Episode Transcript
[00:00:43] Speaker A: Waking up dreaming dark so long I cannot find the meaning hold my hand, let me stay by your side through this never ending night I can feel it now it holds me all these demons always roam me in this red light because me he is reaching out consuming.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: This heart hello everybody and welcome back to Goblets and Gaze. I'm Aubrey, your gm. I'll tell some of my players, introduce themselves, who they are, who they're playing, and we'll get on rolling into things.
[00:01:40] Speaker C: Hi, I'm Maki. My pronouns are she, her and I play Gravewing, the Nagaji sylph, vigilante monk slash air kineticist who also uses she her pronouns and she is the party mom slash strategist of the Rebellion.
[00:01:58] Speaker D: Hello, hello, I'm Alyssa. My pronouns are they, them and I play Leith Idrisi iv, the matricidal, dampier, dandy, rogue and spymaster who uses she any pronouns?
[00:02:13] Speaker E: Hello, I am Dusty, I use they he pronouns and I'm playing Yurido, Just Yurido. Still, they are our Nephilim cursed boy of a problem.
They are going to be the party and is Rebellion's firebrand and they also use they he pronouns.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: Hello, I am Faris, I use she her pronouns and I am playing Alouette Valer, a totally normal Nephilim thaumaturge bard having a very normal and good time learning all about her way more cursed family. She also uses she her pronouns and is the anathema partisan.
[00:02:55] Speaker F: Hello, I am Sparlock, and both me and my character use he him pronouns.
I'm going by Alistair Whiskerfield, wizard detective extraordinaire, as heir to the fine distinguished family of wizard mice, Ratzerts, Esoki, arcanists, I swear I was always aware of it. I keep my whiskers to the ground to uncover the truth of the powers that be who subjugate us, by which I mean I'm our recruiter and hello.
[00:03:28] Speaker G: To round off the group. I am Tick, I have he, she, they pronouns and today you'll be playing Nile, a flesh warp sorcerer who is just a totally ordinary cook and quartermaster for the group and definitely not a cannibal parenthesis. He's a cannibal, but it's a dietary restriction, so don't be too mean to him.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: I what happened last time?
[00:03:52] Speaker G: Well, first of all, it took me forever to unmute, but last time on gaze and goblets in the Tyrant of the Dark Star, we descended into the deep deep lake and made our way to the bottom where there is supposed to be a little temple. We're supposed to settle into and then surprise zombies at the bottom of the ocean. Isn't that fun? They had weapons that were totally, definitely not covered in tetanus. And we had a very grueling fight, which was half of us couldn't really do much, and Moth Bomb just kind of came in swinging with every body part and. And proceeded to kick ass. And honestly, thank you, Mothmom, for making me have to fight that fight. I was not prepared for it. None of my spells were good at this. But we got through the fight.
Do any of us have any diseases? Hypothetically? That's not confirmed.
At least one of us is a parasite. But that was her before this fight. And so after that, Kessie kind of swam by. And technically, since she now counts as a creature of the night, Leith was able to say, hey, buddy. And Cassie was like, friend. And she was like, yeah. And we were like, okay, bet. So we kind of felt some vibes out and we followed Kessie into this little cave. And I think there is a guy in the Peter Griffin death pose that we have to save from a bunch of other guys, which means, honestly, we get to kill people, I get to have a nice snack, and no one needs to know. So, yeah, I'm ready to go fuck up some guys, you know?
[00:05:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:15] Speaker G: I did not laugh. My sprite laughed. I did not laugh.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Yeah, well, yeah, no. We're gonna start off with rolling some initiative as you know, exiting out of the water. You weren't particularly quiet.
And we're going to start off with one of the figures in the darkness.
You all have been noticed.
They are going to spend their first action to pull out a weapon.
It looks to be some sort of throwing blade. And the first one is going to go at you, Lou.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: I spend their first action to pull out the weapon, second action to sort of run their fingers along the blade doing something. And then third action, throwing it.
[00:06:15] Speaker D: No, Lou, the only knife pervert you can be around is me.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: You're at the other end of the lineup.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: It's a 21.
[00:06:22] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: Have fun.
I don't have armor on right now, Aubrey. Just reminding you we don't have armor. Typically. We were just in our underwear getting shanked in an underwater cave.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Can you make me a Fortitude save?
I can try DC20 if that helps.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: It does not. Okay.
Am I getting tetanus? I rolled a 14.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: Well, we're gonna start off with seven damage.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Okay. That's okay.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: And then you are going to take 1d4 poison damage every round.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: Okay, what's the first round?
[00:07:10] Speaker B: It'll happen on your turn.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: It's happening in a minute, like 30 seconds. So what's it. What's it gonna be while I'm doing math?
[00:07:20] Speaker B: Third action. Yeah, it'll happen at the end of your turn.
[00:07:23] Speaker A: Oh, okay. I won't do math yet.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: But yes, now it will be your turn.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Lou's gonna say ow.
And then it's going to.
Which one just threw a knife at me.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: It essentially is directly in front of you.
[00:07:46] Speaker A: So that rock is clearly not actually in the way. Okay.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: It's like waist high, not in the way.
[00:07:55] Speaker A: Gotcha. Yes.
If they can hit me, I can hit them. Theoretically. Yeah. So she's going to. We're gonna start off an exploit vulnerability here. I don't know why I expect anything from my dice anymore.
Okay, that still should be decent because that's gonna be 21. I think that's just. Just barely.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Yes, yes, that is.
[00:08:21] Speaker A: Okay. Give me the weakness.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: They do not have a weakness. It also gives you. They have no immunities and no resistances.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Good to know.
Cool.
Lou's gonna register that, and it's just gonna decide.
These people are sneaky and hiding. She's here to make a lot of noise, and that's gonna be the personal antithesis. It's just her making a ton of noise. So thaumaturgy at its weirdest. And then she's gonna ring her bell and chuck a card.
So that's gonna be.
It's gonna. Oh, I don't even have to.
It's gonna be a dirty 20.
[00:09:12] Speaker B: Dirty 20.
Dirty 20 will hit.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: Okay, and then that's gonna be. I don't remember. The damage is. So I'm gonna ask this thing to roll it. Except that's not the whole damage. Whatever it rolls is only half of it because.
Okay, so 12. And then plus my exploit vulnerability. So that's going to be plus four. Plus my empowerment, which is going to be another plus two. So plus six. So that's going to be 12. Plus six is 18.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: 20. 20.
[00:09:46] Speaker A: It is 20 panic for a minute. Sorry.
20 damage with a wicked paper cut.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: And as you do it and you can hear and you draw this thing's blood, the chamber does fill with this sort of acrid, spoiled blood smell.
[00:10:09] Speaker D: I get a fletch. Nile.
[00:10:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I think she's gonna.
You know what? I don't think it smells that bad to her.
Not as bad as it might have smelled a few weeks ago.
Okay, I'm gonna. I'm gonna throw Another card.
Oh, I got really excited and then remembered mass is not tons. I don't think this one's gonna hit because it's the exact same number I rolled last time, but minus five, I assume. Yeah. So that's only gonna be at 15.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: Yeah, 15 is not going to hit.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: That's okay.
I didn't expect it to.
[00:10:49] Speaker B: They're ready for the second attack and nimbly dodge out of the way.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: I just call them both back.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: Poison.
[00:10:57] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:10:58] Speaker B: You're gonna take three poison damage.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: And give me another 42 save.
[00:11:04] Speaker A: Okay.
Oh, that might be okay. That's gonna be a 23.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: 23, 23, 24 succeeds. You shake off the poison. You know, probably take a second to like just sort of like rub whatever area it was, try to get any of the poison away from any open wounds.
[00:11:26] Speaker A: I think the wound that was that like where the cut was, there's like a push of feathers that like pushes out of the wound itself and then just like shed to the ground.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: Yeah, thanks. Yeah. And then we move on to one of these other people. And these, it's hard to see in sort of the lack of with just there's only this bioluminescent like fungus on the ceiling.
They are wearing these robes. You will see them a little bit better in just one second. They tap their staff and they say some words of power and they spend their first two actions to cast light on their staff, which will illuminate all of them.
And you see a contingent of the holy blood, it's very obvious with their uniforms.
And you see two of these people who look to be lamplighters, they are both wearing, they are, they have the symbol of the Warden on their robes.
And so for this first two actions, cast light. You see two of these, you see three of these people in sort of these tight fitting leathers. Clearly used to be able to move quickly and attack quickly. And one person with a giant fuck off hammer.
And last action is going to be to move, spread out a little bit and we'll come to another assassin.
So there's been their first action to move 25ft, sort of putting them in a diagonal with Louis, who's the only one who's attacked so far. And second action, pull out one of their throwing knives. And third action, throw the throwing knife.
4. 25.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: That'll hit.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Yep. Not a crit.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: No, no.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: But because they didn't have an action to poison it, you're not gonna have to deal with that. You're just gonna take 8, 8 piercing damage next up is Alistair.
Yes.
[00:13:54] Speaker F: Yes.
So just for a little bit of context, we're just coming out of the water right as we enter this cavern and see them, are we, like, coming out from deep water? Are we wading in from a distance? Like, how deep is the water that I'm currently in?
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Everyone else is kind of like less than a foot. So it's. You have weighted up, essentially. You swam down an underground tunnel and sort of the area, you know, came.
It gets shallower as it moves to the shore, so you're able to get to a point where you're able to stand. And it's not considered difficult terrain or underwater, so, you know, you don't have to worry about underwater rules.
[00:14:46] Speaker F: Yep, Yep.
Yeah. The just depends on whether or not I want, like, how badly I want to move, which. I'm like a foot of water that's like, you know, waist high to me. So I'm wanting to move. I will move forward. I see a little patch of ground that I can stand up on a little bit better and shake my.
Shake my fur out.
And I see this guy that just made himself a big target and has magic. Is that he? Is he the guy, like, straight ahead of me or the guy a little more to the right?
[00:15:27] Speaker B: A little more, too. Well, to the left, I guess.
[00:15:32] Speaker F: Well, I'm a piano teacher. I know how to reverse. Definitely. To the right.
Your left, his left, my right. Okay.
Okay. So I'm going to take a look at him, and I am going to devise a stratagem. A 13 on my D20.
Yeah. You know, yeah, I'll go with that until I see better.
So I will use my third action. Oh, wait, that's free action because.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: He'S.
[00:16:18] Speaker F: Part of the thing. So that was free action. So move free action, devise a stratagem. I will go ahead and use that stratagem to strike with my crossbow, take a shot at him.
There we go. So that looks like eight damage, which is not all that much for three dice. Oh, I got a one, a three, and a four.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: But, yes, you hit, and it does take the damage. And that'll bring us to grave wing.
[00:16:55] Speaker C: I have just enough. Y'all are so. Okay, so I have just enough movement speed to actually do one action to kind of stride up to the.
The assassin that first hit. Lou Fairly Certain, it's this one.
So I'm gonna just. Yeah, just gonna do my first little thing to get me all the way here right in front of it. Oh, that's so scary. I knew there was a There. I knew there was a there.
So yeah, nice and front and personal. That's my first action. I also want to openly state that I'm still in the dragon's dance because I have not left the serpentine form.
I'm big long snake.
I see that they're holy blood. I start hissing because you can't you put me in front of my ops, you know, like, it's time. It's time. Like, we gotta throw some hands.
[00:18:03] Speaker B: Throw hands.
[00:18:05] Speaker C: So let's flurry of blows. This assassin. And if I land any, I will probably stun.
Was a stunning strike.
[00:18:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:16] Speaker C: Them as well.
First attack is a dirty 20.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: Dirty 20 will hit.
[00:18:24] Speaker C: And the next attack is natural 20.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: That will also hit.
[00:18:29] Speaker C: That's why as I decided to flip you off for no reason.
Sorry.
But yeah, the Natural tiny. Technically 25.
Do I still have the thing? I. I still. Does your thing still work, Lou? You gave me like that. It's a one time. Okay. Yeah.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:18:50] Speaker C: Just wanted to double check that.
[00:18:52] Speaker B: So, yeah. Your card is.
I see stars. You. This one is a take or not because it's normal damage. But they are dazzled until healed.
[00:19:07] Speaker C: What does dazzle do again?
[00:19:09] Speaker B: It means anything. All their allies and enemies are considered concealed from them. So they have to pass a DC5 flat check to even attack things or interact with things or like, you know, say, if they're healing somebody.
[00:19:27] Speaker C: Okay. Oh, and if I don't take it, is it still normal damage?
[00:19:33] Speaker B: If you don't take it, it's double damage. But you don't get it. You don't get like a card effect.
[00:19:40] Speaker C: I'll take it. I'll take it. All right. Yeah. Because this one can make ranged attacks, so that might be a little bit better.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
So, yeah, just normal damage twice.
[00:19:51] Speaker C: Normal damage twice. Okay.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Both attacks will do normal damage, but this one will be considered dazzled, which is pretty good.
[00:19:58] Speaker C: And I'm also doing the stun. So I think you need to.
[00:20:03] Speaker B: You gotta make a yes.
[00:20:04] Speaker C: Fortitude save.
[00:20:05] Speaker F: Right?
[00:20:05] Speaker B: Fortitude save. Yeah.
[00:20:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
My class D.C.
is.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: I think they're getting stunned. That's an eight.
[00:20:17] Speaker C: I think my class D.C. is like a 19 at the check again later.
The first damage should be 10. 10 points of damage on the first hit. And the second one will be also. It's just regular damage because I took the. The card.
13 points of damage for the second hit.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: All right.
[00:20:45] Speaker C: They are bludgeoning. And it looks like this is stunned, right?
[00:20:51] Speaker B: Yes, they will be stunned.
[00:20:53] Speaker C: How do they look? Because I have one more Action.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: They don't look great.
[00:20:57] Speaker C: They don't look great.
[00:20:58] Speaker B: Between you and Leo dealt some pretty good hits.
[00:21:04] Speaker C: I am going to actually use my wayfinder because my wayfinder has a stone in it. It's a dusty rose prism, and I'm pretty sure it lets me shield or something.
[00:21:20] Speaker B: Yes, yes, you can use that to cast shield.
[00:21:25] Speaker C: Yeah. So you're gonna see one of the many things that Gravelyn put in her mouth.
We have established off camera that she used one of the potions on us. That means we had time to take out the things in her throat pocket. The only reason why I'm establishing this all out loud is because technically, the only way to empty the third pocket is to spit everything out. So I don't want to do that again because it takes, like, an action.
I'm just going to say, while we were. While I already did that prior, I kept the Wayfinder out this time around. Maybe like on.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: In the titty.
[00:22:14] Speaker C: My. In the titties. Yeah, in the titties. I was. I was literally grabbing my own, thinking, where else could I put the boobies?
And. Yeah, just so. Yeah, pull out the. The. The wayfinder and kind of just.
I always think of the Wayfinder as actually like a compact Loki. And so we're just gonna open it, like, compact, and there's a pretty little pink rock, and I just click. I just, like, touch the pink rock. Like. Like imagine if it were a button, but it doesn't move.
And. And then I get covered in this really nice pink light because SHIELD is.
[00:22:58] Speaker B: In a plus plus one to your AC and you've got the SHIELD block reaction.
[00:23:05] Speaker C: I'm a very long winded way of doing all of that.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: And that'll bring us to Laith.
[00:23:14] Speaker D: Yeah. Laithe is still pretty damaged from that last fight, despite getting patched up a bit by Yuda.
So she is going to not run to the enemies around graveling, but instead to the assassin at the side, who also hit Lou. So that's a bonus.
I am going to faint with my dagger, sort of pretend to stab, and then hit them with my dagger, hopefully.
So it's against their perception. D.C. and that is a 21.
[00:23:58] Speaker B: Yes, that is going to succeed.
[00:24:00] Speaker D: Okay, great. And as she does that, she will sort of step to the side of them because I get a free step and I might as well. And actually, she was here. She'll step to the side of them and then go in for a blow that is cocked.
28.
[00:24:24] Speaker B: 28 will hit. And do you count as. Do they count as off guard to you.
[00:24:31] Speaker D: Yes, they do.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: Then it's a crit.
[00:24:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:24:35] Speaker D: Because of the faint.
That is 12. A whopping 12 damage to them.
[00:24:43] Speaker B: Dang.
[00:24:46] Speaker D: But that will be my turn.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: Damage is damage I. And we come to the hunter with the big suck off hammer for his first action. He's going to slam the hammer down onto the ground. And you watch as the ground cracks a little bit underneath it.
And he says let none of them stand and is spending an action to rally all of his allies.
And so all of them will gain status bonuses to their attack. And damage rolls.
Second action will step up to you, Grave Wing and is going to swing them all at you.
And that is a 27 to hit.
Max damage of 17 bludgeoning damage as this hammer just cracks down on you.
[00:25:54] Speaker C: Good to know that their max damage is 17 for this attack.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:00] Speaker C: For this attack. Yeah.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:01] Speaker C: For a hammer.
[00:26:04] Speaker B: And that'll end their turn. As you know, they square off against you.
You're not really in uniform.
[00:26:13] Speaker C: So I am a giant snake.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
I don't think. Do you. Does Grapewing often go out as the snake?
[00:26:22] Speaker C: On and off. It really is just. You might have seen it. You might not have kind of.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: There's a chance that this person, these people know who they're up against. You're unsure?
[00:26:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: And that'll bring us to Yuri.
[00:26:38] Speaker E: The ones that are visibly lamplighters.
First action. Because we're no longer underwater. Yurida with a quick practice like swipe against her hand is going to use my crimson right to light my surround ablaze. And then I'm gonna sudden charge this one right here all the way right over there. We roll that attack. I need a good dice.
You know what it we. We rick roll.
We use a hero point.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: You written it down.
[00:27:19] Speaker E: It literally says down on the number.
All right, that's much better. That is. Let's see.
Weapons.
Sarant. Saran. Sarant. That is going to be a 22.
[00:27:39] Speaker B: A 22.
A 22 will hit.
[00:27:43] Speaker E: Hell yeah. So Yuri charges with the surat. It is ablaze. So they're going to be taking to the eight plus six plus two.
17 stashing, I believe.
Yeah.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: 17 damage total.
[00:28:03] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: All right. They are still standing.
[00:28:09] Speaker E: I spit at them. That's my turn.
[00:28:13] Speaker B: It is now their turn.
[00:28:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:16] Speaker E: Fuck you.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: And they are going to spend their first action to cast this spell at you. They reach out a hand and it's got this sort of ring with this sort of long sort of pointed edge on it. And they are going to and as they do, they scratch it along your skin. And I need you to make a fortitude save. As they cast spiders sing at you.
[00:28:48] Speaker E: That is going to be a 23.
[00:28:51] Speaker B: 23. You will succeed, so you will not get poisoned, but you will take half damage.
You'll take two piercing damage.
They have this shield on one of their other arms. There's been their last action to raise their shield.
[00:29:11] Speaker E: And as they're doing that, I'm saying, sorry, I left my boot up there, so you can't look it.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: And that will bring us to the final assassin who has not gone yet.
Seeing Leith corner in on their ally, they're going to spend their first action to move, putting Laith in flank.
And so they pull out a kukri. They've got a kukri in one hand and they're going to stab you with that. Well, so they're gonna just move. They're going to poison the kukri with one action and then stab you for a 19.
[00:29:59] Speaker D: I will dodge. Nimble dodge right out of the way.
[00:30:04] Speaker B: And you're good. That is their entire turn, as you know. You nimbly dodge their attack and that'll bring us to Nile.
[00:30:14] Speaker G: So I'm not very happy at the fact that someone is flanking. Leith is alright. But Honestly, they're within 30ft now, so I can do what I wanted to do. I was just kind of watching and waiting. It's like, is someone gonna move within 30ft? Oh my God, I hope one day you moves within 30ft. That'd be so cute of you. Has it been 10 minutes since our last fight?
[00:30:32] Speaker B: Give or take, it's been 20 minutes.
[00:30:34] Speaker G: Perfect. Thank you. That is fantastic. Dare I say. So for my first two actions, I would like to cast a second level ink shot at the guy who was flanking Leif. And that is a spell attack from my end.
That is a 25 to hit.
[00:30:52] Speaker B: 25 will hit.
[00:30:54] Speaker G: So they'll take 11 damage. And also they're dazzled for one round.
And for my third action, I'm going to do that spicy little shield spell, because I think I'm gonna need it as a tree.
I'm not moving. I'm just chilling in the puddle here, you know.
[00:31:14] Speaker B: So it is now we're back to the top of the round with round two. And it's the first assassins to go. The one that Gravewing just kind of brought absolute hell down on.
And they are kind of rubbing at their eyes, just trying to not be dazzled anymore. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way, so. And they lose their first action for being stunned. So they are just going to wildly take two kukri attacks at Graveling.
So the first attack is a dirty 20, and the second attack is a 15.
[00:31:55] Speaker C: I neither hit.
[00:31:58] Speaker B: All right. Yeah. They're telegraphing their attacks far too much, mostly because they can't see for shit.
And that'll bring us to Lou.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: Okay.
Is the hunter in the way of the first assassin?
[00:32:18] Speaker B: Yes, they're standing directly in front, and.
[00:32:22] Speaker A: Graveling's tall now, so she's also in the way.
Okay. I'm going to.
Well, Lou's probably going to, like, be very taken aback once she realizes who we're fighting.
Specific, like, the lamplighters especially, are going to catch her off guard, and she's going to have some. Some internal deliberation. But clearly our lives are in danger and people she cares about are in danger, so can't do nothing.
So she's going to move.
Maybe we're just going to hit the hunter instead.
No, our two heaviest hitters are over there. So I changed my mind. I'm not running anywhere. I'm staying put because I can reach the assassin flanking lathe from here, and I'm going to just move.
[00:33:24] Speaker B: Re.
[00:33:24] Speaker A: Exploit this particular assassin.
Yeah, that should do it. That's going to be a 26 to exploit them.
[00:33:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that is going to be a success.
[00:33:39] Speaker A: Okay. I think that she's going to have, like, a weird moment of just.
She's struggling a lot mentally right now, and I think just out of instinct, she's going to, like, trace a symbol of the star mother, and that's the personal antithesis here. Even though arguably these people are theoretically also worshippers of the star mother. But we can resolve that later.
And she's going to chuck a card.
Yeah. Okay.
No, get in the tray.
That's not a good roll. That won't do anything.
I don't think a 16 hits, right.
[00:34:29] Speaker B: 16 will now hit.
[00:34:30] Speaker A: I didn't think so.
[00:34:31] Speaker B: You have a hero point.
[00:34:33] Speaker A: I do have a hero point. Feels kind of early to use it.
[00:34:35] Speaker B: But you know what?
[00:34:36] Speaker A: Screw it. Let's do it. We're gonna do it. Okay. Mark that one down as no go. Try again. That's worse. Cool. Awesome. Great.
Cool.
That's a natural three. Okay, we're gonna just use our third action to try again, but worse this time.
Yeah, worse this time. Okay.
That's only gonna be 15, so.
Yeah, she's just really frazzled by. By fighting people that she's been taught her entire life that you do not ever, ever Oppose ever.
And she just misses every throw. Heart's not in it.
[00:35:18] Speaker B: Okay, and that's your turn. So we'll find ourselves with another one of the lamplighters.
This one looks over and sees all of the. The attacks coming from the back line.
No, you don't, Nyle.
[00:35:39] Speaker G: No, you don't.
[00:35:41] Speaker B: This priest, this lamplighter looks at you and says, be gone, abomination.
And I'm going to need a will save as they cast fear.
[00:36:02] Speaker C: I don't know why I was expecting the.
[00:36:04] Speaker D: The.
[00:36:06] Speaker C: The crisis of religion thing.
[00:36:13] Speaker A: I miss Groon, guys. Groon.
[00:36:15] Speaker C: Groon could have 1v1'd and also died.
[00:36:19] Speaker G: 19, question mark.
[00:36:21] Speaker B: It is a failure.
[00:36:23] Speaker C: Damn.
[00:36:24] Speaker B: Okay, you are now frightened, too.
[00:36:27] Speaker A: Does.
Does the destructed cacophony have to trigger before or after? The result.
[00:36:38] Speaker B: Is that.
[00:36:39] Speaker A: It's a bell ring. It's a bell ring. Is the bell ring against spells specifically? It just says the trigger is a spell. It doesn't say when it actually goes off.
[00:36:49] Speaker B: If a target is casting a spell, I think it would go off before the spell goes off.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: Okay.
Can I do that?
[00:36:59] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: I need a fortitude save. I don't know if it'll actually change anything that Nile's going through, but it might change things in the future.
[00:37:10] Speaker B: That is a 16.
[00:37:12] Speaker A: That shouldn't work because that's Class DC. Class DC is 20 right now.
[00:37:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:37:20] Speaker A: Be stupefied one until the end of your next turn.
[00:37:25] Speaker B: Right. And I'll roll a.
Oh. Oh, hang on.
[00:37:29] Speaker A: The target doesn't have to attempt a flat check to avoid losing the triggering spell. But the discordant ring does lower the spell attack roll from Super Fight.
[00:37:37] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not a spell attack.
[00:37:39] Speaker A: Oh. Or spell DC. It does both.
[00:37:44] Speaker B: Niall would not have succeeded anyways. Okay, 19.
[00:37:48] Speaker G: Okay, fine. Aubrey's like, no, you're gonna be a pussy. I'm like, yeah, that's fair. I'm a pussy.
[00:37:53] Speaker B: The DC was 21s.
[00:37:56] Speaker A: It would move. Oh, yeah, yeah. You still.
[00:37:57] Speaker B: It would move it down to a 20.
[00:37:59] Speaker A: You were closer though him.
[00:38:03] Speaker B: Is that. And they.
They're gonna spend their last action to raise their shield.
All right, and then we come to one of the assassins turn. One of the ones that are facing off with late. They are going to spend their first action to faint against you.
[00:38:22] Speaker D: DC. 19.
[00:38:26] Speaker B: That's a 30.
[00:38:28] Speaker D: What the. Okay, so I am off guard until. Oh, against all melee attacks. That's fun.
[00:38:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And they are going to follow that up with a Kufri attack.
And that is a 25.
[00:38:52] Speaker D: That is a Hit almost a crit.
[00:38:58] Speaker B: And that is going to be 14 damage. As they stab you with the kukri. They go. They look like they're going high, but they go low. They get you right in the gut.
[00:39:11] Speaker D: I'm at 4 out of 34 health.
[00:39:15] Speaker B: They're just gonna follow it up with one more hit.
[00:39:18] Speaker D: They don't gotta.
[00:39:21] Speaker A: This is my reaction too soon.
Wait, wait.
[00:39:26] Speaker B: Do you want to use the hero card?
[00:39:28] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I do actually. Roll it again.
[00:39:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:39:32] Speaker A: Snake bite.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: It was initially a 22 and then with the disadvantage from that harrow card, it makes it a 10.
[00:39:42] Speaker D: Hell yeah.
[00:39:45] Speaker A: I think Lou just sees the. The first attack hit really hard and doesn't even register the second attack is happening. She just throws that snake bite card and it just knocks the blade off course.
[00:40:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And that is going to be their entire turn, which will bring us to Alistair.
[00:40:11] Speaker F: All right, Sorry. I was just thinking about options because I see my friend over there is having trouble and there is not much I can do to help them out. Actually, I might check out that one later.
I'm just mentally going over the spells. I'm like, nope, shooting them is the best option.
So I am going to target.
What's the red mark on them?
[00:40:45] Speaker B: That is they are being rallied by the hunter.
It's an ability they have.
[00:40:54] Speaker F: Yeah. So I'm going to actually target the one that is coming up and hasn't hit my friend yet.
And I will devise a stratagem.
Let's see what I roll.
That is a nine.
I think that will hit.
Nope, nope, I will.
Yeah, I will use that against my designated target.
Figure out how my keyboard works. There we go.
All right. And so that is against this guy.
Wow. I am like really rolling badly. That is nine damage on two D8 and a D6 as impressive.
And I foresee bad things happening.
So with my third action, I will actually take out my lesser healing potion.
[00:42:21] Speaker B: That might be a good idea where we're down to single digit health on some people.
[00:42:27] Speaker F: Yep.
And that will be my turn.
[00:42:31] Speaker B: I'm gonna bring us. Bring us to graveling.
[00:42:35] Speaker C: Okay. Before I do anything, I want to specify that all of my attacks have non. Lethal.
Okay.
[00:42:47] Speaker B: You can't choose them to be lethal.
[00:42:49] Speaker C: I know I can. I just want. I just want to openly state before, you know, before, you know, people be like, yeah, well you kill all the time. Actually, I haven't killed a single living person this entire the since season one, episode one.
I'm gonna flurry of blows. The Hunter specifically. So the one with the big Hammer to whittle him down some more.
But because the holy. The Sorry. Because the lamp lighters are within.
They're within my vicinity, I will freely just kind of spit out.
You are all a stain to her name.
Then I'm going to up the guy in front of me. So Flor of blows. It'll be stunning strikes as well. Anything to up an op.
I'll just roll a one by one. Actually, let's roll one by one because I'm scared to see what will happen.
Okay. I'm gonna use a hero point for one of them because I know it can be better.
Okay, that is better.
21 for the first hit.
[00:44:08] Speaker B: 21 for the first hit. You're going after the person you hit before.
[00:44:12] Speaker C: Yes. The Holy Blood Hunter.
[00:44:15] Speaker B: The Hunter. The hunter.
[00:44:17] Speaker G: Yeah.
[00:44:17] Speaker B: It will hit.
[00:44:18] Speaker C: Hit the hunter. The flurry of low stunt is. Is. Is full. The. The second hit is 22.
[00:44:24] Speaker B: 22. Both hits will. Both attacks will hit. I rolled fortitude. Got a 29.
[00:44:31] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah, that's good.
[00:44:33] Speaker B: This guy's beefy.
[00:44:35] Speaker C: I had a feeling, but I was like, let's just try.
Either way, he's still gonna take fat damage unless I up. But, kid, I'm just gonna. Next. After I roll, I'm just gonna, like, take these dice out so that way I know exactly which my detents are. I just don't ever remember what they look like.
Okay. The first hit is 13 points of bludgeoning.
14 points of bludgeoning. Again, just in case. I have mystical strikes, so the count is magical.
Just in case.
So that's. That was like, what, 27. 27 bludgeoning total to. To the. To the. The. The hunter. You. I'll do 10 more. I'll do 10 more. Your damage. Like, out of. Out of spite, I will use my second action to a regular hit. I'm gonna bite at the one that's dazzled because I do have a bite attack. And that one.
Yeah. And I'll have a plus two to it because agile.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
29. No, sorry. That's regular. What the Am I talking about? 21. Sorry. I was like, 21. Yeah. I rolled a 90 on the die, and I forgot things existed. My bad.
[00:46:07] Speaker B: Theoretically, fangs are lethal, are non lethal, but it seems pretty lethal.
[00:46:13] Speaker C: They're non lethal. I'll keep smacking it.
[00:46:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:18] Speaker C: Because I want a full disclosure. I'm a professional. I want to leave motherfuckers to question. And whether they answer our questions or not, I would like the opportunity to do that.
And then afterwards, we can do other things.
Yes, I know we only need one. But the rest of you guys are fighting other things too. So I'm gonna keep my alive on the off chance that Yuri bloodlusts and kills everything here.
Maybe even me.
[00:46:50] Speaker E: I only bloodlust if I'm transformed.
[00:46:55] Speaker C: Considering that you're transgender, no. Sorry.
[00:46:59] Speaker E: Is that the rest of your turn?
[00:47:01] Speaker C: Nope, I have to do my damage. But I did roll max, so 11 piercing.
[00:47:09] Speaker B: Yep. How, how do you non lethally with your fangs take out this assassin?
[00:47:15] Speaker C: I, I, I, I deal some, some, some good blows to the guy to the hunter. And then the assassin is beside who's a little dazzled. And after I kind of deal my blows, I kind of push myself up with my tail so that way I can get a little bit more height and also a little bit more power into the bite. And I bite hard on their like shoulder area. And kind of when I'm in this snake form, I kind of feel more into it. I have a lot more power in my body and I have a lot more pro. I'm properly proportioned. Grave Wing looks like the tallest short person like ever. Like the body proportions are a little whack. They look like they low key look like the dwarves in Dragon age Origins specifically where they're too tall, their body is too long, but their legs are too short. That's kind of how I picture Ribwing's body a lot. But in snake form everything feels actually correctly proportionate. Like yeah, for a half snake, half humanoid person, this looks correct.
So like it feels almost natural for her to bite down and with her whole body pick this bitch up and throw them kind of away unconsciously because.
[00:48:44] Speaker D: Again, non lethal, unconscious into the water. It's fine.
[00:48:49] Speaker C: They're out of the way. They're out of the way foot deep.
[00:48:52] Speaker G: It's fine. You know, just toss them onto a rock.
[00:48:54] Speaker A: You only need a few inches to drown.
[00:48:56] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, just.
[00:48:57] Speaker B: Oh no.
[00:48:57] Speaker C: Oh no. And then with my tip part of the tail, you can just slowly turn their head to face the water and drown. No, that's not what's happening. That's not what's happening. Don't get excited.
I have one more action. My Gary, stop my action. My, my third action is I need to activate shield again because I didn't use it last time. I think I have to do that.
[00:49:23] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And then once you've, if you use the reaction, you have to wait 10 minutes.
[00:49:28] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm just gonna reactivate it. So that way I have the, the bonuses Again.
[00:49:35] Speaker B: Lace.
[00:49:38] Speaker D: Hi.
So I would like to start by stabbing the one who I had stabbed last turn who is still off guard to me, who was also the one who got me pretty good.
That is a 1323. Three to hit.
[00:50:05] Speaker B: A 23. 23 hits.
[00:50:08] Speaker D: Okay cool.
That is nine damage.
[00:50:14] Speaker B: Nine damage.
[00:50:15] Speaker C: 10.
[00:50:15] Speaker A: Sorry. 10.
[00:50:16] Speaker D: I have a plus one strength. 10 damage.
[00:50:18] Speaker B: Yeah, they are. They are still standing.
[00:50:22] Speaker D: I will attempt. How are they looking?
[00:50:26] Speaker B: Three are approaching bloodied.
[00:50:30] Speaker D: Oof. A do seeing that they're not great.
Or rather they are pretty great. And I am not.
I am just gonna go ahead and let me make sure I actually have this feet.
Yeah. Instead of continuing to 1v2 them just gonna run on over to our little unconscious friend and I will drop to my knees and do they what they look like?
[00:51:15] Speaker B: So they're a little hard to tell their full proportions. They're kind of like laying on their stomach. They seem to be humanoid sized. Probably human ish ancestry.
They have this sort of thick sort of dark hair that's kind of messily sort of pulled.
It kind of looks like braids, but not like any kind of braids you maybe have ever seen before before. They're wearing sort of this very long dark jacket and you kind of see their hands and it seems there's. It's hard to tell because it's a little muted because they're currently laying down face down. But it seems like they're glowing slightly.
[00:52:09] Speaker D: Just glowing in my indicate anything like I'm just like magic. Not. We haven't seen any glowing undead. Right.
[00:52:20] Speaker B: You haven't.
[00:52:21] Speaker G: They got a great skincare routine, you.
[00:52:23] Speaker D: Know, and they're just lying there. They're not restrained.
[00:52:27] Speaker B: It doesn't look like they look covered in something you're guessing is their blood.
It doesn't appear to look like blood. It's more darker.
And it seems like they were given a pretty bad knock. And you can kind of see defensive wounds on their hands and places where it looks like maybe they were restrained.
[00:52:58] Speaker D: Does darker blood imply undeadness in any sort of direction way?
[00:53:05] Speaker B: If you want to give me a.
[00:53:08] Speaker D: I have undead lore.
[00:53:09] Speaker B: I also got an Undead Lore perks 21. 21.
No, not usually. And you like, you know, like one of the gloves, you know, kind of like appears to be some kind of oil.
[00:53:29] Speaker D: Interesting.
I think Leith is going to hiss at this corpse. Please don't be a dampier. And will attempt to use the healer's glove to do a healing touch to attempt to help res them. So that is 14 hit points which is a Healing Vitality effect.
[00:53:57] Speaker B: Healing vitality, yeah. As you do the.
There is instant change in this figure.
And the hair also starts to sort of glow with sort of this orangish light.
As you know, they sort of twitch and start moving and they sort of float out to something that sounds like a groan of pain.
Not their turn, but I'll add them into initiative.
[00:54:34] Speaker D: Yeah, I think that Leith is sort of seeing them start to, like, rise as just whispering, like, chanting, almost. We're on your side. We're on your side. There are a lot of holy blood around. We're on your side.
[00:54:47] Speaker B: Add them in there.
Not doing great.
But they're here.
[00:54:56] Speaker D: They're doing better than me.
[00:55:02] Speaker B: And that'll bring us to the Holy Blood Hunter and Gravewing. You notice this. This holy. This. This hunter is wearing this sort of collar around his neck that seems to appear to have all of these spikes and things like that that go in. And with a free action, he sort of shrugs his shoulder and activates it.
And you watch as one of these needles pierce his skin and inject him with something.
And you watch as free action drops the hammer and it starts getting larger and more hulking.
You know, kind of the coat rips, and you see the hands turn into claws and they bear down on you.
And that's where we're going to end this episode.
Oh, no. Take us out.
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[00:57:02] Speaker A: The Lord keeps on beating it.
