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5. Part 1. Take

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now presenting a

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Rotating Heroes Podcast!

2:19

Welcome back to the Rotating

2:22

Heroes podcast. I am

2:24

joined, as always, so

2:26

far, for the fifth time, by the

2:30

rotators of the third arc.

2:32

Hello everyone. Going

2:34

left, you know, what is it? Not

2:39

left to right because it's a square. Let's

2:42

say counterclockwise. Yeah,

2:44

that's the word. Counterclockwise

2:47

on my screen, we have

2:50

the unforgettable Freya, AKA Victoria

2:52

Longwell. Victoria, as everyone wants

2:55

to know, how you

2:57

doing? Hey, I'm great.

2:59

Thank you for asking. I

3:02

turned 33 yesterday. Wow.

3:06

A big, big one. I mean, like,

3:09

welcome to the club, I should say.

3:11

Oh, thank you. A big one. A

3:14

true milestone birthday. A big, truly

3:19

had nothing to say about the

3:21

year other than big, big. It's

3:25

the oldest one. So far it

3:27

is. You know what looks almost like

3:29

it? Big, big because the B, it

3:31

looks like threes. So big, big. It

3:35

makes sense. How do you feel? Do you

3:37

feel like you've gained any wisdom? Sure.

3:42

Yeah. Okay. I feel great. I

3:45

feel glad to be alive, you know? Yeah, me too.

3:48

I feel like the quarantine birthdays just feel like they

3:50

don't count. They feel, yeah. Although

3:53

I got to say I had a lot, I got to see

3:55

all of you. Oh, yeah.

3:57

This, this, yeah. Yeah,

4:01

it's a it's a nice timing. I think

4:03

or it's like getting to be good timing

4:05

agreed well, happy birthday from

4:07

all of us here and Speaking

4:11

of happy birthdays I

4:15

believe he has a birthday this summer.

4:17

Is that right? We

4:20

have the loxodon druid Jacob,

4:23

why sake? What's up? Yeah,

4:27

I'm a Gemini baby I'm

4:30

a Gemini Jacob are

4:32

you excited about your birthday this summer?

4:34

Do you think you're gonna go nuts?

4:37

It's we might get a normal. I might get a normal

4:39

one Yeah, it looks like we're

4:42

on we're on track to get you're fully

4:44

you're fully vaxxed at this I'm fully vaxxed.

4:46

It seems like we're moving into what is

4:48

I Fully

4:50

understand and comprehend as yellow tear

4:52

and no question, you know, I

4:55

can answer any questions But please no questions at this

4:57

time and I do fully understand it But

5:00

I'm you know, I think we might get a

5:02

normal one. I guess I can't really ask you.

5:04

Thank you very much for respecting that No more

5:06

questions. Thank you. I'm gonna ask you questions during

5:08

this session. I'm absolutely yeah, I could take a

5:10

few more I've got time for a few more. Thank you In

5:14

the okay in the session anytime Okay.

5:17

Well moving on from that what

5:20

I assume is the furthest away birthday. Why?

5:24

Yeah, it is putting that to bed forever In

5:29

What I assume is again the

5:31

best intro he's ever gotten we

5:34

have Rufus Cutler aka Devin

5:37

feel Devin how you doing? Doing

5:40

good. I'm vaxxed and I'm saged.

5:42

That's right. I'm a Sagittarius baby

5:45

And that means it's a December birthday for

5:47

your boy. Okay Yeah

5:51

Long ways away. We're along

5:53

was way you got the the

5:55

Christmas December birthday situation Where

5:57

you just get that month is present heaven The

6:00

tell you something I forgot. I will

6:02

not reveal the listeners the date of

6:04

my breath less they try to steal

6:06

my identity. Okay. Is it

6:08

December First know. But. To

6:10

say suffice to say,

6:13

It's within the first. Week.

6:15

Of December. And.

6:17

Now now they just have to

6:19

guess what their seven in there

6:22

they will go on. Law is

6:24

it Decide that Know and today

6:26

and so as a result I

6:28

would always get. The. Birthday presents.

6:30

and then the Christmas presents sell a

6:32

big enough gap, big enough gap and

6:34

cram. My mom i think was sensitive

6:37

about that as he would be like

6:39

spicy wouldn't daiquiri for Christmas until after

6:41

I'd gotten. My. He I started

6:43

had my birthday and stuff so. That's. Very

6:45

sweet and who knows what my birthday will

6:48

look like this year in the A? You

6:50

know? I don't know. maybe we'll be dealing

6:52

with covered twenty at that point. Ah,

6:56

thats was in our fingers. Rob

6:58

your eye on these variants listeners.

7:01

Yeah, we're gonna be. We're going

7:03

to be somewhere surrounded by two

7:05

hundred, two hundred and twenty people.

7:08

Suck back a whip it on

7:10

your birthday, Devil, you know you

7:12

are. Yeah, we, those are the

7:14

Two Avenue Twenty. Their reentering sort

7:17

of a harrowing locked down that

7:19

will never emerged from or. Ebita,

7:22

you know, I

7:27

could not imagine me. and you just

7:29

mean obesity. Is

7:33

a raving Hards. Just. Like

7:35

a slightly unable either of us

7:37

to really pull the trigger. On

7:41

any a hug I got really into garner

7:43

at like a crazy rave and everything and

7:45

sorta like I wish we'd gone anywhere else

7:47

in Europe. This is of mistakes. Drinking

7:51

those like aluminum Bud Light passer

7:53

by. My blame that the squirrel

7:55

for better drink a villain. Yeah

7:57

yeah, it's so cold. And

8:02

nine? Well, let's escape that nightmare

8:05

game with a little recap. Chalet

8:07

L E last time on the

8:09

rotating heroes bought our rotator continued

8:11

their adventure to save the forces

8:14

of For Cutler from certain bug

8:16

laden doomed. They started the session

8:18

by crossing the quote unquote Cutler

8:21

bridge, weeping from post post, across

8:23

a dangerous waters and voiding monstrous

8:25

crocodiles in a team building exercise

8:27

from hell. Upon reaching the

8:30

opposite sure say discovered something completely

8:32

surprising to them human footprints. Not

8:34

being aware of any human eye

8:37

population still living in the forest.

8:39

This was a rather large discovery.

8:42

A track this along the trail for

8:44

a few hours, getting to know each

8:46

other a little better, and hearing an

8:48

absolutely beautiful poem for granted, before finally

8:50

finding some unsavory scavengers painted in dark

8:52

red colors, drinking and planning to sell

8:55

a poor gnome who is tied up

8:57

at their feet. Are.

8:59

Heroes surprise attack this crew on

9:01

the decapitating their leader before Freya

9:03

finally stabbed him in the got.

9:05

getting that much sought after Dark

9:07

Blood and eventually Grid and Rufus

9:09

entangled Flash Hog tied the last

9:11

of the scavengers with Grebes entanglement

9:13

roof. it is hard time skills

9:15

they do the last of the

9:18

scavengers but upon unsigned the poor

9:20

tied up know I. he took

9:22

his opportunity to execute his former

9:24

captor before cheerfully introducing himself as

9:26

Cribbage in that's where we are

9:28

today So. You. Guys are

9:30

still at the side of this band

9:32

at camp. Where you killed These

9:34

three guys are to guide and and Cribbage

9:37

killed the third one. Cribbage is there a

9:39

nice. As. He see he

9:41

is a sort of. Just. Harmless

9:43

looking now Mina in a little

9:45

tunic. That's why Kenneth Threadbare. It's

9:47

kind of patched together with like

9:49

a little rabbit for you've got

9:51

like really dirty looking like dirty

9:53

blonde hair but yeah looks like

9:55

an adult that is unknown net

9:57

rather than a child as as.

10:00

A previous looked like before

10:02

the fight. He looks around.

10:04

Smiling. What he

10:06

has done. Why think I'm wiping the

10:09

blood from this man's throat off my

10:11

face? I I'm I'm gonna go ahead

10:13

and say that cribbage split disguise artery

10:16

wide open in a way that it

10:18

just got the guts to write in

10:20

my purse. Every physicists fully read a

10:23

good oh my God. my mouth. Good

10:26

Lord. Yeah,

10:28

Really? gotten. Cribbage

10:32

I like looks around for like a

10:35

little. He like rips off

10:37

a little cloth of that. That man just

10:39

like out I too small piece of Lenin

10:41

and hands it to you. Why? Why are

10:43

you giving this to me? Why did you

10:45

do any of this? I was dry to

10:47

get information out of that might er blitt

10:49

of your face. I know I just I

10:51

I didn't want it here. I'm in talk

10:53

anymore. Service

10:55

that reason enough to kill someone?

10:59

Oh I didn't wanna hear him talk anymore because he's

11:01

gonna beat me. What has.

11:05

He said he was. he was thinking of eating me.

11:07

When. When did he say this? When

11:10

they were when the I was tied up around the

11:12

ground. I

11:14

think we've heard them say I was

11:16

joking about that. I'm so sorry you

11:18

were in that position. Yaddo! Onto

11:20

the. Ours did

11:22

they eat any of your friends?

11:24

Now I don't. I. Don't know

11:27

where in in my friends are he

11:29

looks kind of sad there is like

11:31

gun and we have role in say

11:33

checks if you want nine eleven twelve.

11:37

Yeah. It's it's hard to get a full read

11:39

on this. This guy. P

11:41

S. it's definitely not someone from

11:43

further east is probably what it

11:46

feels like. This guy feels pretty

11:48

wild. Ah, Right now I Kiss

11:50

Tunic does look kind of like someone who

11:52

is like a tailor something made it but

11:55

that differ in the way he looks a

11:57

feels like that's like a pretty the old

11:59

garment that he's had for. what does he

12:01

have? Any weapons on humor like obvious like

12:04

spell or agents or anything I just as

12:06

a little knife that he picked up the

12:08

i'm at that but outside of that that

12:10

wasn't his name of the array he had

12:12

picked it up and august as matter he

12:15

did not. I think it could have a

12:17

like you don't know if it was his

12:19

night prior to that it certainly for him

12:21

now. Ah. He does well

12:23

and. Again, my name

12:26

is Cribbage and. You

12:28

know I'm not from around here. Sl

12:30

through a portal and I fell through

12:32

the portal. Will I'd like to eat

12:34

here with. that is about meet his

12:36

last of his. I

12:40

don't know what happiness if the

12:42

reporter and.i've been over here for

12:44

quite some maybe years and die

12:47

on. I'm. Just days.

12:50

Been. Running around looking for my

12:52

friends I can find them right. Cribbage

12:54

Okay well it seems like this honestly

12:57

a lot of data me see that

12:59

it would be really cheap like this

13:01

reporter the so maybe we should just

13:03

start from the very beginning. sort of

13:05

do a queue in a i'm grub

13:07

i'm a look saddam was are lots

13:10

of them have what I am it

13:12

is what you'd call get I know

13:14

how that. Again,

13:16

right? These are my friends who

13:18

are also traveling through the forest.

13:21

And Freya. And.

13:23

Your lox it on. Now I'm a

13:25

paladin. Okay, Is

13:29

Erin else was? I really didn't

13:31

paladin. With her Elfin paladin.

13:34

My God save, does it matter?

13:36

Am I'm a human? My.

13:38

Name is Rufus and that's

13:40

it as I can't. Sell yourself.

13:43

Short route lit for it says the there's

13:45

money isn't that. Now get that wasn't

13:47

when I look at. Okay, we're starting

13:49

from the beginning. Guess where were you

13:51

before you were in a portal? There's.

13:54

a good one big as my

13:57

village i was hanging out with

13:59

my friends And they

14:01

dared me to jump over this jump and I

14:03

jumped it and then I didn't make it. And

14:05

then when I fell down the hole, there was

14:07

a portal in there and I ended up in

14:09

this place that's different. And I

14:11

have not seen them since. And

14:14

who, do you mind describing your friends?

14:16

Oh yeah, they're like pretty

14:19

cool. They're like me. We

14:23

would do cool tricks all the time. It's going to

14:25

be tough to get a certain level of detail out

14:27

of this guy. Yes. Where you

14:29

come from, Cribbage, is everybody like

14:31

you? Yeah, pretty much. I

14:34

mean, some of them are like, kind of

14:36

like, roll their eyes like you guys do at me.

14:41

We're not... Who's doing that?

14:43

We're just trying to understand. Who rolled their eyes?

14:45

They're just like... Sorry,

14:48

what? I said we're just trying to understand.

14:50

Yeah, trying to hush me. I

14:53

appreciate you saving my life. See, I'm trying to hush you.

14:57

Hush me. I'm trying to hush you. Hush you.

14:59

Hush you. My vibe is

15:02

getting hushed over here. Look, I'm

15:04

pretty chill, man. Yeah, Cribbage,

15:06

no one's trying to hush your mellow.

15:08

Oh my God. Cribbage, you're

15:10

a little harsh. Hey. You're

15:13

chill, you don't say that. Forgive me if

15:15

I think maybe the vibe should be changed

15:17

when I just watched this Cribbage

15:20

person murder someone,

15:22

all right? And I know we killed the

15:24

other people, but to see them cold-blooded, killing

15:26

I just saw. Well, I feel one. What's

15:28

the difference? He's kind of got

15:30

you there, Rufus. Look, how did you... So you

15:32

think you were here for years? How have you

15:35

just been running around in this forest for years?

15:37

Yeah, I'm a lot smaller than all these guys,

15:40

and I come up and I steal things from

15:42

them if they leave it out, but

15:44

they're also bad dudes, so it's okay. And...

15:47

Can I just ask a quick clarification question?

15:50

Yes. Were you playing a board game? I

15:53

don't know. What do you... What do you mean? Were

15:56

you playing a board game... Were you playing a board game

15:58

where at first... things came out

16:00

of the board game depending upon the

16:03

role. And then at some point things

16:05

got so heightened. You

16:08

think I was in Jumanji? Well,

16:12

we don't, we don't know what

16:14

Jumanji is, but do you know

16:16

the name called Jumanji? But no, I was

16:18

not playing Jumanji. I

16:21

like Jumanji, but so it's like,

16:23

Gribb doesn't know what that word means. Gribbage

16:27

once again looks at this like dead

16:29

guy on the ground and he's like, well, we're

16:32

in their territory now. So these guys are

16:34

bad news. They are big and

16:37

powerful and they got tons of members and they're

16:40

obsessed with digging up old stuff. Yeah.

16:42

So tell me about these men. Cause as far

16:44

as I know, there had never been humans this

16:46

far into the forest. I think Rufus would know

16:48

that there were people a long time ago, but

16:50

like, it's just all contact

16:53

has been lost. Um, so like,

16:55

yeah, there, you, y'all have not seen people

16:57

since you were a child. Okay. Let me

16:59

take that line again. Let me do a

17:01

different version of that then. Um,

17:04

tell me everything you know about these

17:06

men who kidnapped you. Cause for, for

17:08

my understanding, it's, it's rare that humans

17:10

would be this far out in the

17:12

forest. I don't know that there have

17:14

been humans out here for a

17:16

very long time. I think they're

17:19

called the red rust gang and,

17:21

uh, the rust gang. They

17:23

like to dig up stuff on the ground. What

17:26

kind of stuff? Like, uh,

17:28

middle stuff. They like, um,

17:30

old auto effects, perhaps. Or

17:32

sorry, what old auto effects perhaps.

17:35

Uh, yeah, it's like vegan old. And,

17:38

um, I don't know much

17:40

about it. I try to steer clear of

17:42

them, but they are very mean and they

17:44

attack everyone. Sometimes there's other people

17:47

around here that they kill. Who are they

17:49

led by? Do you know? Uh, there's this

17:51

big, uh, bald guy. It's

17:53

like a big, big one. Um,

17:56

bald guy. He

17:58

was a big one. He's

18:00

a big one. He's the biggest one I've ever seen

18:02

and then there's Kind

18:05

of a mean smaller one. Did he pick up

18:07

in me? Hmm. How tall this grip again? Oh,

18:10

man I don't remember the cannon. I think

18:12

I said seven nine Insanely

18:19

tall So

18:22

just for scale you're like decently

18:24

taller than Yao Ming right wasn't

18:26

he like I I

18:29

Just don't want to go against Hannah and I really

18:31

do have a pretty strong memory being

18:34

like he's so strong be shorter It's

18:36

probably yeah, Yao Ming was seven five No,

18:40

dude. I mean he's a giant elephant guy. I

18:42

think like of course it on trip. I think

18:44

they start at like seven feet That's awesome. They

18:46

start Breaking

18:50

you know what I act looking up at I Mean

19:07

There's a big bald guy and a smaller

19:09

mean guy you said that's the breakdown that's

19:11

as much details we're getting from you But

19:13

but yeah, I don't know. I don't know

19:15

their power structure until guy Don't

19:19

call me that I don't care for that Captain

19:23

no, and that's odd that

19:25

you would know captain, but then you would refuse

19:27

to learn my name. I Don't

19:30

know if they go by captain. Wait,

19:32

what's your name? Rufus? More

19:36

like more fuss No

19:41

fuss no kind of fuss Yeah,

19:43

he's a fuss. He's a I'm gonna call him

19:45

fuss. All right, somebody else talk to this guy

19:47

I Kiki

19:50

says Wait, hold on.

19:52

What who do you want to who you want

19:54

one of us to kick his ass? Yeah,

19:58

I mean I was going to but if I

20:00

would love to see you try. Okay.

20:03

I would love to stop. We're

20:06

getting rowdy, we're getting too pent up. Nobody needs to kick

20:08

anybody's ass. Let's

20:11

all try and be the light in the world,

20:13

okay? Crivage, what can you

20:15

tell... What are you guys doing? What

20:18

are you guys doing? We are

20:20

on an expedition into the

20:22

forest, hopefully to find some

20:24

signs of a party that was sent out

20:27

from Fort Cutler, led by

20:29

my father and brother, who have gone

20:31

missing. And these are

20:33

my two loyal companions who

20:35

work tirelessly in service to me.

20:38

What's that? Nothing,

20:40

Rufus. Captain Unchill.

20:44

Okay. You

20:46

didn't even say that quieter than the other party. It's catching

20:49

on. It's catching on like

20:51

wildfire. No, it's not. Yeah,

20:53

I guess would you guys tell

20:56

Crivage about just the going on, like what you

20:58

all are dealing with? Yes.

21:01

Crivage, we will be pressing forward, and

21:03

we appreciate the information you've given us

21:05

so we can be more cautious, but

21:07

if you are tired of traveling alone, I'm

21:10

sure you could continue to forge through the

21:12

forest with us. Perhaps having somebody who's slightly

21:14

familiar might be beneficial. Hang on a second.

21:17

Crivage, if you don't mind, I'd like to have

21:19

a quick little huddle with my team

21:22

for a second, please. Hey,

21:26

grip. Maybe we

21:28

don't make an executive decision without checking

21:30

in with the leader, aka me, as

21:32

to whether or not we want to

21:34

have a little dwarf guy or a

21:36

little gnome guy. Sorry, I

21:39

don't know all the different types of- You can't say

21:41

anything anymore, you know what I mean? I

21:44

don't know what you mean. And quite frankly, your

21:47

tone and what everything you said has

21:49

made me really unlike you. Look, what

21:51

I'm- And

21:54

did the fact that Crivage slit someone's throat so

21:56

brutally make you unlike him? I just think we

21:58

need to consider whether or not this is- person

22:00

is gonna murder us in our sleep these

22:03

person was the guy my murder is is

22:05

that why I'm weighing it others yes that's

22:07

what yeah he might murder it so I'm gets an

22:10

opinion but I

22:12

can't die but I mean but

22:15

see I understand your I

22:17

understand your concerns but as somebody who was

22:19

a prisoner I can understand the anger that

22:22

is caused when you are bound

22:25

against your will Rufus

22:28

so stop being a fucking buzzkill

22:30

mad grip

22:32

I swear I thought we were in a

22:34

new better place and this

22:37

is tough to hear you were you would through some

22:39

heat at me and I want to be your buddy

22:41

I want to be a pal Freya what do you

22:43

think I think that I'm

22:45

on day five of my period no the

22:48

day when I have easily the least

22:50

patience okay and I don't like this

22:52

side of me and I don't want

22:55

to show it to you

22:58

okay but I almost certainly have

23:00

no choice in the matter I like

23:03

Cribbage I

23:05

understand why he killed the man you

23:08

would have done the same Rufus and

23:12

I do think it could be helpful

23:14

to have someone with familiarity of the

23:16

forest what if there was a way

23:18

to test if he had I don't know maybe

23:21

a sort of moral

23:23

grounds or a sort of emotional button I

23:25

don't know I could read him a really

23:27

sad poem if it affects him so hold

23:30

on your plan to see if this person

23:32

is worth joining our party is to read

23:34

them a sad poem see if they have

23:37

some feelings of empathy and then let them

23:39

into the party this doesn't seem like a

23:41

good test well

23:44

what's your plan to make sure that he's

23:46

not a monstrous terrible terrible man he's just

23:48

a lost friend if

23:51

you don't want to hear a poem you could just say that you

23:53

don't want to find read him a lot of

23:56

crib bitches over there like just digging through the

23:59

pockets of these dead guys. That

24:02

sucks. Not good. None of these.

24:06

Cribbage. Hmm? Yeah?

24:09

We have to test your emotional intelligence.

24:14

What? I would like you

24:16

to listen to something and I would like you to listen to

24:18

it nice. Nice and slow. I

24:22

listen slow? Yes. Okay.

24:25

Crib pulls out that same book. He doesn't show

24:27

the cover of the book. He pulls out another

24:29

piece of paper. This

24:32

is a poem called Bailey. There

24:35

was a lonely man who sat

24:37

in an aged rickety chair. Even

24:41

though he had a newer one right next to

24:43

him. Simply because it

24:45

reminded him of what he once had.

24:49

He contemplates and stares at

24:51

nothing more than the blackened

24:53

screen door painted by toxins

24:56

of his nicotine habit. Remembering

24:59

a promise once made. To

25:04

never become the type of man he

25:06

is. Well,

25:09

man, that's so sick. He

25:11

can join the club. He's in. You

25:13

didn't even... All he said was that's... He either

25:16

said sad or sick. I couldn't tell. It's

25:19

sad. It's sad. It's

25:21

good enough for me. Validating enough for me.

25:25

And your explanation of where you are going. I

25:29

think Cribbage would understand a little bit about where you are

25:31

in the forest currently. So you're going north now? Yes,

25:34

I believe so. And so...

25:36

Okay. If

25:39

you're trying to get to those mountains, you

25:42

have to go through their territory and

25:45

they have a bit of... There's

25:48

like a mountain that they have blocked the center

25:50

of, but you have to go

25:52

through that to get that way.

25:54

We have to go through the mountain? We

25:56

have to... The only... Well, there's...

26:00

Which goes unexplained. There's two options.

26:03

There's these two heels that you can

26:06

kind of go around but it takes a couple of

26:08

days so that's kind of slow or you can go

26:10

straight through it where

26:12

they have, where they're currently digging out

26:14

something. And when

26:16

you say they, you mean these men.

26:19

These guys, the bad guys. The bad guys. You

26:22

can go through there but it's a

26:24

little sketchy. I've done it

26:27

a couple of times. I could show

26:29

you how to do it but I

26:31

don't know. So essentially to go forward

26:33

we would have to go through the

26:35

excavation site that this red

26:37

rustic gang has dug out in their

26:39

search for artifacts of some kind.

26:41

Yeah, I think they called it the crick

26:44

site. The crick, now it's hard to tell

26:46

what's dead. Crack site? The crick or the

26:48

crack? Yeah, the crick site. I think I

26:50

heard them say the crick site. I'll just

26:52

never know. I'll just never know exactly what

26:54

word he's saying about half the time. It's

26:57

a crick. Yeah, I'll

27:00

go crack but... Yeah,

27:02

I think it's still a crick site. Okay.

27:07

Well, I think you just have to pick one. You

27:10

just have to pick one and you have to be okay with being

27:12

wrong. And I don't know. Crick

27:14

site. Yeah, you just got it right. It seems to me

27:17

like... If one more person says crack I'm gonna lose my

27:19

mind, okay? And I hate to be this

27:21

way. I hate it. Freya, let go of

27:23

my lapel. And the

27:25

cribbage hops under the cribbed shoulder and

27:27

says, they always like these, man? Honestly,

27:31

it's a little turned up

27:34

more than usual, I'll be honest. This

27:37

is like we're cranking in at like a

27:39

hot eight but usually we're like a calm

27:41

six. Freya, put me down. You're lifting me

27:43

off the ground. Brothers, I

27:46

have no choice. Freya's

27:49

just twirling Rufus over. How

27:55

are you this strong? Yeah,

28:00

Cribbage is like, I can show you guys the

28:02

way, but, um, yeah, up to you. In any

28:04

case, I owe you for saving my life. I'm

28:06

sorry if I came in hot. And,

28:08

uh, I will work forward. I'll work

28:10

to, um, make this relationship,

28:13

uh, work better. Okay.

28:16

That's more than enough. Really

28:18

lovely. Very empathetic. But

28:20

if you cross us... Because the truth is I would be dead.

28:23

I'm keeping my eye on you, you understand, Cribbage?

28:26

Okay. Captain Uncher? You

28:30

should just accept it. If you accept the nickname

28:32

and you lean into the roast, it won't be

28:35

as effective. I don't... I don't

28:37

want to own... My name is Rufus Cutler,

28:39

okay? There's nothing un-chill about me. I'm actually

28:41

a very fun person. I think you'll

28:43

find when I'm not in an emergency situation, I

28:45

can be very, very laid back. What's your favorite

28:47

game? My favorite game? Punch. What's

28:52

Punch? Punch is a game that my brother

28:54

used to play with me where he would

28:56

look for me... This is so funny. This

28:58

is so fun. He would look for me

29:01

in the fort. I would be hiding. Um,

29:03

and he would find me and he would punch

29:06

me as many times as he possibly could. I'll

29:09

play Punch. You want to

29:11

play Punch? I play Punch with you right now.

29:13

The two of you should play Punch. No. I

29:15

think we should probably get going for the

29:17

Crit-Crack, you know? I think we should probably

29:19

head that way. I mean, I'd love to

29:21

see you play Punch. That's the saddest game

29:24

I've ever heard of, but, um... No, it

29:26

was a totally mutually fun game. Both parties

29:28

had a really good time and the rules

29:30

were agreed upon. You know what I mean?

29:32

It was very empowering, actually. It's

29:35

starting to get, like, later in the day. It's still the

29:37

same day as, you

29:39

know, your crossing and stuff after your

29:42

terrifying night. But Cribbage

29:45

points out, like, yeah, it's gonna be much easier

29:47

to do it at night. If

29:50

we don't go sooner than later, we're gonna have to

29:52

wait an entire day. It might be big. And,

29:55

uh, I guess you guys start heading on. Lead

29:58

the way, Cribbage. I'll

30:00

continue explaining the rules of punch You

30:03

guys follow cribbage through the woods.

30:05

He's moving fast You

30:08

see this little quiet nimble gnome

30:10

like dive through branches and trees

30:13

without even considering his footing You

30:16

think you guys would? Probably lose

30:18

him honestly if you didn't occasionally pop out of nowhere

30:20

from a place that you were looking at like the

30:23

opposite direction of me like over here and and

30:25

then keep going and then like this way and Down

30:28

here and just like kind of just like

30:30

popping out like a little keyboard like a

30:32

Mortal Kombat sprite Yeah,

30:35

yeah struggling to remember

30:37

a mortal yeah, the Yes,

30:43

yes, you know and D&D lore

30:45

when they talk about the sprites

30:47

they're thinking of the whoops What

30:51

would you call it? What is a better

30:53

way to describe the Mortal Kombat guys? They're

30:55

sprites. They're little they are a sprite. Huh

30:57

aren't they I think I think it could

30:59

be a sprite. I just huh It's

31:03

like a cardboard cutout on the I

31:05

took all the fun out of the

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No. Okay. So

33:10

yeah, you guys get to an area of

33:12

the forest where you start to hear louder

33:15

and louder noises where people

33:17

aren't actually trying to be

33:20

quiet, which has

33:22

been the case with so many other parts of the forest

33:24

with like animals and things. But

33:26

peeking through these trees, you see a bit

33:29

of a clearing to what Cribbage was trying

33:31

to describe. You see there's an abrupt fissure

33:33

right down the middle that would be

33:35

a path if it weren't blocked by what

33:37

you see in front of you, sort of

33:40

this makeshift looking base. You

33:42

can't see much beyond the outer wall

33:45

that's made of like cobbled together materials.

33:47

It's a lot of like cut down

33:49

trees. And some pieces

33:51

of like rusted metal blocking

33:56

what you can see within it, but Cribbage,

33:59

high. With you guys in that

34:01

area and you guys are. C,

34:04

C, and Frank there are two

34:06

guards out France. Kind of like

34:08

the guys that you saw earlier,

34:10

but. He. Since that everybody

34:12

make a perception check if you actually.

34:16

Five Everyone Up Twenty Two. Twenty

34:19

three. Wow. We're.

34:22

Referring men on this one, He was

34:24

looking elsewhere. Yeah,

34:27

Rufus, you're just staring at the back

34:29

a cribbage? Yeah, like kind of would

34:31

sit staring daggers into the back. And

34:33

Kirby said, got this little squirt I

34:35

swear I get a kick his ass

34:37

of day. Cribbage

34:40

filled with your eyes on interns that

34:42

you unlock the cyber I kind of

34:44

for hand node looking at the grounds

34:47

of wells like how incidents where are

34:49

you gonna soyuz the sun. Don't

34:53

Are you eating dirt? Just

34:56

checking. Yeah

35:00

I mean twenty two and twenty three pretty

35:02

high yea it looks like a fool enemy

35:04

base and your you see these guards outside

35:06

that look kind like the guys you guys

35:08

far earlier today that real quick. Also we

35:10

can say you guys took a short rest

35:13

of a know what were you guys are

35:15

out on helm was yeah let me do

35:17

that may be so you guys took your

35:19

short ras your back up to full health

35:21

and mean you probably missing some spells and

35:23

things are other resources but I think our

35:25

roof is also get on a short rest

35:28

his actions. Search background. Yes, I'm.

35:31

Gone. So I'm. Yeah, the

35:33

guards here on that twenty two and

35:35

Twenty three. You notice that they are

35:38

a little more sturdy looking in terms

35:40

of armor. Like. they they also

35:42

maybe don't look like puffer but

35:44

they are more armored out i

35:47

sunsets ah they have like a

35:49

metal scrap metal shield and mike

35:51

a big ah they both have

35:53

big ass be years so it

35:55

looks a little mad max feeling

35:58

like a little post apocalyptic going

36:00

for it and on the 22 and 23

36:02

I'll tell you the options you see before

36:04

you. So there's

36:07

the guards up front there's two of them

36:09

you see like a third guy patrolling behind

36:11

them that comes every so often. So

36:14

yeah Lucky is often great. So these

36:16

are the options you see in front

36:18

of you there's the actual front gate

36:21

there's a little pipe to the left

36:23

that seems too small for all of

36:25

you guys to go through maybe cribbage

36:27

could fit through that and

36:30

then on the right side of the gate there's

36:33

like a little bit of a gap in the fence where

36:36

it seems like when the wind blows you see

36:38

it kind of clanging like you could pull that

36:40

up and sneak through and it's far enough to

36:42

the right that it would be away from where

36:44

the guards can see depending on

36:47

some stealth rolls etc. And

36:49

Preya don't forget that you

36:51

currently have heavy armor on

36:53

which makes you roll with disadvantage on

36:55

stealth. Okay. So yeah what are

36:57

you guys thinking? It's very

37:00

clear that if these guys were to

37:02

spot us they would signify to

37:05

the entire troop that were here right there

37:07

they'd raise the alarm essentially right that's just

37:09

like that's essentially what is like it seems

37:11

like that's their entire job right and like

37:13

they're guarding the gate and just like how

37:16

far is the camp like like would would

37:18

the people be there immediately if they were

37:20

hollered at like what's the gap of time

37:22

it looks like there there may be uh

37:25

you can't really see into it too much i

37:27

mean you can you're looking for that gap 22

37:29

and 23 is pretty high it seems like

37:31

stuff's not too far away from them it's

37:33

not like a long distance we don't want to

37:36

raise this alarm it seems no well

37:38

i could try we

37:40

could try to pass without trace again

37:44

um that

37:46

would up our stealth rolls would be that plus

37:48

10 to the stealth rolls and try the fence

37:50

route and i mean maybe there i

37:52

don't know if there's anything to like splitting up well

37:55

i'd like to ask i'd like to ask

37:57

cribbage about this little pipe he could go

37:59

through And maybe this entrance in

38:01

general just to know what the option is

38:04

Cribage looks that and he's like through

38:06

that there's like I think where they

38:08

sleep and stuff and so I

38:11

don't I think the right side might be

38:13

better for this this particular group And

38:16

points it seems like he's like it's not gonna

38:18

work with this crew possibly

38:20

and Yeah, cuz he has

38:22

been through here before and he's like So

38:25

crib you think we should give to the right

38:27

as opposed to sending you ahead and You

38:31

doing something I mean Cribage

38:34

thinks about this for a second. He's like, I

38:36

don't know that it's gonna be better if

38:38

we're separate probably Just means we

38:40

can't help each other. I agree. I want to keep

38:42

my eye on you Cribage. Yeah Okay,

38:46

I mean I Agree

38:49

that the last time we were separated things

38:51

were much harder I'm

38:53

in favor of staying together agreed. I

38:56

will cast pass without

38:58

trace. Yes, and just this

39:00

is I Guess it doesn't matter.

39:03

I'm running low on spell slots. Okay,

39:05

but this seems like a good time to use one,

39:07

huh? Yeah, I would agree.

39:10

Mm-hmm. I think so, especially that heavy

39:12

arm for objective. Yeah. Yeah, it's

39:14

just such a good advantage So yeah, so grid

39:17

bomb places his hand down

39:20

into the ground and a mitzi

39:23

a green orb around the group that As

39:26

soon as the orb touches the ground, it's

39:28

silent on our end silent on

39:30

the other side Cool you feel

39:32

yeah as soon as a group cast

39:34

that it's like when you watch people sneak

39:36

up on people in a movie And they're

39:38

like so quiet to the degree that doesn't

39:41

make any sense Like where

39:43

you you can't feel or hear

39:45

we're full under so much. Yes

39:49

in Rainbow Six Yeah,

39:53

you guys have a little green dot yeah on

39:55

your eyes of your night yeah, we become a

39:57

Tom Clancy property. Yeah The

40:00

real so this

40:02

little seal team Gains

40:06

the benefits of the pass without your spell. Uh,

40:09

which way are you going officially? We're

40:12

gonna bank right and head for that

40:14

flapping Panel of

40:17

defense. Okay. Great. Uh, so you

40:19

guys head that way any other preparations before

40:21

we start this should I take off my

40:23

armor? You can is that I

40:25

mean you could take but if you're covered with Gribb's

40:28

still pass without trace. She's still at disadvantage though

40:30

So so so like say she rolls like a

40:33

one and a two Yeah, you know what I

40:35

mean? Like a one is a failure no matter.

40:37

Yeah, or like yeah It's just like there's an

40:39

opportunity where she could get two bad rolls It

40:42

would lower your ac right take off your armor. You

40:44

have to like unclick it or whatever. But uh,

40:47

However, you feel grim in your

40:49

expertise. I think this is a stealth

40:51

mission. So let's be stealthy Anticipate

40:53

that we won't need to put on a armor. Okay,

40:56

so i'm gonna take it off And

40:58

i'm gonna rub some of this dirt under

41:00

my eyes to cut down on the glare

41:03

and better camouflage myself You're gonna

41:05

eat some more dirt. I'm not gonna eat it I'm

41:08

gonna you just ate some I caught you. No,

41:10

I wasn't eating it. I was tasting it just

41:12

to know where we were Why

41:14

would you taste it? Let's go shall we? Great

41:21

so yeah fred now you don't have the

41:23

disadvantage and you I'll say you like have

41:25

it bundled up in a bag So while

41:27

not like necessarily actually quiet like it's quiet

41:29

enough that you don't get disadvantage You

41:32

guys start sneaking everybody. Give

41:34

me your group stealth roll.

41:36

So everybody, uh, make

41:39

a stealth roll I

41:41

rolled a 26 18

41:43

I rolled in 19 cool.

41:45

I'll roll for these guards. Is that

41:47

with your plus 10 guys? I added

41:50

no Oh, is

41:52

it plus 10 you get an additional

41:54

10 from pass without trace? It won't show

41:56

up on an additional 10. So so my

41:59

my role was 18 and then it would

42:01

actually be 28? Correct.

42:04

Sick. I got a 28. 27

42:06

or 29. Roll

42:08

for these two guards. Yeah,

42:11

they do not see or hear

42:13

you. One guy rolled a nat one, but a

42:15

guy did roll a 19. So,

42:19

would have been bad. You got a hog. Wait, sorry, Freya, what did you

42:21

get? Okay,

42:23

yeah, great. So, I

42:25

mean, minus path, without pass, without

42:27

trace, that means Freya would have

42:30

failed. Wow. So, keep that in mind.

42:32

That's true, yeah. Wow. Exciting.

42:34

So, you guys sneak through this right side of the

42:36

fence. You're able to pull up this metal,

42:39

making sure that it doesn't clang. Like you

42:41

have, you're following Cribbage through

42:44

this area. He's scouting ahead a

42:46

little bit. And you guys enter

42:48

the first area of

42:51

this base. So, you enter

42:53

into what appears to be like

42:55

the outer rim of this work

42:57

camp. In

42:59

the distance, you hear a lot of what

43:01

sounds like, almost like a construction site. Just

43:05

like a lot of hammering, clanging

43:07

of metal tools and stuff. But in this

43:09

area, what you can see is the following.

43:11

Straight ahead of you is a more interior

43:13

wall. There's a second wall in front of

43:15

you. To your left, you

43:17

see this area that has been sort of

43:20

turned into like a makeshift shelter,

43:23

like kind of like a sleeping home

43:25

area, or there's

43:27

all these makeshift, like lean-to animal furs.

43:31

There's some small campfires. There's like dozens

43:33

of scavengers seemingly on break over here.

43:35

Right in front of you guys, the

43:38

grade of the hill is like kind of lower,

43:41

and you are in front of like

43:43

sort of like a gravelly pit. So,

43:45

it's like a lower elevation that is

43:48

like full of rocks and stuff that they've been like

43:50

getting rid of. Well, it seems

43:52

to be a pretty sticky situation. There's a

43:54

lot of... There's a

43:56

lot of... Seems like a lot of potential eyes

43:59

to spot us. The people. Yeah, yeah

44:01

I'm I'm wondering where exactly we're trying

44:03

their head through here. I imagine Cribbage

44:05

would have an understanding of where exactly

44:08

we want to go to get further

44:10

inside Cribbage looks up at in Pipes

44:12

of is a year at I think

44:15

we just trying to get free. This

44:17

and everything else is to strike three.

44:20

Okay, Well. They cannot

44:22

change at the camp every now and then so I don't. Know.

44:25

Exactly. But I know just come this

44:27

way. Well. We're

44:29

still covered by pass with without

44:31

trace. The. Economic our perception

44:34

check dislike to sort of to see that

44:36

it is or a clear path or like

44:38

I like a series of like under no

44:40

tensor something that we can just like duck

44:42

behind like I just want to live well

44:44

do like a present, make a perception check

44:47

and recheck. I guess is that when I'm

44:49

struggling to say. Eleven. There's

44:51

not that many route options like it.

44:53

There's kind of i can open center

44:55

area that you could like maybe sprint

44:57

across if you are daring enough. but

44:59

it also seems like this area to

45:01

the right with all the like rubble

45:03

and stuff is lower and like basically

45:05

a pet. So it's like doesn't have

45:07

the I line of the people from

45:09

the camp. It is like kind of

45:11

like weird rocky terrain so be a

45:14

little slow going. you could go that

45:16

way and then those are kind of

45:18

the options. I think that you would

45:20

see guys patrolling. Kind of

45:22

through the center every now and then by

45:24

an. Outside of that, that's

45:26

really that all that this area has.

45:29

Can I do a quick check

45:31

for something that comes to my

45:33

mind, which is if we're near

45:35

sort of the barracks of these

45:37

ah, minors or whatever they're doing.

45:39

Would. There be any clothing

45:41

that would signify the red

45:44

rest a gang allegiance. That.

45:46

We could maybe swipe. And

45:48

maybe cover ourselves and just in case

45:50

we are spotted. At any point we

45:53

would be slightly dressed like these people,

45:55

the northern they. Totally.

45:57

But they are on the opposite the

46:00

I get like it's easier to my

46:02

right side. they're all on the left

46:04

side. I feel so it's a yeah

46:07

maybe yeah. Unfortunately Smurf. Maybe you

46:09

could have gotten the stuff from the guys

46:11

you has already killed. but like ah to

46:13

my i don't know that right here that

46:15

there's and and obvious option C Cribbage If

46:17

you hadn't soaked that guy's uniform in his

46:20

own blood we could have was through your

46:22

dressed as one of them. As true that's

46:24

my. Credits says you

46:26

don't have to take that accountability. Well

46:28

it seems like the only route

46:30

is through the pit. Please preferred

46:33

bravely and strongly. Cool!

46:35

So this pit is gonna act

46:37

like difficult terrain so it's about

46:39

fifty feet across. Yeah, it's a

46:41

difficult terrain just means that you

46:43

you can only go half as

46:46

far so we're going to take

46:48

some rounds to go across. So.

46:50

What's everyone's movement? Thirty. Thirty Feet.

46:53

Thirty syringae. A thirty. So

46:55

you guys can all go maker

46:57

another stealth check. Twenty

47:00

Six. Plus Ten. Thirty Six.

47:02

Six. T. Twenty

47:05

Nine There's a patrol that's going to come

47:07

by. And I'm going to

47:09

see if they notice on a sixteen. Fifty.

47:15

They do. Nine see it as you

47:17

guys deep into this hit. Ah, so

47:19

you guys are about fifteen feet through

47:21

the tip. Ah

47:23

can see through the panama mood. Ah

47:25

ah. As you are making your way

47:28

through it's just like you're noticing that

47:30

it's like a bunch of like we're

47:32

masonry in a lot of like rocks.

47:34

Something tore through this mountain and that's

47:36

what they are clearing out like up

47:38

the psych bad rocket stuff. As you

47:41

continue to go you guys get another.

47:43

fifteen as you're making this this

47:45

next leg of the journey to

47:47

more guys carrying carts of rubble

47:50

approached the the pit that you

47:52

guys are in and are going

47:54

to dump that above your head

47:56

ah so as you look up

47:59

these cards Spill out some

48:01

huge pieces of rubble everybody make

48:03

a dexterity saving throw a

48:06

dexterity saving 20

48:12

19 cool. So those are all high enough that You

48:15

guys are able to dodge the rubble if you got

48:17

hit by it. You might have made a noise, etc

48:20

So that's good. So these guys

48:23

just throw rubble around you You

48:26

quietly dodge it below Continuing on

48:28

you guys get another 15 feet across and

48:31

Another guy comes out with another will

48:34

Barrow everybody make one more dexterity saving

48:36

throw and this is just like just

48:38

like Like soil

48:40

soot. There's no like Physical

48:43

things in the rubble that's been big rocks.

48:45

Yeah, I got a 10 20

48:48

ooh, I got a 5 Guys

48:53

so grid and I'm gonna

48:55

roll for cribbage cribbage

48:57

also got a 5 crib so this

48:59

reads you a bunch of big rocks

49:01

fall on your heads now make Stealth

49:04

checks as these rocks hit you you're

49:06

gonna take a d6 of damage

49:09

so one Both

49:12

take one. Okay and five

49:14

for cribbage cribbage gets nailed by a

49:16

rock everybody except for Freya make another

49:18

stealth check I'm

49:21

rolling the hot 18s all night 29 baby

49:23

27 since I'm still

49:26

under groups protection Great

49:31

you guys are able to stifle yourself

49:33

from from making any like loud noises

49:35

or using the skills I learned playing

49:38

the game punch. I'm able to Silence

49:41

the scream in my own throat Yes,

49:45

of course nothing to do with the magic Extremely

49:47

save man as you guys continue

49:50

on you get to the other end of

49:52

this pit Finally Wow at

49:54

this end you're able to climb up to

49:56

the edge of the pit and there is

49:58

another part of the finish That you

50:00

can climb over. Okay, so you have to

50:02

make a slightly higher Chain

50:04

like a harder stealth check and a little in

50:07

a climb check to get over this Everybody

50:09

if you can and grip and you only

50:11

get hit for one so I won't make

50:14

you reroll this but We'll

50:16

probably have to do concentration checks for things like that in the

50:18

future with With

50:20

pass without race, okay cool Can

50:23

I ask a question about luck real quick?

50:26

Do I need to determine before I roll something

50:28

whether I'm gonna use it one of them

50:30

sweet? Yeah,

50:33

looks really good. So you're

50:35

you're outside this Interior

50:37

wall. It's about 15 feet

50:39

high make athletics checks

50:41

to climb. All right, let's go for it

50:43

is there any way I can try

50:46

and create advantage for a situation by molding

50:48

earth like a Small step

50:51

or staircase that what could

50:53

lower the DC? I don't know about advantage though Yeah,

50:55

I'm happy to do something that would lower the DC

50:57

and but you just have to make sure you don't

50:59

do it You have to do it

51:01

quietly. So maybe like I

51:03

would say well, it wouldn't make it wouldn't make any noise

51:05

in the in the Pass

51:07

without trace here. I mean it would

51:10

you know, but like Pass

51:12

without trace doesn't mean you make

51:14

no noise. Oh, it's just detection. Got it

51:16

Yeah, you would have to make like a check to

51:18

make sure that you're not making any noise What

51:21

check you tell me what's what? Or

51:25

con or argument for it would be our con

51:27

because it's magic I think your spells are probably

51:29

more nature-based. So I would say a nature Great.

51:33

Yes, sounds great. And that makes sense because it's

51:35

earth moulder. Yeah. Oh boy. Well,

51:38

I might have blown it a seven Okay

51:40

on seven That the

51:43

ground sort of rumbles as you start

51:45

trying to do that a guard from

51:47

the center of the area Guarding

51:50

this one gate looks over and he's

51:52

going to walk over to you guys

51:54

and peek Every where

51:56

the pit is or where that sound came from.

51:58

So He stepped what do you

52:00

guys do? Hold now are

52:03

there any other guards around like if something

52:05

happens to this guard will other guards know

52:07

immediately? He doesn't

52:09

see you guys yet. It seems like there's one guy.

52:12

Yeah He is walking

52:14

your way. This is what I'm

52:16

wondering who would me Do

52:21

it's gonna be like a three two one One

52:26

He's here. You guys got to make a choice right

52:28

now. Sorry. Yeah, what it was Devin saying you guys

52:30

can just tell me if you're Gonna hide tell me

52:32

if you're going to attack this man.

52:34

Tell me what I mean. It's up to

52:37

you Yeah, let's try hiding. Let's hide cool

52:40

So you guys all make a stealth check, okay?

52:44

And I think with disadvantage because he was heading over

52:46

of a bitch so we rolled two and picked a

52:48

low one yes We still

52:50

adding 10 Yes,

52:53

okay rolled 17 and 19 24

52:56

and 31 29

52:58

and 28 Wow okay, so this guy comes

53:00

over and peeks into the pit You only got a

53:03

10 so you guys your stealth roles

53:05

are absurdly high You're able to use the rocks

53:07

that fell on your head to just like hide

53:09

under them And he sees

53:11

nothing and he goes back over so

53:13

he is like kind of on alert

53:15

now terribly. Sorry crib

53:17

whispers Sorry

53:21

Maybe next time you should just check

53:23

with us before you cast a spell

53:26

that moves the freaking earth Crap,

53:29

I don't think you should apologize for

53:31

anything You're always

53:33

helping us. I'm just trying

53:35

my best and it feels like I'm on

53:37

a very critical eye I really

53:40

don't I really don't care for the amount

53:42

of empathy That's being thrown around in this

53:44

group since we read that fucking you

53:47

don't like the empathy Shut

53:49

the fuck up You

53:58

guys are dysfunctional Screddy please

54:03

So there's this little like it's still

54:05

like a 15 foot tall fence right

54:07

here There's not a guard like above

54:09

it or anything, but yeah,

54:11

how would you guys like to proceed into this next

54:13

area? Well, I'm gonna go for it.

54:15

You're gonna go for it. Great. I'm running and

54:17

jumping over this thing Give

54:19

me an athletics check glad as well

54:21

as a stealth check and athletics check

54:24

in the stealth check Athletics

54:29

Is 10

54:31

and stealth is 18

54:34

plus 10 so 28 could I maybe I Might

54:39

use my luck to reroll that athletics check

54:41

that is not a bad idea. I'm gonna

54:43

do it Here's

54:45

round two. Oh, hey I

54:49

got a six Rufus

54:52

you clang into the side of this

54:54

fence But your role

54:56

is high enough that it that you're able

54:58

to like stop it from reverberating more That

55:02

guard is going to come back over here now

55:05

What are you gonna do? You're hanging on the six?

55:07

I don't think you got over the right So I'm

55:09

still on the fence. There's no way for me to

55:12

hide if this guy sees me, right? I

55:14

mean you can yeah, I mean you I

55:17

would say that since you are hiding now

55:20

on the edge of the fence as he's

55:23

starting to walk over What is what is

55:25

everyone doing? How

55:27

how bad is it? Can you tell

55:29

me that? With

55:33

I would also love to know how bad it is This

55:36

is bad. This is quite badly. Um He's

55:39

going but but like there there are there gradients

55:41

in between like tell me what you do Like

55:43

you can throw a rock you can you know,

55:45

give me give me give me what you want

55:48

to do I think I'm

55:50

going on you're still kind of far away from that

55:52

main You know portion of troops

55:54

on the on the far left side who

55:56

are taking a break This guy is kind

55:58

of by himself walking over I

56:01

think I'm gonna just press myself flat

56:03

against the fence and hope that something

56:05

else happens Okay, this guy walks

56:07

over to the edge of the fence He

56:10

is kind of above the guys in the pit

56:12

and he is looking at Rufus your cloak is

56:14

kind of blending in oddly in the shadows With

56:17

the fence he's gonna make a

56:19

perception check on you as he

56:21

yeah You didn't want to throw a rocker as

56:25

he is about to make his perception

56:27

check. I whisper to Zwom I'm

56:29

sorry, but it's time that you experienced

56:31

death and I'm going to

56:33

summon him 30

56:36

yards from where the guys walking.

56:39

Oh my god as a distraction

56:42

Okay. All right No,

56:46

I I just want to make sure that I'm

56:48

painting a clear picture because if

56:50

Zwom appears as a distraction Everyone's

56:53

on high alarm is big everyone is

56:56

at noses. There's intruders I

56:58

don't I want to make sure that that that

57:00

kind of okay because I I saw it in

57:02

my mind that he would get the One person

57:04

to like look away and move away and we

57:06

could clear the fence and keep going is if

57:08

that's not the case Then I'll hold off. I

57:10

don't know. I think that's a very specific way of

57:12

looking at the situation Yes

57:17

for sure and you have

57:19

two attacks on the turn right yeah, I think I

57:21

do know Okay, here I go All

57:26

right, I'm gonna roll for my javelin okay,

57:28

I rolled a 24 Okay,

57:30

that hits Roll roll both

57:32

attacks and then roll all the damage together.

57:35

I guess if I see her if I saw Freya

57:38

Just straight up Ganking this

57:40

dude. I would jump in okay Okay

57:44

for my for my attacks

57:46

I rolled a 24 and a 12 Let

57:50

me check something Okay,

57:52

so uh Freya pops up as

57:55

this guy is starting to look

57:57

at Rufus's shadow Freya pops up

57:59

throws two Javelins one sticks

58:01

into his shoulder like

58:03

bearing deep into his chest the other one clangs off

58:05

the shield How much damage did you

58:07

do? Seven seven damage

58:09

he's still standing like

58:12

eyes wide with fear. What do you guys do

58:14

before he? Let

58:16

me shoot a freaking arrow at his

58:18

mouth. Okay Rufus roll your attack and

58:20

damn, okay The

58:25

attack is a 26 roll

58:27

damage rolling damage Eight

58:31

as as this second javelin

58:33

clangs off his shield making

58:35

kind of a lot of noise Rufus

58:38

you pull your arrow back shoot him in the

58:40

head. He falls down dead. What

58:42

do you guys do though? There's a dead

58:44

body now of next to the pit Well,

58:47

we got to roll this sucker into the is it is

58:49

he close enough to grab and pull down into the pit

58:52

Yeah, you could you could you have to kind of get out of the

58:54

pit to do that. But yes, I'll go for

58:56

it I'll say that yeah, I'll just say that grid

58:59

was able to reach over and

59:01

pull him into the pit And yeah, let's just

59:03

make a luck check to see what happens with

59:05

this patrol guy to see if he notices Well

59:10

the 19 so this guy is

59:12

a sea of patrol guard Pop

59:16

out look around Kyle Looking

59:20

around and he doesn't see his friend.

59:23

He's going to let's see. Let's just see He's

59:27

going to walk over this way There

59:30

is a second guard walking your way. What do

59:32

you guys do? three I'll

59:35

shoot another arrow. I yeah, I'll cast

59:38

ballcasts of flame ball of produce flame.

59:40

Oh Right,

59:43

this is it tonight I'll say oh Then

59:46

I I mean, there's literally nothing I can do then yeah,

59:49

if you I'll do all attack him with

59:51

my greatsword, too Well

59:53

as you get closer he pears over

59:55

into the pit Freya

59:57

Rufus take your attack 17

1:00:01

okay that hits okay seven

1:00:05

damage okay Freya two

1:00:08

javelins oh sorry I did

1:00:10

great sword should I do javelin oh great so

1:00:12

great yeah whatever to I got an eight

1:00:14

and a 15 ooh okay

1:00:17

the only thing that hits unfortunately

1:00:19

is Rufus's arrow how much damage

1:00:22

did you do with it was

1:00:26

seven okay

1:00:30

I rolled for cribbage

1:00:32

as well you hit him

1:00:35

for seven cribbage is going to pop up

1:00:38

he hits and he's going to take

1:00:40

a sneak attack okay

1:00:43

so he does cribbage

1:00:47

smokes this guy with a throwing dagger with

1:00:49

a throwing dagger he that dagger that he

1:00:51

used he just chucks it in that guy's

1:00:53

head he falls down we have another

1:00:55

dead body though and probably a bit

1:00:57

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