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Episode 10 (S3E10) · Tale of The Manticore, a Dark Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons Audiodrama

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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Craig from Third Floor Wars and you're
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Speaker 1: listening to Tale of the Manicore. The following podcast is
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Speaker 1: intended for a mature audience. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome
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Speaker 1: back to Tale of the Manticor Season three. Like the
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Speaker 1: creature from which it takes its name, Tale of the
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Speaker 1: Manticor is a mashup, a cross breeding between two different
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Speaker 1: species of storytelling. Here you will find the unpredictability of
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Speaker 1: old school paper and dice games with the story craft
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Speaker 1: of a dark fantasy novel. No character is sacred and
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Speaker 1: none will be spared if the dice decide their fate
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Speaker 1: is at hand. According to lore, the Tale of a
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Speaker 1: Manticre is barbed with cruel iron spikes. There will be
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Speaker 1: much pain in the days ahead. Last time on Tale
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Speaker 1: of the Manticor, in the previous chapter, the Chilia meets
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Speaker 1: ten tire Dorani's younger brother. He has, for all intents
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Speaker 1: and purposes, run away in order to accompany his sibling
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Speaker 1: on his mission escorting Achillie to the north Lands. The party,
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Speaker 1: now five strong, travel until they reach one of their
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Speaker 1: tribe sentry stations, where they plan to stop for the night.
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Speaker 1: The elf who lives there keeping watch over the surrounding land.
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Speaker 1: Is named Barn barrand tells his companions that the orcs
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Speaker 1: are acting strangely and are moving in numbers. He is
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Speaker 1: not sure what this behavior means, but it is unusual.
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Speaker 1: After spending the night in his tree top watch tower,
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Speaker 1: the companion's bid Barren farewell and continue on their way north.
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Speaker 1: The day passes with that serious incident, but when night comes,
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Speaker 1: it brings along with it new daney. Before I advance
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Speaker 1: the story and get into a scene I believe has
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Speaker 1: the potential to turn deadly, there's a bit of housekeeping
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Speaker 1: to take care of. Since she's of the magic user class,
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Speaker 1: Achille must go ten episodes before leveling up, unlike Court,
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Speaker 1: who needs only nine. But here we are at the tenth,
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Speaker 1: and so it's time to take this half elf to
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Speaker 1: level two to begin new hit points on a D
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Speaker 1: four A three very good, her new maximum is seven.
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Speaker 1: Unlike Court, the non magical members of the party, you
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Speaker 1: get the chance at each level startup for stat increases.
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Speaker 1: Here's how my house rule works. For each ability score,
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Speaker 1: I roll a D six on a six, that stat
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Speaker 1: goes up by one point. A while back, a listener
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Speaker 1: did the math for me, and so I now know
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Speaker 1: that there's a sixty six percent chance for a single
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Speaker 1: stat race and a thirty three percent chance to get two.
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Speaker 1: I can't recall if I ever got three, but it's
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Speaker 1: very rare anyway, Let's get to it. Will achillia strength
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Speaker 1: increase on a D six? I've got a five? No change?
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Speaker 1: How a bit intelligence A two? Wisdom a six? You
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Speaker 1: know that tracks? I mean, over the past eleven days,
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Speaker 1: this young woman has seen a lot. How could she
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Speaker 1: not be changed by it? Her ten in this stat
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Speaker 1: goes to eleven. Dexterity is next another six. Wow, how
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Speaker 1: great is that? For fourteen becomes fifteen. Now, neither of
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Speaker 1: these increases will affect the game mechanically, but they're nice
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Speaker 1: all the same, and they might turn into bonuses down
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Speaker 1: the road. Constitution A one and finally charisma afore. Of course,
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Speaker 1: there's still one more element to this level up, and
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Speaker 1: it's one of my favorite things to roll for. Achilia
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Speaker 1: will get a new first level spell rolling on my
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Speaker 1: table A six. What's that? Oh? This is interesting. She
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Speaker 1: has acquired the spell message, which allows to secretly whisper
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Speaker 1: to another person within sixty feet plus ten feet per level.
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Speaker 1: It's not glamorous, but it could be useful in the
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Speaker 1: right situation. Now, Achilia won't be able to memorize this
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Speaker 1: spell before the upcoming encounter. She needs to meditate before
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Speaker 1: she can do that. However, she won't need to write
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Speaker 1: the spell into her spell book. The reason is it
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Speaker 1: was already there. In fact, Achille's spell book is full
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Speaker 1: of spells. She just can't understand most of them. Dramatis personae.
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Speaker 1: Achillea two years ago that winter was the worst she
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Speaker 1: had ever seen. Even Oldve, who rarely complained, said that
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Speaker 1: it was exceptionally harsh. The two of them had not
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Speaker 1: adequately prepared for it, and so supplies were short. The
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Speaker 1: worst part was that for days on end, Achillia and
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Speaker 1: her master were forced to spend all their waking hours
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Speaker 1: indoors while diligently gathered firewood outside, unbothered by the low temperatures.
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Speaker 1: By midwinter, after a full three weeks of being cooped
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Speaker 1: up together, Oldvey apparently came to a decision. It is
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Speaker 1: a little earlier than i'd expected. Perhaps you are ready,
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Speaker 1: he said, mysteriously, Ready for what may. Achillie had been
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Speaker 1: busy writing a poem while daydreaming and looking out the
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Speaker 1: window at their snow covered valley. Put that aside and
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Speaker 1: come sit with me by the fire. Achillie obeyed. She
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Speaker 1: was stuck on the third stanza, and besides, there was
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Speaker 1: something about Aldvay's voice that made her think something momentous
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Speaker 1: was about to take place. She sat in her chair
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Speaker 1: by the hearth while Aldveay disappeared into their shared bedroom
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Speaker 1: for a moment. She heard him pull a volume from
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Speaker 1: his bookshelf before he came back into the living room
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Speaker 1: and took his seat with a little groan of effort,
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Speaker 1: as he always did. In addition to a book, he
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Speaker 1: held a pot of ink and a special looking quill.
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Speaker 1: It was jet black with a bright red stripe across
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Speaker 1: one edge of the feather. He handed her the book.
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Speaker 1: It was fairly small and bound in dark sagreen with
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Speaker 1: a burnished brass clasp. This is for you, said Oldvai.
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Speaker 1: What's inside, asked Achilia, filling with hope. She'd been wondering
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Speaker 1: when this moment would come. Open it and see, he replied.
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Speaker 1: Achillia's fingers were trembling a little. When she did. She
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Speaker 1: held her breath and lifted the cover. She stared down
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Speaker 1: at the first page, and her brown knit. She turned
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Speaker 1: the page, then the next, then the next. It's blank,
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Speaker 1: she said, nonplushed. Not for long, beckne Oldvay was smiling.
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Speaker 1: There was a subtle confidence in his voice. Not for long.
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Speaker 1: Take the quill, take the ink. But I don't know
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Speaker 1: how to write the arcade, said Achilia. Doubtfully you have
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Speaker 1: onely forgotten Begley, but your soul knows. I just need
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Speaker 1: to remember. I don't understand. How could I have forgotten
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Speaker 1: something I never learned? The soul is eternal, Aechuilia, You
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Speaker 1: and I and all those who can wield the art
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Speaker 1: have lived a thousand lives before this one. But I
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Speaker 1: don't know how to remember. I will help you. Al
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Speaker 1: Jay proceeded to lead Achilie into by far the deepest
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Speaker 1: meditative trance she had ever entered. He guided her down
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Speaker 1: and down and down into the well of her mind
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Speaker 1: and lower still. When he decided that she was ready,
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Speaker 1: he told her to begin writing, and she did. While
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Speaker 1: her eyes stared blankly forward, seeing nothing, Her hand moved
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Speaker 1: on its own, dipping the quill and writing the complicated
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Speaker 1: rooms and sigils of the language of magic It took
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Speaker 1: her all day, but eventually she finished, and all they
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Speaker 1: brought her gently out of the trance. Achillie blinked. She
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Speaker 1: looked out the window and realized from the quality of
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Speaker 1: light that hours had passed. Looking back at the book
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Speaker 1: in her hands, she saw it was now bursting with text.
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Speaker 1: She blinked again, bit her lip and said, I cannot
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Speaker 1: read a single word of this. Oldve smiled at her,
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Speaker 1: pride now written across his features as surely as the
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Speaker 1: new words on the page of Achillee's book. That is well,
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Speaker 1: and all is as it should be, My dear, he said,
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Speaker 1: to understand what you have written, to hear the voice
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Speaker 1: of your soul, and to remember this part will take time.
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Speaker 1: Looks like I finally found a good use from my
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Speaker 1: mythic event meaning negligence. Whether now that it's spent, I
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Speaker 1: need to roll up a new one. Here we go
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Speaker 1: ninety and thirty. What does that give me? Let's see, Oh, okay,
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Speaker 1: that's kind of neat Chapter ten, Part one, Day eleven
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Speaker 1: twilight mythic event meaning failure, possessions, party status Achillia seven
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Speaker 1: out of seven hit points, Court eleven out of eleven,
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Speaker 1: de Renni six of six ten tier six of six supplies.
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Speaker 1: The companions have fourteen portions of food and nine of water.
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Speaker 1: Spells available. Achillea has memorized shrink cord, can cast, entangle
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Speaker 1: and locate plants and animals. The half moon, the color
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Speaker 1: of bone, hung in the star dusted sky. The companions
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Speaker 1: were footsore and ready to stop for the evening. By
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Speaker 1: the time they arrived at a rise with a single,
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Speaker 1: sad looking dogwood tree marking the top ahead, they could
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Speaker 1: hear the cawing of crows, lots of them, though they
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Speaker 1: could not see any. Robin adjusted her grip in Achillee's
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Speaker 1: hair at the sound crows mark the dead, said do Rennie,
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Speaker 1: giving a signal for the group to slow down and
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Speaker 1: approach the hilltop with caution. When they reached it and
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Speaker 1: looked into the veil beyond, they saw a great patch
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Speaker 1: of blackness in the middle of a landscape of otherwise
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Speaker 1: pale scrub and grass. There were shapes in that patch
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Speaker 1: of blackness, unidentifiable lumps and mounds. Some parts of the
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Speaker 1: black patch seemed to ripple and shift in the moonlight. Suddenly,
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Speaker 1: with a cacophony of squaking and flopping wings, a cloud
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Speaker 1: of black burst up and into the air. Hundreds of
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Speaker 1: crows took to wing, flying away in every direction. Then one,
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Speaker 1: and another and another of the many lumpy shapes rose
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Speaker 1: up to stand among the others, which remained motionless on
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Speaker 1: the ground. Look, said tintyr Auks, warned her any. He
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Speaker 1: was right. The companions could now see what before had
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Speaker 1: been hidden under a blanket of scavenging birds. There were
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Speaker 1: armored bodies all over the ground, perhaps two dozen of them.
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Speaker 1: The tell tale, dull glint of metal in the low
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Speaker 1: light showed where combatants had fallen or had dropped their weapons.
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Speaker 1: Clearly there had been a great battle here. The four
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Speaker 1: bulky shapes that had risen to their feet must be
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Speaker 1: the sole survivors, or else they had come into the
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Speaker 1: aftermath of this field of battle to loot the dead,
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Speaker 1: whichever was the case. The Orcs had spotted them. One
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Speaker 1: raised a heavy spear in the air and barked commands
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Speaker 1: at the other three. They responded immediately, with two of
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Speaker 1: them knocking arrows to bows and entering combat. In chapter nine,
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Speaker 1: I rolled up a wandering encounter with some orcs that
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Speaker 1: was supposed to take place at night. I also determined
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Speaker 1: that neither side would be surprised. Since the party has
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Speaker 1: been traveling through sparsely wooded hills, I figured visibility would
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Speaker 1: be quite good, and so I decided that it would
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Speaker 1: make sense for the two sides to discover each other's
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Speaker 1: existence at a range of seventy feet. As the PC's guessed,
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Speaker 1: these orcs are the survivors of a recent battle. They
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Speaker 1: were looking to their wounds and looting the bodies of
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Speaker 1: friend and foe alike when Achille's group came upon them.
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Speaker 1: Because they were recently in a fight. When I roll
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Speaker 1: up their hit points, I won't apply my usual min
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Speaker 1: out rule. Some of them might be badly hurt and
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Speaker 1: under the half max threshold. Another break from my usual
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Speaker 1: practice is that I'm going to roll for their hit
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Speaker 1: points individually. Normally i'd roll once and apply that number
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Speaker 1: to all enemies, but this is a special case. Let's
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Speaker 1: see orcs get a D eight for hit points rolling
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Speaker 1: four times four four six, five. Okay. The leader with
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Speaker 1: the spear will have six hit points, the two archers
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Speaker 1: will have four piece and the last one wielding a
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Speaker 1: broadsword five. They'll have the same armor class of fourteen
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Speaker 1: for studded leather and shield, or for the archers chain mail.
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Speaker 1: Their tactic will be to put bow fire on the companions.
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Speaker 1: Will the two melee fighters curve around the flanks to
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Speaker 1: come in with a pincer movement. I think that's enough
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Speaker 1: information to get started, so let's begin round one initiative.
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Speaker 1: The party six the Orcs a one wow. That is decisive.
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Speaker 1: Clearly the Orcs were slow to organize. Before they can
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Speaker 1: get very far, the Elven brothers loose arrows in their direction.
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Speaker 1: I'll say that Durni is aiming at the leader while
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Speaker 1: ten Tier is hoping to take at one of the archers.
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Speaker 1: Each has a plus one to hit with their bows
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Speaker 1: due to their high dexterity scores, so they need to
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Speaker 1: roll a thirteen or better. Deretti fires then eleven misses
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Speaker 1: and ten Tier lets his shaft fly a twelve just miss.
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Speaker 1: That's too bad, but it's still early in the fight
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Speaker 1: and the pieces have the advantage of high ground. Court
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Speaker 1: and Achillie will not take an action this round, so
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Speaker 1: it's the Orc's turn. The leader and the sword wheeler
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Speaker 1: both run a distance of thirty feet, curling around to
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Speaker 1: the companion's flanks. As mentioned earlier, the two archers return
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Speaker 1: fire one arrow for each of the eleven brothers. They'll
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Speaker 1: need a fifteen to hit the one aiming for de Renni.
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Speaker 1: The six means the arrow falls short, and one more
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Speaker 1: for ten Tier eighteen. Oh no, that's a hit. Ten
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Speaker 1: Tier could possibly die right here if the arrow does
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Speaker 1: max damage? How much will he take on a D
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Speaker 1: six A two? That could have been much worse, But
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Speaker 1: that first round definitely goes to the orcs. It is
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Speaker 1: round two initiative, the party a six again, the orcs
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Speaker 1: A two. I think the ground must be deceptive steep,
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Speaker 1: and the charging orcs lose their momentum when they hit
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Speaker 1: the inpline. Winning this initiative is very good luck for
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Speaker 1: the PCs because it allows them to take good advantage
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Speaker 1: of the terrain. They'll pull well back of the hill's
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Speaker 1: crest and break line of sight with the orchish archers.
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Speaker 1: Now neither side can fire upon the other. However, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to allow the pieces to automatically win the initiative
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Speaker 1: next round. When the two melee orcs come into view,
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Speaker 1: it makes sense to me that they'll assume the companions
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Speaker 1: are fleeing. Orcs aren't especially smart. Therefore, we jump to
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Speaker 1: round three initiative. The party automatically wins. The orcs automatically lose.
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Speaker 1: As soon as the two orcs come into view, both
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Speaker 1: Durani and ten tier let fly. Deurni's role A fourteen
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Speaker 1: hits the leader will take three points of damage. He's
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Speaker 1: down to half hey con ten tier score A hit
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Speaker 1: two A thirteen or better is required the role A five.
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Speaker 1: The orc gets his shield up in time to block
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Speaker 1: the shaft. A Chillie will throw one of her daggers.
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Speaker 1: She needs a fourteen or better A one. Oh no,
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Speaker 1: that's a critical fumble. She throws her knife, but it
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Speaker 1: strikes the lead orcs shield and the brute steps on it.
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Speaker 1: As he charges forward, his iron shod boot dens the knife,
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Speaker 1: ruining it. Additionally. For her failure, a Chilie will lose
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Speaker 1: her next turn. The court, surprising everyone, possibly even himself,
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Speaker 1: reaches out his free hand and casts the spell and tangle.
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Speaker 1: The dogwood tree responds. Its branches become supple whipped like
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Speaker 1: appendages that snake out to wrap around the sword wielding
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Speaker 1: orc's wrist and ankle. The save is allowed to cut
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Speaker 1: himself free, but even if he makes it, his movement
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Speaker 1: will be slowed and it's no easy save. A sixteen
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Speaker 1: or better is needed. The roll a nineteen wow. The
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Speaker 1: Orc savagely slashes at the intag all ranches and wades
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Speaker 1: through the roots and grasses that try to grab his legs.
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Speaker 1: This is one tough Orc. We are on to round four.
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Speaker 1: Initiative the party a six. That's three in a row
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Speaker 1: for the PCs. The orcs A one. I guess the
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Speaker 1: entangle spell was not only a physical deterrent, but a
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Speaker 1: real spectacle. All allowed ten Tier to fire his bow
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Speaker 1: once more before the sword wheeler can reach him. He
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Speaker 1: needs a thirteen A three no good. I think the
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Speaker 1: younger Elf is just as shocked by Chord's magic as
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Speaker 1: the Orc, and his shot goes wild. De Renni and
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Speaker 1: Cord now both face off against the leader Orc. Durnni
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Speaker 1: needs a fourteen to hit with a short sword, which
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Speaker 1: he drew after casting his bow to the ground. His
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Speaker 1: role nineteen sweet. The blade does a d six of
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Speaker 1: damage A four. It's a clean thrust up and into
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Speaker 1: the monster's throat that brings it crashing down, gurgling out
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Speaker 1: its last breath. Cord is not positioned to be able
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Speaker 1: to engage the other Orc who's delayed but not help
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Speaker 1: by the entangled spell, and Achillia has lost her turn,
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Speaker 1: So we are onto round five initiative the party the
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Speaker 1: three Well, those sixes couldn't last forever, right the orcs
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Speaker 1: A two makes sense. The entangle spell is still in effect.
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Speaker 1: Achillie now has her turn back, but it doesn't make
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Speaker 1: any difference. She gets out of the way to let
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Speaker 1: the fighters handle the Orc. It's three on one ten
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Speaker 1: tier sword now in hand, tries to duplicate his brother's success.
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Speaker 1: A four is not even close and his sword is
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Speaker 1: easily blocked by the Orc's shield chord swings his woodman's axe,
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Speaker 1: needing fourteen. A six is a miss. De Renni will
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Speaker 1: hopefully have better luck oh No. One. The Orc faints,
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Speaker 1: then kicks the elf in the groin, dropping him to
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Speaker 1: the ground like a sack of grain. Durenni will miss
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Speaker 1: his next turn. Now the orc can take a proper
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Speaker 1: attack A high low to see who he targets. High
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Speaker 1: is ten tier on a D twenty HI. That's unfortunate
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Speaker 1: ten tiers. Armor class is A fifteen, though he's not
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Speaker 1: easy to hit. Ha another one. That's the third crit
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Speaker 1: fail of this battle. The orc overreaches with his blade,
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Speaker 1: and ten Tier takes the opportunity to drop the pommel
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Speaker 1: of his sword on its hand. Yeah, it howls in
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Speaker 1: pain as it drops the weapon. Before we go on,
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Speaker 1: I need to see if the archers will have followed
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Speaker 1: and caught up by now. Hi low to see if
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Speaker 1: they show up this round or next HI will mean
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Speaker 1: this round. At twelve, the tide turns once again, and
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Speaker 1: they do. As the Orcish archers fire into melee, I'm
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Speaker 1: concerned that their companion is vulnerable should they miss. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I need to make a quick ruling for this kind
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Speaker 1: of thing. What's realistic on a miss? I'll say there's
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Speaker 1: a one in six chance for each ally in the
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Speaker 1: fight for friendly fire to happen. This rule will apply
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Speaker 1: to pieces and enemies alike. Going forward, Targets will be random.
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Speaker 1: The first shoots at cord and needs a fourteen or better.
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Speaker 1: A seventeen hits an arrow thunks into chords torso four
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Speaker 1: two points. The second archer targets de Renni A ten.
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Speaker 1: Thankfully we'll miss is their friendly fire? A one on
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Speaker 1: a D six means there will be rolling oh A
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Speaker 1: one and the sword wielder is shot by his own
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Speaker 1: ally four just one point. The arrow clips his ear. Four.
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Speaker 1: That's the end of round five, so we are on two.
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Speaker 1: Round six initiative. The party two, the Orcs one, the
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Speaker 1: pieces winned by the skin of their teeth. Let's hope
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Speaker 1: they can score some hits. Ten tears blade flashes out.
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Speaker 1: A nine means the Orc deflects the blow with his shield.
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Speaker 1: Once again, Chord strikes with his axe. A fourteen is
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Speaker 1: just enough. The axe will do a dec of damage,
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Speaker 1: rolling six points. Chord splits the Orc's head like a
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Speaker 1: piece of firewood and the brute goes down. That leaves
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Speaker 1: ten tier free to attack the archers. They aren't so
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Speaker 1: far away, so he can get to them. This round.
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Speaker 1: His short sword sings out at nineteen chain mail is
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Speaker 1: short as the Elvin blade inflicts oh wow, six points
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Speaker 1: of damage. The orc is completely disemboweled in loops of
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Speaker 1: blue guts spill out onto the ground before the creature
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Speaker 1: falls over dead. It's the sole remaining Orcs turn and
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Speaker 1: there's a very good chance it'll run. Orcs have a
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Speaker 1: morale score of eight, but given the circumstances, I'm reducing
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Speaker 1: that to five. That amount or more on A two
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Speaker 1: D six means it will flee, rolling an eight even
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Speaker 1: without the modifier, the orc has lost its taste for
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Speaker 1: this battle. It turns and runs. Combat is essentially over,
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Speaker 1: but I'm going to allow ten tier one chance to
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Speaker 1: grab his bow from the ground nearby and send a
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Speaker 1: missile after this orc as it tries to get away.
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Speaker 1: It's a clear shot, so the target number remains the same.
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Speaker 1: A fourteen or better will hit. Hah, fifteen. Will it
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Speaker 1: be enough to make the kill? There's a fifty to
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Speaker 1: fifty chance since the monster has four hitit points, pulling
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Speaker 1: a D six for damage a five. The arrow streaks
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Speaker 1: from the ELF's bow and slams into the orc's back,
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Speaker 1: punching through chainmail and rupturing one of its lungs. The
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Speaker 1: orc falls on its face, and by the time the
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Speaker 1: companions have run down to give it a coup de gras,
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Speaker 1: it has already drowned in its own blood. I used
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Speaker 1: up my event meaning during that combat to say that
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Speaker 1: one of Achillia's daggers was ruined when the lead Orcs
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Speaker 1: stepped on it, So it looks like I'll need a
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Speaker 1: new one, rolling fourteen and fifty five. Okay, got it?
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Speaker 1: Chapter ten, Part two, Day eleven Twilight mythic event meaning
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Speaker 1: abandon suffering party status. Achillea seven out of seven hit points,
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Speaker 1: Court nine of eleven, de Renni six of six, ten
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Speaker 1: Tier four of six supplies. The Companions have fourteen portions
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Speaker 1: of food and nine of water. Spells available. Achillia has
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Speaker 1: memorized shrink Cord can cast locate plants and animals. Once
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Speaker 1: de Renni had confirmed that Tenier had not been badly
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Speaker 1: hurt by the orcheshero, he turned to Court and said,
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Speaker 1: you are truly a marvel, my friend. I had no
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Speaker 1: idea you could command nature. There was no accusation in
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Speaker 1: his tone. De Rennie was smiling broadly. From his perspective,
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Speaker 1: the battle had been extremely successful. He intent here conducted
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Speaker 1: a quick check of the Orcish corpse near by. Achilia
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Speaker 1: held Cord back for a moment before following. The construct
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Speaker 1: had an arrow sticking out of his chest, but it
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Speaker 1: hadn't gone deep. Achilia wiggled it free and threw it
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Speaker 1: on the ground. A marvel, indeed, she said, have you
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Speaker 1: always been able to do that? Cord? The wooden man
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Speaker 1: twisted his body back and forth, indicating that he had
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Speaker 1: not Almost every day. Since leaving home, Achilie had thought
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Speaker 1: about the nature of identity, mostly her own, but she
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Speaker 1: hadn't considered perhaps it was a more fluid thing than
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Speaker 1: she had thought. She touched the dent where the arrow
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Speaker 1: had come free. Well, that's going to leave a mark,
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Speaker 1: she muttered that. She walked back up the incline to
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Speaker 1: where her knife had bounced off the orc's shield and
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Speaker 1: tutted her tongue. It's broken, she said, Come on and
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Speaker 1: help me find a new one. As they descended the slope,
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Speaker 1: a flutter of wings from behind signaled that Robin had
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Speaker 1: left the safety of the dogwood branches. The little stuffed
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Speaker 1: bird landed on Cord's head and peeped. By the time
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Speaker 1: they joined Dorennie in ten Tier, twilight was turning to
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Speaker 1: night and Achille's dark vision was beginning to take over.
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Speaker 1: She regarded the tangle of armor, weapons and Orc flesh
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Speaker 1: littering the ground and grayscale. She had never seen death
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Speaker 1: like this before, but she found that she was not
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Speaker 1: frightened and set about searching for a suitable replacement dagger.
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Speaker 1: After a few minutes, she still hadn't found one, but
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Speaker 1: ten Tier must have discovered something of interest for he
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Speaker 1: suddenly called out to Rennie, come over here, look at this.
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