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C1 Ep.1: Three Gorgeous Gladiators · Smooth Critical

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  Welcome to the world of X, Umoria.
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  I'm your GM, Avni, and here are my three gorgeous gladiators,
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  Himai. Hello.
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  Harry. Hello.
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  And Charlie? Howdy.
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  I am so happy that we got to do this together.
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  Let's do a little description of where we are right now.
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  We're starting in Scenario, the capital of Ignovarum.
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  Like I said, it was the 500 year anniversary of the pact.
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  Oh wait, where the fuck am I? We're going to have to cut this
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  off. Like I said, I have too many
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  tabs open. OK, before we meet our
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  characters. So we leave that in.
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  Embarrass me. OK, here.
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  Here we are. Here we are.
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  I'm on the right document. Now guys, before we meet our
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  characters, let's set the scene. We start in the heart of the
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  Empire of Ignovarum and the legendary Ugly arena on top of
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  Mount Fire. Fire with AY because it makes it
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  cool and badass. Overhead banners ripple with the
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  Crest of the Ember Throne. The scent of metal, ash, and
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  excitement is thick in the air. A thunderous gong echoes to the
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  Coliseum as thousands rise in anticipation.
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  Lights flare. Trailing embers dance across the
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  stands. A flamboyant announcer stands in
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  the center, robed in Crimson and gold.
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  His voice is magically amplified, full of scenario
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  Lords and low borns, artisans and champions.
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  Today we honor the pack of the Salt and Smoke.
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  For five centuries, our four great empires have kept peace
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  between US. And now let's pay tribute to our
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  glorious emperors. Let us pay Blood.
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  Aurora erupts so loud that the announcer almost winces in pain.
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  He straightens his robe and sweeps an arm grandly towards
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  the imperial balcony. Honored guests, let us rise for
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  our rulers, the indomitable Emperador Pyrion of the Ember
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  Throne. May his wings cachet upon his
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  enemies. And you see Imperador Pyrion, a
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  humanoid phoenix, radiant, terrifying, rises, wrapped in
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  armor that somehow looks like it is made of golden flame.
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  He bows very regally, smoky wings flickering behind him.
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  His staunch face stares out into the masses, the relentless
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  Domina Farrah, a Pharaoh Malik's steel willed and unbreaking
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  above. Domina Farrah, originally human
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  and more machine, now raises her mechanical fist in silent
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  salute. She scans the crowd, her eyes
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  rapidly shifting over each and every face.
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  The enigmatic and Paratrix Seraphine Vexalia of Noctavalis,
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  she of the Shrouded Gaze in 1000.
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  Secrets besides the Domina Imperatrix Faxalia.
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  Shadowy Kenku briefly appears as shifting illusion, sometimes
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  just blending in with the darkness, her gaze and
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  decipherable. And the wise Rex Thalor of
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  Verdanics of Savorum Rex, nature's own strength woven with
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  wisdom. And lastly, you see the wrecks,
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  a wood elf draped in living vines that move on their own.
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  He offers a serene nod to the crown, his golden antlers
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  catching in the torchlight. He smiles gently to the other
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  emperors, who coldly regard him. Above, a cascade of fireworks
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  ignite the spirit of the crowd when they stamp their feet.
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  The ugly arena is a marvel of gilded brutality, enormous in
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  scale, ringed with black iron stands rising like jagged
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  volcanic cliffs. Above the rim, vendors hawk
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  charred meats and spice ailed. Get your salted lizard on a
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  skewer. Melt brew for luck.
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  Only three coppers. Rowdy fans chant the names of
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  their favorite fighters. Dolgra is so badass, yeah, but
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  chaos is so dreamy. Wealthy patrons recline in
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  luxurious tears, masked and mysterious, while commoners
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  prestigiously close to the barrier, eager to witness the
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  violence and heroism. The announcers begin.
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  As you know, the winners of today's matches will be at the
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  Victory booth in the Town Center from 4:00 to 5:00 PM.
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  Don't miss that. Fingers crossed your favorite
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  Swin. And don't forget to place bets
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  with any one of our Empire approved bookies.
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  Now let's give a big hand for today's fighters.
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  And you hear very, very loud chanting.
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  Again, we have a special treat as this is the 500 year
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  anniversary. And without further ado, our
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  four Emperors are going to go head to head in a light
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  exhibition match. The crowd is stunned and you 3
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  from the gladiator pits in the West side of the arena can hear
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  the sudden silence before the sounds of a fight begin.
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  But unfortunately, you are unable to see this terrific
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  fight as the pits are under the arena themselves, and they're
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  only in small little barred windows near the top of the
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  ceiling. Unfortunately, those barred
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  windows are now blocked by little gnomes stacked on top of
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  each other. Wait, I'm trying to see.
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  No, I'm trying to see, wait, stop, move, stop, I'm trying to
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  see. And you're unable to see
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  anything except noises. We jump to the pits and we see a
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  man standing there with a little blobbish looking guy next to
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  him. Hemai, would you like to
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  describe your character and what is he up to right now?
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  Yeah, My character's name is Abdul Qadeer Elrich, but he goes
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  by Abe for short. Right now he's kind of wearing
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  like a simple like tangy with purple cloak that has a hood,
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  but the hood is down at the moment.
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  Next to him as you described is this kind of BLOB like black
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  character. I think Mike Wazowski, but
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  almost like shadowy. More shadowy and goopy than
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  Mike. Less, but he's got that big one
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  eye. Big one eye right in the middle
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  where the blobs head ends and body begins.
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  Who's to say really? And Abe refers to this BLOB as
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  Bunty, whose formal legal name is Bjerg.
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  Bunty turns to you and he goes, Why are we here?
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  I don't even want to be here. Bunty, shut up.
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  Always follow you wherever you go.
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  Yeah, it's because you want a bath.
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  Yeah, this is literally. True.
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  Just give me a bath. I want a bath.
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  I want to soak my feet into the shut up.
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  Bunty Bunty and I point towards the stacked up gnomes near kind
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  of visible point of the gladiator arena.
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  And I say if you knock one of them off and you tell me what's
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  going on out there. I got you.
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  I got you. I need to know where the
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  imperator is. He climbs up the gnomes.
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  He's got these long hands and feet despite being so small.
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  It's so creepy. And he scurries up and he goes,
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  oh, I can, I oh, I can see them. Oh, wait, it's dark.
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  Oh, but it's light. Oh, I don't know if they're
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  fighting. I don't really know what's
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  happening. And as you kind of get annoyed
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  with Bunty for not really knowing what's happening, we
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  kind of flashback to a time many years ago where you're standing
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  at the edge of a dock as your parents, Louise and Marta and
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  your brother Alfons wave goodbye.
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  They're off to the verrillion yards to find the secret to
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  immortality, and you're just 12 years old when your family
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  leaves. How are you feeling?
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  Sad. Wait, for lack of a better word.
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  Abe was as involved in his parents research and his
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  brother's research as anyone else in the family was, but due
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  to being so young, his family didn't allow him to come on
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  their expedition. Instead, they decided to leave
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  this tween home alone. A better idea, it seems.
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  And you were alone for quite a while until Bunty came into your
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  life. And even with Bunty around,
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  though, sometimes the pain of losing your family kind of
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  infiltrates your thoughts, and a little bit of anxiety pierces
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  your soul. In this present moment when
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  you're down in the gladiator pits as Bunty screaming at you.
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  Oh, I can. I can see his feet.
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  I can see the Imperator's feet. You kind of think about how,
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  Yeah, you tense up. You.
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  You have a beef against the Imperator.
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  You're missing your family right now.
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  You're kind of pissed at Bunty. A lot is happening right now and
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  you need to see the Imperator. He's the only immortal being you
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  know of, and maybe he will have the secrets your family died
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  searching for. So as you stand in the gladiator
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  pits and think about that, we move to another part, to another
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  person that is kind of anxiously pacing Harry.
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  Could you describe your character and what he's doing
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  before the match? So my character is Bontel
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  Willowind. He's a drow, about 5-9, lean
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  somewhat muscular, pale grey skin and bright white or like
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  glittering blue eyes. Long shoulder length hair that
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  just seems to pick up with the wind quite a little bit.
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  Wearing a Cape and I'm pacing back and forth.
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  There's some chains on the grounds that I'm very carefully
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  stepping over, making sure not to touch, and I'm flicking open
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  and closed a pocket watch that's embedded in my hand.
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  As you flip your pocket watch, you remember your anaphosis
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  ceremony that never happened. Your village in Octavales
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  worshipped this mirror Lady of the Broken Chains, and as you
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  step over the chains in the pit, you think about this mirror and
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  you think about your connection to her, or what was supposed to
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  be the strong connection to this mirror that you lost out on.
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  Because whatever was supposed to happen during your ceremony was
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  a secret. Only the adults in the village
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  knew about the stepping stone into your religious education,
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  but it became a blood filled memory.
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  You had to leave. You left everyone in your
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  village, You ran away as the blood poured pretty much from
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  every house, from every temple, and you found yourself here,
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  fighting as a gladiator. And as you play with your pocket
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  watch, who are you thinking about?
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  I'm definitely thinking about the Imperator with, with a
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  little bit of a rage burning behind my eyes.
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  You know, I I blame him for what happened with all the fire that
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  burned down my city or my town rather.
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  I am thinking about my family and the people I lost, people I
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  haven't seen since that day, and the the majority of me is just
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  trying to shove all of those feelings down into my bag.
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  Yeah, you're doing a pretty good job of it, but your anxiety
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  betrays you a little bit as you repeatedly flip this pocket
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  watch over and over and over again.
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  When I start to get too anxious I blow into the pocket watch and
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  out of it comes a small light called a Nyx Shard which it's a
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  diamond shaped Lantern that just starts to illuminate the room
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  very slightly. As you do that, you see a man
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  walk by you. His name is Jar, and you've met
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  Jar before. You've you've been in the pits
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  for a little bit. He's been here for a little bit.
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  You always do that. But what is it?
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  You've never explained it to me. What is this light?
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  How do I do it? Is it magic?
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  It's a form of magic that's connected to my goddess.
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  This mirror. Oh, do you?
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  Do you? Ever.
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  I worship this mirror too. Oh, are you a cleric?
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  No, I'm just a guy standing in front of another guy asking him
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  to explain what a Nick Shard is. Honestly, I've never seen
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  anybody outside of my home make this, but you know, maybe if you
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  become a cleric I could show you how to do it.
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  Thanks, but I don't really, I don't think I have the the the
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  what's it called? The smart, the brains for that,
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  I think. And you see him just flex all of
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  his muscles and his Peck start dancing and he goes, you can
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  have your little Lantern. I'll just beat the shit out of
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  anyone. That sounds good, right?
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  That's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  You know, follow your passion. But I like your little buddy and
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  he claps his hand on your shoulder.
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  I like you and I hope we do not have to fight today because I
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  will chop off all of your limbs. OK.
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  He gives you a little pat on the back and then walks away and you
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  see him talk to another group of people that also look like just
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  big, big Barbarians. And as you're left there, we
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  move to another part of the pit. Charlie, who do we see down
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  here? So right now I think I think
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  everyone just sees a human kind of nondescript little kind of
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  like average between everything. Maybe a little bit unlike the
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  the more unkept side, like a little bit of facial hair
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  growing in kinda like has some bags under his eyes, has this
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  kind of like crooked like smile. But it's hard to tell if that's
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  just like a part of his face or if he's actually like smiling or
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  smirking about something. And I think he's, I think right
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  now, you know, actually right now I think, I think he's by by
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  the window and he's, he's just muttering to himself like fuck,
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  get out of the fucking way like. So you're standing near the
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  gnomes, right? The gnomes are.
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  Wait, I'm trying to see. No, I'm trying to.
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  I see up here. No, wait, I'm trying to see up
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  here. Yeah, fuckers.
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  We're all trying to see OK. And you kind of startled these
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  little guys and they all comically tumble to the ground,
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  kind of leaving you a good view out this window.
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  Well, as good of a view as you can get of the feet.
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  But you stand up there and you're looking out the bars, and
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  you catch the feet of the Domina, her clockwork limbs
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  stepping, and you can hear her gears grinding, and you think
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  about these past two months, these two months that have been
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  just like a crazy whirlwind. You have no memories past the
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  past two months, but you've somehow done more in these few
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  months than most people have ever done in their lives.
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  You woke up with the taste of alcohol pouring down your
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  throat, and that is the first thing you remember.
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  And since then, you have found Wanderers.
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  You were stalked by a beast. You were taken by a madman.
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  You found a friend. She put you back together again,
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  but you left her. You didn't mean to leave her,
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  but you left her. And as you're down in the pits,
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  as you see the Domino's feet, you kind of think about your
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  friend who has no idea where you are, but you are here down in
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  the pits. Yeah, I think, yeah, that's
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  exactly what I was thinking. I, I, I, I look at the Dominus
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  fee and as soon as I see them, I feel like I kind of like this,
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  this isn't worth it. And I just like, sit back down
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  and I, I feel my, my cap a little bit.
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  I have this ratty like flat cap and yeah, I just, I just
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  reminisce. As you reminisce of the raucous
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  sounds of fighting kind of break you from your memory and you see
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  a shrewd and slightly nervous arena official approach.
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  His voice gets brisk and his eyes are darting with
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  administrative authority. Last call for groups fights.
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  If you're still standing alone in the next 5 minutes you'll be
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  stuck in the pits all day. Not the fights, sorry guys, but
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  apparently the only single matches are going to be the
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  headliners. So all you lowly, lowly
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  gladiators, you need to form groups now.
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  The show waits for no one, and the Imperator dislikes delays
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  and so you guys know if you don't fight today, you won't get
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  paid and you won't have earned the chance to explore the
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  festivities. What do you 3 do?
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  Abe's tummy, as if on cue, rumbles audibly and he walks
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  over nervously to where Bunty is near the the greats, where Bunty
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  was watching from where the gnomes have fallen away.
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  And just as I didn't do this before, he's He's fairly tall,
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  dark skinned, long black hair, dark eyes.
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  If anyone could see me on camera, it's pretty much what I
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  look like. He's a beautiful.
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  Man. Oh my God, he's so attractive.
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  My God, he's so cute. He kind.
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  Of step step aside chaos, we got a new dreamy boy in pound.
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  He's here to win hearts. And he kind of his muscles are
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  twitching as he like, kind of unravels his cloak a little bit
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  and pulls his staff from his left side.
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  And he reaches his hand down to Bunty, who's now not watching
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  from the window and says, Bunty, did you see anyone in in here
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  that looks unsure about what to do next?
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  And I I turned. No.
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  Will you? If I, will you give me a bath if
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  I tell you? But.
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  Fucking hell. I and I turn and I'm assuming
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  this nondescript human is sitting there.
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  You see a nondescript human kind of looking sad, and you see a
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  drow man just pacing back and forth.
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  I I kneel next to the human, just kind of on my knees and
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  outstretch my hand kind of like hesitantly.
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  Hey, hello. Do you take his hand?
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  Actually, I distinctly do not take his hand.
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  And I and I awkwardly keep my hand out.
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  And with my, I'm like, oh, I, I'm, I'm sorry, I don't, I don't
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  really do that kind of thing. Are you like offering for like
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  me to join you? Yeah, yeah, I'm just.
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  Do you have a group already? This is my first day here.
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  I haven't been in a fight. Yet me too, yo.
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  Are you? Are you sure?
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  And I lift my hand up again. Are you sure you don't want to
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  shake? No, no, I won't.
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  I won't shake your hand, but I'll.
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  I'll join you. OK, what's your name?
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  I'm Bo. I'm Abe.
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  Cool. 1 syllable. Nice.
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  Bunty, Bunty who's? Who's this dude?
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  Right here. I'm Bunty and I'm crazy.
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  Will you give me a bath bow? We can take a bath together
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  later. Yeah, I don't know.
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  I don't know about that. I think I probably overhear
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  this, this crazy conversation that's happening you're.
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  You're a you're a fresh little thing, aren't you?
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  I'm dirty, I don't know what you're talking about.
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  I'm going to walk over and step up and I say, so you both are
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  are new to the pits then, Yeah. I kind of turn slowly to bond
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  tool and nod my head. I've, I've been here a couple
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  months now. You, you both look pretty
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  strong. I'd be happy to show you the
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  ropes of gladiator fights. I look down at my very clearly
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  not strong body. All right, OK.
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  I'm not that strong by myself but I I can be very helpful.
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  I'm a cleric. The very opposite side of that
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  reaction, Abe kind of like mischievously smiles and kind of
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  like, bashfully flexes, yeah. You.
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  Can see. His biceps and his triceps, just
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  like rippling, and he does it almost accidentally, but you
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  know, it's on purpose. Damn.
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  Damn dude, you're ripped. My name is Bontul, but you you
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  both can call me Bon. Would you guys like to be a
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  team? Yeah.
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  Sure, yeah. Unless this this small thing is
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  is your third. No, they they didn't specify
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  team sizes. We can be 5, we can be 5, we can
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  be 6. We can just be me and I can take
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  you all on. Oh oh, does he fight as well?
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  Play nice, play nice, Bunty. I reach out my hand to shake
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  Bunty's hand. Bunty's.
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  Does Bunty have a hand? Yeah, long limbs, just like
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  longer than it should be for his body.
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  Like reach out and it feels kind of like slimy and scaly. 00
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  thank you thank you so. Much We can take a bath later if
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  you want. Is he always like this?
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  Yeah, yeah, until I drink too much and fall asleep.
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  Bunty, Bunty. I like.
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  This dude. Bo Bo, Don't encourage him,
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  Bunty. If you keep up like this, you're
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  not going to get a bath for three weeks this time.
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  Three weeks. Now shut up and get up and get
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  under here and I lift my cloak for him to like crawl off my.
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  Shoulder OK, I'm in time out again and he goes under your
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  cloak and you can hear him humming softly to himself.
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  Going to take a bath later. I I like this dude.
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  I think, I think, I think his energy is going to be key to
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  winning. I I lead the group over to the
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  person who is shouting out that we need to find teams and I
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  introduce ourselves. Yeah.
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  So you, you walk up this man's name, he introduces himself as
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  Yana, and he goes, all right, guys, three people on your team.
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  Yeah. OK, team name.
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  Strange. Give a mask.
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  My cloak on my right shoulder. Yana looks at you and you can
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  tell he's he's seen weirder and he goes, OK, team name.
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  What are you guys going to be called?
• 24:43
  Bon Bo Abe, What if? What if it was Bab?
• 24:48
  The What if? What if we were the the
• 24:52
  monosyllabics? Let's let's keep workshopping
• 24:58
  that. OK.
• 25:00
  We'll, we'll put that down for now and if you we can change it
• 25:04
  later. OK, OK.
• 25:05
  Go ahead and put that in and just lock it in.
• 25:07
  OK, oh, lock it in. OK, the monosyllabics and Jana
• 25:11
  locks it in. I know, I know.
• 25:13
  There's an option to change it later.
• 25:14
  Go ahead. We don't need that option.
• 25:16
  Yeah, we'll take away that option.
• 25:17
  OK, So that is permanently what you're going to be called across
• 25:21
  all four empires. OK, that is your.
• 25:23
  Name. OK, great, great, great.
• 25:26
  OK, I got other people to talk to, but I'll come get you guys.
• 25:30
  When it's your. Match.
• 25:32
  OK, OK, bye. And walks away, clipboard in
• 25:36
  hand, and he's gone. Well, I suppose that's our name
• 25:42
  now. You're welcome, I mean.
• 25:46
  Hey, it's accurate. My name is Bunty.
• 25:49
  That's definitely what syllable. Sure.
• 25:56
  To be honest, I don't. Even know what the word means.
• 25:58
  Yeah, that was a big word. My biggest word is bat time.
• 26:03
  Bunty, when you're under the cloak, you're not allowed to
• 26:06
  talk to people. That's the point of being under
• 26:09
  the cloak. Oh, sorry, time out, time out.
• 26:11
  OK SH SH SH. I time out and he goes and he's
• 26:14
  he goes silent again. I'm I'm.
• 26:17
  So sorry, I'm just imagining him just like I'm used to just
• 26:20
  murmuring like time out every couple of seconds or something
• 26:23
  like that. As you guys kind of talk amongst
• 26:26
  yourself, time passes and other teams get pulled, yeah.
• 26:33
  Ask Bond something. Yes, You've been here for two
• 26:38
  months, you said. More like 6.
• 26:40
  Oh, have you met the Imperator? No, that that kind of thing
• 26:45
  doesn't happen without being really, really good at fighting.
• 26:51
  Oh, I look a little disappointed.
• 26:53
  Well. Did you, did you expect to just
• 26:55
  walk in and meet the Imperator? No.
• 27:00
  What? Are some kind of Abe you roll a
• 27:04
  deception check and Bond you roll an insight check.
• 27:08
  First roll. First roll.
• 27:10
  Let's see how it goes. Insight, right?
• 27:14
  That is a 1616. All right, give me your
• 27:20
  deception check, Abe. I rolled A7.
• 27:32
  Probably not. Yeah, it's a six.
• 27:34
  You have. Actually, it's a. 6A Nat 7 and a
• 27:41
  dirty 6 is. That charismatic.
• 27:44
  Yeah, so Bond, you can immediately tell that Abe
• 27:50
  thought that he could fight one fight and just meet the
• 27:53
  imperator are. You some kind of fan of the
• 27:55
  Imperator? No, Oh my God no.
• 27:58
  Oh my God, Jesus Christ. No OK no, I, I hate him.
• 28:03
  He, he's the reason my parents are dead and my brother lost his
• 28:06
  mind and he's the reason this fucking thing is here.
• 28:09
  And I motioned to my shoulder. We should thank him for that at
• 28:13
  least, I mean. Yeah, that's what I'd like to
• 28:16
  hear. Beau best friend.
• 28:18
  I sort of, yeah, as Bunty you're.
• 28:20
  In timeout bunty you are not allowed to engage anyone.
• 28:23
  Outside of the club. You can't respond to them even
• 28:25
  if they talk to you directly. We're getting so close to that
• 28:29
  three-week extension, no bath, and I told you I'd give you
• 28:32
  something nice to eat tonight. If you keep talking, you're not
• 28:34
  getting anything other than the slot.
• 28:39
  Jeez Louise and you shut. Up I sort of, I sort of gasped a
• 28:43
  little bit when you said that the Imperator was responsible
• 28:46
  for killing your parents. So I say, Oh my God, you know,
• 28:53
  I, I don't say this to too many people because it's, you know,
• 28:56
  there are a lot of people here who really, really like the
• 28:59
  Imperator, but I'm pretty sure the Imperator killed my parents
• 29:04
  too. Did did he also burn down your
• 29:07
  town? No.
• 29:10
  Were your parents interested in? And I kind of like get a little
• 29:13
  closer immortality? Not.
• 29:20
  Not as far as I can tell. All right, never.
• 29:24
  You know, let's pick this up later.
• 29:25
  And as you say that Jana calls out for you guys and he goes you
• 29:30
  3 over there. We we have a matchup.
• 29:32
  You'll be you'll be fighting 5 S and he kind of beckons for you
• 29:36
  to follow him up some steps. So I assume you guys follow and
• 29:42
  as you stand there and wait near the north entrance of the arena
• 29:47
  floor you hear soft thumping that gets louder and louder and
• 29:52
  louder until 5 doors enter from the other side of the stadium.
• 29:57
  Do you guys want to give perception or history check?
• 30:00
  I guess history would only make sense for for bond, but
• 30:04
  perception check for everyone. Can I do perception because of
• 30:09
  my perception is better? Yeah.
• 30:11
  Or should I do history? No, you can do perception.
• 30:15
  April the 16 Nice. That'll be a 7 from Bo.
• 30:21
  That is a 19 for Bond. Bo as you step out into the
• 30:27
  arena, instead of looking at the five dwarfs that are in front of
• 30:33
  you, your head kind of turns towards where the imperators are
• 30:40
  and you see the Domina and as she sees you, you notice a
• 30:47
  little smile comes on her face but you are blissfully unaware
• 30:53
  that your competitors have already entered the arena.
• 30:55
  You are like locked on to the Domina and the other two.
• 31:01
  You guys see a group of five dwarfs who have matching armor
• 31:07
  on their armor. It says the gear grinders and it
• 31:11
  says sponsored by Gearhart and Daughters and Bond.
• 31:17
  That reminds you like you've heard of these guys before.
• 31:21
  They have been fighting in the arena for a few months.
• 31:24
  Also, they came after you and despite being relatively new,
• 31:29
  they are sponsored, which means they don't have to live in the
• 31:33
  pits. They have money that like funds
• 31:36
  them. They get armored, they get
• 31:37
  weapons. And you know, you see Finkle,
• 31:41
  Tinkle, Hinkle, Dinkle and Josh and.
• 31:46
  Fucking hate these guys. Oh my God, they always, you
• 31:49
  know, whenever I'm not looking they try to just like hit me in
• 31:52
  the shins. It's really fucking annoying.
• 31:56
  I don't know how they got sponsored.
• 32:01
  And as you look at the gear grinders Tinkle, who has like
• 32:07
  the crossbow, he he knows you because he shot you in the leg a
• 32:12
  few times and he kind of waves over at you condescendingly.
• 32:18
  I I flipped the middle finger back at.
• 32:21
  Him as you do that you guys have kind of stepped on to the arena
• 32:24
  floor. It hasn't started yet, but as
• 32:28
  you do that, give me a charisma check.
• 32:32
  Give me a Persuasion or intimidation.
• 32:38
  As as we're doing this, I'm also going to say out loud, all
• 32:42
  right, time for my first fight. Yeah, this is our first fight,
• 32:47
  guys. Hey, yeah, me too.
• 32:49
  Oh yeah, they're going to be so good.
• 32:52
  To be to be clear, like when you say first fight, you mean like
• 32:56
  you've never fought anyone before, right?
• 32:59
  And I nod without kind of breaking.
• 33:00
  Yeah, I'm nodding. I'm taking my cloak off.
• 33:03
  Bunty is. Cool.
• 33:04
  All right. Yeah, me too.
• 33:06
  Bunty Bunty starts doing push ups.
• 33:09
  I look to the two of you and I'm just like, oh fuck, what have I
• 33:12
  done? We we got Bunty.
• 33:14
  What are you worried about? Yeah, I'm crazy, guys.
• 33:18
  I'm crazy. It's the parasite of my brain.
• 33:21
  I think that I know something that could could maybe make you
• 33:25
  2 a little bit better at fighting.
• 33:28
  And I cast, I am going to cast bless on the three of us.
• 33:36
  So up to three creatures in range.
• 33:39
  That's me, Abe and Bo, me, Abe and Bo.
• 33:46
  And so whenever you make an attack role or a saving throw,
• 33:49
  for the next minute you will add one D4 to the attack roller
• 33:53
  save. I feel, I feel good.
• 33:56
  This feels this feels nice. Good.
• 33:59
  Does anyone else want to do anything or cast anything before
• 34:04
  we go? No, but for that, for that
• 34:07
  persuasion check, I rolled a 16. Yeah, I rolled a 19.
• 34:11
  OK. I rolled in 18.
• 34:14
  Incredible. So as you guys walk out there
• 34:17
  and Bond, you give the middle finger, you can tell that the
• 34:21
  crowd is kind of on your side. You're there's like 2 newcomers,
• 34:26
  some weird little creature and Bond who has been here for a
• 34:30
  while but is a pretty low level gladiator.
• 34:32
  But you see that the crowd kind of just takes to you on on first
• 34:36
  impression. Before we roll initiative, we'll
• 34:40
  be working with some home brew rules that allow players to cut
• 34:43
  off their enemies limbs or have their own limbs chopped off.
• 34:47
  So doing half of their Max damage in a turn allows you to
• 34:50
  chop off a hand or a leg and doing 3/4 of Max damage in a
• 34:55
  turn allows you to chop off a whole arm, which also chops off
• 34:58
  your hands. So there are some effects to
• 35:01
  losing limbs and but also some very cool upgrades that our
• 35:03
  players can buy which we can kind of get into post battle if
• 35:07
  any limbs are lost. Additionally, everyone will have
• 35:11
  one regular potion of healing if they want to mark that down.
• 35:18
  I think a potion of healing is 2 D 4 + 2 when you drink it.
• 35:24
  That sounds right. Yeah.
• 35:25
  So we are going to be using the new 2024 edition, I think, also
• 35:30
  known as 5.5 E. So taking a potion will just be
• 35:36
  a bonus action now, which is really nice to do.
• 35:39
  And on top of that, everyone gets something called a
• 35:42
  gladiator patch. Jana hands them out to you right
• 35:46
  as you step out into the arena. So if you lose a limb as a bonus
• 35:50
  action, you can put on a gladiator patch and you won't
• 35:54
  bleed or lose any sort of bodily fluid.
• 35:58
  If you don't put the patch on, you will take damage at the
• 36:03
  start of each of your turns. OK, real quick.
• 36:07
  It works for you too, Bo. Yeah.
• 36:11
  My other question. So does that mean that it will
• 36:14
  like stop you from coming? I theoretically.
• 36:24
  I think it's just leaking out of that one hole that you put it
• 36:27
  on. So I guess if you put it on your
• 36:29
  Dick, then yes, it will stop you from coming and then it will
• 36:33
  build up in your balls and then your balls will explode.
• 36:35
  Is that the answer that you want?
• 36:38
  Yes, actually. OK, so don't put it on your
• 36:41
  Dick. So this is effectively A
• 36:43
  prophylactics or a sheath. Yeah, a sheath.
• 36:48
  I guess you can uncircumcised yourself.
• 36:53
  We got the gladiatorial cock ring.
• 36:55
  Oh my. God.
• 36:57
  Great. Yeah, that was not the intended
• 37:00
  use, but I think people have probably done this before and
• 37:03
  you've heard the horror stories. I look, I look over at bow and
• 37:09
  I'm like, I can tell what you're thinking and do not, do not do
• 37:13
  it. Right but it but it works right?
• 37:19
  Yeah, Bob knows the guy that that had this happened to.
• 37:22
  Do not. And then I look back at our our
• 37:25
  gnome opponents. Oh, the dwarves.
• 37:29
  The dwarves, sorry. Yes.
• 37:32
  So it's a large celebration, and typically it's an unspoken
• 37:37
  societal rule that no one actually dies because there are
• 37:40
  too many kids in the crowd for that.
• 37:43
  So you guys, you feel pretty confident going out into this
• 37:45
  match that you might, you probably won't die.
• 37:48
  You might lose some limbs, but this is for glory.
• 37:52
  This is it. And as you hype yourself up,
• 37:55
  roll initiative. I always love the first
• 37:58
  initiative roll of a campaign. Does this include Bless or no?
• 38:05
  Bless is just ability checks and saving throws.
• 38:09
  Nat 20, baby. Oh wow, nice first Nat 20 of the
• 38:14
  pod. I I got a 19 plus some stuff but
• 38:18
  I'll be after about presumably. 1919's pretty good, you know.
• 38:22
  Yeah, 19's great. Yeah, it's it's, you know, it's
• 38:25
  like, it's not the best, but. It's it's, it's the arsenal of
• 38:32
  of dice stories. I got a lowly 16.
• 38:36
  A lowly 16. Well, this is good for you guys
• 38:41
  'cause you guys do beat the gear grinders.
• 38:46
  The gear grinders will be going at 4:00.
• 38:48
  Oh yeah, is there. I'm guessing they're like our
• 38:51
  names are like announced over the the loudspeaker like
• 38:54
  Thamatergy or? Whatever.
• 38:55
  Yes, Yeah, yeah, yeah. So.
• 38:57
  Yeah, I hear, I hear the name gear grinder and I I gulp a
• 39:00
  little bit. So you guys step out and you get
• 39:04
  ready right as you guys are going to start the fight.
• 39:09
  You hear the announcer goes, this is for all the money, the
• 39:15
  gear grinders versus the And then he reads his sheet and he
• 39:19
  goes the the mana, Jesus Christ, Yana's handwriting, the mono
• 39:25
  slab, the whatever the mono's, Yeah.
• 39:31
  And I raised my hands to try to to hype up the crowd and I say
• 39:38
  monos, monos. Yeah, you hear some people
• 39:41
  shouting the monos. You guys got a good persuasion
• 39:44
  check as you stepped out into the arena.
• 39:46
  You hear some monos, but you unfortunately hear more gear
• 39:51
  grinders, gear grinders, gear grinders.
• 39:54
  And with that, we're going to start with Bo.
• 39:58
  You are in a just a giant circle.
• 40:03
  With dirt, there is nothing else for you.
• 40:07
  It is 90 feet across, so you're on one end. 90 feet away are the
• 40:13
  Greer grinders. What do you want to do?
• 40:17
  I can't remember off the top of my head what the range is on a
• 40:19
  short bow, but I believe it's 60 feet, so I will move up 30 feet
• 40:30
  and then take a shot at, I don't know.
• 40:34
  Was Tinkle one of the names? Yeah, so Tinkle has a crossbow.
• 40:39
  So you see that's. Cool that perfect.
• 40:41
  I target him. You target Tinkle.
• 40:43
  OK, roll your tack. OK, and I get the bless.
• 40:50
  Yes, add one D4. So that will be a like a 24.
• 40:59
  Geez, yeah, these guys have good armor, but it's not like that
• 41:03
  good. So you definitely hit him.
• 41:06
  How much damage do you do? Let us see.
• 41:10
  So we get a 1D6 and then I also get some sneak attack off the
• 41:17
  leaf. I think you would get sneak
• 41:22
  attack if you had advantage or if you had an ally within 5 feet
• 41:28
  of the enemy. So I don't think anyone.
• 41:30
  Is it? Is it like assassins who get it
• 41:32
  when somebody? Yeah, assassins are the the ones
• 41:35
  who get it before if anyone takes a turn, so just just
• 41:38
  normal damage I. Just do a 1D6 OK, seven damage.
• 41:43
  Seven damage, you shoot him right in the leg and he stumbles
• 41:50
  a little bit. Incredible.
• 41:53
  Who has bow hit? Bow hit Tinkle who has a
• 41:56
  crossbow, so yeah. So Josh has a long sword, Finkel
• 42:00
  has daggers, Tinkle has a crossbow, Hinkle has a Longbow,
• 42:04
  and Dinkle has a warhammer. Dinkle would have the Warhammer.
• 42:08
  Dinkle. Dinkle is this like middle-aged
• 42:12
  dwarf with like a dark brown beard.
• 42:14
  He kind of looks like a dad with like a dad gut and just like
• 42:18
  this big warhammer like I it's probably bigger than he is.
• 42:23
  But anything else you want to do for your bonus action or?
• 42:28
  I guess so the the arena's only like 90 feet across.
• 42:35
  Yeah, it's only 90 feet. Across so I'll just I'll just
• 42:38
  I'll just take a a bonus action dash and run back to where
• 42:43
  everybody else is. Yeah, you bonus action dash and
• 42:49
  you go back to where you are. Next in the initiative is Abe.
• 42:56
  While while the announcements were happening, everything Abe
• 42:59
  was had put his hands together and was seemed to be doing
• 43:04
  something of like a prayer or a meditation and and as the fight
• 43:09
  begins he is going to use his bonus action to dash and move 80
• 43:15
  feet across. Damn.
• 43:18
  He also during during that preparation, had a short
• 43:22
  conversation with Bunty Quick, gave him a dagger, said you give
• 43:26
  this right back to me, right back to me when this is done,
• 43:29
  Bunty, right back to me when this fight is done.
• 43:32
  What? I don't even need it.
• 43:33
  I got these teeth. And he opens his mouth and you
• 43:36
  see a row of razor sharp teeth. I can just eat them.
• 43:40
  I can just eat them if you want. Stab him too and I and I stick
• 43:45
  the knife into his hand so as I run across.
• 43:50
  Is Bunty like on you as you run like?
• 43:53
  Is he? He's kind of piggyback style.
• 43:55
  Yes, he's like on my shoulder, and as I stop moving at the 80
• 43:59
  foot mark, I use all the momentum to launch Bunty off my
• 44:04
  shoulder and launch him to whoever's closest out of the
• 44:07
  gear grinders. Great.
• 44:09
  They're all equally as close. They're all 90 feet away.
• 44:12
  Do you want to attack Tinkle who Bo already attacked, or do you
• 44:17
  want to attack someone fresh? I'm going for Dinkle.
• 44:20
  You're going for Dinkle with the warhammer.
• 44:23
  OK, so you throw Bunty onto him. Do you want to roll for Bunty's
• 44:28
  attack or do you want me to do it?
• 44:30
  What would be best? What do you prefer?
• 44:33
  It doesn't. It doesn't matter.
• 44:34
  I have a stat block up if you want me to.
• 44:36
  OK, Yeah, go for it then. OK, so.
• 44:39
  I like being a spectator to Bunty's.
• 44:41
  Actions. Bunty gets a 17 on the die, so
• 44:45
  that's a 21 to hit. He gets on Dinkle's face and
• 44:50
  just bites his cheek and rips some of it out and he does.
• 44:57
  Oh whoa. He does his Max damage.
• 44:58
  He does 6 piercing damage and or sorry he does 8 piercing damage
• 45:03
  and he just rips out Dinkle's cheek and Dinkle screams why
• 45:10
  what is this? Oh my God what is this and he's
• 45:13
  like just bleeding profusely from his face.
• 45:18
  Bunty has a special ability where which I.
• 45:20
  Was just going to. Bring up Dinkle now has to make
• 45:24
  a con saving throw or be poisoned for one minute.
• 45:28
  So let's see. OK, Dingle passes.
• 45:31
  I mean, the DC is only a 10 and Dingle rolled A-15 on the dye.
• 45:35
  So you see like green and black liquid drip from Bunty's teeth
• 45:42
  as he bites in to Dingle. Dingle is able to kind of wipe
• 45:46
  away the poison before it enters his system.
• 45:49
  So if you want, was that going to be your action to launch
• 45:54
  Bunty? Yeah, I was going to ask you if
• 45:56
  that should be my action. I think that'll be action, yeah,
• 45:59
  yeah. I'm like throwing him, so yeah.
• 46:01
  Perfect, and you did your bonus action to run this fast free
• 46:07
  cool bond. It is your turn.
• 46:11
  All right, I am going to. So we are 90 feet away from
• 46:15
  them. You're 90 feet away from them,
• 46:16
  Yeah. OK, I'm going to run up my full
• 46:21
  speed, which is 30 feet to get sort of between where Bo and Abe
• 46:28
  are and I am going to cast guiding who?
• 46:33
  Which one do I? So I've I've fought against
• 46:36
  these guys before. Which one is the strongest?
• 46:38
  Roll Roll Insider History. OK I am going to roll inside
• 46:46
  that is a dirty 20. Most of them look pretty equal
• 46:51
  in terms of like strength, except Dinkle.
• 46:55
  Dinkle looks hardier than the rest.
• 46:57
  Was Dinkle the one that? That's the one that Bunty just
• 47:00
  bit, yeah. Was he also the one that like
• 47:03
  gestured at me earlier on? I don't remember, but let's say
• 47:06
  yeah, that's OK. He's the one.
• 47:10
  Who? Their names are so similar?
• 47:11
  I don't know why I did this to myself.
• 47:13
  All right, I'm going to cast. It wasn't.
• 47:15
  Josh. I'm going to cast guiding bolt.
• 47:19
  And just at Dinkle. Try to absolutely just beat the
• 47:23
  shit out of Dinkle. So I hurl a bolt of light
• 47:26
  towards the creature. It's going to be this radiant
• 47:29
  blue light and I'm going to make a range spell attack.
• 47:34
  Go for it. So that is not 20.
• 47:38
  Oh. Shit.
• 47:41
  Oh shit. So that is going to be 4D6
• 47:45
  doubled, which is going to be 8 D 6 of damage.
• 47:48
  What the fuck? OK, OK.
• 47:51
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go for it.
• 47:52
  Go. For it God, he's taking too
• 47:59
  long. That's going.
• 48:00
  To be that's going to be 33 damage, 3033 radiant damage.
• 48:07
  I don't know, is there a way to make radiant damage non lethal?
• 48:13
  You can. You can make any damage known.
• 48:14
  Lethal. So you launch this radiant bolt
• 48:20
  like describe how you knock him out completely.
• 48:25
  I point my Mace at him and then open my my pocket watch in my
• 48:32
  left hand and this massive bolt comes out and just sort of
• 48:37
  bludgeons straight in the face right through where Bunty bit.
• 48:44
  Bunty No. Bunty Bunty was able to to move
• 48:50
  out of the way as well. Actually, let me roll to see if
• 48:53
  Bunty gets out of the way or. Use Dinkle as a human shield.
• 48:57
  OK, Bunty. Bunty did well enough on his
• 49:00
  deck check to quickly, like, swing out of the way, like he's
• 49:03
  grasping on kind of like a monkey with his hands biting
• 49:07
  into his face. And as the bolt comes, he like,
• 49:10
  swings around to the back of Dinkle as the bolt just shoots
• 49:14
  right into him. And Dinkle's body falls to the
• 49:18
  ground, Bunty standing beside him.
• 49:20
  And Bunty shouts back at you. Yeah, good team, buddy.
• 49:29
  I I say that's for my shins, you bastard.
• 49:33
  Yeah, get him. Get him, yeah.
• 49:36
  And I am going to use my free action to try to hype up the
• 49:41
  crowd. Yeah, go for it.
• 49:43
  What do you want to roll? Persuasion or are you trying to
• 49:46
  intimidate them? I'm going to roll persuasion.
• 49:50
  Go for. It that is a 17.
• 49:54
  A 17, yeah. You see, the crowd is a little
• 49:58
  shocked when one of the gear grinders just goes down so fast
• 50:03
  and they look at you with a little bit of like awe in their
• 50:08
  eyes. And you see like a a big decent
• 50:10
  chunk size of the crowd turned and starts yelling ma no, ma no,
• 50:15
  Ma no. I clang my Mace against my
• 50:18
  shield and point to Vesmira's symbol.
• 50:21
  Yeah, sick. All right, that's my turn.
• 50:24
  OK, next are the gear grinders. Josh first is a little with a
• 50:28
  long sword. He's going to close the distance
• 50:31
  with Abe and is going to attack as a 22 to hit he is going to
• 50:37
  do. I'm gonna use my reaction, but
• 50:40
  yes, go. Ahead gonna use the action
• 50:41
  that's just gonna be 4 slashing damage as he hits you with the
• 50:44
  long sword. I'm gonna, OK, yeah, I'm gonna
• 50:47
  use my reaction just just to set the tone with these guys.
• 50:50
  So in in 5.5 what's nice is Deflect missile essentially
• 50:54
  becomes deflect attack. Wow, Slick.
• 50:58
  Yeah, that's crazy. I know it's really, it's it's a
• 51:01
  fun flavor for the monk, which I feel like it it adds a lot.
• 51:05
  Yeah. Oh, wow.
• 51:07
  Yeah, I reduced it completely. I rolled the 10.
• 51:10
  Incredible. So I don't even need to sum the
• 51:12
  things up, but yeah, I completely.
• 51:15
  And do is it like the Fleck missile in 5 E where you kind of
• 51:19
  push it back towards them if you reduce?
• 51:21
  It all zero. I can do that.
• 51:23
  I'm going to choose not to do that because I have to use a
• 51:25
  focus point or key point to do that.
• 51:28
  Otherwise this is just my passive like reaction for the
• 51:30
  turn so I'm just going to like move by the sword in a wing.
• 51:36
  And kind. Of like, yeah, use his momentum
• 51:39
  to move by him. You're so you're so fluid with
• 51:41
  it as Josh is kind of like crudely slashing down at you.
• 51:45
  You kind of like water. Your body kind of like just
• 51:48
  moves out of the way and you're able to dodge it completely.
• 51:51
  And I say that's so. Like Tobey Maguire in the scene
• 51:54
  in the high school in Spider Man, Sam Raimi.
• 52:03
  Oh damn now I want to watch spider man 1.
• 52:06
  So Josh completely just whiffs on you.
• 52:09
  He upset by this is going to use his action surge and attack
• 52:14
  again. Fair enough.
• 52:16
  And that does an 18 hit you? Yeah.
• 52:20
  Yeah, that's my that's my AC. So yeah, it does.
• 52:23
  That's going to be 9 damage and should have.
• 52:25
  Waited. Should have waited.
• 52:27
  Guess what happens with 9 damage?
• 52:31
  Oh shit. That's half your hit points.
• 52:35
  Indeed it is. And as Josh swings down on you,
• 52:40
  Abe, you were so hyped up that he had missed on the first
• 52:44
  attack that the sword comes down and shears off what you want it
• 52:50
  to be, your left hand or your right hand.
• 52:53
  Right hand. Right hand and your right hand
• 52:56
  gets caught and the hand just lobs onto the floor and Josh
• 53:02
  smiles at you and also gives you the middle finger.
• 53:06
  That is the you. You pissed off Josh and he cut
• 53:08
  off your hand. Now we're on finger strings.
• 53:13
  Finkel seeing that Josh is near you, also approaches you and
• 53:18
  he's got 2 daggers in his hand so he's going to do his first.
• 53:22
  You said ACS 18. Yes, the first one does not.
• 53:27
  I'm sorry, but he's my. AC is 17 no, not 18-17.
• 53:30
  My hit points, they're just right next to each other.
• 53:33
  OK. Regardless, Finkel, yeah.
• 53:34
  It doesn't change. 16 OK yeah, Josh cut it off here and then
• 53:39
  Finkel's gonna use his offhand dagger.
• 53:42
  You're lucky. OK, both of those roles were
• 53:44
  below 17, so he just kind of and misses you completely, which is
• 53:50
  good because he has sneak attack and that's going to be really
• 53:53
  bad for you all right the next of the gear grinders is tinkle
• 53:57
  with the crossbow. He is going to move bond.
• 54:02
  How many feet up did you move? Did you move 30 feet up I.
• 54:05
  Moved. I moved 30 so he's 60 feet away.
• 54:07
  Great Tinkle is going to move 30 feet and then short range on his
• 54:11
  crossbow is also 30 feet and he's going to take a shot at
• 54:14
  you. You hailed my friend or he's and
• 54:20
  then Tinkle looks over or he's like knocked out, but that was
• 54:24
  crazy. You're definitely the strongest
• 54:27
  out of this bunch and he rolls to hit you and he rolls a
• 54:31
  natural 3 so that is not going to hit you.
• 54:33
  He is overtaken with anger and and sadness from his friend that
• 54:40
  you just absolutely demolished in one go and his bolt goes off
• 54:46
  in the wrong direction completely.
• 54:48
  He's got this crazy look in his eyes and you know he's going to
• 54:51
  target you. Next is Hinkle who has a
• 54:53
  Longbow. Hinkle, he's living the life.
• 54:56
  A Longbow is great for this type of arena.
• 54:59
  Hinkle stays back there and aims at Bo who is 90 feet away.
• 55:05
  He rolls a 16. Bo, what's your AC that beats?
• 55:09
  My AC what's the range of a Longbow?
• 55:11
  Is it? It's 150, a short range.
• 55:14
  OK. Yeah, so he doesn't even have to
• 55:17
  roll with disadvantage. He hits you and you take 7
• 55:21
  damage, 7 piercing damage that is below your limb threshold.
• 55:26
  To being, Yeah. I have these all pulled up on
• 55:30
  the side because I remember when we, when we first tried to run
• 55:35
  through this just like practice how we would go.
• 55:37
  I, we did not, we all missed the limb chopping off part.
• 55:41
  But this is integral. We need to chop off some limbs
• 55:44
  today. Oh yeah, that's Hinkle's turn.
• 55:47
  So Hinkle, Hinkle stayed in his spot and then Dinkle's down
• 55:51
  South. Josh and Finkel are on.
• 55:53
  Abe Tinkle has moved 30 feet up and Hinkle is all the way back
• 55:59
  90 feet. So top of the order we have bow.
• 56:03
  All right, nobody's on bond right now, right?
• 56:06
  No, no, no one's on bond. That was a ranged attack, yeah.
• 56:08
  Yeah, yeah, Tinkle's 30 feet. I'll move.
• 56:11
  I'll move 30 feet up. I'll stand a little bit away
• 56:14
  from Bond just to get some space in between us, probably like 15
• 56:18
  feet or so. And I guess I'll take a shot at
• 56:20
  who had the two daggers next to Abe.
• 56:24
  Finkle. I'll take a shot at them.
• 56:26
  All right, That is 21 to hit. 21 hits, roll damage.
• 56:32
  And now I have an ally within 5 feet of him, so I do get.
• 56:38
  Sneak attacks? Yeah, you get sneak attack.
• 56:41
  There we go. 11 damage you. You shoot an arrow and it
• 56:48
  pierces his shoulder and he looks very hurt.
• 56:53
  Any other bonus actions? I'll use my my bonus action to
• 56:57
  move 30 feet closer to Abe as well, just to get within.
• 57:02
  Great. I assume do you want to tinkle
• 57:06
  is 30 is in that 30 feet space, Do you want to move in the
• 57:11
  direction like closer to him or 30 feet towards Abe but kind of
• 57:15
  away from Tinkle? I don't want to provoke
• 57:17
  opportunity attacks away from Tinkle, but I want to move
• 57:21
  closer to Abe so that I can help him in melee the next round.
• 57:24
  Got you. OK, so you move closer, you keep
• 57:27
  a little bit of a distance from my ankle.
• 57:29
  The next person is Abe. Actually, I'll use.
• 57:31
  I'll use my object interaction to sheath my bow.
• 57:35
  Cool. You sheath your bow.
• 57:36
  Abe, it is now your turn. You, at the top of the round
• 57:41
  since you lost the limb, are going to bleed.
• 57:46
  Actually, it'll be at the end of your turn.
• 57:50
  Is it? Can you remind me what the
• 57:51
  bleeding damage is? Is it 1D4?
• 57:53
  It's 1D6. 01 D Jesus Christ. Yeah, blood is like you.
• 57:57
  You got brutally cut and blood is spurting out of you.
• 58:02
  So if you don't. To attach the.
• 58:04
  Gladiator patch as a bonus action.
• 58:06
  OK, got. You all right?
• 58:08
  So Josh and Finkel are. Yes, yes, yes.
• 58:10
  I was just doing some calculations in my head.
• 58:15
  So a there's a, there's a gap in this moment right where his hand
• 58:19
  comes off. He's in shock and then lets out
• 58:22
  a blood curdling scream like the teenage boy that he still is.
• 58:29
  And just I'm not going to scream on the mic.
• 58:31
  But steals himself, takes a deep breath and decides not to apply.
• 58:38
  The Gladiator patch is going to roll to attack Josh, who just
• 58:42
  took off his hand. Go for it.
• 58:45
  Oh. Shit Nat 20.
• 58:49
  Nat. 20. That was the you retaliate
• 58:52
  against the man that just chopped off your hands.
• 58:55
  All right, all right. The universe doesn't give you
• 58:58
  revenge like this too often. I did not want to lose my right
• 59:03
  hand. OK, I'm going to.
• 59:05
  Double I have. I have some unfortunate news to
• 59:08
  tell you. With one hand missing, you have
• 59:12
  disadvantage on your attack. No.
• 59:17
  As you're kind of off balance as your hand gets chopped off,
• 59:20
  it's. Easy, just roll another Nat 20.
• 59:23
  Yeah, just roll another Nat, Jenny.
• 59:25
  Just do it. I hate to take that away from
• 59:28
  you. So sad.
• 59:29
  It's an, it's still really good, but it's not a crit, it's an 18
• 59:32
  straight so. OK, so you still you still hit
• 59:36
  Josh. You're you're perfectly aimed.
• 59:40
  You're perfectly aimed to just absolutely smash him in the
• 59:43
  face. But in the last second the
• 59:46
  balance, your balance kind of gets thrown off with you losing
• 59:49
  a hand. So you still connect, but you
• 59:50
  don't do that that critical. So how much damage does Josh?
• 59:54
  I would have tried to two hand this but obviously I only got
• 59:57
  one hand so I use my left hand. To bring the staff down hard
• 1:00:02
  across his face and that is going to be for 9 damage on the
• 1:00:08
  staff and then I'm going to use a focus point to add two more
• 1:00:14
  kicks onto it. As.
• 1:00:17
  My flurry blows, which is my bonus action.
• 1:00:20
  Why I chose not to? You should do You should do one
• 1:00:25
  kick and one punch with your stub.
• 1:00:29
  Just bleeds way more. I just.
• 1:00:32
  Bleed in his face. Oh oh Avni, oh do I have to roll
• 1:00:36
  both these with disadvantage? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:40
  I rolled A literal mother Nat 20.
• 1:00:43
  Even. Even for kicks.
• 1:00:46
  I guess, I guess you get to do kicks for your flurry of blows,
• 1:00:50
  right? That's an option.
• 1:00:51
  It's any kind of. So are you?
• 1:00:52
  Are you kicking? Yeah, I was kicking.
• 1:00:54
  He did. He did say kicks, yeah.
• 1:00:55
  Two kick, double kick. Then you you can.
• 1:00:58
  You don't have to roll with this advantage.
• 1:00:59
  You can get your kid. Stop.
• 1:01:02
  I feel like most characters are not going to be attacking with
• 1:01:04
  their feet, so I feel like that's a good thing for a.
• 1:01:06
  Monk No, that's super fair. Yeah, you get you.
• 1:01:08
  If you kick, you're you're good. OK.
• 1:01:10
  That's not your your main attack is with the staff, right?
• 1:01:12
  So yeah, that has to be decision.
• 1:01:14
  So it's a 22 for one hit and a crit for the other kick.
• 1:01:17
  Sick roll your damage. This is this guy's about AI,
• 1:01:21
  don't think he's going to be doing super well after this.
• 1:01:24
  I'll roll the knock crit first. That is 7 damage for the first
• 1:01:28
  kick. Amazing.
• 1:01:30
  And doubling the duck. 14 damage on the 2nd.
• 1:01:37
  Kick for the crit. Describe how you take Josh down
• 1:01:41
  in just one round. OK, after he chops off your
• 1:01:44
  hand, yes. So I use my left hand, like I
• 1:01:46
  said, to like bring the staff down, almost like, almost like a
• 1:01:50
  sword on his face. Just crack it across his face.
• 1:01:53
  And as he's falling down, I kick him sideways fast with two,
• 1:02:02
  like, fast. Kind of like, just like kicks in
• 1:02:04
  the air. Yeah.
• 1:02:05
  And I'm assuming I I hear his bones break in his torso because
• 1:02:09
  I'm not aiming for any. You do.
• 1:02:12
  You do so much damage that you break.
• 1:02:17
  You can hear his entire right arm is destroyed.
• 1:02:22
  You kick the shit out of him and all the bones in his right arm
• 1:02:27
  are destroyed and you can tell that it's destroyed beyond like
• 1:02:31
  natural repair. He's going to have to get an
• 1:02:35
  augmented robot arm because of how much just physical damage
• 1:02:40
  you did to his arm. And do you want to make a
• 1:02:43
  persuasion check with advantage to the crowd right now?
• 1:02:46
  Absolutely. And then just a reminder to
• 1:02:48
  apply bleeding damage at the end of this turn.
• 1:02:50
  Yes, I will. That is a 12.
• 1:02:56
  You think you look so sick and badass, but as you look out into
• 1:03:02
  the crowd you you see in a couple of people are like oh
• 1:03:05
  sick. But you see a lot of mothers
• 1:03:07
  covering their children's eyes, being like, don't, don't look at
• 1:03:11
  the scary man, Don't look. He can't hurt you.
• 1:03:13
  Don't look at him as you crush this man's bones.
• 1:03:17
  And it echoes throughout the whole arena.
• 1:03:20
  Incredible. Time.
• 1:03:21
  Why don't you bring your kids? Like what?
• 1:03:22
  What? Did you do sex Bo?
• 1:03:26
  Do you say that to everyone as you see them covering?
• 1:03:28
  Up. Yeah, When I see that reaction,
• 1:03:30
  I'm like, what? You hear this woman shout out,
• 1:03:34
  this is supposed to be family fun.
• 1:03:38
  I flip her off. I lift my thumb.
• 1:03:45
  Yeah, they're they're upset about the kick, but not the.
• 1:03:49
  The hand chopping off. No, They have different
• 1:03:51
  priorities. Yeah.
• 1:03:53
  So if you're you, you and Finkle are now the only two next to
• 1:03:57
  each other. Is that your whole turn or do
• 1:04:01
  you want to use any movement? Is he within 5 feet of me?
• 1:04:05
  Yeah, yeah, he's then. No, I'm not.
• 1:04:07
  Moving. Yeah.
• 1:04:09
  OK. All right, Bond, it's your turn.
• 1:04:12
  So right now the only people that are up are Finkle with the
• 1:04:16
  daggers next to Abe, Tinkle with the crossbow, who is 30 feet
• 1:04:21
  away from you, and Hinkle with the Longbow who is all the way
• 1:04:25
  at the other end just chilling and he's 60 feet from you.
• 1:04:30
  Tinkle is the one that shot me with the crossbow bow right?
• 1:04:34
  Yes, he is. You know what, actually, who's
• 1:04:37
  sitting in the way back, Hinkle? Yeah, Hinkle's just.
• 1:04:40
  Hinkle's chilling too much, so I'm I'm gonna take in another.
• 1:04:44
  I'm gonna cast guiding bolts again and just try to just.
• 1:04:48
  Go ham. He's he's 60 feet away from you.
• 1:04:50
  Do you have to move closer? Guiding Bolt is 120, so we're
• 1:04:53
  good. Oh.
• 1:04:54
  My God, wild, wild. Yeah, All right, so I'm gonna
• 1:04:58
  make a range spell attack again. Probably not gonna hit.
• 1:05:02
  That is a 5 + 1 on the D4 plus my wisdom, so +3.
• 1:05:09
  So that is going to be a nine. I assume that doesn't hit.
• 1:05:13
  That doesn't hit. Hinkle is like leaning up
• 1:05:16
  against like a pillar in the back and the he doesn't even
• 1:05:21
  move. The guiding bolt just goes right
• 1:05:23
  past him and he also flips you off.
• 1:05:26
  And then how far away am I from Abe?
• 1:05:30
  30 feet. You are?
• 1:05:32
  No, because Abe moved 80 feet, so he's 50 feet away from me
• 1:05:36
  right now. Oh, was Bunty supposed to go?
• 1:05:39
  Oh yeah, how can we forget Bunty on Abe's turn?
• 1:05:41
  We got so caught up with the hand and the crib.
• 1:05:44
  You you finish off your turn Bond if there's anything else
• 1:05:46
  you want to do. Yeah, I don't have any bonus
• 1:05:48
  actions. I'm good.
• 1:05:49
  So Bunty sees that Abe got hit. I kind of call out for him with
• 1:05:54
  the telepathic connection, like to me Bunty.
• 1:05:57
  Yeah, you got him, dude. You got him so good and Bunty
• 1:06:03
  picks your hand up off of the ground and is like, I'm going to
• 1:06:07
  use this to bitch slap Finkel and he assuming you're OK with
• 1:06:12
  this, he's going to jump on Finkel, bite him and use your
• 1:06:16
  hand that fell off to kind of like spank Finkel.
• 1:06:20
  He's a freak. All right, Bunty, he's going to
• 1:06:22
  roll to bite. He hits Bunty's.
• 1:06:26
  Bunty's great. Bunty does not a crazy amount of
• 1:06:31
  damage to Finkel, but now Finkel has to roll or be poisoned and
• 1:06:38
  he passes DC-10. Like I said, Bunty takes a
• 1:06:42
  little chunk out of Fingal's cheek and spanks him, and that
• 1:06:46
  is going to be his turn. Now it's the gear grinders, 2 of
• 1:06:51
  them down. Finkel's looking pretty hurt,
• 1:06:53
  Tinkle's looking OK, and Hinkle is all ready to rumble.
• 1:06:58
  So Finkel's first going to go towards Abe because that's who
• 1:07:01
  he's engaged with. He's not going to get sneak
• 1:07:04
  attack this time because he doesn't have any ally near you.
• 1:07:07
  He rolls a gnat one on his first attack, and then his offhand
• 1:07:11
  attack he rolls A2. Finkel is so thrown off because
• 1:07:16
  for a second he thought that he was when they thought he thought
• 1:07:20
  that they were winning. Like Josh got your hand off, but
• 1:07:23
  you absolutely pummeled Josh and now he's feeling quite afraid
• 1:07:27
  and you can see him kind of shaking a little bit.
• 1:07:30
  So that's a finger turn. I don't.
• 1:07:34
  Know why I'm doing this to myself, But what?
• 1:07:36
  What was the bleeding role from your end?
• 1:07:38
  Yes, yeah, yeah. Bleed me daddy.
• 1:07:41
  Hey, buddy. Teacher, do we have homework?
• 1:07:43
  Today that is 6 damage you get Max.
• 1:07:50
  Oh my God. Oh dear.
• 1:07:51
  OK, I'm. Not so.
• 1:07:52
  How many hit points are you at right now?
• 1:07:54
  3? Right now.
• 1:07:56
  Oh my God. Oh, so it's good Finkel did not
• 1:07:58
  hit you because you would have been out for the next is Tinkle.
• 1:08:01
  Tinkle has the crossbow. He's going to look to who's
• 1:08:05
  within 30 feet and he's going to aim towards Beau, who has moved
• 1:08:10
  up. Does a 14 hit you Beau?
• 1:08:14
  That meets my AC. Meets it beats it all right with
• 1:08:18
  his crossbow he is going to do just for damage, so he goes
• 1:08:25
  swamp and the arrow kind of thumps into your abdomen area.
• 1:08:32
  As that happens. I want Bo to roll a stealth
• 1:08:38
  check and I want Abe and Bond to roll perception checks.
• 1:08:43
  That is a gnat 1. A9.
• 1:08:45
  I also got a nine. OK, I'm going to say for this
• 1:08:49
  part, Bow, the arrow thuds into you and for a second, Abe you
• 1:08:55
  you're, you turn around as you see this, like it pierced into
• 1:08:59
  Bow's abdomen and just slightly, the skin around Bow doesn't feel
• 1:09:06
  like it forms naturally, the way the arrow hit it.
• 1:09:09
  Like something just feels a little funky.
• 1:09:11
  The way the arrow hit Bow. That is Tinkle's turn.
• 1:09:15
  Hinkle is with his Longbow and he is going to go after Bond,
• 1:09:21
  who tried to hit him and gloriously missed.
• 1:09:24
  Does 15 hit Bond? 15 is my AC.
• 1:09:29
  Damn, I'm really shit on. There's only three piercing
• 1:09:32
  damage. Oh.
• 1:09:33
  Thank God. So it hits you in the just on
• 1:09:36
  the side of your shin and then just kind of pierces straight
• 1:09:39
  through so it doesn't get stuck in you.
• 1:09:41
  It's always the goddamn shins with these people.
• 1:09:44
  I don't understand. And Hinkle yells out.
• 1:09:49
  That's just because we're not very tall.
• 1:09:51
  That's all that we can hit. And that is the end of the gear.
• 1:09:58
  Grinders turns top of the round. Bo Bo, you are 30 feet away, or
• 1:10:04
  you're 20 feet away from Abe and Finkel and 30 feet away from
• 1:10:09
  Hinkle. What about?
• 1:10:10
  What about Tinkle? Tinkle is like 20 feet away from
• 1:10:15
  you, more horizontally than vertically.
• 1:10:17
  I'm gonna go for tinkle so. Are you gonna engage in?
• 1:10:20
  Object. Yeah, Object interaction.
• 1:10:22
  I draw a short sword and a dagger.
• 1:10:25
  I run up to tinkle. I'm gonna make my attacks.
• 1:10:28
  I'll start with the short sword. Well, ship, I was gonna.
• 1:10:33
  It's too late now. I was gonna use a luck point
• 1:10:35
  before this roll but I completely forgot about it and I
• 1:10:37
  rolled a three so that's on me. You can.
• 1:10:40
  You can use bless too. Don't forget your bless.
• 1:10:42
  That's true. There is a bless I.
• 1:10:45
  Hope this I need to roll concentration since I got hit.
• 1:10:48
  What is concentration again? It is half damage, minimum of
• 1:10:54
  10. OK, so I need to roll A10 on
• 1:10:58
  Constitution and I think I can it's a saving throw, right?
• 1:11:01
  So I can add bless to it. Yeah.
• 1:11:03
  OK, I'm good. That's that's a 15.
• 1:11:05
  Cool. So yeah, but you can use the
• 1:11:08
  bless. Well, without the bless my role
• 1:11:12
  is an 8, so we'll see if this does anything for it.
• 1:11:16
  Now it's a 10. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:11:19
  So that doesn't hit Tinkle big. Surprise, I will go in with the
• 1:11:24
  dagger. I will use a luck point on this
• 1:11:27
  one to give myself advantage, and that'll be a 17 on the first
• 1:11:30
  roll and a 17 on the second roll.
• 1:11:32
  How about that? Amazing that hits.
• 1:11:35
  And then you know, roll for the damage.
• 1:11:38
  I will get sneak attacks since I had advantage on this roll and
• 1:11:43
  that'll be 6 damage. Yeah, you you stab right into
• 1:11:47
  him and you see some blood trickling out from where your
• 1:11:51
  dagger met his skin. Any other moves?
• 1:11:56
  No, I'll stay right there. Cool.
• 1:11:59
  All right, You stay engaged in melee with Tinkle, which is good
• 1:12:02
  because Tinkle only has his crossbow, which is a ranged
• 1:12:05
  weapon. The next person to go is Abe.
• 1:12:08
  Abe, you are next to Finkle with the daggers and you are not
• 1:12:12
  looking good. If you don't apply the Gladiator
• 1:12:14
  patches your bonus action, there's a strong chance that
• 1:12:17
  you're going to go down at the end of your turn.
• 1:12:19
  For sure, for sure. And I'm considering that, but I
• 1:12:25
  also, we ride you. Crazy person.
• 1:12:31
  I have one more focus point left and I want to make a count.
• 1:12:35
  OK, OK, we'll just do your regular attack on Finkle first.
• 1:12:38
  Yeah, and we can also have Bunty go too before you decide if you
• 1:12:41
  want to use your key point. Yeah, let Let Bunty go.
• 1:12:45
  Let Bunty go. OK.
• 1:12:47
  Bunty's still on. He's gonna dig.
• 1:12:49
  Yeah, Bunty's on his face. And Bunty.
• 1:12:51
  Bunty will go and dig into him. Bunty hits.
• 1:12:54
  Bunty is awesome. Bunty's easily the strongest on
• 1:12:58
  our team. He he's not, he doesn't level up
• 1:13:02
  as much as you guys. Bunty does a whopping 7 damage
• 1:13:07
  to to Finkle and just rips out a chunk.
• 1:13:11
  Finkle rolls his con saving throat.
• 1:13:13
  I mean he he passes, but Finkel is looking so unbelievably bad.
• 1:13:19
  And it is your turn now, Abe. Because I would have to attack
• 1:13:23
  with disadvantage. Is that just because I'm missing
• 1:13:26
  a limb or is that because I'm bleeding?
• 1:13:28
  Yeah. So like when you're you're
• 1:13:29
  attacking with your staff or your punches, you're gonna have
• 1:13:33
  to roll with this advantage. All right, here we go.
• 1:13:37
  You still get AD 4. Yeah, bless.
• 1:13:38
  I know. So that is a 13 plus the D4 plus
• 1:13:43
  whatever, plus I believe I have a + 6 to attack.
• 1:13:47
  Yeah. So that's 19 to attack with
• 1:13:50
  disadvantage. Yeah, that hits.
• 1:13:52
  That hits Finkel OK. That is 7 damage.
• 1:13:56
  Seven damage. I'm going to swipe swipe my
• 1:13:59
  staff across his face as well on the other side where Bunty is
• 1:14:02
  not. You knock out this man and as he
• 1:14:06
  falls to the ground, Bunty kind of scrambles out of his face and
• 1:14:09
  he goes teamwork. Now give me a half, buddy.
• 1:14:13
  And he lifts out his hands to a high 5.
• 1:14:15
  Give me 1/2. His hand or abes hand.
• 1:14:20
  Yeah, Bunty holds up his hand, which is holding Abes hand.
• 1:14:25
  Buddy, have yourself. And I, as with my bonus action,
• 1:14:30
  ignore him and slap on the Gladiator patch.
• 1:14:35
  On my stomach. Great, you're patched up.
• 1:14:37
  No more bleeding, which is great.
• 1:14:39
  Do you want to use any of your movement?
• 1:14:42
  Right now you are 10 feet away from Hinkle, who has the
• 1:14:48
  Longbow. I'm gonna use my movement to get
• 1:14:51
  within. I don't wanna invite an
• 1:14:52
  opportunity attack, but I wanna get as close as possible to him
• 1:14:55
  to incur yeah, yeah, disadvantage on his ranged.
• 1:14:57
  Attack. Yeah, only if you leave his.
• 1:14:59
  Yeah, so I'm gonna engage him. And Bunty's gonna come with you,
• 1:15:02
  OK? OK, Abe, that's your turn, Bond.
• 1:15:06
  So the only two people left are Tinkle, who is now engaged with
• 1:15:12
  Bo, and Hinkle, who is now engaged with Abe, both in
• 1:15:16
  Meilir. OK, have either of them lost hit
• 1:15:20
  points? Only Tinkle Hinkle has not been
• 1:15:22
  hit. I'm going to look at Tinkle and
• 1:15:25
  point at him and cast Toll the Dead which is a can trip and I
• 1:15:33
  will point at one creature I can see within range and the single
• 1:15:36
  chime of a Dolores bell is audible within 10 feet of the
• 1:15:40
  target. You must succeed on a Wisdom
• 1:15:42
  saving throw or take 1D8 necrotic damage, but if they're
• 1:15:46
  missing any hit points, it's 1D12, so that is going to be.
• 1:15:51
  A. How does the bell sound like?
• 1:15:53
  Give me your best bell. Very, very Dolores.
• 1:15:57
  Do you want something real quick?
• 1:16:02
  I'm sure it came through on your mic.
• 1:16:04
  I barely. Heard it, but it did not come
• 1:16:06
  through on our end. As Tinkler hears this bell bow,
• 1:16:10
  you see that he pisses himself. So that's a 13 to save.
• 1:16:15
  You know you could use the the Gladiator patch for that.
• 1:16:17
  He goes, I know what happens when you put it on your Dick.
• 1:16:21
  That's how we lost our our fifth member and we had to replace him
• 1:16:24
  with Josh. Josh's name doesn't even rhyme
• 1:16:27
  with ours. So I was under the impression
• 1:16:31
  that Josh had his own party and it was like Bosch and gosh and
• 1:16:35
  everything, and then they all just got replaced with you guys.
• 1:16:39
  What? How would you ever say that?
• 1:16:41
  And as he's arguing with Bo, he fails his save.
• 1:16:46
  All right. So that's going to be 1D12.
• 1:16:49
  That is an 8. He is looking so incredibly
• 1:16:54
  hurt. Anything else you want to do?
• 1:16:56
  Bonus action, free action. You see, without even having to
• 1:16:59
  do your persuasion check or anything.
• 1:17:02
  The crowd is now fully on your side.
• 1:17:05
  They only have one member on the girly grinders who looks OK.
• 1:17:09
  Tinkle is not looking well versus like the rest of you guys
• 1:17:13
  are still kind of up and going at it.
• 1:17:15
  Then that is my action. Do you want to engage with
• 1:17:18
  Tinkle or do you want to stay back where you are?
• 1:17:20
  I'll I'll engage with Tinkle to flank.
• 1:17:24
  Yeah. So now Bo, when it's your turn,
• 1:17:26
  you'll you'll get advantage because you have an ally nearby.
• 1:17:29
  But before that Tinkle and and Hinkle are going to go.
• 1:17:33
  So Tinkle has the crossbow and now people are way too close for
• 1:17:39
  his comfort. But he doesn't have any other
• 1:17:41
  weapon. So he's terrified of what Bond
• 1:17:44
  He heard that Bella, he knows his time is coming.
• 1:17:48
  He is going to roll with disadvantage against Bond 16.
• 1:17:52
  Does that hit your AC? That does hit.
• 1:17:55
  OK, so even with this advantage, he's he's shaking, he's shaking,
• 1:17:58
  but the arrow just pierces right into you.
• 1:18:02
  You take 9 damage. OK, OK, that is just barely not
• 1:18:06
  half. He does not.
• 1:18:08
  He does not do enough damage to destroy anything.
• 1:18:11
  That is going to be Tinkle's turn.
• 1:18:13
  How are you? How are you looking?
• 1:18:14
  Bond? By the way, was that your first
• 1:18:16
  hit or? That was my second hit.
• 1:18:18
  I was hit for three before. OK, so roll your concentration.
• 1:18:23
  That's right. OK, 4 again because it was 9
• 1:18:27
  damage, 7 plus D4, that's 10 right there, +2, so 12 perfect.
• 1:18:33
  So bless remains. Bless remains.
• 1:18:36
  Now it's Hinkle's turn. Hinkle sees this fucked up
• 1:18:40
  creature that has been biting people's faces off and he is
• 1:18:44
  going to go for Bunty. He rolls with disadvantage on
• 1:18:48
  Bunty, but Bunty does not have. This is who we're right next to.
• 1:18:52
  Yeah, that's who you're right next to.
• 1:18:53
  So he has his Longbow. Is is bunty on me or next to?
• 1:18:57
  Me. Bunty's next to you.
• 1:18:58
  Yeah, Bunty ran up next. My reaction be used to help him.
• 1:19:02
  I don't think so, unless it specifically states any allies.
• 1:19:05
  It doesn't. He's gonna hit Bunty.
• 1:19:07
  Oh no. Bunty gets hit so hard the arrow
• 1:19:11
  pierces straight through Bunty's stomach and comes out the other
• 1:19:17
  end. Bunty is still up, but he is not
• 1:19:22
  looking good. Bunty.
• 1:19:26
  I yell. Bo also yells.
• 1:19:28
  Hurt so much this. Is the first time you guys have
• 1:19:32
  seen me express any kind of like a reaction to Bunty in a bad
• 1:19:36
  state? Yeah, it turned to Bo and I'm
• 1:19:38
  like, I I thought he didn't like this little creature.
• 1:19:42
  I'm very confused now. Sometimes love is a complicated
• 1:19:46
  thing. Bond, you know.
• 1:19:48
  That's a. That's an astute observation.
• 1:19:51
  Bunty looks over at you, Abe and Bunty, like with the damage that
• 1:19:55
  he took, he kind of falls to the ground and he's just bleeding
• 1:19:59
  profusely and he goes, Abe, Abe, Abe, are you listening to me?
• 1:20:07
  Abe Yeah, Yeah. Bunty, Bunty.
• 1:20:09
  Hold on, hold on. We're almost done.
• 1:20:12
  Spank and he uses his hand, your hand, and he spanks your butt a
• 1:20:16
  little bit and he goes. Oh, he's fine.
• 1:20:20
  He's totally fine. If I'm going to go out, I'm
• 1:20:24
  going to go out the way God intended, being a fucking freak.
• 1:20:28
  I look up at the crowd and see the woman shielding her child's
• 1:20:31
  eyes again. That creature, that creature is
• 1:20:34
  so terrifying. What is he doing?
• 1:20:36
  Kill him. Kill him.
• 1:20:37
  Why is he holding a man's hand? I take out a notepad and I'm
• 1:20:41
  like, I wonder which God he worships.
• 1:20:43
  He's talking about a God right now.
• 1:20:46
  Very interesting. I note that down.
• 1:20:50
  That is a good question, Bon. All right.
• 1:20:52
  That is their turns top of the order.
• 1:20:55
  Bo, you are right next to Tinkle who is not looking good.
• 1:20:59
  Hinkle, right, is the other one. Hinkle's the other one that just
• 1:21:02
  shot Bunty, yeah. And it's only Tinkle and Hinkle,
• 1:21:04
  right, left, right. Yep, those are the last two.
• 1:21:07
  The other three grid grinders are on the ground.
• 1:21:10
  And how is Hinkle looking? Hinkle has not been hit.
• 1:21:13
  I can take care of this one. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah,
• 1:21:17
  you got this guy. I look at Tinkle and I go bon
• 1:21:21
  voyage, ha ha ha, and then I run away.
• 1:21:24
  I disengage. I'm at least 30 feet from
• 1:21:28
  Hinkle, right? Yeah, you've you've moved up
• 1:21:30
  enough. OK, cool.
• 1:21:31
  I run up to Hinkle and I I'll use my second look point to give
• 1:21:36
  myself advantage on this and I'll attack them with my short
• 1:21:39
  sword. It's a 22 to hit without even
• 1:21:43
  the plus. Yeah, so it's a 25 to hit.
• 1:21:45
  Yeah, that hits. This is my short sword so that's
• 1:21:50
  going to be. I rolled 2 ones, 5 damage OK and
• 1:21:56
  then I do get a second attack and before anybody comes at me,
• 1:22:02
  yes I use my bonus action to disengage but I.
• 1:22:05
  Was just going to ask. Before, there is a property that
• 1:22:09
  daggers have in which you can use them as part of the main
• 1:22:13
  action as a Hoff hand attack. So that's what's going on here.
• 1:22:17
  Really. Yeah, it's called the Nic
• 1:22:20
  property. There are a ton of different
• 1:22:22
  weapon properties. It's very cool.
• 1:22:24
  And also as we're speaking about that, because I hit with my
• 1:22:27
  short sword that has the Vex property that gives me advantage
• 1:22:31
  on this attack. What the fuck is all damn.
• 1:22:34
  What? The hell yeah, Charlie, I got to
• 1:22:35
  read. Sorry, did you do 5 damage?
• 1:22:38
  Did you do 5 damage even with your sneak attack or did you not
• 1:22:40
  add sneak attack on the? First one with my sneak attack
• 1:22:42
  that was 5 damage because I rolled 2 ones.
• 1:22:45
  My second attack is going to be 19 so 2023 in total.
• 1:22:52
  This doesn't get sneak attack because I already used it, but I
• 1:22:55
  will get 6 damage. He's looking right hurt.
• 1:23:00
  Anything else you want to do, Bo?
• 1:23:01
  I just kind of like like gesture at him, like what's up, but like
• 1:23:05
  not in a friendly way, like a like a fuck you kind of way.
• 1:23:08
  This is the first time that Hinkle has been hit.
• 1:23:11
  Usually he stands out in the back and just kind of like, lobs
• 1:23:15
  arrows at people and takes them out before they engage him.
• 1:23:19
  And you hear him go, oh, my God, oh, that hurt.
• 1:23:21
  Oh my God. Oh my God.
• 1:23:23
  I have. And he's kind of like a
• 1:23:26
  blubbering mess. And you think he's probably
• 1:23:28
  never even been hit before in these matches.
• 1:23:31
  That is your turn. Next is Abe and Bunty.
• 1:23:36
  Like I said, you guys are engaged with Hinkle.
• 1:23:38
  Do you guys just want to go, Adam?
• 1:23:40
  Yes, and thank you to Bo. I looked into my weapon property
• 1:23:46
  which indeed has Topple. So I'm going to attack with my
• 1:23:49
  staff. Nice and we'll see what happens.
• 1:23:54
  And I'm enraged right now. I know I'm not a barbarian, but
• 1:23:56
  if I was I would be angry. You can see your muscles
• 1:24:01
  popping. I'm assuming that this is 23 to
• 1:24:03
  hit. Oh wait wait, apologies, I keep
• 1:24:07
  forgetting 19 to hit. 19 hits. 12 damage and even if they go
• 1:24:16
  down I want to I want to have them roll the constitution
• 1:24:20
  saving throw. He's not down yet, but he he
• 1:24:23
  will roll. You said it's a con saving throw
• 1:24:25
  for Topple. Yes.
• 1:24:28
  Interesting he rolls he was a 15.
• 1:24:33
  Does that pass? No they do not pass false to the
• 1:24:36
  ground is prone and I'm going to use my bonus action to attack 2
• 1:24:40
  times while he's on the ground. Sorry, bonus action to attack
• 1:24:42
  once because I can't. I don't have key points right
• 1:24:44
  now, so just once actually. For sure, I don't think you're
• 1:24:48
  going to need more than one hit. I'm guessing he's like still
• 1:24:51
  like sobbing and blubbering on the ground.
• 1:24:53
  Now he's sobbing. Oh my God, my butt is bruised.
• 1:24:57
  Oh my God, Oh my butt, my butt. And he's laying on the ground
• 1:25:00
  and Bunty standing over him like foaming at the mouth.
• 1:25:04
  My boy age gonna get ya. Pee yourself, bitch.
• 1:25:08
  Pee yourself. And Hinkley pees himself.
• 1:25:11
  Little piss baby going to. I'm I'm attacking with my my leg
• 1:25:17
  here, but I'll describe what happens if it hits.
• 1:25:20
  It is an 18. That hits describe how you take
• 1:25:23
  him out. OK so I'm going to do a flying
• 1:25:27
  front flip in the air and land with one leg out extended.
• 1:25:33
  Just crack into like his middle torso.
• 1:25:37
  He like folds in 1/2 the way you kick him, his like body like
• 1:25:42
  folds in half like a sheet of paper with the impact and then
• 1:25:46
  falls back to the ground and he is knocked out from the sheer
• 1:25:50
  pain and you like you've hurt his abdomen, probably his
• 1:25:56
  internal organs as well. He is right fucked up.
• 1:26:00
  Seven damage, yeah, so. He's out, yeah.
• 1:26:03
  I go for a high five with Abe and then I'm oh shit, sorry.
• 1:26:07
  I go too, but then I also realize.
• 1:26:10
  And then Bunty jumps off in the high, fives you with Abe's hand.
• 1:26:15
  I think the way it happens is we go for a high 5, my hand just
• 1:26:18
  hits nothing as it passes where yours used.
• 1:26:21
  To be bunty. Jumps, but yeah, Bunty gets the
• 1:26:24
  end of the. Just slow motion.
• 1:26:26
  Bunty Bunty turns to you Bo and it's like I'm going to give you
• 1:26:29
  a little spanky too and start spanking you a little bit with
• 1:26:32
  the hand. Oh interesting, I don't hate
• 1:26:35
  this. You're learning so much about
• 1:26:39
  yourself, though. It's Bunty's turn.
• 1:26:42
  Also, there is one other person, there's Tinkle, who's engaged
• 1:26:46
  with Bon Abe. Do you want Bunty to go run
• 1:26:50
  towards Tinkle or do you want Bon to take out Tinkle?
• 1:26:54
  How Tinkle's not Can Bunty make it?
• 1:26:56
  How fun Bunty can make it Bunty. It's 30 right away.
• 1:27:00
  I I telepathically tell him to help.
• 1:27:02
  You guys haven't seen Bunty run before because he was on Abe's
• 1:27:06
  shoulder and then he's thrown and then he kind of walked up
• 1:27:09
  and whatever. He runs on all fours with like
• 1:27:13
  his limbs, like these long ass limbs and his tiny bean like
• 1:27:18
  body and he runs and I mean there's an arrow.
• 1:27:23
  Through the middle. Yeah, there's an arrow sticking
• 1:27:26
  out through his stomach like it's pierced all the way through
• 1:27:28
  the other side. And he, 5 feet away, jumps on
• 1:27:33
  Tinkle and tries to bite his face off.
• 1:27:36
  Oh, and he misses and he, he, he it's not even.
• 1:27:42
  Like it's not even. Yeah, it's a now 1.
• 1:27:44
  So instead of jumping and hitting anything, he jumps.
• 1:27:47
  He doesn't do the math right. And he jumps too high and
• 1:27:51
  somehow goes over Tinkle's head and launches himself 10 feet
• 1:27:57
  away and he goes fuck. It's all right.
• 1:28:00
  You you forgot, you forgot they were a dwarf and and you know,
• 1:28:04
  you're just. Yeah, I was expecting a big boy.
• 1:28:07
  This is just a little boy. I ducked down, little boy.
• 1:28:11
  I ducked down. This bunty just flies over my
• 1:28:13
  head, just barely. Like grazing my hair.
• 1:28:17
  And that is Bunty's turn. Bond, it's your turn.
• 1:28:20
  You are left with the last guy. Tinkle right here at four hit
• 1:28:24
  points. All right, I am going to just
• 1:28:27
  make an attack with my Mace. Pulls out pepper spray all.
• 1:28:32
  Right, so that is going to be a 10 + 2 plus my attack bonus
• 1:28:39
  which is 4. So that's a 16 to hit.
• 1:28:41
  That hits exactly. 1D8 plus my strength, so that's a 7 + 2 is
• 1:28:50
  9. How do you take out Tinkle, the
• 1:28:54
  last remaining gear grinder? I hesitate for a second and I
• 1:28:58
  say, are you a free man? Free.
• 1:29:02
  In what sense are any of us free men?
• 1:29:05
  His voice is calm as he knows the end is near.
• 1:29:09
  I say, are you a slave? No, of course not.
• 1:29:12
  I'm sponsored. I'm doing this for fun.
• 1:29:15
  And I just smacked the shit out of him right across the head.
• 1:29:21
  And you see Slow MO as Tinkle's head hits the ground, as dirt
• 1:29:27
  flies up around. And with my free action to try
• 1:29:29
  to hype up the crowd, I blow a Knicks Shard from my hand and
• 1:29:34
  cast. I cast dancing lights.
• 1:29:37
  So I create 4 torch sized lights within range and it's pretty
• 1:29:41
  bright out so they probably don't seem like too much, but I
• 1:29:43
  think there may be like a little shimmering visible.
• 1:29:46
  And so I create 4 Knicks shards and just send them in four
• 1:29:49
  different directions up into the sky.
• 1:29:52
  Holy fucking shit, what the fuck is that?
• 1:29:59
  I get. I get startled by.
• 1:30:00
  Bo Bo starts freaking out. You're seeing this too, right
• 1:30:06
  Abe? Oh my God.
• 1:30:10
  Abe does not look as as taken aback, as he's definitely done
• 1:30:13
  some magic in his day. And did I get advantage on that
• 1:30:17
  you said? Yeah, you get advantage on your
• 1:30:19
  persuasion for sure. OK, that's a nine team.
• 1:30:21
  The crowd loves it. And the kids in the crowd, the
• 1:30:25
  you see that the parents who have been covering their
• 1:30:27
  children's eyes kind of let go as the kids go, oh, my God, look
• 1:30:32
  at those sparkling things in the air.
• 1:30:33
  Oh, my God, that's so cool. And they're looking at you.
• 1:30:37
  And you see a kid who is on like the floor level of the arena
• 1:30:41
  near the side. He shouts out to you, Mr. Mr.
• 1:30:45
  Can you teach me how to do that? I have the exact same
• 1:30:49
  conversation that I had earlier. Oh, are you a cleric?
• 1:30:52
  Do you follow Fesmira? I'm five years old.
• 1:30:56
  Oh well, I'm sure you're good at other things.
• 1:31:01
  And I walk away, bitch. Hey, what the fuck did you say
• 1:31:07
  to me, you little fucking run? You get into an argument with a
• 1:31:12
  5 year old child in the crowd. I go, I go up and I I hold him
• 1:31:18
  back. Yeah, Abe, Abe as well.
• 1:31:20
  We. Hold, don't you fucking touch my
• 1:31:22
  shins. This.
• 1:31:26
  Child is like there's like a barrier, but you see you're so
• 1:31:31
  afraid of this small child taking out your family.
• 1:31:34
  I turned to bow and I'm like he's going to touch my fucking
• 1:31:36
  shins. I know, I know he is.
• 1:31:38
  He's got that look. So you guys are having this
• 1:31:45
  argument with a 5 year old child?
• 1:31:48
  I swear to fucking. God, Jana, Jana comes out and is
• 1:31:53
  like, come here right now. You're making a scene and we
• 1:31:57
  have to get ready for the next fight.
• 1:31:58
  If you don't come, I'm not going to pay you.
• 1:32:00
  And he just stomps right off. What's your name?
• 1:32:04
  Yana, we've met before. You told me your name was Mono
• 1:32:09
  Yana. Yo, that was really good.
• 1:32:12
  That was fake Bo stick. Bo has never heard jokes like
• 1:32:16
  that was. Before that was, that was the
• 1:32:18
  first time that Bo has ever heard a hardly know her joke.
• 1:32:23
  I I turn away from the child and now I'm just like completely.
• 1:32:27
  My face shifts to smiling and waving at the crowd, trying to
• 1:32:30
  please the crowd again after just getting into an argument
• 1:32:32
  with a 5 year old. Role deception or persuasion.
• 1:32:38
  It's both 0. So get back to.
• 1:32:40
  Fuck you. Are you?
• 1:32:42
  Well, The thing is, are you trying to hide that you just had
• 1:32:44
  an argument with the child, or are you absolutely allowing the
• 1:32:48
  audience to know that you had an argument with the child, but
• 1:32:50
  they still should like you? I don't think I'm like cunning
• 1:32:54
  enough to want to deceive anybody about this.
• 1:32:56
  I think I'm just, yeah, a little hot headed.
• 1:33:00
  So that's a, that's a 19 for persuasion.
• 1:33:03
  Yeah, the crowd does not give a shit that you just yelled at a 5
• 1:33:07
  year old. They they do not care.
• 1:33:10
  And you guys walk off with Jana. He turns to you guys.
• 1:33:14
  That was a good fight here. And then he hands each of you
• 1:33:18
  100 gold pieces. And as he hands you the gold
• 1:33:21
  pieces, he asks, will everyone stick out their their left hand
• 1:33:26
  for me, please? Do you guys comply?
• 1:33:28
  Yeah. All right, that.
• 1:33:29
  Was very inclusive of you. Reluctantly do so, yeah.
• 1:33:33
  Right. Can I?
• 1:33:34
  Tuck my staff under my like elbow cuz I don't have a right
• 1:33:38
  hand and I stick out my left hand.
• 1:33:41
  And he snaps on these metal wristbands around your wrist
• 1:33:45
  before you guys even know what's happening.
• 1:33:48
  And he goes, great. OK.
• 1:33:50
  So these wristbands will kind of just, like, track where you are.
• 1:33:56
  If you're not back in the pits by midnight tonight, these bands
• 1:33:59
  will inject you with a poison that will temporarily knock you
• 1:34:01
  out. And you will lose your future
• 1:34:03
  privileges of exploring the areas outside of the arena.
• 1:34:06
  Does everyone understand? Yes.
• 1:34:08
  Yes. Sir, I'm from Noctavalis and we
• 1:34:12
  don't. Really deal with.
• 1:34:13
  Like state surveillance? And that doesn't matter.
• 1:34:16
  You, you are in Ignovarum. And also, yeah, he laughs at
• 1:34:20
  you. Noctavalis has the best state
• 1:34:23
  surveillance. You just don't know you're being
• 1:34:25
  surveilled. Oh.
• 1:34:31
  Just oh. That was new information to me.
• 1:34:35
  Jana turns to you guys and it's like, OK, so we can get you guys
• 1:34:41
  to the healers. They'll they can heal you guys
• 1:34:45
  right up before you guys go to the Town Center for the victors
• 1:34:51
  tent where all the other victors will be after the healers.
• 1:34:54
  You guys can go out into the city if you want, or, or and
• 1:34:59
  Jana smiles very happily. He goes.
• 1:35:01
  You guys can see the headliners. Well, they're going to be crazy
• 1:35:06
  if you guys are big fans of fighting.
• 1:35:09
  I don't know if you've ever seen the headliners before.
• 1:35:11
  Chaos, Vera Thulgra, and my favorite the brass Beak will be
• 1:35:17
  fighting in someone on one matches so I don't know.
• 1:35:21
  Highly recommend after you go to the healers, but feel free to
• 1:35:24
  roam around the city if you want.
• 1:35:27
  Healer. I hardly know her.
• 1:35:31
  Oh my God, I clap. You're doing great.
• 1:35:33
  Oh, oh, you got it, my man. There's.
• 1:35:35
  Another one in there. Yeah, there's another one in
• 1:35:38
  there to admit that was good. He also said headliner.
• 1:35:40
  You can do it with anything that ends with err, that's crazy.
• 1:35:43
  Just letting you know. Anything and people like don't
• 1:35:47
  get sick of this joke or anything like that.
• 1:35:49
  No, never. No.
• 1:35:50
  Not at all, baby. That's crazy.
• 1:35:54
  Hey, hey, hey, Abe. Yeah.
• 1:35:56
  I I gesture at your hand, I guess you're not so Abe a list
• 1:36:01
  anymore. Too soon, man.
• 1:36:04
  Too soon. I'm sorry.
• 1:36:08
  Bunty Bunty Bunty loves it. He goes high five man.
• 1:36:12
  I high 5 Abe's hand, yeah. Bunty, Bunty.
• 1:36:17
  Oh what the hell, what the hell. You did great out.
• 1:36:19
  There, I always beg myself. Now I'm going to beg myself.
• 1:36:23
  Listen, listen, you can't go too crazy, but you did well.
• 1:36:26
  You're going to get a bath today.
• 1:36:27
  He hugs you like around. He's so small.
• 1:36:30
  He hugs you around like your calves.
• 1:36:33
  And he starts kissing your calves and he goes, Oh my God,
• 1:36:36
  my brother, my best friend. Oh man, I love you.
• 1:36:42
  Watch the poison. Watch the poison.
• 1:36:44
  Yeah, you see poisons dripping from his teeth.
• 1:36:48
  So Yana takes you guys to the healers and you guys can mark
• 1:36:52
  yourself as if you took a long rest.
• 1:36:55
  Excellent. Lovely.
• 1:36:57
  And as you finish up with the healers, where do you want to
• 1:37:01
  go? Do you want to watch the
• 1:37:03
  headliners? Do you want to go into the city?
• 1:37:06
  Can we go to the victory tent or is that after the headliner?
• 1:37:09
  The Victory, The Victory tent will be right after the
• 1:37:11
  headliners. It's set up.
• 1:37:14
  I mean, you can just sit there if you want, but they won't
• 1:37:16
  What? Do you guys think I personally
• 1:37:21
  and I are we we're back in the pits with the healers?
• 1:37:24
  Yeah, you're back. Yeah, You guys just got healed
• 1:37:26
  up. You're leaving the healers in
• 1:37:27
  the pits. I want to see the Imperators
• 1:37:29
  champion. Sure.
• 1:37:31
  We can go, we can go watch the fights.
• 1:37:33
  Beau, would you like to join? I'm, I'm just kind of going with
• 1:37:37
  the flow, you know? So you guys head over to see the
• 1:37:41
  headliners and on the ground level there's a little area
• 1:37:44
  where you see other lowly gladiators who finished their
• 1:37:49
  battles already and the victors are standing there.
• 1:37:53
  I knew recognized them as people that you had met earlier in the
• 1:37:57
  pits. You see the gnomes bond.
• 1:37:59
  You see that barbarian guy who had walked up to you who was
• 1:38:03
  also a follower of this mirror. And they're all just watching
• 1:38:06
  the fights. The first fight is this giant
• 1:38:09
  dragonborn named Chaos who has a metal tail and anyone who wants
• 1:38:17
  can roll in Arcana check. Damn he is dreamy.
• 1:38:21
  Yeah, he is hot. He is jacked.
• 1:38:25
  Nat 20. That's gonna be a 2 for me.
• 1:38:30
  Do I know everything? You know everything.
• 1:38:34
  That's going to be a 8 for me. Bo, you look at chaos and you
• 1:38:38
  can just feel the arcane energy coming off of him.
• 1:38:42
  This man might be the greatest Wizard of our time.
• 1:38:48
  And Abe with your Nat 20, you look at this man and he is a
• 1:38:53
  barbarian who has this fucking wild magic just like spewing off
• 1:38:58
  of him. He he has no way to control it.
• 1:39:01
  He is just, he's chaos. He is crazy.
• 1:39:06
  He looks feral, but he looks hot when he does it.
• 1:39:10
  And the other person you see who walks out is a woman named Vera
• 1:39:15
  Ignisa, who is a tiefling woman. She has some mechanical
• 1:39:21
  augmentations on her arm. Anyone who wants roll a history
• 1:39:27
  check to learn more about these fighters, Chaos and Vera.
• 1:39:31
  Can I role play that Arcana check real quick?
• 1:39:34
  Yes, go for it. This is new for Abe and he has
• 1:39:38
  never really had a successful Arcana check type experience, so
• 1:39:44
  he. Arcana check type B.
• 1:39:46
  Turns to the two of you and says, listen, since that was my
• 1:39:49
  first fight ever and we won, and I feel like I've gone through
• 1:39:52
  pretty formative experience over the last five minutes and lost
• 1:39:57
  my hand, I think I can safely call you guys my best friends
• 1:40:00
  now. Not you, Bunty.
• 1:40:03
  Yeah, I'm your brother. That's why we're brothers.
• 1:40:05
  My. God, my God, I'm gonna tell you
• 1:40:08
  guys something, something close to my chest.
• 1:40:11
  Is that okay? Sure, Go for it.
• 1:40:14
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:40:14
  All right. So I don't really know how, but
• 1:40:17
  a few years ago I summoned Bunty.
• 1:40:20
  The name that he came out with was Bjerg.
• 1:40:22
  I kind of whispered that part a little bit to try to make sure
• 1:40:25
  that he doesn't hear. And ever since he came out of
• 1:40:28
  the ground that night, I've increasingly felt stronger and
• 1:40:32
  have felt a connection to the arcane.
• 1:40:35
  I don't know exactly what's going on, but I was never
• 1:40:37
  trained as a fighter. And what happened today was, I
• 1:40:41
  don't know, weird. And now I'm seeing things when I
• 1:40:43
  look at that barbarian. How did you know his name was
• 1:40:46
  Bjerg when he came out? I just.
• 1:40:48
  Did he have like a name tag on it?
• 1:40:50
  No. Abe doesn't laugh.
• 1:40:54
  Abe doesn't laugh. I don't know if he said it or if
• 1:40:58
  I just knew. My memory is kind of loose
• 1:41:01
  around that point, but it was almost as if I heard a voice in
• 1:41:05
  my head that sounded like him that said I am Bjerg.
• 1:41:08
  Very interesting. And as you guys are talking
• 1:41:13
  about this, Chaos and Vera start their battle if anyone wants to
• 1:41:19
  give me a history check to know. No one else.
• 1:41:23
  Needs to roll if they don't want what you get from an AT20.
• 1:41:26
  Actually, the Emperors will sometimes bet using some of
• 1:41:31
  their more formidable fighters, some of their champions, and
• 1:41:34
  they will bet and if they lose, the new emperor gets to get
• 1:41:39
  custody of their champion. So Chaos was the former champion
• 1:41:43
  of the Domina, and he had that metal tail that was augmented.
• 1:41:47
  He's kind of like a little bit of like a more metallic
• 1:41:49
  Dragonborn, but now he's the current champion of the impaired
• 1:41:52
  tricks. And Vera was the former champion
• 1:41:56
  of the Imperator, right? She's AT Fling.
• 1:41:58
  She's all about fire like the Imperator, but she is the
• 1:42:01
  current champion of the Rex. So right now I know Abe's
• 1:42:06
  looking for any champions of the Imperator.
• 1:42:10
  You know that Vera was his former champion.
• 1:42:13
  The fight goes on. Chaos tries to beat the shit out
• 1:42:16
  of her. She has some crazy good fire
• 1:42:18
  magic. They're going at it and you see
• 1:42:20
  that the floor of the ugly arena looks different.
• 1:42:23
  Yours was only a 90 foot circle and it was just all dirt on the
• 1:42:28
  ground. It seems like the arena has kind
• 1:42:31
  of like enlarged a bit, so like the stands that were really high
• 1:42:35
  up, they've like come down as the arena has like widened.
• 1:42:40
  So there's more ground seats available on the 1st floor so
• 1:42:44
  that more people are more close to the action where these
• 1:42:48
  fighters are fighting and you see that there's molten lava
• 1:42:51
  through the ground, there's smoke, there's things just fire
• 1:42:54
  shooting out. So their fight is more
• 1:42:57
  influenced as well by the surrounding.
• 1:43:01
  It ends with Vera winning and you see the impaired tricks and
• 1:43:05
  the rest X bow to each other and the Rex gives a smile that is
• 1:43:10
  very egotistical. And then you see the next fight,
• 1:43:14
  The last fight is Tholgra versus the Brass Beak, and we'll just
• 1:43:18
  keep going off of that. Nat, 20 from Bon Dolgra is the
• 1:43:22
  current champion of the Impair Tour.
• 1:43:25
  She was the former champion of the Imperatrix.
• 1:43:28
  She's an assassin. She works in the shadows, so
• 1:43:31
  she's using that smoke and that fire to kind of like disappear
• 1:43:35
  and move around the battlefield. It's really hard to keep track
• 1:43:37
  of her. And the Brass Beak is the
• 1:43:40
  current champion of the Domina, but the former champion of the
• 1:43:43
  Rex, and he's an owl bear. He is this really beautiful big
• 1:43:49
  owl bear, but when he turns to the side, you see a chunk of his
• 1:43:54
  inside is missing and it's replaced by these gears and
• 1:43:59
  moving parts. You can kind of see his organs
• 1:44:02
  behind these gears as well. It seems like when the Domina
• 1:44:06
  outfitted him with these mechanical parts, she purposely
• 1:44:10
  did not cover up his side so that you could see that he is
• 1:44:15
  part beast, part machine. The fight happens, they're going
• 1:44:19
  at it. The brass beak has this
• 1:44:20
  incredible jump and speed on him, but Dolgra is just too
• 1:44:24
  tricky and and disappears too fast as the brass beak swipes at
• 1:44:28
  her. And I, I relay all this
• 1:44:30
  information to the others. Yeah.
• 1:44:33
  As well and Dolgra ends up winning the fight as the brass
• 1:44:38
  beak is kind of carried out on a stretcher.
• 1:44:41
  I am looking for what, if any, reaction the Imperator has had
• 1:44:45
  during all of all two of these fights.
• 1:44:48
  Great roll insight check. I guess you can see him.
• 1:44:53
  He's a very stoic man. So you're trying to read his
• 1:44:56
  emotions right now? I forgot that insight was from
• 1:44:58
  Wisdom and not from Christmas, so that was good 18. 18 So for
• 1:45:04
  the first fight for chaos versus Vera, you see that when Vera
• 1:45:09
  wins, he has a mix of emotions, but it seems like maybe he
• 1:45:16
  didn't want the Rex to win that fight.
• 1:45:19
  He maybe wanted the impaired tricks to win the fight.
• 1:45:21
  So he has mixed feelings towards that just because of what Vera
• 1:45:25
  used to be to him. And then for the second fight,
• 1:45:27
  he is thrilled his fighter Dolgra one and he tries to keep
• 1:45:32
  his face stoic as he turns to the Domina and kind of bows his
• 1:45:38
  head to her. But you see just a a little
• 1:45:40
  flicker on his face of just Glee that he beat the Domina.
• 1:45:46
  These these people kind of suck, right, You guys, You guys are
• 1:45:49
  like in agreement. Yeah, I was just going to say
• 1:45:53
  they don't look like good people to me.
• 1:45:55
  I quickly say to everybody, keep, keep your voices down.
• 1:46:00
  It's not good for you to be talking badly about the leaders
• 1:46:04
  of the entire world out in the public like this.
• 1:46:09
  Oh, I was talking about those four random people over there.
• 1:46:15
  Oh yes, of course, another. Is that a?
• 1:46:20
  Is that deception, Beau? I'm sure I'll do a deception.
• 1:46:23
  Roll your deception As the people around you hear your
• 1:46:26
  conversation. 18 you see that the gnomes who were kind of
• 1:46:30
  standing near you go. Do you mean that mom and her
• 1:46:33
  three kids? Isn't that the kid that you got
• 1:46:35
  into a fight with? No, no I don't.
• 1:46:38
  I don't recognize this child is all.
• 1:46:41
  We all, we all saw you fight that.
• 1:46:42
  Child, no, sorry, you didn't, no.
• 1:46:44
  We had to hold you back, Bond. Yeah, what are you talking
• 1:46:47
  about? Oh wow, no.
• 1:46:54
  That kid just bit his thumb at you.
• 1:46:56
  Oh. This fucking brat.
• 1:46:58
  Oh my God. No, no, no, absolutely not.
• 1:47:02
  No, none of this. I scream.
• 1:47:04
  I scream at the mom. Hey, come get your man's.
• 1:47:10
  I stand up and walk away. You guys leave the arena at the
• 1:47:16
  same time. Everyone else is like the
• 1:47:18
  fighter. OK, we need to go.
• 1:47:20
  Everyone's heading to the the victory tent and you kind of
• 1:47:24
  move with the crowd. As as we're walking away, I give
• 1:47:28
  a bit more context and I'm just like, you know, like Jana said,
• 1:47:31
  there are always people listening.
• 1:47:33
  There is surveillance constantly happening and you 2 really,
• 1:47:37
  really aren't from around here, are you?
• 1:47:39
  You cannot talk openly about things like that.
• 1:47:42
  So as Bond gives that warning. I give him The Walking white
• 1:47:46
  person smile. You exit the arena and you get
• 1:47:52
  into Scenario, the volcanic heart of Ignovarum, and it's
• 1:47:56
  transformed into this giant celebration.
• 1:48:00
  The iron streets and Obsidian bridges glow in the molten river
• 1:48:06
  light. You feel like this heat that the
• 1:48:08
  arena was kind of keeping out. But as you step out into the
• 1:48:11
  city, it's like it's not a dry heat, it's kind of humid.
• 1:48:15
  As you guys exit, towering banners depicting all four
• 1:48:18
  empires ripple. The air hums with the sounds of
• 1:48:21
  drums and flutes, and occasionally you'll see
• 1:48:24
  fireworks that mimic phoenix wings.
• 1:48:26
  They burst across the sky. So the city I hate, that is a
• 1:48:30
  life like holy. People fucking shit.
• 1:48:32
  What the fuck was that? Have you never seen magic before
• 1:48:35
  of? Course, I mean like you've seen,
• 1:48:42
  you've seen magic before, right? Yes, I'm I'm a.
• 1:48:46
  Magic. Yes, I've, I've of course
• 1:48:49
  everyone, you know, magic all around.
• 1:48:54
  Roll your deception check. Bow and Bond roll your inside
• 1:48:57
  check. Could it roll with disadvantage?
• 1:49:00
  Yeah, with this obvious. Line.
• 1:49:01
  It doesn't. I rolled the Nat one.
• 1:49:03
  Unless you also rolled the Nat. One I didn't.
• 1:49:08
  I just think to myself, I'm like, oh, this is, this is.
• 1:49:12
  I guess he's seen magic. This is a normal guy.
• 1:49:15
  This is the way people act, guy. As we're, as we're walking
• 1:49:21
  through town, I pop my head into a stand and I, I say, Jabo,
• 1:49:28
  Jabo, where are you? And I'm looking for a merchant
• 1:49:32
  that I know who sells medical supplies.
• 1:49:35
  Yeah, man, I'm right here. What's up?
• 1:49:36
  Can I please have one gladiator patch?
• 1:49:40
  Yeah, of course that's going to cost you for you, my friend, 50
• 1:49:48
  gold pieces. Oh, you, you really are pulling
• 1:49:51
  my leg right now. I, I spent a bit of time like
• 1:49:55
  working with a merchant as part of my back story.
• 1:49:57
  I, I spent a bit of time on a sailing ship with a merchant.
• 1:50:01
  So I think I kind of have a little bit of insight.
• 1:50:06
  Yeah. And this is a merchant that I
• 1:50:09
  sought out specifically. He turns to.
• 1:50:12
  Yeah, you're right. OK, fine. 20 gold pieces is how
• 1:50:17
  much it costs to make and that's how much I'll give it to you for
• 1:50:20
  raw raw material price. Excellent.
• 1:50:23
  Thank you. And I give him 21.
• 1:50:25
  Cute. All right, take that off of.
• 1:50:26
  Your are we here for this? Are we?
• 1:50:28
  Are we just behind you? I sort of like, I don't do this
• 1:50:31
  too subtly, but I I turn around and I hand you a new Gladiator
• 1:50:35
  patch. I say this is to replace the one
• 1:50:38
  that you you lost earlier. Thanks, Bon.
• 1:50:42
  Yeah, of course, of course. I lean over like lean towards J
• 1:50:46
  Bo. I say hey, thank you and my
• 1:50:50
  friend over there and I point to Bo.
• 1:50:52
  His his name is like the same as your name, but without his name,
• 1:50:57
  without the J. No, it's Bo.
• 1:51:00
  Without the J. Bo.
• 1:51:01
  What a stupid name. Sorry Bond.
• 1:51:04
  Who are you keeping around you? Bo?
• 1:51:06
  Bo? Really, Jay?
• 1:51:08
  Bo is so much better. You got to agree, Bond.
• 1:51:11
  Am I right, my man? And he kind of.
• 1:51:13
  Puts his first towards you. I I look at Bo who who just
• 1:51:17
  like. The fuck?
• 1:51:19
  I I'm also. Who's he's not this?
• 1:51:22
  Fucker. Jay Bo's like, kind of just like
• 1:51:26
  a douche. I don't know you.
• 1:51:29
  I don't know you too, Bo. Look how stupid that sounds.
• 1:51:34
  I look away for a second and then I look back at him and my
• 1:51:37
  face looks like J Bo's and I say to him without like shit trying
• 1:51:40
  not to let anybody else see me and I go look at me I'm a big
• 1:51:44
  fucking dumb idiot. And then I change my face back
• 1:51:46
  into into the. Other one Bo do a stealth chat.
• 1:51:50
  Do we notice this? I am.
• 1:51:53
  I am trying to hide it from you guys but yes.
• 1:51:56
  You do roll perception, Bo, you rolled a sneak.
• 1:51:59
  That's gonna be a fuck 24 for me.
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  To 10 Oh. My yeah an 18 so.
• 1:52:07
  JJ Bo is horrified and he goes, dude, I was just I was just
• 1:52:13
  joking, OK? I was.
• 1:52:15
  I was just joking and. Yeah, is that, is that where the
• 1:52:18
  the J in your name comes from? Fucking.
• 1:52:20
  Jokester. All right, all right, all.
• 1:52:22
  Right. I start to pull.
• 1:52:24
  I pull away. Bo from from this conversation.
• 1:52:27
  I say this is hey, hey, oh, oh, he's he's a good friend.
• 1:52:31
  He's he sells, he sells me stuff for for very good prices and I
• 1:52:36
  do not want to ruin that relationship.
• 1:52:39
  So let's go. Please please please.
• 1:52:44
  Sorry J Bo as I walk away. He he's shaking and he waves.
• 1:52:50
  I just, I just look at him and my mouth like vitrol like words
• 1:52:55
  at him as I walk away. Terrifying as As you guys walk
• 1:52:59
  away, you head over to the Winter's tent in the center of
• 1:53:03
  what is known as the town square, and as you approach you
• 1:53:06
  see a large metallic statue in the Imperator's honor.
• 1:53:11
  You see that his wings are spread out wide behind him,
• 1:53:16
  going probably like 30 feet wide, just the wings.
• 1:53:20
  You're sitting in a tent right in front of that statue, and you
• 1:53:24
  find your names on three chairs at the way end of a long table.
• 1:53:29
  And at the opposite end are Tholgra and Vera.
• 1:53:33
  And it seems like the crowd all swarms to them, which it leaves
• 1:53:37
  you guys alone, not really many fans that wanna see you versus
• 1:53:43
  the headliners. I'm gonna look around for the
• 1:53:46
  person who looks like they're kind of running this thing.
• 1:53:48
  It's like, hey, excuse me, someone can we get, can we get
• 1:53:51
  another chair for our friend Bunty over here?
• 1:53:56
  Yana goes, oh, he's just like a creature.
• 1:54:00
  So I thought he he would just sit on like Abe's shoulder
• 1:54:05
  because he had been sitting on Abe's shoulder.
• 1:54:08
  I, I I. Take offense to this actually,
• 1:54:11
  and I slam my fist on the table. And I say.
• 1:54:14
  Dare not call him creature, only I'm allowed to do that.
• 1:54:18
  Yeah, you got. Shut up, Bunty.
• 1:54:20
  Shut up. Shut up, shut up.
• 1:54:22
  It doesn't seem like you guys are even like this bunty guy.
• 1:54:26
  Are you sure you want a chair? Yeah, but you have to like him.
• 1:54:30
  You have to like him. Bring a chair.
• 1:54:32
  I, I, I, I don't get paid enough for this.
• 1:54:36
  And he goes over and a couple minutes later comes back with
• 1:54:40
  another chair, He wrote Bunty on a piece of paper, slapped it on
• 1:54:44
  the chair and it goes here, a chair for you, Sir, and just
• 1:54:49
  walks away. In his head, he's like, who do
• 1:54:52
  these guys think they are? And I say to these guys as as he
• 1:54:56
  walks away, who does that guy think he is?
• 1:55:02
  Oh man. And so you guys are sitting
• 1:55:05
  alone at the edge of the table until a figure approaches the
• 1:55:12
  group. You cannot tell what gender or
• 1:55:16
  race this person may be, just that they're roughly 5-10 with
• 1:55:21
  like a slightly broad build. They wear a maroon top hat with
• 1:55:25
  the gear on it and matching maroon gloves and boots.
• 1:55:30
  Their face is covered with a gold mask with only eye slits.
• 1:55:35
  A red and white hooded long garment covers their body and
• 1:55:38
  head, while a great cloak adorns their back.
• 1:55:42
  On their left arm is a brass gauntlet with gears that are
• 1:55:45
  perpetually turning. And finally, you notice a small
• 1:55:49
  bird on his shoulder. Its colors are vibrant blue and
• 1:55:53
  purple, and it takes you a second before you realize that
• 1:55:55
  it is a construct with an orangey red gem embedded in its
• 1:55:59
  chest. The figure approaches and says.
• 1:56:02
  Greeting gladiators, my name is Fox.
• 1:56:05
  RMI would like to speak to you about an opportunity regarding
• 1:56:09
  your sponsorship. I saw your fight.
• 1:56:13
  It was, to say the least, entertaining.
• 1:56:17
  What was it if you were to say the most?
• 1:56:20
  The most entertaining part would be when that little creature
• 1:56:25
  used your hand to spank himself. I.
• 1:56:28
  Push my chair back and get up as he just referred to him as a
• 1:56:32
  creature. I I grabbed.
• 1:56:34
  I put my hand. Yeah, quickly.
• 1:56:37
  We're both. We're both either side of a.
• 1:56:39
  But we both. Just grab his shoulder and push
• 1:56:41
  him back down into his chair. Oh I'm sorry, did I say
• 1:56:46
  something wrong? I did not know his name and feel
• 1:56:50
  like I probably should have asked.
• 1:56:52
  Please would you tell me his name?
• 1:56:54
  Bunty. And then Vox turns thirds.
• 1:56:57
  Bunty, Bunty, you are a marvelous, marvelous man, he
• 1:57:03
  says with a question mark. You were by far the most
• 1:57:08
  formidable fighter. The second most formidable
• 1:57:11
  fighter would be Bon Bon. I saw you obliterate that guy.
• 1:57:17
  Wow, the third most formidable fighter?
• 1:57:22
  That's a toss up because on one hand, Abe, you did lots of
• 1:57:28
  damage and knocked out a guy, but you also lost a.
• 1:57:32
  Hand on one hand is right. Ha ha ha ha.
• 1:57:37
  And just for that Bo, I think you are my number one.
• 1:57:40
  Just for the jokes, it seems like ha ha ha.
• 1:57:50
  Why did I lose a spot? Listen, they've they've never
• 1:57:54
  been in a fight before. I can do jokes too.
• 1:57:57
  I can do jokes too. What?
• 1:57:59
  What did the the mechanical man say to the dandelion?
• 1:58:08
  What? Gears to you, Dandelion.
• 1:58:16
  No fucking loses it Bo. Like Bo.
• 1:58:22
  Bo takes a full minute. Just laughing.
• 1:58:27
  Oh my God, what it's like like if you think about it hard, like
• 1:58:32
  there are layers because like gears sounds like Cheers bro.
• 1:58:39
  What? Voss turns to you?
• 1:58:41
  Yeah, Bo, and goes. You seem to have elite humor.
• 1:58:46
  Humor that surpasses all of us you find humor in everything I.
• 1:58:53
  What can I say? Humor.
• 1:58:55
  I I hardly know her. Oh my God.
• 1:58:59
  And I put my hand on his shoulder.
• 1:59:01
  You're doing so good. You're doing so good.
• 1:59:05
  This man should be the face of your group.
• 1:59:09
  I'll be here all week. Mono what an interesting group
• 1:59:12
  name, but it suits you guys well because you are an infectious
• 1:59:19
  thing that. I would like to kiss.
• 1:59:21
  He tries to make his own joke. Oh that, that one was actually
• 1:59:25
  pretty good. I don't know that one.
• 1:59:28
  That one missed for me. Oh, oh, OK.
• 1:59:33
  Well the point of me being here is I have an opportunity
• 1:59:38
  regarding your sponsorship. Would you guys like to be
• 1:59:42
  sponsored by me? You are very capable fighters
• 1:59:46
  and I would like to throw money at you and send you to faraway
• 1:59:52
  places that are very cool. But before we do that, there are
• 1:59:58
  some terms I'd like to discuss. Would you like to engage in
• 2:00:02
  discussion with me regarding this?
• 2:00:04
  I I. I'm gonna I, you know what?
• 2:00:07
  I it's all right, guys. Yeah.
• 2:00:11
  Let's skip the terms. No, no, no, no.
• 2:00:14
  No. No, no, no, no, absolutely not.
• 2:00:20
  I I would love to hear the terms.
• 2:00:23
  Terms are just words, man. I'll tell you the terms of our
• 2:00:29
  agreement. Please do.
• 2:00:30
  And then you can agree or disagree.
• 2:00:34
  From what I could tell, I do not believe you 3 or 4, including
• 2:00:40
  the wonderful Bunty Youth 4 have not become gladiators for the
• 2:00:44
  pure fun of it, it seems. I believe I have a deal that
• 2:00:48
  will benefit us all. You see, I am a collector of
• 2:00:52
  sorts. There are some rare artifacts
• 2:00:55
  that I'm seeking as well as some people who I have business with.
• 2:00:59
  Unfortunately, due to some circumstances, I will be unable
• 2:01:04
  to gather these artifacts and attend these important meetings.
• 2:01:08
  If I were to sponsor you, I ask that you agree to do my bidding
• 2:01:13
  when I ask. If not, I will find another
• 2:01:16
  group to sponsor and there will be no hard feelings.
• 2:01:21
  Everyone roll an insight check. I was just about to ask to do
• 2:01:25
  that. Can I Can I also cast detect
• 2:01:29
  evil and good? Let me get the exact wording of
• 2:01:33
  that. Spell.
• 2:01:33
  So for the duration, I sense the location of any aberration,
• 2:01:37
  aberration, celestial, elemental, Fay, fiend, or undead
• 2:01:41
  within 30 feet of me, and I sense whether the hollow spell
• 2:01:46
  is active. You.
• 2:01:49
  It's not exactly a sense motive, yes.
• 2:01:53
  I kind of just want to see if this is an evil being.
• 2:01:56
  Yeah. So you don't get a clear answer
• 2:02:01
  on this creature in front of you or this figure in front of you.
• 2:02:07
  It kind of seems like it doesn't seem evil for evil's sake, but
• 2:02:12
  it seems to kind of be flickering around him whether
• 2:02:16
  they are one of those creatures that you mentioned.
• 2:02:19
  OK. And you said insight.
• 2:02:22
  Insight, yeah. That is an 8.
• 2:02:25
  I got a 15. That'd be an 8 also for me.
• 2:02:29
  What you guys can tell is that they're offering you a good deal
• 2:02:33
  in terms of being sponsored like many other sponsors would be
• 2:02:36
  hesitant to work with such new people who like, like I said,
• 2:02:40
  three out of the four of you. This is this was your first
• 2:02:42
  fight, right? So it just seems like a good
• 2:02:45
  deal. Yeah.
• 2:02:46
  Vox RM. Yes, you may call me just Vox,
• 2:02:49
  that is my first name. OK, Vox, do you think you can?
• 2:02:54
  So like they only gave us 100 gold pieces after the fight and
• 2:02:58
  I lift up my stump. Do you think that you could fund
• 2:03:02
  just in advance on some kind of repair for this before the next
• 2:03:06
  fight? Of course, let me do some
• 2:03:09
  calculations and he thinks for a little bit.
• 2:03:13
  I can give each of you right now 300 gold pieces signing bonus.
• 2:03:20
  Would you like to agree to be my fighters?
• 2:03:25
  So I've been in the pits for about 6 months now.
• 2:03:27
  I've seen people get their sponsorships and not, you know,
• 2:03:31
  do I think this is a good deal? Yeah, you think this is a good
• 2:03:35
  like no one really. The gear grinders were an
• 2:03:38
  abnormality for what level they were and being sponsored this is
• 2:03:43
  This is a great deal for new fighters.
• 2:03:47
  I say, I think, I think we should take it absolutely. 3:50
• 2:03:51
  And you have a deal. Okay, 350.
• 2:03:55
  Actually, I should have thought to do that.
• 2:03:57
  I was a merchant. The Art of the Deal.
• 2:04:01
  Roll another inside check as they quickly agreed to the 3:50.
• 2:04:05
  13. Not 20. 18.
• 2:04:09
  Nice. With that Nat 20, you can tell
• 2:04:11
  that Vox said at the end of their little spiel that if not,
• 2:04:16
  I will find another group to sponsor and there will be no
• 2:04:18
  hard feelings. You can tell Vox wants you guys.
• 2:04:22
  Specifically, Vox really wants you guys.
• 2:04:27
  And as you do that insight check, Vox beckons over for Jana
• 2:04:31
  and tells Jana about the deal that you guys are now sponsored.
• 2:04:36
  As that happens, you see that the bands around your wrist, a
• 2:04:40
  little light on them that was red, now flashes blue and Fox
• 2:04:45
  turns to you guys. Now you are under my care.
• 2:04:49
  I will be able to track you 3 with these bands and you do not
• 2:04:55
  have to go back to the pits at midnight.
• 2:04:58
  If you do not want to sleep there, you are free to get an
• 2:05:03
  apartment. Do you do you have temporary
• 2:05:06
  housing? Yes, I have a temporary housing
• 2:05:11
  for here in scenario, but not in other places when you travel
• 2:05:17
  unfortunately. But I have a request for you
• 2:05:21
  guys as your first little mission for me.
• 2:05:27
  So you might not be in the city tonight.
• 2:05:32
  Well that's a weird way to put it, but you won't need
• 2:05:38
  accommodations for tonight I think.
• 2:05:41
  Are we having a sleepover with you?
• 2:05:42
  Ha ha. Ha, you are also a funny one,
• 2:05:46
  Abe, no. And I I turned about sleepover.
• 2:05:51
  What? What do you want?
• 2:05:56
  Sleepover. I hardly know her.
• 2:05:59
  Yes. Bo Box says OK jokes aside, I
• 2:06:07
  need you guys to get a tablet for me.
• 2:06:10
  It is stored under the east side of the Coliseum.
• 2:06:15
  I think it might be hard to get to and might take some time.
• 2:06:21
  Is that OK? I will be traveling in two days
• 2:06:25
  time so I would like the tablet back by midnight tomorrow if
• 2:06:30
  possible. Yeah, we can do that.
• 2:06:33
  Sure, great. It means so much to me that you
• 2:06:37
  will get this part of a tablet for me.
• 2:06:40
  What does it smell like? Oh, the tablet, it is made out
• 2:06:46
  of stone, so it would smell like stone.
• 2:06:53
  Oh, sorry Bunty, it's. OK.
• 2:06:55
  What? What?
• 2:06:56
  What did you want it to smell like?
• 2:06:59
  Not stone. Everything down there smells
• 2:07:01
  like stone. It's going to be hard for him to
• 2:07:02
  track something like that. Oh.
• 2:07:04
  Oh, oh, oh Peaches. Or something like Peaches.
• 2:07:06
  That would be nice, right? Peaches, yeah.
• 2:07:09
  Yeah, sure, Bunty. I'm a stone fruit type of guy,
• 2:07:13
  yeah. Stone, stone fruit.
• 2:07:16
  There's something there. That was, that was really bad,
• 2:07:19
  Bon. Oh.
• 2:07:23
  But I was getting so judgy. Oh man, didn't you just learn
• 2:07:27
  how to make a joke today? No, I just learned how to make a
• 2:07:31
  specific kind of. Joke you 2 have been very
• 2:07:35
  confusing so far. I I have to admit you didn't
• 2:07:39
  remarkably well during your first fight.
• 2:07:42
  You know, I, I think, I think I'll like travelling with you.
• 2:07:46
  This is great, you guys are companions.
• 2:07:49
  This will be so fun adventure. Yeah, they're my best friends.
• 2:07:56
  That is so cute. This is my best friend Egrix and
• 2:08:01
  he points to the bird on his shoulder.
• 2:08:03
  Egrix will be flying above town square.
• 2:08:08
  So whenever you receive the tablet, signal to Egrix and it
• 2:08:13
  will communicate to me that you have completed the task.
• 2:08:16
  Are there any other specifics on this tablet?
• 2:08:18
  Like how do we know when we find it?
• 2:08:20
  It will be radiating pretty strong magic.
• 2:08:25
  Also, it is very important to me and my history.
• 2:08:31
  So it is a rare relic. I think you should be able to
• 2:08:37
  tell just based off of that what is powerful stone tablet and
• 2:08:42
  what is stone tablet that is regular.
• 2:08:46
  I am just one of the remaining people of my village, so this
• 2:08:51
  would mean a lot to. Vox One second, one second one
• 2:08:55
  second, one second Bow. Yeah, I got you.
• 2:09:00
  What? Regular.
• 2:09:01
  Oh my. God.
• 2:09:04
  Hey, Vox. Yeah.
• 2:09:06
  Regular. Barely even nowhere.
• 2:09:10
  Ha ha ha ha Bo switched it up slightly with the word ha ha ha,
• 2:09:18
  so you. Got it.
• 2:09:19
  You got to keep them on their toes, you know?
• 2:09:21
  Anyways, this is a very important tablet for my
• 2:09:25
  emotional being, so please get it.
• 2:09:30
  We will do that, Bo. Thank you.
• 2:09:32
  Not Bo. Vox.
• 2:09:34
  Excuse me? Wow, I am OK being confused with
• 2:09:39
  the funniest man alive. Oh, you just look so similar,
• 2:09:43
  you know, and it's very obvious that you don't.
• 2:09:47
  I nod as if it's true. Ha ha that is a good joke Bond
• 2:09:54
  too. Well this has been really fun.
• 2:09:59
  I bid you farewell. My bird will now go into the sky
• 2:10:05
  and egress takes to the sky as you 3 sit in your chairs and
• 2:10:10
  watch Fox move away and as he moves can everyone roll one last
• 2:10:18
  perception check? 21. 7. 22.
• 2:10:24
  Beau is too busy making jokes with Bunty.
• 2:10:27
  Yeah, I like those jokes, man. We're having so much fun.
• 2:10:31
  And as that's happening, Bon and Abe, you watch as the Vox walks
• 2:10:39
  away and you see a small symbol on the bottom right of his
• 2:10:43
  cloak, a Crescent moon with two tips connecting in a circle with
• 2:10:47
  chains surrounding it and a broken apex at the top that is
• 2:10:51
  the symbol of this mirror. And Abe, you clock that.
• 2:10:55
  But Bon, you look at it and you feel the pocket watch in your
• 2:11:02
  hand start to tingle a little bit.
• 2:11:06
  And that's where we'll end our session today.
• 2:11:10
  Oh man. We just we just got hired by an
• 2:11:13
  iPad kid. He lost his tablet.
• 2:11:17
  It is emotionally important to him that we find it.
• 2:11:20
  Oh. Man, it's just an iPad with
• 2:11:22
  photos of him and his friends. And Coco Melon I.
• 2:11:26
  I debated Jesus. Christ, I did not not Coco melon
• 2:11:29
  like Bluey or something. Coco Melon.
• 2:11:38
  Thank you, Avni. Yeah, yeah.
• 2:11:40
  Thanks guys. What a really fun first session.
• 2:11:43
  So we'll be back at it soon enough.
• 2:11:47
  Thanks, everyone. Great playing with you.
• 2:11:49
  I have some shout outs I'd like to make for some people I'd like
• 2:11:53
  to thank for getting us to this point.
• 2:11:55
  First is Taylor who who first back in college for?
• 2:11:58
  At least for me, him, I, Charlie and a bunch of our friends, you
• 2:12:02
  know, started the first campaign that we participated in as a
• 2:12:05
  group. Charlie had done DND before.
• 2:12:08
  But shout out to Taylor, shout out to Michael.
• 2:12:11
  Shout out all the people who played DND with Yeah it's been a
• 2:12:14
  lot. Of people anyways, that's it for
• 2:12:16
  shout outs. Thank you guys for playing with
• 2:12:18
  me and we'll see you next time. Bye.
• 2:12:21
  Bye.