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Welcome,

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Path Folk, to the Find the Path Ventures actual

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play of the War for the Crown

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adventure path. Sovereign Court Side

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Story Part 8? It's

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part something. Yes, I have.

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I'm pretty sure it's eight. The Octopath, if

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you will. Oh boy. It's

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a good game. I get through two or three

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people and then I'm like, okay, I don't care anymore.

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I mean, it does require a little bit more of

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like a long-term commitment as far as following it around.

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I mean, that's not usually a problem for

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me. I'll play long games. I

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just don't know something about Octopath. Yeah.

0:59

I mean, dudes are on. I enjoy it. But

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this isn't the Octopath podcast. This is the Find the

1:03

Path podcast. That's going to be a completely separate thing

1:05

that we do as far as playing through our square.

1:08

Are we? Don't tell people we're going to do

1:10

a live play of Octopath Traveler. We're going to

1:13

do a live play of the entirety of

1:15

Square Enix's catalog. Because people

1:17

are still asking about you and me playing Chrono

1:19

Trigger and we made a joke about that way

1:21

back in Mummy's Mask. Okay. That's

1:23

fair. You say that joke many times. I

1:26

have threatened that many times. I've threatened people with a good

1:28

time on many occasions. So we'll see if we can

1:30

get that. And not follow through because you're rude. Anyway.

1:34

I have been accused of that. But

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yeah, welcome back everyone to the continued exploits of

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our heroes, the three of the members of the

1:41

Sovereign Court. Again, as you can

1:43

tell that I am here, Grace with

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the presence of both Heather Allen, Jessica

1:47

Peters and Rachel Sandwich. Jessica Peters? Who

1:49

is that? Sorry. She's only

1:51

been married for a few years now. I know.

1:54

I was best man, but I forget. Whatever. I

1:57

hope it just rolls up the tongue easier. We

2:00

the married a little be seven years the

2:03

sure. That yeah I. Know

2:05

things are better better. Than I am

2:07

actually cause like I always have to like

2:09

calculated the my head like okay we got

2:11

married this year so five subtracted out like

2:13

it's a scuffle. Sign of I'm a long

2:15

I've known. Jessen Jordan the other day and I was like

2:17

oh hey, Rick and Rachel hadn't been dating. Very long,

2:19

but I can't remember how long The neighboring lead

2:22

author. that doesn't help me Cydia. When

2:25

school started. but that was when so sweet.

2:27

Thirty! Three thirty one before. So

2:29

today because I can remember I was like

2:31

i think I've known you guys at least

2:33

a decade and we were like I don't

2:36

know Eleven this time all of this dog

2:38

was they have been so will come back

2:40

to the continued exploits of our heroes. When

2:42

less real buffed Rcmp into the Sovereign Course

2:44

they had been contacted by their friend and

2:46

ally Lady Glory on a Morello. Asking

2:49

them to meet her at the lazy Lie

2:51

and cafe in the city over for the

2:53

capital of the they should have told or.

2:55

Of which they are all nobles of get

2:57

a chance to meet with the lady Merola

3:00

as well as baron Dell seems l and

3:02

matter how recession about. Salvo. Basically

3:04

that. He was like a some murder and.

3:06

The name of Salvo as what

3:09

he wants you been asked to

3:11

go end of your a location

3:13

believed to contain the vault of

3:15

the Declan families to find both

3:17

that Bolt as well as Selena

3:19

Duct Ones who is the Psi

3:21

and of the Death When family

3:23

which were a noble family of

3:25

high esteem until they were a

3:27

seemingly forced to or possibly blackmailed

3:29

by their cousins in Chile acts

3:31

into trying to provide detailed maps

3:33

of the underground tunnels the old

3:35

tunnels beneath oh Paro. The family

3:37

had refused until apparently the daughter

3:40

had been threatened by Art shows

3:42

agents, at which point he seems

3:44

to have a relented. However, he

3:46

was captured and stopped from handing

3:49

over that information by members of

3:51

the Lion Blaze. The. kind

3:53

of secret police they're sort of like sicker

3:55

places very negative com connotation kind of the

3:57

m i six if he will have of

4:00

Talador, which might also have a negative

4:02

connotation. I think

4:04

any sort of secret organization has

4:06

both positives and negatives. We

4:09

know that at

4:11

least in Hollywood, they are necessary to protect

4:13

our country, but they do so in very

4:16

questionable ways. It's true. It's

4:18

kind of like the FBI in America usually

4:20

gets a pretty good rap, but the CIA

4:22

always gets a bad rap. Yeah. The

4:25

CIA is international. That's why. Yeah. It's

4:28

probably all those coups they do. Anyway,

4:33

yeah, but you had been asked by

4:35

Baron D'Alcine to basically deal

4:38

with the situation in whatever

4:40

that means to you. However, Lady Marilla

4:42

had asked you specifically if you could

4:44

track down this lady,

4:47

Selena Declan, and attempt to

4:49

see if you can

4:51

get her to flip sides. Since

4:54

her involvement in Chile acts means that she probably

4:56

has some information on that side, and

4:58

it also works closer towards the ideals

5:00

that Lady Marilla is trying to expouse,

5:03

which is again, those of the

5:05

nobility united for greater cause, which

5:08

is what all of you are kind of working towards. True.

5:11

So yeah, as was commented earlier, you did a

5:13

light B and E, a little break in and

5:15

entering as you made your way to this townhouse

5:18

before breaking in and searching briefly

5:20

through there before making your way downstairs, before

5:23

you had seen three members of a

5:25

mercenary organization that you believe Selena had

5:27

hired and may or may not have

5:29

been involved in the murder of a

5:31

Pathfinder who had been investigating this

5:33

as well, which is how it came to

5:35

the attention of the two nobles involved at

5:37

the Pathfinder Society over in Absalom. And

5:40

upon seeing you, one of them

5:42

just ran. One of them turned

5:44

running shouting. And

5:47

then two of them turned to confront you guys. But

5:49

yeah, and I think we kind of left things off there. I think we're

5:51

going to roll into a little bit of combat combat.

5:55

I will say that is one of the advantage of doing

5:57

the B site story where it's like brief amount of setup

5:59

and now fight. Which we don't get

6:01

quite as much over in the, uh, the

6:03

Fencey Lads and Ladies podcast that is

6:05

the standard War for the Crown Affair.

6:08

Although actually War for the Crown Affair would be a pretty

6:10

good name for that podcast. True,

6:12

yeah. So let's go ahead and

6:15

get some initiative from the party. Thank

6:17

you, little sirenscape. Sirenscape! Murder!

6:22

Wow-wah! This is gonna

6:24

be great. Let's do

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a quick roundtable here. Jessica,

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what did we get for count? Albert

6:31

Falsbar. Uh, Albie got a 2

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for a 3? No, sorry. A 2 for a 5. You

6:35

add the 3. 2

6:37

for 5. Alright. Not terrible. Not

6:40

great. Not absolutely

6:42

terrible. Sure, it could be one lower. Heather,

6:45

what did we get for land grave Isidore

6:47

Darhan? Uh, Izzy enrolled a 16

6:50

for a 17. 16

6:52

for a 17. It's good. And Rachel,

6:54

what did we get for countess Josephine

6:57

Heskalar? Uh, Josephine got an 11 for a 12.

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11 for a 12. Alright, so let's roll into

7:02

a little bit of combat, shall we? Let's

7:05

get this started. Um, so the Devil's

7:07

Claw captain gets first initiative. That

7:09

is the guy running off down the hallway. Really? The

7:11

captain? Reinforcements. Okay. So

7:15

off he goes as he takes off running.

7:18

Bringing us to the first of the Devil's

7:20

Claw mercenaries. Well, I mean, they weren't standing

7:22

around with weapons in hand or anything like

7:24

that. So he turns in place and

7:26

he's going to go ahead and, uh, uh,

7:29

Albie's just a bit too far. Not

7:31

Albie. Isidore. So he's

7:34

going to draw and take

7:36

a quick step back. Uh-oh.

7:39

And do a little, uh, a little readying.

7:42

Mm, mmm, I don't like that.

7:45

Isidore Darhan. First encounter. I

7:47

know. Hmm. Fireball.

7:51

I can't draw a character. I can't do that.

7:55

I pull three beads off of my necklace of

7:57

fireball and then say good luck everyone else. Yeah,

7:59

exactly. Police. Now

8:01

not gonna do that either ankles us.

8:03

Let's. See how another twenty four. Or

8:06

it. As an award spinning

8:08

durably spouse. And yes, I do have

8:10

a big thousand. As. I. Can

8:13

see the corner of that guy. but I have my

8:15

house and Alan I'm not going to throw my thousand

8:17

but of and second good idea. Now.

8:19

That's definitely a different. Character? Yeah.

8:23

So I think of as more like a

8:25

Rossville. Know that sounds more like a

8:27

Jessica build. Some move not

8:29

really build up and and take room

8:31

and other fifteen feet ford's I can

8:33

see these terrorists as close as where

8:35

the actual go off as a close

8:38

eye on him as he swings out.

8:40

or not I don't we would nine

8:42

to the store you know know is

8:44

is yeah as he can. Scoffs

8:46

at this Siebel attempts or city

8:48

of from is it or to

8:51

counters has score. And

8:53

well, I can't see

8:55

anything accessible. If you can order three

8:57

thirty feet bridge or. Follow.

9:00

I'm. Going to move my way

9:02

forward. A little there was an average to

9:04

be used as like this is the people as

9:06

yes there for it if I thought we hear

9:08

them photos. Five Ten Fifteen. I don't like them.

9:11

I can't see any of you said I'm.

9:13

So I can see is he now of

9:15

flights since I'm wearing full plate. That is

9:18

as far as acting. For for

9:20

that a sort of forgot you are full

9:22

player. I will move if he said whispers.

9:24

I get yes I actually will double needs to get

9:26

behind as he a well I'm. Technically

9:28

legally blind like the answers to lose

9:30

I can't really see so physicists it's

9:32

It's just a Eurosur way for closing

9:34

of on are behind it or is

9:36

it or and. He. Didn't of course draw

9:38

your may serves on the web. I will get my vote is

9:40

ago. Burrow. Spinning your weapon

9:42

as a close. To. The Us

9:44

from there to these. Next.

9:47

Of the dragon claw Merson married and

9:49

move on his double cloth. sorry we're

9:51

deciding whether store ah he's a sort

9:53

of a dart around the corner from

9:56

as far as of were Albert could

9:58

see i'm I'm working on. Isadore's

10:00

side. Apparently you're scary,

10:02

even though I'm actually the scary one. They just

10:04

don't know it yet. You're very, you're much scarier

10:06

than I am. Yeah, rushes forward,

10:08

swings out at Isadore. I am looking

10:10

at a 14 to strike the ranger.

10:13

Nope. Yeah, they're not doing great

10:15

right now. You guys are hired mercenaries,

10:17

right? Oh, I hear

10:20

taunting. We're currently

10:22

under contract. We're not taking bids

10:24

right now. Why would

10:26

we hire you? I

10:29

could pay you better. Taking

10:32

us from there to Count Felsmore. I

10:34

see nothing. All right, I guess I'm going to move. That's

10:36

true. As a reminder for everyone, you

10:38

guys are in this very large storage room,

10:40

these boxing crates everywhere, almost floor to ceiling

10:42

racks like you would see back in the

10:44

back in a loading area for those of

10:46

us that have worked in a more of

10:48

a warehouse environment. And then four support pillars

10:50

which support the voltage ceiling overhead with the

10:52

entrance you came into or in

10:55

from that leads back to the wine

10:57

room and then an exit on the far side

11:00

of the chamber, which you very distantly hear the

11:02

thunk, thunk, thunk of feet as someone is double

11:04

moving off down that hallway. Shouting.

11:07

It makes me think of back in the day, my

11:10

friend's mom worked at a warehouse like this and we used

11:12

to bring, anytime she had to work on the weekends, we

11:14

would bring her roller blades and she'd just let us like

11:16

roller blade around the warehouse while she was working. Oh,

11:19

there you go. That's a big... Back room

11:21

was always chaos. Fighting back there would be

11:24

bad news. Well,

11:27

in additional bad news, I'll be moved for

11:29

20 feet, look, sees nothing, moves for 20

11:31

more feet, looks, ha, my friends. I

11:34

guess I'm drawing my sword as I go and that's pretty

11:36

much my turn. Very well. My

11:38

falcata. I sometimes forget that there are

11:40

such a thing as like slow parties because you guys

11:43

are always so big into like, I need 30 foot

11:45

movement speed. I'm not at the fighter level where I

11:47

don't care of like where I get my movement speed

11:49

back. I'm not there yet. All right, brings

11:51

us to the top of round two. I

11:53

could not afford mithril agile breastplate,

11:55

so you know what? Hey,

11:58

I can't even wear metal. I had to go find dragon. hide

12:00

okay yeah Josephine still

12:02

sometimes gives you a look about that it's a

12:04

white dragon fine ad it's

12:07

the bad kind of kill that we went hunting

12:09

and got it it was it was quite sporting

12:12

very distantly you hear like the don't

12:15

don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't

12:18

don't don't shout

12:21

it from somewhere like far far away from it

12:23

sounds to be decreasing very

12:25

quickly in that like I

12:28

think he tripled maybe quadruple moved maybe they'll just

12:30

come to us that would save us time I

12:32

suppose that would save us time maybe they will

12:36

that brings us to the next of the

12:38

devil cloth who will take a quick five

12:40

foot step to the side yeah he's gonna

12:42

focus on Anisador as he brings his blade

12:44

back around lashes out you get

12:47

like a whiff of his breath it's like

12:49

I think they got into the wine why they

12:51

were waiting

12:58

down here this

13:02

is why you don't hire contractors

13:04

this way you don't hire people

13:06

that fell out of other military

13:09

organizations house armies obviously

13:11

I mean this is not hell

13:13

knights or sorry this is a

13:15

very that's not yeah

13:18

so it's a door to our hands kind of

13:20

murder all right you kind of

13:22

duck and weave between these two people stabbing out

13:24

at you so I'm not gonna

13:27

worry about this yeah you don't deserve

13:29

being burned alive by my sword yeah

13:31

I would have power attack

13:33

this gentleman that flank tried to start

13:36

to flank around or whatever he's trying

13:38

to do stab you anyway yeah

13:40

they tried to stab me not 70 that would be

13:42

awesome I roll a 16 for a 23 to hit

13:54

this man 23 will strike your foe

13:56

as you bring your blade in line

13:58

and thrust out out

14:00

with your falchion. I think you

14:02

said that was a power tech.

14:04

Yes. Yes. So that's gonna be

14:07

18 points of damage. Blood splattering

14:09

everywhere as the Ranger connects cutting

14:11

into his foe. Do you

14:13

have favorite enemy human? Oh, that's a good

14:15

point. I think so. I thought I

14:17

remembered that from the moment I knew. I

14:19

do have favorite enemy human, you know, bandits.

14:22

So that's an extra plus two damage. So that's

14:24

actually 20 points of damage. Wow. Is

14:27

he still alive? He's still alive as you slice

14:29

into him. He stumbles back. I'm out. Is it

14:32

worth like, people don't usually keep standing

14:34

after that. I guess you're

14:36

worth a little bit of money. I

14:38

see. You're one of those meat shield

14:40

mercenary. But yeah, you spin slicing down

14:42

with your falchion, catching him right in

14:44

the shoulder as the blade slides cutting

14:46

through. There's that sound of like clattering

14:48

metal as you break through part of

14:50

his chain mallet. It scatters across the

14:52

floor. Yeah, he didn't like that. He

14:54

looks over at Albie and

14:57

kind of gestures like, Hey, he's

14:59

still alive. That's weird. He held

15:02

nights or something. That's the end

15:04

of my turn. All right. That takes

15:06

us to count as Josephine Hiscolar. Well,

15:09

I am going to bring my mace down

15:11

upon to the guy that's

15:13

next to Isidore. Okay. Around the corner for

15:15

me. Yes. It's soft

15:17

cover. So yeah, you're basically attacking your right

15:20

now Isidore is like wedged here with a pillar on

15:22

one side. These two guys, like one in front and

15:24

one off towards his left. And then the stack of

15:26

crates and all the rest of that off towards your

15:29

left is like Josephine's kind of this like an alley

15:31

that leads up. All right. Oh, that's not a

15:33

great role though. It's an eight for a 14. Eight

15:36

for a 14. Unfortunately, will not strike your

15:38

foe as you try to bring your weapon

15:40

around and slam this down towards the man

15:42

off towards your side. Who ducks

15:44

Spryley back. Yeah.

15:48

He's actually going to step back towards

15:50

Albert. Oh, you didn't want to be flanked. Yeah.

15:53

That's the thing is if he stays there against

15:55

Isidore, he's going to get into a flank. So

15:57

he'll actually turn his attention stepping back towards.

16:01

the Lord of House Valsmar and bringing

16:03

his blade around lashing out. What

16:06

is going on?

16:10

That is a 10, another 10. Not even halfway. God I

16:12

cannot roll anything today. I

16:17

don't even move, I just watch the sword. Are

16:19

we sparring? Did you practice? I

16:27

practice every day.

16:29

He steps around to the side and that's basically

16:31

it for him. Bringing us to Count

16:34

Albert. Cool I'm gonna whack him

16:36

with a sword because he's right here.

16:38

Alright. I'm also gonna roll a three though so I only get

16:40

a 12. Low levels.

16:46

Oh I guess I'm a little rusty. You know what it's

16:48

been a minute since I fought humans I guess.

16:50

That's all I got. I know can't I

16:53

set my sword on fire. I forgot it was a standard

16:55

action. Oh yeah I have some spells I could cast

16:57

but I see no point in casting them on these guys. We're

16:59

just gonna slack fight for a minute. Alright takes us

17:01

around to the top of round three. So

17:04

far really the only first blood to the

17:07

Darahan. Go ahead and give me a perception roll from

17:09

the party. Alright. Oh

17:11

I have a modifier. I got a 16 for a 22. I roll

17:13

a 2 for an 11. He had a 16 for

17:18

a 24. Ha nice.

17:20

So Isidore you're I mean you're

17:22

kind of focused on trying to murder

17:24

this guy right now. Yeah however in

17:26

the meantime Josephine and Albie very distantly

17:29

not very very distantly but obviously in

17:31

the direction you'd heard those footsteps disappearing

17:33

in the shouting. The footsteps

17:35

and shouting maybe have stopped you can't

17:37

be certain but then you hear this

17:39

clattering sound this the sound

17:42

of like clinking chains this sound

17:45

before this king sound that makes

17:47

you think of like a gate

17:49

or something dropping in place. They're

17:52

locking a door. That's not

17:54

good. It's just gonna make it harder

17:56

to get to them. What? It's

18:00

fine. Just keep doing what you're doing can

18:02

do he says Taking us

18:05

from there to yeah that mercenary that

18:07

was hit a second ago God he really wants to

18:09

try to get into a flank too, but so

18:12

there Rogi types if they are

18:14

wanting a flank maybe Well

18:16

good luck with that. He's gonna go ahead and swing it

18:19

out at the Darhan Oh Six

18:25

that'll actually hit me That

18:28

is a hit that is a threat in

18:30

fact as he brings the sword around lashes

18:32

out 22

18:34

to confirm rude. Yes.

18:37

Wow. We're gonna hurt So the blade darts

18:39

forward slices into you for 10 points of

18:41

damage as it gouges into your side Yeah,

18:43

if he hits your breastplate slides down and

18:46

then the blade just goes straight through The

18:49

chainmail that protects your midsection as

18:52

blood splatters down He

18:54

will then You'll then take

18:56

a five foot step back As

18:59

he starts to dance back towards the door bring

19:02

you to Lord Darhan. Ow I

19:06

will take a five foot step forward. So I'm

19:08

kind of in between the two of them Very

19:11

well, and I will continue to power

19:13

attack against the one that I hit last

19:15

round Yeah, get it very

19:17

well get them bringing the thunder

19:23

The curse of the three All

19:28

right, well that's the end of my turn wait do I have another

19:30

standard action no Why would

19:32

you have two standard actions because second edition

19:34

has ruined my brain All

19:40

right, that's the end of my turn I

19:42

demand more standard actions more All

19:45

right, so that takes us from is it

19:48

or Darhan to count us Josephine

19:50

Hiscolar Um, I'm gonna move

19:52

forward ten feet and I'm going to attack the

19:54

one that's in front of Izzy Because

19:56

hopefully if I can take him out then they can top

19:58

into the flank So you're

20:01

going to focus on the one that was already injured?

20:03

Yes. That is a 13 for a

20:05

19. A

20:07

19 will not strike

20:09

a target. Oh! If he jumps back

20:12

out of the way, swings back around with his shield and blocks it.

20:14

I'm not that inaccurate, but holy crap.

20:17

Okay. I got shields. Yeah. They're

20:20

armored boys. So yeah, you

20:22

bring around your mace, it slams off of his

20:24

shield, rocking him back. However, he continues to fight

20:27

under the onslaught as that brings us to the next

20:29

of the Devil's Claw who will take a quick, quick

20:31

fight, but slide into that flank against the dark. Brings

20:35

his weapon up and around as he swings

20:37

out at the flanked ranger. So

20:40

that's an 11. An 11 to

20:42

hit you. No. Excellent.

20:45

Excellent. So yeah,

20:47

unfortunately, even against his flanked foe, cannot bring his

20:49

blade into line as he steps to the side

20:51

and swings out at you. Bringing

20:54

us to Count Falspar. Well, all right.

20:56

I'm just going to step and create a line with

20:59

my friend. We're in lightning bolt formation. Lightning

21:01

bolt formation is a good resource here. Yeah. And

21:03

I'm going to take a crack at the heavily

21:06

injured fellow. The injured gent,

21:09

as you step forward, you bring up your blade. All

21:11

right. 17 for a 26. A

21:14

26 will strike your foe. We

21:17

love to see it. Eh. Seven

21:19

damage. Ouch. Cutting

21:21

into the man. But yeah, he still

21:23

stands. You weren't kidding. They're relatively

21:25

hardy for mercenaries. Except for the fact that I

21:27

can't hit. Okay, not the time

21:30

to be taunting. We

21:32

work out. Take us from

21:36

Count Alvi to some other stuff

21:38

happening elsewhere. Hey. That's

21:40

about to shake me. That

21:43

brings us back to the mercenary who's

21:45

thrust out at the injured noble

21:47

lord, stabbing out at the Darhan. Stabbing

21:51

at a 19 with that flank. Yes.

21:54

Stabbing in to Isadore. Four.

21:58

Minimum, however. of damage. She still

22:01

made it just like gash under your side. Death

22:04

by a thousand cuts at this point. Over

22:06

here in round four, bring us to, is it Ord Arhan?

22:08

I didn't think this was going to take so long. Alright,

22:10

I'm not going to power attack. You're

22:13

like, we figured this would be over for round four.

22:16

We did so good against those silent cultists

22:18

or whatever they were. I'm going to keep

22:20

swinging at the one that's injured. And

22:23

suddenly he's like, oh Bard, that's right, we had Bard.

22:26

Seven for an 18. At

22:28

18, he blocks it with his shield as he

22:30

continues to fight back against you. Alright,

22:32

this is getting annoying.

22:35

Well, you may have to go for precision over power,

22:37

friend. The one behind you is like,

22:39

you could always surrender. Why on earth? So could

22:41

you. The

22:45

one that's bleeding, everyone's kind of shrinking, shrinking his chin

22:47

for a moment. Like I could. I'm

22:51

bleeding a lot. That's

22:53

the end of my turn. Alright, that

22:55

brings us to Josephine Heskiller. I'm

22:58

going to attempt once again to. Well,

23:01

how bad are you looking, Izzy? I'm

23:03

at 23 out of 36, so not

23:06

awful, but not great. Okay, I think

23:08

I'll hold off a little bit longer. I'll

23:10

try one more time and then I'll heal you next

23:13

time. Okay. Come

23:16

on. No, that's still 13 for a 19. I

23:18

can't seem to get through to them. It's difficult.

23:21

Yeah, you know you need higher than a 13. So

23:23

you do. Like again, these are

23:26

solid hits as you're bringing around your weapon, you're

23:28

striking down at them. You're like, this is where

23:30

you hit the average guy. Do

23:32

you want to hold your position there? No.

23:36

I'm going to move into the flank with Albie. Okay.

23:39

They will both take their attacks of opportunity on you as you move.

23:42

They're not flanking you, however. Nope.

23:44

There we go. That's a 10 again. Ooh,

23:47

and slightly better with a 13. No

23:49

and no. We're just flapping, fighting each other at

23:51

this point. We're

23:55

all so heavily armored as they shoot like

23:57

mouthy-all. And none of us can roll.

24:00

Well, gosh. Alright,

24:03

so, yeah, Josephine moves into the

24:05

flank. That brings us to the

24:07

Devil's Claw mercenary, who will take

24:09

the attack against the flank

24:11

Darhan. Rude. Oh,

24:14

never mind. I don't know why I didn't go

24:16

worried about the flank. That's a three again. That's

24:18

a twelve, I do not believe will strike you.

24:21

No, no. He doesn't really like being in the flank

24:23

there. He will step to the side.

24:26

Alright. Continuing to kind of dance

24:28

around Isidore. But stepping to

24:30

the side to kind of block Albi's approach.

24:32

Bringing us to Count Valsmar. Alright,

24:35

I'm gonna give that guy the side eye, but

24:37

I'm gonna continue striking his friend. There's

24:40

just like the sound of some kid going nuts

24:42

on a drum, basically. Like there's a metal drum

24:44

back here, just ding, ding, ding, ding, all of

24:46

you bouncing off each other. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Rolling

24:48

19 for a 28, which is a threat. Ooh,

24:52

28 will hit threat. Roll to confirm as

24:54

you bring out, what are you rocking? Falcata.

24:57

Yeah, you bring your falcata around. It's gonna be a 13 for a 22. 22

25:01

will confirm your critical hit as you highly manage

25:03

to get in there. Bringing

25:06

that x3 crit falcata into line as you

25:08

thrust in. That Rondelaro

25:10

style. He can feel free to

25:12

take 35 slashing damage. Jesus. Get

25:15

by. Just die, man. Yeah,

25:18

you bring your blade around, ram

25:20

it up as it slides basically

25:23

right underneath where his

25:25

sternum is as you just kind of scoop

25:27

the blade in right through the center, scaring

25:30

into you think is heart judging by the

25:32

length of your blade as the man sputters

25:34

blood and collapses. Oh, I think

25:36

I went too hard. It's

25:39

fine. Is it fine? I don't

25:41

think it's fine, but whatever, it's fine. Blood

25:43

sprays everywhere as he sputters up blood and

25:45

collapses back. The other guy

25:47

like looks over and just like there's the clattering sound

25:49

as his longsword hits the ground like, uh,

25:53

I didn't sign on. We were told no

25:55

one was here. Are you

25:58

guys wish to exit combat? Yeah. So

26:00

he's tossed his stuff down. Hey, he's throwing his

26:02

weapon down. This guy's dead dead. This guy's

26:04

dead dead, right? Oh yeah, he's dead dead. I'm

26:06

sure. He's negative 25 dead. Ah,

26:10

yeah. I figure Joe

26:12

probably goes over there to tech and just kind

26:14

of shakes his head. Yeah, I have a... Well...

26:17

Yeah, sometimes you should have had better armor,

26:19

man. I'm sorry. I didn't really mean to

26:21

murder you. So,

26:24

my friend, care to tell

26:26

us what's going on down here.

26:29

How many more of your little

26:32

mercenary group are there? What's the

26:34

endgame? The endgame? I

26:37

mean, it was me and Bossin.

26:39

He gestures down towards the other

26:41

man. Sorry, Bossin. Um...

26:45

Counting the captain, there's another four of us. And

26:47

a girl? And a girl. And

26:50

would they stand down as you have?

26:53

Oh, probably not, but

26:55

this job is getting worse all the

26:57

time. What do you mean? I

27:00

mean, the girl's been down here digging

27:02

around. There's weird sounds and

27:05

shadows. Bossin and me, we were just talking about

27:08

cutting our losses. We haven't got paid

27:10

yet, but the... He pauses for a moment,

27:13

looks down towards the dead body, decides that he'd

27:15

like to live. Look,

27:18

I'm in this for the money,

27:20

but I wouldn't have killed y'all

27:23

if I had the chance not to. I'm

27:26

just down here trying to collect my money

27:28

and go, and this girl seemed like she

27:30

wanted it, but the captain's gotten a little

27:33

carried away. What do you mean? Well,

27:35

there was some guy poking around.

27:38

It matters he wasn't supposed

27:40

to be. And the

27:42

captain got a little overzealous. And

27:44

his... Pathfinder? I don't know

27:46

if he was a Pathfinder. Was it in, uh, West Crown? Yeah.

27:50

And Bossin said, uh, the

27:52

captain beat the man to

27:55

death with his bare hands, so... Alright. This

27:58

isn't exactly... all got

28:00

together because the Hell Knights rejected

28:02

us but I'm not one

28:04

for murder or any of the rest of this breaking

28:07

and entering thing and all that. That's not my thing.

28:09

I was just looking for a

28:11

good payday. The more what

28:14

you'd call a neutral evil

28:16

and less of a chaotic.

28:19

Yeah. I mean I'd

28:22

be happy to just take off

28:24

and get out of your hair right now. I

28:26

wasn't involved in any of those matters.

28:29

Technically he hasn't done anything illegal. I mean

28:32

I struggle. I'm like I don't

28:34

know man. I killed a guy. I can't really talk.

28:36

I mean he stabbed me. Yeah he

28:38

did stab me. But he was technically I

28:40

guess technically hired to guard the president. Actually

28:42

no I think he stabbed at you but

28:44

I believe he's missed everyone here. It was

28:46

the guy you guys killed that stabbed you

28:49

twice. Oh okay. It was an attempted

28:51

assault. It wasn't an assault. Whatever.

28:54

Also if you're getting into a weird

28:56

legality thing it's like technically speaking this

28:58

lady is literally entering into this place

29:00

that still kind of belongs to this

29:02

woman's family. It's a lot of legally

29:04

gray area. How much does it cost

29:07

to bury someone? I mean

29:09

not probably a lot. I would think maybe. I

29:12

mean imagine cremation is probably going to be one

29:14

or two gold pieces. I imagine for a coffin

29:16

it's probably it's 10 gold pieces.

29:19

10 okay. Then I'll give him

29:21

10 gold. Make sure your

29:23

friend gets buried. So that's apparently

29:25

for a coffin and the labor.

29:28

Sure. He just kind of

29:30

looks at that. Looks back at you. Okay.

29:35

Just kind of. If I come back out here in his

29:37

body still here I will find

29:39

you. Yeah of course. I wouldn't do

29:41

that. I'll be the one that finds you. Hey

29:43

I can talk to birds. But

29:46

yeah. I wouldn't use

29:50

a good guy. I might sell his boots

29:52

but he also still owes me two

29:54

gold from the tavern before we left. I

29:57

don't care about boots. All right. So,

30:00

uh, have a nice stay in

30:02

Tal'Dore. Enjoy

30:04

your stay. Maybe we're gonna go this

30:07

way. Let's

30:10

pretend we never met. I mean, correct, yeah. It

30:12

was good. We never met to stay. I

30:15

mean, there's some cool stuff to see in Memorial Park.

30:17

I suggest you swing by there before you leave. Okay,

30:19

stop giving him advice on what to see. He needs to take

30:21

his friend, get him there and get us out of here.

30:23

I couldn't care. I think we should move

30:25

forward. Oh, right. Yeah, that's true. We

30:28

both just got super distracted trying to give this guy

30:30

like chips. He takes some money and then

30:32

he leaves. All

30:35

right, I guess we're going down this hallway. Yeah, I

30:37

figure if Josephine just looks at me and goes,

30:39

best we do not see you again and then

30:41

continues off down the hallway. Pleasant

30:43

scary one. Not meeting you today.

30:46

Anyway, we keep going now. Well, do you

30:49

want to stop? Uh, is it or bleeding or? Yeah,

30:51

yeah, probably. You get 14 back. Oh,

30:54

good. Nice. Thank

30:56

you, Jesse. Of course. You call

30:58

upon your draconic heritage, reach

31:00

out of hand, channel some positive energy into her. Him.

31:03

Yeah. I figure all of my spells feel

31:06

kind of like a static shock. No,

31:08

because you're gold. You have a you have

31:10

electric dragon. Yep. All right. Well, I guess

31:12

we venture down this hallway to wherever they freaking

31:15

locked a giant vault gate or

31:17

something. Yep. So it sounds like

31:19

the captain's like possessed or something,

31:21

right? Or he's just from Chilliaks.

31:23

Well, they're acting like it was new behavior

31:25

though. I mean, not that guy

31:28

did. He's possible. I think

31:30

we'll find out when we get there. I

31:32

say leave minds open until

31:34

we have more facts. For all

31:37

we know, the gentleman back there was lying through

31:39

his teeth. I should have since motive. Dang it.

31:42

Whatever. I imagine it doesn't super matter.

31:44

I don't like having extra blood

31:46

on my hands. So if he chooses to

31:48

leave that is his prerogative. I

31:51

mean, there's no need to actually flat-out

31:53

murder anyone. But hey, hey. I

31:55

feel personally attacked and called out by this

31:57

conversation. It was self-defense.

32:00

The gonna kill him if you didn't for. Address

32:02

It was allotted of overkill I thought. Usually

32:04

like that. But me out about

32:06

the are you make your with fourth

32:08

again into the service huddles down here

32:10

at the first theory of the tude

32:13

entered was obviously unintended basements. Everything past

32:15

that was something that happens that Oprah.

32:17

great deal. Which. Is you build a

32:19

house, the new excavate a basement and then

32:21

you just happen to not gonna wallets very

32:23

much like that. he used to have a

32:25

home in Rome. Men the new light build

32:27

a a sweat and you might stumble into

32:29

catacombs ignoring the y sus. Have and they knocked

32:31

on wall. Yeah I'm into trying

32:33

to expand something of as you had another

32:36

wall and then dear to spur happened.from pick

32:38

up but I suppose you make way for

32:40

before taking a right and turning and make

32:42

new way down the court. or and. Keep

32:44

an ear out for. More. As

32:47

you approach the turn up ahead you

32:49

basically reached the you see a turn

32:51

that. Branches. Off towards right hand

32:53

side had again the hallways hear about nine

32:55

feet wide or the ceilings about nine feet

32:57

high. Although they are arched the gifts that

32:59

the Us the from support that the keystone

33:01

at the top. As you make your way down

33:03

the court or and begin to make your way towards the right

33:05

hand turn. You. See ahead of

33:07

you another long. Passage.

33:09

Again, from what you have heard previously, you're

33:11

going to guess this is where the off

33:13

guard captain when he took off running really

33:16

took off running, flouting off down this longer

33:18

stretch. However, This long hallway

33:20

stretches for some good distance well

33:22

over a hundred feet or so.

33:24

I'm the only way that you can see this, as

33:26

do the fact that there's a torch laying in the

33:28

hallways. About. Of. Two.

33:31

Thirds of the way down. At

33:33

the track that's bait, right pass the

33:35

torch said. Another twenty feet or so

33:37

past that you can see a what

33:40

looks me up for course that has

33:42

been dropped into place. However, as you

33:44

glance towards that there's. A

33:46

lot going on with this halls. Every

33:49

five feet or so you

33:51

can see the third, deep

33:53

notches cut into the walls

33:56

and numerous holes. Set

33:58

into the walls of on the right and. left-hand

34:00

side. As

34:02

you look down the distance you can see skeletal

34:04

remains scattered here and there in

34:07

a much more recently slain body.

34:09

I don't feel good about this

34:12

hallway. Which lays with what looks to be a

34:14

broken in half axe head buried

34:16

in his chest with

34:18

the broken half of it protruding from one

34:21

of those slots that you see in the

34:23

wall along the left-hand side. You have

34:25

a moment to take all that in. Go ahead and give me a perception

34:27

roll from the party. Oh this seems

34:29

like a problem. Hey I got a 17 for a 23. I roll

34:31

an 11 for a 20. Roll a 10 for an 18. So

34:37

as you run the corner you Oliver

34:40

you're immediate... Oliver. I just looked over

34:42

and saw Dara Han. Isidore

34:45

you're immediately like oh

34:47

god there's a lot of crap going

34:49

on in here. You also see like broken off

34:52

halves of like half shattered arrows like embedded into

34:54

the walls on either side. Roughly

34:56

the level of where you see those holes in

34:59

the walls going down this long. Do

35:01

they trigger all these already? Horrifying hallway.

35:04

Again there's a lot of blood in here. Very

35:06

recent. However Josephine

35:08

you're kind of also like you step

35:10

in here and suddenly like your friends

35:12

stop. You're like are we

35:15

okay? Like oh crap yeah

35:17

sorry like down the hallway there's a

35:19

bunch of bodies. You can't see. You

35:21

can smell that coppery smell of blood.

35:23

You're like oh something's happened here. But

35:25

it's probably that little disconcerting thing of

35:27

like oh my friends stop. That's not

35:29

a good sign. Yeah.

35:32

However Albert as you

35:34

glance forward you can see again you see

35:36

that dim illumination coming from the torch that

35:38

was dropped most of the way down this

35:40

hallway. However a scant

35:42

a few feet past that where you can

35:44

see the portcullis you also see a man

35:47

crouched on the other side of the portcullis.

35:49

As you have a second to take this

35:51

in the blaring light coming

35:54

off of you as you step forward

35:56

you see this glit of torchlight off

35:58

of a raised crossbow. before there's

36:00

the loud folk sound as he begins to

36:02

fire that heavy crossbow from down the corridor

36:05

and around the corner. He's like, ah,

36:07

there's a guy. Oh, okay. He's shooting already. Oh,

36:09

he shot me. Ouch. A lot of death

36:11

in here. And, uh, you know

36:13

what? Let's go ahead and just do a second combat, shall

36:16

we? Ah. Okay. You

36:18

liked first combat. What about second combat?

36:20

I do not have a ranged weapon. At all.

36:24

I have a dagger I can throw if I'm... I have

36:26

a bow. What's wrong with you people? I'm

36:29

going beyond 30 feet. You

36:31

make sense. The ranger, though. I don't know

36:33

about the ranger. I meant

36:35

to buy one after the end of the

36:38

other adventure when I realized I hadn't. And

36:40

then it's been several months since we've played

36:42

these characters, and that fell out of my

36:44

brain between now and then. I like that the Dara had

36:46

city there. It's like, it's also been several years for me,

36:48

and I just keep forgetting to go into town and buy

36:51

one. I just like, you go

36:53

hustling regularly. I just don't... I just didn't bring

36:55

it with me to the meeting. It's like, in

36:57

my... I only get to bring a crossbow to

36:59

that meeting. How gauche. I

37:02

really should have searched that dead body back there for a crossbow.

37:04

But you'll put your feet up on the table upon meeting the

37:07

ambassador. Yeah, because if he doesn't give a

37:09

flying frick about nobles and their stupid precious

37:11

decorum... It's not about the nobles! Your feet

37:13

were near the food! Well, that is bad

37:15

hunking! Regardless, it's just funny. Rick's joke was

37:17

funny because it would be gauche to bring

37:19

your... your... Yeah, so it would be

37:21

gauche to bring your crossbow and also to put, like... Don't

37:24

invite, you know, Heather's character's over if you have... if

37:26

you order pizza unless you want that feed up next

37:28

to Pepper. I missed you telling us there was food

37:30

on the table. I literally just thought there was a

37:32

map. Ahh. Go ahead.

37:35

Anyway, I guess it's time to fight a guy that's

37:38

locked himself at the end of the murder hallway. Oh,

37:40

murder hallway. Alright. Initiative

37:43

from the party. Cue up a little

37:45

siren scape. Siren scape! Two fights, one

37:47

episode. We've

37:49

been having so many just really

37:52

long multi-episode fights. Yeah, so we've

37:54

been having so many one-fight-two episodes that this one is

37:56

a little different. Let's do a quick

37:58

roundtable. get for

38:00

Count Albert Falsfar? Uh, Al

38:02

got a 15 for a 17. 17? Alright. Heather, what do we

38:07

get for land grave Isidor Darhan? Uh,

38:10

Isi got a 17 for an 18. Okay. And Rachel, what

38:14

do we get for Countess Josephine Heskalaar? Okay,

38:17

well I rolled a 13, which should be a 14.

38:19

13 for a 14? Alright.

38:22

So, let's go ahead and begin second combat.

38:24

Unfortunately, this will be a surprise attack round.

38:26

However, Count Falsfar has actually noticed the threat

38:28

before the threat is acted. Hey, I noticed

38:30

something. So, you have a standard action or

38:33

move action? Alright. Uh, god.

38:36

You said the blood in this hallway is fresh? Quite fresh.

38:40

Okay. I debate for like five seconds and then

38:42

I'm gonna take a move action forward and just

38:44

hope I don't die immediately. Oh no.

38:47

Also, I'll be yelling, um, Archer.

38:49

How do you? And I will

38:51

draw my, uh, well, I already have my sword out.

38:54

Yeah, I don't want to drop my sword. I'll

38:56

just keep running. I just do that. I run forward. That

38:58

AL Archer. You don't thread towards

39:00

an Archer. You do when he's

39:03

stuck behind a thing. And also,

39:05

Portcullis is the word he's looking for. He's behind

39:07

a Portcullis. Whatever. It's a thing. I

39:09

always pronounce that wrong. I always thought it was a

39:11

Portcullis. It's a thing. I don't

39:14

know if it's, it might be two different things and I'm

39:16

just thinking of something else. Portcullis

39:18

is how Google

39:20

pronounces it. Is that okay? So I've been pronouncing

39:23

it wrong all my life. So yeah, Jessica runs her way

39:25

forward, which brings us to, to the man who obviously has

39:30

been spotted. Yeah. He's going to go

39:32

ahead and, uh, heft his crossbow and

39:35

fire at the, uh, the closing count

39:37

Falspar. At least you're

39:39

not flat footed like the rest of us. It's

39:42

a, this guy can roll on like a

39:44

friend. I'm looking at a, uh, it's a 25

39:46

to strike the count

39:48

as he brushes forward. Uh, yeah, that does

39:50

strike the count. Thunking home for four

39:52

points of damage as it slices into your forearm.

39:55

It basically thunks into place as you bring up

39:57

the arm to like shield your neck. Uh,

39:59

before. Here's his like right between the

40:01

two bones of your arm like halfway in halfway

40:03

out. That's

40:05

not pleasant. That brings us

40:07

to round one of combat. Langrave D'Arhan.

40:10

Yeah first one is the... Can

40:12

I run? Yeah, although I will point out that

40:14

you are flat footed if you move any faster than a double move unless you

40:16

have the run feet. That's fine. Okay.

40:19

Run is what? Quadruple? Up

40:21

to quadruple if you so wish. This is a trap hall?

40:23

Where are you? Where are you? Is

40:26

he? What are both of you

40:28

doing? I don't have any range. Well

40:30

I only went 20 feet. This

40:34

madman is running. I can't buff

40:36

you if you run away. Well.

40:39

I think he can buff me. Alright.

40:43

This is where it's like I buff enough and he goes running off. Yes.

40:46

Mostly I want to trigger these traps before they kill

40:49

my friends. Like my A's are

40:51

better than yours. My A's

40:53

is probably better than yours too. So

40:56

the good news is, yeah you

40:58

can triple move as you go charging forward. I believe

41:00

you can technically quadruple move if you want to because

41:02

you're a medium. I did. Night know.

41:05

As you go running forward getting most of the way down

41:07

the hallway until you begin to approach

41:09

where that dead body is with like the axe sticking

41:12

out of his chest. That you're like hmm. That

41:14

doesn't... I told you it was a murder hallway. Just as

41:17

you reach that point in the murder hallway. There is a

41:19

click sound. Oh Jesus. And

41:22

then this like whooshing you're supposed to

41:24

do a forward roll before God like

41:26

axe comes out of the wall. For

41:29

Tal'Dor. For Tal'Dor. For Tal'Dor.

41:31

Frickin' Tal'Dor. Ooh that is a 26 to hit

41:34

the range. That would have been whether or not

41:36

I was flat footed or not. So you know

41:38

what. That's good I guess. Is

41:41

he? He's getting axe. I

41:43

can't do anything about this here. It's

41:45

like lancing blow for five points of damage. He's

41:48

not dead it's fine. He's going to get you

41:50

a forearm before you go like stumbling past. He's

41:53

fine he'll live forever. You're fine yeah he's fine. He's

41:55

going to be yelling at me after this. I'm already

41:57

yelling at you now. Do

42:01

not hear me yelling at you. We're really bad for our

42:03

puppies. We just do what we want. Alright, well, at least

42:05

I have something I can do. Why

42:09

am I stuck with the Himbos? I'm having

42:11

a great time. Well, that's

42:14

the end of my turn. Are you happy? So

42:16

that takes us from there to Count

42:19

Felsmore. As an axe-barries

42:21

in your friend as you're still trying to pry this crossbow

42:23

bolt out of your arm as you're running down the hallway.

42:25

Oh, god. It's been a

42:27

very unpleasant six seconds. Okay. I

42:31

am going to move action, put my sword away. Okay.

42:34

And then I'm going to move forward and draw my bow while

42:36

I'm running. Okay. I will

42:38

need my sword when I get there, but I need my bow

42:40

now, so it's troublesome. That's

42:42

my turn. Alright, so you go rushing

42:44

your way forward. I really

42:46

miss having a squire. I need to get

42:48

another squire soon. So from there we go

42:50

to the captain who

42:53

rapidly reloads that crossbow. Yeah, 35

42:55

feet. Haha, not

42:58

point-blank shot range. Yep.

43:01

He will, however, bring up his crossbow and

43:03

fire at the denied his

43:05

dexterity dar hand. Yeah,

43:07

that changes my AC by one. So, yeah. The

43:12

big strong ranger is in a deck build. Ooh, 27

43:15

to hit the way. Hey,

43:18

at least it doesn't matter if you're flat-footed or not. Yes,

43:20

this guy might be the captain. Dibs

43:24

on his crossbow. Go

43:26

for it. That would be 11 points of damage.

43:29

Golly. This

43:31

bolt slams into you, sending you stumbling to

43:33

the side. Pretty much that axe hits you,

43:35

you half-roll out of the way of

43:38

it as it's a glancing blow before this crossbow. Like

43:41

you're almost fully turned around, facing the other

43:43

direction down the hallway before the bolt slams

43:45

into your back, lightly

43:47

piercing your kidney before you stumble

43:49

back around. I can't

43:52

even see you. You're

43:54

right, Far from back. I'm

43:56

bleeding again. It's barely a scratchy fine.

44:02

The man takes a five foot step back,

44:05

staring down the distance as he begins to like

44:07

crank his crossbow back into place. I'll never

44:09

let you get to her! As he like cranks

44:12

furiously. Taking us from there to Josephine

44:14

Hiscolar. Okay,

44:17

so I had a plan

44:19

and then you guys kept

44:22

frickin' running! I

44:26

had a plan but now you're bleeding everywhere. I

44:29

can't even see that we're bleeding. Yeah,

44:31

I can't even see that you're bleeding. And

44:33

this is also first edition so I have to touch

44:36

you to heal you and I can fall late! I'm

44:38

barely bleeding, you're fine. If anything else, I can heal

44:40

Izzy. If I can get her. Okay,

44:42

well, because I can't see, I'm gonna just hope

44:44

this hits you and I don't think it actually

44:46

will but she has no way of knowing this.

44:49

So I'm gonna move 20 feet

44:51

forward and then I'm gonna

44:53

cast Bless, which is a 50 foot

44:55

burst that I'm just hoping and praying

44:57

that you're part of but you're not

45:00

because you're frickin' 60 feet

45:02

away from me. So I hope

45:04

you're gonna get blessed and you aren't.

45:06

This is delightful. Hey, I feel blessed.

45:10

She likes me more. That's because you

45:13

run slower. I'm just

45:15

gonna keep trying to move my head. I'm

45:18

not like a rabbit because I run fast. Aren't

45:20

we both 20 right now? Yes,

45:23

but you know, you are too cautious and not

45:25

crazy. Josephine

45:29

is like, hopefully this

45:31

helps and blesses the

45:33

room with her staticky

45:35

magic. Was

45:37

I supposed to feel something? You're

45:40

too far away! Oh,

45:43

I'm a taco. Very

45:45

good. If you live through this, I'm going

45:47

to smack you. Fair. That's

45:50

fair. If you don't live through

45:52

it, I'm gonna smack your corpse. Yeah, I

45:54

agree. Taking

45:57

us from Countess Hescolar to top

45:59

a round. Is it or Darahan?

46:02

How big is the, like,

46:05

the spaces in the portcullis? Like, I know he

46:07

can fire a crossbow bolt through it, but can I

46:10

throw a dagger through it? Yeah,

46:13

there's a decent sized gap. Alright, well I'm

46:15

gonna move 20 feet forward, and then as

46:17

I move, draw my dagger, and then I'm

46:20

gonna throw a said dagger at the gentleman.

46:23

He's throwing a dagger at the door. Like,

46:26

Captain? Yeah. As soon as she closes,

46:28

go ahead and make me a perceptual. There's

46:31

another blade coming down. This

46:33

is a crap hallway. 17

46:36

for 26. At

46:38

least you probably see whatever is about to get

46:41

you. As you begin

46:43

brushing forward, again, it's that

46:45

shadowy illumination past there, which

46:47

is figurative and literal. As

46:49

you do not have a light source

46:51

with you, you are throwing it at dim illumination. However,

46:53

past the man, you can actually see that there appears to

46:56

be a lever on the back wall

46:59

here. I'm currently in the down position.

47:01

Is this worth like a video game where if I hit the

47:04

lever with my dagger, it'll flip? Uh, no.

47:06

That would be cool though. If

47:10

you had like mage hand or something, that'd be more

47:12

useful. Alright, well,

47:14

let's go to the human, so

47:16

plus two to hit and damage. So

47:19

I am, no, not plus 100. That'd

47:21

be nice though, foundry. I

47:24

am going to plus 70 plus

47:26

100 because there's a zero and a plus thing and

47:28

depending on where you type, it just leaves that at

47:30

the end. I

47:33

roll a 16 for 26. A

47:35

26 will strike your foe as you

47:38

rush forward in a hurl a dagger through the bars

47:40

straight at the man. I

47:42

do nine points of damage. Ouch. Cutting

47:45

deep as you bury a dagger into his

47:47

leg. I'm out of range weapons. Is

47:49

he glances at the ground? Is there a dagger in

47:52

all of this dead body chaos? Uh,

47:55

no, there is a longsword. What was

47:57

your plan? I

47:59

would also like to know what the plan

48:01

was to hit him with my dagger which

48:03

I did it was awesome by the way

48:05

did you all did you see that I'm

48:08

not really you can't see it but Josie

48:10

is face palming right

48:15

now the youngest one in this group because that feels how

48:17

it is I am I'm

48:19

the youngest I'm pretty sure I'm 27

48:21

right now it's been two years I was 25 in the last

48:23

one so no I'm 27 I'm 28 so

48:26

you are a year younger than me all right all right that's

48:28

the end of my turn all right so that

48:30

takes us from the dar

48:33

hand to the foulspar I'm gonna move

48:35

forward again Josie sorry at least

48:37

the magic worked on you oh yeah

48:39

I feel real tingly um I'm

48:42

gonna move for 20 feet and then take

48:44

a shot he

48:46

is within 70 feet so my composite

48:49

short bow strength plus one should

48:51

sling your bow knock an arrow

48:53

fire not quite as good with this as

48:55

I am my sword but yeah

48:58

yeah I told for 17 oh 18 it's

49:01

probably not gonna do it unfortunately

49:03

no it comes real close but you glance off

49:05

one of the bars as you shoot through there

49:07

and it scatters against the wall that grumble

49:09

brings us to the man who will

49:11

finish reloading his crossbow bring that up

49:13

and fire that at the the

49:16

dar hand you may want to fall back it's an

49:19

18 to hit that's my AC on the

49:21

nose as he

49:23

thunks another bolt into you just a

49:25

glancing hit for two points of damage

49:27

as it slices across your cheek before

49:29

flying off down the hallway I'm

49:32

gonna point out that my AC is

49:34

a 24 it is the best of

49:36

all of us and it's better than both of our AC

49:38

you find a way to go right up first would

49:40

you show me to step back and let the

49:43

woman lead move

49:45

fast enough I don't know what to tell you I'm

49:53

going to be falling back still towards uh

49:56

again I think Isidore

49:58

can vaguely see that there's like an

50:00

archway or something. There's a

50:02

lever and another archway on the other

50:04

side of this portcullis by a

50:06

little. Cool. Helpful. I'll

50:09

get there eventually. That brings

50:11

us to Countess Hescolar. Get a

50:14

triple move. Oh, he's

50:16

just gonna run. I'm just gonna run forward.

50:18

Yeah, fair. You can't see him

50:20

anyway, nothing else you can do. So I'm just gonna

50:22

run, you just hear this little ting, ting, ting,

50:24

ting, ting. Hey, Josie! Welcome to

50:26

the party. You're lucky you're still out of

50:29

my reach. She is gonna kill you. Eh. Somebody's

50:31

gonna do it eventually. Might as well be a

50:34

friend. Dhar hands are so weird. Truer words were

50:36

never spoken. At least

50:39

I'm fun. It depends on your

50:42

definition of fun. They'll write that on

50:44

your tombstone. At

50:46

least he was fun. Here lies

50:48

Isadore Dhar Hand and Isadore Dhar

50:50

Hand. At least he was fun.

50:53

Taking us from the Countess back

50:55

around to the top of the

50:57

initiative. Alright, fun guy. I

51:00

have a dagger. All

51:03

right. A dagger? Josie,

51:06

you got a dagger. Yes, I

51:10

do. I'm gonna move

51:14

15 feet towards Josie

51:16

and I guess use

51:19

my standard action to retrieve her

51:21

dagger because I'm assuming it's on

51:23

her hip or something. I mean,

51:25

I will point out that... Point

51:27

out what? This is a large size

51:29

portcoleus. Maybe you could lift a gate?

51:32

It is possible for you to think you can lift

51:34

it. Oh, true that. Okay, cool. I'm gonna try to

51:36

lift a gate. Oh, I love to give this worse

51:38

plan. Oh my gosh. As

51:40

you rush forward, dropping your falcata,

51:43

reaching the gate, grabbing hold of it.

51:46

What is your strength modifier? Four. It's

51:48

in the realm of possibility. Josie,

51:53

you are leaving yourself an

51:55

open target. Why?

51:58

Have you learned nothing? No.

52:00

I rolled ten for

52:02

fourteen. Can you grab onto it? Hold

52:05

on, hold on. You just kind of like crouched down a

52:07

little bit. You do that like I'm gonna pull my pants

52:09

up a bit because like I'm sorry I gotta... Joe

52:12

face palms again and just goes lift with

52:14

your legs not your back. Hold on I'm

52:17

gonna turn my back to this enemy so

52:19

I can crouch down and get behind the

52:21

back grip. Oh my god. How many points

52:23

do you have left? 18

52:26

it's fine. He'll

52:28

live forever. Yolo

52:31

man. That's what they mean when they

52:33

say carpeum. I'm gonna move on but I

52:35

do want to point out that you've now carried

52:37

yourself five feet out of a single move action

52:39

from the killer as well. Bringing

52:42

us to Count Talsmar. I'm

52:47

gonna move four... I'm gonna move four

52:49

twenty feet because that's my move action. This is almost

52:51

like the what if the Knights of Summer were just like... That's

52:55

what this group is. We're

52:57

real restless. Remember

53:00

we're the crazy adventure group not

53:02

the like we were nobles and

53:04

didn't you know just live to life

53:06

group. I'm shooting again.

53:09

You're the much less cautious group. I

53:12

made Izzy to be ridiculous and unhinged because

53:14

all of my other characters right now

53:16

are kind of a you know more

53:18

uptight. They're too hinged. I rolled a

53:20

13 for a 19. 19.

53:23

God it comes close but

53:25

it flaps the wall next to him and

53:27

breaks as the scenario fills in. Alright fine.

53:30

It's fine. We're all

53:32

fine here. Are we? Are we fine? That

53:35

brings us to the guy who like who turns

53:37

back towards that archway off towards the side. Where

53:39

the fuuuuuare you? Oh there's more right there. Before

53:41

turning back. Oh so you're not gonna run like

53:43

a little this time okay. Okay

53:47

thank gosh. Joe probably does stick right there. He

53:50

like dares his eye, finishes cranking it into place, brings up

53:52

the crossbow. Fuck.

53:54

Apparently you distracted him though so that is a 14. So

53:57

that actually hits your crossblade. Probably

53:59

like wins you. you a little bit.

54:01

All right. He'll

54:06

hold his ground there. He actually feels pretty

54:08

comfortable at the moment. No,

54:11

actually, he'll take a five foot step to get cover for

54:14

this. Basically like steps into cover. You hear

54:16

the crank, crank, crank sounds of that crossbow

54:18

going back into place. Ah,

54:21

tactics. Bringing us to Josephine

54:23

Tuscalaar. Josephine

54:25

is gonna keep moving

54:27

forward. I'll go ahead

54:30

and double move to get up next to you. But

54:32

that's all I

54:34

can do with my turn. So yeah, you move

54:36

forward, double move to get behind the ranger.

54:38

He went around the corner. I'm more worried

54:40

about you at the moment. He's grabbing onto

54:42

the bars and lifting with all of his

54:44

might. Alby, come help. I'll think

54:47

about it. That brings us to the door hand. All

54:50

right. I'm gonna keep trying. All right.

54:52

We gotta get through this thing. That was

54:54

almost a perfect 20. A six is not gonna

54:56

do anything. You start kind of struggling with you.

54:58

Like, God, all my blood's all over me. Josephine

55:01

makes no move

55:05

to help you. Not one. He's

55:07

not expecting her to. So

55:09

honestly, count Falspar. There's a comedy

55:11

of errors going on here. I

55:14

can't even get this gate in one move. Yeah.

55:16

I'm not sure you might be able to see just a sliver

55:18

of that guy, but he is behind cover. I can

55:20

see his tiny sliver. I'm there ready.

55:23

I'll step up here and I'll ready to shoot at him

55:25

when he steps back out to shoot at us. All

55:27

right. I'll help you in a second. Speaking of, he

55:29

steps back out. So you're ready to actually goes off. Great. I'm gonna

55:31

try to. If he steps back around the corner, brings up that crossbow.

55:34

Now he's in bright light. I can see him. I

55:36

rolled slightly better. I rolled a 14 for a 20.

55:38

A 20, just so close. Like,

55:42

this way actually hits his armor and bounces off.

55:45

You just can't get a good penetrating angle. Okay.

55:47

Well, I brought light with me at least. So

55:49

he's easier to see. It is true. Technically

55:52

speaking, I should have had you roll for concealment for

55:54

those previous attacks, but yes,

55:58

he does step out at which point he brings up the. crossbow

56:00

and fires it straight at that dar hand again.

56:02

It's gonna fill you full of arrows. Bolts.

56:06

God, there's that three again. 12

56:08

I do not believe will hit the dar hand. None of us can

56:10

hit. Yeah. I

56:13

wouldn't say that to Isidor's dwindling hit points. Oh, but

56:15

I asked for it. He did it a

56:17

lot earlier. Going from there to Countess Hisclar.

56:20

I guess I'm going to... Let's see,

56:22

how far down were you? I'm

56:24

at 18 out of 36. A

56:28

lot worse than earlier. Gonna hit you with a cure

56:30

mod for 13 points

56:33

of healing. You feel a flood

56:35

of positive energy roll back into you. It

56:37

shocks you. Isy looks up at you. You know

56:40

you're my favorite. Don't let Albie tell you otherwise.

56:43

I don't usually. I heard both of you.

56:46

I'm right here. Isy winked

56:48

at Albie. Bringing

56:51

us to land grave dar hand. Albie just

56:53

crosses his arm and watches you. What

56:58

happened to Dave? I'm

57:01

so much fun. It's

57:03

so wonderful. You're

57:05

so bad. Grab onto the bar. He starts to lift. Just

57:08

if he's like, lift with your... And he's like, oh, oh

57:10

god. You like grab onto the back. Like, oh. It's

57:12

all of you. It's all of you.

57:14

I'm gonna laugh when Josephine gets up there

57:16

and rolls like a nat 20 and lifts

57:18

his face. That would be amazing. I'm gonna

57:20

try, but I probably won't do that. I

57:23

guess, yeah, it's first edition. So I'll

57:25

get one try turn. That's the end of my turn. Go for it. All

57:29

right, fine. Just shoot him. I

57:31

can't shoot him. I'm gonna take a

57:33

five foot step. There's a gate in the way because

57:35

somebody can't seem to lift it out of the

57:37

way. I'm trying.

57:40

And you're lifting with your back, not your

57:42

legs. All right, stop it.

57:45

I'm gonna try to lift the gate too. Stop

57:48

you two. Let's just stand here

57:50

and lift this gate until he rolls his full bowl. It's

57:55

over seven for 11. You

57:58

grab onto it. You try, but. Someone has smeared

58:00

this with blood as you like grab onto the gate and you're like,

58:02

huh. Matt's gonna be just so wet. Uh,

58:06

yeah, unfortunately you just can't get a good angle

58:09

at it as uh, as that takes us back

58:11

to the guy who uh, reloads. It's like what

58:13

is up with these idiots. Reloads

58:15

for crossbow bolt number six at this point

58:18

as he brings this up and fires this.

58:20

We are highly educated, that's the problem. Uh,

58:24

look at another fucking bolt straight at you. Uh

58:26

oh. Oh, there we go, that's a 26 to hit the door hand. What

58:30

did I do to you? You

58:32

should be here. These

58:34

screams hits you for three points of damage. Question,

58:37

where is the lever? It's like on

58:39

the back, right? You can see it right there. Yeah. If

58:42

you zoom in really far. That would

58:44

be amazing if you had May Chan and you were just like, ding.

58:47

We're all over, but like, ah.

58:49

Unfortunately, I do not have May Chan because

58:51

I am an Oracle. If you're a small

58:53

size, you could attempt an escape artist. No, I'm a

58:56

big full lady. All of us

58:58

are big. There's no familiars or

59:01

small animal companion. Throw a rock of the lever. He then steps

59:03

back into cover again. Hate this guy. It

59:05

brings us to count to sesquilar. Okay, what are we

59:08

needing to roll to lift the skate? You

59:10

have no idea. You have no idea, okay.

59:13

We've rolled garbage. I'm

59:15

going to tap Izzy with guidance. Oh,

59:18

yeah, open close. Unfortunately,

59:21

guidance only applies to attack rolls, saving throws,

59:23

or skill checks. Dang it. This

59:25

is an advantage check. Dang it. Okay, never

59:27

mind. Can you make us

59:29

stronger? No. Don't have that. Can

59:31

you just ready to kill this guy sometimes? If you're going to shoot. Just

59:35

hurt this guy. Just hurt him, yeah. Just ready to shoot

59:37

him. I don't have, I can't even see

59:39

him. Well, he'll get back out

59:41

eventually. Yeah, he's behind that corner. He'll get back out. She

59:44

doesn't have a ranged weapon. So,

59:46

Joe is going to try intimidate because

59:48

I'm very good at that. I've

59:50

been told by many that I'm a scary lady. Yep.

59:54

That is not a great roll though. That is a 4 for a 19. Well,

59:56

a 19 is still a success. 19

1:00:00

actually still exceeds the DC by five so it actually

1:00:02

intimidates them for two rounds as you scream

1:00:05

through scarily at this guy. Yes,

1:00:09

but she's our scary lady so you know. Be

1:00:11

like we do not have time for this if you do

1:00:13

not let us through this gate I will

1:00:15

rip your head off and feed it to your dogs.

1:00:18

I don't have a dog. He says shakily from around

1:00:20

the corner. Good.

1:00:22

I'm your journal then. He's

1:00:25

not talented. Well

1:00:28

feed it to your own devils. I

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think they'd have hellhounds on chileax. Those aren't

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dogs. Aren't they? I mean, they're in their

1:00:34

own way. I can talk to dogs kind of I can't

1:00:36

talk to hellhounds. Although I think maybe you could if

1:00:38

you spoke the right language. It doesn't matter. That

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brings us to Langrave Dorhan.

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I hate my life. I don't want to. All

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right, moving on. You try to lift and you're like,

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oh, you really are just like grabbing onto your back

1:00:52

like, oh, Christ. Pick up this bow and shoot it.

1:00:54

And maybe you have better luck. It's like getting old

1:00:56

feels like. Count

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Falsmar. All right. My turn to try. This

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entire adventure in here. I

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rolled a two for a six. All

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right. I'm about to give up on this gate. I think it's just

1:01:16

like this now. Well, we've

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got to get through here somehow. I might

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be better at throwing something. That's

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out once again, brings up his crossbow. He's

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shaken. So that's going to be at a

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metal. No, it's

1:01:28

mostly what? Hey,

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hey, you want to do us a

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solid and flip that lever before my

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friend here yelled at you some more.

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She's real scary. I'd rather kill

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you, he says. Okay. Nope,

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nope, not gonna though. That's a 12, unfortunately, which

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I don't think will hit his target as he

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fires another bolt at you. Turgis

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begins to crank in reload. If

1:01:50

pertinent, Jessica, since you did ask that question, he is

1:01:52

wearing a breastplate. I don't know.

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Heat metal. I have burning disarm. Oh,

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I see. Bring us to count as Josephine

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Hiscolar. Kill him. Somehow. Or

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something. Like yell at him. You can

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save us, right? I'm

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gonna cause fear. Yeah.

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But I don't know if we want him to

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run. Maybe we do. That'll give us

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more time to open the gate. That's true.

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Without getting shot after. Yeah. She

1:02:18

probably looks at him and be like, you

1:02:20

are going to regret this. Yeah,

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you call upon your spell, do a little

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cause fear action. Yep. The

1:02:27

boys are just like, I can't look at her when she's doing this.

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It's very scary. Targets

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one living creature with five or few hit die,

1:02:36

which it does apply in this

1:02:38

case. Yep. As long as they're within 25 feet. And

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it's a 14. The

1:02:44

DC is 16. So no, he

1:02:47

is afraid. Very

1:02:50

afraid. So go ahead and bounce me D4. It'd be

1:02:52

a great time to have command or something. Hit

1:02:55

that lever. So you

1:02:57

basically shout this at this guy. We'll get

1:02:59

back to what happens here in a second,

1:03:01

but let's get to the top of round

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seven. Langrave Darahan. I

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believe in you, man. Okay. It's an 11 or 15. No,

1:03:10

you're fighting with it, but this

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time it at least moves a little bit. Yes.

1:03:16

Yes. So you're fighting with it, bringing us to count

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Felspar. All right. I'm

1:03:21

going to try on my own one more time. And if that doesn't

1:03:23

do anything, then I'm just going to start

1:03:25

aiding 15 for a 19 15 for

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a 19. Our biggest nemesis is this gate. I

1:03:30

know. Right. I need you to tell me how

1:03:32

much Jordan cackles when he listens to this. No,

1:03:36

you get close. You're trying. You're

1:03:38

like, maybe if we were lifting at the

1:03:41

same time, but we're both each individually trying

1:03:43

to show off. Okay. We're going

1:03:45

to have to work together, man. Yeah, I

1:03:47

think so. You

1:03:49

weren't working together before this. We

1:03:53

definitely were totally working together. Don't make

1:03:55

the scary face. Just make it at

1:03:57

that guy. Which

1:04:01

brings us to the other guy. And then

1:04:03

he runs away. And oh does he? Having

1:04:06

felled against the Cause Fear, while

1:04:09

already shaken from the Demoralize, escalates

1:04:11

him to panic. As he's

1:04:13

yelling at him, he goes, ah! It like

1:04:15

throws the crossbow because he drops everything he's

1:04:18

holding. Oh thank god. Move action, so free

1:04:20

action drops the crossbow, move action like darts

1:04:22

into that alcove you see off to the

1:04:24

side. And you hear the sound of a

1:04:26

door flying open as he starts to flee

1:04:28

for his life. Shafi, you're

1:04:30

the best. As you're like, okay well at least

1:04:33

now we can try to lift this thing as

1:04:35

you turn back to the portcullis. And unfortunately

1:04:37

I guess we'll have to wait and see if you

1:04:39

lift that next time. We'll pick it up here next

1:04:41

time. It's just an hour and a half of us

1:04:44

struggling with this portcullis. I'm not gonna

1:04:46

lie, I really expected you guys to get through this a

1:04:48

lot faster. But it is just like, ah! Oh we can't

1:04:50

hit anything! How hard could it be? We can't attack this

1:04:52

thing. Oh god! I

1:04:54

just couldn't hit him so it wasn't worth shooting

1:04:56

anymore. I'm sorry, but I can't roll higher than

1:04:59

a 10 to lift a portcullis apparently. I rolled

1:05:01

a 15 and it still didn't work. Oh

1:05:03

my god. Sometimes the dice just go to green. I'm gonna laugh

1:05:05

if I go up there and roll a nat 20. Shush.

1:05:08

Shush you. But

1:05:11

yeah, good going guys, good powering through. I guess. I

1:05:14

had fun. You have

1:05:16

a fourth level and it really just, it feels like

1:05:18

you guys are like first level at Keshosho. We

1:05:21

can't make an attack roll above 10. I'm

1:05:24

multi-glossing. No, it's not just on you, it's

1:05:26

also these other guys rolling non-stop 10s to

1:05:28

try to stab you. The dice were not

1:05:30

in our favor. The

1:05:32

dice weren't really in anybody's favor. They were

1:05:34

healing today. Except when you made that critical

1:05:36

and turned that guy into a meat pile.

1:05:38

I could still fully murder a dude. Ah

1:05:41

jeez, I didn't mean to fully murder a dude.

1:05:43

I mean I wasn't non-leasling, but I wasn't going

1:05:45

that hard. Thank you

1:05:47

all for joining us this week. Thank you for tuning in.

1:05:50

We hope you've been enjoying this side story. Tune

1:05:52

in next time for the one with the portcullis.

1:05:55

The true nemesis of the dungeon. I miss Jordan and

1:06:00

Ross being here but there is something just

1:06:02

ridiculous about the three of you stumbling your

1:06:04

way through here. Are you

1:06:06

trying to suggest we wouldn't be stumbling if they

1:06:08

were here because you know we would all

1:06:10

try to suggest it's just that like Ross

1:06:12

always brings that like positive energy of like

1:06:14

let's just kind of keep going guys let's

1:06:16

just keep doing this like at all the

1:06:19

risk that stuff and just in the background

1:06:21

hold on I'm gonna lean away from the

1:06:23

microphone so I don't pee I'll bring up

1:06:25

a hand just be Jordan just going why

1:06:27

god why Wow

1:06:30

how is this even happening as loud

1:06:32

as we can the entire time. Yeah

1:06:34

that feels right. So

1:06:37

there's something just funny about you guys are all just like we

1:06:39

just accept this is our lot life. It's

1:06:42

fine everything's fine. It makes snarky

1:06:44

comments and makes the enemies think that we

1:06:46

are completely unhinged. Let

1:06:51

us know audience if you like this

1:06:53

fun dynamic. The ladies bite out here.

1:06:56

It's over here like Basil with the

1:06:58

whole Charlie's Angels yeah. But

1:07:00

thank you again everyone for for joining us

1:07:02

we hope that you've enjoyed this this episode

1:07:04

and tune back in next time for an

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hour and a half I can only assume of attempting to lift

1:07:09

a poor cola. Can

1:07:13

it lift? Trying to rein in our

1:07:15

particular brand of chaos. Other

1:07:18

than in full chaos mode with me. Yes.

1:07:21

And like I said I made Izzy to be ridiculous because I can't think of another.

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