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• Are we ready for another exciting episode of Rotgrime? It's so good to see everybody. Welcome back to another exciting episode of Rotgrime. It's so lovely to see you here. Hey, nice feet. It's so good to see everyone. We're canceling session. Mission failed. We'll get them next time. I gotta get out of here. You stay away from those. You think you get them for free? Just because you let me work here? Fuck you. Start skittering around. I'm gonna go peel my skin off. Good. It's so good to see everybody. Hope everyone's been happy and healthy. And also thank you everybody for your love and support over at patreon.com forward slash narrative declaration. It really does help. So thank you all so much for supporting us there. We had a whole bunch of new people come in and come say hello. And we hope you've been enjoying your stay here. But of course, a stay that I always enjoy because all these lovely people here, because it's our players starting off with Odo Roshi. Hi, hello. It's me. I'm Odo. I am playing as always Vina, the self swashbuckler. And I'm excited about those buffs, Thurston. You get me thinking about it. You can't tease me like that. And I hope you're all having a wonderful day. I picked strawberries this morning. They were delicious. I sunk ankle deep in mud, but I got strawberries out of it. Strawberries. Strawberries. Next up, we have our resident. We have our resident. I try to get the joke. I don't know what the fuck the people in Destiny are called. Guardian. It's our weekly complete hero. Look, I hate myself because I play this game. This game is Destiny. Every time I see on Steam, Hulkie's playing Destiny 2. I just shake my head like, good old Stockholm syndrome. It's your own. It ain't much, but it's honest work, Zoran. I can tell you that much. It's honest work. Hello, I'm Hulky Crow. That's me. I'm a funny, stupid voice monkey on the internet. Today, I'm playing the Kanrasu cleric Rahua, and I am terminally addicted to this game. It's good. Trust me. Just one hit. It's all it takes. It's just, you just gotta play. The DLCs are all free right now. You can play right now. It's great. It's great. Trust me. Trust me. And of course, one who always brings me joy with an explosive entrance. It's Erendil. Oh, I am Erendil, and I am going to explode. No, I won't do that. That would be bad. And yes, I'm playing the human alchemist, Baldrick Weathers, and I'm going to be here, and I'm going to cause havoc, but not in the way you expect, because it won't be, there'll be havoc, but you'll have to see. Yep. I just unlocked this DLC. It's Speaker D. Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And in the future, I will be playing Tan Houser, the Android Magus Revolutionary. But remember, future events such as these will affect you in the future. And of course, it's the one that will decay us all. It's Thurston Hillman. You didn't see anything, chat. Hi, it's me. I saw what you did. It's me. 49 episodes in. I got nothing else to say, but I'm excited to be here, and I'm excited to see where this goes. Let's do it. Yeah. Okay. You guys do my thing. And jumping straight through the burning ring of fire, it's our resident circus bear, Zoran, the player. And I'll be your host for this evening. I'm Zoran, the bear. I'll be playing as Orin, the Strix Druid. And just for a reminder of our audio listeners, we're all still level nine. We haven't loved it yet. Once you hit 10, that's the halfway point. Yeah. Once we hit 10, that's the end of the game. Yeah. Once we hit little 10, a lot of things unlock. Like the rest of the game, that's when the title drop happens. Just like cyberpunk, when it only happens when you get shot in the fucking head and the title drops. I need to play through that again. Five hours. Five hours. It's much better now. Nier Automata does that too. We've had a short exchange so far with some of the cyberpunk guys or whatever. So I don't know if Chapman wants us to do a one shot of that or something. I think that would be very fun. Did you tell them that Shadowrun's better? I was like, Boo. Boo. That'd be really fucked up. Yeah. No kidding. I sure got a signed copy of Cyberpunk Red from Mike Pondsmith at Gen Con last year. Hey, that's really cool. That was one of the fucking coolest moments of my life. Listen, that's really cool. And I don't begrudge you that. I will, however, willingly go up to Mike Pondsmith and say, Hey, it's really great to meet you. You created a really cool setting. Shadowrun's better. Wow. That would be the rudest shit. Yeah, no kidding. I would hide my face and leave. No kidding. Jesus Christ. Leave him to the mob. I have never heard someone be more wrong. I agree. Let's kill him. I would say take a fucking hero point away from Baldrick, but he's already at zero. So my words, I've been using him. I had to use him last time. We blew our rules. You're thirsting a ruin point. There we go. I can't put you in. Thank you. No, no, no. Here's the thing. If you could give me Cyberpunk's rules and put them in Shadowrun, we'd have the best thing ever. But Shadowrun setting is better. That's not true at all. I disagree. I disagree. But we can move on from this because we have a session today. No, we're going to argue about this. No, we're not going to argue about it for three hours. You can go in the backseat. The GM is running the story for once. We're moving on. Excuse me, mister. You and I both know I'm in the shotgun seat. Just let us know if you like us to do one shots like that and stuff so we can play different games that's not Pathfinder 2nd Edition. I really want to run the Alien RPG. Really, really want to run the Alien RPG. We want to do other stuff, but we've got to get the art assets all the other stuff and get time for it. So if you really want us to do other stuff, just let us know in the comments. You know, like right now we're streaming right now. We see everybody's stuff for, you know, plus ones. Thanks, Chet. That's true. For all that. But also let us know like YouTube comments, you know, whatever podcast thing you're listening to. I am so fucking unknowledgeable of podcast stuff. Because there's like a million different platforms and I'm like, uh. Like I go through it all and I've had so many people sit down with me and be like, here's all the podcasts. I'm like, but of course with that, Thurston. Yes. What exciting adventure do you have for us today? All right, Chet. Players, let's all buckle up. Today's session begins. We're all important important epic tales begin. In a rainy swamp. Oh, boy. We couldn't get away from it, guys. Where a lone, lone individual wanders through. Wandering on a mission to deliver something to a location and that person is. Erndelle, would you describe your secondary character to everybody? Yes, trudging through the swamps on her peg leg using her glaive as a support staff. Not like she needs it, but she likes it just because it's extra stability. It helps and it means you don't gotta lean on a lump of wood where your right leg used to be. Is Victrix. Sir Victrix, Corloss. And she is just traveling through the swamps on her way to a job. And she's, well, she's been hired, obviously, right? Yeah, she's also, she's also getting tired. She's been walking for a long time through the, through the swamps. her backpack is laden with something that is a bit heavier than she's used to. It's kind of covered up. Yeah, she's, she's not unused to taking things long distances. She's got a lot of history as like a, an item runner for various people, but it's like her least favorite job to do because not a lot of, not a lot of fighting to be had carrying crap long distances, despite what Fallout New Vegas would have you think. Truth. So as, as Sir Victrix walks through the depths and muck of the swamps of the solitude that surround the city of Outset, the first city of the world of Tyne in the setting of Rocksgrind, she finds a series of stone platforms in the distance and she knows this because she's traveled to this location before. And upon those stone platforms are several rudimentary structures, mostly like wood and twine based buildings and huts and she recognizes this as a kaibu, a group of the wandering nomadic folk of the swamps of the solitude who never dwell in one place for too long but they do settle on these stone platforms and she approaches them and she sees that this area is left inhabited from when she was last here in fact. Obviously we haven't quite switched to a new season where they would have to move their buildings. How's Sir Victrix approaching this? well she's walking along don't know if anyone else has ever tried to walk on a peg leg a long long distance without a pack animal or anything to ride on but it probably plays hell on your knee or what's left of it. So she's probably limping along at this point and just kinda angrily or perhaps maybe not angrily but more frustratedly looking around for someone to petition for a spot to sleep for the night because she's had enough of this little trip she's still gotta keep going but she's gotta make a pit stop. It's just common sense. Yeah and as you know fatigue and exhaustion are beginning to take their initial holds Sir Victrix sees on one of the empty stone plinths is a hooded figure playing what appears to be a rudimentary game of catch with a small child. The child drops the ball as they see Sir Victrix approaching pointing and the hooded figure turns and quickly pats the child on the head ushers them off into one of the adjoining tenements and then turns to come towards Sir Victrix and Sir Victrix has seen this individual before. It is Tashti one of the stone-touched folk of the Kaibu and Tashti sort of raises a hand they look at you uh hello? Not interested in small talk I want a place to sleep got an open spot somewhere um I'll have to go talk to Aethon about that can you wait here just a moment? She just kind of jabs the blunt end of her glaive into the ground and kind of leans on it like a flagpole I'll be fast and Tashti turns and runs and shortly after comes the squat small round Roshi like frame of Aethon not that Roshi not that Roshi not not speakers that Roshi oh hello Sam someone's coming back hi yeah hi not here for small talk looking for a place to throw out my kit for the night yeah you're awful far away from anywhere anywhere she just kind of rolls her shoulder and shifts her stuff on her pack yeah got a job to do so I'm out here doing it I thought you were here for some of the old Aethon magic Victrix glares at him through the one good eye she has through her mono goggle peeking through her head bandages no not oh no you know I've had kids before I actually one of the milvs well melvs came here there's this there's this very faint obviously not visible to him but she's kind of carrying her mouth in that very thin uninterested smile that someone who is figuring out how to debone a chicken would be doing so she's just kind of standing there while he does that oh well okay it's it's you you definitely don't need a place to rest I mean the weather's awful nothing different from the solitude nothing different usual so no no have you seen the sky yep what about it and like he points over and and certainly sir victrix has shrugged this off but the sky is this ominous dark cloud the the sort of perpetually moving storm that kind of slinks and maneuvers around the solitude only to be only to be stopped briefly by the yellings of rabid kanrasu the storm is perched above this area and it is starting to pelt down the first chunks because calling them droplets of rain would not be an accurate statement the first chunks of rain that are coming out of this storm it's a water ball yeah yeah we have a place for can I ask what you're actually here for I know the old athon ding dong but that's just a joke I'm here because I've been given a job to deliver something somewhere okay well you Bjarna's hut it's fine she's not here you can go stay in there for a bit perfect gonna do that then point it out all right if there any points and and and you know our camera kind of pulls back from cervictrix and and athon who's who's leading and we we kind of see Tashti going to to take the the small child and we we hear athon it's been it's been quite a quite a way since you were last here and you went into the grotto you know the speakers come back look at him he's so rambunctious playing ball he's gonna be great at this yep I'm sure okay well that's the that's the hut over there you should get inside it's gonna it's gonna rain like like I shit sometimes do you ever shut the fuck up all right have a good day bye as she's as she's hobbling along because again her leg is like really burning at this point because she's got told hey you gotta make good time on this yeah she kind of limps to the side for a moment and a large wrapped bundled object atop her pack kind of shimmies loose a little bit and she quickly stops to grab it before it falls off of her pack oh and like yeah we kind of see this almost cylindrical two foot long object but a ton pauses whatever you're good you're good you're a hero here and like pats you on the back and sends you officer victrix into bjarna's hut and this is all happening again as our camera is panning back and we're getting like ever further away and the rain begins to come down the the massive plunk plunk plunk plunk plunk of rain and that takes us into the heart of the people's duplex where Oren Baldrick Rahua Veena and the gargoyle Duhakis stand in the living space everything here is fucked Duhakis says you've said that five times now I know but it is there's a pillar of fire outside and the city's in chaos and yeah we saw it does this have something to do with us taking him down I think by the scale of everything that is going on whatever is happening out there though it might be tangentially related to us was set in motion before any of us got involved Rahua give me a will save fuck oh no you had a thought survive I'm not good at either of those things oh never mind I lied I'm good that 20 yeah you got you feel something like hit your your your your mind in a not an oppressive way but there is just like a moment where you have this clear moment of vision and you see off into the far distance the pillar of fire the one that you saw rising kind of in outset's horizon further off beyond the city of outset towards the runes that are known as the smoldering city and you see that pillar of perfect flame rising above the runes of an ancient attempt at an ancient city and as you see it briefly there your your absolute resolve and critical success in fact you have resolve as a class ability so that means you are the most critical of successes here you see that pillar shining perfectly above the city molten fire spewing it's hard to tell if it's either coming down or coming up but what is not hard to see is when it explodes outwards destroying the entirety of the smoldering city and then smashing into the side of outset where it tears through walls it tears through pilasters it tears through everything and the city is rent unto naught but ash orrin pokes rahua as he's having his epithet like rahua like tap rahua looks down to orrin creaking rictus we need to leave orrin we need to go we have to go now the door opens tanhouser enters tanhouser you have completed rallying a small subsect of the local population atop gorgamonger's back you've added discipline and some semblance of order to this small district throughout outset and you've returned to baldrick's home after doing this knowing it's the one island of security that you have left as even you've managed to create this slightly larger island within the city but the the sheer pandemonium gripping everything has made you come back here i'm glad you made it through the chaos we've been able to ascertain the relative security of a district or two but there is mass pandemonium someone has co-opted the movement shit do you know who has co-optimus anything any information at all all i know is that my movement my revolution is not being directed at society it's not being directed at all instead it's being used as a weapon as a tool as a bludgeon to create as much panic chaos and death as possible may be time yet to salvage this but we must act quickly it is a perversion of anarchy chaos and bedlam are good it is the the foundation from which new growth starts but this is different something else is guiding all of this like true as you say something has co-opted your movement tanhauser something out there where is guiding this pillar of flame that is it's too unnatural to be natural someone or something is using that and it will crash down it will lay ruin to everything in outset there will be no foundation for the revolution that you are so ardently following to rebuild from ruin will come to outset and its people there will be nothing left that is why we must act precisely you've said you've rallied these people here are they willing to follow us out of the city out of the city we cannot stay here out of the city we must stabilize it we cannot stay here and stabilize the city there is nothing that will remain if we waste time making sure that order is restored anarchy and chaos will take its toll here yes but something far worse is coming if we do not address it in this moment what do you speak of it had better be good it had better be grand because I will not leave the patriots and revolutionaries I have stirred that have been consumed by this fervor there will be nothing left for them to salvage a conflagration of unfathomable power is here if we do not stop now we will celebrate for but a moment that everything will be alright that we will make the city act as it should that everyone will get on hunky dory and we will watch as they turn to ash speak directly to me right now for what you say every ounce of my blood oil skin and bone rabbi against you had better tell me where this conflagration is I need to know of what you speak and I need to know that there is no other option before I abandon my people seldom is there any clear option tan hauser life is marred by choices that we simply cannot afford to make or rationalize on do you think I would like to see all of these people die to see their own world lines cut short no never would I want to risk lives so wantonly it's a delicate balance and this is one where we have to make a hard decision I've worked with you I've wanted this revolution to continue but we cannot afford why is there a drunk kid in the doorway the hungover child burst through the doorway the door swings open and laden with a large empty rucksack box music yeah boss health bar appears for some reason the boss music started to play the really intense moment that Rahua and Tannhauser were having for comedy comedy child has arrived hi can you can you wait about five seconds do you have something we were doing a thing who are you what do you want hi I thought the house was abandoned tyrant skills like gone and shit's happening and I need food house looks abandoned because these guys keep blowing my doors off no we're in the middle of something go back outside yeah everybody's rioting and stuff and I haven't seen a single one of those tyrant skilled fuckers anywhere yeah so I figure you know I can just take what I need and then you know maybe go Rahua storms past the group goes to Baldrick's kitchen if the door is closed Rahua tears it off the hinges if you tear it off the hinges open I left the door opened out of the way he goes into the kitchen he gets a baguette he goes back to the child take this and get as far out of the city as you can okay that was some scary shit you were talking about people of revolution okay goodbye I want to pay you this bread the fuck off Orin will look to both of them at the punctuation of the child leaving Orin closes the door just to make sure no more orphans come in and go like so we're all in agreement that it was the top hat guy that's been doing this you know everything over in the swamp he's been summoning what's out there and he got emotions in the direction of the large fire pillar it's like so I would agree with Mr. Rahua of at least trying to go out there and find him and at least stopping it at least you know gathering all the people that you found Mr. Tenhauser to send them forth as if they're an army to protect their own homes if I get if I have this right and Oren kind of doubts himself a little bit trying to put all the pieces together is this apocalypse you spoke of inevitable tell me what you know directly clearly being a circumstance of my own creation I feel the tides of entropy ebb and flow through me they're subtle like changes on the wind or more aptly a heartbeat that courses through and underpins everything that there is right now it's a sort of a quickening a rapidity the tides of entropy are growing far out of equilibria it is writhing palpitating but almost as if it's racing towards a a climax it cannot recover from Oren is partially correct it may be Elortu is behind all of this it may be static unchangeable but only if we choose to let it be such the difference between possibility is action in inaction we are the auger of fate which changes certainty into possibility we are the hand that must act that must seize these roiling tides of chaos and bend them to our will if we choose to stand here and to not rage against this conflagration yes death is certain there will be no city no outset no people no you no I but what I'm telling you in imploring you listen Tannhauser is that we must leave in some fashion whether you marshal your followers to our cause to have them march with us and fight against whatever is out there and is controlling this pyre or if we have them leave for their own safety one way or another there is something far bigger than you I or any of them that we must deal with now lest that conflagration consume everything Tannhauser you have warfare lore right I do give me a check I would love to microphone went real low by the way speaker I don't know if you did something hey that's a 33 that's pretty good yeah 33 is enough for you to immediately calculate the equation that Rahua has placed before you and in that equation you begin to realize a few key factors one you certainly could take the forces that you've mustered they would live and they would die for you in the revolution however if you did that it would leave this particular district extremely vulnerable the people who are cowering in their homes the people who generally speaking have tried to stay out of this it would leave no large group to sort of fend against other large groups that might migrate in here what you have done is you've created a pocket of stability here you could certainly take it for your own personal benefit if you were to go out into the ruins of the smoldering city but doing so would have an impact on this district okay so essentially because this place is stabilized it doesn't make sense to move my guys if you move your guys they will benefit you and you will get certainly perks for that however that would make your life easier but then the average citizen here the people would suffer you have like that rpg moment in the room of like ask your companions for advice or like just figure it out we'll believe in you i see and we must leave this place dreadful well the dangers that we march into are those of the rot recall our newest friends in our latest dungeon how quickly they dissipate to the wind recall our dearest one we lost in the swamp i would not ask an army to follow me into the rot unless we had the utmost odds of success i cannot abandon this place then do not abandon them guide them lead them save them from this wanton death that otherwise waits how you say the entire city will explode in conflagration it will if we do not act these people these who are not sponsored as we are they may still be able to save themselves and protect those around but the sword falls and it is us who must bear the scar we have to act or we'll raise a hand and you're like yes i we could ask for volunteers if normally whenever our village would get raided or we would have others try to come over and take what was ours to retaliate and try to go find their place and take them out not everybody can go but there are some folks who don't have a lot of holdings or some folks who are more than happy to be able to leave anything behind we could still tell people to stay at their homes and defend what they can and try to tell people to work with each other those who are staying back but we can ask for volunteers those who want to come out with us to help try to save everybody else or whatever they're holding dear so we can kind of kind of have it both ways but not as efficient as we want yes i think that it is important that there's some sort of bulwark some sort of force that is trying to stabilize the remnants of this riot so unproductive perhaps so veena you were once a leader of men will you help me rally these folks we need them to solidify the defenses here to create a genuine isolated district while also spreading the word and stability a pocket of order in this maelstrom can you help me accomplish this a look of conflict plays across veena's face she starts to speak i mean i wasn't really i've got your back tanny i've got your back gonna take a long swig of my drink set the flask down on the table and leave it as you set the glass down there is a kathunk that resounds with the booming of thunder and a vast storm cloud as our transition quickly takes us to back out into the solitude in the swamps the rain coming down heavily but as that occurs we realize the camera's pulling up still pulling up in fact until we're in the sky odoroshi rider tell me the physical description of your former first mate as we pan up to see your airship and i specifically have done this to put you on the spot that's right you fucker all right yeah veena's former first mate she is an elven woman likely about veena's same age she has got stern features but a mischievous quirk to her lip there is a scarification across her face a piece of her lip missing that gives it this perpetual impish curl she's she's got long dark bored straight hair somehow swept up not even by the wind she is tall and imposing the rail thin and as this figure stands at the fore of veena's ship veena's ship makes its way into the apocalyptic storm that hangs above the solitude again a storm that has only once been quelled momentarily by the shouts of an anarchically touched being and as the ship makes its way in this elven woman pats at her side something covered in cloth a cylindrical object about two feet wide and then we cut back to the people's duplex as veena you have finished putting your glass down all right let's do it to it all right first we rally the people we set forth the standards i'm going to uh take a look at you hakes are you familiar at all with revolutionary law no no you you you laugh that to to test it and marlene and crunch and i i read books that are historical that's good then you would know of historical figures where states emerge out of chaos yes which means you would know at least the semblance of the steps forward that bring stability and which ones bring chaos in short you might just be able to become an interim leader of the revolutionary council oh you're gonna put me in charge i need your help here that's right you know the other people they abandoned you i never abandoned you after you saved me from the back of that building after mr lord had me there huh you're right i need you to study i need you to advise you may not be a great leader you may not be an excellent orator but you might have the knowledge the knowledge to lead this movement from the riot it has become to a genuine successor state to outset i i don't know about any of that but i can i can help where i can excellent then you shall know your role and place you in a position of authority over the interim revolutionary council not total authority i'm trusting you i don't want authority i i just like books excellent i'll help where i can good good everyone outside we must move and quickly we shan't spend much more time here but words must be exchanged with the people and i will open the door to the people's duplex and presumably we will find a way to address our beloved populace while they're while they're doing that i'm gonna take that opportunity for baldric because he's not an orator and in fact he's he's kind of listening to all of this with a glazed look in his eye and he's going to be he's going to be spending this time off to the side preparing the day's alchemical weapons yeah uh you'll notice all of your character sheets have been restored to full um all of your casts are restored to full so you can restore all of your things to full that's not just me being generous i swear yay yay yay cool gm advice if you have an impressive story moment and it doesn't make sense for people to rest eight hours just let them rest eight hours you can you can fudge the numbers guys you are not a slave to these books what's the book all right you don't gotta be ato about it yeah i write the books i give you permission i have a quick like crunch question it'll be very fast absolutely for the purposes of uh my alchemical feats like for constructing alchemical objects would a vindicators miscount as a bomb yes excellent i'm cheating i'm giving myself 10 million of them good you can heal yourself while i kill you it will just prolong the suffering oh this is great actually hang on that's a ton awesome having fun chat it's getting a bit real chat only threw odo on the spot once only once for now i do enjoy that our background image that we have here does look like a duplex in a way oh i know like jamie jamie always comes up to me and is like i fucking hate that that was one of the first pieces i gave you for art and it's like this is like become one of the most iconic shots we've ever used in this and it's multi-story and we don't even use any upstairs so whoever the hell is living on the second and third floor is fucking terrified just knowing because knowing all the buildings there was no soundproofing you could hear you could hear people fart upstairs revolution revolution you can do that now i just imagine it's that much louder but uh yeah big big shout out to uh to tell who does uh cool cool art like this and many of our maps and you know occasionally i will take what they do and be like haha i'm uh changing the uh the intended purpose of this i'm sorry uh you good uh head outside we waddle up or make sure i've spent every single i have spent every single alchemical thing that i have to create uh 30 39 bombs good all right so at this point you exit again the the state of this district is in far far far better state than others uh there are like people's patrols that are patrolling around there is an easy courier system that has been established to allow uh for quick mobilization of the people of what is tentatively called the tenement district uh to come together excellent um is there a crowd for us to potentially address uh with only a scant 30 minutes you have a crowd of over a hundred individuals who are able to assemble uh at the pulpit before um baldrick's house thurston uh yes i'm gonna say something here baldrick knowing tanhauser at this point has in addition to creating his bombs is going to come out of the back with a small wooden crate that appears to have been for uh dr tiguel's fantastic soaps and he's going to pass it to tanhauser your soapbox my lord my thank you i'm pleased to see you a seat to this don't get too used to it orn gleefully looks at tanhauser and he goes you finally got it he's so happy for you but we must make sure we do not lose it it's already in my grasp and so close to slipping away i certainly hope not that box is i mean dr tiguel's went out of business years ago so you're not getting any more of those are you giving me an antique to stand on whatever i stand on the soapbox the masses stare in complete adoration that hurt to say i just want to say that i i'm so happy i'm happy that it pains you character development your ninth level go for it friends revolutionaries citizens of outset chaos and disruption have come to our fair city madness runs in the streets and yet even now at this hour we are free no more will the yokel of the tyrants guild shove us under boot no more will our brothers and sisters be held as thoughtless mulch for the machines of outset no more will we live and die and die and die and live under the yoke of an oppressive master today you are all reborn there is a incandescent cheer from the audience but you must be wary my friends for our revolution is fragile without the will without the hope without the blood fury and passion of its constituents too many seek to take the cause of our revolution and turn it into a weapon of mad brutes they would replace the iron grip of the tyrants guild with a hand blood red soaked in the ichor of its brothers and neighbors you must cast them down the people here need your protection sanity must lead this revolution or else it will dissolve into yet another forgotten myth the odds we face today the powers that be the madness in the streets that is formidable my friends our foes are mighty but so long as hope lives in your hearts as long as power and fury and breath flow through your lungs the world is ours it belongs not to a governance not to a king or an oligarch or a guild but to the people hold the line tend to the wounded bring the mad back into the fold and crush the counter-revolutionary the future is yours if only we can hold onto it you are the vanguard you are the guardians and we are the revolution tanhauser give yourself two hero points aww thank you everyone else for being in proximity to tanhauser give yourself one hero point oh very good speech thank you so much i would shout and cry and yell but the last time i tried to do that it was in a pirate voice and i blanked out my mic but um suffice it to say you can look at all of the chats that we have right now for the absolute mania that is going on in response to this as people begin taking up their roles and their positions and you feel like tanhauser you can absolutely step away from this situation and know it is in good hands and that is a not gm promise um by that i mean i am telling you that this district will be a-okay if you need to depart for big hero things but only if you roll a diplomacy not at all not with a fucking speech like that we don't like you speaker speaker d give me flat d20 check just for hashtag reasons i think speaker has earned a proficiency in diplomacy let's not get ahead of ourselves we are still a comedy show speaker d rolled the d20 excellent let's get in that one yeah on six they start killing you six is the number of the revolution everyone begins killing each other speaker six is the number of the revolution true each with the speech that you gave speaker d6 is still a critical success so yes keep all of those benefits benefits yeah venal offer a hand to tanny to step off the soapbox and give him an elbow see you are the leader of the people i'm pleased to hear that so long i admit i've even privately held my doubts but perhaps we can do this the hawk is behind you so are you gonna go deal with that fucking pillar of flame now or what yeah that's the big idea okay just making sure at this point is the party going to be making its way towards the nearby ruins of the smoldering city no i think so before we do i will put just a hand on vena's shoulder when we return the revolution may be of my design but if it weren't for all of you really it wouldn't get off the ground vena you have always been foremost in believing in me when we return many of these people they will need an organization a charismatic presence to lead them forward i can stoke the flame i would be honored if you would aid me on the revolutionary council as my right hand vena's going to take just a long moment you know i like the sound of that will do captain please i have no need for that title in time the people will regard you as greater than anything you would have thought you could be i see it in you we've all seen it in you but for for now there is a pillar of flame i'm tired of screaming at least for a little bit you're tired of screaming who are you and what have you done with tanhouser well let's get inside i have a bit more left in me let's see all right and we'll move on along orn is carrying a sack of things as we're all heading up um i start making our way going like hey before we head in we might want to grab some of this stuff and he undoes the the the people stash uh we got health potions and shit we might want to bring in also there's been like a weapon potency and armor potency too in there like yeah where's crunch like you know hey hey chat i know it's early let's take our break here oh my god that's not a good sign that's that's uh i'm scared that's horrifying mom pick me up i'm scared we'll see you in a minute we're back we got all equipped orn's like kind of handing all the stuff out from the bag and something you go mr tannhauser you know and just getting everybody all sorted and everything gets gorgamonger all saddled up we he found some moderate health potions excellent now get ready everyone let's go and then tannhauser turns into sports car turbo team tannhauser more than meets the eye he's with the chainsaw card the entire time i posted in the general chat what are you posting ish we yeah i think we are heading out exiting the city of outset together traveling through the gates which are no longer guarded based on the calamity that occurs within the city you abandon the revolutionary site tannhauser probably taking one moment to look back knowing that he's making the correct choice but still a hard one as you travel off back briefly into the lands of the solitude towards the location known as the smoldering city the city that was once erected outside the ordained borders of outset the city that's construction resulted in a calamity that sundered continents and created the swamp lands and broke outset off from the rest of the predominant continent it's luckily not far away only a day and a half's journey during which you all manage to find solace and shelter using the essence of squelch foot to summon forth a cabin with which to spend one night before you reach the borders of the smoldering city and inside that cabin summoned forth by Rahua through the essence of squelch foot some cool stuff happened and I don't know maybe we'll do a special episode on that someday but maybe maybe you carry on and eventually reach the borders of the smoldering city stone edifices that rise up half assembled in some cases in some cases simply just shells without anything in the interior small flames lick the area embers dwell in the sky the path that you take do any of you have a survival please I do please give me a survival check anyone who has it yeah okay unrolled and got a 15 on the die for a total of 34 nice oh I have I have survival actually I guess it makes sense I am a desert but can you survive 13 for a total of 17 okay out of all of you Oren is the one who notices something the path goes off of the the primary trails that leave outside and you find yourself following a small stream this small waterway weaves and turns and seemingly defies gravity in some cases to take you towards the edge of the city and at some point Oren you realize that simply following the stream is the best way to get you to your intended destination and you reach it the border of the city and at the peripheral edge of the smoldering city you find a mound of several dozen corpses in front of them some five feet away stands a small pointed eared man with the distinctive top hat who stares out at you why hello there I hoped she would not come to this place so I will please ask you to return from whence you came Thurston I'm going to use one of my frostbombs and throw it at him right away absolutely all right give me one second can I target Mr. Alort nope you can just give me a roll okay fine negotiations have failed there's no negotiations were short why did you come here you should go back from whence you came like hey man you're burning our fucking house down you kind of brought us here Thurston what was the line that he gave us one more time just because just say it back to me essentially said like you should not have come here you should go back now 17 for a 34 give me critical damage please same to you piss off that'll be 12 direct damage and 6 as you have seen before in the past your bomb impacts explodes but fills the ashen simulacrum that is Mr. Alort the interior starting to fill up with freezing cold almost beginning to dissipate it you can tell the persistent damage will only allow the simulacrum to to stay corporeal for a short amount of time but as you throw the bomb Alort's eyes narrow gave you space he turns and then looks straight into Orin I told you where your dragon was I did all of the things right I was polite and deal to what end you think that just gives you the right to start whatever the fuck you're doing and burn everyone's homes down I'm gonna cock back the gun and fire at the simulacra give me an attack roll please I will I will I believe in you thank you I now I'm scared we have had enough we have had enough of Mr. Alort we've had enough wait you did yours there you go it's a 20 a 20 will hit yeah because it's it's just an ash thing it has no AC well basic damage 10 you you smash into the side of Alort's face which blasts back and again ashen ice strewn flexes it solidifies and he continues speaking what what am I doing you do not understand I am being polite I am giving you the opportunity to go home to be with your loved ones in your final moments before you are cleansed with flame oh be quiet I'm not rationalizing with a terrorist about semantics and offers and false bargains die and I'm going to anarchic barrage him we only interpret cool terrorists like you want to attack Mr. Alort as well welcome little man 30 30 30 is good roll damage and then you can describe the particular type of like chaotic tides of mutable matter that go and impact the ashen simulacrum rightly roll the damage absolutely I'm still here I just have to because he bumbled in here and he demands being pet now oh good it'll be 18 damage and as opposed to the usual mess of whatever that comes out of Rahua this seems a bit more orderly more like chunks of the smoldering city a lot more vitriolic than his streams usually are there's hate behind this yeah it smashes into him as the chunks begin to dissolve and like until there's only like almost a like bisected version of the face that's barely tangible and the body has gone into crystalline mist the mouth that is only half formed based off the distribution of the strikes on it mouths speech that still comes through the others do not care for the plot of men they do not care for the people but he will care uncle blaze will care the others hide in their holes and ha we'll see uncle and then as he says that the the smashing of the bricks destroys him just to all that is left is a body a mound of corpses behind just to make sure the simulacrum is gone as like the bits of ashes phase away I'm just going to quickly cast electric arc and just try to fry them completely and then as they fall down and like smoldering bits is just going to say yeah so that's a reflex save that is absolutely oh oh that's brutal I roll a natural one on the action simulacrum so as it begins to dissipate your electricity charges and begins to char the remaining bits in the air and you just hear this this slight this this voice that tries to come through in your mind Tanhauser oh yeah gosh um and you just hear this and then if you wish come into my center and it dissipates entirely as even the flecks on the air are dissolved you are the old world and the future has no time for reaction areas onwards the future is now old man you welcome in the middle uh baldrick having gone to college here's tanhauser saying the world has no place for reaction areas orange charges forward gorgamonger and the rest of the party well you'd have to navigate around the mound of corpses flies over i roll to blow up the corpses oh no no okay um so like like it is a mound of what appear to be um mismatched corpses they aren't like you know troops or anything they appear to be like a mishmash of almost noble and civilian attire uh with like stashes of like ruined and burned weapons at their bases well then seems they've been busy does anyone have medicine yeah i do i do give me a check if you got it orin got an 18 for a total uh 34 i got a 9 for 23 i got a 14 for a total of 29 oh okay uh all of you have enough to note um the corpses here are humanoid corpses of various different ancestries uh very common and outset the attire is very outset related as you look at them um all of you can tell um almost simultaneously um they've been burned like they have all undergone excruciating fire that has burned them to a crisp the fact that they're all together like this and have fallen in the way they have almost seems to indicate that they fought on despite being on fire um however with our good friend orin's uh critical success you know one thing that is very very disorienting about them all of the bodies here their eyes were burned out before they died long before they died orin takes note of this not not much to comment on for it and uh he helps everyone get over the mound i want everyone to think of one one or two minutes of that well not even minutes but just eyes it's like come on guys if you want to you can give me a wisdom check i would love to give you a wisdom check same it's not good i'll let y'all do it i'll let y'all do it uh how do i make a wisdom save it's actually or wisdom check it's uh if you go into your character sheet you could be able to click oh uh just roll a d20 and add the appropriate modifier if you have it i thought you used to be able to do that i'll give you a 16 i got a 15 hockey roll day small number roll day two small number i'm going to spend a hero point you roll that please look what he is now sitting placid okay well fuck me truly i am the most wise it is baldric who is the most wise here baldric um the last time you saw anything like this and you've seen it twice before in your adventuring careers you remember the nobles at derog sanren house with their glowing eyes and you remember the notes in the perfectite cube from the ancient soldiers of the prince discussing glowing burning eyes that is what your mind remembers of this i think we've seen something similar to this already back in uh back in the derg sanren house you you guys remember this you have to at this point a lot of the nobles had glowing eyes and then back at the siege tower the notes and you all remember this now like as it is brought up to you you remember seeing all of the nobles their eyes burned out and instead replaced with brilliant incandescent white light so that means that he was there or perhaps it implies something else process that had occurred in the past regardless it's not looking good for anything thurston would it be possible for me to attempt to put together the relevance of this using a skill check of some kind like a historical one perhaps what skills do you have on the on the offering here i have engineering outset law and warfare outset um law uh warfare give me warfare okay any penalties nope straight uh that's oh my man all right all right thurston explain it to us exactly what the relevance of this is yeah you do and lo when the prince came with his armies coming across from perdoma taking the the seas around the continent to the small lip that is the outset um jut so to speak he came with his armies and he besieged the city to take it as his own and as the prince did so he was beset by armies whose eyes shone with the light of beneficence oh hell thurston would it be safe to assume that uh this is the result of people being possessed by the beneficence this would be very similar to what you saw in derek sanarin house but historically was associated with the legions of an entity known as the shining beneficite who once ruled the city of outset um and right before the prince basically arrived with his you know roman-esque legions as you saw in the perfectite cube um was the ruler of outset for an indeterminate period several centuries at least uh the prince ousted the shining beneficite casting him down so it would be safe to assume then based on context clues and you it would be nice if you could tell me that we're looking at a resurgence of this it is it matches the historical records absolutely and things you've read yourself yep i'm just making sure that we've got it for everyone to understand it i don't make an ass of myself and make an assertion that is not correct no you your assertion is correct here 100 percent looks like we're having a resurgence of the minions of the beneficite that that instinctively instinctively makes you recoil because that is another opposing fundamental power altruism pure unadulterated altruism and goodness it's either making a play at taking back outset or it wants to burn it down because it's a petty piece of shit i don't know the beneficite that is different from the entity that our shining martinet worshipped not too different it was a force of the beneficence seldom do you encounter a greater evil in this world than one who feels that their actions are moral and just for the goodness of others that they act on their behalf convinced of their own self-righteousness not even the malice can achieve such cruelty as those who follow the beneficite beneficence i've had it up to here with these cults well you chose to come down sir once we're done with it we should make things much more secular you know baldrick you made a critical success on a warfare lore check so the other thing to note here from this because it's a warfare situation whatever these eyeless people were they were moving towards the city likely in opposition to it so they're not i'm assuming you mean they're moving towards the burning city not the barrax yeah okay good i wanted to clarify they moved to outset oh god they were moving in towards the smoldering city and then they got burned out here wait wait wait wait they're baldrick crouches down for a second and then looks at how they're laying and how the direction they were going and he eyes the direction and looks directly towards the burning city oh yeah and you can see the street path that leads in with ash and embers in the air they're moving towards the burning city they're they're not they're not here for outset they're here for that well that likely is one of the ways in which they defend their own property we'll have to watch out for that that means we've got a common enemy at least should make things a little bit easier if we come across them if this wasn't the last of them can't afford to make enemies right now we've got to keep moving come on agreed and with that you begin to head in towards the smoldering city yep all right as you make your way in towards the smoldering city we cut to somewhere else somewhere subterranean the only glow here lambent glow from clusters of green crystals green crystals that seemingly have no purpose other than glowing at least the uninitiated what about the initiated well you know the initiated might learn their secrets at some point oh it is tiberium correct as we enter this subterranean realm a tent a tent is set up here one amongst many but we zoom into that tent and sitting in the tent is a single individual a woman who looks as though she has traveled through the camping section at walmart eight times and purchased three of everything her outfit giving her a almost marshmallow like appearance based off of the sheer amount of equipment he bears on her even in this tent the ground shakes she looks up in consternation as she does the entrance to the tent flops open as a hand opens it and in there is a horrific face a face that has torn its flesh pulled back and were it not for the hood that obfuscates it this individual would be particularly grim zombified woman stares in at Dita Nissen hello I came here and Dita Nissen the woman in all of the survival equipment stares up oh hello do you know what's going on I it started shaking and everything so so bad the expedition has gone so wrong and the ones who were sent from from the guild they've they've gone off on their own and I don't know what's going on the woman whose face is torn away looks at the marshmallow woman I think we can do we must hunker down and wait we must wait to see what happens and Dita Nissen nods okay come in I have some games we can play cards I like cards and then we cut into the smoldering city itself the streets of it as you walk through and as you walk through the burning building streets the ouches drifting in the air you find yourselves the walls themselves are licked in flame but the flame does no damage instead as you walk and make a turn around a corner there is another simulacrum of Mr. Alort though this time he is entirely gray constituted from naught but the ash in the air and Sid you should leave don't you give up I want you to go you should go now you should not be here she sent you and you should not be here and yet we are all right so a couple things as you start walking forward to Hennhauser you see down the alley to the south the burning in the embers in the air leading down I am going to get all of you to roll initiative hashtag reasons you telling me that people in the boss arena mean us harm I'm gonna I'm gonna roll my initiative as stealth is that cool because I'm out of sight absolutely absolutely yeah go what's everyone's don't know their initiative just to let all the listeners know Baldrick rolled a 35 Vina rolled a 29 Oren rolled a 27 Rahura rolled a 20 and Tenhauser rolled a 28 but I'll just apply it manually there we go yeah I'm gonna click the initiative thing in the sheet they're like right by the perception so it always confuses people well the first person who gets to go here is Baldrick Baldrick is already sneaking up to the corner of the at least what I hope is the corner of the alleyway I don't know where I think Tenhauser is blocking me a little bit damn am I able to peer around the corner from where I'm sitting um not quite you're just at the corner you're not able to look fully around yet crap because that's my 20 move range okay uh as he comes up to the edge of the corner without being able to look past it can I ask Tenhauser what he sees as a free action yeah of course what's around this corner what am I looking what are you looking at I see nothing yet flames perhaps I'm sure our true enemies have yet to reveal themselves right uh is there anything that can be wrenched down to form cover at all uh you're at the edge of a building so you can just use the take cover action to get cover yeah I think I'm gonna have to do that I'm gonna take cover at this corner here absolutely and with that he's going to sit and wait you guys should get into an ambush position don't let him get the drop on us gotcha and uh that'll be my turn I can't use my other action for anything in particular I'm not gonna waste anything by throwing it at a lord okay cool feel free to end your turn and V not you're up I gotcha okie dokie so uh taking Baldrick's advice Veena is going to I'm going to vault uh sickly over Gorgomonger I'm gonna do a sick vault way way way in order to way yeah um I'll roll acrobatics for that there we go natural plenty we take those you did too flicks yeah Veena's just going to like take a running leap jump off of Gorgomonger and then slide down the wall somehow silently uh to stay next to uh Baldrick and is going to kind of get in an ambush position with him uh and in fact I'm gonna well no getting closer to a lord would be a bad idea so I'm gonna uh stay there okay let's see okay as you do so Tannhauser and then Baldrick you see something come down the alleyway to the south you've seen this figure before but not quite like this it is one of the many types of people who belong to the group known as the children of the blaze but the name has never taken on quite a meaning like this as they are literally ablaze as their bodies have been replaced with fire and this individual comes down the alleyway clutching with arms that seem to have weapons but at the same time don't look like they're actually holding the weapons like the like the weapons are they're floating and they're trying to clutch their eyes and there's a this guy destroyed you now help me help me help me um Tannhauser you're up I thought you people were a street gang not a cult this is why you need praxis uh I'm doing it to uh with my with my completely serious real character named Tannhauser um I am seeing the writing on the walls here I'm going to cast resist energy oh that's a good spell at fourth level oh I'm going to choose a level cold damage no I'm choosing fire damage very good and I'm going to target myself and I'm also going to target our other front line Vina um and so we're both going to get uh resistance 10 for fire um you might need to step to do that because you have to touch them oh I do okay well you can step and cast it I like the idea that you see this thing shuffle back and yeah they high five yeah this is gonna suck yep um and I'll do that and I guess that makes it out of actions damn I wanted to arcane cascade that's okay we got another turn for that yeah you have a narrative declaration if you want to narratively declare you arcane cascade as a badass move uh yeah sure I'll narratively declare I do that hell yeah hell yeah so I'll I'll get my laughing shadow stuff up Thurston never lets them do anything yeah never never thank you very much Thurston Hellman of Thurston Hellman's mayonnaise I'm gonna walk up to here and then I'm gonna throw fire from the next one that wanders down the alley another one of these individuals um and sees Baldrick and then they raise their fist which creates a mote of fire and they hurl it at Baldrick hang on I want to actually inquire am I am I not stealthed uh yes but they they they they come up they do see you but they fail to hit you so oh good I'm still invisible then excellent yeah Oren you're up you you Oren you see your allies have sort of like advanced around the corner Kanhauser step back uh the sort of shadowy ashen simulacrum of Alort is at the end of the hall but various combusted men are starting to to appear down the alley and are throwing fire Oren steps up in front of Rahua targets um the guy in front of him and the other one down the street yeah he goes Krakatoa and electric arcs both of them absolutely they both need to make me a DC 27 reflex save perfect first one it's a success by one and the second one is a success by one all right they'll both take half of 5 d 4 plus 4 damage of half of 13 and that's the end of Oren's turn as he tells Gorgomonger to step back as he's made of wood all right Rahua actually sorry wait you already ended that so it's gonna be this guy another one comes racing down the alley Rahua here go Rahua is going to move up in front of Oren hi Rahua hi Oren wait this is not this attitude is not appropriate right now sorry we'll do this bit later okay Rahua is going to target the ashen simulacrum oh okay and hit him with a anarchic barrage absolutely I don't want to keep clicking cast I want to do the roll that's a nat 20 you're gonna smash this alert just just the smash this allure with uh with your anarchic materials roll the damage I'll do the damage critical it's gonna be doubled critical critical for 13 damage double to 26 the simulacrum is almost entirely destroyed instead there's like some wisps of air remaining there it's just like smoldering boots that are more smoldering than normal but like the head is like maybe like a quarter of the mouth and like an eye damn you really don't go down that easy I guess that should be expected for somebody who's barely a ghost and the action simulacrum goes and it like begins to stare out its eyes slightly reforming and mostly just the face the other the old powers they do nothing but but uncle blaze will do something the others have but he will come he wanders this world he will come and he will set things right with the depravity that is going on in that city all right then I've got a combust that's gonna run down the alley towards then I've got let's see here got another combust that's gonna run down the alley towards and spoiler alert for my last move is running down the alleyway towards towards as you start seeing countless individuals running screaming uh spouting help me their their bodies ablaze as they run some of them are just like I didn't want this I didn't want this vena or sorry baldrick baldrick sorry witty came in and attacked my hand had to mute oh you're good oh he's funny he's in crack mode yes but much like being in crack mode there's a lot of people coming to attack us yes and I note that there is a person right here correct I'm going to target that person and I'm going to throw ice at them absolutely frost vial go go ah that's a miss rolled a four hey you got a hair point I'm going to re-roll that I'm not taking that you don't get to do that critical hit 20 that'll do roll damage all right critical go uh that's 20 direct frost damage and an additional six splash on that one and the guy next to them so the first one takes 30 points of damage because they have weakness to it and then the splash will take 14 points of damage because they have weakness 10 to fire as you can see their bodies freezing up almost immediately uh they are also now under the effect of frost vial moderate which is that they now take a minus 10 foot status penalty to speeds until the end of their next turn and with that I'm going to move over here so I can't be hit by them presumably so throw move and then I'm going to continue to slow down as best I can I'll target that one next to alert and I'm going to throw another frost vial at a map minus five that'll just hit just fine that will just hit uh roll me uh jean demagio please oh frost uh 12 plus the so that will be 22 damage to that one and then the uh simulacrum dissipates entirely thank god he shut up I'm gonna destroy him and he is also frosty frosty and with that there's nothing else I can do and my turn in a reader all right um so I'm going to these two look like they're probably pretty fucked up by that uh by that big hit oh wait what are you rolling what are you keep going keep going um wait wait wait wait no no um yeah seeing that these guys in front are untouched I'll leave these two to my aoe friends um I'm going to run here right down the alley through the through the fire and the ashes correct just kind of emerging from the flames yep um and I'm going to uh strike this guy right here with my rapier absolutely I just want to point out this might be one of the best maps we've had in a long time for audio listeners in fact in fact since since it won't matter as much yeah if it's building you put the terrain wall that one doesn't quite work here let me see if this this works though um there's interiors yeah there you go have a great big beautiful map that's to tell everyone look at that and if you're if you're one of our patrons you're going to get this map so okie okie striking this flame that's a 29 for you ok so question you were just moving up and doing that yes were you wanting to get any kind of panache I've already got it oh well there you go ok indeed touche she critted she critted the flip that's true all right give me uh give me jean dimagio please uh that's not bad that'll be 27 points of damage you know what the fun part is you have a cold weapon I do have a cold weapon it's actually 37 points of damage nice uh all right and then as you you begin to strike it your blow causing it to stagger back and its eyes match with you and you see this individual and they stare at you vena they stare and as they stare in you they look and they say I didn't want this I thought I was gonna make a few coins sorry bud someone's gotta put you out of your misery uh and how bad does he look maybe like one tap away from death or uh pretty bad um then I will bother uh fishing for the finisher again I'm just gonna hit him with a map minus five gonna hit 26 all right a bit less damage but that'll be 13 he's still up but he's like recoiled back a bit from your next thrust please damn um yeah and that'll be my turn okay um sweet uh all right uh next up will be a new simulacrum that manifests in the alley standing like so just south of you Baldrick as though you destroyed the first one and a new one appeared I don't understand why she picked you you people are nothing you people don't even understand what's going on I need you to stop and then one of the busted rushes out from the alley and does a ripple move all the way over to you Veena and then one of the ones that has been like busted up by the frost bomb um and is now taking a movement penalty is going to slightly move up with one action and then target you Baldrick and again looking at your eyes as though like over the alert shouting just like comes at you with flaming fists and kind of begins clawing slash groping at you please please make it stop and it misses entirely on the first strike and then takes a second and misses this almost pathetic looking creature coming at you Tanhauser you're up pairing it with the club I am going to very simply move to here oh god move to here hello I'm going to walk up to this ashen simulacrum I'm not sure what utility if any these guys provide to the rest of them so I'm gonna be a little cautious you you could certainly spend an action if you would like to to um recall knowledge about what's going on here I don't think so I am just giving you options no no no I I really do appreciate it yeah um the last spell I cast was abjuration yes I'm going to yeah yeah yeah because you buffed yeah yeah yeah the spell weapon which is a free action um and so I will be getting uh an extra 1d6 damage dependent on uh what I did recently which is force damage um then I am going to uh hit alert going to charge my blade and I'm going to just hit him with a gouging claw uh charge spellstrike sure give me that attack and dimashio please show your face in flesh not smoke you easily crit him excellent I will do that and then here comes a gouging claw for a total of um 31 damage I believe yeah the action simulacrum disappears in the air dreadful thing come on then face me well the one that's immediately beside you decides to face you um as this happens a couple of things go on first of all I need you to give me a reflex save I'm going to post in the chat there you can click on that button you got it oh shit I can't that's incredible technology technology that's a 20 so you're going to take half of this so you're only going to take two points of fire damage as you are in the aura of this burning man who turns to you you can't kill him not like this kill me instead and then um except for don't I have resistance tap you do so that won't do any damage and in fact I can just restore that to you immediately um then this man is going to try to claw you with fist will hit you uh boop I will do 15 points um so you cast resist energy right yes I did did you put that in chat or uh I think I might have before combat started or did I yeah I did I don't know I don't know I see it here I just want to make sure okay I don't think I applied it to my character yeah yeah one sec I was just seeing if there was an effect for it I'm gonna see if you can because it'll automatically do the damage for us yeah I got this one sec I got it what do you what you can do uh you're a fighter right fire 10 right yeah fire 10 yeah I cast a fourth level and uh vena should also have it yeah I'll do I'll do that too I got you fire cool uh so that will only do five points as he hits you but it's also gonna do some persistent damage to you 10 housers okay so there you go you get hit a bit and then you you you catch on fire but this this bubble is protecting you that was its first action um its next action is to move to here I believe you have uh sorry not to there uh to there I believe you have an aop I do indeed have an aop please take the aop I mean the reactive strike my bad yes the reactive strike come on now it's an opportunistic strike correct that is easily hit please give me damage you got it I will give you six points of damage I think I I add more because of my arcane cascade yes how much more uh okay well I'm in the stance it deal increases to two okay I can add two more to it cool yeah two more and cool I could I could no I can only do it once per turn I got you uh he moves up to there and then when he moves up this individual so tax with his fist moves up and then unleashes a blazing howl uh which centers on himself as he shouts and I need uh rahua baldrick an hauser and orrin to give me will saves please oh dear not impressive it's a 28 that's gonna be a 34 17 orrin got a 28 okay yeah nobody critical availed yeah uh so um the damage here will be uh rahua you take nothing because your will is strong against these abominations tanhauser you also take nothing uh orrin you will take half of this and then baldrick you will take the full amount of damage 24 fire as this thing unleashes a scream and as its mouth opens flames begin to whip out creating a conflagration around it temporarily um and that is that entities go orrin you're up do not stand so close to me do not look at me also i'm stepping away for just one sec but orrin tell me what you're doing oh yeah no worries uh basically i'm gonna be casting lightning storm and pretty much it's a range of 120 feet when the air with a 24 foot burst and orrin will be casting this from a scroll and try to do this appropriately i use as i'm trying to fill up the dead air as i try to get this and do it right in front of vena and a bunch of lightning basically on how this works because lightning storm is a bit weird it is 120 feet range so i can just go over in an area and it's a big old aoe everybody in it is gonna have to make a reflex save or else they take uh like 4012 electricity damage uh pretty much it's like a line from the ground up top in the big old burst and i can sustain it that means i can just for a turn i can just go stay there and they just keeps on doing it right so that area is gonna be constantly just being electrified so all three of those guys down the alleyway uh are gonna need to make me a 27 reflex save uh that's a success barely that is a success barely barely and this is a fail and i'll be rolling 4012 electricity damage of that going so that's 20 damage in total there they all take it yep and and for that that cost me good old three actions to do that so orange is now just gonna start maintaining that and i am outside currently correct uh yeah so because i'm outside next time i sustain this i can make another cloud somewhere else as long as i'm sustaining it i can't do both of them to do attacks but i get to choose either or which way to do it or another cloud to do it so orange now trying to do what aoe damage he can so that's the end of orange turn for a cow uh well i've got another one who's gonna run up to tanhauser here uh from the south of the alley coming up to you again tanhauser you're now having all of these just conflag irrigated individuals rushing up to you and you you simply hear oh yeah please um you simply hear this you'll need to stop him he has to be stopped and they begin slashing at you with their hands let's see here okay so yeah you're gonna take a little bit of damage here not much uh and more persistent fire as they hit you uh and they're going to try one more uh attempt to to strike at you manage to hit with a decent roll there um again more bludgeoning damage coming in not a lot though not great i'd like to imagine these guys uh as they're doing their damage and stuff they're on fire right yeah what movie was it it was an adam sandler movie i don't know if it was little nicky or something else or the one guy one priest guy like it's like i'm burning i'm burning now he's like on flame like i don't know if chat remembers which movie which one did that i don't know if it was little nicky or something else i think it's little nicky yeah i'm confident all right that's it really you're up okay uh who is going to attack the well the the very burning man in front of me with another anarchic barrage because we're trying to get rid of these i'm not sure if that picked that way no i dropped my threshold you got it cool let's go 30 for the hit uh which one are you targeting the one directly adjacent to him oh yeah yeah that's gonna hit absolutely okay damage going out you got this almost minimal damage uh 12 damage it's gonna take it staggers back a little bit and i'll go ahead no i looked it up it wasn't a little mickey thank god we have that solved now we can actually get on with the game thank god i will also attempt to strike him with the mossy pick heck yeah even with a map minus five a little bit wide a little bit wide little wide okay that's a 15 for podcast yeah all right i got i got another one who's in in here and uh rahua you're about to get hit a bunch because this one doesn't like that you targeted him oh damn sorry i miss chill chill i miss three swings all missing with a grand total for those of you who are listening to a 23 a 21 and a 15 all missing who is amazing armor class the next one coming up here is the one who is in the fire or the electrical storm i should say who is not going to move and is going to attempt to strike at vena missing with a minus nine then swinging again missing with a minus six and then swinging a third time a critical miss hey i'll ripost that will you ripost that i will ripost that uh which one of it was uh this guy the one on the bottom yeah okay uh and then i also need you sorry at the beginning of your turn technically speaking uh and this will apply to um you uh vena and then to baldrick rahua and gorgamunger if you can give me that reflex save i've gotten there please oh right now as their heat aura begins to burn on you uh-oh reflex natural 20 with your button there 31 fun you're fine rahua uh i want to collect your chat thing but i can't do it with him yeah uh but all of you are actually uh good the um in fact incredibly good the only one who's gonna take any damage from this is gonna be baldrick he'll take half of this all right conducting metal he is uh all right so vena now you may take your riposte against the one in the electrical storm my riposte yes indeed hitting him oh okay okay we'll take those i do not have panache unfortunately so it's just a regular critical but we'll take those it's kicking a dude's ass give you panache it kills him thank you and he falls down you're welcome buddy all right then i got another one who is going to rush up to the edge of the energy barrier and toss flame down at you vena and misses and that will be there oh and then top around three baldrick you're up uh baldrick is going to use this opportunity to slip past his allies and move towards the back line yeah because i am not a combatant in melee get me out of here and i'm going to then throw what's the most sensible yeah i think this makes sense i may as well try to pause these guys off i will target this fellow directly in front of gorgamunger this burning man who is slightly cold pardon me and i'm gonna hit him with a bottled lightning because i don't want to blow all my frost vials on one thing please do draw and throw go that'll hit yeah definitely 1431 yeah and let's damage it and the guy next to him yes for 12 plus 6 18 damage total okay um so he'll take the 12 you can tell this isn't as effective as your frost bombs were yeah i gathered that however yeah however he is also now off guard because yes by the lightning uh doesn't he also take the splash directly it applies that to the main damage it's that's what the plus four is there for gotcha just wanted to make sure because it said he took 12 i don't think it has your intelligence modifier so i'll just put that in there there we go doesn't apply that probably because the feat isn't working right either way uh that's one thing i'm gonna do there and then um what would be the most sensible thing to do now i think what i'm gonna do you could always quick alchemy i know that's what i was that's what i was gonna do do your like do your safe alchemy like your unlimited ones of like a shitty cold because yeah you're just proccing the um the weakness problem is i don't have i don't have frost vial lesser gotcha that's my problem yeah that's not unfortunately something i have in my repertoire uh crap and i'm actually out actually can't quick alchemy the smaller ones unless i had them prepped as the uh fair part of that so i'm i will take cover behind gorgamonger does he count as an object uh yeah you could easily just move to here instead so yeah fine by me and that'll end up cool cool vena you're up okie dokie uh i'm going to actually killing that man this turn really helps my action economy uh i'm going to move toward this guy up here and i'm going to uh or not move i'm going to faint upon this man uh because i don't think tumbling through would exactly be a great idea here uh so i'm going to kind of make for a strike and then you can you can okay to clarify you can tumble into his space and back to where you were but his space is on fire no but like what i mean is is because lightning strikes don't happen until or in turn so you could go like this as one action and get panache oh yeah well that's that's a straight better modifier no no no otherwise your deception is fine and that's still enough so you don't have to do it anyway so you're fair enough always remember you can go forward and back and forward and back and then one foot forward and one foot back all right so yeah i'm gonna get the panache i'm going to very quickly uh just make this kind of fainting strike move past him do a back flip and then i'm going to stab him with a sword that hits somehow that hits very nice uh clicking the finisher box damage uh that is 24 points of damage takes 34 points of damage because of your uh cold damage on your weapon all right and that panache will go away and then i'm going to uh strike him one last time minus five uh hit hit hit a rooney we take those we take those uh 13 points of cold though another 23 damage because the cold rocks the weakness all right he's staggering back thank you that can kill me kill me working on it uh and then this guy goes i need you to give me a save i put it in chat then i'm going to get you to give me another save so click on both of the saves in there vena oh yes and then i'm going to hit you with my third action and miss in fact so bad you'll get a thing off of that but first of all roll those uh basic reflex save off of intense heat and then the reflex save off or will save off of blazing hell should be in chat there you're on fire i don't see the button oh does it not say like click basic will or basic look at blazing hell look at the middle there and it says basic will oh okay yeah and then if you scroll up to intense heat it says basic reflex so click both of those okay that one was not good that was the powell and oh god absolutely good on that that save uh the reflex save but the will save is um far worse so one sec it'll take full damage from this uh you will take this minus 10 because of your resistance from tanhauser so you take 14 fire damage vena as some of it manages to get through the protective shielding that tanhauser has given you and that's that one's go the next one goes um wait uh critical miss on the fire oh yeah yeah please please take your uh yeah yeah please can't crit miss in my vicinity i can vena's house you can hit though and give me dimage again yeah i know two vena 20s this is really the end game chat she's doing i know i've been trying not to acknowledge it i'm not jinxing this it's already been done you just did it she got gonna kill that guy all right all right yeah just vena dipping and weaving around these guys comes up from under stabs them through the chest and just all right we're going to bed now i'm gonna step up to here and i'm gonna hit um our good boy rahua twice with flaming fists i'm gonna hit you once oh i'm gonna set you on fire and take 17 points of damage as these flaming fists start wailing into you rahua and you see this thing looking at you going the end the end the end uh tan has her here all right seeing two uh fire people approaching our nature boys i've decided that only i can prevent forest fires so i'm going to uh target the one that goes after me real quick and i'm going to cast force fang oh nice um and i'll just do 11 damage which one was it uh the uh one that's closest to me uh directly north okay got it or north or south the one that's yeah okay yeah the this this guy yeah oh okay sorry sorry so you said yeah i'm trying north and then they were south of the u.s. okay i am so sorry i i thought cardinal directions are hard for speaker d everyone respect he's up he's up from me i thought that was north oh yeah he's confusing especially now that we can fly so up is up and north oh that is sure yeah you know what we don't even believe in science anymore we've just given up uh is he still up oh he's up yeah okay well that's the best i can do um i will now abandon my obligation to prevent forest fires uh i'm going to uh dispel weapon uh for some more juicy force damage and uh i'm going to pack a uh let's let's pack a uh a gouging claw into this do it up do it up do it up all righty then oh all right that's gonna hit yep i'm gonna roll my damage which should be that plus two so that's a nice six off the bat um actually uh that plus two plus two because of uh arcane cascade and uh dispel weapon cool um and now gouging claw time yes for 20 other 20 nice yeah uh uh with tan hauser being done uh that's the turn okay uh rahua oh and sorry yeah tanhauser click on that recovery check you'll take no damage from this because of your resist but it's gone yay cool uh the fire burns out on you all right uh over here uh gorgamunger and rahua i require a save i require a reflex save i'll put it in chat let's see if this works with his make sure it's right it's a total of yeah it's fine 25 you both succeed but not critically succeed so you'll take half of this as flames continue to burn on you and then the one to the south um seeing how this is going is going to smash into gorgamunger twice no miss hits once does a good amount of damage and then is gonna walk back to here or in europe as he pulls back into the alley coming back to support his allies on veena hmm there's so many fucking moods he's going to sustain for one action the lightning storm and that will cause me to be able to have another one and i gotta scroll all the way up to get the right little aoe thing my god because i was dumb and i didn't pop it out like i should have i'm gonna do that now now i've been debating a lot because i couldn't really think of my turn all too often because i didn't know where everyone would go because if everyone hid behind gorgamunger rahua i would be like all right here's another one and then i can just copy the template if you want to place oh i got it fit uh so i have to like figure out like a good bit of movement for this because it's like me or dearest veena do you trust orin always i trust you with my life little guy oh my favorite thing the roguelike character can i call the artillery strike on you excellent you should can i do that like like or well yeah veena can you dodge lightning best i can okay another cloud and lightning begins to dance around you veena as another lightning storm comes down you don't ask tanhauser in this i mean he's not he's not in the blast actually because of how the burst is the wall is protecting the wall protects him that's right in that corner he doesn't get affected that's right that's right that's right i i look at the lightning gathering okay cool it's striking everything around me directly down at me and then just before it hits it does a complete right angle and hits the wall yeah it's really just it's really weird with the aoe thing because it's not going exactly how it should what do you mean that's that's where it should be no it's supposed to fucking i had a weird finicky area that i had where it hits all the guys you want to do this i got it that's the one you want to do that's the one you want i can't try to place it correctly i was like yeah i got you you want to do it there it's like because i also wanted to square this down right in front of gorgomire because i know it's gonna fucking happen i can't quite yeah i don't think you can get it there and well no you can't get it there and hit him regardless unless you do something like that no that also hits there is a way for it but i'm not fucking with it no i'm fucking with it okay fine it's finicky as fuck moving it i'm trying my best that hits everyone else that's not what i'm trying to do please attack me directly with your spell i'm just moving it just to fuck with it this is me being serious as fuck keep going i'm gonna get mad because it's so frustrating how templates will play all right so he places that so it hits all the enemies and unfortunately vena um thoughts and prayers everyone so they all need to make me a 27 reflex save um easy easy peasy i'll start with the top guy not easy not easy at all i'll start with the one by v critically fails i'll start with the one by vena oh she critically succeeds uh i'll succeed the second one and the one that's closest to the party i don't know if that'll critically succeed it's a 27 reflex save oh okay so yeah i'll get two successes and a crit fail roll damage i'll apply it all right roll the damage oh no yeah my 24 points of damaruni they are pretty messed up by that they're still up all right so that was one action to sustain uh then he's going to spend his second action to pretty much uh electric arc the one right in front of her hua in a little bit further down the other one as well right by vena yeah pull out i think a billion windows open spellcasters you be ledger cards they all say roll the dc 27 reflex save uh sorry what are you doing here oh yeah so one in front of her and the one uh on top of vena there yes okay cool boop boop i'll succeed with the one closest and succeed with the one furthest but they'll take half damage yeah that's five to four plus four kapoor this is a twelve so six and before anyone says in the comments i'm a-okay with letting um orrin overlap them even though technically by the rules he can't that's okay oh it's called being a gm you're allowed to bend it exactly exactly exactly the best gms do it exactly not overlooking i got you it's okay it's okay uh okay i'm gonna go with this one here uh by you tenhouser tenhouser give me a save please i put it in chat basic reflex basic reflex let's rock yeah you take no damage from this i'm gonna hit you gonna crit you damn as the fists come around you and you take 32 points of damage as it like begins crushing like grappling your neck and constricting die die one of us must die uh and that's all it does rahui you're up to play it fair i'll just release the other lightning storm that's okay i'll play quickly you're fine we are on we are on that resource saving grind set so i'm getting another anarchic barrage and hitting with roiling torrent of please go away i need to kill the other guy okay okay believe believe believe believe i do apologize yeah grogan monger didn't get do his action so rahula as you were hitting that guy in front of you i assume yeah oh we could combine attacks and grogan monger fights with you as he tries to bite into him oh we're doing a heat burst we're gonna bite attacking with a 31 nice both you give me damage bergamot bites let's kill this guy gorgamonger he bites for 15 points of damage let me let me apply some damage here he dies as as the gorgamonger rahua tag team combo comes down they get the wwf belt best tag team champions gorgamonger high fives rahula hi fives gorgamonger yeah is that your turn oh shit that's two actions you got one action left you can i went into this thinking that i was in or yeah i went into this thinking that oh yeah i'm gonna have to hit him again so let me quickly move up shit i didn't think i'd get this far also be careful that it's in the lightning storm oh shit you're right yeah what if i just leave yeah you're safe true that's out yeah if you have additional movement how much movement do you have i get 25 feet okay yeah that's enough all right now my turn okay as you rush past a amongst the lightning storm another action simulacrum of mr alert appears uh rahula click on that roll recovery because you're also still on fire as you take nine points of fire damage as the flaming tree runs through the lightning storm still on fire you can't keep carrying on with the flames there's this beautiful look as you rush by why can't you just stop this you don't even understand what you're doing um and that is the action simulacrum um and as that happens one of the the combusted begins to make its way towards towards lightning storm but as it does so it stops at the edge and then falls apart destroy as it crumbles into ash on the ground uh and then the one over by vena goes rushing over here vena to try to to attack you and add to the fur of attacks on you oh you miss and then you're targeting a critical mass critical miss oh shoot i have vena targeted but i had both of them so it prioritized uh gurgamonger's ac is far worse so vena you uh you sell the crit miss you can react to that nice uh this guy yeah the one to the south here this one oh this one all right yeah i'll i'll whack him sure vena react we need those views true vena react views you will hit why vena reaction vena vena reacts to critical mass 15 damage you slay that one as you stab in the ice causes it to freeze and shatter in the electrical storm around you half of my kills have been from reactions good ability isn't it nice when you get to fight things that are maybe uh not as ridiculous and not hitting you every attack baldrick you're up baldrick in the name of conserving resources is going i don't even know what would be sensible here what is my next objective thing like make a lesser there's only two of them left so i'm trying to think what would be the most cost efficient because throwing an acid flask lesser would be pointless throwing an alcos fire seems even less sensible you know what i'm gonna on the off chance that there's some kind of negativity to it i'm going to quick alchemy together for free a necrotic bomb lesser and i'm going to throw it at the one next to me now heck yeah do it up draw and throw that's a critical hit give me dimash that would be it helps that he was off guard because of the funny lightning yep oh yeah did i roll the i did roll grid didn't i yeah but there's an extra plus four damage here so it didn't do the times two thing on your roll i didn't do it didn't so i'll do double but then i also have to add another eight to it because of the um uh because of the baldrick uh intelligence bonus so which is it is it calculated splash oh ignore that sorry sorry ignore that no it should not take no damage haha i know why one sec one sec one sec bodrick fuck that guy oh beat a bottom grenade grenade destroys that guy i love throwing the covenant's sticky plasma bomb at enemies as the tartar sauce devours oh what it's where we decided it came from uh vena you're up okie dokie all right um mostly just got alert number what like four at this point and then there's one to the south of uh tanhuzer you got that one tanny yes i've got it take care of your lot gotcha all right and i'm going wow wow i'm gonna tumble through yep did the lord just go wow no he's gonna wow just sounded like wow you got them damn panache i got the panache oh oh i got i say i say i say i say you panache all right uh so yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna stab this alert from behind yeah to dispel him once more damn you you blue blammer god damn i'll crit i'll crit okay okay hey chat before everyone gets so excited the action alert is a creature level three so just like temper temper your expectations here that's 77 points of damage you destroy the action simulacrum who's just like did you really it's not about doing maximum damage to whoever needs it it's about sending a message i can't believe your discord disconnected the i have had it up to here with you please keep me that's our go ahead go ahead i'm sorry i will um i am going to uh let's see what's a good one yeah i'm gonna fucking true strike um uh i shouldn't have used a second level for it but true strike at first level just pretend um and i am going to uh spell strike sorry dispel 11 spell strike gouge and claw he's doing his combo he's doing his combo his combo i get to roll i get to roll again see if it's crit nice so i'm gonna roll my crit here that plus four so 20 damage before the magic 20 damage before the magic oh yeah that's right i got it and then this credit doubled so you destroy the last of them and with that the last of the tormented combusted collapse and each of them goes into ash in the winds and all you hear is the like little tutting voice of mr alert and there this town's finished wow god damn you i mean someone had to remind us all of it but we don't have the finish in the game this town's finish this town's finished yeah whatever whatever every time one of those children with the blades died actually second before they fell down they said this town's finished oh why oh why everyone did i don't wanted it all right sorry you're good where do you think that foppish dandy went the pillar rises up ominously close in the distance or in points to the fiery pillar in the distance maybe he's that way thank you or in i think the environmental ambience does the storytelling for us no that can't be it let's search that's too obvious shut up and get moving every single burning support being in the city surely you will find mr. alert under one of those it's a fetch quest go fetch him all right yeah he's already running towards the pillar no i'm gonna do the vision you might you might want to heal yourself mr. tanhauser yes let you take more of out of me than i expected your health bar above your head looks a little low i'll uh is anyone going to check down the alleyway real quick not yet okay one of you do it i'm too busy being baltric just to say not here why don't you hold on floating voice in our heads doesn't the uh aeon stone uh heal me for uh one point of damage every minute yeah but we have to rely on if we're gonna get those minutes oh yeah i don't know if we're gonna take an hour to get to the flame i would just chug a potion or enhance you um oh i have i have potions to spare i'll take one of my shit potions and then the rest should probably heal up by the time we get to the evil and choose your shit potions make sure nothing else is gonna get us nothing quite like a shit potion to restore your health so at the beginning of the fight i was like oh man i wish i had a wall spell then i remembered i've had this wall of fire scroll for such a long time and i really wanted to be like don't worry guys i can block them like see they're never gonna get and they just walk through 100% it would have been best uh but lord will will heal gogermonger with his heal animal focus spell or 59 jesus all right just to get him popped up a little bit down a focus point he'll sniff a leaf to get his focus spell back on the way yeah we just want to make sure uh everyone gets healed and stuff and tenhouser you healed too i do heal ten oran will quickly oh god so all this stuff you're doing i just want to you know gonna gonna just let you know um you're you're you're buffing up but you you do eventually i'm assuming kind of kind of peek down the alley to see what's around the immediate corner or just goes fine floating voice and he goes down the alleyway panhauser um um as you come down you can see that far to the east through a larger um streetway almost seemingly like defiance of the the smoldering flames of the city and the ash in the air is a fountain that gushes with vibrant water hold a moment the city in flames and a gushing fountain of water it seems our favorite auntie might have our eyes on us so that's why he's mad i will uh i will approach i will uh approach the fountain come on mr baldrick all right but we can't stay here long and i'll take a look into the water okay as you get close you feel that it is it it feels right uh and as you like you look at it you you have this compulsion to like put your hand on the water oran drinks from it absolutely uh oran you regain all of your hit points and can restore all of your spell slots oh i see but it won't restore the scroll i used it's true i'll uh put my hand in the water same thing happens to you oh cool am i not on fire anymore also yeah yeah we can we can it's only now that i am that's just yeah well mr baldrick put your hand in the spooky water baldrick is actually eyeing the water a little bit curiously and i don't have a point for this but thurston yes just because i feel as though it is narratively appropriate yes baldrick's gonna eye the fountain for a moment and he's gonna remember something that he took in one of the first times he was in the undercity of uh of uh outset and he is going to take the single remaining bottle of pure water that he has and he's going to return it to the fountain okay and he'll just accept that and if you choose to do something with that that's up to you but he's doing that uh you heal you regain all allocation of your bombs and you now have a lesser minor and moderate frost bomb in your uh repertoire that you know of bombs perfect i understand how to make cold mm-hmm for who is going to preemptively cast vital beacon because he forgot to do it going to the last encounter and then he's also going to take a draught of the water that is not on fire and rua you feel strange but it does heal you and restore all of you like it's it's like this is like a this is a drink i don't necessarily like on a basic level but it's still a good drink for me whatever it takes to put out the fire and as you you all sup from this this fountain uh vena are you going to um imbibe of the waters i'll take a drinky uh restore all your hit points so all of your backup to full you can restore all your hit points oh wow and my spell slots yeah and your spell slots vena oh my god um as you do all of this and finish up the flames to the east begin to subside slightly leaving a path directly towards the pillar that rises up from what must be the center of town all right everyone ready or nods look at to it programonger gives a thumbs up hey you all begin to walk down the the flaming path the the fires here still smoldering in some sections nothing to damage you but the ashing ashes floating in the air towards this august pillar that dominates the skyline becoming ever larger as you approach it as you do approach some things happen first few steps we cut to cervictrix clutching the object at their side and entering into a familiar grotto we cut to the airship belonging to vena entering the heart of the storm vena's first mate still clutching the object at their side and to the tent with didanissan and bjarna far under the earth and the earth begins to rumble then you find yourselves all of you in a vast in a vast space must have been like an open ground in the city with a pillar of flame jutting from the ground and silhouetted against the incandescent brilliant almost white hot light of the pillar as it touches the stonework here as a short individual in a distinct attire a top hat a cane mr. ilort looks up at all of you from a distance his voice somehow resounding over the crackling of flame i give you one last chance to depart and go home nah those who give last chances are scared you've reached the end of every possible avenue what lies before you is ruin you do not understand the position you have found yourselves in little destined ones you should go home this is my time we should trust you then like your gang trusted you before you set them up in flame and they begged us for death they fed what was necessary to stop the depredations of your city of the city we built i don't care if you built the city i don't care how old you claim to be or how old your great power is you're in the way of progress and your crimes must be punished my crimes oh my crimes that is rich now look at you small children playing in the mud i am going to save you save you all from the malignance that will threaten you if this depravity in your city is allowed to continue now go and leave orrin takes a step forward yeah sorry friend no can do i'll give you one last chance to apologize for all the fucking with us you've done maybe just maybe i promise we'll make it quick do you know do you know who i am child from where i'm standing you're the one looking small to me he drops the cane and his arms kind of just go wide do you understand who i am he takes a step forward whoever you are you're about to be past tense i take a step forward he was wrong to imbue you he i am going to burn you rua will take a step forward mm-hmm from fire you were born and in fire you will meet your end there is a laugh to that something that somehow echoes through this plaza as though rebounding off the pillar almost as though the pillar reacts and you hear the voice of this diminutive figure silhouetted by the the pillar rua born of fire oh oh you don't understand you don't understand at all i'm not born of fire child of anarchy no i am fire i am uncle braise and with that his skin begins to slough off as the avatar of a god of fire manifests on the world of time and then so i think we will call today's episode oh so that's why you didn't let me take over the street gang it was being run by god you can't compete with god speaker can you get more chances than god well that's fine now i know so thank you all so very much for watching chat i hope you enjoyed this absolutely lovely episode of rock grand thank you all so very much for watching i'd like to reintroduce the amazing uh players and where you can find them starting off with odoroshi hi hello it's me i'm odo i was playing vena the self swashbuckler on a surprisingly good rolling session let's keep that up for next time please yeah good roll yeah you can find me on twitter at odoroshirider you can find me on tumblr if you dare you can find me in the discord uh and yeah great session today everyone that's whoo shit's getting spicy of course next up now done with his weeklies it's hulky crow gee thank you for reminding chat of that zoran hi i'm hulky crow i'm a stupid little man also known as a voice actor and streamer you can find me at x twitter rip the twitter domain at hulky crow on twitch by the same username or pretty much everywhere you can find me it's by that and of course we have our ever lovely erendil i'm i'm erendil you can meet me at twitter at erendilio and on here on discord if you so choose and tumblr and nowhere else don't bother and then of course we have our ever revolutionary speaker d hi i'm speaker d you can find me on twitter at super snake kick you can find me uh on alpha abuse's channel where me and erendil write and voice act in various very silly videos uh in the world of darkness and warhammer setting as i'm sure you all already know and i am always with you of course we have our lustiest game master thurston hillman hi everybody um if you thought this episode was crazy just wait till the next one but that won't be in two weeks because we will not have an episode on the first because i have a thing i gotta be at so we will uh have an episode i think our next episode is on the like 15th or something anyways we will be back but we have a google calendar schedule we have we have a calendar for that but just so you know it won't be in two weeks because i gotta i'll leave you waiting but it's gonna be good because if you thought today was crazy oh wait oh wait we have a schedule section on the discord for that yeah otherwise uh i had a blast i hope you uh all appreciate that i do very very long term storytelling and i like payoffs and we're getting the payoffs so it's good love y'all hell yeah and i have been your host for the evening i am zone the bear you can find everything in zone the bear dot com love you all so very much hope you all had an absolutely lovely time today remember if you want to help support these shows to keep them alive it's patreon.com for slash narrative declaration we have our own patreon only campaign now over there if you want to check that out and um thank you all so much for your support you also get the vods things like that a whole bunch of other exclusive stuff on patreon and the pdfs one of the map and stuff you get that there 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