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Hello, everybody, Welcome back to the Hope Back Humanitarian
Society is what I was going to say, but it's a series, the
series where every week we bringon a new guest from the DND
community and we have a new guest this week.
Joined with me today are the other three spells of my
spellbook, starting with the I don't care how big the room is.

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I'm going to cast Fireball, Jacob.
I love me some good old vicious mockery.
Oh. Classic.
There was nothing like insultingsomeone and just watching their
body drop. It's amazing.
They just. Hear in their head.
I hope you step on AD four and they're done.

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It's a good one. It's a good one.
Mrs. Mockery is a good one. I like Mrs. Mockery, but who got
this boot on? I don't know what to talk about.
I don't even have a phone. Don't texting honeys and
sweeties learning to use letters?

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No way. No, only letters.
It was my D 20s clinking around.Yeah, all.
Right. Yeah, all right.
And Jared, you're next. What's your spell?
I would have to say mine. It's a little higher, but force
cage just happens to be amazing.I know they changed it in the

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most recent edition, but the the5 E it's just glorious.
The the fun stuff that can be had with that spell is it's just
wonderful. But how about you, Tony?
Yo, my favorite spell I think isvery underused.
It's a level 1 spell that could be scaled.

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It's going to be Ice Knife. I love Ice knife.
It's a little bit of fireball inthere and it's got some direct
piercing damage. You can't miss.
Well, you can miss, but even if you miss you still take the full
coal damage. That's why it's great.
Well, I miss with it quite often.
But yeah, ice knife is love using ice knife.
And Dan? Yeah, what about?

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You Tony's not used to being last in the line before me.
Hi everybody I am Dan. I am your humble dungeon master
today and I am going to shout out a cantrip, actually not a
leveled spell. I love the light spell.
I don't know. I just think it's very fun to

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play with, especially role play wise and it's it just makes
dungeon delving and so many situations a lot easier when you
just have a little bit of light in your life.
So that's my favorite spell. It's a good one.
I'm going to let it shine, Let it shine.
Let it shine. But you know the deal before we

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with a guest star. NOTD i.e. don't die.
HULLBECK. Let's go walking through the
streets and I'm feeling OK Dronewith special guests and I'm sure
they'll be just fine. Hold back humanitarians.
It's their time to shine. To shine.

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That's right. Yeah.
Welcome back to Hold Back everybody.
Today is a dry, Gray day as clouds cast dim light over the
town. Wind blows choppy waves against
the rocky Lakeshore as fishermenend their days earlier than
normal. As they walk back to their
homes, residents can be seen sniffling and coughing as the

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season is shifting to chiller autumn months.
As camera flies over the town, we zoom in on the Hold Back
humanitarian stronghold atop Hold Back Hill.
Pushing through the iron gates, we find a Dragonborn and a half
elf arguing in front of the mainentrance.
They seem to be covered in driedmud.
Jared, please describe your character as you bicker with

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your companion. Ecom is a wood elf, he is a
monk, he has a spear, and he is very mad right now.
How did how did Regna mess up this recent job and how did you
get all muddy? Well, in your opinion?
In my opinion, I was fighting way faster than him and he just

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wasn't able to get to the the center quite fast enough in my
eyes. I was over there, you know,
finishing everything off and then by the time I look, I had
to clean up a lot of his mess. So hence why I'm so muddy.
And Tony, please describe your character as you make your

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counter argument. Ragna is a is a crystal gem
dragonborn. He is brilliantly bright, but
right now muddy. He has the head shape where his
horns are more of a like a more of a Crest shape where his horns
are out very regal. He has very broad shoulders.

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And he is a paladin and he is wearing powdered armor with the
sigils of Bahamas blessed upon him, although very dirty.
And he is arguing while all muddied with his muddy horse
because he had muddied the horseon his way back.
And he goes econ. It is impossible that I have
failed. I have attacked more swiftly

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than I have done before. I was flying above the bridges.
I have the plain counted cult list in the name of Muhammad and
I took down to out of the three Shields and save the girl and
smited things and cried when when when when our friend B
Hummit had died, that was. Not cool.

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Well if you would have saved your flying to save the turtle.
I needed to get through the Cultus Queen to save the girl.
Who was more point? The girl or.
Hey, look, you're the holy one. However you want to like, figure
this out and morally deal with this, that's that's on you.

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As the two of you continue your squabble, a low noise in the
background, ever so faint, growslouder and louder until your
attention is finally broken awayfrom each other and shifted to a
scrawny looking Lyonan timidly asking for your help.
Jacob, would you please describeyour character?
Hi, I am a six foot 5 Leonan. My name is Maxis.

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He's, you know, got a blonde pelt going, but it looks kind of
thinner around where around his face and where like the beard or
the lion mane would come in almost like the runt of a
litter. Would look like a six foot 5
runt. Yeah, Leonans are huge.

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They can range from like 6 foot to like 7-8.
Continuing on, what does this Leonan say to the other two as
he walks up to the whole back ofMandarians?
Excuse me, I feel like I've got your name.
I feel like I've met you before.Your name is going to be.

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I don't know. Will you please tell me it?
E com we must deal with this. And I turn around.
I my name is Regna good Sir. And he looks up.
You are tall. How?
How may I help you? I I found this flyer in the
Tavern and I was told I could, you know, against my better
judgement, come here and then. List I I side eye E com.

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Like this is this is a you thing.
Do you want to tell him or you wanted me to tell him?
Yes, we've always looking for new applicants to join all
forces. Are you aware of the dangers and
consequences that may occur fromyour own actions?
I am the danger and he he standslike in the Superman pose, but
his like knees are weak and his arms are kind of shaking a

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little bit. Oh man, he's having flashbacks.
He's having econs having flashbacks.
May I ask you a follow up question?
Can I give you a follow up answer?
You sure can, we've ever had this happen before, but would

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you sacrifice yourself for the for the cause of the mission
aside IE com. I was about to walk away.
I don't know. What's your name?
And I reached my hand out to him.
I am Maxis. Maxis, nice to meet you.
I am Regna and this is my friendEcom.
We were just having a, a, a, a bit of a debate more or less.

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But fear not, we are nice peopleand we are very friendly.
Isn't that right, Ecom? Very friendly, very excited.
Good to good to see you. Ecom's kind of awkward.
So he's, he's just like whateverand, and trying to like brush
the situation on to move past it.
As I go to reach for the door, I'm like, there's a lot of

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things you need to learn before you become a whole back
humanitarian, and there's a lot of things you'll need to need to
know. You better get a notebook ready.
Have you ever heard of Bahamut? As I open the door as we walk
in. I grab my journal and I'm
flipping to page after page after page after page after page
after page. No no Bahama, but I do got a
tree hommet in here. A little blasphemous, but we'll

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work on that. And we walk inside.
You show them through the Guild hall of the whole Beck
humanitarians. You show them kind of where you
guys eat, where the lockers are.You give them a free locker.
Then you bring them over to JuanJohnson's office.
Do a neck I knock on the tempered.

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Glass. What is it?
Come on in. Yes, Captain Walt Johnson, we
have a new recruit who wishes tojoin our forces.
That's right. He's so filled out an
application. I take his application and is it
all filled out? It's blank.
Looking forward to filling one out.

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Grabs it without even listening to you and puts it in a drawer.
Yeah, that sounds good. OK, here's your sash and you see
that Juan? Shawn says, leaning back in his
desk chair. And he's got that like granny
kind of water filled ice pack onhis head.
Sir, do you? What else you.

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Just feel under the weather, like a little sweaty.
Maybe he's getting the fever. I got so much paperwork to do I
I can't take another day off. Anyways, here's your sash.
And the sash is actually a belt.And Maxis, what he does is he
gives you a belt and on it on the buckle is engraved Jr.

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All right, new junior reformer. Do you promise to do everything
possible to help the whole beck humanitarians and save the the
town? And are you going to help these
guys or what? I pinky swear.
I'm not doing that, but happy tohave you get out of my office.
Go do some work. There's it seems to be like

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there's some more goblin troubleover by the Smithwick, so if you
could go check out that, that'd be great.
Goblin rule by the Smithwick. I will we will make most haste
on that. And I will show young Max's here
the ways of being a humanitarianwith utmost valor, with respect
and dignity and courtesy to everybody and hold back.

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And he will become a new. A new recruits give you the
sickness you should get out of here as soon as possible.
You know I am. I could.
I could heal you. I am blessed by his light.
I could. That's good.
Out of my office. Whoa, whoa, hold on.
Didn't we just do a quest? We.

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Where's the compensation? I thought that was the whole
point of this. I.
Left it in your lockers and he did leave you 20 gold pieces
each in your lockers. It's possible to get that
platinum as the door slams in myface.
So do you think he's talking about a real goblin?

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Oh yes. Slow pen.
Are you OK with real goblins? Yeah, I've seen them all the
time. I take detailed notes in my
journal about all the creatures I come across.
Have you? What was the last time you got
in a scuffle with Maxis? Oh, well, there's this one time

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I went, I went out into the woods, right?
And it was the first time I've ever seen such a thing but I
classify it as a shimmick. Had some like weird teeth and
like some some WAVY arms I swear.
May I make a insight check what he's saying?

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Sure, you can roll a deception check please against their
insight check. I rolled A10.
I rolled a 26. Wow, Jimmy could weave yours.
That's impressive, young Maxis. I know he, he.
Had me on the on the ring in there for a second, but I came

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back. I came back.
I'm not going. To how did you slam?
What was your weapon of choice? A stick?
A stick? I am more of a how good man
myself. Despite their name, they're
actually really weak against bark for whatever reason.
Really, they just gifted. As you're talking, you hear the
door creak open and a hand is over Juan Johnson's head.

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He goes Econ. Can you step in here for a
second? OK.
And I Mosey on over there. Tell me more about this bark
close. Thank you for taking this guy
under your wing. This is a good friend of mine's

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son. Oh.
Yeah, they passed away a while ago.
Yeah. The, the Junipers, the the
merchants in town. You might have known them.
Actually, you might be new. Talk to him right now.
He might be able to tell you a bit about him.
But if you know Juniper over in Gilo, that's his brother.

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Oh. So if you can just do your best,
he's a bit. How do I put this fresh timid,
just maybe lower the amount of death talk is all I'm asking
for. I don't mind it, but you know,

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just. I can't help it when I get in
get worked up it just comes out sometimes and tell me not to do
it and it's just kind. Of I know, I know, I know you do
you do a great job here so I'm. Speaking of, are you You want me
to talk to the death for you? Maybe because I feel like I'm
dying? Oh, Jase, you know, I think I'm

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hearing whispers outside. I gotta go.
OK, bye. You seem kind of like slump back
into his chair. And there was a ton of dead
bodies you want to see in this cultist cave.
We and Ecom slayed so many evil cultists.
It was a bloodbath. I literally flew from the

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heavens as this poor girl was being decayed by decrepit
docratic magic. Her skin was failed, her veins
were turning green. But we saved her from the grips
of death. And you too.
Maxis will help us. You just see Maxis in a barrel
peeking through the lid. Like what?

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Mud creatures ate our boots. Yeah, well, I've seen water
creatures. And as you tell him the tales of
your adventures, hyping them up,I think for the battles ahead,
Mosey on through the town, making your way towards your new
adventure. And as you approach the

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vegetable farm, you see a small wooden barn, one story house and
a silo come into view. Soft blue paint has faded over
the years as cracks and peeling covers the surfaces.
The one acre of land is surrounded by by aging split
rail fences, and just outside those fences are Corrin

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Smithwick, his wife Melrose, andhis two daughters, Eleanor and
Raylana. Melrose is bandaging her husband
and as you make your way over you hear boisterous yelling and
see goblins pulling out crops and hitting each other with them
in the back. So you see Maxis, we're about to
approach a scenario, a situation, and it is most

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important. Not only do we handle the
situation, but do it in respectful and courteous way.
Not only do we want to solve theproblem, but we want to make
sure that the people feel safe and calm with us.
So like, don't butcher them in front of people.
Yes, but however, sometimes you deal with the situations at

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hand, sometimes you lure them away.
Sometimes we fight and I see thegoblins in the distance and the
noise that they make. Maxis, it is time to act.
Why don't you approach the Smithwicks and see what's going
on? Perhaps they can give us some
information and we. Will provide Beckham.
Oh, I'm a good people person. People talk to me all the time.

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I'm a, I'm a go up to Melrose right there.
All right, so you walk over to Melrose.
What do you say to Melrose as you're walking over?
Excuse me? You find people I I heard you
were having some sort of altercation around here.
Yes, of course, my, my husband, he went out to try and fight the

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goblins, but there's too many ofthem.
We just can't keep up with them when there are just little bits
of them and even just four of them.
We can take care of them ourselves.
But it just was too much for corn to handle today.
I know it's, it's, it's hard. It's hard.
Oh goodness, that hurt. And you see that he's got like a
gash in his left shoulder. Thanks for taking care of me,

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honey. I appreciate it.
Are you here to help? It's nice to see Aragna.
It's been a while. I walk over and I nudge ecom.
I'm like, he's a natural. Yeah.
So did you guys attack them first or did they come up here
attacking you or were they just trying to get some food?
Oh yes, well they were trying totake out our crops and obviously

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we need that to make a living. So I went in there and tried my
best to get rid of them but thishappened and I not in a good
state and not going to make my young daughters go out and fight
goblins so. Yes, Max is.
These goblins around these partsare devious, bastardly
creatures. They're not.
They're not civilized like you are, right?

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They're not. Well, they just make a ruckus
and they they like to steal things.
Can I make some sort of check tosee like how fruitful their crop
fields are? Yes, you can make me a nature
check 13. Yes, with a 13, you know that
with the weather changing that it's common for the plants and

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the crops to start withering out.
But you do have a feeling that they should be maybe a little
plumper than they are, a little more healthy than they look
today. I'm not sure why, but you think
maybe they're a bit smaller thannormal.
So I'm going to ask Corin, is there like a box, like a we can

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fill a box full of food we can give them and maybe send them on
their way like that? I tried that usually works, but
this time they just kept going and they try.
They attacked us like mad. It's like they're crazed or
something. I don't know.
Oh, they. Attacked you.
That's not good. That's not good.
I know usually I can throw them some coin into the woods and

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then disappear, but it felt different.
You'd point to the one that attacked you.
Which one is it? Oh, you see that gobby in the
back, right? That's the one that got me bad.
And you do see that there are some animals in a small area
with a barn and a couple silos and a tiny lake in the barn area

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where two horses, some cows and some ducks are.
There is a bigger lake in their backyard that is fenced off.
And behind them in the acre are the rest of their crops.
And they are vegetable farmers, as you know.
And it seems that the goblins have torn apart maybe a good

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eighth of their crops so far. Right, well, we've tried the
pacifist approach, and Maxis, that was really good thinking,
trying to give the opposition a chance to leave peacefully.
Although goblins are vicious, ruthless, mean, nasty creatures,
they still have some wits about them.
And that was a very good suggestion.

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And I take out my halberd. However, there are other ways to
deal with these heathens, and asrequested, we must handle them.
So if you will follow me, let's go test that mite and steel and
see how you fare against some goblins as you do.
Or Schmimic. And then I turn around and March
towards the goblins in the back right corner that attacked
Corin. Don't worry if you can.

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If I can fight off 1 measly goblin, even 3 or 4 by myself,
then you'll be fine. I jump over the fence and then
I'm like is there anything else that we need to know as I start
walking and following Regna? I don't think so.
Just be careful. They're a bit spread out so I'm
not sure what they're up to and everybody can make me a

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perception check as you go towards the back gate.
On that one big back, who said? Dude an 18.
I got a 15. 15 All right, Regna,Maxis E com As you make your way
to the gate, you're looking around and you're you're heavily

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focused on that goblin in the back right part of the form.
So Regna and Maxis you do not see this but E com you look up
into the trees and notice 3 goblins peeking out of the trees
that jump down and attack you. Everybody roll initiative.
Everybody go through the gates. Come on.
Well, we don't have time for this.
This goblin. Yes, I know.

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That's why we're here. You've been paying attention to
the quest note that the captain gives us.
And this goblin jumps right nextto you and starts attacking you
right now. Oh, did I step in a thorn Bush
and I roll the six in my initiative?
Got a 13 I got. An 11.
Boom, all right, econ your firstact as these goblins jump down

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at you all. Right.
I pull out my trusty spear, see the one jumping towards Regna,
and I go and try to swipe at him.
You look down and you see this crazy looking female goblin.
It's looking up at you and licking her lips with daggers in
her hand. Just kidding.

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I I run to the other goblin and attack that one and say.
Fair enough, attack the other goblins. 27 and seven damage.
Dead oh on the money dead as youkill this goblin and move over
to the next. I I grab the the soul as it

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leaves his body with my touch ofdeath and I get 10 hemp
temporary hair points. Regardless of their castle in
nature. That hurts.
I mean, that's the way to go I guess.
As the soul leaves the body I say peacefully as I get even
more demonic sounding. As the goblin shrinks like a

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sponge losing water. He's bedside mad.
I could use some work, but he's a natural.
All right, I'll go to the other non female character and roll to
attack that one and get a 21 hit.
Again, definitely hits. I'm gonna get you.
Let me. Get you dead.
Oh. Maxis, you see Econ just swiftly

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take out these two little goblins without even thinking
about it. I'm just standing there with a
couple carrots, but but they were just hungry man.
Didn't have to cut him down likethat.
Hey, you know that that book that you have, you may want to
take that note out and write dead on that goblin page.

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I want some alive instead that's.
That's my turn. I'm good.
You see that all the other goblins just watch curiously to
see what you're you guys are going to do and how they're
going to handle this. And Goblinet is going to see you
take out two of our compatriots and immediately is going to
start attacking you. And that's going to be a 22 to

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hit and a nine to miss. And this is for Regna, right?
No for you, ecom. No, my weakness.
That's right, I'd be scared of me too.
As you take 4 points of slashingdamage from that multi attack
and then she gets scared and bonus action disengages and hops

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over the fence. Guys I need help.
Ecom goes from being very like furious to all of a sudden be
like. Maxis, as you see this goblin
hop over the fence instead of just taking the gate.
What are you doing? So I feel like the only right

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thing to do is Vicious mockery on on Goblin at.
Oh, do it. She just, she just hears in her
head, you run like a whale. Damn.
And I forget for vicious mockery, did she make a save or
is that a hit? Oh I'm sorry, wasn't saving

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through 15. That's it.
Thank you. She's so wise.
Just you wait 11 Gablano. He's making fun of me.
Ow. That's completely.
One damage ow. How are you?

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Is there anything else you're doing on your turn?
I think I am going to start moving towards the tree line a
little bit. Gotcha.
Right along here and then my turn.
As Regna looks upon the various amount of foes in front of him.
I use my free action to speak telepathically to Goblinet and

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go damn to that vicious mockery.And then I looked to the right
and I looked to the left. Can I use my bonus action to
make a check? If you like.
OK. I would like to know what's that
perception check? I guess I would like to know or

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insight if they're more hesitantto fight and they look like
they're going to run based off what just happened or if they
have all full intention. To check us you know what?
You. Get.
That's a flat 10. Yeah, it looks pretty obvious to
you that now that goblinettes introuble, they're ready to fight.
Before they thought she could handle herself, but now it's

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clear that she's in over her head.
So they're like, ah, time to roll up our sleeves, crack our
necks, and get into battle. OK, well, E com E com access you
seem to have a thing going over there with Goblinet, so I'll
take the group on the left, you 2 take the group on the right
and we will reconvene in the middle and I the.
Com does not have a thing with Goblinet I'm.

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I'm already gone and I've moved.Goblinet hears that and looks at
you and goes and puts her hand to her mouth.
I'm taken. I'm going to move like that.
She all of a sudden takes 2 points of damage from yeah.

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I'm going to move 30 feet northwest and I'm going to use
an action to use my draconic breath.
Yeah. So I'm going to go ahead and
it's a 15 foot cone going to hitthese three.
Yeah, you can hit three of thosein the front.
Yes, so it's going to hit those three fellows breath weapon.
They need to make a Dexterity saving throw over DC-15.

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They got a 15 so they all pass. All right, so they're going to
take half of 11 points of radiant damage.
They're looking really messed up, all three of those.
They go in Bahamut's lights. May he bless you, you know,
Vernus and I shoot this radiant breath at them.
They do sparkly damage. Look at.

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And that's going to be the end of my turn as I ain't ready my
Albert. As ECOM gets ready to somehow
come back from Regna's shenanigans.
Ecom reluctantly goes towards the Goblinet and I'm right.
I'll go right behind Maxim Maxisand be like, hey, OK, so.

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Look. Oh my.
God. OK, here's the deal.
You take that one. And he points to the goblinet.
I'll handle all that. Think you can handle that?
I start blushing a little bit. I get.
I get Goblinet to myself. As long as it's not my problem.
Stay away from my girlfriend, you hear Gablano say.

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I want Gablano. OK.
It's almost like a mimic or social norms.
Goblin on. Wait, so Goblinaro said that
right? Cablato yeah, like completely
makes fun of right now. I'm gonna use a cantrip poison
spraying as he says that. What?

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Does he have to do what kind of?No, I just roll.
It's an 11. Oh, an 11 is going to miss so.
I kind of. I do spray stuff we can't even.
Hit Remember that. Didn't regna miss everything
just a second ago. Right.
No, he he had a bunch. Oh I was trying to take a a a

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note out of his book and try to use my own kind of acid spray
but ended up short because goblinet was like.
He does a Fortnite clown dance on you and.
That's my turn. That's your turn, the Goblin
Hexer. You see this one goblin with
almost like a shaman staff in front of you, Regna.

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It's going to make a ranged psychic spell attack on you.
It's going to make two of those 7.
Misses and 17. That's on the money.
Yes, you're going to take half of 13, so 6 points of psychic
damage. Oh.
Whack. Well, take a quack.

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Whack. Take a quack.
I Hey, Wayne said. I point my halberd at him.
As Gablano's going to go and jump over the fence and start
attacking econ. So athletic.
Yeah, well, I could do that. Too A5 now one and a 12 both

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missing. See he blushes.
Goes I, I I'm just mimicking you.
You just ended when you jumped over this fence.
That was cool, but I don't know what that was.
And then all the rest of these goblins are going to start
attacking, and you do see if there's one twig blight in the

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midst, and the twig blight is going to start dashing to Regna.
I turn around, there's just a tree there, like.
Hmm. Goblin out hops over the fence,
the goblin warrior dashes, the other goblin warrior dashes, and
you out now have two really beefy warriors right next to

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you, Maxis with their Das actions, and they stare down and
you go. We're going to eat you, aren't
they? Staring at you, up at you.
Who's ready for goblin attacks? Whoa, whoa.
I just, I just moved the screen over there.

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Listen, I get an attack of opportunity on one of them.
One of them, Yeah. Which one?
Let's say this one, Goblin A. OK so they all surround me.
I wanted to move. OK, so I'm going to attack
Goblin A unless you. Think you can take out one of
the healthy ones? Yeah, I think I can.
Yeah, let me hit a healthy 1. Do it.
All right, Goblin minion B is getting attacked, Yeah.

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He is What's an 11? And 11 is going to miss as they
all surround you and you hear like circus music as they're all
holding hands and then begin attacking you.
Dang. Is it 22 to hit hits 17?

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Hit hits. 10 to miss, miss. 13 to miss, miss. 15 to miss yes.
23 to hit yes. What did they stick?
11 points of piercing damage from all these daggers.
Quite sharp. It's crude.

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Then they go spread out and theyall disengage with a bonus
action. Rig to watch out, they've got
the bark. The the old, the bark.
As it's going to go back to Max's turn Nexus.
All snap. So I am going to do a good old

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shatter. It's in about a, you know, a 10
foot circle, so I can at least, you know, get Goblano and this
goblin right here. Yeah.
And then all you got to do is make a con saving throw for 15.
Oh, they can totally do that. Five fail and let me.

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Check my notes. Four.
They both fail miserably as you shatter these gobbos 14.
Damage. Yeah, you see, the goblin
warrior explodes. I'm going to eat you, Dawn
Liblano. Looking pretty messed up from

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that. Everybody there must be further.
I thought we're at least strong.Be careful, this one means
business. Is there anything else you're
doing on your turn? I'm giving Goblin Goblinetta
look, just look and ending my turn.
Yeah, give me a raw charisma check. 13 you.

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You see that? She looks at you and for a
second she blushes and goes, no,I'm faithful.
I'm faithful to Gablano. Stop looking at me like that.
That's a weird way to pronounce Maxis.
That's a no. It's going to go to Regna's
turn. We got some military style

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training. Very interesting, very, very
bad. Or Formidable however, are they?
My stick is a lot bigger than yours and I'm going to go ahead
and move 10 feet forward northwest to towards the goblin

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hexer and I'm going to use my 10foot attack with my halberd to
to attack with my first attack. Dang, that's a 10 miss.
Yeah, but my second attack, Oh my God, I'm running rolling like
bugs 13. Barely hits, going to be a
glancing blow. I don't.
Know what it's going to be 5 points of slashing damage and

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I'm going to use my bonus attackto make it another attack
against it with my Howard because my pole arm master 15.
There you go, that's going to hit.
There it is. That's going.
To be AD 4 plus, that's going tobe 6 points of damage.
As the goblin Hector looks at you.
It's not the size, it's how you use it.

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But but mostly about the size. And how you use it.
Big words from a small critter. And he looks at Gablano in
Goblin. End and in maxim and is
uncomfortable being in the middle of this all right so I'm

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going to attack Goblano 14. That's going to miss.
Oh, I'm. Going to attack him with my
second attack which is a 26. OK, there you go.
And then it hits off. Of he's the only one wearing
metal armor and it thinks off. And that's going to be 11
damage. You will never tear us apart

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dead. But I sit there and just
awkwardly now that like it's kind of like the dust is
settling and I'm like, OK, well,I'm going to go over here and I
take I get away from goblin thenand go towards the goblin
warrior. We'll take an attack of
opportunity. That's fine. 9 to miss.

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OK, I kind of in in between Maxus and Goblinette and kind of
using him as a as like a line ofsight, you know what I mean?
Like a barrier, but as in he's going to end his turn blushing
over on the other side. As it goes back to the goblin's

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turns, it's how you use it, the heckster says as it begins to
attack you. What's mostly about the size?
That's going to be a 21 and a 19holy.
They both hit. As you take 20 points of psychic
damage. It's how you use it.

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I told you and the rest of thesegoblins are going to go up to
you and keep attacking. You get to get one of them.
Yeah, I'm attack goblin E do it.Oh, that is a 26 to hit.
Yes. OK, it's going to be. 11 point

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slash. And as they move in, I'm going
to use my new class ability, which is Relentless Avenger.
What A creature you hit with an opportunity attack.
You can move half your movement speed immediately after as a
part of that same reaction without provoking attacks of
opportunity. Love that.
We're going to move up. Here to the north.

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Yep, I'm going to move northwestcloser to the Goblin hexer on
the opposite side of him to get him more advantageous position.
You see that the two goblins in the back have to dash to get to
you, but the other three can still use their movement to try
and attack you and those 3. So you're avoiding 2 attacks,

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which is pretty clutch I hope. I learned this move from Roroney
tension. Though 13 a miss. 16 a miss. 14
A miss. I powered them all with my
halibut. Yeah, you do almost like what
you would do with a Bo staff andjust spin it around.

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And they're getting a little anxious now that they look over
and they see a lot of their warriors are gone and the other
ones are gone and Goblinette is just going to run over to Maxis
upset. No, ECOM for sure upset that you
destroyed her boyfriend. It's going to make a multi

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attack against you. No, no, it's OK.
I'm, I'm good. And I slap her hand away for the
first attack and the second attack just.
Slap them both away and she's intears.
Oh my God, they're they're touching hands.
No, no, we're not. We're I'm good.

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This is great progress. You called.
And then she kind of moves to the backside of you, and that's
going to be all the goblins turns.
Something special finally makes it up to Regna for the dash
action. And the twig blight stares at
you with these deep black eyes. Maxis.

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Is this tree always here? What are you doing Maxis, as you
have a goblin warrior and goblinet left?
I am going to move slightly thisway.
All right, you will take an attack of opportunity.
That is a OK. I got a miss it's.
Not a Kevin T. That.

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Hurts. That hurts me a little bit.
Yeah, that. But only 5 damage?
That's not too bad. Oh, that's all right.
That's all right. And then since I'm in the range
of both Regna and ECOM or ECOM, I'm going to hit them both with
a bardic inspiration. It's OK, you're leaving me.
You get an extra D6 on, you know, attack rolls and any any

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checks. Let me just, can you read that
out for me? I just want to make sure you can
do that to both of them on the same turn.
OK, so it is only one person. Yeah.
OK. So you just got to pick.
One so right. I am going to hit Regna with it
since he's surrounded. Good call.
Nice. I'm still mad you left me.

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I'm not gone yet, I promise. That's your bonus.
This says I'm standing like clearly over them.
Now you retrain it. I give them a wave.
Can I use my disguised self to become like a like a an orc war
not orc war chief, he's a goblinwar chief.
Yeah, try to like scare me off you.

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That's your action. First, you're going to make a
deception check to see do you deceive of the goblins.
I got a 26 on the deception check.
All right, Goblinet and the Warrior get advantage because
they're near you. The other ones don't.
I'll fail and then goblinet Nat one and a Nat 1-2 Nat ones in a

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row for goblinet when you see Goblinet starts blushing as she
sees this new bigger warrior on the field and.
Flexing like Neil Armstrong just.
And Goblin Warrior, they they think you're a war chief.
If you want to do an intimidation check, we can see

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how that goes. I would love to 25.
Yeah, you see that the Goblin Warrior and the Hexer are going
to be immune to this, but the minions all completely fail, and
on their next turn they're probably going to flee.
It looks like they're shaking intheir boots as they look over

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and they go, Oh no, the chief's back.
If they're frightened we get advantage on attacks I'm pretty
sure. These little guys, maybe?
Greg is the only one that can reach him, but.
I think that's everything you can do on your turn, as regna
gets to do whatever Regna gets to do.

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Sure do. It's about the size.
And I'm going to use my first attack as I flourish my halbert
against the hexer. That's going to be a 10, but I'm
going to use my Arctic inspiration, a 616.
Nice. That's going to be eight points

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of slashing damage. Starting to feel it.
Starting to feel it. We're gonna hit him again.
Oh, there's a 13 ahead. On the money.
Ah nice, and that is an additional 7 points of slashing
damage. After three, are you doing that
bonus action? Sure.

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That 20, which is 2D4. Yeah, the Perkins of IT 2.
Four. Oh my God.
Oh, yeah. So it's going to be.
Oh, right, right, right. Yeah.
So it's going to be 4. Just rerun the four. 39 points
of damage total on that. There you go.
Is he out? Nope, he's not out.

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So I have the cleave on my halberd.
Can I attack the same guy or hasto be a different guy?
Has to be a different one, a different guy.
I'm going to, as I'm Cleveland attacking, I'm going to attack
the twig blight behind me with that additional attack.
Oh my Cleve. That's going to be a 16.
It's. And that's just going to be a
flat D 1010 on the money. Make me a Dexterity saving

(47:55):
throw, please. Oh.
I can do that easy easy 9. You fail, so you're going to
take the full of this. You take 2D4 as you see that
this little twig blight explodesinto splinters and thorns.
You take 4 points of piercing damage.

(48:18):
Told you they had the bark. You were right about the bark.
I should get some bark. But the me and either a nature
or a history check I'm. Going to do history man.
I am rolling like boy 10911. Oh, that's good, though.

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That's good enough. You know, Trick Blight shouldn't
be doing that. Interesting.
All right, the goblins are not going to do anything until ECOM
goes. So there's the Goblin warrior in
front of me and Goblinet to my side, correct?
Who's blushing? Yes.
Wait, what? Oh.

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Blushing. Maxis right?
She's peeking around your shoulder like.
So if I moved away right now, would I take opportunity?
Yes, because of the warrior, because of her, or both.
Warrior disadvantage from Goblinapp because she's a little
distracted. So she's distracted.

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OK, Econ wants to get out of this situation, so he's going to
use Hour of Reaping. OK, as an action, a creature
within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw of ADC 14
or be frightened of you until the end of end of your next
turn. With a warrior.

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No Kaplan. Kaplan OK, sure.
A wisdom. Yeah, wisdom. 13 Yay, she's
scared of you. Yeah, all right.
Perfect. So since she's frightened, she
now has, Oh, she was already frightened, right.

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But she has to move away from me.
Wait, no, kids can't. Move closer to me, that's what
it is. Can't move closer.
To me or attack you. Perfect.
In that case, now I'll run away.Goblin Warrior will attack you
though. That's OK.
Is there any Bush within 30 feetof me that I can run to?
To your South. To my S OK, I'm going to run to

(50:26):
that Bush. I'm going to.
Try to jump into it and I'm going to.
When I take the two opportunity attacks, I'm going to use Mask
of the Wild. 17 to hit. That hits on the money.
So is that glancing? Yes, glancing.
So you take 4 points of slashingdamage and Goblinet's not
hitting you. All right.

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And then so my mask of the wild,I can attempt to hide when
lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, miss
and other natural phenomenons. And it's a special action, so I
could still do it, correct? So it yeah, you're doing it as
a. It allows you to do a hide

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action as a bonus action. Yes, you can attempt to hide
even when slightly. Upset, just do a stealth check
as we move on to the goblin's turns. 12.
Wait. Yes, yes, it's. 12.
E COM has fully tried to get away from this situation.

(51:31):
The. I'm out of here.
I'm out of here. Goblin Warrior is going to
attempt to see you. He's the only one that's going
to try and do this 11. Whoa.
Where'd he go? Where'd he go?
You do the Skyrim thing where you just Crouch and he goes wait
a second, I don't know where he went.

(51:56):
Goblinet is going to go over to Maxis and use her action to ask
you are you seeing anybody? And then it's going to move on.
Oh, it's so in. I see lots of people.
There's two right there and there's a couple over there.
The warrior is going to be like Chief.

(52:19):
It's good to have you here. We need your help.
My help, yeah, yeah. I will lead you guys through
victory. I hope so.
And then you see that the goblins are going to run into
the woods. All the minor goblins you can
take whatever, they're all bonusaction disengaging.

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As they should. It is the wise choice.
And you? Are.
Next Gone. They're scared.
Bye, bye, bye. The heckster is like you fools.
I'll get you for this. All right, back to psychic
damage. Has got 25.

(53:02):
Oh my goodness. Thousand at 20.
Wow bro that's crazy. And 11:00 so you are going to
take take 25, right? 26 Three points of damage taking
damage. Down, down, down.

(53:27):
It's about destroyed and I just fall to the floor.
As the Hexer lifted staff is like, yes chief, look, we still
have this Maxis, what are you doing?
Oh my gosh. Does he choose love or

(53:48):
alliances? Oh.
Geez, I'm going to start moving this way towards Regna and yes,
we'll follow. You, of course.
You. You don't.
You don't actually have to do. That it's fine.
We got your back. I'm just taking a stroll, you
know, like you don't really. What are we doing, boss?

(54:12):
I'm I'm going to use my dauntingroar.
You're going to run nice. What is the dodging war do
again? Just.
Be Wisdom saving throw DC-12. You also have to make this DC
check, by the way. Me.
Yeah, make me ADC Wisdom check for me, please.

(54:35):
The goblin warriors Like yes. Sir.
Yeah, OK. And runs into the woods and
goblin net passes is like. Got a six?
You scare yourself without roar,you've never wore that loud in
your life and you go prone onto the ground.

(54:59):
Are you OK? That was.
No, Did you hear? That that was hot.
Now it's kind of not. Right now you, you are going to
make me a death saving throne. Easy.
That's hilarious, Nexus. What was on a 17?
Oh, 17's good. No, it was a three I.

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Failed. It was a three.
Oh no. All right, that's one.
Fail. Yeah, it's a fail.
Econ. I take out my potion of healing,
which is looks like my last one,and throw it on Ragna. 08 points

(55:40):
I get back if I'm rolling it. You you don't have to roll it.
It's an action, so you get a full.
Oh, yeah, it's my full action. Yeah.
Regna. OK, look, hey, I don't need you
dying. OK, Look, we got to look after
the, you know, the lion over there.
Max's. I know.

(56:01):
Hey, Goblin Hexer. Just give me one second.
Sorry. So Juan Johnson told me that you
know Juniper The Leonan. Yeah, the drivers, well renowned
Regal Leonians of Humbra. Yes, Yes.
Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
Have you made the connection to Maxis over here yet?

(56:24):
See how they look similar. I blink twice, loudly.
Blink Toys I. Have doubt this is embarrassing.
And then it goes. To the Goblin Hexer's turn.
The Goblin Hexer sees Regna get pulled up with a health potion,
looks back, looks at ECOM. He goes Nah, I don't need this,

(56:47):
Throws his staff away and walks into the woods.
I'll see you back at camp, boss.Yeah.
I'll see you. Why do you sound weird emotional
these days? Walks into the woods.
I'm out. Oh this is embarrassing.
I'm as I'm getting up and catching my breath I'm going to
use lay on hands and just heal myself with 35 points of damage.

(57:13):
Maxis, you now are hanging out with Goblinette, she's enamored
of you and Gablano's dead and y'all can do what you want to
do. OK.
So before I was so ecom, first of all, thank you.
I appreciate you bringing me back to the light.

(57:33):
I was once enshrouded by Bahamasbeneath Muhammad's shade of his
wing, but now I am now walking in this light once more and I do
appreciate that and it will not happen again.
Secondly. No real real, you know that you
you know, he he gave you some bonuses.
I'm just making sure you used all those, right?

(57:55):
Yes. Oh, OK, very good.
I was just making sure. Very inspiration.
I didn't quite hear him. I didn't quite hear him.
I. Didn't realize he was a goblin
boss. That's astounding.
Why? I just would have solved this
issue way sooner. How hurt does Goblinet?
Look, surprisingly not so hurt. You only did one point of damage
to her and then nobody else hit her.

(58:18):
So a little emotionally hurt, but you know.
That could have been you. We're working on these things.
You can make friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I look at the twig on the ground.
Look, friends. Oh, Speaking of, this thing
exploded when my halber touched it and not in a I smote it in a
type of way like it exploded like a bomb, like a tree bomb.

(58:45):
That's that's not normal. They don't do that.
So as you're looking around for the next 30 minutes here, you
are going to go for free. In Gablano's pocket you find a
black vial of liquid about the half size of like a potion
bottle. It is this boiling black viscous

(59:08):
liquid, and if you want to make some other checks while you're
in the garden or the crops, you can.
Otherwise, you can go talk to the people you saved.
So goblin out, what you doing after this?
Oh, I'm, I'm going back to my myground hole where I live.

(59:30):
You live in a ground hole. Well, yeah, all of us from the
northern region live in ground holes.
Don't deception check. 20 Dirty 20.
That's weird, but whatever. You're you're pretty new to the
chief role, so well, forgive it.Anyways, this is for you.

(59:53):
And she slides you a scroll witha really crudely drawn crayon
map of where her hole is. Her.
Her. Ground Hole.
I'll totally visit you with the rest of my pack goblin friends.
OK, see you later. And she winks, and she goes into

(01:00:14):
the woods. Let go of the disguise self and
I'm like almost having a panic attack.
Oh my God. I talked.
I talked to a goblin. Oh fuck.
Oh. Gosh, Oh my gosh.
Man, you, you really kept it together over there.
Yeah, you think so? You really do.
Yeah. Anybody that would like to

(01:00:34):
before you leave can make me a either an arcana or a nature
check. I got a 12 arcana.
Got 8 arcana. OK, the wood.
Elf got a 19 on nature check. That tracks.
You go back to where you remember where the twig light

(01:00:54):
was earlier, and you go back to that area, ECOM.
And as you're going to the farthest northeast part of these
crops, you see that all the plants and vegetables that were
pulled up out of the ground by the goblins, they put seeds into

(01:01:15):
those holes. But this was the only one that
you see this black liquid kind of at the edges of this hole
where the twig blight came out of.
Wait, so it seems like they planted a bunch of these twig
bites? Is that what I'm going to like?
Man, that tree really branched out into a million pieces.
And when you search a little more through Gablano's pockets,

(01:01:40):
you see that someone had writtenGablano a note.
You find 20 gold pieces. And take those as compensation
from the Platinum Dragon. There you go.
And on the note as you guys are rummaging through Gabbana's

(01:02:01):
pockets, it shows that there wasa plan that they were to go to
this farm. They were to plant these twig
blights and then pour this blackliquid on top of the blights.
Is so is there black liquid on these ones already?
No. Oh.
OK, it's just around. It's around the whole of the

(01:02:21):
twig blight that already attacked you that you killed.
Gotcha. OK, OK.
That was pretty great there. I'm impressed with y'all.
As always, thanks for helping usout our humble farm.
Hey Gord, you weren't kidding. They really gave me a run for
their money. I told you they don't come in
droves like that normally. That's seemed a little beefed

(01:02:44):
up, a little juice, a little inspired even.
I know most of the goblins around here are a bit more
mischievous than actually aggressive, so.
One of them was pretty OK. Hey listen, are you are you
planting tree monsters by any chance?
Point over to the Shattered TwigBlight.
What in the hell? That's wild.

(01:03:07):
All right, family clean up time.Thanks, everybody.
We're going to take care of this.
And as long as we take care of the twig lights before the next
hour, they won't grow. So it'll be fine.
You guys can take care of yourselves and move on.
I think my wife has a question for you though, on the way out.
So if you could talk to her, me and my daughters will take care
of this. All right, Dad, All right.

(01:03:28):
And they, the three of them, go to take care of the lights.
He come squeaks out of the way. You don't think that black
liquid is growing them, do you? I'm going to be honest, it seems
that way. Well, we can't leave this here.
I take Leblano's body with me asI'm walking out.

(01:03:50):
Fair enough. What do you plan on doing with
this body? You're laid to rest.
What do you mean? What do I plan on doing with the
body You? Want me to go get the tree and
get the tree. No, they said they got that.
That's fine. And I walk out.
I walk towards Melrose with the dead goblin in hand.
Hey Regna, thank you for helpingus.

(01:04:12):
Of course, at Melrose. I do have a bit of a question
for you, a bit of a favor if youdon't mind.
Of course. Do you think you might be able
to go to the South along the shore to check on my my sister?
Oh yes. Well, Bridges been having

(01:04:33):
similar problems with the goblins, so I'm just worried
that she might be dealing with the same thing that we're
dealing with. Interesting, don't know Rose, if
you don't mind, would you pleasesee that this creature gets laid
to rest properly and with with the proper headstone?
Although it is an ugly, ugly, disgusting, bastardly dastardly
goblin, I would respect that youwould treat its corpses as one

(01:04:55):
of the living and give it a proper burial.
And I drop Globano on the floor as we now walk out head South.
Yes, of course, Regna. We still have some of the stones
that he left us last time as we had some more than we needed.
So I appreciate that we'll take care of it, as always, not what
we would normally do, but for you, our protectors, absolutely.
Thank you very much and we will check on your system both taste.

(01:05:18):
Thank you Can. You come back, sis, let's go.
And I begin to walk South. Yeah.
So you begin to walk S through the woods and as you're walking,
it's still overcast. The wind is still blowing
through the trees. Leaves are falling off as it's,
they're not changing color, but the leaves are starting to fall.

(01:05:38):
And all of a sudden as you're walking along the path, you see
someone coming to view. You know this person to be
Jamieson, the town crier all approaching you.
Jamieson seems to be coughing and coughing and coughing and
then tumbles over in the middle of the road in front of you.
No, Jamieson, we know that when you cough, he was coughing your

(01:06:00):
mouth to not spread disease. Passes out.
What? That's not normal and I've
jumped over to Jameson. As you kneel down to examine the
body, he twitches all of a sudden and then starts
convulsing. Everybody make me ADCA Dexterity

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saving throw please. Oh geez, everybody gets +3.
By the way, I've rolled A9. Dang, you can't go on an 8?
It was technically a net one. I got a 10 + 3.
Yeah that was with the +30. So with plus 3, Ecom's the only

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one that fails. Oh net, I'm in the back.
What happened? To me, sorry, no, I fail.
I got a nine. But don't you have oh they have
+3? Yes, well I do too.
I rolled A9 with it. Oh.
Yeah, I see. All right.
Yeah. So the two of you fail.
Maxis is fine. You see Jameson wriggle and

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writhe and all of a sudden thorns explode out of his body
as these necrotic roots and branches engulf his body,
digging into his skin, transforming him into this
Blighty viney creature. Oh.
Blight was born from his body that was in my hands.

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What in the saloon? If you failed, you're going to
take full. If you succeed, you're going to
take half. OK.
Of 10 piercing damage. So question, did Jameson just
die? Because if he died, I got
temporary hit points so. I'm trying to.

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So help me out here. Did I catch a soul coming from
his body or did he? I think you.
Have to kill him though. They have to be the one.
I think it's if it dies around me, hang on.
Yeah, read a check. I'm interested.
When you reduce a character, there it is.
Or a creature too. Yep, there you go.
All right, everybody roll initiative, please.

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OK, 18. 13. Not one.
I'll go tomorrow. I'll see you guys.
OK, whatever the first one was 19 is what they got. 19 She was
actually an 18. 18 ECOM you get to go first actually.

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So as this blight like its legs come up first, then it's waist,
then it's whole body, it's neck,it's head, and it stares at you
with these deep abyssal eyes. What are you doing ECOM?
So it blew up, I got thorns in my face, and by the time I turn
around I see it standing there and instantly going with the

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spear. I got an 18 for my first attack.
Oh yeah, And then I got a 17 from a second attack.
Yeah. Nice.
So 13 damage and nine damage. Looking messed up.
Looking messed up. Looking like a twig.
OK, Seeing what happened to Regna previously and we're going

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to go ahead and take 5 steps back now that I've, you know
what's 50 feet, You know what I mean?
Like. What's 50 feet?
So couple steps. Yeah, so.

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Ecom instantly hits it and feelslike he's like when you're
hitting something and you feel it like pulsing in in power.
So he's worried that it's going to blow up and he takes a full
movement action going backwards,everyone.
'S going to blow up. The blight looks at Regna and
Maxis and I'm just going to Regna.

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Do you want to be evens or odds?Even.
All right, it attacks Maxis. Oh geez.
Oh geez. Oh.
No. Oh geez.
Oh no. Oh Gee whiz.
It is going to make a constricting vine attack against
you. Are they 13 to miss?

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Nice. That is really, really good for
you. You feel like as the vines are
reaching towards you, the tips of the vines look sharper than
normal, like needles. And then it is going to do
nothing else I think as it looksat you reaching.
This new creature doesn't quite know how to use its body yet as

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Regna stares down at this necrotic abomination.
I'm shouting from behind him. You guys are still standing by.
You need to get away. Oh.
I'm just going to go ahead and make attacks against it, Jamie
said. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Jamieson,
but you had just coming forward a long time and I go to unleash
a series of attacks. That's 21 that hits that D, it

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hits. It'd probably 9 points to
slashing damage. Yeah, OK.
Both. You make me a Dexterity saving
thrill, please. O21.
That'll be a fail. Oh, as you're going to take
seven points of piercing damage as it explodes and dies.

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As as I hear the explosion I shake my head as I turn back
around and start walking towardsthe group as splinters are
falling from the sky. Guys, I told you, you got to
run. I don't understand.
Can I try to catch the splinters?
You you catch some, definitely. Off the bark, yeah.
I think you caught some in your face.
No, no, look at me. My arm is totally fine.

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I'm taking a beating today. I go in my inventory, take out
my last potion of greater healing, and I'm going to drink
it. All right?
I'm going to gain 20 health points back for my potion of
greater healing. Very nice.
Yeah, Be helpful. Why do you say that?
Why do you say it like that? Wait, what do you mean it's
going to be helpful? What do you?
Mean what does that? What do you mean what?

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Are you saying? Means what it says.
I don't know what else you need from that.
All right, I think there's something going on that we need
to prevent before all of Holbeckis contaminated with this
disease. We can't afford to lose good
people. We haven't lost any yet, but we
can't afford to potentially loseany.

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As you have a memory blast of Juan Johnson.
Oh, the captain. Oh oh.
Oh, Captain, you know it. Might be worth investigating
those goblins from earlier again.
Max, there's no time and I make a oh good, oh shoot.
Do we go to the captain or do wego to the South of Bridget?

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Go to where? You're going.
We're going. We go to a Bridget.
We head South. So you make your way out of
town, the Bridget's Lake house, and as you break away from the
tree line towards the shore, your stomach twists.
At the site before you, where a humble shack once stood, now
lays crumbled wood and debris inthis place.

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It's a gigantic tree blight madeof thousands of roots and
branches. You see boiling bile drip from
its mouth as it towers over its minions.
Twig blights and blight born zombies guard the mother tree.
And in the background you see two things.
One is Bridget Habernath sittingscared on a rock about 20 feet

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away from shore. The second is a crazed druid
standing next to the gigantic flight tree laughing maniacally.

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So many years and I finally conjured it.
Oh, visitors. And one I recognize.
Maxis. Oh, no, but you don't know me.
No, No, you don't. But I remember you.

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I'm. I'm just an average Leonian man,
don't know what you would want with me or why you would know
me. Oh, I remember your parents all
right. Oh, they used to poison their

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garden for years, those failed test subjects, and then they
just died away before they couldbe altered into something
magnificent. You survived, however.
Test subjects. Test subjects.
You use them for test subjects. Oh, did I, but now it's time for

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your awakening. He points his finger at you and
you feel your neck crack and youfeel like vines and bugs and
shards of glass are crawling through your skin.
Make me a Constitution saving throw please.

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I got a Nat one. Natural one has this latent
ability from eating and drinkingthe poisoned water and food for
years from your garden. You start to crunch and vines
start to come up from the groundin the soil and wrap around you

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and you actually grow in size about 8 feet tall.
You are now and you have become this blight born Leonan.
How this is going to work is every round of combat we're
going to roll initiative. Of course, every round of
combat. You can use your willpower at
the beginning of your turn to try and remake that check.

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The checks get easier as you continue your companions.
Tony, Jared, you can choose if you like to use your bonus
actions to decrease that check by one every turn.
That's only before he goes of course.
So on your turn you can use a bonus action to shout out to

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your friend to try and bring himback from this state as you see
him alter and change and tilt and crack its head towards you
guys with now these nail like blade pointing needle fingers.
Let me know what you get for an issue of everybody. 6. 13. 14.

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1314 All right, you see, the crazed druid continues laughing
maniacally at the top of the round.
Crunch. This gigantic light tree engulfs
the crazed druid and swallows itwhole dead, getting chewed up

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and then gone. I mean, I see this as a pretty
good side. I mean, one problem is taking
care of it, taking care of itself.
I have a lot of problems still. Wait you're gross but we will
protect you. I side IE COM.

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I totally believe you guys. And as you say that last thing,
the branches trap your mouth andbecome these abyssal moans as
you groan, looking for bloodlust.
Don't worry, you'll probably be out of it soon.

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Gigantis is going to roar and you see that all of these
blights around it are buffed in some way.
You see Bridget is doing her best not to be feared and is
going to use a dodge action on her turn.
Maxis roll me flat D20. Not 20.

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That's evens you're going to attack Regna Oh.
Shit. Roll me.
That's why they're usually great.
We're going to kick out. You're just going to roll me a
standard strength like your unarmed strike is what you're
going to do against his AC? 18.

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That'll hit I'm. Sorry buddy.
They're not. They're not.
You would have turned to a blade.
That's not true. I'm sorry.
If it makes you feel better, no damage.
As you take 5 points as you takefive points of slashing damage.
That's OK, I forgive you. Oh sorry, but Oh my gosh, wait,

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that might not happen. Maxis make me that check at the
beginning of your turn. Constitution Save.
I mean we could totally use thatnet down.
I know, I mean it just won't go.14.
Fail you're going to going to continue in that state as ecom
is going to try and figure out something to do I'm.

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Going to do what I do best. I'm going to go after these tree
points I guess. Before you run, are you going to
use your bonus action to help? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.
Yes. What do you shout to Blitamus

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Maximus S? As a wood elf I love trees but I
prefer the non exploding kind. You got this as the DC will now
be changed. Okay.
It has been Rory. It has lowered it.

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Went. Higher.
Higher. Yeah, All right, continue
turning. I'm rushing forward.
Towards what? The twig blades.
Perhaps, Yeah, as I finished that, I'm like, OK, got to go
and rush in and start doing somespear attacks on these trees 16.
That's going to hit. Yeah, and 13.

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Misses. So 10 damage.
You see that there's this almostthis like glowing black energy
around them from that tree shouting and it seems harder to
Pierce and push through that than it normally would.
Oh, it takes 10 points of damageand still dies however.
Oh, dead, does it blow up? Yes, it does make the takes the

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hurdy saving throw. A A dirty 20.
Nice. You take 3 points of piercing
damage as it explodes. OK, did the soul leave his body
this time? Good.
OK, cool. So.
So you get, do I? Get temporary hit points 1st and
then take the damage. Yeah, just take the three off of

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your MHP. Perfect.
I tried to tell him to run I'm. Going to like this fight.
Yeah, give him a thumbs up. Yeah, I'm doing great.
I know. What else are you doing?
That's my action, bonus action and my attack.

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Blidy blidy, time to fight E These twig blades run at you.
Those two get up to you. Dash action from the twig blight
in the back action. Yep, to try and help you.
You see the other twig blight? So it happens 10 feet away, by

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the way. Yeah, when the action happens
now 20. Oh God, what happens to that as
it tries to run at you? Maxis this isn't you.
Remember what you told me about the and I attack him like from
my side eye as I come down my hammer.
This isn't you, and like, you didn't even talk to it, Maxis.

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As you see, the other trick blight is was like trying to get
at Bridget, but is now going to use a dash action.
You see there's this sharper looking blight almost fully made
of thorns and shattered wood bark let's say is going to make

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a ranged attack roll. Move forward a little bit to
here and it's going to try and attack you regna as it gets an
18. That hits.
You take only 6 points of piercing damage.
That's pretty good as it shoots needles and thorns at you.
The light borne are going to continue on and get up in your

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face. I've already used your reaction,
so you cannot again, sorry. And we're going to make the roll
the melee attack first. A constricting vine against
Regna 7 is going to completely miss you.
The other one is going to attackECOM but a nine, completely

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missing him. You're starting to get
surrounded by these little blights and they seem OK, but
you're not quite sure how dangerous this gigantic tree
version is. Regna as you stare at this huge
abomination. What are you doing?

(01:24:25):
I stare at the tree and I look back at Maxus in his corrupted
tree form, and it's the legendary bark that he was
referring to. It's true and mighty and it's
stature and perhaps it's skin. It's tree like skin could help
forge powerful weapons. But for now, it is my foe.
And I use my bonus action to usethat mechanic to lower Max's DC

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by one. Be like, love it.
Your bark is mightier and sturdier and much more fruitful
and colorful than it's. And then I also in that same
merry, I'm going to use an action.
I'm going to cast the first level bless on him.
Oh. So I'm hoping, I'm hoping that
bless helps with that check as he goes.
So it's a concentration and it lasts for up to a minute and he

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gets, if I'm reading this correct, he gets blessed for the
entire minute. And ecom.
Yes, an ecom gets it as well. And you?
Is that a deep 4? No, it means it is AD four.
Yes, and then I'm going to use like Maxis.
Now excuse me, I have to go light a tree on fire and I'm
going to use I'm just going to run forward 30 feet.

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I'll take the attack of opportunity from both of them.
Oh, Maxis would also attack hereas well.
OK, I'll take that as I run 30 feet forward.
Oh boy. All right, Maxis, first make an
attack roll. Sure thing 14.
Miss very nice. We've I don't believe, I, I

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don't blame you. I'm.
Like running 20. 20, yeah. So you take eight points of
lunging damage from this one. If the target is a large or
smaller creature, it has the grapid condition and you're now

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grappled until the grapple ends.The target takes one of the 8
bludging damage at the start of each of its turns if you're
still there. So now you see as it grapples
you, some of the vines Pierce your under your scales and you

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feel like even though it's at full health, if it wasn't full
health it would have healed itself and taken some of your
essence. All right, so it's going to
continue on. Gigantis over here is going to
continue its scream for the timebeing, continuing its buff on
its creatures. Bridget is going to keep taking

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dodge actions before we continueanything else.
Blightamus Maximus, make me thatConstitution saving throw
please. 14 again. You had AD 4.
Oh yeah, in the D4, forgot aboutthat.
Big. 4. 18. As you hear Regna shout out to

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you and get trapped by the blight, you remember a story
that your dad told you about traveling one time, fighting in
the woods fighting creatures similar to this but actually
befriending a good one one time.And as you get this image of
your father, it reminds you of who you are and the once glowing

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black eyes now become glowing blue eyes.
As you come back into consciousness.
You have every ability you previously had, but now you have
an additional ability. As you still have this 8 foot
tall wooden branchy form. You can, if you choose to, use
your bonus action to make an attempt to suede and call any of

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these creatures onto your side except for the Gigantis.
OK, so I'm going to use that bonus action, offer it on this
blight born right in front of meof Regna.
All right, it needs to pass AEC 15 Wisdom.
Saving through fails. This creature is now on your
side. Let's.

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Go. Let's go of Regna immediately.
Oh, that feels so much better. You look back and this creature
now has blue eyes. Did you mean what you said about
the bark of? Course, I bet what I said about
the bark. To glory to.
Victory. And normally you'd be scared by

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that, but right now you feel more confident than you ever
have before. What are you doing with your
action? OK, I am going to move up a bit
and then I am going to cast a Dissonant Whispers on Gigantis.
OK, bring me that ability please.

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You, the Gigantis needs to make a Wisdom saving throw of 15.
Going to do that? And then on a save it takes half
damage. Fails by 1. 13 damage.
So it takes that full of what isit, What kind of damage?
Psychic. Yep.
As you see this creature begins to scream, and as it screams,

(01:29:34):
you see that it's tendrils and branches, it's roots, they're in
the ground. You actually see some of them
come up behind you Regna, and you see that it has been pushing
its roots towards the town. Hobeck, my home, my place.

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I need to protect Ralph and I'm like getting a little worked up.
What else does this Senate whispers do?
OK, something. Else, and here's a discordant
melody, and it's mine. The target makes a wisdom saving
throw on the sale. Takes on this fail.
Takes three to six if it's available.

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OK, so it can't use its reaction.
Yes. Oh wait, that's it.
So. If you're running away, it can't
opportunity attack you. If you attack it, you can't do
anything in. Return.
Well, that's cool. I like that.
That's a pretty good turn as youlook over at ECOM, surrounded by
all these blights struggling forhis life.

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I'm going to hit. I'm surrounded by three of these
trees, 22 twigs and one blight. So I'm going to go for the twigs
first, trying to get them out ofhere.
So it was spear #1 attack and that is a 28 to hit.
OK. And an 11 so not so cool.

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I wasted all my my gumption on the first attack which does 12
damage. To dead.
Awesome big. 30 savings room please.
It's a nice oh wait, but I stealits essence and gain 10 health.
Plus plus AD 4. Plus AD 4 4 it's a 4.

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You say? I still fail.
I swear to good. Those temporary hit points do
override your current temporary hit points.
You'll see it. Yeah, yeah.
I mean always a 10. So you take 4 points of damage
again. That's this thing.
Loads. How do you?
And then I'm going to take it out on the other twig as I use a
key point and start punching himwith furia blows.

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Furia blows, goes, does 26 to hit, and I'm 14 to hit.
Wait, no, it's actually just kidding.
It's 22 because +8. You were reading the dice, not
that. Yeah, they definitely both hit.

(01:32:15):
What am I saying? I got so excited about the dice.
You hit with both those attacks?Yeah, well, the first one.
Let me know the damage on the first one. 10.
Dead experience saving throw. Hang on.
Before you passed. I'm rolling it in.

(01:32:36):
If I've got to roll it anyways. When I fail, I'm rolling it
anyways. You take four more points
piercing damage. Hey, back at six.
Wait, you said I passed, so I don't take you take half half.
Got it. OK, so 2.
So then my fourth attack hits the blight board.
Yes, which is 6 damage. Cool.

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That's right. My turn was cool.
OK. And it really was.
Yeah, it's a really cool turn. That tree had all bark and no
bite. I don't know, that's all I got.
OK, that's all ecom says before before passing.
The blight born in front of you sighs.
Yeah. I do as well.

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Was he saving throw for that dadjoke?
Yeah, Twig blight. I'm going to go up to Regna.
I use a reaction and I attack itheroically.
Yes, please. Oh, that's going to be a 21 to
hit. Yeah, it explodes 10 feet.

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Well, it does 10 points of damage.
Does that cool? It explodes 10 feet away from
me. Am I still hit?
We're still hit. Damn.
AC12 is what? You're trying to I dodge every
single one with perfect, with perfect accuracy.
I matrix it. I have.

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I take no damage. I take no damage.
Is this crit because of crit? Is it?
Crit Nope. Take those poop.
Piercings and on top of that I use my ability Relentless
Adventure which allows me to move her by movement upon attack
of opportunity. As I head north next to Maxis

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and I look at him and I say we are in this fight together.
Follow that the first blight born is going to go help econ
because that one's closer. It's going to attack its buddy,
Unnatural 20. To hit its buddy, it takes eight
points of damage and now it is considered grappled.

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The other blight born, the blight born is going to just
attack it back and I think they're just going to be
grappling each other. No misses, Misses as this blight
born is wrapped up and grappled by the good born.
By the good we. Call it.
Let me tell you about my. Bark born.

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We'll call it the Bark born. How about that?
Bark born, I love it. As the needle blight is, it's
going to attack Blightis becauseit's closest and you are a
traitor so. Wow, he's a traitor man.
Maybe. Can I shout at it so that it's
on? Me.
No way. Man team will definitely hit you

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as you take only five points of piercing damage from all those
needles. Oh wait wait.
I would like to use my cutting words as a reaction.
You can see within 60 feet of you makes a damage roll or
succeeds on an ability check or attack roll.
You expend one use of Arctic Inspiration and distract the

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subject or subtract the number rolled from the creature.
So I'll roll AD 4 and it subtracts it.
I like it. So you want to hit a four on
this? I hit a four.
Nice, so have that damage let's.Go.
Hey. You know who's next?
Yes, the sparkly. The Holy Ragna.

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In Bahamut's name, I will set this trail ablaze for my allies,
and I rush forward 10 feet away from Gigantis, Gigantis,
Gigantis, Gigantis Gigantis, andI attack with my halberd.
Where's the first attack? That's 11 but bless would bless
help you can. Try.

(01:36:52):
It'll give me information at thevery least.
It would give me information that's oh, a 16, a 15, sorry, 15
+ 4 misses Misses. OK, my second attack biscuits is
another 11. Oh.
Man do I get. It might be time to use some of
those features you got there. I'm going to perhaps cast a

(01:37:14):
spell, Divine Favour. There's not a concentration, it
lasts for one minute and all my attacks due to additional 1D4
radiate damage when I hits. So we go ahead and catch that.
So I have Divine Favor on now and that's going to be end of my
turn. Gigantis feels it's minions

(01:37:34):
disappearing stop screaming and decides it's time to attack.
And who is in front of it as it looks down.
What's a Dragonborn? It's going to make with its
multi attack a slam. Come on in Slam Miss 15, welcome
to the jam. It missed miraculously and it is

(01:37:58):
going to then use its thorn volley with its second multi
attack on econ because you were really doing stuff to it.
You see these spikes and shrapnel wood shoot out from it
and kind of fall in a rain on top of you.
ECOM. Finally, I use deflected

(01:38:20):
missiles. It's not considered a missile.
No. We'll say, we'll say you can
reduce it, but you wouldn't be able to throw anything back.
OK. I would say so.
You're going to take 22 points piercing damage.

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You can use a reaction to reduceit if you like.
Yeah, so I reduce one D 10 + 11,so 14 here.
You go. All right, so I took how much
damage? Sorry. 88 piercing damage.
Hey his. Actual health.

(01:39:04):
By two lives. Oh.
He was having a flawless run ECOM.
Flight amiss, Maximus, what are you doing?
Can I use that boner section to take control of Gigantis?
No, that's the only one you can.No.
OK, I guess then I'm going to use it on the needle blight.

(01:39:29):
Fails. You see that this blight is a
lot more connected to Gigantis and you think it's going to work
for a second, but then it pulls back and shakes and snarls at
you. OK.
So I'm going to keep up the heaton Gigantis over there.
Word. I'm going to cast a first level
Dissonant Whispers. Nice.
So Wisdom 15 saving thorough on Gigantis. 12 fails.

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Let's go 11 damage. Whoa, nice.
You see that? You take, you see that?
Like a chunk of its arc falls off on its left side.
Wink. You also can't use reactions
again. Correct, ECOM, You got a buddy
with you now? Yes, so he's grabbing this

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bright born, so the bright ones.You would have advantage on
attack rolls against Bart. Born is, yeah.
Yeah. Ecom gets real shifty dad and
just real excited for this one a25 to hit.
Yeah. OK, cool.

(01:40:38):
And 14 damage. Wow, dead.
Whoa, these dirty saving throw. Oh.
So does the other blight. The other blight has to make
that now that it's an enemy. 23.Oh, you pass, the other blight
fails. But I took half.
Of half of 80. Man.

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Four points piercing damage. Man, you know what?
You guys are lucky I'm taking these things out.
Oh, you're going to. Scratch on you, man.
I do look at this and I hold up my finger and I got a splinter
because I've only taken. Bart Bart Brew.

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OK, So is the needle blight still aggressive to us or is he
part of the crew? The Gigantic and the Needle
blight are the only ones left asyou see Bridget now shouting at
you. You got this.
Please save me. You're not Bridget.
So ECOM doesn't want to run towards the Needle Blight now

(01:41:43):
that it's towards Bridget, so hegoes towards Gigonatus over
here. Gigantis.
More like Gigonatus, idiot. It's.
Spelled for Gigantis, it's. Only got a 12.

(01:42:04):
Oh fails. But I didn't get something.
So you can use your bonus actionif you like, you know.
What time it is 3 blows. Know what time it is.
That is a dirty 20. That that's going to hit.
And a 26. Oh, you just got for your blows
all the time. Just keep doing that.
Yeah, I love it. OK, It's going to take 11 + 12

(01:42:29):
damage. Very nice.
You see that it's starting to crumble down a little bit around
the edges, and now it looks downat you mad.
This Needle Blight is going to keep attacking.
Blitamus 12 is going to miss Achy.
This Needle Blight is just missing and missing and missing.

(01:42:49):
You're blight born. Do you want to attack the Needle
blight or the Gigantis? Gigantis.
Goes right up to Gigantis. Let's see what this little
blight born can do right now. You recognize that as Carl, one
of the bakers from town. Carl no, he made my favorite
sweet roll. Carl gets to that 20.

(01:43:14):
Get him Carl. Yes, we're talking about some
cookies. Do for you.
That's 16 points of damage from Carl.
Oh my God. It's not grappled, but it's it
is hit and you see the the blight born is back to full
health. You are inspired to continue on
with your actions. As Carl, Oh, I am Carl.

(01:43:37):
First thing I'm going to do is use my Channel Divinity, use my
Vow of Inimity. You choose a creature I can see
within 10 feet and you gain advantage on all attack rolls
for one minute or until it dropsto 0.
And I say and shout with the sharpness of Bahama's claws and
the protection of its wings. I will slay you and I'm going to

(01:44:01):
attack. So my first attack is going to
be a 22O. Yep, a 22 to hit.
It's. That's going to be 9 points of
slashing damage, but I'm going to add a level 2 Searing Smite
as a bonus action, which you take immediately after hitting

(01:44:21):
your target with a melee weapon.As you hit the target, it takes
2D6 fire damage from the attack at the start of each of its
turns until the until the spell ends, the target takes 2D6 fire
damage and then makes a Constitution saving throw.
On a failed save, the spell continues.
On a successful one, this spell ends.

(01:44:42):
It's going to take 2D6 fire damage here.
Pretty good. That's going to be 5 points of
fire damage. You see that as the fire engulfs
Gigantis, it starts to diminish immediately and doesn't feel
like it's doing as much damage as it normally would.
God, fine, have it your way and I have.
I'd make another attack with my halberd.

(01:45:04):
It's going to be a 16 hit, always advantage, 19 hit.
All right, So the second attack hits, that's going to be a 14,
and I'm going to add a normal smite onto it.
Just a normal spite. You know what I'm saying?
Just a normal spite as I come down with my second attack was
my halibut. It's going to take 14 points of

(01:45:26):
damage on top of an additional 9points of radiant damage, with
another three points of radiant damage from my divine favor, and
with one more attack of the buttof my halberd.
Because it's technically three attacks, that's going to be a
23, but possible. That's why it's going to be a 23
to hit. Oh, there you go.

(01:45:47):
Which is a three damage plus an additional 2 points of radio
damage. And I spin, I force, I look cool
and I roar at it. And that is the end of my turn.
All right, this thing is lookingpretty messed up and it needs to
do something about that. So it's going to attack the

(01:46:08):
blight born, the bark born. So.
He's upset. Oh no.
I'd be upset too if I was a tree.
Definitely hits. I was.
Going to go down. 28 points of damage.
It doesn't have 20 point eights of damage to give, but you see
that the blight born gets pierced by a bunch of roots and

(01:46:31):
then sucked into its body, and this creature looks healthier
than it did before as it shoots a volley of thorns over at econ
18. I'd like to also cutting words
his attack roll. OK.
That is a -, -, 2 to his little attack roll, so it's 16.

(01:46:54):
Oh, then it misses. Let's go.
No damage at all. Very good.
It healed itself a little bit, but he negated some damage
there. For a second you feel the
necrotic energy creep back into you, but you fight it off.
You continue your onslaught. Let's see.
So first I'm AI can't take over that needle.

(01:47:16):
Bright right Needle blight. You can try I.
Don't know I'm I'm instead I'm going to give Echo my bardic
inspiration and then I'm going to hit it with another level 2
shatter so it needs to make a con savings throw 15.
Passes with flying colors. So half of 22.

(01:47:41):
That would have been great. 12 Oh wait, no 11.
You inspire your friend, you hithim for that damage, and
although not mechanically, you inspire econ on his next action.
Oh, whoa. Econ go ahead and six takes a
stretch as right before he's about to hit a gig.

(01:48:05):
Ain't like us. Take a Taking a spear, hit 17.
Miss D4. What?
Oh yeah, D4D4D1. 18 on the money.
You've. Discovered it's AC.
So I got my second one was a 23 to hit which hits and then I got

(01:48:25):
12 damage on the first attack and 11 damage on the second
attack. 11. And then it's.
Bury up, lows. It's a 12 but I'm going to roll
the D4 just because Dan likes todo this to me.
Hey, that's 16. Still misses.

(01:48:45):
Nope. And I got a 16 but D4D434 6
damage. I'm punching bark, I'm ripping
out Ant hills, just everything that's in there.

(01:49:08):
You feel like you're doing so much damage to it and you slowly
turn to the right and in slow MOyou see this needle blight jump
and feed itself to Gigantis. No.
Giving it more health as it looks you like you feel like
after doing that you did minimaldamage.
As as a widow I respect nature, but I feel very disrespected by

(01:49:32):
that tree. You have one creature in front
of you right now. Bridges are right on that rock.
Ain't nothing happening there. Tree blight ain't going to.
You can't grow into water, you know what I'm saying?
So I'm going to go ahead and continue to attack.
Yes, please, yes. With advantage 16 on both.

(01:49:54):
E4. Oh yeah, D4 because of blessing.
Keep beginning 18. On the money.
Nice. Oh on the money.
That first attack is going to do12 slashing damage, +2 ready
damage. The second attack is going to be
yeah 21 to hit with an additional 11 points of slashing

(01:50:18):
damage plus two points of radio damage, and then when my bonus
attack. Yeah.
Yeah, that's a 23, let's say that 2023 to hit, that's going
to be one point of slashing damage with an additional one
point of radio damage. And then I move 40 feet to the

(01:50:41):
to the east just to get a more tactical advantage from ECOM as
we're attacking you from both sides.
In slow econ feels great but then feels like he's losing
ground. But then in slow MO right now
comes up gives him a thumbs up. You feel like you're both making
much more ground. Gigantis feels like this is its
last stand. So Gigantis is going to use its

(01:51:04):
life draining route on ECOM. One huge or smaller creature the
blight can see within 30 feet must make a Constitution saving
throw. Oh man, I just moved out of the
way. So I got a 17 but I heard
something about inspiration if Ifailed.
Oh wait, because I got AD 4 inspiration, I got AD. 4 robust.

(01:51:28):
I got a. Four more you.
Barely pass. Wow.
With a 21 did I pass through DM?Barely.
Yeah, that's incredible that it uses turn to do that and you see
that nothing happens. You completely escape its roots.

(01:51:51):
Yeah. This thing's looking messed up,
and because it's messed up, it completely missed that essential
attack for it. Maxis, that was your time.
Show it. Destroy your corruption.
Second level shattered. Oh.
Yeah. Saving Throat 15 Look.
At that one. For five damage.

(01:52:12):
Big damage yo those roots, they felt it.
I guess just another bardic inspiration for Reagano.
There you go. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, All right. E com Yeah fellas last legs.
Why don't you finish it off? All right, it's starting with
the spear. Little trusty SO 22.

(01:52:34):
It's. And then on that 20.
How do you finish off Gigantis? Since the the roots were in such
play, I'm going to start jumpingaround the tree, just hitting
each root that I can, yeah, and then moving up to the actual

(01:52:54):
like center mass of the thing and then slowly start cutting
into the the bark with my fury of blows.
I finally hit and knock it over as I hear it screech.
As you see, it starts almost like burnt wood and ashes

(01:53:15):
floating into the wind. We've all seen in game, right?
It starts disintegrating away. Bridget has swung back.
Swim, swam. Richard swam.
Swam. Swam.
And is now cheering with the three of you up front before

(01:53:37):
anything happens. Maxis, please make me
unfortunately with disadvantage a Constitution saving throw.
Oh, no, no. You have bless.
You're blessed, so you get the blessed 1D4.
That is an 11 and I haven't donethe D4 yet.

(01:53:59):
I was so close to an at 20 and then it went to A2.
Bridget Regna, ECOM, you were cheering again in slow motion.
Cheering, high fiving, crying and laughing as you've taken
care of this destructive blight that surely would have wiped out
the town and ECOM. As you stop and Regna and
Bridget are still cheering, you look through their high 5 and

(01:54:23):
you see Maxis looking down at his hands, starting to slowly
disintegrate away into the wind.No.
No. You have some time to say some
last words, Maxis. Did I Did we win?
Did we kill the monster? Did I kill my first monster?

(01:54:48):
It actually happened. Mom, Dad, you'll be proud of me
for this story. Ring that.
Do you go up and say anything toMax?
When I run towards him as he's slowly dissolving.
No, stay with me, stay with me. You're wounds, right?

(01:55:09):
You're wounds. As you're doing it you feel the
the wounds try to heal, but the necrotic energy is just
engulfing it, almost like a a black abyss.
No, that's 20 points healed. That's 20 points healed.
Level 1 No. And you see, oh, point healed.
He keeps floating away. His wrists are now gone to his

(01:55:32):
elbows. Last second I have I reach for
my journal and I put it like on Regna's chest.
Tell, tell my brother about thisfantastic journey we were on.
As that as that happens, I go upand I start grabbing Regna and
as as he holds out the book, I say some books in sooner than we

(01:55:54):
expect, but they won't they'll never be forgotten.
And I grab the book and kind of pull Regna kind of a wave and.
Maxis, as you step back from your two new party members, your
two new friends, you look past Regna and Ecom, and you see your
parents, hands on their shoulders as they smile in the

(01:56:18):
spiritual light. And as you stand there, floating
and slowly disintegrating, you all see Maximus give one last
smile and a tear as he blows into the wind.
And that is where we will end this session of Hold Back
Humanitarians. I look at ECOM and I go.

(01:56:42):
His buck was truly mighty. He, he gets, he gets 11 last dad
joking. Uh, it's just he could.
He's turning over a new leaf. Jacob, thank you.

(01:57:03):
Thank you. Thank you so much.
For joining us, Play with us. That was awesome.
Thank you. That was.
Glorious at last to play with you and Maxis.
You have 30 seconds on the clock.
Yeah. If you have anything you want to
either that you're doing, that you want to shout out or anyone
else that they're doing, 30 seconds is yours.
What do you want to say to the audience?
I think the only thing I really got is my Twitch.

(01:57:26):
Smokey the Bear Man, Smokey the Bay.
A stream of varieties. Games, plays games.
Play Marvel Rifle sometimes. If you're into SWAT games.
Perfect, Yeah. Very fun.
I'm achievement hunting a bunch of single player games right
now. Like what?
Which one really, right? Now on the list is Boulders

(01:57:47):
Gate. I want.
Like 10 achievements off from it.
Have you done the what is it play all 5?
What is it Jack of all trades? What's that one?
You have to put one level into each class.
Yes. Without.
Talking to Withers. Yeah.
One more time, what is that Twitch channel?
Smokey the Bear Man Smokey. The Bear Man.

(01:58:09):
Awesome. Also sick bear tapestry by the
way, brother, thank. You.
It's got Viking runes all over it.
Like it? Doors.
Smokey the Bear Man on Twitch, everybody.
And of course, as we always do, we would like to hear if you
have any suggestions or maybe some cool shows you've been
watching. It could be food, it could be

(01:58:29):
art, whatever you want. Yeah, what's your?
Suggestion for the week, Jacob. The new season of Invincible.
Oh nice, it's. Going.
Great are they? Is it or and?
I think we're in the third one. We're not.
Yeah. Spot show.
Wow. So yeah.
Man. This one I got a great moves
right now. Really I need to get in.

(01:58:51):
That's cool, all right? It's mixable, solid show.
It's really good, yeah. It's like, if you like that,
show the boys the boys. It's very reflected off that.
Nice. Like superheroes just taken to
an extreme. Oh yeah.
All right, y'all, But that's it for the session today.
We have gotten the timing figured out or I've gotten the

(01:59:13):
timing figured out. I think we've got these one
shots down now. So we're not going like 5
billion hours. Our last one was long.
Yeah, a bit of a learning. Curve.
I figured it out, and if you allwant to go to patreon.com/GND
Four O 4 and you're part of the campfire tier and above, we're
going to go record a quick little campfire with our boy

(01:59:34):
Smokey. Yeah, right now see how he liked
the session. Everybody else thought about the
session. So go check that out if you
could. It really helps us a lot and
supports us to keep doing this and editing it for you.
And without further ado, everybody, please, if you're
most humid, goodbye. Bye bye.

(01:59:56):
Get a girl, bye. Do you think Goblinetta thinks
about me? I'm.
Going. To her hole.
Cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it.
It's summertime patrons, and that means it's time for the
annual Ivory Boulder Rockslide Festival.
My parents started this tradition when we first settled
outside of Gilo, and you can expect all kinds of fun

(02:00:18):
activities such as boar wrestling, boulder throwing, and
the dramatic avalanche competition.
This is where you try to make the biggest rockslide possible
using only your horns. There are a lot of rules, but
I'll go over that another day. For now, let's show Shout out
all the lovely patrons who decided to help run the festival
this year, starting with the Shadow Smugglers.

(02:00:40):
Morgan Oldfield, you and your fox put on the most wonderful
performance for the young minotaurs.
I saw one of the youngins tryingto train a flying squirrel how
to backflip after watching your show.
We will absolutely have you backnext year if you're able.
Just next time, please don't give the kids any more potions.
That got a little bit addicted. Artemis, I really appreciate you

(02:01:03):
you running security for this event.
I heard you took down a group ofKnowles that ran towards the
drell statue I carved out duringthe art competition.
It's it's crazy that Knowles were found in these parts.
So weird. Craig Donbringer, your closet
riding arena was a big hit with the children.
How were you able to train that thing to behave so well?

(02:01:26):
It's like you 2 have this special bond.
An Immaculate connection, a practical pact.
Oh wait, I understand the dread.It is good to have you back.
It is also amazing that you wereable to help burn the coals for
our fire walking competition. All the miniatures in my clan.
We're so excited to see green flames for the first time.

(02:01:47):
Although maybe we should turn down the temperature next year.
I had to healing word a lot of scorched hooves.
Julius Kendrick, I don't know how you keep finding my
location, but your presence at this festival was surprisingly
fun. Our clan doesn't spy away from
the grotesque and most of the guests loved your animated

(02:02:07):
skeleton show. It was amazing that you worked
with Reese to create such a spectacle.
The warrior minotaurs will not stop talking about it.
Any master of weapons. Your blacksmith doll was a huge
hit. Most of the warriors in the
Ivory Boulders clan had no idea what a Pike was before you came
into town. I don't think they really liked

(02:02:28):
the armor, but I heard you took 127 orders.
Well well, I know it was 127 orders because I was sent the
bill. These minotaurs don't really get
out much. Knock mock.
Novo was overbooked, so it's amazing you were able to make it
on such short notice to run yourenchanting food cart.

(02:02:48):
There were so many exotic forms of jerky and soups and kebabs.
Although maybe cool it on the defamatory remarks about Novo
next time. Let's keep your competition
friendly, shall we? Lord Nightbreaker, A dwarven
fighter. That my dad, Sad Nose came to
present an armored combat demonstration.
Tons of Minotaur children in theclan went up to him after to ask

(02:03:11):
billions of questions about all the weapons he brought.
Little warriors in the making. I'm sure Mirinor will be very
proud. Randy Woodburner, your wine
pairing stall was such a wonderful idea.
I never thought to drink honey wine with a spicy Stew.
Oh but please make note to cut Drell off after 10 months next

(02:03:31):
time he got into Sad RL mode. And one stop talking to the
Minotaur's about boxy shade greyfire.
Thank you for your well thought out speech during our flag
raising ceremony. It was so inspiring when you
talked about overcoming demons and hags.
I probably should have told you it was a flag raising and then

(02:03:52):
burning ceremony though. Everyone was moved but a bit
confused at what it had to do with our hatred for the
neighboring bugbear tribe. That's on me Sly.
We're you're even at the festival?
I couldn't find you anywhere. I did hear there was a hooded
figure seen leaving flowers and fixing decorations around the
festival. Did you have anything to do with

(02:04:12):
that? Well, hey, next are the Sidgic
College alumni. Thank you for spending your
summer break with us. David Lachance.
I noticed you were going pretty hard at the Sid Spectacular
after party. I hope you had a great time.
Casey was just incinerated by a fire bolt.
Oh no, a no sorcerer with long blonde hair takes her place.

(02:04:33):
Nice chartreuse. Vex Shade is her name, but you
can call her Charlie Punk. It was amazing having you and
your band play at the closing ceremony.
Your type of music went so well with our tradition of breaking
our old chairs with boulders. Bongo, thanks for helping
everyone set up their stalls before the festival.
It's a shame you napped through most of the games afterward.

(02:04:56):
However, I'll designate a Sid towake you up next time in case it
happens again. Same chaos.
We all love your brews, but if you try to sabotage Brandy stall
again, you will be banned from the festival.
We will still order from you of course, but rules are rules.
Senor Gio used to guard the cityof college, but has since
retired and decided to run an antique weapons stall at the

(02:05:18):
festival. I got myself a nice couple of
hand axes that were made in South Trellis.
And last but not least, we have Hombre's Heroes Avanox.
I was a bit hesitant to hire yousince you are pretty new to
Hombre's Heroes, but Artemis spoke highly of your work.
You did an amazing job keeping Armos out of the private area
reserved for the Elders just despite his tricks.

(02:05:40):
And don't think I didn't notice you on your break taking first
place on the fire walking competition.
Well done. Your Battleborn and Drown got
joint first in the Rage competition.
They're still very mad though that they tied.
Truckle Darts drew the most wonderful illustrations at her
booth of John Carroll and JohnnyTarr going crazy during the pie

(02:06:03):
eating competition. Sludge, Lone Star Man with Glass
and Taslin did suspiciously goodat the bottle Bow and arrow game
and walked away with a ton of stuffed Reginald's.
Hart and Barry Brandbottle came in first place at the Amateur
Brewers competition and got way too drunk off their own supply.

(02:06:24):
Jesus and Iscore Storm got into a shouting match over who was
the better Dragonborn warlock asNico, a human warlock, drank
their Brand Branded Brandy awkwardly behind them.
And that should be everyone thathelped out with this year's
Rockslide Festival. If you would like to help out
with the next one, go on over topatreon.com/DND Four O 4 and

(02:06:47):
subscribe to any of the tears from Hombres Heroes all the way
up to the Shadow Smugglers. Then I can personally thank you
here at the end of every episode.
I mean celebration. Until next time, everybody.

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