Tavern Watch Plays Legend in the Mist, Episode 3: Why did it have to be snakes?
May 29, 2025
In our third and final game of Legend in the Mist, our little group of friends may be on their way to becoming proper heroes as they track the undead that attacked their village back to its source. (To protect the village, but also to make sure one of their own doesn't turn into a zombie after being poisoned in the attack. One undead zombie was bad enough.) But the sunken, abandoned watchtower they find has secrets of its own. And, knowing their luck, these secrets will have teeth.
To see how this party of neophytes is faring, join GM Phil Ulrich along with our crew of would-be adventurers:
- Chris as Dunny, the local blacksmith, whose father's old sword may be more than it seems. He's been poisoned by the undead, and has to find a cure — but he's hung on this long without becoming a zombie of some kind himself, so it's probably fine.
- Nick as Frye, a hardworking cook at the local tavern, who dreams of becoming a great chef (but mostly finds himself working for ruthless overseers in the kitchen). Fortunately the rest of the group is so caught up in the adventure that they haven't noticed he has special powers of her own.
- Liz as Lyssa, who works at the ferry running people and cargo across the river, but thinks there has to be more to life than this. But after some run-ins with creatures of myth, the outside world is looking a little scary.
This is the last of a three-game series of Legend in the Mist, a game that's designed for fantasy storytelling that scales from our small town heroes to folk heroes of legend. It's a different flavor of fantasy TTRPG, with a vibe that feels quite like The Hobbit, where ordinary folk may find themselves in extraordinary adventures. It has a narrative-centric focus and flexible character creation so you can make the hero you want and play them the way you want. We enjoyed it a lot, and you can pick up a book for yourself from Son of Oak. And if you haven't, start by listening to the first episode and second episode before you tackle this one.
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[Music]
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so you've all been ushered out of the home of Oden the the wise woman in the
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woods you know now that Dunny's arm uh the cure that she could make him just
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from what she had on hand is only temporary you need you need a sample of the source of the myasma uh in the that
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maybe as far as you know came from this pond in a sunken watchtower um she
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will she she'll also give you a a vial to carry it in because obviously you shouldn't be touching the you shouldn't
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be touching this stuff with your bare hands um so she gives you something to carry it in um but that's kind of that's
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kind of the situation uh where what would you all like to do
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can we see the tower from here uh yeah there's kind of a
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clearing around her house you can see it it's in the distance it'll probably take you maybe an hour or so to get there
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it's there's no like good paths up to it it's off in the woods cuz this is um the
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people of the people of the Dales don't of this dale don't actually know what this watchtower is for it predates
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anyone currently living in Ravenholm um so it's a watchtowwer but no one knows whose watchtowwer it was or what they
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were watching for um and you can see it is a little crooked because it has sank into the earth um and as it does the
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bottom layer has filled with uh reportedly water and plants to form kind of a pond
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well I guess we should start walking toward it yes and and hope the
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warden has good instincts on this here's hoping probably keep our eyes
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open so we don't have something get the drop on us again solid plan yes good uh keeping your eyes
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open always a good plan now that you've uh become well accustomed to the dangers in the woods
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um however luckily may maybe because you're keeping your eyes open um you
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kind of you kind of leave uh you're heading up a forested mountain trail away from Odens and into the hills
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around the valley of Ravensdale and then you kind of cut off the trail it you
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still going up the hills it's uh it's hilly and it's kind of ominously overcast when you can see the sky
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through the woods overhead um and then you arrive in not quite a clearing that's just like
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suddenly boop there's a watchtowwer it is a It's the decrep It's
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a decrepit building obviously since it sank partway into the grounds it is wooden or not wooden excuse me it is
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stone uh circular um no doors that you can see you're guessing that if there
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were doors they are probably well underground at this point there are a couple windows that you could probably
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pass through which now would serve as an entrance um and you can peek inside uh
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to see that the tower goes down um probably fairly far below what you can
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see but um you can see that it's it is in fact filled with a dark kind of murky
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pond inside um and you can also uh going away not in
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the same direction you came from but in what if you think about it is towards Raven Holm as the crow flies you can see
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those wet footprints leading away from this tower and what looked like lowhanging tree limbs clumsily chopped
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away with a sword um you can surmise that yes the the the warden was his
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instincts were good and this does seem to be where your uh your awoken sentry
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came from and headed towards uh the village
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are there any others that we see um nope just the uh I said just the the ones
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leading away outside of that it doesn't look like anyone has been to this watchtower in who knows how long
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um before we do anything I want to see if there's like enough just branches or
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a piece of wood to turn into maybe a few torches for us if we're going to go inside this place yeah yeah you can
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easily Yeah because of the because of the uh the the the impact this guy had on the trees you can easily find some uh
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some light uh or some torches to light before although there's not really anywhere inside to stand per se like you
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can you can look inside and you can look down into this tower and it's just like it's a pond that happens to be sort of
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indoors there's maybe some places uh that you
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could you can climb in the window to get there there's maybe like a ledge that you can kind of stand on inside but there's not a whole lot of room inside
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this tower you're not going to be exploring it per se other than maybe by swimming
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r's going to turn to Lisa and just for the first time before
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the farm where he was joking about anything bad happening in an abandoned building this time he is dead serious
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and asks "Is there have you ever read anything about something like this
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before that could help us?"
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dark creepy ponds in abandoned buildings that anything could be hiding in um
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we did get attacked by a pumpkin yesterday we did yeah exactly that's the problem
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i'm now thinking that any of these fairy tales might actually be real or at least based on something that's real so that
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kind of makes everything everything terrifying I guess are are we like
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inside on the little bit of ledge that is there staring at the pool or are we like looking through a window
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i think we're looking through the window looking through the window into the pond
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b or the collected water most of the things I like kind of most
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most of the things right now are most of the things you can think of that are threats with old ponds are things that
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are like you know perfectly normal things like water snakes or you know
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vines that might catch your feet and pull you under um I will say that you do notice that there are a number of vines
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that have overgrown the tower and kind of crept through the uh crept through the stonework um and do thread down into
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the pond and we weren't just attacked by some vines yesterday yes these don't seem to
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be moving or trying to grab your legs these seem to be the more mundane sort of threat but you know you wouldn't want to dive into the water and get tangled
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in the vines and um not be able to come back up i would like to say pick up a rock and
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maybe toss it in and just see if anything happens and I'm like I'm going to pick up the rock and be about to do
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that and then like look at everyone else and just like is this a terrible idea
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okay does anyone want to discourage Lissa because otherwise she's going to do this i'm just going to look at her
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like yeah do it yeah yep do it gonna
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trunk it into the middle of the pond okay just see if anything reacts so two things happen when you throw the rock
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into the pond uh at first there are uh ripples as it hits the as it hits the as
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it hits the lake and sinks and uh then you think you can see something
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slithering down in the depths down past where your light will carry and this it's it's a fairly murky pond um you
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think you see something slithering down there and it is and you're like "Ah water snake." And then you go "Wow
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that's a big water snake." U but it doesn't like come up to the surface or anything but you may have roused
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whatever is down there and for the second one um even though you all didn't see any people or any footprints uh
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suddenly there is a person standing next to you they're right next to Fry also peeking into the window um they are
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wearing an outlandish mode of clothing you've never seen uh this young woman is dressed in this clothing you've never
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seen uh anywhere in the Dales and she peaks down and says "Pardon me travelers are you are you thinking of going down
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there it looks terribly dangerous." Bride jumps
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just in a yelps not expecting this to happen
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i I imagine it is startling uh and she just kind of looks at you all
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she has she has you know kind of hopeful looking eyes as may maybe you all are
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going down in that in there and if if nobody
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uh and she said "Oh I'm I'm a simple I'm a simple pilgrim uh I I came through here and I'm looking for uh I'm on the
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trail of an old family heirloom uh which is at coincidentally at the bottom of
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this pond terrible I know i I would just go and get it but I'm I'm not made for
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dangerous pursuits and she kind of reaches to a little pouch on her side and she pulls out a pouch and as she
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does as she holds it forward it kind of jingles and she says "Please if you'll if you'll retrieve my air my family's
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heirloom uh you can have this whole pouch of coins." She kind of jingles it to
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emphasize how much is in it do I believe this person that is up to
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you do you believe this person
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h if you would like to try to I believe you have something related to lying in your powers if you would like to make a
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role check if you would if you would like to make a role to try and discern something about uh what she about
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whether or not she's lying to you um you can make that kind of role i I do have a recognize false answers
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which sort of backwards false false statements yeah okay um I have
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protect our own i'm concerned that she may be sending us into danger even
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though I kind of think we're already sending ourselves into danger i like that one
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i think that's all I've got uh so I'll give you two additional things one is your status because you
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are you are you are on alert uh so you can add that forewarned four since it is
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your highest status um however I'm also going to give you a negative one and invoke your overlook danger and someone
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always needs help tags because your instinct is oh she needs
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help i should help her wait a minute so uh so you So is that just a plus four
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for the So a four for the status and then two for the two tags that were
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positive minus two for the two tags that were negative leaves just a four yep so 2d6 plus four
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and hopefully you didn't roll out all the good numbers while we were on break uh 15
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15 okay wow um I rolled I rolled an Well I rolled an 11 and then I had four right
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i'm doing that i'm not messing up my math am I so nope that's good so here is
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what you can tell she is uh she she she seems sincere about
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giving you the gold if you retrieve what she wants from the bottom of the pond she doesn't seem like she's going to
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like shove you down in there and hold your heads underwater or anything
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um but she you sense that there's something
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more to her story about who she is or what she wants
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and she's not entirely clueless about what's down there like you you've seen
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her looking at the snake but she also assume she's probably assuming that
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because you guys saw it you are at least also aware of the dangers and she's really hoping you're just brave enough
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to overcome them and bring her her heirloom
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can I ask her what the heirloom is she says "Oh of course how foolish of me to
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send you after something without telling you what it is." She says "There should be a chest of goods at the bottom
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anything in there that is not my family heirloom is yours to keep but there is a
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single opal the size of your the size of your palm and she's kind of holding your
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palm to illustrate that it's it's the size of Fry's palm uh not hers she's
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fairly dainty um and she says "And that's that's what I that's what I've
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been sent here to get is is the opal anything else in the chest is yours to keep
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so when she she grabs my palm to show me the size of it I can feel like this is a person yep the uh as far as you can tell
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she is a real true person and not an illusion or anything weird like that
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well I was like thinking like it's not a vinew wearing skin no no no no no no no
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it feels like a person to you and
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Okay i just kind of like look at everyone or the other two just I don't
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know what to do i don't want to go down there how did your family heirloom get to the bottom of a tower pond
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uh truthfully I was not expecting it to be a pond either it's it's been there a very very long time um possibly before
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it was a pond now this as I said I'm not I'm not made for such dangerous pursuits
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and I was not expecting anything like this to be in my
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way but you seem strong and capable and she's kind of turning her attention to Dunny she
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says "Please it's just I know you're aware of the dangers down there i I'm not foolish um but surely you can just
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do this this simple task for me." And Donnie looks between the group and
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he's like "We could i mean we were going to look anyway so why don't we help?"
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Her smile broads she says "Really uh what what what are you here what What are you here for Prey i I'm sorry i
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didn't even I didn't even ask." We're just up at some creepy tower for
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no reason yes everyone loves being at creepy towers for no reason
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we're um we're we're just investigating we're we're we're looking
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into um the source of some weirdness
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i see she looks down into the water and she says "It's probably what made that snake so
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big." H if it's she says I I take it you've seen
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other unusual things in your travels here then a couple a couple lately
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and she says uh how about this i also know some more info about as you called
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it the weirdness and uh in addition to this gold jingle jingle jingle uh I'll
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also tell you some more about the uh about the the fowlness below um in
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return for my opal
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Fry just kind of just he put he does a thing where he puts his his fingers on
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the bridge of his nose and looks down is okay
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yes she says "Oh we're going down." Lisa you've been quiet what are
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you thinking about all this i think we have to go in anyway i was
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wondering so the pond is only in the tower it's not like a pond surrounding the tower that's gotten into the tower
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correct do I understand this right correct it's like the uh this tower sank over who knows how many years um Oh it's
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several stories of it are now in the ground um and then rain kind of came in through the open windows and formed a
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pond over time and then it's got plants and vines growing in it too and apparently a big old snake
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i I kind of think we need to go in anyway to find whatever's causing
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this so all right who wants to go first and what
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are you doing i mean Lisa probably working at the
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river all day probably has some kind of experience with water snakes i don't
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know if this would I assume you'd also be the best swimmer out of all of us
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probably I really should have taken that that swimming theme I was looking at but no really really dive into the Little
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Mermaid theme but yeah uhhuh yeah i I aggressively did not take anything that
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was useful to me in this entire adventure
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um wow i don't I don't know i'm I'm good at hitting things maybe
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so it's just a narrow ledge inside that's not in the water yep you get the feeling it may have been
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kind of a a decorative ledge before because it doesn't really seem meant for people to stand on much less the three
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of you m and then the lady who's kind of leaning in from Well no she's down there every described her is down there with
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you this ledge is mighty crowded now
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we're lucky when she surprised Fry that he didn't fall he didn't fall in the water yeah
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h I mean that would have been hilarious but Oh I we've got
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to unless it's like a friendly snake which I kind of doubt
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uh nothing maybe we can talk the snake down nothing nothing you've encountered around this myasma has been friendly so
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far is what I'll say have you brought your flu
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there was a theme for that just like flipping through our books
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some things maybe we could talk it down no oh probably not probably not tucks
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her book back in her jacket
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um how do you fight a giant water snake from a tiny ledge
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well I think we should we coordinate something we've kind of stumbled around in the past
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uh do we have rope in our backpack yeah that seems like a decent seems like
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a fairly normal thing to prepare for traveling mhm
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so I've got So I've used hidden stamina reserves but also one of the power tags
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I haven't used is quick climber and I picked that as like a when you're
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in the back of a kitchen and in a store room and you need to quickly move around shelves that may be bigger than you
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uhhuh nimbly nimly like I know they say you're
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never supposed to climb up a shelf in a storage room like everyone has done it i've I've literally seen it everyone
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you're in a hurry so Ry is going to
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propose i don't like it i don't trust you and he just points
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to the girl that's here wrap this rope around me i'll climb down and I'll see
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how far I can get to the water before something happens i I don't see anything else happening
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i don't see uh so we're going to have you make a
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roll this is pretty much to see how well you can avoid trouble uh you can add up power like
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usual yeah the only two that I've got are they're quick climber and
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then the hidden stamina reserves okay and up can I assist him because I assume
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we're holding on to the rope up here you know just try and keep try and keep him steady or maybe yank in one direction or
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another if he's if he's getting into something you You've got the gloves of
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grip and I have tested strength yeah I I we both we both have strong as an ax but
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we picked different tags to go with it uh yeah so if you guys want to help you
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can each contribute one tag uh but remember that remember that if Nick rolls badly this will this will fall
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back on every That sounds great let's do it all right
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so uh Nick I've been rolling heat lately this is the time for two ones you have yeah there you go time for some garbage
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let's go so plus four oh wow it actually happened oh no what' you do two ones i
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fail oh boy uh okay a lot of stuff happens all at once hold on a sec i need
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to look at the tower what's the tower i was joking i
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[Music] yep exactly what I wanted so the following things are now going to happen
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as the three of you uh fall into the water uh okay so we're going to describe
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one by one she's going to get a status one by one and then we're going to uh for the first time in one of these games try a resistance role if you would like
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to try and resist some of them i'll explain how those work when it's time uh
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Lisa you fall in first um you fall in unexpectedly because I guess Fry was
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heavier than you thought um and you immediately get a mouthful of gross
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murky pond water your you will be taking the drowned one status uh if you don't
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resist it uh Dunny you fall in right behind her uh same thing because you're
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you're not really much of a swimmer so you kind of fall right in you will also
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again if not resisted be taking the drowned one status uh Fry you were
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expecting support and so you kind of nimbly pimply dived in full speed um
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expecting to be supported and able to pull back uh you didn't get that you
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went deeper than you expected and a long shadow uh swims out of the water at you
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uh and suddenly you are face to face with a gigantic snake and you're like "Oh good it's going to swim right past
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me." Um and it does swim right past you so that it can circle around you and
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attempt to wrap around you if not resisted you will get the constricted to
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uh status start with Lissa would you like to resist drowning uh yeah I'm just not sure how I'm going
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to resist drowning um well here's what I'll tell you could resist resistance
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rolls are like work like this it's a normal roll except when you're adding up your power you only add passive or
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reactive tags like good instincts uh alert shielded um or in this case your
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forewarned status uh yeah forewarned seems like a really good one to use here i I have been
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staring at this water and thinking about the bad things many many bad things that could happen to us yeah let me see if there's anything else here that looks
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like it might work for you uh you can't really block a blow cuz you can't block the water uh I think forewarned is going
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to be fight with the water yeah so luckily you rolled really good setting up that forewarned status so you get a
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plus four to your resistance roll
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it's a nine okay uh yeah that's fine so you will succeed
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um so I think Okay let's So you can spend your power on a reaction roll to
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avoid incoming status which you'll need to spend one of them to evade the drowned one status
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uh and then you can actually use the other three like normal uh I'm going to say you may want to use another one to
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avoid the incoming status which is I was the consequence I was going to give you is offbalance one because of being
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surprised um and needing a consequence from that reaction role so let's say two of your power to avoid that um you have
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two power to spend would you like to add a status to someone or maybe
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just go ahead can I help Dunny prevent him from drowning you can and you can
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remove Denny's drowning one status yes so I want to do that and then I have one left yep you can uh you can also use the
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normal rolls for uh like a a normal effect which there is one that might be
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nice here since you're in the water all of a sudden there is a one power effect you can add dice rolls called discover a
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valuable detail i would like to discover a valuable detail about this
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um about the the pond like do I actually
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see a treasure down there is the snake guarding it so you do see uh you do see
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two things down there um yes you do see a um you see a treasure chest at the
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bottom um the uh this the kind of the steel banding on the outside looks solid
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and intact so you at least have like something to grab it with to pull it up um it also looks
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big um it's it's a good thing that two of you are strong as an ax is what I'll
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say because this is a heavy it is a heavy chest um the other one is that the snake does
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not appear to be guarding the chest so much as the snake appears to be trying to eat fry
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yeah that's not good that's That's un ideal yeah so I'll say Donnie you don't have to do resistance roll anymore
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because Lisa kind of helps write you um but Fry you still you still might want a
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chance to resist being constricted yeah I agree uh I I
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think I think I think the only passive one here that would work or apply
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is dodge harm yeah let me see i'm looking at the Yeah dodge harm is
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definitely the one that Yeah I think dodge harm is the one that fits most i don't see any negatives that would apply
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to you here so dodge harm so 2d6 plus one
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i mean the snake could also not can't resist a taste but it's actively doing that so
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it's trying to get a taste all right so plus one two uh that's a six plus four
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plus one is 11 okay on a reaction roll you have your power plus uh one to spend
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so you have two which is exactly enough to prevent constricted two
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so with a surprising amount of mobility uh and I guess you had the foresight
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foresight to hold your breath because you were the one who was actually going underwater um you kind of slip out of
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this snake's grasp um but there's the situation all three of you are now on
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the water there's a giant snake in the water uh there is the chest at the bottom uh what would you like to do
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let's uh let's go Dunny donnie what would you like to do oh we
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should probably deal with the snake but I'm not quite sure how we're going to do that i can't exactly swing a sword while
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floating in the water so I'll say with an attitude like that
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uh you'll be able to I mean you can probably swing it but there will probably be some uh minuses to your power for various things
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so how big is this Nate looking in compared to us uh it is it is much it is
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it is not quite swallow u-hole big but it's much much much much bigger than
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you've ever seen a snake being um it's probably the size of the uh pumpkin hydra from the night before yeah it it
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almost fills this little pond okay m
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well the good news there is it's going to be hard to miss it
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probably there you go that's positive thinking yeah yeah well I've solved every other
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issue with my swords so let's keep that going
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all righty um so go ahead and add up your power i'm going to say you're going to be at a minus two to whatever your
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power is one is from the underwater tag on the pond and the other is from the swimmer status on the snake it is much
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more agile in the water than you sure but uh go ahead and add up your ridiculous number of tags around
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stabbing somebody and let's have a roll uh yeah master crafted weapon i love
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that thing um help those in need which would be all of us yep um and probably
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test of strength i'm not structural weak points i I have a hard time actually using on this one just because it's big
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and it would be hard to actually figure out where to strike yeah so this is definitely test of strength though
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because you are trying to swing a sword underwater it do be like that it it do be like that
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sometimes so so it's just going to be a plus one okay and that was a big old
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four oh no um Oh that's bad okay so you
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uh you try to swing underwater and you're like "Oh no i was this is bad." Um and the snake turns i think maybe you
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your your sword just kind of hits it but not at enough force to actually impact it and it turns way quicker than you
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think it should be able to do underwater and it it it swims like lightning it is
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on you it is biting your arm you are now going to And you can resist these as
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usual but you will take two statuses at once wounded two and poisoned
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one and we're back it's back baby
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yeah yeah i mean I don't I will try to resist it with parry
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anything yep uh yep this is the This is the time
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to use parry anything if you're going to do it try to get this thing a mouthful of sword instead uh okay yeah let's let's see uh
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so it was plus one minus two so it's going to be a minus one uh yes so you're
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not So I will say you're not affected by the status that you haven't received yet because you're trying to resist it um
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but you're still getting the minus two for underwater and this time for the snakes mighty tag
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sure um that is going to be a nine okay uh okay so your total power would have
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actually been negative one but you always have at least one power to spend so you have the one um would you like to
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remove poisoned one or drop wounded down to a one
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let's drop wounded down to a one i'm starting to get used to being poisoned uh that is mathematically the better
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option because when you're taking a role you just take the tier of the worst relevant status so if you have two ones
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it's only a one okay so this thing it it
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it bites you it gets like maybe the tip of its fang in and you kind of lever it off of you with the sword
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um and as it bites you it's in the same arm that you're already wounded in but now you have a a the line of poison that
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you had before had kind of faded it's almost like a gray where the uh where Oden's uh counter magic was working
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against it uh now you have kind of a second line of it radiating out of a uh
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bleeding hole in your arm from a snake fang um so it is it is poisoning you with the same kind of myasma as the uh
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as the the ooze was inflicting on you let me just say quack
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quack uh uh seems bad um let's go to Lissa lissa what are you doing
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uh actually fighting a snake now uh yeah
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and so they're they're underwater doing all of this or is the snake come up
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above water okay no it's still it's it will it will attempt at all costs to stay in the water where it has the
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advantage okay while it is grappling with
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Dunny I I kind of want to like get on its back and kind of use that for
34:37
leverage to like whack it across the head with my quarter staff does that make sense yeah I see what
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you're I see what you're going for okay uh All right so same as uh Dunny you'll
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have a minus two um for one for being underwater and one for it uh actually I'm not going to give it
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swimmer cuz it's not trying to swim away from you so actually it's going to be a minus one for underwater
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and I will use gloves for a better grip mhm and
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um protect our own and can I use my relationship theme with
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Dunny uh yeah we'll allow it replacement little brother you don't want to lose your replacement brother
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and uh and one for the quarter staff and one for the quarter staff so that's four i lose one so it's a plus three yep
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i rolled a 12 nice so that is an automatic success and when you're
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spending power you get an additional one so you now have four power to spend on
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this unequivocal success as you get in maybe it's the grippy gloves like you you you like rodeo wrangle this snake
35:50
and then somehow find the strength to clock it in the head with a quarter staff with your other hand how would you
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like to spend your fourpower
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so I can can I reduce Dunny's wounded condition is that a thing um not like
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this or is it only Okay yeah um since you're It would be more likely to give
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the give the snake uh give the snake as I want to I want to wound the snake as
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much as I can can I do wounds four to it by just clocking it across the You can
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head you can do a You can do wounded four and what I will tell you as you
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smack this thing with your staff Dunny you see its eyes go blank and then
36:38
uh you're you're still grappling Alyssa and you you feel all like the the life
36:43
go out of it um as this snake goes completely unconscious and just starts to sink to the bottom of the pond with
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you riding on it one shot one shot baby wow yeah it's uh
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its limit was hurt three and you did a wound of four straight to it
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okay there you go see all that emphasis on smacking things finally worked thank
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you dice yep you came in for me when I needed you so you guys can kind of bob
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up to the surface and catch your breath now and the lady's looking down like "Oh I'm so Thank goodness you took that
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horrible beast out did you see the treasure down there anywhere
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yeah in a really heavy chest okay please please
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uh bring it back up when you can do so safely find some rope please
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uh she'll kind of look where you probably took your bag off before you dived in um and actually the rope is in
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here with you guys cuz I remember you were tied you were tied to a rope that they were holding and then they all fell in the water with you so the rope is
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just floating on the surface of the pond yeah that's why I I telling her go find stuff cuz it's with us
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uh she'll she'll be like "Do you want more rope?" I guess and like if somebody left their bag up there she'll look
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around and throw a second rope down so how how far down is the treasure
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chest oh you want her to hold the rope i get it um Okay so what you can what you can kind of get
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if you look underwater it's murky but you can see it is that this was originally a threetory tower and two
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stories of it have sank into the ground you effectively entered on the third floor so it's about 12 ft down
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um you also now that you have time to look around without a snake uh trying to eat
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you you think you can see at the bottom of the pond not near the chest um on
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kind of the south wall like the southern like curve of this round uh thing in the
38:55
very bottom you can see a crack in the ground um which normally you would just go "Ah whatever damaged stone were from
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where it sank into the earth." But if you if you look at it long enough you can actually see oozy black myasma kind of creeping out
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of the ground so you think you under under the water
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it is underwater it is uh the the Oh great the myasma the source of the myasma that you need to get a sample for
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for Denny's arm seems to be also underwater
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and it's the water we're all swimming in it's the water you're all swimming in okay that's great that's great news um
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it's a good thing none of you were drowning uh yeah yeah that could have been worse
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um I do assume that Lisa can swim yeah I think I think you can all swim you
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definitely can cuz you you work on the water and and she's probably she has
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familiarity with tying knots so maybe she could go down and tie up the chest
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so perhaps they could lift it up that's a good idea okay yeah fra removed the the rope
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originally around his waist and hand it to Lissa
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i I guess as she's doing that Fry can take the vial down and try
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and grab I don't even know like swoosh some of this myasma into it all righty
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uh so we'll do we'll do one of these at a time um let's have Lisa try to tie a rope around the treasure chest um no
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give me anything that sounds relevant to that you're only going to have a uh since you're not trying to do some
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you're going to get a minus one to this for underwater but that's it mhm on top of whatever you're trying to do here uh
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let's see gloves for better grip to you know have a good grip on the chest and the rope mhm um
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should give yourself work smarter not harder works that sounds good because I
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I'm not trying to lift it up on my own which would be ridiculous i'm going to tie going to use which also leads leads
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into my next suggestion which is fellow laborers because you're planning to work with your with your with your fellow
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laborers to build this up yeah teamwork um teamwork makes the dream
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work yes i don't think I can use protector own which I've been using most of the time
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because it's really finding treasure is not exactly protecting anyone maybe
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maybe friendly and kind i'm helping this woman retrieve her definitely family
41:38
heirloom you know what i'll allow it friendly and kind better grip work
41:43
smarter not harder fellow laborers that's four that's four minus one so three mhm
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that's an 11 okay that's good that is a success with no negative consequences uh
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okay so I'm going to say that you you go down you pull you tie the rope around it
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and it's secure and you've got it in such a way that it's mo most of the weight will be on the fairly intact iron
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banding on the chest um so what you've effectively done is you've created a tag on the chest uh we'll just call it uh
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liftable three and when you guys roll to pull this thing out of here you will add plus three to that roll uh for the
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positive liftable status now let's go towards Fry who is attempting to uh I
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believe you said swoosh up some myasma um let's let let's get your roll what do
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we got so just uh I'm going to use hit it in stamina
42:46
reserves at a minimum to I think that's the only one that I can use to hold my breath and
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dive down enough uh to grab it i was going to say is
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there are you are you doing any kind of your magic tricks for this or do you not have any uh any magic tricks that seem
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capable here i I was I was going to I was going to actually ask if that would be stretching
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it too far of just getting enough like sort of using the same measuring logic for ingredients to get enough my asthma
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to help with the help with a a cure but not enough to like kill me yeah that's
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good yeah um Yes I like that maybe you could also use the like uh keep it from
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touching your hand while you're swooshing it yeah that's fine if you want to use simple magic tricks like that I am fine with that so plus two
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minus one all right plus one overall and it's roll
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that is a six oh dang okay
43:50
um so you don't get any and you get a consequence oh no um I think I think
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it's I think what it is is it's harder than you expected um you thought "Oh I'll just go down there i'll scoop it in
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a vial and it'll be fine." I think what you find is it's almost like it can sense your intentions um it's it's
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almost like it dodges away from your hand so you're like down here trying to scoop at this thing while trying to keep
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it from touching you which it's definitely trying to do it definitely wants to touch you um and I think you're
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down there longer than you really expected um and I think you take
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drowning one yeah all right that's fair uh would you like to try to resist it
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uh I don't think the only one that I think would I
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can't dodge it i can't quick climb out of it yeah the only I think you should be
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rolling a flat 2d6 for this probably yeah cuz I already used hidden stamina reserve so I can't double dip so this is
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just a flat 2d6 yeah again you don't have to if you don't want to because there is the possibility that if you
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roll a six again you take further consequences so if you don't want to resist it if you don't want to tempt
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further trouble that is an option for you it is but I think I am going to
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resist dying by drowning just as your human impulse i rolled two fives for a
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10 all righty uh yeah that's exactly enough you will have one you always have one power to spend so you can use your
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one to avoid drowning i think I think maybe what it is is you feel yourself starting to go and you like jet back up
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to the surface take a deep breath and you can go back down there you can try again in a minute but uh now you have to
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plan around it denny what are you doing while this is going on uh when when Fry pops back up uh Donnie
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is like "Hey give me the vial." And he's gonna swim down for getting the
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miasma but he's going to use his
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arm that's already poisoned as a lure to try and get the miasma to come towards
46:08
him and then we'll try and scoop it into the vial okay so what I'm going to have
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you do is I'm going to have this is I'm going to consider this a roll to make a a positive status and then we'll try a
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second roll to actually scoop it but let's try and make a positive stat you're going to try to make like distracted two basically on the on the
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on the room so go ahead go ahead and make a uh roll um in this case I think
46:32
against all odds your poison status is actually going to be a positive for you so add one oo nice yes uh that would be
46:41
a seven all righty um yeah so I think what happens is this you do create a
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status on the room we'll call it distracted one uh
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uh because you know you can create a onepoint status you're attempting to distract the ooze um fortunately I think
47:00
what happens is you get a little too close um and you catch a little more
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ooze on your uh on your other arm now uh raising your poison status to poisoned
47:11
too yay yay now you have matching cool
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tattoos but uh whether you want to try to get the myasma or whether you want to let Fry try to do it um whoever goes
47:24
next will have that distracted one status to aid them also it's about this time that Lisa pops back up uh with a
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rope uh that was tied to the chest hasn't noticed any of this happening at
47:36
all they're they're just doing all this behind you while you're like tying your best knot trying to remember what you
47:43
learned about tying ropes around things uh go ahead i I'll let Fry attempt to
47:53
scoop it as I'm apparently uh now the the Miasma vendor or vendor
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yeah if you're going back down fry you'll actually see that rather than like pooling around the crack at the
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bottom or like um following like a little tendril of it is like trying to
48:12
follow Dunny but it moves very slowly because it's ooze uh go ahead go ahead
48:18
and make another another swooshing roll all right so it's a I get a plus one
48:24
from the room for it being distracted yes but a minus one for underwater so it essentially offsets the underwater
48:29
penalty that's what it is okay so I'm going to use simple magic tricks and uh
48:35
stamina reserves and stamina reserves again so plus two this time and that'll be
48:42
uh is 6 + three yes plus two is 11 all
48:48
righty 11 does it cool uh yes you can add to your backpack the tag myasma
48:54
sample you got it you pop back up you pop back up with a cked vial of goo um
49:01
you can actually if if you watch it long enough it actually kind of like weakly tries to like strain against the vial
49:08
like it does it it's constricted it does not like it um it it if you take too
49:15
long to get this back you get the sense it might actually eat through the cork um but now all three of you are back up
49:21
top and Lisa has a rope to help pull that chest up
49:27
uh so it seems like we got to help her get Yeah I was going to say who's uh so
49:33
we can do this as a group roll or we can have one person roll and everybody can contribute relevant tags uh if you all
49:40
want to do a group roll the way that that works since you all are kind of working together uh during a group action uh
49:48
each person contributes a single tag that is their most significant contribution to the joint effort so
49:54
let's do that uh Chris what is Dunny's most relevant tag here
50:00
uh for what we're doing test of strength sounds good uh Fry what's your most
50:07
relevant tag is it limitless stamina reserves no it would be since working together
50:14
it'd be either work smarter not harder or I assume that we need to do some sort
50:20
of climbing out so I'd climb to help get Yeah that makes sense cuz you'll have to
50:25
because you'll have to pull it up and onto the ledge with you so climbing makes sense here too
50:31
okay and then Lisa what is the uh what what's your what's your power and it's going to be at a plus two i think I
50:39
think fellow laborers because we're you know working together to lift something and that's actually kind of like pulling
50:45
the ferry across the across the river this is very similar this is familiar okay all right so we've got one tag from
50:51
each of you for a total of plus three and liftable uh another plus three from the rope you tied around it so give me a
50:57
roll plus six who is making this roll uh you since I
51:04
think you're leading this group actually oh oh okay i believe in you
51:10
uh well you shouldn't that's a nine uh that's good enough which you you know how badly I
51:18
rolled to get a nine on that i do i do um yeah yes you rolled a three you came
51:25
very close to botching it yes I I get it um you know I got I got that one really
51:30
good roll so this was coming this is how it works okay so I think what happens is
51:35
the following you get the chest up um and I think you guys managed to like you
51:42
like heft this thing up frag gets up top and he's pulling from the top and you guys clamber and pull this thing up um
51:49
up to the top but in the meantime um since your hands are wet uh and they're
51:55
not usually wet when you're using the gloves I think that unless you resist it it will burn your gloves for a better
52:01
grip tag what that means is it will be it will it won't be usable until you can
52:06
replace it narratively which is probably getting another pair of gloves you can resist that like most
52:13
statuses or like most consequences excuse me uh I mean I'll try to resist
52:20
it and just shift my griff a little bit so uh
52:25
but I don't know that I have any relevant tags it has to be a tag that I did not just use correct
52:33
but I didn't use gloves for a grip correct you used fellow uh fellow laborers I believe so uh yes you can try
52:40
to maybe like grab one with the other allow that
52:46
yeah I'm like trying to adjust my grip to where I don't to where they don't slip off or get burned or damaged as I'm
52:52
Mhm i'll give it a go i think that's just going to give me plus one i don't Yep
53:00
no that's a four so that's even worse yeah we'll just uh Well yeah your your gloves are gone they're down at the
53:06
bottom of the pod now oh well well I think they actually like they like pass through the tendril of my asthma on
53:12
their way down so if you go get them now they're also gross scoopy gloves yeah I
53:17
probably needed a new pair of gloves anyway it does but uh in the end though you are all out of the water sitting on
53:24
this ledge soaking wet with this murky water um with a treasure chest uh right
53:29
next to you uh and the the uh the the
53:35
lady who's looking for the opal is practically uh dancing with joy and she drops the
53:41
coins next to you she says "Here this is all yours um how do we open it?"
53:48
She's having nearly died is going to look at
53:54
her with a side eye like it's you wanted your heirloom
54:01
it It's funny because Fry's like giving her the side eye and and Dunny's like I
54:06
can do it and just like takes the sword and using structural weak point like figures out where where best to strike
54:13
it to smash it open luckily the weak point of this chest is pretty much everywhere because now that it's out in
54:19
the open air the wood is completely soggy um this thing is almost like the outline of a treasure chest once you're
54:25
done with it like the banding is there and inside are three objects uh there is
54:31
a sword untarnished by rust or decay there is a strange vial holding a
54:38
swirling bright blue liquid and there is an opal as said big enough the size of
54:46
Fry's palm that if no one stops her she is going to swoop up off the floor
54:54
it's what she asked for i'm not going to Okay I I will grab the vial of other
55:01
liquid okay uh Okay you can add vial of blue liquid to your
55:08
backpack and I mean I think Dunn is going to pick up the other sword
55:13
okay all right dunny now has two swords and uh as you as soon as you guys
55:21
take your eyes off of her um she vanishes there is no trace of her uh and
55:26
the opal is also gone she poof gone oh wait no she Hold on i lied i hold I lied
55:32
i'm recounting that because she also said she would tell you about the myasma if you got it for her so she kind of slips the opal into a
55:38
palm and she says "So that," and she's kind of indicating the vial that Fry came out of the water with she says
55:44
"That uh is a very old spirit that should not be here the fact that it's
55:50
burrowed this far uh is it's it's not fantastic for the for
55:57
the region." Uh says there are are you familiar with the marshes to the southeast of the Dales um and the the
56:05
only marshes that she that would be big enough to just be called the marshes are so southeast Raven's Dale is kind of in
56:12
the southern end of the Dale lands and the only place that would just be called
56:19
the marshes is an entire region to the southeast that is literally just like a
56:24
swampy nothing like nothing nothing good comes out of the marshes is what you all
56:30
know and she says that is a remnant of the great thurge war uh unleashed uh
56:38
that that thing unleashed created the marshes but we believed it had burrowed deep into the ground the fact that it's
56:44
chosen now to come back out is an ominous sign she says "I I hope you have someone
56:50
who can cure your friend," she says indicating Dunny's
56:57
arm "yeah we got that covered." Oh thank
57:03
goodness she says "Is there do you have any since you were so kind to retrieve this for me at great cost yourself is
57:09
there is there anything else that I can uh I I can mostly give knowledge but if
57:17
there's anything else you wish to know I can I can tell you before I
57:22
leave should we expect more of these things
57:30
uh Walking Dead and whatever else she says "If not uh if if not cleansed from
57:38
this pond um I fear that anything that spends time in its depths could be susceptible to the myasma." Yes
57:45
uh you saw what it did to the snake who knows how long it's been living down there um if a if a if one of the
57:51
awakened centuries made its way to a town then um yes your your lands may be
57:57
in danger i want to ask you know a lot about this where can
58:05
we find you she says "Oh you'll never find me again." And she just kind of smiles
58:14
what i am I'm from I'm I'm not from around here i will and now that I have
58:20
what I was what I was made to retrieve I'll I'll be leaving
58:26
glad we could help she kind of smiles and thanks does a little does does a funny little bow and
58:33
then poof literally just like vanishes before your eyes
58:39
i think I need to sit down it seems like a good time for that
58:45
yeah we're all We all probably look like drowned rats at this point yes you're all like wet and some of you probably
58:52
have like algae stringing off of your clothes cuz this is a it is a weird gross standing pond i did like those
58:59
gloves i have poison going up both arms now
59:06
we're gonna we're gonna handle that we're gonna handle that you're gonna be okay actually um Donnie you you took the
59:12
sword right i did uh you will note that there is a makaker mark on the uh on the
59:20
cross the handguard of the sword um it is the same makaker mark as the helmet that you've been carrying around
59:29
h interesting you can reason that they may have been commissioned as a set and may have once belonged
59:36
to the thing that stumbled out of the tower
59:42
the plot thickens the plot does thicken fry what are you
59:48
up to uh I've seen a lot over the last day
59:57
uh I after we get out the tower I'm just everyone sits down but I kind of just
1:00:03
collapse back like laying flat on my back and staring up into the sky until we're ready to go back to Oden and get
1:00:11
uh Dunny fixed well luckily it is it is calm it
1:00:17
is uh the those overcast uh clouds never do turn into rain so you don't just flop down on your back and then also get
1:00:23
rained on because that would just be one more thing on top of this day thank goodness um there is truly no sign of
1:00:29
the woman uh whose opal you retrieved um in fact you realize that you still see
1:00:35
no footprints except your own and the awakened centuries heading towards Raven
1:00:40
Holmes um Oh hey yeah i I would like to
1:00:45
see what's in this coin pouch did she give us like a million gold or did she give us nothing or uh Yeah she gave you
1:00:51
a she gave you a fairly sizable bag of gold um you can add bag of gold to your
1:00:57
backpack if you needed to buy something with it it would definitely give you a positive
1:01:02
like a really nice pair of gloves like a really nice pair of gloves
1:01:08
exactly uh which you need the gold is also cursed i'm kidding the gold also vanishes no that would be
1:01:14
evil no she uh she she did in fact pay you uh okay so you guys can recover uh
1:01:22
you can find your way back to Odens's fairly easily by following your own footprints back
1:01:29
and as you're uh sitting down and preparing uh she she'll take the myasma sample and she does prepare a passible
1:01:37
uh I guess anti-measma not really an antivenenom because it's not really poison an anti-measma um Dunny you can
1:01:44
remove your poison status and you don't have to worry about the other one coming back anymore
1:01:51
yay but uh you guys have a lot of time to reflect now on what honestly is a lot
1:01:57
of questions why is evil seeping out of the ground here and now and in Ravens
1:02:03
near Ravenh home of all places who was that weird lady and why did she want that opal so badly and if you venture
1:02:10
into the marshes for yourself what will you find but those are questions for another time because that is the end of
1:02:17
our adventure today woohoo we lived yeah
1:02:28
that was We did we did it we did indeed survive that's the goal that's the goal
1:02:34
you did it i'm very proud of you all oh that was a fun one that was a fun one
1:02:39
it's It's different and it's it's interesting how free form the characters are it's not like okay you're making
1:02:46
this role you What's your dexterity modifier yep it's uh how much of your character is relevant to what you're
1:02:52
trying to do more than anything yeah so it's kind of it's kind of all character- based it's like okay how good are you
1:02:59
how good did you decide you are at this or that or something else and there's always something for you to do like you
1:03:05
may maybe you don't have something that bonuses your role this turn but that doesn't mean you still can't try exactly
1:03:11
you can try you can maybe maybe the best you can do is make a status that helps somebody else in the future which is
1:03:18
it's never Well I can't do anything here i do like the uh I feel like the the
1:03:25
free form uh construction of I know that's
1:03:31
oxymoronic but how uh challenges and encounters go Mhm kind
1:03:38
of really opens it up more than how something like 5e is like okay I'm going
1:03:44
to cast this spell and then hit it and then I am done yep um yeah there there's
1:03:50
occasionally like lots of ways to overcome things on with challenges like all of the creatures that you all
1:03:55
encountered that had myasma have a second limit for cleansed so if you all
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had maybe like if one of you had been like the you know the the old one from the tinderbox demo who follows the old
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ways and knew like a way to cleanse the myasma like that's a second way of overcoming the
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challenge things like that so we're like the all three of the statuses that were added to the villagers any one of them
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if they went over the limit overcomes that challenge but with different effects so like if if Elanora had
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rallied had gotten enough uh had gotten the rally status big enough for the crowd then the crowd uh you know turns
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into a militia and you see a bunch of villagers take off into the night with pitchforks and who knows what happens to them or things like that ever ends
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poorly no uh armed armed militias uh poorly armed and poorly trained nothing
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has ever happened badly there so um but I'd like to thank you all for playing and uh I'd like to thank everybody at
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