May 20, 2025 • 55 mins
DODOBORNE @ GEN CON INDY 2025
Your GM, your best friend, and your storyteller Isaac Allen Burns will be running some Daggerheart tables at Gen Con Indy 2025 and everyone is welcome to come by and play! The four available games are each a standalone adventure. The other Dodos will be there so we all hope to see you there!
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In this exciting finale, our heroes come face to face with unexpected assailants, and must fight for their lives against the perpetrators of the horrific attack on their town. The fight for Brackenroad ends here!
Pistachio kills again. Kapi has a talk with his boss. Crank leaps into the brink.
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Isaac Allen Burns (00:36):
Currently, fire has erupted around the
three of you. Fire the smell offire is lifted up in the air as
smoke assaults your nostrils.Viscount, Balthazar is dead on
the stage.
Annie Hawthorne (00:52):
The library is on fire.
Joe Diametti (00:53):
It's the
Rowan Collins (00:55):
Bob, dad, get home. Get out of here.
Isaac Allen Burns (01:00):
She just says, I thought you were
different. See, I was wrong.
Rowan Collins (01:08):
Pistachio runs through that thought in their
brain, turns their back to theirfarm, and goes and to help the
group.
Annie Hawthorne (01:19):
I am gonna grab Timothy and Alana, and I'm gonna
scoop them behind me as far awayfrom the action as I can get
them.
Isaac Allen Burns (01:32):
From what Pistachio can tell, this thing
would explode, probably damage acouple of buildings. It not seem
big enough to destroy the entiretown.
Joe Diametti (01:39):
Town. Uh-huh.
Isaac Allen Burns (01:40):
It's definitely big enough that it
will level the Adventurer'sGuild and everything inside it.
Rowan Collins (01:48):
They look straight at their sister and go,
you got this Hazel. I believe inyou. Keep Wally alive.
Isaac Allen Burns (02:00):
Cathe, you hear a shriek ringing through
the air. Sounds like Scarlet.
Joe Diametti (02:10):
You bastard.
Isaac Allen Burns (03:19):
Once again, Kapi, you hear shrieks and
screaming in the air Mhmm.Distance.
Joe Diametti (03:23):
Where is it coming from?
Isaac Allen Burns (03:25):
It seems to be coming somewhere in the
exterior of town. It seems becoming up from, like, where the
South is. You hear it downbelow.
Joe Diametti (03:34):
Uh-huh. It's
Isaac Allen Burns (03:34):
kind of cutting through all of the din
and the chaos.
Joe Diametti (03:39):
That the Down South. Is that the apple
orchard? I don't remember.
Isaac Allen Burns (03:42):
Is it That is where the apple orchards are.
Joe Diametti (03:43):
Okay. I I gotta go. Make sure everything's fine
here, and Kapi runs off. Kapiruns.
Rowan Collins (03:52):
I look to Crank. Crank, what what do you wanna
do?
Annie Hawthorne (03:57):
Well, it seems that Timothy and Alana are safe
now. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns (04:00):
They are. This group of civilians is kinda
huddled up. Those soldiers havebeen taken care of fully. If you
see that they're looking andkind of conversing with each
other in frantic tones, where togo for safety.
Annie Hawthorne (04:11):
Yeah. And I'm just gonna tell them, get
somewhere safe, and I'm gonnapick up pistachio, and I'm gonna
carry them after Kapi.
Isaac Allen Burns (04:20):
Nice. You see that Toulouse nods and kind of
hugging a lot of clothes says,stay safe, Craig. Dark tidings.
Annie Hawthorne (04:29):
I just nod and I run.
Isaac Allen Burns (04:31):
You run.
Rowan Collins (04:31):
I think as Pistachio watches their farm on
fire going under the horizon asthey get farther and farther
away. There's, like, a tear, andthen they just, like, close
their eyes in a silent hope thattheir sister is able to take
care of it and that theirbrother makes it out alive.
Isaac Allen Burns (04:53):
Indeed. Three of you are running. You run
south. You run through the chaosand the bedlam of this burning
town. Bracken Road is burning.
Can everybody, at this point,I'm gonna use the reaction
called smoke on the water, andthen in parentheses, it says
(05:14):
air. You ever wanna give me astrength roll? This is a
strength reaction.
Joe Diametti (05:24):
16 with hope.
Annie Hawthorne (05:26):
Jesus Christ. That's what I needed a minute
ago. So 24 with hope.
Rowan Collins (05:30):
Nine with hope.
Isaac Allen Burns (05:31):
K. You said 16, Kathy? Yes. K. You two are
running.
You're doing the best you can.You're running through. It
doesn't infect you. Pistachio.Things are burning.
Smoke is in the air. Smokes getsinto your lungs. You start
violently coughing. As you'rerunning, you are currently, for
(05:51):
your next action, is going to beat disadvantage, and you have
the vulnerable condition. Yourun south as you can.
And as you get to the Southerngates, you see two slain
peacekeepers at the gates. Theyhave been killed. You see what
looks like a noviceite vehicle,something that a lot of you
(06:15):
haven't seen probably. It lookslike a cart. Imagine a cart with
these two wheels and a big body.
It's not kinda closed off at thefront. Like, this really heavy
metal contraption at the veryfront of it. For modern
audiences, this would be theequivalent of, like, a Ford
Model t.
Joe Diametti (06:32):
Mhmm.
Isaac Allen Burns (06:32):
Except instead of an engine with, like,
a bunch of combustion and stuff,you see a couple of kinda
similar to what you saw on thatbomb, these Novacite cores in it
that are powering this. They arenot glowing like you saw before,
but you can hear kind of thethrum of it moving. You see two
kind of big bodyguard lookingguys are sort of like grabbed on
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to Scarlet, and they're tryingto pull her into this vehicle.
You see that one of them is kindof yelling at her and says,
orders from your pops.
You gotta get in. You're getting out of here.
Hey. Let her go. What are you doing? She
looks at you and goes, Kapi,help me.
Joe Diametti (07:13):
Yeah. I mean, Kapi does. He fucking swings.
Isaac Allen Burns (07:15):
Very good. Make an attack roll.
Joe Diametti (07:18):
Come on, Halbert. Please? Just once? It's out of
the box. What the fuck?
Oh, wait. No. No. No. We're okaybecause it's a crit.
Rowan Collins (07:34):
What? There
Joe Diametti (07:36):
were ones but they're a crit.
Isaac Allen Burns (07:40):
You're you know what, Kathy?
Joe Diametti (07:42):
You
Isaac Allen Burns (07:42):
describe you just I'll let you describe what
happens here.
Joe Diametti (07:48):
Okay. Yeah. He swings and he just doesn't
really understand how thisweapon works. So, you know, he
just goes in way too hard andbasically just takes off the arm
of the guard that is holdingWhat's her name? Scarlet.
What's her
Rowan Collins (08:07):
name? What's her name? What?
Isaac Allen Burns (08:08):
Oh my god.
Joe Diametti (08:09):
Sorry, Scarlet.
Isaac Allen Burns (08:09):
Gabby's the worst. Yeah. Gabby, you cut the
you you cut this guy's arm off.He screams in pain. He
immediately drops to his knees.
You see the other guy says,
Rowan Collins (08:23):
oh, woah. What the fuck?
Isaac Allen Burns (08:25):
Hey. Hey. What's up? What's the matter
with you?
He pulls out what looks like a big club.
Joe Diametti (08:29):
Yeah. I say, I'm just looking for a hand. I wanna
really capitalize on my credit.And I say, yeah. I'm just
looking for a hand.
And I take the guy's arm off ofScarlet and just slap him with
Annie Hawthorne (08:45):
Wow. Oh
Rowan Collins (08:46):
my god.
Joe Diametti (08:47):
Blood from the other end just spraying
everywhere as I do You knowwhat? I'm trying to keep the car
intact.
Isaac Allen Burns (08:56):
Yeah. Make it a tacrol again. What? Or you
know what?
Joe Diametti (09:01):
No. You know what? It's fine. It's fine. Make it a
yeah.
What we got? That's a 17.
Rowan Collins (09:09):
With hope for fear.
Joe Diametti (09:10):
Oh, it's with hope. Sorry. Let me It's that
hope. I need my hopes up. Hope'shope for Kathy.
Wild. I can't
Isaac Allen Burns (09:17):
believe that. You're always you're always
thinking it was gonna be sohard. You slap this guy with his
friend's arms. And it turns outthis this bodyguard is actually
really hates medical things. Andhe sees the blood.
You see, he gets slapped withhis arm and the realization of
what just occurred happens tohim. He turns green and he
(09:38):
passes. And because you werewith hope, he does not throw up
on your shoes. Instead, he justpasses. Yeah.
You see that Scarlet is standingthere kind of visibly shaking.
Are you are you are you okay?She, like, grabs you in a hug
and says, oh my god. It's Kapi.God, thank you.
I were these are my father'smen. They were trying to take me
away.
Joe Diametti (09:57):
Oh. Oh. Well, yeah. It's okay. I got you.
Isaac Allen Burns (10:02):
Kapi, I think something's seriously wrong.
Yeah. Something's terribly wronghere.
Joe Diametti (10:06):
And you know what? What? I bet Carol has something
to do with it.
Isaac Allen Burns (10:11):
We'll talk about it later. Let's What are
you talking about? Let's go.
Joe Diametti (10:15):
Don't even get me started on The Librarian. Let's
go.
Isaac Allen Burns (10:17):
You know what? That went really well for
y'all. Like, kind of annoyinglywell. I'm a let you do this. You
had the sense something deep inyour pit of your stomachs tells
you something is coming.
But do y'all wanna take thisaction to do any kind of
preparation for what's to come?
Joe Diametti (10:37):
Or Obviously, we prepare and take the car.
Annie Hawthorne (10:41):
He takes the car where?
Rowan Collins (10:42):
Where? What?
Joe Diametti (10:43):
I don't know. I just wanna drive it. Look how
cool it looks.
Annie Hawthorne (10:46):
I think that Crank is running so fast that he
kinda just barrels under the
Joe Diametti (10:50):
car and
Isaac Allen Burns (10:56):
You're a small explosion. That's the car.
Rowan Collins (10:58):
Oh. Really?
Isaac Allen Burns (10:59):
It's really fast.
Rowan Collins (11:02):
Yeah. Pistachio's just in a hacking fit.
Joe Diametti (11:04):
That's the car.
Isaac Allen Burns (11:06):
Oh, yeah.
Annie Hawthorne (11:07):
That was a threat. Right? I just destroyed
a threat. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns (11:12):
Sure, Cole. Good job, buddy. Threat
neutralized. Pistachio, you'rego ahead and roll instinct roll
for me.
Rowan Collins (11:29):
11 with fear.
Joe Diametti (11:31):
Oh. Oh. I know.
Isaac Allen Burns (11:35):
You hear fire all around. The snap and the
crackle.
Annie Hawthorne (11:43):
And the pop?
Isaac Allen Burns (11:43):
And the pop. All of the fire noises. Kinda
dawns on you the severity ofthis as you look around and see
bits, Bracken Road. Pretty muchash at this point. You have a
bad feeling in your gut,Pistachio.
(12:06):
Gabby, does a 13 beat yourevasion? It does.
Joe Diametti (12:12):
By one.
Isaac Allen Burns (12:15):
Don't you hate that?
Joe Diametti (12:16):
I do.
Isaac Allen Burns (12:17):
As the three of you were standing there, you
hear a boomerang comes out ofnowhere and slams into the side
of Kapi's face.
Annie Hawthorne (12:28):
Am I very close to Kapi?
Isaac Allen Burns (12:30):
In this case, no. It pops up into the air. You
were busy destroying the car. Itpops up into the air and flies
into the hands of an individualthat is currently crouched
within the trees. Well, lookwhat we have here.
Rowan Collins (12:49):
Oh, no. Oh, no.
Isaac Allen Burns (12:51):
You see a blue Simiya. More akin to Diddy
Kong than Donkey Kong. Kind ofholding a boomerang on the side.
Kapi, you take 15 points ofdamage. 15?
15.
Joe Diametti (13:05):
Okay.
Annie Hawthorne (13:07):
You have armor.
Joe Diametti (13:07):
Yeah. I'm gonna use some armor. K. It's 15.
Isaac Allen Burns (13:11):
It's 15 damage. You may I'll just step
out again. Hey, it's me IsaacAllen Burns here to tell you a
rule in Dagger Heart. You canspend you could spend armor
slots to decrease the amount ofdamage.
Joe Diametti (13:26):
So that was 15 and my severe damage threshold is a
12. So I'm gonna use one armorslot to alright. To get it into
major. So that's two HP that Imark.
Isaac Allen Burns (13:39):
This hits you hard. You hear, looks like we
finally caught up to all y'all.You hear Who talks like that?
I talk like that. Me, Chomsky.
And I'm here to be your doom. You see
stepping out of another tree.You see a Justinian soldier, the
(14:00):
same one that killed ViscountAlphazar. He's got two swords in
either hand, and he looks overat you, Capi. He takes off his
helmet to reveal a red furredSimia who looks somewhat similar
to Cyrus.
He looks at you and says, soit's you. You are the whelp
(14:25):
carrying on his legacy. Even sawfit to give you his weapon.
Joe Diametti (14:31):
Oh. So I assume that because Kapi just got hit
in the head, things are justblurry. Yeah. And kinda like
going in and out of focus. Andhe's very he's having trouble
discerning Cyrus from anythingelse.
I didn't I didn't mean to I wasborrowing it really. Borrowing
Yeah. I just I I don't reallythink it's for me, to be honest.
(14:55):
It's I'm not very good at it.
Rowan Collins (14:58):
Kapi, do you think that's Cyrus?
Joe Diametti (15:00):
What do mean, of course, it's
Rowan Collins (15:01):
It's not Cyrus. This guy looks similar, but
Joe Diametti (15:04):
You're not Cyrus? Oh, shit. You're not Cyrus.
Yeah. Yeah.
I took it on. Bud?
Isaac Allen Burns (15:15):
This is what we were supposed to be worried
about? Well, your littlefearless leader has been giving
us quite a run for our money.Why don't we test my uncle's
protege? You see that heunsheathes these two swords and
spins them a little bit. Oh.
We are now entering combat.
Annie Hawthorne (15:36):
I'm gonna step as close to Kapi as I can get.
Isaac Allen Burns (15:38):
Mhmm. Very good. Three of you get there.
And I'm gonna use fear right nowExcellent. To be really mean
Excellent.
And let them go first. Becausestepping out of the trees are
two other individuals who fireupon You see this ribbit comes
out of the branches, hangingupside down by her feet. She's
(15:59):
bright orange, almost like asunset of sorts. She got this
big long blow gun. One eye ofhers is bigger than the other,
clearly kinda like tweaking out.
She shoots this blow gun.
Annie Hawthorne (16:10):
Joke's on you. I don't have skin.
Isaac Allen Burns (16:14):
It the needle clanks harmlessly against your
armor. At the same time, you seeyou hear a voice. Buck Buckeye
coming in as this fawn withantlers, really big antlers, who
looks too cool to be here, has aslingshot, comes from out from
(16:34):
behind a tree and fires atpistachio.
Annie Hawthorne (16:39):
Am I still holding pistachio?
Rowan Collins (16:41):
Yeah. Pistachio is just a sack of potatoes.
Isaac Allen Burns (16:45):
The bullet was for a taller person. It goes
way high.
Annie Hawthorne (16:47):
I'm just gonna look at everybody and be like,
this is what we were supposed tobe worried about?
Isaac Allen Burns (16:54):
Finally, this guy in the center, He's got two
swords. They're kinda likecurved long swords. However, you
notice that the hilts of themare kinda shaped a little weird
as though they have a trigger.That's right. These are gun
swords.
Any points at you, Capy, andfire
Joe Diametti (17:10):
situation? Fuck. Be nice, Isaac.
Annie Hawthorne (17:14):
Yeah. That wasn't a nice laugh.
Joe Diametti (17:16):
That wasn't a nice
Isaac Allen Burns (17:16):
So nice. Does a 15 hit you?
Joe Diametti (17:20):
Yeah.
Annie Hawthorne (17:21):
I'm gonna use I am your shield, FYI.
Isaac Allen Burns (17:24):
That's 13 damage to you. This is magical
damage.
Annie Hawthorne (17:30):
I'm gonna mark a stress to take that damage
instead.
Rowan Collins (17:34):
Crank, how bad do you look at this point?
Annie Hawthorne (17:36):
Well, I'm still in unstoppable mode, which means
I have resistance to damage, andI lower it by my armor class
automatically. So that's half of13 is, what, seven? Mhmm. Minus
five is two. So I'm at I've justgot two mark HP mark.
Rowan Collins (17:55):
Okay.
Joe Diametti (17:56):
Oh, thanks, Crank.
Annie Hawthorne (17:59):
Don't mention it.
Joe Diametti (18:01):
Okay. Alright. We I didn't know we were bringing
guns. What
Annie Hawthorne (18:07):
are you doing bringing a gun to
Joe Diametti (18:08):
the those cannon in this universe?
Isaac Allen Burns (18:11):
Yeah. Who did?
Rowan Collins (18:13):
Oh, yeah. Shucks. Sorry, guys.
Isaac Allen Burns (18:18):
So to reset the stage, you're being
assaulted by this group. They'reall dressed like Jastani
soldiers. Though their helmetsare off, you can see the
individuality here. One ishanging up in some branches. One
is behind a tree on your rightor behind a tree on your left.
And then there's this newindividual who has represented
(18:40):
themselves as Cyrus's nephew whois in front of y'all on this
road. They are all within closerange.
Rowan Collins (18:47):
Are they within close range of each other?
Isaac Allen Burns (18:50):
Not all of them. They're kinda dotted apart
from one another. They're allwithin close range of y'all, so
they're probably, like, barelyoutside of close range with each
other. Okay. What do you do?
Annie Hawthorne (19:01):
I'm gonna put pistachio down behind me.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:05):
RIP pistachio.
Annie Hawthorne (19:06):
I'm gonna tap them on the head.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:08):
We gotta put pistachio down.
Annie Hawthorne (19:11):
Don't. Tap them on the head, and I'm just gonna,
like, bang my fist together. I'mgonna turn around, and I'm gonna
run straight at the guy incharge.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:19):
Oh, okay.
Annie Hawthorne (19:20):
And I'm gonna try to hit him, and I would like
to use my battle born experienceto hit this motherfucker in the
face.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:26):
I'm gonna say in this case, you are taking
charge to protect an individual,which I am gonna say, oh,
that'll count. Yeah. That works.
Joe Diametti (19:36):
Fucking hell.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:40):
What do we got?
Annie Hawthorne (19:41):
11 with hope.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:44):
That, unfortunately, will not be
enough as you swing your fist,this guy was ready for it, and
you see that he just sort ofmoves out of the way very
gracefully, kinda almost tappingyour fist with one of his swords
as if to just push it off centerof where he was.
Annie Hawthorne (20:02):
Jokes on him. Got two fists.
Joe Diametti (20:04):
What if what if what if I spend the hope to
help? Like, what could the samemove play out but I use my
halberd to try to like grab hisankle and scoop him up?
Isaac Allen Burns (20:16):
You know what? In this case, if you wanna
use a help if you wanna spend ahope to give Crank a help
action, then I would say sure.You can add that D6. Go ahead
and roll D6.
Joe Diametti (20:28):
Alright. Let me mark a hope. K.
Isaac Allen Burns (20:35):
4. 4. 15. That is a 15. That is going to
be enough, surprisingly.
This guy taps out of the way,and you come in from behind to
do exactly as you said. So goahead and roll damage.
Annie Hawthorne (20:49):
Six.
Isaac Allen Burns (20:51):
K.
Joe Diametti (20:54):
Nice.
Isaac Allen Burns (20:59):
Alright. So you deal damage there. Are you
gonna attack again?
Joe Diametti (21:05):
Yeah. K.
Isaac Allen Burns (21:07):
Attack one more time.
Annie Hawthorne (21:09):
I'm at three stress y'all.
Isaac Allen Burns (21:10):
Stress. That is
Joe Diametti (21:11):
two, three.
Annie Hawthorne (21:12):
That is a crit.
Isaac Allen Burns (21:13):
Oh my god.
Rowan Collins (21:14):
Yes. Crit.
Annie Hawthorne (21:16):
That is a crit which means eight and then I
roll one.
Isaac Allen Burns (21:21):
Yes. Roll again. Brutal crit. 14. So you
roll up on this guy, Crank.
You punch once. You punch again.He was already kinda surprised
at the first one kind of gettinghim off balance, but the second
one comes in and clocks him realgood across the chin. Really
strong. In response, we'llinterrupt right after this.
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Even though you did not roll afear me as the GM, I am allowed
to interrupt times of hightension. Now I'm gonna say that
they're going to volley on you.Crank. All three of the ones in
the wings are gonna fire me.
Annie Hawthorne (21:59):
Ring it.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:01):
Let's see if they can even hit. Versus a 16.
Mhmm. Second one is an 18.
Rowan Collins (22:11):
Mhmm.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:12):
Next one is a seven.
Annie Hawthorne (22:14):
Nope. Wait. Yes.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:15):
Wait. Seven hits?
Annie Hawthorne (22:16):
Yeah. My Evasion is seven.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:18):
K. So I'm gonna roll these are three
separate attacks.
Annie Hawthorne (22:20):
I'm a big target, y'all.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:21):
Uh-oh. First one is nine physical damage.
Annie Hawthorne (22:25):
Give me all of them? Or am I gonna Okay. So I
automatically decrease all ofthat by my armor square, is
still a six because I'm still inunstoppable mode. Right. So
that's minor.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:34):
Okay. Yeah. Awesome. The next one is 10.
Annie Hawthorne (22:38):
Minor.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:40):
Next one is eight.
Annie Hawthorne (22:42):
Alright, y'all. I'm looking rough.
Rowan Collins (22:44):
Pistachio, like, leaps off of the car and, like,
runs over to Crank and puts bothhands on them and goes, Crank,
no. And then, we'll heal Crank.So I'm gonna spend or three hope
to heal two from Crank. And Ilook back at Kapi and point at
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the trees, like, you wanna getup?
Joe Diametti (23:09):
I look at Pistachio and say, yeah. I got
it. And I'm going to use rain ofblades where I spend a hope to
conjure throwing blades thatstrike any enemies very close,
which you said they are. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns (23:20):
They're close. They're not very close.
You could move up to very closewith one of them there.
Joe Diametti (23:24):
Okay. So yeah. Wanna move within very close
range and then use rain ofblades to spend a hope to
conjure throwing blades thatstrike any enemies very close to
me. Alright. Plus two spellcast.
So that's nineteen twenty twentyone with fear.
Isaac Allen Burns (23:43):
Oh, nice.
Joe Diametti (23:45):
Does that hit?
Rowan Collins (23:46):
Yes. Does that hit?
Joe Diametti (23:48):
And then
Isaac Allen Burns (23:49):
Real quick. Which one were you going for?
Were you going for the orangeribbit? Were you going for the
blue Simia? Or are you going forthe fawn with big antlers?
Joe Diametti (23:56):
Oh. I really I think I'm going for the the blue
Simia because he hit me in thehead with a
Isaac Allen Burns (24:02):
What darnation?
Joe Diametti (24:03):
And I kinda hate his accent. So or whatever it is
he's doing there with his voice.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:09):
Gowling G. Willikers.
Joe Diametti (24:11):
Yeah. That guy.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:11):
He's attacking me?
Joe Diametti (24:13):
Yep. Go ahead and roll damage.
Rowan Collins (24:15):
Joe's like, please get this character that I
created off screen.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:19):
Yeah. He has to Now you're locked in.
Joe Diametti (24:22):
Alright. Two plus two, so four.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:26):
Okay. Four damage that strikes into him.
You hit old Chomsky, he yells.Anything else on your turn?
Anything else you wanna do?
Joe Diametti (24:36):
No. That's
Isaac Allen Burns (24:38):
it. Very good. Crank. You've just
attacked this guy. Your friendsare now moving into positions.
Anything you wanna do here?
Annie Hawthorne (24:46):
I'm gonna keep fucking up this guy.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:49):
Do have
Joe Diametti (24:50):
the the the staff? The thing?
Annie Hawthorne (24:52):
Of course, I have it. But what am I supposed
Rowan Collins (24:54):
to do with that?
Joe Diametti (24:55):
I don't know.
Annie Hawthorne (24:56):
My fists are doing more.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:57):
Magic now?
Annie Hawthorne (25:00):
I don't have time to think about that. Yeah.
I'm just wailing on him.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:06):
K. Very good. Wail on him. Go ahead.
Annie Hawthorne (25:08):
Wail on him. Eventually, got it. That's
another crit. Woah.
Rowan Collins (25:17):
What the heck? Look.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:19):
All damage.
Rowan Collins (25:21):
It's good. Annie was rolling all the low things
earlier. 16. Kick your butt.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:26):
16? Mhmm. Gracious sake.
Annie Hawthorne (25:32):
And I'm gonna hit him again.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:34):
K. You spend a stress to hit him again? Mhmm.
K.
Annie Hawthorne (25:37):
My stress is getting up there.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:38):
It went up.
Annie Hawthorne (25:39):
But I think it's worth it. 15 with fear.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:49):
That does hit. Go ahead and roll damage.
Three. Nice.
Annie Hawthorne (25:57):
And now I'm not unstoppable anymore.
Isaac Allen Burns (26:00):
With that three, you clock him one more
time. He you see he stumblesback bleeding from his nose. His
teeth are bloodied. He's he'sbarely standing up. He was not
expecting this full onslaught.
And as and before he can evensay, like, seems I'm just
judged. You can punch him onemore time. He kinda stumbles
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back again. His eyes go into theback of his mind, and he passes
out falling off the ground. Onthat fear, these three, I'm
gonna activate these bad guysright here.
So the orange ribbit is gonnafire at you. That's 19. Mhmm.
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And it's 10 damage. How much HPdo you have left?
Two. Oh my gosh.
Rowan Collins (26:51):
Well, because I healed Starship.
Isaac Allen Burns (26:53):
True.
Rowan Collins (26:54):
I healed crate.
Isaac Allen Burns (26:58):
That will miss. We're gonna say that was
Chomsky. Chomsky was firing athim, and then missed. Finally,
it's up to this last little flanfire shooter for attacking their
boss. That's a 14.
To hit? Yes. That is 13 damage.Yeah. Crank is still alive.
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Nice. You see that this guy,this red Simia, kinda falls
back. This full onslaught fullytaking him by surprise. But
these three are still up, andthey have a mission to
accomplish. And they're here toaccomplish it.
But those three have gone. It isnow back to you three.
Joe Diametti (27:44):
Vines? Vines?
Rowan Collins (27:46):
Vines. Alright. So you said you described the
orange one as hanging from atree. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns (27:56):
Yes.
Rowan Collins (27:57):
Okay. If I use my vicious intangle, can will it
pull them down from the tree ifthey if it succeeds?
Isaac Allen Burns (28:08):
Depends on if you succeed. Okay. I'm gonna say
possibly good.
Rowan Collins (28:13):
That is 19 with fear.
Isaac Allen Burns (28:17):
Awesome. You will definitely pull them down
from that. That does succeed.Does that deal damage?
Rowan Collins (28:23):
Yes. It does. And that is a six six damage as the
vines stab into them.
Isaac Allen Burns (28:32):
They yell out in pain as this happens. And on
that fear, they're gonna respondby shooting you.
Rowan Collins (28:40):
Are they very close to anybody at this point
or no?
Isaac Allen Burns (28:43):
They are still only within close range.
Okay. So in the, like, 30 feetrange.
Joe Diametti (28:47):
Alright. That
Isaac Allen Burns (28:49):
is a 17 to hit you.
Rowan Collins (28:51):
That'll hit. K.
Isaac Allen Burns (28:54):
I'm rolling so well, you guys. It's 10
damage.
Rowan Collins (29:00):
What
Joe Diametti (29:02):
does that do?
Rowan Collins (29:03):
Yeah. It's just damage.
Isaac Allen Burns (29:05):
It's just damage. Okay. Cool. Finally,
it's now the other guy's turn.And the other guy, I'm gonna
say, Chomsky is still dealingwith you right now.
Joe Diametti (29:13):
Mhmm.
Isaac Allen Burns (29:14):
But I'm gonna say that there's somebody who
had their little beady littleeyes on pistachio from the
start, and that was the antleredone whose name is Buckeye gonna
fire as she try and hit you.It's 18. Oh my god. My d 20
rolls are so hot. 13 damage.
Annie Hawthorne (29:37):
Forgot your armor, Eel.
Rowan Collins (29:38):
Oh, yeah. That's right. I will okay. That puts me
at four HP. I will use somearmor to get that down to three.
Nice.
Isaac Allen Burns (29:51):
Very good. Back to y'all. These three are
looking like, they killed theboss.
We could still do it. K.
Joe Diametti (30:01):
It's three on three, guys. We got this right.
I'm looking at everyone andwe're just all looking rough.
Annie Hawthorne (30:09):
Got like sparks flying. My joints are a little
Joe Diametti (30:13):
Yeah. Pistachio is looking
Rowan Collins (30:16):
Pretty roughed up.
Isaac Allen Burns (30:19):
Can you roll actually, crank, real fast. Can
you roll me this is a reaction.Can you roll me an instinct
reaction roll?
Annie Hawthorne (30:28):
Instinct. I still have a plus one from my
stat.
Isaac Allen Burns (30:31):
Right? Indeed. Remember, hope and fear
are not tallied up here.
Annie Hawthorne (30:36):
That's a crit. What?
Joe Diametti (30:39):
Is that like you're cool?
Annie Hawthorne (30:40):
It's my third crit. Damn.
Isaac Allen Burns (30:41):
The hell is happening, y'all?
Annie Hawthorne (30:44):
I mean, you can look at it right there.
Isaac Allen Burns (30:45):
These guys are supposed to be a challenge.
Y'all are knocking them out. Noproblem. Alright. Anyways,
continue.
Nothing seems to happen.
Annie Hawthorne (30:51):
Nothing seems to happen? Okay. I'm gonna open
up my chest cavity and pull outa health potion. I'm a take
that.
Joe Diametti (30:58):
Oh, that's right. Oh, yeah. I'm good. I don't
think I got anything cool.Right?
Rowan Collins (31:04):
No. You definitely have one. We all have
one as part of the starter Oh.Stuff. Nice.
Pro tip players.
Annie Hawthorne (31:10):
Another clicker.
Rowan Collins (31:11):
You get a health potion or a stamina potion as
part of your player kit. Right.
Annie Hawthorne (31:16):
Use it. I look slightly better,
Joe Diametti (31:18):
but not much. Oh gosh.
Isaac Allen Burns (31:23):
Incredible. What do you gonna do?
Rowan Collins (31:27):
Pray, could you throw me one of them?
Annie Hawthorne (31:32):
A potion or an enemy?
Rowan Collins (31:34):
Throw me at an enemy.
Annie Hawthorne (31:36):
Throw you at an enemy? Yes.
Rowan Collins (31:38):
Sure. Which one? Whichever.
Annie Hawthorne (31:40):
I'm gonna pick up Pistachio, and I'm just
gonna, like, quarterback throw aPistachio at the orange rock.
Rowan Collins (31:47):
So I I want this to be, like, a double move,
which we can do.
Annie Hawthorne (31:52):
Oh, yeah. We can. Double move.
Rowan Collins (31:53):
So, Pistachio, I want to turn into a dodo at the
same time. We're gonna go backto the freaky spider eldritch
dodo because it's working outfor them very well. I'm gonna
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guess that yours is gonna bebetter.
Annie Hawthorne (32:16):
It's an attack roll?
Isaac Allen Burns (32:18):
Yeah. So
Annie Hawthorne (32:20):
that's 15. Yeah. Yours Sphere.
Rowan Collins (32:23):
Yours is definitely better. I rolled a
two and a one. Almost a great.
Isaac Allen Burns (32:30):
Oh my god. A 15 will succeed. Go ahead and
roll damage, Pistachio.
Rowan Collins (32:36):
Fantastic.
Annie Hawthorne (32:39):
Alright. Did we both roll damage? How does that
work?
Isaac Allen Burns (32:43):
Actually, both roll damage together as
usual and add it together.
Rowan Collins (32:46):
Oh, nice. Okay.
Annie Hawthorne (32:48):
So you rolled a five? Yep. I rolled five. I
rolled a five as well.
Rowan Collins (32:55):
10 damage. 10.
Isaac Allen Burns (32:58):
Describe how you end sunset.
Rowan Collins (33:01):
Oh gosh. So they get tossed at sunset and grabs
them in their eight spidertalons and just, like, beaked
down with the little venom sacksjust, like, bite in at their
neck and feel like venom pulseinto their neck and then them
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just slowly twitch and stopmoving.
Isaac Allen Burns (33:28):
Oh, no.
Rowan Collins (33:30):
And then, Pistachio shrieks like a like a
venom shriek and like turns tothe next one.
Isaac Allen Burns (33:38):
Yeah. So sunset is over. That fully kills
that
Annie Hawthorne (33:42):
one. The sun has set.
Rowan Collins (33:44):
The sun has set.
Isaac Allen Burns (33:45):
You know,
that was so good. And to honor the tag team
and additionally how much damageyou did, I'm gonna make I'm
gonna say that bullseye, the onewho's not kind of wrapped up
with you right now, Kapi. Mhmm.I'll say that he's vulnerable
until his next turn.
Rowan Collins (34:02):
Fantastic.
Isaac Allen Burns (34:03):
He's so freaked out by what he's seen.
Oh man.
Joe Diametti (34:06):
I wanna kill something. You guys are always
killing something. And here'swhat I wanna do. I'm not sure
how you can help me with thisIsaac. Uh-huh.
Alan Burns.
Isaac Allen Burns (34:19):
Yeah. What's up?
Joe Diametti (34:21):
I We're in an apple orchard. Right? It's true.
K. So I want to pick an apple.
Isaac Allen Burns (34:26):
Okay.
Joe Diametti (34:29):
Yeah. And I want to shove it down Chompsey's
throat and block his windpassing.
Isaac Allen Burns (34:38):
Make it a tack roll.
Joe Diametti (34:39):
Okay. But I also wanna use how do you like dem
apples? Oh my god. You
Isaac Allen Burns (34:44):
know what? Sure. Why not? You could spend
the hope to use this experience.
Joe Diametti (34:49):
Thanks.
Isaac Allen Burns (34:50):
No problem, buddy. Oh
Joe Diametti (34:53):
shit.
Rowan Collins (34:54):
That's off the that's out of the box.
Joe Diametti (35:00):
14 with hope.
Isaac Allen Burns (35:04):
14 will hit? What?
Joe Diametti (35:12):
Six.
Isaac Allen Burns (35:16):
Awesome. You shove the sackle into Chomsky's
mouth. Like you shouldn't beallowed to talk. What is that?
Joe Diametti (35:25):
That's not a real accent. It's nothing. Alcohol.
Isaac Allen Burns (35:30):
Alcohol. And you see the life leave his eyes
as he chokes on an apple.
Joe Diametti (35:36):
I killed something.
Annie Hawthorne (35:37):
Good job, Kapi. Welcome to the club.
Joe Diametti (35:40):
Thanks, gang.
Rowan Collins (35:41):
I'm still conflicted about how I feel like
that. I feel like I need to goand vet this with therapy after
this.
Joe Diametti (35:49):
We still have one more. We'll we'll get you
Isaac Allen Burns (35:50):
therapy He's he's kinda shook up from what
he's seen.
Joe Diametti (35:55):
Yeah.
Annie Hawthorne (35:55):
He would bring myself up to my, like, full
size. I'm just gonna glare athim, and I'm gonna see what he
does.
Isaac Allen Burns (36:00):
In fact, as you do that, Craig, can you go
ahead and give me anotherinstant reaction roll?
Annie Hawthorne (36:07):
Twenty twenty four with fear.
Isaac Allen Burns (36:15):
Cool. On a re recall on a reaction roll, hope
and fear are not tallied upthere. So it's
Annie Hawthorne (36:23):
just 24.
Isaac Allen Burns (36:25):
Ain't that awesome? Isn't that great?
Joe Diametti (36:28):
Right.
Isaac Allen Burns (36:30):
Well, as y'all are staring him down, I'm
gonna do an interrupt. I'm gonnaspend one of my fear, which I
have quite a few, though I havea lot less than I started with
now. And I'm going to actuallyuse attack soldiers from the
environment, and you see thattwo soldiers come from out of
the door from all the conundrum.They see what's going on and
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they yell, assault at the gates.Assault at the gates.
One of them grabs the guy on theground, starts dragging him out,
the other one kinda takes updefensive stance. Another I've
added a new enemy into this. Butthat's all I'll do.
Joe Diametti (37:06):
What's is Scarlet okay?
Isaac Allen Burns (37:09):
Scarlet's been hiding behind the car this
whole time. Her eyes wide thisyear. Crumpled up threat that
was neutralized.
Joe Diametti (37:15):
Yeah. We could've gotten away in that, probably.
Rowan Collins (37:19):
I think seeing that nobody else is making
actions, Pistachio won't roundon Buckeye and just charge.
Isaac Allen Burns (37:28):
K. Do it up.
Rowan Collins (37:30):
And we'll try and pounce on on him. That is a 19
with hope. Nice.
Isaac Allen Burns (37:38):
Nice. This is, like, possible at all for
y'all to roll anything less thana 15. I swear.
Rowan Collins (37:44):
And it's seven damage.
Isaac Allen Burns (37:46):
Seven damage.
Rowan Collins (37:47):
Is this man
Isaac Allen Burns (37:49):
It was the first damage that he's taken, so
he is still alive.
Rowan Collins (37:52):
So he gets this fun little thing called he's
envenomated. Venom envenomated.He's envenomated. He's
envenomated.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:03):
Not envenomated.
Rowan Collins (38:04):
Which means for any time he acts, he gets one d
10 additional damage.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:13):
Anytime he acts?
Rowan Collins (38:14):
Anytime he acts.
Annie Hawthorne (38:19):
Nice.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:19):
Did you roll that with hope or fear?
Rowan Collins (38:20):
That was with hope.
Joe Diametti (38:22):
Ding.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:23):
Ding. Well, then I guess I'm gonna just use
one of my last few fear here tointerrupt because I think this
would be perfect. I'm gonnainterrupt. He gets bit. He
stumbles back.
He screams in pain. Ah. Hepoints at you with his
slingshot. Is he gonna fire atyou?
Rowan Collins (38:42):
Does this count as him acting?
Isaac Allen Burns (38:43):
It does.
Rowan Collins (38:45):
He takes nine damage.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:47):
Does a 10 hit you?
Rowan Collins (38:49):
No. Not as No. Not as this beast form.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:53):
He fires a bullet into the ground, and his
eyes roll in the back of hishead as you see black veins kind
of, like, pick up in his neck,and he starts to froth. And with
that
Rowan Collins (39:07):
I I think Pistachio, as this Dodo, just
like roars and turns towards theother guards.
Isaac Allen Burns (39:16):
You turn towards the other guards and one
last time, Annie. Of CraigRollins instinct reaction for
me.
Annie Hawthorne (39:33):
16.
Rowan Collins (39:37):
Isaac has rolled his eyes so hard.
Isaac Allen Burns (39:41):
The dice are fighting me at every
opportunity. And you know what?Perhaps the dice know what they
are doing. You know, becauseyou've succeeded three times,
crank, I'll just let you knowexactly what's going on. You are
fighting.
You're taking lives. You arecommitting violence, enacting
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your will upon others throughfighting, through violence
itself. The staff on your backcontinually demands to be used.
It is crying out. It isdemanding you to use it, and you
have resisted the urge.
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Frank, you in your mind, asyou're resisting this, you have
a thought. There is anindividual in the town right now
seeking that staff. You imaginethe usage of this staff would
have perhaps clued them intoyour location.
Annie Hawthorne (40:45):
It's the one ring.
Rowan Collins (40:47):
Mhmm. Oh, god. It is the one ring.
Isaac Allen Burns (40:50):
They have not found you yet, but you have one
more enemy in front of you. Whatdo y'all do?
Joe Diametti (40:58):
That
Isaac Allen Burns (41:00):
was terrible.
Rowan Collins (41:00):
Oh my god.
Isaac Allen Burns (41:02):
Oh, no.
Annie Hawthorne (41:03):
Sorry, Trevor.
Joe Diametti (41:04):
Yeah. I
Isaac Allen Burns (41:07):
think that His eyes are shaking. His arms
are weak.
Annie Hawthorne (41:10):
Just literally like somebody run. Like, you
should run.
Joe Diametti (41:14):
Yeah. What are you guys doing? Do you not
Isaac Allen Burns (41:16):
see that we are Do
Annie Hawthorne (41:16):
you not have a survival instinct? Like,
Joe Diametti (41:20):
what are you defending right now?
Isaac Allen Burns (41:21):
The guy looks at all three of you and yells,
retreat, technical retreat, andhe runs back into the town.
Joe Diametti (41:27):
Yeah. Technically, us kicking your asses. Did you
guys see that?
Isaac Allen Burns (41:31):
High five. Hell yeah. Let's go.
Rowan Collins (41:33):
Pistachio like runs forward a little bit form
and is just like panting on theground. Like, now they've killed
three people and they arefreaking out.
Joe Diametti (41:46):
Pistachio. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Is why we joined the adventureguild.
Isaac Allen Burns (42:10):
You get the sense that Scarlet has never
seen anyone die before, and nowthree people, four almost four
people have died in front ofher. And you see that she's also
breathing very heavily.
Annie Hawthorne (42:19):
I'm just gonna kneel down in front of
Pistachio. And I'm gonna go,Pistachio. We only hurt people
who try to hurt us.
Joe Diametti (42:25):
Oh, oh, oh. And I'm gonna look at Crank and be
like, that's a good idea. So I'mgonna go kneel down in front of
Scarlet. I'm gonna say, Scarlet,look, we only hurt people that
need to be hurt.
Rowan Collins (42:36):
Pistachio sees that Scarlet is freaking out,
takes a deep breath, and then,like, goes over to her and just
goes, this is the first timeyou've seen someone die. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns (42:50):
She nods her head, yes.
Rowan Collins (42:53):
It is gonna suck a lot, and it is gonna freak you
out. And you're gonna fear thefact that you're mortal, and and
you're gonna have a lot ofreally, really bad dreams. But
tomorrow, you'll be alive, andtomorrow, you could go back to
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doing something a littledifferent where maybe you'll
forget it just a bit. It's gonnabe okay.
Isaac Allen Burns (43:22):
She looks at you, tears welling up in her
eyes, and she simply nods. We'realive.
Rowan Collins (43:30):
Alive, and we're safe, and we're gonna be okay.
We're gonna make sure thatyou're gonna be okay.
Isaac Allen Burns (43:41):
As you say that, we pull away. We see
cheers erupting from the town asthe attacking force retreats.
You see that they are movingnorth back towards Jastain. You
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go back into the town, beginhelping out those who you can,
putting out what fires that youcan. Major Balthazar, some of
his men are coming to help putout the fires.
Pistachio, you are lookingaround. You make your way over
to your farm, and it is ashes.The fields with which you had
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watched your siblings and yourfather spend so much time is no
more. Your house, gone. You seethat Wally and Hazel kinda
sitting, your mom and dad kindastanding near the gates just
looking up at what was oncetheirs.
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Tears staining the sides oftheir face. Especially as you
look at this, you also lookaround, and you see that the
countryside is pretty much ash.You see the Hitchens farm, those
turnips in the distance. It's nomore. Citrus farm that stood
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opposite the orchards is gone.
You notice that there is onekind of crop that does not seem
damaged by fire, and that is theorchards. Crank. Where's Crank
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at right now?
Annie Hawthorne (45:32):
Crank is standing in the street in the
front of the library where thelibrary used to be. Just looking
at it.
Isaac Allen Burns (45:43):
You hear you hear tiny footsteps. You feel a
hand. Can you reach up and grabyours? You see Roseanne next to
you.
Annie Hawthorne (45:52):
Hi, mom.
Isaac Allen Burns (45:54):
Oh, hey there, Crank.
Annie Hawthorne (45:57):
I'm sorry about your library.
Isaac Allen Burns (46:00):
Oh, that's alright. These things happen.
They come and go.
Annie Hawthorne (46:05):
Well, I saved some things when I open up my
chest cavity and bunch of booksfall out onto the ground.
Isaac Allen Burns (46:11):
So you saved so many cry oh, this is
wonderful.
Annie Hawthorne (46:15):
Hopefully, this is a re a start to rebuild.
Isaac Allen Burns (46:19):
I think this will be. I think this will be.
You did good today, Craig. Youdid a great job.
Annie Hawthorne (46:27):
Thank you.
Isaac Allen Burns (46:29):
She just kinda stands there with you for
a moment. The back of your mind,Frank, you keep coming back to
the pull of what you currentlyhave on your back. There's a
weight that sits upon Crank'sshoulder while you still have
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this relic. Gappy, as you arehelping put up, you see a large
hulking figure kind of sittingat the center of town near the
stage. You see Cyrus.
His cane is dented. Clothes areripped to shreds. One of his
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eyes is gone. You see that he isreally beat up, but he sees you
in the distance. Kinda gets up,kinda stumbles over in your
direction.
Joe Diametti (47:28):
Hey, Cyrus. Look, you look better than usual.
Isaac Allen Burns (47:37):
Don't look so bad yourself, kid.
Joe Diametti (47:39):
Yeah. Hey. I borrowed this and I hand it.
Like, I go to hand him theHalbert.
Isaac Allen Burns (47:47):
He shakes his head and he says, keep it.
Joe Diametti (47:53):
And Kapi just kinda looks down at it and
understands the weight of whatthat means and sneaks a hug.
Isaac Allen Burns (48:03):
He holds you close, and there's a moment that
passes between the two of you.You two are standing there. He
you're embraced in a hug. Hekinda takes a step back and
says, Gappy, perhaps that wastoo hard on you.
Joe Diametti (48:24):
I don't I don't know. Probably not.
Isaac Allen Burns (48:29):
He opens his mouth to say something, and you
hear,
this is a disaster.
You see the mayor comes up. He's stomping
towards you. He says,
Kapi, what is this? We had a deal. You would
keep our town safe. Now look atit. It is in shambles.
The Viscount is dead. The townhall is in flames. They're
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ruined. Yes. This is ruined,copy.
Joe Diametti (48:53):
What do
Isaac Allen Burns (48:53):
you have to say for yourself? You and your
weird dad, your father, yourboss. K.
What do you all have
to say for yourselves?
Joe Diametti (49:01):
I thought you were nicer than this. What? I don't
know.
Isaac Allen Burns (49:04):
How can I be nice when the town is in a
shambles? So many people havedied. I almost got killed.
Joe Diametti (49:09):
Yeah. But we stopped you
Isaac Allen Burns (49:10):
from getting killed. My political career is
now dead, Gabby.
Joe Diametti (49:15):
Yes. But you know who orchestrated this.
Isaac Allen Burns (49:18):
Who did? Who orchestrated this? Who did it?
Mister Apple
Joe Diametti (49:24):
bottom jeans.
Isaac Allen Burns (49:24):
Mister Apple
Joe Diametti (49:27):
Apple bottom jeans. Boots at the fur.
Isaac Allen Burns (49:28):
You're going to blame the Apple people for
this? Yes. They were just tinysoldiers.
Joe Diametti (49:33):
Yes. I'm blaming the Apple people for this
because I
Isaac Allen Burns (49:37):
feel why?
You really believe that senator Martin
simply had a headache from allthe cider, which is what she
said when she left early today?Oh, very under oh, sure. That's
a good excuse. Do you know whatthis means, Kapi?
Joe Diametti (49:54):
No. What?
Isaac Allen Burns (49:56):
He looks at you angrily and says, the town
is in ashes. No recommendationfor you. Ugh. And he stomps
away.
Joe Diametti (50:10):
He cried all over me.
Isaac Allen Burns (50:15):
Cyrus just kinda looks at you and says,
what? Crying on you?
Joe Diametti (50:20):
Yeah. It's it was a whole thing. He was gonna give
me a recommendation.
Isaac Allen Burns (50:26):
Was he now?
Joe Diametti (50:27):
Yeah. If, you know, we kept the festival safe
in the town. I guess we failed,and I stole your weapon.
Isaac Allen Burns (50:41):
Takes me back. First time we met. Gabby,
I'm not good with words.
Joe Diametti (50:53):
Yeah. I mean, mean, me neither.
Isaac Allen Burns (50:57):
Yeah. I probably could have said things,
maybe, but kinda awkwardlyshuffles from foot to foot. He
kinda reaches into his pocketand pulls out a letter. So he's
got the official seal of theAvengers Guild in wax, closing
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it, and he hands it to you andsays, whatever you choose to do
next, Gappy, go do it. Nowripple throughout this land.
Something big is starting. Idon't know how we all fit into
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it, but just hold close yourpeople, Gappy. I don't know what
you do next, but do with yourhead held high. You earned it. I
will.
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Kinda pats you on the shoulder.He, pops his back and stands up
and says, I have to go for awhile, but I think we'll meet
again someday, Kathy. I hope so.Me too. And with that, he kinda
nods and heads out and leaves.
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He walks away. Kapi, as you lookat what you hold in your hand,
you don't even need to open itto know exactly what it is. As
the three of you reconvene, youhave a choice in this moment of
where to go next. The mayor isorganizing refugees to leave the
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town. Most people are leaving.
They're going to be heading tothe provincial capital, which is
Algenabai. It is where theViscount's Manor is. They're
going to be staying there.However, those that you had
helping you out sort of defendthe town noticed that the
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soldiers were retreating northas though they were heading
towards Jasthan. So you three,as you stand there, there's a
decision to be made.
Do you pursue those soldiers Ordo you stay with the townsfolk
and head towards the provincialcapital of Aljennebai?
Joe Diametti (53:35):
Hey, guys.
Rowan Collins (53:39):
Hey, boss.
Joe Diametti (53:41):
Check it out. And I show the recommendation.
Rowan Collins (53:45):
Oh. Oh. That's fantastic.
Annie Hawthorne (53:47):
That's amazing. Congratulations, Kapi.
Rowan Collins (53:50):
We got
Joe Diametti (53:51):
It was for It's for all of us, guys.
Annie Hawthorne (53:56):
So what's next?
Joe Diametti (53:58):
Well, the way that I see it.
Isaac Allen Burns (54:02):
And before we find out what our heroes decide,
that's where we'll end thisseason of DodoBorne!
Rowan Collins (54:12):
My god. Thank
Isaac Allen Burns (54:14):
you for listening everybody to this
first arc. Thank you all somuch. We really appreciate
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for creating this wonderfulgame. Thank you to all the
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Joe Diametti (54:48):
thank you
Isaac Allen Burns (54:48):
all so much for listening.
Rowan Collins (54:52):
It's a podcast.
Joe Diametti (54:54):
Squat. Season two. Squat. Squat. Squat.
Isaac Allen Burns (55:09):
The probability of exceedance for a
d 12 with a modifier of plus onefor the DCs that I set were 40%,
which basically means that allthe times are old, ten ten
times, you should see it forthose times. The DCs that I set
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on the first round were 15.Second round was 16.
Third round was 17. 16. Thirdround was 17. It all
rolled so fucking This was supposed to be
a sad
Rowan Collins (55:45):
and busy. It was. My family are shit. You're
goddamn staff.
Isaac Allen Burns (55:51):
You motherfuckers.
Currently, fire has erupted around the
three of you. Fire the smell offire is lifted up in the air as
smoke assaults your nostrils.Viscount, Balthazar is dead on
the stage.
Annie Hawthorne (00:52):
The library is on fire.
Joe Diametti (00:53):
It's the
Rowan Collins (00:55):
Bob, dad, get home. Get out of here.
Isaac Allen Burns (01:00):
She just says, I thought you were
different. See, I was wrong.
Rowan Collins (01:08):
Pistachio runs through that thought in their
brain, turns their back to theirfarm, and goes and to help the
group.
Annie Hawthorne (01:19):
I am gonna grab Timothy and Alana, and I'm gonna
scoop them behind me as far awayfrom the action as I can get
them.
Isaac Allen Burns (01:32):
From what Pistachio can tell, this thing
would explode, probably damage acouple of buildings. It not seem
big enough to destroy the entiretown.
Joe Diametti (01:39):
Town. Uh-huh.
Isaac Allen Burns (01:40):
It's definitely big enough that it
will level the Adventurer'sGuild and everything inside it.
Rowan Collins (01:48):
They look straight at their sister and go,
you got this Hazel. I believe inyou. Keep Wally alive.
Isaac Allen Burns (02:00):
Cathe, you hear a shriek ringing through
the air. Sounds like Scarlet.
Joe Diametti (02:10):
You bastard.
Isaac Allen Burns (03:19):
Once again, Kapi, you hear shrieks and
screaming in the air Mhmm.Distance.
Joe Diametti (03:23):
Where is it coming from?
Isaac Allen Burns (03:25):
It seems to be coming somewhere in the
exterior of town. It seems becoming up from, like, where the
South is. You hear it downbelow.
Joe Diametti (03:34):
Uh-huh. It's
Isaac Allen Burns (03:34):
kind of cutting through all of the din
and the chaos.
Joe Diametti (03:39):
That the Down South. Is that the apple
orchard? I don't remember.
Isaac Allen Burns (03:42):
Is it That is where the apple orchards are.
Joe Diametti (03:43):
Okay. I I gotta go. Make sure everything's fine
here, and Kapi runs off. Kapiruns.
Rowan Collins (03:52):
I look to Crank. Crank, what what do you wanna
do?
Annie Hawthorne (03:57):
Well, it seems that Timothy and Alana are safe
now. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns (04:00):
They are. This group of civilians is kinda
huddled up. Those soldiers havebeen taken care of fully. If you
see that they're looking andkind of conversing with each
other in frantic tones, where togo for safety.
Annie Hawthorne (04:11):
Yeah. And I'm just gonna tell them, get
somewhere safe, and I'm gonnapick up pistachio, and I'm gonna
carry them after Kapi.
Isaac Allen Burns (04:20):
Nice. You see that Toulouse nods and kind of
hugging a lot of clothes says,stay safe, Craig. Dark tidings.
Annie Hawthorne (04:29):
I just nod and I run.
Isaac Allen Burns (04:31):
You run.
Rowan Collins (04:31):
I think as Pistachio watches their farm on
fire going under the horizon asthey get farther and farther
away. There's, like, a tear, andthen they just, like, close
their eyes in a silent hope thattheir sister is able to take
care of it and that theirbrother makes it out alive.
Isaac Allen Burns (04:53):
Indeed. Three of you are running. You run
south. You run through the chaosand the bedlam of this burning
town. Bracken Road is burning.
Can everybody, at this point,I'm gonna use the reaction
called smoke on the water, andthen in parentheses, it says
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air. You ever wanna give me astrength roll? This is a
strength reaction.
Joe Diametti (05:24):
16 with hope.
Annie Hawthorne (05:26):
Jesus Christ. That's what I needed a minute
ago. So 24 with hope.
Rowan Collins (05:30):
Nine with hope.
Isaac Allen Burns (05:31):
K. You said 16, Kathy? Yes. K. You two are
running.
You're doing the best you can.You're running through. It
doesn't infect you. Pistachio.Things are burning.
Smoke is in the air. Smokes getsinto your lungs. You start
violently coughing. As you'rerunning, you are currently, for
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your next action, is going to beat disadvantage, and you have
the vulnerable condition. Yourun south as you can.
And as you get to the Southerngates, you see two slain
peacekeepers at the gates. Theyhave been killed. You see what
looks like a noviceite vehicle,something that a lot of you
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haven't seen probably. It lookslike a cart. Imagine a cart with
these two wheels and a big body.
It's not kinda closed off at thefront. Like, this really heavy
metal contraption at the veryfront of it. For modern
audiences, this would be theequivalent of, like, a Ford
Model t.
Joe Diametti (06:32):
Mhmm.
Isaac Allen Burns (06:32):
Except instead of an engine with, like,
a bunch of combustion and stuff,you see a couple of kinda
similar to what you saw on thatbomb, these Novacite cores in it
that are powering this. They arenot glowing like you saw before,
but you can hear kind of thethrum of it moving. You see two
kind of big bodyguard lookingguys are sort of like grabbed on
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to Scarlet, and they're tryingto pull her into this vehicle.
You see that one of them is kindof yelling at her and says,
orders from your pops.
You gotta get in. You're getting out of here.
Hey. Let her go. What are you doing? She
looks at you and goes, Kapi,help me.
Joe Diametti (07:13):
Yeah. I mean, Kapi does. He fucking swings.
Isaac Allen Burns (07:15):
Very good. Make an attack roll.
Joe Diametti (07:18):
Come on, Halbert. Please? Just once? It's out of
the box. What the fuck?
Oh, wait. No. No. No. We're okaybecause it's a crit.
Rowan Collins (07:34):
What? There
Joe Diametti (07:36):
were ones but they're a crit.
Isaac Allen Burns (07:40):
You're you know what, Kathy?
Joe Diametti (07:42):
You
Isaac Allen Burns (07:42):
describe you just I'll let you describe what
happens here.
Joe Diametti (07:48):
Okay. Yeah. He swings and he just doesn't
really understand how thisweapon works. So, you know, he
just goes in way too hard andbasically just takes off the arm
of the guard that is holdingWhat's her name? Scarlet.
What's her
Rowan Collins (08:07):
name? What's her name? What?
Isaac Allen Burns (08:08):
Oh my god.
Joe Diametti (08:09):
Sorry, Scarlet.
Isaac Allen Burns (08:09):
Gabby's the worst. Yeah. Gabby, you cut the
you you cut this guy's arm off.He screams in pain. He
immediately drops to his knees.
You see the other guy says,
Rowan Collins (08:23):
oh, woah. What the fuck?
Isaac Allen Burns (08:25):
Hey. Hey. What's up? What's the matter
with you?
He pulls out what looks like a big club.
Joe Diametti (08:29):
Yeah. I say, I'm just looking for a hand. I wanna
really capitalize on my credit.And I say, yeah. I'm just
looking for a hand.
And I take the guy's arm off ofScarlet and just slap him with
Annie Hawthorne (08:45):
Wow. Oh
Rowan Collins (08:46):
my god.
Joe Diametti (08:47):
Blood from the other end just spraying
everywhere as I do You knowwhat? I'm trying to keep the car
intact.
Isaac Allen Burns (08:56):
Yeah. Make it a tacrol again. What? Or you
know what?
Joe Diametti (09:01):
No. You know what? It's fine. It's fine. Make it a
yeah.
What we got? That's a 17.
Rowan Collins (09:09):
With hope for fear.
Joe Diametti (09:10):
Oh, it's with hope. Sorry. Let me It's that
hope. I need my hopes up. Hope'shope for Kathy.
Wild. I can't
Isaac Allen Burns (09:17):
believe that. You're always you're always
thinking it was gonna be sohard. You slap this guy with his
friend's arms. And it turns outthis this bodyguard is actually
really hates medical things. Andhe sees the blood.
You see, he gets slapped withhis arm and the realization of
what just occurred happens tohim. He turns green and he
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passes. And because you werewith hope, he does not throw up
on your shoes. Instead, he justpasses. Yeah.
You see that Scarlet is standingthere kind of visibly shaking.
Are you are you are you okay?She, like, grabs you in a hug
and says, oh my god. It's Kapi.God, thank you.
I were these are my father'smen. They were trying to take me
away.
Joe Diametti (09:57):
Oh. Oh. Well, yeah. It's okay. I got you.
Isaac Allen Burns (10:02):
Kapi, I think something's seriously wrong.
Yeah. Something's terribly wronghere.
Joe Diametti (10:06):
And you know what? What? I bet Carol has something
to do with it.
Isaac Allen Burns (10:11):
We'll talk about it later. Let's What are
you talking about? Let's go.
Joe Diametti (10:15):
Don't even get me started on The Librarian. Let's
go.
Isaac Allen Burns (10:17):
You know what? That went really well for
y'all. Like, kind of annoyinglywell. I'm a let you do this. You
had the sense something deep inyour pit of your stomachs tells
you something is coming.
But do y'all wanna take thisaction to do any kind of
preparation for what's to come?
Joe Diametti (10:37):
Or Obviously, we prepare and take the car.
Annie Hawthorne (10:41):
He takes the car where?
Rowan Collins (10:42):
Where? What?
Joe Diametti (10:43):
I don't know. I just wanna drive it. Look how
cool it looks.
Annie Hawthorne (10:46):
I think that Crank is running so fast that he
kinda just barrels under the
Joe Diametti (10:50):
car and
Isaac Allen Burns (10:56):
You're a small explosion. That's the car.
Rowan Collins (10:58):
Oh. Really?
Isaac Allen Burns (10:59):
It's really fast.
Rowan Collins (11:02):
Yeah. Pistachio's just in a hacking fit.
Joe Diametti (11:04):
That's the car.
Isaac Allen Burns (11:06):
Oh, yeah.
Annie Hawthorne (11:07):
That was a threat. Right? I just destroyed
a threat. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns (11:12):
Sure, Cole. Good job, buddy. Threat
neutralized. Pistachio, you'rego ahead and roll instinct roll
for me.
Rowan Collins (11:29):
11 with fear.
Joe Diametti (11:31):
Oh. Oh. I know.
Isaac Allen Burns (11:35):
You hear fire all around. The snap and the
crackle.
Annie Hawthorne (11:43):
And the pop?
Isaac Allen Burns (11:43):
And the pop. All of the fire noises. Kinda
dawns on you the severity ofthis as you look around and see
bits, Bracken Road. Pretty muchash at this point. You have a
bad feeling in your gut,Pistachio.
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Gabby, does a 13 beat yourevasion? It does.
Joe Diametti (12:12):
By one.
Isaac Allen Burns (12:15):
Don't you hate that?
Joe Diametti (12:16):
I do.
Isaac Allen Burns (12:17):
As the three of you were standing there, you
hear a boomerang comes out ofnowhere and slams into the side
of Kapi's face.
Annie Hawthorne (12:28):
Am I very close to Kapi?
Isaac Allen Burns (12:30):
In this case, no. It pops up into the air. You
were busy destroying the car. Itpops up into the air and flies
into the hands of an individualthat is currently crouched
within the trees. Well, lookwhat we have here.
Rowan Collins (12:49):
Oh, no. Oh, no.
Isaac Allen Burns (12:51):
You see a blue Simiya. More akin to Diddy
Kong than Donkey Kong. Kind ofholding a boomerang on the side.
Kapi, you take 15 points ofdamage. 15?
15.
Joe Diametti (13:05):
Okay.
Annie Hawthorne (13:07):
You have armor.
Joe Diametti (13:07):
Yeah. I'm gonna use some armor. K. It's 15.
Isaac Allen Burns (13:11):
It's 15 damage. You may I'll just step
out again. Hey, it's me IsaacAllen Burns here to tell you a
rule in Dagger Heart. You canspend you could spend armor
slots to decrease the amount ofdamage.
Joe Diametti (13:26):
So that was 15 and my severe damage threshold is a
12. So I'm gonna use one armorslot to alright. To get it into
major. So that's two HP that Imark.
Isaac Allen Burns (13:39):
This hits you hard. You hear, looks like we
finally caught up to all y'all.You hear Who talks like that?
I talk like that. Me, Chomsky.
And I'm here to be your doom. You see
stepping out of another tree.You see a Justinian soldier, the
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same one that killed ViscountAlphazar. He's got two swords in
either hand, and he looks overat you, Capi. He takes off his
helmet to reveal a red furredSimia who looks somewhat similar
to Cyrus.
He looks at you and says, soit's you. You are the whelp
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carrying on his legacy. Even sawfit to give you his weapon.
Joe Diametti (14:31):
Oh. So I assume that because Kapi just got hit
in the head, things are justblurry. Yeah. And kinda like
going in and out of focus. Andhe's very he's having trouble
discerning Cyrus from anythingelse.
I didn't I didn't mean to I wasborrowing it really. Borrowing
Yeah. I just I I don't reallythink it's for me, to be honest.
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It's I'm not very good at it.
Rowan Collins (14:58):
Kapi, do you think that's Cyrus?
Joe Diametti (15:00):
What do mean, of course, it's
Rowan Collins (15:01):
It's not Cyrus. This guy looks similar, but
Joe Diametti (15:04):
You're not Cyrus? Oh, shit. You're not Cyrus.
Yeah. Yeah.
I took it on. Bud?
Isaac Allen Burns (15:15):
This is what we were supposed to be worried
about? Well, your littlefearless leader has been giving
us quite a run for our money.Why don't we test my uncle's
protege? You see that heunsheathes these two swords and
spins them a little bit. Oh.
We are now entering combat.
Annie Hawthorne (15:36):
I'm gonna step as close to Kapi as I can get.
Isaac Allen Burns (15:38):
Mhmm. Very good. Three of you get there.
And I'm gonna use fear right nowExcellent. To be really mean
Excellent.
And let them go first. Becausestepping out of the trees are
two other individuals who fireupon You see this ribbit comes
out of the branches, hangingupside down by her feet. She's
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bright orange, almost like asunset of sorts. She got this
big long blow gun. One eye ofhers is bigger than the other,
clearly kinda like tweaking out.
She shoots this blow gun.
Annie Hawthorne (16:10):
Joke's on you. I don't have skin.
Isaac Allen Burns (16:14):
It the needle clanks harmlessly against your
armor. At the same time, you seeyou hear a voice. Buck Buckeye
coming in as this fawn withantlers, really big antlers, who
looks too cool to be here, has aslingshot, comes from out from
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behind a tree and fires atpistachio.
Annie Hawthorne (16:39):
Am I still holding pistachio?
Rowan Collins (16:41):
Yeah. Pistachio is just a sack of potatoes.
Isaac Allen Burns (16:45):
The bullet was for a taller person. It goes
way high.
Annie Hawthorne (16:47):
I'm just gonna look at everybody and be like,
this is what we were supposed tobe worried about?
Isaac Allen Burns (16:54):
Finally, this guy in the center, He's got two
swords. They're kinda likecurved long swords. However, you
notice that the hilts of themare kinda shaped a little weird
as though they have a trigger.That's right. These are gun
swords.
Any points at you, Capy, andfire
Joe Diametti (17:10):
situation? Fuck. Be nice, Isaac.
Annie Hawthorne (17:14):
Yeah. That wasn't a nice laugh.
Joe Diametti (17:16):
That wasn't a nice
Isaac Allen Burns (17:16):
So nice. Does a 15 hit you?
Joe Diametti (17:20):
Yeah.
Annie Hawthorne (17:21):
I'm gonna use I am your shield, FYI.
Isaac Allen Burns (17:24):
That's 13 damage to you. This is magical
damage.
Annie Hawthorne (17:30):
I'm gonna mark a stress to take that damage
instead.
Rowan Collins (17:34):
Crank, how bad do you look at this point?
Annie Hawthorne (17:36):
Well, I'm still in unstoppable mode, which means
I have resistance to damage, andI lower it by my armor class
automatically. So that's half of13 is, what, seven? Mhmm. Minus
five is two. So I'm at I've justgot two mark HP mark.
Rowan Collins (17:55):
Okay.
Joe Diametti (17:56):
Oh, thanks, Crank.
Annie Hawthorne (17:59):
Don't mention it.
Joe Diametti (18:01):
Okay. Alright. We I didn't know we were bringing
guns. What
Annie Hawthorne (18:07):
are you doing bringing a gun to
Joe Diametti (18:08):
the those cannon in this universe?
Isaac Allen Burns (18:11):
Yeah. Who did?
Rowan Collins (18:13):
Oh, yeah. Shucks. Sorry, guys.
Isaac Allen Burns (18:18):
So to reset the stage, you're being
assaulted by this group. They'reall dressed like Jastani
soldiers. Though their helmetsare off, you can see the
individuality here. One ishanging up in some branches. One
is behind a tree on your rightor behind a tree on your left.
And then there's this newindividual who has represented
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themselves as Cyrus's nephew whois in front of y'all on this
road. They are all within closerange.
Rowan Collins (18:47):
Are they within close range of each other?
Isaac Allen Burns (18:50):
Not all of them. They're kinda dotted apart
from one another. They're allwithin close range of y'all, so
they're probably, like, barelyoutside of close range with each
other. Okay. What do you do?
Annie Hawthorne (19:01):
I'm gonna put pistachio down behind me.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:05):
RIP pistachio.
Annie Hawthorne (19:06):
I'm gonna tap them on the head.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:08):
We gotta put pistachio down.
Annie Hawthorne (19:11):
Don't. Tap them on the head, and I'm just gonna,
like, bang my fist together. I'mgonna turn around, and I'm gonna
run straight at the guy incharge.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:19):
Oh, okay.
Annie Hawthorne (19:20):
And I'm gonna try to hit him, and I would like
to use my battle born experienceto hit this motherfucker in the
face.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:26):
I'm gonna say in this case, you are taking
charge to protect an individual,which I am gonna say, oh,
that'll count. Yeah. That works.
Joe Diametti (19:36):
Fucking hell.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:40):
What do we got?
Annie Hawthorne (19:41):
11 with hope.
Isaac Allen Burns (19:44):
That, unfortunately, will not be
enough as you swing your fist,this guy was ready for it, and
you see that he just sort ofmoves out of the way very
gracefully, kinda almost tappingyour fist with one of his swords
as if to just push it off centerof where he was.
Annie Hawthorne (20:02):
Jokes on him. Got two fists.
Joe Diametti (20:04):
What if what if what if I spend the hope to
help? Like, what could the samemove play out but I use my
halberd to try to like grab hisankle and scoop him up?
Isaac Allen Burns (20:16):
You know what? In this case, if you wanna
use a help if you wanna spend ahope to give Crank a help
action, then I would say sure.You can add that D6. Go ahead
and roll D6.
Joe Diametti (20:28):
Alright. Let me mark a hope. K.
Isaac Allen Burns (20:35):
4. 4. 15. That is a 15. That is going to
be enough, surprisingly.
This guy taps out of the way,and you come in from behind to
do exactly as you said. So goahead and roll damage.
Annie Hawthorne (20:49):
Six.
Isaac Allen Burns (20:51):
K.
Joe Diametti (20:54):
Nice.
Isaac Allen Burns (20:59):
Alright. So you deal damage there. Are you
gonna attack again?
Joe Diametti (21:05):
Yeah. K.
Isaac Allen Burns (21:07):
Attack one more time.
Annie Hawthorne (21:09):
I'm at three stress y'all.
Isaac Allen Burns (21:10):
Stress. That is
Joe Diametti (21:11):
two, three.
Annie Hawthorne (21:12):
That is a crit.
Isaac Allen Burns (21:13):
Oh my god.
Rowan Collins (21:14):
Yes. Crit.
Annie Hawthorne (21:16):
That is a crit which means eight and then I
roll one.
Isaac Allen Burns (21:21):
Yes. Roll again. Brutal crit. 14. So you
roll up on this guy, Crank.
You punch once. You punch again.He was already kinda surprised
at the first one kind of gettinghim off balance, but the second
one comes in and clocks him realgood across the chin. Really
strong. In response, we'llinterrupt right after this.
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Even though you did not roll afear me as the GM, I am allowed
to interrupt times of hightension. Now I'm gonna say that
they're going to volley on you.Crank. All three of the ones in
the wings are gonna fire me.
Annie Hawthorne (21:59):
Ring it.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:01):
Let's see if they can even hit. Versus a 16.
Mhmm. Second one is an 18.
Rowan Collins (22:11):
Mhmm.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:12):
Next one is a seven.
Annie Hawthorne (22:14):
Nope. Wait. Yes.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:15):
Wait. Seven hits?
Annie Hawthorne (22:16):
Yeah. My Evasion is seven.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:18):
K. So I'm gonna roll these are three
separate attacks.
Annie Hawthorne (22:20):
I'm a big target, y'all.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:21):
Uh-oh. First one is nine physical damage.
Annie Hawthorne (22:25):
Give me all of them? Or am I gonna Okay. So I
automatically decrease all ofthat by my armor square, is
still a six because I'm still inunstoppable mode. Right. So
that's minor.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:34):
Okay. Yeah. Awesome. The next one is 10.
Annie Hawthorne (22:38):
Minor.
Isaac Allen Burns (22:40):
Next one is eight.
Annie Hawthorne (22:42):
Alright, y'all. I'm looking rough.
Rowan Collins (22:44):
Pistachio, like, leaps off of the car and, like,
runs over to Crank and puts bothhands on them and goes, Crank,
no. And then, we'll heal Crank.So I'm gonna spend or three hope
to heal two from Crank. And Ilook back at Kapi and point at
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the trees, like, you wanna getup?
Joe Diametti (23:09):
I look at Pistachio and say, yeah. I got
it. And I'm going to use rain ofblades where I spend a hope to
conjure throwing blades thatstrike any enemies very close,
which you said they are. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns (23:20):
They're close. They're not very close.
You could move up to very closewith one of them there.
Joe Diametti (23:24):
Okay. So yeah. Wanna move within very close
range and then use rain ofblades to spend a hope to
conjure throwing blades thatstrike any enemies very close to
me. Alright. Plus two spellcast.
So that's nineteen twenty twentyone with fear.
Isaac Allen Burns (23:43):
Oh, nice.
Joe Diametti (23:45):
Does that hit?
Rowan Collins (23:46):
Yes. Does that hit?
Joe Diametti (23:48):
And then
Isaac Allen Burns (23:49):
Real quick. Which one were you going for?
Were you going for the orangeribbit? Were you going for the
blue Simia? Or are you going forthe fawn with big antlers?
Joe Diametti (23:56):
Oh. I really I think I'm going for the the blue
Simia because he hit me in thehead with a
Isaac Allen Burns (24:02):
What darnation?
Joe Diametti (24:03):
And I kinda hate his accent. So or whatever it is
he's doing there with his voice.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:09):
Gowling G. Willikers.
Joe Diametti (24:11):
Yeah. That guy.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:11):
He's attacking me?
Joe Diametti (24:13):
Yep. Go ahead and roll damage.
Rowan Collins (24:15):
Joe's like, please get this character that I
created off screen.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:19):
Yeah. He has to Now you're locked in.
Joe Diametti (24:22):
Alright. Two plus two, so four.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:26):
Okay. Four damage that strikes into him.
You hit old Chomsky, he yells.Anything else on your turn?
Anything else you wanna do?
Joe Diametti (24:36):
No. That's
Isaac Allen Burns (24:38):
it. Very good. Crank. You've just
attacked this guy. Your friendsare now moving into positions.
Anything you wanna do here?
Annie Hawthorne (24:46):
I'm gonna keep fucking up this guy.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:49):
Do have
Joe Diametti (24:50):
the the the staff? The thing?
Annie Hawthorne (24:52):
Of course, I have it. But what am I supposed
Rowan Collins (24:54):
to do with that?
Joe Diametti (24:55):
I don't know.
Annie Hawthorne (24:56):
My fists are doing more.
Isaac Allen Burns (24:57):
Magic now?
Annie Hawthorne (25:00):
I don't have time to think about that. Yeah.
I'm just wailing on him.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:06):
K. Very good. Wail on him. Go ahead.
Annie Hawthorne (25:08):
Wail on him. Eventually, got it. That's
another crit. Woah.
Rowan Collins (25:17):
What the heck? Look.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:19):
All damage.
Rowan Collins (25:21):
It's good. Annie was rolling all the low things
earlier. 16. Kick your butt.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:26):
16? Mhmm. Gracious sake.
Annie Hawthorne (25:32):
And I'm gonna hit him again.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:34):
K. You spend a stress to hit him again? Mhmm.
K.
Annie Hawthorne (25:37):
My stress is getting up there.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:38):
It went up.
Annie Hawthorne (25:39):
But I think it's worth it. 15 with fear.
Isaac Allen Burns (25:49):
That does hit. Go ahead and roll damage.
Three. Nice.
Annie Hawthorne (25:57):
And now I'm not unstoppable anymore.
Isaac Allen Burns (26:00):
With that three, you clock him one more
time. He you see he stumblesback bleeding from his nose. His
teeth are bloodied. He's he'sbarely standing up. He was not
expecting this full onslaught.
And as and before he can evensay, like, seems I'm just
judged. You can punch him onemore time. He kinda stumbles
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back again. His eyes go into theback of his mind, and he passes
out falling off the ground. Onthat fear, these three, I'm
gonna activate these bad guysright here.
So the orange ribbit is gonnafire at you. That's 19. Mhmm.
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And it's 10 damage. How much HPdo you have left?
Two. Oh my gosh.
Rowan Collins (26:51):
Well, because I healed Starship.
Isaac Allen Burns (26:53):
True.
Rowan Collins (26:54):
I healed crate.
Isaac Allen Burns (26:58):
That will miss. We're gonna say that was
Chomsky. Chomsky was firing athim, and then missed. Finally,
it's up to this last little flanfire shooter for attacking their
boss. That's a 14.
To hit? Yes. That is 13 damage.Yeah. Crank is still alive.
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Nice. You see that this guy,this red Simia, kinda falls
back. This full onslaught fullytaking him by surprise. But
these three are still up, andthey have a mission to
accomplish. And they're here toaccomplish it.
But those three have gone. It isnow back to you three.
Joe Diametti (27:44):
Vines? Vines?
Rowan Collins (27:46):
Vines. Alright. So you said you described the
orange one as hanging from atree. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns (27:56):
Yes.
Rowan Collins (27:57):
Okay. If I use my vicious intangle, can will it
pull them down from the tree ifthey if it succeeds?
Isaac Allen Burns (28:08):
Depends on if you succeed. Okay. I'm gonna say
possibly good.
Rowan Collins (28:13):
That is 19 with fear.
Isaac Allen Burns (28:17):
Awesome. You will definitely pull them down
from that. That does succeed.Does that deal damage?
Rowan Collins (28:23):
Yes. It does. And that is a six six damage as the
vines stab into them.
Isaac Allen Burns (28:32):
They yell out in pain as this happens. And on
that fear, they're gonna respondby shooting you.
Rowan Collins (28:40):
Are they very close to anybody at this point
or no?
Isaac Allen Burns (28:43):
They are still only within close range.
Okay. So in the, like, 30 feetrange.
Joe Diametti (28:47):
Alright. That
Isaac Allen Burns (28:49):
is a 17 to hit you.
Rowan Collins (28:51):
That'll hit. K.
Isaac Allen Burns (28:54):
I'm rolling so well, you guys. It's 10
damage.
Rowan Collins (29:00):
What
Joe Diametti (29:02):
does that do?
Rowan Collins (29:03):
Yeah. It's just damage.
Isaac Allen Burns (29:05):
It's just damage. Okay. Cool. Finally,
it's now the other guy's turn.And the other guy, I'm gonna
say, Chomsky is still dealingwith you right now.
Joe Diametti (29:13):
Mhmm.
Isaac Allen Burns (29:14):
But I'm gonna say that there's somebody who
had their little beady littleeyes on pistachio from the
start, and that was the antleredone whose name is Buckeye gonna
fire as she try and hit you.It's 18. Oh my god. My d 20
rolls are so hot. 13 damage.
Annie Hawthorne (29:37):
Forgot your armor, Eel.
Rowan Collins (29:38):
Oh, yeah. That's right. I will okay. That puts me
at four HP. I will use somearmor to get that down to three.
Nice.
Isaac Allen Burns (29:51):
Very good. Back to y'all. These three are
looking like, they killed theboss.
We could still do it. K.
Joe Diametti (30:01):
It's three on three, guys. We got this right.
I'm looking at everyone andwe're just all looking rough.
Annie Hawthorne (30:09):
Got like sparks flying. My joints are a little
Joe Diametti (30:13):
Yeah. Pistachio is looking
Rowan Collins (30:16):
Pretty roughed up.
Isaac Allen Burns (30:19):
Can you roll actually, crank, real fast. Can
you roll me this is a reaction.Can you roll me an instinct
reaction roll?
Annie Hawthorne (30:28):
Instinct. I still have a plus one from my
stat.
Isaac Allen Burns (30:31):
Right? Indeed. Remember, hope and fear
are not tallied up here.
Annie Hawthorne (30:36):
That's a crit. What?
Joe Diametti (30:39):
Is that like you're cool?
Annie Hawthorne (30:40):
It's my third crit. Damn.
Isaac Allen Burns (30:41):
The hell is happening, y'all?
Annie Hawthorne (30:44):
I mean, you can look at it right there.
Isaac Allen Burns (30:45):
These guys are supposed to be a challenge.
Y'all are knocking them out. Noproblem. Alright. Anyways,
continue.
Nothing seems to happen.
Annie Hawthorne (30:51):
Nothing seems to happen? Okay. I'm gonna open
up my chest cavity and pull outa health potion. I'm a take
that.
Joe Diametti (30:58):
Oh, that's right. Oh, yeah. I'm good. I don't
think I got anything cool.Right?
Rowan Collins (31:04):
No. You definitely have one. We all have
one as part of the starter Oh.Stuff. Nice.
Pro tip players.
Annie Hawthorne (31:10):
Another clicker.
Rowan Collins (31:11):
You get a health potion or a stamina potion as
part of your player kit. Right.
Annie Hawthorne (31:16):
Use it. I look slightly better,
Joe Diametti (31:18):
but not much. Oh gosh.
Isaac Allen Burns (31:23):
Incredible. What do you gonna do?
Rowan Collins (31:27):
Pray, could you throw me one of them?
Annie Hawthorne (31:32):
A potion or an enemy?
Rowan Collins (31:34):
Throw me at an enemy.
Annie Hawthorne (31:36):
Throw you at an enemy? Yes.
Rowan Collins (31:38):
Sure. Which one? Whichever.
Annie Hawthorne (31:40):
I'm gonna pick up Pistachio, and I'm just
gonna, like, quarterback throw aPistachio at the orange rock.
Rowan Collins (31:47):
So I I want this to be, like, a double move,
which we can do.
Annie Hawthorne (31:52):
Oh, yeah. We can. Double move.
Rowan Collins (31:53):
So, Pistachio, I want to turn into a dodo at the
same time. We're gonna go backto the freaky spider eldritch
dodo because it's working outfor them very well. I'm gonna
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guess that yours is gonna bebetter.
Annie Hawthorne (32:16):
It's an attack roll?
Isaac Allen Burns (32:18):
Yeah. So
Annie Hawthorne (32:20):
that's 15. Yeah. Yours Sphere.
Rowan Collins (32:23):
Yours is definitely better. I rolled a
two and a one. Almost a great.
Isaac Allen Burns (32:30):
Oh my god. A 15 will succeed. Go ahead and
roll damage, Pistachio.
Rowan Collins (32:36):
Fantastic.
Annie Hawthorne (32:39):
Alright. Did we both roll damage? How does that
work?
Isaac Allen Burns (32:43):
Actually, both roll damage together as
usual and add it together.
Rowan Collins (32:46):
Oh, nice. Okay.
Annie Hawthorne (32:48):
So you rolled a five? Yep. I rolled five. I
rolled a five as well.
Rowan Collins (32:55):
10 damage. 10.
Isaac Allen Burns (32:58):
Describe how you end sunset.
Rowan Collins (33:01):
Oh gosh. So they get tossed at sunset and grabs
them in their eight spidertalons and just, like, beaked
down with the little venom sacksjust, like, bite in at their
neck and feel like venom pulseinto their neck and then them
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just slowly twitch and stopmoving.
Isaac Allen Burns (33:28):
Oh, no.
Rowan Collins (33:30):
And then, Pistachio shrieks like a like a
venom shriek and like turns tothe next one.
Isaac Allen Burns (33:38):
Yeah. So sunset is over. That fully kills
that
Annie Hawthorne (33:42):
one. The sun has set.
Rowan Collins (33:44):
The sun has set.
Isaac Allen Burns (33:45):
You know,
that was so good. And to honor the tag team
and additionally how much damageyou did, I'm gonna make I'm
gonna say that bullseye, the onewho's not kind of wrapped up
with you right now, Kapi. Mhmm.I'll say that he's vulnerable
until his next turn.
Rowan Collins (34:02):
Fantastic.
Isaac Allen Burns (34:03):
He's so freaked out by what he's seen.
Oh man.
Joe Diametti (34:06):
I wanna kill something. You guys are always
killing something. And here'swhat I wanna do. I'm not sure
how you can help me with thisIsaac. Uh-huh.
Alan Burns.
Isaac Allen Burns (34:19):
Yeah. What's up?
Joe Diametti (34:21):
I We're in an apple orchard. Right? It's true.
K. So I want to pick an apple.
Isaac Allen Burns (34:26):
Okay.
Joe Diametti (34:29):
Yeah. And I want to shove it down Chompsey's
throat and block his windpassing.
Isaac Allen Burns (34:38):
Make it a tack roll.
Joe Diametti (34:39):
Okay. But I also wanna use how do you like dem
apples? Oh my god. You
Isaac Allen Burns (34:44):
know what? Sure. Why not? You could spend
the hope to use this experience.
Joe Diametti (34:49):
Thanks.
Isaac Allen Burns (34:50):
No problem, buddy. Oh
Joe Diametti (34:53):
shit.
Rowan Collins (34:54):
That's off the that's out of the box.
Joe Diametti (35:00):
14 with hope.
Isaac Allen Burns (35:04):
14 will hit? What?
Joe Diametti (35:12):
Six.
Isaac Allen Burns (35:16):
Awesome. You shove the sackle into Chomsky's
mouth. Like you shouldn't beallowed to talk. What is that?
Joe Diametti (35:25):
That's not a real accent. It's nothing. Alcohol.
Isaac Allen Burns (35:30):
Alcohol. And you see the life leave his eyes
as he chokes on an apple.
Joe Diametti (35:36):
I killed something.
Annie Hawthorne (35:37):
Good job, Kapi. Welcome to the club.
Joe Diametti (35:40):
Thanks, gang.
Rowan Collins (35:41):
I'm still conflicted about how I feel like
that. I feel like I need to goand vet this with therapy after
this.
Joe Diametti (35:49):
We still have one more. We'll we'll get you
Isaac Allen Burns (35:50):
therapy He's he's kinda shook up from what
he's seen.
Joe Diametti (35:55):
Yeah.
Annie Hawthorne (35:55):
He would bring myself up to my, like, full
size. I'm just gonna glare athim, and I'm gonna see what he
does.
Isaac Allen Burns (36:00):
In fact, as you do that, Craig, can you go
ahead and give me anotherinstant reaction roll?
Annie Hawthorne (36:07):
Twenty twenty four with fear.
Isaac Allen Burns (36:15):
Cool. On a re recall on a reaction roll, hope
and fear are not tallied upthere. So it's
Annie Hawthorne (36:23):
just 24.
Isaac Allen Burns (36:25):
Ain't that awesome? Isn't that great?
Joe Diametti (36:28):
Right.
Isaac Allen Burns (36:30):
Well, as y'all are staring him down, I'm
gonna do an interrupt. I'm gonnaspend one of my fear, which I
have quite a few, though I havea lot less than I started with
now. And I'm going to actuallyuse attack soldiers from the
environment, and you see thattwo soldiers come from out of
the door from all the conundrum.They see what's going on and
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they yell, assault at the gates.Assault at the gates.
One of them grabs the guy on theground, starts dragging him out,
the other one kinda takes updefensive stance. Another I've
added a new enemy into this. Butthat's all I'll do.
Joe Diametti (37:06):
What's is Scarlet okay?
Isaac Allen Burns (37:09):
Scarlet's been hiding behind the car this
whole time. Her eyes wide thisyear. Crumpled up threat that
was neutralized.
Joe Diametti (37:15):
Yeah. We could've gotten away in that, probably.
Rowan Collins (37:19):
I think seeing that nobody else is making
actions, Pistachio won't roundon Buckeye and just charge.
Isaac Allen Burns (37:28):
K. Do it up.
Rowan Collins (37:30):
And we'll try and pounce on on him. That is a 19
with hope. Nice.
Isaac Allen Burns (37:38):
Nice. This is, like, possible at all for
y'all to roll anything less thana 15. I swear.
Rowan Collins (37:44):
And it's seven damage.
Isaac Allen Burns (37:46):
Seven damage.
Rowan Collins (37:47):
Is this man
Isaac Allen Burns (37:49):
It was the first damage that he's taken, so
he is still alive.
Rowan Collins (37:52):
So he gets this fun little thing called he's
envenomated. Venom envenomated.He's envenomated. He's
envenomated.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:03):
Not envenomated.
Rowan Collins (38:04):
Which means for any time he acts, he gets one d
10 additional damage.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:13):
Anytime he acts?
Rowan Collins (38:14):
Anytime he acts.
Annie Hawthorne (38:19):
Nice.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:19):
Did you roll that with hope or fear?
Rowan Collins (38:20):
That was with hope.
Joe Diametti (38:22):
Ding.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:23):
Ding. Well, then I guess I'm gonna just use
one of my last few fear here tointerrupt because I think this
would be perfect. I'm gonnainterrupt. He gets bit. He
stumbles back.
He screams in pain. Ah. Hepoints at you with his
slingshot. Is he gonna fire atyou?
Rowan Collins (38:42):
Does this count as him acting?
Isaac Allen Burns (38:43):
It does.
Rowan Collins (38:45):
He takes nine damage.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:47):
Does a 10 hit you?
Rowan Collins (38:49):
No. Not as No. Not as this beast form.
Isaac Allen Burns (38:53):
He fires a bullet into the ground, and his
eyes roll in the back of hishead as you see black veins kind
of, like, pick up in his neck,and he starts to froth. And with
that
Rowan Collins (39:07):
I I think Pistachio, as this Dodo, just
like roars and turns towards theother guards.
Isaac Allen Burns (39:16):
You turn towards the other guards and one
last time, Annie. Of CraigRollins instinct reaction for
me.
Annie Hawthorne (39:33):
16.
Rowan Collins (39:37):
Isaac has rolled his eyes so hard.
Isaac Allen Burns (39:41):
The dice are fighting me at every
opportunity. And you know what?Perhaps the dice know what they
are doing. You know, becauseyou've succeeded three times,
crank, I'll just let you knowexactly what's going on. You are
fighting.
You're taking lives. You arecommitting violence, enacting
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your will upon others throughfighting, through violence
itself. The staff on your backcontinually demands to be used.
It is crying out. It isdemanding you to use it, and you
have resisted the urge.
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Frank, you in your mind, asyou're resisting this, you have
a thought. There is anindividual in the town right now
seeking that staff. You imaginethe usage of this staff would
have perhaps clued them intoyour location.
Annie Hawthorne (40:45):
It's the one ring.
Rowan Collins (40:47):
Mhmm. Oh, god. It is the one ring.
Isaac Allen Burns (40:50):
They have not found you yet, but you have one
more enemy in front of you. Whatdo y'all do?
Joe Diametti (40:58):
That
Isaac Allen Burns (41:00):
was terrible.
Rowan Collins (41:00):
Oh my god.
Isaac Allen Burns (41:02):
Oh, no.
Annie Hawthorne (41:03):
Sorry, Trevor.
Joe Diametti (41:04):
Yeah. I
Isaac Allen Burns (41:07):
think that His eyes are shaking. His arms
are weak.
Annie Hawthorne (41:10):
Just literally like somebody run. Like, you
should run.
Joe Diametti (41:14):
Yeah. What are you guys doing? Do you not
Isaac Allen Burns (41:16):
see that we are Do
Annie Hawthorne (41:16):
you not have a survival instinct? Like,
Joe Diametti (41:20):
what are you defending right now?
Isaac Allen Burns (41:21):
The guy looks at all three of you and yells,
retreat, technical retreat, andhe runs back into the town.
Joe Diametti (41:27):
Yeah. Technically, us kicking your asses. Did you
guys see that?
Isaac Allen Burns (41:31):
High five. Hell yeah. Let's go.
Rowan Collins (41:33):
Pistachio like runs forward a little bit form
and is just like panting on theground. Like, now they've killed
three people and they arefreaking out.
Joe Diametti (41:46):
Pistachio. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Is why we joined the adventureguild.
Isaac Allen Burns (42:10):
You get the sense that Scarlet has never
seen anyone die before, and nowthree people, four almost four
people have died in front ofher. And you see that she's also
breathing very heavily.
Annie Hawthorne (42:19):
I'm just gonna kneel down in front of
Pistachio. And I'm gonna go,Pistachio. We only hurt people
who try to hurt us.
Joe Diametti (42:25):
Oh, oh, oh. And I'm gonna look at Crank and be
like, that's a good idea. So I'mgonna go kneel down in front of
Scarlet. I'm gonna say, Scarlet,look, we only hurt people that
need to be hurt.
Rowan Collins (42:36):
Pistachio sees that Scarlet is freaking out,
takes a deep breath, and then,like, goes over to her and just
goes, this is the first timeyou've seen someone die. Right?
Isaac Allen Burns (42:50):
She nods her head, yes.
Rowan Collins (42:53):
It is gonna suck a lot, and it is gonna freak you
out. And you're gonna fear thefact that you're mortal, and and
you're gonna have a lot ofreally, really bad dreams. But
tomorrow, you'll be alive, andtomorrow, you could go back to
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doing something a littledifferent where maybe you'll
forget it just a bit. It's gonnabe okay.
Isaac Allen Burns (43:22):
She looks at you, tears welling up in her
eyes, and she simply nods. We'realive.
Rowan Collins (43:30):
Alive, and we're safe, and we're gonna be okay.
We're gonna make sure thatyou're gonna be okay.
Isaac Allen Burns (43:41):
As you say that, we pull away. We see
cheers erupting from the town asthe attacking force retreats.
You see that they are movingnorth back towards Jastain. You
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go back into the town, beginhelping out those who you can,
putting out what fires that youcan. Major Balthazar, some of
his men are coming to help putout the fires.
Pistachio, you are lookingaround. You make your way over
to your farm, and it is ashes.The fields with which you had
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watched your siblings and yourfather spend so much time is no
more. Your house, gone. You seethat Wally and Hazel kinda
sitting, your mom and dad kindastanding near the gates just
looking up at what was oncetheirs.
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Tears staining the sides oftheir face. Especially as you
look at this, you also lookaround, and you see that the
countryside is pretty much ash.You see the Hitchens farm, those
turnips in the distance. It's nomore. Citrus farm that stood
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opposite the orchards is gone.
You notice that there is onekind of crop that does not seem
damaged by fire, and that is theorchards. Crank. Where's Crank
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at right now?
Annie Hawthorne (45:32):
Crank is standing in the street in the
front of the library where thelibrary used to be. Just looking
at it.
Isaac Allen Burns (45:43):
You hear you hear tiny footsteps. You feel a
hand. Can you reach up and grabyours? You see Roseanne next to
you.
Annie Hawthorne (45:52):
Hi, mom.
Isaac Allen Burns (45:54):
Oh, hey there, Crank.
Annie Hawthorne (45:57):
I'm sorry about your library.
Isaac Allen Burns (46:00):
Oh, that's alright. These things happen.
They come and go.
Annie Hawthorne (46:05):
Well, I saved some things when I open up my
chest cavity and bunch of booksfall out onto the ground.
Isaac Allen Burns (46:11):
So you saved so many cry oh, this is
wonderful.
Annie Hawthorne (46:15):
Hopefully, this is a re a start to rebuild.
Isaac Allen Burns (46:19):
I think this will be. I think this will be.
You did good today, Craig. Youdid a great job.
Annie Hawthorne (46:27):
Thank you.
Isaac Allen Burns (46:29):
She just kinda stands there with you for
a moment. The back of your mind,Frank, you keep coming back to
the pull of what you currentlyhave on your back. There's a
weight that sits upon Crank'sshoulder while you still have
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this relic. Gappy, as you arehelping put up, you see a large
hulking figure kind of sittingat the center of town near the
stage. You see Cyrus.
His cane is dented. Clothes areripped to shreds. One of his
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eyes is gone. You see that he isreally beat up, but he sees you
in the distance. Kinda gets up,kinda stumbles over in your
direction.
Joe Diametti (47:28):
Hey, Cyrus. Look, you look better than usual.
Isaac Allen Burns (47:37):
Don't look so bad yourself, kid.
Joe Diametti (47:39):
Yeah. Hey. I borrowed this and I hand it.
Like, I go to hand him theHalbert.
Isaac Allen Burns (47:47):
He shakes his head and he says, keep it.
Joe Diametti (47:53):
And Kapi just kinda looks down at it and
understands the weight of whatthat means and sneaks a hug.
Isaac Allen Burns (48:03):
He holds you close, and there's a moment that
passes between the two of you.You two are standing there. He
you're embraced in a hug. Hekinda takes a step back and
says, Gappy, perhaps that wastoo hard on you.
Joe Diametti (48:24):
I don't I don't know. Probably not.
Isaac Allen Burns (48:29):
He opens his mouth to say something, and you
hear,
this is a disaster.
You see the mayor comes up. He's stomping
towards you. He says,
Kapi, what is this? We had a deal. You would
keep our town safe. Now look atit. It is in shambles.
The Viscount is dead. The townhall is in flames. They're
(48:50):
ruined. Yes. This is ruined,copy.
Joe Diametti (48:53):
What do
Isaac Allen Burns (48:53):
you have to say for yourself? You and your
weird dad, your father, yourboss. K.
What do you all have
to say for yourselves?
Joe Diametti (49:01):
I thought you were nicer than this. What? I don't
know.
Isaac Allen Burns (49:04):
How can I be nice when the town is in a
shambles? So many people havedied. I almost got killed.
Joe Diametti (49:09):
Yeah. But we stopped you
Isaac Allen Burns (49:10):
from getting killed. My political career is
now dead, Gabby.
Joe Diametti (49:15):
Yes. But you know who orchestrated this.
Isaac Allen Burns (49:18):
Who did? Who orchestrated this? Who did it?
Mister Apple
Joe Diametti (49:24):
bottom jeans.
Isaac Allen Burns (49:24):
Mister Apple
Joe Diametti (49:27):
Apple bottom jeans. Boots at the fur.
Isaac Allen Burns (49:28):
You're going to blame the Apple people for
this? Yes. They were just tinysoldiers.
Joe Diametti (49:33):
Yes. I'm blaming the Apple people for this
because I
Isaac Allen Burns (49:37):
feel why?
You really believe that senator Martin
simply had a headache from allthe cider, which is what she
said when she left early today?Oh, very under oh, sure. That's
a good excuse. Do you know whatthis means, Kapi?
Joe Diametti (49:54):
No. What?
Isaac Allen Burns (49:56):
He looks at you angrily and says, the town
is in ashes. No recommendationfor you. Ugh. And he stomps
away.
Joe Diametti (50:10):
He cried all over me.
Isaac Allen Burns (50:15):
Cyrus just kinda looks at you and says,
what? Crying on you?
Joe Diametti (50:20):
Yeah. It's it was a whole thing. He was gonna give
me a recommendation.
Isaac Allen Burns (50:26):
Was he now?
Joe Diametti (50:27):
Yeah. If, you know, we kept the festival safe
in the town. I guess we failed,and I stole your weapon.
Isaac Allen Burns (50:41):
Takes me back. First time we met. Gabby,
I'm not good with words.
Joe Diametti (50:53):
Yeah. I mean, mean, me neither.
Isaac Allen Burns (50:57):
Yeah. I probably could have said things,
maybe, but kinda awkwardlyshuffles from foot to foot. He
kinda reaches into his pocketand pulls out a letter. So he's
got the official seal of theAvengers Guild in wax, closing
(51:20):
it, and he hands it to you andsays, whatever you choose to do
next, Gappy, go do it. Nowripple throughout this land.
Something big is starting. Idon't know how we all fit into
(51:40):
it, but just hold close yourpeople, Gappy. I don't know what
you do next, but do with yourhead held high. You earned it. I
will.
(52:02):
Kinda pats you on the shoulder.He, pops his back and stands up
and says, I have to go for awhile, but I think we'll meet
again someday, Kathy. I hope so.Me too. And with that, he kinda
nods and heads out and leaves.
(52:25):
He walks away. Kapi, as you lookat what you hold in your hand,
you don't even need to open itto know exactly what it is. As
the three of you reconvene, youhave a choice in this moment of
where to go next. The mayor isorganizing refugees to leave the
(52:46):
town. Most people are leaving.
They're going to be heading tothe provincial capital, which is
Algenabai. It is where theViscount's Manor is. They're
going to be staying there.However, those that you had
helping you out sort of defendthe town noticed that the
(53:11):
soldiers were retreating northas though they were heading
towards Jasthan. So you three,as you stand there, there's a
decision to be made.
Do you pursue those soldiers Ordo you stay with the townsfolk
and head towards the provincialcapital of Aljennebai?
Joe Diametti (53:35):
Hey, guys.
Rowan Collins (53:39):
Hey, boss.
Joe Diametti (53:41):
Check it out. And I show the recommendation.
Rowan Collins (53:45):
Oh. Oh. That's fantastic.
Annie Hawthorne (53:47):
That's amazing. Congratulations, Kapi.
Rowan Collins (53:50):
We got
Joe Diametti (53:51):
It was for It's for all of us, guys.
Annie Hawthorne (53:56):
So what's next?
Joe Diametti (53:58):
Well, the way that I see it.
Isaac Allen Burns (54:02):
And before we find out what our heroes decide,
that's where we'll end thisseason of DodoBorne!
Rowan Collins (54:12):
My god. Thank
Isaac Allen Burns (54:14):
you for listening everybody to this
first arc. Thank you all somuch. We really appreciate
everyone listening to us. Thankyou again to Darrington Press
for creating this wonderfulgame. Thank you to all the
wonderful people who arelistening and supporting and
commenting.
If you loved this season, pleasego ahead, rate us five stars on
(54:35):
those reviews on on your podcastor of choice. Let me tell you,
we've learned a lot about SEOand those five star reviews go a
big way. And it's just likeretail, so it's either five
stars or nothing. Anyways,
Joe Diametti (54:48):
thank you
Isaac Allen Burns (54:48):
all so much for listening.
Rowan Collins (54:52):
It's a podcast.
Joe Diametti (54:54):
Squat. Season two. Squat. Squat. Squat.
Isaac Allen Burns (55:09):
The probability of exceedance for a
d 12 with a modifier of plus onefor the DCs that I set were 40%,
which basically means that allthe times are old, ten ten
times, you should see it forthose times. The DCs that I set
(55:31):
on the first round were 15.Second round was 16.
Third round was 17. 16. Thirdround was 17. It all
rolled so fucking This was supposed to be
a sad
Rowan Collins (55:45):
and busy. It was. My family are shit. You're
goddamn staff.
Isaac Allen Burns (55:51):
You motherfuckers.
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