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Episode 56 (S3E56) · Tale of The Manticore, a Dark Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons Audiodrama

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  Speaker 1: Hello, this is Mike Taylor, life, creator of Kayla Chronicles
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  Speaker 1: and a host of SyQuest podcasts, and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: Tell the Manicorre. The following podcast is intended for a
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  Speaker 1: mature audience. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome back to Tale
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  Speaker 1: of the Manticor Season three. Like the creature from which
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  Speaker 1: it takes its name, Tale of the Manticor is a mashup,
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  Speaker 1: a cross breeding between two different species of storytelling. Here
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  Speaker 1: you will find the unpredictability of old school paper and
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  Speaker 1: dice games with the story craft of a dark fantasy novel.
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  Speaker 1: No character is sacred and none will be spared if
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  Speaker 1: the dice decide their fate is at hand. According to Laura,
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  Speaker 1: the Tale of a Manticre is barbed with cruel iron spikes.
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  Speaker 1: There will be much pain in the days ahead. Last
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  Speaker 1: time on Tail of the Manticor. In last chapter, Bellario,
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  Speaker 1: the Gnome arrives at the air water Gate. It's night
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  Speaker 1: and he's just come from speaking with Seger, so he
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  Speaker 1: knows the makeup of Achille's party. Because he's invisible, he
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  Speaker 1: avoids detection by Cord and Robin, who keep watch over
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  Speaker 1: the other PCs while they sleep, but Bellario does not attack,
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  Speaker 1: nor does he attempt to sneak past. Instead, he takes
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  Speaker 1: the iron tower from his bag, says the command word
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  Speaker 1: to return it to normal size, and spends the night
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  Speaker 1: safely inside while the party remains unaware of his presence.
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  Speaker 1: The next scene takes place in the sleeping mind of
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  Speaker 1: de Renni as the off dreams terrible dreams. This one
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  Speaker 1: is of a meeting between himself and Rayleier, the old crow,
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  Speaker 1: who decays as he approaches, accusing Dornie of abandoning him,
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  Speaker 1: even as his flesh rots and falls away. The dream
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  Speaker 1: ends when Raylaer degenerates into a pile of bones that
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  Speaker 1: sink into the earth, leaving Derni alone to consider their
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  Speaker 1: final words. When Don arrives, the Pieces make a decision
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  Speaker 1: they will attempt to reach the Beacon using the y
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  Speaker 1: pipes Biami gave them to summon Griffins a second and
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  Speaker 1: final time. They do so, and once again a quinnt
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  Speaker 1: head of the creatures answers the call. These gryffins are
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  Speaker 1: not the same ones that bore them to the top
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  Speaker 1: of the mountains when they began to walk the Golden Path.
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  Speaker 1: These gryffins are battle scarred, and it soon becomes apparent
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  Speaker 1: why no sooner have the pieces mounted the beasts and
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  Speaker 1: taken to the air, and a number of winged humanoids
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  Speaker 1: detach from the canyon walls ahead and fly toward them
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  Speaker 1: in challenge. Blario watches all this take place from a
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  Speaker 1: safe distance and recognizes an opportunity. Using his magic ring,
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  Speaker 1: he polymorphs into a giant hornet and then flies off,
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  Speaker 1: letting the PCs do the fighting while he makes for
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  Speaker 1: the beacon unhindered. Chapter fifty six, Part one, Day forty four,
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  Speaker 1: Early morning, mythic event meaning control, dispute, party status, achillea
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  Speaker 1: seventeen of seventeen hit points, court twenty nine of thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: deny twenty three of twenty three, ten Tier thirty five
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  Speaker 1: of thirty five, fair Wind thirty eight of forty two,
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  Speaker 1: Flicker fourteen of sixteen spells available. Achille can cast and
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  Speaker 1: large detect evil, glitter, dust, dispel magic and flame, arrow
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  Speaker 1: cord can cast, entangle and old friendship, slow poison, bark, skin,
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  Speaker 1: hold animal, tree, shape, speak with plants, cure serious wounds
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  Speaker 1: and past plant. Fair Wind can cast cure light wounds, light,
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  Speaker 1: old person, and bless Achilia frantically adjusted her grip on
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  Speaker 1: her griffin's feathers, where they met the golden lion's fur
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  Speaker 1: at the shoulders. She squinted into the rushing wind that
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  Speaker 1: beat at her face and blew back her braided hair.
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  Speaker 1: Then the nosedive flattened out, and they were gliding straight
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  Speaker 1: into the pack of incoming gray figures, who cried out
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  Speaker 1: in challenge with strange whooping voices and drew a deafening
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  Speaker 1: reply from the throat of her own mount behind her
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  Speaker 1: fair wind, feeling a little too large and much too
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  Speaker 1: heavy not to worry about falling off his mount, called
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  Speaker 1: out in a desperate prayer to his deity, Most Holisodal Guide,
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  Speaker 1: When does most Holyodolic Guide to defend us? Most holyes are?
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  Speaker 1: The creatures with which the Pecs are about to enter
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  Speaker 1: into combat are gargoyles. In total, there are six of
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  Speaker 1: them pitted against the five Griffins and their riders. In
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  Speaker 1: terms of ross stats alone, the Griffins have the clear advantage.
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  Speaker 1: They are five hit dice creatures with twenty six hit
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  Speaker 1: points each, an armor class of fifteen, and a claw
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  Speaker 1: claw bite attack that does one to four, one to
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  Speaker 1: four and two to sixteen points of damage, respectively. The gargoyles,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, have four hitd dice twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: points each, an armor class of sixteen, and a claw
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  Speaker 1: clab bite attack that does one to three, one to three,
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  Speaker 1: and one to six points of damage. I'll actually be
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  Speaker 1: tweaking that as I'll discuss in a while, and there
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  Speaker 1: are a few other factors to consider as well. While
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  Speaker 1: magical weapons are required to hurt gargoyles, amusingly, two E
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  Speaker 1: rule that monsters of high enough hit dice can harm
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  Speaker 1: those immune to normal attacks, and griffin do meet the
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  Speaker 1: minimum in this case. If you'd like to read more
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  Speaker 1: about this rule, I'll post a link on the blog. Interestingly,
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  Speaker 1: the BX rule's bestiary includes a note to dms to
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  Speaker 1: say that they should only use gargoyles if the player
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  Speaker 1: characters do have at least one magical weapon. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: ten Tier does, but he can't reasonably use it from
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  Speaker 1: the back of a flying griffin. In fact, none of
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  Speaker 1: the pieces will be able to do anything other than
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  Speaker 1: try to hang onto their mounts during this imminent dogfight. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: there is one exception. I'll get to that in a
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  Speaker 1: moment too. Another thing to mention Griffins are much faster
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  Speaker 1: flyers than Gargoyles, a detail that might be important in
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  Speaker 1: this fight, because the pieces don't actually need to kill
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  Speaker 1: their enemies, they just need to get past them. It's
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  Speaker 1: an aerial game of red rover. If you like, does
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  Speaker 1: this sound a little too easy, don't worry. There's a
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  Speaker 1: catch a deadly one. I am house ruling a special danger.
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  Speaker 1: The Gargoyles will make their claw claw attacks as a
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  Speaker 1: combo attack for one to six points of damage in
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  Speaker 1: lieu of the prescribed one to three APEA. If any
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  Speaker 1: of these carbo attacks scores a natural twenty critical hit,
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  Speaker 1: the Gargoyles will have pulled the rider from their mount
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  Speaker 1: and drop them to the river hundreds of feet below.
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  Speaker 1: If that happens, the dropped PC will need to make
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  Speaker 1: a save versus death, or else succumb to one of
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  Speaker 1: the river creatures that are tracking them in hopes of
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  Speaker 1: an easy meal. Court would be the single exception to
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  Speaker 1: this rule. He might not be of interest to the
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  Speaker 1: river monsters, and he's naturally buoyant, two things that are
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  Speaker 1: to his advantage. Therefore, he will get advantage on such
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  Speaker 1: a save if it becomes necessary for all pieces. The
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  Speaker 1: successful save will either indicate that they survive the fall
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  Speaker 1: or else are caught in mid air by one of
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  Speaker 1: the Griffins. But I'll figure out the details when and
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  Speaker 1: if the situation comes up. I mentioned before that in
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  Speaker 1: this game of Aerial red Rover, the Pieces are not
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  Speaker 1: required to defeat their enemy, They only need to get
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  Speaker 1: past them. I'm going to rule that there are two
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  Speaker 1: ways to accomplish this that don't involve killing all the gargoyles.
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  Speaker 1: One is to win two successive initiative roles, the other
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  Speaker 1: to hurt the Gargoyles to the point where they make
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  Speaker 1: and fail a morale check. Either case will indicate a
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  Speaker 1: kind of breakout opportunity in which the faster Griffins can
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  Speaker 1: get away. There's one last thing to say before we
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  Speaker 1: get into combat. While the Pieces cannot do much of
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  Speaker 1: anything from their mounts, I will allow Fairwin to cast
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  Speaker 1: his spell of bless. I don't see why he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do that while riding a Griffin. Mechanically, this will give
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  Speaker 1: him and his allies plus one to attack and damage roles,
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  Speaker 1: but importantly not to saving throws. The spell lasts for
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  Speaker 1: a full hour. Since I don't want to interrupt combat
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  Speaker 1: with an ad break. I'll take a quick one now
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  Speaker 1: and then when we return the full battle for better
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  Speaker 1: or for Worse and jury combat Round one. Neither side
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  Speaker 1: is surprised, so we are straight into initiative roles. The
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  Speaker 1: Griffins A two the gargoyles before the Griffins form into
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  Speaker 1: a wedge and try to punch through the assailants, but
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  Speaker 1: the gargoyles are expecting this strategy and fan out to
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  Speaker 1: strike in a pincer formation. One gargoyle will attack each Griffin,
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  Speaker 1: but there's one left over that will double up on
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  Speaker 1: On a good random Achillia gets two as she is
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  Speaker 1: in the lead position. This does make sense, but I
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  Speaker 1: am not gonna lie. I am very worried about the
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  Speaker 1: grit rule I've come up with. Of course, if I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't worried, there would be something wrong. This is a
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  Speaker 1: life or death combat, after all. Let's make the gargoyles
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  Speaker 1: attack rolls as a reminder. Each of them gets two attacks,
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  Speaker 1: one for the claw combo and one for the bite.
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  Speaker 1: It's the claw combo that I need to worry about,
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  Speaker 1: especially in Achillia's case, because she is carrying Flicker in
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  Speaker 1: her bag. The gargoyles will need to roll A thirteen
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  Speaker 1: to hit. All right, here we go. The first one
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  Speaker 1: tries to grab Achillia the claw combo, oh and nineteen cheepers.
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  Speaker 1: The dice gods are messing with my head. Clearly, Achillia
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  Speaker 1: is not pulled from her mount, but the griffin will
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  Speaker 1: take five points of damage. The bite attack is next,
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  Speaker 1: then eight misses. The second gargoyle will make its claw attack.
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  Speaker 1: The six misses and Achilia is safe for this round.
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  Speaker 1: There's still a bite attacked role though. Here comes an
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  Speaker 1: eighteen hits four one point of damage. The griffin carrying
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  Speaker 1: de Renni will be attacked next. The gargoyle crashes into
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  Speaker 1: it talent feet extended A one. It comes in too
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  Speaker 1: fast and slams into the griffin's body, almost hard enough
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  Speaker 1: to knock itself out. It will miss its next turn,
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  Speaker 1: but before that happens, it will still get its bite attack.
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  Speaker 1: A nine is a miss. Not far behind ten tiers
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  Speaker 1: mount comes under attack. Here come those deadly claws. A
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hits, but there is no grab thankfully. Ooh. Six
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  Speaker 1: damage is going to add to this griffin's collection of scars.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bite attack as well. And at sixteen is
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  Speaker 1: yet another hit four three points. Tender's mount is down
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  Speaker 1: to seventeen hit points. That's not great, though it could
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  Speaker 1: have been worse. Next up our Chord and his mount
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  Speaker 1: the claw carbo boom, Oh, no, it has actually happened.
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  Speaker 1: Chord is ripped from the griffin's back and pulled higher
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  Speaker 1: into the air. Leathery wings flap, and the gargoyle makes
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  Speaker 1: its strange whooping call in triumph. And then let's go
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  Speaker 1: of the construct, who drops like a stone. I knew
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  Speaker 1: this might happen, but I didn't expect it to happen
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  Speaker 1: so quickly. Now I have to make the rolls to
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  Speaker 1: see if Cord will be rescued or possibly simply survive
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  Speaker 1: the fall. Of all the PCs, he is the best
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  Speaker 1: chance to live, as I established earlier that he would
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  Speaker 1: get to save with advantage. I need to look up
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  Speaker 1: what a level seven druids saving throw versus death is.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on, Okay, I checked, and the number to meet
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  Speaker 1: or beat is nine. The first roll will determine if
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  Speaker 1: he's caught in midair by his own griffin. If that fails,
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  Speaker 1: the second is for surviving the fall. Should this situation
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  Speaker 1: arise with another piece. By the way, the second roll
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  Speaker 1: will not be applicable. Only Chord has a chance to
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  Speaker 1: survive a drop into the river below, and I think
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  Speaker 1: all four go the bite attack completely, as this is
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  Speaker 1: bad enough. The first roll, hoping for a nine or
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  Speaker 1: better boom natural twenty holy smokes with a role that good,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say. His mount deftly rolls and dives, propelling itself
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  Speaker 1: directly down with such speed and agility that it's able
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  Speaker 1: not only to catch Chord, but to catch him on
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  Speaker 1: its back. Cord's double fingers dig into the feathers and
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  Speaker 1: fur as he hauls himself back into position, straddling the
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  Speaker 1: beast's muscular back. And then the Griffin pulls out of
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  Speaker 1: the dive and races back up and into the fray. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: just wow, all this excitement and we are not even
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  Speaker 1: finished the first half of round one one. Fair Wind
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  Speaker 1: and his mount are about to be attacked. Here comes
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  Speaker 1: the deadly claw carbo at twelve just misses, and Fairwind
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  Speaker 1: feels the gargoyles talons scrape across his armored back. Here
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  Speaker 1: comes the bite attack. The sixteen hits and the griffin
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  Speaker 1: will take two points of damage as the gargoyle tears
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  Speaker 1: off a bit of wing over its teeth. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Griffins may retaliate. They enjoy the benefit of Fairwind's bless
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  Speaker 1: spell that will need a twelve to hit the Gargoyles.
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  Speaker 1: They'll also do plus one damage per successful attack. Achilles
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  Speaker 1: Griffin screeches and strikes to keep things moving quickly. I'll
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  Speaker 1: roll three D twenty using a different colored guy for
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  Speaker 1: the bite attack. The rolls I've got nineteen and seven
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  Speaker 1: for the claw attacks for one hit and one miss,
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  Speaker 1: and at fifteen for the bite another hit there. Damage
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  Speaker 1: for the claw attack is two points, while the potentially
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  Speaker 1: devastating bite will be rolled on two D eight plus one,
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  Speaker 1: giving me oh mice stars. That's six steam points. This
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  Speaker 1: gargoyle is savaged, and when Griffin pulls back its bloody beak,
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  Speaker 1: it only has two hit points, remaining far far below
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  Speaker 1: in the river. The shower of blood hits the surface
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  Speaker 1: of the water and something fanged and lightning fast snaps
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  Speaker 1: it up. Durani's mount is next. Here comes the attack
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  Speaker 1: rolls a three and a nine miss with the talons,
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  Speaker 1: but a seventeen on the bite connects. Damage will be
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  Speaker 1: thirteen points. Another brutal hit can ten hears Griffin keep
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  Speaker 1: up the pressure. Let's find out three attacks boom, A
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  Speaker 1: six and a nine for the claw attacks and an
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  Speaker 1: absolutely devastating bite. There's no need to roll for damage,
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  Speaker 1: as between the minimum for the claw and the minimum
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  Speaker 1: crit damage of nineteen for the bite, factoring in that
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  Speaker 1: blessed spell, this gargoyle has no chance to survive ten tears.
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  Speaker 1: Griffin turns it into a cloud of red mist and
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  Speaker 1: gray scraps, which fall into the river to feed the
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  Speaker 1: monsters keeping below. Courtz Griffin will attack next, flying up
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  Speaker 1: to rejoin the swirling chaos of battle. Here come the attacks.
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  Speaker 1: A six, fifteen and a one means this griffin lands
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  Speaker 1: one claw attack, but then fumbles its bite attack that
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  Speaker 1: will cost it their turn next round. Damage for the
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  Speaker 1: claw is four points. Fairwin's Mount will make the last
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  Speaker 1: attack of round one. Here come the rolls. Boom, a
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  Speaker 1: natty twenty for one of the claws, a twelve for
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  Speaker 1: the other, and a four for the bite. The bite misses,
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  Speaker 1: but the Griffin's talents will do some significant damage. Between
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  Speaker 1: the blessed spell and that crit total will be two
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  Speaker 1: D four plus five for a total of eleven points.
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  Speaker 1: It slashes bloody hash marks into its enemy's body and wings.
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  Speaker 1: The gargoyle with nine hip points remaining falters but does
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  Speaker 1: not fall. That concludes round one. If I was nervous before,
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  Speaker 1: I have much more so now because the dice gods
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  Speaker 1: are clearly planning on giving us a show, and ready
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  Speaker 1: or not, here comes round two. This round should move
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  Speaker 1: even faster than the last. Sits one gargoyle and one
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  Speaker 1: griffin will as their turn due to grit fumbles initiative.
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  Speaker 1: The griffins the two. The gargoyles the five very unlucky.
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  Speaker 1: Despite one of their number being torn to shreds the enemy,
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  Speaker 1: it is undaunted and redoubles their attack, whooping and gnashing
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  Speaker 1: their teeth. Achille's griffin is attacked first. Here comes that
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  Speaker 1: deadly claw combo. A sixteen hits, but Achillie remains mounted
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  Speaker 1: Dammage sure the claws will be four points. The bite
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  Speaker 1: attack is next, A four misses. The second gargoyle that's
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  Speaker 1: being on Achille's mount now breaks off and climbs into
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  Speaker 1: the air to come swooping down upon ten tier in
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  Speaker 1: his griffin. The claw combo that two will not connect.
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  Speaker 1: The bite the nine will also miss. Woodranni gets a
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  Speaker 1: past this round because his foe rolled a critical fumble
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  Speaker 1: last round and spends eastern trying to recover. That brings
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  Speaker 1: us to Court, who had a terrible first round. Let's
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  Speaker 1: hope for better this time. Here comes that nasty combo
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  Speaker 1: A ten means Court is able to duck and avoid
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  Speaker 1: the claws and the bite. Attack A twelve also misses,
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  Speaker 1: though barely. The last gargoyle is engaged with Fairwind's griffin.
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  Speaker 1: Here comes the combo boom A twenty. Oh no, this
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  Speaker 1: is really bad. Fairwind, heavy in his armor, is yanked
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  Speaker 1: to one side and cannot keep his grip. He begins
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  Speaker 1: to fall. Even though the story teller in me says,
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  Speaker 1: I should leave it to the end of the round.
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  Speaker 1: I have to know what happens to Fairwind. Some gorda
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  Speaker 1: role has saved versus death right now. As a fifth
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  Speaker 1: level cleric, his target to meet or beat is nine.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore he has a forty five percent chance of dying
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  Speaker 1: right now. Are you ready? Because I'm not sure I am,
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  Speaker 1: But here we go anyway, rolling my D twenty and
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  Speaker 1: this one is for all the marbles. I got it.
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  Speaker 1: Two Fairwind hurtles towards the river, while his griffin, caught
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  Speaker 1: up in the fight, is unable to break away and
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  Speaker 1: try to save him before he hits the surface. A
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  Speaker 1: huge toothy moss he erupts from the water and snatches
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  Speaker 1: him out of the air before dragging him under, never
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  Speaker 1: to be seen again. Fairwand is dead, but the battle
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  Speaker 1: in the sky continues. Fairwin's griffin has lost its rider,
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  Speaker 1: but it can still fight. I do think the blessed
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  Speaker 1: spell must expire along with its castor. However, so with
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  Speaker 1: out the bonuses, here come the rolls, doing all three
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  Speaker 1: at once and using a different colored dye for the bite.
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  Speaker 1: It lands a single claw attack and scratches the gargoyle
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  Speaker 1: for a single point. Going back around the table, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak, chords griffin cannot attack this round, as it
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  Speaker 1: too grit fumbled previously. Frankly, this route is shaping up
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  Speaker 1: to be a disaster. Ten tears Griffin, I hope can
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  Speaker 1: break the run of bad luck. It's three attacks, not
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  Speaker 1: a single hit. Oh man, this is terrible. For the
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  Speaker 1: sake of Fairwind's memory, I need Derennie and Achillees Griffiths
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  Speaker 1: to do much much better. Here comes to Renni's Finally,
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  Speaker 1: a hit with a claw and a bite damage will
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  Speaker 1: be significant nineteen points, which is more than enough to
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  Speaker 1: tear this gargoyle to bloody shreds. Four of the enemy
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  Speaker 1: yet remain, but Achillis Griffin has not yet had their turn.
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  Speaker 1: Here it comes more bad roles. I'm afraid with a
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  Speaker 1: two on the byte and an eleven and a seventeen
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  Speaker 1: for the clause for one hit only. However, if I
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  Speaker 1: roll anything but a one for damage, this gargoyle will
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  Speaker 1: be slain, as it's already so close to death. The
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  Speaker 1: role A three will do it one of the Griffin's talents.
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  Speaker 1: If this rates the gargoyle, sending it guts first straight
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  Speaker 1: down to the river where it will feed the napping
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  Speaker 1: river monsters. Round two is over and we move on
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  Speaker 1: to round three Initiative. The Griffins have yet to win
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  Speaker 1: an initiative role, will they now? The Griffins the six
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  Speaker 1: the gargoyles before the Griffins, embolded by the defeat of
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  Speaker 1: half their enemy number, finally get to go first. They
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: attack with new confidence. A Chillies is up. Here comes
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  Speaker 1: three D twenty. I've got one claw and one bite
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  Speaker 1: that connect damages eight points. That is just enough to
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: kill the gargoyle that pulled fair Wind from his mount.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Now there are only two of them left. Dernnian tent
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  Speaker 1: here will team up on a gargoyle that has yet
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: to take a single wound. Denni's attacks and again two
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  Speaker 1: out of three connect one claw and one bite. It
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: is unlikely that this will kill the gargoyle. The damage
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  Speaker 1: should be high. Ten points brings the creature down to half.
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  Speaker 1: With luck ten toos, griffin can destroy it. The rolls
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: for a third time. It's a biting a claw that
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: penetrate the enemy's defenses, damages bad roles only five in total.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: This gargoyle still has five points remaining. Next up, we
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: go to Cord and Fawn's Griffins, who also pair up
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: against the same opponent for a fourth time. This round,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: a bite claw combo succeeds. Damage for chords mount is
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: ten points. The already wounded gargoyle is now down to six.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: There's a chance that the now riderless griffin can kill it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: On three twenty all three miss. Unfortunately, that's it for
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the Griffins. Now it's the gargoyles turn, but first they
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: must pass a morale check With two of the original
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: six remaining, with both of those badly wounded, I'm applying
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a penalty to this check. A gargoyle has a very
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: high morale score of eleven normally, but I'm knocking it
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: down to nine. Still, chances are they will remain in fight.
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  Speaker 1: On two D six A three means they absolutely stay.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: They'll now make their attacks against her Renny A claw
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  Speaker 1: combo A one A fumble. Okay, it'll still get a
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: bite attack, but will lose its turn next round the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: bite the ten is a miss. The last gargoyle will
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: attempt to rip cord from his mount A nineteen. Dang it, dice,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: God's are you trying to give me a heart attack?
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Damage is on a D six four points to the griffin.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: A bite attack follows a seven is not enough. That's
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: it for round three. If the Griffins can win initiative
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: in round four, they will break away and be able
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to use their faster speed to escape. Let's find out
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: if that happens round four. Initiative the Griffins a six,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: This fight will end unless the Gargoyles can tie that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: roll the Gargoyles A three. The battle ends with the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: pack of Griffin's performing a deft series of maneuvers in
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the air that open up an opportunity to get away,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and it's an opportunity they take you immediately, climbing sharply
• 23:12
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• 23:15
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