that perhaps the Okriscra aren't in control of the Keeps, or this is less of a kidnapping, Delmontreus, more of a rescue in it.
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Right. Do you... Well, again, that's good. It makes it easier for him to come with us, surely, right? Yep. This changes things, though. It changes the plan. To you, Seth.
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You hear on your mind. Do you want to continue? You are free now, for all intents and purposes.
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There's a silence for a few seconds and just a little bit of psychic static that enveloped through this. And you just hear back,
Planning the castle infiltration
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this doesn't change anything.
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No. Worth asking.
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ah My loyalty doesn't change.
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um
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i I'll stick to my word.
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Yeah, he'll be okay when the time comes. We can count on him. Okay. Just a lot to process. Yeah. It's a good thing. It's a very good thing. It means we don't have to worry about him dying. Yeah. One of us does. you do have to worry about him dying. We just don't have to worry about him going to hell. don know But also one of us dying and causing him to die.
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Yes. Was that ever going to happen? Yes. Potentially. The pact wasn't if one of us dies, he goes to the papers, we keep him alive. The pact was we kept them alive if Reigns died, was the wording of the... Yeah.
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But the deal was that three of us three of us had to be kept alive by you two. Yeah. Reigns was one of them. We don't know who the other two are. That was still in existence. Yeah, but when my deal was done, Seth took on the rest.
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Yeah. So if one of us died, he would have been fine and we would have taken um taken on the rest of the deal. Yeah. See, this is one with deals. They start to, when you make too many of them, they start to crisscross. think our deal was separate.
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Right. But Sparrow, if there's a chance that these things are in control of the city, which we believe they are, whereabouts are the dungeons in the castle?
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Underneath the ground floor.
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In the... You'd have, well, depends which way you're going in.
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But underneath the great hall, that's where the cellar and the dungeons are. Yeah. he well I'm sorry, carry on. As well as the guard house.
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And
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a number of other rooms.
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What is you're thinking? If they're in control of the castle and the city, and obviously the Crisco were fighting these things, yeah therefore Delmontreus might be a prisoner. might be a prisoner, therefore if I do the detection of him or whatever else, and we it looks like he's in the dungeons, that gives us a better target to go to.
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Does that change the plan for... Potentially. Right. So we find that out first and then we maybe you change the plan. Remember this is an extraction. Exactly. And does it matter if... It doesn't matter if Nix knows the plan if the Obchiskra are in control of the castle.
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Right. In my opinion. Everyone looks at the group. You're assuming that if the Obchiskra are not in control and are captives...
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that whoever's holding them doesn't now have access to that power. Yeah, good point. Well presented. Oh, man. I'm just hoping things be simple. You're all dickheads, Nick stinks loud.
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Okay. Does that go into Seth's mind? We're still linked. um So I think we continue with the plan as in regards to you dropping us off, Sparrowk.
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Yep. And then we go from there. Right. And we will meet you at the appointed location and we go from there. In which case, Captain, Sailors of the Osrin Isles and me
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will take the helm.
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Aye aye. Make your preparations. That!
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you know you could be the captain. I think at the moment you outrank me. Okay. Maybe not in these shores. Maybe now I outrank you, but you're not of our kingdom, therefore.
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Fake it till you make it, right? Why not? Okay! Is it worth us offloading anything we want to carry on as a for this fight? i can I can move whatever's on this ship onto the horses I'll acquire for you.
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Everyone's got anything too heavy they don't want to carry on him. Now's the time to ditch it. got nothing oh no he has gold he's going to hand to... um Oh, take care that. It's okay. Tight grip.
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Passing it directly to Sparrow. How much gold do you need to give bring us back? 300 gold pieces. And how much you got? More than 300 gold pieces. I'm just checking how much you need just in case. It depends how many people are going to die. I can do it twice. Hopefully none of us.
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I can bring two people back.
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With what I have on me. Everyone's going to count out 300 gold pieces and hand it to Baal. Right. So I'm giving you 300 of my gold. Legend, thank you. I will add that now.
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And then I'm going to give the rest of the gold. Danny, do you want to know how much that is? ah and You don't need to do this, but I'll it. Yes, tell me how much gold you're giving to Sparrowhawk. I am giving you 453 gold Mine was 369, not 300.
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Nice. Yeah, nice. farho look yeah mine was three hundred and sixty nine not three hundred nice do yeah and yeah I've 515 pieces of gold that I will leave with Sparrowhawk. 515? Yeah, 515. You mean 5,015 there, mate. That's 5,015. must have inputted that wrong. I don't have that. No, I must have inputted that wrong because I've inputted that wrong I don't have that spent it all. His name is Sleekar. Alan Sugar. I am Bruce Wayne. What? Richie rich rich rich How rich are you Farrah? Richie rich rich rich And I have zero money on me It's all on the ship And as Sparrowhawks is collecting that from all of you just going look at you Alpha And what about Kind of makes a Gesturing hand like a small token There's value there
Debating the gem's fate
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How long do we have remaining on the ship Before we dock? How much time?
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Insert the right time. There you go. Well, if you don't travel, if you put the anchor down for a bit, an infinite amount of time, you ah you are maybe an hour's sail in bad wind, in direct wind, 15 minutes.
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I like the thing Nick's literally says, insert correct time. How much time do need and what you're thinking, Alpha? It was something I had discussed with Nix. I believe the other side of my capabilities will be better suited for this particular endeavour. Do we also need to make sure we don't take the gem with us?
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Is that what? Well... Do I need to be hearing this? It's fine for you to hear this. It's just... I... If we have it on us, we know where it is.
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I am not comfortable. So if they capture you, they get it? Nah, la la la la. Nix is going to close his eyes and stick his fingers in his ears and he's going to go to the corner of the boat and just like la la la la. la la la la la And if they capture sparrowhawk, they get it. Yeah, but they're less likely. But they don't dig a jewel as well. But sparrowhawk is not going into the lion's den, so to speak.
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Also, there is clearly a situation here where to get both both things which they need, which is clearly you and this duel. I don't fully understand it. I don't think they believe that Alpha has the memory rune of um I Am Order Gartron and it's connected to him. What they don't know is that actually the two have been almost separated so it's no longer intrinsically connected to Alpha.
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Ergo, the two can now be separated, which they don't know. That's why they're after Alpha. we So keeping the rules, it may be best to keep it with him. but it does mean all of our eggs are in one basket.
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Split the risk if it comes with me, but it's your decision.
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We're literally going into a place designed to keep things safe, which implies that I'm just saying, if worse comes to worse, we literally hand them on a plate their victory.
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I think you have to make your mind up, Alfred. I don't think anyone else can do it for you. All on you, mate.
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I'll have to keep moving if I take it, for fear of demons appearing. But you may also wish to keep it to cause demons to appear. And the city's only 15 minutes away, so you don't have long.
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Actually, that's the point. If we're going to be in the city for a while, we know up and down hate each other. But we also have to think of the people in the city, we're going tonna be caught in the crossfire.
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Your people. Hmm.
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And everyone looks over towards Sparrowhawk. Sparrowhawk? Is it myself or the gem that causes the demon gates to appear? We haven't tested, have we? We don't know.
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Right now you are more her than you are you.
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I'm not sure the ratio, but is it more evenly split? Possibly, at the moment. Potentially if i switch again. i do not wish harm to come to innocence.
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Which, if Demon Gate were to spawn in Goldview, would certainly be the outcome.
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We can't save them all. That much is clear.
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It's an unknown. I don't feel comfortable making this decision. It's on you and your friends.
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You've got to look around to everybody.
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Can I be permitted an hour to put the princess back within the gem that once contained her?
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Would people allow that? Is that alright? We're in no rush. Gives us time to prepare. It's only mid-afternoon. Yeah. I will be taking the next hour then to do the old
Alpha's transformation for the mission
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class. Switcheroo. Switcheroo. Yep.
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Exactly. So I will forego being a warforged sorcerer for now and return being a warforged charterisser. Charterfisser. Charterfisser. Is anyone else doing anything else um over that hour?
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Come on, please come and tell me. though and one At the moment, he's just like... Come over to Nyx. Before we start that, then, any mechanical preparations that want happen?
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Other than unloading my pack to... Spell swap, I can do. Spell swap, yeah, attuning an item, because I'll have an hour to do it now. Yep, cool. um You will permanently lose one point of constitution, Alpha.
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Okay. Emron's just lightening his himself so he's carrying as little equipment as possible just in case he has to carry things getting out, yeah like a body or a dumb one choice, who knows. um So I'm putting like lots of stuff into the backpack so not carrying it. The bedroll, anything extra, losing the extra weight. Great.
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And then mentally preparing, apart from to chat with
Entering the sewer for infiltration
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him. And the chat you will now have. And we'll put the hand on Nick's shoulder.
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And it sort of removes your hands from your ears. Right, here's the plan. Okay. You're going to stick with me. Right. You set that up perfectly. You set that perfectly. And Darren is absolutely right.
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When you say, here's the plan, the next line must be, get your ass to Mars. Mars. Get your ass to Mars. um So, the plan. You're to stick with us. We're going to go get off the boat and we're going to work out whereabouts.
00:23:03
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Don't want traces. Right, savvy. And then we're going to go from there. Okay. Everyone seems like they're doing something. Are we staying here? We've got about an hour. Well, job anchor. Oh, yeah.
00:23:15
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Better tell you that. got an hour to prepare. anything you want to do to get ready?
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That kind of stuff. No, I'm pretty... I'm ready to go. ready to go. i know everyone gave, like, Mr Sparrow of the Hawk some gold, but I don't need to do that. I'm okay. That's why we were just making sure to try and make sure we' as light-loaded as possible.
00:23:38
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We need to move quickly or carry extras when we come back. yeah Yep, yep, yep. I've been running with gold for a while. I well-tuned to my extra weight.
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And you're happy for to fall into enemy hands? It's the way I plan. It won't fall into enemy hands. Okay. Just checking. Why? Are we getting captured? Is that part of the plan? Hopefully not. Ooh.
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Okay.
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While this is happening, Farrok has opted for the Mithril half-plate because it's lighter and it's much stealthier and he's decided to take off his his his his better half-plate, which is now gone from my... ah So his half-plate of plus one is gone and he's putting on his Mithril half-plate because it's... You're leaving that Sparrowhawk?
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Leaving that Sparrowhawk because it's the better one for him than this for this for this exercise. oop
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And an hour passes. And you are back, Alpha. You feel exactly the same.
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You feel... However, slightly more lethargic as to reflect that drop in constitution. um But all of your like putting on an old pair of your favorite clothes, you're you're you're back there in that moment. A little nostalgia, some drip hits you.
00:24:59
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And you're left holding the stone, which is now emanating with sorceress energy. What you want to do with it?
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yeah um He's going to ah hold it in his hand, both hands, just for like a minute.
00:25:20
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Where are you? I'm just sat on the deck. fuck's sake. Nyx will get tie-died just to man the vessel and will just look elsewhere. Not put his fingers in his ears because you're not talking and just be listening to the waves in the sea.
00:25:38
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Can we talk about us at this point? Quite possibly.
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After, obviously, he'll go over to Sparrowhawk. And a unintentionally, he's kind of protected and covered. So if Nick's words, he probably wouldn't be able to see what would be getting passed over. But he's going to kind of take Sparrowhawk's hand and just kind of place it in.
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Please do look after her. She has been of great help to me. I understand her significance. Thank you. I'll keep moving.
00:26:15
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And like I say, I don't see you by sunrise, I'm going to head straight for Goldport Keep in the hopes that you'll make your own way there. I will leave Hitched Horses at the place we discussed he makes a point of not but speaking why it was discussed but I'll wait for you until then are you sure this is the right idea, Alpha?
00:26:48
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honestly, no I'm not 100% I cannot say for certain but on the off chance it is the princess rather than myself I would rather myself get captured rather than her
00:27:04
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I just think... sowing a bit of chaos for our escape would be useful.
00:27:13
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There is still room for chaos.
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Nick's eyes will flash across... ah Sorry, Bal's eyes will flash across to Nick's at that as a smile creeps across his face. Yeah. Okay.
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To Goldview, then.
00:27:35
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Nyx. Yep. Take us in. Hi, Captain. no Yes. ah Old habits. ah Okay.
00:27:46
Speaker
Weigh anchor. Let's go in softly. So let's quarter mast. I can deal with the gust. Looks at Alpha. And.
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Oh, steady. Steady as she goes. Tie-dye. Take us in. Captain. I'm going to miss this. And this takes the best part of 45 minutes. The wind isn't terrible, but it's not favourable.
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And slowly you begin to sail underneath the outcrop in which Goldview Castle sits. And you move into and adjacent to the Royal Dock, which has no ships currently moored in it.
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And then eyes turn to you, Emron. Emron will prepare himself and I'm going to cast locate object. on On what?
Locating Delmontreis and urgent plan change
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I was toying with this in my head.
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He's going to look to the group. Do I do it on the cult we saw him where? do I do it on the list? Because if he's captured, he might not have the list on him anymore. If he's clever, he will.
00:28:55
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Let's just do that. Fuck it. Go with all old plan. And everyone will class locate object and describe in detail the sheet that he saw that was handed to Alpha that had 12 names. Not 11. It had 13. It had 13 as corrected. We were given 13 named sheets of paper, including names such as um ah the Grand Cronomancer and... it's love ah Yeah, and Helena Fizzlebang, that kind stuff. No, get the names right, otherwise you're not going to able to adequately describe the object.
00:29:30
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There's one more name we're thinking about. You are focusing on this spell. Get the details right. right Listeners, in the biggest flex, Will has been carrying an extra notebook, unbeknownst to us, and he's whipped out of nowhere and he's just heavily folded through it. So I will describe the list that has names such as... Can read his own handwriting? ah Malachi the Temple Enforcer, Aveline Ranger of the Fates, Cogsley the Knowledgeable,
00:29:58
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Delmontreis, Edna Fizzlebang, Old Gel, Cranmonomancer Veritas on it.
00:30:07
Speaker
And your mind and vision begin to fade from the ship and go dark temporarily.
00:30:15
Speaker
And almost like seeing it through cloud of rising smoke. You see this grand throne room with these six linear columns going through it and this big red throne.
00:30:32
Speaker
Inside
00:30:35
Speaker
ah half a dozen guards.
00:30:41
Speaker
of Sleetguard, but not the regular Sleetguard army, the personal guard of Leopold Sleetguard that wear a slightly more heralded tabard and black plate armour.
00:30:53
Speaker
Like the ones we fought in the desert. Yes, those exact same style armours.
00:30:59
Speaker
There are a number of other noblemen as well in this room, scholars, tradespeople. And there is the unmistakable sight. Unmistakable because you've you've seen his picture embroidered, engraved in in currency, in coin, in this part of the realm.
00:31:22
Speaker
Leopold Sleetgaard II.
00:31:26
Speaker
Standing over this parchment.
00:31:35
Speaker
beating and torturing a bound Delmontrace who is tied by a chain between two of these massive stone pillars that move in the center of the room bleeding from the gut
00:31:50
Speaker
and you watch as you look at you're unable to move your position be able to see a periphery of everywhere you are blow after blow after blow as he is beating the elven wizard The leader of the Echiskar within an inch of his life.
00:32:08
Speaker
That is what you see. And then one sort of comes back. Okay. It's in the throne room. Leopold's there with guards beating Delmontries.
00:32:22
Speaker
Leopold's got the list.
00:32:26
Speaker
Beating him? Beating him.
00:32:29
Speaker
Bloody. Shit. Wow. Wow.
00:32:35
Speaker
There's half a dozen guards in there at least, probably more. Plus any constructs so I couldn't quite see. Noblemen, you name it.
00:32:45
Speaker
This is happening now? Right now. Woof. we we need to We need to move, right? We have no time to lose. Enemy of my enemy? Do we... And everyone's going to assume that doesn't matter now.
00:33:00
Speaker
Do we forego... Mine and our bit. Yes.
00:33:08
Speaker
And take the cellar. Yes. Rather than the kitchens. Yes. Because we know that goes straight underneath. That's fine. i can i can I've prepared something to get us in a bit stealthier if we need it, but we move quickly. Fuck it, let's go. Are we all going together? Yep.
00:33:21
Speaker
All going together? Yeah. Oh, okay. All right, what were we doing? Tell me the first thing we're doing. Just follow our lead, Nix. I need you to tell me. There is no time to talk through it. Nix is circling his finger around a ring on his hand and he's looking at you going, tell me the fuck we're doing. The plan is to sneak into the castle, through the cellars, try and get as close to the throne as we can.
00:33:44
Speaker
And rescue Delmontress. Okay. um So the ring that he was stroking is called the Ring of Foresight. That was a gift from an old girl that allows him to cast augury for the next 30 minutes.
00:33:57
Speaker
i know an action. and So that we're going in through the cellars. I want to know if that's a good... Bad, nothing outcome. as As when Nix hears the plan, um he's circling his... Fucking beautiful. The ring of foresight. He's rubbing his ring. He's rubbing his ring. Get all of him. All that purple kind of mystical, but it's not just purple because it's from Old Girl as well. So it's it's ah Nix's magic kind of almost imbued with Old Girl's magic as he pictures the plan and is asking the gods...
00:34:35
Speaker
or whoever is in control of foresight, um whether or not this is a good action. Okay.
00:34:44
Speaker
So I receive an omen from an otherworldly... So as you explain very quickly everything you just heard into the ring... You chart an imaginary image of an imaginary castle and an imaginary sewer and and you try and project that question as hard as you can and the ring just takes you into that temporal moment of displacement and you just hear old girl's voice whisper in your ear.
00:35:12
Speaker
Negatory boy.
00:35:18
Speaker
Uh... Huh... Okay, so that plan is... Old girl is like... That's a negatory.
Using foresight and staying unified
00:35:27
Speaker
Okay, so that's what they know the plan is.
00:35:30
Speaker
How about we go back to plan A? Plan A? Let's just do it. Let's go. let We need to go, right? Okay, I'll follow you. If you want to connect minds with Barl, that'd be great, but don't say anything or speak him. Just wait for Barl to talk to you. i won't do it yet. do it at the last possible moment.
00:35:47
Speaker
Okay. we only have six minutes follow seth and i okay so without mooring you're just gonna basically sail by the dock and hop off hop off there are a number of options you could briefly scale uh not a sheer incline but um a steep gradient to get up to ground level so you can go in through the main entrance you can Climb the cliffs proper halfway up. There is a sewer entrance.
00:36:15
Speaker
The full way up the cliffs will just lead onto the base of the castle walls, and then you can continue to climb there, but it's going to be physically challenging to do any of those seconds who I've mentioned, or you literally jump off the dock and you head up this um carved out stairwell up through the cellars.
00:36:31
Speaker
So think the plan is, correct me if wrong guys, is we're going to get off the boat. ye When we get to that point where they can scale all the way up and we can scale halfway up. yep Three of us, Seth, myself and Nix, will scale halfway up to get to ground level. yeah The others will start scaling up the wall at the last possible minute.
00:36:49
Speaker
Nix will activate the speak with mind thingy to have that six minute timer so we know where they are. And you're going to go to this through this the the sewer entrance, is that right? Rather than the full castle wall? Or want to make that call when you're higher up?
00:37:02
Speaker
It's tricky, isn't it? Because we know where we need to get to the main throne room.
00:37:09
Speaker
But now we're trying to work out... It's less infiltration and more rescue, isn't it?
00:37:22
Speaker
As they're, because Barl's getting kind of heated by this knowing that time is pressing and they need to, that their their mission looks like it's critical, if you like um as it As the boats kind of carry on moving he'll just go, is is is this the right idea? to Is it good to do what we originally discussed, Emron, to break this apart?
00:37:42
Speaker
ah how he intended to, or do we, do we stick as one strong, powerful unit together and, and, and work in the same route? Everyone's going to look towards Seth and see what his opinion is Seth looks to the back of his book and writes down something and shows it to Barl and it just says, a plan or no plan, there is no, only do.
00:38:03
Speaker
Which doesn't make full sense, but... Everyone's going to... Oh, fuck it. Um... I'm take out a coin from my pocket and everyone's gonna whisper a prayer to Aledo and say,
00:38:19
Speaker
Heads we stay together. Tails we go with our plan. going flip the coin and see what happens. So I'm just going to roll a 50-50 dice. Any dice, evens its heads.
00:38:30
Speaker
Yeah. I can leave it to the gods. Blame Aledo for If it's to the gods, can you pray hard and use a religion check to give us the right answer? he's done it. He's done it. it's done I've got evens, so heads. What was that again? You didn't tell me which was which. Heads stay together, tails we go with the original plan. Okay.
00:38:48
Speaker
We're sticking with you and it. We do it together. Elito Guiders, let's go. Okay. And as you all leap off, there's just one call. Seth.
00:38:59
Speaker
Nithra Ratham suddenly. And Sparrowhop quickly unfastens a scabbard from his waist and throws it over to you. Seth catches it.
00:39:11
Speaker
And not you draw out the blade. It's a short sword. It is the royal sword of Sleetgard. There are only three in existence.
00:39:22
Speaker
Oh, shit! You have my ring. You have my sword. And my arse.
00:39:31
Speaker
Drago, what are you doing here? This is a good sword. Worst case scenario, Seth. Be me.
00:39:39
Speaker
And then you watch as the ship heads north to the city proper.
00:39:49
Speaker
Where to?
Navigating the castle via sewer entry
00:39:51
Speaker
Nithravar's going to turn to Emron and say...
00:39:56
Speaker
we all going up the route of excretion cometh forth? Poop shoot. Or would we go from the very top? Either. Ah, gravity, you fickle bitch.
00:40:12
Speaker
Is it me or anyone else trying to like this creature? Silence! The folds of space and time ever move forward. That's ocean and the sea. Someone fly a rope up.
00:40:24
Speaker
We climb to the very top, along the roof, and that gives us access from the top down. it's It's about 80 feet as you see it to get to where you can just about make out that small sewer grate, and then 120 feet from your position roughly until you can see that the turret of the wall.
00:40:43
Speaker
and And that's probably a bad time to practice this. But... Nithrava can carry... Can Nithrava... Can harry can liravoka kindda Can a familiar hold... I feel like a familiar can hold things. A familiar can hold things. Five... Yeah. Or is that major hand?
00:40:59
Speaker
It will have a carrying capacity that's not great, but it can hold things. Must be with 100 feet of you. I'm saying, what I'm thinking, what my my thinking is that we are climbing up and if our stays hovers because it doesn't need to come on, be under the whims of the bitch that is gravity, 30, 40 feet above us will detach the rope at higher distance, almost like a belay a bla line like a And it has wings.
00:41:24
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Little pathetic ones like the um ah the old man from um I Have a Dream in Tangled. Nice. How much rope we got?
00:41:34
Speaker
B-lay.
00:41:36
Speaker
Seth's going pull out one of his ropes which is 25 feet I think it's 50 feet 50 feet yeah 50 feet absolutely how much does 50 feet of rope weigh you know this person who converts I know the conversion I know the actual weight normally I'd go to you in this situation I'm not a scale I'm a translator it needs to be less than 25 pounds 5 pounds for length of rope 5 pounds for a load of rope it will be So he's going to take his rope out, uncoil it because it's perfectly coiled, uncoil he's never used it before, yeah and hand one end of it to Nithravar, and he's going to fly out 30 feet, it's almost like it's taut, like almost having a bee on a string, yeah or that kind of level. It's just up there, and then quickly pulls him back down and just nods to the others.
00:42:20
Speaker
Okay, so how are you making this first 80-foot sheer climb? Can we attach the other end of the rope to that bit of rope? Is that too heavy for it? It's going to get heavier. That'll make it £10, wouldn't it? £10. So you can hold up 25 pounds. So you can go 100 feet. So he could tie it to the sewer grate. And then we go from... Is there a ledge on the sewer grate?
00:42:38
Speaker
No.
00:42:40
Speaker
Do we want to go in the sewer grate then? have we got any more rope? We've got 100 feet so far in it. How far, Danny? It's 80 feet to the sewer grate. 120 the... We need 200. We need two more pieces of rope. Anybody? I have some rope here as well. Seth's kind of running like a hand across his neck. Like, no, no, no. Too heavy?
00:42:56
Speaker
No, and then it does kind of a sign for like distance. Okay. um Oh, can't go up there. He nods. Okay. The fates clearly want us to go in through the grate. Let's go for it.
00:43:10
Speaker
tight the grate and we'll climb up there. That'll make the climb easier. Okay. All right. If everyone's doing that, I need you all to make either athletics, no, athletics checks, please. Nothing acrobatic about this.
00:43:21
Speaker
Do we get any bonus for using the, is this for the rope? The DC is low because of the rope. Okay. Yeah. Much like the knots of time and space. havear As he goes up further away and taking the rope up.
00:43:33
Speaker
Cast guidance on myself. Nice. um Athletics, did you say? Yep.
00:43:39
Speaker
Thank God for advantage.
00:43:46
Speaker
Seth. nineteen 19. Dharak. 21. Emron. and right 13. thirteen Alpha. 20.
00:43:57
Speaker
okay, there's a rope. You were all successfully but slowly able to make it up. Now, who is going in first?
00:44:06
Speaker
Farrakh will go. Tharok go first and you're met with this sheer metal thick trellised like gate. One side of it's tied.
00:44:17
Speaker
Now, if all of you are on the rope at once, this won't work because the rope won't take the weight of the six of you. So I imagine, Tharok, you're sort of abseiling a little bit there. What are you going to do about accessing said space?
00:44:31
Speaker
Farrakh will firstly glance at it and he will do what he always does in his barbarian way, which is first of he's just going to give the great a kick to see if there's any kind of give in it. Yeah, so so you're holding onto a rope that's tying to it and you're just going to kick a different bar than the one it's currently tied to. He's glancing for for any sense of like rust or anything where he can put his seven-foot orcish boot straight through it.
00:44:52
Speaker
That's a big boot. That's a big boot. Seven-foot boot. Seven-foot boot. Seven-foot boot. He's like a clown, isn't he? Scott, I've never noticed how big his feet is. Just the one foot. Most of it's toes. Go ahead and give it an athletics check then to see how you boot it.
00:45:16
Speaker
No. Eleven. Yeah, you you kick a good three-inch metal rod and it has no give in it.
00:45:28
Speaker
Do we recommend enough weight on the rope to be able me bill to follow him up? You could test that. I'm going to test it, whether it will take my weight as well. Yeah, what's your weight in the moment? Currently, thanks to dropping a load of gear, 98.86 pounds.
00:45:44
Speaker
There would be enough for you two, but any more than that. Plus your body weight, though, I'm assuming. but That's my total weight. yeah and know yeah and you're you're 45 kilo. don't know. yeah i don know i um So I'm going to follow up Tharok, and then when I get close, I'm going cast Heat Metal on the bars. and say So, yeah, you're like underneath Tharok. It's above you. got line of sight. Yeah. the Heat Metal on it. see Right, now.
00:46:08
Speaker
it's It's an iron colour, so. Give it another go. We'll see if that'll weaken it. I'll give it another go. Okay, go for it.
00:46:18
Speaker
Going to roll damage on the 23. And now that it's heated, as you go to give a big kick, one section just breaks. It's probably still not enough to... There's a cross to every foot.
00:46:31
Speaker
So you've opened a one foot by two foot square.
00:46:35
Speaker
you You'd need to open... You need to at least make it two foot by two foot to have a chance to squeeze it. Keep going.
00:46:44
Speaker
Farrakh will take a deep breath. he will allow the serenity of rage just to move through him and he will rage and he will kick it again.
00:46:56
Speaker
Okay, go for it. Now I've got do this with advantage. Which is just as well, because that's a turd. turd at a 12, isn't it? Yeah, well, it's 12 because the other one was a natural one.
00:47:09
Speaker
Okay, it's not a clean kick and I need you to make a dexterity saving throw to see if you can retain control of your own grip on the rope. I'm happy I get to do this at advantage as well.
00:47:22
Speaker
It's a 15. You are fearful for a brief second after making impact with that, that you are going to fall, but you're able to steady to yourself. But you are propelled in the air with this burning portcullis that is slowly beginning to fray the rope that you've tied to it.
00:47:40
Speaker
One more fae temp, do you think, and the rope you might need to get down. Another boot. Just with the adrenaline surging through him, it's going to have to be another boot. Go it. How high up are they? 80 feet. I'm holding onto the rocks at the door. Natural 20, 27. Let's go. So with this one, you're almost able to kick off from the wall a little bit and swing back in and give it a really hard pelt.
00:48:00
Speaker
So much so that you've maybe moved a three by two foot square that you were able to sort of climb in and through and get yourself safely into the poopy tunnel. Yeah, Farrakh will do that. He'll get in as soon as he can and he'll get out of the way so so others can follow.
00:48:14
Speaker
How wide the tunnel? Three by two feet. So we'll have to keep pushing down. Oh, no, sorry. The tunnel is four by four. Okay. But the the hole to get through is three by two. and Everyone's going to wave at the others to follow up and he's going to climb into the hole. Okay.
00:48:26
Speaker
And who's following next? Yeah, i'll I'll head up next. Okay. I'll head up after ball. Okay. Okay.
00:48:35
Speaker
ye Yep, yep, yep. Okay. The shitter. I guess. Seth has things he wants to say, but he won't as he follows. I see your eyes.
00:48:46
Speaker
aye As he follows up behind, ah just keep, again, one final look around to make sure that there's no other people really noticing or anything else that's going on. um And then quickly scuttle up as well. Nice.
00:49:01
Speaker
What's interesting because of the sound of the crashing of wave against rock here is that your activity is largely muffled by just the sound of the shore. Sorry, one fine not sorry i zero one final thing. As he gets to the top, he'll pull the rope up cool and then see that it's quite frayed at the top and then retie it with a stronger part. okay but leave it then Leave it bundled in rather than ear hanging out. So it's not hanging out, obvious. Keep it in, tied on with a new knot just in case we have we're making a hasty getaway or we need to... Yeah, sure.
00:49:30
Speaker
In this tunnel then, it stinks. Absolutely stinks of both food waste and latrine waste. And as you're sort of observing what's coming out of here, it's a slow strength steady stream slow steady stream of sort of like blood and fat as well as faeces and urine.
00:49:48
Speaker
Almost like this is serving both a kitchen and a latrine. Remind me whose plan this was again. And i need you all to make constitution saving throws as this is this is some of the worst smells you've ever experienced. Turns out the rich people do shit like the rest of us.
00:50:04
Speaker
Oh, fuck me. Oh, jeez. Emerald's kind of arm. Okay, con save from Nyx. 13. You do not barf. Oh, thank 13. do not barf. 20. You do not barf.
00:50:19
Speaker
Emerald.
00:50:21
Speaker
Ha ha ha ha. Blah. Four. Chunder. The lovely image of that following the rest of the five. It's a mixture. all All of Darok's fish stew for the last two days just... Darok. 20. No thirteen no channel excellent ah Once, if we're when we're all in the grate as well, Baal will just kind of mutter under his breath, vokaba sure nara and fire will kind of trickle out to our feet, and it will kind of spread to all of our feet, like magical fire, not setting anything alight, and I'm casting Pass Without Trace on the entire party. yeah So, for the next hour, we get plus 10 to all stealth checks. Very nice. Is that based on sound, not sight, or is that...
00:51:09
Speaker
uh the wording of the spale simply says you and each creature you choose have a plus 10 bonus to stealth checks and leave no tracks so any poop on our feet will not get taken out of the sewer very nice yeah but it's a it's a oh interesting in the 2024 it's an emanation from me yeah so you have to be within 30 feet of me to get that bonus okay we can do that which we i think it's not cast and then you get it there's a I'll just occasionally tell you, if I see that you are moving away from Baal, I'll occasionally just ask you and about what you're doing there. So you progress up the tunnel with Tharok Sanjari at the at the at the front.
00:51:46
Speaker
And you push for maybe 20, 30 yards before you see candlelight coming through a grate in the ceiling. And then the tunnel begins to get a little bit smaller for another 60 feet where there is another spew of candlelight trickling in.
00:52:03
Speaker
Before you get too close, what would you like to do Be stealthy? Yep. I'll ask you all to make stealth checks then. Add a 10, baby! Plus 10. Plus your bonus and plus 10, I think. That's 24.
00:52:15
Speaker
Oh, that's a 7. Or, because I'm at disadvantage. oh yeah don't worry heavy armor okay take that one alright anybody roll
Silencing and interrogating castle cooks
00:52:24
Speaker
below a 10 that's impossible unless you've got a natural one yeah yeah okay nice skill check anyone below 15 And on below a 20. Nope. That is Emron and Nyx.
00:52:37
Speaker
Thank you. Sorry. Okay. That's all right. Hands up on podcast. Come on, Ian. I know. I should know better. I was 15 exactly, just for reference. 19. Thank you so much. 21. So you approach this first grate, and it...
00:52:51
Speaker
ah It's largely where a lot of the the wood the blood and fat are being poured out of and you can hear the sounds of a kitchen and you can smell, unmistakably for you, you can smell a kitchen in action.
00:53:02
Speaker
and Supper is being prepared. It is that time of evening. Is it noisy? you Make perception check. Is it fucking raw? fucking Where's the sauce?
00:53:13
Speaker
You donkey! What are you? An idiot sandwich! Oh, that's better. 15? um You can hear two cooks chatting amongst the sizzling of frying things and the chopping of ah various things. so but Do I feel a whisper wouldn't be heard?
00:53:31
Speaker
You feel like you could get away with a whisper. Emma's going to look down the group.
00:53:37
Speaker
Do we go now here ah move? a certain Do we go now here or do we move on? You do notice ahead of you, everything else coming down that chute is shit and piss.
00:53:52
Speaker
I, for one, vote that we get the fuck out of here as soon as possible. The kitchen, surely, lives that they'll lead to the the banquet hall, to the main hall, right? Yeah, but if we come up here, there's going two cooks who go, fucking hell, what's this?
00:54:04
Speaker
So, we wait? Let's stun them. Any way to make them quiet? Can you make people an next of you can buy light just don't want to burn such a powerhouse. Okay, well, we get up and we grab them.
00:54:17
Speaker
Right. Get up, Farrakh I go, grab them. Sneak up as quickly as we can and yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Let's just do that then. Okay. Everyone could... Farrakh, can we see if great? Well, please make your way on to D&D Beyond and I will start the tabletop session. I'm not logged in. That's a throwback to April. What's the link? What's the link?
00:54:44
Speaker
Okay, so what you will see before you is the kitchens, in which there are two central counters in this 25-foot by 40-foot room.
00:54:59
Speaker
Each one of those counters has a cook working at it, and there are a series of other um sideboards, pantries, and stores around the outer edge of this, with one roaring, boiling, stewing pot in the southern edge.
00:55:13
Speaker
There are two windows on the northern side of this room that look out into the courtyard. You can't see it from your angle because you're still under the floor level. Convinced you are still quiet enough and that you haven't made any noise because no one's looking down the grate, but you do sort of notice the slow trickle of of um ah blood that's coming from the kitchen, which is coming from a ah hung piece of pork-like meat.
00:55:39
Speaker
As well as various fats that are sort of um accruing on the floor. These things only get washed like once a day ah back in back in the old times. Is this just a sell for veganism? It is. Is that what you're doing right now? Yeah. Disgusting pieces. I'm really hungry. In this alternate reality, actually, you could be going through a really squeaky clean tunnel where only there's just like ends of carrots to worry about.
00:56:00
Speaker
Yeah. No, I'll park the grossness of your cannibalism aside. Cannibalism? Carnivorism. Carnivorism. So yes, two windows on the northern edge, which will lead out into the courtyard. There is a door to the south and a door to the southeast.
00:56:18
Speaker
Exit this room. Otherwise, there are two cooks in this space only. That rock, that's everything you perceive from underneath the grate. It is a two foot by two foot great that you could get out of.
00:56:30
Speaker
And to remind the players and to remind you guys, further east along this pipeline where it gets narrower is excrement and and human waste. Farrakh will turn to Emron and he'll say, we've got two cocks.
00:56:46
Speaker
One directly ahead and one just off to the left. I will go get the one directly ahead, you go and get the one to the left. Okay. Is there a fire at the other side of the room?
00:56:58
Speaker
I can put it out without making a noise, maybe try and distract them. Is there a fire? The only thing you see here is the other side of the first cook on the southern edge of the room is a boiling stew pot, which a small fire is underneath.
00:57:10
Speaker
Small fire from the cook pot, that's it. If I can quickly lay eyes on it, I can snuff it out in an instant. No sound.
00:57:19
Speaker
When that's done, maybe that'll distract all me about the way you guys go up. Is there room for me to even let barl past us? Yeah, you'd have to just step in the shitty tunnel little bit more. Farrakh's not... Farrakh doesn't a stand on ceremony. He'll do that. Yeah, okay.
00:57:33
Speaker
So, Bob will kind of sneak through, poke his eye up, try to see that flame. Yeah. And then it's only a somatic component for control flames. He's just going to snuff out the fire that's underneath the boiling pot.
00:57:45
Speaker
Okay. Just completely eliminate and then scoop back down and and come out the way and and listen. And as sort of primary source of light in there, you notice as both sort cooks go, what was that?
00:57:56
Speaker
What was that? And they start looking around and both then move to the south to inspect the now extinguished pot. No longer looking at the grate. Farah, when I go both to both directly ahead, and Farah's going to dash through the grate. Okay, do want to make a stealth check for opening in?
00:58:17
Speaker
Yeah. Do you actually mean dash, or just mean move? Do I need to dash? I don't believe I do. It's 5, 10, 15 feet. Plus a 10-foot climb. So, yeah, you make it just in your 40 feet. I've got 40. But do you want to make a stealth check for the grate itself? it's happening now. Two DMs in this one, isn't backseat DMing sorry you're rules consultant you're consulting it's fine a natural 20 for 32 yes you're able to just deftly um control it where you think it might make a like a little rusty squeak you're able to just put a lot of weight in it so that those points on the hinges don't contact and deftly quietly place it open it's now open for all of you if anyone else is following suit well done
00:59:01
Speaker
Do you want to individual stealth checks or continue our ult? This one was just for opening the quite noisy crate. Everyone's going to follow Tharok and... Tharok's in. He's grabbing. so i're Stealthily going to follow up and... All right. What are your DCs then for your your grapples that got to roll for these guys?
00:59:17
Speaker
ah Eight plus... Proficiency plus strength. 16 for me. Okay. 15 for me. Stavicus is back.
00:59:27
Speaker
Okay. um Tharok you are unable to hold them on first grapple Emron yours gets a sufficient grapple and this cook just like wiggles out from what you're doing goes hey what the hell and just shouts at the top of his lungs
00:59:45
Speaker
have I got this has now made me to respond yeah yeah you've got bonus action and a reaction I will and just so we're down to bonus action and reaction Your action was the grapple. Okay.
01:00:01
Speaker
Farrah will just put a single finger like that. Like what? To the listeners who are not hearing this? Yeah, we're podcast. Yeah, he puts his fingers to his lips and well we'll just if if he can make an intimidation with that, his bottom teeth will just protrude if to say be quiet. Okay, go for it.
01:00:19
Speaker
I don't know if anyone's going to say something if you're allowed to. And I get to make this with my strength modifier because I'm raging. Are you raging? Yeah, been so you can continue to extend it. oh it's been ah It's been almost a minute since you broke the...
01:00:34
Speaker
yeah how long is rage that's a good question normally it's a round so it's a minute it depends what level you are six seconds is around now you can extend every bonus action in the new 2024 rules click on it to click on click on rage to expand the your rules which means you wouldn't get a bonus action to do the next turn and early if you don't don heavy armor or have the impact rotation if your rage is still active on your next turn you can extend the rage for another round by doing the following up to 10 minutes okay If you extend every bonus action. But you've just used a bonus action to attempt intimidate. Each time rage is extended, it lasts until the end of your next turn.
01:01:09
Speaker
You can maintain a rage for up to 10 minutes. it's not a 10 minute length. So each turn, you have to extend it, burn it. Which is each second every six seconds, you have to expend a rage to maintain it without taking damage or making the attack action.
01:01:24
Speaker
Right. So you would lose rage and then need to reactivate rage. Otherwise you burn through your four. Okay, so Rage is gone. so it's for without advantage. so it's about it's peace without these I can't use Strength Fever, so it's a straight roll.
01:01:40
Speaker
It's an 11. I don't know why it's rolled that twice, but it's an 11.
01:01:46
Speaker
Unintimidated, they then make a run for the door. Have they got to get which which door? They're going to try and push between you. but the The only doors are straight to the south.
01:01:57
Speaker
I've got a free hand. Can i make a second grapple? Or it'll leave your reach if you want to make a reaction and strike. Seth's been pushing on the back of Nyx. He's been a issue just trying to get in. here yeah We didn't really set order, so Seth, you can surface.
01:02:09
Speaker
Seth's at the back. ah why If I've stepped to the side, I'd probably be the next into the room. Val, you are above the grate and Seth just behind. I'll that was the order we came in thank you great and i will i'll move us into initiative if it's not resolved by Tharok's reaction or Emron's reaction.
01:02:34
Speaker
So what would you like to do, if anything? So i can I grab them as part of my version? No, unless you have the ability to grapple as a reaction. Which I don't. It's technically unarmed strike. That's what the 2024 rules are. Unarmed strike can be either a shove or a grapple.
01:02:48
Speaker
and So if you're using that as your attack reaction, unarmed strike, then technically you can. As an opportunity attack, she's leaving your range. yeah bro I'll do that. Punch her in the head. Making it another attempt to grapple, which is what, DC again? 14? 15. 15.
01:03:03
Speaker
ah you successfully grapple them on the reaction and everyone's then going to say hopefully rolling the dice on this one in the name of Sebastian Sleetgaard and Helena of Sleetgaard we're here for Sleetgaard we're here to help make a persuasion check a disadvantage yeah okay worth trying As Balv, you enter the room. I'm pushing forward. Alpha, Nixon and then Seth, you're just you just climbing up. getting out of the poop vessel.
01:03:30
Speaker
So it's a nine, Danny. Yeah. But does that succeed or not? We have dice. We have dice. We we can. No, I've got tactical mind. I can expend use of second wind and instead of regaining HP, add one D10. Okay, cool. just reminding group. We have dice. If it fails. If it fails. A nine will fail to convince them you don't mean harm. I'm going to add a D10 to that then.
01:03:50
Speaker
Come on.
01:03:56
Speaker
So that's 18.
01:03:59
Speaker
That's fucking awesome. as well well i agree what you What do you mean? What are you doing? We're here for the good of the realm to look after Sebastian and Helena's interests.
01:04:10
Speaker
They're not here? No, but Sebastian sent us. And everyone's going to look towards um Seth, who and who he knows um was given a ring by um Sebastian.
01:04:23
Speaker
Seth in turn is going to hold up the sword clearly, i like almost quite symbolically or religiously hold up the sword, the short sword of Sebastian.
01:04:36
Speaker
I've got no part in this. Let let us go. Just stay quiet and let us pass. That's all we need. And the one you were grappling just kind of raises the hands in the air. Okay. As I say, we're not here to hurt you.
01:04:51
Speaker
Stay here. And she backs herself to the corner of the river's hands in the air. What about the other one? Tharok's just grabbed, so it's up to Tharok whether he released the grapple. it Does this person know that they're going to do the same? said anything yet.
01:05:05
Speaker
Tharok will stare at them to just try and perceive that they're going to do the same. Make an insight check. During that, Seth's going to move over to the one who's gone into the corner and it's going to be the last to leave and he's going to keep eyes on those two. If both of them end up in that corner, which is his aim, he's going to keep eyes on them, eyes on them as he backs out of the room and be the last to leave to make sure they don't... Okay. the yeah cop While you're there, it's what worth saying because you're looking that way and anyone else who's turned around will see. I'm trying find my reveal button.
01:05:34
Speaker
ah or see from the windows, from the windows of this room, part of the courtyard in which you can see part of the gatehouse and
01:05:50
Speaker
in what looks like the beginning of a formation, the two, at least two of those stone mech, uh, constructs you encountered with the two big shields either side.
01:06:03
Speaker
Basically it's like a rock has been split in two and there's a mechanical core, two of those in formation in the courtyard.
01:06:11
Speaker
Okay, so Seth's going spy that and then Aya's going to go back onto the... going to move a little bit away from the window just to avoid them seeing him. um And then he's just going to stare Aya at the the commoner in the corner and just keep Aya's on them until we're done in this room. He's got his back to everything else.
01:06:27
Speaker
Okay, and the insight check? At nine. You're not sure if they're going to comply or bolt or scream or... It's unpredictable. Then Farrakh is going to walk them round to that corner. Mm-hmm.
01:06:39
Speaker
ah You won't contest the strength because you are you you overpower them in every capacity here. So you you move over to the corner, pinning the other cook. Just next to the other cook, yeah.
01:06:51
Speaker
Okay, and just looks, doesn't speak to you, but just looks terrified and uncertain. Farrakh will then, just once more, repeat the gesture, and he will then very slowly take his hands off this cook.
01:07:09
Speaker
Miss Cook looks to the first one, the one that was compliant, and she just nods. And this one. stays motionless and still. Seth's going to hold an action that if either of them give any luck to run away or make a noise that's louder than he's happy with, he's going to hit them hard, non-lethally, with his scimitar.
01:07:31
Speaker
Okay. Fight with the handle. Knock them with the handle rather than the blade. Cut the legs off or something. Yeah, literally. Non-lethally sever an artery. Absolutely. Non-lethally stab them. Can we calm them soon? Or armless, whichever way around.
01:07:44
Speaker
Seth, do you know layout the palace? He's going to shake his head.
01:07:49
Speaker
And Nyx is going to open hands up and just kind of walk over to the two communists. Anything, like, it seems like you're one of us, you know, here for the good of the realm and the Sebastian and Helena.
01:08:01
Speaker
Anything we need to know? Like, because we're going to hopefully, like, storm the castle. Anything that we could information-wise here? Any traps? Any guards?
01:08:12
Speaker
Like, what's happening behind these doors here? Make a persuasion check at disadvantage. ah Might just have to knock them out. Guidance. Persuasion. Why does Nix keep tapping his own bum?
01:08:28
Speaker
How's a critical one? one Oh, fucking hell. It's a persuasion check. You can't crit fail it, so you still add your modifiers. Sick. So that... oh got And the guidance.
01:08:42
Speaker
Five. You have failed if you want to use your um preparation ability to re-roll. Um...
01:08:50
Speaker
Yes, i do. Is that or is that a d20 reroll? Actually, I've got Heroic Inspiration. I'm going to use that first. Oh, yeah. okay that Is that just a reroll of a... Of the d20, not the Guidance die. The Guidance die stays the same. But it doesn't offset the disadvantage, so you have to roll it again. No, because Heroic Inspiration is rerolling a die. He's rolled two die. He's choosing to reroll a die.
01:09:11
Speaker
11. They are not... I'm not saying anything.
01:09:20
Speaker
trying to say that you failed the role again. Okay, that's fine. That's cool. And they just look at you with scepticism. Seth's going sigh at this and shake from leg to leg and just, he's antsy. antsy. He's not enjoying the stalling. Just Nick's clasps, the first one that everyone held on to, just clasps their shoulder. It's okay. Hey, it's okay. We're here to help.
01:09:43
Speaker
ah Can you make wisdom saving throw, please? Yeah. I say charm. 15 on the safe. Bring a stat block up.
01:09:54
Speaker
ah fourteen 14.
01:09:55
Speaker
Cool. You failed. So you're my buddy. Friendly to you. Okay. How long's four?
01:10:05
Speaker
One hour usually. One hour. And you just see as their shoulders relax for a second and say, oh, I was quite nervous there. know, I can imagine, especially because we sent these two guys in they're being intimidating. You don't always see people coming up from the waistline. Yeah, but like, if you understand, if came up first, you wouldn't be as like, you know, we've got to make sure we've got cross the I's and drop the T's. Yeah.
01:10:29
Speaker
What are you doing here? Literally to ah Emron? we need To Emron. we We need to go to the, we need to get into the, towards the throne room, which is the best way to get there. Emron, you're looking for the throne room?
01:10:40
Speaker
Yes. Do we like Emron? Goes back to Nix. It's one of my best friends, honestly, this guy. Emron. Yeah. Okay. And Emron, you want to get to the throne room, Emron. Yes. Right, Emron. You want to go upstairs, Emron. Okay, which is the best route to avoid guards?
01:10:53
Speaker
To avoid guards? Is there a lead guard? This is the castle, my friend, isn't Yeah, you high alert at the moment? like Well, we're at war. Is there any secret passages that can you know that you know of? being I mean, come on, you have supplied this place with food. Surely there's like quick ins and outs to get to the food. Servants passages rather than where the nobles would go. Yeah.
01:11:13
Speaker
Not really, just the main staircase. Shit! i think Okay, cool, but no traps along the way? not nick No. There will be traps in the treasury. i would wouldn't just rush in there. Okay.
01:11:26
Speaker
Where's the treasury? ah Top floor. oo coolck cru yeah no you'll find the throne room upstairs on the first floor and like what's people's kind of thoughts and feelings on helena and sebastian oh we we love her um sebastian we haven't seen in a while but last time i remember i think he was just a drunk amazing okay cool um no no no disrespect you said that you're representing them um oh i really shouldn't have said that em run Please don't tell the prince. You're helping us out. By helping us out, you're helping them out. Are you all happy that Leopold's back?
01:12:00
Speaker
ah No. No. Why not? He's quite violent.
Staging capture and planning disguises
01:12:04
Speaker
Okay. So we're here to help Helena and Sebastian make Sleetgaard what it once was. Oh, great. Better.
01:12:11
Speaker
Could you convince your friend here not to fuck this up? um Yeah. I can try, but he looks quite scared. Okay. um But just think, is he more scared of us or Leopold?
01:12:22
Speaker
That's a good question. um Right now, I think you. Okay. Well, if we leave, that will help that situation out. Just do us a favour. Don't alert the guards. like wait The way that we plan on doing this, you guys won't even be asked the question if anyone came through this way. But we have to do a debrief every day.
01:12:44
Speaker
And we have to report anything that we see. Would you prefer... I'm not going to lie. saying this friendly. Would you prefer we tied you up and but and as if we captured you rather than you willingly helped us?
01:12:54
Speaker
Is that easier for you? Oh, and then it doesn't look like we let you in. Exactly. Oh, that'd be great. We can do that. We can do that. Because that way it saves you. You can say, oh, they came through the grate. They captured us. There's nothing we can do. How did you get in through the grate?
01:13:06
Speaker
A very long story. It's fine. Up the shit out. Let's just move on because I think people are getting antsy. We need to get moving next. And do you have... How are going to tie us up? Some rope. I've got some rope I didn't offer to the group, but like... I can use it now, I guess. Yeah, I get tied up.
01:13:23
Speaker
Okay. I do anything for you. well It's obviously important for you. I guess, do you want a view by the window? I feel like... Not too close to the window. Not another window. could let the guards know. If you tie us by the window, we can let the guards know that you're here quicker.
01:13:34
Speaker
We don't want that. You sure? Yeah, because we don't want the guards to come after us. The idea is... don't they come after You're very friendly. Can we just put something in their mouths as well? just Oh, no, no. No, I feel like gagging is not the thing.
01:13:45
Speaker
and but but to make it more convincing so that it doesn't look like... This is true, otherwise why didn't you shout for help? No, no, no, how about you guys just pretend that you're asleep? That's it. I'm happy with that. Look, I like you guys and everything, but I don't want to risk my job. So whatever keeps me safe.
01:13:56
Speaker
like Okay, oh. Gag him. Seth's getting antsy. Come on. All right, okay. Seth's drawn his rapier. Right, let's just, let's go into the shady corner here. You're okay. Both of you just come follow What's that? What's name? Pointing at the blade. Before we gag you, what's the easiest route? Give us directions towards the throne room.
01:14:13
Speaker
Emron, I barely know you. Okay, nick this guy's my friend. I don't really know his name, but this guy's my friend. I'm Nix. ah Nixon Emron Pleased you We're going to remember that That's good What's your names? My names ah Well you know If you're a real friend You'd know that This here is Corta Corta And I'm Patricia Patricia Well wonderful names Charmed to meet you both What is the fastest way To the throne room? The most direct Yes Will be good Take this door Points directly to the south Yep Through the dining room Yep And then you're in the the Great hallway Yep Take the hallway up The flight stairs Yep And then you want to, at the top of the stairs, head right, and you're in the throne room. Alpha, you got all that?
01:14:47
Speaker
You need to be able to get past the guards. Presumably you're the friends of them too. How many of them are there? Lots. What are the guards like you? Are they as as friendly to the royals as you are? Well, there's the human ones and there's the mechanical ones. Are they Leopold's personal guard?
01:15:01
Speaker
Some them. Okay. It's a gamble. I think we've just got to gamble it and use... Come with me. Come with me. Come with me. And Nick will lead them, Court and Patricia to the corner and just go, sit down for me. And I'll tell you what, you are back to back.
01:15:16
Speaker
Okay. And hold your hands out. And you're sure about this? 100%. You're going to be... like I can trust you. You can trust me. not and emro the The way that this is playing out, we're going to walk out here you guys are alive and get to keep your jobs.
01:15:28
Speaker
Great. Okay. What are your other friends? but We haven't really introduced ourselves. We're the Undying Champions. The Undying Champions. The Undying Champions. As Nick's titans. And there's six of you. Nick's in Emron. And the wrists.
01:15:41
Speaker
And then does it. It's long enough rope. Oh, careful. A bit tight. It's all right. I'm a sailor. Good nuts. You're fine. They look tight, but they're not. They're perfect. Trust me. um How long are we going to like this? um I would say if you would like to keep jobs and your lives, um let's say until this evening.
01:15:59
Speaker
how Are there other people on shift or when you next get visited by people? Oh, well, we're due to take this out in about 15 minutes. We go, okay. And then when people... Where are you taking it to? To the dining room. just I threw that door. When you don't come out. I'm just feeling like I could put their costumes on and take the food out and be them. Yeah, and what, be a tiefling that they've never met before?
01:16:16
Speaker
I could disguise myself. Not many tieflings work here. How long do you think it'll be until someone comes looking for you? um Well, ah if we don't serve the food in 15 minutes, then someone might pop their head in and say what's happening. in Which door are they coming through? The one we're going to leave out? Yeah, the big doors are south. Fuck it.
01:16:31
Speaker
Let's just gag them and let's go. Okay, I'm sorry about this. And Nick's will just like take out of his pocket some hankies and just kind of... Charmed.
01:16:42
Speaker
Charmed. Literally charmed to me. like And champions.
Seth's moral struggle and stealthy progress
01:16:48
Speaker
Right. one for wolf ahmo
01:16:55
Speaker
Farrakh, Seth, myself, go first. Maybe we can convince the guards that aren't Leopold's personal guard to side with us. How we know which one's the person we don't? Just keep it down now. The ones that don't have the Leopold uniform. If Nix can disguise himself as one of the personal guards, why doesn't he just bring us straight up to Leopold? Why would one guard be escorting us lot? I don't know.
01:17:17
Speaker
It's worth try, but it's what happens. I mean... you opening the door to the room? both. Both options. Have we still got the Pass Without Trace on? Yeah. Seth's going have walked away from these friends that he was definitely going to kill towards the door, and he's going to just peek a tiny bit through, it like the crack between the door it's into the dining room. Just have a try and get a sense of what he can see with his one good eye in the room yeah and so he can see what they're about to step into.
01:17:44
Speaker
And then if there's no one there that he can see, he's going to open the door, walk the fuck through. Okay, so you kind of just open the door ajar a little bit. The door, yeah. Yeah, and I'll give you a... Good joke.
01:17:55
Speaker
I shall give you... thats another but I can't move my token, Danny. You... Okay, one second.
01:18:05
Speaker
It doesn't matter what you move. That's what you can see, Seth. I'm just going re-enable Emron's rights to move his own token. I like to have the rights to be able to move myself. So you can see into a large dining room. So you can see into a very large dining room. Thank you, Assistant DM. You can see into a very large dining with two sets of big oval-like tables.
01:18:25
Speaker
In there are two, um um for want of better term, waiters. ah But really they're dressed like the cooks here, just other staff. And they are setting the table, lighting the candles, laying the plates, etc.
01:18:40
Speaker
But you can't see what's in the extremities of this room. Everyone sort of looks to Seth and maybe punches his fist into his hand. Okay. And it will kick the doors open. Oh, no. What does that mean? What does that mean? It's attack. It's attack. I think, let's knock him out.
01:18:54
Speaker
ah' He's seen attacks. Doesn't matter. You've interpreted it. Go for it. So glad that you guys allowed us to have the stealthiness there. You guys are great. A five-star review. I'm still past without trace, so I'm going to moving.
01:19:07
Speaker
ah Sure. but Can you make a stealth check for a slamming open door? i say kicking. is He's using his foot to push the door open. Oh, okay. Obviously what i meant. and so Obviously. I'm sure if you listen back to that, you said that. Unnatural...
01:19:20
Speaker
24. Is that plus 10? Yeah. Okay. So yeah, you kick the door open and you're able to just very quickly with the last grasp, just stop it from slamming. It's like muscle memory to kick doors open and then, oh wait. And because the light was dimmed because you um put out the the boiling pot fire,
01:19:38
Speaker
It's not like the room ahead of you fills with a rush of light. So both of the um two servants that are waiting these tables don't look up straight away. Okay, and Seth is going to sprint. direct There's ah the long table in front of about 10 feet away. yeah He's going sprint at it, jump up onto the table, one foot between the cutlery, leap over, so he's in between the two commoners. Mid-flight, draw the scimitar of wounding, yeah looking for non-lethal attacks on both commoners, get either side of him from that position.
01:20:08
Speaker
Okay, can you just roll an acrobatics check as you're climbing over that obstacle? Mainly to see if you can stop making a very loud noise over the table and alerting them. Acrobatics, you want your time to shine. That is a 17. 17 will... Not...
01:20:23
Speaker
what dony
01:20:30
Speaker
seventeen well not Sorry, one second. to say Work on other parts of the map that accidentally revealed themselves.
01:20:41
Speaker
We don't need to see that, but it's fine. Part of the map, reveal yourselves. Yes, yeah you're able to kind of sla slide along the tabletop, and then you make two strikes for me, please.
01:20:54
Speaker
Okay, the first one is going to be...
01:21:00
Speaker
Okay, a nine, but I'm going to use my heroic inspiration from having rest to roll that one again. Okay. Got 20 heroic inspiration. 12. That hits.
01:21:13
Speaker
And that's going to be nine points of non-lethal slashing damage. And now, remind me what the wounding part of your Cemetery of Wounding does. the That does 2d6 of necrotic damage on Cut! Unmade non-lethal.
01:21:29
Speaker
um Which is nine points of necrotic damage. So the thing about necrotic... Yeah, yeah, he's dead. ah yeah yeah Is if you do more damage in the necrotic than the hit points they have, they are dead dead. Okay, that's on me. Second one is... Okay, that's an 11 to hit.
01:21:47
Speaker
Also with scimitaria wounding. This is 1-1 and he's going to realise afterwards what he's done. That's going to be eight points of um slashing damage. Okay. Followed by... 5 points of necrotic damage for 13 points in total.
01:22:01
Speaker
So you kind of slide over this table, a really clean slide, don't make any noise, and you land next to them and both of them turn alerted to you and you like a whirlwind move this very dangerous scimitar striking both.
01:22:13
Speaker
You down them with its regular slashing damage and then you feel that necrotic vibration emanate out of the blade. And both of them die outright in front of you. Okay, he hasn't got any time. This is bigger than just single people. He'll mourn their loss later.
01:22:27
Speaker
He's going to slide both their As you slaughter two sleep guardian innocent Yep, yep, yep, yep. But greater good, bigger world. and He's going to worry about that later. With the sword of Sebastian at your hip. Yep, yep, yep, yep. And the ring ring on your hand. On his finger, yeah, absolutely. going to slide both the bodies. Maybe some more slide their bodies underneath the table and just quickly gesture to Emron to come on, come on, come on. Emron, quickly look around. Where's the door? and um It's all about the pace now. i um Patricia, Patricia, were they good friends in the next door, next room? And then, they gagged.
01:22:59
Speaker
Gagged, you hear not the one you chant, but the the one that was stubbornly against what you were trying to do, Tharok, attempt to scream, but gagged, it's muffled.
01:23:11
Speaker
Oh, yeah. um So, listen. ah Just knock her out. Knock knock knock her out. Tharot, push her fucking head against the wall. Knock her out. This is so... that Like, why?
01:23:26
Speaker
Nick's dying. Stay in the kitchen if you want. We've haven't got to she attempts Knock her out or I will kill her. That was really unkind. We've worked together for almost 20 years. ah that was that was really unkind we've worked together for almost twenty years yeah yeah well um i' I'm really upset, Nyx and Emron.
01:23:46
Speaker
You know what? I'm upset too. Emron's leaving the kitchen. I thought we were friends. Listen, Patricia, that the way that this is going to go is, you know, I'm going to put this back in your mouth now. You really have to because friends wouldn't really do this to each other. Yeah, I feel like we could have a kitchen. It could have been beautiful. Farrah's going to just go over and try and knock them both out.
01:24:04
Speaker
No!
01:24:07
Speaker
And that's where we're going to end. This is
Episode wrap-up and social media
01:24:11
Speaker
the show. Oh my God, that was the most frustrating bit of conversation. I could see. Seth was literally... That wasn't Seth, that was just me. Was climbing the wall. Make that end now.
01:24:24
Speaker
Oh, I feel bad that I don't. I drew a little map in their directions. We've got to go... I was like, Nix is going somewhere. Nix is going somewhere. I could see the look on Bart. was like, nope, Nix isn't going anywhere. Speaking of going places, where can we go to find us? That's very good. We can go over to many places.
01:24:41
Speaker
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01:24:55
Speaker
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01:25:07
Speaker
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