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Tavern Watch Plays Legend in the Mist, Episode 2: In which fairy tales aren't always tales
May 29, 2025
In our second game of Legend in the Mist, our group of hometown adventurers has set off and found that adventure isn't quite as exciting as the fairy tales make it seem. Even for a short trip to investigate the loan undead that ventured into their village, road is full of risks. For example, did you know a person could have the moldy status, because that's apparently a thing (and not a good one). But we're definitely not going to spiral out of control and worry about every fairy-tale-turned-reality that might jump out of the shadows and ambush us.
Definitely not.
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.
* 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).
* 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.
This is the second of a three-game series of Legend in the Mist, which is 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.
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[Music]
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okay so you guys have successfully calmed down the crowd at the Raven Holm Tavern tavern uh to prevent them from
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either trying to flee uh to a nearby larger town in the Dales or uh by um you
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know just like running off as like an impromptu militia of poorly trained poorly armed uh country folk Um everyone
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might be you know they might actually barricade their doors tonight when they go to sleep Um maybe they'll worry a
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little bit about whatever's prowling in the fields but they're not going to be in danger right now Um so with everybody
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kind of taking a breath including you three um tell me what each of you are
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tell me tell me what each of your characters are thinking right now Um what what kind of plan of action you're kind of thinking Let's start with
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Dunny Uh so Dunny's first um concern is the um black lines that
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had spread up to the middle of his arm Um he has kind of he's still with with
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our group here but he's kind of moved towards the edge of where the people are so that he could take a look under what
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he had wrapped his arm with Okay Um and he's kind of lost in thought over the um
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the the weird markings on the armor that he doesn't recognize because that's really strange Yeah it's it's very
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unusual Uh you you do bring something to mind that I that I wanted to bring up Um since you all are taking a moment here
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to rest Unfortunately Denny's poisoned one status doesn't go away but the rest of you lose whatever temporary statuses
2:04
you had which I think was nauseated for Lisa and stressed and nauseated for Fry
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Um those are gone Unfortunately Denny still poisoned Um this tea is the tea is
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definitely helping Thank you Thank you Fry for bringing those out So Denny Fry is just so exhausted He just thumbs up
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Uh let let's go to Fry then Fry what are you how you feeling what are you thinking what's Fry's state of mind
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right now fry's state of mind is why are there so many dishes but on top of that
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he's looking at uh Dunny's arm and wondering if there's
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anything after serving all that food and waiting through the impending mountain
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of dishes that need to get washed fries Trying to do a mental inventory of maybe there's some ingredient back in the
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tavern stocks that could help Dunny feel better Okay Um the only thing that comes
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to mind is maybe if you got Dunny really drunk he wouldn't care anymore But um you know that whenever you're
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whenever the people in Raven home get some kind of ailment that they can't
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really uh deal with ordinarily like an illness that's not commonly seen in the village
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There is an old lady who lives way out in the woods um near where so Ravenholm
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is kind of in the middle of aside from what's been cleared for barley fields is kind of surrounded by woods and a river
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on one side and then aside from that is surrounded by a ring of of hills that quickly turn into mountains Raven Holm
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is almost in like a little bowl valley Um and in the woods near where the hills
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start to get way too hilly um you remember that um there is an old lady
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out there um whose name I will come up with in a second but but she kind of she
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she uh she has some knowledge of the old ways and she has been she helps
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sometimes in extremely weird and mysterious ways um with ailments that people quite don't
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quite know how to deal with So you're like "Well I don't really know if I have anything back here that can help Donnie but maybe I'll recommend he goes and
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talks to the wise old lady of the woods." Um Lisa what are you uh what are
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you how's Lissa doing right now i mean I'm a little torn because I'm I'm
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worried about Dunny because I have tagged our relationship as he's my replacement little brother and he I he's
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looked better but also this is terrifying but also really
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exciting We have to see if there are more of them out there Yeah this this is
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one of the like this is one of the most uh interesting things to happen in this town in uh in ages Um also I'm going to
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say the so I don't forget it The old the wise old lady's name is Oden and she lives I said she lives way out in the
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woods Uh cuz well she claims it helps her practice the old ways better And also sometimes you know people can be
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judgmental even about things that help them when they don't understand them And nobody really understands the old ways in town Uh go ahead You were saying
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besides uh yeah Dunny's Dunny's arm is a little concerning looking like it doesn't seem to be spreading but it's he
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he's he's hurting over there And you're and you're both probably able to see him kind of like peeking under his impromptu
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bandages So we got to do something about that That's important but also to keep the
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town safe and definitely not just because I'm really curious and I want to see what's going on out there We do need
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to figure out if there are more of these things and if any of them are are any of them still out there So I got I kind of
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got two lines of thinking that I'm torn between right now That's fair Okay So
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you guys can uh you can kind of get back together after I think eventually everyone kind of filters out of the inn
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um or out of the get out of the out of the tavern They kind of go back about their business It's getting um let's see
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it was just it was just after lunch before I'd say it's probably like early afternoon at this point
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Um so you guys all kind of have your own your own thoughts your plan of action kind of sounds like most of you want to
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go find out what's out there whether it's a cure for Dunny or more weird zombies Um so
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Um yeah tell me what you tell me what you all want to do Tell me what you're Fry's not Fry's not geeked about
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uh about going to go look for more uh
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zombies and he just he tries to reason with Lissa like I mean you see you saw
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what happened to Dunny's arm like this could happen to any one of us No offense Daddy And that's
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like we're gonna get you help That's that's a really good reason to go
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and seek out the wise woman because it's if there are any more of them we're
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going to need to know how to help people I think we were really lucky that only Dunny got got really hurt
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Again no offense D looking at him like he's just right there you're the only one that
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we're just having this conversation in front of you Like uh I Fry is
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like she's making really good points but he's also like I don't want to die
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Um but eventually Fry will Fry's um relationship tag with Lissa is childhood
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friends and he's not going to let her go off on her own and he's got
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we won't go out hunting zombies but we need to find out a cure or a solve or
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something for this ooze it is just looking at Dunny's arm
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He looks at Dunny's pain expression and he just size Okay Okay Uh I actually I think I
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know something that could help And he's going to go into the back of the kitchen grab some a few loaves of bread some
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cheese and that's about it Like anything that's
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that can that can last and he's just I know we usually send someone to
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give Odin some supplies every now and then Uh we just can't let her out there
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by herself like that So I will bring this We'll hopefully she'll see it as a
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bonus Move some things over just in case
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Okay Uh Dunny what do you think about all this your friends are clearly fussing over you
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kind of right Yeah that's that's that's usually Dunny's thing is to is to fuss over
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other people So he's not super thrilled with this He's like "I'm fine guys It's
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I'm fine It It hurts It's fine It's like
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a beasting It'll be fine But we need to do something like we
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need to figure this out We have to do something to protect the the the village
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Like the guard's not back They have to go find McCree So who else is going to
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do something but us all righty Sounds like the three of you
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are in agreement then Go ahead It did seem like a lot of
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people wanted to do something but I suspect if they went out there in a mob they would not do anything positive
10:07
Probably not I will say that Ward McCree does return um after the uh he he did kind of come back after everybody had
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kind of settled down Someone explains the situation to him and he is um his
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intention is to kind of post up in the village and make sure that if anything tries to reach the village that it has
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to go through him first Um but he's just one guy so he's not going to go off on
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his own to cuz you know if he's he's already kind of kicking himself for being away when this happened Um so he
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is um there's like a little um station for uh whoever is whichever Red Warden
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is currently posted here and Warden McCree is um he he's he's on guard I guess is what
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I would say for any further threats to the uh village So hey Phil question for you Mhm
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Um so if something were to happen in an outlying village like this they would go
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to like the major city to get like the guards to come and help right um so what
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would likely happen is someone would have to go to the next bigger village in the Dale and get the three or four Red
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Wardens who may be posted there to come uh back and help Um Raven Ravenh Home is
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isolated even for a dish village and it is way far away from Stormhelm which is
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kind of um you don't know a lot of people who've even made the trip to and from Stormhelm It's far away far enough
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away that it's both dangerous and inconvenient And why would you want to go to the big city anyway we have
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everything we need here Okay I was my I was just wondering if
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like that would be their goal would be oh hey we should go and get you know we
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should go and get help for the village Um you could uh it would take you
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probably several days And at this point you're not sure how much luck you would have convincing them to come
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because um as some as Alderman Beaks pointed out you've seen one
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zombie And it was just and it was dispatched by three ordinary villagers We didn't even need a warden for it So
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it might be a little hard to go in and go "Hey can you come back for something that might be threatening our village
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and we don't we don't know if there are more of them yet The I assume Orin McCree didn't see
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anything while he was patrolling or we would have heard about that He did not he he did not mention anything out of
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the ordinary at all Yeah So he will
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um if asked um because he is better at tracking than any of you because you did
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have those wet footprints He could probably try and track the direction they were coming from Um yes I will I
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will talk to him about that because I did I did go looking at them and I am an
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expert expert tracker but not not really I could use some professional help Okay
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Are you all are the other two of you going with her because this kind this if if you're intending to leave town to go
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visit Oden which was kind of one of the stops I did hear everyone kind of agree on Um this would be on the way That's
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what we'll say Okay Okay So um one other thing I'll allow you to do is you if you
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would like to swap whatever is in your backpack out for another item right now consider it think of it as packing for a
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trip Um and then while you're deciding if you want to do that I'll go ahead and describe
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this scene at the red board So Word McCree uh kind of a middle-aged scruffy guy who's out in the woods a lot Um but
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when you ask him for help with this he's kind of happy to like I said he he's he was already feeling a little guilty for
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not being around earlier when everything was going down So he is happy to help in any way he can And he will you know he kind of goes
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out where these footprints still are It's still overcast It still hasn't rained These footprints are still wet
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which is weird Um and he kind of crouches down and he's kind of you know he kind of touches the he he has gloved
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hands Kind of touches the uh the moisture at the bottom of these things and he kind of smells the the water and
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he kind of looks where they're coming from and he says "Well there's only a couple options I can think of." And Lisa
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I think you'd have seen it if that thing came crawling out of the river towards the town today Uh up in the woods a ways
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uh out past uh Old Miss Oden's uh house there's a um there's some old watchtower
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We don't really know what they were watching out that way Um it's it's old old old but at this point it's also
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about half sank into the earth and there's a pond inside it And this kind of has that and you kind of this these
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footprints kind of have like that brackish like swampy pondy kind of smell
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to it I think maybe whatever this thing was maybe it came from there As weird as
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that sounds I've never seen anything up there but that would be my suggestion Are are y'all are you folks heading out
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i like I look over at the other two before I say anything
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I've just you know I I've spent a lot of time working on on metal work for for
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the village and I've never seen never seen armor like this before This is this
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is something else I I'd really like to know where it come from He kind of nod
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says "All right Well I can understand want to indulge your curiosity And Miss Lissa I know you've always been
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interested in following in your brother's footsteps Y'all please be careful out
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there on the road I' I'd hate for something to happen to one of y'all
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As uh we leave or as I'm guessing McCree he turns to eventually go back to his
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post I'm going to tell him just float the idea to him It's not an outright lie
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but it's kind of a lie where you just say "Oh uh McCree if you ever want to
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just keep everyone in one place CHZ says we could the tavern's open to uh anyone
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who needs it and he kind of nods He says "Well that's real That's mighty nice of him Nice
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Nicer than I kind of expect him to be but I guess he is a sensible man deep down So uh thank you for letting me
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know." Oh yeah Of course Uh and then as he as he turns away Fry just
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[Laughter] chuckles All righty So uh is anybody
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changing what they're carrying with them before you all uh pack your stuff and head out on the road i I like having my spy glass but I think
16:54
I want to get I probably have like a a I'm calling it a quarter staff but it's probably more like a walking stick or
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maybe a like an old ore or something that's broken And actually go ahead and
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uh actually I was going to say actually go ahead and uh take both of those I think that's probably fine
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Yes I have something I can hit things with and use my strength Maybe Maybe
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Anybody else packing anything for the road i was going to swap out Oh go ahead Go ahead I'm going to keep the thick
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leather apron as it's uh impromptu armor Yeah Yeah Blacksmith's aprons are heavy
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man Mhm Okay And uh Fry I think I might need to just if we're I
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I don't know how long we're going to be on the road I'm assuming not that long But while I'm torn between a bag of salt
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and spices I think I might just bring a prep knife just to be able to whip something up for us if we need to be out
17:54
longer than needed Okay Um also add the supplies for Oden tag to your backpack
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cuz you're carrying the uh the food for her to to that you're taking to the wise old lady Yep You need help carrying all
18:06
that oh no no no I got it's uh it's the the satchel of the supplies is easy
18:12
enough to sling over my back over my back and the prep knife is like in its
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own little sheath on my hip All
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righty Uh okay So you all kind of head out Uh you head well first you head over
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to you head to the ferry and Lisa actually gets to take herself across the ferry
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uh maybe explaining to your mom what happened so that she'll bring it back But you are the the three of you cross
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the river and you are well and truly outside of Ravenome and you're out in the woods Um
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the woods like once you get past the barley fields and once you get past the river especially the woods around Raven
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around Raven Holm like press in on you suddenly They are very dense Um and it's
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it's honestly a little spooky especially as the sun kind of gets slow in the sky
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Um is uh how many have have any of you actually been on a uh have you ever
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actually traveled out of your village before i think Dunny has Um just because
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he's done some some work with like different ores and and traveling to um
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like give people stuff they've made Okay Let's say Donniey's probably the one who's most likely been to uh to uh the
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neighboring town whose name I've just forgot Barley Barley Barley Hole Some Barley Town There we go Which is a ways
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to the northwest Um you won't really you won't reach that in this trip unless something goes terribly wrong U I would
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say we're capable of making things go terribly wrong to skip Oh yeah Hopefully
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not like that But yes it is a power and a weakness tag
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Um I'd say Fry hasn't traveled to Barley Town but he's been to other towns on
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that are a bit out there Not dangerous trips but just to learn from try and learn from other cooks They've never
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been long trips but yeah Okay All right So the first part of your
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trip through the woods is kind of uh I said it's spooky Uh maybe there's
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like some ominous calling of birds in the distance but you know you're not suddenly beset by a zombie or anything
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and that's really nice Um but uneventful I guess is how I would
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put it as uh you start to come to a extremely
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large clearing where kind of in the distance uh you can see maybe an old farmhouse but you can you can even tell
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from the road that that farmhouse is kind of like parts of it have fallen in No one's living there at this point Um
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and there's a field where it even looks like whatever they grew there the last time someone lived here is kind of um
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kind of mold kind of like basically it's almost like someone up and left or up and in this case died and their crops
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just kind of were left uh left returned to the earth But um perhaps most
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troubling for people who are on the road right now is there is a cloud of
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incredibly thick fog that kind of sets in suddenly Um and kind of makes it hard
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to see where you're going even on the roads Um like you get a glimpse of this the field and this house and you're like
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ah let's keep going and fog Um what would you all like to do
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how long have we been on the road um you have been on the road long enough that
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if you uh you probably will need to find somewhere to camp down for the night um
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and finish traveling to Oden in the morning Do
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we go So go ahead Would this be a good place to camp despite the creepy fog at
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least it's a place with walls And I would say maybe your uh your your creepy
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maybe the farmhouse would like it's it's not completely fallen in It would provide maybe uh uh some shelter if the
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rain if rain does set in
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Ryan was going to jokingly ask Lissa hey are there any stories about bad things happening in abandoned buildings like
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this yes definitely yes But uh there stories
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maybe I not not every abandoned building can be like that I think
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but it's some shelter as opposed to sitting out here in the fog with no
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shelter That's fair I would also say I guess corpses were just walking corpses were
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parts of stories too but here we are
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And uh Chris you were starting to say something Yeah we should probably not wander through the fog
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especially if there's now things that we didn't know were real that are suddenly
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real Um probably not the best to wander through the
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night when we don't know what's really going on So maybe we
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should like spend the night in the abandoned creepy house
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Okay we fought a zombie today How creepy could this be oh thank you for asking So
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as you guys make your way towards the old green farmhouse that it it does turn out to be a good
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decision because that fro that fog is kind of spreading and as you're walking through the fog
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you you you almost think you hear something like a like leaves rustling and you're like "Ah well we just left
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the woods That makes sense." Um and you almost see a strange silhouette at the
24:19
corner of your eyes but maybe you're just jumpy because there were zombies today And then you kind of start to smell a
24:27
smell It's like half the you you vaguely remember how that black ooze pond water
24:34
stuff smelled A word you don't you don't really have words for it You just know it was wrong But also the smell of
24:41
rotting pumpkins You can make it to the house Um but you get the distinct feeling that
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something is watching you What What would you like to do we we'll say we'll say you're at this
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old farmhouse now It's kind of a it's really just kind of a simple like a three room uh structure Um the back the
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back room which probably would have been a uh kind of a a a bedroom is collapsed
25:06
in on itself but the um the center room which kind of has a uh an old dining
25:11
table in like a hearth uh is okay and the the front room which just has some
25:17
places for sitting um is are also those two rooms are intact but the the bedroom
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in the back of course is is unusable and that fog is slowly surrounding the whole
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house What would you all like to do uh I'm I'm going to take the time as
25:38
we get in to look around Um I I'm I'm invoking a power tag of
25:45
structural weak points to see and make sure that the building is not going to collapse on us as we're in it Yeah
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that's fine Um you think as long as it doesn't get hit by an extremely strong
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wind um you should be fine Um it's it's
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there there was some rot in the roof in the back you can probably guess And so
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it's the walls are the walls are actually okay back there It's more that the roof kind of fell in in that room Um
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you don't think it spread to the other two rooms So it's not you don't you don't think as far as you can tell that
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you have to worry about the roof falling in on you if you spend the night in this house
26:29
While Donny's looking around I'm going to ask him for help grabbing some wood that usable to make a fire
26:37
I was also planning on doing this So I can I can help you with this Yes Okay
26:43
Any downed branches or twigs or anything because we're going to want some light
26:49
to fight this fog I think I think you probably will Uh okay So you head out
26:56
because you know that most of Lissa you know that most of these houses have like a stock of firewood outside most likely
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uh covered to protect it from the uh uh the elements And so you're like "Ah I'll
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check outside the house." And you walk you walk out the front door and you
27:13
start to head around the side of the house and you're like "Man this fog is thick." And you hear that rustling sound again
27:20
and you are going to take the status
27:25
uh restrained two as you hear that rustling sound amp up and suddenly you
27:30
look down as you try to take a step and your leg won't move and you realize there are vines wrapped around your legs
27:39
um and you feel them tugging like something is attempting to pull you out into the fog
27:44
uh fry Dunny Lissa went outside for wood she hasn't come back in
27:50
Uh what would you two like to do go outside
27:55
Yep It's It's one of those like "Oh she hasn't come back Uh we need to get outside and figure out where she went."
28:02
A good plan Hooray Your friends don't leave you to die So you walk outside and
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you guys have a You guys kind of see again in the distance You think you see that strange silhouette Uh it's a little
28:15
closer now It's not the corner of your eye You weren't imagining it Um and also you see vines snaking out of the fog and
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wrapped you you almost stumble on Lissa Um with and she has these thick vines
28:28
wrapped around her legs Um at this point I'm going to say you guys are up against a challenge Although you don't know what
28:35
Um who would like to go first and what would you like to do
28:40
uh I'll go first as Dunny if you guys don't mind Go ahead Okay Uh Dunny still
28:47
having dad's sword is going to cut Lissa free
28:52
Okay So you are going to attack the vines that it has Uh let's go ahead and
28:58
do a roll Oh are we are we back to master crafted
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weapon test of strength uh I said whatever ones you think are relevant I'm
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not uh you make the case for it Okay Uh I'm going to say master crafted
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weapon Uh test of strength because we don't know how how strong the vines are and probably help those in need because
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it's Lissa Um so that would be plus three but minus one for the poison So plus two Yep
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Let me get a good roll here and let's see Oh Jesus Uh okay That's an 11 plus
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two That's a 13 Okay What all right So a few things are going to happen at once
29:48
here So you roll a 13 Um what you actually end up rolling is an 11 which is still a success As you swing at this
29:54
thing and you're like I should be able to cut vines with this sword and
29:59
you it feels like cutting into a tree not a vine Like your sword just like
30:05
funks into these vines and you're like what in the heck but you are a literal mountain of a man And so you
30:14
like you push through these vines and slice them So you have So what was that
30:19
plus to your role it was like a plus four or something Uh it it was it was plus three but then it was minus one
30:26
for the potion right so two So you have two uh power to spend on uh this
30:33
detailed role You can either um so as a so it's got uh some statuses
30:40
of its own You can now smell uh this thing and you can see it moving closer Uh it has these tags of foul stench and
30:47
animated vines It doesn't have any statuses yet And Lisa has the restrained two uh status which two power would
30:54
remove that from her I'm guessing that's what she would like to do Yes Let's let's remove that from Lisa It makes
31:02
sense Okay So Lissa you can erase that status uh these vines like and when they
31:08
cut free cut free they kind of like flop on the ground angrily like almost like a weird snake and then they lie dead and
31:15
they deflate and you see ooze the same kind of ooze that was in Dunny's arm
31:22
like I mean you lose sight of it in the fog of course but it kind of like falls into the uh into the earth and now you
31:30
can see and you can clearly smell what almost looks Like imagine a giant pile
31:37
of pumpkins and now imagine that they have vines intertwined all through them A
31:42
giant uh like a a giant creature made up primarily of pumpkins and vines and black ooze that kind of connects it all
31:49
And it is it kind of comes shambling quickly uh quicker than the zombie uh
31:54
kind of rolling like half shambling half rolling out of the fog at you and you are facing off against this creature
32:00
which Lisa with your knowledge of uh all things weird and fairy tale Um you have
32:06
heard the legend of the moldering jack uh old where old pumpkins left to rot in
32:13
the fields can balloon in size and take a certain si sadistic pleasure in eating
32:20
farm animals pets and wavered travelers But the thing that gives you the clue that this is definitely a moldering jack
32:27
is that one of the pumpkins has a terribly wicked grin upon it and a toothy maul inside Uh Fry what would you
32:35
like to do fry's beside himself with what's
32:41
happening in front of his face and is so Lisa was able to find a wood pile right
32:49
yes she is Yeah she is The wood pile is maybe three or four steps away
32:54
Okay I want to grab one of the pieces of wood and use my one of my power tags
33:01
simple magic tricks to try and light it on fire Okay So I also want to ask while you're
33:08
doing this before you roll have you guys ever seen Fry do magic
33:14
and have we have we Fry has this been a thing
33:19
so this part of this is when Fry uses simple magic tricks he's usually using
33:24
it to like cut corners in cooking That's why no one notices So he blends it into like uh if
33:33
something like the stove goes out he'll snap his fingers and cause a spark to go
33:39
to be able to um to be able to light the stove again It's part of the reason why he's so good
33:46
at measuring because he it's kind of like just like a thought He thinks about how much he needs and then it like wills
33:53
he's got exactly that pile Yeah You're probably the only you're probably the only person in this world who's ever made like you know that like the smooth
33:59
measuring cup measurement where you like you know take whatever powder you're doing like take the off the top and it's perfectly smooth Fry can do that with
34:06
his mind So Fry Fry picks up a log and lights it on fire
34:12
Um are you going to attack it in some way with this log
34:17
yeah I'm throwing this flaming log at the smiling pumpkin head All righty Yeah it's also So go ahead and give me a roll
34:22
Also note that this is nice because it is clearing up some of the fog around you Uh kind of burning it away almost
34:28
literally All right So that's just the one
34:34
um simple magic tricks is just so 2d6 plus one Okay Yeah if that's the only
34:40
one you think applies So I'm leaving some of this up to you guys for uh dex dexterity coordination
34:48
That makes sense You're kind of throw you're throwing this thing at it You need to be able to aim for the aim for the mouth Yep So plus two will
34:58
be total of eight Four plus two plus two Okay So uh four plus and it was two
35:05
power So you can spend your two power on statuses and tags and then I will tell you about the uh the consequence that
35:12
you'll be getting Uh okay So Lisa doesn't have a status
35:19
anymore Correct Which means that I want to take away one of the tags Okay Uh
35:25
foul stench or animated vines Or you can also add a new tag to it If you can think of something like uh well not on
35:32
fire that's a status The the way to think about it is things that are kind of permanent effects until
35:38
gotten rid of are tags whereas things that are temporary would be statuses So like on fire would be a status
35:45
Okay Uh or if you want to get rid of one of its uh tags somehow you can Like I could
35:52
see using your fire to either burn out its animated vines or maybe like the you
35:58
know the smoke smell overcomes the stench I could see either one of those being reasonable Whatever Let's say let's the the uh fire burning out the
36:06
vine The vines Okay So it loses the tag animated vines You catch one of its vines and they may have been resistant
36:12
to uh the bladed weapons that uh um Dunny was swinging but it is not
36:18
resistant to fire And it shrieks in like 10 horrible voices at once and
36:25
thrashes as its vines that the vines that it kind of it's trying to snake out at this wood and like clash it away And
36:32
as it's reaching them they're burning away Um it loses the tag animated
36:38
vines Uh however it does manage to do one thing before it loses them which is it
36:45
manages to grab the wood that's burning and fling it into the fog behind you or
36:51
behind it So your your fire is now somewhere out in the middle of the fields
36:57
Um Lisa what are you doing okay this is a lot This is a lot This is
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a big day Um this is a lot She is she is scrambling back up to her feet and uh
37:10
she had her quarter staff on her back and she's pulling that out from wherever it was strapped and she wants to swing
37:17
at one of these pumpkins and like just smack it Okay I I love it Yes Let's
37:23
Let's get the roll Uh let me think What do I have what do I
37:28
have um see quite a bit revolving around being being strong You do get plus one
37:34
for the quarter staff Remember because that is plus one for the quarter staff Say backpack tag
37:40
Uh gloves for a better grip So I've got I'm I've got this
37:45
um uh protect our own Yep These are your own We're we we're all fighting this
37:53
thing together I that's that's all I'm thinking Okay Uh
38:00
so protect our own quarter staff gloves for a better grip That's three Uh that
38:06
sounds good to me Go ahead and roll
38:15
Uh that's definitely I rolled two ones Oo I'm going to I'm going to I'm going
38:21
to throw all of these dice in the trash Yeah Unfortunately that is um always a
38:28
failure Yeah Yeah No matter how many pluses you have Um so you go to swing at
38:33
this thing and this is and as you're swinging you're like trying to remember what you remember about the Mouldering
38:40
Jack about the legend of Mouldering Jack And as you swing this quarter staff you remember ah it only fears the tools that
38:47
are used to reap the harvest and your quarter staff bounces completely effortlessly off of its off of its face
38:55
Um and you are and as you get close to as you got closer to do this um you're
39:03
going to take the tag moldy to as it sprays like this weird like spores of
39:11
mold on you and you just start coughing and wheezing Um Lissa you now have the
39:17
status moldy too Delicious Just delightful Uh Denny what
39:25
would you like to do oh jeez Um you know what we're going in We're We
39:33
got to try and try and stab that that happy face with with the sword Take that
39:40
smile off its face All right All right man Let's uh let's go for it Bad up your power and let's get a roll
39:47
All right let's see Uh I think we're still we're still shooting with structural weak points Um that's a face
39:55
That should hopefully be a structural weak point Face strikes a structural weak point Sure Uh test of strength We
40:02
already know that uh the the sword had a hard time with the vines Hopefully not as much with pumpkin face Okay Uh help
40:09
those in need which are our friends which also have their back with Lissa Yep Um and and good old mastercrafted
40:17
weapon We do love mastercrafted weapon That's plus five Uh minus one Minus one
40:25
cuz you're poison Poison Yep So
40:31
four Uh that's a nine Okay Uh okay So nine is definitely
40:37
success Go ahead and spend your four power Shall I remind you this thing has
40:42
one tag and no statuses Um I don't know if there is a narrative way you could
40:48
describe getting rid of the stench with your sword
40:54
but no Um but so statuses were like temporary
41:01
right yeah Things like uh frightened or hurt or clobbered or on fire or moldy
41:08
things like that Uh um and so the idea is if you want to
41:14
try to overcome one of its limits um you want to apply statuses to exceed one of those limits
41:20
I was just going to go with wounded Wounded works Uh how many points would
41:26
you like to put into it out of your four shoving all of them into it Wounded four
41:31
it is All right Uh and then we're going to have a consequence though as you as
41:38
you stab this thing Um it manages to as you since you're the closest you
41:46
kind of see it's got a few like little wiggly vines that escape the fire out here and they're not not super strong
41:52
like the uh the ones that Fry burned away So this is less than it would be Um you're going to take restrained one as
41:58
it kind of reaches out and snaps around your wrist Um unfortunately the one that
42:04
was poisoned So it also stings really gra bad as it squeezes your your arm and
42:10
it's trying to pull you in towards the toothy mall Um Fry what what are you
42:18
doing seeing how effortlessly it just grabbed the log and threw it into the distance Now I'm like looking
42:25
around since this is a mostly dead uh like farm area Are there like dried
42:33
leaves like twigs all around us too ooh
42:39
Uh I like that I think what you find Yeah I think there's probably like some
42:44
dead pl There's some probably dead leaves you can find or maybe like fallen thatching material from the roof Yeah
42:50
like some like dead foliage something burnable that I can just grab And this time to make it harder I'm going to
42:56
light this on fire Okay In my hand
43:02
and just I want to get as much of this like flammable debris onto it So I'm
43:09
going to use simple magic tricks again Okay Work smarter not harder Mhm
43:17
And dodge harm Okay So I'm going
43:24
to go ahead Uh I was going to say whatever your final number is you're also going to add four to it for its
43:29
wounded status which is definitely working against it here You said add two to it Four It has four It has wounded
43:37
four from uh from Dunny's really really good stab Got it So the idea is you're
43:44
trying to get this fire into its gaping mall I'm guessing Dunny has that But then also right onto the Go ahead Dunny
43:52
has kind of given it an even broader grin um now And you can see the inside of the thing Uh it's gross The last So
44:01
that's dodge harm That's dexterity coordination Smart harder simple magic tricks plus four plus the four wounded
44:07
So that's plus eight total Okay So Fry is going to grab just a handful of
44:12
flammable degree debris light it on fire in his hand and then run just avoiding
44:18
the vines and just throws all this fire onto its head on its other heads and its
44:24
limbs And all right give me a roll as you sprinkle fiery material all over this thing
44:31
That is going to be a seven plus eight is 15 That'll do it Okay you have eight
44:37
power to spend How bad would you like to mess this thing up uh
44:43
so I'll use uh the What level restraint is he two Is
44:50
Dunny uh Denny is restrained too Yes So I'll use two to take away those statuses
44:57
So he's free Okay Denny you are free
45:04
And I kind of just want to like I just want to set this thing on fire so badly that it is the the smoke of its
45:13
own burning self is now outweighing the rotted stench it has Okay So you're
45:19
taking away foul stench and you still have four power to spend Oh boy
45:25
Uh I just call it total emilation Like this thing is just on fire You just want
45:30
to add it to wounded get get that wound up to a ridiculous eight Yeah Um you circle this thing like some kind of
45:37
weird fire fairy and just like light it on fire Um and before you really like it
45:45
catches here it catches there catchers on the vine that was holding Dunny and it it goes up like this thing goes up
45:52
like uh it it's surprising because you know that oozes inside but this thing is
46:00
surprisingly flammable and before you know it it is burning to the ground and
46:05
the fog caused by the moldering jack clears around it and you guys are able
46:12
to see as this thing it it literally deflates like a rotting pumpkin and should um and you see more of that weird
46:19
ooze like spread and kind of seep out around the ground and then just like
46:25
into into the ground But the fog clears and you can the clouds overhead have
46:32
cleared and the moon shines down on a a field uh where the two where the three of you
46:40
are standing around a rotted pile of pumpkins and Lissa is coughing up coughing up a lung because of
46:47
mold Um yeah but you you have successfully
46:53
overcome the challenge of the moldering jack
46:58
Uh what what was I did not expect that I did not expect that
47:03
Um do we So we did hear like leaves and things shifting when we came up Do we
47:11
like I would like to be very quiet This is another thing I'm not going to be good at And listen is there anything
47:17
else out there uh give me I was going to say um I won't really do a roll for this
47:24
No the knight is dead still at this point You could reason that the moldering Jack was probably following
47:29
you up towards the house and waiting for one of you to come up Well that's that's great
47:37
I should have I I need to read more fairy tales so I know how to avoid them
47:42
in the future Uh yeah Yeah This
47:49
I've helped Dunny up and
47:54
Tell Lissa we should go inside and get you checked out and I'll grab a couple more logs of wood so we can properly
48:00
Yeah light the hearth inside and plan Lissa is going to Yeah Lisa is going to grab a couple of logs as well This is
48:06
the one thing she's good at You did it You You did find the fire supply
48:12
The the night is quiet with the exception of Lissa's coughing and just a loud a loud profanity again from Dunny
48:20
as his arm is burning from being grabbed in the same spot he was poisoned Oh poor
48:26
Dunny Poor Dunny Poor Lissa It's just ju just a loud duck quack
48:33
We did this to ourselves Okay So you all go back inside the It
48:39
almost seems homey if you ignore the collapsed room next door Um when you light that light the fire in the heart suddenly things don't seem so bad It
48:46
feels a little a little more like home here Um is anyone going to do is anyone going
48:53
to attempt to address Lissa's mold problem well the one thing that once they're
48:59
inside and they have a fire lit in the hearth Dunny is going to flip the table over and slam it up against the where
49:05
the door was where they entered Nice Yeah there uh there is a door there Um it's not super sturdy but you can
49:12
definitely prop the table up against it to uh make it a little more secure I mean I assume we have some standard
49:19
traveling stuff like uh like a water skin that is Yeah Yeah So I'm just I
49:27
drop the wood I sit down and I'm like taking slow careful sips and trying to calm down this cough Yeah Spitting
49:34
anything out that feels like feels like mold Um Uh yeah Yeah Well yeah I'd say
49:41
So this will be another chance to kind of rest and camp And so I would say by the next morning uh you will have um so
49:48
one of the things you can do when you camp in this game is you can take camping actions Um and one of the ones
49:54
that you can take is uh is uh healing wounds which is which will get rid of a
50:00
uh condition like this one that wouldn't ordinarily go away The resting expire statuses Your
50:07
character takes the time to recover and rest And if any of your statuses are relevant they are expired and any burnt
50:13
power tags are restored So in this case yes I will while you guys are resting I will expire your uh your
50:21
moly It feels so weird to give moldy to a person but yeah
50:27
it it feels extremely unhealthy Uh yeah
50:32
significantly God imagine if you had access to social media You might say terrible things right now Uh anyway
50:39
that's Linsa joke for the listeners But uh you guys can pass the pass the rest
50:44
of the night fairly uh calmly You don't hear anything else sneaking up to attack you Is anyone else doing anything else
50:51
in camp while you're uh hanging out this evening so Fry just
50:59
He uses a little bit of the supplies for Oden and whatever else he can scr up to
51:06
just make something to eat for everybody Yeah you probably have some extra supplies for yourself The the idea is
51:12
the things in your backpack are things that are or excuse me the things that are tags in your backpack are things that are interesting or story relevant
51:18
but you're assumed to have stuff you need Like you guys didn't leave town without food and water for example Oh
51:24
got it Yeah Okay So this is just like a little bit of vegetables some maybe like mushrooms
51:29
Uh yeah Okay Uh Denny what are you up to
51:37
denny's mostly just resting and trying to take a better look at his arm Um okay
51:42
I was gonna ask So so my resting probably doesn't remove poison though right correct Yeah this is um you you
51:49
kind of hoped maybe it would but uh it doesn't seem to be um going away It
51:56
doesn't seem to be spreading super fast but you've noticed now you've you've exerted yourself in that fight and it is
52:01
a little higher up in your forearm which is worrying One thing that he does do is he takes
52:07
after he cleans off the tip of the the sword he makes a small cut in his arm
52:13
where the black lines are to see what comes out Is it blood or is it black
52:20
sludge or uh mostly blood partly ooze
52:26
uh yeah so it is Oh no It is definitely spreading a little bit up there So
52:34
uh is anybody taking any other actions this evening or shall we pass to the next
52:40
morning i pass to the next morning for Fry Alyssa spend some time going through her
52:47
notes thinking about okay is there anything else terrifying that might be in these woods that I need to be ready
52:52
for uh you find lots of examples of things that travelers on the road are supposed
52:58
to be aware of uh you know hauntings in you know open open uh open fields that
53:04
seem not open fields like open clearings that seem empty or bogarts that might trick you and steal your things or you
53:11
know bandits Not that there are any bandits around here and that's and that's actually a perfectly normal hazard to run into
53:18
Yeah I'm thinking it's just like there were so many things and she's now trying to like keep tabs on all of them Okay so
53:25
Mouldering Jack was real So uh so now maybe this and this and this and this and this and that You know she's she's
53:31
kind of spiraling just a little bit here You know what uh let's make that spiraling useful Um give me a roll and
53:38
add any relevant tags that you can think of Remember that you're not moldy anymore
53:45
Okay What a sense So that's a seven A seven before adding tags Mhm Um I would
53:53
think a tag would be all in my notebook No definitely Yes
53:58
Um protect our own Okay Trying to defend ourselves
54:06
Um I don't know Could I use Could I use tags for Fry and Denny because Fry is my
54:12
best friend and Denny is my replacement younger brother and I want to keep them safe as best I can I don't know I don't
54:19
know about those but I will give you work smarter not harder Okay Okay Wait What's the math on that
54:26
uh three It would bring It would bring you to exactly It would bring you to exactly a 10 Okay So okay What I'm going
54:32
to have you do is you're going to give yourself a temporary positive status You are amazing Yes Um you are going to have
54:40
the status forewarned three as you brush up
54:47
on everything you can think of that might ambush you in the woods on the way to Odens
54:54
God why does that sound so ominous so many things I know Why Why would that
54:59
sound ominous you all Okay I'm I'm just I'm just preparing I'm
55:06
not panicking I'm preparing We See this is why we like role playing
55:11
games They give us a chance to live out fantasy It's like spiraling becoming useful Um Okay Or like or like or like
55:19
getting a full night's sleep Yeah Which you're about to do Amazing So you wake up the next morning uh to the chirping
55:25
of birds in the distance It is uh not quite uh sunny outside It's another
55:31
overcast day Um peeking outside Uh it is not foggy anymore either which I'm sure
55:38
everyone is relieved to see Um and you all can get on the road on your trip to
55:45
uh your trip to go uh I said you two kind of two destinations now I don't know who's thinking about going where
55:51
You remember that McCree pointed you at towards a pond in an old watchtowwer as potentially being the source of these
55:57
things and clearing up Denny's poison obviously is another reason for you all to head to Odens So um which one are you
56:03
guys going to first by the way because they're kind of in the same direction I think Odens Yeah Okay Yeah I'm sure
56:12
I'm sure Dunny's more worried about the poison after seeing it's kind of spreading up his arm Still just poisoned one for now
56:21
Okay So you all make it to uh you you you you leave these these pumpkin fields
56:28
behind and you head back into the woods Um it's it's maybe a little spookier now
56:33
that you know that there is weird stuff out there waiting for you in in this in these abandoned places You almost feel a
56:40
strange presence that you can't see But even if you're on edge it's it's fine
56:46
You don't you don't it's fine Nobody gets ambushed by anything Um although I'm sure Lissa is telling everyone about
56:53
everything that they need to be need to watch out for If that bird calls three times it's actually an evil spirit But
57:00
um you find eventually the little path off of the main path that leads up towards Oden's uh uh Oden's hut Um it's
57:09
a hut Not even a hut it's a cottage It's a nice little forest cottage Uh little clearing out front with a fire um where
57:15
you will find uh Oden who is kind of a she's an older lady She's you have no
57:21
idea how old she is She's been old since all of you were young and she's still old Uh but she's still she's out front
57:28
uh working in her little vegetable garden Um and she hears the three of you
57:34
uh heading up the road well before uh you should probably like well before
57:40
your footsteps give you away So she kind of turns to face each of you uh as you're walking up this
57:46
path Okay So Oden sees the three of you coming up and she kind of leans on her walking stick and she's like I don't
57:54
remember asking for anybody to uh bring anything out to me Uh what what can I do for you
58:03
i'm going to go you go ahead I I'm going to grab
58:08
Duddy by his uninjured arm and drag him forward
58:15
Okay we had I I mean I assume I'll need his cooperation for this but that's my
58:21
intent and say I we have someone who's injured here and we're hoping you could
58:27
could help It's it's it's fine It's fine Just drags
58:33
this big mountain of a man behind her Yeah that's fine Um so she'll she'll
58:39
take Denny's arm and she kind of holds his arm with one gnarled hand She's kind
58:44
of tracing the the path of the thing with that uh with the finger and she's like "What did this where did this come
58:50
from?" Ors Yeah there was like a walking corpse
58:57
and we took care of it but then when I picked up its helmet this goo fell on my
59:05
arm and then this happened She says "Well it's a good thing you came to me
59:10
These are uh these are old malignant spirits the type we don't usually see in these lands cuz no live that know how to
59:17
summon them Uh this is a it's a spirit of rot and decay And at its core what it
59:23
wants to do is devour And she kind of traces its path up your arm She says "Has it moved much in the past since
59:29
whenever you got infected?" Just a little bit yesterday Not a ton
59:35
but just a little bit Cuz I'm concerned I obviously don't want it to eat your arm uh or the rest of you
59:42
because then you might turn out like the poor fool you got this
59:47
from Uh all right Let me She says "All right let me think Let me uh give me
59:54
Come inside Come inside." And she'll kind of She hobbles off towards her house fairly speedily Uh she seems she
1:00:02
seems fairly concerned about this thing I follow
1:00:08
and she's Yeah By the time by the time you guys follow her inside she is like she's
1:00:15
like reaching up for little bags that are hanging on the walls Her house is like It's cozy It's kind of a cozy like
1:00:20
one room cottage but she's and the there's like hanging bags of like herbs
1:00:25
and incense and things along the wall It actually smells like kind of like pleasantly spicy in here Um she's
1:00:31
pulling things out She's kind of crushing them up in a mortar and pestle and she you know adds some
1:00:37
liquids and she kind of boils this and she divides it into two vials and she hands you one of these vials uh Dunny
1:00:45
and she says "Take this one now." and it will at least
1:00:51
temporarily dull the pain and keep it from moving any further up your arm And
1:00:56
she takes the other one she sets it aside and she says "But it won't be a permanent cure I need you to go find a
1:01:04
sample of this from the source From where?" Do you know where it came from you said a corpse right but that corpse
1:01:10
had to come from somewhere We think we might know where
1:01:15
it possibly came from that was our next stop And he takes what she gave him Yeah
1:01:21
Okay So remove your poisoned one status for now And she kind of pats you on the
1:01:26
shoulder and she says "That's why we like young people who can get around." Okay If you know where this this myasma
1:01:32
came from and you can bring me a sample of it then it's it's the same idea as a
1:01:37
regular venom and an antivenenom I can I can make sure that you're fixed permanently
1:01:44
He just kind of looks at the other two like "Well guess we know where we're going next."
1:01:50
After she gives it to Fry or to Donnie Fry is just going to sheepishly hold up the bag of supplies
1:01:56
Thank you We brought this for you She takes it and she pats you on the hand and she says "It's so nice to see that
1:02:02
the young people of Ravenome haven't forgotten their manners." Says "Well uh what are you
1:02:09
waiting for then go go go go Your friend's arm is at stake
1:02:15
Is there anything else you could tell us about this before we get out uh is he going to be okay for how long he'll be
1:02:22
okay for a couple of days If you can't find it you'll need to come back and get some more of this and I'll mix some more up for you But to fix it permanently
1:02:28
you're going to need that myasma sample
1:02:33
and let's hope she'll tell you that she kind of wondered if something like this might happen which is why she was
1:02:39
looking up the trail before you all came Um you know that you know that people who
1:02:46
practice the old ways have mentioned that there is a presence that they occasionally claim to hear whispering to them in the woods And she talks she
1:02:55
mentions that the whispering has been louder now even when she's not trying to listen for it
1:03:01
something out there is wrong And I think you're I think you're whatever caused this for you is what's I think that's
1:03:08
the source of it So you'd be doing not just Raven Holm but also me and the surrounding Dales a
1:03:14
great a great uh favor by solving this problem And she pats Dunny on the arm
1:03:20
She says "And you'll save your arm Isn't that great?" I'd like to save the arm I imagine big
1:03:27
strong man like you probably needs both arms All right
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Well so it sounds like uh she'll she'll kind of usher you out of her hut cuz she's got stuff to do and you're cured
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