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The Mechanics Guild Ep. 9: "More Resilient Than You Think" · The Mechanics Guild

• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: So we are in an arena of stone.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_02: And at the moment, danger because somebody has irritated a dragon.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_02: You don't know exactly what you thought was Lavender Dragon roaring and emerging from the wall.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_02: All of you at this point, because it is one singular dragon.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_02: We have all rolled four initiative.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna keep the same one that we had before, uh, which does mean the dragon is going first.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_03: Of course it is! Of course.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_03: Of course.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_02: So you see this massive lumbering mass.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I can't say massive twice.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_02: This massive lumbering beast break through the wall, uh, its five heads swiveling specifically towards the two uh pledges who are still out here in the arena.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: Those of you who were headed down your alcoves are sort of pushed out of the way as it begins to lumber towards you.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna make you roll dex saves or anything like that, but um you're definitely like pushed up against a wall and will need to come out as you hear this chaos happening out in the arena around you.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_02: And uh yeah.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_02: Darius and Errol are going to need to make deck saves.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_02: As you see this dragon open its lavender mouth, and a electric blue light begins to form within it.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, digital dice.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_03: Don't fail me now.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_02: Oh god, you're using your.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_04: A four plus a two is a six.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_04: Holy shit.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_04: He's got a gift.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_04: Well, what's the opposite of a gift?
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_04: A curse.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like the worst soldier ever made.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's like literally the worst fighter.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just a meatbag.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just like throwing in front of the stuff so they can hit me.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_04: If if you continue to be bad enough for long enough, we may get a new party member.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_04: Maybe they won't have as bad luck.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_04: Maybe it's bound to you.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_03: I think that you have all unanimously voted me off the podcast.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_04: Without us taking a vote.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_04: It's all just understood.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_05: Uh yeah.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_05: I'm just excited to meet the son you don't know you have.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_03: Pizza looks exactly like me.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_03: Oh god.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_03: Harriet's Dazzard.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_05: Um wait, real quick.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_05: Why wouldn't you have the same last name?
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_05: Different last name from your father is insane.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_05: I love you.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_03: We the bathroom child.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_05: So you fuck somebody with the last name Dazzard?
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe that's why we maybe that's why we named it.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_03: Like oh.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_03: Come, let us bank over a stone.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_03: Thank God all of this will be cut out.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_02: No, no.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so the DC on this is a 16.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so you see this electric blue light begin forming in the mouth of this lavender dragon as forked lightning emits from it.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: One bolt aimed straight for Darius and one bolt aimed straight for Errol.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_02: And you are both going to make you're going to take.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, hang on.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_02: I actually did this wrong.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, one-shot me.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_03: One shot me.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not one-shotting you.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, so you have one-shot him, but Well, I didn't plan to one-shot you either, rogue.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Darius, since you failed this, you take this lightning bolt just chest on.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_02: I think you're in your padded armor, not a metal armor, but it's still it's like the cartoon where when you get hit by the lightning, you see the skeleton underneath.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_03: Do I fly off and do I get like lifted off my feet and fly off a couple feet?
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_02: Mechanically, no.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_02: Um, if you would like to do that narratively, that is your prerogative.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_02: You are going to take 37 points of lightning damage.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_04: 37 points of lightning damage?
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_04: You just said you're not gonna one-shot anybody.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_04: This is insane.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't one-shot Errol, at least, because she saved.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_03: I have three, I have three hit points left, just to be clear.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_02: There you go.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't one-shot him.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_03: Am I bloodied?
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I mean, yeah, sure.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's definitely bloody.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_02: I think you're charred.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, you are definitely, yeah, yeah.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_02: You are not doing hot.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_03: Um What the fuck?
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_02: Neither Carol, who taking half damage, just a little peek behind the curtain, is down to seven HP.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_05: Of course, wizard girl.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_02: Darius, it's your turn.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_03: I collapsed on one knee and cough out blood right to the sandy floor.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, there's a burnt searing mark in my chest to which I grab, and I try to try to crawl my way or like get a hold of my breath and make my way as back as I can while pulling my sword out.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_03: So I try to hit as much distance from the dragon as possible.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_03: You're retreating towards the entrance?
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I would say I'm retreating diagonally towards Arrow Crawl.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so you have 30 feet of move.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_02: Now that we're on the map.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_02: On your turn, you have 30 feet of movement, and you have an action, and you have a bonus action.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm just gonna fucking and I'm gonna pull my sword out.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_03: And I hit my second win, which I'll mean is that as I crawl my way back, I'm gonna try and steal myself, take a deep breath, and try to pull myself up to my feet.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and that means using my second win, which is a bonus action, I can regain hit points equal to 1d10 plus 4.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_03: Come on, don't roll a one.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_03: Five plus four nine.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_03: Every bit helps.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_03: So as I make my way up to my feet, I pull my sword out and I try to take a warrior stance a little trembling as I do so.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_02: And now I have any action on your turn?
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_03: Bro, I'm pretty far away now.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_03: What am I gonna do?
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um, no.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, if you're not using an action, so here are your options.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_02: You can prepare an action, you can hold your action for something, or you can use your action to dash and get further with it.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm gonna hold my action in case the dragon lunges so I can.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so if the dragon lunges, you're going to attack it.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like lunges into melee range, you will attack it.
• 8:29
  unknown: Okay.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_04: Argo.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_04: Holy shit.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_04: Uh after hearing this.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_04: It's is was it lightning?
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_04: It was lightning.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_04: After hearing a bolt of lightning come from the room he just left, Argo's gotta turn around and start sprinting back into the chamber.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_04: Seeing everything that's going on, uh is Liv back yet?
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_02: Liv is not gone yet.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_02: Hmm.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_04: What would Liv do?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_04: Um W W L D what would Liv do?
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_02: And you see Errol behind this little like pillar thing, and she's like down on a knee.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_04: Darius is there.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_04: Errol is there, they're both burnt and extra crispy.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_04: Uh.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_04: What's the difference what hold on, what's the distance between them.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_04: Between them both.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_04: Darius is still like in the middle of the room, so he can still be targeted by everything.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_02: He needs to get behind cover, but I I mean this thing is also it it is gargantuan, so what that's four by four.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_02: Or five by five.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I'm on the fly.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_04: Fuck.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_04: Is diplomacy no longer an option?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_02: It I didn't say it wasn't.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_02: It still could be.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh just a just a high DC.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_04: Argo runs back out and shouts, Errol, what did you do?
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_04: Um.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_02: Like how you do immediately blame her even though you weren't here to see it.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_04: My main prerogative is to try and keep everybody alive if I can.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm gonna make my way as close to Errol as I can.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_04: I'll probably end up taking cover behind that structure that's uh dead center, if there's enough there for me to crouch behind it for cover.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_04: Um Argo's gonna run behind that pillar dead in the center of this arena, so there's close enough to Darius and Errol to target them with a spell and also Liv.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna ready an action to cast aid on the three of them as soon as Liv comes running back, assuming she comes back and like fingers crossed, um, as soon as uh I cast the spell, everybody's maximum HP will increase by five points, and you will gain that five points as well.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_04: He's gonna cast that on everyone else and not on himself.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_04: And at the same time, uh while he's readying that, Cups is gonna hop off his shoulder, stay nearby him, uh, and pull out his tiny little shield, which as we've seen before, starts pulsing, which, as we've seen before, starts pulsing this like protective energy, giving everybody within 10 feet of it temp HP.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_04: I'll shout to Darius, stay close to me! And then I will at least give myself um, because I don't think I'm gonna be able to reach anybody else with this yet, but I'll I'll give myself uh 1D eight seven oh nice um 13 temp HP.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you see Kamei dash out, very quickly assess what is happening in the room.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_02: Was on her way down her alcove, so she definitely was, you know, pushed aside by the dragon as it emerged.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: She immediately clocks the situation, sees Darius in the center of the room.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_02: Darius, you can tell in her eyes, she knows that you can handle yourself.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh she sees Argo and Cups, is not quite sure what to think of cups, but does see that sort of protective pulse and says, Okay, that's fine.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_02: Sees Errol on the ground, like knee on the ground, chard, rut, dashes over to Errol and imposes herself in between Errol and Dragon.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so she's going to use her action to dash over there uh and just serve as a shield in this moment, um, ready to do a attack of opportunity if at all possible.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_02: Which means Liv, it is your turn.
• 12:30
  unknown: Oh no!
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_05: Run girl, run girl, run, run! Um, might okay, so I would not.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_05: How is so I'm down a hallway.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_05: I'm heard commotion behind me.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_05: Is do I see the thing I'm sent in here to get?
• 12:49
  unknown: No.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_02: It's because because you went down the hall, the dragon was here and is now coming, pushing you basically back into the original.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_05: So so her face is coming this way.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: Because it's one dragon, so if it's one of them comes out, I don't know.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_05: I didn't know if they had like some weird like kind of situation going on.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's tall, so you could get under it if you wanted to and keep going down, but I'm just trying to be like, I had one.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: Barrel roll under it.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: I have one I know.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm tiny too.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: You are tiny.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: But you could do it.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_02: It seems otherwise occupied if that is what you choose to do with your turn.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_05: That's crazy.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_05: I just I'm trying sorry.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_05: I'm trying to be like, would I actually go back out and try to like fight things?
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_05: I'm not a fighter.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um can't tell if that's Darius or Attilia was saying, yeah.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: Saying, don't go, don't go, don't go.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_05: I'm also like the other thing in the city.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_03: Darius would be like, girl.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_05: The other thing in my brain is like, well, what if this is something that like is helpful?
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_05: That's also what's in my brain right now.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_05: Um can I go how so I'm not very far into the into the tunnel.
• 14:07
  unknown: No.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_05: Can I get to a place where I can see what's happening behind me?
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_02: If you come to the edge here, so that's what five feet, you would be able to peer out.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_05: Great.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_05: I guess I would the la at least what I would do is five feet, peer out, assess the situation.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_05: Do I see which kind of dragon is pissed?
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_02: All of them at this point.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh it it is one dragon, and therefore you have pissed off one, you have pissed off the it's a very high, like it is physically one thing, but it's also a little bit of a high mind.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_05: Um can I then the head uh the head of the dragon that I talked to is right here.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_05: Can I try to talk to that head again?
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_05: Sure.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_05: Can I just um say, is there no appeasing your brother, or are we doomed to have to fight him and you?
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, roll me a persuasion.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_05: Oh boy.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um, that is not gonna be high enough to pull its attention.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so you say that to it, you see it very briefly look at you, hear you hear another roar from one of the other heads, and it gets distracted by that and goes back and swings its head back focused into the center.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_02: I will let that have been your bonus action.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_05: Chill.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_05: Um, then can I use um master of tactics?
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_05: Um, how how far is Darius from me?
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_05: Is he with a 30 feet?
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_05: No.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_02: He he went.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: He ran.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: I see.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: Now see.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: No, I crawled.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_03: I charred crawled my way.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_03: I fucking like on all fours, clutching my chest, scramble backwards.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_03: Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, two, round, thirty.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_05: Yes.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_05: So I'm just trying to get um within 30 feet of uh probably Darius.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_05: I think he's the hardest hitting of everybody.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and I master of tactics, I can give him the help action as a bonus action on his next attack.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_03: The help action, which does what?
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_05: Or it just gives you advantage.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_05: Um so you can either attack or try to talk some yourself out of the situation.
• 16:41
  unknown: Of course.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: And I absolutely talk.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_05: My master of tactics, I'm probably saying.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_05: Um fighting him will probably end badly.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_05: Try to convince him you are worth working with.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, if you're running back out into the chamber, two things are gonna happen pretty quickly.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, after you say that, you will have the spell aid cast upon you, so your maximum HP is gonna rise by five for the next eight hours.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_04: Uh and then hearing you say that, Argo's probably gonna shout at you.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_04: Don't tell him, tell Errol!
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, fuck.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_05: I assumed he fucked up, sorry.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_04: That's a safe assumption.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, you call that out, Liv.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_02: You see uh Errol, this very charred um by defiant young mage, like look over at you and see what is happening.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_02: You see a mix of fear and adrenaline in her eyes, and then she disappears and reappears behind a platform nearby, but further back in the arena as she misty steps away.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_04: What's the uh what's the symbol above her dragon?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: The symbol was a moon, like a crescent moon.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_03: It's dragon type.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_02: It is a dragon turn.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_02: So it moves forward, it really only steps forward a little bit because it doesn't have to go very far because it is gargantuan.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so it's kind of all over the place.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and it is going to make three attacks.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so you see it it as it begins to emerge through the stone wall, it specifically it is the um purple head that is snapping.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_02: The other heads are sort of they are enraged, but they are not quite attacking at this point.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: It is just the lavender one that is like in active antagonism with you.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: The others are a little neutral.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_02: They're being dragged along because they are attached to this body, but they are not actively attacking at you.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_02: The claws, however, are.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: So the whole the full body is as it is being led by this lavender dragon.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: So it it snaps at Kamei.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: Kamei sort of rolls a little bit away, and instead it snaps at the it, its mouth lands on the pillar, taking a chunk of the stone with it.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_02: It then swipes its claw out.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh it's going to swipe one claw at Kamei as well, and then it is going to swipe one claw because it has stepped forward enough.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_02: It is gonna swipe one claw at Liv.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: Liv, you didn't actually hide, right?
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_05: No, I have covers here undercover.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_02: The it swipes at Kame and manages to dig its claw into her shoulder where there is an opening in her armor.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_02: And that is going to do.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but since we uh spoke so good to the dragon, don't they not want to hurt us a little bit?
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, that's still like it's still gonna hurt.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and you see it, yeah, take out a chunk um of Kamei's arm and rips part of the armor with it, um, as that does 14 points of damage.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and then it swipes Liv at you with the other claw attack.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: Does a 19 hit you.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_02: Of course.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_02: That is 13 slashing damage as its claw comes into contact with you as you are hiding behind the pillar.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_02: I think as it snapped at the pillar, it took that stone away, could see you a little bit better because of that, and swiped away um at you to sort of try to move its way through.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_02: Dargus.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_03: Oh boy.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I am going to.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_03: I wanna draw its attention.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: So my instinct seems to be to either I have a crossbow technically, but I don't know if I brought it.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_03: So I could try and shoot at it, or just shout being like, hey big guy over here.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_03: Um so I'm guessing I would probably shoot at it.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm gonna try and shoot it with my crossbow.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_02: This thing does have a ton of hit points, so you probably wanna start taking away.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: So I turn I pull a crossbow from my back, aim at it, and fire.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_03: 15 plus 4, 19.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_03: Is that it?
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_03: 1D8 plus two.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: Um six points of damage.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_03: Uh no, I didn't use my help actually.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_03: Do I have wait, for the advantage for the roll?
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, just save for it.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_03: For the damage roll?
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: Can I save my help?
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: No, it has to happen this turn, right?
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm gonna use that.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna use it.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_03: Six points of damage.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_03: Uh after I shoot, I'm gonna make a mad dash to hide behind.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_03: Not dash dash.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna try and hide behind this pillar.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_03: I uh aim shoot to do my uh for six points of damage.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I let out a big oh shout to draw its attention and I run towards the one of the pillars, not as close to it where it is, but behind uh the pillars where Liv and Kameh are and hide behind it.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um as your crossbow hits this dragon, um everyone nearby can uh roll me a perception check.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_04: If we're hiding behind a pillar, is that can we perceive?
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: It depends on if you're looking at it or not.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_02: It is this gargantuan thing.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_05: It is true one.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_05: I don't see shit.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_05: I just got clawed.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_05: You did get just clawed.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_04: Uh 15.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_04: Um, you see Oh, plus five to my next perception roll.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks, Taylor.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_04: Nineteen.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_02: Uh 15 plus five is sorry.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_04: Twenty.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_04: Mass.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_02: 30 20.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_04: Um Jesus Christ.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_02: You see, as the crossbow bolt hits this dragon, uh, you see a scale shimmer and fall off.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_02: Like where the crossbow bolt hit, this the scale like shimmers and falls off.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_04: Shouldn't happen to most dragons, I think.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_04: Most normal dragons.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_04: Um if I did I see it?
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_04: No, only Argo, right.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_04: Did you roll perception?
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: I can roll perception.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but I feel like after I shot, I was like mad dashing behind the pillar, so I might not have seen it.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_02: Could have been right after you like it was as the crossbow bolt hit it.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_03: Uh great, so I'm gonna roll.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_03: Um yeah.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_03: Uh oh no, I got plus three.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_03: 15.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, you see that too.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: Argo, cheer go.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_04: That should not normally happen with a dragon, right?
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_04: Even someone like Argo who's not seen a dragon in real life would be able to realize that shouldn't happen, right?
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_04: Scales falling off?
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_02: You know that dragon scales are a thing.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_02: You don't know how they come off.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_04: Sure, sure.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_04: I would have imagined it would take more than a dinky crossbow bulb, though.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_02: I think you probably, yeah.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um think that.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_04: Argo looks at the falling Argo looks at the fallen scale, back at Darius, and says, Whew! Nice shot, keep it up! Uh, and then is uh, why don't we make it a little easier?
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_04: Uh and he reaches into a pocket, pulls out what looks like a Roman candle, or like one of those little, like popper on a string uh fireworks, um, like a tiny little one, aims it at the dragon and then pulls it, and then out of it, a comically large uh like burst of sparkling, like firework powder erupts out of it as he casts fairy fire, uh targeting this this head.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_04: So that head, I guess the whole dragon, uh, give me a dexterity saving throw.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_02: What's the DC?
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_04: 13.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_04: Unfortunately.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that is a 13 on the die.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_02: Uh defeats it.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_02: No, but not plus anything.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_02: So 13.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, we're so close.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_04: All right, that's fine.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_02: What is no hang on though.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_02: What does fairy fire do?
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_04: So it settles, it's like a a mist, uh a sparkling mist that settles in a zone, in an area, um, and will uh cling to any invisible creature that gets caught in it um and grants advantage on all attacks made against anything that has it covering it.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_02: Great.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_02: So this uh firework goes off, uh, you see the dragon dodge it, um, but as the sparks get near it, you see the face go completely translucent.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_06: Hmm.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_02: And then sort of rematerialize as particles, um, re crafting the head.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_06: Hmm.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_02: And then it freezes.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_02: The whole beast sort of freezes.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_04: Like a bad computer program or like an illusion.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_02: Like an illusion going wrong.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_02: That the guild uh uh up in the what are we calling them?
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_02: The observation boxes, you as you if you like, if you look up there, you can see them up there doing magic.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_02: They let the illusion drop and the dragon disappears.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_04: It's a pretty fucking painful illusion.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_03: Really crazy how those fucking claws still were so good.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_03: And now it's done.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_03: They just they're gone.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_03: The dragon's gone.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_02: Dragon is gone.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_02: You hear over the loudspeakers.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_02: Not really loudspeakers, but you hear from the box.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you hear, that's enough pledges.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_02: We've seen enough.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_02: You may retire.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_02: What?
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_04: I gotta dash over to I gotta dash over to Errol and see if she's okay.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh she is in you also see that like fear and then uh adrenaline kind of being overtaken by excitement a little bit now that she's realizing she's not in mortal danger, but she is at seven HP.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so she is very charred.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_02: Uh her robes are falling off of her um and she is having a hard time breathing.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, okay, okay.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_04: What did you do?
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_04: What did you what did you say?
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't I didn't say anything.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_02: That was that was an insane illusion.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_02: How much, how many magicians do you think it took to do that?
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know, but you're celebrating the wrong thing.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_04: You you you can't just a mistake like this in the field is is legal.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_04: You have to think about what you're doing.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_04: Think about what we're doing.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_04: No, you're not smart enough for this terrible.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_02: You no, no, Argo, this you we're not doing this.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_02: You think you know everything.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_02: You don't know me.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_02: You don't know everything.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_04: Hold on, hold on.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_04: I don't I don't mean just just wait, just you have to give me one second.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_04: He reaches into his pouch for something that has its cure wounds and he tries to uh No, don't touch me.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know you either.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_03: I always feel like I need to go there and be like, are you not entertained?
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_03: I just walk to the center and I look up.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna go over to the live next uh I'm here.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_04: This one.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_04: Um and he's gonna hand live the um the healing self that he has so she can recover uh, I believe, one D eight.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_04: Um you'll recover one D eight health.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, plus my spellcasting modifier.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_04: That's exciting.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_04: So uh plus three.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_05: Are you sure you don't need this?
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_05: I'm sure um I can if we're going to bed anyway.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_04: He takes it back and says, this feels like the best use for it now.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_04: Pops it open and it starts um releasing like a a sort of soothing mist, kind of like they spray on the vegetables at the supermarket, except it makes you recover health.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_05: Wow, an antiseptic.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_04: I'm glad you came back, Liv.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_05: Can't lie, almost didn't.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_05: My objective wasn't to save you all.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_05: Not that I did.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_05: Part of me thinks it would have been smarter to keep going.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_05: Just hope I didn't fuck up my chances.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_04: Looking down the hall after Errol.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_04: I know I did.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_04: Only way is forward though.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_04: If we fucked up, we fucked up together.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_05: Relationships are more resilient than you think.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_05: Not enough people want to say sorry.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_05: Give her time.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_05: Might be a lot of time.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_05: But if it's important to you.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_04: I didn't do anything wrong.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_04: I don't need to say I'm sorry.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_04: I didn't do I did my best.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_04: That's all I ever do.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes it is better to be kind than it is to be right.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_03: Rolls his shoulder back and I give her a a nod.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_02: She tips her sword, sort of like to her helmet as a and also walks off.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_02: Phase two is over.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_02: You have completed your written exam and your oral exam, which turned into be a little bit more than just oral.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_02: As you leave the arena, you see a scroll posted on the wall with a list of names.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_02: Thirty names.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_02: There are ten lines with three names per line.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_02: The fourth line down says Argo Pole, Darius Hazard, Lavinia Oslick.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_02: And it has a bunk assignment next to it.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_04: No surprise there.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_04: What was it you said, big guy?
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_04: Like it or not, we're a squad now.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_02: Is Errol's name on there?
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_02: It is.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_02: On the second line, Errol, Hasmeen, and Varillis.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_04: That doesn't make any sense.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_04: That doesn't make sense.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_04: She would have gotten us killed, that's wrong.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_04: Is there a teacher nearby?
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_02: There are.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there are pledge answers nearby.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_04: What are what are the what are the condr cr what are the what are the credentials under which we're judged?
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_04: If if we kill each other out there in the field, if if one of us makes a single mistake, it it it could be life-ending.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_04: It could be fatal.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you're not wrong.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_02: Keep that thinking.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_02: What seems to be the problem?
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_02: Do you not believe you belong here?
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_04: No, I know I belong here.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_04: I thought you would too.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_04: I need to- I need to go.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_04: He heads off towards the bunk.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_04: This new bunk.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_02: Your new bunk?
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_02: Darius and Liv are you also checking that list?
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_05: Eventually I don't know if I'm there exactly at the same time, but yeah, the next day, I guess she sees the names.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_05: She says, what the fuck?
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_05: No, no.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_05: That's that makes no sense.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and then she looks to see where Jax and Kaylin, if they passed, and if they've been assigned.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_02: On the seventh line, you see a trio of Declan, Jax, and Ravania.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_02: Kaylin's name is not on here.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_05: That doesn't make that.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_05: I need to find them.
• 38:21
  unknown: Okay.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_02: If you go to your old bunk, uh, you find that your things are still there.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_02: They have not packed up your things for you.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_02: You are still responsible for packing them up and moving them to your new bunk.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so you would be able to catch Jack's before he is in his, and then Kaylin does not have to pack hers up.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_05: I guess I go to Kaylin first.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_02: You find Kaylin in her bunk sitting at the desk.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_02: There is a book open in front of her that she is not reading.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_02: She is just staring.
• 39:07
  unknown: Okay.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_01: Love what happened.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_02: I I did everything I I could.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_02: I we studied so hard, and I I thought that I thought I was cut out for this.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I think seeing she looks unharmed at least.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, I think I breathe.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_05: I calm some of the initial panic that hits when a plan is not unfolding the way I envisioned.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_05: But you're okay?
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_05: You didn't get hurt, you didn't nothing bad happened to you.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_02: No, no.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of good this did me.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_02: She holds up a um like a gold box.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_02: It was clearly her relic.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_01: Huh.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_01: So you So you got to it.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I did.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_02: I did my best.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_02: I did the thing that I was told to do.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_02: I don't understand.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_05: I don't I don't either.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_05: Can I take the box?
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_06: Mm-hmm.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_05: Can I just is it open?
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_02: You can like take the lid off, yeah.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_05: I can I take the lid off?
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's nothing in it.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_02: It's just a gold box that looks like it is from a ruin.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_05: Did everyone get to their boxes?
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_02: Uh in my group?
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, we all got them.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I some of some of them made it made it onto the next leg, but I didn't.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_05: I don't understand what we were supposed to be learning.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what they're looking for.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_02: Um I They had they had to have known that like we, the three of us, we we should have been together, and you and Jax aren't even together.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_05: I don't.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_05: I don't even really know where we should go from here.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_05: Um.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_05: First thing is first, you're going to be fine.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_02: Are they gonna kick me out now?
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_02: Am I gonna have to go back to Lyric on my own?
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_05: You don't have to if you don't want to.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_05: We're your family, we'll stay your family.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_05: I'm sure there's somewhere we can kick out.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_02: What if they like kick me out?
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_02: What if what if they like say you failed, you can't stay here anymore?
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_02: I can't go back to the streets on my own.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_05: You won't.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_05: If I have to, I'll find a place for you.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_05: Um we can ask around.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_05: I'm sure there's programs or placements that maybe we'll find you somewhere.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to go.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_01: And you know I don't want you to.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_01: She like stands up and just and just hugs you.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_01: Folds into you.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_01: I squeeze her very tight.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_05: I don't I don't really know.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_05: I don't really know what to say to Jax.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think he's too upset to not be working with me anymore.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_00: I think he's more upset than you think.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think he just doesn't know that yet.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_05: He lied to me.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I guess we should find him and talk about next steps and see if anything can be salvaged.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_00: Lead the way.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_05: And ado.
• 43:34
  unknown: Okay.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_02: You see Jax in his quarters packing his things slowly.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I usher Kaylin in and I stay at the doorway.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, you s he goes over to Kaylin, puts his hands on her shoulders, pulls her in for a hug, uh, and says, It's gonna be okay, Kay.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_02: We'll we'll Figure something out.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_02: He looks over at you while still holding Kaylin.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_02: The door's not gonna bite slick.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_05: No, but sometimes your words do.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_05: Um congrats.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_05: You two, I guess.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_05: But I'm not sure what.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_05: Um look, if what you both need is to get out of here now, I don't know if it makes any sense for us to be to keep going without each other.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_05: We can try.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_05: But I'm laying the option.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_02: If we have to try, we don't have another choice.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_02: You know we don't.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, if we're both on different teams, then double the chances of succeeding.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_05: Liv nods, um, but her heart does not believe that that might be true.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_05: And then I guess we spend a little bit of time talking about how we're gonna need more check-ins, probably, since we're not going to be around each other as often.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I tell Jax about the plan to see if we can keep Kalen in the city with us somehow.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I do most of it without looking at him too much because he was.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_05: I I don't want to see the look in his eyes that he was giving me earlier, and he told me he'd come back and he didn't.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_02: You make plans, you pack up.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_02: At some point, Liv, you need to go pack up your own thing, so you maybe help Jax pack, and then everybody goes to yours to pack.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_02: And you go to your separate new bunks.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_02: Where your new teammates are waiting.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_04: I I know we're not what any of us expected.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_04: But I am um out of anybody here, you know, I'm I feel like we I feel like I got uh pretty lucky.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_04: And um thank you.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_03: I gave Argo a nod and um busy myself with laying my things down, laying my sword, my weapons.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_03: I begin to remove some layers of my armor.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_03: In the process of that, I also make sure to do my habit of carving in the runes on the bed, the protection runes.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_03: And I look over to Liv to check on her.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna roll inside to see if I see anything worth considering.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yup.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_03: A 13.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um Carlina.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_02: Do I roll anything to depends on if you're trying to hide anything from him?
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_05: A little bit, actually.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_02: Then yeah, roll deception.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_05: Deception.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_05: Um that is a 16.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_02: And you ate a plus five to it from hot.
• 47:51
  unknown: Damn.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_02: So with a 13 insight to a 21 deception, Carlina, I will let you decide what Darius sees on Liv's face.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_05: Liv see or Darius sees the same practiced and poised hold in her shoulders, in her facial features, that would lead you to believe a calm confidence.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_03: I see that, and I look down a little bit.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_03: Take a breath, continue carving my little room, and I then shoot a glance over at Argo to see if he.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna roll another inside.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_03: I'm tricking on my squad here.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_03: I'm checking on my squad.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_03: And I don't Argo may say all those things, but the boy's a little transparent.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_03: 12 plus 3, 15.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna roll maybe the only deception check I hope I ever have to make with this character.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, uh, it's a natural 12.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, no addition.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_04: You got no addition.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_02: So with a 15 to a 12, what does Darius see on Argo's face?
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_04: Um in this moment, Argo feels really, really bad in general, but especially in this moment, he feels bad.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_04: He feels like he was mean.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_04: He feels like he was mean to Darius after uh the test because he was just in a bad place.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_04: But he is, as Darius continues to remind him, which bothers him, still just a boy.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_04: And he doesn't know how to say sorry to anyone.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_04: So I think what he instead sees is Argo scoot a little forward on his bed and then come over to Darius and look at what he's carving and just kind of stand there until he looks up at him or acknowledges him.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, and then what is that?
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_03: It's an old rune my mom taught me.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_03: It's a protection rune.
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_03: A little bit of a blessing.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_03: Keeps you warm at night, keeps the nightmares away, and promises a brighter morning.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_04: Hmm.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_04: Can I um I would it would it be could um could you put one of those on mine?
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_03: I turn to look at him, I hold my eyes at him.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_03: We hope our eyes meet, we hold our glance.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_03: I softly nod and I go over to his bed frame and begin to carp a rune.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_03: But it's a different rune.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_05: Is it a fuck you rune?
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_03: It's a diff it's clearly a different one than the one I had.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_04: What um whi which one is which one is that?
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_03: This one is for the calms after the storms.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_03: And I give a little final etching.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_03: And I go and sit back at my bunk.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_03: Huh.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_04: Can I um can the one the one you have.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_04: I like I like mine.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_04: Mine's good.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_04: I don't you're you're don't you don't have to but um I have an idea.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_04: Can I uh can I look at that closer?
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_04: Yours?
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_04: Sure.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Arc is gonna take a leaf of paper and um uh stick of charcoal uh and like do a relief uh etching of the uh of that carving itself and then go Okay, okay, I um I have an idea.
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_04: But this seems like well, um let me run Okay.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_04: I have an idea.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_04: I uh I have to look something up real quick.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_04: And he goes back over to his bunk and starts opening up books.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_03: I shoot a glance at Liv and I raise one eyebrow.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_05: Um, I am I imagine these bunks are the same as the last ones where we each have our own room.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Liv has been in her personal room.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_05: The door is not closed, but she has not really been paying attention.
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_04: Argo comes back about a minute later and he goes, Okay, so I was right, I was right.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_04: Uh it bears a lot of resemblance, a lot of similarity to a specific rune that we use in uh artificery.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_04: That uh well, if I put something like this on your armor, um well, you you already have runes on your armor.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_04: I I don't I don't mean that yours aren't good.
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_04: I I could help.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_04: I wanna I wanna help.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_03: I put my hand on his shoulder.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_03: There's a little bit of a smile.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't let it a little bit.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_03: Don't touch my armor, boy.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_03: And I leave to my bunk.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_03: Now the key thing here is that I'm hoping that I transmit a lot of love to it.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_03: But also be like, I love you, buddy.
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_03: Don't touch my shit.
• 53:40
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