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These Solitary Defilements! Book 1 - Chapter 1 · These Solitary Defilements! - A Dark Fantasy Mörk Borg Actual Play Serial Novel

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  SPEAKER_01: Indeed, and in actual fact, you are listening to These Solitary Defilements!
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_01: A dark fantasy serial novel by me, Ryan Leandres, written by the die and doomed to die.
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  SPEAKER_01: This solo actual play is going to feature cursed language,
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  SPEAKER_01: adult situations, terrible violence, body horror, and the intensely occult.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're a metalhead,
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  SPEAKER_00: you'll be
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  SPEAKER_01: fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Solitary Defilement of One Ryan Blacklion.
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  SPEAKER_01: Book One.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chapter One.
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  SPEAKER_01: Park Pale.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you hear the first episode?
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  SPEAKER_01: The previous one?
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  SPEAKER_01: If you did,
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  SPEAKER_01: you would have heard an introduction to the world of the Dying Lands and
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  SPEAKER_01: the creation of our main character who will be dying somewhere miserably within it.
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  SPEAKER_01: How thrilling.
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  SPEAKER_01: The previous episode also had a pretty brief rundown on how the basic rules of
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  SPEAKER_01: the system of Mörk Borg works, but again, you don't really need to know it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It might help you relate to my tension as I roll dice, but it is not necessary.
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  SPEAKER_01: At any rate,
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  SPEAKER_01: we have our hero,
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  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion of House Black Lion, ready to enter someplace called The Park Pale.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a module written by 1d10plus5,
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  SPEAKER_01: written for solo play in Mörk Borg, and we'll get right to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a brief intro that sets up our good black lion in this adventure module.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ahem.
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  SPEAKER_01: Location.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Schleswig Countryside.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sir Gilbert Skyer and his assistant Hobson Mould are rumored
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  SPEAKER_01: to have taken up residence in Misery Lodge,
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  SPEAKER_01: a crumbling banqueting hall deep within Park Pale,
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  SPEAKER_01: Sir Gilbert's private hunting ground.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are now intent on summoning a demonic army by which
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  SPEAKER_01: the avaricious Sir Gilbert will dominate the last days of the dying lands with
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  SPEAKER_01: an iron fist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: The next prompt is thus.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are foolhardy enough to seek out Park Pail because...
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  SPEAKER_01: and here's where we roll up our motivation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why are we here?
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  SPEAKER_01: Why is Black Lion here?
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's a d4.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is a four.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: A demonic pact made in your youth must be honored.
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  SPEAKER_01: Return the scroll to hell.
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  SPEAKER_01: The demon gave you a boon in return for their service.
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  SPEAKER_01: A plus one to any attribute.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my stars, that is really good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sure, we could absolutely use a plus one to something,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I think that is going to need to bump our plus zero strength to
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  SPEAKER_01: a very respectable plus one strength.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wicked.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, this is backstory as fuck.
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  SPEAKER_01: A demonic pact was made long ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it's true.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ryan Blacklion of Schleswig was once a member of what was Sir Gilbert Skyer's entourage.
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  SPEAKER_01: But those days left and went to the same place Hope went when it was shoved off
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  SPEAKER_01: the plate of the world like an overcooked pie crust,
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  SPEAKER_01: crumbs swept off the shirt of the world by some callous hand beyond remembrance.
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  SPEAKER_01: Skyr had grown, somehow, even more foolish.
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  SPEAKER_01: A foolishness prepared by a predictable avarice and want for a dominion
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  SPEAKER_01: that his limited faculties could not hope to warrant.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here is a question worth wondering.
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  SPEAKER_01: What depths of depravity did he and Hobson Mould fall to in order to secure
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  SPEAKER_01: that most powerful, unclean scroll?
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  SPEAKER_01: So low that Sastiok herself bade Blacklion to retrieve the scroll and send it back to hell?
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  SPEAKER_01: One hell of many, we may suppose, which fester beyond the hot event horizon of human thought.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another world of bad fire.
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  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion sometimes says, but always thinks, Burn or be burned.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has his reasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sastiok,
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  SPEAKER_01: the demon mistress of lustful hell,
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  SPEAKER_01: had apparently remembered his young locks of hair, and the oath he made for a wish.
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  SPEAKER_01: The wish to be a knight, and not any knight,
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  SPEAKER_00: but a great knight.
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  SPEAKER_01: For as manhood came to him, he found himself stronger and prettier than the other boys.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now the debt was to be paid.
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  SPEAKER_01: His young locks can no longer be said to be young and are now greying and have been
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  SPEAKER_01: for some time.
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  SPEAKER_01: He never married.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sastyak came to him in dream and bade him in a voice he could not refuse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion was to assault the misery lodge of Park Pale and deliver the scroll back
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  SPEAKER_01: to the bad fire.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he rides to find the park's gate.
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  SPEAKER_01: What shall we make of this man?
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  SPEAKER_01: His countenance is impossible to read,
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  SPEAKER_01: as it is entirely hidden behind a smooth black steel face.
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  SPEAKER_01: A theatrical warface for a theater of war.
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  SPEAKER_01: It frowns, ready for tragedy.
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  SPEAKER_01: It frowns out from the roaring mouth of a lion's head, knowing it has been devoured.
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  SPEAKER_01: This lion helm and the unsettling steel body it sits atop is called the mane.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the armor of his dead house.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, it is all black.
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  SPEAKER_01: All black,
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  SPEAKER_01: but for the fine gold story it has embossed from plate to plate,
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  SPEAKER_01: which are like pages in some picture book about suffering and triumph.
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  SPEAKER_01: Effigies of lions rampant.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lion rampant against a pack of dogs.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lion rampant against a great serpent.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lion rampant against pikemen.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lion rampant against a bull.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are golden initials also.
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  SPEAKER_01: The initials of the knights of his scorched line who wore the mane at one time or another.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ryan Blacklion is a walking Cenotaph.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let us keep our metaphors fair to the facts.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is not precisely walking.
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  SPEAKER_01: This sanataph is riding upon his donkey, Beauty.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it is hard to say which burden is worse for her,
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  SPEAKER_01: the man in the armor or the culverin guns craftily smithed into
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  SPEAKER_01: the black Zweihander, the great sword cannon, Black Roar.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beauty plods sure-footed and uncomplaining.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beauty indeed.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_00: Get off my keys, motherfucker.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_01: First things first, we roll on the calendar of Necrobel.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we get a one, we get a misery.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have a die 20, and I have the will to roll it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here goes nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a six.
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  SPEAKER_01: The day begins without any particularly novel cataclysmic woe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: We should also roll for our day's weather.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a die 12 on this particular chart.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, there's the one, sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: On the table, that's a Lifeless Grey.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good enough for a beginning.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the most pleasant one on the list.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's find out how our map of this wretched place begins.
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  SPEAKER_01: You arrive at the edge of the heavily wooded estate wherein Park Pell lies.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your first task will be to find the gates and enter somehow,
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  SPEAKER_01: and then find a vantage point high enough to spy the location of Misery Lodge.
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  SPEAKER_01: The woods are eerily silent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three paths weave through the trees, choose a path, and make your first dungeon crawling move.
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  SPEAKER_01: We shall do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're looking for the Park Pale Gate to enter the park grounds proper
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  SPEAKER_01: and find this Misery Lodge so that we can confront a Gilbert Skyer.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to make this a harder dungeon than is called for by the module,
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  SPEAKER_01: I think, to give it more time to balloon out and establish some fun and lore.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the difficulty rating of this dungeon,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's supposed to be a DR 10, but we're going to do a difficulty rating 14.
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  SPEAKER_01: That means we'll likely generate somewhere between 17 and 32 story beats,
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  SPEAKER_01: locations, scenes, etc.
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  SPEAKER_01: to challenge our protagonist with,
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  SPEAKER_01: including the four scripted encounter special rooms we have to find to complete
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  SPEAKER_01: the dungeon, the last of which will be the big encounter with Skyr.
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  SPEAKER_01: You may recall that three-tiered success system that I mentioned in episode one,
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  SPEAKER_01: the introduction.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, here's where we use it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna roll two die 20s, and each of them will be an attempt to make a test.
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  SPEAKER_01: If they both succeed, that'll be the strong hit.
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  SPEAKER_01: If one of them succeeds, it's a weak hit.
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  SPEAKER_01: If they both fail, well, that's a failure.
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  SPEAKER_01: This will be the system that we use to make Solitary Defilement moves,
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  SPEAKER_01: like Search for Objects and Flee from Combat,
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  SPEAKER_01: or in this case, the Dungeon Crawling move.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna roll two 20-sided dice against the Dungeon DR we chose of 14.
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  SPEAKER_01: We need to hit a 14 or better to succeed.
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  SPEAKER_01: A strong hit means we find one of the special rooms we need.
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  SPEAKER_01: A weak hit means we gain a random room to explore.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's still fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Total failure and we have a complication before we can move on in Black Lion's Search.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now looking at my sheet and looking at this book.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't add any modifiers to our dungeon crawling roll.
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  SPEAKER_01: But instead,
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  SPEAKER_01: we're supposed to add the number of special rooms that we found up to this point,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is currently zero.
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  SPEAKER_01: So as time goes on, we get more likely to find that final room.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, here we go, comrades in grim weaponry.
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  SPEAKER_01: We walk down one of the three paths and we make our first dungeon crawl roll.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two die twenties away!
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a 9 and a 16, so a weak hit.
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  SPEAKER_01: We must generate a random room using the dungeon description oracles provided
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  SPEAKER_01: in Solitary Defilement.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Park Pale pamphlet has some extra features as well to add onto those tables
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  SPEAKER_01: because the pamphlet gives us specific room types that make sense for the setting of
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  SPEAKER_01: the adventure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Outdoor park stuff, that kind of thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what do we have before us?
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  SPEAKER_01: Roll a die 20 for an adjective.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, we get a 10.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sickly or infested?
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  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, sick you might say.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now we roll a room type, a die 12.
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  SPEAKER_01: We get a three, a tree-lined avenue.
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  SPEAKER_01: So something is wrong with this park right off the bat.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like the thought that the trees are extra sick and we can,
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  SPEAKER_01: not like in the cool skateboarding way,
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  SPEAKER_01: but in like the diseased way, and we can immediately tell.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now in the Dying Lands,
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  SPEAKER_01: all trees are probably pretty sickly,
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  SPEAKER_01: but these ones are worse because Skyr and Hobbs
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  SPEAKER_01: and Mould are perpetrating blasphemies upon an already blasphemed world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we have a sickly tree-lined avenue.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now we roll a die 4 to see how many exits we have,
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  SPEAKER_01: and that table will scale depending on how many special rooms we've found so far.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there are three ways to go from this avenue.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now the final roll.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do we see of note in this place?
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  SPEAKER_01: A die 12 gives us...
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  SPEAKER_01: A seven, which leads us to roll on something called the common encounter table.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's also a special encounter table for extra special situations,
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  SPEAKER_01: but when that comes up, that comes up.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, we're gonna do a die six, which is... which is a five.
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  SPEAKER_01: And on this chart, that gives us...
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  SPEAKER_01: The woods are silent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three paths lead through sickly trees.
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  SPEAKER_01: A mossy and deciduous avenue stretches out down the first path Black Lion chooses,
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  SPEAKER_01: which winds like a gloomy, hairy snake.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is rotten and unclean.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beauty steps determined,
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  SPEAKER_01: but uneasily atop the loam,
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  SPEAKER_01: which gives way black under hoof, like overripe mushrooms.
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  SPEAKER_01: Soon enough,
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  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion and the donkey mark it,
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  SPEAKER_01: the strange and ambivalent fountain in the middle of the lane.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't
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  SPEAKER_01: really need what this fountain potentially provides.
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  SPEAKER_01: According to this chart, the fountain can heal us or hurt us if we take a chance on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's just roll up the next location, shall we?
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  SPEAKER_01: We make another dungeon growling move.
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  SPEAKER_01: We pick one of the three exits and roll.
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  SPEAKER_01: A six and a ten.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is a failure.
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  SPEAKER_01: We encounter some enemy or trap or imminent danger as we try and leave the location.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yet, something tempts him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whether spurred by his overwarmed gauntlet or wanting for the feel of
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  SPEAKER_01: the water's drag, he cannot say.
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  SPEAKER_01: But as Black Lion rides past,
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  SPEAKER_01: he deigns a heavy lean to reach into the fountain and for a palm of cool water.
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  SPEAKER_01: The fountain takes insult.
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  SPEAKER_01: A jet of black slime erupts from a sculpted fish and attempts to slap the knight off
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  SPEAKER_01: of Beauty's back.
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  SPEAKER_01: Utterly surprised by both the slime and the force with which it might strike,
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  SPEAKER_01: training bids Blackline to dig his heels into Beauty's flanks.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think we do an agility test here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Normally we would use a DR-12,
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  SPEAKER_01: the standard difficulty,
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  SPEAKER_01: but we're wearing heavy armor,
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  SPEAKER_01: which raises whatever DR target we choose by another four,
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  SPEAKER_01: so we'd have to hit a 16 plus on a die 20.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we also have a minus one agility stat, so we would actually need to roll a 17 to make it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not good.
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  SPEAKER_01: But, you know, we have a donkey.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pretty damn nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beauty is carrying a lot of this burden,
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  SPEAKER_01: and donkeys live their whole lives in beast mode,
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  SPEAKER_01: so let's split the difference and let's make the DR a 14.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which means with our shitty agility, we need a 15 plus on this die.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, here we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Seventeen!
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  SPEAKER_01: Ha!
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  SPEAKER_00: Beauty, you beauty.
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  SPEAKER_01: The donkey springs forward and sidesteps as the slime jet splats among the dark loam
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  SPEAKER_01: to sizzle as angrily as Black Lion fumes in his helmet.
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  SPEAKER_01: The donkey knight sends a choice,
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  SPEAKER_01: if mild curse,
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  SPEAKER_01: into the heavy air, but pats Beauty's neck for her speed and attention.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the studied occupation of all animals to look around.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beauty is good at her work.
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  SPEAKER_01: We escaped the consequences of the failure this time,
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  SPEAKER_01: and now we roll to see what location we do find after surviving our test.
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  SPEAKER_01: An infernal or unholy herb garden, in which they find a gathering ritual event or group.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, how big is this group?
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a table for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: One die four, and...
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  SPEAKER_01: A medium-sized group.
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  SPEAKER_01: Roll 1d20 plus 12.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's still a lot of people.
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  SPEAKER_01: We roll a three, okay, so 15 sorry souls.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's see what sort of state these people are in.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think they're people.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna roll on the NPC disposition table,
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  SPEAKER_01: which calls for using Mörk Borg's patented D66 scale.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because the D makes a backwards six.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's 666.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, so you roll two six-siders,
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  SPEAKER_01: and that's your digits to give you a number between 11 and 66.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we get...
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  SPEAKER_01: A 61.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got Cowardly or Scared?
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  SPEAKER_01: Hmm.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we go... Scared.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's make a reaction roll to see how hostile they are.
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  SPEAKER_01: The two emerge upon a herb garden that doesn't feel right,
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  SPEAKER_01: and some 15 men and women that don't feel right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chattering, terrified, frantic-eyed.
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  SPEAKER_01: By their clothing and tools, the grounds keeping serfs from the park, Black Lion guesses.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like a wheeling flock of nervous seabirds stirred off the rocks by
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  SPEAKER_01: a sudden cold wave,
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  SPEAKER_01: they all turn and regard the knight as he rides toward them
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  SPEAKER_01: on his large grey donkey.
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  SPEAKER_01: Their eyes widen as they peer up at his angry armour and
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  SPEAKER_01: the massive sword cannon slung low at his back in its clever leather frog.
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  SPEAKER_01: One among the crowd is brave enough to call out.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know this donkey knight.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is Ryan Blacklion.
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  SPEAKER_01: And may the great she take me if he is not in the service of our foul lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the crowd's chatters rise to screams of terror and fury.
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  SPEAKER_01: We cannot be driven further from what little we have.
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  SPEAKER_01: He cannot get us all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pull him from his donkey and take his steels.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think the fiction tells us we have a roll to make, don't you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Hmm.
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  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion is going to have to convince this suspicious mini-mob that he is not with Skyr.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a presence test right there, bud.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll roll a die 20 and add our presence, which is a plus two, not too shabby.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think this will be a standard test of DR-12, normal difficulty.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're a big group,
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  SPEAKER_01: but he's a scary looking dude,
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  SPEAKER_01: and he's mounted,
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: and these are already scared groundskeepers that probably don't want
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: to risk their lives more than they have to.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: So DR-12 makes sense to me.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, here it goes.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: We roll.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: We are rolling well.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: That's a strong hit.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: Two successes.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: Magnifique.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_01: Hold, Black Lion says with a snarl that stops thought.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: I am not in Skyr's service.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: That was many years ago.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: The world changed and so have I.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: I've come to slay him and ruin this all-powerful scroll he has purchased from Hell
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: with his own wet death rattle, a sound I have longed to hear since first we met.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: His words, it seems, are evidence enough for the suspicious serfs.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: I see, the first man says,
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: wondering at how close to death or injustice or both they might have come.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: Then we will not hinder you.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: Harm us not, line in black.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: Do not walk through the herbs, they are changed.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: Some worse Infernus has touched them, and all the park pale, I warrant.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: Skyer's doing, we are sure.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: Then a woman calls to Black Lion.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: Do not let your donkey graze here.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_01: These herbs are for hell, or I am no green thumb.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion pauses, peers down, and nods.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_01: He pulls at Beauty's reins and lifts her muzzle from the bad ground.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: Burn it all, he breathes.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_01: The crowd murmurs and parts,
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: and their eyes are no less wide as the Donkey Knight moves on around the garden and
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: into the pale.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: He studies them with a last look before they pass out of sight.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: They stand where he left them and stare like shipwrecks.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: Another weak hit on a dungeon crawl move.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: No special room in sight.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: So, we roll up another general location.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, we get...
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: A Deathly Bridge.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: By the way,
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: I've been rolling for how many exits each location has,
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_01: but when it's relevant, we'll talk about it.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_01: So this location has a common encounter, and our common encounter is...
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: The knight brings his donkey to a stop at the foot of a bridge of death.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_01: A funeral gloom hangs about a damp stone archway where shreds
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: of old strange skin lie shed and tussling in the breeze.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: Flayed Pennens.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: What has been scratching its leathery flesh against the rock?
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: That question is answered on swift wings.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: Errant wings.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: Two of them, maybe.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: It is hard to tell their number given how wrong they came out.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: They are large, leathery bat flaps without a body to bind them.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: A smear of what must be said to be a lack of memory.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_01: Some blot on the mind joins each wretched razor span to its other.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: What were they before this?
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Did some old dark god of death pluck their bodies from them for a final meal,
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_01: before they too were missing memories in an eaten world?
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_01: Necrobel.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: What power does that last of gods have that even death may die?
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: Perhaps the power is Verhooz.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: Who can say?
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: All these are thoughts on the point of a falling arrow, and Black Lion must move.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh-wee, our first combat.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think these things can be bargained with, so we're not gonna roll for reactions.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: I also think it's time to kick la ass, see what our boy can do.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: First things first, we find out who gets to go first.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_01: We roll a die six, and on a one to three, enemies act first.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_01: On a four to six, we do.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: And one.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_01: Shit.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: Errant Wings go first.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: I rolled up two of them,
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_01: as I was instructed,
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: and they both get to make their attacks before Black Lion gets to returning kind.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: Which sucks, because we might have killed one of them before their attacks could make it to us.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_01: So attacks go like this.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_01: We make a defense roll based on agility.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: If we fail, we take their die of prescribed damage.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_01: Mmm, prescribed damage, band or album.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: Banned.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: If we pass, we don't take the damage.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: The defense test is a die 20,
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: plus our agility stat,
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_01: and because of our heavy plate armor,
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_01: the DR will be an extra plus two higher,
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: because in all this steel, Black Lion is pretty darn slow.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_01: So that means we need a result of 14 or higher.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: And... 17!
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_01: Minus one for our agility, and we get a 16.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah, bud!
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_01: And once again, for the second errant wing...
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: In Ice Cold 19, swing and a miss.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm talking about.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: When will our luck run out?
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_01: Famous last words.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion reaches behind him to tug free his heavy weapon as the bat-things circle
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_01: above, but they are faster and hungrier than he thinks.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_01: When they dive, Black Roar is not yet ready in hand to meet them.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: But the mane is.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: One of the razored wings makes a flashing pass for the knight's eyes,
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_01: but finds only the frowning steel mask.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: Both bad things now strain and pelt along the knight's plates,
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: as Black Roar is hastily unslung and swung wild and wide.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: The donkey shuffles and brays nervously.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_01: The wings prove hard to reach, but Black Lion in turn remains difficult and impenetrable.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_01: Until...
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, another round of misses on both sides.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: A Dance of Doom!
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see who goes first now.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: Five.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: Black lines up.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_01: Let's make the Strength check to hit these things.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: We need a DR12, and we will get a plus one from our Strength stat.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: Now, for combat rolls, we don't actually roll the two die 20s, we just roll the one.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: Combat's more straightforward.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: There's less room for degrees of success.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's just you hit or you don't.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: And... boom!
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_01: Finally.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: Finally.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: One of the two sets of wings are hammered to the ground with a mighty overhead sweep.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_01: A black arch dashing a black arch from the air.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: The second bat becomes more cautious.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_01: Swatting it down proves to be an exhausting amount of swinging.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, we just keep missing here.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, once again, we go first.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: Let me make our attack.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, good.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's an ice cold one.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, all right, our luck has run out.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_01: Friends, that's our first fumble.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_01: Congratulations.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_01: When we straight up roll a one, we critically fail.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: And a fumble on an attack says this, the weapon breaks or is lost.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, shit.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion begins to flag.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_01: Weariness batters through his arms and sets fire to the tendons
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_01: at his elbows like raiders burning out feast-ready farmsteads.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_01: He raises his weapon for another dire blow,
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: but the blade cannon's grip slides and slips from his gauntleted hands.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like a blind ball for a cruel sport,
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_01: it goes careening over the side of the bridge and into the cold river water below.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: Cursing,
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_01: the knight pulls himself off the donkey's back with a clank and runs
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: for something he'd rightfully left on the ground and nearly forgotten.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_01: The corpse of the first errant wing.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_01: He stoops and tears an undamaged appendage from the creature's anti-flesh and hopes
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_01: that its razors might serve to finish off its mate.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: It does say here that the corpse of the errant wing can serve as
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: a one die four plus one weapon.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: We won't say no.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, who goes first?
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: It does.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_01: We roll defense.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: It misses.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_01: We roll attack.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: With a black gauntlet,
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_01: the knight swats aside the diving bat and strikes out with the razor wing
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: of its fellow.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: He snarls in triumph as the corpse connects for a killing blow.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_01: Dropping the wretched piece of the wretched thing,
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: he huffs and blows and teeters to the edge of the bridge stone.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yes,
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_01: he can make out the heavy dark form of his Zweihander in the languid water below
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: among the sickly river grass.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: He moves doggedly down to the water's edge and guesses at his best chance of retrieval.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_01: He dare not remove his armor lest more bat horrors, or worse, arrive for his gentler skin.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yet, in such heavy armor, he might be drowned.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: The water does move slowly, and he does have a donkey.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_01: After a moment's more thinking,
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: he collects his mount and with her wades into the shallows at the riverbank.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: When he feels his feet begin to sink in the thick mud,
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: he pauses and clutches the horn of Beauty's saddle until he can be sure
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: of his next move.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_01: This could be dangerous.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: This sounds to me like an agility test,
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_01: and if we fail,
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion would fall under, struggle against the mud, and start to drown.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_01: Heavy armor makes slippery mud and water pretty risky.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_01: He did bring beauty.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's a thing.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: I think that mitigates things a little.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: So with this armor on,
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: an agility test when not being used for a defense test in combat gets
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: a whopping plus four to the difficulty rating.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: But I think beauty brings that back down to normal.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_01: Big sturdy animal.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_01: Leather strappings to hold on to.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: Still, he gets a minus one.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_01: We roll.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_01: Oh wait, we have omens.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: Three omens.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: Let's use one, eh?
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_01: So here's what spending an omen can do.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_01: You may spend one omen to guarantee maximum damage,
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: re-roll a roll,
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_01: subtract one die six damage from damage you've taken,
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: lower the difficulty rating by four, or negate a crit or a fumble.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: Probably should have used that before, but this is more fun.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: So I think we're going to spend an omen to lower the difficulty rating by four.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_01: That's huge.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_01: So now we just need to beat an eight.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_01: All right, here goes.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_01: Fates be kinder if but for a moment.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: Eleven minus one agility and that's a ten.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_01: That donkey omen combo is clearly OP.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_01: Beauty is a grey rock in the river and the water does not give much grief as
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_01: the knight's sword is hauled free of the muck and weed.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion and the donkey lead each other carefully back to the slick dark bank.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_01: They are back to the arch of the deathly bridge and say goodbye to the waving flags of old skin.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_01: In good time they come to a valley.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_01: A decidedly uncanny valley.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, next location, shall we?
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: We get an uncanny, an uncanny valley, cool.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_01: And what do we find here?
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_01: Die 12 on the area contents table gives us a three,
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: which is an unexpected event, aren't they all?
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_01: It says here a trap, an ambush, an imminent danger gets closer.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_01: Feeling ambush,
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: I think,
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: especially in a valley where you're kind of at the mercy of onlookers from on high.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_01: An escape is tricky.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_01: The valley is uncanny, though.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: Hmm, that's cool.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_01: How is this uncanny for our questing knight?
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_01: Park Pail is Gilbert Skyer's private hunting grounds, n'est-ce pas?
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_01: And we did establish that Black Lion had been a member
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_01: of his entourage some years ago, much to his shame.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion has probably been in Park Pail before,
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_01: maybe some 20-ish years ago, but not this valley.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think it was actually here somehow when he hunted game as a youth with Skyer's group.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: He's sure it wasn't here, yet he's seen it before.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion has been here in a dream.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: It was the dream where the demoness Sastiok took him as a lover that first time.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_01: In the dream, the sky was a lifeless grey, like today.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_01: He had walked off alone after a too-long fox hunt to find what might have been one
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_01: of the dying land's last handfuls of mulberries.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_01: She was waiting for him,
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_01: standing in a glade ringed by blue pears and dark cedars,
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_01: standing like a sundial from the world before,
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: from the age when the sun, whatever that was, could be counted upon.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_01: His heart had stopped in his chest from the dire, terrible sight of her.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_01: He had known he would see her again, one day.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_01: But try as one might, one is never truly ready to see the other world.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_01: When it comes,
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_01: it comes as a dream does,
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_01: stroking the unsearching mind,
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_01: sideways, quiet as cats, already there, never having left.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_01: She smiled blood-red in a way he cannot grasp even now, and stretched her yawning wings.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_01: But his terror was quick to become something that pleased her.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_01: It turned to awe.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_01: This was some feat, for it was not a mewling awe, but a grim wonder.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_01: Jaws locked and clenched in a rictus, he had looked at her, fell and strong, and did not quail.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_01: He had wanted to see what was to be found of this other world beyond him.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_01: He had needed to know that the haunt of her he had felt since he was a child was not a delusion.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_01: She really had granted him his wish.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_01: Some of it, at least, it could be said.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_01: It was a sliver of understanding rare among mortals.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_01: Pleased she was, for that was his first test.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_01: His second was physical.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_01: And just after their final prayers, the two were interrupted.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_01: Some strange cadre of wretched and club-fisted cultists had been waiting.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_01: They leapt down on them from the branches of the sickly cedars.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_01: Sastyok laughed and fell apart into piles of fire, and Black Lion was pummeled into naked death.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_01: Could an ambush be waiting for him now?
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_01: He looses his heavy weapon from its sling and he settles its pommel into a niche
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_01: in his armor at his right hip.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_01: He wraps a fist around a cuillon and levers the blade toward the tree line when,
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_01: sure enough, he comes upon the same valley glade that served his first love.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_01: He thinks he can still smell the sex as he readies Black Roar's Dread Shot.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_01: I think we've got a presence check to make to persuade whatever's waiting
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_01: for Black Lion that he isn't worth the trouble.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_01: Good thing presence is what our man has in spades, so our odds aren't awful.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_01: So that's a die 20 plus our presence of plus two.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_01: Typical DR, let's say, of 12.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, might have been harder since I rolled up a group of nine cultists,
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: but he's threatening them with a pretty formidable weapon outside the means
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: of most people.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's a 13, which puts us at a healthy 15.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: And second roll, a 10, which makes a 12.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: A strong hit.
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_01: A fight avoided is a fight won in Mörk Borg, and it must be said, I love a flex.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_00: Wicked.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: Do not seek my death, you in the trees.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen you in dreams.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_01: Do you hear?
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_01: What might that tell you?
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: Surely I am charmed, and if I am not, my guns will waste you all the same.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_01: You will find use in feeding the parkpail's worms.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_01: Black Lion's steel finger works through the loop of Black Roar's ripchain.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_01: The finger twitches with hungry anticipation for the boom of the weapon's call,
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_01: which would blast from the sculpted black iron barrel on each flat of the sword.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_01: The barrels are sculpted The barrel's blasts are an attack and a war horn at once,
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_01: a terrifying sound that leaps among hills and walls and down through the whole
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_01: the valleys like this one.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_01: A crazed and exultant sound,
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_01: like a bouncing mountain rock from on high,
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_01: heralding a crash no one wants to be part of.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_01: His house held much in the way of the making of black powder,
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_01: and they rode that sound to their final prestige.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: So much the good it did them when the dying land's fire came like ants seeking sugar
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_01: at a picnic.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_01: Now wretched eyes glare at Black Lion and his black blade from dark branches and make no move.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_01: And a good thing, too.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_01: The black powder in the weapon,
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_01: the knight realizes suddenly,
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_01: with a flutter in his gut, has been spoiled by the plunge in the river.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_01: His culverins will not work until tended to.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_01: Thankfully,
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_01: the strange and demon-washed cultists wait in their sad cedars for some other morsel
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_01: to craze upon for their running rich blood.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: The valley no longer offers any blue pears.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eventually,
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  SPEAKER_01: the valley path comes to side along a great cliff wall from
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  SPEAKER_01: which tough squat spruce cling where they may.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_01: A shape like a bad tooth emerges from the sheer rock.
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  SPEAKER_01: A leaning tower Excavated from the very stone, of a kind Black Lion has never seen before.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_01: All of Park Pale seems wrong,
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  SPEAKER_01: but this tower, he feels, in whatever is left of his soul, is a blasphemy.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_01: What else was taken from the cliff?
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_01: Could this be where that most unclean scroll was tracked and unearthed?
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_01: Despite his steed's better sense, he urges beauty on towards it.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's the end of chapter one.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you very much for listening.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_01: I really mean that.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_01: Hope you got a kick out of that.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm having fun.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_01: So far, so cool.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_01: Feature music today in order of aural appearance.
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  SPEAKER_01: Probably my favorite band,
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  SPEAKER_01: Electric Wizard with Return Trip,
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  SPEAKER_01: a song that immediately came to mind when I rolled up Black Lion.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_01: And the final two tracks,
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  SPEAKER_01: both Dungeon Synth pieces by Unsheathed Glory,
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_01: a Dungeon Synth artist that I absolutely adore.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_01: Go check out their stuff.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_01: They just released a new album, Feather Fae.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna like it.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_01: The two tracks I played are Execution by Daylight and Decay in the Kingdom.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_01: If you liked what you heard, maybe chuck them some dollars on Bandcamp.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, thanks again.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder what this blasphemous tower will reveal.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_01: If you found this podcast out in the wilds,
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_01: you can follow it and read the fiction parts
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_01: at thesesolitarydefilements.substack.com.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_01: And you can find me on Instagram if you want, at thewizaard.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's the wizard, with two A's, because I was too damn slow.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_01: This is produced by the will of the Watchers by the Gate of Horde.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_01: The credit really goes to the lore and vision of Pell Nilsson and Johan Neuer
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_01: of Occult Ortmastar Games and Stockholm Cartel for Mörk Borg and 1D10 Plus 5 for
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  SPEAKER_01: the solo play supplement Solitary Defile.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_01: The solo module Park Pail is also by 1D10 Plus 5.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_01: The title track is Descending Into Darkness by Disrape,
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_01: and the closing credits song is Gravfrost,
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  SPEAKER_01: with a cover of Misanthro by Bloed Belsvinus.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_01: Please find these people online or in meatspace and support their stuff.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'll imagine you listening to more of my foolishness next week.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_01: Until then, burn or beep.