July 18, 2022 • 51 mins
Leaving Sir Alduous Trowbridge’s estate, there are no good options. Between the hedges, chaos erupts. The team quickly finds out that their location has been discovered and have to fight their way through the crowd. Several people go down, but they are not out yet.
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The Night Shift is a real playD and D video and podcast series for
mature audiences. Content warnings can befound in the episode descriptions Last time on
the Night Shift, What about Lastconversations was about I'd asked him about time
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travel? My my wife died.He gets back and I asked him about
time travel and he kind of laughed, And apparently any wizard who's ever done
anything with time travel, it's hadto be you can jump back sixty seconds
or something like that. Any furtherthan that and they just disappear into the
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ether. They never come back.Cat scripts, get the gold. My
souls already sold. Swim you tryto do smell, I wish you well.
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Never creature runs your streets. Youdo better to retreat if you want
it done right. Don't hurt Thenight Shaft house is pretty sick and like
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you can, it's pretty fort fire, sir, true rich, I reckon.
You might need to grab your sword. I'm willing to do that,
um, because it's gonna be alot of people. Yeah, well,
sure you can take the back wayout. Yeah, it's the front way
and the backway thought our carriage.We can try the back way, but
if it comes down to it.We might be fighting our way out.
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Your help. I have uh,yeah, I have horses. Could you
to us for us gape? Youcan have them? Clearly, Alexandator trusted
you, so I do as well. Do you have any other ones that
could be helpful? What? No, he was the wand collector. M
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hmmm. Any uh? What happenedto his five They weren't found on his
body? M hmm? Anything else? Information relics, all right, don't
think so. I think of somethingelse. Jay strong, gay man.
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He like rests his head on yourshoulder. Yeah, and I hugs you
a little longer than you intended,kind of kind of patch on the Okay,
okay, I'm like the coffee wasgreat, by the way. Oh
yeah, that's really nice, reallynice for the people at the front gate.
And try and buy you a littlebit of time. Thank you.
I get it. I don't time, you know, we just spent all
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these it buy you time by likea boy you Likedamn. Okay, Um,
let's go until we meet again.And he literally sprints out in his
pajamas with bead alone the love itback door. Yeah, you head to
the back door. Um, yousee the stables as you leave out the
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back of the house. Um,you're obviously stole in the estate. So
are we grabbing horses at the plant? Yes? Yeah, let's make escape.
Yeah, there's not no covered carriage. Who's a good horsemanship? I
would imagine that I would be prettydarned good on the horse. I'm gonna
hop onto you. Yeah, soundsgood. Three horses though, yes,
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yeah? What about Bill, Billand Jeffer on the carriage? Oh shit,
they're still on the carriage. Theynever came into the house with us.
Was an out front, it wasunder like the cardboard. If he'll
never came inside'll never came inside?Were wea he's good? Yeah, I
mean he's not known to re withus. We'll send him a message.
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We'll send him a message. Iguess we have to. Wow, it
feels bad. I want to goback to falcon I like that move to
the Ultimately, I want to goback to Bond City. I feel like
it's kind of a great seed.How long we just need to get out
of here right now? But Ido agree with that it would be several
days. I do agree with thateventual point where can we go to get
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right now? Go back to theker residence. It is probably where we
need to go to do. WhatWhat are we going to do that to
rest plan on next play? We'vealready been thinking about how to happen.
I want to go figure out howI got the dagger of yakback shit on
my silver lad like a shower beforewe go on another technical that's not our
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fault. Technically cleans you, butit doesn't feel as good as I showered
it. Okay, fine, okay, So you just want to go right
now? City days away? Yes? Yeah, I mean I'll go camp
out. Okay, sure, whatelse are we going to do? Do
you have any other idea to goahead to figure out what the planet means?
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Are we telling you there's nothing elseto investigate? Can we leave some
kind of message for for Bill?Let him know if that's where we're headed
to the Bone City so he canmeet us. Is there like it?
But is there like a guild ofastronomers or anything? I would say not
as far as you know. Okay, um, okay, yeah, I
don't like going without. If we'regoing to Falcon I don't like going without.
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Why don't we go back to thecon State? Bill, I'm gonna
have to kill Bill, You guysare way too He has the vampire bat,
though I'm at least getting the vampirebat from him another time. We're
never gonna see him again if weleave him right now. We have a
message Heartbrook. He's gonna think wedeserted him. We'll send a message to
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him. Guys, we're not gonnabe able to go. We had to
go through is a what a checkpoint? With the carriages? How are we
gonna get out? We're not gonnabe able to get out of here on
horses either, though we're gonna haveto. In fact, we should probably
We're doing a lot of talking.I'm hearing some fighting back there, like
we should probably go. Yeah,let's go. I'm saying, do you
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want to go out of dragons?We can't get out of ra We're gonna
get past the guards. It's easyto get out of dragons is to get
in it. But surely at yourhouse we could like daylight one of our
great plans and everything, and wecould like, great, we've done a
catering thing. We've done. Idon't know. We could be like,
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um, we've done the circus thing. I think already, Um, what
would it look like to get aroundto the cardboard area where the carriage is,
Like I have to circumvent half thehouse or so, but yeah,
you could do that. Let's thinkit is still daylight. We were still
scene turned into a bird, andthe time you spent with Trowbridge, I
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think counts as a short rest,so like you've you've had some rests during
that time. Um, yeah,what's the plan? I think we you
can hear swords clashman at this point. I think we go to Kestrel's Lalo,
wait till it gets dark, andthen we leave the city at night.
Second, Head's a bone city.Second, it so moose to that
is because you guys want to usethe shower. No, no, it
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makes the most sense. If it'sstill daylight and everyone's still looking for us.
We can't really hide because we're onhorses, so they're going to see
us. It's going to be moreof a risk to go back to the
estate traveling within dragon Spear. Right, know you realize that, right,
did you re Minder? Right?Actually, yep, it has been pretty
hot wherever we've been. All right, let's ride, let's go then,
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I know, but I want togo get the vampire bamnay fuck, So
what's the plan. We're going togo back to the sewers and go back
the way we came. Okay,so you're riding for the drags, get
back into the sewers, and exitout towards the lake the poison. Well,
I mean, as far as ourknowledge of city, we're not gonna
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be able to just like hoof itpast the guards blocking the exits right,
feels like a big assumption. Okay, okay, knowing what's kind of what's
going on internally, man, I'mgonna miss it, shower. So you
start riding. Um, and whenwe get out the back gate, uh,
everybody roll initiatives. Mm hm ohwhat have time for that to come
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up? Freaking I'm just going lastabout that. I love about seventeen three.
Three is not very three is notvery good. Oh I'm sorry.
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It's one m M it's a onekay hantro twenty oh very nice. Um,
you do still roll to Cody,because then you can make the decision
as to whether you want to takethat last spot or go first. Six
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And I will take the last spot, and I am armed with the snail
flail. Oh yeah, do notput Bill in there. All right,
Yeah, Timbo's last, even thoughat last is a one. All right,
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So what's gonna happen is as soonas you exit that back gate,
Um, you guys, hear boltsand arrows fly over your head, none
of them particularly close. Um,but that is the immediate thing that you
hear. H Tom, you gofirst, yes, so tell me what
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what what I see? Why don'tyou make a check perception check, which
obviously does not count as your actionsixteen sixteen. So what you can see
is if there are people camped outon either side of the road, behind
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barrels and crates, within stores,pointing their bows and stuff out of the
windows. They've they've kind of campedout. They're aware that you're coming.
It was possible you'd come this wayfiring arrows and bolts. You've got some
people with spears as well, andas soon as they saw you, they
took shots and some of them did, none of them particularly close. But
it looks like it's that way inboth directions as well. So you can
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go left, you can go right, but you can see immediately there's people
planted. Hard to tell how manyare there? Do our immediate left and
right are there? Any stalls orwagons or barrels or anything of the sorts.
Barrels, we can stipulate you you'reyou're on like a a commercial street.
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Um, so definitely let's say barrelsand maybe something like boxes, but
not like big foodstalls or wait,we're mounted. You are mounted, That
is correct. You're on a horsewith me. Yeah. Um, so
one side doesn't look particularly less populatedthan another. I don't think with that,
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Jack, I'm I'm gonna tell youhow many like, yeah, which
which side is more heavily fortified?I'll um, you know, I'm gripping
Timbo's waist, so I'll just whisperin his ear like damn fly, we
gotta ride left. I don't justthat way that way, like just just
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go, but I'm gonna do herrowtouch where he gets the plus four hp
at the beginning of every four timpHB at the beginning of every turn,
which does not stack. Remember,yes, there's places, and he's also
fearless, so no flames or anything. Yes, um, Timbo, I
mean yeah, I guess let's justfucking ride all right, castroll. She
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wants so badly to use the crownagain. Um. Every turn is going
to be lindsay thinking about do Ineed to roll a perception to see what
I see? I think you canif you want, Yes, Okay,
Um, that's thirteen the thirteen.I think you hear the arrows um,
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and you see some people fairly closeto you, a handful on either side
who are similarly camped out behind barrelsor crates or within stores. There's one
that's on top up of this store, sort of pointing his crossbow down at
you. Okay, what a jerk. Umm. I really want to use
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it, but I don't know ifI want to save it for something else.
I gave it to you to useit, I know. But um,
I want to cast a spell calledblunder crap bunk. Yes, I'm
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okay. What does tell me whatyou think? So in my vision of
the spell, I see that like, anybody within the range of what the
normal thunderclap spell would be, whichis creative burst of thunder sound which can
be heard one hundred feet away,must make a constitution saving throw or take
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one D six thunder damage. SoI would think that everybody within one hundred
feet like could make a blunder andmis hitting us or like whatever, like
they stubbed their toe, break abow and arrow, etc. To me,
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that's pretty good. Lunder clap oneguy just like trips and falls off
the roof. Oh, let's doit this way. You do have to
do the spell slot when you casta spell, right, Um, what's
what level are you casting a spell? Out? It's a level two spell,
So you're gonna cast it a leveltwo? Oh no, no,
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it's a level zero. What it'sa can't trip? Yea, so it's
not a spell slot, it's can'ttrip. Oh I see, but it's
damage increases as you level Yes,okay, M we're gonna do it this
way. Um, they every singleone of them, about one hundred feet
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are gonna have disadvantage on their attackjust to start with. Um, and
then I think they're gonna make acertain number of them are gonna make saves
as to how bad babel under Umin this case, I'm thinking like a
wisdom save. That sound fair.They're not wise enough to know you shouldn't
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lean that far over the roof thecrossbow. Um, though you they can't
trip, can't trip, can't tripif you didn't have a thing already out
on Um, that one. Thatone took a minute for me. Um,
so we're gonna say one die tenof them. Only one of them
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blunders, but he blunders. Hartfalls off the roof of the of the
store, doing eleven points of damage. He falls off, and as he's
trying to pull his hands out andstop himself, his finger pulls the trigger
off his crossbow into his own neck. Yeah, well he's dead before he
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hits the ground. I mean it'sokay, magic, it'd be like that
sometimes, all right, and theyare all going to have disadvantage on their
attacks. Okay, sous, you'reright, all right, I'm not done.
Okay, what else? Um?I stand out and I kind of
address whoever is there, like everybody, and I hold my hands up and
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I say, people or fighters ormercenaries of Dragon Spear, please listen to
what I'm about to say. Myname is Kestril Corocus, and I and
my companions had nothing to do withsenatora off Iron's death. We're trying to
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figure out who did it. Andyou can ask both of his dear friends.
They can tell you that they believeus. Please let us figure out
what happened, and if anyone islike a time travel expert or planetary expert.
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That would be great, but seriously, don't make us fight you.
That's not what we're here for.We seriously mean no harm. And that
honestly, that was a blunder.Make a persuasion, Yeah, persuasion check.
I was trying to decide. Allright, all right, that is
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a see oh my god, that'sa nineteen Okay. You hear some like
murmurs um, and you see atleast one person like lower their crossbow.
Um. Doesn't have the same effecton everyone. Like you hear one guy
go like, we don't care off, we're here for the money. Um.
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But but several of them are thinkingabout what you said. Is that
up? Um? For the record, you said you stood up and put
your hands out, animal hands.You know. I think it's also a
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bold move with like a bunch ofcrossbows. Same day. Yeah, I
don't lower my hands. I uh, I put my life in theirs.
I'm gonna whisper tim Bozzi. Whyis she te bozy? All right?
Come on, yes, that's it. Okay. Do you flee like you're
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on a horse. Do you ridethe horse in the direction that they are
riding the horse? No, I'mstaying there. Wow, no bad guys,
castro your call. Do you wantme to roll one attack all the
bad guys at disadvantage or do youwant made to roll a series of attacks
all at disadvantage for the bad guys? Oh my god, I don't know.
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So it's like all or nothing oroh nothing? O god? Oh
tough break? Um? Oh notfor like, it was a thirteen for
both roles, So it's like athirteen. But that means the attack is
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a fifteen. So here's what we'regonna do. Each of you is gonna
take four attacks. If a fifteenis below your AC all four mess?
Does anybody have an AC above fifteen? No? No, fourteen? So
close? All right? So inall cases, then they're gonna hit hailstorm
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of bolts, arrows, and spearsfly at you. Oh boy, Now,
okay, I'll tell you that washalf as many as was coming.
So your performance check there or yourpersuasion check certainly took a few notches off.
Cool um, all right, coolstory, broke damage coming, Yeah,
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do your worst, just egg themon. Maybe not worst? All
right? Everybody ready, Yeah,sixteen points of damage across the board,
So each each sixteen points of damageeach person. No, each person takes
sixteen points of damage. Sorry,it's still not good. So Attilious,
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how are you doing? So whydid that? How did that happen?
What do you mean how? Idon't understand if it was so you were
rolling as like the whole crowd everybodyto attack all of us. Correct.
So that's why, because I couldhave done any dice ad advantage disadvantage and
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it would have piecemealed it. Inthis case, it was like they were
all going to hit you, orthey were like with the same attack where
they were all spell. It wasvery high risk, high reward in this
case high risk. Hallucinator been great, I'm dead. Yeah, I'm dead.
So you gotta see Attilius take umevery four arrows and unlike some of
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you, where you take them,you know as a as a graze.
Um? Sorry continue? What them? What? What? Nothing doesn't matter,
doesn't matter. No, because thetimes that right cutting words, it
should have cutting words your attach asa reaction yeah or no. This just
says oh yeah as a reaction,yeah yeah, I think you can still
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take your reaction. But it saysthat I can't know the result when I
choose to use cutting words. Begaming. It pretty hard for me to
go back and cutting words are attacheddown to where then it doesn't hit it.
In this case, I also looped. Uh what sixteen attacks all at
once? So like, I'm certainlywilling to fudge the role a little bit
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there because I also did. Soyou're cool. Do you want to use
it now? Yeah? Okay,I'll tell you this goes slack on top
of his horse. Oh you bothdo. Yeah, you both go slack.
When your horse goes uh uh sortof slumped forward or sideways, you're
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still on the horse. I thinklet's roll one to twentie. Why not
just straight rolls three? Tin TinAttilius pitches forward on his horse, and
you can see that his foot islike caught in the stirrup, so he's
kind of sideways, but he's stillon the horse. Um. In a
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way, it might work to hisvenge a little bit because he's only he's
sort of slid into the opposite side. Uh. Tom is behind someone who
was behind Timbo timbo um, Timbo. I think what you feel is like
Tom's hands just slide off your waistas he drops off the horse, m
hm um, and you leave himbehind, all right? Good. Uh,
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Attilius, that's it, death save, death save. So remember when
you're unconscious, you're gonna make deathsaves on your turn at the end of
your turn. If you make onedeath save and it's a or if every
time you make a death save,it can be a death save, or
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it can be a life Yeah.Um, if it's below ten, it's
a death mark and you only getthree of those. If it's above ten,
then um, it's a life markand you are one step closer to
stabilization. You need three of those. If you roll a twenty, it's
two of those. Actually, Ithink if it's twenty, you pick up
automatically like you're stable automatically. Ifit's a one, it counts as two
death saves at once. Yeah.So just as a reminder of the risk
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that's in front of us. IfAttilias were to roll a one right now,
he could die, die die onthe next turn. Yeah. If
he rolls not a one, butstill that saved on this turn or the
next turn, he could roll aone and die, die die, yeah,
be fully dead. All right,I understand the risks. Yeah,
well yeah, thank you, allright, almost there's a spot on your
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great paper you might want to marketall right, uh timbo you next crikey?
Alright, mate, turn the horsearound. I give it a old
tug on the reins. We turnaround right there on the spot, go
backwards. I'll do my best leaningover. I'll scoop up tom bombo at
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check on that. Oh, absolutelynew problem. Yeah, let's see an
athletics for you. Check. Okay, good than twelve twelve? Uh huh.
Let's see. I think you leandown and you grab him. Um,
maybe not as seamlessly as you hoped. You have to kind of slow
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the horse down, stop the horsealmost around down, but you're able to
pick him up. Okay, You'renot able to like sling him on the
horse behind. You kind of haveto like keep him under your arm.
Yeah, that's fine, little moredifficult than you expected. It's that he
had to get it. That's difference, right, Like if he would have
been working with you, he wouldhave slid on, but dead weight just
a little bit harder yep. Uh. And then uh, and then we
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keep galloping towards Attilius and where orchestralare um. When I get to when
I get so, Attilius is stillon his horse. Yeah, and his
horse has like slowed, but it'sstill like riding in the right direction that
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you guys were going. Kestral,on the other hand, is planted still.
She was pretty sure this okay,So I want to I want to
get Atilius's horse to follow me,like I don't. I don't need to
get him, he's still on thehorse, but I need to get the
horse. Let's do animal handling.That advantage to come with me minus two
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on animal handling. Rough, I'mgonna use an inspiration. Yeah, animal
handling is minus two mm hmmm,very situation. Maybe I don't want to
use it right here. What elsecould I do? Is my question?
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My role? So the first roleI was a five, but I don't
know that I want to use theinspiration dice to do better because I think
rather than doing that, I couldactually just can't. I just speak with
it. I can as a asa ritual. So I can't really do
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that, right, okay, allright? So what's the role the roles
of five? Five? I thinkyou, um, you ride by and
you like go to swipe at theat the reins and it like yanks,
it's had one way and you kindof get the reins and then it kind
of snatches out of your hands,and mind you, it is still running
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in the right direction, just slowerthan Yeah, but running in the right
direction is actually like away now,and I don't actually want to be going
that way if um, well,now we're moving in the opposite direction and
Castro's not moving at all. Andwhat I really want to do is get
back to I want to go backinside the gates of um the the Troubridge
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compound. Okay, anything else that'ssor did did he evan to see um
my potion appealing jangling around in mypockets or anything? I don't know'm just
like he lifts me up off theground. Oh he didn't see it.
I don't know, you know,but just he didn't see the potion of
healing that's in my pockets or bags. I do just see what you're doing.
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But I like about it is thatit's subtle. I didn't see it,
Unfortunately for you. I think bothJay and Timbo's natural inclination is uh,
not to look for the healing element. It's to whack things with sticks.
Yeah, but I got him inone arm, and I'm trying to
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get Attilius's horse to come with us. I think, Uh, I think
that's really it. I mean II ride, Um, I mean,
I guess essentially back to where Orchestralstill is. I don't know how much
movement I really can still get.I mean, this is my first turn,
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so really like I'm trying to goback into the back through the gates
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I just left those gates. Ithink you can get back to the gate.
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their hearts have grown three times thesize, and they appear to be
okay. Well, let's take alittle break, ladies and gentleman, and
we'll be back at five. Feela little stronger since the last time we
leveled up, even though it's beena little while. Wow, Wow,
hey Bill, great job out there, man, You really uh well,
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Great job, Bill. People keeptelling me that I was, I was,
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didn't know you didn't. But howcan you miss that ball? I can't
it right to you? I mean, right, gee, I might as
well use you. It's the ballnext. Want to be fair, I'm
about the size of the ball andyou kicked it. Next time you climb
up on atilius? Is that legal? We look in the room. Just
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pour me a drink, okay,whatever, Well, I'm so angry right
now. My good friends over atRallycap took the liberty of brewing us a
beer named after something that will nevertruly understand, and that is Victory Formation.
And there's some assessment to be somesort of runic symbols of some sort
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from these cans. Well, yes, uh, the good news is a
hazy i PA eight percent alcohol bya volume, Victory Formation is very tasty,
even though we'll never really understand whatit's like. Hey, it's on
the fifteen to zero. Okay,y'all, it's free. They still have
a chance, is sure. It'sa perfect sports brew. Yes, yeah,
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quench the first I reckon. WhenI crank out my dangers, I
can just trot around the base pathand watch it with the dingers. This
is the family sport. We don'twant to fucking love American football. I
get it. I can read theroom just football man. Fuck. Yeah,
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this is actually great. Something happened. It's all bump over there.
Yeah, delicious beer. Pelican CraftBrands distributes this throughout the Greater Louisiana area.
Always a fan of bringing delicious craftbeer to the people. To take
notes of citrus. It's quite delicious. Various stute over there. Only she
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worked on her kickball skills like she'sbeen working on her beers. Tom's fault,
he missed the ball. Mess theball, you know the game.
That's why would be kicking into meanyway the field. Get your asses back
on the field. Let's finish this, uh, Tomothy Bombo, life safe
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all right? Sixteen? Okay,that's his whole turn. Kestrel chest,
you've stopped, kind of stood upin your stirrups, put your arms out
and they drew the attention. Forthe record, I hate that. I
thought it was a good moves.Just did that. Yeah, sorry,
Um okay, I I kind ofkeel over. She's just like, how
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fuck suck? And uh, we'regonna go to jail. I I sort
of mutter under my breath, Senatorof Frien, if you really do have
the ability to time travel, orif you're watching us grow, uh,
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we could maybe use some help rightnow. Um. And I kind of
like look up at everybody. Um, and I raised my voice and say,
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this isn't what he would have wanted, but I have to protect my
friends. Um. And so Iturn on my horse and no, not,
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what's fifteen horse power? Stupid?Shouldn't horse? And I take my
and I leaned down, grab somemagic stone or grab some pebbles, and
I cast magic stone and then Ithrow each one of them into the dirt
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to create a sort of a smokescreen. Um, with all the like
the dirt that's rising up. Soif we do get attacked again, hopefully
it will be at disadvantage because theycan't see us. M Um. And
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then I guess, well, Iguess let me ask this, like how
far would we be able to ridein the other direction away from the gate,
Like how far were we from theirtrajectory? Because I don't actually know
what we saw. We just kindof like did initiative and we came right
out. It's ay or I thinkthere were like three different as straight left
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and right, straight left right.It's like a road, not an alley,
but a small one. Um,and the estate extends in either direction
on this side of the road.The other side of the road is like
stores, shops, houses, etc. Um. Does that answer your question
or not? Sorry? Not really. I mean, I guess I'm just
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trying to figure out, like wherewe were going, is that toward the
drags You were fleeing towards the dragsum to try and get into the sewer.
Yeah, I guess I'm just tryingto figure out, like if we
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turn back into into troubridge, likewe're just gonna have to get out again.
Um. Yeah, we just havetwo unconscious comrades right now, and
I feel like that's priority number oneand yeah, and then we're just gonna
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meet you hold up in there likeyeah, we'll just go out to the
other side with with bridge. Soand the horse travels sixty foot on a
normal turn, one hundred and twentyfeet if it dashes, which in this
case it would be doing now mindyou, a crossboat can shoot like one
hundred and fifty feet three hundred feeta disadvantage. A long boat can shoot
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like three hundred feet six hundred feeta disadvantage. So they'd better hit you
for like two more turns probably,yeah, yeah, I don't know.
I don't love doing this story wise, but I guess we'll just go back
to bridge. Okay, turn backaround, except for ye grab it for
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the horse trains somehow you can rideover to where his horse is and then
ride back. So I have toalso roll a animal handling. Animal handling,
you're pretty good at animals. Youcan fucking talk to him. Yeah,
have a zero though, shit,oh shit, yeah that one.
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Oh it's is it tough beet fory'all? You ride over to his horse
and snatch at the reins, andit yanks its head again and pulls you
off of yours, so you hitthe ground kind of all fours. I
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think it could use your romantic movementto kind of stand up. So the
saving grace I think a little bithere is you are between two horses,
boy, and you hate to usethem as meat shields, but you have
that. I don't know, I'madrid. I don't know if I would
do that. Okay, yeah,that's a fair point. I'm just putting
it out there. Also, you'reallergic to their fur. That's true.
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You're breaking out a little bit toughspot. Guys. They are disadvantaged on
this attack anyway. Um, sothere is that in this case, they're
gonna be disadvantaged and they're gonna havelow visibility because of the sort of smoke
screen that was created. So basicallyit's gonna add to AC to all of
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your acs. Makes sense. Great, we're gonna do the all or nothing
attack again. We end we havea yeah, just don't don't roll so
well, got it done? Yeahfor you baby? Anything? All right?
A six does a six hit anyone? All right? This time arrows,
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spears, bolts go flying. Butthey don't really threaten anybody, um,
not that uh Tom or Attilius wouldknow they are. They're passed out.
Um, the other two of you, you don't really see any damage
from it. I mean they kindof fly by you, and I think
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that's gonna be their whole term.Attilious, that's safe hearing the gods calling
down. It's thundering. Yeah,come home, baby, there you go
nineteen nineteen two saves. I'm stepcloser. Don't look at me. Yeah,
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you don't want me to look alook at me. Okay you threw
mad at me, Yeah, don'tlook him. Sorry. Wow, Um,
I'm scared. Okay, Oh okay, we're gonna go. Timbo.
Mm hmm um sorry Timbo. Beforeyou go, You're like, oh,
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thank god, um Timbo, beforeyou go. Um. Two things happen.
One, Um, a blue lightappears in the middle of the dust,
our boy, our own personal dayof sex. Um. I would
say Kestrel is close to it,probably the closest. Um. You're both
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passed out. You're probably further awayfrom it, so really it's Kestril kestrel.
Immediately I think probably you know,you're maybe probably from me to you
actually like ten twelve feet Um,immediately have a splitting headache. Like yeah,
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it's enough I think that I'm acting. It's enough that it's like a
little hard to focus. Yeah.Um, obviously you know you've got some
some holding you bleeding, You've gotthis headache. There's dust kicked up everywhere.
It's hard to see. Um sneezing. You're sneezing because of the and
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you're breaking out into welts and stuff. So there's like there's a lot going
on. Um. The second thingthat happens is that from the right you
see Bill and Jeff arriving on acarriage. Yeah. Um, they have
shields held up bless from the outsideand are both holding one rein for each
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horse. Yes, they've fucking jeffLet's carriage kind of like I think they're
still approaching. They're not quite there, but but during this turn they will
arrive kind of in front of youguys. Beautiful, beautiful, all right,
timbo, Yeah, all right.I dismount from my steed and I've
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got I've got tom over a shoulder, and I get over to uh,
I get over to the horse thatAttilius is dangling off of, and I
get him down off of his horsesafely. Wait where did did Kestrol pulled?
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Kestrol fell off her horse and hisbetween between the horses. So I
I get Attilius off safely and kindof stay behind the horses. Oh,
come on off the day I wasprofessional, and then fucking jump and get
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off safely. We're practicing safely,please him to death. Yeah, safely
anything. What he says he's notchafed, you know, totally safe.
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Please anything else? What's the shimmeringfigure doing? Okay, so you but
you have Alius and Tom with you. Yeah, I've got Attilius and Tom
and we're kind of behind the horsessteadying ourselves, bracing for the carriage to
pull up so I can get bothof them and myself and Kestrel in the
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carriage. You're still on the horse, right, No, No, I
dismounted. I think if you're dismounted, you're kind of like behind the head,
stay behind the gate and the hedges. That's fine. Um So,
like I don't think you have toworry necessarily about um more a tax coming
at you where you're standing now,Okay, you cannot see the figure.
Okay, you can see light inthe dust, and I think you can
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certainly, you know, recall thewhere that would come. You can make
an assumption that that is the figure, but you can't actually see what it
is. You can just see somelike light eliminating illuminating from the dust.
Okay, that's fine. Uh,yeah, you're gonna wait, that's well,
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yeah, I want to use anaction to get to the carriage or
I think you could run towards it. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
is it about to pull up infront of them? Yeah, I'll I'll
use mo I'll use motion to movetowards the carriage within with the two fallen
guys. Yeah. The benefit inthis case is like, if you waited
for them and then went, itmight be under fire. If you go
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now and sort of meet them halfwayunder the cover of dust, okay,
you don't take an attack, thenyes, we do that. So yeah,
I think that's stipulated. No,uh no, check and him in
and jump in. Yeah. Imake sure that Kestrel knows what's happening,
if verbal communication or make sure shelike sees that I have the two of
them. Okay, so you runin, throw them in, jump in?
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Is that the yes? Okay?Uh Tom, that's say oh your
boys stabilized? Um, So itmeans you're stabilized. Yeah, not conscious,
but not conscious. And can Ibe conscious enough to say like thanks
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tim I think I think we can. We can certainly say that. Maybe
you don't say thanks Timbo, butyou're like thank thank you, like you're
you're somewhat emergent when it comes toyour consciousness. It's like a thumbs ups.
I'm being tossed in the cart soeverybody knows. Yeah, uh kestrel,
Yeah, what do you want todo? Um the so the blue
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figure? Yeah okay, um soI check back to see if they've made
it safely in the carriage. Andthen I turned to be like story,
say you can can you talk tome? What the fuck is going on?
Man, I didn't kill you,tell me, tell me if you
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can communicate at all? Or charades? Like one word like first first word
sounds like dagger. You know,do you approach it? Yeah? Yeah,
I mean like I'm I'm trying totalk to it. You get close
to it, you start talking toit. A reminder like like last time,
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it's shape. It's shape is notcorporeal. It's sort of like shifts
and frozen shrinks. And yeah,it's very like, um, you know
when you hear music distort, itlooks the way that sounds. Does that
make sense? Um? Wordsmith overhere? Oh? Thanks? Um?
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So it might be gesturing, butit's really hard to interpret what that would
even be. Like it's hard totell what's an arm? What's um but
Jesus um? But as you've seenbefore, a wand extends out to you.
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Yeah, yeah, okay, Igrab the wand okay, um as
soon as you grab the wand itdissipates. Oh shit, I had so
many questions. I can talk tome anyway. Um, all right,
I say, I'm muttered to myself. Let's see what this one does.
(50:34):
All right? So you wave itin the air. Yeah A. It's
just as the dust is sort ofsettling back down and you can sort of
see all these people that you wavethis wand and a spray of liquid just
sort of flings in all directions.We'll find out what happens next session.
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Oh wow, what a cliffhanger.Damn Clive, hang a b beer next
time on the night shift. Anduh, there's more where that came from,
the guys, What did I justdo? I think there's like stuff
coming out of this wand it's reallygross, smells bad.
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travel? My my wife died.He gets back and I asked him about
time travel and he kind of laughed, And apparently any wizard who's ever done
anything with time travel, it's hadto be you can jump back sixty seconds
or something like that. Any furtherthan that and they just disappear into the
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ether. They never come back.Cat scripts, get the gold. My
souls already sold. Swim you tryto do smell, I wish you well.
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Never creature runs your streets. Youdo better to retreat if you want
it done right. Don't hurt Thenight Shaft house is pretty sick and like
(01:29):
you can, it's pretty fort fire, sir, true rich, I reckon.
You might need to grab your sword. I'm willing to do that,
um, because it's gonna be alot of people. Yeah, well,
sure you can take the back wayout. Yeah, it's the front way
and the backway thought our carriage.We can try the back way, but
if it comes down to it.We might be fighting our way out.
(01:52):
Your help. I have uh,yeah, I have horses. Could you
to us for us gape? Youcan have them? Clearly, Alexandator trusted
you, so I do as well. Do you have any other ones that
could be helpful? What? No, he was the wand collector. M
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hmmm. Any uh? What happenedto his five They weren't found on his
body? M hmm? Anything else? Information relics, all right, don't
think so. I think of somethingelse. Jay strong, gay man.
(02:34):
He like rests his head on yourshoulder. Yeah, and I hugs you
a little longer than you intended,kind of kind of patch on the Okay,
okay, I'm like the coffee wasgreat, by the way. Oh
yeah, that's really nice, reallynice for the people at the front gate.
And try and buy you a littlebit of time. Thank you.
I get it. I don't time, you know, we just spent all
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these it buy you time by likea boy you Likedamn. Okay, Um,
let's go until we meet again.And he literally sprints out in his
pajamas with bead alone the love itback door. Yeah, you head to
the back door. Um, yousee the stables as you leave out the
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back of the house. Um,you're obviously stole in the estate. So
are we grabbing horses at the plant? Yes? Yeah, let's make escape.
Yeah, there's not no covered carriage. Who's a good horsemanship? I
would imagine that I would be prettydarned good on the horse. I'm gonna
hop onto you. Yeah, soundsgood. Three horses though, yes,
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yeah? What about Bill, Billand Jeffer on the carriage? Oh shit,
they're still on the carriage. Theynever came into the house with us.
Was an out front, it wasunder like the cardboard. If he'll
never came inside'll never came inside?Were wea he's good? Yeah, I
mean he's not known to re withus. We'll send him a message.
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We'll send him a message. Iguess we have to. Wow, it
feels bad. I want to goback to falcon I like that move to
the Ultimately, I want to goback to Bond City. I feel like
it's kind of a great seed.How long we just need to get out
of here right now? But Ido agree with that it would be several
days. I do agree with thateventual point where can we go to get
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right now? Go back to theker residence. It is probably where we
need to go to do. WhatWhat are we going to do that to
rest plan on next play? We'vealready been thinking about how to happen.
I want to go figure out howI got the dagger of yakback shit on
my silver lad like a shower beforewe go on another technical that's not our
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fault. Technically cleans you, butit doesn't feel as good as I showered
it. Okay, fine, okay, So you just want to go right
now? City days away? Yes? Yeah, I mean I'll go camp
out. Okay, sure, whatelse are we going to do? Do
you have any other idea to goahead to figure out what the planet means?
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Are we telling you there's nothing elseto investigate? Can we leave some
kind of message for for Bill?Let him know if that's where we're headed
to the Bone City so he canmeet us. Is there like it?
But is there like a guild ofastronomers or anything? I would say not
as far as you know. Okay, um, okay, yeah, I
don't like going without. If we'regoing to Falcon I don't like going without.
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Why don't we go back to thecon State? Bill, I'm gonna
have to kill Bill, You guysare way too He has the vampire bat,
though I'm at least getting the vampirebat from him another time. We're
never gonna see him again if weleave him right now. We have a
message Heartbrook. He's gonna think wedeserted him. We'll send a message to
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him. Guys, we're not gonnabe able to go. We had to
go through is a what a checkpoint? With the carriages? How are we
gonna get out? We're not gonnabe able to get out of here on
horses either, though we're gonna haveto. In fact, we should probably
We're doing a lot of talking.I'm hearing some fighting back there, like
we should probably go. Yeah,let's go. I'm saying, do you
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want to go out of dragons?We can't get out of ra We're gonna
get past the guards. It's easyto get out of dragons is to get
in it. But surely at yourhouse we could like daylight one of our
great plans and everything, and wecould like, great, we've done a
catering thing. We've done. Idon't know. We could be like,
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um, we've done the circus thing. I think already, Um, what
would it look like to get aroundto the cardboard area where the carriage is,
Like I have to circumvent half thehouse or so, but yeah,
you could do that. Let's thinkit is still daylight. We were still
scene turned into a bird, andthe time you spent with Trowbridge, I
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think counts as a short rest,so like you've you've had some rests during
that time. Um, yeah,what's the plan? I think we you
can hear swords clashman at this point. I think we go to Kestrel's Lalo,
wait till it gets dark, andthen we leave the city at night.
Second, Head's a bone city.Second, it so moose to that
is because you guys want to usethe shower. No, no, it
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makes the most sense. If it'sstill daylight and everyone's still looking for us.
We can't really hide because we're onhorses, so they're going to see
us. It's going to be moreof a risk to go back to the
estate traveling within dragon Spear. Right, know you realize that, right,
did you re Minder? Right?Actually, yep, it has been pretty
hot wherever we've been. All right, let's ride, let's go then,
(07:44):
I know, but I want togo get the vampire bamnay fuck, So
what's the plan. We're going togo back to the sewers and go back
the way we came. Okay,so you're riding for the drags, get
back into the sewers, and exitout towards the lake the poison. Well,
I mean, as far as ourknowledge of city, we're not gonna
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be able to just like hoof itpast the guards blocking the exits right,
feels like a big assumption. Okay, okay, knowing what's kind of what's
going on internally, man, I'mgonna miss it, shower. So you
start riding. Um, and whenwe get out the back gate, uh,
everybody roll initiatives. Mm hm ohwhat have time for that to come
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up? Freaking I'm just going lastabout that. I love about seventeen three.
Three is not very three is notvery good. Oh I'm sorry.
(08:58):
It's one m M it's a onekay hantro twenty oh very nice. Um,
you do still roll to Cody,because then you can make the decision
as to whether you want to takethat last spot or go first. Six
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And I will take the last spot, and I am armed with the snail
flail. Oh yeah, do notput Bill in there. All right,
Yeah, Timbo's last, even thoughat last is a one. All right,
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So what's gonna happen is as soonas you exit that back gate,
Um, you guys, hear boltsand arrows fly over your head, none
of them particularly close. Um,but that is the immediate thing that you
hear. H Tom, you gofirst, yes, so tell me what
(10:03):
what what I see? Why don'tyou make a check perception check, which
obviously does not count as your actionsixteen sixteen. So what you can see
is if there are people camped outon either side of the road, behind
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barrels and crates, within stores,pointing their bows and stuff out of the
windows. They've they've kind of campedout. They're aware that you're coming.
It was possible you'd come this wayfiring arrows and bolts. You've got some
people with spears as well, andas soon as they saw you, they
took shots and some of them did, none of them particularly close. But
it looks like it's that way inboth directions as well. So you can
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go left, you can go right, but you can see immediately there's people
planted. Hard to tell how manyare there? Do our immediate left and
right are there? Any stalls orwagons or barrels or anything of the sorts.
Barrels, we can stipulate you you'reyou're on like a a commercial street.
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Um, so definitely let's say barrelsand maybe something like boxes, but
not like big foodstalls or wait,we're mounted. You are mounted, That
is correct. You're on a horsewith me. Yeah. Um, so
one side doesn't look particularly less populatedthan another. I don't think with that,
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Jack, I'm I'm gonna tell youhow many like, yeah, which
which side is more heavily fortified?I'll um, you know, I'm gripping
Timbo's waist, so I'll just whisperin his ear like damn fly, we
gotta ride left. I don't justthat way that way, like just just
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go, but I'm gonna do herrowtouch where he gets the plus four hp
at the beginning of every four timpHB at the beginning of every turn,
which does not stack. Remember,yes, there's places, and he's also
fearless, so no flames or anything. Yes, um, Timbo, I
mean yeah, I guess let's justfucking ride all right, castroll. She
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wants so badly to use the crownagain. Um. Every turn is going
to be lindsay thinking about do Ineed to roll a perception to see what
I see? I think you canif you want, Yes, Okay,
Um, that's thirteen the thirteen.I think you hear the arrows um,
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and you see some people fairly closeto you, a handful on either side
who are similarly camped out behind barrelsor crates or within stores. There's one
that's on top up of this store, sort of pointing his crossbow down at
you. Okay, what a jerk. Umm. I really want to use
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it, but I don't know ifI want to save it for something else.
I gave it to you to useit, I know. But um,
I want to cast a spell calledblunder crap bunk. Yes, I'm
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okay. What does tell me whatyou think? So in my vision of
the spell, I see that like, anybody within the range of what the
normal thunderclap spell would be, whichis creative burst of thunder sound which can
be heard one hundred feet away,must make a constitution saving throw or take
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one D six thunder damage. SoI would think that everybody within one hundred
feet like could make a blunder andmis hitting us or like whatever, like
they stubbed their toe, break abow and arrow, etc. To me,
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that's pretty good. Lunder clap oneguy just like trips and falls off
the roof. Oh, let's doit this way. You do have to
do the spell slot when you casta spell, right, Um, what's
what level are you casting a spell? Out? It's a level two spell,
So you're gonna cast it a leveltwo? Oh no, no,
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it's a level zero. What it'sa can't trip? Yea, so it's
not a spell slot, it's can'ttrip. Oh I see, but it's
damage increases as you level Yes,okay, M we're gonna do it this
way. Um, they every singleone of them, about one hundred feet
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are gonna have disadvantage on their attackjust to start with. Um, and
then I think they're gonna make acertain number of them are gonna make saves
as to how bad babel under Umin this case, I'm thinking like a
wisdom save. That sound fair.They're not wise enough to know you shouldn't
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lean that far over the roof thecrossbow. Um, though you they can't
trip, can't trip, can't tripif you didn't have a thing already out
on Um, that one. Thatone took a minute for me. Um,
so we're gonna say one die tenof them. Only one of them
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blunders, but he blunders. Hartfalls off the roof of the of the
store, doing eleven points of damage. He falls off, and as he's
trying to pull his hands out andstop himself, his finger pulls the trigger
off his crossbow into his own neck. Yeah, well he's dead before he
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hits the ground. I mean it'sokay, magic, it'd be like that
sometimes, all right, and theyare all going to have disadvantage on their
attacks. Okay, sous, you'reright, all right, I'm not done.
Okay, what else? Um?I stand out and I kind of
address whoever is there, like everybody, and I hold my hands up and
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I say, people or fighters ormercenaries of Dragon Spear, please listen to
what I'm about to say. Myname is Kestril Corocus, and I and
my companions had nothing to do withsenatora off Iron's death. We're trying to
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figure out who did it. Andyou can ask both of his dear friends.
They can tell you that they believeus. Please let us figure out
what happened, and if anyone islike a time travel expert or planetary expert.
(17:34):
That would be great, but seriously, don't make us fight you.
That's not what we're here for.We seriously mean no harm. And that
honestly, that was a blunder.Make a persuasion, Yeah, persuasion check.
I was trying to decide. Allright, all right, that is
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a see oh my god, that'sa nineteen Okay. You hear some like
murmurs um, and you see atleast one person like lower their crossbow.
Um. Doesn't have the same effecton everyone. Like you hear one guy
go like, we don't care off, we're here for the money. Um.
(18:21):
But but several of them are thinkingabout what you said. Is that
up? Um? For the record, you said you stood up and put
your hands out, animal hands.You know. I think it's also a
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bold move with like a bunch ofcrossbows. Same day. Yeah, I
don't lower my hands. I uh, I put my life in theirs.
I'm gonna whisper tim Bozzi. Whyis she te bozy? All right?
Come on, yes, that's it. Okay. Do you flee like you're
(19:04):
on a horse. Do you ridethe horse in the direction that they are
riding the horse? No, I'mstaying there. Wow, no bad guys,
castro your call. Do you wantme to roll one attack all the
bad guys at disadvantage or do youwant made to roll a series of attacks
all at disadvantage for the bad guys? Oh my god, I don't know.
(19:26):
So it's like all or nothing oroh nothing? O god? Oh
tough break? Um? Oh notfor like, it was a thirteen for
both roles, So it's like athirteen. But that means the attack is
(19:48):
a fifteen. So here's what we'regonna do. Each of you is gonna
take four attacks. If a fifteenis below your AC all four mess?
Does anybody have an AC above fifteen? No? No, fourteen? So
close? All right? So inall cases, then they're gonna hit hailstorm
(20:12):
of bolts, arrows, and spearsfly at you. Oh boy, Now,
okay, I'll tell you that washalf as many as was coming.
So your performance check there or yourpersuasion check certainly took a few notches off.
Cool um, all right, coolstory, broke damage coming, Yeah,
(20:41):
do your worst, just egg themon. Maybe not worst? All
right? Everybody ready, Yeah,sixteen points of damage across the board,
So each each sixteen points of damageeach person. No, each person takes
sixteen points of damage. Sorry,it's still not good. So Attilious,
(21:02):
how are you doing? So whydid that? How did that happen?
What do you mean how? Idon't understand if it was so you were
rolling as like the whole crowd everybodyto attack all of us. Correct.
So that's why, because I couldhave done any dice ad advantage disadvantage and
(21:22):
it would have piecemealed it. Inthis case, it was like they were
all going to hit you, orthey were like with the same attack where
they were all spell. It wasvery high risk, high reward in this
case high risk. Hallucinator been great, I'm dead. Yeah, I'm dead.
So you gotta see Attilius take umevery four arrows and unlike some of
(21:45):
you, where you take them,you know as a as a graze.
Um? Sorry continue? What them? What? What? Nothing doesn't matter,
doesn't matter. No, because thetimes that right cutting words, it
should have cutting words your attach asa reaction yeah or no. This just
says oh yeah as a reaction,yeah yeah, I think you can still
(22:06):
take your reaction. But it saysthat I can't know the result when I
choose to use cutting words. Begaming. It pretty hard for me to
go back and cutting words are attacheddown to where then it doesn't hit it.
In this case, I also looped. Uh what sixteen attacks all at
once? So like, I'm certainlywilling to fudge the role a little bit
(22:27):
there because I also did. Soyou're cool. Do you want to use
it now? Yeah? Okay,I'll tell you this goes slack on top
of his horse. Oh you bothdo. Yeah, you both go slack.
When your horse goes uh uh sortof slumped forward or sideways, you're
(22:48):
still on the horse. I thinklet's roll one to twentie. Why not
just straight rolls three? Tin TinAttilius pitches forward on his horse, and
you can see that his foot islike caught in the stirrup, so he's
kind of sideways, but he's stillon the horse. Um. In a
(23:11):
way, it might work to hisvenge a little bit because he's only he's
sort of slid into the opposite side. Uh. Tom is behind someone who
was behind Timbo timbo um, Timbo. I think what you feel is like
Tom's hands just slide off your waistas he drops off the horse, m
hm um, and you leave himbehind, all right? Good. Uh,
(23:38):
Attilius, that's it, death save, death save. So remember when
you're unconscious, you're gonna make deathsaves on your turn at the end of
your turn. If you make onedeath save and it's a or if every
time you make a death save,it can be a death save, or
(24:00):
it can be a life Yeah.Um, if it's below ten, it's
a death mark and you only getthree of those. If it's above ten,
then um, it's a life markand you are one step closer to
stabilization. You need three of those. If you roll a twenty, it's
two of those. Actually, Ithink if it's twenty, you pick up
automatically like you're stable automatically. Ifit's a one, it counts as two
death saves at once. Yeah.So just as a reminder of the risk
(24:22):
that's in front of us. IfAttilias were to roll a one right now,
he could die, die die onthe next turn. Yeah. If
he rolls not a one, butstill that saved on this turn or the
next turn, he could roll aone and die, die die, yeah,
be fully dead. All right,I understand the risks. Yeah,
well yeah, thank you, allright, almost there's a spot on your
(24:47):
great paper you might want to marketall right, uh timbo you next crikey?
Alright, mate, turn the horsearound. I give it a old
tug on the reins. We turnaround right there on the spot, go
backwards. I'll do my best leaningover. I'll scoop up tom bombo at
(25:14):
check on that. Oh, absolutelynew problem. Yeah, let's see an
athletics for you. Check. Okay, good than twelve twelve? Uh huh.
Let's see. I think you leandown and you grab him. Um,
maybe not as seamlessly as you hoped. You have to kind of slow
(25:34):
the horse down, stop the horsealmost around down, but you're able to
pick him up. Okay, You'renot able to like sling him on the
horse behind. You kind of haveto like keep him under your arm.
Yeah, that's fine, little moredifficult than you expected. It's that he
had to get it. That's difference, right, Like if he would have
been working with you, he wouldhave slid on, but dead weight just
a little bit harder yep. Uh. And then uh, and then we
(25:57):
keep galloping towards Attilius and where orchestralare um. When I get to when
I get so, Attilius is stillon his horse. Yeah, and his
horse has like slowed, but it'sstill like riding in the right direction that
(26:17):
you guys were going. Kestral,on the other hand, is planted still.
She was pretty sure this okay,So I want to I want to
get Atilius's horse to follow me,like I don't. I don't need to
get him, he's still on thehorse, but I need to get the
horse. Let's do animal handling.That advantage to come with me minus two
(26:44):
on animal handling. Rough, I'mgonna use an inspiration. Yeah, animal
handling is minus two mm hmmm,very situation. Maybe I don't want to
use it right here. What elsecould I do? Is my question?
(27:10):
My role? So the first roleI was a five, but I don't
know that I want to use theinspiration dice to do better because I think
rather than doing that, I couldactually just can't. I just speak with
it. I can as a asa ritual. So I can't really do
(27:38):
that, right, okay, allright? So what's the role the roles
of five? Five? I thinkyou, um, you ride by and
you like go to swipe at theat the reins and it like yanks,
it's had one way and you kindof get the reins and then it kind
of snatches out of your hands,and mind you, it is still running
(28:00):
in the right direction, just slowerthan Yeah, but running in the right
direction is actually like away now,and I don't actually want to be going
that way if um, well,now we're moving in the opposite direction and
Castro's not moving at all. Andwhat I really want to do is get
back to I want to go backinside the gates of um the the Troubridge
(28:26):
compound. Okay, anything else that'ssor did did he evan to see um
my potion appealing jangling around in mypockets or anything? I don't know'm just
like he lifts me up off theground. Oh he didn't see it.
I don't know, you know,but just he didn't see the potion of
healing that's in my pockets or bags. I do just see what you're doing.
(28:51):
But I like about it is thatit's subtle. I didn't see it,
Unfortunately for you. I think bothJay and Timbo's natural inclination is uh,
not to look for the healing element. It's to whack things with sticks.
Yeah, but I got him inone arm, and I'm trying to
(29:12):
get Attilius's horse to come with us. I think, Uh, I think
that's really it. I mean II ride, Um, I mean,
I guess essentially back to where Orchestralstill is. I don't know how much
movement I really can still get.I mean, this is my first turn,
(29:33):
so really like I'm trying to goback into the back through the gates
where we started. So, Imean, this is my first turn.
I just left those gates. Ithink you can get back to the gate.
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(32:29):
their hearts have grown three times thesize, and they appear to be
okay. Well, let's take alittle break, ladies and gentleman, and
we'll be back at five. Feela little stronger since the last time we
leveled up, even though it's beena little while. Wow, Wow,
hey Bill, great job out there, man, You really uh well,
I know you didn't get on basetoday, but your effort was astounding.
(32:52):
Great job, Bill. People keeptelling me that I was, I was,
I was never gonna get to thirdbase, and I um, I
didn't know you didn't. But howcan you miss that ball? I can't
it right to you? I mean, right, gee, I might as
well use you. It's the ballnext. Want to be fair, I'm
about the size of the ball andyou kicked it. Next time you climb
up on atilius? Is that legal? We look in the room. Just
(33:15):
pour me a drink, okay,whatever, Well, I'm so angry right
now. My good friends over atRallycap took the liberty of brewing us a
beer named after something that will nevertruly understand, and that is Victory Formation.
And there's some assessment to be somesort of runic symbols of some sort
(33:39):
from these cans. Well, yes, uh, the good news is a
hazy i PA eight percent alcohol bya volume, Victory Formation is very tasty,
even though we'll never really understand whatit's like. Hey, it's on
the fifteen to zero. Okay,y'all, it's free. They still have
a chance, is sure. It'sa perfect sports brew. Yes, yeah,
(34:02):
quench the first I reckon. WhenI crank out my dangers, I
can just trot around the base pathand watch it with the dingers. This
is the family sport. We don'twant to fucking love American football. I
get it. I can read theroom just football man. Fuck. Yeah,
(34:24):
this is actually great. Something happened. It's all bump over there.
Yeah, delicious beer. Pelican CraftBrands distributes this throughout the Greater Louisiana area.
Always a fan of bringing delicious craftbeer to the people. To take
notes of citrus. It's quite delicious. Various stute over there. Only she
(34:51):
worked on her kickball skills like she'sbeen working on her beers. Tom's fault,
he missed the ball. Mess theball, you know the game.
That's why would be kicking into meanyway the field. Get your asses back
on the field. Let's finish this, uh, Tomothy Bombo, life safe
(35:19):
all right? Sixteen? Okay,that's his whole turn. Kestrel chest,
you've stopped, kind of stood upin your stirrups, put your arms out
and they drew the attention. Forthe record, I hate that. I
thought it was a good moves.Just did that. Yeah, sorry,
Um okay, I I kind ofkeel over. She's just like, how
(35:45):
fuck suck? And uh, we'regonna go to jail. I I sort
of mutter under my breath, Senatorof Frien, if you really do have
the ability to time travel, orif you're watching us grow, uh,
(36:07):
we could maybe use some help rightnow. Um. And I kind of
like look up at everybody. Um, and I raised my voice and say,
(36:30):
this isn't what he would have wanted, but I have to protect my
friends. Um. And so Iturn on my horse and no, not,
(36:52):
what's fifteen horse power? Stupid?Shouldn't horse? And I take my
and I leaned down, grab somemagic stone or grab some pebbles, and
I cast magic stone and then Ithrow each one of them into the dirt
(37:16):
to create a sort of a smokescreen. Um, with all the like
the dirt that's rising up. Soif we do get attacked again, hopefully
it will be at disadvantage because theycan't see us. M Um. And
(37:37):
then I guess, well, Iguess let me ask this, like how
far would we be able to ridein the other direction away from the gate,
Like how far were we from theirtrajectory? Because I don't actually know
what we saw. We just kindof like did initiative and we came right
out. It's ay or I thinkthere were like three different as straight left
(38:00):
and right, straight left right.It's like a road, not an alley,
but a small one. Um,and the estate extends in either direction
on this side of the road.The other side of the road is like
stores, shops, houses, etc. Um. Does that answer your question
or not? Sorry? Not really. I mean, I guess I'm just
(38:22):
trying to figure out, like wherewe were going, is that toward the
drags You were fleeing towards the dragsum to try and get into the sewer.
Yeah, I guess I'm just tryingto figure out, like if we
(38:43):
turn back into into troubridge, likewe're just gonna have to get out again.
Um. Yeah, we just havetwo unconscious comrades right now, and
I feel like that's priority number oneand yeah, and then we're just gonna
(39:04):
meet you hold up in there likeyeah, we'll just go out to the
other side with with bridge. Soand the horse travels sixty foot on a
normal turn, one hundred and twentyfeet if it dashes, which in this
case it would be doing now mindyou, a crossboat can shoot like one
hundred and fifty feet three hundred feeta disadvantage. A long boat can shoot
(39:24):
like three hundred feet six hundred feeta disadvantage. So they'd better hit you
for like two more turns probably,yeah, yeah, I don't know.
I don't love doing this story wise, but I guess we'll just go back
to bridge. Okay, turn backaround, except for ye grab it for
(39:49):
the horse trains somehow you can rideover to where his horse is and then
ride back. So I have toalso roll a animal handling. Animal handling,
you're pretty good at animals. Youcan fucking talk to him. Yeah,
have a zero though, shit,oh shit, yeah that one.
(40:13):
Oh it's is it tough beet fory'all? You ride over to his horse
and snatch at the reins, andit yanks its head again and pulls you
off of yours, so you hitthe ground kind of all fours. I
(40:35):
think it could use your romantic movementto kind of stand up. So the
saving grace I think a little bithere is you are between two horses,
boy, and you hate to usethem as meat shields, but you have
that. I don't know, I'madrid. I don't know if I would
do that. Okay, yeah,that's a fair point. I'm just putting
it out there. Also, you'reallergic to their fur. That's true.
(40:58):
You're breaking out a little bit toughspot. Guys. They are disadvantaged on
this attack anyway. Um, sothere is that in this case, they're
gonna be disadvantaged and they're gonna havelow visibility because of the sort of smoke
screen that was created. So basicallyit's gonna add to AC to all of
(41:21):
your acs. Makes sense. Great, we're gonna do the all or nothing
attack again. We end we havea yeah, just don't don't roll so
well, got it done? Yeahfor you baby? Anything? All right?
A six does a six hit anyone? All right? This time arrows,
(41:44):
spears, bolts go flying. Butthey don't really threaten anybody, um,
not that uh Tom or Attilius wouldknow they are. They're passed out.
Um, the other two of you, you don't really see any damage
from it. I mean they kindof fly by you, and I think
(42:07):
that's gonna be their whole term.Attilious, that's safe hearing the gods calling
down. It's thundering. Yeah,come home, baby, there you go
nineteen nineteen two saves. I'm stepcloser. Don't look at me. Yeah,
(42:35):
you don't want me to look alook at me. Okay you threw
mad at me, Yeah, don'tlook him. Sorry. Wow, Um,
I'm scared. Okay, Oh okay, we're gonna go. Timbo.
Mm hmm um sorry Timbo. Beforeyou go, You're like, oh,
(43:00):
thank god, um Timbo, beforeyou go. Um. Two things happen.
One, Um, a blue lightappears in the middle of the dust,
our boy, our own personal dayof sex. Um. I would
say Kestrel is close to it,probably the closest. Um. You're both
(43:24):
passed out. You're probably further awayfrom it, so really it's Kestril kestrel.
Immediately I think probably you know,you're maybe probably from me to you
actually like ten twelve feet Um,immediately have a splitting headache. Like yeah,
(43:45):
it's enough I think that I'm acting. It's enough that it's like a
little hard to focus. Yeah.Um, obviously you know you've got some
some holding you bleeding, You've gotthis headache. There's dust kicked up everywhere.
It's hard to see. Um sneezing. You're sneezing because of the and
(44:08):
you're breaking out into welts and stuff. So there's like there's a lot going
on. Um. The second thingthat happens is that from the right you
see Bill and Jeff arriving on acarriage. Yeah. Um, they have
shields held up bless from the outsideand are both holding one rein for each
(44:29):
horse. Yes, they've fucking jeffLet's carriage kind of like I think they're
still approaching. They're not quite there, but but during this turn they will
arrive kind of in front of youguys. Beautiful, beautiful, all right,
timbo, Yeah, all right.I dismount from my steed and I've
(44:52):
got I've got tom over a shoulder, and I get over to uh,
I get over to the horse thatAttilius is dangling off of, and I
get him down off of his horsesafely. Wait where did did Kestrol pulled?
(45:13):
Kestrol fell off her horse and hisbetween between the horses. So I
I get Attilius off safely and kindof stay behind the horses. Oh,
come on off the day I wasprofessional, and then fucking jump and get
(45:39):
off safely. We're practicing safely,please him to death. Yeah, safely
anything. What he says he's notchafed, you know, totally safe.
(46:07):
Please anything else? What's the shimmeringfigure doing? Okay, so you but
you have Alius and Tom with you. Yeah, I've got Attilius and Tom
and we're kind of behind the horsessteadying ourselves, bracing for the carriage to
pull up so I can get bothof them and myself and Kestrel in the
(46:30):
carriage. You're still on the horse, right, No, No, I
dismounted. I think if you're dismounted, you're kind of like behind the head,
stay behind the gate and the hedges. That's fine. Um So,
like I don't think you have toworry necessarily about um more a tax coming
at you where you're standing now,Okay, you cannot see the figure.
Okay, you can see light inthe dust, and I think you can
(46:52):
certainly, you know, recall thewhere that would come. You can make
an assumption that that is the figure, but you can't actually see what it
is. You can just see somelike light eliminating illuminating from the dust.
Okay, that's fine. Uh,yeah, you're gonna wait, that's well,
(47:15):
yeah, I want to use anaction to get to the carriage or
I think you could run towards it. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
is it about to pull up infront of them? Yeah, I'll I'll
use mo I'll use motion to movetowards the carriage within with the two fallen
guys. Yeah. The benefit inthis case is like, if you waited
for them and then went, itmight be under fire. If you go
(47:36):
now and sort of meet them halfwayunder the cover of dust, okay,
you don't take an attack, thenyes, we do that. So yeah,
I think that's stipulated. No,uh no, check and him in
and jump in. Yeah. Imake sure that Kestrel knows what's happening,
if verbal communication or make sure shelike sees that I have the two of
them. Okay, so you runin, throw them in, jump in?
(47:57):
Is that the yes? Okay?Uh Tom, that's say oh your
boys stabilized? Um, So itmeans you're stabilized. Yeah, not conscious,
but not conscious. And can Ibe conscious enough to say like thanks
(48:19):
tim I think I think we can. We can certainly say that. Maybe
you don't say thanks Timbo, butyou're like thank thank you, like you're
you're somewhat emergent when it comes toyour consciousness. It's like a thumbs ups.
I'm being tossed in the cart soeverybody knows. Yeah, uh kestrel,
Yeah, what do you want todo? Um the so the blue
(48:40):
figure? Yeah okay, um soI check back to see if they've made
it safely in the carriage. Andthen I turned to be like story,
say you can can you talk tome? What the fuck is going on?
Man, I didn't kill you,tell me, tell me if you
(49:02):
can communicate at all? Or charades? Like one word like first first word
sounds like dagger. You know,do you approach it? Yeah? Yeah,
I mean like I'm I'm trying totalk to it. You get close
to it, you start talking toit. A reminder like like last time,
(49:27):
it's shape. It's shape is notcorporeal. It's sort of like shifts
and frozen shrinks. And yeah,it's very like, um, you know
when you hear music distort, itlooks the way that sounds. Does that
make sense? Um? Wordsmith overhere? Oh? Thanks? Um?
(49:49):
So it might be gesturing, butit's really hard to interpret what that would
even be. Like it's hard totell what's an arm? What's um but
Jesus um? But as you've seenbefore, a wand extends out to you.
(50:14):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Igrab the wand okay, um as
soon as you grab the wand itdissipates. Oh shit, I had so
many questions. I can talk tome anyway. Um, all right,
I say, I'm muttered to myself. Let's see what this one does.
(50:34):
All right? So you wave itin the air. Yeah A. It's
just as the dust is sort ofsettling back down and you can sort of
see all these people that you wavethis wand and a spray of liquid just
sort of flings in all directions.We'll find out what happens next session.
(50:58):
Oh wow, what a cliffhanger.Damn Clive, hang a b beer next
time on the night shift. Anduh, there's more where that came from,
the guys, What did I justdo? I think there's like stuff
coming out of this wand it's reallygross, smells bad.
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