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Mercenaries · Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration

• all righty chat are you excited for another exciting episode of raw grind welcome to the new episode of milvs hello there hi we're here hi for context the podcast is a giant milv sign it says milvs milvs at the top no no that is not picture okay i want you to understand the token that is above milvs mils mils is not picturing that is the token for bilimus squelchfoot okay we'll flip him the other way then no that is the that is the flipped one i already i already updated it i've been on on the ball all right i'm gonna kill him then that's bilimus bilimus squelchfoot all right and uh he's here he's here to learn you good about a story that bilimus is here uh purveying a whole bunch of changes that has happened hi everybody welcome back to another episode of rock grind i am your host and host and uh resident cuckold fuck zone the bear hope everyone's been having a fantastic time it's good to see everybody again uh you may have noticed there's something a bit different with some other stuff uh i just uh you'll see the developments that's coming in through you'll you'll be very excited to see i'm gonna go around the horn everyone to introduce themselves and to talk about uh their new characters yeah we've trashed the old campaign by the way no one was too attached right right yeah no one gave a shit about anybody right like we all got struck by lightning was that just me we got rid of your favorite characters and just just trashed them you know it's purely a business decision i hope you can respect it really there's nothing personal we didn't care about your feelings we it's all just about money we took a huge home depot sponsorship that paid us uh quadrillions of dollars exactly that's why that's why my shield is made by home depot uh provided wood i'm turning into i'm turning into yorm the giant to tell chat this is a joke please stop freaking out if anyone got serious all right so let's go around the horn and introduce people's uh little b-team characters starting off with odoroshi hello i am odoroshi i'm going to be playing tokata the fleshwarp bard i'm so pleased to make your acquaintance and next up we have hokey crow's character yes today i will be playing doodrilir guilt grip the dwarven sniper and i am just pleased as punch to make your acquaintance as well and next up we have edwin dear hello i am erndel it is good to be back here and i am going to be playing as sir victrix corlos you have met her before if you watched all the episodes if you haven't go back and watch them right fucking now or she's going to stab you with her glaive of course we have a resident speaker of these and behold for it is i the king of moths here to lead us all on the path to apotheosis or at the very least incredibly heinous wealth you're an evocation wizard right yes an evocation wizard at that isn't that special yeah and well speaking for instance there's just a terrible detail on a and a character do this because i am playing as sir bray barrow uh he is a he is a tyrant champion uh following the anarctic faith and um he is and he has a little guy behind him uh as you see as his squire which i think uh will let you figure out who he is uh through through role play and figure out around the episode and he also has his skeletal mount with him i've done everything to make sure i can make a knight skeleton because he is he is an undead skeleton named sir bray barrow and i'm a very and i'm very excited to play and follow forth the anarctic faith and uh but of course the ones who's going to be torturing all these characters the one who's gonna be pinning them with various challenges as is blick turn up there stares at my character ominously with his token up top uh one who's going to be torturing us all as a resident and amazing game master thurston hillman blick turn is just is just pick turn with a gun gluck turn speaker is so fond of that term it's a good noun chat they didn't tell me that they were all coming in with new characters today they just showed up in the overlay it was like this i'm having a fever dream help me i mean hi no it's exciting we're gonna we're gonna learn we're gonna learn a lot today from bill and miss squirt as he tells the uh the tale of the other party that went into the swamp you know yeah this is not even an episode it's just a recap episode only yeah yeah we paid for the art because we felt like it in half i'm gonna tear you in half like a phone but thurston after everything's now but said and done what adventure do you have for us today well a long time ago and by that i mean several several sessions ago a destined band of chuckle fucks made their way into the swamps of the solitude where they met a lovely entrepreneur a grader of of interesting goods by the name of zable zap and when they met zable zap the mosquito insected creature uh that that operated a trading post they spent some time debating what they were going to do and how they were going to approach their time in the solitude and so after some some deliberations some spending of coins some discussions our primary party decided to hire a guide and then here's some you know interesting side characters with which to make the path they weren't choosing and so as we begin our session today we're going to take a look at something a bit different than what we've seen in the past well maybe not maybe not different yet but um if you remember our lovely little little exploration map here well we have we have a new party now we have a new group of adventurers that are heading out into the swamps of the solitude investigating news of a destroyed caravan and of the presence of the the ominous children of the blaze all while looking to find the twang folk of the deeper solitude so whilst our party started heading southwest heading into the region that we we know to be the perfectite cube the b team takes the stage cracking into the swamps of the solitude the b team is led by their intrepid leader sir victrix vick will you explain to me how you have uh how you've led this group into the swamps on your journey to of exploration well so speaking as the player and not victrix at the moment because it'd be weird for victrix to address you directly thirst unless you want her threatening you which she probably could that's gonna come anyways i'm waiting i'm i'm i'm expecting it fuck you anyway she uh basically when the a team as it were the actual destined band of chuckle fucks encountered her in there uh she got hired by them to go this way for a considerable sum of money and that sum was used for preparing and collecting all the materials needed to go out on this little trek and also to hire them so you know they wouldn't just ditch her because you know she's built up a reputation it's kind of an ornery little shit and well seeing as how she knows the swamps pretty damn well for the most part and can trek from one end to the other on whatever jobs she needs to do in order to find whatever the hell needs finding or kill whoever the hell needs killing or anything in between those two things that she does really well she got these people to more or less be backup probably you know leave it to your imagination unless you want to like go into that at some point but probably would have just found them in the bar i would presume yes travelers and adventurers go to bars and so they just sort of set out on foot because they needed to set out as early as possible and they unlike the a team don't have a million pit stops to make so just going straight there but they are not all on foot no is on horse a horse yeah uh that's that's the funny part isn't it is that you have to be this is age of empires too like infantry formation where the cavalry has to go as slow as the infantry ah but you must understand victor's eye always like to ride in luxury hurry on pepin and you see pepin is behind him or pepin rather is behind him with a uh kind of like monty python patsy like backpack carrying all of his stuff like just kind of slogging through the mud behind him and stuff like hurry on pepin you will soon become a knight just as i all you have to do is continue to work hard and make your bones not as crumble as old granddad did come along pepin and then he's uh continuing on on his skeletal mount and uh it's really quite chipper about the thing about the entire adventure and um and we'll look over to uh victrix and and be all like oh well there is proprietor of money who has offered us this job uh how much exactly are we going to be compensated for this task uh that's right pepin we do need money to help with the reparations his bubbly nature is already making her rub her fucking temples in irritation as she walks along look we came to terms that with the 700 that i've got each of you is going to be getting 150 150 you hear that yes that's right pepin i can finally buy you actual shoes i know your skeleton feet have been rubbing across the aberrations of the very ground but i promise i will get you shoes very soon jesus christ is fucking patsy uh probably be walking along next to the other person who'd be good at wayfinding i presume that would be uh dude what's your character man hulk he expressly said hulk he expressly said that because the first name of his dwarf is so fucking hard to follow that you can just call him dude dude yes that is one of my many epithets that is correct although i've grown fond of a couple others like pest creepy little man in the corner and stinky that seems to be one people often give bars but yes if we are looking for the way forward to this caravan allow me i think i've got a good grip of these swamps been through them enough times myself let's see what we got yeah you and me both come on especially you the uh freak out with the heart you me yeah you come on we're getting off let's go oh but i would love to take in the scenery look at this it's terrible we're not being paid to do that i'm not paying you to do that oh my an arctic lady i mean you don't have to trudge through the very mud and muck of here in the swamp you can sit upon the horse here i will offer you my skin to mount for you pepin no i told you you're not allowed on the horse you're not you're not a knight yet that is so kind of you what's your horse's name shit chat what's my horse's name no there you go it's his name it's shit sorry sorry i didn't need it it's okay i forgot chat what's the horse's name it's not shit i'm not naming the horse shit okay no no no i like glue yeah we'll take glue zoran zoran wait wait zoran may i you called your dog nugget it only makes sense for a being of considerable size bigger than him to be shit no i will never i'm taking glue please please my an arctic lady like come up like come up i'll help you get on top of glue his name is glue is he made of glue no his skin was flayed off long ago to be used in such a manner but now he serves as my noble steed did you keep it yes i do have a bottle yeah here you are it shows a bottle of glue bottle of glue of glue the glue of wow glue from glue i will ride upon glue thank you of course pepin i rhymed stairs oh don't complain you love this and pepin will come over and he will just just go on all fours and kind of become a step stool form he bends over and he will help takata will uh just kind of jump up onto the horse uh walking a little bit like she's floating just a little with all the the robes and such and uh and bray or in sir bray barrow will help takata up on top and um and he'll like pull pepin up out of the bucket stuff and kind of like wash him off he'll be like excellent job pepin so do the ladies get to ride on the horse is miss victrix going to ride upon glue i am not putting my ass on that bony piece of shit i mean the saddle is nice and comfortable but don't worry my fair an arctic lady it's like we just need to make sure that everyone can get through there safe and sound pepin the horn or the trumpet rather yep begin to play it but hey the tricks will grab the fucking trumpet out of his hand immediately what do you bring that is the march of my army this ain't your army background music i would very much like to oblige vick's going to just turn around and shove the trumpet into the hands of the king of moths all this oh now what am i to do with this bobble my most fattiest fatbergs that's not a nice thing to call people what the fuck did you just call me well it's just your resemblance to the noble globster it's simply it's impossible to ignore but i understand you are not used to being complimented i wouldn't either had i shared your appearance or charisma but nevertheless i lay it at your feet oh you know i had a premonition about this encounter of ours i had a dream you see one of sparkling gray slabs of dragons and rot deep in the undercurrent at the swamp of the world and i realized something my fine female filthy holder i realized that none of this will have anything to do with us and thus our future is a clean slate wow have you ever had one of those dreams where all your teeth fall out yes it happened shortly before my teeth fell out that's when i learned to always trust my dreams and also everything that i ever tell you wow oh yeah that's amazing it is it is i am amazing the tricks is fucking glaring at you she is she is mad and she is going to just raise up a hand okay i'm going to give you an ultimatum right now you can either forego the money that you are being promised or you are going to let me punch you in the stomach that is such an interesting ultimatum but if i choose the first of course if you don't survive our encounter well perhaps i'll get your share but the swamps are such a dangerous place the tricks is going to punch him in the stomach now give me a terrible the girls are fighting you went before pvp y'all why is it every time through the years we've done this when it's pvp it's you two i put i i loop my arm around speaker's shoulder and we stand there and stare at you zorn and we say we know well also punching him in the stomach with the other arm no no no outside of the outside of the funnies we will be just good friends i will however punch his character in the stomach of course of course presidential alert the girls are fighting that's right pepin watch carefully as they kill each other well my fine compare it seems as if i am able to dodge to the side and quickly wrap a strange hand around your own shoulder now you better not miss this time or else i'll have to seriously start considering your leadership everyone give me a perception check please we're moving oh yeah i guess we're playing a game everyone perception you said everyone hey 34 oh 31 i got a 20 because her fucking perception is terrible so she has no reason got a 22 21 hey guys how's it feel having a perception or a wisdom score of plus two compared to vix of plus zero feels pretty good it's pretty good takata takata yes you both see something as you are traveling through the muck of the swamp you come across a rock and on that rock something is engraved a symbol that stares out towards the cloudy sky what is the symbol oh i see it appears to be some sort of strange crawdadomous shaped entity with clickers and clackers oh may his external carapace may his pincers be his name true i need all of you to uh give me oh god i need some kind of check to see if you believe in crawdadomous um why why are you doing this yeah well i need all of you to give me a well save you're a piece of shit i want to fail thurston enforcing a character flaw on me am i bullying bullying corvictrix i got an 18 oh my god please please please 18 please sir bray merrill got a 30 so my my thought was was whoever rolled the lowest right would would would so it's gonna be a roll off then so it's gonna be a roll off then yeah i grip you by the throat it's going to be a it's going to be a roll off then yeah okay fine don't please don't i'm gonna kill you making me believe the fucking crawdad god i mean listen i'll go two for two on crawdadomous i know i know i know all right thurston okay okay okay wait that was just volley why was that volley so in the bottom right in foundry you might want to right click your name and uh oh yes switch off of volley yeah yeah which is weird because you were rolling as takana for a minute there i was so there was a four and uh erndel ruled an 11 because it was a flat roll so volley oh my god sorry no that's fine that's fine that's fine volley believes in crawdadomous volley believes so much um no odo you um you you most definitely takana believes in the strange legend that is crawdadomous spirit of the swamps this is this is the crawdadomous has anybody got a coin to leave for him oh of course i'll carry a couple ones in my pack here wonderful dude will reach into his knapsack and pull out a piece of silver thank you very kindly dude we must ensure that we do not invoke his ire you are a hundred percent collect correct sorry i'm a bit displaced here you are you're absolutely right we would not want to anger this god especially given that it has not yet burst forth into the firmament yet please cry as long be his claws be may he sever the firmament of this world i would advise all of you to leave an offering to this god trust me it will pay dividends in the future for all of you praise be to his carapace i lay down a silver piece that is what they say i have to do yes yes this is exactly what happened in my dream you see and i'm going to uh quickly walk over to where the silver was laid and then just uh while distracting people just pick up the coin that was just laid and put it back down i too have left a tribute but look already your tribute has been accepted by crottatimas surely our undertaking is blessed by that most delightful of divine mud bugs you're trying to trick a god that doesn't exist bray will come up and just snag his trumpet back from the king of moths and then put it in there which i like we will we will grant we will grant his holy carapace that of the that of the gift of music that and the trumpets very expensive what a wonderful idea everybody loves music pepin i understand this is part of your family heirlooms and it's something that you hold very dear but we did make sure we survived this swamp you'll deal with it come on pepper it continues all right um your your band carries on into the swamp um for for the following day this continues um all of you who have who have traveled um you feel yourselves you know getting a bit worn down by the day even your old creaking skeletal bones can everyone give me a fortitude save but can dude and takata give themselves a plus two circumstance bonus yay yeah come on fucking thing i've got the most points and go 21 i have a thing here thurston this is a circumstance bonus of my little window thing of basic undead benefits can i have an undead benefit of my plus one yes yeah thanks yeah dude's okay 29 jesus christ so i think all of you except the king of moths who's starting to get like a bit winded from this journey or keeping up this brisk pace that's what he that's what he fucking gets for not paying tribute to a god that has not yet finished being born nobody got on vick's case about it and that's just fine we didn't steal the tribute sir sir sir mods yeah yes my my oseous companion your flesh seems to be winded are you fine i'm i'm fine as you can see i'm just soaking in the swamp would you like any assistance sir king of moths i can provide you with a mount if needed no i'm fine i can assist you on your way a king should not have the walk on this very ground how do people live like this vick is going to lean on her pole and just like stick her hind end on her just lean towards the king of moths like what's the matter don't got any lung space under all that big brain ears you're lucky i'm completely without shame or else i might be somewhat embarrassed right now oh god it smells like apricots speaker bouncing your audio is a nightmare oh my god every time you speak it's either you're under 25 decibels or you're over plus 25 decibels i do it all for you baby i do it all for you it's all for you little damien i get a little closer to the mic you're fine i understand what the whole the problem is it's just swamp air yet actually you've never breathed it before yeah come on what's the deal or i'm just used to the clean running sewers of outset is all i tell you nature does not agree with me any place without a nice urban square for which you can rile within the under city why it's barely a place for me true there's not much creature comforts out here but what else would a creature need but the comfort of the natural world are we stopping for a rest rest rest i know i can keep going for hours for hours as you can see are you sure you seem to be leaving a bit of yourself behind there a couple different places too oh my dwarven companion why all this talk about me let's talk about you and your strange metal arm let's talk about getting back on the road and stop wasting our time with mr winded over here sir king of mars if i can come with a suggestion oh yes allow to ride it right at the pond pepin's back he can carry you the rest of the way oh i'm not sure could i really impose i mean i'm not that i'm not that ill he grabs the king of boss nearly effortlessly because he's like a buff skeleton and uh and he goes and he was working with pepin as you were dying and uh basically adjusted his pack to be like an impromptu seat and so he puts you if you allow me just of course of course yeah he just goes like puts you in there like it's like it's a seat and going now hold still i have to bind you so you don't run away and he starts wrapping you with a bunch of rope all to the findings and stuff and he looks over the pepin and he's like uh very good job pepin you'll be coming a fine squire day by day soon you will be a knight after all of these burdens i sir bray i can't help but thank you this is entirely unnecessary i am ever so grateful and then i just look at guilt blurb and i just go works every fucking time i like the idea that both takata and the king of moths are now on the whole everyone's going to be on the horse yeah everyone that was exactly i want to make i want to make a no no he's not on the horse he's on pepin's back yeah i'm on pepin oh okay he's being carried by the squire right and i want to make a narrative declaration oh boy all right like a narrative declaration i want i want pepin like the the ride on pepin to be so uncomfortable it makes him more sick oh god oh no and now that he's bound you're giving him exhaustion we're all friends here everybody we're all friends it's super rocky pepin's constantly having to adjust the pack for the added weight you know pepin just have to lean left and right he stumbles a bunch he falls in the side and everything's bad all right you know what after about an hour of this i'm gonna make a thievery check to try to just untie my binds the 17 do it no oh my god so watch as the king of mars is just slowly cutting through it and then he just drops one of his files in the dirt and that was like wrist is like even more fucking caught up and it was a really nice file and he looks like i found a file somebody must be camping nearby it's going to steal it from him that must that must be it you you must you must give it to me so i can make sure that it's where i came from because i am victrix is gonna walk right up to the king of maw's with the with the file that she has now snatched from bray's hand it's gonna dangle it like this this is yours fell out of your pocket oh yes yes yes that now i see it more closely i recognize it as mine she's going to like gingerly stuff it into his mouth you will yeah yep yep there you go it's all yours take you will die in three months you will die right now if we don't keep a move on we'll just have to see which prophecy comes true now won't we yeah let's come on and we'll we'll carry on i think we're done shitposting i'm sorry i lean down to sir bray i think they are going to be very good friends oh the bestest of buddies i find my my an arctic mistress jesus christ all right uh well that that definitely uh that was a lot yeah this uh this journey through the swamp continues um you seem all very eager to continue pressing on so so let's let's press on shall we let us oh oh hang on i want to preempt something chat don't say poor vick please do not say poor vick she's earned this she sucks okay just keep that in mind all right you carry on for some way um dare i ask who who is doing like the checking for tracks and survival here let me check mine pepin all right is he doing it a penalty because he is a funny man i don't want to volunteer on hulky but i think no dude will absolutely be checking to see if we're going the right way and trying to track our quarry yeah pepin will help he will aid oh okay so here's a here's a great question who has survival because i was the one thing i didn't get on vic not i yeah not me wait wait wait did none of us take survival no pepin has highest survival of all of us yes yes what the joke is my survival yeah my survival's two who what's everyone's survival true this is this is the this is the party that our main party hired to go tracking in the swamp i think it says more about our main party than it does about this one yes hostility poor poor pepin yeah that's pepin's default state it's and and yet pepin okay i i should should clarify and this is probably a stupid question for me to ask but let me ask it anyways is pepin doing this survival tracking with the king of mods still strapped to him oh no i'll say i'll say um just so speak and actually play his character and i can stop being a piece of shit uh i'm pretty sure speaker got off or if he wants to he got out of the rope he slipped out of the ropes of course it's the other more expensive file that i used yeah i mean i didn't want to disable his characters my bad it's funny it's funny all exist for the very funny it's a bit call her the bit the way i'm committed to her yeah so i don't know if anyone wants to i don't know if we're doing other exploration actions travel through because if so um sir bray will be just keeping an eye on things like just perception and just keep an eye for any dangers i have to look up what the fuck we can actually do yeah i've forgotten the table for what it was that we can do while exploring all right i can i gotta bring up my character sheets don't look don't look don't look don't look i gotta pop out all these characters don't look if you look you die it explodes you here i'll pop that oh there you go um for those who needed it um so if any of you have certain individual actions you would want to be doing so in this case we we certainly have pepin who is tracking i think that'll be technically mine because he's my companion oh yeah i guess i guess yeah yeah i'll be tracking technically up oh let's see what can i do here i could repeat a spell to inspire courage but none of us are attacking anyone except victrix into the king of moths of course one on things in case we need it uh or i have inspire defense that uh that gives it a saving throws just in case we need it for because actually some good stealth so i could do avoid notice i will be repeating a spell and i'll be doing inspire defense oh okay okay um and then um let me just double check here oh um his inspire yeah it's a cantrip so yeah you can yeah cool um and then um vic is going to be uh avoiding notice uh is the dude also avoiding notice uh the dude will be searching oh yeah okay yeah you will cue all all right um and what about our king and mods oh yes i suppose i should help um i believe i will be detecting magic perfect okay awesome uh can i get a perception check from the dude then yes you can i will abide 27 cool nice um so between you and pepin um you eventually find your way into a slightly forested area um that that that has a bit of a winding path um that the path seems to go off uh by a by a nearby like not quite a ditch but like a like a dug section of ground here uh but one thing that you all notice as you approach uh and the dude is the one to pick up on this is there's like floating embers in the air and like there's not really a noticeable smell of smoke just because everything kind of has that damp swamp air to it but you you do notice little flickering orange embers on the air as you are uh as you're approaching this area and pepin sort of points out uh an area a bit further ahead where it looks as though there are um it looks as though there's like a set of trees off from this this path um and kind of mumbles a uh and points towards it what's that pepin you mean things are on fire up ahead things are burning at a rapid rate is it a forest fire or is it someone causing fire left left your left hand if it just looks like a forest fire your right hand it looks like someone's burning things like shakes both hands like no none of that fucking pepin all right keeps going he just keeps walking all right excellent all right come on we gotta investigate that at least it's our goal on the way to where we're going yeah um so as as you approach um you can see uh and and dude this will be you as well uh there's a a few things first of all the king of moths you start to detect some magic in the air it seems like they're actually give me um an arcana check please very well arcane arcane arcane ring roll 20. oh um okay it's enough for with a three on the dice i'm sorry that's enough for you to tell that there is like little motes of conjuration around but that's about it ah something is being conjured in the swamps around us i can't quite detect exactly what could you try harder let me try could you do a better job you are not helping us keep quiet can i can i can i try again no you get one shot at it you don't get to just sit there being like i try i try it speaker yeah none of that i'm afraid that there's some powerful force blocking my magics stopping me from scrying yet again into your own self why don't you shut the hell up sorry bits are coming in my head and it's just coming off as a dick i'm so sorry why are you apologizing vic's supposed to be worse it's fine all right so as as you you continue fucking heading towards this with pepins sort of like pointing from behind your steam um you reach the clearing where there's embers clearly dancing in the air everywhere oh yeah i need to do the hang on oh yes oh nice oh good oh no that was a 14. oh that's a complication if ever i've seen one play the complication song you like beat boxes that's the weirdest beat box i've ever heard yeah like that good job peppa oh okay um i like this one we're gonna use this one from uh disurio which is yes but actually no so uh the character second guesses themselves uh looking like they don't know what they're doing um so your next roll that you make your next check you make if it's a success you have to to reroll it because you need to show you can do even better gotcha okay as as you are you were going through this vic and like like stamping on like twigs and just like cracking of like wood pieces but as you're approaching you now see up ahead is the destroyed remnants of a caravan um there are trees around here and you all sort of approach this area i'm gonna actually move us onto a map here uh vix by the way is not like cringing whenever she makes a loud noise she's just owning it and trying to look like a girl boss it's fine yeah absolutely um you should all have vision on this so bottom left yeah bottom left let me know if you don't have vision okay um so what you can see is there are like small brush fires here and then embers in the air there are carts that appear to be turned over tossed and broken the remnants of a camp here that looks like it's been it's been ransacked in in some ways with goods and equipment spilled all about what would you like to do i mean fuck vick's gonna take take point she's gonna go right ahead yeah absolutely don't give a shit if she blunders into a trap at this point she wants to kill someone i don't suppose they left anything too valuable behind well that's what we'll find out keep on your toes this certainly is a natural brush fire this deep in the solitude bray would look at the king of mars mentioning even looting anything and go you would go you would you would go to any sort of just several belongings along dead and defile it of course not sir knight i was merely thinking in anticipation of additional thieves why not they don't need it we should be looting all of this my thoughts exactly sir knight high five hey hey hey zoran what what yeah what is uh what is bray's alignment i i i didn't set a lot because i i didn't bring that alignment's dumb you know wow that's fail i think if i had if i had to put something because of religion rules instead would be neutral evil that's very oh my god wow same alignment as vick that is actually hilarious i also appreciate though can i just say i just opened your character sheen i love that it's a hundred and age 157 six foot two weighs 17 pounds okay i look this shit up all right the skeleton weighs very little but with all the plate armor and stuff he he's like normal you know your weight is what your character is nude yes yeah yeah so vick's about your pounds yeah i was just saying it's amusing he is a skeleton of of a modest 17 pounds vick is a tall asshole of around 200 the king of moths is like five the king of moths is uh six foot five and 122 pounds jesus christ very nice he is an emaciated weird fellow no wonder he got sick from walking well did he get sick or did he just want to ride on the horsey god only knows those bray will order pepin to follow closer and like stay close pepin if any spookies come up remember we give him the old london special and we stab them where is london yeah what the hell's a london i'm gonna have to write god damn it and he continues i'm gonna have to write london into existence now thanks sorry this world has become infinitely worse because of the existence of london good job if you sign up for our patreon you will get all the lore about london london well buy the london dlc and it's a shadow of london jesus it's a new expansion where did we get the risen son of god we're going to blood grind the entire continent the entire continent of tyne is like a small island nation somewhere off of the coast of malta thurston what do i lose give me a perception check please thank you she she loots she loots uh with a 23 23 um okay so so you come up to the the first caravan that seems to be sort of knocked over there's um two wooden boxes on their sides in there um which are like clearly of like clearly there and the like the locks have been broken off um and when you open them up uh you can see that they're filled with gold coins uh she is going to quietly close the lid and just push the box off real quick is there any way she could theoretically spirit away this container quietly uh yeah you could give me a stealth check to like kind of hide that a little bit or yeah yeah stealth i think hide it on her person or is it too big for that um i mean you might not be able to hide the box but you might be able to you know do a little discreet let's uh shift some of the coins away actually a thievery would be better here if you've got it can i do it can i do stealth at a penalty yes i'll give you stealth at a minus minus exactly like a sleeper yeah it'll be minus nine um yeah no no you didn't have to follow my suggestion yeah minus well if you didn't want to follow it you shouldn't have said it i just wanted to thought it was funny i'm sorry i'm minus what fuck you roll the roll the steel from the party check funny haha minus what at minus two for the stealth you're you're it's more at this point about you kind of like trying to stay unnoticed while your your part your party mates bicker a bit and you're like do do do do do money for the team okay um what would brain notice i'm going to say that if any of you have oh gosh like if any of you have a honestly no no that that isn't enough like just passive passive perception from everyone's just gonna kind of in fact as you're doing this victrix there's like the sound of kachunk and like the the the carriage kind of like falls a bit into the mud and you hear the jangle of coins the box that you weren't grabbing the second one falls down all of you hear the clatter and see gold coins spill out the side all right so the moment i see this i'm going to cast uh tentacular limbs and i'm going to have my hand shoot out into a strange tentacle wrap around the lids of these cases and then just drag them into the middle all right oh this is going to turn around and save face and say nice catch moth man oh you're very welcome i'll be keeping track of our gold and spoils uh call me the official treasurer if you don't yeah keep track of this one too she'll toss the box that she's holding directly in front of him not at him she's not going to do that just yet all right let's see one two skip a few 99 100 and i'll be going through all the gold coins greedily yeah there are 487 gold coins in here and i will uh well we don't have the people's this is the opposite of the people's loot uh pretty and cap i'm not gonna lie i kind of i kind of proposed a name for this group and in the rot grind discussion as the rot bastards the rot bastards so can we can we have the bastards loot i'm on it i like the rot bastards gray will look to um look down to the king of boss and he'll be like you know i very much expect for me to get paid after this adventure and his like helmet kind of turns and his eyes we kind of get like that kind of like that red glow in the middle of them and a black background behind you and he and in the horse stops and it's just he just kind of looks like a like a like a nazgul kind of like silhouette type of thing and and he goes like and i very much hope nothing's going to happen to the gold sir bray i am a criminal not a moron of course i spit this evenly between my compares good then i very much hope that they will be in my pocket soon and then he'll just talk too long they will my friend oh yes there's an ambush we should keep our voices down we've already fucked up that ship is really bad it's staying quiet out here oh we're supposed to be staying quiet i mean i assume there's a it's a caravan that got knocked off the side of the road and looted burned and probably everybody dead we probably should be keeping our voices down but it doesn't look like we're going to be doing that today well i'll be quite honest friends i haven't gotten a good night's sleep since this dreadful anarchic rituals well i may be a little cross-wired while we're adventuring in these swamps i hope you don't mind that's fine bring him on over to me i'm looking forward to getting my glaive wet i don't well it takes all kinds to make a world doesn't it i must remind you all that i noticed conjuration magics the people behind this little soiree may not be too far in fact thurston would you allow me to do another arcane check i will now yeah absolutely i just i'm pretty i'm pretty cool you know yeah we all love thurston right guys we love thurston he's a great guest master he cares for us he butts his ass off for us he's not a hostile dm at all and that's what he always plays about our characters and their progression okay so so you know king of mods he rolled a 33 that's pretty cool you know i i also just moved his token up a little bit as he's looking around getting getting the arcane energy totally not a hostile move on my part you know he's looking around he's you know kind of kind of seeing the broader picture of the magics here i've also applied the fatigued condition to him just because he reminded me to do that again not hostile at all um and then generous game master so cool you know um and with all of that uh as you begin looking around you see the crackling um energy in the air the embers here and as you start to focus around and then sort of look through your you're detecting magic site and sort of peering into the woods here you can see up to the north there is this like ditch in the ground um you can see that there's like the camp sort of around you you haven't gone through all the goods yet but as you're as you're looking you see small little flames that dance and seem to take on form and as though like prompted by the shouting from earlier that absolutely was not the king of moth's fault let's let's be clear can we please be clear about that everyone yeah very clear it's my fault yeah um but something is taking a shape inside of though the like the woods and around you there's about four of these beings that seem to be like crackling into existence um and you see them they appear to be like entities of fire but they're composed of burning matter from like the swamp and the destroyed caravan they have like a a wide sort of like mouth almost with a single eye and two tiny little pseudopod like arms that are made entirely of lashing flame there's some art for everybody oh look at him he's a little guy yeah and um so you see all of this king of moths because you know you see it uh in fact you're so amazingly inspired by seeing this my king i'm actually gonna let you use that 33 for your initiative here ah yay such such much generosity i'm also going to allow vick and um vick and the dude to use stealth because they have been you know fairly attempting even though vick had previously fumbled a bit of a stealth this is sort of like they're still being generally quiet um but i'm gonna get perception for initiative as these uh these flame entities take form and seem to uh seem to uh seem to be jittering towards you maybe a moment i'm looking at something so braymo roll a 14 on his uh initiative with an 18 initiative believe it or not thurston i'm actually going to just do a regular ass initiative because i can use battlefield surveyor to improve it so um fair enough i'll give you a 30. very nice very good okay uh so then um the king my king you see these four entities two of them are sort of in the woods by you uh to your east and then two more have sort of formed one at the opposite end of that ditch um the other one closer to you uh and they you you hear them as they form and they kind of like but they're like giggling with like the sounds of crackling flames behind them well normally i would be enchanted then i looked at my spells list and i realized i have fireball prepped four times well fireball uh yeah yeah that's okay i should have known i put a hand on your shoulder and going i feel you wizard wizard moment wizard moments spy moments i got i have more really good fireballs it's probably good it'll do me all right uh i'm going to just kind of look around i'm going to notice oh i should mention this we are surrounded by flame elementals uh servitrix friends protect your wizard and i am going to move to the back and i am going to cast a spout um and so i'm going to place my five foot burst i'll place it here which i don't want him to zoom at me i'll place it here okay and i believe this little man will have to make me a dc 25 reflex check sure will okay sec watcha oh i will succeed it but just all right so you take half damage if i'm not mistaken uh yeah it's a basic so yeah okay how does your sound go is it just like a no it's like uh very suddenly like the ground around the spirit begins to shimmer and fade before briefly turning into a like a huge geyser that then sinks right back into a rippling ground returning into normal i'm glad you can waterboard at will i can water well that that will mess it up as the like as the spout hits it and it sort of like recoils back it's cackling stuffing briefly thurston since that's a water attack could i convince you to do more damage uh no you can't because these are things that are made up of the swampy matter and fire so they do have water kind of in them already wait which one were you targeting you were targeting that one up there yes okay because i don't want the closer one to see this and run right at me yes gotcha who is next all right that's it for you speaker mm-hmm that's my turn click beginning counter uh all right we're all called these here oh yeah urnville b teamer because look i when i had to set some of this stuff up i didn't you had to even finish your character so i think the tokens just did that it's fine all right uh vic is going to see the one closest to us and not because she wants to be the tank but mostly just because she likes violence uh she is going to sudden charge okay this guy hit her billy it's a fighter you're a fighter that means you can move up you move twice and then strike yes so i do that mm-hmm okay so i stride twice i have to cannot drag myself irritatingly oh well you're probably sudden charge right up to him i end within melee range of him outside of that so i can make an attack oh no okay and she literally just like tucks her glaive under her arm and sprints directly at him before raising up the glaive and bringing it down at a nat 20 on the target okay that that'll that'll crit with deadly and all sorts of other deadly da evocation forceful magical reach i'll roll the critical damage oh that's such a huge bit of damage jesus christ oh my god okay okay so i actually have a question for you yeah you have reach right correct so did you want to charge right up to it uh yes because i have a plan okay because with you now with your crit specialization you can move it five feet in a direction of your choice correct um now you're also a fighter so the reason i asked about the reach is because if you stay at reach and then push it back if it tries to engage with you you get an attack of opportunity okay sure we'll do that i'll move one back but it's tried too yeah yeah it's pretty cool i was gonna say you can't shove it out into attack of opportunity but if it and if it goes back in into the threatened space it wouldn't trigger it but now but that's what i mean because it's at reach right yeah i don't know like push it back anyway 44 with the big damage on bleed okay uh well i'm just gonna click this and i think it'll work oh yeah oh yeah equals all right that's uh that's a good amount of damage that i still have an attack i still have an action left and i think i also have to apply the persistent bleed which is not she she like literally just comes up oh it's lifts up the spear slams it down and then twists it a bit before lifting up the thing still attached to the glaive and then slamming it back down on the ground probably i would say yeah one hex away well not not in that direction okay yeah one hex away you heft that thing hundreds of feet we're playing starship combat or battle attack oh god no because i don't want him i don't want him out of reach because now i'm going to exacting strike him oh do you want okay so so then you just wouldn't push him okay oh i could can i move him there is that still in range um for 10 feet yeah there maybe up there because i want him further away from on the yeah on the box that's fine yeah so she'll slam him down on the box and the box will splinter and turn into a bunch of embers she doesn't care about these cute noises she's going to exacting strike it uh make a controlled attack make a strike and i'm just going to do it because it's a follow-up uh do i have i don't have enough ap to do any flourishes all my flourishes are getting sudden charge probably has a flourish trait so just make sure are they're good sudden yeah sudden charge does have a flourish but none of my other strike does not and okay you're good you're good yeah he's good yeah okay and actually i am going i'm actually going to instead of doing exacting strike i'm going to do dragging strike oh there we go i'm going to pull him further away ideally so i'm just going to make a map minus five uh you have to move it towards you though do i yeah target move pull them closer okay in that case i'll just hit it yeah i'm just gonna whack it there's no point in getting fancy it's just a little guy i'll just i'll just whack him yeah see if i can whack him quack that that'll that'll whack that's a hit and i will damage one two three and i roll up still a pretty good amount of damage hit that's really good yeah okay 14. she's just she's just laying into it oh yeah she gets to kill things so infrequently also um the the funny thing is it didn't apply here but on top of everything chat this fire would have been bleeding um would have would have been bleeding had it um been able to bleed but fire don't bleed so all right uh chakata ah yes it is time uh question for you thurston uh for my uh inspires and my dirge of doom um i have uh the feat that gives you increased cast range uh does that count on emanation spells or just ones that have a stated range uh so that is from which ability uh that is from the um reach spell i think reach spell yeah reach spell feat um does that synergize with the the bard cantrips or no range by 30 feet oh yeah uh what that means is that say for example you have a range target that sets 30 feet to go through you can extend that to go forward uh but if you mean emanation that's that would be widened that would yeah though so okay okay thank you thank you i'm sorry to answer for you thurston my bad no no you're good you're good you're good i was actually just like quadruple checking the floor bridge so you're good all righty in that case uh toccata is going to begin her turn by pulling open the front of her coat uh her long cloak rather and revealing that her torso is this kind of strange empty space where one might expect to see a stomach there is only a great hole through her center with these twisted bits of sinew that form into the strings of a lyre uh as she begins to pluck with her strange distended arms uh i am going to start off with an inspire courage uh and i believe that that does hit everybody without moving yeah yeah yeah it does hit vic uh so yeah everybody inspire your courage she is courageous now i know i'll apply that inspired uh and then i am going to use my remaining two actions to uh point at vic tricks sing out a little note and cast haste she's just grinning under her mask because vic is as gay as she much as he is an asshole bro i've applied the quickened condition yes and that should reach because this one actually has a specified range yeah and toccata is just going to start this this haunting dirge plucking at the uh the lyre in her stomach and that'll be my turn nice nice that's not horrifying or soulsy at all all right i got a i got a little buddy who's gonna go just a little little buddy littlest man littlest fireman who's gonna head this way he's gonna come south from from along the forest edge he's gonna target pepin no and then not pepin no no and then he will throw a ball of fire at little pepin jesus christ jesus christ my fucking pepin i'll fucking kill you i'm focusing all of my healing on pepin fuck you guys it's just another step of learning to be a night pepin well let's let's deal the damage to see if he lives to hear that or not oh god oh he's fine he's fine he's moving yeah yeah yeah yeah he's got his persistent fight he's on fire now um yeah he took some damage he's on fire you know you know don't let any of my stuff burn i still have my manuscripts i like to read questioning head on fire oh my gosh uh okay uh there we go i'll show i'll show the health in this case for the little boy uh so that was that fire uh then we get the fire that is by you victrix um it is going to like kind of adjust up here moves north kind of scuttling away from you and then it turns towards you it sees you as this towering inspired quickened creature and it looks at you and then it belches it belches out a 30 foot line of fire which will hit both you and the king of moths so i require a um two reflex saves from one one from each of you i should say okay oh dear yeah it did a charge right attack aha 17. that will be a failure for the king i almost get a 20. that will be a failure for both of you yeah i literally watched the die it just kind of skidded out from the side on the four and didn't roll at all so yeah that's a roll right no it's more of a that's more of an electric slide okay and then i will do the same damage okay so both of you take 10 points of fire damage is this this little elemental goes up and just belches out a blast of flame from its mouth towards both of you um that's its action then the one that is in the spout um so does that mess up the ground by it speak or is that no no i just there because i don't know how to delete it ah well i see okay good to know um it is uh top left there's a ruler icon click that and then you think like hover over it press delete like hover over and press delete and then back to the park oh god oh god uh this one will advance up and you know what it will do it will toss a ball of flame at pepin you motherfucker pepin no pepin has taunt my boy he's generating all the enmity turn off your tank stance uh dude you're going to position himself accordingly i'm going to see and keep our party members alive i have taunt on my pet put your pet in defensive stance not aggressive i'm trying to put him on passive the ai's part you're ruining this old war raid i get what you mean dude you're up uh dude is going to position himself accordingly i'm going to see and keep our party members alive a little bit longer i mean pepin pepin alive you mean pepin yeah because he's the only person well besides gotta keep alive who has shown any level of enmity towards nobody else i mean i'm more referring to the fact that these things aren't going to be killing vic or the king of maws anytime soon most likely not but we can't take any chances oh no vic's just gonna kill it's fine yeah shitting out 40 damage at a time it'll be okay don't expect that many crits okay all right so scudril is going to saunter over to this cracked and wrecked part by this tree but i assume is a way uh and take aim at this little guy right here who went before me in the initiative order which one uh it's the i'm targeting it right now oh yeah it's the one uh top right of uh that there we go yeah cool cool cool uh judrelia is going to levy his golden hand towards this little fire sprite kind of squared up using his thumb as a rangefinder and pull from his knapsack one big metal tube screwing it on to his index finger as he fires off his clan pistol nice oh it's literally finger guns he's too stylish oh hold on one second i'm not using range weapons by the way on your character i'm stealthy did you want to be crawling are you like solid snaking this we have commenced virtuous mission i am here in the swamps okay this is basically snake eater yeah you know how you had that sniper in in you know metal gear 3 called the end this guy is called the beginning yep so true bestie all right if i could do that the pew pew okay 30 will uh will hit yes sorry i'd like to point out the the range strike uh descriptor here yes yes for podcast it says range strike clan handgun get it because it's a literal handgun okay please roll the 360 no 60 damage plus bleeding emotional damage now takes one d6 persistent bleed it they don't bleed sadly it's haven't you ever heard of entropy it's heat being leached off it's basically they are immune to bleed hulky i don't want you i make a narrative declaration that hope you stop hulky hulky wait please before you go too much further on that remember in divinity original sin if you made things bleed fire they bled fire i never played to me i didn't know that okay well don't do that uh so you moved and then loaded your gun and fired right was that the correct all right it's the end of the dudes the doodle all right now our next little buddy he's gonna do a double move to get close y'all he's gonna run in front of his buddy and you know what he's gonna do with his last third action you i swear to god hey you know what no i want to i want to make a clarification okay i have two i have undead mastery because i'm currently have two companions and i got up for my free dedication thing to go for it i only have one no fuck you and you have no villain points so fuck you and and i can only have one act of companion out so you hitting pepin is illegal that just sounds like you didn't do your taxes right zoran it sounds like you fumbled the rules more than this is like the fucking chewbacca defense right here my current active companion is my undead mount enduring battle i can only have one active companion as the other one is on the sidelines and pepins on the sidelines okay redirect those attacks that went to pepin to go directly to the do the fucking natural physics of the universe prevent pepin from existing while you're riding on your horse i'm bullshitting here and i need you to be on my side i'm gonna fucking shit myself get on with it it's like but technically it is true but i may okay with pevin getting shot at like i just like the idea of it's like you're with your two friends and so then you get jumped by a robber but because of how companion rules work one of them just disappears he does that he does the peace sign and just slowly yeah yeah no all right sir bray it is now my turn when sir bray goes with the music of the anautic lady i shall avenge your damaged bones pepin by my burning bones you shall be avenged and then bre and then uh sir bray marrow yeah just off heaven and then he just he just charges forth and uh i'm gonna have victrix and the king of maz deal with the two on the right uh but he's gonna try to start doing some tanking stuff but he's gonna he's gonna move a total through pepin space i can move through allied spaces he's gonna go a total of and because i uh because of my advancement on the uh thing i do not have to automatically i don't have to spend an action until my mount to move i just they just naturally get a free one so they go hop up and they can only move one for one single action so for my mount right up to there and since i have a support benefit for the mount which is your skeletal mount strikes fear when it charges which i'm going through until the start of your next turn uh if you're riding your skeletal mounts and move at least 10 feet on the action before your attack the creature damaged by the attack becomes frightened one or frightened to the attack was a critical hit this is emotional fear mental effect so going right up to this uh fire elemental that's to the north of us and as he's going through i have a lance uh so bray mary has a lance and like thank you pepin i know this lance was part of your family for many years and killed them but you don't have to be fearful of the lance and he just works just pretty much strikes into uh the fire elemental that that hit his dearest pepin to the north i want to strike uh him with a lance i have inspire courage pones supreme all that fun stuff stab i got 10 on a die for a total of 27 is that a hit that's a hit awesome and i'll go ahead and roll damage as a total of 17 damage on him i have a question you had do you get extra damage for that uh i would get deadly uh jousting d6 because i am on a horse that was what i was gonna say yeah i was looking for yeah i get jousting because i'm on a horse i got one extra damage all right six uh i didn't i didn't do anything else um i'm just checking all the other stuff i want to quickly call attention uh to in in the actual game chat if i could have all of our players look at sir bray marrow's like icon when he's rolling he's very tiny it's very tiny uh there is also some additional fear there's no okay not hitting with that weapon so i could automatic fear a result but that happens and um yeah so for the specification there's the clear it up with you it says until the start of your next turn for the fear thing i soon next turn if i hit him i apply a fear effect just to make sure or is it which ability was that for i have the support benefit for my undead mature skeletal mount it says your skeletal mount strikes fear when it charges until the start of your next turn if you are riding your skeletal mount move at least 10 feet in the action before your attack any creature damaged by the attack becomes frightened one so i assume it's now yeah yeah yeah so that guy would be frightened one gotcha and as he is frightened one i got my i got my move struck him and now i am going to demoralize him i'm going to look at him and look in the eye going my friend the king of maul's will make sure you're you're dows by the by the watery magic of something i did i had a bit and it died anyway fuck you piss blast you got it you you tell him the king of maul's will piss all over you i want this little fire guy's like and i'm like my last time to demoralize that is probably the second most disturbing thing i've seen today and i have intimidating prowess which gives me a plus one that's one of my feats and bam roll a 12 on the die for 30 that is a critical success um but he will be frightened too so he's a total fighting three and because of my fear aura and stuff and everything that i have uh he cannot go lower than uh fear one anybody within me i think uh 30 feet so that's my turn sorry i'm complicated i i promise i'm not going to piss on you though that's one thing i won't do i'm going to kill you he hurt my pepper i'm going to move my character i'm going to move my character there we go i'm going how do you do that i need to know how to do that yeah uh good question and the fuck what are you gonna do if you all recall tentacles had emerged from my body to grab the chest and one such tentacle is going to come to here is going to begin gathering in magics as the king of moths raises his hand and allows the strange eye patterns on his cloak to begin shimmering and now he's just going to call out full and i'm going to cast lightning bolt from this position uh using my reach smell from tentacles tentacle hands what is it tentacle something other it's not tentacle limbs tendicular limbs so you're trying to cast lightning bolt right like the line spell yes uh you're it or it originates from you oh but i can't extend my reach to 20 feet to deliver the spell no uh it's not how that works uh that would basically that would be like extending it because it originates from you so it's you in a line you don't cast it from somewhere and direct it in that case uh you're gonna line up if you run if you run yeah you can like move adjacent to it and blast it as well remember it doesn't get right i can't i can't move to here though oh i can move i only have 25 five inch move wait weren't you in range though no oh i wasn't that's why i needed to use my tentacular limbs uh if i cast a line i'm only gonna hit two that's not worth it um i guess i'll just go back and i'll just cast spout again um um i will cast spout my mighty spout uh oh god oh please here we go behold um oh yeah that'll get both of those fools they could make me a leaflet save i will do the weakened one first oh my god and then i'll do the other one that's gonna burst him like a bimple so uh roll sweet sweet dimaggio please all righty then big pile that's gonna be 15. so uh you destroy the first one as the the the water comes rushing up cleaning away the little filthy fire and it goes as it like melts into the swamp and the last of its flames are taken away most of its energy having already been uh banished down by victrix and the other one takes a solid hit as it's sort of washed to the side side like all right and then i will use my movement to come bravely over here cool and that'll be my turn hey good turn you did a lot of damage yeah yay a lot of damage blasto all right rand bill uh why did my why did the buff wear off shouldn't have i don't know why let me put that on you all right uh let me think honestly it's it's simple enough she's just gonna move up one that went off because that only lasts a round you have to do lingering composition for inspire courage let's say so it's already a new round oh it doesn't carry on to the top of my turn uh yeah it does it should it didn't that was the problem yeah okay my bad i'm sorry yeah it automatically gets rid of it but i think the turn order of ours was weird at the start but it should be good wow i actually can't move just because my system's lagging a little bit i don't know where where do you want to go to if how do i move with the with the measure tool uh are you trying to like drag over and press space and aimed yeah it's just it doesn't look like you can drag because i couldn't do that before it doesn't matter i'll move into range of this guy yeah and i am going to swing i'll just swing swing at him okay go over a swing swing that's why oh not with it just i'm gonna narrow i'm just gonna re-roll that with a hero point hero quest hero point go anyway all right crit she'll she'll do much she'll just like try to beat this thing into the dirt with her glaive she raises up the glaive really high and deals a fuck ton of damage again and just pounds and beats it into the dirt it's it's pretty beat up well she's gonna look at you then i guess you would want to exacting strike here because technically you have another action right no i moved but you're quickened oh so i am so in that case i will exacting strike well you can only do a strike or a move with him yeah but he moved so he would have used quicken and moved yeah my bad yeah okay so i'm gonna do exacting strike in this case what exacting strike doesn't give me any bonuses however if i fuck it up it won't it won't make the map worse yeah so so for people listening what this will do is if victrix misses this attack then and does a third attack the third attack would still only be at minus five it would not be at the minus ten it normally would be which is pretty cool fighters pretty cool yeah anyway so good uh that one will miss and i'll just eat that because that means i get to roll a map minus five again instead of a map minus ten she's gonna she's gonna land in the dirt she's gonna pick it back up again and she's going to swing it some more and that's going to hit and it's going to deal damage wow it's like we're showing off how the system it's actually going to do a decent bit of damage to 13. oh it's going dead it has very few hit points remaining this little this little flame not lings to existence she is not an articulate fighter she will like try to either beat you to death with the sharp end of her glaive or she'll like just beat you to death with the blunt end of it she'll she'll do what she can just to make sure you die violent next person's term odo oboe that's me it's oboroshi uh oh lee doakley so i'm going to begin my turn there aren't really a lot of people hurting so i'm going to uh pluck out another inspire courage let loose this hideous uh melodic wailing that is inspirational yep just like the bagpipes exactly just like the bagpipes i'm so inspired by this hideous melodic mooning what does it sound like is it just horrible just oh it's definitely melodic but it's kind of uh kind of haunting uh okay okay yeah he breaks a snap of his fingers he's like yeah plin plin plon yeah exactly hit him with that plin plin plon um and then for my second spell um there's not gonna kill steal else i should be doing so yeah i am gonna kill steal victrix uh just to free her up to go and do bigger damage elsewhere uh i'm going to do a telekinetic projectile i'm going to uh reach into my body pluck out some little like a chunk of flesh and magically just shoot it forward uh one sec real in range yeah it's 30 feet away reach spell that's right it takes an action to do reach oh you have to use an extra action to do it yeah you have to do an action and then uh then the spell uh you are correct damnation okay uh never mind then can you just throw a bottle at it a bottle well i'm not baldrick that doesn't have to be full it's gonna be like an empty bottle it's probably got like no health yeah exactly um oh you two took a fiery fiery thing um i'm just looking at your spells oh yeah i think i might uh i'm gonna drop a spiritual weapon i because i can i can drop it and strike correct i believe so um if you do a summon creature as soon as you summon it or do a summon thing it should act right after you're done with your actions yeah uh okay when you cast the spell the weapon appears next to a foe uh you choose within range and you make a strike each time you sustain you can move the weapon to a new target within your range if needed and strike so yeah it's not a summoned creature it's just like a weird it's kind of like flaming sphere so yeah you can absolutely do that odo what kind of weapon do you uh um i believe tokata's weapon would be hmm it would probably look like a sort of spinal column that curves into kind of like a scythe looking thing creepy very uh i'll drop her right there yeah if you click the cast button on your sheet that should like drop it in chat as well i think right the sickle scapula yes sweet all right it's there and then uh just target the boy and click attack all righty you can do it let's go auto let's go starting why do i never get these rolls on volley because the game knows we're not gonna be here that often true you gotta i gotta build up your confidence so kata stays winning okay roll damage just just proves these guys are cool yeah okay all right that's gonna be double that well that that kills that little guy with your magic spell you're welcome miss victrix fine yay you should be appreciative of friendly support it's why you hired us she's going to disregard that and look for the next thing to kill um this little fire buddy goes into the difficult terrain here right by you you know what he does okay what look no no no every single time that speaker's mic activates because he's typing or something else i just see his character go what what what his arms come up what is it he's gonna start juggling no i'm gonna drop i'm gonna drop i'm gonna drop a light or a flame blast a belch of flames reaction if you don't mind yeah yeah as he comes up near me um i want to make sure i can do this correctly uh nope never mind uh let it continue and then i'll do my reaction my bad keep going okay i am going i am going to make you give me a reflex save super a marrow yeah i have to do it for for both of them because you're also targeting my horse and it's a separate thing so i can do both oh i'm i'm actually targeting something behind the horse too oh i know you're doing it for pepin you fucking asshole you want to kill pepin you fuck out again oh my god what's bulwark fuck zora and it's only fair i mean like we have been trying to kill picture it's for years you got for what feels like a year safety i'm not gonna do oh bulwark what the fuck was a bulwark this is just yeah i will kick off my bulwark and everything bulwark pepper what is that great armor coverage is completed and prevents the damaging effect oh right fuck you i have full plate that's right i have full plate the armor covers you completely that it provides benefits against some damaging effects and reflex saves to avoid a damaging effect such as a fireball it puts three modifier into your dexterity modifier yeah 17 on the dime it's a 32 and the reflex save for him but pepin pepin he rolled his reflex save with a plus 14. pepin i saw that one he got a 21 for his reflex save you will you will succeed zorn you will take half of this uh i think i'll see you roll for the horse pepin will fail uh the horse will get it gets a sparker and the whole uh no it does not get sparker so it would be 28. yeah so both you and uh both you and and the the horse will take half of uh that so i think it's five i thought of i thought of a really good thing yes uh i thought of a really good thing here this is the inciting incident why pepin will not be around when you have the horse yeah he's just dead no no no he's he's doing he's like no okay i can only put up with so much either have me or the horse i'm not gonna be strong bad i moved my thing here thurston so you can uh just so you can select them or oh so you can damage the horse yeah if he took if he took any damage unless he succeeded there you go dear king of moths how can you cast with tentacles for your hands it's a very funny question bulky saved me you turned into fucking row no you let this happen you let this of course the name is glue sorry chad my apology the horse's name is glue because it's it plans on sticking around all right we're going to this one right there who is afraid and i am going to move out of though i'm so close but there's a cart in the way there is a cart in the way yeah however you're in a good shooting position and you gotta reload yeah i would like to object interact to reload my handgun and i'm going to strike okay here we go which one are you shooting at shoot at the one right in front of sir mero yeah right there i'd like to uh for chat and everyone i apologize if i'm constantly feels like i'm back seeing people um like they made the character they never we never got to do testing so i'm just trying to help out where i can so i apologize if i'm like sounding super obnoxious to it it's okay you hit i did i hit with a 26. here's my funny little damage there we go oh wow not good damage values at all holy 11 damage in total cool that hits it yeah kabang your pistol goes and hits this little guy i think i think in the future you might not want to be prone because you have prone minus two to your backs that may be the case i yeah i oh fuck unfortunate oh yes yeah these are many action get up yeah because for you as a gunslinger you want to crit so good when you crit all right you're getting up okay cool yeah all right i got another fire up in this sizzle it's giggling at you it's it's so happy um oh i know quit your giggling it's gonna move it's gonna you know what did because i assume victrix yells quit your giggling yeah sure she'll taunt okay okay sounds good it's gonna move attack of opportunity yeah i figured give me that shit do it do it uh because i've never knew it before it's just a strike kill you just normal i can do the strike yeah it's just like full man no man yeah yep okay i'll hit it yeah give me damage it's remarkable that i hit on an 11. it's so crazy anyway fighters are like just slap holy 21 damage you hit it and it gets so angry when you hit it like you see it starts standing there shaking and it just blasts out a five foot emanation i need reflex saves from both you and sir marrow as it explodes blasting out like the filth that's accumulated on its bottom from like dragging along the swamp as it just blasts it out with both of you so bray marrow got a 33 in his reflex nice uh did did takata re-up the inspire courage yeah it's it's on you you've got okay because because i'm it's offering me to check the inspire courage or not for something that's weird but yeah it the token thing's on you so well i can see the math once you roll it so fine fine uh she gets a one oh no also then i'll move my thing so you can target the horse if it did damage um the horse will pass so okay so this will do 2d12 piercing damage then double because uh victrix failed so vic you're gonna take bam 30 points the horse will have succeeded and will take half and sermero crit succeeded and takes none as just detritus and shots of jagged rubbish fly out front and also i get a complication on uh vic yeah go ahead give me the give me the complication give me to give you the complication give it to you complicate her ass give give give me a complicate complicate i'm looking i'm looking there we've used a lot of saves based ones here remember chat if you too want to submit what happens to us whenever we roll a natural one you can go to patreon.com forward slash narrative declaration and on the adventure tier you too can submit your own complication and we put them into like a big old pool and whenever this stuff happens we just pluck up from them but you too can submit a complication you too can submit a complication where someone rips their pants open yeah well like that jocks were done before i'm gonna use this one here from uh this one's called oh that was real you were convinced that the incoming source of damage or whatever that forced you to make the save was an elaborate illusion or deception and um you have to face it head on you gain the confused condition while you figure out what is real and what isn't real who uh who submitted that complication uh sarah grapes thank you yeah yeah it's pretty cool wow yeah so we'll see uh the confused condition is is you are flatfoot and you don't treat anyone as an ally um and you use all of your actions to uh to strike um your targets are determined randomly but they'll be the ones that are in range so for right now it'll at least be the little buddy um that's the little buddy's ghost or bray marrow that wait did the explosion not kill him he just exploded he just yeah he just like got really angry and then blew out a bunch of shrapnel he did not like suicide bomb you uh vic's going to like pull a nasty looking like length of wood from her fucking forearm and is going to throw it on the ground and she's going to just start whipping around her glaive wildly now that she is all over the place i guess it is now time sir brain marrow will go don't worry miss fish vectrix i will help you and you'll see that you're wondering why i'm uh rolling dice it's because i forgot the persistent fire on pepin from last time i'm just gonna apply that there you were gonna be you were actually technically in range i think aren't you like me right now he is if he doesn't move yeah no no remember it's remember it's randomly determined who i hit next yes oh okay well for you for a 10 foot thing um for your range but yeah you would be well that's fine because i'm going to go uh that and then back down pretty much i'm having my mount pretty much just go up up and come right down pretty much because it gets an automatic it gets uh basically to specify i have beastmaster companion or mature beastmaster companion i can just they get a stride or a strike automatically if i don't do command command he's fucking cycle charging what a piece of i was actually hoping you would move up hit the other one then like hit it like try to hit both of them but move out of range of you and then you would fucking go crazy and kill pepin know what like i want to caution the other one guys i think everybody else can finish this one off so i'll i'll redo my movement there and go here pepin is a is a beast and i'm confident that someone has a sooth spell and cares about pepin i hope doesn't move into range of victrix i can't move pepin he's only supposed to be there yeah you have to direct him you can only direct one of your summoned companions and apparently you like your horse some more i'm on the horse yeah i know whose fault is that make your tax see see what happens no what no what i get a free automatic movement for one of my things it's it will break the game a little real quick i don't know why there's like a oh that's the spiritual weapon i got real confused and um basically i will spit since i have to break the game for this and you keep targeting pepin i'll spend one of my actions to tell pepin the off go away but he'll use all 25 is all of all of his movement to not get hit and go over that way and just burn magic weapons just around so now i have two actions left and i'm gonna use one of them to target this this elemental that has full health currently and uh i'm going to strike him with my lance yep that is an 18 on the die 35 total that is a crit which is exactly what i like and i'll be 31 points of damage with deadly and everything plus uh d6 d6 okay just three and double i guess um so six seven the 37 points of damage yeah i got that and then i'll just take four more or six more there we go hey ow wow oh yeah a lot of damage there and uh what i'm going to do lastly is it's gonna stab him again just just stab with the lance on my uh actually no i'm gonna i'm gonna demoralize him i'm also gonna look at this flame be like and then demoralize him hey for my last action to lower his thing because he can't go lower than one uh frightened with that so i want to turn him intimidation having any prowess is what i have i rolled a natural one nice and with all that like i'm like a master of intimidation all right thurston i'm looking i'm already looking one sec let's see what we get here this is a very critical concentration of nat ones versus nat 20s we got a lot we've been struggling in this game mm-hmm this is this is math i like math it's fun uh let's go what the why aren't you scared why why aren't you scared this is fire dipshit oh shit my intimidation is banging it's fire asshole okay i i i'm gonna i'm gonna use one here i think i'm spitting on the fire be down i'm gonna use this one from drunken finn okay okay yeah you're gonna have to you're gonna have to give me a little leeway here um zorn this one's called bitch slap 2.0 okay when you fail a verbal check you slap the creature you're having a conversation with so i assume that what i'm going to say and this is the the downside of the complication is you're so mad at this thing like after and trying to demoralize it's all like you jump off your horse and slap it i'll accept that i'll be demounted just for you i'll that's what i'll do you one better um if you allow me to allow me to move my horse so we can just not have this all complicated we'll do that and i'm willing to drop my lance and come out because i have a gauntlet yeah and we'll just we'll just play as that and i'll just go and i assume um i assume i'll go and it's like i look at my hand like only hands on fire and i go and start trying to put it out get acceptable how dare you slaps you gets caught on fire and that'll be the end of my turn beautiful i like it all right speaker speaker b all right the king of moth strange tentacles are going to pierce into the ground right here as i as he inhumanly slides into place without moving oh shit lightning bolt he raises his hand to the sky it's gonna do it y'all guys i call upon lady fortune high in high in the sky like a beautiful mother i call upon her power and i will cast lightning all right volley give me a reflex save oh wait hold on i got you i got you i got you i saw what you did there speakist i'm glad you did oh god okay um can you cast the spell so i can click the things before that is physically impossible oh okay all right let me place my oh my god well that's the wrong line other direction i mean technically victrix is fair game because she's confused if you need help speaker uh here i'll help you step by step click the measuring tool top left like that and you'll see a little like boxing that's in front of you hover over your mouse over and press delete okay so that'll get rid of that so now go back to the chat there that says place 120 foot line when you're about to click hold shift i think and then scroll wheel and rotate it don't click oh yeah don't click it yeah you have to rotate it first please don't worry when we get this right it's gonna be so cool please god let me come yeah now these sons of bitches gotta make me a reflex save okay succeed both of them just to like ruin the cool effect there i would kill myself in minecraft no i can't fail the first one let's go i'll succeed on the other one but the first one please oh oh god yes oh please kill this one one let's roll some jay look at all that oh my god speaker you blast him yes dinner blaster speaker i i applaud you so very much for for obliterating these guys i regret to inform you you are now the only person in range of a confused victrix who must attack oh no i'm sure calmer heads will prevail yeah uh yeah uh okay cool uh okay that's good that's good uh who's next oh yes yeah take a guess who take a guess who speak of the devil thurston what the hell do i do do i literally just spend my entire turn attacking you use all of your actions to strike or cast offensive cantrips so the gm can have you use other actions to facilitate attacks such as drawing a weapon moving your target are determined randomly by the gm if you have no other viable targets you target yourself it's impossible to attack spells um yeah no you just fucking attack i've got great i've got great news for you though okay okay um because of a mix of my tentacular limbs controlling my body as well as the fact that that fire tragically tragically critically failed their save i think that there was some kick to that lightning bolt and i will spend a narrative declaration to send me flying back just out of range of vitrix you need to move two hexes you need to move two squares away oh i had a lot of kick to it mark him mark that fuck it down here wait wait it is a new round and you do have attack of opportunity no it has to be my turn first he's already spent it uh-huh yeah he did he spent it on the guy who came in that's right he can't much as i'd love to hurt speaker no i have to be fair oh god all right what i just did was very fair you needed to do that because otherwise you would be on the receiving end of three glaive attacks whatever just fucked my shit up oh don't worry you're okay now now that just hurts herself whirling around with her glaive oh no oh no you move you move towards an available target oh which are you moving me towards a fucko that one all right cool now now target the fire it's it's it's the closest technically these are both in range though yeah oh i'm i'm gonna be generous and let you strike with so your free action to move then your first strike on the on the fire i'm being nice here wow they're still in this hostile that's going to miss uh okay okay that will don't miss okay now you can make your um your exacting strike exacting strike go uh that will hit good roll me damage damaging uh late damage 14. see this is what you needed and now uh give me one final attack that's the exacting strike kit this will still be a minus yeah i know it'll be minus 10. go she uh that'll miss she's out she's totally out of sorts yeah and she's confused uh no longer all right she comes to her senses it's me oboro shrider thank god um well these some bitches sure do look hurting uh so i'm just gonna uh uh sustain my spiritual weapon and clonk that guy on the noggin boink so i'm is it going to be like one to sustain bonk and then one to keep the inspire up or yep cool that is what i will do i guess you can move too that's humorous give me give me the bonk roll me the bonk attack i'm bonking them bonk it that will that'll hit that'll hit 11. it's okay can you make multiple attacks with the the spiritual bonk uh can you i don't think so i think yeah i think you can only do it once yeah cast the spell choose a strike each time you sustain you can move up into a new target uh oh wow it uses and contributes to your uh two-year multiple attack penalty that's very funny actually oh so i could attack twice could i i think so yeah yeah just please finish this combat i'll go ahead and give it another bop i'll bop them bop it uh yeah i'm just gonna have to manually put in the map because it doesn't want to pop up pop it pip it whack that 20. all right yeah sure why not thank you and as the as the spiritual weapon the the spinal scythe bashes the final gold you know jacqueline little flame elemental into the dirt how about we take a very quick break yes please okay okay i do so much damage oh sorry we'll be back after these messages oh before we go to the break to clarify so thurston doesn't kill pepin like he's trying to right now um basically so bravo will come up to pepin and he will stop trying to kill my fucking squire thurston he will come up to pepin and and tap him on the shoulder and go like furious pepin burning through the fires of battle is a is a good initiator becoming a knight i'm proud of you pepin you'll become you're such an excellent squire and you'll touch him he'll do touch of corruption on him and um what that does is basically um it will heal him because he's necrotic and actually hold up let me let me target and click this see if it doesn't it doesn't okay i'm just getting a billionaires for no reason and um they'll heal heal heal him for 24. and then he's no longer on fire yeah i saved pepin my squire and we're gonna be right back goodbye zoran is about to die when he dies he will die in real life forever not a joke for real this is funny but it doesn't have to be through your support on patreon we can find 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to be uh emerging around here um well what is everyone doing now that they they've defeated these elementals there's sort of like a like the embers have died on the air there's like a couple little brush fires but that's it um yeah what's everyone want to do right now have we gotten all the money i believe so more than we were being paid for certainly then i believe that um how do you say it fuck this place well let's not be so quick to leave a well-paying job there could be even more money at the next site that i say you guys are in the hall for the next spot not just this one well it's at times like this i like to think on the bright side at least we're not these poor unfortunate fools everyone laugh with me just like kick one of the the rotten little bits of blob that was on fire a moment ago yeah bastard blew up on me as you do you kind of like like kick some soot and you you you look down and realize that in like partly embedded in the ground are the like absolutely burned remnants of humanoid bodies um possibly like a human that was completely scorched and then just kind of what was left kind of glided into the ground a bit or sat and settled into the ground i should say um can i roll an arcana check to understand what i would know about these entities which were clearly summoned i already know that yeah sure give me arcana absolutely you got it uh that would be a 33 good sir sweet uh these are elemental beings known as filth fires uh so they're like elementals that tend to gain their own like flame from burning filth and rubbish around them i can take like natural filth and other things uh you can ask me three questions about them um what magic can summon them um like lots of elemental summoning so like the the common summon elemental spell at certain points you could summon a creature like this um you know there might be like alchemicals that could contain these types of creatures that could maybe be thrown like a bottle to like summon them as well that could be a thing to what end are they summoned frequently um typically they're sort of like callous destruction they get summoned and what they do is they they take advantage of terrain so in this case a swamp is really good for them um they're they're obviously associated with the elemental churn particularly like uncle blaze but they when they when summoned onto the like the onto tyne they are often used as kind of just like well we'll summon a bunch of them and they'll go fuck shit up and they kind of just have fun doing it and how long ago were these summoned uh it sounds like the they they probably were dormant here and then someone stumbling upon this place like just like literally rekindled them you coming in attracted them but whatever they they'd done before they probably went into a bit of a state of torpor here after being you know initially set loose well put another way what was the initial like what i'm specifically asking for is initially how long ago did this seem to have happened the couple days couple days yeah uh fairly recently fairly recently okay i will turn the rest of my companions and then i'll actually speak whoever summoned these filth fires they did so but a mere few few days ago a mere few grains of sand the hourglass which means that we will more than likely find their trail and more likely our target good less time out here the better exactly now i would recommend one of you you dashing debonaires with an exceedingly good insight into the natural world find their tracks and follow them because they've only been gone a few days shouldn't be too hard how do you track because otherwise we're all gonna point to pepin um pepin pepin gets to work um uh in the meantime can everyone give me a perception check please yes are we going back to the exploration or are we not yet no not yet not yet new cheat new to do 21 oh not 20 35 20. oh brave arrow got a 17. well okay so as all of you are looking around um dude you notice a few things you're you're you're sort of taking in this place and you you recognize that okay so they're like there was the gold that was on the back of this cart and like from where it was and what you saw of it it was fairly strange because like the the locks had been broken off of it like they left the gold here um there are other boxes that appear to have been like ripped off or taken or other supplies that seem to have been taken but there's still a lot of other supplies here you can find like some files and potions and trade goods of varying you know like still some still some good like you know textiles and food preservatives things that would generally have extreme value in a place like this that have just been scattered around here um whatever the attack was on this did not seem interested in in any of that content um briefly as you were looking around you have a moment though dude where like you seem to see a tree and then you seem to see a blue-skinned woman and then you kind of shake your head and they're gone oh hell is that no no couldn't they what did you see i i i thought i saw a lady with blue skin and looked like a giant tree look like it's not not important not a giant tree i've run up to you what do they look like i couldn't uh i couldn't really get a good look at them i uh it looked like uh not quite straight it's not from around here by any means uh it should look anything like this and i'm going to reach into my pack and pull out where who was wanted the poster yes it looked like that yeah it it did it it looked exactly like rahua wait wait wait wait you said blue woman right yeah i didn't know they made women in blue yeah they do actually reminds me actually that tree i remember seeing that tree and the cute blue tree but beside that point too far away from your mic erindale sorry the two of them were actually in that group that hired me to hire you guys to go check this place out oh are they nice uh one of them's an old friend of mine the rest i barely know but the girl was cute so you know fuck it whatever but beside the point what are you laughing about oh well i suppose i won't betray you like i was intending to after all let's continue on our way friends i'm delighted to know that we're in the same company as my darling son what wait you're a father i if you prefer the term gardener i gave our tree friend life you're responsible for that you made him you created rahua i created that's not quite the right term i gave him corporeal form and i should very much like to see him again so we will complete this task and dubal jump up and grab the king of moth by his robes and pull him down to him his chest you need to teach me what you know you need to send me back you need to fucking help me oh calm down master dwarf send you back to where oh not where it's it's when friend i'm not supposed you and i you you we are talking private private elsewhere elsewhere you are in need of my services and i shall grant them or what else can unify such nerd wells and bastards and common cause will you agree to travel with me master dwarf after these adventures of course if you will guarantee your help in my predicament you have my solemn word as king of the moths yeah yeah well that's all all well and good then yeah absolutely i'm so glad that beautiful friendships can spring even out of this embered husks i don't suppose the rest of you have done strange spectacular problems i can solve no the only problem that we need to solve is we need to get moving i don't want to sit in a burnt out clearing ah yes well one need to acquire the taste for disruption and decay i think just ask our skeletonized friends speaking of which yes how can i help you cantering about i believe that we must find the trail of these would-be arsonists can you engage in such an endeavor bray will look at the bounty uh thing and go like oh have they been spotted no but we know that they left here no less than i would say a few days perhaps three four i would very much like to connect the bounty it would really help out with the economic issues that me and pepin face every day but pepin have you found anything he's pointing at the ground good job pepin continue sniffing hey hey wait a second wait a second you get any more of those posters uh well i have one of each she kind of beckons for him to show them off let me see real quick you will reveal the bounties for the previous party to this group which is maybe an excellent idea huh hey so you remember i said that group was made of an old friend and like four other people i do recall such a thing yeah this is literally all of them oh will we turn them in for the big bounty ah shit yeah we'll we'll cross that when we get to it we'll see how things are shaping out on our and let's not come up with any plans just yet let's not jump the gun i agree with you victrix we may have much use for them but at least i will and if you care to benefit from my benefit victrix you are free to it i know we met on the wrong foot can we start over and i'll extend my hand we're fucking role playing get back to you pepin i know pepin you're pointing at the humanoid tracks we're fucking role making all of those small humanoid tracks pepin there's plenty of tracks it seems as if they brought a horse but by god it seems scarce perhaps even skeletal distracted by for the attacks so thoroughly by pepin groaning loudly that she doesn't notice the king of moths extending his hand and instead rushes off towards the mute weirdo what the fuck are you grumbling about pepin says that he's found a humanoid tracks it's not from us further on well fucking follow them he points down to to like a pair of tracks and points them out and kind of grunts and walks on they're they're small humanoid tracks like they're they're the size of like a child um and they're pretty worn in here but like scattered off and on he sort of like brings you up through the ditch that's in the ground uh kind of clambers over it into a clearing um and sort of points here um where the the tracks meander a bit as well and you get the sense that like based on timing maybe the the small tracks were away from the caravan when whatever attack had happened and like this little like secluded area like like pepin sort of like moans but explains like you know and makes some gestures of like defecating in the woods here away from everything how do you how do you gesture that as skeleton very carefully yeah i'm like whatever vic vic is on on the hunt she's ready to get going i see pepin someone took a shit here excellent findings pepin nods for her to solidify and then comes back down pointing to the tracks um and then points that they seem to go away uh actually back in the direction you came like towards roughly like maybe a bit north of the trading post she's gonna fucking throw her hands up in irritation that's not helpful we know where we're going and then then like pepin points down and shows several other humanoid tracks that seem to be going west from here deeper into the swamp and we'll follow the ones going west very good findings pepin a treat he throws like a bone are you kidding me a fucking jesus cannibalism yeah the fucking chance for vic and the king of moths to make up has been thoroughly ruined by pepin leading everyone around confusedly yeah okay i love that pepin's giving you important fucking lore and you're like fuck you he's like she's angry what do you what do you expect she got blown away i'm sure this is thurston's way of us to hurry along for time so let's i'm trying let's continue on we all have west thurston's making it harder we will all head west west heading west which way western man west okay we space maze a space maze all right we carry on i do assume that we're going to pass ourselves up as we go ass yeah about to say we've been going have we killed each other yet thurston um not yet mr bray is as jovial as ever yeah just try to keep spirits high he's singing songs um pepin is um pepin's there uh the rest of you sort of travel travel along as well you know pepin being the main character of this party now um no yeah yeah lovely lovely lovely boy um no you you carry on during this i assume uh the dude and the king of moths conspire off to the side um you continue to discuss some of the mysteries of the swamp you have you have all sorts of fun and wacky adventures over the course of two weeks that who knows they could be the they could be like a special unto themselves right um yeah but you carry on you carry on and eventually you find yourselves doing what you've been doing a lot of for the last few weeks bickering bickering and camping pepin of course being the only one trained in survival so he is setting you up with your necessary camp and you know what i came prepared i bought us a four person tent oh hold on hold on hold on hold on now that we are all in this chat very familiar with by now the cozy cabin our show has probably increased cozy cabin stocks but i like so much for to smell cozy cabin sweep yeah cabin hands boys so kata's cozy cabin is definitely like it looks mostly like a normal cozy cabin but there's just something really uncanny valley about it like just some of the materials look like wood but when you touch them it's definitely not there are like eyes under weird things so question how long do do all of you like last actually sleeping in the haunted cabin of horrors uh vic is okay with it one thousand percent she just gets cozy the king of moths fucking loves the creepy flesh cabin he fucking loves it please allow me to feed on delicious house flesh sir bray gets inside the flesh cabin housing and gets nostalgic do you remember being inside a meat before i remember my flesh prison ah it's fucked up it's delightful to sleep at somewhere where you can actually eat eat the drywall it's more of wet wall isn't it oh yes but it becomes dry once it's grilled all right so after a while you've two weeks time you've ventured through the swamps you've you've made your way deep you've you've done a lot of exploration following following the tracks and trudging along after pepin having your side adventures and then you eventually come um it's not quite quite like you know time for sleeping in the cabin so you've set up a fire outside on a set of wooden walkways like planks and whatnot that extend through the um through the solitude of particularly like bad swampy area um all of you are resting around a fire that pepin has set up on the walkway you know protected using stones and whatnot to make sure the ground doesn't catch on fire um it's it's dark and like you hear animals hooting and the sky itself has you know almost almost no light coming through as it's very cloudy and you sort of have this just cozy but also like a single point of light as you as you dwell uh in this area uh and you're all trading stories and chatting with one another you know this all reminds me of that time i i actually stopped by that strange restaurant it was built into a crashed airship and outside has anyone else eaten there i've definitely gone to that establishment it's one of my favorites i especially like the other one on the other side uh yes you fucking eat oh i got kicked out of that establishment sometimes asshole how can you how can i be the asshole you don't even have one hey hey who are we to judge break rice to cotta you said you were kicked out of the restaurant that's just yes my performance was beautiful it was however um what was the phrase disturbing to children oh yes i get that a lot myself it's discrimination of the highest order that's everyone give me perception checks the brain perceives with a three on the die for a total of 14 cool total of 31 26 24 24 24 24 okay dude as as everyone's sort of talking and jibing around you you hear sounds from around you like crack crackles of of like logs and like splintered wood and small pressure on like on wooden boards around you and sloshing it's it's like it's crept up on you but there are several figures making their way towards you ah i suppose we have some company well let's not keep them waiting oh we don't have room in the cabin bray will hop off uh they put him on his horse but he'll he'll look at pepin like pepin collapse and the horse will collapse and pepin will put all the bones of the horse on his pack and uh make you make him hold your horse yep he's just carrying the bones of the horse in his pack hold your horses um you could you could drag my token over hide this one out yeah okay no don't delete all right i don't all right well fine here no no there you go i'll hide the horse boom yeah you hide these and then you you hide that and the other brain marrow one the other token on let's see there you go there you go okay set it up for you because mounted combat and foundry is just bullshit yeah am i am i still fatigued two weeks later yes he's so tired oh rest for the wicked and dude as you point this out and after the like the skeletal horse disassembly you start looking out and you see probably three four maybe even five dozen points of light out there would appear to be torches maybe uh and you're hearing sloshing getting closer um some of you have dark vision right i have actually something even better than dark vision what's that i have i could get on the character sheet i have motion sense and low light vision okay i have low light which it seems weird isn't it but yeah yeah you know okay so you have motion sense how far does that go out for you 30 feet okay okay so yeah nothing nothing quite in range yet okay there's an eye of dark vision yeah oh 260 right for you yeah yeah okay um all right so you start to see figures at the far edge of your vision um there appear to be some humanoid figures that are coming into view um several of them seem to be equipped similarly um they're they're they're like wielding uh hand crossbows and swords and other ones appear to you know be masked and in heavy heavy robes uh clutching onto staves their hands crackling with flames like like lamp light hmm but they all seem to stop at about 60 feet uh like i want to give like an impression for you like there are a lot of people out here uh does dude see this as well don't you have dark vision i do okay yeah yeah you would see it too hmm do you suppose they look friendly uh can't say for sure this deep in the soul too it's pretty deep pretty uh hard to determine whether or not they uh looking to make conversation or make off our bones uh no offense to you sir bright fucked up not his bones one of the like snarl audibly under her fucking gag mask as this happens a figure emerges from the group sort of like walking walking somewhat confidently in front of the group waving a hand back at all of the others who who stay at the peripheral edge um he's holding on to a torch um which he or actually more a lantern he comes holding a lantern in one hand has like a sword but it's not like in a combat stance it's sort of like held down and this figure comes into the the outer limits of of the light here like the low light viewers here catch it from from the light from your um from your campfire and this haughty elven figure looks at all of you well hello there i pull out my glock long shot seems you have uh made it very far in here sir bray will stand up chilled and mace at the ready and he'll be like like like who is one to come forth near to our campfire are you friend or foe and he'll point a mace at him and get already he bows my name is prince du chef it is a pleasure it is a pleasure to meet you uh prince du chef hi i am sir bray marrow escaper of flesh savior of orphanages pursuer of freedom slayer of obstacles acquire sturdy exteriors and acquirer of titles you will best stand before being my compatriots and i'll see you brought yourself friends i must say once more friend or foe i'm very much a friend oh dude come on i have no no no desire for conflict in fact in fact if it would do well for all of you i would like to pay you oh is it normal to walk up to fires and just throw money at people well i'm guessing that you are here and the employee of some other people so i'm just going to pay you more and ask if you can go home hmm an interesting offer but you must be aware we were paid two thousand gold apiece that's fine i have a crate of about uh five thousand gold okay that sounds fine to me most intriguing what exactly would you like from us i want you to go go away well kind of kind of sort of i mean kind of sort of well i want everyone but you to go away any points at vic me yeah i want you to come back with us i want to ask you some questions on our own show us the gold before we make any further negotiations oh sure of course some of that better be going to me and um two two two individuals come in they're they're sort of like heavier set folk they put down a like a just an overflowing chest of gold and like jewels lots of gemstones so bray will look at the king of moths and put a gauntlet hand on his shoulder try to whisper saying make sure that it's not that of illusion my friend oh but of course no one agreed to anything i will of course have to inspect it of course i will uh approach the gold does it seem to be legit uh you detect magic there is no illusory magic if you would like to give me something like an arcana check to see if there's any duplicity here absolutely i would love to do just such a thing 25. you are not seeing any trace of illusory magic on this this is this is the real coin i see and who do you represent mr duchin oh you see i am a concerned solitude uh outset citizen who well the people you're working for you know they are wanted right i'm just they did some bad things to some people i care about you know one of them the one with the blue skin she betrayed me oh that sounds to be aligned on that on the bountiful bounties criminals i think they are yes that's right and so i don't want you to get messed up with them but i know your time is important you've been in the swamp going around for a while so listen we're just doing this job so we can get paid from them and then we'll probably turn them in at some point anyway i want to save you the trouble because i'm probably going to to have to deal with them myself you know i mean my my my associates sort of like waves behind towards all the the like distant but still very close you must be a very powerful and brave warrior yes i am i don't believe this well-dressed beanpole thurston how do i detect this deception perception absolutely give me a while while you're doing that vick's going to like okay well you know what he's pretty charming he's also brought a lot of money that you've just been told is real you know that that's a very good point however however hero point okay it was one point less i really believe him this time you're just like wow all right all right really good point then all right listen this is all well and good you're asking me to come with you though where's my cut of it then what do you want part of the money if i'm being asked to come with you what the hell's the deal why me well i mean certainly we could provide you with more money at our camp it's not like i would come out here and give you all our money that would be stupid we have more at the camp this was just to get your companions to get your companions to go home uh-huh you still haven't answered why i'm needed uh because we know you are a associate of the uh the bucket head oh let me guess valdric's done something to piss you guys off yeah that is a bit of an asshole that one aren't we all that's right but i say if you know i don't have to deal with assholes and i get paid five thousand gold to do whatever true enough true enough but what if i also had business with this array of miscreants and then i would say that once they are in custody by the civil servants of outset you'll be fine wait wait wait wait wait wait you're with the city people we are a concerned citizens group yeah but you said that you were from the concerned citizens of solto and outset i said both yeah no you no you didn't know what you said he did he did dude has gaslit himself yeah common a common occurrence i don't remember that but time flows weirdly no no no no no no listen listen i go with shit as far as it falls between highwaymen and all that i do not answer to that authority you said you said you had more gold at your camp i do how much a lot well give me a number like more than this a lot more since a man is refined as me does not uh need to count his gold you see i don't think he's the accountant yes fair enough fair enough well look to everyone else so we all agree on what must be done here yes yes take the money and go home i could continue on my bird hunt and then happily enjoy my life somewhere else instead of this swamp yes yes but could we have a quick moment alone to discuss amongst ourselves of course i will just go back to my men and let them know excellent uh king of mars will return so we're of course killing them all i want you to understand there are several dozen of them well i don't think we can take them all on at once but we were paid two thousand to come out here if we take their money now circle around for a little bit keep an eye on them and pop back in when the moment's right might be able to sweep in and pick up that five thousand plus whatever else they're carrying and not have on them we can even leave them back to the camp we can take everything they have we could kill them all i do enjoy having more money i care about that tree more than any corner yeah i was just gonna give my share king over i'm with him i've got business yeah and you're going to spring me right because i have to go with them i have an idea for that um i can turn one of us invisible in order to accompany you to keep an eye on you i believe i would volunteer sir dude he is very uh stealthy like um what what is that old story the solid snake ah yes that ancient tale from the old tribes the adamantine serpent even markland knew about that yes we're fucking idiots i i think for the ease of figuring out who's gonna do what we could probably decide later who will go invisible just because like at the moment it's kind of like we're we're nearing time here unfortunately but that and how long the spell lasts it lasts an hour okay i so it sounds to me like the plan might be to uh to to have vic go off with pros and the boys well you take all of the money and then still stay around maybe in this uh this solitude region to keep a little eye on things a little eye on things right just wants the money yes the king of moths has business with the party i think that he if we don't think that we could fight them all here um then it may be to his benefit to linger about with those that would follow him to ascertain the end of his schemes it doesn't behoove him to have rahua up in shackles his tree son all right fine i'll go with them for now you assholes better be there though i assure you vitrix i and those who follow me will never be too far behind fine so victrix you follow the elf leaving your companions and as you you head out your companions stay a bit behind preparing it sounds to me uh preparing to to follow or at least be ready to to look around um you know given some time after prance and his his his coterie depart is that is that the the plan right now yes i think we will remain uh because you know yeah and whenever we want to send somebody out i will uh cast invisibility on the dude i honestly think having a second bard would be very funny and um as you as as you you the the this group begins to prepare maybe maybe 30 minutes after prance has departed there is a there is a sound and a thump that all of you feel and hear and dude is the first but very quickly the rest of you look and what comes out towards you from the swamps is an amalgamate of elemental and 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