Expedition Untold Ch. 18 - "The Father, The Son, and The Unholy Devil" - Talltale Tavern

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Welcome back to the Tall Tale Tavern, the monthly one shot
adventure TTRPG podcast. I am your Tavern master and host
Kyle and we are back for Chapter18 of Expedition Untold.
Joining me at the bar tonight. Submitted her final semester
grades yesterday so she's happy to have my schools.
Out for summer schools, out forever, Becca.

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Welcome, Becca. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Perfect.
Could you believe it? That's the first time I've ever
heard that song in my life. I had.
To listen to. Where do you live Kyle?
Like what world are? You in never.
Heard this song before, I feel like this.
Is a 99 red balloon situation all over.
This man has heard this song before.
There's no way you've never beenin a school parking lot on the

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last day of school and somebody was not.
Playing that shit. And the speaker of their.
Car you guys? Know what song Kyle singing?
We were in show choir and we were all going summer.
Very true. So.
OK, Yeah. So almost.
I didn't tell you like the singer, like the the name of the
artist and the song 'cause I waslike, oh, this song is so
obvious. Well, I thought that I've heard

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it before, right? Like, I know that that's a I've
heard that. I've seen the text before, but I
listened to her. I've never heard she's read the
words I've heard Summer. Before.
I've read the words in that order before.
I'm familiar with the text, but I've never seen the recognize.
The song at all, are you? Familiar with the reference?
Yeah, but you know. I just thought it was a great

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piece of poetry, but I could stumble the ball.
And then the song that I would listen to myself was from the
Goofy Movie. The of course, when he when he
gets out of school, that that after today, after today, after
today. Yeah, great song.
I. Didn't even think I should have
done the High School Musical onejust for you, man.
All right. Next.
Next. School year.
Well, now I got to have this wonderful conversation, so yeah.

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Also here at the bar. I'm happy to go go to hell with
this guy because he's my best be.
Elsa, bud. Scott Esmond is here.
Thank you. That's so sweet, Kyle.
I really appreciate that. Yeah, yeah, an.
Extra hit since you guys are matching with your wardrobe
right now. We're cute.

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We plan that as part of our verysweet, nice intro.
Yeah. And then last but not least,
recovering show choir kid. She was school psychologist.
She is magical girl. She may be.
It's Brooke. Welcome, Brooke.
Thank you. Thank you.

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Boy, I'm actually kind of ashamed at that Yoda impression.
Impression. That was a Yoda impression,
guys, was. That it started, it started
strong, but then I felt like a weird and I don't yeah.
I didn't it just. Became like old Wizards, but you
know, same vibes, yeah. I thought it was supposed to the
old wizard at the end. I thought it was supposed to be
like the Willow tree from Pocahontas or something by the I

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did not know about. Yeah.
It was the Willow tree from Pocahontas, yeah.
I. Need to work on my Yoda tree and
Yoda. I thought I.
Had it down, but then it just started coming out and it was
just not just not there. But hey, we are here though.
We are here. In the book.
In the story of Expedition untold.
So let's reopen the book, turn to chapter 18 and continue the

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story of Expedition Untold. Roll the intro.

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Previously on Expedition Untold,we were being chased down by
some devils when Karl Kringle and Christopher appeared to save
us with a Christmas sleigh. Together we made our way to a
town where we met a merchant, Mahati, and his lackey, a Duel.
A fallen Angel of soul, Mhati asked for our help with a Bone
devil. To do so we had to beat him in a

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game at a casino. Emtero ended up at the high
rollers table and beat the Bone devil.
Even after the little cheat secretly hurt Emtero with a
stupid bone tail, I couldn't letsomeone keep hurting Emtero, so
I called in a duel. They took the Bone devil into
custody and we settled down for the night.
While we were sleeping, a Duel snuck into our room and tried to

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steal Bone Crusher. I guess all this adventuring is
sharpening my reflexes because Iwas able to quickly make her
drop Bone Crusher and then Christopher Banister back to the
Celestial plane. And so our trek through hell
continues. After the banishment of the
Irenas, Mahadi apologizes profusely for her actions and

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sets you up for a luxurious stayin the Infernal Rapture.
As the caravan is packing up, you visit the Dwarf Man whom
Karl Kringle inspired with his tiny hammer toy gift, and the
Dwarf man hammers out a magic glyph into each one of your
pieces of armor or equipment, one per each of you, that gives

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you a one time use of Hellish Rebuke.
But he is so filled with Christmas joy that it does cold
damage instead of fire. And so you can.
Add that into your. Oh, so it's actually useful too.
Nice. Yeah.
And as a single use or like a single use per longer.
Do you mean a single use? Yep, single use of Hellish
Rebuke. It's like a reaction spell to

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taking damage I think. The caravan packs up and you
settle down in the infernal rapture.
The caravan packs up and you settle down in the infernal
rapture and you all level up. You all are level 10 now I
believe right? Yeah.
Heck yeah. We so strong.

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Huguenard, is it possible you'vegotten even stronger?
Your muscles are looking even more fierce than normal, and
namby the spirituality radiatingoff of you is truly almost
impossible to behold. It is so bright.
We did long rest or not yet. Oh.
Yes, you've been in there for a couple days now.
Yeah, you've been in the Infernal rapture for a couple

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days. Cuckoo.
Which means you no longer have levels of exhaustion namby.
Congratulations to exhaustion and.
You guys were sleeping in the infernal rapture, so your dreams
were not invaded by anybody. No more peaceful place to sleep
than the infernal rapture. Kyle, can I say that at some

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point, like towards the end, since you said his food doesn't
taste bad, right, like inside there?
Yeah, the food in Inferno Rapture does not taste bad
because it's not technically in hell.
It is a other dimensional plane space extra dimensional.
Space so if we need to eat food we just put it in a bag of
holding and just shove our head and take a quick bite and.

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Yeah, exactly. During the like last whatever
long rest it is before this kindof picks up, can I use my chef's
feet and make some Christmas cookies to give to our party to
eat for? You knew you were getting it
with Christmas cookies. You asked Kyle for Christmas.
Cookies. This was over anything you're
going to get, Christmas. Anything.

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Sweet, so now it went up. I'm trying to find it on here.
So now we get more temporary HP when we eat.
My family's favorite is gingerbread cookies.
So they're gingerbread cookies, and they're shaped like each of
us. That's excellent.

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How many do you make? There's 4, so we have like an
extra 1. Mahadi's not getting one.
You give it to the nice troll man who made us our.
Earmark I'd like to do that likewhen he does the dwarf yeah, I I
like I would like to do that like when he gives us our
glyphs, I would like to give hima little I'll say it's like a

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little Santa Claus one because Iwould be really happy, like
happy memory for him. So a Karl Kringle a cookie is.
This is this from the Rapture? I don't know what that means.
It's edible. Yes, it means you made it with
ingredients from inside the the Rapture, right?
Oh yes. He like, he likes it as fast as

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he can. Oh, that was delicious.
Oh, thank you so much. Oh wow.
And he just skipped off in the distance into it, back into his
shop. Finally, after a couple days of
luxurious travel, Mahadi informsyou of your arrival to your
location. And you walk outside the
Infernal rapture, and you see the giant war machines and the

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caravan stretching out behind you.
And in front of you are dark mountains in a smoky sky.
And Mahadi is standing next to you gazing out into this valley.
And you can see this valley is filled with these big broken war
machines and banners stuck into the ground, into this, you know,

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almost muddy looking ground. And you look and you can see
just pools of demon Iker like everywhere in this bog.
And you step up next to Mahadi and he starts to speak.
The wretched bog, the location of the last stand of Drill
Granog, A demon Lord whose forces became trapped here

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between the mountains. His army was slaughtered.
The Demon Eye Corps covers the land.
There is only one reason a creature would would dwell here,
to hide from the rest of hell. He turns and looks at you.
You 3 You do not seem to be developers.

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You seek a path, a path that only few know of.
You will need a guide, someone who has passed through the
layers of hell before you hear some hooves walking from around
the corner of the nearest war machine and you see a couple

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workers leading for Reindeer Dasher, Comet Vixen and Rudolph
I. I hope you find your steeds to
be in good condition. They prefer the cold.
It gave our stable masters a welcome challenge to provide a
suitable environment for them. Truly they, I mean they look
magnificent. I'm so happy to see that they

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are being kept well in such a hostile environment and we
appreciate your service. I have provided some rations in
your packs that are enchanted sothey do not taste like the ash
like the rest of the food on this plane.
There is one last thing I must warn you of before you go.

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There is a rumor of a new devil in this land.
He's being called the Black Rider.
Steer clear of him at all costs,for an encounter with him will
surely mean your death. Keep a close watch and hold on
to your souls. Thank you.

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No problem, and if you find yourself back here, you'll be
welcomed back with open arms. Your generosity is of course
appreciated, but I sincerely hope do not need it.
It is the least I can do after ado L broke with one of the most
sacred tenants we have here and he says thank you and kind of

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walks back to the caravan. Is there like a path?
It's a muddy looking bog of demon.
I you can the four reindeer kindof like walk up to you and so
you have them. I suggest my friend son, we have

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the rain there, they can fly. I do not want to walk through
any more icore for the rest of my time.
No me either do. You guys have a preference of
which one you take? No, I I guess do we have.
Again, what are their? Yeah.
Rudolph, you have Rudolph who who has this Red Nose like light

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ability. He is more he is.
He looks a little bit stronger, better than the other 3.
I really feel like Namby should be on Rudolph person.
That's what my intuition was. She's.
Like she's the light. Yeah, she is the dying way.
OK, I'll take Rudolph. I'm going to send you guys the
discord, their step locks. Oh good.

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Oh, fun. Santa's flying reindeer.
Good. So these are intelligent beasts.
They they are, they are intelligent.
Basically, you're going to be able to use their stat block.
They'll take a turn after you inany combat where you can use one
of their actions, which you could see there are some attack

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actions and then bonus actions. You can also have them use a
disengage, dash, or dodge actionon their turn, and the movement
you can use together kind of with your movement on your turn.
As you guys approach your reindeers, there's four of them
there and three of you, and thatbook starts to light up.

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A page starts to glow. It appears we are due for
another friend. Yeah, Chuck, get.
It out here you. Throw it.
You wad it up and throw it on the ground.
Throw it into the. Demon icore get out of here
here's. The demon icore you don't want
to guess. You stood up next to you, not in

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the Demon Eye Corps, and the pages start to duplicate.
In whirl and form this golden portal.
And out steps a man dressed in bone white and a bone white
leather jacket, a Black Hat shading his eyes and two
holsters on his hips, the spurs on his boots singing his

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arrival. The marquee.
Will you please join the table the Marquis AKA the?
Marquis. Now he is he now the Marquis?
Is that what's changed in his story?
He's got the correct name. Valley Jack.
Valley Jack had given him the correct pronunciation.

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The Marquis. What was just happening as you
were stepping out of that portal?
Sure. So the the marquee was at the
point in the tournament where each of the combatants is
enclosed in a glass tube and confronted with their most
cherished memories and and they struggle to free themselves of
this illusion before they die. And the marquee, who has now

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been through the tournament dozens, maybe hundreds of times,
has always had the same memory. But this time the memory is not
of him on some Canyon overlook with his partner.
It's of a afternoon day at home,where all of a sudden several

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local legends show up at his front door with a gift for him.
And as he has this memory, the glass in the tube around him
shatters and a golden portal opens in front of him.
And seeing as this is the only time he has ever seen anything
different in the loops that he has been living in, he takes his
opportunity and starts to hesitantly walk through.

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Hi, welcome to hell. Wonderful assertiveness, man.
Thank you. That's.
Interesting. Looking.
Back over his shoulder like I I think I just left hell but but
at least this is different. This is the literal 1.
Yeah, it's it's pretty horrible.Like devils, actually.

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The accommodations have been, ifany.
I mean they have pretty. Good.
There's been some very horrible things, but we've experienced
horrible things outside of hell.Honestly, hell is not much worse
than New Lisbon City was. Honestly, probably on the whole,
better. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, I. Actually have liked hell better
than New Lisbon. Yeah, yeah.

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But of course, allow me to introduce myself.
I am in Tiro Verstero. These are my valiant companions,
Hugh Gennard, Rockbridge and Namby Pembleton.
And you must be the great cowboylegend, The Marquee.
And so as you as intero introduces the the three, you
know, the Marquis has his guns out and he kind of holsters
them, and then he squints. And he goes, wait, I know you do

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you. Who?
Who's he? Who are you looking at?
He's pointing at Namby. Oh, OK.
There's a statue of. You.
In my town. What?
There's a statue of you in my town.
Why would? They do that and the Crimson
cough. Cleared up well.

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There were a lot of other peoplethere too, and I also killed
somebody when I was there. But you got them back.
Well, yeah, but I mean, it was an accident, but it's not a good
thing to do. She's very powerful.
She's an amazing healer. Sometimes her power just stays a
little too bottled up and unleashes on the wrong in the

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wrong moment. But obviously.
The Marquis. The Marquis eyes are locked on
namby, like can't believe that he's seeing this person real.
Everybody gets keeps their eyes locked on namby.
It's GAIL Allman their. Eyes.
Or eyes man everyone loves them some namby.

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Oh no, She is awkwardly kind of like, do I keep, do I keep like
eye contact? Do I look away?
I don't know how this is a lot of eye contact.
So he kind of he kind of like hesettles back, like puts his hand
on his on his like the butt of his gun.
And it's like, well, it seems I I'm here now.

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Was it you that brought me? If it was, I'm well, I guess I
owe you. Yeah.
I mean, it's us, like inadvertently kind of.
But yeah, I think you're here for us.
Well then, I'm here for you. Oh.
OK, hop and reindeer and here wego.

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So I assume you know how to ride.
He looks at the reindeer. He's like, I've rode worse than
this. Just like pair back just hops
right on a. Excellent.
I'm going to send you Mav the reindeer step box as well, so
you have that. While you're sending me this, I
want to take an opportunity to tell Becca that I lied.
I lied in the Diceaholics Anonymous group because I said I

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bought this green set of dice and this was the free set of
dice that came with the thing that I actually bought, which
was bullet dice specifically forthis.
Oh, that's cool. Fun.
That's awesome. I'll.
Ask me to join like like literally like 6 weeks ago he
was like hey can you do this? I was like immediately bought
bullet dice. That's.
Like. Guarantee.
Absolutely. Incredible.

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So you guys, you guys move forward and the the reindeer,
these are magical steeds. These are like legendary
creatures. They have a speed on the ground
of 60 feet. Their fly speed is 90 feet.
Rudolph has the extra bonus action ability with his nose
that he can make shine really bright in that 100.
It's 150 foot cone that he can basically illuminate, get rid of

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all like fog weather effects. Magical darkness.
Magical darkness, Yes, it's in the step block.
It does say magical darkness in there.
Yep, and. Magical.
Darkness. Probably won't come up.
Probably won't come up. You start to set out into this,
into this bog and you mentioned flying and you look up, there's

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this like fog hanging over, overthis bog and you can look and
see that if you were to fly 20 feet up, you would have like no
vision. It would be heavily obscured.
It doesn't look nice up there. You know, it's kind of like this
green, hazy, gross stuff. Looks like it may be a little
bit dangerous if you're up there, but that is kind of the

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area and kind of how the bog looks.
And so you can safely ride 15 feet up.
Yeah, there'll. Be nothing that we'll encounter
it'll be safe he said it 15 feetup let's do that guys yeah,
let's just. Do.
The safe. But the the reindeer kind of
move and you can certainly like weave through the out this bog

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on like paths that are there or just kind of like dry land in
between these pools of demon Icore from this area.
That's been, you know, there wasthis massive battle in this area
where tons of demons died and the Igor just sits in this bog
between the mountains. You take a look at the map from
Thwick and you recall that thereare some details written on the

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back of the map. Just some like notes that he had
written. It's pretty unhelpful for this
area. The arrow points this valley and
he says secret way to Stygia at the end of the valley.
Question mark. A key question mark.
Demons Bane question mark. Key as in with AK or with AQ?

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Key key A key. Like a lock in a key.
Like a lock in. Like Spanish?
Here you. Figured it out.
Like a like a key can be like a dock.
So I didn't know if it meant like you meant like a dock or if
you meant like a key. Deterrent.
It does say K, sorry. Yep.
OK. No, that's good.

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These. Reindeer are big, right?
Like Hugh doesn't have to feel unethical crawling on top of one
of these. They're large.
They're large. This reindeer is going to.
Be swayed back by the time he gets off.
Oh my gosh. So the four of you set out
across the bog on your magical reindeer steeds.
Visibility is low, and that smoghangs 20 feet above you, and the

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air is damp and warm. Do you guys want to just kind of
walk above the surface of the ofthe water?
Because they can. The reindeer can just kind of
like trot as they're like fly speed.
Like in the air, Yeah. Yeah.
And so I think that'd be probably.
The same thing. Level.
Yeah, yeah. I don't like the look of that
fog on the bog, on the frog, on the log, on the bottom of the

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plane. So.
Yeah. It's bumping the log in the
yeah. Good.
Yeah, the Marquis gives the, youknow, gives the reindeer a
little goose with his spurs. He came equipped.
What's your what's your order? How do you guys kind of want to

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kind of go through this bog? Do you want to be single filed?
Do you want to be two by two? I think whatever it is, Namby
should be in front with her perception and with her.
Diamond shape namby in front shewent Marquee to the sides and
Tiro in the back is what I. Think because.
Oh no, see, I was going to switch it and I was going to put
Hue in the back to protect the squishies in the middle.

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But I would have but well. Is that not right?
I just assumed that was the goodway to do it, like if.
It hits, it's true. I'm just.
You're also the one who does themost damage.
That's why I just wanted you up there to swoop on.
I mean, we're, we can all fly like 90 feet, so.
On the yeah, we can, we have a lot of mobility.
I don't think that's going to bethe issue.
But before we go, he is going tolean for it.

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And he's like, I know you probably technically have to do
what I ask, but I, I feel like Iwanted this to be more of a
A-Team team situation as opposedto me ordering you around.
And I'm saying I'm on Comet and I just like, whisper that to
them. I'm like, I know you, you
probably have to do what I say, but it, teamwork is going to
make this work. And then I'll I'll take up the

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back. I hop on right off, give a
little Skrichel. Mark Marquis on the right and
Namby in the front with Rudolph.Yes.
Great. You make your way through the
bog. The the strong sense of the
strong stench of death just assaults your nose through here.
It's it's horrible in here. You make your way through

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passing pools of demon Icor Icorall around you, strange trees
growing from the swampy land. There are remains of infernal
war machines, flags and banners,bones of large like devilish
creatures. You continue through the bog.
Visibility's only about 60 feet in front of you before it
becomes heavily obscured as you are kind of traveling through.

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Soon a massive war machine comesinto view.
It's old and rusted like the rest.
On the second story of it, thereis a balcony and a door that is
slightly ajar with a soft yellowlight coming from the inside.
You hear this voice. Help.

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Me help me please can. I do an insight check on The
Voice. Go ahead, everybody do an
insight check. No, yeah.
You guys, I know this makes me abad person but I don't want to
help that person. I don't think that not listening
to a random ethereal voice in hell makes you a bad person.

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Well I rolled a Nat 1 so I thinkI'm buying the story and.
Here's a Nat one, OK. Yeah, and I have a + 0 for A1.
Great namby. 22. 22 MTRO. Thank God for Namby and 11. 11
OK. And Marky.

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Marquee is apparently in tune with Nam because he also got a
22 all. Right.
Well, you have been. He's there.
He did. Squinting at this door like we
should not go near there. Hugh, you hear that voice and
for whatever reason you're like,it like is like clicking in your
brain. You hear the voice continue like
I got my foot stuck in a pan. Oh, and and you're like, what in

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the world? In a pan.
This is like. No, I gotta go help.
You gotta go help. So you walk in front, you start
to you start to move your reindeer in front of the group
on a Nat one. I'm moving you in front of the
group on that. As you are.
Moving forward. They can I.
Yell out. You're also you can NAMB MTRO.

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You recognize that this on an 11very easily can recognize this
is not something that you shouldeven go to.
It's not a hard DC to hit this that this is not something you
should go into the marquee and NAMB.
It's so obvious and bad that yourealize that this is probably

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not a trap. It probably means that you are
already in a trap. And you look left and right and
see these barbed devils kind of sneak around this big rock and
around this tree with fire in their hands, and they hurl it at
you, and everybody roll initiative.
All right. So I said roll initiative, which

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you probably already have Namby and Marquee you are not
surprised, but M Tiro and Hugh you are surprised.
So you have to roll with disadvantage on your initiative.
Oh well, the second one was a Nat 20, so thanks for wasting
that one, Davidson. Got to get them out.
You know what? I'm sure you'll roll another.

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Well, I'm really rolling the bookends and that one Nat 20.
Yeah. Then dice are in a mood.
Got. To make sure we're doing the
right things here. While he looks that up, what
actually is hellish rebuke is? Is that a reaction to do damage
back when you get? When you get hit.

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And they make a save or take some damage or something.
Yeah, I don't know. What?
The same thing? And I say, no, I think I like
that. I like that.
That's in the text. You point your finger.
You gotta I guess if that's the somatic component.
It's like with message, how you have to point.
So it's always like I'm whispering, I'm whispering at
you, I'm whispering. Over you, I guess.

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I send a message to to Namby andhe said.
What do you think of this guy's hat?
Is he pulling it off or not? Do you think I could pull that
hat off? I'm Terry, You could pull off
any hat. I can't.
You could of. Course you could.
You could pull off any hat. Almost ready, guys.

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Almost. How many fucking initiatives
does Kyle have to roll everybody.
Horrifying. OK, Namby, what was your
initiative? Well.
Well, Hugh? 14. 14 Mtero. 9 Wow wow, because

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that's so good. We all did really good.
We. Did so good.
Wow. Oh.
Interesting 6 + 6 + 6. Never real good initiative.
Wait, did the Marquis say his did?
He get an initiative. Does he not get one?
OK, I was waiting to be called. Yeah, I know.

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I'm sorry. What's your initiative?
What's your initiative? That was towards Kyle.
I know you were being a good kid.
The players in the Yeah, the theway, yeah.
What's your initiative? 19 There we go.
There's the wow. He just was pre emptive on the
wow wow wow. OK, so that's going to leave.

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Hugh is in front of Namby and Tyro you're kind of on the left
and and Marky you're on the right.
As this initiative starts, Markyyou look around and don't see
another Barb devil in the I corenext to you swimming up and
jumps at you for an attack. A claw attack.

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Gross. Why is that extra gross to me?
That's a 19 to hit. Oh gosh, do I burn my shield
right away? Yeah, I'm gonna shield as a
reaction. OK, excellent.
Who jumps up and tries to like claw you and grab onto you and
you hit that shield and just like deflects off and the and

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the this barbed devil just doesn't get a hold on you.
And then it is going to make a tail attack on you as well.
And that is going to miss for A8to hit.
So jumps up, tries to with the tail, use the shield to avoid
the IT like grabbing onto you with these arms and you see
these like claws and and this barbed devil just has huge like

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spines all over. It does not look like you want
to be close to it tries to get you doesn't.
And now that one is kind of standing right next to you in
the I core. It is your turn.
You look around as you are not surprised by this.
You look around. You see a devil behind a rock
that is 45 feet from you, kind of peering out to the to the

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left. To the right, 65 feet away from
you, you see one that's like behind a tree.
OK. Here's a question.
How does the steed work in termsof initiative?
Like does it go with me? Like do I essentially get two
turns? You can use the speed how how

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you would like to technically use the speed use the the steed
goes after your turn. OK, so like yeah, after your
turn basically so is the answer.But you can use the speed I'm
allowed to. You can use the speed as a
speed. Flex.
During your turn, I'm I'm gonna allow that.
I like the idea though of like if we moved and then it moved

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independently. It's like video game hitching as
well. Capturing.
Think exactly. They go different directions,
end up over here. Yeah, perfect.
Well he has the sharpshooter feed which means he can I can
fire away at distant targets while I'm in melee range, so I'm

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going to pick the You said therewas 145 feet away.
Yeah, and he has half cover. Oh, he's got half cover.
OK, the. Other one has half cover as
well. They both.
They both do. I think maybe I just kick away
from this one that's right up onme and you know, maybe take an

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opportunity attack, but just to get a little distance so I can.
If you want to have your steed use the Disengage action, you
can disengage. That sounds great.
Loved it. I love that.
Let's do that. Yes.
The the Marquis is gonna, you know, goose, his steed, his
hands immediately go to his gunsand he's, he's been riding
horses since he was little. So he he doesn't need to hold

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the reins. He just pops his spurs into his
reindeer and and kind of boosts up above the the devil and I
want to come around behind it toput it between me and the rest
of the party. So we're now surrounding it.
The one that's right next to you.
Correct. Sick.
Yeah. So you like kick your like heel
in the steed and you like know what you want to do.

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The reindeer is just a a masterful creature just like
does this big loop in the air oflike running up and around and
just just lands right behind him.
Doesn't have to use the disengaged action to do that if
you'd like, because if you're ifyou're staying in melee range
with the one that's right next to you.
Well, I am. I am going to want to get away
from it. How many?

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How many? Yeah, I was going to say I, I, I
want to get away from it becauseI don't want to be firing at him
in in melee range. We got fly speed, 90 feet.
OK, Yeah, let's back up. Let's back up 30 feet.
And as he is kind of trotting away, up comes the skull field.
He's going to blaze away with two shots at this at this devil.

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The 1st is a 19 hit. That will hit.
OK. And the second is.
A. Oh OK, 24 to hit.
Yes, both hit. OK, that's total of 32 piercing
damage. Snap that that pistol out of his

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holster fire off too and then his left hand comes across his
body and the his elders cannon materializes in his hand as he
fires off. Like using his bonus action or a
24 a hit. Yep, that hits.
All right, And that's an additional.
It was almost 2 eights, 12 damage and that's going to move

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the devil 5 feet away from him and probably 5 feet toward the
party and hopefully you and. We'll move him 5 feet in the
direction. I will.
Yeah, if he moves it so he's notin melee with Namby, but he is
closer, 5 feet closer. But he's pretty close.

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He's close to you, Namby. He's 10 feet away from you,
Namby. OK.
Anything else? No, that's his turn.
OK, the barbed devil from the from behind the rock is going to
hurl a couple of flames over at Emtero.
What do I do? You're on that side How?
Dare. You.
That's a 20 to hit on the first one and a 23 to hit on the 2nd.

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Yeah, those both hit just. For the record, we only saw
three. Like there's only three that we
can. See, right now there's three
that you know of. Yeah, OK.
That we know of. It appears back from from behind
that rock, there's a flame just like in it's hand.
God and you're like. Like you launches this flame at

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you take 24 points of damage from the first one of fire
damage. Fire damage important.
OK. Because I'm resistant.
And 16 points from the second one down to half.
So you have that. That's its turn from the front,
from the big infertile war machine in the front.
The door like creaks open a little bit and you see this

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barbed devil walk out. It's got this like little like
bonnet hat like sheared through its barbs in the front.
It's like, and it's like, I didn't think that would ever
work, but it did. He's looking at you, Hugh, and
he flings a couple flames at you.
Hey, your foot wasn't stuck. Oh no, it is.

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And he lifts up his foot and it's like somehow stuck in a
pan. It doesn't really make sense.
Like through the handle. The the one of the.
Barbs is stuck through the pan 21 to hit on the first one.
Yeah, hit. 21 points of fire damage, second one is a 12 to

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hit. Miss.
And this is on the 2nd on the second flame and then from the
right, the one from behind the tree is going to fire over still
at Hugh U Hugh. And so the one from behind the
tree on the right that is a not going to hit roll the natural 2

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on the first one and a natural 4on the second one misses both of
his Pearl flames attacks. I like these Kyle rolls.
Yeah. There they.
Are. Hugh, that is your turn.
So I OK, so there's one that's 60 feet the wearing a bonnet
that was up there and then there's you said there's one

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that's 10 feet from Namby and I'm by Namby too.
Is that? So yeah, so you are.
You walk forward, you know, completely fooled by this Barb
devil. You see in shock that it is not
for real and fire starts flinging around.
Wasn't the pond? So you his foot was in the pan.
You're right Six. He's 60 feet in front of you and

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he's like up on a balcony. There's not like an easy that
you, you you can probably jump that if you, you know, got close
enough. Well, you're on the reindeer
anyways. On the reindeer, yeah, just.
Say, if only you could. Fly.
If only you could fly. 45 feet behind you is one that is behind
the rock. The one that's by Namby is 20

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feet from you and the one from the tree is 65 feet.
OK. And the one by Namby has been
hit. Yes.
OK, then we are going to do process of elimination.
So I'm going to go to the namby 1 and I'm going to use my bonus
action to activate my right. What is even Oh, this is gross.

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I'm just going to like. Slash my hand on one of the
reindeer antlers. Antlers.
Thank you just a little bit. I'm like, excuse me, I just just
need to borrow. The teamwork, Cutting yourself.
I don't have a dagger you guys. Either that or just bash my
hand. Bite your hand.

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Use your friggin. Fang.
All right, all right, That's right.
Because consent matters. I don't want to use the antler
without consent, so I'm going touse my Fang instead.
Yeah, I'm just going to drag my palm on my Fang and I think I
will activate. I'm going to activate river and
go with some ice damage. They'll give me the extra 1D6

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and then I will just take my oh I was the first taken antler or
no, he comes after never mind order of operation.
So I'll do 2 warhammer attacks against this guy. 18 and a 17.
Both hit. Oh, OK.
Cool, they're low rolls for me. Yeah, I got really nervous.

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My dice are not being good tonight.
I don't, I don't know. I might banish them and get some
other dice that are over there. Do I need to separate out damage
types between magical bludgeoning and and cold?
You do. OK, so cold is going to be 7.
Yeah, it you hit it with the cold damage, it's resistant to
the cold. And then 30 magical bludgeoning.

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And then I'm going to shove it another 5 feet.
Like with my crusher feet, I'm going to use one of those
attacks to shove it 5 feet away from more away from Namby.
Nice, just getting just shoved away back in the in the I core
after you had taken Bone Crusherand just like smashed into it a
couple times. Boom, boom, like barbs are like
being like smashed off of it andit's just like you're just like

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crunching through this barbed devil.
He is more than bloodied. Anything else for your turn?
Did you do your inky? Oh, you can't do that yet.
I can't because I activated my right as my bonus action.
I don't have my Echo out at the moment, so I will take my
reindeer attack. I'm going to have them use their

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antlers as like part of, we'll say it.
We'll flavor it like it's part of the Crusher feat.
You know that they're bucking this guy backwards with their
antlers. So that would be a 19 to hit.
Yep, that. Hits and they do 88 plus. 4. 17
piercing damage. And then they also do some cold

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damage as well. Oh Yep, thank you.
Plus 2D6. Damn, I should take a closer
look at my reindeer stat block. I should have been using that
damage. A6 cold damage.
So have the three they did just like the exact same series of
damage that you did? Wham, Wham, and then the and as

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you hit with Bone Crusher and then like the reindeer just
bucks it off and you hear like this just like faint, like
sleigh bells noise. As it happens, it's got a sleigh
bell on its neck and then just bats this this barbed devil out
of the way and it takes a littlebit of that cold, cold and
piercing damage. It's really not looking good
now. It's still up, just barely

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though. Looks like it's trying to slink
back into the I core even Anything else.
Probably not worth action surging against this weenie.
So no, I'm good. What a weenie.
You hear, you hear a noise around you.
Everything's like quiet for a second.

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Everybody likes stops and hears like hooves, but you're not sure
where it's coming from. Hooves that are like around you,
like right next to your ear. And then it's gone.
It's off in the corner that you see this flash of of fire in the
air that's gone and then this like movement of black.
And then out of the ethereal plane strides a nightmare.

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This black, gorgeous, beautiful,huge, large size, you know,
steed this legendary seed with his eyes that are burning its
mane that's just made of fire comes out of the material plane
striding in the air. On top of which is riding a man
dressed in all black with a vest, jacket and a signature

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gambler hat with a short brim and a diamond band.
Levi Rook. Will you please join the table
get him? Out of here.
Yeah, what are y'all doing here?Hey, Levi.
You all so and so. I just realized it's a father

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son reunion, Papa. So you and Tiro and Namby, you
weren't with Valley Jack when when they went and revealed that
the child that you had saved, Brooke's child was the marquee.
And so your characters do not know that detail at all.

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But you see Levi Rook enter in Rook.
You may enter in wherever you would like to on this field.
Yeah. What's what's the setup?
Just in in general terms, I think I.
General. Insert myself in the middle.
Yeah, so in the middle would be around where all the characters

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are except for the Marquis or Marquis is is back behind is has
kind of like pulled back a little bit.
That's where the the barbed devil in the middle that's very
weak is it's right next to Hugh.Well, 5 feet away from Hugh,
that's in the middle. And then you have three other
barbed devils that are scatteredaround 1:00.

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That's on top of the war machine.
One behind a rock, one behind a tree.
OK, I think Rook will stride in in this nightmare that he's
riding, will just take a beelinefor this close weakened devil
and use Of's attack and just immediately rear up and try to

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stomp on it before Rook does anything really and the
nightmare rolls a 21 to hit. Yep, that'll hit.
And that's going to be 15 bludgeoning and 12 fire damage.
Yeah, it had 13 left. So Nightmare just comes out out
of the Ethereal Plane. You see Rook riding the

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Nightmare and just trample on this on this barbed devil, just
stomp him into the demonic or gone.
He's dead. As that's happening, sort of
like this nightmare just kind of, you know, knows what it
wanted to do Anyways, Rook is already looking around for
surrounding enemies. He lets out a whistle, that

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discordant melody that's not quite a whistle, not quite a
song, and is going to activate his gun song.
And then I will just, I'm going to keep it simple and take two
shots. Have any of the demons or devils
not acted yet? They've all, they've all,
they've all taken a turn. OK, just point me at the closest

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one or one that's taken damage and I'm going to take two shots
with my revolver. OK, you're going to shoot at the
one by the tree. That rules.
First attack is a crit. That's a net 20.
Nice. Oh, I actually have a different
feat. Let me check.
Yeah, I got to reduce my crit damage.
I'll be honest. Part of me was really, honestly

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tempted. Yeah.
And it's. Like, oh, I'm sorry, oops.
Force a habit. Really I'm trying to decide
where Emtero how Emtero feels about Levi Rook.
Currently. I'm not sure what the current
state of our relationship is. The first, the crit is going to
be 22 piercing from that shot, just magic piercing damage.

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The second the role is a 29 to hit for only 11 piercing.
OK. Anything else for your?
Turn. That's it.
He just kind of, you know, tugs on the reins a little bit.
Does that like stand in place, turn on his mount and keeps his
eyes on the on the enemies in every direction?

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Amazing Namba, you've just seen Levi Rook come out on a
nightmare, trample the barbed devil on the ground, whip his
gun around and fire twice, nail hitting the barbed devil that's
off behind a tree. What would you like to do for
your turn? Oh well.
You no longer have a barbed devil that's close to you.

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The one behind the tree is goingto be 70 feet away from you.
Rock is 40 feet and then the other one's 60 feet.
In case we got 3 left, how much damage did you take MTRO?
20 hit points. 20 and how many? Like how many do you have?
I have 43 out of 63 hit points. OK, yeah, I've got four of them

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now. So I'm still just going to
emboldening Bond as my action and I can now target up to 4
features. So sorry Levi, you're late to
the party. The rest of us get it.
Nobody's jumping. In front of a bullet for Levi
Rook here. Yeah.
I don't want, I don't know if look, Rook wants Namby touching
him with any magic just yet. He's not quite sure what she's

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capable of. That's.
Fair, that's true. It's not a touch spell, it's not
a spell at all. So anyway, you get your D4 once
per turn. So that's my action.
I am going to bonus action spiritual weapon and just take a
shot at whichever one has taken damage.

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The tree one? Yep.
OK, that is a 17 to hit. Yes.
What's the range on? What's the range on on that?
It's 60 feet for me to cast. I can cast it within 60 feet.
So you will have to you'll have to move close enough for it to
get you'll you'll just have to move 10 feet.

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Forward. OK.
I'll do that then. So you move 10 feet forward,
spiritual weapon flies out and that will hit so.
Do I need to separate out force and radiant?
You do not. Oh wow, 7:00 and 8:00.
So 8 + 7 is 15 + 5 is 20 damage.20 The big like fiery sort of

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soul bonus action. The spiritual weapon that you
have flies out toward the the barbed devil behind the tree and
like stabs into it like tries tobat it away.
Anything else for your turn? Well, Rudolph can do some stuff,
right? Yeah.
So Rudolph will charge whicheverone I was just attacking.
However, if he, well, I mean he's got 90 feet of fly speed if

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I can get there, I assume. You can, Yep.
OK so Rudolph has multi attack. Nice SO.
Rudolph has two attacks that he.Can do.
That's canonical across all. Versions of his story.
Yeah, I do remember that bedtimestory.
Yeah. Rudolph, just crit.
Yeah, Rudolph. OK so he gets a 4D eight for his

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hoof attack, so 23 damage. Was that for the first attack
bludgeoning? That was just bludgeoning, OK?
Oh sorry, bludgeoning and cold. So the first one it would have
been, it would have been 7 bludgeoning and then 12 cold
plus four. I don't know if the four is cold

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or. The colt no the the the plus 4
is this is this like strength modifier?
So that would be. 11 bludgeoning. 11 bludgeoning and.
12 cold, right? Is that what you said?
Down to 6. Yes.
Gotcha. Yep, down to 6.
OK, I will separate that out from now on.
OK, second attack is a 23 to hit.

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Yep. 8 piercing plus 9 cold damage.
Rudolph gallops up, gallops up and just like expertly, like
weaves through the the like, youknow, some of these larger rocks
in the bog and like by a tree and just gums up right next to
the the barbed devil just hits it, smacks it with a hoof, hits

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it with a zantler. Anything else?
He has a bonus action. The bonus action is his light
ability. Oh, yeah.
Which you can, I'm going to have.
To try to blind them, they. Have to make ADC 12 constitution
saving throw or be blinded. Yep, I will do that because
might as well. Excellent.

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Blinds the the this barbed devilwith its light, puts up its
hands, tries to block it. Let's see if it can roll.
That Constitution saving throw succeeds.
Can it get multiple with 150 foot cone or no?
It can. OK, I mean I would.
Like in order to hit the other ones you would have to angle

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you. You would actually be able to
hit the one on the on the bridgeas well.
If you want to roll. That way I'm not the yeah, on
the bridge on the war machine. So I will roll for him as well.
He rolls a Nat one. The first guy rolled a Nat 20.
This the one on the bridge with the little tiny hat on rolled a
natural 1. And so it just like it just like

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stares into the light, blinded, completely blinded until until
the end of its next turn. Yeah.
Amazing. That is everything I can do.
And that is Emtero sick. How far away am I from the one
that's on the bridge of the war machine?
The one that is blinded now? Yeah, you are.

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Should be 60 feet. Yep, 60 feet.
OK. And can I fly, how far can I
fly? I've got 90 to fly speed, so can
I fly like within 30 feet of himand then still then use the rest
of my movement speed after that to fly down to the one Namby was
just fighting? Yeah.

(54:30):
OK, I fly within 30 feet of thatone and bring to life the pan
that's stuck on its foot using my animated performance.
So now that's there to take awayten of his movement speed and I
command it to attack him for his.
Terms. And then amazing, he's gonna
he's gonna have to do like a 20 on a deck so dirty saving is.

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He grappled now. He's going to be knocked.
I'm going to let him try to saveon this, but he is absolutely
probably going to be a lot knocked prone by suddenly the
pan coming to life absolutely does yes, and he is the pan
comes to life. The he's totally blinded and now
he's just on his back sticks. You can see like a Barb, like
sticks through the metal into the ground, into the the the

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into the the bridge that he's on.
That's where he's at. So you want the pan.
The pan will then attack. It on its turn, which will be
after mine, I guess in the second so that's my action to
bring it to life bonus action tocommand it and in the same
breath give a Bartok inspirationto Hugh say like show them that
your rage is just as bright as your kindness.

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I don't know when you go to attack them because you were so
kind to. Fall for their little trick.
And then I'll fly the rest of mymovement down to the one that
Namby was just fighting so that I can have my reindeer do one of
its attacks on that. Excellent guy.
Is your bardic A10 now? It is a 10 now.
Yeah, yeah. OK.

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And let's see to hit. Oh, good.
My ranger's not going to hit. He got in that one.
Let's see if the little pan guy can do any better on his.
He got a a 21 to. Hit.
Yes, I'll hit. Hell yeah Will.
And that is 10 force damage thatthat Pan does to our blinded

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friend and that is the conclusion of him.
Tiro's turn. Pan's turn.
Or no, that was the the Pan's only turn was to do that attack.
So that's why I just that's whatjust did 10 force damage to him.
I just did it quickly. Oh, gotcha.
Right. OK, he's he's only coming.
I'm. Really good at my job, yeah.

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Sorry, it is to is to attack so the the pan like lifts up and
you could see the leg like rising up on this guy and just
like starts hitting him in the face like back.
What the hell? And that is your turn.
We're back up at the top. That brings us to the marquee.
It is you are up. You are kind of back surveying

(57:10):
this battlefield. So because it is heavily
obscured within 60 feet the the way you had precisioned
yourself, you could see the guy behind the rock on the left.
You can hear what's happening with the other Barb Devil.
That's like not having a good time with Emtero and Nambi up
there, but you can't see it. Same goes the one on the roof.

(57:32):
So you'd have to fly over in those directions to actually see
the one on the on the bridge or the one behind the tree.
The one behind the rock is within your view right now.
I I was thinking about targetingthe one with the rod behind the
rock. Anyway, is there I understand
he's under half cover. Is there a way I can get an
angle on him to negate that? Yeah, absolutely, with the

(57:52):
amount of speed you have. Yeah, like if he has a rock
between me and him, I want to, like, angle out so that it's no
longer available to him. But here's a question.
When Rook activated his gun song, would the Marquis have
been able to hear that whistle? He heard it.
He absolutely did. That sounds real familiar.
That tickled something in the back of the Marquis brain.

(58:15):
Like he's heard that before. He doesn't know where, but he
he's heard that before. But he, he doesn't have time to
think about that now. He's got his guns out, you know?
He's forced beneath him. He's in his element.
I think so. I know Hughes on Comet, Namby's
on Rudolph, I think I am Chiro'son Dancer.

(58:37):
I took dancer. We haven't verbally said that,
but I'm on dancer. So I think I have Vixen then,
right? Yes, you have, Vixen.
All right, so the Marquis shoveshis Schofield in his holster,
puts the reins in his mouth, He goes come on, girl, and gooses
her forward to get an angle on this guy, on this barf devil

(58:58):
behind the rock. And as soon as he clears that,
that angle, up come the guns andhe's going to fire away.
That's 28 to hit and 25 to hit. Yep, both of those hit.
OK. So that's 17 piercing damage and

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12 piercing damage for 29 piercing damage and he's going
to fire his Elder's Cannon 2 fora that's probably going to miss
12. Wait I so I haven't boldly bond
now I don't know what that does.There's AD 4 involved.
Somehow. So once per turn it's like
blessed but it it's not as good as it happens less often.
You can use it on an attack or asave.

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Once per turn, it's AD 4. Yeah, why not?
I'll add in the D4, see what we get.
Maybe we can get there 04 the 16. 16 hits.
Hey, all right, there we go. Not right for an additional 10
force damage and you? Just hear a little huzzah.

(01:00:13):
So a little tiny namby Angel forms on your shoulder whenever
you use it. So good for you.
Oh, I I envisioned A Namby's Angel forming on the barrel of
the gun. Like there you.
Go. But blam blam blam blazing away
at this barbed devil behind the rock, and that force damage is
going to shove him 5 feet away from his cover.

(01:00:35):
Oh, sick blam, blam blam. And it just like, is Rickson
like hitting all these like, youknow, barbs off of him and and
he staggers back, not quite bloodied, but he's looking
there. Anything else?
Rook gets a look at this this other gun Slinger and notices
him do quite a bit of damage andlands some good shots.
But then he kind of thinks to himself, what kind of version of

(01:00:57):
the sharpshooter is he using that doesn't ignore half cover
and then rolls his eyes and turns back towards a different
different target. It's.
Funny. Only on this podcast would I be
roasted in character. That's only.
But you know what? Hold on.
Hold on. Well, no.

(01:01:20):
You know what? No, we'll, we'll we'll leave it
there. We'll leave it there.
OK, it is its turn and it's going to stagger back and throw
a couple flames at you. First one will be a 21 to hit.
That'll hit. Flame hits you right in the

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chest for 22 points of fire damage.
Second attack. Man oh man, an 8.
That's a mess. Flame fires above your head.
It is going to run behind cover completely right now.
The one on the bridge that's getting that's on the ground, a

(01:02:03):
pan slamming in his face, it's blinded for this turn.
He's like crawling away. He crawls 15 feet away into the
building, back into the war machine, and he's like, it's
over, Just just leave us alone. He slams the door.
And that technically. Trigger an opportunity attack
from the pan, but he. Crawls away on him still, so

(01:02:25):
he's going in there and the pan's still hitting him so the
pan is still hitting him as he'sgoing in there and he's.
Trapped in there with the pan isthe bonus of it not being an
opportunity. I'm not locked in here with you.
You're. Locked in here with.
Me. And then the the one that's
completely surrounded by Emtero and Namby and the reindeer is

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going to hear him yelled at and is going to disengage and just
try to get the heck out. And he is going to try and slink
away. Moves 30 feet away into the into
another pool. Luckily there is a pool that's
close and he's gets into the pool of Icor and tries to get

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completely sunk into it, but youcan totally see where he's at.
The barbs like stick up out of the the Demon Eye Corps, but he
will have a little bit more cover.
He's like 3/4 cover in there. If you were to pursue him.
Hugh, you are up and you are kind of alone in the middle of
this area still. Stall alone.

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You're never alone, Hugh. You and Rook you're you're
really close to Rook right now, but the the one behind the rock
is closest. But what would you like to do
for your turn? How far away am I from the
person with the pan that just went inside?
60 feet. Excellent.
Well, more than more than that. 60 feet to where the door is

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into the infernal war machine that he crawled back into and.
How big of a space is it in there?
Like is this how big of a thing is?
It's a doorway, so you wouldn't be able to fit the the reindeer
through the doorway. I kind of look over and I'm like
hey Rook, please don't fork me in the neck.
And then I ride the 60 feet up onto towards the door.

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Do you have a lot of feet during?
Our time so. That's just a weird thing to
say. It's just a real.
Tribe. That is not that more black.
I'm trying. And then I'm going to go in
where pan person is. OK.
Person with the pan after I openthe door, how can I like how far

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movement is it? He's like he was able to get 15
fees like 10 feet within the door.
So he's like on the ground. You see him crawling away as the
pan is. He's on his belly and the pan's
just like like back, like smacking him on the back of the
head as he's trying to crawl away still.
Don't. He's.
Making like really cartoony. He's got one of those like Bugs

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Bunny lumps that's like growing each time he gets hit.
That's where the barbs come fromon the Barb Devils.
That's how they're born. So he's going to summon his echo
on the other side of the basically to stop movement away.
This guy's. About to have a really bad time.

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He's going to have a real. Tormenting this guy.
He shouldn't have. He shouldn't have trapped.
Us all right, you fell for the trap and he took that
personally. Who's coming?
This is very fun. Number 76.
So ink runs out and I feel like it's like extra like in hell.

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It's probably like a little bit of like looks like the icker in
there a little bit. But Scott can yell at me all the
time. I'm.
Going to keep putting the phonetic pronunciation over your
screen every time you say it, right?
I still won't change it, but like that's fair.

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And Connie appears from this other conduct too.
It appears right on the other side of this devil stopping
their movement. And Hugh just looks on and he
gets like this really like kind of mad face and just it's like
you, you made me look dumb in front of my friends and then
takes 3 swings at this the guy that's on on the ground.

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Identity fraud is not a joke. Connie like like rises and is
summoned and then like splits into two and so it's like like
2. Is this Connie?
Or other Connie that. Yeah, Connie.
Too. Which Connie one?
Or Connie too. Connie like the ransom note of
sketches, like you just took a bunch of body parts and Rich.
Them up and then. It's like it's not completely

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separating into two like beings,but they like look at each other
and then they like become back-to-back like where their
face is on either side. They're trying to figure each
other out. One of them has a wing.
The other hand is blade fingers,yeah.
Kyle is, is he prone or was thatjust for flavor?

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And is he so blinded or is that gone?
He's. He's not blinded anymore.
OK. So do these these have advantage
then? Yeah, the prone, Yep, he has
advantage. OK.
Guys trapped in a world of hurt.First one's a Nat 20 for a 20,
or excuse me for a 30 to hit that.

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Took just one hour from her lastone, just so you know.
This one is a 24 to hit and thenthe third one is a 23 to hit.
Yep. What happens when you give her
advantage or just normally most of the.
Time or just normally, yeah. Or disadvantage.

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Yeah, it. Really doesn't matter it.
Really doesn't. Matter.
What's 18 + 24? 42. 42 bludgeoning damage and
then 9 cold damage. Have to four.
OK. So bloodied on the ground,
smashing into. He.

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Like flips over and sees you. Anything else for your turn?
Oh, I probably shouldn't use my action surge, but man do I want
to here takes being considered not dumb very seriously.
Yeah, you know, he's pretty bad.That was a strike to the ego.
So I'm going to action surge against this dude, which is not

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a good choice, but I'm going to do it anyways.
True to the character. Yeah.
Oh, no show. I'll take my 2 attacks 1st and
then see if echo needs to go to so 18 and 27 to hit.
Yep, both hit. Of course.

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Honestly, when you have advantage, good time to take
that concerns. I know.
Yeah, that's that is true. 15 bludgeoning damage and six cold
have to three. You still up?
Yeah, yeah, he was. All right then, Echo, I'll do it
too. 27 to hit, 13 bludgeoning and oh, excuse me, sorry, 10

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bludgeoning and five cold. Have to two.
I'm still still up, but you, youguys can sort of see Hugh
heading in that direction. And like Rook has the best
vision is 60 feet of vision in this area.
Rook, you can see Hugh walk through the door and then just
like disappear into the fog and,and all you guys hear is just

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Wham, Wham, Wham from the thing.Ah, Wham, ah, that's what you
can hear from the, from the infernal war machine.
Hugh, did you close the door on your way in or did you leave it
open? No, I kind of imagined that
like, yeah, kind of like almost doing one of those, like kick it
open kind of situations and juststroll forward without pausing.

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We can see like shadows dancing inside there from like just off
just around the. Corner.
It's like a scene where like a big dog and cat are fighting in
a shed and it's like expanding the room as it's happening on
the outside. I was I was thinking the the
Raptor cage like when they see it.
Beating you're. Screeching and it's shaking.

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Incredible Rook, it is your turn.
OK, so we've got 1 still behind a rock, is that?
Yeah, correct. One behind a rock.
You'd have to use your your fly speed movement to get over the
rock to kind of get to it. I would love for my nightmare to
go lie over that rock and try tobluff this one before I shoot it

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if it can reach. I got 90 feet.
Yep, yeah, you can reach. OK, another 21 to hit from the
nightmare. Yep.
And that will be 13 bludgeoning and 10 fire damage.
Takes a 13 bludgeoning. The fire damage just just goes
over. It does nothing.

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And as the nightmare kind of like lands again behind the
rocks, stomps on the devil on the way down, Brooke is just
going to reach straight down to the side of his mount and take
two shots at the devil, which will be a 15 hit. 15 just hits.

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OK. And that'll be 9 piercing.
I want as low as I can with thatone and I'm 27 to hit.
Yep. Or 11 piercing.
Yep. Rolling almost as low as you can
with that. Slightly higher than the lowest
I can. You fire two shots into him.

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He's not looking good. Anything else for your turn?
No, I'm going to stay right nextto him.
Good namby, you're up. Wonderful.
Which one is most hurt? The one Rick was just at, I
assume. Yeah, the one that Rook is at,
you won't be able to see that far and that is 100 a 110 feet

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away from you the one. But I can only see within. 60
Yeah, You saw Hugh go into that building or go or go up close
toward it, but not like inside. He was like 70 feet away from
you and then the other one. That's like, I think it's just
the Cowboys over there. Yep, the the one that's like
trying to run from you and the bog is still close 20 feet from

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you. But it has cover.
Yeah, it has 3/4 cover which adds 5 to its AC.
Okay, I think I'm going to try and follow Hue and just see, try
and get eyesight on what's goingon in there.
So if I need to be like within 60 feet if whatsoever is
happening. You can absolutely right up
right up to that area or you cankind of get a glimpse of it like

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look through. Yeah, I don't need to be.
A close ride up a little bit, you know, ride 10 feet up on on
your reindeer, fly over and likecomes into view and you see Hugh
just whamming down on this, on this barbed devil in there.
OK, how hurt does the barbed devil look?
Bad. Real bad.
Real bad. OK, in that case I'm going to

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cast a first level guiding bolt.OK.
This thing is stuck. In a blender.
He is. He's prone though, so I would
have disadvantage on 9. Disadvantage.
Yeah. So he's prone, Yeah.
I think I still want to do it. I mean, it's basically the only

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thing I can see that's not like,almost in total cover.
So let's see what happens. Oh, wow.
OK. Yeah, I think that'll hit.
Yeah, the 25. Yeah, that hits.
I think that way. I roll the 16 and 19.
So OK, OK, so that's 4D6 and that becomes a three because I'm

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blessed by my Angel. 18 Radiant.18 Radiant.
Damage slams into it. Like.
Bursts in a blast of light. Hugh, you look down and he's
just like blasted. You look through the window or
through the door and you see Namby in there, out there, just

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like. Yeah, Namby just gives you a
little wink and flies away and flies away closer.
Yeah, I think knowing that that thing like went into the icore
and I don't necessarily need to follow it.
I want to try and see what's going on with Brooke.
Did I have any kind of idea of where he was on the battlefield?

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Yeah, you could see. You could tell where he went.
And so you with your movement and your sight line, you can see
him now over there. You can you can see him right
where you're at. He's 60 feet away from you.
OK, So you won't be able to get over there, but you can see the
the barbed devil that he's shot at and he's fighting.

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OK. Oh, and I should have, I should
have asked where is my spiritualweapon in in reference to
everything else that's. Going on that was close to you,
that was pretty, that was like right next to you before.
Can I send that over to the one by Rook?
How far can you send it? Great question.
As a bonus action, I can only move it up to 20 feet.

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Yeah. So you can't really make it to
anything. OK.
But I'll move it to 20. Feet.
I guess you could make it to theone in the in the I core that's
swimming. OK, might as well.
I'll try and take a hit on it. OK Oh 17 + 9 so 26.

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Yes, that is. Wow, that's really bad rule.
OK. And you said I don't need to
separate out bludgeoning and radiant?
No. That would only be 9 total
damage. Nine year blade hovers over the
I core right above it and like you can see the spines in it,
just like stabs straight down and it's still swimming away.

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But like weekly, very weekly, this, this barbed devil is
anything else for your turn. I mean, I do have my reindeer,
so can my reindeer? Can Rudolph blind the one by
Rook? You would be blinding Rook as
well. Do it.
He's helping us and he's pretty strong, so I don't think I want

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to do that. Can Rudolph get up there to?
It'll be fine. Oopsie.
Oops. Can Rudolph hit like with 90
feet of movement? Could I have gotten up to that
one for Rudolph to attack? No, no.
OK, I will move as close as I can to the one near Rook and
then I will have Rudolph take the dodge action.

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OK. And that's my turn.
MTRO, you are up. Cool.
The one guy's running away. He like, went into the bog.
Then he's just swimming into theIcor into like a pool of this,
you know, like into the Icor andhe's swimming away and he's got
Namby's sword that just stabbed down at him as he's trying to
get away. It's not like a pool, like a

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single hole in a well that he like swam down or anything
though, right? Like he went into water and it
or icor and it continues and he's swimming away.
Yes, you can see that this pool is only 20 feet like long.
So he only has, he has like 10 feet away to swim, to get
through it, to get on some pieceof land there.

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I just feel like we're kind of, I feel like he's running away.
I don't really care about him. The ones dead upstairs.
Mamby left. You don't know.
You don't necessarily know that it's dead.
I know that I don't necessarily know that it's dead, but my my
little guy in there knows. That he's dead.
So the pan has. Oh yeah.
Gotcha. You you would know that, yeah.

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How far away am I? I guess I'll just take my 90
feet toward where Brooke is. Like if I saw Namby go up, if I
could see Namby also come back down, I would had I would assume
that that Namby went up there You.
Can get right next to Namby if that's where you'd like to be.
Sure, I'll move within. And how far does that put me
from the dude? Can I see the enemy?
That is where he's acting. Basically 1015 feet away, 10

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feet. Away.
I moved as close as I could to Rook as well.
Yeah, then I'm just going to hithim with a dissonant Whispers.
We'll say level 2 Dissonant Whispers on on my man who's
hiding behind the rock. So he has to make a Wisdom
saving throw of 17. I think there was a moment where
Bones was like when you say him.Who thought about it?

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Hey, remember the train? Yeah.
Well, I remember. 17. Yeah. 15 fails.
So he will take, let's see, how much damage, 18 how much damage,
psychic damage. And then he has to use his
movement to move away from us, right?

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Yes, he has to use his reaction,if available to move as far as
its speed allows away from me. OK.
And that does trigger opportunity attacks because he's
using a reaction to move. It's not forced movement.
I look this up that opportunity attacks happen if you use your
movement or your reaction to like get away from something.
They don't happen if you do likea telekinetic show.

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Were you right next to him with because do you have, did you
have to be with range when you took shots at at this guy?
Sharpshooter. I can shoot anywhere so.
Yeah, so you were within 5 feet.So yeah, you can.
You, you and the nightmare are right there.
Sweet. I will take an opportunity

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attack for sure. And as an opportunity attack I'm
going to cast Acid Arrow becauseI've got Warcaster.
Hell yeah. And that is just an spell attack
roll with a 18 to hit. Yep.
OK so this does I believe acid on impact 44 acid and then 2D4

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acid damage at the end of its next turn.
OK. That 44 right away will be 14
acid damage. OK, it looks real bad that acid
hits it. Your nightmare can make is right
there too. You can make an opportunity
attack with the nightmare as well.

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Yeah, Nightmare does like a spinto try to kick with the back
hooves. And nice the Nightmare is
rolling better than me. 18 to hit.
Yep, that hits 18 bludgeoning, 18 bludgeoning.
The nightmare spins around and this the the barbed devil like
looks down and it's got this acid burning its skin and the

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nightmare takes its back hoof and just blasts it straight
through the chest of this barbeddevil and just and then retracts
it back and the barbed devil falls over into the I core and
we are out of initiative as the other one is crawling away
trying to get away. Namby, if you want to hit it
again with your spiritual weapon, that'd be the only

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opportunity you would have to doanother point of damage.
To it as it's. Going, I mean, might as well,
yeah. Yeah.
Yep. So go ahead and roll your
damage. Well I do I need to roll the
hit. Oh yeah, sorry, roll, roll the
hit. Yeah, 18.
It is within that half cover or that 3/4 cover in the water.
So that does miss, OK. And he is able to kind of get

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away from it and you don't have vision necessarily on this area.
So you'd have to chase after himif you wanted.
To I'm not going to chase after it if it's yeah, yeah.
The bog is quiet. Most everyone's together except
for Hugh, who is still up in thein the big war machine up there.
You guys can't can't even see the war machine right now from

(01:22:28):
where you're at. You're just a little too far
from it. Kyle, tell me about this Pan.
Are we talking like cast iron skillet here?
Yeah, what? Kind of pan are we talking
about? Yeah.
Yeah, who picks up the pan The. Pan fluctuation.
Like whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa.
I am my own person. Yeah, I don't.
Think so. I exist for another hour still I

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mean. Okay, kind of eye in the pan we.
Can go with you. But.
Fine addition to my collection. I like it.
He was taking a trophy from his self created torture chamber
that he locked this devil. I didn't lock the door, it was
wide open, just didn't have a chance to like to skate.

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The door was swinging like in Watchmen where you watch.
More attacks slowly. Start in on his victim.
The devil had every opportunity to leave.
Yeah, he like walks back out andlike anyone who's kind of pay
attention does seem kind of likedab at like the quarter of his
eye a little bit and then gets back on Comet and and rejoins

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everybody else. Great, so you guys are all
together and Levi Rook has come out of nowhere in hell and is
with you all. He'll trot back over to the
group and be like, you know, it's, you know, it's never good
to see someone in hell, but it is nice to see some familiar

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faces. And what did you do?
Why are you here? Well, it.
Is nice to you go namby you go. We we got sent here by like the
book thing that brought us to you.
So it's not really like we're here because of like a morality

(01:24:16):
reason. We're just here for like a like
a adventuring reason. Honestly, that's what I was
expecting. I never would have.
I really suspected you did something truly awful plus it.
Is nice to know that morality does exist and sends people
where they belong though I mean,it's nice to know that there's
something like that out there yeah I.

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Haven't got a full sense of thatyet, and how I ended up here is
a bit of a confusing predicamentmyself.
But suppose in a cosmic sense ofthe word it's justified.
But either way, I mean, you're in a, you're in a pretty bad
place. This is not the most pleasant,

(01:25:01):
not the most friendly environment to strangers.
And and you're, you're picking up friends.
I see. He came out of the book.
Yes. Did we?
He's from the town. He's from the town that we were
in. Paradise.
Yeah, Paradise. Yes, the one we ended in.

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Yes, we are talking about you. He's like the mark Marky is like
sitting back watching all this happen but has not taken his
eyes off Rook the whole time. I'm sorry, where are my man?
There's Marquis. This is the duplicitous snake.
Levi Rook. I heard you say it was nice to
see me. Well, I think I would have

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noticed a gunslinger dressed in all white from Paradise, but
that doesn't quite ring a bell. You said that's where you're
from, son. Where I was born.
Name's Marquis. I expect you may have heard of
me. I can't say I have.

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Can't say I've heard the name Rook anywhere either.
Haven't technically met these three before today, although
this one there's a statue of herin my town.
Never met her friends before today and apparently I'm now in
hell, which my Mama always told me I'd end up in.
Never thought she'd actually be right.
Yeah, like I heard that before, but these three are all right.

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You picked a a good group to magically be thrust upon, if, if
you will. And and don't ask them too much
about explanations. It's they're jumping across
books. You're a book.
I don't know if you knew that. Just, again, Hell's probably the
part you want to worry about themost right now.

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Yeah, I'll deal with being a book later.
I think first thing is getting out of here alive.
Speaking of yes, where are we headed?
Well, we have to get like through the mountain or over the
mountain or something. We might need a key.
Yeah, we're headed to Stygia andthere might be a key, but there

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might also not be a key. There's a question mark on the
map. Oh, you're y'all are not
leaving? Hell, you're going.
No. We're here for a reason,
unfortunately. Do you remember that?
The red ooze that we told you about?
Well, we killed it and then it came here.
Well, it had a backup plan that if we killed it, it would come

(01:27:36):
here and it so it came here and so now we're going to kill it
again. But for good this time.
Yeah, do you want to help us kill some red ooze?
Getting tired of killing devils,so that sounds fine, but well,
let's figure out how to get you to Stiggia.

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That's a Are you y'all prepared for that?
You said you came here. I mean, we've just been sent
here, you know, with the book things, it's like we go through
a portal and then they're like, hey, you're here.
And then we're like, OK, we're going to figure something out.
And then like they're just like,OK, there you go.
And that's kind of what's going on here.
So it's like not a lot of info. We've yet to face a challenge

(01:28:19):
too great for us. We are prepared for anything.
Beatrice came and got us. I don't know if you have.
You've gotten to meet Beatrice. She's very nice.
She was on, she had a day off and she spent it to come get us
and then she brought us to the castle and then and yeah, then
we're here. We didn't meet anyone

(01:28:42):
interesting on the way. You.
Know anybody named Beatrice? Like I said, don't ask.
Well, I do know of a way down ifyou're trying to go further to
the next layer, but it's a harrowing journey.

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And you you mentioned there's a key.
Possibly. The map it is is not clear.
Here look at the map. Brooke takes a gander.
What does he see on this? You.
Can hold on the chalkboard map. Open up this map.

(01:29:23):
It's like this beautiful illustrated map of of a Vernus.
You recognize a lot of the locations.
It's not like to scale the map is, but it's pretty good as far
as what exists in this first layer of hell.
And then there's like ink tracedover the top that is like this
path that they took over the river Styx through to the
mountain into this area. And it says secret path to

(01:29:49):
Stygia. And you're looking at it.
You look over in the back and show and it you see that the
text on the back says at the back of the valley, Secret path
to Stiggia, a key Demon's bane question mark.
As Rook peruses the map, he smacks it real quick once he

(01:30:10):
spots a thing that makes some sense to him and hands it back
and says OK, the key. It's one of those I believe it's
one of those sort of Mr. X clue,so to speak.
It's not quite a literal key, but demons pain this year, this
year I've heard of I've I've hadsome time to spend and believe

(01:30:33):
it or not, there are Taverns around here, but they talk about
Drel Grenach and the battle thattook place here.
And he had this sword and the sword is it's well, it's the
key. It repels this icor you see
around here that's probably burning your nostrils.

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See where Drell fell was this awful, awful pile of icor, and
that's the path. It's so toxic that it melted its
way through the layers accordingto the legends.
And you can go right through that, but you probably burn up
in the process unless you have the key.

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So all you got to do what we gotto do is get Demon's Bane and
then head on through. Well, how do you get Demon's
Bane? Well, you got to kill the
cadaver collector that's roamingthe wicked bog.
Worse. Yeah, sure.

(01:31:39):
OK. That's a sentence, yeah.
And that is not something I havebothered to attempt myself since
since being here, but I'm sure we could handle it as a team.
Marquis rolls the revolver of his pistol down his arm,
checking the ammo. It's like I've killed just about
everything that walks, swims, orflies, and that's Earth.

(01:32:01):
I think we could probably handleit.
And he kind of looks down at thethe the devil that's under the
hooves of his reindeer and spitsdown on it.
I've killed very little of this Earth, but I never backed down
from a challenge. This one sort of shambles, but
it's sort of like shooting the broad side of a barn, so I'm I'm
sure you could land a couple shots.

(01:32:25):
Well, anyway, yeah, let's go find that thing.
So you guys, Rook knows the knows the location of where the
cadaver collector kind of walks around the cadaver collector or
something that just is this big massive construct that walks
around picking things out of thebog.
You know, old war relics, bones or bodies of devils that may

(01:32:48):
still exist, finding pieces of things as it just aimlessly
roams. You get to the area where the
you believe the cadaver collector to be.
And as the fog kind of clears and you're getting closer to it,
kind of sneaking around trying to find it, you see it on the

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ground in a pile, not moving, wrapped up in chains.
It seems as though somebody may have beaten us to this plan.
Kyle, does Rook or can all of ustell is there any effect on the

(01:33:32):
Icor or the bog around the? The Icor goes right up to the
cadaver and does and is kind of like half, it's kind of half
into a pool of the Icor. Everybody's so glad to have they
had the Crimson cough burn out my nostrils.
I must smell something. Fierce How big is the thing the

(01:33:55):
the cadaver and how big are the chains?
I believe it's huge. I think it's a huge construct.
OK, so the chains are. Probably.
Yeah, It's a huge. It's huge.
Nope. The chains are.
Yeah, not, not massive chains, you know, they're normal, normal
dish chain. Well if they counted as a large

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or smaller non magical item I could animate them to get them
off of him without us having to like approach it to see what
happens. That's why.
Yeah, that would definitely be worth it.
I don't know if they if if a thing of chains it won't.
Count as a large. It won't count as a large.
So I could animate the chains guys.

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I. Mean at.
Least I can just have them like unroll from the thing and see if
it's like moving and still alive.
Or I'll wait to do that until wediscuss other options.
Yeah, I think Rook's looking around, not quite at the dabber,
but wants to, or the collector but wants to see if there's any
other signs of activity nearby because this is a little

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suspicious to him. Yeah, the marquee would be doing
the same thing. I was going to say he would be
angling his reindeer out kind ofaround in a perimeter.
Eyes on the Ridge lines. So you 2 go ahead and make
perception checks as you are looking around.
I got a 22 on perception. I am using up my good roles
here. Great marquee.
He only rolls in 11. I think his his eyes keep going

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back to those guns on Rick's hips.
Like Shari Rook, you look around, you don't see any any
movement around in this kind of 60 feet that you can see.
You see some hoof prints in the ground, signs of struggle.
You look at the cadaver collector and understand that it

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doesn't look how it looked before, because the I core is
going right up to it. The sword, when it was embedded
in this thing and collected by the cadaver collector, was
actively repelling the I core around it as it moved, allowing
the I core, the construct, to reach down into the I core, pull
things out because it was completely repelled by the

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sword. Right now trail of repelled
icore like a parted icore that we can see.
Ran away. Not necessarily you.
I don't think the icore kind of pulls back and it's this such
this, you know, toxic substance that it doesn't necessarily
leave a trail. You said there's horse like

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hooves and stuff on the ground. Can I do like a survival check?
I'm not sure I do have an advantage on it, just to see
like if I can track them a little bit.
Yeah. OK, so that's just like a flat
roll for me, but it's a 17. 17 You can see there are like paw

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prints in the ground that have claws, and then you come by one
that's like, is that a horse hoof print?
And it's not a horse hoof print.It's thicker, like something
like a bigger beast, like a cow,something like that.
Say like hellhound or something.Well, folks, I don't think we
need to worry ourselves with theCollector because Demon's Bane

(01:37:18):
is not here. But someone has it now, and that
could be a whole different kind of trouble.
Who's got fine Demon's Bane prepared?
Well, I do have locate object but I'm not familiar with it.

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Yeah, you'd have to be familiar with that.
Brooke, you said we'd have to take Demon's Vein to a certain
location. Is that the only place it works?
Well, it it works everywhere, but the well is is that pathway
down a layer and someone wanted to go through it?
Well they'd they would want Demon's Vein with them.

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Far as I know, that's the only reason to bother securing such a
weapon. This like this like putrid, like
wind, kind of like sweeps acrossthe bog and namby you hear like
just like the rustling of paper coming from the direction of the
cadaver. I would share that with everyone

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because that seems odd you. Want me to go check it out?
You walk up to the cadaver collector and you see kind of
wrapped in the chains is a letter kind of stuck in there.
Oh. Oh, hey, I'm just remembering
that there was somebody put a bounty out on us, remember?

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You take out the, you take out the letter.
I use mage hand to get the letter by the way.
Just a little you take. You use mage hand to take out
the letter letter and the chainslike rustle a little bit and
then the paper makes a way makesits way to you and you open up
the letter and then it says you won.
Meet. Congratulations.

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It. Says meet you at the well signed
S as like a little snake's like mouth up on the top of the s S.
Who did we make mad? That is S.
Brooke, you take a look at it and you recognize that that is
the signature of a devil named Sela.

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I don't think y'all made anyone mad, I think I did.
That, my friend, is not a surprising twist at all.
Yeah, yeah, well, this is makingsome more sense now.
Sella probably took the demon's Bane.
She's a son of a gun chain devil, leads her own gang and.

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Well, they tried to recruit me and I didn't want to join.
Figured I'd sort of avoid the whole gang situation after Ella,
but well, I didn't take a lack into that.
And I've been trying to lie low for a while.
That's why I was way out Yonder when you guys showed up.
But. Yeah.

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Yeah, she won't be too happy to see us or she'll be very happy
dependent, but we should be prepared for her to have
something set up for us first. Ella, now sella.
Yeah, really, really getting you.
You pick some people, truly. A very.
Unfortunate one, I didn't pick this one.

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I might have made some noise when I first got here by count
on the fact that I didn't, you know, die the first time I was
ambushed by those barbed things and well, you know, if see me as
a gun for hire and everyone camecame a call and might have been
might have been a safer call to just join them trying to learn

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from my mistakes. Did you say that the chains
wrestled like the creature is still alive or did you mean that
something was going on with the chain?
Moved a little bit when the letter was taken out.
I guess we don't want to touch these chains.
Just a dramatic moment when the change.
Is this the equivalent of the DMrolling AD 20 behind his screen
for no reason? I don't love leaving this

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creature just to like die here. I don't know.
Is it dead already? It is past OK.
And we're in hell. I don't feel a lot of sympathy
for the cadaver collector. Personal, I don't feel that bad.
About this This is a sentient a selection of dead corpses and
the gear that those corpses werewearing.

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There is simply no reason to offer it sympathy.
But if you have. It is I'm, I mean, I'm loath to
agree with with Rook, but it is truly a contemptible creature
it. Is it just was created that way?

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All right, fine, let's go and meet up with another one of
Rook's girlfriends. Great.
So you move out, you guys move out and Rook, you're kind of
leading the path. You probably want to stick close
with with be it a Rudolph at thefront with that vision ability
with Namby at the front, but youguys start to make your way

(01:42:38):
through the bog. Hey yo, while we're making our
way, anybody want to drop some healing on a material before we
go fight a chain double? Or can we take a short rest?
This will count as a short. Rest all right, this will count
as a short. Rest as you guys travel.
Tight, tight, tight. And so you guys travel for
about, you know, 4 hours throughthis, and the landscape is all
the same, remnants of the ruins of this massive battle that took

(01:43:00):
place many years ago. The ruins kind of start to
become more organized, like the forces kind of of the devil
armies that are that that have laid there kind of for like
faced inward on the As you traverse through this valley,
the train the train starts to get a little bit more rocky.

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And in the brief moments where the fog parts, you can see tall
black mountains on either side of you.
Finally the valley starts to narrow ever so slightly and the
fog thins out a bit. You approach a formation of
abandoned war machines and a half circle with a short rest.
Is anybody else doing anything, Rook?

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You're kind of signalling to thegroup that you know things.
We are getting close to the well.
Was everyone able to heal up allthe way?
Yeah. Yes, and Speaking of healing, I
will just hold on. I'm going to give a motivational
speech to the crew as we're approaching, obviously so that

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everybody can get 10 temporary HP and have advantage on wisdom
saving throws. You know, let's do not worry, my
friends. I know we have faced great
adversity in Hell so far, but now that we've united as an even
greater team than we were when we entered this chain, Devil
stands no chance against us. No matter how hard she tries to

(01:44:27):
to lure Rook in with her feminine Wiles, He will not give
in this time like he did with Ella McCoy.
I didn't. Give in at any point to this
devil. So actually while they're
riding, like if, if Rook is riding up front, I think the
marquee would have kind of dropped back a little bit to
ride next to to him. Tiro it would have leaned over

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and said something about this guy.
I he's familiar. I've heard his whistle before
and. Ella.
You said Ella McCoy. Yes.
That's a name. Brings.
Something to mind, maybe a trainwreck, something like that went
went around when I was a kid. Yes, you were there during that

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time during the train. We were on that train we were.
She attempted to explode it, butwe were able to stop it thanks
mostly to the work of Valley Jack, but also my companions
Namby and Hugenmart as well. Sally Jack I remember came to my
home, gave me my name actually. What a memory to have on a day

(01:45:32):
line today. Why did he come to your home?
What else did he bring to your home that maybe Emtera would
have known where he was going with?
Did he bring you some sort of vow it?
Was that day the day of the train accident that he came?
I think it had to be around then.
And tell me, how are you feeling?

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So long ago, I think I was fine.I mean, I, I know that I had, I
had the Crimson cough at some point when I was a kid, but I
can't smell anything anymore forthat.
Cast message over to me if you knew.
I think that this is Levi Rook'sson.
He told. Me.

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He. Had to do the point back and
forth. What?
What he told me that he told me that he had the Crimson coffin.
Valley Jack visited him on the day that the train crashed and
that's we sent Valley Jack with the with the antidote.
He went to go to give it to Levi, Rook's son.
Is it is it does does. Interior.
Does interior just look like he's like?

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No, you see me like pointing at you, but you just can't hear
like what I'm whispering. Seriously.
You're right, like. No, I'm discussing something,
sorry to do this in the middle of our conversation, but an
important business for our for our journey right now, for our
quest, top secret information. I don't know if he starts.
Looking at their faces to see ifthey look like they're related.

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He turned. Around.
He kind of shakes his head. Like I'm sorry to bother.
I just. It No, no, no, no.
It's no bother. It's no bother.
It's no bother. Just stay stand.
We have to. Tell them.
If that's we can't just not tellthem.
What was his mom's name? What was his mom?
'S name. Oh yes.
I'm sorry, what was your mother's name?
My mom's name. Her name is Charisse.

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Charisse. What a beautiful name, Charisse.
Namby is looking at Rook. Say out loud.
Loud. And turns around, turns around
from the front, just like staresat Empiro, like, what is your
game here? It's just a wonderful name.
I don't think I've ever heard itbefore though.
It's so gorgeous. Has anybody here ever heard that

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name Charisse before? I know it's totally new
information to me. I've never met anyone with that
name. It seems beautiful.
It was relatively common of the town where I'm from.
Interesting, I'm. Brooke.
Brooke, have you heard someone with that name before?

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Brooke is taking all of this as exactly Canon, exactly how these
characters are. Loudly.
Speaking to him all. Of a sudden, Yeah.
And just kind of like, looks around and rolls his eyes and
then kind of like, gazes forward, you know, out over the
bog again is like, yeah, I knew a woman with that name.

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She was a beautiful woman and too kind for me.
Well, yeah, we shared some good times, but I decided to strike
out on my own and the danger with me and keep it from coming
home to us. Sounds like you know a lot of
women. I knew a lot but only a couple

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of them were special and she wasprobably the most special which
is the reason I stayed away. But I think I'm being honest.
I like to say I was protecting her by leaving, but so we had a
kid together. It became a little bit too much

(01:49:15):
for me to handle. Didn't want to give up the the
outlaw ways. And there I went running.
That's how I find myself twice dead in hell, I guess.
The Marcus gets very quiet. I don't think he says anything.

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He's just kind of watching, waiting.
Brooke will not totally pick up on the awkward silence, and then
he'll just pat his nightmare as they ride and says at least I
got old Crumb one here with me. Oh.

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Crumb one died. Wait, no, no, Crumb one ain't
dead. Crumb 1 is the Crumb. 2 is the
horse. All right.
Yeah, don't worry, Crumb 2 will live forever.
Yeah, Crumb 2's still alive. Oh, so it was backdated kind of
thing? This is actually Crumb 2's

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father. That's what's crazy.
That's the reason for a woman. It's we didn't explain.
I am now interested in this of. Course.
What was your mother's name? That was.

(01:50:39):
So stupid metal crumb one here out in the bog and we had a
kinship together, had a way of communicating.
And turns out crumb ones from the shadow lands and from one's
first rider was a well, you knowhim, the wily looking outlaw

(01:51:02):
turned deputy and from one was was missing her, her first
rider. And well, we bonded and have
been spending some time togetherdown here in hell.
But yeah, we should be there. Yeah, we almost there.
Yeah. Very soon.
Just keep your wits about you. So you guys continue forward and

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in this kind of awkward silence and you, you know, and you do
get close to the well and start to approach the area.
This area has these large, you know, these war machines that
are kind of outlining an area ina like half circle formation and
you kind of walk through them a little bit and can see your

(01:51:48):
vision now is 100 feet out. The fog is cleared a little bit
and 100 feet in front of you youcan see this big pool filled
with bubbling potent I core justlike steaming and bubbling just
like this pit of evil, thick, gross.

(01:52:08):
I core. On either side of the pool
coming out behind cover are two bearded devils with chain
piercings glaze in hand riding atop demonic furry like wretched
steeds that have these like hands and claws that are just
kind of like walking forward. And then out from behind a war

(01:52:31):
machine that's fairly close to the pool, you see a devilish
woman ride out wearing a long duster made of chainmail.
And she has a wide brim hat on her head and large chains
falling down on her wrists. And she is riding on top of a
large bowl made of metal. And the marquee you have

(01:52:53):
immediate flashback to the gladiator tournament where you
just fought A gorgon. And this one looks similar,
except the metal on its body is heated.
It's got licks of fire flashing between its metal plates, and as
she rides out all around you, you start to hear chains move
through the icore, rattling likerattlesnakes.

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Levi, Rook, you're hurting my feelings.
I thought you said you weren't interested in joining up with a
crew, yet here you are, with a crew that looks fresh as
daisies. She smiles.
It's like chain, like she's got like a chain grill.
Crows leaning too much into the pit.

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This lady. Braces.
Adult braces. You know, there's a bounty on
these souls, particularly that hammer, a messenger and a dream
came to me, made some lofty promises, said that this crew
here be looking for that, this sword and headed in this
direction. And you can see she's like

(01:53:59):
points her back this long sleek black sword with the cross guard
is just long and pointed like super sharp.
And you can see as she's walking, the I core is like
spreading out away from her as she's riding atop of this
gorgon. Did I mention to y'all how proud
I am that you got a bounty on your heads?
Well done. Hey Kyle, can I say that like

(01:54:23):
before we approach that I summoned my echo and did my my
right. I didn't want to interrupt the
the father son time. Oh.
Absolutely. Yeah, and like, mess with the
flow. Tell us who's riding with us?
OK. Brooke loves some pre emptive
actions before initiative startsso he would have give them.
It's like his entire build. OK, so it is oh, very

(01:54:48):
thematically appropriate for ourmouths.
It's Bingle Harkin. A really big ink block comes
out. Great.
He's. Like goes and like paths the
reindeer and like ruffles her hair a little bit.
I love crinkle Harkin. And then I'll I'm going to do

(01:55:10):
the radiant damage for my right this time I'm going to take 4
necrotic damage to activate that.
OK. So while this devil's talking to
him, the marquee kind of leans over the pommel of his horse and
he goes y'all some kind of posse.
Not much here is there? Kind of looks like it's like 3

(01:55:31):
of them, right? Yeah, there's three of them.
A shit ton of chains around. A lot of chains, he says.
You'll find I don't need a wholebig crew.
Got my own tricks and the the the chains are just like
squirming around you. You might have to handle us.
Well, I guess we'll. Find out, because usually I'd

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make an offer to, you know, makea deal with you that hammer for
your freedom or some shit like that.
But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't in the mood to kill so
I'm just going to strangle all y'all worry about the hammer
when I need to get them boys andthey start the the two bar
bearded devils charge forward ontheir massive demonic beasts
beasts. Everyone roll initiative.

(01:56:15):
Watch that for them chains. OK, Namby was your initiative.
8. 8. Hugh. 2. 2.
That's what I rolled. A Nat.
One for a 2. Antiro rolled a Nat 20 for a 24.
Sick Marquis 2323 and Levi Rook.27. 27 that's.

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Quick on. A draw.
OK, we are at the top of the initiative.
Sella the rattler is 80 feet in front of you and then she is
riding on top of this gorgon that's got this like fire in its
belly. There are two bearded devils
that have these like long tentacled beards that are like
squirming and they have these glaves and they're sitting atop

(01:57:05):
these like demonic like like steeds.
She has commanded, She has told them to charge.
Levi Rook, you are up first. And this area there is like
pools of I core in this area as well.
There's plenty of areas per cover and a couple like a big

(01:57:28):
like kind of war machine devicesor vehicles kind of scattered
around as well. So are there mounts functioning,
you know, independently to do? Stuff roll on Animal Handling.
Check. OK Oh my God.

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Nat 20. Nat 20.
For a for a 20 I have a + 0 to that.
You've seen these demons before.You don't have a name for them,
but they are wretched creatures.There's no way they have like
true intelligence to them. You would take them as a
controlled mount that they have where they the the devil on top

(01:58:13):
has to direct their their action, their movement.
It's OK, it's a little metagamy,but if I wanted to control their
movement and I magically affected them, would their
mounts not move? Or are they sort of like loop
holing that because their mountscould carry them anywhere?
I would have you do I would haveyou do the like a movement

(01:58:37):
effect, like a an effect on the bearded devil, like not on the
mount because they they have control of the mount.
So like if the mount freaks out then they would have they could.
You know. Make a check to.
They're doing OK. Cool, yeah.
OK, I am going to 1st whistle, activate my gun song and then
I'm going to get within at least90 feet, which I think I am of

(01:59:02):
all the enemies. OK, so I'll cover a little bit
of the ground. I do want to put myself forward.
I don't want to be, you know, sofar back that they're not even
considering me, but I don't really need to be up close to
them right now. So I'll maybe just move up,
start the charge and move up about 30 feet.

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And then I am going to upcast Mind Whip at the third level and
they will need to make a Intelligence saving throw with
ADC 16. And I'm going to target Sella
and one of the Barbed Devils. The upcast allows me to target

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2. She rolled double twos because
she has advantage on these on onthese effects.
She is going to burn a legendaryresistance right off the bat.
So she she saves on that other devil, not one.

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So one of the devil's fails, thedouble fails.
It's not a lot of damage. Seller will take 5 Psychic and
is not affected. The Barbed Devil will take 11
Psychic and is affected by Mind Whip, so on the Devil's turn it

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cannot take a reaction until theend of its next turn, and on its
next turn it must choose whetherit moves, takes an action, or a
bonus action. It only gets one of those.
Cool. And that's my turn.
Excellent. You cast a spell and and and the
rattler, just like she puts her,you know, hand up to her head

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and takes a little bit of damageand the the bearded devil, his
tentacles just start squirming and he's like like really
affected, like he's got a searing migraine.
And Tiro, you're up. Yeah, Emtero is going to.
I'm 70 feet from the Devils and I'm 80 feet from the red.

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Or how far am I from the red? Yeah.
OK, 80 feet. Then Emtero is going to fly
forward 30 feet on Rudolph. Then thinking, you know,
thinking of fathers who have abandoned their children, he's
going to harness the power of his father to face them.

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To start, 10 is. That just and that's just you.
I I guess that's on if you'll let me take Rudolph or not.
The one time I used faced up I did move my horse with me the
original time that it happened. It.

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Doesn't it won't In reality, if you're looking at base step I'm.
Just I was going to try and check if it would.
In reality. I want you to make an Arcana
check DC-15. No, then I'm not going to do
this. If there's any chance that I'm
going to teleport and land on the ground, I'm just not going
to do it. So it's fine.
It just won't do something different.

(02:02:24):
Yeah, no, there's no way I'm risking plopping next to them
and landing down and not having 90 feet of movement to get away.
Well, couldn't you do it like, like you teleport ahead and then
your your reindeer would catch up basically and scoop ya?
The physics of that are so confusing to me on how it would
work, but I guess so how high upare we?

(02:02:45):
Your reindeer, your reindeer. So your reindeer has movement.
It's intelligent. If you want to, you want to tell
your reindeer, hey, pick me up and face step forward.
I think that's amazing. I just I'm curious about how the
reindeer can move as fast as I'mfalling after I instantly hear
some dash. It's not like it's not you're
not over, you're not over like an entire pool of Demonicorp.

(02:03:08):
So you can you can find a patch that you can face Step 2 of
land. It's still this like boggy area.
OK, well we'll do that faced up to them.
So 10 feet in front of the two that are one of which is mind
whipped, but I choose them both because now they're within 10
feet of me when I land. They have to make a wisdom

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saving thrower be charmed. 17 isthe DC on that.
So you want to be? How far do you want to be from
10? Feet from them, which would make
me 20 feet I guess from the rattler.
Yeah. I don't want to be right in the
middle of them, I just want to be as close as necessary to make
that charm save affect them whenI land.

(02:03:49):
Excellent. So what's the charm save they
have? 17 Wisdom saving throw.
I believe. Or who?
Those are for the two devils. OK, so first.
Two guys. So they both fail it.
They both failed it. They are both charmed by me for
one minute or until somebody does damage to them.
OK. You're very trying.

(02:04:10):
I just, I tell Parton from that voice, Hello.
You say voice hello and. The reindeer swoops you up and
you're sitting atop of your reindeer and they are like
stunned and looking at you like,like fly around this amazing
creature made of fire. Anything else?
Yes, for my action look at the rattler and I say you are being

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used. My friend I suggest that you
alter course. You give us the sword and you
protect us so that we can kill the ooze that is trying to use
you suggestion to drop the to give us to give us the sword and
protect us as we enter the hole basically.

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OK great, I need something that will last for 8 hours tonight.
OK, what's the DC? 17. 17 And this is a you said
Wisdom saving throw. Correct.
OK, she has a + 4 to her wisdom saving throws and so she has to
hit a 13 and she has advantage on this save.
So here's. What 12?

(02:05:19):
That's her legendary resistance.She has to burn.
All right. OK, nice.
So she succeeds on that after using a legendary resistance,
the chains just on her jacket kind of like like repel that
that suggestion as she's almost about to follow it.
I mean chain wallet is so cool it stopped my spell.

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Anything else? No, that'll.
OK. Yeah, that'll be all.
Marquis, you're up. A devil in Jinko jeans.
How far apart are these three enemies?
Could I fit a 20 foot by 20 footcube and.
Catch all of them, my friends. You're going to attack my

(02:06:03):
friends? No, you have to choose two.
I'm not. Going to attack them.
OK, good. You have to choose two.
You have to choose her and one of the devils.
OK, I'm going to choose her and the one that isn't mind whipped.
OK, And so the marquee is going to spur forward trying not to
look like he's trying to keep upwith Rook, but clearly trying to

(02:06:26):
keep up with Rook. But he spurs his vixen forward
kind of right behind Rook and then out on an angle to get
within 60 feet of the rattler. And he's going to use his action
to cast fairy fire on the rattler and the the whatever
cool posse member is not mind whipped right or left.

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OK, so it's a it's a 14 Dexterity saving throw they have
to make. It's so hard to impress your
like your dad from hell while he's on his flaming nightmare
steed and you're riding. A fucking rainbow.
You know, when we did that, whenwe did that initiative, you
know, we just did the little kick to get going and like tried

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to act as cool as possible, but we're absolutely trying to like
out, like raise each other off alot, 100%.
She succeeds. And the bearded devil on the
right. What did he have to hit?
14. A14 for a dexterity.
He saves as well. He just saves.
He got a 14. Well, he he fires this like

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flare out of his pistol and it it falls between them and then
doesn't light them up. And like as if in frustration,
he's like, fine, we do this the old fashioned way.
So he's going to use his bonus action to fire his eldritch
cannon at the rattler for a 22 to hit.
Yes, all right. And that's 14 force damage.

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And I'm not going to push her back.
I want to keep her kind of tightto the other two.
And you know what? Yeah, he's he's feeling like the
his spell failing is, is not a great start to trying to show
how impressive he is. So he's going to action surge,
he's going to give himself another action, and he's going

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to attack with his pistol. 21 tohit.
Yep. Second shot is a 15. 1515 just
hits. Hey, all right.
Gets in between the jacks overcoat.
So he he fans the hammer on his pistol and he's going to use

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superiority die. He's going to make that second
hit a distracting strike, so I could expend 1 superiority die
to add the total to the damage roll, which is AD 8.
This will do an extra D8 damage here.
And yeah, so the next person whoattacks the Rattler gets
advantage on their attack. So I'm going to do the damage

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and then add AD 8. We've got 26 plus another D8
that's only two, so 28 damage, 28 piercing damage.
Piercing damage. You fire and hits her, hits her
in the jacket. She is resistant to that.
Oh good, OK, but he gets her attention because she's now

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distracted and looking at him, and the next person to attack
her has advantage on that attack.
Cool it is her turn and she looks at you M Tiro after you
had just tried to suggest to herand failed she.
I didn't fail. She cheated, right?

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OK. She chose to cheat and.
Automatically win. You look you look down at the I
core below. You hear the rattling of the
chains as they're squirming up and circling up up over the
reindeer and wrapping the chainsare wrapping around you.
You need to make a Dexterity saving throw is.
That me or the reindeer that needs to make it?

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You. OK. 8.
Eight you. The chains wrap around you and
grab you tight. You're going to take 10 points
of fire damage half to 5I. Can live with that.
And the chains wrap around you. You are restrained and you are
pulled forward off the reindeer and slammed down into the demon

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eye core. You need to make a constitution
saving throw as you hit the demon eye core and feel this
like potent substance. It feels similar to the mutant
substance from the cyberpunk world.
That type of toxic hits you. You need to make a Constitution
saving throw. Feel my my stomach splitting as
a mouth forms. I got an 18 on my Constitution

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saving throw. You succeed, You save, you have
no effect on that. You have this chains around you
and she's pulled you forward andslammed you down into the into
the I core. She's now going to make 2 chain
attacks at you as she whips a couple chains 14 to hit.
Miss Holy shit, somebody missed them dear.
Oh, what? Happened she now.

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Now that you're restrained, she has advantage on this.
Yeah. That is an 18 to hit.
Well, yeah, then that hits. Silver barbs.
Silvery barbs, OK. Yeah, nice counterspell.
Doesn't matter, the next roll ishigher and so you can give

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advantage to somebody but she will hit this first chain
attack. I'll give advantage to Hugh.
That's just 9 slashing damage. All right, not too worried about
this yet. And she's going to hit you again
at 25 to hit yeah. It'll just let it in. 10 points

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of slashing damage. That's fine.
That is her multi attack ability.
The Gorgon that she is riding oncharges forward at you and it is
going to you are going to have to make a dexterity saving
throw. You still get to make this as
you are restrained, but it's with disadvantage.

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It's not going to be good, I'll tell you that much, because the
first rule sucked 10. You fail as this gorgon charges
forward toward you. You can't squirm out of these
chains. You're sitting in the Demon eye
core. It's chest opens up and consumes
you and you find yourself insidethe chest of this gorgon and the
fire around it heats up. First.

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You are going to take some piercing damage.
Eight points of piercing damage.OK.
I'm not worried still. And then 16 points of fire
damage. I'm down to 8 for you.
I am in a broiler but I still have two more face steps so I'm
not like that Worried about my situation.
I wouldn't say if. Anybody needs to be swallowed by
something that's fire. Breathing material is probably

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the guy to it. Yep, you are inside the gorgon
at this point and it is standingabove you.
Standing around. Is this is it still stained if
you now inside the gorgon? Inside the Gorgon.
Yeah, hell of a damn. You're like.
What are those turduckens that you have to wrap to put it

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before you put in the habit? Oh.
Hell. It is the bearded devil's turn,
and oh boy, what are they going to do?
They just got charmed by you, and I saw you get swallowed up
by the gorgon. Help me, friend.
I don't. They have to help.

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Him, I don't think they. Have to.
I don't think that, but they feel bad for me.
They feel bad for them because they're charmed by him, but it
doesn't mean they're not like they're.
Not loyal to me, they just. Are not loyal.
They just are like Dang that sucks.
The one that I was mind I really.
Like that guy? The one that was mind whipped is
going to charge forward and. Can only move you're.

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Right, it can only move is goingto square up to the mark, the
marquee and marquee. You now have this beast right in
front of you with this bearded double with this beard tentacles
kind of going down his chest. The other one is going to charge
forward at you, Rook first. It's going to as it gets close,

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the beard like whips out at you.It's going to try and hit you
with a beard attack that as an 18 to hit.
Miss. I forgot Roquet's crazy.
I hate C. Oh, Miss.
Dang it. So beards miss just like
squirming around and you're justlike knocking these tentacles
away. And then he tries to swing at
you, tries to stab you with its glave and the glave attack is a

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17 to hit. Nope, misses.
That is their turn namby you areup.
You just saw your you just saw Ontero get swallowed up by the
Gorgon, and the bearded devils are are in front of that.
So the Gorgon is now 60 feet from you.
Cool, can I get within 30 feet of like all my allies or are we

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all still within 30 feet of eachother?
You would have to leave, You would have to leave Hugh.
You could be in within 30 feet of of the three of the others.
For Emtero, you have to. If it's something you have to
have vision on, then you can't see him.
I don't believe I have to have vision for emboldened bond.

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It just is willing creatures within 30 feet.
I'm a willing. So am I able to get both Hugh
and Emtero or no? Well, you have to be with.
Hood give it to all of them. I know, I know, I know.
You have to be within 30 feet ofboth of them, so it's like a 30
feet radius. Yeah, they have to be within 30

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feet of me when I activate it. I think that that I think that
actually works. If you move up to where you're
30 feet away from Hugh, you willbe 30 feet from zero.
Yeah, you can get everybody. Perfect.
Then I get I definitely get Hughand I'm.
Tarot, you want to just have Kyle flip AD 2?

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I feel like I'm going to give itto Rook because I feel like
maybe he wants to and he's silvery barbs for Emtero.
Maybe he wants to help. He's got a bomb ass AC and
whatnot. He can do things I.
Mean he is pretty good. I'm also not like over levelled

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anymore. You guys have caught up to.
Me. Yeah.
So just so you know, Brooke, you, you feel the sensation as
if if you wanted to teleport within 5 feet of us and take
damage for us, you could do thatnow.
And also you get the the D4 on one thing per turn essentially.

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And the teleport's a reaction? Or is it like when a hit
happens? It's when a hit happens.
I don't know if it takes a reaction.
Let me double check. Yeah, use your reaction.
OK, I'll have to keep that in mind.
Yeah. And then the D4 is once a turn
on an attacker, safe. Hey, one of you.
One of you. One of you.
Hit one of the other people and then I can just use my reaction

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now from protective bond to teleport out of the.
I mean, yeah. That's cool.
Yeah, I'm sure one of us is about to get a hit.
Don't you worry you. Actually could do that, yeah,
but you would have to take the damage for us.
Well, yeah. Is not needed.
It could be worth it, like it might be worth it instead of
being in this thing's tummy. Yeah, just.

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Just a reminder Becca, I know you have advantage from silvery
barbs. Whoever attacks, whoever attacks
the rattler has advantage from my attack.
OK. It's the first one.
Yeah, it's the first person, not, that's not me, to attack.
The Rattler gets advantage on their attack role.
Yeah, I don't feel, I don't knowif there's a way for us to avoid

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it doubling up just because. Well, I can cast spiritual
weapon right now and use it. There you go.
Yeah, go for. It 22 to hit.
Yes, that will hit OK. This is what happens.
When you doesn't get to go first, you know, tourists.
I got it. I'm just going to charm them.

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My friends can easily get annihilated.
So I rolled bad again. So that's just 1010 damage
again. Template type of damage.
Radiant. That's good for us.
Bludgeoning and radiant. Do you want me to separate?
It a bludgeoning. It's resistant.
She's resistant to bludgeoning. Well, I only run. 1.
On the blood, is it from a from a spiritual weapon, though it is

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magical, does that make a difference?
It did in 2014, but. My character is a 2014 character
locked to. The rules My character is a 2014
character. There's no magical resistance.
In 2020. Four, and she's high enough
level at this point where she's wearing some chain male armor
that that's what we're going, yeah.

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I feel like so pretty resistant.I did roll them separately like
in my head, so it was 1 bludgeoning and four radiant.
Everyone just roll damage in ourheads now, OK?
You know what I mean? Wow, I did math.
I guess. I guess the plus 5 from my
spiritual weapon is also bludgeoning, so it would have
been 6 total bludgeoning for radiant.

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So have that 6 down to three andthen four radiant on top.
Gotcha. Total 7 damage.
Spiritual weapon comes in and slashes into her and she is
bloodied. Anything else for turn?
I'm still on Rudolph. Rudolph can hit.
Yeah, Rudolf can. Blind Rudolf, you have.

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To get you have to get up close to her.
Is that what you're wanting to do?
That's fine if I can. I have if I can with my 90 feet.
When does Bearded Devil the The Mind Wick one get his reaction
back? End of its next turn.
Oh, it did. It did take its.
Yeah, it did take it before it'snext.
So it has reactions. You charge forward on Rudolf and
you are going to take an opportunity attack from both of

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them. First one's A10 to hit.
No. And second one is a tend to hit
the misses. No, they whip.
They whip their glades at you asyou ride by and miss.
All right, well, multi attack for Rudolph, that's a 18 and a
15 to hit. Both hit.

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Wait. Had some violent tendencies.
OK, so I should separate out thebludgeoning from the cold?
Nope, you can keep those the same.
Oh, OK. Because she has resistance to
everything. Oh, 24 total.

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OK for the first attack, second attack for the antlers 25 + 429.
29 points. Yeah.
These reindeer did not come to play.
Yeah. I got a reindeer rough.
Yes, the antlers swing and the hoofs hit hard on on her and she

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is not looking great anymore. I think her.
Didn't do shit after my turn. It should have helped.
It should have had an opportunity to make it go
forward. And act like fire gorgon or?
Something. Yeah, that's my turn.
Yeah. Hugh, you're up and you are
looking forward. You are 35 feet from the Bearded
Devils and 60 feet from the Gorgon. 35 Oh yeah, but I'm on a

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reindeer. OK, we're good.
How far to the Rattler? 6060 feet. 60 All right, And how
many opportunity attacks would that potentially provoke?
You would have to take two. Well, zero, because they already
used their reaction. They took Oh.
Yeah, we're good. So I'm just going to storm
forward and say you let my friend go because someone your

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own size. Pommel hurt in the face.
And I'm going to just like baseball bat swing Bone Crusher
at her face as I approach her. Remember that you have advantage
on one of these attacks. Oh yeah, thank you.
That's a 16 to hit for the firstone.
Yep. And then a 17 to hit for the

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second one. And she's looking really
damaged, right? Although she's resistant to
everything, so looking. Pretty bad.
Is she resistant to Radiant? Do I need to separate that out?
She's not. Resistant to radiant.
OK, so 29 of the bludgeoning andsix radiant.

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Wait. 29 half would be 14. 14 and then six radiant.
Yeah. She had twenty hit points left,
Wham Wham, and you smack her in her head.
You hit the side of her chin andit just snaps and she falls limp
off the side of her gorgon and falls to the ground.

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What else for your turn? I would like to hammer down onto
the gorgon to try to basically like break it open like a like a
peanut. Sure.
Go ahead. I roll to peanut crack.
I'd like to shell this peanut please.

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Yeah, 27 to hit. Yeah, that will hit.
There is some Christmas theme tothis, you know, we're not
cracking this thing. That is 13 bludgeoning and four
radiant. That's from the echo and then
Comet would like to have attack it too to try to break it open.

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24 to hit with the hooves. Yep.
That will hit. There'll be 16 bludgeoning and
four cold. OK.
Rudolph squares up with the OR. You're on.
Rudolph, you're on. Comet, Comet.
Squares up with this with this big brazen gorgon and just
starts hoofing and did throwing its antlers into it.

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It's just big beast made out of metal, but it's able to hit and
do damage anything else. Does it seem like, you know,
like sometimes like in games like mounts just kind of dip out
as soon as like their rider is dead?
This is like animal it's gonna be.
An animal, right? Animal Handling check.
It would be bad if it dipped outwith MTRO still inside.

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Oh, that's a Nat 20. This thing looks enraged.
Look, if you have what, 20 on Animal Handling?
This thing looks enraged. It looks like it didn't even
notice that that that its. Rider fell.
Off its back, but it looks like it's got fire in its eyes.
It wants to fight and it looks. It looks angry, not looking like

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it's trying to run. And how damaged does it look?
Does does it look like I've doneanything not worthy?
OK. You did a good amount of damage
but big beast made out of metal,some slashes in it looking
really pretty healthy. Then I won't axe or thirds OK.
I feel like I'm inside a trash can, someone's beating with
baseball bats or something, just.

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I don't have a can opener, I'm sorry.
Back up to the top Rook. OK.
I'm going to get right up towards that.
Gorgon OK able to ride past the bearded devil as he uses
reaction already. And I'm kind of sizing it up,

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kind of wondering if bullets would Pierce a metal hide if
this Gorgon had perhaps travel through it's insides.
And Rook will size it up and say, and Taro, if you can hear
me, watch out. And I'm going to shoot it.
But not before using a bonus action to cast spirits or shroud

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on myself at the third level andsome intangible spirits begins
swirling around me. I'm going to be within 10 feet
to deal extra damage, and any creature, any bad creature, that
starts its turn within 10 feet of me has its speed reduced by

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10 feet. But this is just to tack on some
radiant damage. And I'm now going to shoot the
Gorgon with my revolver with a 20 to hit on the first one.
Yep, that's going to be 11 piercing and five radiant.

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Second hit is also a 20 Yep or 13 piercing and 10 radiant and
then I'm going to action surge and take two more shots.
Excellent. With a 30 to hit.
Rook would hear Marquis in the back on Show Us something, old
man. That third attack was a 3414

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piercing and seven radiant. Nice.
And a 19 to hit. 19 just it's yes. 10 piercing and 11 radiant.
Incredible. Absolutely.
Levi. Rook.
You charge forward on your nightmare, fly up to up to this

(02:28:05):
Gorgon right next to Rudolph. You're running around it, just
wielding your gun and just firing off bullets more than
should be possible. Everybody sees this spectacle as
Rook as just firing off shots into the Gorgon, ripping through
the metal. Gorgon definitely playing.
Freak on a leash music video in here dude.
Yeah. Gorgon absolutely is bloodied at

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this point. Took a lot of damage from the.
Bullet holes, sort of like I aimed around it and there's like
an outline of Emtero, like I tried to not hit where I think
he is. You see Emtero's eyeball like.
Looking out of one. Anything else, your turn.
Can crumb one make it make an attack?
The worst time error. Oh yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah. Oh, he rolled 12.
That's all right. I still love him.
I still love him. And tyro you are, you are up and
you are inside this gorgon that is heated up, heating up inside.
You're not taking any damage to start of your turn.
What would you like to do? I'm really want to cast charm

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monster even though I know. The chains are gone by the way.
The chains are gone around. Oh thank God the those were
those were part of the chain devils like conjuring able to
conjure chains at that point. So the chains are gone.
You are still grappled inside there.
Yeah, I want to do it anyway. I'm going to cast Charm Monster
just because I think it's funny to cast Charm Monster from

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inside of a monster because it just has a creature I can see
and I can definitely see. Yes, absolutely.
I just. Really want it has advantage on
its saving throw Wisdom saving throw of 17.
It does. Why?
Because it's being attacked by. This is the one where they get
advantage. Of charm monster so it has a + 2

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modifier to its wisdom Wisdom saving.
So what the so what'd you say the D Yeah the Tavern roll.
What is the DC on that 1717? So it has to hit a 15 with one
of these. Yeah, 13 or lower.
There's one. 01414. This keeps happening on the

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Tavern rolls. What?
You're low by one, Kyle. It happened.
Last of two, that's incredible. You you have cast a charm
monster on the Gorgon and it succeeds.
You feel it's like body like morph around you and and like
you like push you upward and youpop out the top and you are

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sitting on top of the brazen Gorgon at this point.
What else? Is that out?
Like Hello everyone, I'm fine. Like Beetlejuice coming out of
the grave. Oh yeah.
The charm Thought you might makean Ace Ventura exit.
Yeah, what is the? What is the was?

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Attacked. What does Charm Monster do?
Last for an hour and the creature is charmed by is
friendly to me. It is charmed by me until the
spell ends or until your companions do anything harmful
to it. So now.
It's friendly to me, it looks upto you, and it is under your
control at this point. The bearded devils turn their

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heads slowly out and look and see that you are on top of the
bracing Gorgon, and they have fear, like true fear in their
eyes as they start to book it away.
Do you guys stop them? Do you guys keep attacking them
at this point? Only if I see that one of them
has that sword when I bother attacking them.
No, the sword is laying in sheaths in the kind of like the

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back wrapped around some chains around Stella's or Stella's body
on the ground. And as they're leaving, I say so
long my friends and tell anyone else in hell what happens when
you mess with Levi Rook and his gang.
Come on man, I don't need more heat.
I'm going to hop off Crumb 1 andlet Crumb 1 chase him for a

(02:32:18):
while. You know I would.
Say the the marquee would be firing off shots as they go.
Like I'm not, I don't. Even roll for them.
You land a couple of them, you know, and they're Pew.
Pew. Pew.
Is there like? Let's get out of here righto.
And they're. Running away on these like these
demon beasts that are like kind of like crawling their way
through the demon icore. Trail of Fire as Crumb 1 takes

(02:32:40):
off from Let's get. Out of here.
Blinking. In and out of the.
Ethereal. Plane and you guys are standing
in front of this massive pool and you hear from down below
where that sword is. You just like feel this like
dark energy from it and it is radiating out and pushing the

(02:33:01):
demon eye core away from it. But it feels like dark the
energy alphabet. Yeah, like you feel like you're
looking like at an evil object like it's, it's very clearly
like a craft of the devil, like craft of from the 9 Hells do.
You think if I remove curse on it would it wouldn't get rid of

(02:33:23):
the icar anymore? I don't know.
Yeah, that might. We may not want to tamper with
its properties while we still need.
But I'm afraid to touch it as itis.
How heavy is it? Because Mayhan pick it up.
Yeah, Mayhan's got no Yeah, too heavy. 5 lbs Right Mayhan. 10
lbs. It's big sword.
I don't think it's. Can I animate something else to

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pick it up for us? What's around?
Or just use like like a frying. Pan with a bed.
A bed. Cloth or whatever, you know, bed
roll. Did you have the Gorgon do it?
The Gorgon Can I have the gorgonpick it up with his mouth like a
dog I. Don't.
Think it's it's. So it's very dumb.
It's a very dumb creature. So I don't think it's going to,
you know, you'd have to roll pretty high on an animal

(02:34:07):
handling to get it to pick it up.
Well, we've not twentied every other one so well.
That's a great point, but I can't just and I can't just
bring something to life to pick it up instead of 1 of.
Us. You can, yeah, they're around.
You can see there are remnants of this, like, epic battle that
had taken place. You see this motorcycle like
demon thing that looks like you could sit on it and ride it, but

(02:34:31):
it's got these like big like thefront of it's just this big like
steamroller wheel with a bunch of spikes on it.
You see a few just like regular like banners kind of stuck in
the ground, a few piles of armorthat could count I.
Mean we're going to do the motorcycle thing.
It's going to like turn into like Rosie from the Jetsons on

(02:34:52):
its one like demonic wheel Wheeling around or whatever.
On like a fiery hell bike that Ilike that's fun, but.
This is a fiery hell bike. Handlebars sprout into arms and
grow hands as it comes to life to come and pick up the sword
for us. If an animated object can't

(02:35:14):
fully test if it's cursed, Rook will oh, willingly pick it up.
But we can all see what the you know creation does first.
This thing goes over and somehowlike like a piece of metal like
goes and like scoops it up with this ability that you have to
animate this object and it picksup the the sword and it like is

(02:35:36):
resting on the bike and kind of in there.
It's got it held there. Well now we have the sword to
repel the Icor, so we simply need to use it to go down the
hole, yes? I think so.
How far is the Icor moving around it?

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The Icor spreads away from it ina 15 foot radius, so it's pretty
big that that 15 foot radius so.OK.
As you're kind of contemplating,you know what the next step is,
you look over at the Marquess and start to see Marquess.
You start to it's marquee, marquee.

(02:36:18):
Excuse me, You look over the marquee and you can start to see
the his fingertips start to blowin that golden effect.
Namby with your passive perception of 24, you're just
seeing the start of it happen and marquee doesn't really
notice it yet. But this is the the start of the

(02:36:39):
effect of the marquee going backto his story once it completes.
I think she would, she would point out and say, Marky, I, I
think, I think you're getting ready to leave.
It's, I think everyone's OK. So you don't have to worry, but
you won't be here much longer. Louie's story is not the most

(02:37:00):
fun one to return to well. True.
Well, you know, I guess the nicething about my story is I get to
keep trying. And he turns to to Namby and and
and the other two in the party. But particularly to Namby's is I

(02:37:21):
don't know what hand you had andhealing me or keeping our town
safe, but I know that I appreciate it.
Glad I was able to pay you back in some way.
And then turns to a dress Rook. The odds of us finding each
other here are pretty slim. I don't know if I believe in
anything kind of destiny or fate, but I think I understand a

(02:37:46):
little bit more about maybe whatyou went through than you down
here and all. And whatever good years you may
have had. Paradise.
Well, glad I was part of them. Brooke reaches out to shake the

(02:38:11):
Marquis hand, says you were there for all the good ones.
And then as he's shaking his hand, he'll look at the other 3.
Hey Marquis was from my story aswell, right?

(02:38:34):
It would seem so, yes. Maybe there's two different
ones, but he's certainly from what you say is mine.
I mean, he, he was there at the same time y'all were.
Can he go back to that one? I mean, how does this stuff
work? We barely know, we don't know.

(02:38:58):
I mean, he is the one from your story, maybe a lot later because
his name was different in the other story, so there's been a
change, so maybe. Well, at that, the Marquis would
kind of grip Rook's hand hard, bring his attention back to him.
He says. Look, you made your decisions.

(02:39:20):
You made your choices in life. So did I wasn't no accident.
I ended up where I am. I made those choices.
It's. Up to me to go live with them.
I can respect that. Well, best of luck to you
wherever you end up. See you when I see you.

(02:39:44):
I look at I look at Marquis before he disappears and I say
give him hell and I give him a little wink and give him Bartok
inspiration for his next journeythrough the gladiator.
There's. This hat it's.
The only thing I know how to give.
Marquis, you see your hand, thisthis glowing effect kind of

(02:40:07):
taking over your skin. It's kind of this pages that
unfurl and unfurl over you and consume the rest of you and the
marquee is gone. I guess look, you're just here
though, like you just live here,so.
Like. You're really here.
Yeah, yeah, You know, I, I really did die a second time and

(02:40:29):
go to hell, I think. How'd you die the second time if
you don't mind me asking? How did he die?
The first time. Or the first time, really.
Well, you know the the prison inparadise, they call it the
portal to hell. Well.
Yeah. That's sort of literal, sort of
metaphorical. But well, I had the only way out

(02:40:54):
is by dying, and I died the first time.
That's how y'all met me and I figured.
I figured it would work the second time breaking out of
there. So that's what I did.
I promptly went through and well, this time it spat me out
here and like I said, cosmic justice or something like that.

(02:41:14):
But sounds like y'all have a pretty sizable bounty on your
heads now and those two devils might spread the word.
So why don't I stay here and make sure no one else follows
you through till this thing closes up?
Plus I got to go find Crumb 1 now and who knows how long he'll

(02:41:35):
chase them for. We would definitely appreciate
the cover. Yeah, thanks for your help.
Thank you, it was a pleasure seeing you all again and well,
good luck. If I see anything red I'll you

(02:41:56):
know. Yeah.
Fire it will. The the sword on the bike is
propelling away the demon I core.
You can see it affecting just the edge of the the large pool.
You know, there's this massive big pool like like 40 feet
across pool of this like extra potent I core and you can see

(02:42:20):
that that I core is affected by it in proximity.
It's within 15 feet of it, just like the edge of it.
Well, OK, so the well leads to the shortcut.
It is the. Shortcuts cut straight down to
the next level. And that's where we, that's our
where's where we? Want to go?
That's the end of the map that we need to go to.

(02:42:43):
That's the end of the map. Do we have any idea what we'll
be landing in when we land? I don't think so.
Right. Well, this emboldened bond lasts
for 10 minutes, so I guess we should keep going.
Yeah. No sense in waiting.

(02:43:06):
So you send forward the bike into the I core and it kind of
like moves within it like and just like affecting the I core.
It's like bubbling gets to the center of the of the well and
it's repelling the I core and itstarts to sink down and you can
see it sinking down and then youcan see it kind of re congealing

(02:43:29):
like it's got this sphere of effect around it.
And you realize you have to follow it down as it is sinking
down. And so you get onto your
reindeers. You fly up in the air and fly
downward into into the hole as this thing is sinking and as as
soon as it like breaks through alittle bit of this I core
barrier, it just drops. And so you're suddenly following

(02:43:52):
this bike falling through this. Well, I core all around you and
you follow the reindeer kind of flying straight down into the
hole and land in a cave and it is cold.
You can feel it cold. It should be colder than it is.
You realize the reindeer are giving you some cold resistance
around you, and you kind of trotthrough this cave and look out

(02:44:16):
into Stygia, this layer of hell that is pure ice and cold and
freezing rain and snow. And you can see this large
solitary tower in the distance made of iron, with this pit
around it. It's like steaming pit.
And in front of this tower, you see an army of undead, of

(02:44:42):
skeletons arranged in formation before this tower.
And that is where we're going toend this chapter of Expedition
Untold. We're in a real Stiggy
situation, guys. Couldn't help but thank you to
all the players this week, Scott, Brooke and Becca and

(02:45:05):
Bones and Mav. Thank you all for joining.
Their socials can be found in the description.
If you want to see the video of this episode, it'll be up on our
YouTube. Follow us at Tall Tale Tavern
podcast on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
If you like us, give us one of those good five star reviews
doing our Discord 2. Thank you to Tyler Adelsperger
for our intro music. Thank you to Zayzar for our
artwork. Thank you to Mav and Bones for

(02:45:28):
not finding out who the guest other guest was going to be
until today when they logged on.And with that, we will see you
all next time at the Tall Tale Tavern.
Papa.

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