Friends, I'd like to do that.
To welcome you all back to another brand new episode of The Unnaturals.
We're still the Naturals, but this crew is a little bit different, so we have to give them their own introduction.
Speaking of that
Hey, why doesn't everybody introduce themselves so that the people know who you are and what character you play?
Hi, I'm Mav and I play Alacran's Moondown.
Hi, I'm Tiddley and I play Lady Almatara of Moondown, the twin sister.
Hi, I'm Ballista Kitty and I play Morelia Willowshade.
Hi, I'm Fate Walker.
I play Arathan, the Dragonlink.
Great, and I'm Michael.
I go by revealing too much online, and I'm literally everyone and everything else.
Because I'm the GM
All right.
Time to dive back in.
The confident three are going to jail.
In their defense, they meant to be arrested.
It was on purpose.
Totally.
Absolutely a part of the plan.
You see, it all started with a bar fight.
Alakrans threw a punch, Almathara threw a gnome, and Aritheon threw a party
It was that little act of raucous rebellion that got them arrested.
But what led to the bar fight?
Some would argue the drinks were just a little bit too strong, but anyone who knows the confident three knows they can handle their liquor
The bar fight was just another part of the plan, a calculated move to end up in this exact situation.
Of course, no one mentioned the death pits as they schemed.
Someone probably should have warned them about that.
To learn about what led to the bar fight, we flashed back to the night before as the party attempted and succeeded at stealthing all the way across the town of Moringsong.
a usually quiet coastal town currently under the authoritarian rule of a group of unknown thugs.
The confident three needed to meet with Key to find out how they could help
Her only ask that they get across the town without being spotted or discovered in any way.
Sneaking around at large was wholly unexpectedly successful, but at the final step the party discovered a troubling twist.
Guards were posted outside of Key's shop, watching her closely.
By combining their abilities, they quickly dispatched with the guards, but as Key indicated when she saw the blood on Alecranz's face.
their methods may not be without consequences.
In the present, the cart you share, and the one behind it taken up by Eritheon
Lumbers along the dirt road.
You've been traveling for hours now, and at this point the restlessness starts to settle into your bones
These carts were not made for comfort.
The boards beneath you, unpleasant to sit on in the best of times, sag under your weight, warped from experiences you'd rather not consider.
and the shackles on your hands and feet hold your limbs in a sort of agonizing stasis, your joints numbing and stiffening in an endless cycle
There is one small comfort, though.
Your current situation may be uncomfortable.
The path you're on may be hard
But at least it is the right one.
It's the one that your meeting with key pointed you towards.
And with that, we flash back to Key's shop as this large galapa opens her door to hurry you in.
She eyes you, seeing the blood on Alecrans, and asks if you followed her instructions to not be noticed.
It's in this moment that we left off last time.
So we're gonna pick up right there, with Key looking at you all.
Not necessarily too happy.
Just to be clear, we are inside now, yeah?
We're not still standing outside her door?
Well I think like we're picking up exactly in the moment where she like opened the door and asked the question.
So if you guys want to like
Step right in, that is that is okay.
But like the moment that I was picturing we jumped back into is exactly that moment where I was like
Hey, did you follow my instructions?
And then we ended the episode.
So whatever you want to do from there is up to you guys.
I think Alacranz is looking back over his shoulder like Uh, perhaps we could discuss the method of our passage inside.
I think she would step out of the way because she's pretty big.
Big uh big tortoise and would step out of the way and let you guys in the door
Yeah, Kranz is like ushering people and say he's like pushing, let's get inside, please, get off the street.
Marillier goes in.
What do we what do we find in here?
Like what is I you know it looked like a shop from the outside?
We understand.
Yeah, what is how what does the interior look like
Well, if you'd like, we can do something really fun that Daggerheart kind of allows us to do.
And as you step inside the shop.
I would like to offer you all the opportunity to paint the scene a little bit and tell me what you see.
the minutiae, I guess, of what her shop is, at least thus far, has not uh been like plot critical
So as you step in, what do each of you notice?
What things stand out to you?
What's interesting?
What's shiny?
No wrong answers.
So
I'm gonna go last because I think Alec Ranz is staying outside until everybody's inside is like the rear guard.
So I want to leave it to my party members to jump in first.
Well what kind of a shop is it?
Like do we have a generalized sense of it?
Well this is a uh this is like a coastal town.
So um kind of once again, I
I could make a decision on that, but it it is not something that has been like plot critical so far.
So if you would like to decide what kind of shop it is, you certainly can.
Or I can I can make that decision as well, but I want to give you guys the opportunity to kind of take a little ownership in this moment, if you'd like
I'll set the the vibe.
It's dimly lit because it's kind of late at night and
She doesn't want lights from the interior to show that there's people milling about from the outside.
So just some candlelight.
Um I
pretty much covered when it comes to the windows so that still looks dark from the outside.
Um
I'll let someone else describe further.
I don't know what her wear should be.
I think as the group's being ushered into it would be about the time that Aerethean will fly back in and I'll just I'll just fly right down and right into the door.
Um,
Open door, not the closed door, because that'd be awkward.
And and as I'm entering in, I'm like, man, that guy's gonna have such a headache.
Oops.
Um oh are those seashells?
Those are pretty
Uh and then and then I think I'll mistake a um some hanging uh
uh nets fishing nets as a hammock and go and relax in a hammock.
Okay.
I mean fishing nets
Sounds good.
Um Alcranz, I believe you kind of had an idea for what her shop could be.
Yeah, it's a it's a fishing town.
So I think that, you know, being a uh someone who would be running a shop in a town where lots of people are on the water, like most of the industry is on the water.
Um a lot of the industry will be in catching things in the water.
And so you're always gonna need somebody to weave nets.
Um and you're gonna need somebody to make traps, you know, make even like for bigger, you know s for bigger like waterborne animals, like make harpoons.
So, you know, maybe she's like a this is like a bait and tackle shop.
There's like bait, there's rods, there's nets.
Um and you know being a Galapaga, like she's got the this is like her ballywick, right?
This is she's from this environment.
um and probably grew up, you know, making these things or or helping her parents make these things.
Um so I I imagine like a dimly lit, candlelit, kind of completely festooned like every surface
The nets hanging from the ceiling, like harpoons against the wall, um fishing rods like you know, uh strung and unstrung, like in racks.
Um
Kind of in in uh like cluttered, I think.
Like not this is not like spare shop.
This is pretty a pretty like there's something on every horizontal surface kind of place.
Yeah
I like that a lot.
So
You step in, she closes the door.
Are there shades on the windows?
Are there like
Like shutters or anything?
Yeah, I I think the it it's more of a more of a curtain, kind of like a drawn curtain situation than it is
Then it would be shades or shutters, but um nobody France is not being polite.
He's he's closing those.
He's like making sure there's nobody can see in from the outside.
Okay, absolutely.
And as you stop, I think Key would kind of level her gaze at you and
She would just look at you and after a moment I think she'd repeat her question of
I guess she'd change it a little bit to make it a little more uh contextual at this point, but she'd say.
So what happened?
What we're here?
No one caught us.
Uh we're obeyed your your little note, and he pulls it out of his vest, like the the note she left on the door.
Uh to the letter
Here we are.
She uh she snatches the note from your hand and uh
She uh she kind of points to the part that says, do not let anyone see you.
And then she's she's like, I
I understand that it can be difficult, but I get the feeling from your visage that uh you encountered some trouble on the way.
My visage?
I are you are you are you court trained?
Uh and he's like he's looking around for like a mirror or something, like and it then remembering he's in a tackle shop, there's like not gonna be a mirror anywhere.
So he kinda looks around like what?
I
Uh she would she would actually reach one of her like big hands?
I don't know.
I don't know what it would be called on a galapa.
It's not a paw, that doesn't make any sense anyway.
Sorry.
Claws?
I guess a claw.
She has no claws on a turtle.
I guess they have claws.
Do they have claws?
Yeah.
Kinda.
Anyway.
Well we'll say hand just because that's l less uncomfortable.
She would she would reach one of her hands and kind of like brush it across your cheek and then she would pull it back and show you the blood that was on your face.
Oh
So I think Crans like initially would be like, Am I being come on to right now?
Like she's like reaching out to touch his face.
Like this is very intimate.
And then he sees the blood and he's like, Oh shit.
Uh and and you can see his like he's been very like, you know, jovial, smiley, hey we're all, you know, but we made it, great, excellent.
Um, and now he knows his cover's blown.
That he ever thought he had cover at all.
Well, listen, um no one alive saw us.
Well speaking of which I'm not sure.
No one saw us that can talk about it anymore.
Arian Aer Erithan says well, and then you look over at him, he's no longer relaxing in a hammock, he's
Tangled up in the fishing line just dangling.
Well I'm my guy's not dead.
What do you mean he's not dead?
I didn't see why I should kill him.
I I dropped him off big much longer much bigger of a drop than I intended
Um, I thought I thought the vines were gonna hold him a whole lot longer than they did.
But I but but he's he's knocked out.
He's and I I healed him up a little bit.
I don't know if he knew what was going on.
It was dark out
Shit.
Was he able to see you every time?
I have no idea.
He saw the ground really quickly.
Maybe.
I guess time will tell.
I think Kranz whirls on Almithara.
And it's like, none of this would have happened if you hadn't run off on your own again and tried to get yourself killed.
No, darling.
I believe you're the one who stuck the final blow and I had nothing to do with that.
That was your choice.
I had to
What choice did I have?
I was supposed to be supporting Morelia, and then off you run to go 1v2 against some town guards with no armor.
It it all worked out perfectly fine.
We're all here together.
No one saws who can speak of it.
I believe you're making much ado about nothing.
And at nothing you can see Kranz's mouth like he wants to say more, but like
He's just cramming it down for right now.
Yeah, Aomi is unbothered by all of this.
Like apparently she doesn't care about people being dead.
So Kranz turns back to Key and is like, well, we had some hiccups, it's clear.
Uh, but we have some hours before dawn.
I suppose whatever you wanted to tell us, you better tell us quick.
Before the alarm goes out.
She nods.
And um you notice that kind of in the center of her shop, there's a table that is used to display goods, like covered in tackle and
nets and things like that, but there's also some kind of not like nice but functional chairs set around it
And she she gestures and says, okay, well, there's nothing that can be done now, so uh take a seat and
Let's get this figured out before she kinda as you guys are sitting down, assuming you do
Um she moves over to and just kind of peeks out one of the curtains.
She draws it slightly to the side, looks around
It was the guards outside here, wasn't it?
It was Yes.
They shouldn't find the bodies for at least a few hours.
Well
God God damn it, Arathane.
Tell me you at least tied him up or incapacitated him in some way.
Is he at least really far away?
Uh he's definitely far I d like okay, like pretend you're a guard, right, and then you get you get vined up and then magically you're in the air and then all of a sudden you're dropped out and you pass out and you
may have seen the white light for a minute and then the right light w really healed you and then and then you took a little nap.
And when you wake up, who's gonna believe you be like, Oh, some guy picked me up and they're not gonna believe the guys everyone's gonna think that he's just, you know
Goofing off, he I I gave him a little pillow.
It looks like he was hanging out with some pigs.
Stop me if I get this wrong.
You dealt with him.
Hmm?
And then you healed him.
Yeah.
Fuck me.
If you do not go back and eat him immediately.
I am not hungry.
I do not care one whit about your hunger.
You left evidence!
Okay, I will chop him up and bring him over for you to eat.
I will.
I could use some nice rogue on toast.
You know, I was being a little sarcastic there, and I actually believe you.
She didn't earn a reputation as a manager for nothing.
Liter literally Just to make sure you guys understand this, you were you were looking at I probably have like one claw like one leg hanging off this thing that it
I'm able to just kinda sort of rock myself back and forth.
One one eyes peeking through some of the fishnet, looking at you guys.
And I'm just We're yelling at you in a cocoon.
Like we are yelling at you in a cocoon.
Upside down, like legs straight up in the air.
Is your character a vegetarian or something?
Something like this, because that would be so funny.
Hold back the right this instant
Aurelia walks over to Erithein and just says, When we're done here, I would like for you to take me to him.
I feel like he doesn't kill him.
I don't think he needs to die.
Alright, we'll figure out what to do with him later.
Hopefully we won't be here anymore by the time he gets back.
And and Kranz, it's like he takes out a silk handkerch a silk handkerchief and is like trying to clean the blood off his nose and his face before sitting down and kind of like gesturing a key impatiently like, alright
Well, I guess it's it's time to fill you in on everything
What's happened here?
My family has been
She kinda thinks for a minute.
Um, because she doesn't quite know the right word, so she she kinda thinks
Says for lack of a better word, ruling in Mooring Song.
For generations.
Um, I hesitate to use that word because
Um, my father and his father didn't see it as
Power to be taken, but service to be done.
Um
This is this is a good this is a good place full of good people who work hard and
Help each other and our family has helped them
For as long as I've been alive.
And she's a she's a galapa, so she's she's been alive for a while.
Um, so um
Recently, there's been something of an uprising, as you might be able to tell.
Um
I don't know that I ever planned to, you know, serve the city in the same way that my my father and
Down the line, everyone has.
I've I've been pretty happy in my shop, but I am my father's only child and
I think that responsibility was supposed to fall to me, and instead, and she kind of points one of her hands out the door, instead, these people
Come in and capture my father and
Dispose of the guard and do this to my town
And the only reason they haven't done anything to me is
I'm just a shopkeeper.
I I run this place and stay out of their way and
You know, I as you can see they've kept an eye on me, but I've kept kept myself clean.
But I I'm worried for my father.
I believe Are they aware of your lineage?
They know.
That's that's why they they watch.
There's not a lot of guards that are posted up at specific places.
It's more it's more patrols, but
They know who my father is, and they keep an eye on me, and that's why I requested that no one see you coming.
Because
Anything that I do that is not to their liking.
Well, could be could be very dangerous for me.
But
Danger doesn't necessarily mean you don't do what's right and the people in this town don't deserve them.
I mean, I am not going to say that I should lead this this town.
I don't know that that is right either, but they don't deserve this.
They don't.
There were never curfews here before.
There were never these kind of rules that prevented people from living their lives.
People just helped each other and stayed out of each other's way.
So, when I heard that there was
A group of people from out of town who was getting into the good kind of trouble.
I sent you a note.
Yes, Reynold made sure it found us.
Took a little while, obviously.
Apologize for the delay in arriving, but
And he kind of arches an eyebrow at Almy, who would recognize Reynolds' name as being his old
uh quartermaster and trainer uh from their home um who had actually helped them kind of leave home uh and stayed behind.
Uh
But he turns back to to Key.
Uh leaving aside that there are currently no guards posted outside of your home.
Um and we won't get into why that is.
Um
They've been watching you, I take it.
Closely, yes.
So you can't take any individual actions on your own, like a stact on your behalf.
And
They have gone to whatever lengths necessary to eliminate anyone
It would so much as stay out too late.
I mean, they
You know, when it first started, I thought in in our town
Our town full of good people, they won't stand for this, but Ugh Force
Can be crushing.
And I have seen people I've known for my entire existence.
Crushed under the boot of these wicked men
And I don't know, maybe maybe this was a bad idea, maybe.
Maybe I will live or not live to regret this mistake, but I didn't think it was right to not do anything.
Morelia over by um Arithaan is just um always the word.
She's trying to like delicately like move the the fishing net around all the different hooks and ridges of
um or thing in his body to try to like unhook him.
Trying to disentangle him.
While he's hanging there with the weights, it's it's just it's not the best
But she's trying and she just kind of speaks up and says, Key, what can you tell us about the usurper?
My father.
Was a good man and a kind man, and he believed that
He should listen often to people that he didn't necessarily agree with.
And
He spent his days in
Loud heated disagreements with even people who worked under him and
He still trusted them, and he didn't have to
necessarily see eye to eye with everyone as long as he as as long as he believed that they had the best interest
Of the city in mind.
And so she gets kinda like
Quiet for a moment, lost in the memory
The captain of the guard mean
Just the power that he had was never enough
He was always looking for more, always desperate for more control
And eventually enough times of my father telling him no was enough.
And
One morning we wake up and my father's gone.
I I don't know
the rest of his men where they came from, because they were not all guard originally.
I don't know where these brutish men arrived from, but
The leader was my father's right hand for a time.
I actually meant to ask, when we were crossing the city, you know, dodging guard patrols, was there a commonality among these these guards in terms of like
you know, like species, like racial makeup?
Was there like a commonality of accent?
Like you know, like language used?
Did it seem like they were relatively homogeneous
Bunch or was it uh was it a kind of all different kinds?
I think from the people that you saw, I think it would have been more just kind of a bunch of different types of people.
Um I think it would have been
The care they they would share some characteristics, but basically the characteristics were essentially that they they were all just
big brutes, really, you know, like they all had a certain uh tendency towards cruelness, which you you probably weren't able to see that, but like the the they're they aren't all the same like
They aren't all from the same ancestry or anything like that necessarily.
It's more like ancestry is what I was looking for.
Yeah, it's more like a They're not homogenous.
Right.
Like a motley crew, one might say.
Yeah, more like a like a militia or something in terms of like a hired hired.
Yeah, mercenaries would be was the word I was looking for for sure.
So upject bandits no doubt no doubt.
I mean you'll you'll find people who are willing to do anything for a little bit of power and a little bit of money.
Speaking of doing anything for a little bit of money, any kind of leans over into the table.
I don't know that what you have is is sufficient for a regime change.
And I don't know that we have sufficient power to cause that.
But we might be able to find your father.
I think and she a little smile kind of plays at the corner of her lips.
And maybe this is just my
Selfish wish, but I think that if the town remembered
Who my father was and what he did for them.
We would have more people willing to stand up.
I'm
I'm not a leader.
I I hide in my shop.
But my father he he stood up when it when he needed to.
He stood up.
Well, I would say that you're doing a whole lot better at being a leader right now.
Then you are at making a very good hammock.
I think Krance would kind of sit back and cross his arms over his chest and try to clock what his sister's thinking
She is um she's playing with her dagger as she's usually does that when she's um thinking and she's you know she's gonna be like
So, where do you think your father might be being held?
Well.
That's the title of this of the of this um Well Well dot dot dot Yeah Um That's
A bit of a complicated question.
He's been taken to prison and
Well, I don't know if you've seen it, but walls are made of stone and
Stretch higher than you could see.
And it is heavily guarded.
It's a it's a fortress, really.
There's
I wish I had a plan, but I don't know that there's any breaking in to be done.
It's
It's going to be tough to get in.
Well, other than the obvious way.
Always a way in.
I'm sure.
We don't have to break in.
We can be let's let's get invited in.
Arthane, how do you plan to be invited to prison?
How else did other people go to prison?
Become a mayor of a town and get overthrown.
It worked for a father.
Alright, maybe a little callous there, my friend.
Um Let's let's assume for a moment.
key that we can even get in.
Hmm.
How will we know who he is?
We've never seen him before, unless you have a a rendering and illustration of him.
Unless you give uh us us his name
Some kind of description.
I imagine he's not the only prisoner there.
She would uh walk to the back of the shop.
Kind of go to a back room and she would come back out and um she would have a little frame
And inside the frame there would be a drawing of her father.
How how detailed is it?
Is it is it like it's it's it's not that detailed, it's more of a sketch.
Um
You get the feeling that if you held the sketch up next to the person, you could probably identify that person, but you don't know what condition he's in now.
So
Krance cocks an eye at Almethara and he's like, go on.
Go on!
Come on, you know you want to
Come on, show off a little.
We need to impress her.
Wait, what do you want me to do?
I want you to I think you should try to use minor illusion to try to like m make yourself look like the the drama.
Oh that's a great idea.
Get a full like let's see what this guy looks like in in real life.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Um I'm glad you clarified what you were trying to get her to do because I was like, Because I was not gonna get that from from you should show what you can do.
I was not gonna get that.
Um
Yes, let's see.
They do have minor illusion.
Okay
And I believe that okay, so the illusion, I'm assuming, like I believe, um
The last illusion was that we were we smelled really bad, right?
Yeah, we looked like we were covered in refuse.
Thanks.
Okay, and I I'm guessing that she probably dropped that illusion as soon as we walked through the door.
God, I hope so.
I because I don't want to be in close quarters with that.
Um so yeah, let's give it a try.
Okay.
So that's a spellcast roll.
Your spellcasting trait is instinct.
So add plus three once you roll your two D12.
First roll of the evening.
Great, that is a 22 with hope.
22 with hope.
Well take a hope.
So I'm going to I'm going to try to
assume the appearance of her father from that s from the drawing.
Um taking a hope.
You you actually make her gasp, like, for a moment.
When when you do this illusion.
Like she has no for lack of a better word, no illusions that this this is actually her father.
But it's just kind of like one of those things where you see someone you haven't seen in a while and you're you're you're kind of shocked by it.
And
She actually she actually takes half a step back.
Wow, that is
I'm sorry, that is took you took the took the breath from me for for a second.
That is very impressive.
Thank you for showing him to me again.
Anything you'd change about this illusion, because this is who we will look for assuming we can get inside.
No, I mean it I d I don't know what he looks like now.
It's been it's been weeks.
I don't know if they've you know let him
Comb his hair or or shave his beard and I Oh god, I don't know if they've hurt him
So i that's that's how I remember him, but I don't know that that's him now
I I slightly alter the illusion to be like like with longer kind of like uh unkempt longer beard.
Um, like somebody who maybe hasn't had access to a razor for a while or I'm not sure what this what the creature looks like, but like somebody who might have
M a little dirtier.
Yeah.
I I think I think with that role you're able to kinda like modify it so you look
You look deep.
A little more haggard.
Yeah.
A little more haggard.
A little more unkempt.
Yeah, so I I think that would work in um I I mean I hi his name is Florence.
His name is Florence, if you can ask around.
But I I I was hoping we had a better idea than sending you all to jail.
I can't imagine that will be a particularly pleasant experience.
Aurelia finishes untangling um our ban.
And I would assume he would just kind of plop on the ground.
Cause it just like releases suddenly.
Sack of potatoes, just
And she walks back over to the circle of chairs and says, We can work towards the end of releasing or recapturing your father.
But after we do that, we need to think about the near term actions.
I don't like
Alakran said, I do not think we have the capacity to do regime change so suddenly.
Maybe
You two will need to skip town for a little while.
Just for your own safety.
Speaking of thinking ahead.
Aurelia?
Yes.
Would you be so kind?
You know?
Any specific request on the cranes.
Like, where's the wood grain?
She's gotta look at the wood grain.
Where's the wood grain?
That's where she sees the future.
Every time you ask us to do something, you're very vague.
I don't know if they know where you're at.
I cannot read mine.
Maybe if you can uh test the threads a little bit, see if you can locate him.
He may not be in this prison.
Be nice to know for sure before we break in, if he is.
GM.
Yes.
I already used my commune.
You did, yes.
And you haven't searched.
You have a prolong rest.
How comfy is that hammock?
We gotta get back home first, like before the the before the sun's up.
Um
Alright, well I I mean uh you know leave it to Morelia to tell me tell Kranz that she already she already did her thing here.
Do do we have do we know somebody locally that we could hide hide her with in the interim since we've created a modicum of a ruckus here?
Yes, have you nowhere to go?
I have you anywhere to go to hide for the interim.
I I am cognizant of the fact that the guards in front of your home have
let's say disappeared, for the time being at least.
Perhaps permanently perhaps permanently.
Uh and and uh y there may be not some small amount of suspicion that falls on you because of this.
Do you have anywhere you can hide?
There Yeah, I I have
Family and friends across the Shadowlands who would take me in so I wouldn't worry about and as she's saying that.
There's a loud knock at the front door.
It's been like five minutes!
What?
Should you should you should have eaten him?
Shh.
I think I every every one of the confidentials, shit.
All at the same time.
Shit.
Um, her her eyes get really wide.
And she looks at all of you.
And then she looks at the door.
And then she looks back to you.
And she just says, Hide.
Hide?
Oh god.
Uh Okay, um I guess we're hiding.
Let's try to find some hiding spots
What ha what would happen if I opened the door as her father?
I'm gonna do that actually.
I'm gonna because I still look like her dad.
So I'm gonna go to the door and open it.
I was gonna stand on the inside of the door, like on on the wall, to like
Drag anyone in from the outside real quick and subtly once it does open.
I think Kranza's looking panicked between the door
Very small, tight, confined, cramped, you know, overcrowded shop, and the giant dragon lane taking up half of it
Is there a back door?
Sir?
Is there is there is there an upstairs?
Is there like a like a second?
There's a second floor to this place, right?
There is a second floor.
That's uh where she lives.
There's also a a back door
Okay.
I'm because I mean I really convincingly look like her dad, right?
Very convincingly, yeah.
Like very convincingly.
So like what if okay, so
Worst case scenario, it's more mercenaries, right?
And then I get access to the prison sooner.
Best case scenario, it's another villager who likes her and her family and is like
Excited to see him.
Hold on a second.
I have I'm having a mechanics thought here.
Okay.
Take a look at Minor Illusion because I think there's a range at at which it does not work
Close range.
I think it might be like, yeah, I think it's you get close enough, you go, oh, that's not real.
You have to be far enough away.
It's convincing at close range.
Okay, good, good, good.
So if they get further away, then it's less convincing.
So if I open a door, they're going to be at close range to me if they're close to the door.
You got it.
Well hold on.
There's a there's a range closer than close
Melee is is oh your illusion is convincing to anyone at close range or farther.
So if you open a door and someone's at the other side of the door
We'll see what happens.
It's up to you.
I'm not gonna tell you at all.
You can always stand back like a little bit from the door and like party.
Above the table party chat.
Do we?
You guys have fun.
Do we
Want to drag people through the door just for a quick hush-hush, you know?
Or do we want to hide?
We don't know who's out there.
I'm in favor of hiding.
I I mean I feel like who was ever out there, we can deal with it.
Like either way we can deal with it.
Very different things.
We have to commit one way or another.
Well, do we?
I don't know what we do.
We I I I I wanna know what's I don't wanna know what's there.
We'll figure it out when it happens.
You know what?
This perfectly describes how at odds the twins are right now.
I like this biz perfect.
No matter what.
She's not worried about this.
She's like, she's like, we we got this.
Like we just how many people did we just kill?
Like we got this.
Like the whatever's behind the door, we can handle it
No matter what we do, we just have to make sure that we spin the tail well enough that episode one still exists.
Yes.
No retcons.
No retconning here.
Alright.
Um I think Kranz is like pushing Arithan up the stairs.
Arithan is is is is going to try to get out the back door.
Oh, okay.
Alright.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
I'm behind Almathara and I imagine she's in the image of a big turtle, right?
Like big blocky, like I
Yeah, like I imagine yeah, just really, really large.
But she's she's kind of just like hunkering down behind
The image.
The collapse.
She wants to see Yeah, she wants to see how many people are gonna be outside
I I guess if uh if everything's heading out the back door Kranz is gonna go that way too, but try to split the difference, try to find like a
If there's I don't know how big the shop is, if there's like a hallway or a pillar or something he can stand behind so he can hear what's going on in the front and keep an eye on everything and trying to get out the back.
And just try to be the center of of what is happening, like the connection between these two the the hub to the spokes.
See what happens.
Uh yeah, he's he's hiding.
Like I'm trying to hide.
So we're just trying to hide.
We got Aerytheon out the back.
We got Crans hiding, and we've got
Almathara meeting whoever's at the door and Morelia right there.
Yeah, hide I think you're hiding, right?
DK?
Yeah, I'm
Like staying out of view.
Yeah, somehow.
You're hiding, but you're like close to so you can help with just in case.
Yeah, I'm very specifically within close range of whoever is on the outside.
She got plants.
What's that tend to
30 feet or something?
I don't know.
So This is gonna be so bad.
This is gonna be so bad.
I gotta love it.
I gotta love it.
Hit us, GM, hit us with it.
So
Are are we letting Key open the door or is Almatar opening the door?
We're gonna I would it so to maintain the close range, I would prefer if Key opens the door.
Okay.
Okay.
But I'm not gonna hide because I'm already disguised.
Okay.
So
Key's opening the door, but you're also by the door, I'm a throw?
I wanna st I'm just gonna stay right like behind her.
Okay.
Okay.
I'll be off to this side.
Maybe.
Okay.
Can I hide behind both?
Sure.
Yeah.
Hiding behind both.
I mean like
We're pro we're both big, so I think it'd probably be pretty easy to like.
It's a dimly lit shop.
There's shadows.
Yeah.
I blend rose.
There's another loud knock at the door while you guys are having this panic discussion.
He's like
Like like countdown ticks down in a for a discussion.
I think we're set like it's getting warm.
I think we're set.
I think we're set.
Okay
So he's got a crazy look in her eyes and it's just like
This is this this is the plan.
This this is And I I like gestured her to, you know, go ahead open the door.
She she No witnesses.
She she shakes her head and and opens the door.
And um on the opposite side of the door is a giant holding a war hammer.
Bigger than any of you besides Eritheon.
Was this the same guy that I tangled?
No
Oh yeah.
No.
He is holding a war hammer.
And he was actually knocking on the door with it.
To him, like a a hammer this big is
It's it's it's like holding nothing.
And he like looks at key and his attention is entirely focused on key.
And says key I
I would like to know what happened to the guards we had positioned outside your door
We had a patrol pass and we noticed that your guards were not here.
And they came and told me at once.
And then as he says that
His eyes scan past Key and you actually see for a moment his jaw
Drops.
Dragoman.
Get his ass in here!
He's a giant!
There's no getting him through the door?
What and he gonna do?
You hear him kinda
Florence?
Like he gets like he's got like a pretty big booming voice regularly, but he gets really quiet.
And he actually he pushes key aside through like pushes through the door.
pushes key aside and starts to step towards you, Almathara.
Okay, question.
In this illusion, do I sort of like sound like
Her dad also or not?
I mean it says a visual illusion.
Visual.
Okay, so I will probably um
I will probably s not let him get too within melee range, right?
Close enough, so I want to maintain the illusion.
Um I will probably back up and
And just gesture to like, you know, stop where you are kind of gesture.
And like like, you know, like do another gesture of like it's oh it's it's it's it's great.
It's nice to see you.
Like, you know, I'm not gonna say anything, but I'm gonna like make gestures like
Please stop.
It's really nice to see you or whatever.
Um Like I'm I'm I'm I'm going to assume that I know this this person and that um
Yeah.
But I'm hoping also to back up and lure them into the house so we don't obviously can't drag the big thing.
After pushing Key aside, he is fully in.
Okay, great.
Great.
Great.
Um
Somebody close the door.
I can't close the door.
Okay.
So you are attempting you are attempting to persuade him to not get close enough to you with I am.
I'm I'm gonna make a gesture.
to stop.
Stop.
Once he's inside, I'm gonna gesture him to stop.
Stop bad.
Commandingly, like like a leader, right?
Leadership.
You know, I'm I'm trying to embody the town leader or whatever.
Okay.
That's a that sounds like a presence roll to me.
If you could roll a presence roll, that'd be fantastic.
Thank you.
That'd be two.
Now would not be a good time to roll a confident three.
That would be a 21 with fear.
That's pretty confident.
But it's very high.
Okay.
That's good.
Oh, I uh it is also a critical success.
Wait, what
I got two tens with a plus one for presents.
Yo.
So that's a critical success.
So it's not with fear.
Not with fear.
Not with fear.
Not with fear.
I lied.
Not fear.
Okay.
So
Much to my surprise, he stops.
You get a hope, you clear a stress
Um because that's the results of a crit.
Um it this plan that should should not work at all.
This plan that should not work
Is somehow going your way currently, and this giant
Stops when you gesture for him to stop.
And I
You could definitely say that at least part of it was your gesture, but I think a lot of it was also just the shock of the moment.
Like the people here know who they took rule from.
And they know who Key is.
And as he stops and his
His mind tries to process what he's seeing
He whirls around to key.
And asks, what is the meaning of this?
What is your father doing here?
Oh key, lie.
Lie so well.
And I'm gonna have to roll to see how Key does.
I see how Key does!
Lie really well, Key.
We believe in you.
Roll like a confident three!
Well the good news is I almost rolled a confident three.
I rolled a two.
Oh well I have
Witch hope.
Okay.
And when an ally within far range rolls a failure on an action roll, I can spend three hope to change it into a success with fear instead.
Excellence.
I'm gonna give her a little bit of hope.
So it's a success with a fear.
Mmm, that's a tough one because she doesn't roll hope and fear.
She rolls a deep twenty.
Oh, that's right, she rolls a deep twenty.
So Huh.
Is she hold on
Does she even I don't mean to be a lawyer about this, but I'm about to be a lawyer about this.
Um does she even qualify as an ally
I don't know that she does.
I would tip I thought you were supposed to be our lawyer, not like the bad guy's lawyer
Alright, I would typically say no, but I would like to honor that crit.
So it is duality, huh?
It's not going to be a success with fear.
Mm-hmm.
Because
I mean I guess I could take a fear if you want me to have a fear for my own will that would be fine.
It's up to you, I guess.
Are you not stacked up?
Like I'm sure you're not gonna be able to do that.
Oh I I have so much fear.
I'll just spend three hope.
I feel like that's a good payment, right?
So bad for this.
I'm hopeless now.
Okay.
So since you crit and since you are spending three hope
All my hope.
Um you you see key attempt to start explaining
And something in the weave of the world around you slightly shifts
And she lets go of the idea of trying to come up with a reasonable explanation.
And she
She hangs her head and sighs and s I he just turned up?
I thought you let him out where it was
Was this not you?
And again you notice the giant gets
Pretty quiet.
He's really his brain is really struggling to process this.
Just like my brain is really struggling to process that somehow this plan is working.
That's for you guys.
Fucking smart key, I'd um
And he he turns back to Almathara and then he turns back to Key.
And he just is
He kind of like He he he's in that moment for a minute And then he remembers why he was here in the first place
And he says, But wait.
What w what about your guards?
Where
are they and what does he and he kind of like whirls around and points uh points a finger at Lawrence I guess and what did he do to them
At this moment.
I'm wondering how uh how much time has passed and is Arithane able to do stuff assuming he's gotten outside?
Sure.
Cause the goal is if there's no one else around, I would like to sniff out where the dead bodies are.
Okay.
And then do a a flyby and just toss the dead bodies at the door.
Hopefully the the with the with the goal of distracting going, well if the dead bodies are outside, how are the people inside the ones responsible for killing them?
I mean they could have killed them earlier before.
But then what then who just threw the bodies at the door?
This is foolish.
If they're all in here.
Let's do it.
I want to see what happens.
Are you doing both at once?
Yeah oh yeah.
And then I'm just gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna and I'm going to fly off.
Yeah you're just gonna And leave us with the dead bodies outside the door
Yeah.
Morelia is trying really hard to not make an action right now and hoping this resolves.
I mean honestly.
We don't know he's doing this.
We have no idea what he's doing
Honestly, why not make an action?
Let's just l just kitchen sink plan.
Let's go.
She's just on edge and ready to just
Tangle this guy up.
Okay.
But she's waiting to see that it actually goes south before I will I will most likely hide it one on one of the rooftop nearby and watch what goes down.
I just I won't I won't just leave the group.
I want you to know that like when he when we have this giant whirl around and point at
uh at Florence at the image of Florence what uh asking what happened to the bodies you guys if you've seen tombstone
The scene at the OK Corral where they're all standing there staring at each other for like 30 seconds and then
Doc Holliday winks at one of the one of the bandits and his eyes get really wide and uh Wyatt Earp, the lead character, just goes realizes what's about to happen and goes
Oh my god.
That's Alakranz right now, like hiding in the back of the shop going.
Oh gods, like knows what's about to happen.
And so uh Kranz is gonna use
Um his warrior feature, which is uh no mercy.
I'm gonna spend all of my hope to put one plus one bonus to my attack rolls into my next rest.
Uh because he realizes that this is about to kick off.
Okay, so um Erethan
What do you picture as the best trait for tossing two bodies at a building?
Is that do you see that more of a strength or a f
Finesse?
Like this is a little bit out a little bit out of my normal wheelhouse in terms of I I li li lift smash grapple.
I I could see that as a strength
You know?
Okay.
Alright.
I will I will let you let you roll with strength to
Essentially drop a two bunker busters on uh on a small fishing shop.
So so pretty much going to do what I try to do with the other guy where I like
Toss toss them and they just slide into the door kind of thing like I was trying to do with the other guy but I dropped him by accident um a little too early and he didn't quite make it into the pigsty and then I had to heal him and
Now the group's mad at me about that and and maybe maybe I should have killed him, but I wasn't hungry and this is truly the most macabre
thing I think I've ever heard.
Okay, so just to be clear airlifting two bloody corpses.
Yep.
Yes.
Mm-mm.
Why don't we hide them again in an alien barrels or something?
Like, do you remember where we hid them?
Very, very hurriedly in an alley.
Yeah, yeah.
Not hard to find.
They're not hard to find, I'm sure.
I'm sure.
Maybe one of them is still breathing air out of it.
I will say you do not have to mark a stress to will
You know what?
Mark one stress for both of them to carry these two creatures because they're dead.
For objects.
Former creatures.
Former creatures.
Objects.
These two meals to go.
Lack of ability to uh
Say no?
Silence is acquiescence?
Wow.
Dang.
Look, it's not a good principle in general.
I'm just it's it's just this moment
Okay, so go ahead and give me your your strength roll.
Don't forget to add your plus three because of your strength stat.
John, you're insane.
You're crazy, man.
I'm trying to go hold on, one one one last quick question.
The goal is to have them hit the ground and skip like a pebble into the door?
Is that Yeah, kinda like that.
It's kind of roll under the door.
Yeah.
Okay, perfect.
I love it.
I d I I don't want it to seem like they just fell from the roof or somewhere.
I definitely wanted to give it the this the sensation that they they were not in or around the house.
before this this thud happens at the door.
Okay.
I'm so curious how how we're gonna get from this moment to the bar fight tomorrow morning.
If it ever happens, Kia's gotta leave town
She's got she's like with somebody.
She's gone tonight.
Tell us where you're going, we'll send the father there.
Yep.
Um forward or mail for sure.
Yeah, forward forward all the nets.
Yep.
It y you do get a fear, Mr.
GM
Big shock.
But but with the plus with the plus three, rolling a 23 makes it a 26.
What the fuck?
Wow.
And I am also willing to spend my prayer dragon dice um to make it an even higher roll to make sure that it it is very believable.
That there's no way that anyone inside this building here could have had anything to do with these bodies outside that just hit this door
Okay.
No, no.
It is a it is a 30 with fear.
A 30.
You
This is the most insane thing I've ever heard.
Well, the craziest thing I've ever heard.
You perfectly
Like, whatever you learned from dropping that initial guard in the pig sty I'm a quick learner was very clearly the one lesson that you needed to pick up in order to learn
like trajectories of projectiles as you're flying.
It's like it's like cool, but with dead bodies.
Yes.
And like you're you're definitely you've you've got the math
meme with all the with all the numbers just floating up floating above you.
And these two bodies
Don't even hit the ground.
They soar through the still open front door.
Oh the door was shut.
Did you guys close the door?
I don't I don't think so.
I don't think anybody did.
I don't think anyone closed the door, even though I was like
It's it's called It's the Death Star shot.
It's the trench run proton torpedo shot.
Like two Oh yeah.
Like straight down
You had a really high roll.
Were you not intending to aim through the door?
I I don't want to I was I was attending to aim at the door.
I thought the door had been closed.
For some reason I thought I heard someone say they'd close the door once he walked fully in
I invited people to, but I don't think anyone did.
If that's the case, then they are going to fly through the door.
Are they gonna be projectiles that hit the giant?
No.
Oh
So these these two m man missiles, um
Go flying through the door.
God land at the giant's feet.
And he takes a large step backwards, like a a f in a frightened step as two
Still armored up guards come clanking in and landing at his feet covered in blood, and since they fell from
Uh a a a decent distance.
It's a little bit like dropping a bag of trash from out like a second story window.
There's some pff some
Some we'll say spurting.
And um he takes a he takes a big step back, stumbles a little bit
And reaches kind of out to steady himself
I'm gonna spend a fear in this moment to uh to note that he reaches for Florence to steady himself.
Oh yeah.
And his hand
passes straight through what should have been Florin's body
My man has gotta be thinking he's losing his mind, right?
Like Okay, so he is he is facing he's facing the door
So he's facing away from Amithar.
He he currently does He currently doesn't know what his hand passed through.
Okay, great.
So she is going to take this opportunity because he's obviously
facing the opposite way and she's going to basically and he's his momentum is taking him backwards, right?
Because he's trying to grab onto something.
His hand is going through it.
She's gonna take this opportunity to try to take out his knee and take him down.
So she's gonna drop
The illusion and she's going to try to use his momentum as he's going backwards to just hit him really hard in his knee to see if she can take him down to the ground.
Okay.
Kitty, did you Yes?
Yes.
Like, it's so imperceptible.
Um By the way, we're on camera, so you could also just
Are you sure?
Well I I didn't want I didn't want to do that.
Um when the bodies came rolling in, I wanted to use voice of dread at him.
Because
Because he's scared, right?
Yeah.
Why not play on that?
Yeah, absolutely.
So as the bodies roll in, I'm like, okay, now's the time.
Uh so I magically speak in his ear and say, The path you are on is unrighteous.
What you see here will happen to you if you do not get out now.
Okay.
Gotta make a spellcast roll to see if that affects him.
Okay, okay, okay.
And then plus wait, what?
It's inst
Spellcast is instinct?
Wait.
Your sp your spellcast role is knowledge.
Knowledge, right, right, right, right.
So it's gonna be 13, 16, and 16 plus fear.
Sure.
Um so on a success they mark a stress and become temporarily
Vulnerable.
I will add that to his adversary sheet, both of those.
And he is now vulnerable.
Which means that as Lady Almathara attempts to take out his legs and knock him down.
She gets advantage.
Um yeah, I should probably describe how he's vulnerable, huh?
I guess this we'll just take uh the instance that he's caught off guard.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Sounds good.
I mean I think caught off guard is a good description for what's happened in the last forty-five seconds of his life.
Yeah, underselling it I think.
Yes.
Okay.
Caught off guard times three.
Uh-huh.
Alright, so we need uh do you need a roll from the other?
I do need Armathora to make a roll with advantage.
Um to knock him down.
Unless you can make a compelling case, my best guess is that that's probably a strength roll.
But can I use um like my air magic to kind of assist me like with the momentum too?
Um yeah, I think you could use it I can spend a hope and let's see.
You can spend a hope and add it to your action role.
And add it to my
Okay, okay.
It's a plus two.
Plus two.
You also have advantage, so roll an additional d6 and add it.
So Okay going for the back of his knees, just knock them out.
Then he crumples.
Add another d6.
Let's see.
Oh, that was terrible.
Wait, do I roll it again or just do a d6?
Just do a d6.
It's with a yeah, with a plus d6.
Okay.
Um okay, so that was an eight, unfortunately.
Um, but that actually would be a 10 because of the plus two with the air.
Okay.
Hope or fear?
Um that is with fear.
Okay, so uh failure with fear is you you don't get what you want and
Things get worse.
Great.
Nice.
How could they get worse?
I mean, I guess to answer that question, I'll allow the giant
To shout out.
I don't know what's going on, but you better get in here.
And you see coming through the front door
A humanoid with snakes growing out of its head, like instead of hair,
Scaly Snakes.
Hate that.
Hate everything about that.
He has a bow slung over his shoulder.
And on the leash
That he is carrying are two creatures.
One of them is a bit like a mountain lion, but made
entirely of slate grey stone.
The other one is a wyvern
With mirrored scales of ice
Fancy beasts.
And he walks in the door.
Takes a quick assessment of the situation and lets go of the leash
And as he does this, the what looks like a a mount what looks like a mountain lion made of stone.
Suddenly sinks into the ground and disappears.
Hmm.
Hmm.
I hate everything about that.
One less to deal with, yay.
Wishful thing.
And as he lets go of the leash, the snake-headed creature pulls his bow
From over his shoulder.
Knocks an arrow and doesn't quite know where to aim it yet.
And so in that moment, with this wyvern that is standing there in the doorway, kind of shimmering with its scales.
And you have the snake-headed humanoid with an arrow and a third creature that has just disappeared, just vanished.
I'm not gonna take any actions yet.
Because I wanna see what you guys do because your choices so far have been pretty interesting to me.
So
That's a word.
That's one word for it.
But if you don't want to go, I can definitely go.
I have No, I'm definitely not.
No, no, no.
I have I have tons of fear if you're not I would
I would very much like to go, yes.
Holy cow.
Okay.
Um I think Kranz hears a bunch of people storm in.
Here's, you know, an attempt at taking this giant down.
Um I don't know that he can hear Morelia, because like that's all that's all, you know, essentially telepathy.
Um
But he definitely hears the two bodies hit.
Like I don't know that he's like peeking around a corner.
I don't think he can hear it, you know, see anything.
But he hears the two bodies there then
Hornholed through the door hit.
And I think that would be enough for him to be like, okay, let's go.
Um, so he comes around the corner.
Uh I am
I'm not at the back door.
But I'm I'm like close to it.
So I'm not sure how much distance between me and our our giant friend
About 30 feet.
Okay.
So like who you know for the record, I think we've traumatized emotionally with at least one war crime.
Uh in the last 30 seconds.
So I am going to try to take advantage of that.
I believe he's still vulnerable.
Yeah, that's correct.
Alright.
I think Kranz swords out.
Well you know, sword and dagger out is gonna leap in and and uh try to
Slash away at his I mean he's huge, you know, at his hip, I guess.
The closest part of him.
So I'm gonna uh throw an attack roll in there.
That's cot.
Okay, um you're not gonna believe it.
Correct.
You will not you will not believe it.
Correct?
It's a credit.
Hell yeah.
That's
I got double nines.
So I completely don't need the advantage.
Um
Good uh so I'm gonna do some damage.
Um how do I mark this for crit?
You take the full value of your damage dice, and then you roll your dice, and then you add your modifiers.
So full dam full value of the damage of all of the damage dice?
So 2d8 plus 10 is what you're rolling, right?
Yep, so I've got six uh would that be sixteen plus another two d eight?
So twenty-six plus two d eight, basically.
Twenty-six plus Oh, I rolled kinda poorly.
Uh three.
So 29 damage on that.
Do you get a hope too?
I do get a hope, I clear a stress.
You do?
I don't have any stress.
Um
Yeah, I uh Kranz comes in hot.
I mean both blades out.
You know, an enemy not looking at him, and it's 1v1, he doesn't have to worry about anybody else, like it's just one target.
Uh he's lived in this moment for years and years.
This is where he excels.
So he sees that opening and he exploits it.
You stab the giant and your your your cuts are true.
He is he has taken that damage.
Um and he kinda like turns to the the one with snakes.
What what are you doing?
Shoot them
But you guys did roll a crit, so I'm not gonna take I'm not gonna take play away from you guys unless you really want me to.
Somebody better do something.
Um, I am going to um is there a back entrance?
I'm going to like look around
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah.
How far away is it?
It's like thirty or forty feet back behind thirty or forty feet.
And then there's people in the doorway and then two bodies and then the giant, yes?
Yeah, at the front door there is so you have the one with the snakes
on the head kinda like out just outside the doorway like looking in you have the wyvern
Standing in the doorway blocking the front door.
Key is kind of next to that door, so right next to the wyvern
Um you also have you know like a few steps maybe five-10 feet in front of that is where the giant is where you just were, uh slightly.
And then um
Yeah, past that is Yeah, past that is the back entrance where you could go and somewhere around there is Morelia
Okay, um I am going to I'm gonna spend a hope and summon a midnight spirit.
Okay.
And I'm not going to have it attack.
I'm just gonna put it basically in between
like our crew and the people that are there and like tell it to block and like try to like just hold them off and then I'm gonna gesture for everybody to like
Get out, get out, get out, get out, get let's let's go out the back way.
Including Key.
I'm telling, like, like I want Key to come with us too.
Okay
So you don't have to roll anything to summon that spirit.
So you are I'm just gonna Yeah
Put it in place, try to try to use it as a block and then tell everybody like let's get out the back.
Let's get off the back.
Oh now we're running.
Okay.
Is there I can I just out of curiosity I did what might be colloquially described as a shit ton of damage in an attack.
Uh did I did it appear to like
affect this guy at all?
Did he did he stagger?
Did he like is he looking hurt?
Or was it j did he just kind of like look down at me like, oh, that happened?
He's he's hurt.
He you did a you did a good amount of damage to him.
So he's he's hurt
Okay.
Alright, I just I I was curious, I didn't know how uh
How well we were doing, or at least in the proximate version of that.
I I think Alcrez would look over it at uh Morelia
Like eyes wide, what are we doing?
And uh cause she's still in the room, he's got his swords in the giant.
Uh are we are we fighting?
Are we running?
Like what are we doing?
I'm confused as the player because the two twins are still doing the opposite thing again.
One's fighting now and one wants to run.
And I'm like, oh my gosh.
I just don't think if we run we're gonna get very far unless we take these guys down.
Okay
Morelia wants to make a move though to inflict more damage or at least slow these guys down.
So she's still gonna s kind of stay there.
She's gonna use uh death grip.
Okay.
And she's going to uh have it all the vines come forth from her harness that she wears and all adversaries between me and the farthest target
I'm just gonna choose whoever's farthest so that I'm I'm hitting multiple along the way.
Okay.
Um I would make the mark too stressed.
No, just kidding, that's the one above that.
Um
The target must succeed on a reaction roll, which is 13.
Okay, so we hit by vi- You have to choose who you're making your attack against first.
So make a spellcast roll against a target within close range.
So is that attack on Are you going specifically for the one with the the
The snake's on its head?
Are you going for the giant?
I think the snake's on its head, guys, the f farthest one, so I'd have to be hitting others along the way.
If I can like
I mean, we're all just like in the middle of like the door, right?
Mm-hmm.
We haven't really like spread out.
Yeah.
So it's like uh I think you're still probably in range.
Okay.
So yeah.
So let's get that spellcast roll.
You just want to say the word crit now.
We can get that going.
It's not it's not a crit.
Unfortunately, but it's also not with fear.
Okay.
So I add three.
That's gonna be an eleven
Your vines is their reaction roll at 13.
Your vines unfortunately do not find any purchase.
And they fall to the ground beyond and around this archer who
Having just seen you do this, is going to aim one of his Sunseer arrows at you.
And fire.
No, thank you.
Mushrooms don't like the sun, right?
Yeah, no.
That's Does a 13 clear your evasion?
No?
No?
I mean I mean yeah, yeah, it hits me.
Okay.
I was like, okay.
Damn.
I I thought I was the tank.
Holy shit.
It it does hit me.
Okay.
Alright, so an arrow, it's gonna notch not yeah, notch into your into your like your shoulder blade
And um I need to roll damage.
Ooh, I get to roll big dice.
This is fun for me.
Okay.
This is the first damage I'm taking.
Oh no.
Oh that was a horrible roll, so don't worry about that one.
Good.
Maybe not!
Oh they're they're they're both really bad.
They're both I got to roll 2d20 and I rolled a four and a three
2D20?
A four and a three.
Oh, but you're calling like a confident three.
Look at you.
I'll add my additional three, so that is still 10 damage.
So I guess that'd be minor damage for me?
That meets your major damage threshold, which is 10.
Okay, I'm not sure how to look at this thing yet.
So do you have armor?
Yeah.
Can you mark a slot?
I haven't actually had to do anything with this yet, so I don't know let's quick go over how taking damage works in Daggerheart since this is the first time that I think we've come across this for
for some of us.
So I see there's a calculate damage button too.
So you can do that.
Um but let let's just kind of go through it so you you kind of know the mechanics.
So there are three tiers of damage in dagger heart.
There is minor, major, and severe.
And the difference between minor, major, and severe is you mark 1 HP, you mark 2 HP, or you mark 3 HP.
The way you determine what it is is I tell you what my damage roll is.
And you compare it, if it's below your first threshold, it's minor.
If it's at your first threshold or below your second threshold, it's major
And if it's at or above your second threshold, it's severe.
Those are the three options.
I rolled a 10, which is your major damage threshold, which would be two HP slots.
Like Mav mentioned, you also have armor slots.
You can use one armor slot per damage that you take to reduce the HP that you have to mark by one.
So if you do that, you would mark.
one HP one armor slot instead of two HP.
There are some some features that allow you to use more than one armor slot in a in a single damage turn.
I don't think you have one unless you find one, but
Okay.
Yeah, I'm gonna mark an armor slot to bring myself down some minor damage, and then I'm marking one HP.
Okay, sounds good.
Um due to a feature of this character
He is going to quickly notch another arrow, and having seen Alecrans stab his giant friend is going to fire a arrow at you, Alecrans.
Oh, I forgot to mention, I'm so sorry.
Um, when this adversary makes a successful standard attack, the target glows until the end of the scene and can't become hidden.
Attack rolls made against the glowing target have advantage.
So all attack rolls against you have advantage.
Oh good.
Uh-oh.
Okay, so he's gonna fire another arrow at Alecrans.
This Morelli is in the corner like Ralph from The Simpsons.
I'm in danger.
I'm in danger.
Okay, I rolled a little bit better, Alakrans.
Does a 23 hit you?
Yeah, that'll land.
Okay, let me roll my 2d20 to see how the damage goes.
Please no.
Please no.
That's okay.
I would rather you not.
Once again, still not good.
My damage rolls are garbage.
Legitimately a six and a one.
I have not rolled a double digit on a damage roll.
Okay, so six, one plus three.
So once again, ten damage.
Oh, it's a nine.
Uh so just to be clear, if it's so obviously I would take one HP damage if I allow it to hit.
I can market an armor slot to take no damage.
Correct.
Yeah, essentially you're you're just basically moving your like positioning yourself so it
It hits your armor instead of hits you.
So yeah, uh I'm gonna mark an armor slot.
Uh Crans hearing the arrow land a morelia by over shoulder like
Sees the arrow coming and shifts to like get his bracer over his face and it kind of deflects the arrow off over his shoulder.
Since it was a successful attack though, you are also gluing delightfully.
And um you also cannot become hidden, and attacks against you have advantage, which reminds me there's a few other people here, and one of them
Is a giant that you just stabbed.
You have so much fear.
You have so many fear points.
You have like 20 fear points.
He maxed out like a session ago, I'm pretty sure.
I'm gonna I won't keep gesturing towards the donor
Like she god, my sister might be correct here.
Okay.
Um so the giant is going to raise his his war hammer, which once again is bigger than you.
Alakrans over his head, and he is going to attempt to bring it down on top of your head with all the force that he can muster.
And as he's swinging this, like, you gotta picture, you guys are in pretty tight quarters.
So there's like fishing gear like going flying as he's swinging this.
So I'm gonna go ahead and roll to hit.
Let's hope we can get something good like a 23 again, right?
Uh that's a little bit worse.
That's only a 15
That hits.
Okay.
Alright, uh so with the 15, I don't get to roll quite as fun dice to for this attack, which sucks.
Maybe I'll roll more damage because my D20 attack rolls haven't been going great.
That is oddly, despite the fact that it's worse dice, that is more damage.
So that time it's 14 damage to you as his hammer comes crashing down on you
Uh I'm gonna mark an armor slot to take no damage.
Okay.
Um I just actually I just I just realized, hold on, I had an advantage on that attack.
Let me make sure.
You do me give it plus design.
Let me make sure it no, I get to roll two D.
Plus D6, sorry.
No, it's
Oh no, I don't know how advantage works.
I get to roll another d20.
Maybe I'll hit a 20.
Oh good.
Maybe I'll hit a 20.
That'd be fun.
Oh fun.
Yeah, it would be fun.
No, that was a lot worse.
Okay.
We tried.
We tried.
Uh I I'm actually I think Kranz doesn't have time, like arrow glances up off his bracer, he starts glowing, he looks up the hammers already coming down.
He doesn't have enough time to like get
Okay.
Sounds good.
I mean, maybe not for you, but
Uh well it was only I only took one HP damage.
That's not bad.
So it's I'm I'm still up.
He's like he survives this and he's like he kinda hops back and forth like alright okay I
Still here?
Suddenly.
And then he kind of looks around and it's like, oh, I'm the only one here.
Yeah, I was gonna say Marelia hasn't moved yet, so No, I haven't left either.
I'm still like, you know
S in the suddenly.
I mean I am starting to walk away though.
I am like backing towards the exit.
I just saw a giant sling a hammer that I was unable to take down.
I just saw like
Flaming arrows, some kind of weird gargoyle shit happening.
I am backing off.
This is not a fight that I want to take on right now.
Okay.
Um, I wanna get our turtle lady friend out.
So Almathar is like the tour guide that's like, and we're moving, and we're going and back.
So as you are kind of in this moment where
Almatara is trying to get you all out.
Um, and you are taking these hits.
You notice that the Wyvern's
Scales kind of start to shimmer almost like it's like a like fur bristling
And I'm gonna use the this this adversary's attack icicle barb to spend a fear to make an attack against everyone within close range.
Okay.
So that's that's uh Alacrans, that's Morelia.
That is key, unfortunately.
Not Key, no!
The future of the town!
I'm gonna go ahead and roll, and I do have advantage against two of you, so I'm gonna have to roll a few times.
Hold on just a second.
Okay, so I'm gonna use the advantage because that one was garbage.
Oh my god, that was even worse.
Okay, so Alocrans, I rolled a four and a two against you, so I think you're okay.
Uh it does not hit me.
Yeah, so I'm gonna have to throw this D20 away because this is failing me.
Yeah, that die goes in the dice geo.
Oh my god, it's rolled a four again
Okay.
Uh the good news for you, Morelia, is that with advantage, my second attack was uh with advantage was was the was a 13.
So
Oh yay you hit me.
Yay.
Um curious
Can I use my pairing dagger in this moment?
Because it just says when I'm attacked, but I'm not seeing the type of attack.
That would limit.
If any of the attacker's damage dice rolled the same value as your dice.
Hold on, let me read this.
When you were attacked, roll this weapon's damage dice.
If any of the attacker's damage dice roll the same value as your dice, so you gotta roll a 2d6 and get the same value.
The matching results are discarded from your damage dice before the damage you take.
Okay
Remember what values you rolled?
I haven't rolled damage yet.
To make their t I rolled my attack dice, I haven't rolled damage.
Yeah, he hasn't rolled yet.
It's the damage.
He's gonna hit you.
The question is can you parry the damage?
Gotcha, gotcha.
Yep
It's all good.
It's all good.
It's complicated.
I've never seen that I've never seen that uh trait before, I guess.
Alright, I'm gonna roll to hit key with this attack as well.
And we'll talk about that in a minute.
Oh no.
Oh no.
Oh no.
Oh no.
Alright, so I'm gonna roll my damage dice on you, really.
Okay.
What did you roll?
What are your numbers?
I have a three to five.
Okay.
I rolled a two and a three, so we get rid of the three.
Okay.
So you take two damage
He takes five damage.
And both of you are restrained by the barbs that were just shot out from this wyvern.
I'm I'm a little confused.
So before when we said thirteen that was just for if it even hits
Yep.
Me.
Correct.
That was the attack rule.
Two damage, that's that's not even that's just that's minor damage, so that's mark one HP.
Mm-hmm
Or you can mark an armor slot?
I c yeah, mar I'm just gonna mark an armor slot then.
Okay.
So that's so you kinda deflect the attack with your armor, but the barb still sticks you in place.
And you are restrained.
You cannot move.
Yeah, even though you didn't take any like you can take no HP damage and still have it be a successful attack.
That's a big barb.
You can big barp, big barp, barp big barp.
What's that from what?
Yo all all the tall tail tavern oh geez no Okay okay So
I've kind of done a lot here and I realize that.
But not quite done.
Uh Almathar, as you as you start moving towards the door, gesturing to people that they should follow you.
Um, you notice something about the floor kind of odd.
And suddenly the floor shifts and changes.
And this stone mountain lion leaps out from it
And I'm gonna need you to make either an agility or an instinct reaction roll.
Okay.
You can you can choose which one is better for you, whichever one you'd prefer.
Instinct is better for me.
Okay.
I'm gonna do that.
And that is a 12 with fear.
That is unfortunately not a success.
It's a reaction roll, so I don't get any fear from this.
Wait, hold on.
Hold on.
Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna remind my sister that she is an elf and she can mark a stress to give herself advantage on a reaction roll.
As part of her ancestry traits.
Hey.
So you can add a d6 to that by marking a stress.
Done.
Done.
Okay.
So roll a d6, see if you get out of it.
Okay.
Um, that's a six.
So that would be what did I roll?
You rolled a twelve.
A twelve with fear.
Still with fear, but an eight.
Well it's reac it's a reaction roll, so there's no hope or fear.
Oh good point.
Okay, that's fair, that's fair.
You said.
So
At first it seems like the creature is gonna hit you as it leaps out from the floor, and in just the last moment
You dodge to the side, the creature dodges or dives past you, and as it hits the ground again, disappears into the floor.
But luckily, it missed.
Perhaps one of those one of those memories of Kran's uh seeing you sitting bored at the practice yard while he is training
And he managed to drag you onto the practice field and practice some moves with him reminds you that in fact you are faster than maybe you remembered.
Oh my god.
Thanks, brother.
Can I uh can I above the table really quick?
I didn't do this intentionally, but
Almost every adversary you guys are fighting, if I make a successful attack roll, I get a fear.
So that's kind of fun for me.
So you're just feeding yourself fear.
It's not like you don't have a lot of fear already.
All of that fear that I just spent
I got all of it back.
That's it.
Except for one, so.
You guys, I think we probably should have ran.
I mean, I have a gnome to throw.
I'm ready to get out of here.
Oh no.
Oh no, I can't run.
I'm waiting to hear if the play has been returned to the players, because if it is, I'm wondering what Arathan is doing flying around the store.
Find any more corpses to fling about?
Let's commit more war crimes!
Yay!
Above the smile.
Above the table.
Quickly just cause I'm trying to figure out before I start taking damage.
Uh-oh.
How do what how it looks like my character had got the uh mastery feature from my
class but I don't know how I figured out that I got that.
Do you just how do you get a mastery feature?
You have to pick that, right?
I think you
Or do you just get it?
I think you pick it at a certain level, right?
Where where do you have the mastery feature?
So my severe damage threshold is at 32.
And I'm trying to figure out where that extra plus four came from, and the only place I could see is that it is from a potentially from the mastery feature
Because my base is eleven and twenty-four, which makes that with my level twenty-eight.
So the other plus four to get it to thirty-two, only on Severe has to be coming from the master feature.
I'm trying to figure out there's a
Bug with the dagger heart demi plane or if I actually have it and I don't see where I ever picked Ascendant
Mastery feature.
I thought mastery was was level five.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
Alright, let me look through your character sheet here.
But it's definitely giving it to me, so I don't know why.
I don't see it.
In the meantime, what you gonna do?
So I guess after I sling the bodies through the s this archer with a wevern and a lion thing shows up that I didn't see as I was throwing guys through the front door.
Um
Possibly hiding, I guess.
But now there's a giant weverin in the front door.
Is that what's I guess I'm seeing since I'm on top of the top top of a roof?
And right outside the door is also a um
Is is the the archer with snakes on his head.
But they were they were definitely not there when I slung bodies through the door.
Correct.
They they ran up after that.
You were sneaky.
Okay
I uh There's gotta be something that's causing this, but I cannot find it currently.
Okay, I'll just pr uh until then I'll just try to mentally make a note that it's a twenty-eight and not thirty-two.
I just want to say this before you do anything.
Alakrans would be perfectly comfortable with more war crimes at this time.
Alcrans is really digging into the dark side this evening.
I wanna leave this place alive and it's looking grim.
So let's do them.
Let's do them.
Let's
There's there's no more uh no more mercy in this house.
That's fair.
So how can Almi help him?
commit war crimes because she will she if he's digging in and he looks at her like it's going down, she is she's gonna be right there with him and helping him.
What is what is he like mentally communicating to her right now, I guess?
Oh I'm I I was waiting to hear what Aerathana was gonna do.
I was just saying that's true, that's true.
If Arathana was thinking about war crimes, the answer is
Good.
Yes.
We are on the door.
And I'm like I'm said, I'm I'm in with whatever my brother decides to do.
I have seen this person notch arrows and fire them into the door.
Correct, yes.
I am going to how far do you would you say he's within far range from where I'm currently at?
Yeah, that's fine.
Yeah.
I am going to do a spell cast roll and attempt to do bolt beacon on that guy.
Okay.
My spellcast is.
.
plus strength, strength, great.
Okay.
So let's roll.
Come on, Aireth An sixteen with hope.
That's a hit.
That's a hit.
So I s I spin I guess I get a hope for rolling hope, so I spin that hope.
And then you get it right back.
I had a hope to spin.
Yep.
Um to do 2d8 plus 2 damage to him and make him vulnerable.
Okay.
Because he's gonna be glowing now.
Okay, perfect.
Let's just l Yeah
Suddenly, you guys know how when you entered this room and I asked you to describe it, you're like, it's kind of dimly lit.
And now basically every person is glowing.
So that's kind of cool.
So not dimly lit anymore.
No
This is it's this is like a lighthouse now.
There's like little there's like rats that are like skittering away from the light at this point.
The cockroaches are scattering
There's like bats in the in, you know, the belfry or whatever, and they're just flying away.
Like all of the critters that have been hid in the darkness of night are just abandoning this blazing
Inferno of whatever is happening with arrows and glowing people and are you guys all rolling manually or you guys rolling through demi plane?
Mammy plane
Did you reveal revealing you need to reach out to Demi Plane and tell them to stop doing that?
Well uh you get a critical success?
I no no no because this is my attack, my damage.
I do 18 points of damage to him.
Damn
Hold on.
That's you put the damn and so you got eights?
You got two eights on your TD eights?
I just sent you a screenshot on Discord, yep.
2D okay.
Shh.
You can s you can see my 26, my 16, and then the damage roll of an 18.
Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and mark him as vulnerable.
And okay, you said 18
All right.
Eighteen.
He is glowing.
He took that damage.
He's fine.
This was snakehead.
It like barely staggers him.
I don't like anything about that.
Uh
That was that I mean that was a good roll.
And I I did a lot.
So Was that with hope?
That was with hope.
That was with hope.
So it's still our our our
I I assume we keep we keep going.
Yeah, thank gods.
Uh Morelia, why don't you go?
If only I had fear to interrupt you guys, right?
No, just kidding.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Okay.
Please.
You're getting revenge from last episode.
He's like at some point Michael's gonna go, this is a GM only episode.
The player
First we'll do nothing at all.
It is 100% fear.
Speaking of which, at some point we're gonna have to talk about what I was planning for the moment when the knock hit the door
versus what ended up happening?
Well that could be a whole episode where we just where we just unpack that moment.
Just have a chaser talk back episode.
Anyway, sorry.
Go ahead, uh Marillion
I'm restrained, right?
Yes, you can still act.
You can still act while restrained.
And you can also you can clear a condition.
You are able to
Free yourself from this restraint with a successful finesse roll.
But that would be my action, right?
That is that is, I mean, it's not like
other games where you just get one action, like you you could You can free yourself from being restrained with a successful finesse role and I encourage you to make it
with hope.
Well, what if I have no hope?
I'm hopeless.
No, you could roll with fear.
Just Okay, what would happen if you rolled with fear?
That's so silly.
I don't know.
Something super fun.
Huh.
Just
But I can make an action first because I'm not restrained from making actions.
So I think I'm gonna do that just to play it safe.
Okay
Uh and I'm you know
Very close to I would assume the Goliath or Giant.
The giant.
The giant.
Yeah.
I think very close is fair.
Crans has taken damage or he's just deflected everything so far?
I have I have marked one HP
I also marked one HP.
It might be too soon for me to do that.
So, I'm going to
Use my improved hand runes and attack the big giant guy.
Okay.
What does that look like?
She has these almost tattoo-like symbols on her hands that begin to glow a
sickly turquoise hue and then shooting out from them in
Making this up on the spot.
It's difficult.
Um I'd say it's kind of like
wisps of energy.
So it doesn't really streak in a beam, but more so in a just like a a quickly flowing energy.
Okay.
Um but tendrils.
And I'd say to flavor it, since all it says is magical.
Mm-hmm.
Think of like soul energy.
Okay.
Like like life force.
Sure.
Absolutely.
But this is like not necrotic, but definitely not
It's not benefiting you.
Yeah.
In a sense.
I think I think one of the things and this is my understanding at least, in Dagger Heart there's only two types of damage.
It's magical and physical.
So that way you can flavor your damage the way that you want.
So just
to kind of have that above the table moment.
So I guess I rolled a hit first.
Mm-hmm.
I love that.
It's definitely hope.
Okay, so that's going to be instinct.
So that is a 13 with hope.
Oh no, I don't hit him.
Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Okay.
Who are you hitting?
The giant.
The big boy.
Uh there's advantage against him, right?
There is advantage.
Didn't we he's vulnerable because he's a big thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you gotta add a plus you gotta add a roll of d6 and add that.
Good call.
Very good memory.
I hadn't pulled up the sheet yet, so I'd forgotten.
I said thirteen.
So this is a sixteen.
Okay, that hits.
Yes!
Okay.
That's a success.
Thank you, Mav.
Very nice, very nice.
I get out.
Okay, so now I'm gonna roll damage.
So I have 2d10.
Okay.
Just find my D10 real quick.
This it nope.
Yep.
I have one.
Okay.
Eight
Zero, I believe that's a ten then.
Eighteen.
Um so that's gonna be eighteen plus three is twenty-one magical damage
He's hurt as as this as this attack streaks into him.
I'm not gonna take play from the players, but I did forget this.
Last time he was attacked.
This giant has a feature called Bloody Reprisal.
When this advert adversary marks two or more HP from an attack within very close range
You can make a standard attack against the attacker.
So I'm gonna use that reaction right now.
Oh
So, as this damage streaks from your hand runes into him, he is going to lower the Warhammer and swing it at you like a golf club.
The good news or bad news is you're restrained, so worst case scenario, you're not going flying.
That's kind of cool.
Right?
Where is where is my midnight spirit in relation to the giant?
It's just kind of standing next to him.
Can it can it
Can I make it move in the way of what's going on?
Not in this.
Would that be considered a k no.
Ah.
Okay.
I really want this to hit.
The dam the the damage number is very nice.
I'll tell you about it if it hits.
No I tried Alright first one misses So I get do have advantage because you're vulnerable so you know what I'm gonna get a different you know what no I'm just gonna stick with the same D20 believe believe in the D20
12.
Does that clear your evasion?
By one I think no!
Yeah.
Okay, so now I get to tell you about
The damage roll.
Oh dear.
On a success, this adversary deals 2d6 plus 15 physical damage.
Ho ho!
Caza fine!
What do you mean?
Everything's gonna be okay.
I think
That is wait actually can you roll your d6s for your parrying dagger?
See if we can reduce that.
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay, roll your d6s.
Yes.
I got a one and a three.
Okay.
So cancelled out, I rolled two threes.
Cancelled out one of the threes that I rolled.
Alright.
Oh, why not both?
No come on.
I'm not sure it works that way, does it?
If any of the attacker is.
If any attackers damage dice roll the same thing.
The matching results are discarded.
The matching results
Okay.
That's an insane weapon.
Um, okay.
So you only take 15 damage.
Only only.
Only.
Jeez.
Okay, that is major damage.
Uh I'm gonna mark another armor slot.
Okay.
To make that a minor and then mark one more HP.
Wow wee wow wow.
Well, after that, um
I would like to move, so I uh you're still restrained.
Well yeah, yeah.
I was gonna break the restraint.
Okay.
Oh you're right, you're right, you're right, right.
All right, so you're gonna try to break your restraint.
Go ahead and roll your finesse rolling.
Yikes, you guys.
That's a one and a two.
Oh dear.
Plus two is a four.
With fear.
That's a confident three.
That's what that is.
That's a confident three.
That's a confident three.
There it is, baby.
Would you like me to tell you if that's a success?
Or do you have a guess?
Take your turn, it's fine.
I ain't going nowhere.
Alright, let's let's use a little bit of this fear.
I should have just hexed him.
Let's use a little bit of this fear
Um, the first thing that's gonna happen is the glitter worm is going to shift his eyes around the room.
And he's gonna realize that the closest at like of his adversaries is key right next to him.
Uh uh oh.
And he is going to move to key and use
Swift Claws.
Can I asking uh as he is moving, because I think this is the first adversary that has moved is the glitter worm.
Uh, within melee range of me.
No, because you didn't make it to the door because that wasn't where the giant was.
Okay.
So he would be more close to very close to you?
Yeah.
I I guess I if he's not yeah, if he's not within melee range of me and attempting to leave that range then then I am Good question.
Good question.
I am
Res rescinding my request.
So he's gonna he is going to use Swift Clause.
on Ki, and that is going to hit.
Ki is not so much a fighter, so does not really have a lot of HP or evasion.
I'm gonna go ahead and roll damage and we're gonna find out if Key survives.
Oh god.
That is the wrong die.
That is also the wrong tie.
There we go.
Oh that look on your face.
Okay.
Oh dear.
I'm gonna make a reaction roll for Key to find out if she gets knocked back
to the corner of her shop.
She does not get knocked back, but she is very, very hurt
Very like unsteady on her feet and bleeding pretty badly.
So if she falls down, would she be like low key hurt?
Okay.
Huh.
Good.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
That one was for reamp.
Uh okay, so um the glitter worm kind of like is is cornering her in in that portion of the room now.
And
The snakes on the head is going to realize where he was attacked from in the in the rooftops
And is going to aim an arrow at you, Arithean, and attempt to hit you
You are not vulnerable.
One of the few people in this entire situation that's For now.
Yeah, you are not vulnerable, but he is going to fire an arrow.
19 to hit you?
Oh yeah.
Well it's glowing now.
Alright, you are now you are now a a lamp on top of a rooftop, which is um I'm gonna give you something to consider.
So far, this group of enemies might be the only people that know about you?
If there's a giant dragonling on a roof glowing?
That might not last forever.
Oh, that's fine.
So I'm pretty sure I might roar here soon.
Okay.
It'll be fun.
Okay.
Get get the whole town awake.
Yeah, that'll solve all of our problems.
Oh it will.
100%
I got this.
We're just gonna wake everybody up.
Okay.
Ooh, I'm actually rolling better on my D20 damage dice.
Now that's nice.
Oh no no no no uh thirty-three thirty-four damage to you, Fate.
Thirty-four?
Okay.
Okay.
So
Pretending that that's a bug, that'd be twenty, so I'd be hitting severe.
Yeah.
Um
I'm going to mark a stress because of my scales to um mark one fewer hit points.
Mm-hmm.
Um
Can you only spend one armor slot or can you spend one armor slot, but you can do that along with your scales, so you can knock it down by two.
So once so I take one hit point then.
Okay.
Perfect.
Okay.
And this this creature, this humanoid, is going to make another attack.
This time he is going to um aim for the only one he hasn't hit with an arrow.
He's going to be firing a arrow back at you, Almathar
Across the room.
23 to hit.
I just rolled a nineteen again.
This is crazy.
Jesus.
That's crazy.
Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and roll my damage.
All of a sudden this d20 is starting to hit.
It's 40 damage?
Oh my god.
Holy.
Wow.
So how does the damage work?
Like how do I mark that?
So you can your severe threshold is 15.
Right.
So we cleared that by a bit.
You can you can take an armor slot
To reduce it by one threshold so you could take major damage.
So you would your your options unless you have a ability that says otherwise
R two take three damage two damage and one armor slot.
Yep.
I was sorry, I was looking through your character sheet to see if you had anything else, but I don't Okay.
Yeah.
Marking damage.
Okay.
Yeah, I don't think I have anything else.
Well you so you've got an armor slot, you've got three armor slots.
You can mark one and then only take two damage.
Yes.
Okay, we'll do that.
That sounds good.
Yep
And I feel like that was kind of kind of brutal of me, so I'm gonna go ahead and pass
Pass things back without doing more because that was a lot.
Those two hits alone were pretty nasty.
So go ahead, do what you gotta do.
Uh Tidley, how much hope do you have?
I am almost max.
I have five.
Yeah.
I think Kranz has just leaped away from this massive hit, watched
the the giant gulf swing into Morelia and then this uh snakehead creature fire an arrow into her
Thigh, shoulder, stomach, something.
Um, he's bloodied, she's looking even worse.
And he makes eye contact with her across the room.
Uh and I think they're both like uh they've been at odds for the last, you know, two sessions, constantly out of whack, constantly out of of like in tension with each other, making different decisions.
And he looks at her and is like, Whatever you want to do.
Uh if you wanna run we can run.
If you wanna put this giant in the ground, let's do it
Okay.
So I I tag team or run
Okay, yeah, I'm down.
Let's um well I mean I don't think anyone else is trying to leave, so I think we're fighting.
We're fighting.
Um
I am going to pull the arrow out of my thigh.
And I'm gonna try to attack the giant, I guess.
Okay.
Um
So how if you are envisioning like a major tag team attack between Kranz and and Almi, how does he help her do the maximum amount of damage possible with
Her magic.
Hmm.
Like thinking about how we did a tag team last session, like you were powering his fist to like take somebody out one hit.
See, I don't know because I feel like the air powers your like
Your melee damage, but how do we how do we do it the other way around?
I I think there's there's a couple options here.
Here's a I mean I could I could like physically try to throw you at
like something with the air with my magic or I don't know.
I think here's the suggestion.
I think Cran's looking at you ready to fight seeing the fire in your eyes.
Uh he would turn around and like he's got swords in his hands, right?
But those both of them have basket hilts that you can like punch with.
He would punch at this giant's groin
Which is right at head level, conveniently, to like try to double him over.
Double him over, and then you can like
put essentially a a gust of wind right beneath him and throw him into the rafters.
Like use all of the magic.
Like right to the nuts.
Exactly.
Yeah, I'm in.
Let's do it.
Alright.
Morelia is also gonna hex him.
Excellent.
We're gonna tag team this.
Only thing is I don't know what that does.
Well hold on, I was gonna say if hex gives advantage, he's I think we already have advantage on it.
It says action and damage rolls against a hex creature gain a bonus equal to your tier.
I don't know what it means.
Your tier two
Level one is tier one, level two through four is tier two, five through eight, maybe seven are tier three.
I don't want to say that on the sheet.
That doesn't say.
that he that you fail to hex him with fear.
Let's not give our friend Michael an opportunity.
And let's see if we can follow through on our attack.
She doesn't have to roll to she just has to mark a stress to hex
Oh hell yeah, do it.
Basically from all the damage that's been caused to us in I've just I should have hexed Hell yeah way long ago.
Do it.
So he's hexed now, so I guess whenever um
You do damage, we'll just add a two.
And when you attack the action action and damage?
Yes.
So attack rolls and damage rolls both have plus two from now on on this giant.
Amazing.
Alright, let's get it
Uh, all right.
Okay.
Good.
All right, I have fifteen.
I have a nineteen with hope.
And what did you roll on the tag team roll, Olmathara?
It's just the duality roll, yeah.
You just roll your attack as usual, and then you guys get to pick from which one you prefer.
Nineteen with hope.
Add a plus six for advantage.
Great.
Plus D six, not a plus six.
Yeah, sorry, plus d six.
Oh, actually that's because I have the plus two to attack roll as well.
So twenty-one with hope.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
26 with hope.
Let's fucking go.
Let's fucking go.
Well take that one.
Either one of those will hit, so your pick.
Now you now you roll your damage so you combine each of your uh each of your damages.
So uh
So here's a question.
This is one of the mechanical things that I've been wondering about.
When you roll a tag team roll with hope, do both characters gain hope on that roll?
Um Or is it only the characters that roll I mean we both rolled with hope, so for this it would be an academic question, but like for tag team roles you're spending three hope, but if you roll with hope
Ostensibly you you have to pick one of the two.
We're going with magic damage here, cause cause we're going with all me's.
But ostensibly both of us would get hope on the roll, no?
I think so.
Okay.
Yeah, I think you both got hope.
So I'm gonna use one of mine immediately to throw out a slayer die.
Okay.
Uh and then I get we also have plus two to our damage rolls from the hex, correct?
Yes.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
There's a lot of numbers going on now.
Oh yeah, okay.
Um
Alright, that's bad, but okay.
Um seven, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen.
Uh, I've got twenty-three damage from Kranz.
Um, fourteen
That's 37, is that correct?
Correct.
Yeah.
37 damage.
Okay.
You guys are getting me back for that damage that I did, huh?
So Um, I can also, let's see, make a plus three if I use hope, right?
To damage?
I would say w I think we're over a severe threshold.
Oh okay.
Should I not worry about it?
Yeah, keep it, keep it.
Yeah, keep it with you.
But remember your ta our tag team roll uses three.
So you need to reduce actually reduce by two because you get one back.
Yep.
Okay.
So
Crans, you double him over with a with basically a punch to the groin.
Almathara sends him flying upwards into the rafters.
The beams creak and splinter a bit as he hits the the ceiling
His body hits the ground unmoving
We killed another one!
Oh you guys killed him.
Uh oh my gosh.
As the body hits, I think Kranz would turn to
the guy in the door with the with the snakeheads and like in his like duelist posture, like the duelist salute
Like sword up dagger across it and then slice them across and like invite him in as if he we just dealt with your friend
You really want to step in here, we can do this again.
And see if he can see if he can intimidate him into running away.
I'm gonna I'm gonna shout at uh Methaian and be like more ammo
But like I specifically I'm try I am trying to intimidate him into running for reinforcements.
Okay.
Uh, like, oh shit, we're outmatched here.
They just took out our our big tank.
Life's about to get really difficult for us uh if we don't get more forces.
In the hope that if they run, we can run.
Oh headlick.
Yes.
I was gonna make an action.
Okay
But I wan I wanna see if this guy is about to run away, then I will hold my action.
But if he looks like he's about to notch another arrow
Well keep in mind depending on how this role goes, it plays stays with us or it the GM can take it back.
So I will I will hold my my comment then.
Okay.
Go ahead and I say you're gonna attempt to at intimidate him.
That seems like that's
Presence?
Uh you can do presence.
I'd also give you a like a strength if you really want it.
But I mean it it's most likely presence, but if you if you wanna if you wanna make a case for it being strength
I think I'll say this.
I think it's probably presence.
Okay.
But uh given that he just took part in this like
massive takedown.
I think and and he's turning around like trying to be the focal point of this moment.
Okay.
I think it I can make an argument for using my leading man experience to throw a plus three on this.
Okay.
You also have advantage because he's vulnerable.
Oh lovely, I'll throw a D6 in there.
Here we go.
Every single person in this fight is vulnerable, I think.
Alright, that is a uh that's a 20 with hope.
Okay.
Can you talk to me like is it just the gesture, or do you say something?
Oh no, he the the blades like slide across each other maybe with a spark of like steel meeting steel.
Um
And there's like a a like a not a rictus grin, but like a grim smile set to his jaw.
locks eyes with this this person in the door and is like Your friend didn't fare so well maybe you'll do better
And like the it is an invitation.
Like it truly is an invitation.
Just like a like bring it on.
And and you know, with like the bleeding j body of the giant behind him
You know the the the wind blowing back Ami's like silks.
Yeah, I'm I'll give him a little bit of wind like for emphasis.
Like and just like
This is I am truly inviting you to fuck with us if you think you can take us, but I don't think you can, and I don't think you can either
It's a good role.
I'm gonna give it to you.
I'm gonna give it to you.
He is going to look at you, look at everyone.
Big deep like frustrated annoyed sigh and just they're not paying me enough
To deal with this.
And he's gonna put his bow over his shoulder and he's going to walk off.
I think Kranz would immediately run over to Key and get her off the floor.
Like like pick her up bodily if necessary.
And start heading for Almathara and the back door.
Okay.
Um, Marillia pokes her head out the front door and says, Are you Arthine?
Come in here.
Wait, you can't move yet.
Oh you're still grappled, aren't you?
Oh shit.
Yeah, you're still key is also restrained, to be clear.
I see I see the guy moving walking away though, right?
You do
Do we have do we have these like I guess the the glitter worm which by the way best fucking enemy name ever glitter worm perfect no notes chef's kiss
Uh, does the glitter orb also kind of like, oh, my master's leaving Saunter off too, or is it is it sticking around?
I'm gonna roll to decide that, because I don't think it would be intimidated.
But I'm gonna I'll roll.
Let's see.
Let's see what the dice say.
I think I broke my uh restraint.
Oh, what'd you get?
Nine plus nine.
Oh yeah, you're good.
That's it.
That's okay.
You don't have to keep going.
You don't have to keep I was like, wait.
You can stop you can stop it.
Yeah, I think I think I'm yeah.
Um I tell our I think.
I rolled terribly
So yeah, the glitter worm is gonna just kinda shake its scales Turn around and walk away.
Uh Crance is gonna go over like it whatever like restraint, I don't know if it's I don't know how she's restrained.
I is it like vines, is it wood, is it floor, like I don't know what's restraining her, but uh
It's uh it's essentially a a barb made of pure ice that was pinning her to the floor.
So he's gonna like parrying dagger back into his right sheath.
He's gonna take his sword and just like hack at it
Okay.
Um break it up.
I think he was taking if you take if you take enough time to do that, I think you can get get key free pretty quickly.
Yeah, I he's uh the goal is get her out of this so he can like help her out of the building as fast as possible.
Um I will I will fly down in to the thing.
Um Morelia looks a little hurt, right?
Well, I would I would first point to key but you you for any kind of healing.
You do as I'm flying in, I do see that you are hurt
A little bit.
Okay.
So so as I as I'm flying in, I my my scales brush up against you.
Um I will spin three hope and you clear a hp using um my serif hope.
Thank you.
And then I will notice he is super hurt.
Mm-hmm.
Barely standing, I think, is would be accurate.
That's correct.
I will go up and unless anybody else has got anything to do, but I'll go up to her and I'll boop her with my snoot and cast healing hands on her.
Okay
Hey John, just just one note.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
I'll I'll I'll boob her with my snoot um and cast healing hands on her.
Um
That's a spell cast rule.
A 15 with fear?
You're good.
Yep.
Alright, then I mark a stress and she clears two hit points.
Okay.
Never underestimate the Snoop Boo.
Does she look tip top or She doesn't look perfect, but she definitely looks a lot better.
She walking?
She she can walk now.
Yeah.
I mean before basically the only thing was that was holding her up was that she was kind of essentially stuck in place by this this barb, but now that you guys have
Kind of remove some of the danger.
I do want to clarify.
There's one other creature that you haven't seen in a while.
But it doesn't seem to be doing anything at the moment.
Is it lurking?
In the shadows.
Um pull a key to her feet and kind of look out uh you know, maybe the window that the shade has been pull, you know, dashed aside.
Looking out to see if there's anybody like running in the direction of the house, watching this guy walk away like they don't pay me enough.
Uh and he looks back at her and is like and genuine like regret in his eye
He kinda kinda looks at you, gets a little bit of a a sad smile, and says,
Well, I guess we don't have to worry about how we're gonna get you guys into prison at this point, do we?
And she starts to follow you out the back and
I think that's a pretty good place to call this one unless you want to do something else.
Anybody?
No, that's good.
That was exciting.
Morelia was gonna walk up to Key as like a final thing and be like
Need to get you out of here.
Maybe time to pay a visit to those family members.
Yes.
Puts her hand on her and um
Gives her a little bit of a boost of hit points.
Okay.
So I'm assuming she's willing to take this.
Um
Clear number of hit points in another ruling creature within mainly range, you could choose yourself.
So I guess I just choose any amount of hit points.
So
How many hit points you got open for me to What uh what ability are you using?
I'm so sorry.
This is
Shared trauma.
Oh.
So you're transferring hit points from one creature to another.
Ooh.
Okay.
So uh at this point she's got two hit points marked.
Okay.
So I will um take the two.
Oh wow okay.
So as you pulled this pain into you, um you notice that everything starts to hurt.
Um you feel the pain that she was feeling, you feel the
the ice barb that went into you that Aerathane kinda cleared some of the pain of, you feel it stronger than before.
Um and It shouldn't have come to you.
You you take that from her and she I think she notices that you're doing this
And she she says,
I I knew I had reached out to the right people.
So cute.
No, please get me out of here.
Yeah, let's go.
Yes, yes, uh, good plan, yes.
Uh right away.
We all usher out the back door, I think.
Out the back door, and that is a fantastic.
Fantastic place to call it.
Awesome.
That was fun.
