[00:00:39] Speaker A: Welcome to the 92nd episode of the Cracked Die podcast.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: Hooray.
[00:00:46] Speaker C: We're live for now.
[00:00:48] Speaker D: I didn't mean for my voice to crack, but that kind of feels appropriate.
[00:00:52] Speaker E: Wait a minute, Sean, we started 80 seconds late. So it's what, ten second episode?
[00:01:00] Speaker A: Yep, 10 seconds. And thanks. Bye.
[00:01:05] Speaker C: What?
[00:01:07] Speaker A: No brain?
[00:01:09] Speaker C: Brain dying. Cannot compute.
[00:01:13] Speaker D: Not even slowly. It's happening very fast.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: No. You all managed to survive. I was very proud of everyone.
Twin Talon, I forgot to give you a hero point for bringing back knife sword. That was clutch. Because knife Sword was the one who actually took out the big, bad, evil monster.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: Yeah, magic damage man laughed at me.
[00:01:36] Speaker E: She did.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: So I just gave you another hero point.
[00:01:39] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: Now, remember, no hero points that you earn carry over from episode to episode. So real quick here, Twintalena, you have the one that carries over, plus the one for starting the episode. So you have two.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Great.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: Knife sword, you have two hero points.
Saraya, you have the one that carried over, plus the hero one from starting this episode. So you also have two. And Brianna, you have one.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: I will try better.
[00:02:14] Speaker E: Slacker.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: Also, I'd like to say happy birthday to me. It is August 12 today, and that is my birthday.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: Oh, happy birthday.
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Happy birthday. Yay.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: What are you, 22 again?
[00:02:30] Speaker B: Yeah, for the last 30 years.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: Wait, you're 52 now?
[00:02:35] Speaker B: No, I'm 22. Shut up, Shawn.
[00:02:37] Speaker A: Oh, sorry, sorry.
[00:02:40] Speaker E: I'm so confused. You used to be younger than me.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: Goblins. Goblins have ruined all numbers.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Goblin math. Good job.
This is what happens when you guys survive. It's a much happier opening.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: Than last week.
[00:02:59] Speaker D: Last week was like rumbling silence.
Yeah, right.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: And we are only eight episodes away from 100. 100.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: Have you figured out what you're gonna do for a hundredth episode?
[00:03:19] Speaker A: So you guys found some dream stones and a beautiful cauldron. I'm guessing that handily defeated Rusty may with no problems. You then spent an entire day resting and recuperating, as well as exploring and finding items. So all that's left is either to go back to the citadel and keep working on your repairs, or you can go through the other gate.
[00:03:55] Speaker D: We'll see what kind of hex map we have to explore this time. I don't actually think it's going to.
[00:04:02] Speaker B: Be that again, but I doubt it. What? I just. Before we go through, I just want to verify. Sean, we are all healed up. We have our spells. We're not like.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: Okay. Cause while it would be a dick move to put us against this giant, fight against the hags, and then immediately make us fight something else.
I've played.
[00:04:26] Speaker D: You're kind of a dick sometimes.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: The rest of this adventure pass, and sometimes that stuff happens. So I just want to verify that we're prepared, that's all.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: No, absolutely no. You've all rested. You've actually rested. Two days. Two days have passed in here. Just so you all know, it is the toils day, the 24th of Rova, 4719 ar.
[00:04:51] Speaker E: So if you're concerned about that, perhaps we should go back to the first portal, find a forest full of boars and just work on them for a while to train up.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: I mean, we. Man, we could kill boars in the forest until we're level ten, but I.
[00:05:10] Speaker E: Was thinking we're, like, 2020.
[00:05:11] Speaker B: Sure, why not?
[00:05:13] Speaker E: And then come back.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:05:15] Speaker C: Checks out.
[00:05:18] Speaker B: No, I do have a hex map.
[00:05:20] Speaker A: That you guys can explore again, if you'd like.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: Is it the main expanse? Yeah.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: Yes, it is.
[00:05:27] Speaker C: Pliss. No, please, Noah.
[00:05:30] Speaker D: I will absolutely go spend more time with the Yakuji, but please, no more hex.
[00:05:34] Speaker C: Right.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't want to go back to the mowing experience if I can help it.
Okay, so, yeah, I'm assuming that the second portal is also activated by the star knife.
[00:05:47] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: So if everybody's ready to go, Twintalent will be carrying the book with the two rituals in ithemenous.
Speaking of which, summon planar ally was the one ritual. Correct.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: Summon planar ally as well as resurrection.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Right.
So I'm just curious if it would be.
I don't know how long they last, but if it'd be worth, like, summoning a planar ally before we go through.
[00:06:18] Speaker D: I mean, do we have the ritual descriptions? Will that tell us how long it lasts?
[00:06:23] Speaker B: Cast one day. Cost is rare incense and offerings for a total of two gold times the spell level, which is five times the target's level, which I don't know what the target would be.
Secondary casters is two must share your religion. So we all have to have the same religion, which I don't know that we do. So I guess maybe that's not going to work out.
[00:06:42] Speaker C: Oh, you mean you guys are heretics and not following sarenrae seems cool.
Heretics.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: All right.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: Looks like someone needs to start to proselytize and baptize some new.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Oh, that's you. What's the. What's that? You want to be liberated?
[00:07:04] Speaker D: Well, you want. You want me to.
[00:07:09] Speaker E: I don't think it would be appropriate, considering I'm the God of my own religion, so that's fine.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: Yikes.
Again, I said it looks like someone needs to start proselytizing. I didn't say Saraya or Brianna.
I know.
[00:07:24] Speaker D: Jesus.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: Okay, so that portal, right, was a portal and a knife. I'm gonna touch it. I'm gonna touch it with my star knife.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: You gently press the star knife against the portal. It begins to shimmer.
You smell the sea wafting through the portal as it opens.
[00:07:43] Speaker E: I'm gonna dive through the portal as you cannonball. Yeah.
[00:07:50] Speaker C: Oh, no.
[00:07:52] Speaker A: All right. How are the rest of you going through the portal?
[00:07:55] Speaker C: Not diving, that's certain.
[00:07:57] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:07:58] Speaker B: More cautiously than that, Twintalon will take a deep breath and hold it while he steps through the portal. Just in case.
[00:08:05] Speaker E: Goblin bomb.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: As three of you walk through the portal and one of you goblin bombs through the portal, you emerge in a 30 foot cavern with a single exit to the north. You hear crashing surf crashing against rocks.
[00:08:27] Speaker E: Okay, can I roll to see if I landed on my head?
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Uh, no, you didn't land on your head. You firmly jumped and landed right on your butt.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: I'm disappointed when you say 30 foot cavern is a 30 foot tall or deep or long.
[00:08:43] Speaker A: 30 foot diameter.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: So it's a circle.
[00:08:46] Speaker A: Yes. And you do see an exit to the north where sun is beaming through.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: All right, I'm gonna look first for any dragon. Pillars.
[00:08:57] Speaker C: Checksa.
[00:08:58] Speaker A: No pillars.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: Okay, good. Good start. And then I guess Twintalon will stealth toward the entrance and look around to see what's outside.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: All right. What is Saraya doing?
[00:09:12] Speaker D: I'm gonna be poking around.
I'm quite familiar with living in caverns, so just seeing if there's anything interesting, any signs of life, any.
[00:09:21] Speaker C: Okay, Brianna, I think Brian is gonna follow her bestie.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: All right. Are you gonna raise your shield and move forward? Yep. Yeah. Okay. And knife. Sword.
[00:09:33] Speaker E: I'm gonna clamber into the backpack and pull out an umbrella and a towel and start running for the exit.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: Okay.
So as you reach the end and look out the entrance of the cave, you see that you are on a seaside cliff about 50ft up.
About 30ft below is a rocky beach. And in the distance you can see the steaming sea to the north. While just to the northwest, the coastline comes to a point where a small town is located. You notice that it sits about a half a mile away along the coastline, dotted with cypress trees. Smoke rising from a few smoldering buildings in the town. While an unusually large ship is anchored at the town's quay.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: What? How is it unusually large?
[00:10:34] Speaker A: From the size of the town, a boat this large would not be dock in a town this size.
[00:10:42] Speaker E: So it's like a battleship parked at a fishing village.
[00:10:45] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:10:47] Speaker E: I'm gonna disappointedly put my towel and umbrella back.
[00:10:51] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:10:52] Speaker B: And where we are is we're on a cliff that's 30ft up you said?
[00:10:57] Speaker A: Yes. The cave emerges from a seaside cliff. It's 50ft up to the bluff above and 30ft down to the rocky beach below.
[00:11:08] Speaker B: Okay, so we're. We could either climb up or down. So I. Yes, I see no reason to climb up right now.
[00:11:16] Speaker D: I mean a vantage point, see what else is around.
I guess I have a climb speed.
[00:11:22] Speaker B: So I could do pretty easily climb on up there.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: All right, so Saraya, you're gonna climb up to get a better vantage. Brianna, what are you going to do?
[00:11:33] Speaker C: I'm going to keep a look around to make sure nothing's going to sneak up on us.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: Where is your character initially from? I know you live in breech Hilt currently.
[00:11:44] Speaker C: Originally we were from Corvosa.
[00:11:50] Speaker A: Corvosa. Okay, cool. That's what I wanted to make sure.
Why?
Just wondering. Hmm.
[00:11:57] Speaker C: Sounds Susan.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: I mean Sean's always says twin Talon, what are you doing?
[00:12:02] Speaker B: Um, Twintalon is going to be keeping an eye as well. Um, trying to stay hidden. I mean below us. It doesn't look anything's on the beach below us. Right? You didn't mention anything.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:12:15] Speaker B: Um, so Twintalon will be. Twin talon's just gonna be hanging out, keeping an eye. He's not gonna go down yet, but he'll look down, make sure nothing's down there. And he's just gonna wait till Soraya tells him, you know, what's going on before he starts climbing down or up or wherever.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: Okay. And knife sword, now that you've disappointedly put your beach towel away, which I just want to let you know, the design was a goblin in a two piece with a bright smiling sun.
[00:12:47] Speaker C: Checks out. Yep.
[00:12:49] Speaker E: Seems right.
[00:12:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: So what are you doing? Knife, sword.
[00:12:53] Speaker E: Um, I'm going to do my little. I can't get that far, can I? How far away is the ship?
[00:13:03] Speaker A: Oh, it's about a half a mile away.
[00:13:06] Speaker E: Um, is it flying any colors?
[00:13:09] Speaker A: Oh, good question. Give me a perception check. Uh, Saraya, can you please also give me a perception check?
[00:13:18] Speaker D: Absolutely.
[00:13:20] Speaker A: Cause you make it up to the top. No problem.
[00:13:22] Speaker E: I got a 24 on perception.
[00:13:24] Speaker A: Can Brianna and Twintalon give me a society check?
[00:13:33] Speaker C: Brianna got a 17 for society.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: Got a 19.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: Great. And Saraya, what did you get for your perception?
[00:13:41] Speaker D: 25.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: Knife, sword and Saraya both can see at the. In the distance, the town, there's. There seems to be movement in frenetic patterns, as if people are running, as if there might be panic in the streets. Twin Talon and Brianna, even though you're looking around, trying to figure out where you are, I'm keeping an eye on things. You kind of don't know where in the world you are right now. You're near the steaming sea. You can. You can tell that's the steaming sea, but you're not sure where the steaming sea.
[00:14:25] Speaker C: You said.
[00:14:26] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:14:26] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Okay.
Matt doesn't know where the steaming sea is, but where is that in. In relation to where we were?
[00:14:36] Speaker A: So the steaming sea is actually near Verezia.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: Okay, so it's quite a bit north from where we are.
[00:14:48] Speaker D: Okay, interesting.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: So the steaming sea is southwest of Viregia, northwest of Ravnul, and it's kind of near the holds of Beltskin, which is where orcs live or lived.
[00:15:12] Speaker B: I mean, that's on the opposite side of Parisia. So if we're near this theming sea, like we. Is this theming sea all the way down to Ravenel, or is it only up there? So that could be in Ravenel. We could be in. Near Magnamar. Like, we don't. We're not sure where we are.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:31] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:15:32] Speaker A: Not sure where you are.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: Well, I hear this adventure path was going to Ravenel and Contago from the info dump we got from that guy with no eyeballs and bloody pants. So I'm gonna guess we're down that way.
[00:15:45] Speaker E: But other than that, yeah, we're obviously in.
But we're inside of a mountain, and there's something labeled the whole. The hollow Mountain. So ipso facto, presto change. Yes.
[00:15:58] Speaker A: Okay, you're somewhere on that, you know, western coast.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: Okay.
Also, I remembered now why Contago sounds familiar. It was the hell's rebels adventure path happened there.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:16:15] Speaker B: Which means if those are. If the events that are canon, Contago should be, like, in the hands of good people now.
I think that's how it worked out.
[00:16:27] Speaker A: I believe so. So here. Here's the deal with these adventure paths.
They are all. Everything from one e is still canon.
So Cantargo is under good people's rule now.
Queens have taken over in from, like, war for the crown.
Okay, curse of the crimson throne happened. All of the old AP still happened. Okay, so.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: Yes, okay, well, if sorrel doesn't see anything beyond what we all see, we should probably make our way to the town since that's our only point. Of reference.
[00:17:18] Speaker D: Yeah. Is there anything crazy happening on top of the bluff that I encounter, or. No.
[00:17:22] Speaker A: Uh, nope. Nope. It looks like this place has been, like, abandoned or. Nothing is here.
[00:17:30] Speaker D: Jesper gets into a fight with a seagull. That's about it.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, my goodness.
There are seagulls.
[00:17:38] Speaker C: Oh, no. Oh, no.
[00:17:40] Speaker D: I wasn't even thinking about that.
[00:17:44] Speaker C: Oh, no.
[00:17:46] Speaker E: I'm climbing in the backpack. Shutting the lid.
[00:17:50] Speaker D: So Saraya scrambles back down into the caves. No, it just seems like there may be some distress happening in the town, so we may wish to scoot that way.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: Intercede to head down is a relatively easy climb from the entrance to the beach. I do need athletic checks, though.
[00:18:11] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:18:12] Speaker D: Even if I have a climb speed.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: If you have a climb speed, you do not need to make an athletics check. Knife, sword. You do not need to make an athletics check. Brianna, for some reason, your athletics check is one harder.
[00:18:23] Speaker C: What the fuck?
[00:18:26] Speaker B: Might be all that weight in your backpack?
[00:18:27] Speaker D: No, Saraya just skitters down the side of the mountain.
She learned from the first rope endeavor and, like, decided she needed to climb. Learn how to climb.
[00:18:37] Speaker C: So, Brianna, I rolled a natural one.
[00:18:42] Speaker A: Correct.
However, you still succeed because you critically succeeded on the roll with your total.
[00:18:54] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: So basically, the crit fail and the crit success cancel each other out, and a 20 is more than enough to climb down.
[00:19:04] Speaker C: That's fun.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: Twintalon, you scamper down with no problem.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: Good, good. I got 23, by the way, in case anybody cares.
I mean, people can't see the.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: No, that's true. I forget that sometimes. Sorry. So as you start your walk towards the town, the seaside village, if you will, you take about an hour to get there to start to make progress, not because you're walking slow or anything, but because it's, you know, a kind of a rocky beach area. And I don't know how many of you have run or tried to run in sand, in, like, damp sand. It's not easy.
[00:19:53] Speaker B: It's tough.
[00:19:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it stinks.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: If you're someone who runs and you're like, I feel like I'm a good runner. Just run on a beach.
[00:20:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: And you'll be like, I don't know what happened to my legs.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: So after about an hour, you start to head into.
You start seeing small houses and whatnot, some trees and some sandheen. And as you reach the town, you notice that there are no people in the street. Suspiciously empty.
However, in front of you, walking out of one of the houses and away from your group, you see a dwarf pulling a mandeh in chains with a, with a medium sized boar also on a leash, and three women with crossbows in their hands.
[00:21:04] Speaker B: Do they look like the three women we are? The three one we saw previously?
[00:21:09] Speaker A: The tokens look the same. They do not look identical. They're not triplets or anything like that, but they are definitely look like they're sneakier than the person leading them. But it looks like they've come out of the house on the left and they're about to go into the house on the right.
[00:21:29] Speaker D: I just have to say again, I'm sure I said it last time, that when their tokens are minimized like that, it just looks like Alyssa Edwards without her wig on. And it's kind of hilarious to me.
Anyway.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Is the whole group going from the west to the east or are just the triad sneaks going from the west to the east?
[00:21:51] Speaker A: Everyone is going. Everyone is. It looks like they're kind of sweeping, looking for more people.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. So it almost looks like this is like a piratey type raid, that this big ship has come into this small port. All of the frenetic movement that you described earlier of people running around, people being taken away in chains, it seems like. Like the town's being raided.
[00:22:16] Speaker D: Yeah, it's the vibe I'm getting.
[00:22:18] Speaker C: What is our call here?
[00:22:19] Speaker B: I say we fuck them up. Like, we can't. We can't let people get hurt. Right? We're heroes. It's our whole vibe.
[00:22:25] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:22:28] Speaker D: We can. We can try to talk first, you know?
[00:22:32] Speaker C: I mean, I don't want to just assume something's happening without.
[00:22:37] Speaker B: That's fair.
[00:22:38] Speaker C: Properly knowing. That's all.
[00:22:40] Speaker D: Try to talk first.
[00:22:42] Speaker B: All right. So, uh, I guess we'll start walking toward them.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: Okay. As you.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Is that okay with everybody else? I'm not making this.
[00:22:50] Speaker D: Yeah, no, that's fine. Walk towards them.
[00:22:53] Speaker C: Let's do it.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: Life sword.
[00:22:57] Speaker E: I want to try it right now. Just. Did the birds go away?
[00:23:02] Speaker B: There are birds in your party. They will never go away.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: Let me know when you want to stop walking.
[00:23:10] Speaker D: Within like 15ft.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: Yeah, that's good there. I mean, they. Do they react to us walking up to them?
[00:23:17] Speaker A: Absolutely. So as you approach, they turn.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: Can we talk about our formation here for a second?
[00:23:23] Speaker A: Yes, you may adjust yourselves.
[00:23:25] Speaker D: Do we want to do a little v formation?
[00:23:28] Speaker B: I think that maybe Brianna in the back is probably not the way we wanted to go about it.
[00:23:33] Speaker D: Yeah, I think me and Brianna can probably switch because I think I'm more upfront. Oh no.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: As you approach, you see the three crossbow wheeling women. Turn around, the crossbows aimed at you. And the dwarf turns around and smiles, dropping the leash of the boar. And he steps up. You notice that the person in the middle is attached to a chain with a high muzzle like collar attached to his neck and lower face. Unable to speak.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: Hmm.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: The dwarf looks at you, smiles. You see that he's missing teeth and just there's mat. His beard is all matted and like knotted up. And he smiles and goes, ah, some prime.
Prime captives.
[00:24:39] Speaker C: Ah, so you are slavers.
[00:24:41] Speaker A: Give up your weapons and surrender and this will go much easier.
[00:24:47] Speaker D: This is not going to go the way you expect it to, I can promise you that.
[00:24:51] Speaker C: Precisely.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: That is almost certainly true. And twin Talon will pull out his weapon and be like, okay, I'm gonna give it to you, don't worry.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: All right, so I'm assuming x gonna.
[00:25:03] Speaker D: Give it to you.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:25:06] Speaker C: Is that the title of the song?
[00:25:08] Speaker D: There we go.
[00:25:08] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:25:09] Speaker D: That's this episode.
[00:25:12] Speaker C: So initiative happening.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:25:15] Speaker E: What?
[00:25:15] Speaker A: What did everyone get for their initiative?
[00:25:18] Speaker D: Saraya, I got a 30.
[00:25:22] Speaker A: Okay.
Brianna, I got a 16.
All right. Twin talon, 22.
Okay, that old very poorly.
[00:25:34] Speaker B: But I got a 22.
[00:25:36] Speaker A: And knife sword, 28. All right, so the dwarf will be going first and he will draw out a flail and step forward.
[00:25:57] Speaker B: Kill the triad sneaks they'd never suspected.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: 20.
And he will demand that you drop your weapons.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: Cute.
[00:26:12] Speaker A: Then one of the triad sneaks will go.
They will.
Or she will draw.
Drop their crossbow, old move. Draw rapier and move up near Briena.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: I like that she walked past Brienne to get there. I'm not really sure what her deal is, but I'm interested to see what this tack.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: I was gonna stay close, but then I decided not to.
[00:26:44] Speaker C: Ah, so not close enough for me to reach out.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:26:50] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: Sorry.
[00:26:52] Speaker D: Well, seeing as the starting to spread out like melted butter, take a couple steps. So I'm to the other side of twin Talon, right behind to Sani, and I'm going to throw a bomb at the Scarlet Triad sneak. That is still one of the two that's still standing closer to the captive.
Let's. Let's go with the classic to start. Let's do some alchemist fire.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: Fireball.
[00:27:27] Speaker D: Look, I just, I like my fire. Alright? It's fun.
Does a 35 hit her?
[00:27:35] Speaker A: It will critically hit her.
[00:27:38] Speaker D: Shree. Let me draw my car. It was a 19 on the die, so I'm excited.
Bomber spell. The target is dazzled until the end of my next turn.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: All right. And double damage, double bombage.
[00:27:55] Speaker B: Is that what you did to Rusty May. Oh, no. She, she dazzled herself with a crit fail.
[00:28:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:00] Speaker D: Yeah, that's what it was.
So the damage.
Wow. Three damage. So six fire damage 2% and to splash. Now I did want to see. So I. If I were to splash in a 15 foot cone from her, would that start?
I think I can either get like the boar or her buddy.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: I think you can get any one other bad guy basically. Because the way they're spread out, they're all.
[00:28:34] Speaker D: Yeah, kind of different angles.
Yeah, yeah. So I'll get, I'll just regular splash it instead of using the directional splash. And I'll get the sister, the other one. So. Yeah. So this one takes six fire plus the two persistent. This one takes the two splash.
[00:28:52] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:28:53] Speaker D: That's my first action. We're gonna do that again because I can.
I like doing these things with this. What I do.
[00:29:03] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:29:05] Speaker D: Alrighty. This time. Oh, this time it's a 30.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: That is not a critical.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: Put another natural 19.
[00:29:15] Speaker D: Yeah, another natural 19.
[00:29:16] Speaker A: That's just a regular hit.
[00:29:18] Speaker D: Alrighty.
So two d, eight damage. Hopefully do better this time. So that's eleven. The other one takes two more splash. I don't think the percentage persistent increases. So.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: It does not. So remember we were doing this super wrong for a while, but it takes the higher number of persistent and just replaces it.
[00:29:41] Speaker D: That makes sense. And now if it's two different kinds of persistent, if it's like, if I were to throw like an acid flask, those stack because they're different sources. Okay.
[00:29:50] Speaker B: They're different types. Yeah.
[00:29:53] Speaker D: And then I moved to do that. So yeah, that was, that's three actions.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: Okay then next up, if. Knife, sword. Knife, sword. You're cowering in the backpack.
[00:30:06] Speaker E: So my thought is maybe they haven't noticed me yet. So I'm gonna, if this is possible, I'd like to hold my action or make it a reaction or whatever until Brianna goes.
[00:30:16] Speaker A: Yes, you can adjust yourselves. Yes, you can delay yourself in initiative.
[00:30:21] Speaker E: All right. I'd like to delay myself to after Brianna.
[00:30:24] Speaker A: All right. So now the blood of boar.
Not blood borne blood, Borgo.
And it is going to bleed and die. Move 10ft and actually knife sword.
[00:30:40] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:30:41] Speaker A: I'm going to give you the. I'm going to that. You're, you're hidden right now.
[00:30:47] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: So the blood bore is going to flavor charge at Brianna.
[00:30:55] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: And then you hear a. You hear it squeal terrifyingly. I need everyone within. Are all enemies within 30ft?
[00:31:11] Speaker B: That's everybody. It's all of us.
[00:31:13] Speaker A: That's everyone.
Herbert may give me a will save.
Surya, what did you get?
[00:31:24] Speaker D: 22.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Knife, sword, 23. Soraya, that is a fail. Would you like to reroll the hero? Sure.
[00:31:33] Speaker D: I have two.
[00:31:34] Speaker A: Knife, sword. That is success.
[00:31:37] Speaker B: Wow. So 22 to 23. That's the difference.
[00:31:41] Speaker D: There we go.
[00:31:44] Speaker A: Brianna, what did you get?
[00:31:47] Speaker C: I don't want to say, but I got an 18.
[00:31:51] Speaker A: That is a fail. Would you like to use a hero point?
[00:31:55] Speaker C: Might as well.
[00:31:56] Speaker B: All right, we get to know what the effect is before we hero point.
[00:32:00] Speaker A: No.
[00:32:01] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:32:02] Speaker A: You know, if you succeed or fail and then you can decide if you want to reroll. And then from there we'll figure out what happened.
[00:32:10] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: Okay, here we go again.
[00:32:14] Speaker C: Here.
[00:32:14] Speaker B: Come on.
[00:32:15] Speaker A: Go.
[00:32:15] Speaker C: Come on.
That was a 31.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: That is a regular success. Woohoo. And twin Talon, a twin talent, rolled a 17.
[00:32:27] Speaker B: And with two hero points, I feel like I should use the one I got for today's episode to.
To maybe not be frightened or whatever the bloodbore is gonna make me do.
I think it's. I rolled a two. So in this combat I rolled a two and a two for initiative. And then also my will save. Hopefully there are other numbers on my dice.
A six is a 21, which is still a fail.
[00:32:51] Speaker A: Still a fail. But it's not a two. I mean, and knife, sword, what did you get? Oh, you got a 23. You passed. All right, so everyone.
Oh no, not everyone.
Saraya.
Yeah. Saraya and twin Talon, you are both frightened. One.
[00:33:12] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:33:13] Speaker B: Okay. So it's just negative one to everything for a turn.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: Yeah, not terrible. I was really hoping to get Brianna.
Cause you know how easy it is to scare a champion. A champion.
[00:33:33] Speaker C: Mm hmm.
[00:33:36] Speaker A: So now it's just gonna try and bite you with its third action.
32.
[00:33:45] Speaker C: What? To me?
[00:33:47] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:33:48] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:33:49] Speaker A: It's okay. It's not terrible. It's a regular, regular hit.
You take 16 points of damage from it biting you.
[00:34:01] Speaker C: Checks out.
[00:34:02] Speaker A: Yep.
Next up is another sneak. It's going to again drop its crossbow, draw its rapier, and it's going to move and it's going to attempt to tumble through twin Talon.
[00:34:25] Speaker B: And which, which save does have to.
[00:34:27] Speaker A: Be reflex or fortitude reflex. DC.
[00:34:33] Speaker B: Okay, I have a number in mind.
[00:34:35] Speaker A: Okay. And I'm making an acrobatics check.
[00:34:39] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:34:40] Speaker A: Ooh, this is a nice in between. Number 28, fail.
[00:34:46] Speaker B: It's not a crit fail, but it's a fail.
[00:34:48] Speaker A: All right, so I stopped my movement right there.
[00:34:53] Speaker B: And you trigger reactions as if you had moved out of the square. You started in.
Unfortunately, Brianna hasn't gone yet, or else she would have something to say about that, I'm sure.
[00:35:03] Speaker C: Yep. I apologize.
[00:35:05] Speaker A: No, don't apologize, because now it is twin talons turn.
[00:35:09] Speaker B: Okay, well, I was gonna have.
I was gonna do something else, but now there's a target right next to me, so I will attack it. What the fuck?
It's a natural one. I I have the worst dice. I don't know what is going on. I do not like foundry Sam. I am. It's full of crit fails and zero ham.
[00:35:35] Speaker A: Sir, there is a boar on the table. So there is ham.
[00:35:40] Speaker B: I mean, eventually, I guess I'll use my last hero point. I mean, yeah, it's my first round of combat. Why wouldn't I use every hero point I have?
[00:35:49] Speaker C: Right?
[00:35:50] Speaker B: And I'll try that again.
Attacking the sneak. Sneak is flat footed.
Two.
I gotta say, it's very frustrating when you can't. When. When a game is based upon a scale and you can only ever hit the bottom of the scale. For instance, you can look through every combat we've had since knife sword has been in the party. My bonus is seven higher than his, and I don't think I've ever beat him. I don't know why that is. I think my dice are fucked. But I'm also gonna think a 19 doesn't hit. And that's my first action.
[00:36:30] Speaker E: First mistake is I'm a God.
[00:36:32] Speaker B: Okay, my point is, though, if we rolled evenly, I would always win. But I've zero times one. I'm. I'm almost positive.
Somebody, what would you like to do.
[00:36:46] Speaker A: With your second action?
[00:36:48] Speaker B: I don't know. It doesn't really matter what I do, since it's not gonna hit, but I'll attack anyway.
[00:36:52] Speaker E: No, here comes the natural 20.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: I'm sure.
No, that's a nine for 22, which will also not hit. And, yeah, I'm just gonna make a nature check on the boar, okay? See if I learn anything about it. I get a 21, because I have assurance.
[00:37:13] Speaker A: All right, that is enough. What would you like to know about the boar?
[00:37:20] Speaker B: If it has any, like, damage, resistance or anything like that, or any weaknesses.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: It does not have any resistances or weaknesses.
[00:37:33] Speaker B: Okay, that's it. That's my turn.
Titan is gonna. Actually, Taysani is also here. She's within strike range of that creepy bald rapier lady. So Taysani is also going to attack her.
[00:37:49] Speaker A: Okay, just remember, you were frightened, Matt. That's why you couldn't hit.
[00:37:56] Speaker B: Sure. That negative one really made my ones and twos on my dice happened. All right, little beak damage.
28 to hit for the pterodactyl.
[00:38:12] Speaker A: She hit great.
[00:38:14] Speaker B: She does ten damage.
Beacon it up.
[00:38:19] Speaker A: Beacon it up.
Next. Is the dazzled. Is that what it is?
Dazzled and bleeding, or. And bleed on fire.
Scarlet triad member dropping. Crossbow. Drawing. Rapier. Stepping forward.
And we'll swing. Well, we'll attempt to swing at Brianna. So we're gonna roll a 25 or higher.
So five on the flat. Check to hit.
Rolls a five so she can swing.
Swings. The rapier.
31 will not hit. Clang, clang, clang. What? The shield.
Brianna, it is now your turn.
[00:39:14] Speaker C: Cool. I swing at everybody at the same time.
[00:39:19] Speaker B: Cool.
[00:39:20] Speaker C: I wish I could do that.
[00:39:21] Speaker D: Unfortunately.
[00:39:21] Speaker C: Unfortunately, I'm not that cool.
All right. All right, you three. I don't want to get away from my party. I want to keep them in front of me. So since there is one between knife, sword, Twintelle and myself, I will attack that one first.
[00:39:42] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:39:42] Speaker C: Will a 29 hit?
[00:39:44] Speaker A: A 29 will hit.
[00:39:46] Speaker C: Beautiful. Take 13 points of damage.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: All right, what do you think?
[00:39:52] Speaker C: I should evenly distribute some damage, or should I focus fire on this one?
[00:39:58] Speaker B: I would focus fire. Taking them out. There's one less attack they have.
[00:40:01] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:40:01] Speaker B: You know, three fewer actions on their side.
[00:40:04] Speaker C: A 25. Will that hit?
[00:40:06] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:40:06] Speaker C: It will take 14 points of damage.
[00:40:09] Speaker A: All right.
[00:40:10] Speaker C: And as my last action, I will raise my shield.
[00:40:13] Speaker A: The shield. Knife, sword. It is now your turn.
[00:40:17] Speaker E: Okay, so because I'm on her back, I technically occupy the same square as Brianna, right?
[00:40:23] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll say that.
[00:40:27] Speaker E: All right, so I'm going to pop out of the backpack, and I'm going to vomit over Brianna's shoulder onto the boar and the sneak right in front of us.
[00:40:38] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:40:39] Speaker E: I'm vomiting at level three.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: A level three puke. Okay.
[00:40:44] Speaker E: Mm hmm.
It's my attack roll. 36.
[00:40:48] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:40:49] Speaker A: That is a critical success.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: Against both of them.
[00:40:55] Speaker A: Against both of them.
[00:40:57] Speaker E: Do I draw with one card or two?
[00:40:59] Speaker A: Uh, I'll draw a draw one.
[00:41:04] Speaker E: Okay.
Stun normal damage. The target is stunned, to which, I guess, appropriate response.
[00:41:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I would be stunned as one vomited on me.
[00:41:16] Speaker E: Vomiting seagulls and shit.
Let me roll damage real quick.
[00:41:23] Speaker A: Yeah, go ahead and roll damage.
Hey. Hey, Matt.
[00:41:27] Speaker B: Yeah?
[00:41:28] Speaker A: What? What do you keep rolling?
[00:41:31] Speaker B: That would be natural ones.
[00:41:33] Speaker A: Okay, well, just so you know, I'm also rolling those numbers so they critically fail anyway.
[00:41:40] Speaker B: Good.
[00:41:41] Speaker A: So we'll keep the stun on them and normal damage.
[00:41:44] Speaker B: Sounds good.
[00:41:45] Speaker E: And now they're sickened as well.
[00:41:46] Speaker A: But they are also sickened one as seagulls. And everything fall.
This poor sneak. I'm just saying.
[00:41:57] Speaker E: Surprise. Goblin.
[00:42:01] Speaker B: Goblin surprise.
[00:42:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Terrible surprise. Alright, so the obvious leader of this pack assesses the situation.
You see them draw out manacles in their free hand. Step up to Brianna, who is quite obviously the most dangerous one in this group.
[00:42:29] Speaker C: Probably not.
[00:42:30] Speaker E: That's breath weapon she just used.
[00:42:34] Speaker A: And will swing with the flail.
[00:42:38] Speaker C: All right, bring it.
[00:42:40] Speaker A: Consider it brot natural 20.
[00:42:43] Speaker C: Fuck you, man.
[00:42:47] Speaker A: Yeah, and wanna know the worst part? He's named no.
This is a bludgeoning effect.
Staggering blow. The target is stunned too.
[00:43:03] Speaker C: Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
[00:43:05] Speaker A: So you're gonna take two d six plus ten. So twelve plus ten is 22, times two is 44 plus ten. Geeze.
All right, why does he have plus ten?
[00:43:17] Speaker B: I want to dissect him when he's dead.
[00:43:19] Speaker A: So that's 44 points of damage onto Briena. Would you like to use your shield at all or would you rather not? Do you want to use the shield block reaction or do you want to save your reaction for something else?
[00:43:36] Speaker B: Also, sorry to interrupt, but the spikes, is that part of shield block or is that separate?
[00:43:41] Speaker A: That is part of shield block.
[00:43:42] Speaker B: Okay. No, fuck it.
[00:43:44] Speaker C: I'll just take it to the face. My whole build is to take hits. I'd rather be able to save my friends should things go around them. So I'll take it.
[00:43:54] Speaker B: That's very brave, using your liberating step on somebody else.
[00:43:58] Speaker C: Try, man.
[00:43:59] Speaker A: All right, next up is a scarlet triad sneak who is going to go go 520 to Saraya.
Pull out some manacles and stab at Saraya.
[00:44:19] Speaker D: She's whipping out manacles for giggles.
[00:44:22] Speaker A: A 20.
[00:44:23] Speaker D: That will miss.
[00:44:25] Speaker A: That will hit.
[00:44:27] Speaker D: No, that is not what I said and you know it.
[00:44:30] Speaker A: Oh. Oh, yeah. No, I missed.
It is now your turn because I.
[00:44:36] Speaker D: Can and because I don't think we've ever seen her do this before.
Saray is gonna punch someone in the face. Okay, look, I have my handwraps.
I know how to throw a punch, apparently.
She's like, how dare you.
Will a 29 hit her?
[00:44:58] Speaker A: A 29 will hit.
[00:45:00] Speaker D: Awesome.
And then since I. That is pretty. Yeah, it's just like, how dare.
How very dare.
[00:45:09] Speaker C: Checks out.
[00:45:11] Speaker D: And then I assume it's just the same as like a regular hit, but it's lethal instead of non lethal.
[00:45:18] Speaker A: Yes. Cool.
[00:45:21] Speaker D: I think it's like one d four, but.
[00:45:26] Speaker A: It is one d four.
[00:45:28] Speaker D: Cause I have no strength whatsoever.
[00:45:30] Speaker A: That is correct. Plus one striking handwraps of mighty blows. It's two d four.
[00:45:35] Speaker D: Cool. So two d four damage because how very dare you try to manacle me. Doesn't work like that. Seven damage.
[00:45:44] Speaker A: Wow.
So Raya just hauls off and socks this triad member, this sneak in the face.
Wow.
[00:45:55] Speaker C: Checks out.
[00:45:57] Speaker D: Excuse you.
[00:45:59] Speaker A: That was your first action.
[00:46:01] Speaker D: I am aware that was my first action.
Okay, so I don't want to.
I don't think I want to throw a bomb at her just because of how everything is situated. But I am going to throw one at the other sneak that I was targeting before.
And this time I am going to do the calculated splash bit where it's going to be the 15 foot cone, because that should hit, I think, the boar and the other sneak.
So for a second attack, it's only.
[00:46:38] Speaker A: An 18 will miss.
[00:46:41] Speaker D: Yeah.
So does any of the splash damage still happen?
[00:46:47] Speaker A: Yes, the splash damage will hit three of them.
[00:46:51] Speaker D: Okay, so two splash, two fire splash.
[00:46:55] Speaker A: And you have one more action, right?
[00:46:57] Speaker D: I do.
[00:46:58] Speaker A: Okay, well, I want you to think about it for a while.
[00:47:01] Speaker D: Oh, I hate you so much.
[00:47:03] Speaker A: I hate you.
And we'll come back to it next week.
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