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2:02

And probably a bit of a ticking clock. Okay, I'll

2:04

pull them into the pit, if I

2:06

can. Cool, you guys pull this guy into the pit

2:08

and Cribbage is like, we should probably hurry guys. Yeah,

2:11

let's go. Okay, I'd love to try this fence again. Great,

2:13

and you guys can help each other over it now.

2:15

I mean, like, however you feel. Oh yeah. Tell

2:18

me how you're getting over it. Crib, why don't you

2:20

give... you're as tall as shit. Why don't you help

2:23

me over this fence? Sure I

2:25

assist. I assist Rufus. So

2:27

what do I do? Cool. I

2:29

give him a knee to step on. I'll

2:32

say that gives you your athletics check with advantage.

2:35

Okay. A 17 and a 10. So

2:38

a 17. Cool. 17

2:40

definitely gets you over. Great. Do you go

2:42

all the way over? Are you like waiting

2:44

for them? I'll hang at the top and

2:46

I guess keep a hand down to maybe

2:48

grab whoever's next. Cool. Yeah,

2:50

let me know how you guys get over. I'll

2:53

send Freya over. Boost so she

2:55

can grab Devon's hand.

2:58

Rufus's hand, sorry. Maybe Cribbage could

3:00

ride Freya's back or something. Yeah,

3:03

can Cribbage hold onto my hair

3:05

and come up with me? Yeah,

3:07

Cribbage hangs onto your hair. See,

3:10

it's braided right now so it's kind of like a rope

3:12

for him to... It's like a needle, right?

3:15

Like a long rope, right. Cribbage,

3:17

hop on. Okay. Am

3:19

I rolling athletics with advantage then? Yes.

3:22

Great. And it's a slightly lower DC

3:24

because Cribbage helping as well. Two 16s. Great.

3:28

That's enough to get you over. Great. So, you know,

3:30

probably not enough room at the top for both of

3:32

you guys to hang up here. Do

3:34

you flip over to the other side? Cribbage and

3:36

I will go ahead and flip over. Great.

3:40

Cool. Awesome. Crib, how are you getting over?

3:43

I'm gonna just

3:45

hop, baby. Yeah. Use

3:47

these big muscles of mine. And

3:49

I got my hand at the top.

3:51

I will not be able to effectively

3:53

lift you, but hey buddy, the arm

3:55

is there. Cool. Make

3:57

the athletics check with advantage. Oh,

4:01

thank God it was advantage. I just rolled a one

4:05

This rusty fence is sort of just digging into

4:07

your chest as you lay on top Is

4:11

a 15 make it 15

4:14

Wow man, if we didn't have advantage, it'd be

4:16

a fail fail fail Wow Wow Wow Sheesh

4:19

so you guys have entered into

4:21

this next area where you see

4:25

The crack site or actually

4:27

the crash site an ancient

4:30

rusted over ship crashed

4:33

through this area Grib you'd

4:35

find this vaguely familiar from what turbine told

4:37

you on his and adventure. This is not

4:41

As big as the obelisk that you you saw in

4:43

the water and the one that That

4:46

he described but it is of that like kind

4:48

of technology and not like that like it was

4:50

like It wasn't it kind of like a

4:52

certain metal and like rusted or yeah It's

4:54

kind of a weird alloy but parts of

4:57

it are rusted as well because at certain

4:59

instruments that haven't been maintained keep that

5:01

from happening and it's been many years

5:04

where it's just like Something happened

5:06

to have made this fall from the sky

5:08

and shatter this sort of hillside as it

5:10

fell Yeah, cuz we're not anywhere near a

5:12

coastline, right? This is just a ship

5:14

in the middle of the forest So ship

5:16

when I say ship like a like a

5:19

flying you're talking about a friggin saucer Essentially,

5:23

it's it's a kid to a flying saucer. Yeah

5:26

some crazy Futuristic

5:29

technology these guys are

5:31

hammering at it. They're like using chisels

5:33

and stuff like that these guys Everybody

5:37

can make insight checks if they will I

5:39

will if they will if

5:42

they will 17

5:46

18. Yeah, I Mean it's

5:48

not too hard to see, but yeah, These

5:50

Guys are not experts at whatever this is.

5:52

A lot of these guys don't know what

5:54

they're doing at all. I mean the ships

5:56

in tatters as well. Like It's like it's

5:59

fully crashed through. Small mountain. Yeah.

6:01

It looks like a looks really fucked

6:03

up in may be like there's not

6:05

that much that's useful here, especially when

6:07

you consider what it used to be.

6:09

but there there's and digging through. You.

6:12

Know like a small mountains worth

6:14

of of rubble to get it

6:16

out and excavate what's inside. I

6:18

you see like fifty or so

6:20

men in this area that I'm

6:22

too many. Ah, again, It's. It's

6:24

like you guys on the right. This is the

6:26

far left side of this of this area of

6:28

the. Affidavit camps are also

6:31

and it kind of looks just like

6:33

a junk yard and it's similarly Wow.

6:35

Lucky for you guys were it is.

6:37

It's just allowed. Work is happening everywhere.

6:40

On the right side though, there's three

6:42

piles of of like kind of like

6:44

stacked junkyard material and one large tent

6:46

pretty much feels like the left side.

6:49

The know Go! Got going through this

6:51

area by I similarly to the last

6:53

year a there's two more guards at

6:55

another interior gate. Beyond it is the

6:58

chance to are right empty. You

7:01

can't really tell from here. it's sort of midway

7:03

through like kind of and at football field stewart

7:05

but like it's a large area and it's sort

7:07

a half way through a crack at it but

7:09

favoring the right said i'll see you guys are

7:11

basically in front of this like small. Pile.

7:14

Of like and kind a junkyard

7:16

like stomach stacked cars and for

7:18

a million like. But yeah, you're

7:20

in the secondary. The I don't

7:22

know much about this, but I

7:24

know that it's pretty weird. Juju

7:26

man. Your. For your for your

7:28

at all familiar with of the way with

7:30

i have no idea what I'm looking at

7:32

grip yes I had a gnome friend this

7:34

is the cracks I the creek crack. To

7:37

be crash Sex or s. Crisscrossed.

7:40

The. Crash site noted crack site. Because.

7:43

It cracked the mountain. So. This is

7:45

he crashed night this big fell from the

7:47

sky and crashed into the mountains. that's what

7:50

this weekly norm telling me you getting this

7:52

year but the. But. I think they

7:54

called a crack site. What?

7:56

Freya. I you

7:58

were shouting in it. Don't

8:00

have a guy was I really? well.

8:04

I remember and I know bouncing a

8:06

careful Maghreb stir it a magic luckily

8:08

dampening just. Full. Volume. I think I

8:10

would know if I was full volume yelling

8:13

for a I certainly. Don't think you would

8:15

if one thing is clear to me about you.

8:17

Rufus: don't know the volume of your voice. Freya,

8:19

you and I have a heat between us

8:22

now that I don't think we'll ever go

8:24

away. Okay, please apply to dislike the Imo

8:26

it around like. He

8:31

agreed like his wedding trying to keep

8:33

the bubble effect yeah, you're an argument

8:35

really are as cmos. the set of

8:37

the. For yeah,

8:39

you guys would notice that this tent

8:42

though is a much more ornate ten

8:44

than the white. like lean to set

8:46

a foreigner laugh or like that in

8:48

their regular what looks like the boss

8:50

mans tend to the as someone in

8:52

charge. it's much nicer. There's seems like

8:55

sons and fancier pals and stuff and

8:57

he does pretty well. I'd like to

8:59

ask once again of Cribbage. Have you

9:01

been to this area before? Do you have any sense

9:03

of what we're looking at? what's in that tent? Well.

9:06

This is where the big bald guys

9:09

and done. In their I

9:11

I think they. They. Organize these.

9:13

These pieces are meddle into piles. Since

9:15

the last time I was here, Who.

9:19

In in nam. Obviously

9:21

that's the crux I'd ever there. And

9:23

then, yes, I don't. Hey, that's pretty

9:25

much it on. I

9:28

Cribbage. We. Don't wanna

9:30

get the attention of the guys in

9:32

the kit because they're very powerful. Okay,

9:34

but. That's. All I know. I'd

9:37

say let's go the route that avoids the tent.

9:41

But. Isn't the route that avoids the

9:43

tend towards fifty men? Well, you can

9:45

kind of go on of the far

9:47

right where these like three kind of

9:49

columns of of junk. our cat. It's

9:52

close to the tents by. it's okay,

9:54

You. Know let's. Call.

9:57

Him to column just like the post.

10:00

from the broken down bridge. We

10:02

can hide behind if we need to. A

10:04

sequel. Great. Let's do what

10:07

we do best. The same thing

10:09

we've done before. Hey,

10:12

if it's not broke, don't buy a new

10:14

one. Tell me what you do. Okay. Well,

10:17

once again, Rufus will lead the way

10:20

and head for

10:22

the first, what, there's a distance between me

10:24

and that first column. So I guess I'm

10:26

just trying to get behind that column so

10:28

I can hide there. Yeah.

10:30

So, um, I'm going to

10:32

roll a D six to see if a

10:34

patrol guy comes by on a six or

10:36

a five that would happen six. A

10:42

patrolman walks by as Rufus as

10:44

you are starting to go across.

10:48

Rufus, give me a stealth check real fast. Of

10:50

course I will. And this is still plus 10.

10:52

Yes. Then that's a 30 baby. Okay.

10:56

So this guy thought he saw

10:58

something. He starts to walk forward

11:00

and sees just the column of

11:02

debris. Like Rufus 30 means like

11:05

a near impossible task. And,

11:07

uh, at that, this guy, I won't even

11:09

say that he really felt, uh,

11:11

alerted. He just was like, Oh, there's nothing over here.

11:14

Making it look easy. And, uh, looks

11:16

around like Rufus

11:19

is melted into junk. That's

11:21

right. Uh, and then, uh, leaves

11:23

it be. All right. So you guys, let me know

11:25

who goes next and I'll roll another D six. I'll

11:28

go next. Cool. So

11:33

as Freya goes, Freya, give me

11:35

a stuff check. Okay.

11:43

Okay. This guy's coming for 30 is so

11:45

high. That's why I just made you guys

11:47

not roll. A guy's going to come over

11:49

and, uh, essentially be face to

11:51

face to you guys. And then second, uh, let me know what

11:53

you're ready to do. Just to the two

11:55

of them, right? Yeah. About,

11:57

okay. This is probably like.

12:00

25 feet away from you grip and crib and

12:02

there's no one else around just him. That's all

12:04

you see right now I'll shoot an

12:06

arrow. I don't give a fuck Shoot an

12:09

arrow. Are we hidden at all? He's

12:11

he's like right next to you So, I mean you

12:13

can shoot an arrow if you want or you guys

12:15

can take mail Yeah, maybe i'll just swing my axe

12:17

at his fucking neck, baby. Both axes to the neck

12:20

Yeah, double neck double neck axe. Yeah.

12:22

What are you doing? Uh,

12:25

yeah, what are you doing? I guess i'll great sword

12:28

him right after Great

12:30

everybody roll your attacks and then tell me how

12:32

much okay. Well, I got a crit. That's right

12:34

a 27 Hell and

12:36

a 14 smack

12:38

him 14

12:41

misses, but the crit hits roll double

12:43

die. Uh, freya. Uh, I get a 22

12:45

and an eight Okay, my

12:47

damage off my crit nine tight

12:50

tight tight, um Nine damage, uh,

12:52

fran. What'd you get? 11 Wow

12:56

This guy smoked He

12:59

he turns the corner but since

13:01

that guy died We're

13:03

gonna say it's six five and four

13:06

Oh for for another patrol to

13:08

pop up gotcha Yeah

13:12

Grib, um grip also like

13:15

okay. So grip. What are you up to? I'm

13:17

also going to Press

13:19

forward to the next pillar Okay

13:25

One no one no one's easy. Okay,

13:28

and uh cribbage is gonna go Starts

13:32

across unscathed Um

13:34

at this middle column you guys are

13:37

near the tent outside of the tent

13:39

Like I said, it's more ornate than

13:41

the other ones. Uh, the pelts as

13:43

you get closer look more luxurious like

13:45

like more prize like animals Um,

13:48

everybody make a perception check.

13:50

Okay 19

13:53

13 21 on 21 You

13:57

see three men step out of the tent including

13:59

one of the biggest men you've ever seen

14:01

in your life. Crippage was right! You can...

14:04

Shhh! I mean, he's... You

14:06

can tell these guys are important just by

14:08

virtue of how they're dressed and where they

14:10

are and they're in this fancy tent. The

14:13

big guy, he's of course bald as I

14:15

described, but he has this huge beard. He

14:17

wears similarly streaked leather armor as what we

14:19

talked about previously, but he has

14:22

this familiar looking cloak on

14:25

his shoulder covering his right arm,

14:27

strapped across his chest with the...

14:30

You realize it's the hide of a

14:32

displacer beast with its head on

14:35

his chest. So this guy thinks he's

14:37

hot shit, huh? The

14:40

cloak just favors the right side of his

14:42

body as he talks to another similarly differently

14:44

dressed man. This other guy is

14:47

like kind of a sinewy, skinny guy.

14:50

He's dressed kind of like Crocodile

14:52

Dundee. He's got like a big

14:54

crocodile skin hat. He

14:56

wears like a leather vest. He's just straight up

14:58

wearing shorts. He has like a sword

15:01

and a knife belted to him on

15:03

his back. He has this huge

15:05

arcane looking gun. The third

15:07

guy just looks like basically

15:09

like a captain of the guard. Like he is

15:11

like the platonic ideal of the soldiers he's seen

15:13

before. Like he has full

15:16

leather armor with the red streaks and the

15:18

mohawk. He's got a full red cloak kind

15:20

of indicating his status and they

15:22

talk to him in front of you and

15:24

you hear the big guy approach that that

15:26

captain of the guard. Like you are taking

15:28

too long. Work them harder.

15:30

We need to find more materials or this ride wasn't

15:32

worth it. And the skinny guy kind

15:35

of smiles from where he is. He's like,

15:37

yeah, come on. We can afford

15:39

to lose men. I'm getting tired of sitting around and

15:41

waiting too. The guard captain

15:44

looks at them like clearly really nervous

15:46

about his position to be talking to

15:48

him. He's like, yes, sir.

15:50

We'll double the pace. Two more

15:53

matters. And he seems like nervous to bring this

15:55

up. Three of our scouting parties haven't come back.

15:57

It seems like two sets were found ripped to

15:59

shred. by what we

16:01

assume was the warden but uh no information on

16:04

the third yet and as he's

16:06

finishing this sentence the guy the big guy

16:08

whips his arm out from under his cloak

16:10

and grabs the guy by the neck you

16:12

see a sort of flash of metal as

16:14

he holds up this big pneumatic

16:16

piston that like held together metallic

16:18

arm and lifts the guy off

16:20

his feet he raises him about

16:22

a foot in the air with this

16:25

like shining metallic claw arm and

16:27

the guards neck just like drips a little

16:29

bit of blood as he's like struggling with

16:31

that and he says how

16:34

hard is it to kill one

16:36

beast you and these men

16:38

dishonor the Red Rose clan skinny

16:41

guy sits there just kind of

16:43

smiling and he gestures to himself

16:45

and he says hey Rickard you

16:47

know all Morris could handle it just

16:49

say the word the big

16:51

guy stares at this sinewy smiling man

16:53

he's thinking about it but

16:56

for some reason he seems kind of

16:58

gun-shy to this and eventually says I

17:00

know brother so that's what you heard

17:03

and saw Freya I will say on

17:05

your perception check as they were exiting

17:07

the tent you saw a table with

17:09

some papers and what looked to be

17:11

like a blue glowing device as

17:13

this happens this

17:15

guy puts the man the guard captain down and

17:19

then in the distance you you hear from the

17:21

ship we found something and like murmuring

17:23

voices as other people chime in like

17:26

they finally got something like

17:28

just kind of celebrations and cheers and

17:31

all three of them head to the ship

17:33

really fast what do you guys do I

17:36

want these papers absolutely and the

17:38

blue glow is doing it what I

17:40

mean it's in a tent it's in the war tent so

17:43

I look at cribbage

17:45

I go you seem to be cool you

17:47

seem to be quite sneaky there no the ticklings

17:52

of a rogue I might assume yes just

17:54

the ticklings of a rogue I mean I'm

17:56

quiet but do you guys want me to

17:58

what do you watch it I grab I

18:01

Cribbage if you could grab the papers

18:03

and the blue shining light, okay I'll

18:06

do it crib is just gonna go in and try

18:08

to grab it so you can make a stealth check

18:13

18 on the die. Thank you Cribbage. So

18:17

Cribbage probably got God

18:21

Just want to see what it actually is plus

18:23

the plus the tent. So Cribbage got a 34

18:25

he's and Making

18:29

almost no possible noise and

18:32

grab some papers and grabs the

18:34

blue thing there within the tent

18:36

is a man Who is just

18:38

hard kind of asleep? Okay,

18:40

I'm going to roll to see Sorry,

18:43

kind of a sleep is wrong, but not he's not really

18:45

paying attention Good luck to

18:47

you crib see see if he

18:50

notices Cribbage on that high of

18:52

a stealth check Probably not he rolls a

18:54

nat 20 he's son of a bitch Cribbage

18:56

looks at him The guy looks at him

18:58

you hear this man scream as crib is

19:00

just gonna take an attack on him Cribbage

19:04

missus Do we have time

19:06

to react? Yeah, you guys are you can wrap right

19:08

now if you want We'll do this initiative wise so

19:10

I'm gonna roll initiative for that guy you guys roll.

19:13

Okay Wow, like

19:15

I rolled another are you kidding me

19:17

with this? Damn I've

19:22

got a 21 11

19:25

13 so 20 on initiative is actually not the

19:27

best. I mean it's good for him in this

19:29

situation. But what did you get? Devin

19:32

21. Okay, let's see if he adds

19:34

anything to his initiative because that will

19:36

be pretty big This

19:39

is really important he has a plus

19:41

one to deck Meaning he

19:44

also got a 21 but the

19:46

tie goes to who has more

19:48

dexterity overall What do you add

19:50

to you? Wow plus four cool

19:54

Even though he got a net money, I will say

19:57

Rufus you are Wow Okay,

20:00

very cool now he's inside the tent.

20:03

I'm outside the tent. I can't see

20:05

him to say shoot my bow, right?

20:07

I don't think well, that's the thing. I mean

20:10

how much You're you

20:12

have your attacks? You

20:14

could get to him in this turn, right? I

20:16

don't know if you could get to him and I mean

20:19

you could shoot your bow I guess no, I think but

20:21

I would want I would need to run into the tent

20:23

and try to melee him. Yeah Okay.

20:25

Well, then that is exactly what I

20:27

do Rufus draws

20:30

his axes and says let's

20:33

do this and sprints

20:36

into that tent Axes drawn

20:38

high and he's gonna do

20:40

a classic cleave and twain

20:42

double motion on this guy's

20:44

freaking head cool I

21:02

Roll your attacks Remember

21:04

you have luck and your brain. I know

21:06

this what do the bracers do you can

21:09

add plus four to one hit right a

21:11

plus Plus four in the damage or to

21:13

the roll to the roll you add a

21:15

d4 Okay, well, I'll

21:17

go ahead and do and can I choose that

21:19

after I roll? Yeah, and also you have action

21:21

search. Yeah, I will say that if you do

21:23

not kill this man in your turn He's going

21:26

to scream and get yeah, so I might want

21:28

to just Load up on

21:30

this. Okay, so

21:32

I'm gonna definitely use my bracers on

21:34

whatever role I get Yeah,

21:38

I'm gonna def unload. Yes. Yeah Okay,

21:42

so I'm gonna use action search which means

21:44

I get one additional action, so I'm gonna

21:46

get three attacks Okay

21:49

on my two axes. I'll

21:51

probably end up using luck To

21:54

reroll one of them. I could

21:57

also use luck twice if I need to

22:00

Because I have two left And

22:03

then the bracers will also add four

22:05

to one of my rolls correct add

22:08

a d4 roll at a d4 roll

22:11

One through four possible. Yeah, so roll those

22:13

attacks and let's figure out. Okay, you're gonna

22:15

have to help me through this so

22:18

my first rolls for

22:20

one X is a 14 and For

22:24

another that is closed and for another is

22:26

a 10 okay,

22:28

so I'm

22:30

gonna use the bracers on the 14

22:33

So I should roll all three hits at

22:36

once and then decide how I want to

22:38

use bracers in luck. Yes, great

22:41

So so you had the 14 and a 10. What was

22:43

that third roll a nine

22:47

So that rolls all around so the 14th

22:49

close. I'll say so that seems like bracer

22:51

territory great So I'll use the bracers on

22:53

the 14. So now I roll a d4

22:57

Yes Okay two

23:03

That hits okay, I

23:05

will tell you right now That

23:08

these guys are guards

23:10

that have a pretty high armor class but

23:13

pretty low Hit points

23:15

hit points you

23:17

have to do I'm

23:20

gonna do the old Brennan Lee Mulligan trick of

23:22

writing down how much damage you have to do

23:25

Yes, dude, and then and then you tell me

23:27

how much damage you do to this guy So

23:31

okay do your damage for the first hit and let me know

23:33

what you do with luck Yeah,

23:35

we'll be know from experience that one hit

23:38

hasn't killed right? So I am

23:40

gonna go ahead and You

23:42

do one first do one first because you

23:45

may not need to reroll the second one.

23:47

Okay, so I'm gonna reroll one of them

23:52

16 hit great. So roll

23:54

damage for those two. It's great ten

23:57

and five

24:00

Seven.

24:03

This is how much help they

24:05

have. Eleven. Whoo!

24:08

Yeah, baby! Smoked

24:12

him. Smokehouse. Barbecue. Rufus,

24:15

let me just describe in general how

24:17

Rufus did all this, okay? Because Rufus

24:20

was channeling action surge to get an

24:22

extra third swing. He was also using

24:24

his powers of raw luck to get

24:26

some, to finagle some of these attacks.

24:29

Rufus is so adrenaline-jacked as he

24:32

bursts into this tent that he's

24:34

just flinging his axes around like

24:36

crazy. And he does

24:38

just three psycho quick chops

24:42

on this guy. Obviously one of them does

24:44

not land, but the other two make

24:46

sweet, sweet God deck. You

24:48

chop this man's head off in this head.

24:50

Whoo! He gets it! Finally Rufus takes

24:52

a head off. Yes, dude. Rufus

24:55

is like so excited he's like vibrating

24:57

and crying a little bit that he

24:59

just cuts someone's head off. He

25:01

turned around, cribbage is covered head to toe

25:03

with stuff. Did

25:06

you see that cribbage? I did it, cribbage. I

25:09

did it. Yeah,

25:11

man. You're a

25:13

monster. I'm a badass. Let's

25:17

get out of here. Okay. All right.

25:20

Take off. I will roll. We grab all

25:22

that stuff. You grab that stuff and get

25:24

out of there. They just emerged covered in

25:26

blood and cribbage is just kind of like

25:29

it was either a really good time or a really

25:31

bad time. Yeah. Very obvious

25:33

we cut someone's head off.

25:36

Yeah. Oh, I knew exactly what

25:39

would happen there. Yeah, man. Holy shit. Anyways,

25:42

so you guys have one more post to get

25:45

to before you're out of this area. So everybody

25:47

it's six through three is

25:49

when the guy comes. You

25:51

guys could all go at once. Let's do

25:53

it. Mad dash. Cribbage

25:55

hop on. Let's do it. All

25:58

right. Yeah. Ready, set, go. Two.

26:00

No one goes by. Four

26:03

people stacked on top of each other, run across this

26:05

little area. We're all right in

26:07

Grim's shoulders. Yeah. At

26:11

this, you are at

26:13

another gate.

26:16

You're at this final gate to this, what seems

26:18

like there was maybe like one

26:20

more similar area to the first area you're in

26:22

beyond this. The way the sloth is graded, there's

26:24

another 15 foot tall wall in

26:27

front of you. You have to

26:29

make a strength check or an athletics check to climb it to

26:31

get out of here. Or there's this main

26:33

gate with two guards in front of it. What are

26:35

you up to? I mean, I

26:37

think we should probably keep the stealth game rolling

26:39

instead of directly attacking two guards. Yes. Cool.

26:42

Great. So

26:44

should we just do what we did

26:47

before? Grim's helping us over? The in-b-chain?

26:49

Yeah, sounds good. Great. And

26:51

since there is a dead body in the

26:53

captain's tent, I'm going to have to roll

26:56

some luck checks to see if anyone actually

26:58

find out. Stone.

27:00

So you guys are at that fence right now.

27:02

I'm going to roll. I'll say on a one right

27:06

now, this is going to

27:08

get progressively higher as you guys do stuff. So I'm

27:11

going to say on a one, that's it to

27:13

twelve. You guys are good. Next time, one through

27:15

two. So yeah,

27:18

whoever's going, go, and I'm going to have to

27:20

keep doing that. I'll go first. Great.

27:24

Grim. You said athletics? Yes.

27:27

Oh, my God. I rolled a three. Grim, you can't really get

27:29

it up. Freya, maybe you should. Yeah,

27:32

I'll go ahead and hop on. And Grim, can

27:34

you do the thing that you were doing before? Yeah,

27:36

that's what I thought we were going to do, the

27:39

assisting thing. Okay. Well, somebody's got

27:41

to get up first, right? Right. Yeah.

27:43

But you assisted me first, last

27:45

time. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Well,

27:48

it's too late. Grim, you helped me and can Cribbage

27:50

be on my hair again? Yes.

27:53

Yeah, Cribbage is going to hop on. This

27:56

is where I hang out and it grabs your

27:58

hair. Here we go,

28:00

good guy. Make a check. Okay,

28:03

and I'm rolling that with advantage because of his help.

28:05

Okay, I got a 17. Great.

28:09

17 gets you up and over like

28:11

how Rufus

28:14

was before. I'm going to roll another

28:16

luck check. 1

28:19

through 3 now. Okay. I

28:22

go for it. It's right. And I've

28:24

got my hands down now. Yeah, so I'm being

28:26

assisted. So I'm doing an athletics check with advantage.

28:30

Got a 17. 17 gets you

28:32

up and you join Freya. There's not that much

28:34

room over there. Are you going to hop over?

28:36

Yeah, I'll hop all the way over, Freya, if

28:38

you want to stay on top. Okay, so Rufus

28:40

went all the way over. That's what you

28:42

did? Yes. Okay. Grid,

28:45

your turn. Great. Let me

28:47

know what you did. I'll use Freya's to help.

28:49

No, no, no. Yeah, she'll help me up, correct?

28:51

Yeah, I'm here with a helping hand. You can

28:53

use her. Yes, with advantage. Jesus,

28:56

an 8 and a 7. So,

28:59

Grid, you're struggling to get up. It

29:01

is now another

29:04

12. It is now 1 through 4

29:06

before they notice that that guy is dead in

29:08

the truck. I'll try one more time as Grid

29:10

and if not, I'll just transform. But I'd hate

29:12

to blow it. Great. Grid,

29:15

give me your check. And still advantage, correct?

29:18

Yes. You hear these guys screaming and hollering like they've

29:20

been looking for something for a while and found

29:22

something. Oh my god. An 8 and a 6. Can

29:27

I drop a rope to him or something? Yeah.

29:30

I mean, you guys can do whatever

29:32

you want. Okay. I'll

29:34

either drop a rope to you or you can transform whatever you want.

29:36

Ropes gonna like... I'm just gonna transform into

29:39

a swarm of insects. No, I

29:41

can't fly. Fuck. Is that

29:43

technically flying? A swarm of insects? I

29:45

think so. Yeah. Yeah,

29:47

I guess I'll just turn into an ape.

29:51

Cool. I think I'll just look down and see Grid

29:53

sort of shift in this body and eventually

29:56

begrudgingly switch change

29:59

shapes. Informs into a smaller

30:02

ape as he gets a little shrinks a little

30:04

bit in this mode Grib

30:06

make your athletics check Perfect.

30:12

All right and another and 11 on the diet now

30:14

one through five you guys are in this next area

30:17

Over this fence in this last area. There's some

30:19

tents on the right side But on the left

30:21

side, there's some makeshift staples with like four guards

30:24

over there and about like a dozen horses As

30:27

you step over the edge someone roll a

30:29

d4 Okay,

30:32

I will Maybe I will

30:37

Roasted I rolled a one Okay,

30:40

that just means that in the out of these tents

30:42

in front of you someone ten feet away from you

30:44

part turns the corner And see you guys shocked

30:47

everybody roll initiative I Sky

30:50

rolled a 17. He got a 17. So

30:53

let me know if you beat that now

30:56

I don't I'll roll for 14 Let's

31:00

see how Cribage does 13 Cribage

31:03

does not beat it. This guy Looks

31:05

at you guys and says in turners

31:07

know that he is

31:09

going to Take an a

31:11

spear attack on Freya. I believe First

31:13

person I'm sorry armor on Rufus

31:17

was the okay. So Rufus Rufus was first

31:19

person ever gonna take a spear attack at

31:21

Rufus I'd

31:24

like to see you try asshole Not

31:29

the strongest he rolled a 15 my AC is 15

31:35

Rufus you get stabbed in the side with this. Oh

31:39

He rolls a d8 Got Rufus

31:44

you get hit for five day. Come on you

31:46

hear people rousing as this guy

31:48

says this So he

31:51

got a 17 what what who's next? I'm

31:54

not a fool. I got a 13 Okay,

31:57

so grid then Rufus so grid. What do

31:59

you do? And grisly closer is he

32:01

like in my business or is he further

32:03

away? He's 10 feet away, okay? Yeah, I'm

32:05

gonna move up and absolutely clap this guy

32:07

with my fists. Hell. Yeah, roll

32:09

your attack your attack I don't know if

32:12

you have multis I do it's two attacks

32:14

seven plus five thirteen. I does

32:16

not hit 17

32:18

plus five 26

32:22

plus three takes nine damage Nice nine

32:24

damage you badly nailed it like dome

32:26

this guy He's like not dead but

32:29

really hurt as you hear

32:31

other people rousing Rufus What do you do and he's

32:33

not right in front of me, right? He's

32:36

10 feet away. Then I'll hit him with the

32:38

long bow cool got a 17

32:40

that hit Let's

32:42

see what he gets who this motherfucker just got

32:44

hit for 12 Yeah,

32:47

that would have killed him in one hit Yeah,

32:49

this guy gets an arrow through

32:51

the head and falls over you hear people being

32:54

roused cribage is

32:56

like nervous like we should get out of here man

32:58

and Let's run.

33:00

Okay cool. So With

33:03

a slightly less idea. Are you still being

33:05

as stealthy as you were? Are you guys

33:07

moving a little faster now? As

33:09

fast as possible, right? They know we're here. Yes,

33:12

that's a great point. Yes I have to roll

33:14

three more checks to see if they found the

33:16

body over there Okay,

33:19

they did you hear people from behind you they found

33:21

a dead body So and then

33:23

they heard the intruder noise over here It's got

33:25

it's about to be bad the guy

33:27

in front of you died from these tents you

33:29

hear people stirring I'm gonna see I'm gonna roll

33:31

a d6 to see how many of them come

33:33

out It's maybe a situation where if you stay

33:35

here and fight That's

33:38

not yeah, we all get out Three

33:42

guys pop out of the front of the

33:44

tent looking around but you guys are taking

33:46

off out of there. I'm correct cool So

33:48

you guys take full dash actions

33:50

running away. I'll say that because

33:53

of pass without trace These

33:55

guys didn't quite discover you immediately.

33:57

So I'll give you guys Uh,

34:01

just roll one more stealth check for me to

34:03

see uh with disadvantage

34:05

though But still with the plus 10

34:09

Yes, okay Got

34:14

a crit and then

34:16

I got a one 24 was

34:18

my lowest. Oh the crit one

34:21

combo Um,

34:23

this should just be a 10 16.

34:26

No, it would be a one if it's a it's a

34:28

one. I was being cheeky Okay

34:32

Great I got an 18 because

34:34

it was one plus seven plus the 10 so I got

34:36

an 18 but you rolled a one Yeah,

34:38

I did. Okay, so it's a one. So, uh these

34:40

guys um, these

34:42

guys spot Rufus as

34:45

you guys are peeling away. You see these

34:47

guys gathering together. They're they're just like

34:49

firing bows at you guys So as

34:51

you guys run you're gonna take um

34:53

some bow attacks you are clearing out

34:55

of this camp You hear commotion behind

34:57

you. Uh, it sounds Messy,

35:00

uh cribs looks a little scared as

35:02

this is happening. Sorry They don't these

35:04

guys don't actually have these guys have

35:06

spears. So they're gonna throw three spears

35:09

at uh at rufus three misses spears

35:11

just around rufus

35:14

is doing his athletic Running

35:16

and hopping around where he's going like and

35:19

the spears just zip right past him as he

35:21

bobs and weeds Um, you guys

35:23

hear them. It sounds like people are getting

35:25

horses from the stage as you start running

35:28

Cribbage is like let's keep running and you guys

35:31

are just tearing off out of there You guys

35:33

take off through the forest your your your chests

35:35

are heaving as you run as fast as you

35:37

can away from the camp Uh, you cribbage like

35:39

darting ahead like this way Hurry up as you

35:42

guys run further and further you hear the sounds

35:44

of the guards and camps like fully

35:46

mobilizing You eventually hear hooves behind you

35:48

make as we're running as we're running.

35:50

I turn to the group and I

35:52

go You i've never

35:54

even told any of you my last name

35:58

Is I'm

36:00

just like, yeah, what's your last name, man?

36:02

I'll tell you next episode. What

36:10

did you reveal this week with a second

36:12

original poem? I mean, yeah, I didn't set

36:14

it up. I did a poor job

36:16

setting up, so I just thought I'd go with more of the same,

36:20

which is another grib

36:22

original poem, and

36:24

then a huge reveal next week, Grib's

36:26

last name. Okay. Wow. So

36:29

what you guys are, you're running away. Give

36:31

me one last stealth check as you hear

36:33

these hooves. With disadvantage? I

36:36

will say with disadvantage because they know

36:38

you guys are right. But disadvantage plus

36:40

the 10, just so I know. Yes,

36:43

plus the 10. Ooh, I got a

36:45

crit, but it doesn't matter. So

36:50

you guys are running and running and running, and eventually,

36:53

just because of sheer, just however

36:56

long a person can sprint, decide to have

36:58

to stop for a second and catch your

37:00

breath in some bushes. As you

37:02

are running, I'm going to make

37:04

some checks for them. Yeah,

37:09

you're hiding in a bush, and you

37:11

see five horses with these red rust

37:14

marauders on them in full battle gear

37:16

with big, wicked looking rusted lances and

37:18

shields and torches and armor. They

37:21

look more equipped than any guys you've fought before. Because

37:24

you are hiding in this bush, you see

37:26

them outside on the main trail, looking around,

37:28

kind of darting around on their horses. They

37:31

stop short of you guys

37:34

and it feels like they're searching

37:36

all and getting closer

37:38

and closer to where you guys are. You

37:41

hear them shouting stuff like, check

37:43

over there, get the hounds,

37:45

blah, blah, blah. Hear this sort of

37:48

cacophony of people yelling. Everybody

37:50

make a perception check. As

37:54

this happens, Freya, and I think

37:56

Rufus, you probably kind of noticed this as well, as

37:59

you're looking at this. pack of dudes under

38:01

the full moon you see a flash of

38:03

fur as something flies off the trail and

38:05

grabs one of them in effortlessly off his

38:07

horse and flies to the other side pulling

38:09

him away into the woods on the opposite

38:11

side just in

38:13

a snap he's just gone you see in

38:16

a glance of moonlight as you realize that

38:18

there's something large and metal that like Freya

38:20

on a 17 you probably would have noticed

38:22

that there was something metal on whatever this

38:25

thing's back was and

38:27

then you hear them off-screen like I was

38:29

like what the hell was that someone was

38:31

like it's him and the rest of the

38:34

soldiers round up they raise their spears terrified

38:36

boom another one is ripped clean off his

38:38

horse and he's completely gone fuck yes this

38:40

is just a guest group but I

38:45

think we met the warden folks I

38:47

was thinking the same thing the beast

38:50

steps out of the woods in the distance along

38:52

the trail away from them it

38:55

starts running at the three remaining guys

38:57

as they start throwing

38:59

their spears taking shots at

39:01

him you see arrows bury

39:03

into his arms and with

39:06

almost no effect on him as

39:08

he's running are they putting up a good fight or

39:10

is it like it's like these guys are getting creamed

39:13

these guys are getting creamed as you see this thing

39:15

just tearing at them

39:18

on four legs under the full

39:20

moon eventually jumping to two legs

39:22

as it's running on on two

39:24

it becomes bipedal as these

39:26

arrows thud into it's like graying brown fur it's

39:29

barely doing anything to this I

39:31

mean lack of a better word thick

39:34

king as it snarls and

39:36

growls reaching over his shoulder with

39:39

with this is surprising ease turns

39:42

a dexterity for a beast that you

39:44

don't normally see on two legs turns

39:46

with two hand takes a huge two-handed

39:48

axe and with a roar spins around

39:50

a horror with this horizontal strike it

39:52

behead the last three men in one

39:54

shot in one blow the beast just

39:57

pants Catching its breath, To

40:00

sniff the air and it

40:02

looks through this bush directly

40:05

into your direction. Expressionless,

40:08

Keep sniffing starts. Looks at

40:10

you guys. Rufus

40:14

as it walks directly towards

40:16

you. You. See it's giant

40:19

more towering over your head looking

40:21

down at you. It's mouth open,

40:23

a corralling from his mouth and

40:26

year. Nice. If you to wake

40:28

know as the clouds part and

40:30

the full moon hits it you

40:33

know this is what you saw

40:35

in dream. He taken the full

40:37

impression of this monstrous like anthropic

40:40

frame. Of

40:42

the where where. It

40:47

shakes his body like a wet bear

40:50

in a river and you realize it's

40:52

shrinking down to size until before you

40:54

see still a rather large human man

40:57

probably around six foot five to solidly

40:59

built barrel chested with long hair graying

41:01

at the temples in a short gray

41:03

beard and he says finishes his sentence

41:06

with. Nasty. Yeah

41:09

Hell yeah. Oh

41:13

that's horrible And yeah, maybe

41:15

I'll go Cutler or this

41:17

is your I. possibly a

41:19

different set of the family?

41:22

Okay. We'll. Find out. Either

41:24

way I'm his nephew so use my on

41:26

gog a. Lot

41:29

of and that reveal will just pale in

41:31

comparison to of course the other of the

41:33

on the upside. Whatever

41:37

grades Lounge. Go.

41:40

Well. Yeah. That's it

41:42

for today. This is the A. This is

41:44

a fine. You. know thing to

41:46

final one a hotline what is your

41:48

we have be back next week with

41:51

the arc bark will discuss the events

41:53

of this episode talk about the sneak

41:55

mission meeting cribbage etc very fun stuff

41:57

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42:00

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