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Season One, Episode 37: Ichorthorn Pt. 3: Boar'd to Death · Flail to the Face: A "Compatible with Mörk Borg" Actual Play Podcast

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Greetings scum. Welcome to Flail the Face.
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I'm Kevin. I'm back again.
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Contrary to what we said off air when I first logged in, I'm here
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with the these hooligans. Hello, I'm Levi.
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Are we playing Phil? Phil.
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Phil. Phil.
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I'm Thomas and I'll be playing Quill Knock.
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It's me. It's Jake, it's my turn, and I'm
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Arnie. Arnie.
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That's it. Hi, I'm Walton.
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This has all been very abrupt. Let's get our flail on.
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All right, last we left these guys, they were traversing the
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forest of Sarkash, trying to find the lost children of Eiger
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Thorne. Through their travels, they've
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lost some friends, made some friends.
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My. Boyfriend.
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Made. The lineage shall continue.
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And been attacked by some of the weirdest abominations known to
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man. And as it sits right now, we've
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lost Cephalus, syphilis, Cephalus, whatever.
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But we got, Artie Got. Little.
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Boy, Artie and Phil's got a belly full of weird wolf egg
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babies. I.
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Don't feel so good. You're glowing.
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You shouldn't. Literally.
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It's weird. Probably do something about that
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guy. So it was right around midday,
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dead quiet out as you finally killed the last wolf that was
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depositing its babies into Phil and you were on still the same
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path. What would you guys like to do?
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I want to feel them kick. Are they kicking?
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I don't know. Artie's going to take off his
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glove and walk up to Phil. What are you doing?
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Don't worry, I'm a, I'm a scout. Have you seen this condition
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before? I sure have, OK.
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And I I'm going to take my hand and put it under his breastplate
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and feel around his belly. Do I feel any eggs?
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Do you feel what it seems to be? Probably softball size, but kind
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of oblonged eggs moving around. Like there's stuff moving around
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inside of the eggs. Oh God, why don't you take that
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spoon and help help me out? Dig in there.
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Just dig in here. I'll take my breast plate off.
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But leave my helmet on. The helmet always stays on.
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How much do you have 4? OK, do we have any idea, dude?
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Just dig in there with your spoon.
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Are you? Fucking come on.
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What? I'll start.
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You know, I'm going to take my side.
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I'm going to scratch the surface like a scalpel.
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Oh my God, are we going to do surgery right here in the middle
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of this battlefield? The sword.
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Just dig deep with that spork. OK.
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Still got this sword right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Just nice. This is such a break.
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This bad idea? OK.
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I'm very courageous. I'm going to look through Phil's
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helmet visor into his eyes. Or try to.
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This is. Going to hurt.
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OK. Oh.
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Yeah, yeah, Single tier rolls down my.
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Arm I take my sport. I'm I'm going to go over and try
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to like. Hold me down, Hold me.
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Down fills arms, down I'm. Going to try to resist.
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You need to do this. Get over here and get his other
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arm. I I go and get his other arm.
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And I'm, I'm like crouched over him with, with my sport held
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above my hand and two, and I just, I bring that thing down
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and just pull it down in gut. And RIP them open.
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We got to get it out of them. What the fuck is happening right
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now? OK.
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We're hold on, let me let me see if I.
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Understand this one? Who inserted the eggs into it?
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You know what you did? Yeah, you did.
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This you did. This.
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This is my fault. OK, so let me get this straight.
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I've got Grin and Quill Knock holding the arms of Phil while
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Artie is trying to already straddling you, OK?
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And we're doing an emergency C-section.
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With a spork. With a spork.
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Holy fuck. What do I got to roll, Daddy?
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I want opposing strength checks from the three and an agility
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check from Arty. OK, lucky it's not presents.
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I got to roll over the strength check.
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Yeah, because you're resisting them, aren't you?
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I. Rolled.
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Two twos so. They got me pinned.
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I got it in 11. OK, well with those two twos
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which you only had to roll one, both Green and Quillnock have
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got you pinned to the ground. What do you got there, Arty A.
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12. OK, so as Quillnock and Grin are
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holding filled down, you take your spork, and as he's wiggling
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around, he moves just enough to get an incision underneath where
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the eggs are laying roughly about four inches wide.
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It's bleeding. But.
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There's an incision. There you go.
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Reach in there and get them. You gotta know.
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I know, I don't know what to do. And I take my my uncloved hand
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and I just jam it right in there and start fucking pulling shit
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out. Be.
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Careful for my guts, man, Don't pull my guts.
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Out. They've got to be super
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noticeable. I don't.
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Know I've never been printed. I don't know I've.
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Never had my hands inside another man before.
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So after some time to fill, it seems like forever, you end up
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pulling all eight of the egg sacs out.
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Now Phil has got a four foot incision, A4 foot 4 inch
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incision. One is lower stomach area that
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needs to be tended to and I would say rather soon.
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Man, we. Still had some Lantern oil.
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Yeah. I was going to say, do we got
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any more Lantern oil or anything that we could like cauterize
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this? You do have the body of
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Cephalus. Oh yeah, that could be
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reignited. Oh yeah, I've got to do it.
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We got to do it to save Phil. And I'm going to use my fire
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steel and. Chop No.
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Set the fouls on on fire. That's the whole thing.
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Just chop off a finger. To waste the whole body, the
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thing will burn for hours. I don't, I don't have AI, don't
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have AI, don't have a knife. So I'm going to just use my
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warhammer and just like hammer his wrist until it's like mush
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enough that I could just like pull the hand off.
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Do you hand it over to? Start start igniting it.
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It goes up as quick as it did before.
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Oh my. Boyfriend, I got this.
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This four hands. I start heating my short sword
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over the sapphire. Yeah.
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Let's call it that, the Sapphire.
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Perfect, your short sword is heating up.
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Wait before that. This is for the.
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Bacteria and I jam a bar of soap in there.
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Where'd you get this bar of soap?
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I haven't. In in the incision.
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Yeah, I'm sure I'm a boy, to be clear.
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I'm sure that's what you tell everybody.
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Don't worry, I'm a Boy Scout. Yeah, prevent sepsis, don't
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worry. Yeah, keeps you clean on the
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inside. Let's hurry up.
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I'm sleepy, OK? That's OK, you don't have a
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concussion. I'll shove that bar of soap in
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there and then I'll hold the two flaps of skin together with my
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fingers and then and then Wolf can take his his hot iron sword
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and press it up against the flesh and we just sizzle them
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real quick. OK.
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I do so taking no real concern not to burn Artie's fingers.
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I'm wearing, I'm wearing thimbles.
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Don't worry. I'm I'm a Boy Scout.
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Where did you get thimbles? I'm a Boy Scout.
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They're his mountaineering thimbles.
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Yeah, the. Thimbles.
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He's sewing. What was I thinking?
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I'm sorry, Phil, go ahead and make a toughness test standard
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Dr. for this whole scenario and. Does the soap help?
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No, makes it worse. I'm going to say that Dr. was 12
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and every point underneath the Dr. is how many points of damage
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you're going to take. Oh, good.
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OK. Three at 1:00.
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So what's your current head points at 2?
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Fantastic. If memory serves me being as I'm
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the one that wrote this adventure, somebody should have
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a medicine box. Yeah.
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I have the medicine box from my dead.
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Boyfriend I. May not be a bad idea to use it
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not to tell you what to do, but I mean it was like I.
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Appreciate you guys. I'm a little woozy.
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Can't wait to get my badge for this one.
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For entering another man. I'm lusted.
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I didn't know they had that badge.
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They're important. I'm going to stick with you boys
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because I don't want to be impregnated by another wild
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animal of nature. What do we do with these eggs?
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And I'm just. Holding eight baby eggs.
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First you put them down on the ground.
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No, inside those eggs it looks like small wolf pups that have
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clubbed tails and every time they'd open their mouth we'll
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proboscis. We'd kind of stick out but not
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penetrate the eggs. I'll put a mover on that rock.
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It's easier this way. I would like, they're kind of
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cute. Though I would like to keep one.
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No, no, I know what you're going to do with them.
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I'm keeping one. I'm gonna I'm gonna put all 7
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sacks on the rock, OK? And sleight of hand, the other
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one in my pocket. I make an agility test versus
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Grin's presence 11/3. I'm.
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Not good at rolling. No, no, that one too.
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You're not. Sneaky.
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Sorry. Sorry, I wasn't thinking woozy
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and I put it down. Yeah, clearly kind of normal for
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you, really. Maybe.
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Then I just start squishing these things with my peg leg.
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With your peg leg, are you just tap dancing on the eggs?
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Yeah, let's go with that. Aren't they like the size of
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potatoes? You're not supposed to break the
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yolk. Yeah.
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Oh darn, must have missed. All right, so all these.
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Wolf whoops. They're all dead now.
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You guys have done surgery on Phil and what would you like to
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do now? Well, it's probably better than
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staying here. Yeah, now that that circus is
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all on said and done, let's let's go ahead and keep moving.
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You OK there to walk there, big guy?
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No, it's fine. Yeah, yeah, I'll be fine.
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I'm just going to take a little bit over here.
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It looks the most important thing you can do is get up and
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move around and be active. Get that blood flowing again.
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Yeah, get it flowing. Let's roll.
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Get that? Soap in there moving so it
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starts to froth up and lather in there my.
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Skin is so pale I put my armor back.
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On a tinted jaundice. I would like to use a a dose off
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this medicine box I believe it had.
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I think that would be a great idea.
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I think. I didn't use any of it.
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Yeah, we did on Ted Buddy. Oh yeah, then it's got two more.
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So 1 dose left. I've lived so many characters, I
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don't know who's done what anymore.
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OK, good. All right, so as you guys keep
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moving through the trail, like I've said before, it starts to
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narrow so that it's barely wide enough for one person, then kind
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of widens out to about two, maybe 2 1/2 people wide for a
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good majority of the day. Every so often you kind of catch
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little drag Marks and torn bits of clothing and such until
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eventually often the distance you see it kind of opens up a
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little more than it has in the past and you see a flickering
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light coming from the distance. It's starting to get dark, but
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you can kind of see this looks like a candlelight through
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possibly a window or something off in the distance.
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Well, I guess art you managed to see this in your wanderings
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here. Well.
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I've been working on my end of days badge for about 20 years
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now. It was only supposed to be gone
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for about 3 days, but it's I I could do I could work on the
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whole making an acquaintance badge.
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Maybe the the asking for a sugar thing.
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You know that badge talked about that the guy in the window, the
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light. Go ahead, go ahead and knock on
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that door. OK.
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Yeah, get your knocking on door badge.
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That door's kind of far away though.
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Are you guys going to wait here or you want me to like?
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Walking to the door badge. OK.
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It's fine. I'll join you.
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I'm feeling really good kind. You're frothing at the belly.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. We just don't look at.
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That. Okay and I'll I'll grab I'll
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grab bills hand and kind of guide him since it's getting
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dark and he's all woozy. I'm.
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Going to cover my belly with my crunchy blanket.
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This is gross. All right.
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As you guys get closer, you you come upon a small clearing with
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what looks like a dilapidated structure, fairly noticeable
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beyond what appears to be like overgrown bushes.
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Faint glow seems to be coming through a broken window, and the
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distant smell of a smoldering fire can be detected well.
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I'm a good-natured. You can notice that the the drag
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marks sort of stop roughly about 15 feet away from the entrance
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of the store on either side. It seems to be just overgrown
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with foliage and trees and stuff.
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So I. Think this is the place.
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You're right, I do have an investigation badge and judging
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from the drag Marks and the clothed PCs and the building
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here, I would say that we have approached the right
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destination. Yeah, we should.
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We should go get the others. They wanted us to knock 1st and
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then go back and complete the quest for our batch are.
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You sure? That's what he said.
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You might be a little woozy from all the loss of blood and just
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having your kids taken from you. I'm sorry about that.
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You're right, I probably should have brought that up.
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That was very traumatic of me. Okay, you just stay here with
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your. Crunchy mustard ketchup blanket
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thing you got going on over there and I'll I'll step up the
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stairs and then cross the porch if there is one and then knock
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on the door kind of doors. This they got a like a wood
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knocker or. No, the door is barely there.
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It's more of a shanty than anything.
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It's in shambles, but parts of the door is missing and you can
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kind of still see like a faint light from inside.
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The knocking on the door, it just starts to creak open ever
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so slightly. Is anyone in there?
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What do you see? Nothing, and I push.
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The door open and I'll take a step in.
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Hello, it is I already the Boy Scout.
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Is anyone home? It's quiet, Bell.
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Back with Grin and Quill. Now Quillock's just going to
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look off in the distance and see that they basically pushed the
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door open. He's going to look at Grin, I
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mean. You guys can hear me yelling for
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sure. I know logic dictates that we
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just let him like, suffer the like consequences of his own
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actions, but I, I hate to admit it, I kind of like the guy a
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little bit. Just give it a few more minutes,
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I want to see if he gets matched.
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I can't. I got to get, I got.
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I walk off, start heading towards the towards the Hut.
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Well, I'm not staying here by myself until my third cousin
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died. My tip tap after him.
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As you guys go into the the hovel proper, you can tell it
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smells of stale air, rotting foliage and mold, and they're
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scattered debris. Smells like scout master base
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basement. Do you spend a lot of time in
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this basement? Yeah, chains.
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Oh. It's for training.
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How old are you? 42.
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Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah, training.
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I gotcha. I understand now, young, young
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man. Scout, I get it.
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Really. You.
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You've been trauma. Oh boy, that's a scout.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh boy, that's.
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So. So you you were chained in his
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basement like wow, saw a horse. Yeah, he was willing and able.
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Gromach. You caught the ass into that.
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Good. I'm glad I wasn't the only one
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to hear it. Yeah, I already caught the ass
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into the two. I don't, I don't quite follow
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what you're. Saying and I'll push my glasses
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up a little bit. It was a double entendre.
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Too educated? Sounds like a carrot cake.
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In the room to the north you notice that there's two doorways
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to one to the northeast and then one to the northwest with a
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hallway between. Looking around to the east you
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see a desk barely holding its form with shelving around it
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with a bunch of weather worn books.
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To the South is the door that you guys just came in, and to
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the West you see a fireplace still warm with the neglected
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fire and more shelving and decaying books.
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I start checking books in the fireplace.
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OK, fire starts to roar. Yeah.
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Son of a bitch. We got more fire, I guess.
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Yep, like I said, there's the there's a desk to the east and
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the two doorways straight ahead with the hallway between you and
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I'm. Gonna pull the rug up.
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OK, just neglected flooring underneath.
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Yeah, good idea. Let's burn the rug.
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OK. And I I pulled the rug up and
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put it in the fireplace. Wow, maybe you don't suck after
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all. Good job already.
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OK, so the whole rug's not going to fit in there, so you just
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have it sticking out that you're just going to push it in as it
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burns down or just outstanding. Just jam it in there.
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I'm going to turn around and walk over to this desk and grab
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the chair. Put that over by the carpet.
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OK. Get that ready to go in, then
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I'll go back to the desk. Perfect.
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Another one time for like any loose papers.
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Go ahead and roll a presence test. 12.
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Roll a D66. One T1. 11.
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One T1, yes. Okay, it's like we can do this
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all fucking day on the desk. You just find the remains of
18:42
something worthless. When you pick it up, it just
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crumbles in your hand. Good, burn that too.
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I look at the dust on the floor. We, we could keep like throwing
18:51
stuff into this fire, but I'm going to go ahead and take a
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look at the, the, the left door. All right, walking into the
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doorway to the left, you notice what appears to be a kitchen
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area long table covered in refuse in the center of the room
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with a door beyond it. On your left there's a butcher
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block table with a cleaver stabbed into it.
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In the northeast corner appears to be a barrel and a bone dry
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wash basin between the two. To the South is the door that
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you walked in, and off to your right is a long bare shelf and a
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white hot stove that seems to be burning pretty hot, about as hot
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as that fire is going. Quill, knock.
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What'd you find? I'm.
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Going to go grab that cleaver and pull that.
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OK, you've got yourself a Butcher Cleaver that does D6
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damage. Looks like we got a kitchen.
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You got a, you got a cooking badge there for you Scout there.
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The name's already and and then I turn.
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Over. And I look.
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I look over my shoulder while I'm sitting on the chair and I'm
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burning some of my rations on a stick over the carpet.
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I got it right here. Do you want some?
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No, no. And I'll walk like across.
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I'll go take a look at that barrel.
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Roll me AD 4. One, none of my scores 1.
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Inside the barrel, when you pull the lid off of it, it's like a
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cloud of pickling vinegar hits you in the face.
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Just this huge cloud of it. And inside there appears to be
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right to the brim. Rats.
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Just a barrel full of pickled rats.
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Are they alive? Well.
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They're pickled. They are pickled.
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I've been pickled, man. We're playing Mark Porsley.
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There could be anything in there.
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He's got a point. True too.
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Nope, not alive, just a barrel full of pickled rats.
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Got some rations here for you, Scout.
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Oh yeah, those, those, those will.
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Those are good. I'll I'll be fine with this for
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now. That's more of like in case of
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emergency rations. Bring me you want to want to
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burn that too? You don't want to eat that.
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What is your problem? You seem like you are all pegged
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up. I mean pent up, like you got a
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lot of anger of something. You're walking a narrow line
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there, little man. I'm quite rotund, thank you.
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Are there like small cups in this kitchen?
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Sure. I grabbed one of those cups and
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I fill it with the pickling juice, OK?
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And I hand it over to Phil. Drink this up.
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It'll help you recover from your surgery.
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Oh yeah, I need my my electrolytes, yes, yeah, I don't
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know. All set.
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You got a. Straw or something?
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A Reed. No, but I do and I.
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Whip out a fucking like a retractable straw for my
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backpack. Yeah.
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OK. Thank you.
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You're welcome. Suckle down the pickled.
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Go ahead and make a toughness test being as there were rats in
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there. Good, gonna get infected.
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Cool. Yeah, what the fuck?
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There's still. Pickles.
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It kills all the. Germs.
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OK, it is very potent and you do end up stomaching the pickled
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rat juice. Just just potent enough.
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Oh. Yeah, it's kind of sharp tasting
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good. I'm good.
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Already just shakes his head. Throw more books on the fire.
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When it done? That OK, fire is roaring.
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So if if I was a kidnapper. I would hide the kids pass the
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kitchen. I don't know the cellar.
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Yeah, I forgot you were here for a reason.
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Pass the kitchen in in the cellar.
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Oh, this door. And I'm going to walk through
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the kitchen and slowly open that other door.
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I believe this would be the cellar.
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It's probably not. Unless it is.
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Unless it is. Getting I'm getting some Ash
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versus Evil Dead vibes right now.
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So opening that door, you do find that there is what appears
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to be a dry storage room. I know my sellers when I smell
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them. But what do you see in there?
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What he sees in there is. I don't know, I can't find the
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light. The the narrator hasn't
22:43
explained it. It's a it's a small, dry yet
22:46
drafty room. Empty shelves line each wall,
22:49
with crates haphazardly placed throughout.
22:51
It's a small, dry, drafty room with crates haphazard strewn
22:56
throughout. That's what it looks like in
22:58
here. Go ahead and make a presence
22:59
test. Am I navigating by chance I.
23:03
Mean you're navigating A room. OK.
23:06
I'll let yes, you're navigating this small, dry yet drafty room,
23:12
OK? All right, 16 then.
23:14
You notice after kicking around some of these crates, there
23:17
appears to be a door that has got a huge lock on top of it.
23:23
Big, big heavy chains of lock. I take my spork and swirl it
23:27
around to my fingers like I'm really deft at using it, and
23:31
then I'm going to stick it in there and try to Jimmy the lock.
23:33
Make an agility test. All right.
23:35
Oh baby. Oh.
23:37
Baby that's after. Fiddling with it, the lock of a
23:42
bit with your spork, they're a little tight.
23:45
Looks like it's been quite a while since this has been open,
23:47
but the locking mechanism does click open.
23:51
And as it clicks open, the folks that are in the living room air
23:55
the foyer hear a commotion in the hallway.
24:01
We haven't been there something. Hang on just a second.
24:06
I grab Arby's chair next to the fire and smash it on the floor
24:09
and then start throwing the pieces into the fire.
24:12
It's time for a break. Welcome back to Flail with Face.
24:39
Last we left these guys, Artie was picking a lock in a
24:41
storeroom. Phil was nursing his wound with
24:44
some pickle juice grin and quill knock.
24:48
I can remember words were in the living room when they heard a
24:52
ruckus coming from the hallway. What it sounds like it was big
24:55
heavy chains being drugged from this long hallway down towards
24:58
the front in a very heavy lumbering walk and some heavy
25:05
panting getting louder. This sounds ominous.
25:09
Daddy's home. Right, we should probably get
25:11
ready for whatever this might be, and I'm going to go and
25:14
press my back up against the wall next to the opening for the
25:19
hallway to see what might stick its head through, and then I'll
25:23
just hit it with my hammer. I hide behind the kitchen door.
25:26
Yeah, let's go in there. Artie, I have something for you
25:28
to investigate. Come here.
25:30
What did I find in the chest? We'll get there.
25:32
The lock open and as soon as the lock opened, there was the
25:36
commotion in the hallway. You are in the other room.
25:38
Do you want to open the trap door that the lock was locking?
25:42
The trap door. Oh boy.
25:44
Oh God. I don't know.
25:46
I'm in the other room. Give me one second, curiosity is
25:49
going to kill me. And I'm just going to peek, peek
25:51
through this a little bit. I'm going to open it very slowly
25:54
and slightly and peek it before. I go hide down with my sport.
25:57
Trap door is a ladder going down Into Darkness.
26:01
I hate you. OK, I I slowly close it and then
26:04
I'm going to go and hide next to grin Grin, OK?
26:10
All right, I'm going down the hallway.
26:12
You hear heavy panting and what appears to be, well, it's a
26:18
fucking bear. The eyes are glossed over and
26:21
it's got scars coming from its mouth.
26:24
Like it's been drooling, but it's like been drooling like
26:26
acid and it's got a very oily coat.
26:30
It's lumbering out and it is sniffing either side of the
26:34
entrance of the hallway. Doesn't seem to be doing
26:37
anything else as of yet. The moment it's head gets near
26:40
my foot I dropped a hammer on it.
26:43
OK, go ahead and roll damage. 5. OK, with a huge, wet, fleshy
26:53
smash of the hammer on top of the bear's head.
26:56
The bear bellows this huge roar and starts swinging wildly.
27:02
Roll Initiative. Yeah, you started.
27:06
This. That's on you, Thomas.
27:07
All right. What?
27:09
That's a six. OK all.
27:11
Right, yeah, Quill knocks. Going to continue.
27:13
Like just swinging the hammer at this thing.
27:16
OK, so this bear is going to be flailing around that flail.
27:20
It's going to be flailing around wildly.
27:22
Go ahead and make an attack roll.
27:25
I rolled A-17. Oh, that is a hit all day long.
27:28
Go ahead and tell me how you do it.
27:31
So like basically I brought the hammer down once to like club it
27:34
on the head once it stood up to roar, field back and then
27:39
continue my momentum to swing it down and up and into the stomach
27:43
of the bear. As you hit it in the stomach it
27:47
lets loose everything that was in its stomach and vomits organs
27:52
and bile and everything. But as the vomit hits the floor
27:56
it starts to burn and it creates 5 foot hole in the floor and the
28:02
bear falls dead. So, so glad that you guys were
28:05
here to help out. Guy.
28:08
Good, good job. Good job.
28:09
I was taking a strategic approach that.
28:11
Was quite impressive. Yeah.
28:13
This juice is really good actually.
28:15
Got that main character energy also.
28:17
I found this hole in the and I picked this lock.
28:21
But you you did more damage to the IT goes the same place.
28:24
May we just go down there? That was that was quite
28:26
impressive. I will not be stepping on your
28:28
toes anytime soon. I glare across the room with my
28:31
rude eyes. Get the shit out of me to be
28:33
honest. The flames flickering in the
28:35
eyes. Hear me out, this is coming from
28:38
another place, but we could burn the bear.
28:41
Yeah. What is with you and burning?
28:43
What is with you and not burning?
28:47
Never mind, chew on that one. Let's go down.
28:49
Let's. Wherever the hell that place is
28:51
down there. Do we want to look at down this
28:53
hallway first? Yeah, let's look down the hall
28:57
first. Can I see anything down the
28:58
hall? All that's there was a big heavy
29:01
chain fixed to the back wall and a a big metal bowl with the word
29:06
BEHEMOTH etched into it. Oh, you killed somebody's doggy.
29:11
It's kind of sad, actually. I can't.
29:13
This is an outside animal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:17
We should have let it outside then.
29:18
Yeah. He well wilt insides or outside
29:22
so same difference. He's a funny guy, This guy, he's
29:26
funny. I don't want to hurt my inkies,
29:29
so I'm going to take the cellar. Door over there and I'll walk
29:32
back to the trap door that I opened up and then scoop down
29:35
that ladder. And then you think you have
29:38
ankles. I'm going to walk and follow
29:41
behind Hardy. I'm going to take the flaming.
29:46
Rug and throw it in the. Hole, OH.
29:49
Good. Fantastic.
29:51
Just so there's some. Light source.
29:53
You know. That's when we find out it's a
29:55
methane pocket that blows up the whole house.
29:59
It's a septic. Tank grin if it makes you feel.
30:04
Better and I I bend down and I'll pull up my socks to cover
30:07
my ankles. Does that help?
30:09
I'm not here. To offend.
30:10
Oh, OK, never mind. Well.
30:12
It's just too late. Just go down the hole.
30:15
Just just go down the ladder. All right.
30:17
The ladder appears to be roughly about 20 feet in height going
30:21
down into what appears to be a crudely dugout hallway.
30:25
Standing in the hallway, you notice that there is ambient
30:28
light coming from the far end of the hall, which we really can't
30:32
tell how far it is down this hallway going down the hall,
30:36
which I'm assuming you guys are. You guys here, the echoing
30:40
melody of anguish, screams and droning chants at the end of the
30:45
hallway. No, you do not see a flaming
30:47
rut. That was my band in college.
30:53
Right now the the chanting is starting to hit on some memories
30:57
and I start power walking towards the direction of best
31:00
chance. OK, well.
31:03
Picking up speed. I like a good hike.
31:05
The hallway runs roughly about the 100 yards.
31:08
At the end of the hallway is an enormous cage line and razor lit
31:11
room. You'll notice that the cages
31:13
seem to follow all the way around the edge of this cut out
31:18
area, and then there's a stairwell that goes further down
31:20
into the room. In the room itself you see that
31:23
there are three figures around an altar and appears to be a
31:28
very large creature chained down to the altar.
31:32
They don't seem to notice you at the moment, but you can tell
31:35
that the cages themselves are filled with children screaming
31:39
in agony and half mutated, some with extra eye stocks, some with
31:44
hard plated skin, some resembling animals like rabbits
31:48
or deer or wolves, kind of in between.
31:52
A transition between man and beast.
31:55
Quelock's going to turn to the rest of the group.
31:57
OK, so before we deal with this, let's get our story straight.
32:02
Oh yeah, I figured out my complex.
32:03
Back we killed. We killed monsters, not other
32:08
people's children on our way out here.
32:10
We killed nothing. I don't know what you're talking
32:13
about. I definitely, I definitely
32:15
killed Ada Phil's babies that. Part didn't happen but that
32:21
wasn't on the property. So I think I figured out my what
32:25
Scout Master Kevin sent me to do is to get my hero badge and save
32:29
all these kids. I finally figured it out.
32:31
Oh, good for you. And I turn and will not start
32:35
running and charging towards one of the.
32:36
Fastest, OK. No one left behind that.
32:46
You're running towards one of the the.
32:49
Closest cultists because I'm going to attempt to behead one
32:52
with my panel. That little PTSD.
32:54
OK, here, go ahead and make an attack roll.
32:58
I'm going. To go ahead and use it over
33:00
there. We probably should not have
33:02
brought Will Knock down into this room.
33:05
That is an 18. OK.
33:07
That we should have. Yeah. 18 is going to hit and as.
33:14
For damage. As you're running up, you're
33:16
noticing that the three figures around this altar are clothed in
33:20
tattered robe, and as you go and swing with the hammer, you hit
33:24
the robe and the body just shatters.
33:28
Next. OK.
33:30
What? What would the rest of you guys
33:31
like to do? I can't.
33:34
And. I hold it with two hands close
33:36
to my chest. But I will help in my own way.
33:38
And I scamper off into the dark. I'm going to try to, I'm going
33:45
to try to enter like a stealth mode.
33:47
I want to get, I want to flank these guys with my grappling
33:50
hook. OK.
33:54
I got a Boy Scout trick up my sleeve.
33:55
Hold on, don't yell. All right, so Artie scampers
34:04
off. Yeah, I'm going to take my turn
34:06
to move to the other end and get behind all the action this big
34:09
room. OK, who's who's next I guess.
34:13
Yes, I'll run to the closest figure and hit it with my short
34:17
sword. OK, go ahead and make your
34:19
attack 15. That will hit.
34:23
Are they wearing any armor? No, Sir.
34:24
All right. I do one damage.
34:26
All right. So as you hit this, the second
34:28
one, I'm assuming the one on the far side of the altar, you hit
34:33
it square dead center and it shatters as well and the robes
34:37
fall to the ground. I can see why they had a bear
34:39
guarding. Right, I don't, I don't think
34:44
these are real things. Unless there's some kind of plot
34:46
twist coming, I. Don't think it's real.
34:48
I don't know if it's the pickle juice, but I don't think this is
34:52
real at all. It's just the blood loss and the
34:54
soap talking. Calm down and go hit something.
34:57
Yeah. Can I go RIP off one of the
34:59
ropes of one of these guys? Sure.
35:04
I'm a dress down 1. OK, you take the robe off of one
35:08
of them and you see what it nothing, They're just standing
35:11
there chanting or the one is now just standing there chanting.
35:14
You take the robe off and it is a frail female figure that is
35:19
just aged forever, wrinkled, brittle, just bones being there.
35:26
On the altar itself though, you notice this huge, massive
35:31
hulking figure that's part bore, part human.
35:35
Phil, please Romeo presence test. 1415.
35:44
Looking at this. Half.
35:46
Bore half human. You've noticed that there's some
35:49
features that you in particular would remember.
35:52
A tall hulking mass, bit slow, looks like they were shoveling
35:57
chicken nuggies into their mouth.
35:59
You notice that it's the body of Daeru, Erm's son that is being
36:02
mutated into this hog beast, and he's chained and he is furious.
36:07
He's ripping at the chains trying to get loose.
36:10
I mean, honestly. It was weirdo.
36:11
He was weirdo the whole time. I knew it was going on.
36:16
He's been transformed and these people are just chanting away.
36:20
Well, the one is the other two have been crushed and as the two
36:25
of these figures have been crushed, all the creatures slash
36:29
children that are in in the cages are just going nuts.
36:31
They're screaming and rattling the cages and just losing their
36:35
fucking minds. I.
36:37
Have a plan? There's only one more cultist.
36:39
She finishes her chanting as she's being drowned out by the
36:43
sound of the mutated children. She'll she puts her Rd. back on,
36:47
looks over to her two compatriots, starts mumbling to
36:50
herself, and the two bodies start to rise again, back into
36:55
form. Not a fan of this.
36:58
And as they rise back into their form, they look at you, Phil,
37:03
and they hold their hands up in submission.
37:05
And you hear, you don't hear anything.
37:08
But all of you guys don't hear anything outwardly because of
37:10
the noise of the the mutated children.
37:12
But in your heads you hear. Wait, wait, don't kill us.
37:17
Let us explain what we're doing first.
37:20
Nope, they're called this. They need to be destroyed.
37:23
The three figures, they can hold their hands up.
37:26
It's like wait, wait. Please, before you try to
37:30
destroy us, please let us explain.
37:32
It's the least you can do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:34
Go ahead. There won't be any trying, I
37:37
promise you. Let's just hear we need.
37:40
One of them live to explain. Yeah, they made good juice
37:43
upstairs. It was great, you know?
37:46
Generations ago, we lived in the village we were once known as
37:50
Borda, Agneth and Captain Sisters, who warned the village
37:54
of the calamity that would befall them if they kept logging
37:57
the forest of Sarkash. Having heard enough of our
38:00
protest, the village leader and namesake Cristera Eigerthorn
38:04
banished us to the very forest we warned them about.
38:07
Wandering, lost and on the brink of death, the three of us
38:11
bargained with the forest to spare our lives in exchange for
38:15
our undying loyalty. The spirits of the forest agreed
38:18
on what condition that the three of us devised a plan to rid the
38:21
forest of the town and that constantly threatens its life.
38:26
We complied with the wishes of the forest.
38:28
We abducted the children who lost their way in the forest and
38:31
transformed them into hideous beasts.
38:34
With the ranks of beastial soldiers growing by the year, we
38:38
have had a strong enough force to raid the village in the night
38:42
and abduct more of the offspring, transforming them and
38:45
planning to send them back to rain hell on the town that
38:48
forsook us. Please.
38:50
That town has been taking the forest that has given us
38:55
everything, our only shelter. They've kicked us out and left
38:59
us to die. All we ask is that when you let
39:02
us return the favor and rid the forest of this town and the
39:06
settlers. I'm sorry, could you give us a
39:08
second, boys? Let's huddle up here.
39:10
Yeah, that's a good idea. We're going to fucking are.
39:14
We gonna let them do this? Is this gonna happen?
39:16
This is weird. I mean no.
39:17
No, we don't let this happen because this city is supposed to
39:21
be making a deal with Orange Rose.
39:24
Great, I forgot all about. It I don't know where that is.
39:28
I mean, like, yeah. We have a prior obligation, so
39:31
this has to be done. I gotcha, gotcha.
39:34
Look, as a Boy Scout, I know two things.
39:37
Got to, got to preserve. Mother Nature.
39:39
But he also can't sacrifice human life at the same time.
39:42
So there's a bit of conundrum and I'm going to, I'm going to
39:44
bow out on this one lads. You do what you want.
39:47
I'm just I'm here to make sure that he's kept one way or
39:50
another. What if we find out if this is
39:53
permanent? Like are they going to change
39:54
back into kids? I really don't care.
39:56
Looks pretty permanent. That's a future then problem.
39:59
What we need to do is take care of these right now.
40:02
They're cultists. They need to go.
40:04
All right, I'll go off to the lady.
40:05
I'm going to go swing my sight better.
40:07
I mean, they were going to send the kids back anyway.
40:10
All right, Murder. It is murder.
40:12
It is All right on three. All right. 123 murder.
40:17
God, Yeah. Rolling it.
40:20
And then we turn, and then we turn around and our theme music
40:22
kicks in. All right, initiative, I'll do
40:28
it. Do it, Phil.
40:29
Do it, Levi. That's us.
40:31
All right. I swing my sight on the skinny
40:34
lady. OK.
40:36
That's a. Natural one, What happens?
40:40
As you swing the sight, you miss her completely, but you end up
40:45
hitting the chain that's holding Deru the Hog Beast down and he
40:51
is broken free. I hope we have the most bat like
41:00
and then this shit happens. I freed them.
41:03
You're free now. Kill your avenged avenged
41:06
yourself. Kill that girl that.
41:08
Was just a warning shot. Yeah, it meant to do that.
41:13
Oh. God, I'm, I'm, I'm ready.
41:16
I fucking, I jump at them with my arms kind of flying back like
41:20
I'm a ninja and my spork in one hand.
41:22
I'm going to climb this hog beast and kill it, OK?
41:25
I'd like to see you try go and make an attack.
41:28
We could have been on our side. You don't know yet.
41:32
The hog beast? I really don't know.
41:35
And of course, comes to work. See only kills arty.
41:37
That's probably what's going to happen.
41:39
I have one omen left. I don't use an omen.
41:42
I failed this one. I got a.
41:44
OK, so as you go to jump on the back of Deru the Hog Beast, he
41:49
moves out of the way, getting himself into a position to
41:52
charge at Phil, Grin and Quilnock.
41:57
What would you like to do? Quilnock is going after one of
42:00
the old lady cultures again. Okay.
42:04
Keep that library in a lesson. And at this that time got a six.
42:08
That will miss. She wasn't fully in her form as
42:14
she's breaking her bones back into place and your Warhammer
42:18
swing just narrowly misses one of her arms as it resets itself.
42:23
Yeah, Mr. Grant. I see it in my head.
42:25
The same please do. I don't hit.
42:29
Okay. By a lot.
42:31
All right, so as you swing with your short sword, the lady was
42:35
in a back bend and then ends up going up right and the sword
42:39
just goes narrowly misses right behind her.
42:42
My God, they're all the Matrix, whatever that means.
42:47
All right, so Daeru, the Hog Beast has got his sights set on
42:53
Phil, and he's going to charge at you.
42:57
I would like you to make an agility test DR14 to get out of
43:01
the way. Yes, I will do it.
43:05
Swear to God if you die down I've.
43:06
Been rolling so bad. Damn it, that's nice.
43:11
OK, All right, so the Hog Beast charges at you, ramming right
43:17
into you. Go ahead and take D8 charging
43:20
damage. Oh.
43:22
No. Why don't you just roll that
43:24
last moment now? Oh.
43:31
My God. All right.
43:33
Oh, that's eight damage. Let me roll some armor.
43:35
Oh, it doesn't matter. Oh, it does matter.
43:38
Hold on. Oh no, I could just be.
43:40
Broken. I want to use my almond to
43:42
reduce. No, hold on.
43:43
To to one damage I. Have two D4 for my armor.
43:48
Let me roll. I could be fine.
43:50
That's four. OK, one more.
43:52
OK. That's 40.
43:54
Damage. Wow. 0 Nothing.
43:59
Wow, so as as the hog beast charges head first into you,
44:05
catches you center mass, knocks you on your ass and just barrels
44:10
right past you. Close.
44:13
Wow, that was so close. I'm glad I slipped.
44:16
Holy. Shit initiative, yeah.
44:19
He's. Lucky I'll I'll fucking do a
44:22
roll here. Oh, I shouldn't have done that.
44:24
Role 3. It's the hog, the hog beast and
44:27
the break dancing Which? Before the Hog Beast turns
44:30
around and starts charging for one of you, the cloaked figures
44:35
plead for your guys's mercy to let them finish what their plan
44:40
is. As they're pleading to you guys,
44:42
De Rue turns around and and I'm going to roll AD 4 to see which
44:49
one it charges at. One being Levi, 2 being Jake, 3
44:53
being Waltz, and four being Mr. Coffee over there.
44:56
All right, so as Deru turns around, it locks its sight onto
45:03
Grin and and charges Grin. Go ahead and make an agility.
45:08
Test agility tests are reduced by two for me.
45:13
I got a 16. 16 will miss as it runs past you.
45:20
As you narrowly avert it, he runs directly into the wall and
45:24
then just stops. As well.
45:27
Continue to people, Yes. Your guys.
45:29
Stick it in the butt in Dark Souls.
45:33
Cool knock at this point is going to look at the altar and
45:36
decide to start smashing that it is.
45:39
Perfect, you are making one big rock into a bunch of little
45:43
rocks. Does it work?
45:45
Is that what you're supposed to do?
45:46
It's the end of time is bad. No idea losing my.
45:48
Mind they were focused on it it's going to pieces I've.
45:52
Never been in this situation before.
45:54
I just used to gather the dead for 15 years.
45:57
What a sad, bad story. Who's next?
46:02
Yeah, After missing completely on my first jump, I'm going to
46:05
whip around and try to snag this break dancing witch that we're
46:09
fighting this hog beast. Running around got me a little
46:11
worried I'm going to get squished 13.
46:15
Does that do something? You you were grabbing her or are
46:18
you attacking her? I was going to stab her in the
46:20
back of the head with my sport. Oh OK.
46:23
As you stab her in the back of the head, you see that she
46:26
starts twitching about and the body just goes limp in your
46:30
arms. Oh, that did not take much.
46:32
See, Artie can do it too. Now, should we free these kids
46:35
and get out of here? Maybe leave this giant wandering
46:37
bowl in the China shop and. There are no kids.
46:40
They're all beasts. We can't judge them right now.
46:43
Not at the, not at this. Point and I'm going to I'm
46:45
that's my turn. I fucking murdered this break
46:48
dancing witch and now I'm really concerned that we made the wrong
46:50
choice. So I got a bad vibe from this
46:53
room though. Was that everybody?
46:55
I think so. No, no, no, I'm going to grab my
46:57
siph and swing on this bore. Do you still have that weapon
47:00
after and after one? I don't know.
47:02
He didn't say it broke, he said it just cut a chain.
47:04
Yeah, no, it didn't break it, just it cut the chain, freeing
47:08
Daewoo. So I'm going to grab it and that
47:11
would swing on Daewoo. That's a truck stop 3020.
47:16
That is going to be a solid hit 7 all right.
47:20
D4 for a thick bristly hide. 1 so 6 damage.
47:25
Oh, that's a lot of damage. So as you swing through with
47:29
your sight, you catch Daeru across the chest and he screams
47:35
in pain and focuses back onto you.
47:39
Come. On Big Man.
47:41
I'm going to give this guy pokes with my sword.
47:43
Going through the hog beast. Yes, and I got. 12 on the dot.
47:49
All right, 12 will touch. Go ahead and roll your dimage.
47:53
I don't damage him, I just don't damage him.
47:57
The guy says no. The guy said no, it didn't give
48:00
me a number, it just said fuck off.
48:02
Wow. I rolled the one and he can't
48:05
not negate that. So just someone else, please go.
48:08
All right, so. How you been playing with an 8
48:10
balls? No more magic 8 balls?
48:12
Is that what? This is so as you swing at it,
48:15
he's writhing in pain and it just barely grazes him and not
48:18
doing any damage. Now we'll do initiative.
48:21
Roll again you. Don't want me to roll it, not
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the way I've been. Rolling.
48:23
Yeah, rolling he. Says your redemption arc.
48:26
Redemption arcs. That's a three.
48:31
All right, the ladies, and I'm going to use that term loosely,
48:37
still pleading for you to let them fulfill their lifelong
48:42
plan. Can the three of you just calm
48:44
down for a few minutes while we kill this thing, and then we'll
48:46
take care of you? Goddamn debut focuses on Rin
48:51
again. This is you got this slip around
48:55
like buttery starts. 16. All right.
49:02
I'm never going to dodge him, but I can't do any goddamn
49:04
damage. Once again he comes at you.
49:07
You. Dodge roll right between.
49:08
The legs perfect. And then he just runs right past
49:11
you, right into the wall again, dazing himself.
49:14
Once again. Your guys's turn damage.
49:16
I want to someone splash. Over him again while he's dazed.
49:20
OK, make an attack. That's a 13.
49:23
All right, 13 wheel hit. 08 damage.
49:27
D4 thick grizzly hide. 5 demo. All right, he is not looking
49:34
good as you swing your side that crosses back.
49:38
Spray of blood just shoots from the wound and he turns around
49:43
and regains his focus back on you.
49:45
I've never chosen kids. Before this feels terrible.
49:49
I feel so bad about this. Now you get used to it after the
49:52
next 7 times and I attack him. OK.
49:56
But hey, that's a 19. 19 will hit. 2 when we see how much
50:01
damage I don't do, yeah, he soaks 3 of it, he gets a hit
50:05
point back, I'm done. Oh wow, gay me all right, so as
50:11
you swing again it glances off of him and he just shrugs it
50:15
off. Will, Knock and Artie who would
50:18
like to do what. There's still two of the witches
50:21
up. Yes, ma'am.
50:23
Yes, Sir. Yes, ma'am.
50:25
I am going to stop my hammering of the altar to crack one of
50:31
them. OK.
50:32
That is an 18. That's a hit all day long.
50:37
For damage. She drops to the ground.
50:40
And I'll look at the next one and just like you're next.
50:44
Just blow on her, she'll be dust.
50:47
While this thing's still kind of rampaging around in days, I'm
50:50
going to just, with two hands, hold my spork out and try to
50:54
stab the stab Will the boy this is.
50:57
Starting to feel dirty? OK, please attack. 11 I miss. 11
51:02
is going to miss as you swing with your spork on a hulking
51:09
half man half bore. Yeah, you.
51:12
Just got to dig deep, get your stance ready.
51:15
I'm trying, Phil. I'm so nervous.
51:17
This is for your hero badge. I know I get my friendship badge
51:20
too. All right.
51:23
He's. So old.
51:24
It's initiative now. I'll try again.
51:27
Oh Jesus, the. 1. This board's going to kill him.
51:31
You're fine. All right, Sabine, as the three
51:35
of you have swung on said 4, I'm going to turn his attention to
51:41
Artie and charge at you of. Course.
51:44
Go ahead and make a defense role.
51:46
Don't look at him. Look at me.
51:48
I heard about you, Chicken. He's.
51:49
Going to be agility test DR14. 11.
51:53
OK so he is going to hit you. He does D8 charging damage.
52:00
Does 0 damage to me. I got a 1, he got one on the D8
52:04
and then my buckler hat. My adventure hat blocked it as I
52:09
was holding my spork up it like went through between his legs
52:13
and then fucking. Dick at you in that it's the
52:21
glancing blow. I did not think that was how
52:26
that was going to come out. I did not plan on that being how
52:29
that sorry. You can, you can cut that.
52:32
I don't care. No physical damage, but
52:36
emotional damage. Emotional damage.
52:39
Flashbacks to the basement being changed.
52:43
Just like Scout Master Kevin. Anyway, so Daeru passes right
52:51
past you and does not do any damage.
52:54
Your guys are sure. I'll try to sight them one more
52:57
time. It's OK, please kill it.
53:00
This is oh, that's a 21 dramatizing.
53:04
That's so many. Oh no.
53:07
Oh no. One damage.
53:09
He's got D4 armor. Yeah, that was after the armor.
53:12
He is still a. Big.
53:15
This poor boy. And as you go and swing your
53:19
sight at him after he tea bags already, it's just a a glancing
53:24
blow across the arm grin and will knock.
53:28
Will knock use a hammer and finish this guy off?
53:31
Will Knock was just getting ready to take a swing on a
53:33
compass. OK, please do it.
53:36
Is a 21. That will hit for.
53:39
Another four damage. That will kill as you hit her.
53:44
You tell me. Yeah, so as she's like, no, no,
53:48
no, no, I just like bring the hammer straight down and it just
53:52
grumples her and just like, you know, old withered ash dust out
53:57
after it slams into the ground. And as you kill this last old
54:03
lady, a hush falls over the room.
54:06
Deru stops dead in his tracks, not a peep out of any of the
54:10
other children. Slash animals in the cages.
54:13
What's and what's? Happening.
54:15
As you are staring at the animal slash children in the cages,
54:21
they start turning back into the children partially.
54:26
Some of them still have the extended eye stocks, some of
54:29
them still have scorpions tails coming off the bat.
54:33
Some of them really only have a face a mother can love.
54:37
Yes, and they start pleading with you and crying that they
54:41
want to go home. Ah, fuck it, it's good enough.
54:44
Oh gosh, Are you sure? They're they're pleading with
54:47
you that please take us home, please, please, we don't want to
54:51
be here. Please.
54:53
Deru sitting there just in tears.
54:55
He's not turning back. He's still part 10 year old man
54:59
boy, part hog beast, and he's just crying and he does he he
55:06
doesn't move. Someone please I'm I'm I'm not
55:11
good with kids. Someone do say something.
55:14
Give him a fucking cookie. Already get your like like
55:18
consoling badge or something? Just talk to him.
55:21
Yeah, I only have a Level 3 in that, but I'll see what I could
55:23
do. Maybe if we let the kids out of
55:27
the cages first that. Might be a bad idea.
55:32
Well, what about this one that stopped trying to kill?
55:35
Us and I'll walk up to Deiru and I don't want to touch him
55:38
because I'm afraid if I touch him I might accidentally kill
55:40
him. He got like one health right?
55:42
Does he does he notice? He notices you, he's sitting
55:45
there, he's just bleeding out, he's in tears and he's just
55:50
mumbling to himself. I'm not going back.
55:53
I'm not going back. I'm not going back.
55:56
Where are you going to go back to champ?
55:58
I'm not going back to my father. He was terrible.
56:01
He's, he's ruined everything. He's no, I'm not going back.
56:06
You'll have to kill me first. Oh yeah, I don't think we have
56:09
to do any more of that today. You could join the Boy Scouts.
56:12
You could maybe be like a leader of these kids or something.
56:16
You could have purpose in your life.
56:17
I don't know. I'm only a Level 3 in consoling
56:20
badge so this is not my strong suit.
56:22
Yeah, I heard it was like a 400 level system.
56:25
So he's basically a beginner. He looks at you and he says.
56:29
You said leave these children. Yes, well, the I'm sure that you
56:34
know they're going to. I can't take care of them.
56:36
I have I have badges and honors and ceremonies to progress
56:40
through. I have to become a scout leader
56:42
like Greg, Scout leader, Master Kevin.
56:44
So I can't watch them. Phil can't watch them.
56:47
He's I've only known him for a few days and he's a mess.
56:50
Quill knock and grin. I go.
56:52
Well, you saw what they did when we walked in here.
56:54
So, you know, honestly, Yeah, we're.
56:56
Not the the caretaker type. We didn't mean.
56:59
To. Slash he up slowly and and he
57:03
looks at you, standing over you, towering over you.
57:06
Open the cages I want. I want my brothers and sisters
57:10
free. Oh.
57:11
Sure. Yeah, I can do that.
57:12
Yeah. Still, I'm going to do that
57:15
right now. I'm going to fucking run around
57:18
and open these cages with my spork.
57:20
Don't just stand there, Phil, help me.
57:24
I I untwist the wire and I open a cage.
57:28
After quite a while, all of the cages are out.
57:30
All of the children still partially in their mutated forms
57:35
come out and circle around Dehru.
57:37
Some with rabbit ears that are glowing, some with rat type
57:43
tails and looks like the flesh is still kind of stitched on
57:47
some deer that seemed to have way too many teeth in their
57:50
mouth. Just standing around Dehru and
57:53
Dehru was like. Are we ready to go home and kill
57:56
everyone in town? And you hear a muttering amongst
58:01
the children and the muttering is turning into cheers and a
58:07
glorious laughter and they all start to single file go towards
58:13
the hallway that you guys came down to get into this area
58:16
proper. Well, I'm glad I could do my
58:18
part. I made a big mistake.
58:21
I think we just wash our hands right here and move on.
58:25
We. Brought a family together?
58:27
Good idea. I've done this many a * 20 years
58:31
on the road as as working on my hero badge.
58:33
Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose.
58:35
I've lost all of them. That's why I don't have the hero
58:37
badge. But there'll be other
58:39
opportunities already. Already knows failure very well.
58:42
The archbishop's going to be so pissed.
58:44
I don't know we. Fucked this up royally.
58:47
Well, look on the bright side. We freed all of the children and
58:51
Phil didn't get infected. Yeah.
59:40
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I have xenophobia or whatever the fuck it is.
1:00:43
I don't like the movie Aliens. This, this shit's coming out.
1:00:48
Xenomorphobia. Xena Warrior Princess.
1:00:51
Yeah, unless it's lingering. You guys solved my child
1:00:59
imprisonment. Puzzled we I.
1:01:02
Feel like this was in me though. We let them free.
1:01:07
I felt so gross murdering them and then then you send them to
1:01:12
murder the. What, what, what?