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Back to Outset · Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration

• Riley! No. You're back! No, not again. Yeah! Woo! Trust me, bro, that screams of despair you're hearing. It's true. Find out in comic book number 315, The Clown Wars Part 77. If people are invisible, wouldn't detect magic? Detect the invisibility? I hate players like you. Take away a hero point. No! Are you all ready to play some Rock Ride, baby? Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Good noises, everybody. Chat! Oh, gosh. Oh, God. Listeners, give yourself a hero point. It's like, didn't you give Tannehouser a hero point? Who got a hero point? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tannehouser got a hero point. I finally get to start a session with a hero point. Wow. Yeah, yeah. Because the default one you all get. Well, no, not the last two sessions. Well, that's true. That's true. That's true. That's true. Don't cross me. We haven't officially started the session yet. Okay, God. Sorry. That's right. In the future, imagine a boot on a Hulkie's neck. Again and again and again. Again and again. Again and again. Hi, everybody. Welcome to another exciting episode of Rock Grind. Brought to you by Patreon and also our shop at patreon.com. For us, that's Narrative Declaration and narrativedeclaration.shop. Where you can go ahead and pick yourself up a cool Rock Grind t-shirt, maybe a mug, maybe a hat, maybe a cool little desk mat, all that other stuff. We've got some exclusive stuff coming along the way so you can help support the show and things like that. Of course, the Patreon, you can see all sorts of exclusive stuff. We actually put up some animations up there. In fact, we also got like a cool little Warhammer one that we got. Yeah. So the Warhammer crew was really fun. We got a lot of awesome animations coming in. I also got another teaser for, actually, there's one of them. Unfortunately, we couldn't use it, but we'll put that up on the Patreon anyway. It's one where Rahua is abandoning Tannhauser to his death. But the artist got for the color. It doesn't make sense because you can't get that context. So it's actually Veena being abandoned to her death. As per usual. That's more on brand, I have to say. Exactly. Exactly. So regardless, thank you all so much for the support over there. But of course, your support helps support everybody here because running stuff like this requires a whole bunch of cash. But of course, you are able to help all these amazing people in their lives by having to be compensated with your generous donations. Starting off with Odo Roshi. Hi. Hello. It's me. I'm Odo. I will bring you today Veena, the sylph swashbuckler, the most sober character in the entire setting. The swash-swingling buckler. Yeah, it's so true. Swashbuckler. Swashbuckler. Swashbuckler. One who also swashes is Hulky Crow. That's me. I'm Hulky Crow. And as always, I'll be... Thanks. Thanks for taking that. Sorry. Go ahead. I'm gonna fucking get you, dog. I'm gonna... I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna get my big, grubby hands on you. I'm gonna crush you to a ball and dunk you for... Wait, that's not a three-point shot. It's not a dunk. I'm gonna dunk you because I don't know how to play basketball. Hello, I'm playing Rahua, the Kaurasu cleric. Then, one who also knows who he is is Speaker D. Hi, I'm Speaker D. Today, I'm playing Tan Houser, the android wizard. And today, I also ate half a jar of kimchi. So, we'll see if that kills me before the session ends. You roll a die at home to see if he survives or not. That's right. It's Erndel! Erndel, shake his body. Erndel? Killed him. Erndel. Oh, sorry. I had muted because I was typing to someone. My bad. I am surviving. My bad. It's okay. I'm playing Baldrick Weathers, the human alchemist. And I'm gonna survive despite their best efforts. Damn. Erndel, after not surviving. Yeah. I hate you. I know. And of course, we have our illustrious game master, Thirsten of Hillmans. Hello, it's me. Hi. I'm excited for today and playing games with all of my friends. And speaking of friends, I'm Zoran. I'm Zoran the wizard. I'm playing Orin, the Strix Summoner. And just as a reminder, we're all level 10 using the Pathfinder second edition remastered rules. And of course, we are excited to continue with our fourth and last season of Rock. All right. Bip, bip, bip, bip, bip. Bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip, bip. I do believe last time we left off, if I have my memory correct after, you know, bashing my head against a wall all week, I believe we basically left off. We basically last left off on, do you want to do a recap? Do you want to do it? Or do you want me to do it? What do you want to do? Wow, wow, wow. How do you want to do this? How do you want to do this? Well, you know, if you make me do it, you're not getting a hero point. Are we still doing that? Do we still want to do that system? Did someone just recap to get a hero point? You guys want to do that system? Absolutely. Yeah. Because I remember last time I had entire group of people say, we fucking hate recapping Zoran. Don't make us do this again. I'm like, okay. Well, look, I'll recap. It's just if someone wants to jump on the grenade and get a hero point. Yeah. Who wants a hero point? Yeah. Um, what was that? I'm pouring my glass of whiskey right now. This is where I'm like, like, and it's double trouble because if Hulky doesn't, doesn't man up and do the recap, I'm just going to subtract a hero point. Fuck you. Fuck you. Oh my God. Hulky, you have been. I come onto this stream. I come in early, earlier than the last time. I yuck it up. I talk about civilian casualties. Oh, you mean on time? Actually, you were right, by the way. You have chosen? You didn't show up 30 minutes before. It was still earlier than the last time. I was cognizant of the fact that I had to be here early and I showed up early. So we get done. Shut up. You're fighting. I come in. I get subjected to milfua. I get subjected to toxic yaoi. I have been transgressed and violated. Let's rock. You're having me through the recap with that. Yes. After milfua. Yeah. Keep going. I want more. Last time. I'm not going to get all this correct. So I'll take. I'll. I'll. That makes it better. The last time. Yeah. Last time on rock grind, the party fought a big creature in the swamp, a rot beast, except it was phase two of a large encounter. The faded phase two that we knew was going to happen eventually in something. And then we did pretty good at killing that. We didn't die, which is really honestly a good start for the new season. We went back to Zalzap's place. We reconvened with our party. We had a little bit of conversation. I've fallen off the boat here. I am. I am not. We turned to the village. Not sober enough for this. We returned to the village. We talked about some things. All right. Then we all decided that we should probably. We talked to Vantor. We resolved to go back to Outset to get an airship. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I'm missing something else. That we decided. Talk to T'hokis. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to go back to T'hokis. We decided not go back to the cavern where we know our Victrix and stuff went because it would take way too long with the journey that we need to do. We need to hurry up with our journey. And we decided to travel to the land of Outset and try to find some of the help smuggle us in. But the way to do that is there's the great march with a whole bunch of undead. Yes. Basically bringing back a whole bunch of ore and stuff. We're going to try to slide in via that. If that is it, Thirsten, sorry if we forgot any more details. We're bad players. Also, all caps, Oren is dying. Oh, yeah. Oren's confident. No. This isn't about him. Yeah. It's not about him. That's a group. Rahura, get a hero point. Thank you, God. Yay! Rahura gets a hero point. Your name is Patric Christi Jesus. You can do that way too well. Yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah, good job. Get a hero point. What do you want? Get a hero point. You can't allocate hero points. You can't do this. I control the button. I control the life. Let's just imagine you two going back and forth holding the hero point button. It has the big hero point on it. It's like a classic remote. He's like, no, get it back. It's mine. It's mine. It's mine. Oh, this art is so pretty. Yeah. Salty did it. I could tell it was Salto. Yeah, that is a salty art if I've ever seen one. Salty is good at art and this is good. And this is great. Yes. I agree with that statement. This lovely vista of the outer wall of the great city of Outset rising above the swamps of the solitude. This is again just beautiful, beautiful vista is not one you see. All of you are in darkness as you are huddled together under a tarp. The rolling of wheels crushing over gravel and dirt and stone and countless other substances you can't even tell carries you along. You know that you have inserted yourself into the vast, vast progression or procession of undead that march both to and from the city of Outset. They're carts, caravans, even sometimes just arms laden with precious stones and minerals. As you are brought back to the city of Outset. However, you are still some time away, leaving you in abject darkness. What kind of conversation is the party having under the tarp? Baldrick's keeping quiet. How sneaky do we actually have to be? Can any of them hear us? We're trying to get past guards and we don't know where those guards are. So it would be ideal if we avoided yodeling or screaming or doing anything else especially loud. Rahua, do you have any threes? No, go fish. Damn. In pitch black throw away what I assume is not a three. So you're telling me if we can't be super loud, I can't lay down a fat beat for my new single? Well, of course you can do that. Just be quiet. Okay. Soundcloud doesn't exist in this universe. What the hell are you talking about? Rahua's doing a fat beat and we're playing go fish. I think, I assume these are cards. Oh, those are my feathers actually. Uh, hey Thurston. Yes. Time for mainly myself on this. Can I just, do I, can I make like a, a sneak check just to ensure that I am not detectable and we're not. Like, like, like just like, like, like, I don't know, like recoil further up to the tarp than everyone else. I'm doing that because I'm also wanting to, I'm wanting to make use of foil senses as a feat. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Like these guys are all going to get noticed if that comes to it, but I want to make sure I don't get seen at least. Yeah. Do you want to tell people what foil senses does? Absolutely. Foil senses is a, uh, level 10, uh, feat that you can get. And it makes you adept at foiling creatures, special, special senses, and, and you are cautious enough to safeguard against them at all times. Whenever you use the avoid notice, hide or sneak actions, you are always considered to be taking precautions against special senses. Meaning if they have something magical, I'm already thinking about it and don't get a penalty to it. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. and I roll and get a handsome 25, even if I rolled on a five. Yeah. You're, you're, you're hiding well and back in fact, you've probably like found a secondary Tarp that you've snuck under in this sort of carriage that's taking you around. Allowing you still to, to hear, but not like be associated with your companions. Should anything go wrong? Yeah. If they get discovered, I can spring from the shadows and blow everything, including them up making happy. Shit, did we lose Baldrick? Somebody check to see if he fell out the back. Where is he? Baldrick! Where are you? Ted has it! Shut up! He starts stuffing, like, dirt and feathers in his mouth, or in his talking apparatus. Where did you get that? He always has dirt on him. What do you mean? I'm always dirty. He's a dirty little rotten sewage man. I haven't had a bath in this swamp. Don't say that about him. It's been so long now the water's clean. He's just covered in detritus worms. He just looks like that one, like, horrible image of Spongebob looking up at Squidward. Vina's response was very, very wonderful. It's like, don't say that about him. No, no, I say it affectionately, affectionately. He's a dirty little rotten sewage boy. That's very funny. Who? Where? There's a voice in the tarp with you. I've got my gun out. Or gopher turns. Yeah, I'll pull out the gun. So none of you have dark vision, and Gorgamonger's under a different tarp, so the senses don't quite work for Aura's outline. I'll do some Gorgamonger, just for stuff purposes. Okay, perfect, perfect, perfect. So yeah, so none of you have dark vision, so you can't quite see anything under the tarp. Who the fuck are you? Well, I have dark vision. How's your best friend? Orin does have dark vision. Oh, does he? Yes. Oh, shit. Okay. So yeah, you would look over, and you see the figure that is snuck into the tarp with you. The recognizable raccoon face. Orin looks at him, because no one else can see him, but you just hear... All right, what's the matter? Are you okay? Choking again? Is your age catching up to you? Yeah, I mean... It is an upright raccoon who has four arms covered in blood, wearing a, like, apron schmock also covered in blood. And two of them, which it's, like, two of the arms hold a bloody long hacksaw, which it's kind of dragged in with it. Somehow you didn't hear any of that sound as it occurred. How the hell did you manage to sneak in here, stopping wet, carrying a hacksaw? Well, because my friend's in here. Is that what we're calling it now? That doesn't make any sense. Right until we get to the parking lot. Oh, oh, I forgot. Oh, you have to fight in the parking lot. Oh, I do have to fight in the parking lot. Can we do that later? That's okay, Rahua. I think you got this. Wait, I don't want this guy following us around. Maybe we should just go to the parking lot first. I don't know if he's going to leave us if we don't go to the parking lot first. Are you going to leave us if we go and do whatever we need to do first? Oh, I'm just here to remind you that I'm around. Don't want you to forget about your best friend and our date with Destiny together. Oh, how could I forget about our date with Destiny together? How could I ever forget about you, Racky? You're going to take him on a date? No, I'm going to have a wonderful talk with him. The talk is going to be in the form of violence. Is that actually his name? I've had dates that go like that. It's Racky the Racksaw. That's his name. Really? Yes, he said as much. Oh. He said that like three arcs ago. Orin just leaves with that. I thought you were saying Orin just leaves. Just disappears from the campaign. That sad Hulk walking away music. Sad Rahua walking away. His big ass. The camera on the stick and the stick of the sack. He's just kicking rock. That's Jurassic Park. A lot of songs start the same way. No, no. It's Jurassic Park. You see the size of those stumpy dumpies? Those flapper bloppers. It's supposed to be sad, but instead it's A pterodactyl takes Orin away. No, Orin, no. You are so young. It's beautiful. Anyway, the Burger Factory is here. Sorry, we're both falling real quick. What were you saying? I was just saying I just wanted to talk to my friend Rahua. How are you doing, friend? I'm invading a city which I may or may not be wanted but they can't recognize me. I almost died again like watching my friends die and I don't have time for you. I'm sorry. And Rahua puts his hand on Raki's shoulder. I'm sorry, friend. I don't think it's going to work out. Yeah, you're not ready to fight me yet. I'd curb stomp you like little twig that you are. But you'll get there. Rahua, are you going to take that? Can I recall knowledge to see what his health is? Yes, you can. I would like to recall knowledge. Yeah, you can give you can give me a recall knowledge. Yes, please. Go ahead. He's got like six HP. He just talked to me. Nature. Nature is what you want to make. How bad could it be? He's not like it's tree razor or anything. Tree razor? Tree razor? That's a 27. Blasted turn wielder of the black axe. 27? Oh, not this guy again. All right. So that is enough. You know what? One sec. One sec. I'm going to. I'm going to. You can fourth wall. I'm fourth wall. Based on his level, you would know that an entity with this level of power has anywhere from 200 to 350 hip. Oh, my God. Okay. Tanhauser, I'm not going to lie. I think he might just cut me into pieces and kill me right now. One of the one of the hands pats your head. That's right. But you're going to get there, friend. And we're going to have such a good time. That's why I brought you a gift. His hand reaches under the bloody schmock. Oh. And pulls out something that has like a strange glow in the confines of the space. The glow is like an unlight that simply just illuminates the object he holds, which is surrounded by tendrils of darkness. You forgot this. Oh. Hands out the skull, the platyparian skull, like in miniature of the vast rot beast that you slew. I didn't realize we got an essence from this. Did we just not find it? We just didn't. We didn't search the body. I mean, we're searching. We're searching. We just, I guess we failed to find it. I do have in my notes. Or I didn't have the asset because I forgot to write. I was trying to cover that for you. Thurston, we were ready to take the fall for you. I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. I know, I know. It was my fault. I stand on my own, but we have, you know. I do have written in my notes in all capitals. Don't forget about the other two objects we have to identify. Yeah, those are just lines. Yeah. I would like to identify this essence of the Raffaids. Are I allowed you to just know? You can tell that identifying this would take some time in an area that's not underneath the tarp. Understandable. Tannhauser! What? Can you do object whispers on this? Why, I, of course I can. Object whispers is one of my greatest specialized spells. Even though it's not on my new character sheet. Oh, shit! Object whispers! Robo will look at Tannhauser like, Oh, you're not going to be any help at all then. I thought you were object whisperer, but I guess you're just a bitch. Oh! Damn! Now Tannhauser's about to take him to the parking lot. He took him to the parking lot! The man's bleeding! Tannhauser! Tannhauser is sitting under his tarp just listening to all this unfold and he is just quietly getting to enjoy the fact that these guys are already destroying each other without him. Well, that really hurt my feelings, Ruhu. I hope you feel big. I am. Statistically, I'm larger than you. I'm gonna kick your ass! I'm straggling him like Homer. You can't choke me! I'm a tree! Oh, that won't stop me from trying. You will certainly try, little man. Rahul starts slapping his head silly because he's not actually trying to kill Tannhauser. Stop! You can just talk to her. You don't have to whisper at it. I suppose that's true. That's true. He has a point. Tannhauser? Rahul put out his hand under the tarp. I'm sorry. I accept your apology and I believe that moving forward our friendship shall be strengthened by this. I'm sorry you don't have the ability to cast Object Whistures anymore and makes you less of a person. Hmm. That's very interesting. I cast Corrosive Maka Diplom. Holy shit! Interesting motivation, Dom. You okay there, Bossy? My mic just flipped out of its stand. I was going to say I'm going to get closer to the mic but I guess it tried to do that for you because you were at half the fucking volume you were supposed to be. The mic was escaping. The mic just ran the hell away from me. Oh my god. Okay. I have a question that isn't a hell in my mind. Can I cast Object Whistures deal? Is that a wizard spell? Yeah. Is that a spell that you took on your character as part of your rebuild Tannhauser Speaker D? I don't think it was. Okay. Okay. Okay. So I see some I see some spells. I'm just going to assume that you meant to take that instead of read aura. Actually, I get read aura I believe. Oh. Oh. Okay. Okay. Okay. So you'll have to give up one of your Oh, I see. I see your Blastie and two defenses character options here. You might have to give up one of your Blastie options. That's understandable. Um. Yeah. Okay. As a wizard you would learn the spell. Yeah. I mean, I would have it. Yeah. Actually, I just don't have it. You could swap it out. Yeah. I'll let you have it prepared. You have it in your spell book. Yeah. Yay. Sure. Sure. When you do the wizard thing you have changed into the spell slot thing. So you're good. Yeah. Great. Okay. Great. Object Whispers. I'm going to cast Object Whispers. Okay, so you tap into the arcane in order to to read the essence. For those of you who don't know Object Whispers is a spell that is a Recrine specific spell that is a first well it's a it's a cantrip and you place your hand on a sensitively charged object which you can tell this is sensitively charged to learn a piece of information imbued the object as determined by GM This lets me write Dark Souls item descriptions for everything. Nice. The skull of the Great Rotbeast Outside the confines of reality exists a multitude multitude of truths The truth of this creature exists only on time Yeah, Roshi deep It's very deep You should be scared Roshi, why the hell are you in the You're not supposed to be Give me a second He's not supposed to be here He wanted to know about the essence of the Rotbeast Yeah Oh, baby He wanted to know He wanted to know I see Um, taking a look at this what would I need to roll to know what effect the essence would have So like I just said to Hulkster this is gonna take time and it's not something you're gonna be able to do under a tarp but it would be like identifying a magic item so it would be something that you would do like Arcana on or or a cultism would be you know This would be worth studying I suppose that we owe you a begrudging thanks I'm just here to help Alright I'll let you go back to your tarp time together But don't worry Rahua Like starts to slink out from under the tarp I'll be waiting Bye Gone Why does he keep calling himself my best friend I don't like him at all I think it's like an ironic thing The point is some people believe one's nemesis is the closest thing to a friend one can have They know one another intimately a foe and his arch foe Maybe he's parasocial That just sounds like Toxic Yowie Stop saying shit What is that? Says the other burlap sag Hey It was so potent he had to take Greek stealth very very momentarily to tell Rahua to lock in Hey Thirst Throne Hailman I am going to do something I am going to cast time sense which is I get for being a time mage and I would very much like to know if possible about how long is it until we actually reach like the gates of outset and need to like enforce being quiet Probably got like another 40 minutes Alright I figure we have about 40 minutes before we need to actually be in stealth mode until then does anything have anyone anyone have anything hilarious to say Oh 40 minutes that's just enough time for a nap I don't have anything else funnier to say I think I got all my energies out I'm feeling kind of aggressive today I noticed that Rahua could it be on account of the fact that you feel like you don't have control of your life I haven't been in control of my life for my entire existence well let's do a thought exercise if you had complete control of your life what would you be doing right now I don't know I never thought I'd get this far well ruminate on that because very soon we shall have an airship and yes there will be obligations that we must fulfill but that doesn't mean that we can't also actualize ourselves an actualized revolutionary is a powerful and fearsome revolutionary well well we got some time where are we going to call the airship when we get it I think that should go to Fino from the other tarp who said that Baldrick it's mere conscience listen to it for once yeah Miss Vina once we get your airship what are you going to call it oh god I don't know I honestly didn't think I'd live this long well you did shame no I don't know we'll figure that out when we get there and see what it looks like okay Oren yeah if you could choose what to name the airship what would you choose Harry McAirface all right so Oren can't name the airship Ruhua what about you hmm I'm thinking the air narky that seems like fun word play the air narky all right that's something I'll work on it honey what about you what would you name it you have already asked me this question all right fine ask again later so far anarchy has it and I vote for something something strong something impervious something that would be a charm against misfortune I say let's name it the Titanic yeah that sounds like nothing will go wrong hell yeah unsinkable indestructible name I think you're cooking with that one Tanhauser Thurston can I roll a society to see if that name has any like tragic associations with maritime law please please please make a recall knowledge about the fate of the naval vessel known as the Titanic on the world of Tyne remind me what a recall knowledge roll is please yeah it's just a society check just a lovely society check one of your elf moms uh well a 28 let me know anything a 28 a 28 is enough for you to weave whatever yarn you want to weave Erndale please regale the class about Tyne's Titanic Tanhauser Tanhauser down here a second yes yes what is it to the other Tanhauser leans in very close and he can you you can't see his face changing at all but Baldrick is relaying to him the tale of uh the airship Titanic and the horrific tragedy that was associated with that oh my god how did they hit an iceberg in the air yeah I know it's we probably should avoid calling it that because every ship that tried to save it from that airborne iceberg also exploded so we probably shouldn't do that and that bit with the door there was definitely more room on the door I don't know how they survived the fall on that door but honestly I know better than to ask questions all right fine I'll choose a better fortune's name how about uh uh yes yes I know how about the Salem Express Thurston can I roll a society to say will a 22 let me know if that name is a soap it's not it's not it's not quite good enough for you to identify the Salem Express on time okay that's fine unless you'd like to spend I only have the one I don't think that's a what no I have to I have to avoid our imminent unlucky demise will a 24 make it successful well it would also be plus 10 so a 34 yeah it came up as 24 evil machine yeah wrong yeah so so yeah so that is enough for you to once again Erndel please regale us the tarp will lean up towards Tannhauser again and Tannhauser will hear that one's actually worse you don't want that one either oh god all right hold on let me just scroll down the list of maritime disasters Wikipedia page all right how about the general slocum another roll how's a 36 36 is not only enough for you to to have another story which I will make you regale to the class this story is so so utterly horrifying that Tannhauser refuses to come up with future name suggestions after you regale this tale please please save me here in deltly oh okay so Tannhauser I hate to do this again because you're on a roll here and just happening to name aeronautical tragedies but the general slocum was the first only and last airborne orphanage all right I think we'll just name it bird face magic rock is that a good name whoa whoa crossover episode the outcome cannot be predicted bat the target to your orphanage hey hey first and below 31 tell me if Bodium make boat faces and a second please it was actually first called the unsinkable that it got named all right Tannhauser I think for the sake of not wasting your creativity we'll just avoid we'll just call it as we see it when we get there because that one I'm not going to tell you about that one I think it was the last aerial nursery known the man there were a lot of pigs on that one that's what it sounded so many pigs oh rough one aeronautical swine farm went crashing into the ocean taking out an actual boat how about we just call it Baldrick's house okay I take exception to that one people's ship this has gone on long enough let's just call it when we get there next scene please you have to see what it looks like first much like naming your beloved child you have to see what they look like before you decide on what their name is I neglect making the recall knowledge check necessary to reveal that the Baldrick's house was actually the worst airship disaster all recorded history and time I'm gonna take exception to something someone in chat said about the general slocum which was it was Baldrick's first target I'm gonna find you there will be consequences for your actions the consequences will never be the same give that chatter a hero point that one gets a hero point all right all right let's play the actual game then I guess I don't know right next never I love all your faces erindale give yourself a hero point for that that was all right sure all right like 10 20 out of 20 thanks for the hero point chat member appreciate you becoming vilified with me yeah thanks dick I love it all right all right back to okay back back back back to stealth um a little a little bit of time passes uh and now you you you feel that the uh the procession slows you're you're still moving but it's at a much slower pace um the wheels you can hear these sort of creaking wooden wheels you hear from from out front the um the companion with your your your part of the caravan tash t uh speak softly we're coming up to the location there's tyrants guild members here okay we'll we'll keep it stealthy and uh if they spot us let me do the talking that sounds fine uh i've letting me do the talking has never bitten us in the ass i believe can we have fortitude save me yeah i assume you've been drinking in there oh of course you can always assume uh that's a 27 okay you're still doing pretty good you haven't i'm holding it down i'm holding my liquor you're not fully blue girl wasted i have clearly i need to drink more i'm thurston can i roll a crafting to create uh a concoction that counters the effects of being drunk yes like maybe i'm like five minutes those those are make-believe things but yes yes i'm asking if i can roll a crafty to create something yeah 100% 100% yes yes i know it's not real this is a fantasy game i'm just more thinking of the conventions i go to and it's like don't worry bro you can drink all you want i brought this like powder that'll fix it the next morning oh no that's a trap that's a trap don't fall for that lemon powder i give you a 28 is that good enough to create a i don't know something it's it's it's good enough to create a lemon powder that vino will believe in that you believe in yeah you know like oh sure sure sure yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna uh uh take it i'm gonna uh get up my my uh outset credit card i'm gonna set it up in a line and i'm just gonna not i said eat wow you can't do that on twitch yeah that's the limit not to not the orphanage airship i can accept drinking to excess and destroying orphanages but doing hard drugs is where i draw the line didn't realize vino was so based no kidding what was that supposed to do you're supposed to eat it and it's also supposed to make you a bit more coherent and a bit less drunk for a little bit oh well what happens if i snort it do i die it's gonna have a much stronger effect and you'll have a raging nosebleed you really are mostly because of the lemon you just snorted powderized lemon that's gonna hurt like a son of a bitch you know oh it's sour my brain is sour quick hit your head on the side of the cart no our stealth all right your funeral it's fine i've died before this can't be worse than getting shot right vena's so pained punished vena are you are you slightly less drunk now thirst and am i less drunk do i need to roll a fortitude save for that uh no no you're you're you're you're you believe in the the lemon powder i believe in the hard cards i would never give you a concoction that would not do something that would be mean all right i feel more sober just gives me room to start over no it gives you room to focus and not be drunk while we're trying to sneak in get your senses about you otherwise you're gonna screw all of us over as well fine fine party pooper that's me yeah told me for almost a year now you should know that by now true everything smells like lemon and blood well i told you to eat it well it's your fault i didn't listen to you we'll dissect that one later all right can't believe you got to do this in a whole other tarp there's all kinds of tarps under here there's like a it's like a it's like a discord there's all kinds of servers and whatnot except in this case it's just layers of tarps it's all tarps all the way down that's a metaphor for government damn that's deep tell me more speaking of getting deep how far are we making how far do we make before we hit the cart landmine i'm going home six minutes bye hulky glad i gave you that hero point i'm taking it and i'm leaving it hulky spends a hero point to go home narratively declare to go home narratively declare i'm out of this campaign goodbye good day i'm going farewell hulky begins sadly walking away why is he a dinosaur he's wood all right we're out of the car for a while thurston yeah so yes so as as you you all quiet down from your internal discussions of the future of your airship and you know everything else that i fever dreamed the cart finally comes to a stop the air though has a has a strange smell to it even through the tarp you get the two two sets one is earthy tones in the air but also with like a backdrop of of something burning like wood or something else that is just on fire i uh i'm going to have to check this uh are you you sure there there's supplies i'm going to have to check this everything larger than a set size must be checked now uh uh it's it's it's medical supplies well if it's medical supplies it will be an easy check then um thurston yes can i potentially peek just a little bit out of the tarp enough to see maybe the gate you could you can give me a stealth check absolutely i would love to do that absolutely okay let me find it where my skills are uh okay stealth let's rock uh-huh that is going to be a 19 on the die 35 very nice yeah yeah yeah yeah you you you even managed to angle it so you see a few things first of all uh you see there are about six or so uh individuals that are standing here uh in the the attire of the tyrant's guild uh particularly the abasers these sort of rank and file infantry of the tyrant's guild one of these masked individuals is up and is conversing that's that is that is an interesting sort of element but you also see that there are other things um particularly around the area you can see like like menial undead like skeletons and zombies that are not part of the procession but are you know in armor and lining the walls you know that those are the kind of standard city guards for outset uh different from the tyrant's guild and what what you spot on such a high role and able to kind of like peer out as much as you as you need to um you see that there are several individuals up on on sort of raised parapets and walls um i mean certainly the walls of outside go up massively but there are some like juts in the walls themselves that look down um and you you can tell that that's where the fire is from there are several individuals who are in the sort of attire of the tyrant's guild lining the walls except they are partly on fire um in in this instance you see that they are wielding uh vicious looking crossbows maybe 80 feet up or so um as they stare down flames licking off their backs i'm even like protruding from their mouths at and as as you look you can see that there's like liquid spittling out of their mouths coming down like they're on fire but at the same time water is coming that sounds pretty fucked up can i roll an arcana or society to see if i understand what this possibly be this is actually more of a nature oh good news everyone i have plus three nature so i will wow in that case i'm gonna ask you a different question yeah uh so we're here at the gate presumably the main kiosk right where they check people in yes um is there perhaps like a you know a portcullis or like you know like chandeliers or anything something above that uh would be some machinery or like ornamentation maybe a crest maybe a sigil maybe a sign anything around uh there's a portcullis ahead there's a portcullis ahead but it is but it is one you haven't passed through um so it's open and they're doing inspection that's fine okay so the portcullis is ahead um i'm going to focus in on one of the chains of the portcullis okay presumably it's held up twice and i'm going to focus on one of those chains the one ideally that holds the most potential energy i'm gonna look at that and i'm gonna cast a level three curse of lost time and my goal here is i want to force that bit of chain to just suddenly snap and rust away and break it probably won't force the entire portcullis to lower but it might cause enough commotion on the front of this line to draw this guard's attention and just kind of push us along to deal with this other problem okay okay okay uh yeah sure um do you have subtle spell um as a feat why would i need something like that oh it's also range touch oh it is i do have reach i do have reach spell oh yeah so reach spell would let you but you're gonna have a hard time without a distraction to cover your spell casting that's a good point all right i can i can hope a distraction i'm a master of deception so seeing that tan hauser is uh starting to cast a spell fena's gonna hold on to your dice everybody oh shut up i'm gripping bro it's only gotten worse as time has gone on odo you gotta break the curse everyone put everyone do like uh like backslash oh then forward so it makes a guy do like the raising hand thing like goku give vena your power everyone raise your hands to the sky via chat or whatever yeah the bass is like rattling in my ears i feel like i'm gonna get fucking boosted all right this is what a sonic attack is like it's now your time what does she roll well tell me what you're doing i'll let her finish what she's gonna do as i was just like oh shit she's gonna do something and i'm gonna need a dice roll go ahead yeah seeing that uh tanhauser is about to cast a spell vena is going to um i'm gonna keep it simple uh is there anything besides tarps back here uh there's like like stone like this has been minerals there's some wood that's been kind of um stacked on here as well okay so while tanhauser is casting this spell uh vena's gonna get like a like a palm something that could fit in her palm that she could realistically like throw uh and she's essentially going to try and make a noise from the cart behind us she's gonna kind of underhand toss something to make it look like something has fallen out of the back of the cart immediately behind us okay give me a deception okay now i'm scared don't be scared they give you all their energy it's easy yeah you're playing you're playing the game yeah let's go let's go let's go energy uh with the power of the limeade that you were provided um any time it's her turn she has to do anything you have to give your power or else it's knocking in well yeah if you don't do it we're blaming you now sorry i interrupted you thurston go ahead no you're good you're good you're good you're good all right there's there's a rock now tanhauser you take advantage of this to to cast a spell as the the baser here walks around departing away um leaving your your line of vision uh everyone's attention sort of taken taken momentarily back and you are able to cast a spell i am going to roll a d to see the save of the chain actually it's unattended it doesn't get a save uh oh is it uh the army uh is there anything unattended ah it's attended yes that's right uh so yeah you can just roll me um forty six and then is this heightened no no this wouldn't be no yes all right roll forty six for me not the best damage but hopefully ten is enough um there is like this this like you see it you see it age you see you see it like rusted and dark but what you also see is that it's not quite enough to get this chain to break but maybe maybe amongst the rest of the group there is someone who can add their energy to this seeing the efforts because he's still looking at this uh i will happily expend one of my acid flasks to make that break okay okay okay so and you're going to kind of throw this vial stealthily can i not just like open it and throw it oh oh you can but like like this chain is is probably like 20 feet away from where so then i will do my best because my stealth is fine and i will do what i can give me a stealth check let me see if there's anything i can apply to this that will help yeah i'm still doing foil senses so if they're doing anything special that's not a problem not bound i don't need to do assurance and swift sneak doesn't help here great i'm just gonna roll stealth absolutely i mean it's it's literally my best skill it is the one i am mastering do something whoop eight that'll be 28 seems pretty good to me um now give me an attack roll with with with one of your bombs i have nothing targeted but i can still roll right yeah you should be able to i think okay in that case i'm going to he's going to draw acid flask very quietly no i need to i need to target someone damn it won't let me roll it yeah sorry i put that really give me an object to target thurston help me sorry all right uh no it's fine it's fine uh here uh have uh uh uh uh uh target target prostitut shelf here you got it man brought him back just to kill him again nice team up on the wall and the visuals reminds me of prince i was reincarnated as a chain oh fuck yeah that's a critic yeah that's there you go that's uh that's it's a construct it can't be critically hit but you can roll uh damage for me i can't critically hit uh that'll be 11 that is enough your bomb goes stealthily flies hits it with a minimal breaking sound um and then the the breaking of the glass is actually immediately overtaken by the cracking of the chain and the portcullis kind of shifts to its side as one half of it seems to begin begin collapsing the other is still held up uh everyone turns around everyone's kind of like what's going on what's going on um there's there's shouts from some of the the the tyrants killed it's gonna come down if we don't stop quick get everyone through um and you feel your yourselves very quickly rushed along um as as the cart is pushed forward eventually you find yourselves um pushed in and moments later there is a a distinct crashing sound as the portcullis is uh controlled brought down uh closing the gate behind you as you have now entered into that set good aim there boldrick that worked back into the covers i go godspeed godspeed and shortly after that the the cart continues moving having fallen into the sort of commotion of what's gone on moving several blocks through the area where you've entered the rook's pilaster in east of the city uh eventually being brought to the side of the road where you have a moment away and you hear from tashti outside all right there's there's no one here we're under a bridge way oh thank god oh it's hot under here all right i assume we'll all climb out of the cart yeah man it is nostalgic seeing this uh this i know yeah yeah oh outset how we missed you we love you and we hate you i can't wait to burn it to the ground as one does and rebuild it brick by brick with the blot of the ruling class but first yeah sure our friends kill later friends first yeah all right who zips up his suitcase nuke now mr tannhauser when you talked to the person did you did you ask where they were well i only had a few words i told them where we would be let me see if i can contact her again um i believe now uh i'm going to cast sunding yeah for sure and uh i'm going to contact you hakus and i'm going to say we are inside the city where are you we should meet before we catch up with the airship okay okay so you send the message and there there's a delay um you eventually hear back oh i'm at grandma sweets that's the response all right oh has a flashback i got a bad feeling about this all right does she seem distracted again as she was last time you can give me a perception check to sense motive yeah absolutely i will uh that is gonna be a 26 yes we're not going to meet with to hakus why not she was distracted last i spoke with her and distracted this time too i don't trust it that's just how to hakus operates here's the plan i now this distraction really quick before i can lay out the plan it it didn't seem like it was just normal do hakus being scattered brain it it seemed like there was something else on uh no it seemed like she was distracted by something it was kind of like a half response um it didn't seem any like it's not like you can you can tell it's not like they're being tortured or something no but like i'm thinking like maybe she's under some kind of mind control doesn't seem magical from the detection you have but again you can't be certain unless you use counter spelling type things i mean if something's wrong with to hakus we should go check up on it regardless see if they need help yes but it could be a trap let's be cautious well why don't we do what you usually do when you're trying to get in somewhere stealthily case it find out if it's actually as bad as it looks and then if it's too bad don't all right it's it's the hell out of leaving them up to leaving them out to dry you know fair enough all right we'll head to granny sweets but be prepared we'll be waltzing into a trap right should we try to you know look a little bit less like the very obvious faces on the wanted posters and such that's it's a big place i don't think it'll matter over much all right i still think rahua should probably wear the disguise hat that's a good call yeah the wanted poster you look back at tanhauser and i'm tanhauser is now wearing the high fashion fine clothing that uh he was wearing at the ball uh where he looks like amadeus shakespeare because that's in my backpack and i suppose i could change into that as my disguise yeah i'll allow it i'll allow i'll allow it for the fan artists true i say take her head off i say i'm not tanhauser i am just a normal outset noble i like quiche and quinoa say i fit right in damn you had me jackie daytona ever okay i'll take my hat off and uh well i can't get any less blue unless anybody's got something for me to paint my face with i got mud we could make blood so i could be red instead of blue yes you know that that's a good plan b that's a good plan b i think i'll just be blue for now darn you'll get him next time champ it's okay there'll be another time and another place where volley will be i don't know some kind of pun with red and volley red volley yeah that's the joke that's the bit we're going with here okay oh you sound kind of off that wasn't very funny damn i was just about to like imagine rahua doing the hunter pounce from left for dead on the ten hours i love steam i just hate all the pipes well perhaps we should get a valve then to fix that i'll keep it in my this continues for several hours as you make your way across through the city because you're in the opposite district from uh from the pawns pilaster uh here let's let's bring up another nostalgia piece here as as we as we approach coming in from the rooks pilaster it's so good that we're coming back to our origin wow you play as as you're walking through the streets it's it's noticeably upbeat like people people are smiling as they're moving around oh i don't trust this nobody in outset's happy this place sucks perhaps they're doing something to the people putting something in the water weaving some kind of enchantment hmm or maybe it's simply an effective propaganda campaign close to your mind remember i'm right on it you're like a fucking half i'm like uh-uh um try decreasing the gain i've tried everything or i would like to do um a perception check just it's more more of just kind of like a sense motive type of deal to be like let me see if these people are genuine happy or yeah is it because then he's gonna be like should we stop her you know everyone's happy yeah give me a give me a natural 20 very nice like it's answered as someone like comes up like to the group was like oh good idea hi would you like some free bread i love bread here you go have a bunch of extra fresh loaves thought i'd share them spread the joy friends or in pecks at it like a bird well why is everybody so happy today is something going on oh well you know all the news i'm i'm i i won the lottery you won the lottery that's right every just in general oh no no no no no sir you know right the tenement lottery the tenement lottery sorry we just got in oh outside the city they're putting up lots you want i'm gonna get one of the first ones that's right wow congratulations are you telling me they are you telling me they have the final fantasy 14 house 100% 100% wow that is that's much better than sitting there and clicking the placard for this long i just have to put a script for that wow baldrick didn't you have to click the placard for 12 hours to get your house this is erndel's left erndel's abandoned us no i'm gonna go back to worldy warcraft see you guys later goodbye bye bye you can just get a house down no i don't want any house i don't want your final fantasy house but yes this this bad is is just like i'm so happy i can't wait wow sorry i totally interrupted orin congratulations on getting a house i never thought i would get a house one day you're living my dream oh well don't worry they say there's gonna be more lotteries everyone's gonna be a winner soon wow wow i wonder if there'll be faces out there that's a bet i have with my new neighbor faces anyways got you well yeah you know creepy faces here in the city i don't like the creepy faces ah well hopefully they won't be out there in the new house lot all right friends i've got to go deliver more bread imagine getting a new house and like you open up your window and it's just right there it's like above your toilet you're just sitting down and you're like no no it's in the in the hole just the mouth going no that's even worse zoran go to jail but wait till you see the bidet i'm gonna kill you both with knives everyone seems like like from my role here like as much as the guy answers like it's genuine happiness like everyone's like yeah it's like they seem like they have hope now yeah everyone's actually happy well of course they're happy these individuals are getting new houses new commodities they're going to get new land there'll be new petty bourgeois new feudal lords to lord over the minute fiefs as the city expands outwards and all it will cost young orrin is the world this can only occur at the expense of everything else as the rot consumes and rushes to this fetid canker last does that sound happy to you orrin does that make you smile i don't know the good houses man i i i orrin looks like we're in the king's plaster right uh so you're in the rooks the rooks so you came in through this way you're actually gonna walk around and avoid the baron's plaster plaster and go this way okay um i was like well i i really want to see what the ponds plaster is like because they all get free houses not all of them are going to get free houses orrin all of this excess all of this let's say a ground swell of happiness it's going to come at the expense of other common people i i just i just want to cut forward from like they're not all getting houses cut to the ponds plaster it's like it's like the naboo like celebration at the end oh my god that's what i was like because orrin's like let me wait till this is a ponds plaster because i want to see if it's just like the higher rich people get into shit everyone else gets nothing that's like okay you know but everyone in the pod splash orrin's going to have a kind of reality case of it's like why like yeah we're gonna beat her ass because you know because marlene fucked it's over but it's like is this really a bad thing like what's where are the downsides is he gonna say that out loud because baldrick might say something about that it's uh it's like orrin doesn't know the entire world so he'll actually be like i understand that marlene you know tricked us and everything else and i'm down to you know like you know eat her bones but you know like why why is you know why do we care if the old gods stay locked up or not yes odds are whatever she's doing to keep this up it's probably got a cost somewhere it's a matter of finding it or nods at that trusting in his friends when it's gotta be something deeper to it it all seems like too good of a deal for folks well probably is think about it like they saw what happens when there are no more predators in an ecosystem everyone expands that's right and when there are too many herbivores and not enough carnivores eventually the greenery is eaten away it's eaten at too fast a rate to replenish then it too vanishes and then do the herbivores and with them the rest of the ecosystem yeah woo happy party time yay trust me those screams of despair you're hearing they're miserable they're miserable they hate it they can't stand it I love life I've never loved life so much they're saying that because they're brainwashed my god they're torturing that man and making him sad that's so good they're killing him I mean if they don't expand the nature too much I mean they'll like preserve stuff right I mean the solitude isn't you know the most you know safest thing to be around but it it is nature they'll be responsible right they're not going to build like a billion highways with no way with no bike lanes or some shit right and make it non-walkable stairs at houston true as we walk I'm going to point I'm going to spend my hero point narratively declare that as we're walking we're walking right by the five lane chainsaw car highway that can make barrens and rooks blaster are looks at it they are literally doing drag races down the street like heading towards the barrens blaster chainsaw cars just like there's one that's fully in the bike lane it's all down ill from here man you too can find the chainsaw car in a pdf that speaker worked on pidgeot.com forward slash there's a next nation hey ours is consistent because this is like okay if they're not going to be responsible then we definitely need to stop it then the entire swamp and everything else is just going to turn into this and emotions all about that and it's like that's that's unhealthy they'll keep their power base happy do things to stalk riots and revolutions but rest assured everything this place does has a price yay happiness shut up do these do these cries of happy utopia joy joy joy oh la la la la la do they continue into super poverty bill no no no no they begin to peter off into super poverty oh okay okay okay you you uh you leave you leave the uh the star wars ending uh victory locale and instead find yourselves in a um in a much um much sadder affair as you return to the uh the state of the the pond's pilaster um where several buildings appear to have been deconstructed uh you're coming up and finding that a lot of the structures here aren't actually going up like normal if anything buildings are being torn apart by menial undead with like picks and hammers people are sort of moving about disheveled and despondent oh i see so it's gentrification station there you go there's the people who are miserable tanhauser our people i'm not surprised that's all the more reason for us to crush this place i mean we'll pay for this orn will uh come up to one of the one of the disheveled folks and he'll like take like half his loaf and he'll offer it uh to one of them and go like hi i'm orn hello my name's ally and i yeah have some bread she goes and grabs but oh thank you bless you i could do you mind if i ask you some questions of course not you gave me bread awesome great great great how about just uh pull up a chair here i've got a couple questions for you this shouldn't take more than 20 minutes uh orn's like like what are all the undead doing with all the all the stuff there like they're bringing all these buildings and you know where the senate all at reparations are taking resources from here are they are they bringing it to the city to build houses somewhere else oh yeah it's it's so they can build things on the outside but um what about your home since we lost the revolution uh we have to pay for it orn kind of looks down a little bit and he's like did they take your home i just heard a in the background was that noel getting attacked yeah someone someone moaning in despair on the streets the pond's blasting a common occurrence sorry he's repeating this is it like did they take your home oh yeah i was sharing a tenement with some folks they they took it apart making their way more central towards towards the sinkhole they're tearing down the buildings need the stone they say need any of the wood that's here too also took some of the people where did they take the people don't know didn't really want to ask people who ask get taken but who took them tyrants guilt those new ones the ones well them and their them and their new their new whatever they are horn frowns a bit and he will he'll take five gold from his little pouch and give it to the lady and he'll keep it secret so no one else sees the glint of gold and he'll be like i'm sorry and he'll hop away his little bird feet thank you bless you horn will relay this information to everybody else finalizing it was like it seems like the tyrant guild got some new recruits or new something and they've taken everybody and moving all this stuff from taking everyone's homes because the revolution to build new houses now i'm really gonna eat her bones yeah i cannot express the disgust and the hatred i feel for marlene right now yeah i'm gonna cause of atrocity that was really funny and it kind of undercut the whole moment i was going for i'm sorry it popped in my head and there was no stopping the missile once it's fired i pick a horn and i throw him into the hole in the pond's blaster oh great now we have to wait another three seasons for him to get out well nothing we can do about it now best to just go get the ship and be on our way it doesn't seem right to run from this right now to get onto the ship to leave outset when it is in such dire straits i i mean what are our options we stay here and get the revolution thrashed again or we get on the air ship and there's about a 50-50 we make it you know i don't want to hear you talk about odds you're so drunk on your sub perfect escapism i doubt you've got a clear head for it there is no 50-50 there is a simple binary reality we succeed or we die and guess what we're going to succeed there is no other option maybe we will maybe we won't what is there to do we would do it anyway let's go i don't want to spend a second more here it's gonna move on we move on the district carries on the exact same way as it has becoming in fact slightly less depressing a bit further in it seems closer to the sink hole closer to the sink hole there's less of the sort of just the demolition that i suppose has occurred near the outer area you come to the street a street that at least sends a shiver down the spines of vena and or a long narrow street that connects to grandma sweets the place is dead in the sense that there are just there's an occasional straggler clearly going from point a to point b but that's all there there are some lights in buildings most of them are closed however as you approach you finally do see one where you see a figure who is looking at something in in the doorway of a building which you recognize as grandma sweets and this individual is clearly like looking at the doorway then looking at a coin purse and sort of shakes their head and walks away do you recognize him at all no just just a person just just one of the citizens here who's poor it's the amalgam it's the amalgam it's the amalgam it's between paychecks you know this is the worst i can't believe they hired me after i did all that cool shit last season right all right i'm gonna take a look at through the window of granny sweets do i see duhakis do i see an armed militia of tyrants guard raiding to apprehend us the second we walk in the door um you see duhakis is sitting at a table that is laden with like treats like sweets of all kind are here they are consuming so uh you can see that there's just this massive pile of sweets and duhakis is like eyeing them picking one up clearly uh gauging the weight of it looking at it intently going to bring it to her mouth pausing putting it back down uh she is very intent and focused on analyzing these sweets she alone you see that there is in the background granny sweet who is fervently cooking and baking kind of pulse out to detect magic yeah sure oh the woes of being mundane tell me about it all right as you as you pulse out this magic you feel only the the magical effects of your companions all right let's go in you sure it's safe no aren't tuxes in like a like kind of under his little poncho thing and where's like an undercloak brings up its hood a little bit he's like i'm ready we open the door to granny sweets to hawkis looks up oh hello which one do you think's better why are you here eating sweets because they taste good looks confused we told you where we were going you made us walk about an hour to come and find you the rook's pilaster's a big place we're we're also nowhere near the rook's pilaster like this is quite literally the opposite end of the city you you you you know where this place is you were here before it's good to see you all again good to see you too dark are you all like coming in dead oh well well you and as as that happens you hear from the back riley riley you're back no not again ah where have you been as grandma sweet approaches the old venerable woman who looks at you um kind of trudging towards you hi granny i'm surprised you survived whatever happened the last time we were here well you know i'm you're supposed to be serving customers serve this fine young lady you see in an instant rahua age like 20 years a cigarette appear in his hand and a smock appear on him he just gets dragged back by forces unknown to the kitchen there he goes no not again not again i can't make another biscuit we can't do another rahua special rahua rahua form a labor union with himself i can't it's just me soul member of the labor union rahua that sounds like a dark souls boss soul member of the labor union or puffs out his wings and everything it's like hi tukakis bet you didn't know that's who i was huh oh hi yeah you're the bird yeah whatever come on damn he has a name well anyways welcome back come take a seat have some sweets i'm i'm gonna give duhakus a long look do i sense anything off about her in particular just her general vibe uh give me a sense motive check i'm gonna give you a sense motive this is something up something's up okay all right that's a 17 plus 16 33 tell us all uh this is this is what depression looks like cheers bro i'll drink to that this is like i'm trying to cope veena seeing a mutual depressed friend is going to nod and she's just gonna sit down across from duhakus and just all right which ones are good oh i like these ones they're tarts pass me one and an exchange here she's gonna hand her flask over the table she goes to reach it and you realize that the gargoyle has developed a bit of a paunch and grabs it like oh so how have things been here oh you know we we saw it we saw it go from celebration to depression well the revolution didn't go well and the people here are suffering for it and right things things happen when i came back here i went to the university they're still good bless them educating what happened to you do i guess oh sorry no it's okay good i like i i just i don't know what we do people at least outside of here seem happy it's probably the first change this city's had i guess it is i went i went by maldrick's house once or twice is it still there still locked up nothing no one's been there um well someone was they left some oh who was there i don't know it was on the table when i went back after i came back in the city um did you see what they left i haven't i brought it with me i thought it might be it was fun she pulls out like a larger silver or sorry um sorry golden coin um the coin is probably three inches maybe four inches even in diameter it's fairly large um it has a crest on it the crest appears to be um an eye uh over a horizon i'm gonna show it to baldrick and tan hauser you two recognize us society checks sure sure gee it's gonna be 29 hey uh baldrick do you want to give me a check oh baldrick baldrick baldrick baldrick baldrick oh no baldrick has exploded uh oh it's okay it's okay um erdell dc erdell muted hello oh there we go hi hello sorry i've been trying to talk this whole damn i my mic fell like earlier today oh it's been kind of acting on the front oh okay okay am i audible no i unplugged and re-plugged after this yes no it it should be okay it's just like something's jacked up it's it's fine sorry no it's okay nope you're good you're good you're good yeah give me uh give me yeah society give me a society check please i'm on it okay go i was trying to ask like if i could try to roll that into like outset law or something but yeah uh society uh this is enough uh for for you both to recognize that this is the the symbol of anath um sort of personal sigil of anathian who you remember from your prior um time in the city um one of the chamberlains here was he the golden guy he was the golden fellow goldman and he left this at baldrick's house yes we never did get the report back to him we got busy that little sidetracked yeah i wonder what he has to say can't be anything good but better to hear it at least then we can decide what the hell to do seems to be most of what we're doing right now is just reacting to shit but it's been a few months so how much we can do aside from that we can't help it we need to gather intelligence and do hawkies yes you are one of the foremost members of the revolution tell me what happened to the others that you know of she looks almost sad that well a lot of the people were taken to where i don't know where they were taken somewhere out of the city it seems they went out east maybe forced labor it's not good but it does mean that they're not being turned into drudges early how did you escape they just didn't talk to me or do anything i tried to i tried to come in the same way that i'm guessing you did through the through the tarp and all that and then then they were just like what are you doing under a tarp and they just let me come in likely because they don't see you as a threat perhaps i'm a threat and like she tries to like puff up her stone skin a bit really maybe word about you just hasn't reached the tyrants guild yet it's a small blessing well duakus i certainly agree you are capable of being a threat tell me what threatening actions have you taken since you've come back i've been reading trying to figure out what the what the tyrants guild did yes changes any interesting information you can share whatever vestiges of the old powers were still around they've quite thoroughly enchained them they go around some of the districts with bound elementals they've infused powers from the old powers from the elemental churn into some of their bodies that doesn't sound good yes i noticed that on the walls there are some individuals call them a sandriths horrifying things can you spell that for me can you write that down for my notepad please i really i really need to know for for the for the the cool notes um you know what speak yourself there's an art piece and the spell oh sorry sorry sandrith oh uh for podcast listeners basically imagine a um like kind of like a cloth mask person and a uh kind of face looking gas mask like think of a gas mask but it's more formed factor to look like a face um just think of like just a normal suit of stuff some like plate some leather so i didn't think of that thing that person's entire back on fire and then imagine um like water is pouring out of that gas mouth like like imagine the mouth is just vomiting water and this thing has like a like a gnarly looking crossbow like it was like as if they took a guy in like a you know gas mask sort of like outfit to be like a ranger and then like i'm gonna imbue you with elemental shit and then they did that to him and he's got both of that going on damn that's cool as hell yeah or you can go to where you can help us afford all these amazing artists because we pay every single one of them for that yay narrative declaration the flamethrower um merchandising the supporters love this one yeah i was trying to figure out what they're doing i tried to find where where marlene went she just disappeared it looks like marlene likely somewhere in the prince's pilaster with all the other cockroaches maybe we're out overseeing the new construction that's the other thing tearing down here bringing in triple loads from out east it's a lot of stone and a lot of timber they're bringing in every success is drained from the people of the pond's pilaster and the wider world i assure you to hawk as this will not stand the revolution will rise again oh good can i count on your support uh or uh what sort of motivating skill do you have here well let's see society uh-huh i uh i let me tell you something i got minus two diplomacy minus two but what i do have is society is society and master training and i do have uh courtly graces streetwise it's a courtly waste great courtly graces courtly graces is for making an impression okay uh streetwise is for gathering information all right off ticket start uh eyes of the cities for tracking hmm can i convince her with a cool crafting check i mean you could use society to make an impression and i'll pretend she's kind of a noble that's a great that's about as much pity as i'm showing you i love that you're like your your whole character is like great with i could influence the people i absolutely despise listen he's he didn't ask to become a revolutionary it was he sure has taken to it though he's taken to it but you know you can take the ashland badland out of the ashlands but you can't take the ashland out of the bad man yeah man roll the society all right i'll shut up roll the society let's go absolutely i'm still in the revolution i mean i just needed to hear that's that stirring revolutionary voice and i can get redouble my my efforts at the university i'll find out more about what's going on and see if there's some way we can stop it yeah you get society only through our collaborative effort can we keep the flame of revolution alive yes the people may feel as if they are beaten but that discontent can only simmer for so long these retributive taxes this reparations the princess palaster demands oh yes the revolution may have lost the battle but the war shall not end until the prince's palaster is in embers and its wealth distributed to the people to huckus you must fan the flames keep it alive and we shall end i'll read books yeah right now that's a good part of the revolution that is one part of it but with the information you learn from those books you need to furnish others with it can look i'm gonna suggest a step i'm gonna suggest a step in this that may help with this coming revolution because simply regurgitating information back at people who have no means of understanding it really doesn't help them understand it it works fine for me eventually that's you're not everybody tanhauser you're not even you're barely even you listen you're a wizard just i thought he was a wizard look come back to waiting when you get okay this information when you get whatever you're collating together for this next revolution that you're planning can you condense it into a more understandable and digestible format for the average person rather than belching platitudes and revolutionary rhetoric at them and hope they understand it because that's kind of how we got where you are where we are now you're right we can't simply just expect the masses to accept revolutionary rhetoric and academic theorems spat out at them we need to put it in a way that they understand juhakis yes i reach into the people's loot oh no i am going to furnish how much gold do we have saved guys a lot i'm gonna furnish let's say 300 gold okay i need you to commission the greatest playwrights in all of outset and i need you to have them write revolutionary plays something to instill this spirit in the heart of the everyman but in such a way but the masses of the prince's palaster might think it's simple poor folk reprobate poetry but in truth in truth each work of art will be a piece of revolutionary subversion feed the counterculture i like plays that's great mr tannhauser what will the messaging be is it is it like eat the rich or it is that the bourgeoisie are not human they need to be devoured and crushed but they must rise up against their chains all right yes orin outset isn't entirely made of humans that would be racist you're right i'm so sorry as you as you have this moment oh that that writes me on the coin the back is strange and like holds the back and it's this explodes it it's yeah explosion there's there's like a vista that's that's printed onto it it appears to be a balcony that's overlooking the city with a fountain in it i remember that balcony erndella you've turned off the targeting computer what's wrong i'm gonna fly my ship into the space ball oh no well whatever works yeah outside kind of does look like the death star it is yes now they have to caucus and and they can kind of help hold the fort and try to inform everybody of you know what they should be fighting for and what the messaging is and really start making underground cells and stuff um actually i think the only thing duakus committed to was reading books oh nerd anyway you're good with all of that duakus and and plays and plays all right we're good enough should we uh head over to see our uh well probably report back to mr goldie we probably shouldn't but at the same time why would we reject such a thoughtful invitation yeah we also might want to prepare he had those invisible guys last time um part of me considers if i should prepare another sending yeah you have an arcane bonded item yeah that's right okay i will um tap my uh quantum singularity engine the energy will fuel my magic and i will reactivate sending whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa and i'm going to uh target anathian nathian yeah that that one it's it sounds different when you see it in my notes you know you're reading a bit differently if you think my way yeah i'm sure i'm sure somewhere you know really if you think about it i'm right and you're wrong okay anyway um anathian i've received your bauble i must ask are you friend or foe should we take it as an invitation there's a long long silence of course because it requires time to parse and respond and then then there is a response probably after you've sent a meeting does it give me any other information or does that's the response is a meeting he can also lie to your face i mean from a long distance but you get it these people realize that they have 25 words to work with he was being economical i'll show him economical i'll ram it straight up well our good friend seems to want a meeting i say we make it quick before he has time to prepare any defenses or at least as many as he might like i agree let's go ahead and head on over dohakis might as well the revolution is in your charge that's a lot of pressure yes i know find people you can trust spread the flame of resistance and keep me appraised if you can yeah are you a spellcaster of any sort oh oh good luck i was gonna ask yeah and is crunch still at his uh at his forge i haven't seen crunch in a while not since we came back to the city he said he had something to take care of and then just went off i think crunch is very rude what he's on his own quest he's with the angels now wait mysterious waiter you know crunch what tenhauser it's been like 30 minutes oh my god for who i thought you were dead i wish i was oh buddy sorry go ahead no my bit wouldn't be funny enough okay sorry you can try you can try executive decision try it now try it now did you form that workers union like i suggested i did but they said they didn't have time to form one no vacation days let me see the rest of the staff all right who else works he grabs tenhauser's and he grabs the door and he's like we gotta go and he starts dragging him outside release me how dare you can you all break him he summons gogermonger and gogermonger starts helping push them like yeah you want you want to see the rest of the staff tenhauser who goes into the back comes out himself but he has like a mustache on who's that strange man we gotta go okay i can take the beer all right let's go granny i'm leaving for the day okay riley make sure that you spend that copper on something nice for yourself a pop get a pop granny they cost five gold now god damn in this economy i see pop five gold for pop art helps drag everyone forward to the meeting aldrich's just going man he's not dragging his feet he's ready yeah let's let's walk to the meeting so zorin doesn't have a pulmonary embolism with the episode timing now we gotta linger here forever we gotta suffer all right you begin making your way towards um the the retreat uh you find yourselves continuing back towards the prince's plaster uh which is of course you know like like revealed by the sounds of oh yeah everything's awesome it's great party party party um as the jubilation continues in the central district of town um the the lower back halls which you previously would encounter people in at semi-regular intervals are now completely barren as people have taken to the more populated urban street ways and thoroughfares and the prince's plaster to celebrate in what is some kind of eternal party huh well they can't be doing it for this long is it like this everywhere except the pawns palaster well take this beer bottle make a molotov all right uh crap do i have a molotov formula that's bald rick's bit yeah there's a second one what the fuck you can't just do that in front of him that's his shit here i've got a second one bald rick you make a molotov uh all right sure here do more time because i got i got alchemist fires i'll just pass one over it's fine it's all the same alchemist pass out we've got enough alchemist fires to keep you stoned for your entire life for the entire season club talk bring me some more plants nothing but yucks today huh exactly you you make your way into the halls now you remember uh well actually no i'm gonna ask who here remembers how you got to an athian's retreat there was an alleyway anyway did we go to the under city i remember but you should tell me anyway remind me i'm also lying yeah i think remember so we went over to like a certain alleyway and then we kind of okay what important canonical event was was determined to have occurred in this alley clown wars oh the clown wars thank you the clown wars we remember the clown wars we don't remember shalo i'm back again to remind you of your fin thorin no no you're going to like it little man because unfortunately this bit has no end to it this is like the reverse thorin baby voice oh my god this is the counter this is the hard counter congratulations zord on finding your beam struggle opponent always two there are clown versus crying baby always two there are a clown and a baby but which was destroyed the clown or the baby us whoever wins we lose find out in comic book number 315 the clown wars part 77 i look forward to writing that pdf all right enough there there was there was a secret door that led off of the hallways yeah i'm just going to assume baldrick remembers where yeah he you want me to make a recall knowledge no no i'm not even gonna make you roll for it okay so he does know because baldrick would keep note of this because he he has he's he went to college he's got a good memory for these things yeah yeah of course it's down this way sorry just writing my notes uh to get to office secret door in clown wars hallway harm i'll follow your lead yep i had to keep track of this when we were coming down here last time so all right just through here yeah there's a secret door that leads to a small stairwell that leads up to an open door which you can go when you when you do go through um you find yourself once again on the balcony um roughly sunset um at this point there are two stone tables a fine fountain again this place is sort of overgrown in some sense um with with vines and other things so you come out the place is oran does the seek perception check okay go yeah this looks pretty familiar basically he's looking to see you know invisible people if anybody else is around any traces of people being here that's a 19 for a total of 37 yeah we don't see a nathian yet do we no well now all we're missing is some gold masked asshole on that timing oh excuse me so on that on that timing um you you you enter the place you all start walking around i assume at this point you've resummoned gorgamunger yeah i already summoned him before yeah i don't like it when there's a battle map here you are on the retreat oran with your perception check which i'm just i'm just just gonna ah cool yeah jeez uh oh yeah i don't i don't like that there's a map for this i was a trap those either just doing a little just doing a little in fact you know what could i get the rest of you i'm just gonna you know put you into this wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute if i gotta get you all to give me perception checks you know detect magic you know like detect the invisibility i hate players like you take away a hero point no hey thurston this is arbitrary yes thurston is this perception for an initiative roll or is it just a perception it is it is it is oh okay i gotta re-roll that then i got a 35 not very good mine is a very okay 19 well uh oh yeah so that's uh for that one for podcast listeners because we got too jumbled oran got a 37 10 how's it got a 35 vena got a 24 bulger got a 19 rahuda got a 19 and the enemies got four uh what why are you uh-ing because i i have not seen the enemies yet oh god why are you rolling dice boy oh that's too you don't go rolling dice some big city cockroach now i know when i see some questionable dice being rolled i say nah sir i was brought up in the sewers boy now i may be no big city globster but i know a mound of trash and refuse when i see it yeah i might be some big city lobster with a brother who's a globster now i i say something's a fucking mission sorry yeah oran i'm oran you uh you you sense something right over here oh no right over oh no can you pick it right over here okay uh what i'm going to do is i'm gonna split my actions uh two actions for me and two for grogermonger uh i'm going to point out i'm gonna play out both of them uh for one action like you only see one i only said there was one right here okay i'll point that one i point towards that one and uh there's a there's a part of me who wants to do something silly but i don't know if it'll work very well for me at the end of it um oran oran we'll point that one out and then he is going to cast uh extend boost on gorgamonger are you talking like that because i'm trying to extend time as i press macro buttons thurston and i'm trying to he's been possessed very pug very pug it's kind of trying to be entertaining god damn it a manor a ghoul and they called it a mine anyway i think i got my macro working now uh i tried to extend boost and i fail um oh yeah because i'm really gonna i'm gonna want that i'm gonna re-roll uh that die for 17 basically what that entails is that that's a critical success so that means my extend boost which i'm doing uh reinforce idolen which means that gorgamonger now gets a resistance to three to everything uh because of his level and stuff like that and also increases his ac a little bit so that's oran's first action because putting uh because extending that is a free action as well brings me down a focus point uh and oran is gonna go like we're like gorgamonger sick him it's like it's a trap because because oran's like nah i might not trust in this uh no not this time yeah so he's going to do that and i do apologize because i'm um also gonna cast guidance on gorgamonger just so we can get that done so that's gonna be two actions for oran no the there was one action for that never mind i lied to you i'm cheating because point out that's right but do apologize i'm a lying little bastard uh gorgamonger will head all the way over here actually no i'm sorry with someone with action economy sorry i should be better than this i should be way better than this uh point out for the one action and then uh i give gorgamonger the rest of the action because there was a plan i was going to do i apologize for being a very bad player about that uh gorgamonger will go straight up to here and what gorgamonger is going to do uh just to help out with all this he is going to breathe flame uh i'm gonna cast this kind of like a spell thing which does the same effect because i got everything kind of preset for it he'll look over basically where this thing is where they suspect it is but it's its whole entire right side gorgamonger goes and basically just bursts forth an entire thing aflame and so for that uh whoever is inside it needs to roll me a dc 27 basic reflex save okay roll damage roll the damage and the damage for it is 19 points of damage okay there is a blast of flame that goes over the entire area um and you don't see anything after afterwards just the charring of some of the plant will matter there there's like a haze shimmer in the air where the thing has been pointed out but you see no other effect from it and that's the end of orrin's turn go like something's there all right anhauser my turn shall be simple i'm going to uh bring my hand up high and i am going to suddenly force the uh photons in this area to light up and i'm going to cast revealing lights and i'm gonna go ahead and place my ten foot burst um what's that okay thank you thank you bless you oh my god holy crap quiet down dog it's so explosive and uh they need to make me a reflex save a reflex check i suppose yeah okay uh let's see um it's like okay uh okay so this thing becomes concealed as your lights sort of uh hone in on it and reveal what this thing is you recognize it immediately uh tanhauser uh the rest of you kind of caught fleeting glimpses of them in the past or told them this is one of an athian's constructs these score an obliteration construct of like massive spherical uh robotic construct with concentric circular points around it vicious blade-like claws and an apparatus of lenses uh coming out of a central point it's held aloft on four uh like a quadrupedal set of legs and has a vast stack that spews out magical energy from its backs oh i see and this one is in an offensive stance right correct okay so we now know this is a trap broadly uh for my last action uh i happen to be an expert on machines and the score in i'm going to attempt a recall knowledge check on this absolutely this would be a crafting check okay that's better than my lord is a score in so i'll take it uh six on a die but it still gets me a 27 okay so this is enough for you to get a baseline information it's not a great role but it's enough for you to to know a little bit about these um you can ask me one thing offense or defense and i will answer with information about i got a higher role could i ask more questions absolutely i will reroll with a hero point sure i think knowing the uh the nature of our destroyer oh well that was one point higher but shouldn't it be three points higher well it it should actually yeah because you rolled let's see yeah it should be it should be but it should be 10 10 above this so that's enough for you to ask two questions um specifically if you would like to know about offense and defense i can give you information um for both um so you'd know about its defenses this thing um is resistant to physical damage and spell damage uh yeah you need like adamantine style weapons to pierce these types of constructs um they are naturally invisible uh until they attack at which point they become concealed so what your light has done has kind of given it the state it would naturally be in if it made an offensive action um as it has like invisibility engines um the the most notable thing beyond its effective blade blade arms is that this possesses a beam weapon called an exo reality beam um that unleashes dizzying beams from its uh like the chest array uh that can scramble the brains of those it strikes well that sounds pretty bad um can i ask a pointed question about its defenses sure um what which of its saves is the worst reflex good to know all right uh that's i think my two questions as and you cast a spell for two and you recalled knowledge for one so next up absolutely oh wouldn't you know it's the construct that sounds bad which is going to advance up to here uh you see it it's like the the shimmer shape of it under the lights trundle forward uh it's sort of a ray is pointing as it um yeah it's gonna unleash a cone as it unleashes a dizzying blast of energy striking um a variety of people uh here let me uh striking a variety of people can i get uh gorkamunger or an andro hua to give me that reflex save please nine d6 okay yeah rolling taking the worst and the worst is really bad i rolled a four uh for oran either way that's gonna fail i'm gonna hear say yeah critically fail yeah okay regular success okay cool okay yeah i got like a 38 for you uh but that one wouldn't be a 38 because it rolled up higher than 10 yeah um okay cool oh you're right sorry i cut the wrong thing my bad you're good you're good all right so this is gonna be full damage to oran uh to oran and gorgamunger so i'll just gorgamunger oh half damage to rahua the gnarly effect the sound scared me yeah and you are stupefied for the next minute oran that's my default state technically says gorgamunger um and that's that one's go to explain to explain stupefied for people uh your thoughts and instincts are clouded sorry it's a new thing and teaching people uh your thoughts and instincts are clouded stupefied always includes a value blah blah blah you take a status penalty equal to its value to intelligence wisdom and charisma based checks and dc's including will saving throws spell attack modifiers spell dc's and spell checks to use these attribute modifiers anytime you attempt to cast a spell while stupefied the spell is disrupted unless you cast a dc six flat check with a dc equal to five plus your stupefied value yeah don't get hit by that if you cast spells this one uh a second one appears to the other side its form shimmering this one is not invisible but it is um it is now concealed as it takes a hostile action and now i'm going to get the other three of you to please give me a reflex save come on man yeah five five five come on now there you go i like how i didn't have a chance to position myself so i'm just caught in this attack anyway uh oh it didn't post in the chat for me or is it yeah i also don't see it oh one sec sorry sorry sorry sorry there we go private roll okay there we go oh yeah yeah i can turn that up cool reflex save oh my god here it is here we go for a 38 which is i noticed you did raise your power at fucking all during her roll that's on you i'm gonna re-roll that with a hero point i'm still gonna take my complication sure yeah this one's on you chat critical success oh that's a crisp that's a backflip all right yeah but i'm still going to take my complication um and i'm gonna take oh that one's for an attack roll damn it all right this one is deeply funny for a very uh dire situation uh this one is from kaigen kaigen something the complication name is did i leave the stove on player will suddenly remember a very important event slash task they were supposed to do earlier in the day something that is more important than what is currently happening right now i guess you were brewing beer all right you're all fucking that's still shit on that's gonna be ruined zabel zap's trading a post just in flames oh god damn it did i tell zabel zap that i forgot to to put the fire out cool uh you are um going to be stunned one for the next turn so you lose one action damn it all right let's go vena you're up all right oh by the way i should mention as it materializes it's floating above the ground hovering in the air after unleashing its beam on you son of a bitch i'm gonna have to spend shits to get up there uh is the other one on the ground yes yeah it's on the it's on the ground okay well uh time to split up gang i'm going to i believe i have enough yes i just have enough to tumble through um so i'm gonna give you a tumble through here oh wait it's this one what if your earthbind that one off the railing just falls through its death uh that'd be pretty funny wouldn't it really funny i mean it did zabble zab give me my earthbind scroll oh crit success damn tumble through wait he did yeah i just don't think we've had i because because again we didn't have time before the session to get it that's okay i'm sorry oh wait uh do i need to roll the conceal check if i'm not hitting it uh if you're not hitting it you're fine okay sick um and then now with my panache i'm going to attempt to finish him sure thing uh let's let's see oh my god come on man it begins so thurston i i see that you our our pity point bar is full from our very generous chat donations um so uh uh i i wonder i you know i will be taking another complication of course of course it's a good thing i picked more um this is so hey thurston okay pick your complication okay uh um here we go there's one right beneath it from sylvain the complication name is achoo you released a very sudden loud powerful sneeze specifies you did not have time to cover your mouth or turn away okay cool um so you've used your two actions to fly on in and try to stab you can you can you can re-roll the attack now amazing you uh that whiffs uh well technically it'll hit because the plus 10 because the plus 10 because you rolled a six that's true click the concealed dice because that could matter oh there's the 20 that's the one that nat 20 that's the one that nat 20 is i'm gonna walk into the sun power wrong i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm killing a hostage whoa you may now give me give me uh give me damage 32 points of damage uh yeah he's gonna take less than that only takes 22 as you find that your weapon does not necessarily pierce the metal exterior of this thing well okay that was a pretty standard vena turn everybody goodbye all right baldrick you're up okay i'm gonna have baldrick move behind this table okay okay i was i was worried like my mic had fucked up again oh no uh so i'm gonna move there for one action i am now going to take cover okay how much cover is this table providing are you planning to are you planning to attack because remember if you're going to attack i'm just i'm cover yeah i i remember that just now because you told me you're good so i would say i would say this would give you standard cover if you take cover behind this right now it'd be lesser cover and then if you take cover you'll get standard cover okay so first and foremost i'm going to throw an acid flask at the target yeah yeah i have one remaining from my general crafting because i did all my shit beforehand on the on the cart somehow don't ask i don't know uh so it's concealed that's a dc5 so if i roll my thing now roll it and there'll be a button now that'll tell you to do the conceal yeah so as long as not the versatile vial not that one boundary there we go there we go strike acid let's go uh that'll be a hit let me roll my concealment check 11 that'll that'll succeed and that'll hit the target damage uh this is with sticky bomb yeah uh same roll as last time i threw one but hey that's okay yeah i will sheave my no acid flask because i've run out of them so a funny note about these things is they're resistant to spells they are resistant to physical uh alchemy is neither of those oh my god that is proper gremlin it's time for me to time for me to take cover now i take cover uh hang on did it actually select the right one yeah it takes take cover no cover standard there we go at least from the guy to my north the other guy is going to be another problem but i think you guys have that one i'm just going to hide over here and stack dots because that's all i can do good luck for who i can okay all right you're up rahua that is such a good thing that i am up i'm very happy for this hmm vena gorgomonger and oran seem to have that one handled you're stacking dots on that one i think that i want to participate in that action let me uh let me just do a little fucking bursting here i need a measurement tool for this one let me just turn it down to 20 oh set up the burst tool there we go 20 point burst well that's quite large uh remind again how to draw the burst there we go there we go that's fine perfect oh let's just do that right here so thirst him this uh this wonderful this score and construct right here the air crackles and begins to heat up as seemingly out of nowhere with a snap of his fingers rahua attempts to cast divine immolation okay i need that construct to make a dc 26 reflex save so which was specifically which where are you placing the the burst because you uh the place of course the burst is going to go all right it's a 20 foot burst i'm just gonna move that right here no on top of it right there so we don't burn baldrick to death in the process that one okay yeah okay makes reflex save yeah it will succeed but you can roll damage still i will still roll damage that is a shame and piddly damage at that that was worthless it takes no damage okay you conjure forth this like pillar of anarchic flame uh that that scours the air in a cylinder and much like the dragon breath of gorgamonger this thing is unscathed okay well that's that's a damn shame now isn't it i'm gonna you know you know what i didn't expect to get this far i'm gonna i'm gonna invoke one of my uh invested items right here and let me just uh let me drop that in there that's gonna be the essence of majesty i'm just gonna i'm gonna throw a cantrip out i'm gonna throw a cantrip out which one we're gonna try an arch actually it might be out of range hold on i i'm gonna raise my shield cool you know what i did the best i could and i think that's just great we're gonna die all right yeah all right and your turn or who else pass it on i'm passing the football here we go round two it's up fight all right all right uh basically what oran's gonna do uh he's gonna do tina movement with gargermanger uh here in a little bit just like basically to clear that and of course he's gonna do the whole shebang that he did last time he's gonna uh we're hoping this works because it's gonna take a lot of rolling just double checking what stupefy does okay yeah uh we do extend boost they're like do your best buddy with reinforce idol so he can start tanking um he casts that he succeeds um sorry i will get my cure point back because i did the thing for that and um so he succeeds on that uh i need to roll dc six flat check give me a moment because i'm stupefied try to get the thing for it do apologize it might if you cast the spell give you like the button maybe if you cast it i can go to the effect and do it one now i'll re-roll that it begins yeah there's a ten there you go now the hero point goes away here we go because i want that to happen because that helps out a lot um so basically because i wrote all that i get a complication complicate an extremely sharpened image of of orin where it says the bearer of the curse true all right let's see uh we're gonna go with the complication from therapy bear who says full circle you fail so spectacularly that it comes back around to a minor success but in the most inconvenient way possible thank you so much therapy bear for that for submitting complication for us from patreon okay okay cast the spell it's already done i don't see it in chat though uh it's enhanced i don't that's what i'm enhancing gorgmonger it's already done sorry sorry okay you just didn't cast the spell you don't do it like that oh okay if you need a description here you go no no no it's good that was that was it because it is a cantrip like you can't drop it in there that was all it's just checking okay cool yeah that's an infinite cantrip i can do forever and ever and ever and ever yeah that's like that's a focused cantrip i mean you can do it forever and ever uh so basically that's one action because that's a free action the boost thing and it does that uh because it's success that means reinforce i don't that means he gets the resistance stuff down that lasts for three turns instead of four and now i'm going to give all the rest of my actions to gorgomonger as gorgomonger takes one step forward uh that will allow oran to also move uh which he is going to go down to here because of tandem movement uh he's going to go all the way down here just behind this fountain oh there's a yeah this fountain thing here and that'll be uh that tandem movement now gorgomonger has two actions left and gorgomonger with his dragon stuff uh he is going to do you'll probably get a lot of windows up and draconic frenzy basically what that means your eidolon takes one strike with her primary unarmed attack and two strikes with their secondary unarmed attack in any order if any of these attacks critically hits an enemy your eidolon instantly recovers the use of their breath weapon so basically what gorgomonger's going to do come in for the jaws attack go rock that's his main one 13 on the die for a total of 34 he is concealed we're going to see if that hits it does that's 2d8 plus seven for a total of 20 damage for it takes 10 he will now come in for his other two attacks he's going for the jaws for mp minus four he unfortunately gets a miss on that just in case there's any reaction things or anything else to do that is a nine so it doesn't happen uh last one for the mp minus uh four let me just make sure the kind of frenzy is whatever about it i don't think it really matters you know critically hit him here yeah it'll be mp minus 10 rolls for it what does make a hit we're going to do the concealed thing he fails the concealed thing unfortunately so none of that happens so the damage is cancelled gorgomarker only gets one hit him but he did his best sorry for a long term you're good tannis are you up all right so a thought occurs to me we might not actually need to fight these guys if we rush in through these doors i can wall of stone the entrance out that way and maybe we can just pill for the inside here find whatever's there how do we feel about that interesting theory i do feel like they'll probably chase us they will but they'll also need to go through the wall of stone there's also two doors exactly well wall of stone can get like just block off all of it um something to think about not something for right now here's what i'm gonna do very easy i'm going to target um this individual floating i'm going to whip out my scroll of earthbind and i'm going to cast earthbind shocking and surprising so that beautiful uh little mean mother hover is gonna have to make me a dc 29 fortitude i hate that it says fall safely yeah it does fall safely no matter what first of all first of all hit the conceal button oh oh that matters for this oh no yeah it's a spell you're targeting oh oh oh oh oh hey close hmm it's uh it's very it's very happy uh it's not quite a crit but it's a success all right well so it will fall it will fall a hundred and twenty feet down the good news is is literally whether it succeeded or critically failed all of that shit was irrelevant to me because we're definitely a hundred and more than 120 feet up all that is really gonna do is just force it to spend a shit ton of movement that's really helpful that's worth it it's gonna take all that acid damage coming up and uh for my next trick i'm going to uh once again recall knowledge i want to ask thirsting more questions okay um so let's see how i do that's gonna be a 38 i suppose i do i have to roll concealed if i'm uh recalling knowledge nope okay nope you can ask me one more question on these things okay that's gonna tap out your your knowledge on them totally fair what's their hp pool um they hover in the 150 to 200 you were to stat that out they are they're they're heavy-ish all right so these guys are heavy heavy heavy we need to be expecting to burn through about 400 hp all right that's turn okay all right uh hey vena remember how you sneezed yeah that's gonna attract its attention first attack oh damn it oh uh it's concealed because it's dazzled by the light that'll hit it hits you with one of its blades which as the blade impacts you you feel it vibrate in your skin doing sonic damage uh it goes for a second blade oh fuck crits you oh my god if i if i were to nimble dodge would that negate the crit makes the concealed uh no it criticals you by a lot oh by a lot a lot i'm just gonna roll this here it's gonna be 44 more points it's a good scream that's a really good scream if you want to change your voice go your character sheet and there's a microphone button and you can change that it's gonna use third action because you sneezed oh don't do that one though come on man uh you can take a reaction no it didn't oh yeah oh yeah it didn't crit mess um all right that's that one's go i'm testing the sounds can you hear them when i click the button no you're good okay thank you that's it okay vena you're up oh and then this one takes acid damage yes oof that is a good dot okay ow ow ow that that would the ow okay um i'm going to oop there we go it you can't see it it recovered as it's floating back up the acid falling off of its hole well fuck you then i'll just put it right back on your fucking round ass stupid round robot fuck you it also didn't take any offensive actions so it also turns offensive avina all right i'm gonna get all right i'm gonna get some finash that i succeeded yeah yeah all right oh yes i got a 36 for a critical success uh i'm gonna hit it with my sword boom yes big critical okay okay power's coming on the finisher thank you thank you chat thank you for your power i don't wanna i don't wanna take away from this oh not the concealed button oh no you made it you made it oh my god just there we go oh good lord all right roll it the universe decided to be a little funny with me there all right let's go that's a lot oh 61 points of damage 51 then you start tearing between uh stabbing elegantly between the various plates on this thing come on little bastard there's cracking of gears and other things um as it's it's like ponderously trying to swipe at you again uh and then i'm going to with my final action i'm going to hit it with a feint yeah get more panache um there we go um oh wait i didn't actually click the feint feint i'm dumb yeah just re-roll it with the feint this one yeah there we go that's gonna succeed all right that will succeed that one you do have to actually also roll concealment on though oh i do that as opposed to the the doctor you're fine again it keeps giving me a six all right it's a song that's vena that's my go oh my bones i can't attack an invisible target right well remember okay so the invisible target is also 60 feet down oh right you can't like even angle see it yeah you could just drop it over the edge though it probably can't avoid it i'm not gonna risk that but however there is a very funny target over here that i can engage with them yeah i got a question yeah if i stand behind this fountain yeah does that give me any cover i'd give you cover okay in that case i'm not gonna take cover behind it but i will yeah um to the edge yeah i'm thinking who i want to be hit by a cone attack more rahua or oran i'm your healer i'll go i'll go next to rahua because if you get coned at least you can survive it better i'm gonna remove my cover it does have to do a fort save from the crit from veena oh it does it passes i i i imagine thanks chat so what level what level of cover is this uh just standard cover okay i'm not taking cover behind it i just i'm applying the cover now sure and i will target the target and a bomb i'm thinking about what bomb i should use first a bomb because everything is everything is is a bomb yes but i tell you what i'm gonna try first and foremost with a frost vial to see if i can give it a penalty to move go my son okay let me roll my yeah oh look how close you are yeah you made it boy all right i hit him with the cold and you this thing will now take a minus 10 foot penalty to its speed until the end of its next turn yes that's the first go i will then draw and throw what on earth do you know what let's debuff the hell out of this thing bottled lightning coming at you football oh that's that was also supposed to be a map minus five so it doesn't matter yeah it's gonna be i'm gonna yeah so i i could i will spend the hero point to re-roll that just deduct five from it thurston um here's what i would suggest doing roll the concealed first because all you would technically okay now re-roll it yeah yeah so just apply a minus five to this i'm gonna re-roll this with a hero point sweet oh fuck that well okay actually plus ten uh but then minus five yeah no still not quite enough it'll take the splash though the splash will still damage in yep i'll roll the i'll roll the damage and you just yeah just click it and i'll just apply splash only there you go got it it's doing damage to it it's funny that all my shit just goes through it because it's not magic it's chemical it's it's chemical it's a different makes a lot of sense right now how do you make chemical electricity that's insane ruah it's time to do exactly nothing again ruah is just gonna slide on up there's okay spells aren't working out let's try some percussive maintenance instead and i'm gonna attempt to do a two action strike on this creature please let me target him thank you uh and we're gonna do a restorative strike release attempt to i'll put that in there always give it the option to but it doesn't matter because i still have to do a regular attack anyway yeah here we go sealed and stuff oh that's a hit roll conceal seal oh oh it's a flat check you do have a hero point that is true i i will roll a hero point to attempt to do something for my teammates do it up i'm gonna re-roll okay yeah i can just re-roll that one hero point hero point oh did i beat it yeah that's gonna well let's see you got a 38 38 to hit but 17 on the conceal check actually that's gonna be a crick because it didn't apply the flat footed because you're flanking with vena hey that's pretty good you rode that critical i'll do i'll throw the critical let's go teamwork damage and fatal pick love that fatal pick trash that son of a bitch slamming down that pick trying yeah i succeed here that's okay i wasn't gonna move it all right uh and then i'm gonna do my one action heal for double check was worse off i think it's vena who's worse comparative yeah yeah i'm having a tough time yeah but you're having a real bad time here let me in let me hit you up with a lot thank you thank you very much yeah of course yeah i'm a my wonderful patented rahua one action heel pill here you go thanks bud of course real a real outset patreon wow that was dog ass wow wow 12 points of healing that bit confused the out of me actually when you do restorative strength does it say you have to do a one action heal or you're just casting heal it says one action heal it just doesn't have it like built into the actual thing i recall if i recall okay so it's a fly effect but i'm doing i'm doing um same tune here sorry because one action heal is a touch spell um yeah because it's because of the way it works you do cast one action heal it doesn't need necessarily high don't have to be next to vena for it i can hit any creature that's adjacent to it uh you bounce your brother scales or string yourself a trigger to vote cast a one action armor heal spell to heal yourself can be outside the spells range provided it's adjacent to the enemy you hit okay awesome yeah i'll just make it sure like i'm i'm on your team i'm like let's make sure we're doing this right my bad oh yeah yeah yeah no i'm very solid on on that the rules of that one so i just might smack the creature stopping on your toes on it my bad it it's okay it's okay my my duties are okay thank you for apologizing though uh roa smacks this creature gouging out its mechanicals a little bit and sends whatever animate motive force into vena instead healing for a paltry 12 points yeah it's because he doesn't have much life force it's all right bud it's it's you know i i did my best i'll probably regret my actions in the next two minutes no it's okay i believe in you oren go yeah it's oren it's oren time he's gonna oren all over the place um all right oh i need it i need to heal vena very badly so i'm gonna have to take the risk of the super fire because i think that stuck on me for a minute which means the entire combat so oof uh basically i should have done some extra reading here actually but i'll do that later uh oren is going to spend a with his staff and go and try to uh use a two action heal on vena just to make sure we're in range we are do that to to vena don't worry i'll get the stupefied here in a second make sure it happens no it doesn't sorry you're lost anyway uh gregor marcus uh look at this thing and try to bite it yeah yeah oh that will be a crit if he hits he does he does hell yeah very nice that's going to be crit damage uh for total 44 points of damage tearing this thing apart ripping the metal pieces off of it yeah garbar just stands on top of it just metal in its mouth and just drops it and he gets a mighty stance to do a roar goes way our boy um our beautiful boy with that uh to know oren's like there's still the invisible thing somewhere else there's still another one gorgomonger help vena and gorgomonger's like way and uh he'll head over to you vena uh for his second action and just to make sure i don't think he has doctor's visitation and make a map minus five attack on vena yeah yes he should sorry he's out for blood he's gonna fucking kill you damn i understand buddy's got some bloodlust uh yeah considering the fact he can't do that for you right now he'll he'll stick to here um the hopefully help battlefield medicine you later if oren can't get you on that that's the end of oren's turn all right all right ten house of time ten house or ten we're making that happen now all right uh i'm going to go ahead my turn is going to be very very simple i'm going to cast a three action earthworks um and because uh i am high enough level um i am going to be creating a 15 foot burst along the side of this building so i'm just going to put it like here i guess um sure that is going to become difficult terrain and that is going to also include difficult terrain for flying creatures which should hopefully delay this thing's appearance by a whole nother turn as it simply attempts to crawl up the wall that is the tan has her turn all right vena you're up okie dokie well there's not a lot vena can do on her turn with that thang uh off the off the edge there um can i quickly shout to vena yep hey we should probably fan out for when that thing comes back probably uh and i'm going to i don't know if i want to bamf out the wings because i i don't want to meet that thing over there i probably should i will um i'm going to two action use wings of air okay fire effect she can fly she can fly she can fly she can fly yeah i'm going to sky captain vena yeah i guess oh my bones uh and i'm going to still sparkling with panache i'm gonna go move here okay and i'm going to jump off the side above the balcony indeed and i'm going to have so much to live for sorry tauser i gotta go um and that will have to be my turn just repositioning and getting ready baldrick um can i prepare an action yeah you can ready it's basically you spend two actions to like ready or and yeah so what i'm gonna do is how how detailed can i get with uh ready action it's mostly like i will do this when this happens so use two um and so you can use a single action or a free action with a trigger so like you can like basically ready an action to throw an alchemist fire something or like an alchemical flask okay so what i'm gonna do in that case then is i'm going to stand on the other side of this uh over here and i'm going to let me just measure yeah so i'm gonna ready an action no matter how far away it gets from whoever yeah uh when it appears to engage and will presumably just go into concealment am i able to hit it during concealment or will i have to wait until after it attacks uh you would you need to like have a visible target so once it appears and it's visible you can say as soon as i have any idea where it is i throw a bomb at it yeah i'll do that and i'll throw a uh bottled lightning for when it does appear again cool rua you're up all right uh who is going to take this moment to move up to here and is going to cast fly on himself okay roda starts levitating orin you're up okay uh what orin's going to do uh is that he is going to cast lay on hands on himself and since i know where i'm at but still i have to do a flat check and i'm good now basically the main reason of doing laying hands on myself because is to get rid of stupefy uh basically to elaborate why uh so my uh archetype feats which is the blessed one uh that allows me to get the laying hand stuff and i have mercy of the mind with greater mercy that means uh you uh you faith enhance your ability to remove conditions add the following options of list conditions you can counteract or any type of mercy you can grant and one of them is basically uh stupefied if i got this right let me see nope sorry yeah mercy of the mind pretty much just stupefied and uh no i'm sorry yeah yeah get stupefied for that and go ha and get that ready if i read that right yeah yes that so basically stupefied goes goodbye now i don't have to worry about that as much anymore so it's one action and i also get the healing from it do apologize making sure i get 30 points of healing oh get that so now i'm all typed up and funny enough gorgermunker can't fly because of my summoner stuff uh idolins get flying way later but ori can fly but of course he wants to help out veena before she uh disappears uh into the grand beyond so i need to find a way to get to you because you ran away from the healing whoops yep that's what i was going to battle for medicine you and you ran off my bad i said it out loud i'm i'm so sorry now you're going there with half health and if he hits you and you fall down a billion feet you die like die that would be pretty funny would be pretty bad it would be pretty funny so i'm gonna have to measure this uh i am able to still try to help you here uh oren is going to do two things he's going to do one action of moving up to 30 and then he's gonna do doctor's visitation to come right up to you and doctor visitation allows me to do first aid on you so that's what i'm going to do real fast vena before you go here eat this worm you got it that's my favorite activity i want to see if i can get assurance on this one train do you see sorry ignore this one if it sure doesn't do it right it would fail okay we'll do the other thing then i don't know i don't know how it is by math all right there we go uh do assurance basically for that uh for the dc 20 check which will give you it was only 19 i'll apply the healing for you oh it'll give you a better chance uh to get in on for that so that is the end of oren's turn after gorgomonger will also take his last action to move up um all right he'll move on top of the stable sorry about that so oh yes question for you big guy um first of all give me a perception check you've got it uh already then it just leaves that was that was honestly something i was probably going gonna do anyway uh that is yeah it's it's leaving um you you can see that this this thing is flying it's probably now somewhere the area of 200 feet away moving away it looks like it made it a little bit up and then started jetting off and based on your internal uh algorithmic calculations with your enhanced brain you're able to tell this thing turntail as soon as the other one was torn apart huh it's afraid it's a frayed yeah okay all the screaming done with vena can you come back to solid ground before lapel duvede comes into play sure sure um are we out of initiative yet yep okay whew uh first things first most important of all uh i'm going to walk up to this iscorin war machine and um oh fuck wait hold on i need to read this and make sure i understand it properly i want to use reverse engineer on this iscorin war machine uh but i don't think that quite works the way i wanted it to uh oh yes i'd like to use reverse engineer to learn the formula for the zest score and war machine all right all the materials are right here yeah they're all the materials are right here and and crafting it takes a long time learning a formula that's i don't believe that's tying to any well it's not a traditional formula it's a rich sense it's okay i can learn those two yes yes yes um so this would be kind of kind of similar and i'll use like a baseline here this would be similar to like an animate object type thing um so this would let's see this would be about akin to a i know i have to i have to find it i i will get i will get you i will get you the uh the the necessary information for this but i will say that it is um something you can do it's just going to be fairly high level so totally fine i would be shocked if it was otherwise yeah as you start like piling over the the the like torn remains and analyzing it i assume everyone else kind of catching your breath here yep orange no longer stupid it's true so isn't that right it looks at camera you're not stupid buddy i think you're the smartest guy i know ah thanks miss vena so should we go and try to find where the fucking athian was yeah where is that guy i'm willing to imagine that he or an entourage of like-minded simpletons await us inside the parlor you hear clacking very subdued but you hear like clacking of shoes on stone coming almost from the other side of this wall wasn't so burst down that wall by by the other side of this wall do you mean like on the surface like over here as as in you remember last time you were here this wall was like a secret door that an athian took to come it i see no reason for us not to use it hang on sure pardon me pardon me oh sorry wait i don't get to do this very often all right disappointing really orange i hit the deck in our like dives behind hey thirst i'm going to use my last coring charge that i created before the item was scoured from my inventories um yeah you absolutely can i i at this point yes it would be very nice if we could just find it baldrick wants to blow something up yeah sure okay so you set the coring charge up um just like get everyone to pull back all right and just a little injection and he pulls out a little syringe with the catalyst and he injects it into the thing as it has been adhered to the wall fire the hole get behind this potted plant oh shit as you say this potted plant bomb it's been planted yeah um where's the bomb where's the bomb where's the bomb there's an explosion door stuck um the the explosion takes the door off like chunks of stone and are tossed everywhere there's dust and then there is a shadow the clacking very marvelous and stepping through is a figure whose haughty voice you recognize as as as they step out from the from the smoke there oh very good but i think it is time we finally have a proper chat and out of it that's the codpiece imperial majesty of the mysterious man known only as the hegemon i've got to eat your bones and that is where oh we are going to end today's session yeah let's go i've never been so happy to be ambushed save do we have a second coring charge to put on his codpiece yeah yeah grab him and make it like we'll wait mr poprick you just make another one we'll put it inside his intestines oh i wish i could but i've some i somehow forgot how to make it we'll we'll work that out later oh no he forgot maybe the powers that be will help you remember but of course thank you everybody for watching this amazing episode of rocker we hope you had a fantastic time please let people know we exist and stuff like that as we do these shows we put a lot of effort into the stuff like this but of course the ones who also make this amazing and in able to make it happen so i'm trying to do time trying to find where my thing went uh so of course amazing players bring you these amazing shows starting off with odo who are you where can they find you hey hello i'm odo you can find me on the socials you can find me at blue sky at otobytes you can find me on the uh discord at just odo uh you can find me on tumblr if you dare and uh excellent session i cannot 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