Venture Forth: A D&D Podcast
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Venture Forth: A D&D Podcast
C2 E24 | Panderly Rascals
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SPEAKER_22What a night, I'm Elia.
SPEAKER_13Ramsey.
SPEAKER_22Philippa.
SPEAKER_13Sure. And I'm your DM, Seth. Welcome to Venture Forth.
SPEAKER_05Gather round ye gentles, I've another tale to tell Of woe-begotten heroes and repentant now duels. Of villains and their scheming and the fools that heed the call. Sweet melodies to ensure that they venture.
SPEAKER_06What they venture, dueling dragons in a dungeon. Tothing trolls till the toes are peeled. What they venture down they've got to trust the notch may when a devil's got a kill. They just got to talk to fountains, nothing's after sleep. There's a beat with much ambition. There's a walking at the gate. The real threat of politicians behind the middle mimics line.
SPEAKER_13When last we left our heroes. Amidst the top deck of the split keel, the party set about interrogating the bound form of class Verheag. And through threats, cajoling, persuasion, and coercion, you extracted the full scope of his plans and his involvement in the events of the last few weeks here in BlackRock. You learned of his position within the Akonite trade, the shadow organization tied to the more hidden and unsavory elements of BlackRock's socioeconomic makeup. You learned a bit more about the strange messages he received from some non-humanoid inhabitants of the town and the surrounding forest, and most importantly, you learned of his plans to double-cross the trade. And with that, as your primary leverage, you were able to extort the full truth from him and receive the name of his superior within the trade, Okonkwo. As this interrogation took place, Sean Ilya made their way downstairs to check up on a new ally of the group, Karnak, the strange dragonborn from the Dark Saints to the East. They arrived just in time to see the tail end of a decidedly one-sided confrontation between the winged Romalian and the hanger-on of class upstairs that you had asked Karnak to delay. And thanks to your collective input, you saw Said Goon escorted out the bar, hanging unconscious between the two bouncers. You returned upstairs, wrapped up your interrogation, and decided to take class to the coin clubs to await whatever judgment he may. But that judgment came a little bit early, via the contents of a small vial and the steady hand of Shaw. Noting a disturbance nearby in the docks on your way up to drop him off, you turned the dwarf over to the Ministry of the Coin Clubs for whatever remains of his time. And you then parted ways, Shaw and Vale heading on foot toward the Red Thorn, while Elia took flight in the arms of Karnak, getting a view that few others do of the town of BlackRock. Crime, selfishness, risk, and reward, but were left with a clearer view of maybe just how different they see the world in many respects. Oops. As Philippa departed, alone in the split keel with no one but Luther for company, Ramsay mused for a bit, but shortly after Phil's departure was interrupted by a dwarvish woman who has been asking questions about him, and he learned that some elements of his past may not be quite done with him. And back at Susan's house, Phil returned, the weight of more than a long day upon her shoulders, and was met by Dena. Worry creased her brow, her voice laden with concern. She explained that earlier this evening, Reese fell unconscious right around sunset, and has not woken since. Through the door into their room from the common area here within their domicile, you see Reese asleep on his bed. He is breathing. He is alive, though unconscious. And Dena turned towards you, Phil, and said that there was something that she needs to tell you.
SPEAKER_16It's fine.
SPEAKER_13Never a good start.
SPEAKER_16It's fine. We need to talk about it.
SPEAKER_03We need to talk to us.
SPEAKER_22Hi, we need to talk.
SPEAKER_13You should sit. I'm gonna make some tea.
SPEAKER_12Alright.
SPEAKER_13And she walks over. You're in a small, you've been here many, many times at this table. You know that the there's a it's a relatively quaint home. There's it's the mirror kind of of your own. There are two bedrooms for Reese and Dena, one for Elia, and then there is a large common room. There's a table set with four chairs. Denna walks over to one, pulls it out, sets sits you down, and she walks over to the sort of kitchen counter area, and you hear sort of the gentle ministrations as she pours tea. A short time later, she comes down, sets a mug in front of you. Phil, you've known our family for a long time, and I'm and she looks over her shoulder.
SPEAKER_10We are running out of time. You're familiar with magic. I know you know it.
SPEAKER_13And you know that there are magics that allow someone for a short time to make a connection between minds.
SPEAKER_10Right, but even rare still is the ability to do it without the aid of magic at all.
SPEAKER_12Without magic.
SPEAKER_13And normally I knew that one day it would come. But it's typically been at the end of life.
SPEAKER_12What happens?
SPEAKER_13It requires a measure of control. Reese's gotten very good at it. Ilya is working on it.
SPEAKER_12I wouldn't say control is one of Ilya's primary achievements.
SPEAKER_10No, you're not Something happened about eleven years ago. And ever since then it seems that it's accelerated. Eleven years ago when the skies were in reason ineliable. And we thought that was it.
SPEAKER_13It happened again. It happened a few times, and I think it happened earlier today. And she turns and looks at the room.
SPEAKER_10It's gotten worse every time. But he's never known.
SPEAKER_12It happened today. Okay, to one of many that opens up a portal. A beacon of some sort to call monsters. I don't know what it does or or anything beyond that currently. But it did open at around sunset, and it's possible it opened many more times between then and now.
SPEAKER_10Is it connected to what you all found in the mind?
SPEAKER_12Yes.
SPEAKER_10Ilya talked about that.
SPEAKER_12It's possible it happened 11 years ago. I don't know what it is or what it does. Beyond being a key to unlock something, obviously. And being a beacon that allows these connected beings to be conscious of it being opened. Or being activated in some way. I don't understand. It's possible there is some link in their minds to these objects. These creatures are aberrant in nature. I don't know where this visions, might I call them visions? That that recent Ilya have these mind magic that they can control or or try to control. It's possible some aberrant connection lies there.
SPEAKER_10Whatever it is that calls to these things.
SPEAKER_12It might, but at the end of the day, I'm a scholar. I I can suppose and I can guess and I can theorize, but I cannot know until it is tested. Until we know that there is a link between activating something and these visions.
SPEAKER_10She pushes it from the table.
SPEAKER_12I have stayed out of your business. Because it is your business. Involve me if you would like support and assistance. I am here to help. But I'm not here to pry. Your business is your business.
SPEAKER_10I know. And it's something that I very much am grateful for.
SPEAKER_12We all have pasts. Then we do not wish to dredge up. So if you would like help, I am here to help.
SPEAKER_10My husband is dying, Phil. I will take all the help I can get.
SPEAKER_12Then I will offer everything I can.
SPEAKER_10And she leaves the room.
SPEAKER_13She comes back, and in her hand she has a very small black book. And she kind of holds it to her chest. God damn him, I don't care if he's mad. And she slides it over to you. She opens it up, and you begin to read.
SPEAKER_18Of course. Of course. Of course. Hi. Oh, you don't learn so much about only characters.
SPEAKER_11Um God. I wanna know. I wanna know.
SPEAKER_13We're gonna go over to the Red Thorn. Sure. Yo, we're happy. Everything's great. Yeah, scene for us. Totally fine here. Is this our party? So I believe the last thing that happened here was Karnak took off in the sky. You're up in the sky. And yeah, so dropped you off, and then he poof vanished. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and you uh enter enter into the to the red thorn. Uh the three of you guys, I'll just say, for you all meet up outside there um between your circuitous route and their on-foot route. You guys end up at about the same time. So the three of you all join up together outside of the red thorn. The two of you witness Karnak drop her off and take off into the sky, the last reflection off his golden wings as he vanishes into the darkness.
SPEAKER_20He's the most amazing person I've ever met.
SPEAKER_04I'm glad you had fun.
SPEAKER_15Um I'm gonna head in and see if they need help. And I'll head in the bar and see what's a party!
SPEAKER_13Yeah. You guys enter in and you see Orkaholic Shaw.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, you see.
SPEAKER_03I mean, when the big yeah, it's the biggest one.
SPEAKER_17He's like, I need these tips, man.
SPEAKER_20I have a depth attack.
SPEAKER_13Um you you walk in and you see, yeah, the red thorn is in full swing. There is not a single seat available. It is jam-packed. Um it is uh yeah, I mean, it's it's nuts to butts in here. People, it's standing room only.
SPEAKER_00Um take a money.
SPEAKER_13Uh but no. So uh it is it is jammed in here. Uh it is like, yeah, standing room only. Um drinks, it smells like very sweet, like heady smoke. You see that there is a haze that is over everything. Um it is, yeah. Uh drinks are flowing, and people are in various states of rapture?
SPEAKER_22Yeah.
SPEAKER_14Uh joy, I don't know. Revelity. Revelity! There it is. That's the word I was looking for.
SPEAKER_13The R word I was looking for. Yeah. People are in various states of Revelry. Um, and you guys, yeah, you walk in, you see that uh there is the bar is like fully staffed, you see that I mean it is wild in here. Are you guys, is there anything in particular you guys are looking for? Does the bar look like it needs help?
SPEAKER_15I mean, like, I'll come in, does it look like it's overstapped like overstaffed, or do I need to hop back there and help Gaz?
SPEAKER_13No, right now, like they got all hands on deck. Like, and you know, you weren't supposed to be here tonight by all accounts. So right now they are they are good to go. Um Yeah, it it's things are flowing. Gaz is looking a little overwhelmed. Um, but he's back there.
SPEAKER_15I'll kind of help lead the way and like because I know how to move through the screen this for a year. Cool, cool. And I'll kind of lead us through.
SPEAKER_22So grab us a bar. Come with me. I grab Bill's hand.
SPEAKER_15I'll push up to the front. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Whoa! Hey, you're right. No, do you need me to come back? No!
SPEAKER_13Everything's fine. I'm good. I'm just kidding. Whenever you get to something.
SPEAKER_15Just uh a round for each of us in the room.
SPEAKER_00Shut up!
SPEAKER_13What do you need?
SPEAKER_15Just a round three rounds and three shots.
SPEAKER_13Okay, three rounds, uh, three rounds, three shots. Mm-hmm. Okay. Um, I'll be right back. Where no, I'm right here. Um, and he like he literally just goes down and he pulls out um a bottle of what looks to be a uh yeah, he he kind of reaches, you see his arm goes way, way back, pulls out what looks like a very sort of nice bottle that has a very thick uh red wax cap uh atop it. And he like he looks over and he goes, Jimmy! And you see Jimmy just gives me a. Thank you, Jimmy! Um Jimmy blows you a kiss. And uh Jimmy. He um gas like you hear that cork kind of come undone as he peels the wax off, uncorks it really fast. You see this sort of like this very uh sort of uh it almost has like an innate uh glow to it, this sort of like red amber liquid as he pours it in, like not quite whiskey, not quite wine, kind of in between. Um he pours that into three small shot glasses, and then uh shortly there, you hear you see three mugs of uh what look to be a like a uh it's like a light pink color, um some kind of a mead or sweeter sort of wine as he drops those in front of you. Good. We're great. Okay, get back to it. You're doing alright, you're doing great. Thank you so much. This is insane. You got this.
SPEAKER_15Just imagine how much money you're gonna make.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_15And I'll grab the mugs and I'll hand them to y'all. Okay. And I'll pick up the shots to an eventful night, yeah?
SPEAKER_22Yeah! Cheers! Cheers! All right, and then you shoot it back.
SPEAKER_04Just the whole thing. Oh shit.
SPEAKER_15You guys are blacking out. Yeah, sure. And I'll continue to drink drinking.
SPEAKER_02Like, join into the revelry a little bit. Okay, let loose a little bit. As I take my sip.
SPEAKER_06Sure. Yes, what you need. It's a bad rule.
SPEAKER_02What's the rule? Your rule. Not asking questions. Look what it got. Class.
SPEAKER_04Alright. Well, do you want me to do a bad rule? What would you impose instead, friend? You should ask questions. How are you doing? That tastes good. Good. Cheers. Um my drink.
SPEAKER_18We should get a table.
SPEAKER_04Alright, then I don't.
SPEAKER_16We should get a table.
SPEAKER_13Constitution saved throws. Constitution. Oh, not good at those. Damn.
SPEAKER_22No, I'm not good at those.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I didn't know. I did that one.
SPEAKER_00Holy shit. This is another one that it was.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god.
SPEAKER_22This dice tells story, guys. The dice are telling that Ilya is like really happy.
SPEAKER_13That's why. This is too good. This is too good. 23. 22.
SPEAKER_22Yeah, wait, the save though?
SPEAKER_13Save. Umia, you are intoxicated. You have disadvantage on saving throws against charm effects and acrobatics checks. But you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened and athletics.
SPEAKER_22You know, the way the knights are going might need that. Yeah. What's going on there, bro?
SPEAKER_00Alright!
SPEAKER_18This guy is beautiful.
SPEAKER_00I'll leave the way.
SPEAKER_15And I'll I'll look to them and I'll be like It's frowning.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_15And I'll give them like donuts. Fuck it. Come on. And I'll lead them up. Uh and I'll uh still carry me. I'll take another roof. Okay, okay. We'll go to the roof.
SPEAKER_18Um carry me.
SPEAKER_14Okay, so you should be.
SPEAKER_22Yeah, yeah, I gotta carry one person.
SPEAKER_02Just a flat stair. No. Daniel. Okay, let's go.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Hurry up, you're getting lost!
SPEAKER_14We guys begin to flood your way through the crowd. Um you know what that's like.
SPEAKER_13You are intoxicated.
SPEAKER_14Uh you guys are far.
SPEAKER_13Your DC has been slowly rising. So we're sipping on the moving through the crowd. I'm feeling pretty good about that part.
SPEAKER_16You get jumped.
SPEAKER_22If we go to the TV is crowded and Loud. That's why Ilia, before she completely drank everything in this tipsy, I suggest we go.
SPEAKER_14Right. Sure. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah. Right.
SPEAKER_13But as you're making your way around, however the way you hear Ilya!
SPEAKER_00Ilya!
SPEAKER_13And you hear a voice, a one that you recognize uh very quickly. It is Thistle. Do we all hear that? You all hear it. All look that way too. Yeah. And you see as Elia, or uh as Thistle rather, is like making her way through the crowd. Um you see that she, yeah, she like pats people on the shoulder and they kind of part ways for her, and she comes through and you see uh she is um she smiles at you at you all. Hi, um and then she locks eyes with you. You need to go home.
SPEAKER_18What? You're so pretty.
unknownOh shit.
SPEAKER_13And she reaches up and she grabs your face, she goes, Helia, you need to go home.
SPEAKER_18But we're we're having what's why does she need to go home?
SPEAKER_10Um, your mom is looking for you.
SPEAKER_19I was looking for her and dad. Are they at home?
SPEAKER_10They're both at home. I need to go home.
SPEAKER_19Okay, okay. Um I flew over the city. It was so beautiful.
SPEAKER_15That's wild on this.
SPEAKER_13Does she seem like super serious? She's very serious.
SPEAKER_15Oh, yeah, I'd probably clock. I'll put my hand on this shoulder this lightly. We'll get her there. Please. Please.
SPEAKER_18No, don't leave. I'll go. Here, I'm gonna go with this.
SPEAKER_13I'll go home with you. And I'm gonna grab uh she puts her hand on your face. I can't.
SPEAKER_10It's this tonight.
SPEAKER_19I'll just go home then.
SPEAKER_10I'll make a quick stop and we'll come back, alright?
SPEAKER_19Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_15Finish your beer.
SPEAKER_19Actually, no, no, no, no. Just carry me there.
SPEAKER_22I take it and I'll walk in these. I don't want to take off my shoes again.
SPEAKER_13Give me a little.
SPEAKER_22Yeah, yeah, just finish it for me.
SPEAKER_13Um, and then uh as as Ilia, you begin to kind of make your way through the crowd, um, Thistle like kind of grabs you. She like grabs you by the shirt. Please make sure she gets home safely, please.
SPEAKER_11Of course. You have we met?
SPEAKER_13Vale, Thistle. You know Ramsey. I remember seeing you. You're hard to miss. But um, hi, I'm Thistle. Hi. I'm Vale. There it is. The Vale. The Vil. Wow, an honorific. Oh my. Um The Vale. Would you be so kind as to honor your very heroic um uh reputation that is already circling amongst the what to do here in Black Rock, and please make sure my friend gets home safe.
SPEAKER_02Slight blush. It would be my honor.
SPEAKER_11You're a doll. And she gives you a little pat on the chest.
SPEAKER_15As we lead out, um, and we're I'm kind of leading Ilia after seeing that exchange, and I'm and Vale, I'm a soon right next to me as we're pushing out. She's on the clock, Vale. Come on, let's go.
SPEAKER_13The three of you with a very quick respite here within you turn around and exit the Red Thorn. And you begin to make your way towards Suits and Sal's. Um Ramsey. What are you doing?
SPEAKER_08Uh, I guess I'm still sitting alone in the room. Oh yeah. Don't do that.
SPEAKER_07I'm just chilling.
SPEAKER_08You're just chilling, you're just chilling.
SPEAKER_07No, no, no. I'm giving you space.
SPEAKER_22I'm giving you space. My my your elbows not.
SPEAKER_15You and Luther are just making out.
SPEAKER_08We're just yeah, I'm just with my boss. Oh boy. Luther. She would behave. You're all I've got right now. Bloody Philippa and a bloody morals. Good dear. Some some lives are worth preserving and others well not so much. Do you behave, Luther? Just wish Once in a while we could have a productive conversation, but no. Go out mid-tune. Go out of tune mid-song. And I just have to pretend it was on purpose. Oh yes! No, that song's kind of um avant-garde. We just don't we don't do it in traditional uh styles of music. It's um one of those uh verrestrian formats where the the notes are more of a suggestion. Dwarf from Caldor. Queen Valmark, will you stand your ground when the council of Westridge comes crumbling down? This fire was born from your embers, and the dwarves of the west still remember. Oh, I had a family to burn a peninsula, long for Nikir was consumed by the fleet. The elves of the East thought I worshipped the wrong god, so they burned down my farmhouse and poisoned my seed. And my wife tried to teach me to soften my temper, cause she could smell blood on the breeze. But my son lost his life to a hummusome knife, and so I have sworn to this creed. Queen Vallamak, will you stand your crown when the council of Westridge comes crumbling down? This fire was born from your members, and the dwarves of the west will remember. The crest of the night's up your sternal metal, but it's tempered by battle and cuts by disease. We follow the hammer, with hearts black as anvils, and black knotted shadows if they meet the need. Cause once you've lost her, we'll now follow them with the first time in sight. We can do what is right and set the last worshippers free. We send your crown when the council of the Westridge comes crumbling down. This fire was born from your members, and the dwarves of the west will remember. This fire was born from your members, and then the dwarves of the west will remember. And this fire was born from your members.
SPEAKER_09And the dwarves of the West still remembered that.
SPEAKER_13Good lad. You feel a uh you hear as you put as you say those last administrations.
SPEAKER_14First of all. Oh my god, dude, that was awesome. Fucking Balapart.
SPEAKER_13So lucky. Anyway, um you hear heavy footfalls, like quick, and then the dw uh the curtain is thrown aside and you see a person you know. Uh you see Dom Forger, who is in the doorway, and he pulls the door the thing aside and he looks. Shit! Ramsey, do you have you seen Hillia?
SPEAKER_04Um, not for a minute. Is there something the matter?
SPEAKER_13Um, she's gotta get home. Do you know, do you know where she went?
SPEAKER_08It's kind of a um Uh, she wandered off with the others. Um sh if it's with sure, probably the red thorn.
SPEAKER_13Okay. Um, look, would you would you do me a favor? Uh of course. Just I I know we don't know each other that well, but we do. I kinda owe you my life, which is important. Right, and you know, friend of the family. I'm gonna ask you for another favor. Um, could you help me find her? Of course. Um, yes. Alright, thanks.
SPEAKER_08And I'll owe you again. It's uh it's uh well, you know, actually, it that may be of use to me. Um have you seen a scarred dwarf roaming around? Uh possibly besmirching my name?
SPEAKER_13Um Scarred Dwarf kind of a hat, long coat. Big jacket, yes.
SPEAKER_11Um yeah, I've seen her wandering around. Why? She looks she'd been causing any trouble that you know of. None that I know of or heard of.
SPEAKER_04Alright. Um She said you she's looking for you? Yes, apparently. But I I haven't been able to descend.
SPEAKER_08Um well um I fear she may be here with um people who might help her. She might have brought some unscrupulous uh Naro Wales along for the ride. So um just keep an eye out, I suppose.
SPEAKER_09That's sort of your job, right?
SPEAKER_08Yes. Lucy. I guess you manage the wall.
SPEAKER_11Mostly outside, but you know. Right. For a friend.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, right, right, right. Well, I wasn't sorry, it wasn't I wasn't trying to like put it on you. I was simply asking. Like I said, I I think I kinda owe you.
SPEAKER_13So feels uh Can we walk at all?
SPEAKER_14Oh, yes, great, great, great.
SPEAKER_13Um, as you guys walk. Swing with my shoulder, yeah. So as you guys do actually walk through though. Um, so what you don't know why this woman's looking for you? It's beyond me.
SPEAKER_04Okay. But she seems dangerous, so I'm quite concerned.
SPEAKER_13Yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong, we get people from time to time, hunters, trappers, people who come through and want to make their fortune out here, but Yes, I I swear to you.
SPEAKER_08I've done nothing to uh accrue a bounty on my head besides be beautiful and uh charming, you know. Um perhaps perhaps some um lady somewhere would like to have me in a golden cage uh in her bedroom. But um other than that, I I can't imagine why someone would pursue.
SPEAKER_13I mean, there's worse fates than that, I suppose. You know? You could be in a lizard folk cage out in the middle of fucking nowhere. Totally. Yes.
SPEAKER_11Um that would be like after that, a golden cage at the behest of some woman. That actually doesn't sound so bad.
SPEAKER_08Well, I'll um if I see her again, I'll set you up. You know I saw her?
SPEAKER_13Not really my flavor.
SPEAKER_08Um Well, she's just a hunter, right? Certainly. Yeah. Well, I guess there's no way of knowing. Well but I mean I mean, I consider myself sort of um a collector, uh a a lover of all kinds. So, you know, there's lots of there's there's things you don't always see on the outside. Of course. Yeah. You don't want to always judge.
SPEAKER_13It was more about, I mean, not the way she looked, just the she just she seems very mean. Horrendous. Horrendous. She seems very mean, yes. Yeah, which I'm not that that's not my flavor.
SPEAKER_08That also has its appeal sometimes. Um That's a fair point, actually.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_14Um, because I feel like I could do this for a long time, for sure.
SPEAKER_13But as you guys are walking, uh eventually kind of you round the corner and you do, as you guys are going up the fray road, right? Which is the sort of main road that goes right through the middle of town, you see up ahead of you kind of mingling their way through the crowd slowly, the other three.
SPEAKER_18All the gift gear have magic like yours. That was so cool earlier.
SPEAKER_20We were just like, oh, my bracers, and you have like this mystical uh star person over you.
SPEAKER_07There she is. Um Ilya! Ramsey.
SPEAKER_15Um Don't look for you. Yeah, I'm uh This will found me. We're on the way. You can come with us if you'd like. Um we're taking her there now. That's okay.
SPEAKER_13Um you you're headed. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_21Thistle found us at the Thorn.
SPEAKER_13I'm kind of on duty. Uh we're helping out tonight with coin clubs because and he just gestures too, and you see like up the street a fight breaks out.
SPEAKER_14He's like Um Because of that.
SPEAKER_13Better get to it then. I'm on duty. We'll get to that.
SPEAKER_18Don't do anything I wouldn't do.
SPEAKER_13All right, yeah. Um, well, that's a short list. Um so anyway, already had some very interesting things happen this evening.
SPEAKER_10Um yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_13Someone's gonna be saying just someone's gonna be really upset in the morning because the boat's gone. Um Because what? A boat. Some I stole a ship from a harbor.
SPEAKER_16Wait, dad's ship?
SPEAKER_13No, no, no, no. Some some another one. I don't know. Are you gonna lose your job? No, it's not my fault. I was the the anyway. It's a whole party. You've been yeah, I've been all over the place. You gotta get home. Yeah, you guys we'll get over there safely. Thank you, Ramsay. Thanks, man. Good to see you. Good to see you as always. Uh are you two friends now? Yeah, it was a lovely walk.
SPEAKER_11I'll see you guys later. Right. Happy first sprouting. I love you. And uh keep an eye out, uh please.
SPEAKER_13Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. You make your way through the throng. Um, and you see as you as you move towards the uh towards the side of town where Susan Salves is, the crowds thin out a little bit as you get away from the sort of center. And it is starting to get pretty late. Um, I think it's probably pushing like between 12 and 1 a.m. Actually, probably pushing 1 to 2 a.m. at this point. It is late. Damn. Okay. Um, but you know, in and so like the party is kind of like it's started to coagulate in the center of town near the market and the um the maple tree in the center of town and where most of the bars are, which is off of the main kind of road. So as you begin to get into the neighborhood, it quiets down a little bit. You see, there's just the occasional somebody stumbling their way home. Um, and you come upon Susan's house. You walk up to it, you see it there. And as you guys uh are approaching in the moonlight, you see figures on the rooftop. From your current perspective, as you come up the street, you see four and you look as they signal to one another and kick in the glass of the top window as you hear glass what the shatter of noise figures begin to emerge into the door where you and Dena are sitting at the table.
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SPEAKER_13As we return, the sound of shattering glass echoes through the night as you and Dena at the kitchen table and see like basically glasses got in next to you. I'm gonna take you guys over to the mantle in between. But it's a bed!
SPEAKER_14Well there are three bedrooms.
SPEAKER_17There are three bedrooms, not two.
SPEAKER_14There are. Well, one of these houses is like that. And we built the whole thing! That was just the easiest way to build a map. I see, I see, I see. This is canon. I'm I built this map, Mathilde, without because I was like, I was like, hey, what does your house look like for reasons?
SPEAKER_13Don't worry. Oh, yeah, you didn't ask me. Never answer. Never answer random DM questions. Never answer questions.
SPEAKER_14Never answer questions. How many hit points you got?
SPEAKER_08I feel like you're better off answering them because otherwise they'll just make it worse.
SPEAKER_03That's very true.
SPEAKER_22That's a DM tip.
SPEAKER_03I'm asking because I'm trying to not shoot. If you don't answer, it's gonna turn up bad for me.
SPEAKER_08It's like, all right, you you have your chance. So you guys gotta, there's like a bunch of entrances.
SPEAKER_13Alright, so as you always in the light uh of the moon, you guys see as and now like as these figures begin to pour into the domicile above, you see faces illuminated in the light, and you see goblinoids.
SPEAKER_17Oh no. Who wants to see bugbears?
SPEAKER_22Oh no.
SPEAKER_03And goblin is what did you do?
SPEAKER_22I need to make out with them.
SPEAKER_03That's all that's the solution.
SPEAKER_08They all heard how good a kisser you were. Yeah, that's it, actually. They're like, we gotta kiss.
SPEAKER_14Oh they're they're kicking in the windows too. We heard.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, I must kiss.
SPEAKER_17You see, and we got out of this combat situation.
SPEAKER_13We thought, we thought, you thought, and it came back to later with a vengeance. Um but you guys see as goblinoids begin to pour into this domicile above, and I'm gonna have everybody go ahead and roll initiative for me, please. Uh, do you guys also those of you who are outside of the house, you guys see yourselves over there? Right? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_16Okay, cool, cool. We do.
SPEAKER_13I can use my uncanny metabolism and get all my focus points back.
SPEAKER_02I have a question. I have a question. Did the T that didn't make was it like a T that gave advantage on initiative rolls?
SPEAKER_22Yeah. It woke it woke her up more.
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_22Oh. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Alright, well, we had to ask.
SPEAKER_13But hey, I mean you.
SPEAKER_1520 and above. 25.
SPEAKER_1725.
SPEAKER_15Freaking custom goblets!
SPEAKER_17You're still so freaking far away from it. I know.
SPEAKER_13It's gonna be burn and all that shit. Alright. Uh that is gonna be anybody and that's everybody above 20. 15 to 20.
unknownUh-oh.
SPEAKER_15No, guys.
SPEAKER_03Uh-oh. 10 to 15? 14. 14.
SPEAKER_1414.
SPEAKER_03But you have better decks than you're gonna do. He definitely has better decks, yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_14That's definitely.
SPEAKER_13Come on, guys.
SPEAKER_14Obviously. Pretty pretty confidently, I should say the monk has better decks than the sources.
SPEAKER_13I don't think so. Um, and then 14 for um okay. 10 10 to 15? I already said that. Five to ten. Nine.
SPEAKER_17Five. Oh.
SPEAKER_03Oh. That's so bad.
SPEAKER_22And you're right there right now. Oh no, that's really strong. She's like so strong. Mommy Roach is strong.
SPEAKER_03Unlike Papa Roach.
SPEAKER_19Papa Roach is not deadly. Oh, yeah, he's he's out.
SPEAKER_13He's Papa Roach is uncontinued. Okay. Umitiative. We have Shaw and Mama Roche. Oh, go. Tied at 25. Okay. So what is Shaw's decks? Uh, 16. 16? Mama Roche is gonna go for that. No, go, Mama Roche.
SPEAKER_08I just want to take this opportunity to say to the audience, we know it's Papa Roche. We're not gonna make any jokes about it, but we know. But we know. So if you're saying it in chat, we were aware. We are very aware. But it's not going anywhere.
SPEAKER_17I will say we weren't aware until like a month ago. And then it and then it clicked for us.
SPEAKER_08We do not see these moments. We will be acknowledging it at this moment and never again. Never again.
SPEAKER_14But know that every time we say it, this is linking. Such a weird interaction of our no. Yeah. Oh god, I'm sorry. This is the one. We get to break 20. We get to break the we get to break.
SPEAKER_17We can throw a third wall during combat this one time. And that's it.
SPEAKER_14220 episodes, we get one. We get one. Alright. So uh Jenna.
SPEAKER_13Jenna will go first. Um, okay, gosh. Uh you she stands up fast, like fast. Thank God. Um, and she you just hear she screws, and she runs over to uh the the doors. Uh she runs over to her kitchen counter and she like jumps onto the counter, reaches up to like, you know, when on kitchen counters you have like that little hidden bit, reaches up and pulls out two swords. And you see as she turns around and from the counter top. You see as she like whips out and see this beautiful, like long curved, almost like an elongated scimitar. This like thin curved blade, and then a shorter one that is of the same make. It's like these one is a little bigger, a little longer, and then one is a little shorter that she holds kind of like backwards. Um, and she is like you see as her, she like bears her teeth coming to my house. And she uh is going to rush forward.
SPEAKER_20We hear that scream from outside.
SPEAKER_13Oh yeah, yeah. You guys all hear it. Oh, uh oh. Yep, you definitely hear that. Definitely, but you're fine.
SPEAKER_22Yeah.
SPEAKER_13Um, to be fair, I've had a famously keep it cool, yeah.
SPEAKER_22And I've had a sip of the of the bugbear. The um the moonshine. Yeah, I had a sip of the two tides and then one shot.
SPEAKER_13Do we not drink it? Moonstalkers are cool. Um she's going to. Uh yeah, she's gonna run forward. She uh extends that one blade, and you see she points it out at uh one of these two figures that is well, this one's here because he kicked the window in. So there's one like large bug bear that is like standing in the window. Um does not look familiar to you, Phil. You haven't seen this one tonight. Um but you see as she as she points it forward, you're mine. And she like she sort of swirls her blade, and you see as these tendrils of shadow come up from the ground and wrap around it. She's gonna cast Hunter's mark as a bonus action on this creature, and then she's going to rush forward 5, 10, 15, and she's gonna hit him. Give him a big so terrible 12 to hit, misses. Follows it up. So that is her first strike. She goes in with the rape. These are slouches, while going she's trying, she's trying, she's trying. Um, and then she's gonna follow it up. So that is Oh gosh. Get it going. Okay, rapier. Fucking weapon mastery. Uh that's then she's gonna follow it up with the uh with the scimitar um as part of the same action.
SPEAKER_22No uh mommy uh crit.
SPEAKER_13We can just go home, right? She's gonna use dreadful strike. Uh because she it's just when you attack a creature and hit it with a weapon, you can deal an extra two d6 psychic damage. Fuck yes. So that's 12, and then the scimitar is a d6, so that's 18 plus five is 23. Yeah. Plus three d6.
unknownYay!
SPEAKER_2023 plus another 18. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_1333.
SPEAKER_20It's dead.
SPEAKER_13There's no shot. There's no shot. 38. Wow. Okay. It might have 45. 38 points, 38 hit points. As you see, this creature like dodges out of the way. And then the the blade goes wide, but she very quickly like flips the short one around in the hand and then jabs it, and it goes like through the side. Did you add hunter's bark as well? Um, and she fuck. What did I say? 38?
SPEAKER_16Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_13Plus six is 44. You need to roll from 45. Yeah, you roll through it. Yeah. Yeah. 45.
SPEAKER_08That's bananas. Crazy. Mama rolls. Eyes damage uh per turn from the scam.
SPEAKER_14I don't like it.
SPEAKER_13So she so she follows it up and like runs him through in the side. Use I mean, he's still up. Oh, okay. But she skewers him through the side. And he like goes down to grab the It's one of the bigger buckets, not a goblin. Okay. Um, so she he like grabs it and then shoves her hand out and backwards. Um, as that is going to yeah, and then she like hudders huddles down and then she turns to you. Uh oh gosh. Panic. Does she go to the room? Yeah, she does. Um, she yeah, she goes to the room. She has to. And then she's going to, she's gonna risk the op attack. Uh 5, 10, 15, 20. I think that's as far as she gets. Um as she as she like opens the door and is able to see two more figures pouring into the room with Reese. Uh Okay. Okay. Uh that is going to end. Well, and then the big guy is. How do we dominate? He is going to uh yeah, he's gonna swing at her as she moves away. Um, not even close. She doesn't have any armor on it. That's okay. Well, no, still misses. Still misses. There we go. Um still misses. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_22Ilya becomes an orphan.
SPEAKER_13She this creature swings this giant mace like down. This morning stars and splinters the wood, but Dena is already gone and out of the way. Um the other bugbear, they have very long arms, is also going to attempt a uh That is just gonna hit. Um as the other another mace comes in and is going to swing at Denna for one of the bugbears disappeared from the map.
SPEAKER_01Just the one in the window.
SPEAKER_15They're taking their turns right now. Uh no, reactions. Yeah, they're using reactions.
SPEAKER_13Oh, sorry, they're using reaction, they're using reaction. Um the other one, Morningstar. Yeah, I know. I'm gonna aim it. Um lodging damage as she runs, and this that's very high damage rose. But uh seven it takes seven, she takes seventeen points as like the mace hits her and it runs her kind of partially off her course. She's able to make it to the door and open it. She does not make it into the room because I forgot she moved to grab her weapons. Um, that is gonna end her turn though and brings us to Shaw.
SPEAKER_15Uh yeah, here in the commotion, I will look up at the house. Are they all now in the house or are there still some out on the walls? Still some out on the walls.
SPEAKER_13There's actually none of them have actually entered into the house yet. They kicked their initiating triggering initiative was kicking the windows in, and they are like starting to pour into the room, but they're still taking the outside. Okay.
SPEAKER_15Uh, how if I run up to that, I guess, how far are they away? Are they on the outside?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, so the roof is um like the roof is eight feet tall. Like the eaves of the roof are eight feet up. Um, and uh, they are from you. Excuse me, uh the nearest creature right now is 55 feet away from you.
SPEAKER_15Okay. And if I use my movement to get closer, what it would that put me within 20 feet of one of them uh without like I'll run up to the door, but as I'm running up to the door, could I maybe throw I'm basically I want to try and throw a dagger at one while I'm running. Okay. But if not, I'll just go in the house.
SPEAKER_13I think that because of just like the eve of the roof, by the time you get to within 20 feet, you will be like under the roof. Does that make sense? Because the way that this house is designed is one of those ones where like the second floor is kind of in the middle because the roof comes down. You're too far like tiered kind of.
SPEAKER_15I'll leave that for someone that has more range. I'm gonna book it in in the house. I'll use my action and my dash. Okay, my bonus action to dash. Okay, cool, cool, cool. And where does that get me? Does that get me near anyone? 20, 25, 30 gets you. I'm gonna see if if another because I could maybe attack something if I get closer.
SPEAKER_135, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 gets you almost. So like as you're running, you see the stairs. Are you using bonus action and action? Bonus action and movement. Okay, and movement. Yeah, okay. So 60 feet gets you. So like, sorry, the way this is is like anything that's on that roof is first floor. Yeah. So like you were able to go through the door. Um I would say, uh, yeah, I well.
SPEAKER_15I'm also curious, how do I see my movement? Because I might I thought I had 35 maybe. Um where would it be on here? It should be right at the top. Speed and defense. Speed is should be right at the end of the day. Speed and defenses. I see it. You are no, I'm 30 right now.
SPEAKER_1360 60 feet gets you right to like your 5, 10, 15, 20 feet away from the base of the stairs.
SPEAKER_15Then yeah, I'll actually get up the stairs. Okay, supposed to be a body of someone that attacked. 20, 25, 40. Try and get in melee with something.
SPEAKER_13You get right, I'll say you get right up to the door. You can, because it's it's full movement to get all the way through the house. Okay. And the other option that I will say is if you want, you can attempt to jump on and grab the roof of the the roof and climb. It's eight feet up.
SPEAKER_22Um that would be an acrobatics jump.
SPEAKER_15Athletics. Oh. Jump.
SPEAKER_22Athletics?
SPEAKER_15Uh-huh. Okay. Um interesting. Would that allow me to get to allow me? Why would that burn? Let's see. It would just, I mean, that's just your movement.
SPEAKER_13Um 5, 10, 15, 20. 25 feet of movement gets you to the roof. Okay. And then it'll take you 10 feet of movement to climb up to the roof. Then I'll use my bonus action to do that. And then you okay, so that's you run. Yeah, so this line is the eve of the roof. It's the it's the tile. So 25 movement gets you right up to the edge of the roof. Go and make an athletics check for me. You're just looking for a DC 10. It's only 8 feet up. You guys are adventurers. Skill check, come on. Strength. It's your athletics check, excuse me. Athletics check. To jump and grab the Eve to the roof. Fucking nine. Nine. How annoying is that? You you here's what I'll say. You still grab it, but it's gonna cost you 15 feet, not 10. I'll burn it. So you grow you barely grab the Eve, and then you manage to like haul yourself up. You take so that's uh sorry 2030. Yeah. 35 uh 3540. 520 feet left in movement. You have 20 feet left of movement, and 510, 15 feet gets you in melee. With which guy? Sorry. Either of these two right here. Sorry. So uh can you see my ping? This red ping. So you can get to melee right there. Yeah, I mean. And you see, so as you get up there, you see one bug bear and one like very sort of crouched goblin that has like a long bow, or excuse me, a short bow and like a series of daggers all along, like a bandolier and a chest or like chess piece.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, I'll uh I'll pull out my my weapons. Alright. Hello, boys.
SPEAKER_13You see as they like whip around, not expecting you to be there. Um, but go ahead.
SPEAKER_15Yeah. Um, and I believe they haven't gone yet, so I have advantage. They have not gone yet. Yeah. The assassin.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, you do, you do, you do. Assassination. Let me bring that on. So yeah, bonus action and bonus action dash, full movement gets you right next to them.
SPEAKER_15And then you have to left. Sorry, guys. I just want to double check. I'm doing a right. First round, you have advantage on attacks against any creature that doesn't take their turn. They're not taking their turn yet. Yeah. So I will attack. Bugbear and goblin. Bugbear goblin. I'm gonna try and get this goblin. Okay. Looks smaller and weaker. Okay, go ahead. Okay, that's uh I'm gonna do the uh sorry, uh the the short sword sword. Short sword first, okay. So that was an 18 plus something. Nice. Uh where is short sword?
SPEAKER_20Okay, okay, okay. Actions?
SPEAKER_15Short sword is uh 18, 24 to hit. 24? I'll do the sneak attack. Okay. Or wait. Yeah, fuck it. I'll just burn it. Who cares? Uh I have advantage on the side.
SPEAKER_13Oh, you do have advantage! Yeah, yeah, that's why this works so well.
SPEAKER_15I can't put a poison on it, but I'll do that. Cool, cool, cool. Um, okay, so that is a short sword, which is a D6. D6, and then you have two plus one. Because I'm rolling my sneak attack. Five. So ten points for the dagger. Oh, sorry, plus three. So thirteen points for that.
SPEAKER_13Alright, for the short sword attack on the goblin.
SPEAKER_15With the with this with the sneak attack. And then, oh sorry, plus four because of assassinate, because I have. Four levels. Oh. It's because I have the.
SPEAKER_13Alright, alright, alright. You see, as uh yeah, assassinate. So, okay. Um, yeah, you see this guy and it like turns around and like fucking looks at you.
SPEAKER_16Where the hell did you come from?
SPEAKER_13Uh, but yeah, you're you're there. And so stab, next stab.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, and I'll dagger. Alright, dagger. Does do I still get advantage because he hasn't gone yet?
SPEAKER_13Yeah. You have advantage on attack rolls against creatures after you can do that. I'll do the dagger. Yeah, it's it's full round.
SPEAKER_15There that is uh 16. 18. 18 to hit hit. Go ahead and go ahead and uh go ahead and roll damage for me. Six more points to the goblins. Six more points to the game. So I pull out the dagger and kind of like backhand into the into the into the clavicle in the side of the. Yeah.
SPEAKER_13And it like grabs your thing and pushes your hands off and try like begins to go back to stab you. Um, all right, awesome. Anything else, Shaw? Uh, that is my turn. Full movement gets you there. And you are, yeah, you're up and these things grill. Okay. They yep, yep, yep, okay. That's gonna end Shaw's turn and brings us to the bugbear stalker. He's going to move 5, 10, 15 into the room. And Phil, he's he's coming after yes. Man, I can roll higher initiative, dude.
SPEAKER_12Same.
SPEAKER_13Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Phil, this creature comes in and you see these long, gangly arms. They almost touch down to the ground, and one of them, like lightning quick, reaches out. He's gonna use a bonus action to attempt to quick grapple you. Uh, you uh may I have a dexterity saving throw for me, please, as this giant bugbear paw reaches out and attempts to like grab you by the neck.
SPEAKER_15You gotta get some felt in there.
SPEAKER_17That's why.
SPEAKER_13That'll help it roll.
SPEAKER_17Seven.
SPEAKER_13Seven. You feel this massive hand clamp onto you. You are grappled. Um you have the grappled condition. Um, and now it's going to make two uh morning star attacks against you. No. No. No, I think I would rather it did not do that. Oh boy. So two two morning star attacks. Advantage if the target is grappled by the bug bear. That's not great though. Roll a one. Uh 17 to hit?
SPEAKER_01Oh, shield! Shield.
SPEAKER_13Yeah. Alright.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_17One second, let me do I have enough spell slots.
SPEAKER_02Oh boy. Thank you. Please, yes.
SPEAKER_17My last spell slot for the first level.
SPEAKER_16Okay.
SPEAKER_17Um. Yeah, I see it coming down. Um, and I um quickly uh sorry, let me read this a second. Um my it's almost like my raven on my wrist sees it coming before I do. So I don't necessarily see I don't see the weight behind the morning star, but my my my construct on my wrist just sees that coming and it whirls and twists, and it it as it clicks into place, uh, a beam, uh like a quick like pulse of light shudders from it, and it releases this kind of like very translucent blue, um like like feel almost, and it covers my whole body. And that's um and that's the warding.
SPEAKER_13That's sick. Okay, so the morning star, like the the ridges and sort of spikes of this morning star come down and like boom, stop, like inches away from your skin. Yep. As it's coming down like right onto your other like shoulder, just trying to hammer you.
SPEAKER_17Um and yeah, plus five. So that puts me 60, 17, 18, 19, 20, 20. 22 is my sorry, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 20.
SPEAKER_1322. 21. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Okay, it has one more attack.
SPEAKER_08I know.
SPEAKER_13At advantage.
SPEAKER_08Oh boy. At advantage.
SPEAKER_1316.
SPEAKER_16Yeah!
SPEAKER_13Yeah, it's double double. Double 11s. Okay. Get them at the end. And again, it tries, and you see it's snarling and salivating as it's trying to hammer into this shield, but for the second time, you're for this blue arcane field stops it.
SPEAKER_17It's like grappled me and it's like in my face, and I just like and I just spit at it. Okay. And then I'm like trying to get out of the uh and it's mad.
SPEAKER_13It's big man. It's big man. It's big many. Alright, that is gonna end its turn. That brings us to Ramsey with Ilya on.
SPEAKER_17Did I have so much more time before I kicked up?
SPEAKER_13Alright. You and me both. Um, Ramsey, you're up, pal.
SPEAKER_07There, just tilt! Craig Kanjarn! Ilya! Wait, which room, which room is your father's?
SPEAKER_22And I point to the left, and I'm like, that one. And I step of the wind.
SPEAKER_08Okay. Use a focus point, do focus, step of the wind. And it doubles my jump distance. You jump you jump onto the roof.
SPEAKER_15That's so much cooler than what I did.
SPEAKER_16Yeah, you know.
SPEAKER_15I gotta start with the glass one, yeah.
SPEAKER_13That's why I can get up there. Alright, so Ramsey, you jump forward and literally like almost as you step, you almost like there's this extra bit of fraction that you get as the air all solidifies under your foot and pushes you up. And 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 gets you onto the edge of the roof. Yes.
SPEAKER_08And I'll tumble into a roll and then I will do a twisting somersault in between these two guys because I also have uh I mean, well, I I don't know if I can actually. That's a question for you. Can I can I cross them up?
SPEAKER_13You cannot enter a hostile creature's space unless they're two size categories larger than you. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_08Then I can do this. Unless you have something specific that allows you. I I mean I'm I'm technically disengaged because of Step of the Wind, but other than that, no. Um unless I can do something with like an acrobatics check or something. What I what I would like to do is try to get on the other side of them to block them from entering.
SPEAKER_03Ah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_13I don't know if that's if that's just mechanically impossible, I'm totally fine with that. I mean, tell you what, these are both goblins. They are quite small. Yeah, yeah. And this is a window. If there was a bugbear, I'd probably say no, because it's just too big. But both of these are goblins. You, and as you get up close to them, you see one looks very much like the other on the other side, identical, in fact, just about. Like a bow. Goblin twins. You see like got like daggers and bandoliers all across. Kind of cute. And then you see the one next to it, though, is like robed and has this like twisting, strange, like darkened sticks in its hands. And it kind of looks up at you. You see this like almost subtle glow coming from its eyes. But as you go ahead, you want to try to jump through. And okay, so they have kicked the window in. So I'm gonna say this is an acrobatics check. Okay. Um, you are your jump distance is tripled. The big risk to you right now is just getting cut on the glass that is like in the window frame. Uh can you get through? So go ahead and give me an acrobatics check. You're looking for, I'm gonna say this is a DC 15. We're still level five. So nothing too crazy.
SPEAKER_22You were you weren't drinking, so you don't have disadvantages.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, he was, but he's not.
SPEAKER_08You're not intoxicated. No, way, way harder.
SPEAKER_22You didn't fail a con save like some people.
SPEAKER_08Oh one people. It's just not enough. It's 14. 14. Okay. Same, same as shot.
SPEAKER_13You do it, but you are gonna take, as you go through the window, you take three points of slashing damage as like the glass like cuts along your body. And then I think that's 50 feet of movement. So, how much do you have? Do you have any left?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, uh uh focus up with a wind is uh take both the disengage and dash actions as a bonus action. Nice, okay. And your jump distance is double. Okay, cool cool. So I can do both. Okay. So I I have 40 feet of movement. Uh so 80. Oh, so you have 80. Okay, geez, yeah, you got claymarity. Damn it. So, total time.
SPEAKER_13I was as you land and come up, just like two things that one, well, two things that you see. Immediately you see uh Reese Roche, who is in bed. Uh, he is unconscious, and he is he has not moved or responded to any of this so far. But you also see standing in the doorway, you see Dena Roche, swords in hand, as she's like running into the room. And as you come through that door, you see this momentary, like she goes to attack and then sees you, and you just think to gods. And she like readies herself for for combat and she begins to try to join you. But um Yeah. What what else? Oh, shoot, you that was your bonus action. Yeah, yeah, so I can I can attack. I'm gonna I'm gonna swing at this point.
SPEAKER_14Yeah, okay, okay, okay, god. Do that too.
SPEAKER_00So much, so much.
SPEAKER_03Um, so that is uh uh 15 to hit. 15 to hit. Uh that will the goblin that'll hit. Hell yeah. Okay, okay. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_08Uh so that's um stinky dice did not roll very well. Uh that's gonna be uh uh six points of uh force damage. Six points of force damage? Yeah, that's still good. So everything's collecting.
SPEAKER_07His house is under the protection of Ramsey Ah, sorry. Uh yeah, so this house is uh this house is let me check that again. This house is under the protection of the veil, the hero.
SPEAKER_05Is that did that work for you?
unknownYeah!
SPEAKER_14Um interposed yourself in there, that's the end of your turn as action bonus action movement. Oh yeah, okay, wow. Uh yeah, you are in the way. Um and uh brings us brings us to the. I'm good at anything. It turns out.
SPEAKER_22Yeah, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_15Um as I just uh hear as I hear your mom's mom scream, I'm like Mom!
SPEAKER_22And I I see the the goblin with the hood, right?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, yeah. There's two like goblin forms that are like trying to get into the window past Ramsay.
SPEAKER_22Okay. So I I just wanted to make sure I could see them.
SPEAKER_13Um yeah, you can see them from your position for sure.
SPEAKER_22My I he I heard like how frightened and scared she was, and my eyes immediately start flashing um to glow. I'm gonna use my innate sorcery sorcery to get advantage.
SPEAKER_13Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_22Um, okay, and then is that bonus action or does it just happen? It's a bonus action. Okay. So a bonus action, in each sorcery. And I cast Witch Bolt, which is so he's 560. What did you say earlier? How far away?
SPEAKER_13Is from you right now, 50 feet. 50 feet, yeah.
SPEAKER_22Perfect. Um, so yeah, the one with the hood. I want to cast Witchbolt. Um Okay. I'm so nervous. Okay. Yeah, like mama, like daughter, let's go. For anyone. The rose is being.
SPEAKER_13Your mom, you've seen your mom throw down, but like the panic in her voice as you hear her call your father's name, it just pulls something out of you as what happens, yeah. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_22So that's two d12. Okay.
SPEAKER_13That's just 24, right?
SPEAKER_22Right, okay. Oh, right, because another two nine is gonna be. You get like 48. So then one. Okay.
SPEAKER_16No question away.
SPEAKER_21So how much is that? That's 32.
SPEAKER_1424, 36, plus one is 37, 37, 36.
SPEAKER_22Yeah. I'm so nervous. Everyone I love is dying around me. Not yet.
SPEAKER_08I'm gonna be okay.
SPEAKER_13They just took damage from the window.
SPEAKER_17Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_13The punch from Ramsey, Ilya, this goblin as it is your lightning blasts into what happens. It does that it can't take that. Oh. Yeah.
SPEAKER_16Okay.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, you killed me. So no, it's no, no, it's no.
SPEAKER_22Okay. Um, as I I hear my mom and I scream out, um, all of my power is like coming to the surface, and I put my hands together, but even before I can like cast a spell like an armor do with the cat's cradle, it just lightning strikes from like my whole body and attention at this hooded figure as I just scream, okay.
SPEAKER_13And that scream pierces the night as you see this. Yeah, this this goblin.
SPEAKER_00This goblin is like, it's just electrocuted to death.
SPEAKER_14Ramsey's just like just fries and falls backwards.
SPEAKER_13I turned to his companion and told you.
unknownOh my god.
SPEAKER_03That's great. Uh roll an intimidation chip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my god, I'm pretty good at the gun, but I cannot roll today.
SPEAKER_08But I am pretty good at that.
SPEAKER_22You're too handsome to be intimidated.
SPEAKER_08That's right. That's what it is. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah, that's an eight. Okay, cool.
SPEAKER_13Um yeah, well, you see.
SPEAKER_22I attacked the hooded one.
SPEAKER_13You did. Oh, the hooded. No, sorry, that is the hooded one, the one that's in front of Ramsey. They're they're both wearing hoods, sorry. Um, one is like has a bow uh and is like the most immediate threat to Ramsey. The other one's kind of like still around the corner with his little stick. Um, but that is gonna be Iuya's turn. That's bonus act. Oh, wait, you have movement. Yeah, where are you going with that?
SPEAKER_21Um you said I had you said that this was a strength trap to get up onto the roof, and I have an advantage because I was drunk.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. You have drunk people's strength.
unknownYeah!
SPEAKER_22That's something I have angry drink people's dress.
SPEAKER_08You're gonna wake up tomorrow and being like, I pulled a muscle sometime.
SPEAKER_16Yeah, no, no, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_13I'm um I just I always felt like that made so much sense because good lord, I've seen drunk people. I'm like, how are you doing?
SPEAKER_22I am I am I am frightened, like, like not frightened, but I am scared and angry.
SPEAKER_03And two-tide special brew.
SPEAKER_22Two tied special brew, one shot. And I'm gonna run up. Okay, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty.
SPEAKER_17I'm not very afraid because drunk people don't care about it.
SPEAKER_22Yeah, there you go. Yeah. The fear that I would have felt is now just anger.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, there you go. It's just rage.
SPEAKER_22It's great.
SPEAKER_13Um, you uh so 25 feet of movement gets you right to the edge. Go ahead and roll an athletics check. I will say that like for you, because you are 25 feet of movement gets you right to the edge, you only have 30 feet of movement. So like you're gonna this is to determine the success, but it's still gonna cost you your last um five feet of movement from your next turn to finish getting out of the roof.
SPEAKER_22Right. And you said advantage, right?
SPEAKER_13Yes, advantage on athletics checks.
SPEAKER_22Well, I need that. It's real weak, guys. That's better. That's better. Well, probably. Again, remember how I said I'm stuck too. No, just adds to the minus stuff.
SPEAKER_13Actually, subtract the addition.
SPEAKER_22Yeah, yeah. Subtract the addition. Um, so that's yeah, 12. 12.
SPEAKER_13That's good. I mean, that's you only need an attention. So you you grab up, you jump up high enough to grab it and you start to clamber up, you're in that kind of like most of your body's on the top, but you're still you're hanging off the edge.
SPEAKER_22You've got like one foot. Yeah. I've I've snuck back home before. This is I know how to do it. You're like, oh, that's a good spot because the stump is right there.
SPEAKER_15Normally this window, you had to lift it up, and that's broken.
SPEAKER_22I'm not there yet. No, that's also my parents' room. I would never go into that.
SPEAKER_13And Elya's turn, that brings us to one next to it. Dead goblin assassin. Uh boy. But the other one, crispy right in front of Shaw. Okay, Shaw. Sorry. Shawry. He is going to. Uh, what is he gonna use? What is he gonna do? Runaway! He's gonna use the runaway. What's he gonna do? What's he gonna do? Uh uh.
SPEAKER_15Spooky feet. Um He's gonna take his shoes off, and I'm gonna it's gonna be stinky. Yeah. But it is first round. Actually, we all tradition. Yeah, well, I don't know. Yeah, shot took the track.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, I already took a turn. Well, he doesn't get advantage against you.
SPEAKER_16Ha!
SPEAKER_13Um he is going to he's gonna stay. No, he's going to use nimble escape, do bonus action, disengage. Yeah, and then he's gonna back into the room. Five, ten. Is that the one I hit? Fifteen. Uh, it is the one you hit. Yeah. Uh he's gonna back up to there, and then you see a reaches to his belt, pulls out one of the daggers, and throws it up. Oh, man. Um that is going to be a it's really painful to be this low an initiative.
SPEAKER_17It's hard. Oh, yeah. I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_02We're just watching. Uh, that is a 12 to hit.
SPEAKER_15Misses, I dodged. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_22He's aiming through a window. All right.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, it hits the side of the window, it hits a piece of glass.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, actually, he miscalculates and it hits a piece of glass and then sp uh spikes down to the ground. That's his turn. That's all he's got. Damn it. Boomer. Alright, well, that's gonna bring us to the goblin hexer, who is going to. What is that? What is he gonna do? I mean, all right, he is going to. You see as he reaches out and he like he his his staff in hand and he like twists, and you see as these like arcane glyphs begin to curl around his fingers, he is going to cast a spell on you, Mr. Shaw. Um, I need you to make uh it's no, it's the guy up top, a little bit next to Ramsey. Okay, gotcha. Uh he's gonna reach out and he's going to cast, he's gonna cast a spell on you. I need a constitution saving throw from you, please. Yeah, for sure. Um is it charmed? No, sir. Let's roll high. Nine. I know the dark of the night solidifies all your eyes as he is going you go blind. Oh what the heck? Alright. He's gonna cast, yeah, he casts his spell, you go blind.
SPEAKER_15Um I can't see.
unknownAlright.
SPEAKER_13That is gonna end his turn. And that brings us to the bugbear stalker who is right in front of you. She's which I believe he might have advantage. He definitely has advantage because I can't because he's blind. Because I'm blind.
SPEAKER_20Um, but you're just so dexterous. He's also dexterous.
SPEAKER_13He is going to reach out his bugbear paw bonus action, quick grapple. He's gonna try to grab my roll. Dexterity saving throw for me, please. And do I have a disadvantage because of blind or you automatically fail any ability check, but this is a saving throw. So um it's it's not dexterity saving throws, it's just ability checks. That's why I always get it confused. But yeah. Yeah, it's confusing. It's a little confusing. But yeah, so you have it's normal. Uh so you have uh just straight, yeah, straight roll, deck save.
SPEAKER_15Okay. I'm so oh, I was using the wrong fucking thing. What uh I rolled a I don't know what I did last time. Add one to that for my content. 10's still not enough. Because I was looking at the regular fucking numbers. I'm I'm a dumb. Okay. Deck save. Deck save. So like a fuck ton. Uh 23.
SPEAKER_1323, yes. You even you feel the like the wind off of this creature's massive hand and you dodge out of the way. But it is going to use two two multi or two um two attacks against you. And it's advantage because you're blind. It's advantageous because you're blind. Okay. So first attack. Yep. Um 17 to hit. That is my AC. Okay. Uh let's see here. Um you take 13 points of piercing damage from the first strike. Second strike at advantage. Um. Fucking whiff. Yeah. Good lord. One and three. Three.
SPEAKER_15Wait, wait, wait, with all the mods, it's only four.
SPEAKER_13One and a three on the dice. He doesn't matter. He doesn't got that much mod.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, okay, hell yeah.
SPEAKER_13Um that's wild.
SPEAKER_15And I feel the other hand coming in for the strike, and I'm able to reach my hand out and and direct it away. There you go.
SPEAKER_13Direct it away from you feel it like you like he almost goes for the same path, just whack, whack. You see that, and you kind of feel that coming, that's that sentry extra perception that you have, and it whiffs. Um, that is gonna end his turn. Brings us to Veil, Phil on deck. Oh, the You're way out there.
SPEAKER_02I Okay. Thanks. I'll rub it in. You're really my distance. Okay. Good, because you got it. Um I saw that spell be get cast on shot. Oh, how far. I'm on the roof. I've seen it.
SPEAKER_15I'm on the roof.
SPEAKER_13What's your passive? High. High. I did yell. I did also yell at the room. Oh yeah, you also yelled you can't see. Oh yeah, I'll say you saw it. You'll allow that. I'll say, I'll say you saw it, because your your passive's pretty high.
SPEAKER_02You're looking up there. So yeah, I'll say you saw it. Does it look like the the uh the guy who cast it is is is doing anything to maintain it or not? It can't be. That much you can't tell. No, you can't discern. Alright, um well, first things first. Uh the veilist. Sorry. How uh I guess the second third thing. Uh, how far am I from that goblin? From that goblin, you are, I believe. 55 feet. Perfect. Uh exactly what I want to do. Right arm uh pointing. And as as the as that that moat of light travels down the bracer and pops up above my above my hand, two fingers. Yeah, you are uh at that little guy. Okay. And uh hopefully do some damage.
SPEAKER_04Okay. That's okay. Oh, that's okay.
SPEAKER_13Uh seventeen, what I hit. Seventeen. The guiding bolt begins to sail forward, and you see as this creature turns and it Waves its staff, and you see this flare of like green runes that follow the big the the tip of the staff. And those same green runes, like a light in front of your guiding roll and it glances away. It's gonna use its reaction to jinx. A creature the goblin can see hits with an attack roll. Uh oh. Make a wisdom saving throw. I forgot that man. So make a wisdom saving throw. You got that. Wisdom. You got the wheel.
SPEAKER_22You're so whizzed. Wiz? Oh. Oh no. Oh. We hyped him up too wrist. Yeah, it was too much. No, it was too much. No, pull back, guys, pull back.
unknownLike you guys. No, there's two!
SPEAKER_16No! Go back!
SPEAKER_02Just like a little bit. Uh that's a 13. 13? Oh! Dude, you're so smart.
SPEAKER_13So, James is so as as these these green runes like appear in front of your guiding bolt. But the guiding bolt smashes through them and sails forward. You do you do hit. It attempted to jinx your curse. Interesting. It jinx your your attack, but it's unsuccessful. Yeah, it's just it's it's got it's it's a little goblin guy.
SPEAKER_16You got tricked.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_19Woo woo! That's what he says.
SPEAKER_02Uh seven. Fifteen. Fifteen. Fifteen points of damage of damage. Okay.
SPEAKER_15Alright, alright. We're popping. And then does he make a con save for the blindness goal? Is it concentration? Is it concentration?
SPEAKER_08We're gonna learn.
SPEAKER_15We don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_08It also might be different for the right. I don't know. That's why I'm just bringing it up.
SPEAKER_15I don't know if it yeah. I mean, I hope it is.
SPEAKER_13I don't like being blind, contrary to pop your it is. I don't believe it.
SPEAKER_22See, the bad thing about killing something with witch bolt means that you can't use your subsequent bonus actions to keep killing it. Because it's already dead.
SPEAKER_03So I gotta find that is what I'm saying. Okay, so I can let it be a little bit more.
SPEAKER_13You see, and he does not need to make a constitution uh constitution saving throw.
SPEAKER_02Well fuck, guys.
SPEAKER_16Okay.
SPEAKER_02Alright, so I'm gonna use my movement to get to the as far uh I'm gonna try and climb up to the roof. Okay.
SPEAKER_10Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty.
SPEAKER_17You're very tall. You can almost seven.
SPEAKER_13I should be able to reach it. So 30, you were back a you were back a little bit just the way I had you guys arranged. Um so your 30 feet of movement gets you right to the edge of the roof. And I was like, you're six foot seven. Yeah. You can reach up, but you still gotta make the check to climb. So um go ahead and I'll allow you to make the check now. It's athletics. Athletics.
SPEAKER_22That's what I got. That drunken strength.
SPEAKER_02All right. Well, I uh slipped on some mud. I was able to do it. Five five.
SPEAKER_13Oh I will say that yeah, you you're gonna have to try again next turn. Um as you reach up, but you can reach. It's just gonna be the same thing. It's just gonna cost you more movement to do it. And you don't have any machine. And you don't have any movement left. So yeah. It will cost you 15 feet of movement to get onto the roof. Right.
SPEAKER_02Because you can just get up, I am going to curse and kith. And uh Yeah, what do you say? A long string of things. And uh I'll take a moment and alight my starry form of the archer uh around my my form.
SPEAKER_13Okay. Alright, and the this woman with her bow with her around you.
SPEAKER_02She's right. She's writing. She's not ready. She's writing.
SPEAKER_13Um that is gonna end Vale's turn and brings us to Phil.
SPEAKER_17Sorry, dude, I definitely don't know you're blind. No, it's fine. I don't even know I'm there. Yeah, I don't even know you're there. Yeah, I definitely don't know. You might have heard my screaming. So I can't do anything down with you.
SPEAKER_16Um, I'm not to worry about it.
SPEAKER_17Is it my turn or is it the guy in the window? What are we doing here?
SPEAKER_16It's your turn. Well, okay.
SPEAKER_17I forgot about something. How what how do I get out of a grapple if I would like to get out of a grapple? What is what was the word what's the rule here?
SPEAKER_13Uh it is part at disadvantage. Oh god. In order to get out of the grapple, you have to make a strength, uh, a athletics or acrobatics check against this creature's DC. It's a little bit different in 2024. It's not a contested check. He just has a set DC and you, it's your action to bring him back.
SPEAKER_17Yep, nope, not good at any of those things. So you're so acrobated. Nope, I am not. So I think I'm actually going to um, so I just spit at him. Oh, real angry. Yeah.
SPEAKER_16Yeah.
SPEAKER_17And I will, for flavor. I'm struggling. I'm struggling to get out of this grap. I'm sure he's just like holding me down to the ground, basically pinned to the ground. And uh, am I on the ground? You're not on the ground.
SPEAKER_13He's just got you. Like, you're you're doing the thing where you're trying, and he's just having you around.
SPEAKER_17I'm like, I'm really like, uh, and as I struggle to do this, my eyes just slowly bleed out. Like just the red starts to take over the entirety of my eyes. Okay. And they have gone until the point so that they're like fully red all along them. They're the pupil is like so is basically the entire iris. The entire, not just the entire iris, but the entire and everything eye. Um, and I almost rear back to spit again.
SPEAKER_16Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_17But instead, this poison bile just comes up and right into his face. And I cast poison spray. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, that's cool as well. Okay.
SPEAKER_13That is awesome. Okay, so he makes a con sync.
SPEAKER_17I forgot what it was called.
SPEAKER_13So he makes a con sync?
SPEAKER_17No, no, no, it's an attack.
SPEAKER_13Oh, it's an attack roll. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_08Is it a ranged attack roll? No, it's melee. Or it's uh it's what it's like five feet or something, right? It might be range. It might be ranged. I think it might be ranged.
SPEAKER_17No. Make uh make a range spell.
SPEAKER_03It's kind of like a very short range, which is why it's a little confusing.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, it is a that's a weird one. Do it anyway. Do it anyway. It was super cool.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, but a gun is also ranged and like attacks of them and stuff.
SPEAKER_15That was a really cool description. It was really cool.
SPEAKER_17Fine, you guys. I'm gonna miss.
SPEAKER_22So you're gonna get a natural 20.
SPEAKER_17It doesn't matter if I get a natural 20. Twice. Okay, um, actually it's 16. 8 plus 8 is 16.
SPEAKER_15Still hangs.
SPEAKER_13Still hanging to the So, yeah, this pop of noxious gas just emits from your hand, right? Your hand?
SPEAKER_16Your mouth. Oh, that's right from your mouth.
SPEAKER_00You want to choke me? You wanna choke me?
SPEAKER_14Yeah, go ahead and yeah, you picked the wrong order.
SPEAKER_0012. 12?
SPEAKER_17No, that was just one guy. Oh my god. Is it 2D twelve? 2D twelve, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. You level five. Two D twelve. And I'm gonna check if it's anything. No, it's just it's just two D12, 15 points of damage.
SPEAKER_16Poison one.
SPEAKER_17Of uh 15 points of dough. It doesn't. If it's poison. Shit. Where does it say? It's called poison spray. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_13So it's poison. It's called poison damage.
SPEAKER_00Ain't no way. I was like, if this ain't poison damage, yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's actually fire. Yeah, in 2024, it's actually forced damage.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, no, it's no rider. Yeah.
SPEAKER_14No, it's no rider.
SPEAKER_13Caustic bile from your mouth and it goes into his face. Um, I mean, you spit in his face. I'm gonna here's what I'm gonna do. He's gonna roll a strength check to hang on to you, because that is pretty gnarly. Uh he's gonna roll a strength check against his own DC. Um and we're gonna find out if he's really nice. Thank you. I just kind of That was really nice of you to say. Um such a good description.
SPEAKER_22Save and the flavor was so potent.
SPEAKER_13I'm sorry. He hangs up. Yeah, 19 on his back. It was 19. He almost like he goes to rear back and like drags you with him as he like tries to escape from this noxious bile that you've spit into his face and as he's like clawing with his free, or like he's got the mace clawing at his face. Yep, okay.
SPEAKER_17Well, so if we're just here together, I will um also awaken my wrists, my bonus action. Yeah, my uh it's gonna fly off of me. My little raven is gonna wake up, and I'm gonna um I'm gonna have it get some distance.
SPEAKER_13Okay, alright, alright.
unknownGo.
SPEAKER_17I was like looking up here as if the map is like right in front of me.
SPEAKER_13Yeah. So it's I'm not gonna use it tiny because I can't see it. That's fine, that's fine.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, up to the corner. Yeah, okay. Oh, uh over here? Or towards Denna? That's good. Uh towards Dana.
SPEAKER_13Okay.
SPEAKER_17No, no, towards the other one.
SPEAKER_13This one. Oh yeah, in the window. Gosh.
SPEAKER_17Because then I can disadvantage it. Okay.
SPEAKER_13Alright, alright. Cool.
SPEAKER_17So that is gonna be actually no, towards Denna, because I'm sure he'll move. Towards Dana.
SPEAKER_13Cool. There you go. Thank you.
SPEAKER_17Oh, and now they're between both of us. And we can oh wait, no, it's tiny.
SPEAKER_13Oh, it's not.
SPEAKER_17Yeah. Okay, and then he's gonna attack.
SPEAKER_13Alright. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Oh, range attack from your uh 16 plus six.
SPEAKER_1716 plus six hit. Go ahead and roll damage. Or plus eight, I think, actually. Sorry. Or nine now. Yeah. Uh plus five. That's nine points of radiant or of uh force damage.
SPEAKER_13Force, all right, nine points of force damage. And this creature's gonna use a villain action at the end of your turn to move into the room. Five, ten, fifteen.
SPEAKER_22Oh shit! Wait, was the bird attacking the bugbear that has you or the other one? The one that has me.
SPEAKER_13You see as he moves into the room.
SPEAKER_17Well, I should have attacked the other one. I'm stupid. No, no, no. Get out of the grapple.
SPEAKER_13Get out of the grapple. Yeah. And this one, this creature is he's bigger than the rest. And you see as he reaches up the graph.
SPEAKER_12He's the one that took a ton of damage that I did.
SPEAKER_13He did. He reaches up his huge mace and he's going to use overhead smash on you.
SPEAKER_08Oh no, but she's not that tanky.
SPEAKER_13You are. It has been your turn. You are no longer shielded. And it is reaction. Technically, it does not have advantage against this because it's a few. Because it's not the one that's grappled.
SPEAKER_19Yeah.
SPEAKER_13But it is a straight roll.
SPEAKER_15Oh, okay. So grapple doesn't make you no, it just reduces your speed to zero. Is that restrained?
SPEAKER_13That is gonna be a 16 to hit.
SPEAKER_17Beats it, beats it. My last level two spell to shield.
SPEAKER_13You're gonna use shield?
SPEAKER_16Yeah, okay. Oh, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_17I'm still also I'm still grappled, and I just had my turn. I've gotta I gotta go through the hole.
SPEAKER_13So it is gonna, it's you go see as it goes to smash down on you. This is a good thing to do this, I guess. And you see as once again, this blue arcane force surrounds you, and the mace just slams and stops like inches from your head as it attempts to smash you into the ground. That's so sick. That is going to end Philippa's turn, brings us to the end of round one of combat. And also we're at time. Ah! So we are gonna have to find out what happens next time when we come back.
SPEAKER_17It's gonna be fine, guys. It's gonna be so fine.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, I'm just blind.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, I'm shielded. I don't have any more spells.
SPEAKER_16I'm just looking at the window.
SPEAKER_13We are at time. We will find out what happens when we return.
SPEAKER_17Look, one down. Just kill the rest. I will, I will. It's gonna destroy this one. It's gonna be fine. And baby road trigger.
SPEAKER_08They're not nerds anymore. They've evolved. Yeah, you're right. You evolved eventually. Is this the final form?
SPEAKER_14No. Who's to say? That is gonna end our episode for tonight, guys. Hope you enjoyed watching as much as we enjoyed playing. We'll see you next time. Bye, Venturers! Bye Ventures.
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