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This week we continue our adventure of Daggerheart, as our crew walks away from the settlement surrounding the Motherboard and into a not entirely unexpected ambush. Or maybe it's a reverse ambush? Well, you'll have to listen to see all of that works out, as our party searches for a way into the hidden heart of the Motherboard herself.
Join GM Liz Harper as I attempt to guide a motley crew of adventurers through this adventure! Here's our cast of characters:
* Joan as Lithyen of Redcanyon (Rogue), a faun who lost her family at the hands of cultists obsessed with technology. She now travels alongside those who rescued her.
* Matt as Ishvit (Brawler playtest), a young giant, raised in isolated ruins. She's looking for her way in the world after losing her dwarven foster family.
* Nick as Tavin (Seraph), a human priest who has pledged himself to the Motherboard, but his faith was shaken when he met a supposed worshipper who used the faith to steal and kill.
* Phil as Laplace Cadmus (Warlock playtest), an elf who narrowly survived an attack on his group of pilgrims with the help of a mysterious voice in the network (and also Tavin).
This is the second in a three-part game of a Daggerheart game in the Motherboard setting! If you haven't, start by listening to the first episode of this game. Look for new episodes every Monday.
Daggerheart is the latest game from Darrington Press and the team at Critical Role — we're all still learning the rules of this game, so please apologize our mistakes! Increasing the chaos, two of our party were trying out playtest classes: Brawler for Matt and Warlock for Phil. You can find details on these classes (and more playtest content) on Daggerheart's website. If you want to follow along and/or see where we went wrong, you can read all of the rules in the completely free SRD. The print book is sold out (though check with your FLGS if you're interested in a copy), but if you enjoyed our game you can buy Daggerheart digital copies from Demiplane and DriveThruRPG.
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[Music]
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Hello and welcome to another episode of Tavern Watch plays Daggerheart. This is our second episode of a game in
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the motherboard setting and it's already pretty interesting. I'm going to ask our
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players to introduce themselves. Starting with you, Joan. Okay. So, I'm
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playing Lithion of Red Canyon. Um, she's a Nightwalker rogue. She is a fawn who
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was born kind of out in the hinterlands. Doesn't quite get all this technology stuff, but she does her best.
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And Matt. Hi, I'm Ishvit. How? Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm not supposed to get excited.
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Um, I'm a I'm a giant. I'm not I'm not like too big. I'm only eight feet tall.
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Uh, but you know, I'm growing, so we'll see where I get. Uh, I punch things and
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I think about how to punch things more, but you don't want to get excited. Very
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important. Uh, yeah, that's enough for now. Okay, Nick.
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I am playing Taven, the orderborn human
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Sarif who has dedicated his life to helping the people of the Echo Veil.
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And Phil, hi, I'm Phil and I am playing Lelas Cadmas, a Wonderborn elf warlock.
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Definitely has devoted his life to serving something. It's it's definitely a voice in his head. That's
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it's 100% real. It's absolutely real. Completely completely legit. She's very real. She gave me these magic powers.
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I mean, technological powers that act like magic. Uh, so Matt, would you give us a little
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summary of what happened in our last session? Yeah. So, like Taven got a note and he
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was like, I got to go talk to the important people. So, we went to motherboard, which is big. I didn't know
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it was that big. I mean, I knew it was big because you can see it from like, you know, ways away. Like when we were
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walking back from the Remis Fury, uh, Talson would go, "That's motherboard." And I'd be like, "Whoa, that's big." So,
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we went there and we found out that there's people that don't like the motherboard and they want us to, I
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guess, unplug her. I know. I don't know how that works. And there's people who are looking for Lithion, and I I
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suggested that we find them and convince them not to be looking for her anymore,
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but she was like, "No, that'll just make them want to look for me even more." And I was like, I could punch them to death.
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And Tav was like, you you don't have to get don't be excited. You shouldn't want
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to punch people to death. So I'm like, okay, so if I don't really want to do it, it's okay. And he was like, that's a
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good point. And then we met with Prophetus and she was like, "Yeah, uh, you're absolutely not allowed to go into
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the motherboard." And then she started like going, "But but I need you to go into the motherboard, but don't tell anybody that I told you to do that." And
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we were like, "Okay, so how do we do that she's like, "Well, you can climb up, but there's a bunch of guys up there and we, you know, you might have to
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punch them." Or you can go out to this valley and go underground, and that way if there's anything you have to punch, nobody will care.
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That was a great summary. That that actually got everything. Oh, and I picked up the place and I was
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carrying him around for a little while, but I shouldn't have been because that that ignores his like his sovereignty as
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a as a living being. So, I'm sorry about that. I shouldn't just pick people up and carry them around like dolls.
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Yes. personal space is shishit. Yeah, I was sorry about that. You know, when you're a giant, it's
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everyone pro everyone looks kind of He's so cute. He got pointy ears and he's just I do have pointy ears.
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I tuck my ears under my hood. Uh so you head out of the city and
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uh as you go certainly again the serif's standing guard and frankly all of the
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priests around the motherboard they definitely clock you. They're watching you. It's was very unusual that you were
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called to meet the prophetus and they're all everyone's curious. Everyone's curious. When when you were speaking
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with her she did say there are a lot of gossips here. They all want to know what's happening, but
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they're all too well behaved to come and pester you
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about it, but there's certainly an air of curiosity. So, you work your way out of the city, through the crowds, and
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back into the wastes surrounding it. Uh, you have a few a few hours to get far
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enough out to where the canyons open up. And as you is there anything anyone
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wants to do or talk about on the way out? On the way out. Um it might be good to
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lay a false trail, make people think we're not going where we're going. Not very obviously going to the valleys
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that border the motherboard for. Yeah, we could like um go go to some place that p where we could p purchase
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supplies for you know as if we were going out on a long journey, a
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pilgrimage. Hey, Ish there. What are the top three places you would
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like to go to that's not here? Oh, um,
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home. But cuz I haven't been back in a while and I I worried that my dads are possibly still frozen. I mean, I know
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they're still frozen, but somebody wouldn't help me read code so that I could get them out.
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I told you I can't do it all the time. Yeah, but we could have just stayed there until you figured it out. You're
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too cute. I'm not want to anger argue with you right now about the other two. Uh I don't actually know anything. So um
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I don't want to go back to Argent because the last time I was there, every robot rose up and tried to kill us and I
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had to spend like two months fighting my way back out to home. Uh I I actually I
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mean I I liked Red Canyon. I'm sorry it was pretty. Uh I I know you've got
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there's lots of reasons you would want to go there, but yeah, I I wouldn't mind going back to Red Canyon. And maybe when we're there, we can find
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those people and punch them again. I'm sorry. They really need to get punched.
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Anyone who would like to can make a knowledge roll to think about where
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might be a good direction to fake your going. All right. I mean, I don't have
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knowledge as a thing, so I'll just roll. I mean, you Yeah, you can you can try and we'll see. I'll try it too.
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Okay, that's a a one and a 12. So 13 on fear. Okay, so
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12 was my fear die. 12 and an eight with hope. And I got knowledge plus one.
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Okay. Was anyone else going to roll or is that it? I think they've got it covered.
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Okay. Um uh so Tavin, you know that
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there is an oracle far far up in the north up on the very kind of on the rise
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of the mountains. and the oracle and the rest of the motherboard church don't
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always get along, but it is the sort of person you might you might want to
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consult about ideas around the religious technology of the
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veil. You also know that uh off to the northwest in the valley there is a vast
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library that you may be able to find. You may be able to convince the scholars to give you information. Either of those
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might be reasonable places to go after this to convince people you might be
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going. They might be places where the prophetus might send you realistically.
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He Tavan turns back to Ishvit and says, "While we're in the city, I want you to
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tell people or I want you to talk about how excited you are to go to a walking
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city on legs." If there's a walking city on legs, it's filled with books that I like to
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read. But yes, it is a walking city. It's got eight legs. So even though it's boring, it's a
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walking robot city on legs. Yes. So, it's not that boring. Okay. All
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right. Cool. Just while we're in this while we're in the city, I turn to the nearest person as we're
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passing by. Like, is there Do you know about this robot city? It's a city on legs. Do you know about that?
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Kind of. They all kind of look at you. Um, there are several wandering cities. There's several of them.
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Well, probably the best known wandering city is the Carolraftoft Walkaway, which is a large walking mech. It is it is
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hostile to everyone. They are raiders who take and uh are we going to that city?
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No, we're going to the one that has coloring books. We're going to the one with books. Sorry. Whichever one has books is the
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one we're going to. Please be aware of this. So, it's it's an insular city. No. And
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uh but but yeah, it's it's it's a place you might find knowledge. So,
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we're not going to robot city of violent pirates. Although, now that I think about it, that sounds cool, too. But
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we're going to the one with books. I'll take you someday. I promise.
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You can probably punch people on the way. Or when we get there. I was going to say when we get there.
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Shirley. Yeah. I'm not calling you Shirley. Beat me to it.
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Oh boy. Oh boy. Yeah. Tells like Ishvit tells like 75 people this. At this point, you think
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Ishit might actually think you're going to the robot city. Uh, so make me a presence role.
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Oh, that's where I'm executive liking. Oh, well, because you are are very loud
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and very enthusiastic, I will let you make this role with advantage. And uh I believe advantage lets you add a d6 to
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this. Okay. Yep. I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure I'm right. You are correct. You're correct.
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Okay. Okay. I got a five and a seven. So 12
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plus three. So 15 with hope.
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Okay. So Oh, and you get a hope because you rolled with hope. So you have an
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additional hope. So now I'm up to five hope. I don't think I I don't think I missed telling anyone on any of our rolls.
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Nope. No. I'm just uh making sure that I'm writing it down properly. Yeah. Um so he you everyone in the group
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has a pretty good feeling. You make an impression as you were heading out. We are good at that.
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Uh is there anything else anyone would like to do on their you start this
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journey? Well, this ruse seemed pretty effective, but as we turn to head down our correct path, I want to keep an eye peeled for
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anybody who might just be deciding to follow us. Anyway, okay. Um, make a an instinct role.
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Oh, that's my best one. Well, I mean, anyone anyone who wants to also make a role or to provide
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assistance. I don't feel like I would think of it. Could I could I spend a hope to use one
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of my experiences? Yeah, I have one called What are you going to do? Uh, I have one called lived through
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worse than this. Uh, okay. thinking kind of in this case is kind of representing like keeping my eye
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out for threats. Well, I didn't before and now I've learned what to watch for. Mhm. All right. So,
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yeah. How do we assist in this system? Um, two. Do you spend a hope? I think
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you spend a hope and then you get an extra d6. I'll do it. Or is it a d6 or is it a a plus one? Let
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me see. We are still learning. Oh, actually I have an ability that um I can spend a
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hope to use. See? Okay. No, I don't think that would help in this situation.
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Yeah, it adds a d6 advantage. Okay. Yeah, let's go with it. Okay, so I'm rolling 2d12 plus a d6 plus
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two. So that handful of dice, you love it. Ah, such a sound. All right, so that is a 12 on the hope
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die, a one on the fear die, and a four on the advantage. 171 19 total. Uh that is a great roll. Um on that
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roll, you definitely see that it looks like there's someone who is trying to
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follow you. Going to kind of nudge nudge Tavs. He's the Tav and Lithian since the subtle ones. Kind of heads up. We've got a we
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got a tail. Yeah, I'll go ahead and uh become this. You see them in the
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distance and uh they're wearing a cloak trying to blend in with their environment, but they're not they're the
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cloak blends in, but they are they are not doing a very good job of being stealthy. They're kind of clumping
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around and not using cover as well as they could. Maybe not used to this.
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I'd like to hide somewhere and wait for them close to see who they are. is do you
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just want to like wait and watch or are you thinking of waiting and ambushing them or
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um probably wait and watch at first? Okay. Uh what is everyone else going to
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do? I mean I feel like I'm very I'm the easiest to spot of the group. So if anyone bothered to tell me what
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was going on, I'm deliberately continuing to walk to to basically be followed. If no one told me, then I just
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keep walking because I don't know there's anything going on. Yeah, I think maybe slow our pace a
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little so we don't get too far away from Lithium. You tell me that. Do you tell me that or
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do you distract me? Yeah, I think I'll lead over and go. All right, don't make it obvious, but we're going to slow down just a bit. We're
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being we're being followed. Uh so, Lithion, give me a um finesse
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roll to see how well you are hiding. So, actually, when anytime that I would
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be hidden, I am instead cloaked. So, if I'm successful on this, they can't see
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me even if they're in range. Okay. So, that is
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um I can't mouth all of a sudden. 19 with fear. Okay. Delicious. Delicious fear. I'm
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collecting. Um a 19 with fear. You see a you kind of
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hide amongst rocks and there's kind of scrubby greenery here that uh you're
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able to sneak behind very easily and conceal yourself. Uh this person walks
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through. They're broad shouldered wearing a a thick cloak that covers them
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and is the s it's the colors of the environment around you. So they're
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they're dressed to blend in. Do I recognize them? Um, I don't think you do. No.
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Um, and what sort of creature are they? Uh, they are they're an elf and uh they
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are armed. They're armed with a sword of some kind, but they they're bundled up
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in this cloak to try and keep themselves hidden. So, okay. I'm going to wait till he's passed
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a little bit, then uh go around and hurry back to the group. Okay. So, at this point, we're just walking,
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albeit a little bit slowly, while Lithon is waiting for him to pass.
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Yeah. Okay. Um, Tav's keeping an eye on Lithium and the and the uh cloaked
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figure more so Lithion just to make sure. And is there a
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do we notice that they have passed her position and continue to follow us or
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has that not happened? Um, I will say that you you are aware of what's going
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on. So, you're kind of keeping an eye particularly um I'm forgetting character names over here, particularly Phil
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because you clocked them in the first place. You kind of keeping half an eye
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being subtle about it. So, yes, you know, they've they've this person has walked past and is continuing to slowly
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follow you. I'm going to whisper to place. So, how do you want to handle our friend?
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Well, we could just turn around and ask them what they want because they don't seem to be making a very good effort to stay hidden.
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They're trying, but I rolled a five. As I said, the the dice the dice determine how good
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anyone is at anything. How crowded is it around us right now? It is really not. The crowds the farther
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you get away from the city, the crowds start to dissipate. So, you have some travelers coming and going, making their
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way to the motherboard, but it's pretty sparse. And can I roll to see or to notice where
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the nearest serif on a tower is? I would say you're you're hu
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instinct roll. All right, that's a crit. A three and a three. Well, that uh certainly works. You do
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notice that kind of behind you to the behind you to
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the right is a one of the last towers along this route. And the uh this person
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following you is coming at you from the other side. They're behind you but on your left side. So the tower sort of
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opposite them is okay. And I'll say you're in far distance from
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it. So, it's it's a little behind you, but it's um it's a fair Well, it's it'd
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be like a turn of running to get back to it or a couple of turns of walking calmly.
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I was going to look at the place and say, "Ready whenever you are." Uh yeah,
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at that I'm going to kind of I think I'm I think so. Is there are we in we're in kind of like the area outside of this?
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Yeah, you're you're really just just outside. Okay. All right. So, I kind of want to
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turn the group around a corner so that he sees like, oh, we've gone around a corner, but you know, thinks he's still
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following us. And then let's just wait for him to get here. Soon as this guy gets here, be like somewhere, friend.
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Are you trying to stay in range of the Are you trying to stay in range of the tower or get closer to the tower or anything like that?
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Uh, I ideally want the tower out of sight in case in case this gets violent.
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Besides, if we want a serif on a tower, we can just put Taven on top of Ishvet. It's fine.
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Yes, you're not wrong. I've been trying to figure out how to introduce fast ball specials to this
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whole thing. Found it. Well, there there is a move where you can tag
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team with an ally if you so desire and if you have enough hope. Uh, so you've
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turned a corner. You are waiting for this person to approach. All of you are together. Is anyone doing anything while
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they wait? Anyone getting ready to do something? I'm checking my hands to make sure I don't have any open things on
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them. It's kind of gross. You hit somebody with open thing and then you get blood on them. It's not cool. Uh Tav's moved his cloak so that his
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wings will have an easier time spreading should he need them. And just we're at a
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waiting ready and waiting position. Okay. Well, this uh this gentleman
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rounds the corner in their cloak. He's still not being very stealthy. He kind of clumps around the corner looking left
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and looking right. And then he clocks all of you. You're impossible to miss.
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He kind of takes a step back and surprise. He did not expect you to be
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right here. Surprise. Oh, I'll I'll pop up behind him, I think.
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Oh, behind him. Okay. Uh I won't say anything yet, but that's right.
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He takes a slow look around him and and
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draws his sword. Is anyone doing anything at this point? You're going to stab all four of us.
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Well, you just This is This is just what happens. Y'all y'all get to respond.
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I mean, that's what I say. I seriously say, "Are you going to stab all four of us?" I I mean, we're not going to just stand here and let you.
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Taven's just going to hold up the hand, not holding his icus. Try to deescalate
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and just say, "Wait, wait. think about this. We just want to talk.
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Why are you following us? I am looking for someone and he has his
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eyes on Lethion. Why do you think we can help you? Well, one of you is the someone I'm
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looking for. Well, you found her. Conversely, as as as he says that as uh
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the play says that, Tav will say or you haven't found her and you keep looking
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somewhere else. Sounds good to me. And at this point, you see four other
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people come around the corner. I am going to spend a pile of fear. They are
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all carrying swords. A pile of It's you know the only appropriate term.
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I had some fear. Now I have less fear. But now we have fear. I mean
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I am I am so not excited about this. You you can get a little excited.
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Yeah, Tav's going to move his cloak back and extend his wings. Now's the time to be excited.
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I did not have bounty hunters on my list. So, let's see the
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Oh, they are going to this new group of four is going to act because I have
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spent some fear. Um uh they are going to
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they're going to go for Lethion and they've rolled very poorly to hit her.
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Uh that's an eight and we are matching their attack with your evasion score.
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I think that hits you. Um, so yes, they they come at you from uh they've come up
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from behind you and they come and swing at you, but you are just too fast. You
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have been expecting from that earlier warning that maybe something is going to happen. Your senses are on high alert.
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You just dodge out of the way and they kind of come at each other in a pile
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being a little discombobulated. And uh the other one says um can't hire good
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help anymore. And I will I will say the story passes back to you. Who would like
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to who would like to go for it? I'll step up. So I'm just going to kind of extend my hand and go, "Yep, next time spend more." And um the floss is
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going to pull his his iconis out of uh it's it's holstered. It takes both hands. Um it almost looks like two like
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I've discarded looking like a cross between like a magic wand and a conductor's baton. He has two of them. Um, and both of them just kind of light
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up and he kind of makes kind of a gesture at this first guy who came around the corner. Um, I'm going to attempt to use on him which
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Okay. I make a spellcast roll against a target with well within far range. He's definitely within far.
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Yeah. Yeah. That is a third a presence 15.
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Uh, that is enough. Okay. Uh, and sorry 13 with hope. I should clarify seven and six. Okay. Yes.
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So, you do gain a hope doing this. Okay. So, I will gain me a hope and he
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will take six tech damage. Uh and then the next time And then the next time he
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attacks somebody, that damage is reduced by 1d6. Yeah, his damage is reduced. Yes, his damage is reduced. Um so, uh
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yeah, as the uh as the plus kind of makes like this kind of a kind of like a
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swooshy, uh wave with his little wands. Um, ambient nano machines kind of swarm
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this guy and um Oh, begin just kind of eating away at his kind of at his uh trying to eat into his
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weapon, make it less effective, but also some of them land on him and you know that it's kind of gray goo
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nasty effect. So, he sort of swats at them, but it doesn't it doesn't do anything. Uh, so who who
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who is going to be working next at this? I'm gonna just go past the dude who was
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talking. Like I'm just gonna just walk past him and head to the four. Okay.
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And I am going to use forceful push.
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Okay. Which is now there are there are four of them. So yeah. I know. Uh
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I don't have to get within melee range to hit them cuz I am a giant. Okay. So, I can punch them from not uh to not
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from melee, but from very close. Okay. So, I'm actually technically a little
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bit outside of melee range as I literally just pick one and I'm going to
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just bunch them. Okay. Now, give me a roll. Okay. Uh it's 11 and 12. So, 23 + 2 cuz
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that's my uh instinct. Uh yeah. Yeah, that that hits. Okay. when I hit him, uh, since he was,
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uh, since I used my successful I used force push, I've dealt the damage and he
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also gets knocked back a further. How how much damage is this?
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Uh, my attacks with my fists are d10 plus one. So, so, and actually, no, it's because I
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have the the insight, it's actually plus two. Sorry. Um, okay. So, give give me a roll.
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7 + uh 2 is nine. So yeah, nine. And
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then he gets pushed back from very close out to close.
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So you go in swinging. You punch this guy and he flies backwards into another
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one of them and they both crumple to the ground. You have you have knocked them
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out of the fight. Oh, I succeeded with hope. So, actually, he takes another d6, but that's fine cuz he already said he was knocked out.
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He won't roll the d6. Uh, two. Okay. So, he gets two more. It was a It was
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like 11. No, it's nine. So, now it's 11. You actually get three of them with that. Same thing. You kind of managed to
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hurl one of them back and he goes through another two, knocking through them and sending all sending three of
27:08
them to the ground. There is just there's just one left and he is not looking very confident.
27:16
I just want you to know I'm not enjoying this as much as I could be.
27:23
Okay. So, you said there's one there's one up still. There is there is one of these little
27:28
minions up and there is the boss man guy is still up too. Boss guy is still up. Yes.
27:34
Okay. So, since one little guy, one big guy. Since Tav was talking to the boss guy, uh I think
27:40
I want to spend a hope to use this uh experience to add a plus two. And that
27:47
experience is violence is never the answer, but sometimes it is.
27:53
And yeah, I that's fair. That's fair. It's specifically He tried to get him to walk away and he didn't listen. So
28:00
perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. And we're going to use just the icon
28:08
staff as as a blunt object. So we are hitting with that is a 9 + 2 11 with
28:18
hope. Okay. Uh that does not hit him. Oh god. Come on.
28:24
So you you try to come in with your Iconis and take a swing at him, but he he dodges just out of the way. You will
28:31
have to try harder than that. Oh, sure. I will.
28:36
Go on. So, my icon is actually Don't forget to give yourself a hope
28:42
because you rolled with hope. Yay. I'm back at And I think that that goes for both you, Matt, and you, Nick. You give yourself
28:48
another hope. Also, everyone remember your maximum hope is six. If you get more than that,
28:55
it just it dissolves into the ether. So, spend your hope. So, my Iconis is uh
29:01
actually built as a pair of gloves with a a bunch of chains attached to them
29:07
that kind of retract. Um, I'm going to put it out in It's called Thorn Grips,
29:13
but I'm going to I'm going to use it in not thorny mode, like the hooks are retracted, but they're just kind of
29:19
little weights at the end of the chains. Okay. And I'm going to try and hit him with this.
29:25
All right. See? Um, so okay, proficiency
29:30
is for the damage dice. So it's just my finesse, I believe. So it makes 13 with
29:36
fear. Uh, so 13 does not hit. You're looking for a 14. I'll just let everybody know
29:42
to hit. Uh, so you you go at him and again he sort of slides out of the way
29:48
at the last minute. Uh, and now I'm going to have uh him take a move and
29:56
Um he is again going for lithium. Yeah,
30:01
that is a 23 to hit. That will hit. And um he's he has a negative one to his
30:09
attack or to his damage. He has a negative 1d6 to his damage. Negative 1d6. Okay. You want to roll the
30:16
d6 for me? I'd love to. It's a It's a three. So he has a uh that is
30:23
nine points of damage to you. So that's two HP since my threshold is
30:30
511, right? Yes, that would be two HP unless you can spend a point of armor to reduce that
30:37
down by a threshold and only take one if you want to spend the armor. I will spend the armor.
30:42
So yes, you take a a one HP in damage.
30:48
There we are. Are you Are you all paying attention yet? Yes.
30:54
It strikes me as I say that that this guy is not very intelligent, is he?
31:00
Is it our turn now? Does he said that after he hurt my friend? I Yes. Go on.
31:05
I am going to punch him into the ground. I don't care. My friend got hurt.
31:13
Uh yeah, I'm going to punch him into the ground. Okay. Eight and an eight. So that's 16, but
31:20
it's also a crit because it's two a. Sorry, I keep forgetting that. Um yes, that does that definitely hits.
31:26
Okay. Is that before I deal any damage to him? Uhhuh. Before I deal any damage, I am now going
31:33
to roll my combo die because I am combo striking him. Okay.
31:38
Um so yeah, I get first one to D4. Okay, so that's a three. I have to roll the
31:45
second one. Yeah, it's only a two. So, no. Um, so
31:52
it's just the the four, the three and the two um get counted. Uh, so you take
31:58
all of them and now I add the value. You roll the combo die. Look, three and a two. So, I add five to my weapon
32:05
damage that I'm about to roll. And Okay. So, for for a crit, you roll the full damage. It's the full damage of the
32:12
weapon plus a roll. Okay. So, so it's so it's like 10 plus it's 1d10
32:18
plus two when I punch things because it's an instinct attack. So that's 12 damage and then you roll
32:26
for the next damage. Okay. So give me one second. Uh that's a six. Yeah. So another six. You get the
32:34
Do they get the plus two? Like cuz it's insight. Yeah. You So yeah, if it's it's the usual damage of
32:40
your weapon weapon roll. Yeah. So it's an eight for the sec for the actual roll. So that's that's 12
32:47
then eight. So 20 plus five. Do you have a total there?
32:52
Yeah. 25 all told 25 with the combo strikes. Yes. Okay. That is
32:57
And then I'm spending three hope. Okay. Okay. Cuz he now gets a stress. He is now
33:05
staggered and all attack rolls he makes are a disadvantage. Okay. And that's down. I'm down to three hope
33:12
cuz you kept telling me I had to spend hope and I hadn't been. Yeah, I mean you should. Hope is a resource that you should spend. Yes,
33:19
that's the point of it. So now he is staggered so everything he does is a disadvantage. Disadvantage.
33:25
Uh and he is got a stress and I hit him for 25 points of damage.
33:31
Okay. Yeah, that that hits him pretty good. He he is not looking great. He is
33:38
not looking great. I don't like you and I'm going to enjoy this.
33:45
Well, that's fair because I don't like you very much either. Was it the part where she punched your guts out?
33:51
Yeah, that that'll happen. Who's up? Oh, I can go. I can take a swing at him again.
33:58
Somebody should go pull this into fear and goes. Yeah, there we go.
34:03
Um, that's probably not going to hit anything. That's an eight.
34:09
Yeah, that's a 10 with hope. Uh, no, but you do gain a hope. So, you go at him again. He dodges out of the
34:15
way. Quit ducking. Uh, okay. Tam's going to use one of his
34:21
abilities, uh, bolt beacon. And basically, it is a ranged attack, 2d8
34:30
plus two tech. Uh, and what it will do is I had it up on too many pieces of
34:39
paper and blah blah blah. Excuse me. All right. Make a spellcast roll against a target with within far range. On a
34:45
success, spend a hope to send a bolt of shimmering light toward them, dealing 2d8 plus two magic damage using your
34:53
proficiency. But in this case, it's not magic. It is tech. So, we will roll.
34:58
Go for it. That is going to be an 18 with hope.
35:04
Uh that hits and you earn a hope and that hope is immediately going to be spent. So uh he points his iconist
35:11
towards the uh this guy and out towards the end of it go is a uh mechanical dart
35:20
with a with a light beacon at the end of it that shines brightly letting them
35:27
know where their position is. Mhm. And that is going to be a 2d8 + 2
35:34
tech. That's going to be six plus
35:39
5. 11 + 2 is 13. And plus one, which is my spellcast or
35:46
plus two, which is my spell casting proficiency, which is Yeah. Okay. Uh,
35:51
which is 15 total. And that target becomes temporarily vulnerable and glows
35:58
brightly until this condition is cleared. And I think in this case vulnerable means advantage against.
36:05
I I am going to say that is that is enough to knock him down. How do you want to describe how you take this guy
36:12
out? Um, so as the dart comes out of
36:17
Tav's Iconis, it shoots with so much force that uh when it hits him, it hits
36:24
him in the chest and the kinetic impact knocks the wind out of him. It's a pretty big dart.
36:30
Okay. And he was not looking good after taking these punches. and those nanobots
36:37
that hit him and his weapon. He crumbles onto the ground, falling on his back,
36:44
and his eyes roll back into his head unconscious. At this point, the last of
36:51
his little of his little cell swords, he's been frozen here watching all of this. He turns and runs.
36:58
Don't. He is running. I can't do anything right now. So, uh, so what? Tell me when I can act. I
37:06
can act before he's out of range. Um, uh, Joan, you have not gone in this
37:13
turn as such as we have turns. Sorry, didn't realize I left my mic off
37:19
after the kids are making. Um, so he's within very close range, I assume, where
37:24
I can get him that close. Uh, he's started to make a run for it. So, he is he's running as fast as he
37:32
can. I will say he is in far range. If I run, can I can I get that close?
37:38
Uh, you can if you so desire. Yeah, going to do that and give it another go
37:44
with the thorn grip. Okay. Okay. So, 9 plus finesse is
37:51
11. Um, yeah, 11 to hit. Uh, with hope or fear. That does hit.
37:57
Oh, yes. Uh, with hope. Okay. So, you gain a hope it hits. And I'm going to tell you it's going to be
38:03
enough to take him down. So, you want to describe how you do that? Yeah. So, right before um right before
38:11
the thorns hit, I'll open them up so they'll catch his clothing and then yank him back and he sort of
38:18
hits the ground and his head bounces and just kind of stuns him and puts him out.
38:24
Yeah. So, he is on the ground. There is no one left on the field of battle. So,
38:30
what do people do to bounty hunters around here? Probably nothing. Go through his
38:36
pockets. Yeah. Okay. He has uh he does have a chip with
38:44
quantum on it. You assume it's going to have quantum on it. He has a long sword.
38:52
And is that like an actual sword or is it an iconist? It I mean it is an iconist. Oh, I guess I should clarify because iconists are
38:58
bonded to people. So, yes, it it's an iconis, but it is in the form of a sword.
39:04
So, we can't take that from him cuz it's bonded to him. I believe you can't use it. Is
39:10
I could throw it I could like throw it in some direction and like just I think you could like throw it in the
39:16
garbage if that's what you wanted to do. Such as as as you say, throw it in some
39:21
direction out of his reach. Yeah, the jungle is around here somewhere, right? Like, aren't we like in forest or something?
39:26
Um, you're you're kind of in a scrubby grass land. Uh, it's
39:32
I'm gonna pick the direction with the most shrubs. Okay. It's it's rock. We're going to make sure that this is as
39:38
inconvenient an experience for them as possible. Yeah. So, I'm I'm going to like toss
39:43
that thing into the most shrubby, broken rocky, just hard to see things, hard to
39:48
find things area I can see. I'm just going to throw it as far as I can. Okay. You you do that thing
39:55
which is pretty far for you. Yeah, you are making a real effort. So, it has gone really far into the scrub
40:03
and behind a a sort of towering formation of rocks. So, you can't see
40:09
where it landed. It's somewhere. So, I ask questions. I guess
40:14
it might be useful to know um like exactly who sent them and where they
40:19
were supposed to take me if they caught me. Is there a tree around us? Uh yeah, you can find a tree. Or you
40:26
were kind of in a You're kind of in some
40:33
a little a little ruined area outside of town, which you've you've ducked around
40:39
a corner, but in ducking around a corner, you were like ducking behind a sort of half broken wall that maybe used
40:44
to be a building or a fortification of some kind. Oh, cool. Let's tie them up. Uh, I've
40:50
got 50 ft of rope as part of my basic supplies. Okay. And string them up upside down and ask
40:56
him questions. Okay. Edwards.
41:03
Well, this is no challenge for you. This is no challenge for you to do.
41:08
I mean, I'll help if you need help, please. Uh, and as you as you string him up, you know, his cloak is sort of
41:16
falling off and you realize this is the guy in the back in the crowd with all of the loud colorful clothing who was
41:23
trying to sell things to pilgrims. Oh, wait. The guy who was trying to sell people on paper money.
41:29
Yeah. Yeah. Is the paper money on him? Oh, you know, that's a good question. Yeah, I will say I will say it is. In
41:35
addition in addition to having like a a a chip which probably has some amount of
41:41
quantum on it, he he does have, you know, a a pouch that he was carrying
41:48
that has just a pack of these like scraps of paper. You don't you never seen anything like this.
41:55
You don't know. Maybe it's a great investment. I'm starting a fire. I'm Yeah. take the
42:02
itch and I'm going to take some of the rest of it, right? And then I'm going to start slapping
42:09
like slightly slapping him in the face just to get him to wake up.
42:16
Well, I've woken up in better places. Well, haven't we all? I bet you wish you turned around and walked away.
42:23
Well, everybody needs to Everyone needs a payday out here in the wastes. wreck
42:30
my knuckles. So, now you're going to tell me who sent you. That does seem like a a pretty good
42:36
idea. Yeah. Yeah. I I don't He's looking
42:41
at the rope that he is tied up with. Um, so Lithion, you were you were captured
42:49
by a cult. What was the cult's name? Oh, okay. I thought that Ishvit was
42:55
going to make this up, but that ended up going different. Well, I Oh, sorry.
43:00
Um, if I mean I can do it right now if you want.
43:05
If you want to ask to make something up, then you can or I will if you can't think of we are collaborating here. That's the
43:12
point. I mean, you had asked me specifically why I didn't why I like didn't leave you
43:17
and that the reason I gave was that because I'd seen enough people die already. Um, I'm going to say that the
43:22
reason I got involved was initially because they had a banner
43:28
that had a bunch of code I'd never seen before and didn't know what it meant. So, I actually walked into their little
43:34
group while they had you strapped down to whatever they were strapping you down to. And then I'm like, "Hi. Um, not to
43:40
interrupt, by the way, that's weird. Uh, could you guys like what's that? What's
43:46
the deal? That says closed eye, doesn't it?" I think it does. And they were
43:51
like, "No, it says pluck the eye out and attack me." So, after a pretty
43:57
stressful, you know, few minutes of of fighting them, uh, I was like, "Okay,
44:02
next time they they I see a group of cultists, I'll definitely remember not
44:08
to ask them what they were going on about." Um, and that's when I got you.
44:13
So yeah, they're they're some kind of variation on um the the blinders or the
44:19
eye pluckers or whatever you know you want to call them. Uh but that's their whole deal is they hate the idea of
44:24
people knowing anything and they want to make want to stop them. Uh so uh so yes, the blind eye cult was
44:33
paying very well to return you to them. Who specifically? I I you don't go and
44:41
just talk to them. I was contacted through an intermediary who gave me a
44:49
significant amount of quantum which uh he sees one of you holding his uh
44:55
holding his chip which I see that is now in your possession. Oops. Did we take your quantum? Tavven's
45:02
like got it between his fingers. Yes, that is that that is literally what you have done. Yes. That's
45:08
No, but I meant like that's that was her saying that to him. No. Yes. That and he's saying that back.
45:15
Yes. That's uh that's pretty Mhm. I'm going to crouch I crouch down so
45:20
that I'm at a high eye level with him which is very that's a lot of crouching for me. Like I am bent down like Okay,
45:28
I'm not actually stupid. So, how about you stop talking to me like I'm stupid?
45:34
Okay. You were asking if you had taken all of my money and you did. I did not ask you that question. I was
45:40
being snarky. And you know what snarky is? You sell people pieces of paper.
45:45
Come on. Throws a crumpled piece of paper at the guy's head.
45:51
For no reason value. They could have appreciated in value. You
45:56
guess. Uh. Yeah, that's that. Where were they going to take her? Or where were you going to take her?
46:03
They wished me to meet them to the south.
46:10
Okay, south's a big direction. Yeah, we had a
46:17
They told me to look for wherever the May trader caravan was currently camped,
46:23
that they would have someone waiting for me there. They gave me a description
46:29
that it would be an older gentleman in a blue cloak and I would be able to find him in the largest drinking hole within
46:38
the caravan and he would provide the second half of my payment and make sure
46:44
the lady got back as they wished her. All right, so here's how it's going to go. Those guys killed everyone I've ever
46:52
known and I am very angry. She kind of cracks her knuckles again.
46:58
That's really of them. If I don't see you again, then you and I
47:03
won't have any problems, right? Uh, you know, that sounds that is that
47:09
does sound like an excellent bargain. Yes. All right. Good day. We should just leave there and walk off.
47:14
Are is anyone letting me down from any anyone?
47:20
You're an enterprising young man. You Taven says no and throws another piece of paper at him. Ah. Uh,
47:26
are there any like any any relatively sharp rocks around here? Oh god.
47:31
I mean, there are plenty of rocks. You can certainly find a sharp one if you want to. I'm going to put it just out of reach.
47:39
Okay. If you can figure out how to get this into your hand, and I'm You seem pretty
47:45
clever. You probably will. Um, then you can cut your ropes and and get yourself
47:51
out cuz I won't leave you to die cuz that's cruel. That's uh that's very kind of you. I I do appreciate that.
47:58
If I see you again, I'm going to punch you harder. Uh I will definitely try to avoid that.
48:04
Yes, I do not care for being punched. This is a very fair and generous offer and I do appreciate it.
48:11
Don't like you catch up. I don't like any of this. So, uh yes.
48:17
All right, let's go. We got time to go to the library. Time to go.
48:22
Let's go to that city with library books in it instead of the cool one with pirates.
48:28
Not the one with pirates. That's right. Okay. So, off you go.
48:33
Well, so now we've got to Tav turns and uh says to the group. So, we're still
48:39
heading to the canyon, right? Unless Yeah. Once we're out of range, that guy we Yeah.
48:44
I just want him to hear me say it cuz he's going to get himself out of that thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Honestly, if they're if
48:50
we're going to think of it this way, uh the best place to hide from somebody is someplace that no one can go. While we're in there, we can probably least
48:57
count on them not finding their way into, you know, I got to say personally as somebody with three eyes, I find this entire cult really offensive.
49:07
That's true. Well, they're just jealous of your extras. It's like, you know, some giants only get one. Imagine if you only have one
49:14
eye and they pull it out. That's just really evil. Yeah. What does that what does that have
49:19
to do with knowing things and well I mean if you can't see things you don't know them I guess I mean unless somebody just
49:25
reads you a book or something as they get as they start everyone starts walking to the canyon Tavian goes on a
49:31
long diet tribe about the symbolism of the eye and knowledge and it is so
49:37
incredibly boring but it is something that just comes so natural and he's just
49:42
talking and talking so what does this have to do with you having room on hand actually is listening
49:49
I'm sorry. Well, I mean, you you had to give up your hands to go be a the flying person,
49:57
right? Like, you told this to me this once and I I don't remember it really well, but you gave up your hands and you
50:05
weren't doing it to win a fiddle contest and and impress a girl. You were just
50:10
doing it to help people, right? Well, yeah. That's So, is that related? Is that related to
50:17
the eye thing? Like, do you do you like do you take off your hand so you can't accidentally rip out your eye?
50:24
I'm just trying to figure out where where these two things go. Well, um I know the hands are part of my
50:32
religious orders beliefs. Uh people like me believe that the the greatest thing
50:40
we can do with our hands are not let them be idle and let them serve the and help out the people of the veil.
50:47
But right now they're very idle, right? They're in a bin somewhere. Uh well, not these ones. And that he
50:54
Taven raises both hands and does magic fingers. And part of doing that is
50:59
showing off that the hand capabilities is one they the fingers wiggle really fast, but also they can split apart and
51:07
do different things like the wire wires can come out. Uh they can change shape into like almost needles. Basically
51:14
anything that a medic would need or a healer would need to do to help patch somebody up.
51:20
And then Okay. So they're they're scary. You're okay. That's cool. Um,
51:25
does one of them have a flashlight? He points his pinky and a blue light
51:31
starts flickering. That is so cool. Uh, I remember when when when my dads would be trying to fix
51:37
up the underground the underground uh, sorry, the sanctum of knowledge. Uh, they would be trying to fix it up and
51:43
they would constantly have me holding a flashlight for him cuz, you know, you can't see what you're doing in a dark
51:48
tunnel full of, you know, pillar robot things. Yeah. So, that's cool. sort of a
51:54
good thing to do to distract someone touching. I don't say aloud. You're just mouthing at everyone but me
52:01
because that would be a good thing to not tell me. I probably would be hurt. Yeah, you would be. Which is why I would never
52:07
say that out loud to you. Hands do do that. I So you continue on. I'll say while
52:13
you've been having this conversation. You've been walking and you have reached this canyon area at the top of the
52:20
canyon. It's there's uh there's trees here that kind of cover
52:27
uh kind of cover the top of the canyon. Trees and a little greenery, but it's a it's a little arid here, except for the
52:33
fact that there is definitely running water somewhere below you down at the bottom of the canyon.
52:39
Well, if you want to find the lowest point, we should follow the water cuz water will always go to the lowest point.
52:45
Especially since the prophet thought it might be part of a cool a system. Yeah, they had we had that in the sanctum of
52:51
of of knowledge. Uh we we there was like a bunch of water. Not only did the water
52:56
cool stuff down, it would actually go through these tubes and spin things.
53:02
Like just the water moving would make them turn and that would make lights spark up. I don't know why the lights
53:08
would come up, but yeah, it totally worked. Okay, so yeah. Um do we see an easy way down or is it time to bust out the
53:14
climbing? Um, well, someone give me an
53:19
an instinct role. One day I'm going to remember all these all these names. Okay. I have an 18 with hope.
53:25
An 18 with hope. So, give yourself a hope. And you kind of you walk up and
53:31
down this the side of this canyon looking down and you do see uh a part of it where the it's sort of instead of
53:39
being like a steep uh a steep cliff where it gradually
53:45
uh slopes down and there are ledges along the way where you think you could stop and make a pretty easy go of it.
53:52
Yeah. Um down there I point that out to to Lith. Okay, sure. Or we can take the easy way.
53:59
Well, I mean, for me, it's really hard to climb with the climbing gear cuz it's not really doesn't really fit.
54:05
I am just being sarcastic. Um, so everyone make me So, I'm assuming
54:10
you're going to try and go down. Yeah. Oh, I am. Yeah. Taking the easy way.
54:16
I mean, he does he can just fly, I guess, if he wants to. I can fly. So, this is light work for me. You're like climbing
54:22
gear. So, everyone make me a roll. And I would say you could use agility or strength
54:29
depending on how you want to go down. Everyone is going to make this roll at advantage. Okay. So, roll a d6 as well.
54:36
Yes. Uh let's see. 176 is 23. I've got a 23
54:41
with hope. Uh yes, that is excellent. You managed to safely make it all the way down and
54:47
give yourself give yourself a hope. Yep. I really need to find a way to spend some of these things. Um Oh yeah,
54:53
if you're actually I think now that I'm down at the bottom I'm going to try to like call up to people like you know maybe like if
54:58
certain hand holds are like weaker than others or which ones can support more weight especially so like Ishvit doesn't like grab one and it crumbles out from
55:05
under or something. Okay. Does that Well, I don't I don't think it I don't think it actually does help.
55:11
Yeah, that's that's the thing. They I already gave them advantage because they found the easy way down. So they cannot
55:16
have double advantage. I'm afraid double to ask what do I do since I already have advantage on that? You you
55:23
can do that for the glory of storytelling, but it does not provide any additional help. I try. Yeah, that's that. Yeah.
55:30
Uh I rolled a 20 with uh hope. Okay, give yourself a hope and you also
55:35
safely make it down. I rolled a one. Oh. Oh,
55:41
but total. No, I got 25 with fear is her. Okay. Yeah. I mean, a 25 with fear gets
55:46
you down. It's a It's a little anxietyinducing because you are a little large and you're wondering what
55:52
No, no, she rolled it. I I didn't roll it. Oh, I rolled a one and a two. So, that's a three plus plus one is four and then
56:01
another one. So, for a five total uh with fear.
56:06
So, I rolled a five with fear while I'm trying to climb down this thing. So, yeah, I don't think I don't think much of
56:12
anything is stopping me from falling off of it. Uh so Lithion, you make it you're very
56:19
used to climbing. You make it down quite spryy just slipping from one ledge to the other without any trouble and then
56:26
following you is uh ishit and you hit
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you you're following her down. I mean this should be really straightforward. You are just following her path except
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you're like a one ledge down and you go to the next ledge and it collapses under
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you because you're a little larger than she is and you slide the rest of the way
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and you take uh five points of damage which would that's probably under your
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minor threshold. That would be Yeah, it is. That would be I believe that falls in one hit point. Do I have that right? if
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it's below the minor earth. Okay, so you get some scrapes and bruises on the way down, but uh walk it
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off. Uh yeah, I didn't mean to do that, but I would totally tell you I did if I could. It's one. Sorry. Minor is anything
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below. Yeah, if you reduce it to zero. Okay, so you mark one hit point on. Okay. Yeah.
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Seven. So So I think this is probably good time for a break.
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