11: – Crisis on Infinite Urff

Meanwhile in Waterdeep, a group of rogues have been tasked by The Defiance to retrieve vital information against Damien Mephistopheles and Christopher. The stakes could not be higher.

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
- Hello everybody, andwelcome to tonight's episode
of Playing Games With Strangers.
I am your DM tonight. My nameis John. John, how are you?
Um,
- I- Wanna start tonight by actually, instead
of introducing everybody and,
and having them hawk what theydo, let's go round table here

(00:21):
and, uh, kind of promote something
that the other person does.
That way we're kind of throwingit around a bit. Uh oh.
So, uh, I'm gonnaintroduce Steve McDonald.
- Hi, everyone. Do yourcensus, please.
- From, from censustaker fame, as well as,

(00:42):
uh, strangers and aliens.
The voice of fire hands from playing games
of not playing games ofstrangers, uh, with, uh,
- - Supersonic pod comics.
- I, - The, you know, when Iget, when I do these things,
I get so excited.
I get, my brain gets sofar ahead of my mouth
that I just can't keep up.
Um, also, Steve is what Iwant to be when I grow up.

(01:04):
So, census taker. Yes,that's, that's exactly it.
So that's Steve.
Steve, go ahead and introducesomebody else at the table.
- I'm gonna introduce my good friend
who I've never seen before. Dave Clements.
- Hey, what, - We have a, wehave a stranger at the table.
- We do

(01:25):
there.
- Got a Hawk Dave stuff now, man,
- I have to. Yes.
- I think you might be the only one
that actually knows what I do. Yeah,
- I've been, I was onyour, your podcast, right?
- Yeah.- Yeah.
And, um, it's, you've, it'sbeen almost around, almost
as long as, uh, strangers and aliens.
- Yep. Just, just shy. A couple years.

(01:47):
- What number episode are you on now?
- One 17.- One 17. Not bad. Not bad.
- Very slow releases. You
- Get over a hundred, you get that award.
I wear it around a lot.
- Still in that. What's the name of it?
. It's that podcast.
- It's called Geek This, for anybody
who doesn't understand telepathy that Oh,

(02:07):
- Oh yeah.
Geek this. Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, I think I was onepisode 11. Whoa. Wow.
- Way back.- Way back.
- You gotta hit the way back machine
in order to hear 'em on there.
- Double digits. Something like that.
- And keeping up withthe, uh, voice, uh, voices
of supersonic theme.
Dave plays Lucas in the randoms.

(02:28):
- Yeah. I'm just almostagno as obnoxious in person.
.
- All right, Dave. Well, I guess now
that Steve introduced you, you have
to introduce somebody else at the table.
So is, do you know anybodyelse at the table? ?
- Um, only through social media.Uh, I'm gonna introduce Mr.

(02:51):
Js Earl's, comic writerextraordinaire, world famous from,
uh, what I understand.
And co-creator of Supersonic pod comics.
- Oh my goodness gracious.
- He does listen to the shows, people.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know.
I don't know. Infamous might be more

(03:11):
popular, more appropriate.
Um, and
- I, he wrote the mag, so,- Yeah.
Well, I wrote the adaptation of it.
Same thing, but which is better than,
well, I shouldn't say that.
. I was gonnasay it better than the
screenplay for the movie.
Um, .

(03:31):
Uh, just 'cause it's, yeah,it's just, I don't know.
I think we cared more, but No, it's,
it's all the corporate corporate,
it's the corporate, uh,Hollywood, uh, is dealing, dealing
with their, all their stuff.
But, uh, and budgets and allthe silly things like that.
- Budget.- I will, I will introduce Josiah,

(03:52):
who I, who is, uh, Crandall, who is,
uh, he plays a few voicesfor the Supersonic.
Um, he does Mr.
Matrix for a code named Super Force,
and he does one of the Petrapeople on, uh, Sumo Girl
and some other, and some other stuff. Pet

(04:14):
- Pizza people. Yeah.
- Pizza. Ooh, pizza. Pizza.
Um, and, and he also makessome cool indie films.
And I don't know what his day job is. He
- Award-winning filmmaker, sir.
- Award-winning. That'sright. World famous. Yeah.
- Uh, my day job for those interested,
I'm the video director at our church.

(04:36):
- Ah, that's right. Yeah. Great.
- As he is here as well,- The video director.
- , - Well, I guessthat means I get to introduce,
uh, Celeste, right?
So she does cool stufflike, um, podcasting, such
as the, the geek, uh, geek devotions.

(04:59):
And she also is on
stuff like, um, supersonic pod comics
as what's her face?
- ? Yes.- The gold digger.
- She's so- Affectionately termed.
Ironically, Lucas doesn't like me either.

(05:20):
- No, no. I almost calledyou a bad name once.
- Yeah. Aw.- It's okay.
- I was, I'm surprised, Dave. Seriously?
I'm surprised you didn'trefer to her as the Ice Queen.
- Yeah,- It's actually been a while since
I recorded that, so I forgot.
But, uh, yeah.
- Yeah.- I mean, I play the character. Well,

(05:41):
- You - Know, I've heardCeleste is a much better human
being in person, only
- Slightly than- Not.
Sometimes. Sometimes.
- No. Her, her and herhusband are good people.
I've been getting to know themover the past couple weeks.
And, uh, yeah.
Uh, Dallas is like thecoolest, the coolest guy.

(06:03):
- I think so. - So biased.
- I am, I will admit that.
- I'm not biased. Butanyway, with introductions,
with introductions done,I've decided, you know,
I've decided that we're, weare, we're not gonna recap
for tonight's episode
because the recap for tonight'sepisode doesn't matter.

(06:24):
We're doing somethingdifferent tonight, everybody.
This is a little bit ofa side story that happens
during the time that the party goes
to get the needle from the loom of time.
So, um, y you don't reallyneed to recap for that,
because this is a side storyto introduce some things
and certain characters
and just some awfulstuff. . So

(06:47):
- Don't get too attached to these
characters, is what you're saying. I,
- I, I've al, I've already,
I've already prepped thepeople at the table, uh,
for what's about to happen tonight.
So, uh, just throwingthis out out there, uh,
the tonight's episode hasthe potential to go grim.
So if anybody is affectedby dark storytelling, uh,
use your discretion while listening.

(07:08):
Um, I'm outta here. Oh,
- We can see, we, we,
- We've already, uh, startedlosing characters already.
- , it's only darkbecause it's a musical .
Yeah. That's it.
- And so with that, uh, let's go ahead
and dive into tonight's game.

(08:25):
I will preface this, uh,by saying the three of you.
I'm sorry. Yes. The three of you?
No, the five of you workfor the, uh, defiance,
the rebel, um, team that, uh,
is in water deep fightingagainst the dictatorship

(08:47):
of c of Christopher
and, uh, Damien Oph.
Um, you have been summoned by
oh, crud, suddenly I, for Nan.
That's right. You've been summoned by Nan

(09:07):
to the yawning portal.
And, um, just with a brief note that says,
your presence is required
- .
- So- First,
- To enter the, the N
- Is- Revoke.

(09:31):
- I enter the n- Back.
Some backstory on the defiance,
where they are a determined team.
They are also a small team. Uh, uh,
- Not- Very large.
I'd say. I'd say that theranks probably are about 25
individuals so far in a very large city.
So,

(09:52):
- Uh,- Y'all aren't super familiar
with each other at this point.
Um, a lot of, a lot of thestuff, a lot of the stuff
that you've, you've donefor the defiance in order
to secure, uh, anonymity.
I can say it this week, , uh, you,
you guys have done solo missions.
So, um, you come in

(10:14):
and Duron looks at you, he goes, ah, good.
- Um, just hang out for a bit.- This is gonna be, uh,
- One of our first,- This is actually gonna be the first,
uh, team mission we'resending you guys out on.
'cause it's kind of abig deal. So, uh, uh,
- Re uh,- Revoke, uh, if you could just

(10:35):
- Hang out at a table, you've got it.
All right. Um,
- Next to enter is a tort- Turtle,
- Tort- Tart.
It's a taral.
Uh, is it a war turtle? ,

(10:57):
- Well revoke as you turn around.
Go ahead Js and describe yourcharacter, what they look like
as you walk into the yawning portal.
- We have two turtles.
- What? No, I .
Um, I am in a crazy looking outfit

(11:18):
because I've been through a lot
and I have really scarred face.
So I wear a mask in honor of my, uh,
uh, master who was a Wolverine person.
- Okay.- And, uh, yep.

(11:38):
- And when you come in,
you see an individualsitting at the table,
looking back at you th uh, while you,
when you come in through the door.
Uh, revoke. Go ahead
and, uh, describe yourcountenance as well.
- I look like a corpse walking.
It's, uh, an unearthly skinness

(12:00):
that you see about me,
and I always wear acloak with the hood up.
I have dark blue, no pupileyes, pale, gray skin,
white close cut hair, about six foot four
- .
This is gonna hard, thisis gonna be hard for me
to say this with a straight face.
So, looks at you. And hegoes, oh, dude. Thanks.

(12:24):
Thank, thanks for, uh,coming on such short notice.
Uh, dude, I'd like you to meetRevoke Revoke. This is dude.
- Oh, nice to meet you.- Hello. Revoke.
- Really?- Oh my God.
- How tall is he?- How tall? Yeah. How tall is dude?

(12:46):
- Uh, he is, uh, he's around.He, he is close to six foot.
- Okay.- He's not a small dude. .
- So many jokes are gonna bemade every time I every time we
have an interaction withyour character tonight.
Js I just want you
to know you're gonna make everybody sound
like a really chill bro.
- Dude, he's turtle.He's a turtle. .

(13:10):
- Okay. Okay.
Okay, dude, uh, go ahead andsit at this table with revoke.
We're, we're sending youguys out in a group to,
uh, tonight.
Um, okay. There's, there's some,
there's some serious stuff going down. So
- No problem on Mystro- At that point.
Uh, a tabi walks in.

(13:30):
Um, I would ask you
to describe yourself, Celeste,
but being as I made yourcharacter, I have a feeling I,
it would probably be better if I did.
- That might be, that might work.
- Okay. Uh, so as you twosit down, you see a, um,

(13:51):
I gotta take a look at something here.
'cause I forgot how tall you are.
- I am five five,- That's right.
So you see a, a kind
of a medium sized humanoid incat looking individual walk
in, um,
with her hood up. And, uh,
- I like her already.
- She's, uh, she has orange fur

(14:12):
with darker orange stripes in it.
- And- The question is, is it a natural
- ?
- And, uh, Durin looks at you
and goes, Toki Toki, thanksfor coming on short notice, uh,
we've, we've got some intelligence
that we need to have taken care of.

(14:33):
Uh, but if what we hear is correct, then
we're gonna have to send you guys
out as a group this evening.
So, uh, Toki meets, uh,revoke and, uh, dude,
- Dude,- Dude.
And revoke. This is Toki.
Uh, we got two more comments,so just bear with us.

(14:53):
- Hello dude. And Rev walk.Nice to meet you, miss.
Nice to meet you.
- Alright. And
Captain Fontan, pleasedescribe your entrance
for the people at the table.
- Alright, so I throw the door wide open

(15:15):
as I walk in,
and there's, you hear a,a, a regular footstep,
and then a clink as mypeg leg hits the floor.
I, I saunter
and slowly, I'm a five, five foot,
um, tole as well.
, um, with abright, bright red vest on,

(15:36):
and a bright red hat, uh,
big old feather sticking out of it.
Uh, and a and an eye patch.
- It's a turtle. .Do, do you know David Jones?
- I don't know David Jones? No. Oh,
- Captain Fontan.
Thanks for coming. Uh, how,how was, how was the, uh,

(15:58):
tides they shoot you?
Well, coming back. Coming back in.
- Oh, the tides are always in my favor,
as you know. Excellent. That's
- Great.
That's great to hear. I, Iapologize for taking you off
of the, uh, recon missionwe had sent you on,
but we had something bigcome through the big,
we had something big comedown the wire and it's, it's,
- You needed the best.

(16:19):
I know. I know.
- Yeah. Um,- What are these
Skelly wags doing here?
- Uh, yeah, these, theseare, uh, it, because
because what's happening is so big, we,
we don't wanna send just one individual.
So we're sending a team,
- A team.
- You could, you could sayit, it's a squadron of some
of our best rogues, um, arogue squadron, if you will.

(16:42):
- Wow. You know, the lasttime I was a part of a team,
you know that old saying,there's no I in team?
Yes. Well, well, they're right.
The last time I was part ofa team, I lost this. Here I
- .
- I'm not too key.- You'll still have what, what's that?
You still have one?You still have one eye?

(17:04):
- I do still have one eye.
- So maybe there's only one eye in team
- Rather than two.
Team turtle. Is it turtle or is it turtle?
What, what End of are you turtle?
- You don't look very, youdon't look very tartly to me.
- Are you totally enoughfor the total club ?

(17:28):
Totally. Total.
- So, as you guys are havingthis discussion, uh, finally,
uh, Wilder, go aheadand introduce, go ahead
and describe your entrance please.
- So I'm actually already
sitting in like a back corner, um,

(17:48):
keeping an eye kind of onthe people that walk in.
And I'm sitting there innot too fancy of clothes.
I don't wanna bring toomuch attention to myself.
Uh, but as I see moreand more people come in
and during welcomes them in,
I stand up, push my ale to the side,

(18:12):
and I kind of saunter overmove the shaggy, sandy,
blonde hair out of my face.
So, um, who's this lot? Huh?
- Ah, Wilder. Uh, thanks for showing up.
Uh, didn't see you over there.
I just, I guess that's agood thing. I don't know.

(18:33):
Um, alright, so everyone'shere, uh, Wilder, uh,
and, uh, captain Fontan, I,
I apologize I didn'tintroduce you to everybody
as they came in or when you guys came in.
Uh, this is, uh, revoke, uh, Toki
and dude, and these two,

(18:54):
these two here are,uh, uh, captain Fontan.
Uh, he, he is our best
and real, really only, uh, seafaring rogue
r And this is, uh, Wilder.
Um, he is one of our, one ofour better, uh, arcane rogues.
So, uh, but we nice to meet too.

(19:17):
Uh, we're in a pickle.
Um, I'm kind of runningthings at the moment
'cause stumble, foot's,uh, well stumble foot had
to go on out of town.
Um, so, uh, I had
to make an executive decision.
Uh, we heard that, uh, that, uh,

(19:40):
Christopher had sent a team ofDaga from the tower carrying,
uh, information.
And, uh, well, we have a feeling
that they're calling for reinforcements.
And if reinforcements arrive, we're, well,
we're pretty much boned.
So,

(20:04):
yeah, we, we, we need you. Yeah. What,
- What type of regurgitationsare they calling?
- What about Regurgitations? What
- You said they werecalling Regurgitations.
What type of they calling
- Reinforcements?
They're calling forreinforcements. We don't know.
Because, uh, we need youguys to capture that letter,

(20:25):
um, that got sent out
before it reaches theintended individuals.
Um, and hopefully we can kind of plan
accordingly to disrupt the flow of, uh,
reinforcements and supplychain and whatever.
I don't, I don't know.
Uh, stumble foot's the onewho's really good at this stuff.

(20:47):
I just run an in.
- Okay. Where they going? Yeah,just tell us where they are
and we'll take care of it.
- Well, that's just it.
We don't rightly know, um,being as their dur are,
they only really move at night
and they can, they can blendinto darkness pretty well.
And, you know, I'm human,

(21:08):
so I don't see in the dark very well.
- Well, that's unfortunate.
- Yeah. So I would probablystart by, uh, heading
to the tower, maybe seeingif you can enter the tower
and find any information there.

(21:28):
- You're sending us straight to the tower.
- Well, I mean, yourrogues, you're supposed
to be good at breaking in
and not being seen, so Ididn't think it'd be an issue.
I mean, if you want me to goask somebody else to do it,
I guess I can do that.
But I mean,
- Now I'm in. Let's
- Go.
We got a thousand gold on this for,

(21:50):
for you guys for acomplete mission. So, well,
- Now why didn't yousay that at the first?
- Well, you know, I just thoughtmaybe you'd be interested
in, you know, actuallysaving our city. But
- Do I look like I reallycare about the city?
- No, you don't.- .

(22:12):
- See this fella here,he knows what's going on.
He's a very perceptive tart. Yes.
- Thank you very much. Um, can we go
by Team Turtle in the hoods?
I feel like we need aname, like a team name.
I think Team Turtle inthe hoods makes sense.

(22:32):
- I do not want to be known as a turtle.
- No, you're known as a hood .
- Oh, I see. Except not at all.
- Why don't we not waste time on names
and put that into action.
- I'm already headed for the door,
- So following him,- .

(22:56):
- All- Right, here we go. We're walking.
We're walking now. We'rewalking. We're walking.
Everybody. We're walking.
- Perhaps you should, shouldclose your flapping thing.
- Oh, oops. Sorry. Didn'tsay that was open. .

(23:17):
All right, so,
- Uh, you guys head out.
Um, it is actually dusk asyou guys head out of the, uh,
out, out of the, uh, yawning portal.
Um, I'm assuming you guys areheading towards the tower.
- That's the case. Yeah. Yep.

(23:37):
- How are you going? Areyou guys trying to stealth
through town or are you justkind of going nonchalantly?
What's your plan? Oh yeah, Dave,
something else that I forgot to mention.
There is a cur, there is a curfew in town.
So being out after darkis, uh, kind of a no-no,
- Might as well stealth.
- Yeah, I think we would stealth.
- We're off to stealth. We're stealthy.

(24:01):
- Okay, so I need y'all
to roll stealth checks for me, please.
- December 19.- Lemme turn that down.
And I'm rolling the B 20, right?
- That would be it. Yep. And then add
your, uh, stealth modifier.
- Me and nor call. We arestealth. We are so stealthy.

(24:25):
We are like spider.
- Did you just call him Ivco- Ko? Yes.
- That's- Why I'm gonna feel
so bad about murdering yourcharacter. I really am
- .
It's okay. I am scared.
I am going to offendsomebody with this accent.
And normally only do this athome when no one can get mad.
- I, you gonna make up acompletely different accent.

(24:48):
- Say it again.- Are you gonna make up like a completely
different accent that noone has ever heard before?
Yeah. I mean, how difficult is that?
It's like whatever accentyou may. Oh, that sounds age.
Oh, that sounds, you know,that's, you just true.
Pick an accent and run with it.
- Real talk. My goal is to get Celeste
to sing Ursula songs on theshow at some point. .
- I'm just waiting for you to

(25:08):
figure out how it's gonna happen.
- Um, all right.
So dude also got a 19nineteens all around so far.
- Oh gosh. A 20 far. All right.
- You are healthy boy.
- Where to go? Where to go,
- Dude?
Dude, where do you come from?

(25:30):
- Uh, far away. Far, far away.
So where are these shoppingmalls open right now?
- Uh, there are, but theyare going to be closing soon.
- Perhaps You should go findyour, your ninja rat Master
- .
Well, that was, yeah, he died.
- Hey, we don't wannasplinter the team. No,

(25:52):
- That would be tragic.
- Okay. If you guys wannasplit the team. I am for that.
That just makes my job easier.
- That does soundsplinter. The team Get it.
I got it. I got the
- Joke.
I got, I got the,
- I - Have Steve, I have learneda lot about comedic timing
from playing this game with you.
- Splinter. The te like

(26:12):
- Repeating, repeating thepunchline to a joke makes it
so much more funny. I
- Know , why I do it. It does,
- Because about the third
or fourth time, then it gets funny again.
- . And you know,I think that, uh, with
that joke, um, it with,with his eye that's missing.

(26:35):
You can see you, if youlift it up the patch,
you can see his brainand what are you doing?
So it's like the splinterof the mind's eye.
- Oh boy.- Put that down.
- That was going real far. Yeah, that
- Trip.
- I, I don't think I, I'mold enough to get that joke,

(26:57):
but we'll run with it.
- Oh,- The totals are strange. It's
- A Star Wars thing- Is are,
are we sure there is only two
turtles? There should not be four
- That way.
Should all be here. Itshould be a total team.
- Is is, is captain, is his name captain
or is it, is he actuallya captain of something?

(27:19):
- Cap a- Captain.
- Some portals spell worse than others.
- Oh, okay.- Yeah. That is good information to know.
- It's kept mine simple.
So it's forwards andbackwards. It's the same
- Yes. Od we know.
- Thank- You. Um,
- There we go. I fixed it.
- So - If we're steal things,should we be talking so much?

(27:43):
- More than likely not.- This is all telepathic.
- No, it's not- . It's tele.
- We, we wrote very well. Yes.
- So as you guys areslipping through the shadows
of the town, um,

(28:03):
and as you look overhead,you see the common sight
of the Druids jumping fromrooftop to rooftop, looking
for people who are violatingcurfew as the sun is setting.
Um, and you hear comingdown the street, you hear
hoof, you hear, uh,
hoof beats as they'recoming down the street.

(28:24):
The the, uh, clip cloclip clap. Click clo.
Um, and uh, whoever would like
to make a perception check, please.
- I would like to,- I am only 13% perceptive.
- My perception is passive perception

(28:46):
or just perception? Perception.
- Just perception. Perception.
Passive perception is something that I use
- My ice high taint asgood as it used to be.
- But you are missing the eye.- That's why.
- Did you leave it somewhere?
- I heard it. They toldyou I lost it the last

(29:06):
time I was with a team.
- But did you check andsee if the others have it?
Perhaps it is in a pocket.
- Alright. While- The yellers are all dead.
- Mm-Hmm. . I meta girl once with three eyes.
A a i
- .
It's gonna be one ofthose nights. Alright.
- .- A lot
of gallows humor goingon right now. .

(29:28):
- 'cause we're all gonna talk. Uh,
- You'll give us new characters
and tell us we have one nightto play. We, we have fun.
- .- Uh, did you, speaking of which,
did you guys notice the graphic I picked
for this particular session?
- Yes, indeed.- All right.
So wilder, you, um, younoticed you looked down the,

(29:48):
in the direction that thehorse sounds are coming from
and you actually noticed thatit is act it is Christopher
coming down the street witha, uh, squadron of guards.
- How much is a squadron?
- Um, I'll say two.
I will, I'll say there's probably about 10
that are following him.

(30:10):
- What type of guards are they humans?
- Um, a mix. They have armoron with helmets. You can't tell
- What kind of sword are,
what kind of weapons are they carrying?
- Um, big ones. Okay.
Uh, what, what you do knowis that, um, when Christopher
goes about, he is going aboutwith hi, the elite guards

(30:30):
of his group, Uhhuh .
Uh, he's gotta look on his face.
Like he has taken a
royal chewing out at recently as well.
So, um, but as he is going by,

(30:50):
um, fortunately
because y'all rolled sometwenties in with your nineteens,
uh, he, he takes, he takes a couple
double takes in yourguys' general direction
as he's going by.
Like, something catches it,catches him out the corner
of his eye, but it doesn't seemto really notice you when he

(31:12):
glances over your guys' way
and they keep on traveling.
- Yeah, it was a close one.
- And he looks extraordinarilyticked as as he goes by.
- Was it at my joke?- No,
- He looks like a -

(31:34):
- If that means he doesn'tlook happy today where
he doesn't look very happy,
which is good for us.
Also. Good to know. He's out of the tower.
Should make our job abit easier. Just a touch.

(31:56):
- Okay. - So you guys stillwant to head towards the tower?
- Sure.- Okay, let's keep
- Going.
Following the captain,
- The cap.
Diane?
- Yes, of course hehas. We're looking for.

(32:18):
What's
- That up?
That's up to you guys to decide. So
- He does seem like he'sgot something on his mind.
He might be a little distracted,
- But from the look on thatface, that's not the face
of someone looking for, I don't know,

(32:39):
new recruits getting reinforcements.
I see. We head to the towerand look around there.
Perhaps we can find somestuff of our own to be taken.
- I like the sound of that.

(32:59):
- Thank you. I have beentold I have a lovely voice.
- So Captain, what other
groups have you been put in charge of?
- Oh, I've been in charge of everything.
I was once in charge of aband of roving minstrels.

(33:24):
- But you'll sing.- Well,
I have been known tosing as shanty or two.
- Perhaps you should give us a dele.
- Yeah. This is probablynot the time for that.
- . How do you, how doyou typically gauge the people

(33:45):
that you are in charge of?
- Well, if they survive, they're good.
If they don't, well I guessI'll have to do without them.
- Is fair.- That's fair.
- Well, it looks like that'sthe tower right there.

(34:07):
- At least there is no eye at the top.
The last tower I went door,
the eye at the top wassuch a pen in the tail.
- Really? Guys,- That wasn't me.
- . - We're gonna besued by so many people already.
You want to add the tall
phoenix state? Just about everything.
- King does not care. He is dead.

(34:28):
Oh, dark. I'm sorry. .
- Oh my god.- I should have thought
that one through before I said it.
I'm sorry.
- No, I We can edit. Iapprove of that joke.
That was, that was PrimeJohn material right there. So
- Yeah, but probably not podcast material.
- So who is in the who, what, like,

(34:50):
but what's the marchingorder for your guys'?
Uh, progression to the tower.
- I'll take front if noone else wants it. Yeah.
Simmons's about right. Okay. I'm in front.
- I am near the front.Probably second or third
- Toward the back.
I'll, I'll be rear guard.

(35:13):
- Two on the back, two on the front.
And I guess that putsdude in the middle time
to bring you into the map.
- The map. The map. It'sthe map. It's the map.
- Good lord. I'm glad I'm notthe only person who does that.
- I always think of Delithe deliverance song map.
I don't know where you get these people.

(35:35):
- Deliverance song, but depends.
Gang, gang, gang, gang gang.
- No. Deliverance. The band.. Oh, not the movie.
River Disturbance. Oh man,you guys, I gotta school you.
- Nope, I know that song.
That's, I, that's the, uh, I liked them
before I'd ever heard Queen Rike .

(35:55):
- Wow. Okay.
- Oh, tell me. River Disturbance doesn't
sound like a Queen Rike album.
- I haven't heard a lotof Queens Rike albums.
I've just heard a lot ofRiver, river disturbance. So,
- Oh, I'm drowning again.
The River the stars.
- That's, yeah.
- David Bow. Um, okay, so you guys pull up
and there are four Dura Guard,uh, patrolling the outside

(36:18):
of the tower.
All right, so you guyssee the Daggar patrolling?
- So we're gonna watchthem for a few hours and,
and study their patterns.
- ,- Do we see him?
What was that? Uh, wait,there, they're okay. I see 'em.

(36:41):
Nevermind. I see them.
I, um, I'm gonna walk up to,oh, let's see, where am I?
- I- Walk up to the, the one in front
who looks like he's incharge of guarding things.

(37:02):
- Okay.- It was very
- Direct.
Are you trying, are youtrying to, uh, be stealthy or,
- I'm walking right up to himwith authority. I'm hiding
- Shadow.
- So you're pounding that peg leg?
- Yep. And I go up to him and I say,
- Well, now how gothings here at the tower?

(37:29):
- He looks at you and he goes,
you are not supposed to be here.
- Oh, now there you'd be wrong. .
I am here on official business. Sir,
- Show me, show me your papersthat state your business.
- Now you're asking me acaptain, one of the high guards

(37:53):
to show you my pavers.
- Uh,- Are you trying to intimidate him?
- Oh, yes. I'm trying to intimidate him.
- Go ahead and roll inintimidation please.
- Yeah, that's 25 natural 20.
- Oof. All right.
He's like, well, I suppose,um, when you put it like that,

(38:17):
- That's right.
I do put it like that.
- Uh, yeah, I, I, yeah,go ahead. I, I, I guess
- Thank you, sir.
I'll be sure to not reportyou for insubordination.
- Well, I appreciate that. I I really do.
Um, you know, I just, just,just doing my job, you know.

(38:40):
With what? With, uh, Christopher taking
that hiding earlier today.
It was, it wasn't a prettysight, you know, taking that
- What now?
- Taking that hiding, you know,um, Damien was kind of, uh,
angry, uh, when, uh, you know,they got the letter today.
- Damien's always angry,if you know what I mean?

(39:01):
- Well, I mean, yeah, well that's true.
Given you know, what he is and all.
But, uh, you know, it isjust, he got that letter
and well, you know how it went, right?
- Of course I do. Well,I'm just gonna go inside
for a quick spell, but I'llbe back here in a second.
- Alright then.- Thank you very kindly.

(39:26):
- So I just, I walked past him and,
and go, go inside the doors.
- That was some prettyslick rolling there, man.
I was anticip anticipatinga fight. Thank you. .
- So I, I walk past him,I, um, go through the doors
and then, um, as I'm going, I,

(39:49):
I gesture, um, to the others, just
to like, I, I'm like,I make a gesture saying
that I'm gonna just like, I like run my,
my finger across my, my neck.
- Like kill them. .Does he say that out loud?
He can't, he can't tell youthat unless he says it out loud

(40:12):
because, uh, no meta gaming at my table.
You interpret as you interpret
unless he actually shouts at you.
Do we all see him do that? Do uh,
I mean, could you see him on the map?
Yeah. Well, if you could seehim, then you saw him. Okay.

(40:37):
So are you going in
- Josiah?
So with that, well, so I'mgonna open up the door, um,
to act like I'm goingin so that they're not,
make sure they're not watching me anymore.
- Okay.- Then I'm gonna turn around
and just come up behind this,uh, this, this guy right here
and just slit his throat with my dagger.

(41:00):
- Oh, you're going fullon sneak attack? Yeah.
Are you trying to stealth thistoo? Mm-Hmm. ,
- I mean, yeah.
I'm gonna try to stealth it two first.
- Okay. First thing I need you
to do is roll anotherstealth check, please.
- Yeah. Uh, let's see.
So that would be, uh,
sorry, uh, 17.

(41:21):
- I'm actually gonna sayroll it at disadvantage
because you are literally standing next
to another one while you're doing this.
Yeah.
- Uh, well, that's no good.
That's a cri fail on that one. Oh,
- Oa doa.
All right. Um, go ahead androll your attacker role.
Yeah. You have advantage
because you are, you are,

(41:46):
uh, you know, you, youmanaged to make them think
that you're supposed to be there.
- Yep. Um,
and then I will add 3D six to it.
- No, no, you gotta rollyour attack roll first, bro.
To, you know, for the hit.
- Well, oh, yes. Yeah. I'mjust getting my dice in order.
It, it will hit, I haveconfidence that this will, um,

(42:09):
let's see, 16.
Um, so that would be, yeah, 21.
- Yep. That hits, go aheadand roll your damage.
So you got your, ifyou're using this egger,
make sure you throw your D four in there.
'cause it's not justsneak attack, it's also

(42:29):
- The Yep, yep.
So it is 6 7, 8 14 damage
- Entirely with the, uh,
with the sneak attack and the dagger.
- Yeah. I had a one in there.
Uh, and it's my 3D sixand my dagger. Yeah.

(42:51):
My DD four was two, so oh, 16.
- All right. Uh,- So, but I can, uh, multi attack, so,
- All right.
Uh, that it was that one, right?
- Yeah. And then I'll takeit my, my other dagger

(43:11):
and just stab him inthe, in the back with it.
- Okay. You only get sneak attack once, so
- Yeah.
- What was, what was thedamage for the first one?
You said 16.
- What- The first attack was 16, right?
- Yeah, I think that's what it said. Okay.
- And what was the tohit for the second one?

(43:33):
- Uh, 11 to hit,
- Um, 11 does not hit.
Uh, so for the four ofyou who are standing off,
what you guys see is hetalks his way to the door
and then turns around, makesthat gesture at you guys,
and he puts his knife underthe neck of this durga

(43:55):
and scrapes across, buthe only makes it about
halfway across the neck.
Uh, the, uh, Durga is ging blood,
but he is still standing andyou can hear him
and, and gets the attention ofall the other daggar around.
I need everybody toroll initiative, please.
All right.

(44:16):
Uh, revoke you are first at bat, so
it seems like CaptainFontan is in a way, um,
with a ging daga standing in front of him.
- Okay. Um,

(44:38):
can I, um, from hiding in shadows,
uh, use my short bow to shootat the guy for a sneak attack?
- You sure can.- That's what I'll
- Do.
Might I say I'm proud of everybody
for knowing your capabilitieswalking into this session?
That's, that's awesome.

(44:59):
- saves some time.
- Well, it, it's just cool
because when people areactually using their features
and abilities, it makesfor a fun, a fun game.
- Alright, so that's what I'll do.
- Alright, go ahead androll your attack. Roll.
- Alright, let's see. That's dexterity.
No, what I, hold

(45:20):
- On , just go aheadand click on Crossbo, sir.
- Short bow.- Yep.
Uh, A 12 is not gonna hit.
So it, it kind of goesright past a, uh, one
of the Daria you're shooting at
and he kind of looks in your direction
and he sees you there. Uh,
- Even the guy gushing blood,that's who I was shooting at.

(45:40):
- Well, I mean, an arrowwent sailing by him.
So you, you no longer haveadvantage on the next,
on your next attack.
- Right? Right.- Which would mean sneak attacks out
of the question for you now,but act, yeah, actually no,
because he is withinmelee with Captain Fontan.
That's right. You still have advantage.

(46:00):
So yeah, you can still dothe sneak attack on that.
So go ahead and shoot again.That one's gonna be a hit.
Go ahead and roll yourdamage and your sneak attack.
So that's 22 points of damage.
- 21.- Alright, sorry. 21.
Doesn't, doesn't rightly matter.
He only had 10 hit pointsleft. Mm-Hmm. .
- Uh,- So Captain Fontan,

(46:24):
uh, you are standing thereat trying to get the, trying
to put your hand over this D guard's mouth
to keep him from shouting out loud.
Um, and all of a sudden hesprouts an arrow from his eye
socket and he kind ofslumps down in your grasp.
And as you look up, you see, uh,
you see revoke standingthere lowering his, uh,

(46:47):
lowering his bow.
And he kind of gi gives you a nod.
- I give him a nod back
and I wink my one good eye, Adam .
- It's hard.- Such a wink or a blank. You
- See, you see him, you seehim close his one eye at you.
You're not sure if he'sblinking or winking at you,
- or dozing off,- Uh, wilder. It is your turn.

(47:09):
- It was a 10.- Uh, ten's not gonna actually, uh,
because you are, uh, stealth.
Uh, it's a 15,
but that still doesn't,that still does not hit.
Um, so that whizzed by
and unfortunately, uh,
because he is not in melee, uh,the sneak attack won't apply

(47:30):
to this again because he looks, he saw
that arrow go past him andhe is aware of your presence.
Uh, but you can make yoursecond attack if you should.
So choose 21 will hick. It'san eight. That's a bit better.
So the second attack he sprouts,
he sprouts an arrow from his chest
and he is none too happy about it.

(47:51):
I shouldn't have drank that last one.
, uh, dude, it is your turn.
- I'm going to that one,which is, is he alive?
Is he the one he hit?
- He is the one that dead narrowed him.
He is the one that justtook an arrow to the chest,
but he is definitely still alive.
If he's dead, he'll havea red X through him.
- Okay. Just wanted tomake sure. Uh, yeah.

(48:11):
So that's the one I'm gonna attack
and I'm gonna use, hesmoke my mutant claws.
All right. Do have claws. Yeah. Yeah.
But mine grew out of my forehand.
- He four, he's basically,he's basically a cross
between wolverine and ateenage mutant Ninja turtle.
- Exactly. And the masterof disguise. Yes, exactly.

(48:33):
Because he is the thirdturtle club. Yes, exactly.
- So go ahead and makethat attack rule, sir.
- Um, 13 plus six 19.
- That hits- And okay, let's see.
1D four plus four, I mean, sorry,

(48:53):
1D eight, nine damage.
- All right.- I was gonna use both,
but I didn't know how to do itand I didn't say it.
- Use both. What?
- Like if I could do bothof my, can I, am I allowed
to use both hands atthe same time or no? Oh,
- Well, you get to attacks per, you get
to attacks per attack action.

(49:14):
So you just roll twice.
- Oh, I just want, okay.Yeah, I just do that then.
So nine damage, how does he look?
- Uh, he's looking, um,how to put this holy on a,
on a scale of one to 26,he's feeling about a nine
- .
- So about a third done.

(49:34):
- Oh, okay.
So on my next attack I wasgonna attack the same way.
Uh, I rolled a natural 20. Ooh.
- Plus this, we get a, we get the double,
we get the double damage.
So go ahead and roll your Dgo ahead and roll your dice.
Okay. And double and double your dice
and then add the, uh, add the, uh,
whatever the bonus is to it.

(49:55):
- Uh, see. Okay. So four and plus
- You don't double the bonus,you only double the dice. So
- Yeah.
Oh my gosh. It's eight.
- A total of eight.- A total of eight.
- That's doubling the dice.
- Yeah. 'cause I rolled a,I rolled a, um, I rolled

(50:16):
a two, I think, and thenI, and then the plus.
Yeah. So then double was four,and then plus four .
So yeah, he's
- Still alive. Hate
- It when that happens.
Someone's gonna ks you, man. Uh, yeah.
So you, you hack this dudeup good. Like real good.
But he's, he's hangingon by a thread, you know,

(50:37):
he's thinking of his durga family
and his durga wife and children.
- Little baby they just had born. Yeah.
- Try, try. You know,he, he's, he's, he's, uh,
he's three weeks away from retirement.
He's just trying to hang on.
- Yeah. Yeah.- I'm a jerk. I know.
- Should have taken a census job. .

(51:01):
All
- Js has got the jokes tonight. All right.
- He's rocking it.- Toki, go ahead and take your turn.
You are currently in stealth.
- I am going to stealth nearthe, almost the dead guy.
Not quite. It's just catchover here by dude. Okay.

(51:21):
Except not the tree.Like I put my character.
- All right. So you areflanking so you have advantage
- And I'm going to useMylo 'cause it is easiest.
- All right, oa. Well,you, uh, neither, uh,
the 11 will not, uh, the 11 will not hit.
So you take a swipe, you.

(51:42):
So what happens is you take aswipe at about the same time
that a dude is making a second attack
and just gutting this guy
and he keels over rightwhen you swing at him
and you just barely miss, go ahead
and make your second attack22, however, will hit.
So go ahead and roll damage.

(52:04):
Not that it really ma Well,one is all you needed anyway,
so, uh, it's
- Just the tickle- .
It's just, well, you,
you tickled him right onhis carotid artery .
And, uh, he goes down
- Sleep Well, my friend,- He looks up at you and says,
- Tell my kids I loved them.

(52:26):
. . Yes.
- Everybody is somebody'schild. Just remember that.
All right. Is the DGAs turn alerted
to your guys'?
Whereabouts the daggar step into action?
Captain Fontan, does the 19 hit you?

(52:48):
- Uh, yeah. Oh,
- Right.
You take eight points of piercing damage
as he lodges a war pickinto your clavicle.
Um,
- Ouch.
It's nasty.
- Yep.- Eight points.
- Eight points. And this one, yeah. That

(53:08):
- Wasn't very nice.
It's wonderful points ofdamage. Ah, ah, ah, ah,
- Ah. And
- What are you doing?
You adult? I'm not the enemy. They
- Are.
The other one walks towards the two of you
and you hear him muttersomething in a language
none of you understand.
And he goes

(53:29):
invisible. Oh,
- Nice. Uh,
- Which way did it go?
Wow. Captain Fontan, it is your turn.
- Alright, well I will,um, so I will just go ahead
and, um, attack this guynext to me, all right.
After I yelled at him for not attacking me

(53:51):
or for attacking me with my rapier.
Um, so that would be, uh,
19 plus five.
So yeah, that's gonna hit, it's,
and this does count as a sneak attack
because of something that I have.
- What's that something you have?
- It is called the,uh, do, do, do, do, do.

(54:15):
Brackish audacity.
Um, so I get sneak attackagainst a creature if
I'm within five feet of it.
- Wow. Yeah.
- So that's pretty cool.
So I'll do my sneakattack on this guy too.
Alright, so that's D eight plus.

(54:36):
So D six
14 damage again.
Oh wait, uh, 14. Sorry, 16 damage.
- Yeah, he, you, you, youjam your rapier in his gut
and he's like, oh, uh,
but you do have your second attack here.
- Yeah. And I'll just, uh, try to wiggle

(54:59):
around my rapier
- Gross- Inside of him.
So that's, uh, uh, 16.
- That hits- Good. Uh, oh.
Max damage, uh, 10
- And wiggling around.
You managed to strike avital organ or something

(55:21):
because he just slumps down
and you kind of have to godown with him to be able
to remove your sword from his torso.
- That's for hitting me, son.
- Oh, right. Revoke It is your turn.
- Okay, let me see. Am Istill hiding in, in shadow?

(55:44):
- Um, you're, you arestill in the shadows,
but you are not hidden asyour presence was made known
by people sprouting arrowscoming from your direction.
Uhhuh .
- So from where I am standing,
I can see wilder next to me.
I can see a dead guy

(56:04):
and then I see a lot of black stuff.
So I'm not really understandingwhat I'm looking at here.
Is this a door that's next to me or,
- Uh, you talking about like right here?
- Uh, I don't know where you did that.
The, on the other side of, of uh,
- Why I'm on the wrong, Iam on the wrong layer there.

(56:27):
- Yeah. What's that?- That is another building.
Um, specifically, uh, that is a window.
- Okay. What's blockingmy vision from seeing
this other black stuff?
- Uh, - Okay. And the thingnext to me is building a
- Building. Building.Mm-Hmm, .
- And is there a door? Thatgolden thing near the top there?

(56:51):
- What's next to you? Is awindow actually A window?
I, yeah, I mean if you wanna slide it open
and you know, do a, b, and eyour, that's your prerogative.
- Okay. How?
'cause I can't, I can'tactually see any more dura gar
and I can't see anyone besides,
- That's because the one durga had gone
invisible. Uh, right.
- So there's only one left.- There's only one left.

(57:14):
Uh, it's currently invisible.
Although you don't know thatbecause you didn't see it
go invisible, so.
- Oh, okay. Alright. Um, canI, uh, maybe take a step back
and hide in the shadows behindthe tree that's behind me
- For sure.
Uh, go ahead and, uh, roll another, uh,
another uh, stealth check.
- So should I actuallyphysically move behind the tree?

(57:36):
- Uh, you don't have to if youdon't, if you don't, I wanna,
you can, you can, you don'thave to move to, to, to hide.
Hide. Hide is an action,um, that you can choose
to take. So I mean,
- Okay.
- You can just use your surroundings
and hide, you know, whatever shadows
are available to you or whatever.
So, uh, 13. Alright, so youare stealthed at a 13. Okay?

(58:02):
Wilder. It is your turn. Uh,
- I am going to sneak up.
Well, I guess not sneak.
I'm gonna come up to kindof where the action is.
'cause from where I cansee most everybody's dead.
- Okay?- We could play battleship,
just start attacking various areas.
.

(58:24):
- Uh, all right, dude, it is your turn.
- Um, don't suck- My battleship.
- Yeah, I mean, I don't know.Did I see the one disappear?
- Yeah, he was standing right next
to you when he went invisible.
- So like right below me on the map.
- Uh, he, when you last sawhim, he was right there.

(58:47):
- Oh, well.
And we're not, I guesswe're not, yeah, none
of us are hearing him, uh,
crunching on any leads or anything?
Nope. Well, let's see if I can, I want to
run straight this wayfrom where I was to there.
- Okay. - Try, I, I'm thinkingI might bump into him. Okay.

(59:08):
- You run that way and Idon't, nothing happens.
- I guess I'll say that.
Um, kind of to Toki, sinceshe's the closest one to me,
I'll, uh, say, can anyonesense where he went?
- If I am allowed, Ican, I can cut the spell
and see if I can find his magic.
- Well, you can do that on your turn.

(59:30):
- Okay.- Okay.
- Is that the end ofyour turn, dude? Yeah,
- Sure.
Her turn's next. Hey, thatworks out well. .
- Toki, you are up.- Do I detect magic? Um,
- Take a look.
Sense the present of magicwithin 30 feet of you
actually see if a or, uh,
around any visible creature or object.

(59:54):
- Oh, so that wouldn't
- Work.
No, that wouldn't work.But you would know that.
So I'm not gonna charge youfor the spell slot or the
- Action.
Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
- I, I I I've been in that situation
where you think you got a good idea
and all of a sudden the, thewording and the rules kind of,
- Can she smell really well or anything?

(01:00:14):
- Uh, I don't believe that'sa trait that the tabi have.
My character smells really badly.
- that with Beieve.-
- Trying to figure out how
to determine if thisguy's here he was in this
general area, right?
If you're seeing where I'm clicking,
- Uh,- Click, click none.

(01:00:35):
- Click and hold. Like click once
and then hold it down for the second one.
Yep. Yep. He was in thatgeneral direction. Correct?
- And I'm guessing he was facing towards
us when he disappeared.
- That is correct.- He's like finding Ian Punk. They hide.
Uh, well, heck,
- You don't have to do anything.

(01:00:56):
Like you can, you can say youcan hold your attack action
for like when he reappears
or something to that effect. Yeah.
- I think all I'm gonna do isjust scoop over here closer to
where I think he would've gone.
- Give him a nice target.
- I am big cat. It works. Ican hit them with claws. Okay.

(01:01:18):
It's not like littlehalfling who can get thrown
- And is that your turn?
Yes. Okay. And Wilder and Toki. Okay.
Uh, wilder Evens or odds? Odds. Alright.
Um, he
reappears right here.

(01:01:38):
- Where is here? If you don'tsee it, you don't see it.
- Gotta be behind a treeand he take, he pops out
and takes a swing at you Wilder
with his war pick.
Does a 19 hit you? Yes it does.
You take six points of piercingdamage as he lodges the war.

(01:02:00):
Pick in your gut.
- Since I'm behind him, can Iget an attack of opportunity?
- Attacks of opportunity areonly if they're leaving your
melee range, which he isstill within Captain Fon.
It is your turn. I see
- That guy reappear.
I reach into my, my vest pocketand pull out my boomerang

(01:02:22):
and I throw it over at, at that guy.
Okay, boomerang.
- Alright,- Go ahead. And, uh, I would have sneak
attack on that, correct?
Since he's within fivefeet of another. Yep. He
- Is within melee.
- Good, good. So let's seewhat, what I have here.
Oops, that's cocked. Uh oh. .

(01:02:46):
That's a natural 20 on that boomerang.
- Oof a doa. Good.- Done. You mate.
- You get a, you get todouble all your dice roll,
which includes your sneak attack on
- That.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.So that AI six is that.
And, uh, well, do you wantme to double or just roll?
- No, roll, roll, roll. What?You would roll normally? Yeah.

(01:03:07):
And whatever comes up as double that.
- Okay.- Nope, it's
- Good.
Oh yeah. 6, 5, 4, 2. Yeah.
Uh, so that's 12.
Uh, that's 22 plus two.
So that's 24 plus anotherfour. That's 28 plus two more.

(01:03:31):
Uh, 30
- Do doa.
All right. So wilder, as youjust take this pick in the gut,
the durga lean into saysomething menacing in your face
as you double over.
And then all of a suddenyou watch his head
as it tumbles to the ground.
As this boomerang catches him in the neck.

(01:03:53):
- Watch your back there mate.
- You have solved my durga puzzle. B
- And I promptly throw up on the ground.
- I catch my boom ringas it no, I walk over
and pick up my boomerang.
There's no coming back afterhitting something like that.

(01:04:13):
- You walk over and pickup your, you uh, walk over
and pick up your boomerangthat is sitting next to a pile.
A puddle of vomit thatwas just left by wilder.
- Uh, I wipe, I wipe itoff on Wilders like pants.
- Uh, it is on my good parents too.
- Cheer- Always. Well, this is my good vest, so.
Well, it looks likewe've got quite the crew.

(01:04:36):
Good work, everyone. Y'all survived.
I did get some information from uh,
let's see that one there.
- I point to the, the main guy.
I mean the guy that Italked to. All right.
- He said that Christopherreceived a letter
today from the big guy.
You know what I mean? SoI'd be thinking either

(01:04:56):
that letter still inthe tower or Christopher
and his band of Mary whenhave it with him. Well,
- The Tao is right here for us to check.
So why not go check the tower error
and then if it's not there,we can go find Christopher.
- I like the way you're thinking.

(01:05:19):
That's the way I was thinking too.
- And I point to my goodeye when I say that.
- You'll think with your eye.
You don't, you'll not thinkwith, with your gray ladder
inside of your brain. The
- What?
Inside of my wear.
- My, nevermind.
- So I gesture to the others

(01:05:41):
and start walking towardsthe door of the castle.
- Okay.- Actually, for, for,
and as I walk by the, themain, the, the, the guy
that I talked to, I'll see ifhe has anything good on him.
- Uh,- You find just standard daggar armor, um,
a great pickax, some javelins and a key.

(01:06:06):
- I'll take the key with me. Okay?
And I go to open the door.
- I it is locked.- It is not.
I've already been in that door.
- Can I look through thewindow that I'm next to?
- You didn't actuallygo in that door, sir.
You made you GEs you said yougestured like you were going
to, and then you turned around. Okay.

(01:06:28):
- I will use the key to unlock the door.
- What do you know it worked?
- Is this like in Zelda
and the key no longer works for anything?
- Well, I mean it works for the tower. Uh,
- Keep that just to be on the safe side.
- Hang on a tick. Uh, Steve,what did you, what did you say?
- Can I look through thewindow that I'm next to?
- Uh, if you would like to,- I would like to,

(01:06:50):
- Uh, make a perception check please.
- Tom. Passive or regular?
- Regular passive is something I use.
If I'm sneaking up on you
and you're not specificallylooking for something
- I know, well just figuredI'd ask every single time just
to make sure understand.
I Italian
- 18, uh, you look throughthere, you see an empty room

(01:07:12):
with a bed and a tablethat has a lantern on it
with four chairs around it.
- So it just looks like they're quarters.
- Yep. Just looks like somebody's
house that's next to the tower. Alright,
- I will move up nearer tothem 'cause I'm so far away.
Where are they? I didn't evenknow where they are. ,

(01:07:34):
- We're going inside the tower.
- I'll move to here and then I'll
move over there.
Okay. All right. Uh, so, sowho, who who got injured?
I did Wilder. Is does anyone have healing?
- What do we look like a bunchof? Well, I'm not gonna say

(01:07:56):
- I don't, I think I can manage.
- I've seen a lot worse- And I, uh, tap my leg. You
- See with your leg?
. .
- That's- Right. Sea legs. .
- Sea legs. That was the,
that was the stet jokeI've ever heard in my life.

(01:08:17):
. And I've heard every episode
of Strangers and Aliens.
Yeah,
- That's pretty bad.
Oh, that was a good one. You're welcome.
All right, we're going in.Let's do it. All right.
- Is it not letting you go in?- No. No it's not. Alright.
- We a secret doc.

(01:08:39):
- I thought this key worked, but evidently
- So you guys pop through the door.
I'm stop moving around. I'mtrying to get you guys in there.
- Sorry.- All, let us in. Let us in. Let us out.
Let us out. Oh, we, God. Oh, it's magic.
- So you guys pop in there
and you guys see a bunchof guards that stop

(01:08:59):
what they're doing andthey turn and look at you
very confused to see you guyswalk in head and shadows.
- Oh, oh, I'll take, I'll takethe, the lead on this. Wow.
Good after. Well good.Um, what, what is it?
Uh, it was, uh, he said it was dusk. Yes.
He said it was dusk. Yeah.Yeah. These guys have a dusk.
Good dusk to y'all.

(01:09:20):
- Good dusk.- Oh, we're just here.
I'm just here checking in. Makesure everything ship shape.
Did Christopher happenedto leave his letter here?
He seems to have misplaced it.
- Uh, Christopher didn't get a letter.
I'm not sure what you're talking about.

(01:09:40):
- What do you mean? Christopherdidn't get a letter?
He sent us back to find his letter.
- Roll a deception check please.
- Yep. I will do that.
Do, do, do do do skills .
It's the official skills song.
- - Do, do skills.

(01:10:01):
- I heard that on Dora.- Uh, uh,
2024.
- Okay.- 24. Again,
- One of 'em looks at you.
He goes, were you talkingabout the letter to Damien?
About Christopher?
- Yes. That's what I'm talking about.
- Oh, no. Damien took that with him.

(01:10:24):
- Damien took his own letter.
- Well, yeah. It was addressed to him.
- It was to him. Thinkwith your leg. .
- I I'm gonna be thinkingwith my leg right in your,
ah, in your leg.
I don't know.
- But yeah, they all,
they all went out to perform the ritual.

(01:10:45):
- Well of course they did.
They never tell us anything.Who are you? Alright, you, boy,
- Who are you again?
- Who am I? Who am I?Who do you think I am?
- Who do you think is,- I don't know. That's why I asked.
- Well, if you don't know,then you don't need to know.
We'll be leaving now. Thankyou for your hospitality.

(01:11:08):
- Yeah, thank you. Sonice place you out here.
- Thanks.- Actually, one question for you boys.
Just more of a quiz.
I'll even throw in a gold coin for the one
who gives me the right answer.
Where exactly are theyheading to do this here?
Ritual? Wait,
- You don't know.

(01:11:29):
- Oh, so you're saying you don't know.
As I said, they never tell us anything.
- Um, they're starting
to look a little bit quizzical at you. Um,
- What's that?
- Go ahead. And, uh, well, no,
'cause you did roll that deception Well.
Mm-Hmm. ,like, you're was gonna be
amongst them.
They're like, where, wherewere you earlier today?

(01:11:50):
When everything, when the
dooo hit the fan, it was kissing your
- Mom.
We were
- .
Did you actually say that? Dude?
- No. No. ,
- We were cleaning up otherdooo that had hit the fan. Oh.
- That's- Our job,
- I suppose.

(01:12:11):
Uh, well, they went out to the, uh,
they went out to the bloat.
Marshes.
- Of course, nothing good happensout in the bloat. Marshes.
All right. I toss him a gold coin.
- He catches it and he gets all excited.
They all kind of glare at him.
You get, you get thefeeling he's probably gonna
get beat up for that later.

(01:12:31):
- All right, boys, we'llbe seeing you later.
Thanks for the information.And keep up the good luck work.
- Right, right, right.
- And I give him a wink with my good eye.
- . They, they,they, they look confused.
Like they're trying todetermine if you just blinked
or if you actually winked at them.
- And then I turn aroundand walk out the door.

(01:12:53):
- Is everybody else going with them? I
- Will follow.
- Yes.- Yes. Sure, sure. I guess
- He seems to know- What he's doing.
I don't, I'm just, I'm justmaking this up as I go along.
There's just a lot of fellas in there.
- I'm actually, I'm actuallypretty excited about j uh,
Josiah getting all verbal on this episode.

(01:13:15):
- ? Yeah.- What were you saying, dude?
- No, I, I, I'll follow, but I'm,
but I'm, I'm a little wary thatthey're not gonna try to go
after us or something.
- All right. So you'regonna kind of watch your,
- Yeah.
- Watch your tail.- Yeah.
- Yeah. I've got an eye behind as well.

(01:13:36):
- All right. Uh, so you guyswalk out of the, uh, tower,
um, uh, revoke
and, uh, dude, go ahead
and make perception checks
if you guys are keeping an eye out. Uh,
- 14. Have like
- Three quarters of my eye out.
- You said a 14, dude?- Yes. All right.

(01:13:59):
- An I to 13.- Okey doke.
Um, alright, I'll keep that in mind.
So they told you that they're per,
they're performing theritual in the bloat.
Marshes.
- That's right. The bloat marshes.
- So, are you heading there?

(01:14:19):
Are you going back to the yawning portal?
- I'm, I'm, I'm good. Headingtowards the bloat marshes.
That seems like where we need to be going.
- They said they'd be doing a ritual.
That must be the reinforcements.
They're looking for something dark.
- Perhaps you should put your insides back
inside your parade.

(01:14:41):
- My what? Inside my, where
- Were you?
Not the one that cuthis insides taken out.
You, you throw your stomach out.
- I threw,- No, that was me.
- Oh.- Oh, that was wilder.
- Perhaps. Can't- See the, the gash, the wound.
- Perhaps Wilder should goput this insides back inside.

(01:15:03):
There is inside. I
- Forgot my sewing kit.
- .- I do have a weavers
kit if you would like to borrow.
- I've got a thiefs toolkit,
but I don't think that's do much.
- Hi. His guts. No, no. I didn't.
I I didn't say he, hisguts were coming out.
The one of the D guards Isaid got gutted. Not him.

(01:15:23):
- Oh, my mistake. Somebody got,
- He, he puked his, he puked when, uh,
he saw durar lose hishead by via a boomerang.
- I'm not putting that back in.
- I thought somebody took awar pick to the stomach. He
- Did, but his gutsdidn't come out with it.
It's just kinda like gettingstabbed in the guts, you know?

(01:15:44):
- Okay. Guts inside.
It would leave a trail forthem to follow us. His problem.
- Well, I think we shouldprobably head to the bloat marshes
before they do their dirty deed there.
- Agreed.- That's seems never been
a, oh, what's that?
That's, that's wherethe reinforcements are.

(01:16:08):
That this doesn't soundlike reinforcements.
- It sounds like they'recaught on something dark.
- So we're going to the bloat. Marshes.
- That's right. I've never beenfond of water that you can't
sail in, but it soundslike where we needed that.
Let's be hurrying before theyfinish what they're starting.

(01:16:29):
- Indeed. I am not fan of water either,
but let's head that way.
- Not a fan of water. I didn'tsay I wasn't a fan of water.
I love the water, the open sea in my air.
And I wrote my bald head.
- You, you are a singular hair.

(01:16:50):
- That's right. Feels very nice.
- I believe you.- What has water ever done to you?
- It meant me, me, me,and, and icky in the vet.
- Keep in mind, she is a cat.
- Me. That's what I'mgoing with, honestly.
- Well, maybe somedaywhen we're not romping

(01:17:11):
around in the marshes,
I'll take you out on myship. Oh, it's a beauty.
- Did, did di did David Jones pull it
from the bottom of the ocean?
- That's right. He did.- What is y'all marching order?
- I am slinking back and forthfrom the front to the back.
- Why? You gotta be so catty. Right?

(01:17:34):
- It is not my fault.You made me this way.
- I would imagine we'dprobably just be the
same order we were before. Yeah.
- So you guys comeacross the bloat marshes.
You guys are familiar with the bloat.
Marshes in the, because, uh,it's a place people go to
and typically don't come back from.
Uh, no one ever really goesin there to figure out why.

(01:17:55):
Because of the reputation it has.
Uh, you see several floating living masses
that are kind of spherical
and shape, that have gianteyes in the center of them.
And then, uh, severalstalks coming off of them
that also have eyes
- Hide and shadows- What?

(01:18:17):
- Hide and shadows.- And then in the middle of the marsh,
you see kind of a
large red character withgiant horns coming off of him.
And then four daggar,
and they're standing kind of in a circle.
There's, there's, uh, fourdaggar, the large red guy,

(01:18:41):
and they're saying something.
But from this distance,
you can't quite makeout what they're saying.
But it looks like they'reperforming some sort of ritual.
- Well, that doesn'tlook good. What? Say all.
We sneak in there andtry to disrupt things.
- So where are we in this picture? Oh, are
- We you're on the top.

(01:19:02):
I don't think they're payingattention to anything except
for their thing they're doing.
- You mean the eyeballs?
Um, they dirty, filthy,one eyed creatures?
- No, they have multiple eyes.
They have one large eyein the middle of them,
and then they have eyestocks coming off of the,
about 10 eye stocks coming off of them. I
- Don't, I I, yeah.

(01:19:23):
Don't say . They wouldn't perch.
They wouldn't perch and be,um, beer holders, right?
- Oh, beer holders. They hold beer.
- I have been told that ifyou get to the center of, um,
there is beauty in theeye of the beholders.

(01:19:43):
- I, I don't think so. Ladies, first.
- Well, I think it's time for us
to steal far way through this.
- I I think we should form Voltron.
- Okay. So, uh, yeah, you guyssee floating, uh, floating,
uh, uh, spherical massesthat have a giant eyeball

(01:20:04):
in the center of 'em.
And then 10 small eyestocks coming off of them
wiggling about, and then thecharacters in the middle.
- Have anyone I'm asking for myself here,
have we ever encounteredsomething like this?
- Yes, but not this.- What's that?
- Yes, but not this- Are you, which, which,

(01:20:26):
which item are you referring to? Steve?
- The, uh, eyes with the stocks, things?
- Um,- I have encountered in another life
- You have encountered?
Um, well, your characters, no,
they have not encounteredanything like this.
Uh, the ones that you'replaying right now.
- Um, - So we do not knowwhat the crap is going on.

(01:20:47):
- I never trust somethingwith more than one eye
- - That is problematic.
- I am laughing right now.
Everybody is trying sohard not to meta a game.
- So I think our big issue
is what's going on there in the middle of
that there circle. I,

(01:21:10):
- Yes, I agree that the iis the problem. It no blink,
- Right?
What she said, .
So, any ideas
as far as getting pastthese guys or whatnot?
You other turtle? Man,

(01:21:30):
- I point to dude.
- Oh, me?- Yeah. What's a, you,
- I don't know.
I don't know if we should split up
or if we should stay together.
- Do you think you could sneak past?
Are you a master of disguise or not?
- Um, I'm not the best master of disguise.

(01:21:53):
- That's unfortunate.
- So what's the, what's thebig thing in the middle there?
The thing that's not like the others.
- Probably just Satan or
- Something. What's thebig thing in the middle?
- Which big thing? Uh, do youknow how to ping on the map?
Like that? Did do it.
Oh, that, that, that is thelarge, that is the large red,
uh, guy that has gianthorns coming off of him.

(01:22:16):
Okay. If you look really close at him,
it is literally a picture of, uh, Tim, uh,
Curry from Legend .
- Some call him- Tim.
Tim got the wrong,wrong, wrong, wrong, Tim.
- Alright. Um,- It's a suntan Viking.

(01:22:38):
- Okay. Um,- Hey, uh, so John, quick question.
- Yes, sir.- These, uh, these waterways that we seem
to be buying, could I, uh,just stick my toe in, see
how deep they're ?
- Um, you are welcome to try.
- Are they swimmable? That'swhat I'm trying to find out.

(01:23:00):
I stick in my, my peg leg tomeasure the, the depth
- Peg leg.
Probably, probably about threefeet tall. I three feet deep.
- Well, that's not gonna be very
- Helpful.
Can, can we tell at all,like, uh, does the, um,
does the devil looking guy,does he look, I mean, does,
does it look to us likethey're like having,

(01:23:22):
doing like a portal or somethingthat he's coming through
or he's just there?
- He's there.- Okay. So
- One of the things that are
inhabiting this place right now,
- And I'm assuming thatfrom what we're seeing,
that we would assume that he'sthe one in charge, correct?
With the way that the othersare acting towards him.

(01:23:42):
- Correct?- Uh, okay. So let's see.
I am, we're talking about one, two,
that they're pretty far away, aren't they?
- Yeah.- Is wilder actually that close to one?
- Uh, yeah. About 20 feet away. 15 feet.
- And it doesn't seemlike it's reacting to him.

(01:24:03):
- No, not really.
- How high? How highare they off the ground?
- Um, about three feet or so.
- Might as well dosomething here, right guys?
- Yeah.- .
- Perhaps we make elbow
- Soup.
Well, here's our goal.
We're gonna stop them fromdoing whatever they're doing

(01:24:24):
there in the middle, right?
- Let's go rogue- . Bas,
- Most of y'all probably aren't going
to get outta this alive.
You especially not. I point
- That wilder.
- Thanks. Probably not- Wilder. You do magic, right?
- Yeah. Uh, you could say that.

(01:24:45):
- What sort of things doyou got up your sleeves?
- Well, I, I was considering maybe we, uh,
we distract one, uh,maybe cast minor illusion
and, uh, at least get this one closest
to us a little further away.
- That's a valid idea.
What if we distract them all over there

(01:25:08):
and then we run in through here?
- Sounds like a plan to me. So, uh, yeah.
If I use minor illusion,use your illusion.
Mm-Hmm.
- Is wilder also.
Yeah. Mm-Hmm? is wilder.
- Wilder. Are you the only onearound here who's got magic?

(01:25:29):
- Well, I was about to ask if I could cast
minor illusion and help.
- Yeah. I mean, it'syour spell slots. Yeah.
- Yeah. Uh, let's see.- Part the Red Sea
- ,- Put some,
put some sunglasses on the Beholders,
- Actually.
Um, everybody who can see thesefloating eyeball creatures.

(01:25:50):
Mm-Hmm. . I'dlike you all, you, you guys
to make a, an, uh, nature check, please.
I just realized I was supposedto give you that option.
- Nature,- Yes.
- Nature, nature, nature.
Do do, do 12.

(01:26:10):
- Okay.- Yeah. I got 12 too. 15 for me. All
- Right. A 19.
- All right. So forevery, for, uh, revoke,
toki, and Wilder.
Mm-Hmm. . Uh, youguys, you know, I, you got,
at first you guys kind of think,
it looks like these thingslook like Beholders.
Uh, but then you take a closer look

(01:26:31):
and you guys start to remember tales.
You've heard, uh, asyoungsters from around, uh,
being around water deep.
And the area of the bloat. Marshes.
And the reason that theygot the name, the bloat.
Marshes were because of these creatures.
They're not really creatures.
They're more of a plant thatfill up with gas like this.

(01:26:52):
They're called gas scores.They're called gas spores.
And, uh, you know thatthey're bad news to hurt
or to come in physical contact with.
- Or do we know if they are sentient,
- Um, on the role that no,- They sure don't smell great
- On the role that you gave.
You know that they are semi sentient.

(01:27:14):
- They would know to chase Austin. Then
- You get the feelingfrom what you understand,
that they more work on impulsethan they do on any kind
of thought process.
- Okay. Gentleman,
- Like literally out, out of character.
Mm-Hmm. . Um, yourcharacter doesn't know this,
but just so Celeste knows Yeah.

(01:27:35):
The, their skills. Their skills.
Uh, for strength, they have a five decks,
one con, three intelligence.
One wisdom one Charisma one.
- Okay. - Sounds like me.. I was about to say.
- So I'm not gonna tell you
what happens if you come incontact or hurt them, but

(01:27:57):
- What you, so - We couldfeasibly sneak around these guys.
- Probably.- How, how big are they?
- They're about the size of a beholder.
- So like a big beach ball?- Yes.
- Okay. Gentleman.
I do not think that these are beholders.

(01:28:18):
Beholders have much better eyelashes.
- . Oh, you're right.
- If you look, I think theyare actually plant life
- And- They're guess too quite.
Perhaps if we verycarefully steal a past them,
we will not have to cast minorillusions or major illusions

(01:28:42):
or any type of illusionsand we can achieve our goal.
- Right. So you're just saying sneak
- Indeed.
Sneaky. Sneaky. That's
- A good idea. Let's do it. Let's do
- It.
Okay, let's go team.
- I'm gonna roll for stealth.

(01:29:03):
- Should we all roll for stealth or
- Yep. As am I.
- My character Sheep left- 22 for me.
- I got a- 1223. I am a sneaky cat.
- - 20 for me.
- Okay. To check somepassive perceptions here.
- Do we know which onesof us are the fastest

(01:29:25):
or are we all about the same?
- Probably the turtles.- You think? How fast is the
- Cat?
- I am quite fast. Faster than- You're 40, aren't you?
- I am quite fast. I am 30.- 30.
- Okay. I am almost as fast as I am old.
- Guess what? I'm 32.- Yeah, you're 32.

(01:29:45):
- Yep. - You are off speedy.Togo. You beat the hair.
- Who's the slowest? Wilder?
- Which one only has oneleg? That would be my guess.
- would probably the slowest. But
- You should see me in the water.

(01:30:06):
- .- Do you you go in a circle.
- . Why would Igo in a circle? That's
- Hilarious.
- Are you- Making fun of my,
- It's horrible.
All right. So there'sfour daggar and one Satan.
Basically what
- We're looking at, one,- He's,
- We're looking at, hethought his name was Tim. Do

(01:30:29):
- We, do we need to takeout the dag guards first
before they disappear
- Or grow?
- Do they grow? They- Grow. They can grow. Yes.
- They look like such little things.
- How many of us have distance weapons?
- I a short,- Uh, I have a, a short pole.

(01:30:54):
It's a small distance weapon.
- You have my boomerang.
- I think perhaps that wouldbe our first, first volley
would be hitting the bigone with as many arrows
as we can, or whatever.
- I've- Throwing knives that go 60 feet.
- Alright.- Those are quite long

(01:31:15):
- As you say these things.
- No, we're thinking,we're using telepathy.
- - As you are sayingthese things. Um, suddenly
- We took- Too long.
It seems like the ritual thatwas taking place in the middle
of the marsh came to its conclusion.

(01:31:36):
And a there's a, thereis a bright flash as
a new being is summoned into existence.
In the middle, in themiddle of the circle,
you guys see a creature with
that is humanoid in construct.

(01:31:59):
But where the face should be
is more like a lamprey mouth.
It's just a big circularorifice with rows of teeth.
- That's gross.- It's gonna be another
hard day at the orifice.
- , - It looked likehe need to brush his teeth

(01:32:19):
- And, and going down its muscular arms
where its hands are at.
Instead, there's five tentacles.
And as it as it raises upthese tentacles in the middle
of these tentacles are twowhat you would consider eyes,
where it has the whiteswhere they should be.
But where the irises areis where the, is all black.

(01:32:44):
And then in the middle of,in the middle of the eye,
it's like a cat's eye.
Except in that area wherethe cat slit the slit
of the cat eye is, insteadof it being black, it's gray.
- Oh dear. Is all kinds gross. And
- It lifts its hands up in, uh, it
and it starts to put it face,its palms in all directions.

(01:33:06):
And then it kind of turnsin your guys' directions
and starts to point its tentacles.
- Well,- Crap
- that the wordsright outta my mouth.
I throw my boomerang at it.
- Yeah, I think we're alljust gonna launch ,
- Whatever we can.

(01:33:26):
- Are you guys justgonna dive in and attack?
- Uh, I think so.
- I am going to still do thenext rock over here. Yeah.
If I can without splashing.'cause what are you
- Well, he is kind ofpointing right at us. So,
- I mean, he may bepointing at the turtles.
- Can we just turn aroundand look behind us?

(01:33:49):
- If you want to .
- Excuse me, sir. Areyou a point ticket to us?
- ?- That's rude to point
- .
Yeah. I'm gonna stealthover here as well. Crap.
I'm, I'm going to step out.
- You mean hobble out?- I'm gonna step out into the,

(01:34:10):
I'm gonna step out into the open.
- Don't be rude to thenot as able-bodied turtle.
- I I'm gonna follow him too, kind of.
- I'm gonna stay where I am andas soon as anything happens,
I'm gonna be shooting arrows.
- We don't see Christopheraround here, do we?
Nope. Good. Okay.

(01:34:31):
- No, I have, I haveplans for Christopher when
- That Yeah.
Well, I mean when
- That hat drops. Yeah.
- Yeah. Yeah.- Um, so in, in the meantime, uh, just
so we can keep turns in, in track,
so we don't have everybody,well, I'm doing this
and I'm doing this, I'm doing this.
Let's all roll initiative
and whatever you want todo when it's your turn
to do it, feel free.
- 21 for me- Is 18

(01:34:54):
- Six- .
That's what I got too. Six.
- I- Got a rock.
- I got 14. I'm behind a rock.- . That would be me
- Actually.
Plus 20. Yeah, that's, that'sright. That's what I got.
- I can't wait to see what youguys say when this initiative
pops up on the turn order.
- 73.- Oh man. Oh, it's a two.

(01:35:18):
- Alright. Captain Fontan, you're first.
- All right. Well, I stepout into the open, um,
and I, um,
- See what he goes, I'm sorry.
He goes first
- Fon captain.
Okay. I, I step outinto the open and I say,
- Is there someone that's not on there?
Oh, there are people thataren't on there. Yeah.

(01:35:39):
Hang on a tick. That's my stupid.
- Who is not? Okay,- You go.
- Who's not on?- Do I don't think I'm on
- 72.
- Revoke has its 21.
Oh, well, don't messthis up for me. Revoke
- .
I thought maybe I, I missed a minus
or something, so I was like waiting for

(01:36:04):
me to show up in the turn order.
Okay. I think
- Dude is in his shell.
He is hiding.
- Dude, what did you get 21?
- No, I did not. Um, I, I, I, I said
what I got, but it put, yeah,
six. I had the same as wilder.
- All right. And thenrevoke. You got a what? 21.

(01:36:28):
You got the 21. Allright. Time to reorder.
Okay. Revoke it is your turn.
- I'm going to, uh, shoot as many arrows
as I possibly can at that gaping mall.
- No, no, no, no,- No. Okay. And can I use sneak attack?

(01:36:49):
- Um, yeah. Um, actually
- Yeah.
- No.- Okay.
- Because he knows, he knows you're there.
- Oh yeah. He, he does,
- Uh, 15 will not hit.
You can try again. How about
- An eight?
- That sir is a nat one. Wow. , uh,

(01:37:11):
- What- I hit Fumble chart.
Fumble chart. Gottapull up a fumble chart.
- You should have attackedus and played the long con.
- Yeah. . Next time. Well,
- That's what I am going far.
- And that doesn't not surprise
- Me.
- Okay, Steve, I would like you
to roll 3D six and tell me what you get.

(01:37:33):
- Three of them.- Mm-Hmm. .
- This is no good.- G six.
Ready to go Roll Vo.
- Alright. You got lucky. Uh,it was just a clumsy miss.
And then the, uh, horned individual turns
around and mocks you.

(01:37:56):
- viciously. .
- He's like, patheticworm. I expected more
- .
- All right. Captain Fontan,you step out and what?
- I step out. Uh, I kind of, I kind
of run out a little bit here.

(01:38:18):
- He's got the runs- And I, and I say the
- Rebels.
They've attacked the tower
and it looks like they'rehere hiding as well.
- Make a deception check.
- Yep. That's, that's pretty good.
Um, 42. Uh, four. Uh, 24.

(01:38:38):
I keep pulling sixteenson that. He's close.
I'm pretty good at deceiving people.
I'm gonna keep using thattill the cows come home.
- They, they surrenderin the good guys when,
- Oh, your wishful thinking entertains me.
Um, 32 versus my insight 32.

(01:38:59):
I'm sorry.
- I I rolled really well. ,
- What did you roll for your insight? Uh,
- 32.
Don't correct him. 30. Yeah. 32. Uh, 24
- Was my- Perception. He rolled,
- He rolled a 21.
He's like rebels. Andwho are these here then?

(01:39:19):
Are these the rebels as well?
- That's what I've said. Therebels are attack the tower
and it looks like they've comehere to disrupt the ceremony.
But looks like you've donewhat you've needed to.
- Indeed. Is that your turn?
- Um, - Do you want me totake care of the rebels?

(01:39:43):
- Um, no. Go back to the tower.
I'll take care of this.
It, it's, but it's buta minor inconvenience.
- All right, sounds good.
- I splash back and Istart, start running away.
Uh, approximately there bearish.

(01:40:07):
- Okay.- Guess that's what I'm doing.
- It is Damien Ali's turn.- Oh, now
- don't just say earth.
Yeah.
- Crisis on infinite Earth. .
That's pretty good. That should

(01:40:29):
- Be the title of this episode.
- Done and done.
- Crisis on Infinite Earth.
. That's scary. Wow.
Um, I'll do that.
- I figure if I just keeptalking, then you're gonna have
to name an episode after something.
I say

(01:40:49):
- How to pick who this is happening to.
- Not me.- . This is true.
'cause you have him convinced.
Um, alright.
I know how I'm gonnado this and I am going
to use the captain to do this.

(01:41:10):
Uh, Josiah?
- Yes.- Roll a D four for me please.
To determine which one ofthe other four I am going
to hurt. .
- A four.- A four. Yep.
Um, alright. I
- Demand a recount.
one. These

(01:41:30):
- Revoke.
There you go. Revoke.
- That's me. - I need you tomake a wisdom saving throw.
Please.
- Ha.- 21.
- Oh, you barely succeeded too.
- I yell out pathetic. I expected more.
- He chuckles. He's .

(01:41:54):
Congratulations. You beata second level. Spell
- .
What?
- Um, and he goes,
I believe this is anexcellent opportunity to allow
my new friend to introduce himself.

(01:42:15):
And with that it is Tokis turn hook,
- Toki,- Toki.
Toki. Toki.
- Let me think. Stick with your leg.
Well, I do not know whatsome of my spells are.
So this is problem .

(01:42:36):
I'm going to cast magicmissile. Solid. Solid.
That's a good one. At, at the,
the worm from Dune herein the middle. Yes.
- If you use your leg, youcan do a magic missile toe.
- No, I could, but thatmight involve kissing.
And I do not want to kiss that thing.
It needs to brush his teeth. .

(01:42:58):
- All right. So go ahead and roll.
Um, uh, let's see here.
That's, I think it's threeat base level. Yep. Three.
So go ahead and roll. Three. D four.
- Okay. Counting D- Four plus three.
- I had two. 2D four.What did the other one go?

(01:43:18):
My dice are running awayfrom me. Oh, there it is.
I fidget too much. You runaway. And what am I adding?
- Uh, uh, three.- Okay.
- Because each dart is 1D four plus one.
So 3D four plus three. Nine.
- Nine.- So

(01:43:39):
- Nine is no, but nineis the number. Right?
- Right. Dave, I didn'teven notice you had left,
so, oh, well
- That's good.
- Uh, yeah. So you hit it
and it just kind of jiggles its skin.
- It wobbles,- But it don't fall down.
- Wobbles with the wobblewas the wrong thing.
- It's not a ble.- All right. So, uh, any movement.

(01:44:03):
- I am staying behind the rock.
- Okay. It is now our new friend's turn.
I've been waiting topull him out of the box.
You can ask Steve.
I was disappointed when we,
when I didn't get to pullthis guy out. Last time he was
- Crying.
He was crying.
- Really? Dude. .
- Oh, you didn't want meto say, uh, I'm, I mean,
not crying is what I meant to say there.

(01:44:26):
- So he moves here. Oh- No.
- And we'll start with dude being
as he has a time limit. No,
- I don't turn into a pumpkin.
- We can hope not.- I need, dude, I need you
to make a intelligencesaving throw please. Uh, oh.

(01:44:47):
- Rest than peace. .
- Uh, 14.
- That's not gonna do it.
Alright, so a blast of energy
flies from this thing's head.
Oh, actually it goes ina, oh, this is a cone.
Oh, this is no bueno.
So this is gonna hit, uh,this is gonna hit Toki too,

(01:45:10):
so, oh, no.
Toki. I need you to make an intelligent
saving throw as well.
- Can I not, can I notdexterity out these? No.
- Nope. Nope.- Oh, 1818
- Will do it though.
- Okay. I am. Okay.- Um,
- My woman from Tokyo,

(01:45:30):
- And I'm assuming I cannotuse deflect missiles.
- No, because this is not a missile.
This is a psychic attack. It'sactually called a mind blast.
- Oh, no.- Oh, you got so lucky on that.
You take, you take 12points of psychic energy.

(01:45:52):
- Oh, thank you.- And you are stunned for one minute,
which is equates to 10 rounds of combat.
Ooh. Uh, at the end of your turn,
you can repeat the saving throw to try
to break the stun. You take neither, which
- Repeat, - But you do take12 points of psychic damage.

(01:46:14):
- Okay. So drop to 12 from 24, right?
- Uh, correct.
- And I can't, uh,
I can't like drop into my
shell or anything, right? ?
- Nope. You are stunned. Okay.
The only thing you can do iswait for your, your next turn
and hope you roll higher.
- Okay.- Now it's the durga turn.

(01:46:35):
- I forgot about them.
- As was my plan.
And let's see here.
This durga is going to get big.
- Oh no.- And this dega is going to get big
- They to stop eating the mushrooms.

(01:46:57):
- bloated.- And this dega is going to get big
- The bigger they are.
Am I right The figure? They are,
- They are now because of the glee thing.
- Alright, so that endsthe dur guard's turn.

(01:47:21):
And now it is dude's turn,
which all you can do is make another, uh,
intelligent saving, um,intelligent saving throw.
- Wait, who's making anintelligent saving throw?
- Dude?- Okay, we can all pray for you. Right?
- That is the CLE jump- Nine. Sorry.
- Yeah. No, you're still stunned. Yep.

(01:47:43):
Wilder. It is your turn.
- Um, going to use
burning hands.
- Okay. So that isreally only going to hit
the soul sucker.
- That works. That'swhat I was worried about.
- Oh, it got a gnat one,so it's gonna take it.

(01:48:04):
Go ahead and roll yourdamage. Nine points.
- Not much. Um,
- Well, it's nine pointsless than what it had, right?
- Yeah. And I can still move, right?
- Yeah. It still lookspretty hardy though.
- Okay. Um, since that'sthe case, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna run behind these rocks here.

(01:48:26):
Be a little further away.
- Rogues. All right. Revoke.
It is your turn.
- I will do two more arrows at it.
- Okay. Well,- And 25,
- The 25 is gonna hit that 12 will not
- Nice.

(01:48:47):
So 10 damage. And I'm assumingit's not a sneak attack.
- Nope.- Alright.
- And when that arrow hitsit, I mean, you, uh, being a,
being a rogue and at fifthlevel, you've hit many things
with an arrow, so you know what to expect.
Mm-Hmm. , itdoesn't seem to do as much damage
as you would expect it to.
- Okay.- So any movement?

(01:49:10):
- No, I'm good.- Okay. Captain futon.
- Captain fa, fanton.
Um, all right, I'm gonnatry something here.
I I look back at these guysjust getting hammered by, um,
giants and crazy creaturesand the devil himself.

(01:49:32):
And I say, ah, screw it.
And I, um, take my, um,
I'm gonna try, try something.
I'm gonna take my dagger if I can. Oh
- Wait, you're standing right there.
- I'm going to try to loosen this thing
and drag it
so I can throw it overat the pile of bad guys.

(01:49:55):
- Oh, you're gonna, oh, okay.
Uh, how are, how are you doing that?
- Well, so I'm gonna see if I can, uh, see
where it's attached to the,if you, you said it's kind of,
is it attached or is it floating? They're,
- They're just floating.
- Okay. Well then I'm justgonna carefully grab it
- Okay.

(01:50:16):
- And try to hef it andwalk, walk over over here.
- Okay. Well, as you grab it,I need you to, first of all,
I need you to take one point
of poison damage as you touch it.
- Okay.- And then I need to make, I need you
to make a constitution saving throw.
- Okay. Let's see. Con save. Yep. Uh, 20.

(01:50:41):
- Okay. You feel somethingtry to inject into you
as you make contact with this, uh, thing,
but you are able to justkind of flex and try to
- I have a thick out.
I try, I try to carry it. Okay.
- Over,- Over. Wait, let's see.
So I was right there, soI'm, well, I think that's,

(01:51:06):
oops, I'm trying to seehow far away that was.
- That is the ugliest birthdayfavor I have ever seen.
- Yeah. I just bring it,I'll go a little bit further.
It looks like I have got 30,so come kind of right here.
And I just kind of heft it right at that.
Um, that guy just heft it.
- Okay. Um, make a, make an attack rule.

(01:51:30):
- Sure. Who, um, yeah.
Uh, just a, should I do strengthor something? I don't know.
- Um, yeah, we'll go,we'll add strength to that.
- Okay. So it's not great. A 10,
- A ten's not going to hit.

(01:51:51):
- Yeah.- But the act of doing that is going to
deal the one damage that this thing has,
this might get over withfaster than I was intending.
Um, so as you throw this thing, it bursts.
- Yeah, that's what I was assuming it do.

(01:52:13):
- And I need
everybody that is within 20 feet of it,
- The balloon dies is sad.
- What?- The balloon died.
- Oh, yeah. Uh, I needeverybody that is within 20 feet
of it to roll a constitution saving throw.

(01:52:36):
So that is going to be Toki,
that's gonna be Captain Fontan.
That's going to be dude.
- 14.- A 10.
- Yeah. Mine is a 12.
- You all failed.- Yeah. .

(01:52:58):
- Leos old dead- Threatening bad guys there.
- Oh, they're gonna be,they're, they're, they,
with the exception ofthe soul sucker are going
to be affected by it.
- Good. Good.- The, the soul sucker.
The soul sucker, however,has immunity to this.
- Of course he does. Well,- I mean, oh,
- That's,- It's almost like, it's

(01:53:19):
almost like the DM knew what he was doing.
- Yep. Yep. Um,- So wait
- For once Steve.
Oh, did I say that out loud? I'm sorry.
- You all take 15 points of poison damage.
- Ouch.- Yeah.
- And - As you look atyour skin where these, uh,

(01:53:40):
flex of the, uh, spore hit you,
you noticed that they haveburrowed into your skin
and your skin is changing color.
- Is my furrow changing colors?
- No, but you can feel it.
You can feel it movingaround under your skin.
- Oh, I do not like this feeling.

(01:54:01):
What about the rock infront of me? Is it affected?
- No.- Hmm. Lucky rock
- May not have been my best idea.
. I didn't mind it too much
back here behind my rock.
- You chose a rock,- But

(01:54:21):
- It did do a lot of damage to three
of the four Daggar. So,
- Hey, something that's what's going far?
- What's, what's 20% of 14?- 20% of 14?
- Yeah. I have, uh,
tots have 20% less poison damage.

(01:54:42):
- Oh, we do?- Um, three, I guess.
- Yeah, I guess that would be three.
- Where did I say that?
- I was just looking it up because I
thought I read it somewhere. Yeah,
- There's a lot of stuff.
Rain. All right.
- I mean, I don't know thatI'm still alive, but, well,

(01:55:04):
- I think that actually takes, I think
that takes you down to one
- To one. Yeah.
- Perhaps you should goinside of your shell. Yeah.
- I, I have nothing to live for.
- He, he is stunned.
He is stunned at the moment,so he literally can't,
- Yeah. Alright.
- So with that, it is Damien's turn again,

(01:55:25):
and he's just kind of chucklingas he sees everybody, uh,
get hit by this blast.
And he is like, well, Isuppose it's time for me
to, uh, assert myself a little bit more.
- Yeah. That's what you need more asserted
- Assertiveness.
Yeah. That's what,

(01:55:46):
- That's what, um, did youactually say that out loud?
No, please. Oh, . Yes.
- Say this. Yes, you did. That would
- Be out of character.
- And he goes, well, formy lying friend here,
and he looks at Captain Fontan.
- Oh, I wink at him.
- He's like being, as, being as you, uh,

(01:56:09):
favor the disease, allow me
to give you a Scot more.
And he makes a gesture with his hand
and he says something in alanguage you don't understand.
And I need you to make aconstitution saving throw please.
- Mm-Hmm, .Let's see what I can do.
All the cons, saves. Let'ssee. Where's my and that one.

(01:56:33):
- Oof. So the spell cast
is called Harm.
And I'm just going to let you guys take a
look at what the spell says.
- Oh, no.- Just so you guys don't think I'm lying.
- It kills me. Good , eh,

(01:56:58):
- Wow.
- Oof. Go ahead and roll
- For it.
So you take 48 points of necrotic damage,
- That kills me dead.
It is a stinky turtle. Like dead, dead.
I can't come back from that, can I? Nope.
- You, sir. Are donezo, what was it? A

(01:57:19):
- Non-lethal attack. Yeah.
- No, . Uh, sothose of you who are there,
who are there and conscious, you watch as
- Also that that's 48 damage.
I don't think we said thatfor the listeners. Yeah.
- I said you take 48 points ofnecrotic damage you watch, I
- Think it sounded like four D eight.

(01:57:41):
- Oh, no, no, it's for the, it was, uh,
12 D six, if I remember right.
No, 14 D six, four D.
And there was literallythree ones in that role.
So I mean, um, so you guys watch
as, uh, captain, uh, Fontan just reduces
to a, a shell of his former self

(01:58:04):
- Captain fondue
- And rumple to like Fa Dunn .
And as you're passing,
this is my first time killinga, a player character.
So this is, this is epic for me right now.
Uh, as you're passing,what are your final words?
Captain Fontan
- Can, instead of final words,I just throw my boomerang

(01:58:24):
and hope it comes back sometimein the back of my head.
.
- Um, well, no, that's notthe way this works, but
- No, I know.
I just thought I'd ask, I say,
- Well, that was dumb- .

(01:58:45):
- - And he falls to the ground
and is no more, um, Toki. It is your turn.
- Can I use a potion of healingin the middle of all this?
- You can. It'll be your turn.- Mm.
- I mean, it'll be youraction, not your turn.
You can still move and stuff.

(01:59:05):
- Gotcha. But you won.- You won't be able to attack.
- Right. Just as a random idea.
I have an iron pot in my stuff.
I'm going to take it and toss it at, uh,
the, the weevil here.
- Oh, okay.
Um, I don't know how toassess damage for Iron Pot.

(01:59:27):
Uh, but go ahead
and, uh, roll a D 20
and add your strength modifier to it.
- 22- A 22 will hit, um, Josiah,
how would you rate aimprovised weapon like that?
I'm thinking like a 1D six plus two

(01:59:47):
- For, for the, for a pot- Or like an iron pot.
- Yeah, that sounds reasonable.1D six plus two. Yep.
- Four.- All right.
So you hit him with the iron pot
and it just , it raises it,
it raises its hands at you in a weird way.
The eyes look at you with kind of a what?

(02:00:08):
Look on them
- Trying to determine how
vulnerable this thingis, if that makes sense.
- Okay. And
after that, are you gonna move at all?
- I'm going to come over here.

(02:00:31):
I think I'll get a bonus action.
- Um, do you have somethingthat is a bonus action?
- No, I thought I just got one
'cause I was a cat or it's taxi
- Bonus action.
Everybody gets a bonus action.
The, the thing about bonus actions though,
is there are specificthings that you can do
as a bonus action.

(02:00:52):
Oh. Um, like you can, like with robes,
you can bonus action hide ifyou have certain proficiencies
or things of that nature.
I don't think your robetook that function,
if I remember correctly, butI don't remember offhand.
- No, she did not. Okay.

(02:01:12):
So she's just behind a smaller rock.
- Okay. And now it isthe soul sucker's turn.
It's going to come over here to, dude,
can't it have a nicer namelike Carl or something?
No. And aw,

(02:01:33):
it wraps its 10, it wrapsits tentacles around you
and pulls you up to,to its lamp pray mouth.
I'm assuming an 18 hits you, dude.
- Um, well, I mean it's, I have a 17 ac so
unless I have some otherno thing I can use to,
- That's gonna hit.
So it, it sticks your faceinto its lamp pray mouth.

(02:01:57):
And those of you who arewithin hearing distance,
you hear an audible crunch
and you watch as this blue energy that is
kind of embodies thewhole body of dude kind
of sucks up into this, the ma of

(02:02:18):
this, uh, creature.
And then it literally is like watching the
life drain from dude.
And then he just, lets go his mouth.
Lets go of, uh, dude, ashe falls to the ground,
he is now lifeless.
Dude, you, from your experience,you feel your presence
go up and out of your body.

(02:02:40):
And as it enters into the mouth of
this creature, it's nothing.
It has actually devoured your soul.
- man. John, I
- Hope he gets heartburn.
- . Uh, yes. Josiah.- So I'm still alive.

(02:03:05):
- Are you? - Yeah. The damagecan't reduce the targets.
Uh, hit points below one.
That's what it says on thespell. But you have no soul
- On harm.
- Yep.- Oh, I did not see that.
- I didn't see it either.- I'm claiming that
for soul sucking too.

(02:03:27):
- No,- You're, you're gone. So,
- Oh, wow.
I'm, I'm sorry I wasn'tyour first player. Death
- .
That's fine, Joe. That's fine.
I got Js I'll I'll be nextone was, it was just in time
for Js to be able to leaveif he needs to, so Yeah.
- Yeah, I do. We miss.- Goodbye, man. Bye

(02:03:48):
- Js.
Have a good, good night. Good night.
- All right. Um, so with that,
and then you notice that once he, uh,
once he latched on there,
he actually regained itlooks like he regained some
countenance and he looks,
and the, uh, soul sucker looksa little bit more healthy

(02:04:10):
after having a snack.
- Oh heck, - It's now thedurag guard's turn as the three
that were hit by the gas warlooked down at themselves.
They seem panicked becausethey know what's going on
and they begin to run.
Uh, captain Fon Fontan, uh, you

(02:04:32):
- Have an opportunity?
- Yes.- I'll take it.
I'll just, uh, tryreach out my feeble hand
with my rap ear
and try to poke 'em as they come,come by. Whoever I can poke.
- It's just the one that's next to you.
- Okay. Uh, does a 17 hit?

(02:04:54):
- It does.- Okay. And it's an eight.
Uh, but I can use sneak attack.
Well, I can't use sneakattack. It's not my six damage.
- Alright. You get apretty decent stick in.
Uh, but he still is alive andkicking for the time being.

(02:05:16):
This one, however, isgoing to come up here
to Toki
- Drop buttons- And he's going
to make a swing at Jew.
It does a, uh, 11 hit.
No, I don't think it does. Sohe swings and misses. Okay.

(02:05:38):
And let's take dude out of the order here.
Wilder. It is your turn.
You have watched some horrificevents happen over the course
of the last, uh, over thecourse of the last minute here.
Mm-Hmm. . Um,but it is your turn. Now
- I'm gonna draw my short bowand just pray that I hit it.

(02:06:01):
- Uh, 13 does not hit, but youdo have your second attack.
- Yeah. I'm gonna knock anotherarrow and, and try again.
- Uh, 26 will hit yes. 10points. That's a solid hit, bro.
So that's 10.
Oh wait, Nope, nope,nope. I almost forgot.

(02:06:22):
Uh, you make a really solid hit
and you think that itwould really rock it,
but again, it doesn'tseem to do as much damage
as you would expect for it to have revoke.
It is your turn.
- I'm going to yell one word, ,
and then, uh, do the same thing.

(02:06:44):
- Okay. Better be- A helpful word.
- The word is run. So I'mgoing to yell the word run
and then I'm going to move in the opposite
direction of this whole thing.
- So you're go, you're going off the map
- if you let me.
- Okay. Um, while you'rethere, Steve, I would like you

(02:07:07):
to make a perception check, please.
- 17.- Okay.
Um, you find a rumple waa crumpled wad of paper
amongst those rocks there
- Before a yell run or after- Before.
- It looks probably like something
that a letter would be written on.
- Could be at this point itjust looks like a, a paper

(02:07:30):
that was wadded up in haste.
- Can I, uh, shoot two arrowsand then read the letter?
- You can shoot two arrows andpick up the piece of paper,
- Try to decide which was more important.
Um, can I shoot one arrow
and see if the paper is the letter?
- I'll put you this way.
You can see handwriting on the paper

(02:07:52):
just based off your perception check.
- Okay. But it doesn't,does it look like, you know,
a laundry list or doeslook like an actual letter?
- I, I can't say that dude,
because like I said, it's, it's,
it looks like it's beencrumpled up in haste.
Like someone crumpled it up through it.
- Alright. Um,- Hard choices, man.
- Yes. Um, I'll pick upthe letter, um, make sure

(02:08:15):
to the best of my abilitythat it is the letter
and yell I have the letter
and then start running inthe opposite direction.
Hopefully they'll follow me.
- Okay. So you are going off the map
and running back to town?
Yes. All right. Revoke is gone.

(02:08:35):
Captain Fontan. It is your turn.
- Dang it. Um, all right.
So I, I'm, let's see, pretty close to that
warm fella, death eater,whatever you call them.
- Soul sucker.- Soul sucker. Yeah. That thing too.
So I'm gonna, I'm gonna look at him.

(02:08:59):
Oh, but Damien was the Yeah, well, I'm,
I'm here to stop this guy
- .
- So I choices, I look atthis thing in the face face
and I just, um, I'm like,well, if I'm going to go down,
I'm taking you with me.
And I kind of grabbed behind it
and tried to like, you know, hug

(02:09:20):
and pull it into my right here. Um, okay.
- Go ahead and roll that attack
- And hopefully it'll be good.
14. 14.
- Yeah. Um, your hands aresuper shaky from the amount
of damage that you've taken.
Yeah. Like, you know, you're bleeding out
and you know, you're just on the cusp.

(02:09:40):
Yeah. Um, and so you try to jab it in,
but you don't have the forceto get it through this hide
and you, it just kindof glances off the skin.
Um, and it does not hit.
- Okay. Um, then I will, uh,
seeing that it, it, it didn'tget through, I will, um,
use the rest of my turnto get away from it. Uh,

(02:10:03):
- Oh.
Someone's giving me anattack of opportunity.
- Actually, I'm not becauseI have fancy footwork.
So if I make a melee attack,
you can't make opportunityattacks against me.
- You, sir, had, uh, MinMax. Very well,
- Thank you.
So I, uh, I try to, Itry to stab him in there.

(02:10:25):
I, I see it doesn't workand then I kind of pivot
and start running away.
Mm-Hmm. .So that would be, well,
I know when I'm beat , I'm going
to try to fight another day.
- Well, it's a nice idea.- It's a nice idea.
- Uh, Damien is turned now, is now,
- Oh.
Um, Aaron, I do one more thing.

(02:10:48):
- It depends on thething that you want do.
- Uh, since I used my rapier,
I can also use my, my arrangedweapon to do another attack.
So I throw my boomerangas I'm running away.
- At whom?- Uh, at the, the,
I'll throw it at Damien.

(02:11:09):
- Okay.- So that would be a,
uh, 19 to hit.
- That is a miss.- Ooh, . Nice.
- That's alright. It'llhit him on the way back.
- Okay. So he's gonna walk up to here.

(02:11:30):
He's like, nice.
Try a little turtle, butyou have my attention now
and my pet is hungry
and I need you. Mm-Hmm.
- - To make a
wi a wisdom saving throw, please.
- Yes. My best ability score,

(02:11:55):
that would be an eight.
- Yeah, that's not gonna do it.
You feel your body sees upas the spell hold person
takes effect onto you,
and you are essentially frozen
and incapacitated.

(02:12:16):
Toki. It is your turn.
- Okay. Remember what I said
when I was running away, right?
- Yes. But I'm, I'm fairly surrounded.
- Well do what you can
- Toki real quick.
I would like you to make ananother nature check, please.

(02:12:36):
- Okay. Uh, it is a 10.
- Okay? That based offthe fact that you knew
what the gas spore was when you saw it.
I'll allow you to know this as well.
When that thing burst, you recalled, uh,
exactly what happened.
Uh, and if you read thatsecond paragraph there, that is

(02:12:58):
what is happening withyou at the moment. Oh,
- Goodie.
- Just to inform for thelisteners at home, I just realized
that this is a podcast, um,
- Just coming to you now.
- It is. It says
that spores invade an infectedcreature system killing the
creature in a number of hours equal
to 1D 12 plus the creature'sConstitution score.

(02:13:20):
Unless the disease is removedin half that time, uh,
the creature becomes poisonedfor the rest of the duration
after the creature dies, itsprouts 2D four tiny gas spores
that grow into full size inseven days. So you are aware
- That I'm an incubator?
- Yeah, you're aware. You'recurrently an incubator
and you only have about,oh, let's roll a D 12 here.

(02:13:44):
You have 16, you have eight hours to get,
to have the, uh, infection removed.
So you know that you eitherhave to get to town quickly
or stay outta town so youdon't infect anybody else.
- Okay. I'm going to useMagic Missile at this guy.

(02:14:07):
- Okay? Go ahead and roll your damage.
- 11.- That is a very solid magic missile.
Uh, you hit him.
He's like, as he cocks his head back,
are you going to try torun as recommended by,
uh, revoke or,

(02:14:28):
- Uh, yes.
- Okay.- Just like back here,
because I think that's about as far
as I could run into a turn.
- Okay. And he's gonna takehis attack of opportunity.
See, Josiah was playing, isplaying with a swashbuckler,
which is all kinds of new.

(02:14:51):
So I was not expecting someoneto be able to break out
of attacks of opportunities.
I'm assuming that 23 hits you.
- Uh, yes.- So you take 10 points
of piercing damage at this
as this lar enlargedwar pick lands on you.
Well, good. But I thinkyou're still alive.
- I'm, I'm not dead yet.Feeling quite better.

(02:15:14):
I think I go for a walk. .
- I'm not dead yet.- No more war picks have the power.
- Yes, Steve? Yes, .
That is the reason why I,
that is the reason why I wanna be Steve
McDonald when I bring up
- , because I have stupid

(02:15:35):
remembering of stupid things.
- No. Black Sabbath is veryimportant to me. .
I, I have a,
I have very strong fatherson bonding experiences
with Black Sabbath.
- I'll keep praying for you.- I was at their farewell
tour with my dad,
- Which Farewell tour?
The Farewell Tour Before the
Farewell Tour or the Farewell
tour? After the farewell tour.

(02:15:55):
- The last farewell tour.
The one that they called, theone that they called the end.
Okay. So the Soul Sucker approaches you
Captain Fondue.
Okay. And let's take a look here.
- Bring it on. Bring iton. I'm not afraid of Yeah.

(02:16:15):
Maybe a little bit afraid.
- , do you fear death?- Wrong captain.
- I'm assuming a 24 gets you- All right in the sweet spot.
- All right. So he grabsyou with his tentacles
and lifts you to his mouth.
And this is a rinse, wash, repeat.

(02:16:39):
Um, by the way, even if you,I know you're only at one.
That's the reason why I am not rolling.
Damage on you right now. Yeah, yeah,
- Yeah.
- But the actual damage rolefor this attack is also 10 D 10
- .
Yeah. So you only need like,uh, I don't know, two three
of those to, to get over my,

(02:16:59):
my help Max, right? So,
- Yeah.
Uh, so yeah, you, your, so your awareness
of self and everything
and consciousness, immortalconsciousness ceases
to be you are essentially unmade.
- That's unfortunate.
Does my boomerang come back
and hit him in the backside of the head?

(02:17:20):
Now that has already been thrown.
- You know what? I'll allow that
- .
It's 'cause you're the best John.
- Yeah. It doesn't hit him.- Oh, that's too bad.
- It was the three,- It's the dur gars turn.
These three are justgonna run off the map.
They're gonna use a dash action.

(02:17:41):
Um, this one is confused
because it's not, it doesn'twant to go any closer to the,
uh, gas bore.
So he's gonna hold, stilltake Captain Fontan off the
mat, off the order,and it's Damien's turn.
And he's going to look at the other Daga

(02:18:02):
and say, come along Jenkins,we've got work to do.
. These are,
these remaining fools are doomed enough
and there is a bright flashas they disappear off the map.
So all that remains,uh, it is now Wilder's
- Turn.
Uh, now that one of the bigscary things is gone. Um,

(02:18:26):
- Are you talking about me- ?
Uh, no. No. Now that, now thatDamian's gone, um, oh, okay.
I realize that I am never going
to take down this soul sucker,so I am simply going to
run away.
- Yeah. My boy.

(02:18:47):
To, to for, okay, so you'regonna run off the map?
- Yes.- Okay.
You have eg regressed from the map, uh,
and to now that he's no longer in danger.
You, just so you know,Dave, your character had
what I call plot armor.
Anyway. . Hmm.
- .- Uh,

(02:19:09):
because I, like I said, you'regonna be with the actual crew
for the rest of this story arc.
So, um, you, you,
you were the one I intendedon surviving Steve.
Steve broke my hat trick. Iwas shooting for So
- Nice.
- Uh, 'cause he knows how I roll.

(02:19:29):
So, uh, Toki, it is your turn.
- Okay? I'm going to continue running.
- All right. I'll allow that.
And you make your way off the map as well.
- Run away.- And you leave the soul sucker alive
and in the bloat marsh to whatpurpose you are uncertain.

(02:19:51):
Um, you man, the three ofyou managed to make your way
back into, um,
back into water deep after,uh, a trek of about an hour.
The, the bloat marshes areonly out of town for an hour.
Uh, Toki, you know, your time.

(02:20:12):
You, your, you, you, you areon limited time at this moment.
So what would you like to do?
- Sorry, it's been aminute. I spoke in that.
So I'm having to remember not to go
to a Lee .
I think I would like togo to the, uh, physician.

(02:20:34):
Do we have one in, in the resistance?
- Um, yeah. Well, you don'thave one in the resistance,
but there's one in town and,you know, uh, sun's coming up.
So, uh, uh, curfew is over.
So, uh, but you makeyour way to the physician
and they look at you
and they're like, oh, you'vebeen around a, uh, one

(02:20:56):
of the, uh, gas spores.
How long ago did this happen?
- About six hours ago.
- Okay. Um, yeah, uh, I thinkwe still have time to do this.
Uh, it's gonna be an extensive procedure.
It's gonna take a lotof skill. I'm gonna have
to charge you, uh, about500 gold for this procedure.

(02:21:20):
- Uh, I can do that.
- Okay. So go ahead
and deduct 500 gold from,
I didn't remember how muchgold I gave you. So, uh,
- I had to look - .
Go ahead and deduct that 500 gold.
And over, over thecourse of the next hour,
he's performing a very,it, it's very painful.
'cause he literally what the,this procedure involves, um,

(02:21:42):
coaxing these worm-likecreatures out of your skin.
And, uh, it's,
it's a very unpleasantsituation to say the least.
But, uh, you are eventuallydewormed and, uh,
and, uh, you have saved your own life.
So congratulations. I youdecreased my body count.

(02:22:07):
I'm so happy for you.
- ,- Uh, revoke.
I'm assuming that you wantto read that piece of paper
that you found crumpled and toss aside.
Yeah. Yeah. Eventually.
Well, you are in town, so itis up to your discretion as far
as when you'd want to do it.
- I would probably have have done it

(02:22:28):
before I handed it to,uh, what's his name.
- Okay. Are you gonnashare, are you gonna show it
to everyone else as well?
Or just read it yourself?
- I guess it depends on what it says.
If it's in a differentlanguage or whatever
and you know, I don't know.
So whisper it to me
and then I'll let everyoneelse know if they can hear it.
- It should have justpopped up on your screen.

(02:22:50):
- All right. Lemme see.
Yeah, I would share it with the rest.
- Okay. - Or the other twoI guess. Yeah, I'm gone.
- But my spirit lives on- .
- I'll let you read it anyway, Josiah.
Just 'cause I'm sure it's curious to you,
- You- Just killed a bunch of torts today.

(02:23:12):
- I did. I should make soup.- Yeah.
- This is not good.- No.
- Does anybody wanna readthis for the people at home?
- I should. Go- Ahead. Oh, or you can?
- No, I want, I wannahear your accent. .
- Okay, Damian, I've got this
- .

(02:23:32):
Let's read it. All three of us together.
- You are dead. You no speak.We do not bring you back.
Damian. I have heard that the failure
to detain the holy man,
this will not do your acolytewas away on a personal
vendetta when he wastaken minions on my side
of the rich encountered theteam that took him as they

(02:23:52):
so rudely slammed thedoor on their appendage.
Make no mistake, until we have found
and consummated the conduit,
we cannot have lapses of judgment.
I am sending on army overkitchen pass to assist you.
In the meantime, I judge youto summon the so sakas do

(02:24:12):
so at in different locations
at Soto appear as the random occurrences.
I have heard disturbingnews that our persons
of interest have gone self
to acquire the needle from the loom.
You have ble you, I will havesome of my minions waiting,
but should they return,I want you to have the so

(02:24:36):
prepared do not fail me.
Kerick. Lovely fellow with this kerick.
- Dun dun.- Oh my. So are
- You.
Kerick reads back backwardsand forwards as the same.
And so does dude
- There one in the same-

(02:24:57):
- Sold the taco cat,- Taco, cat erase. So are,
- Are you going to give thatletter to, uh, to, uh, Durin?
Yes. Okay. Durin takes the letter
and he is like, he reads it
and he's like, this isnot good. I don't know
- Who this grammar.
- Well, that too .
Uh, but, uh, whoever, uh,I don't, we don't know

(02:25:21):
who this Kerik is, but it,uh, it, uh, seems that, uh,
Damien was not at the topof the hierarchy in this,
uh, insurrection.
Uh, we, uh, as soonas, uh, as soon as, um,
stumble foot gets here, we need to, uh,
get him there immediately.
He'll know what to doabout this army situation.

(02:25:41):
Um, in the meantime, uh, what,
what I, now there's only, I'monly seeing three of you here.
Uh, what happened to the captain
and dude, the tots, thetorts seemed to be missing.
- They, they did not make it.
- Oh, that's, that's not good.
Uh, did you at, uh, did youat least recover the bodies

(02:26:02):
so we could make an attemptto resurrect them or
- There was no bodies,their shells were no more?
- Oh, that's, that's not good at all.
I'll, uh, I'll inform their, uh, families
and shipmates and, uh,
accordingly, but, uh, uh,

(02:26:24):
for the moment, uh, you'redismissed as promised.
I, I have the thousand gold.
So take this, um, and divvyit up amongst yourselves
and, uh, stay, uh, stay frosty
for when we should need yourservices again in the future.

(02:26:45):
Um, you, uh, wilder. Yeah.
Hang, hang around.
Uh, I have a feeling soonthere's gonna be some people
that you'll need to meet.
Sounds like a plan. And that's
where we're gonna end it tonight,folks, on that happy note.
- Wow. One minute beforemidnight. It, it says, Mr.

(02:27:08):
Mysterious note, not happy note.
- Um, and, uh, Steve,according to my clock,
it's two minutes to midnight.
- Uh, you mean the handthat threatens doom?
- Yes,- .
- Another reason why I want
to be Steve McDonald when I grow up, there

(02:27:30):
- Is no stupid lyrics there.
There is no doom clock,there is no nuclear clock.
- You understand me so much, Steve
- ,- You,
- Me .
Maybe he's you,
- Steve is me.
Traveled backwards in time.
Way back, Uh, for those, forthose of you who didn't get

(02:27:53):
that, that was a referenceto a, uh, iron Maiden song,
two Minutes to Midnight.
Um, so yeah, uh, thanks for tuning in, um,
to this grim, grim tale of,uh, death and Dismemberment.
It really was my means of introducing, uh,
introducing Dave's character, um, Wilder.

(02:28:14):
Uh, so you guys can get alittle bit of a attachment
and backstory to him as hegoes forward in this arc.
Um, and also apparently wehave two other new characters I
have to make plans for as well.
'cause I was not intendinganybody but wilder to survive,
but everybody got the run Bug
- - Or a case of theruns. I don't know, .

(02:28:37):
- I am, I have nine lives.
- Oh, you almost lostthem all to a bad case
of the worms. So, um,
- This is true- .
Um, but that being said, uh,
hope you enjoyed tonight's show, uh, ple.
If you liked us, if you liked this show
or any of the previous shows,if this, I I will say this.
If this is your firstshow listening to us,

(02:28:57):
we're not typically this grim.
Uh, so try listening toone of our other shows.
Uh, but, uh, if you likeus, please subscribe, uh,
like us on whatever platformyou're, uh, listening to us on.
And, uh, leave a review on whatever
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(02:29:17):
who might be interested in a, uh,
actual play Po an actual play d
and d podcast that, uh,has zero agenda outside
of playing d and d.
Um, so, uh, anybody gotanything they wanna hawk
or say before we say goodbye?

(02:29:39):
- Strangers and aliens? Yes.- I don't have anything.
- Listen to strangers and aliens.
Watch Josiah's movies
and, uh, listen to himtell stories on SoundCloud.
- I do that sometimes.
- Check out Geek Devotions on YouTube.
- Uh, definitely check out Geek Devotions.
They are super cool.
Um, I have, I have beenlistening to Calm Talk,

(02:30:02):
which is their, uh, podcast.
I am slightly addicted
and sad that I don't havenew episodes to listen to
as I look directly atCeleste and say this,
- Working on it.
,
- Maybe you should do a d and d episode.
Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.

(02:30:23):
- We have, we have plans thatinvolve other people. So,
- And then, uh, golisten to Geek This with,
uh, my Boy Dave here.
- Yeah. New episodes are coming out.
Uh, at some point could have me, Dave,

(02:30:45):
- Dave, who plays my secondfavorite character on,
uh, the Randoms.
- Aw, you being the first right? Of
- Course.
I'm a megalomaniac.. Um, and, uh, yeah.
Uh, and if none of that floats your boat,
at least go check out.
Uh, go check out, uh,supersonic Pod comics

(02:31:07):
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