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Tavern Watch Plays Legend in the Mist, Episode 1: Never fight the undead after lunch
May 18, 2025
This week we're diving into a rustic fantasy of small town heroes (or heroes to be) in Legend in the Mist, where our humble villagers come together to deal with a single shambling undead that found its way to town. Where did it come from? Are there more of them? And is the right solution for the entire town to panic?
That last one really depends on who you ask, but join GM Phil Ulrich along with a group of wannabe heroes venturing out into the world, with:
-Chris as Dunny, the local blacksmith, whose father's old sword may be more than it seems.
- 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.
Will they rise to the challenge, or fall to poisonous sludge and unlucky dice? You'll have to listen to find out!
This is the first 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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hello and welcome back to another edition of Tavern Watch plays our actual play tabletop role playing game podcast
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Uh today we will be playing a game of Legend in the Mist which is uh described as a rustic fantasy tabletop role
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playing game The best way to think about that is rather than you know uh seasoned adventurers out looking for treasure and
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delving into dungeons our characters are a little more salt of the earth think like the Frotos and the Rans of the
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world where adventure kind of comes to them and they make their way into the broader world Uh speaking of uh our
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characters today uh let's talk about who's playing with us today Uh we'll start going down the order with
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Chris Hey everybody I am Chris Um and I
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am playing Dunny the local uh blacksmith of the
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village All righty And uh Liz Harper
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Hello I am playing Lisa and I am I work at the ferry in town and uh you know the
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ferry goes back and forth back and forth and uh she's a little over it but her family owns the place and all of her
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brothers have run off to go find fortune and adventure in the world and she is stuck here going back and forth back and
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forth back and forth And last but not least Nick
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Uh my I'm Nick Marino I will be playing Fry Fry is the town's one of the town's
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local cooks at the end And Fry moved to town at the as it at a young age So he
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can say he's from here but all of his family members have either since moved on or passed So he's just gutting it out
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trying to be a cook and uh improve his culinary skills There you I mean you're
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at least as from here as anybody else All right So uh the village in particular that we're going to be taking
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a look at today is the village of Ravenhome Uh so in in the world that
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Legend in Legend in the Mist posits you've got uh you know you've got your big cities and your adventures out in the wonderlands but back back where most
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people live in the in the remote villages in the Dales is kind of a a quieter more out of the way place And
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for centuries the remote villages in the dales and the village of Ravenholm in particular have been isolated from the
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world at large Uh life goes on without much peril except for the everyday dangers of work in the fields and
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village affairs To the Dales people it seems like this quiet life has always been this way Perhaps somewhere out
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there in the world beyond the wonderlands where uh Lisa's siblings have gone to there are great miraculous
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things happening But here in the Dales miracles and adversity are small and mundane Every few years a traveler from
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outside the dales passes through and they bring strange tales of the outside world with them but they leave quickly
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and their fanciful stories are promptly forgotten Uh legends of the treacherous creatures of twilight and the great
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thures of old are nothing more than a fireside tale for most of the Dale's people Vast majority of them spend their
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entire life without ever thinking of such things letting let alone encountering them However there are a
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few remaining practitioners of the old ways who still retain fragments of knowledge in the bygone days when the
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Dales were more involved with the outside world Uh but as the centuries passed the number of the old ways
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practitioners has dwindled Their faith is faltered and their memory faded Today they are too few and they know too
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little to uphold their ancient duty This is not a coincidence The world is changing and far outside the dales the
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old powers are once more awakening after an age-ong slumber But uh our our heroes
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uh such as they are they don't know about any of that right now They're living just another day in Raven Holm Uh
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in fact it's kind of an ordinary overcast day It's uh let's say it's
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about about 10:00 in the morning about that time of day Uh let's say let's zoom
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in first on Lissa What are you doing today where where are you at what are you doing who are you with
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um usually on any given day she's working at the ferry and I mean I imagine sometimes there are travelers or
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traders who are coming through and sometimes it's quiet and she's just uh doing maintenance on the boat or things
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like that I mean there's a lot of downtime So yeah sometimes it's hurry up
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and wait and sitting and if if there's no one there she's probably scribbling in her notebook about maybe a a crazy
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story a merchant was talking about when they came through across the ferry last time
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Okay Uh cool So kind of a I was going to say are you writing is she writing
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fanfic about what the outside world is like or is she strictly like notetaking like here's what this weird bar said
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when he came through yeah definitely notetaking She's trying to record totally definitely factual
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things about the world outside So things she might get in letters from her brothers rarely or things she hears from
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travelers are things from stories that may or may not be true but it it's in a book It has to be true right yeah
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Absolutely Especially if you wrote it down Okay Yeah Cool Uh okay Let's uh
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let's zoom out of you uh taking your uh taking a little break from the ferry Uh
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and let's see what uh Dunny Dunny what are you up to well um being as the town's
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blacksmith at this point um as the his his father has um retired for the time
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being Um he is in the forge uh clanging
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away uh making some new um making some new knives for the uh chefs at the
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inn Okay Always good Uh yeah Uh and last
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but not least uh our hardworking cook Fry What are we're getting close to the
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lunch hour What are you uh I assume you're you're working at the end today
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Yes So Fry right now is helping the head chef prepare for the impending lunch
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rush Uh and in on this day in particular
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the chef whose name is CHZ is in a particularly sour mood He's not the
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greatest individual uh to work with or work under but he's
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the only individual in town to work with and work under So
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uh he's going through his routine of yelling at me and any other hless cook
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in the kitchen for how we're currently measuring ingredients We're working too slow Um
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and Fry is half listening half paying attention to what uh Chezz has to say as
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he goes through his station because he knows if he fully tunes in to what CHZ has to say then it's going to be bad for
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everybody and Fry frankly does not want to ruin this other chance at learning
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more culinary Okay Well uh you're you've set me up here We're going to we're going to go ahead and just demonstrate
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real quick for everybody how uh rolling for things works in Legend of the Mist
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We are going to uh see how well Fry does at making this lunch uh while not you
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know listening to chess entirely or uh getting you know failing under
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pressure So uh characters in Legend of the Mist are they don't have any
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numerical stats They are made up of a list of what's called tags which can be things like I'm just going to look at uh
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Lisa's uh character sheet here Uh Lisa has for example the tag work smarter not
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harder because she's always looking for ways to make running the ferry easier or gloves for a better grip which is just a
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thing that she has on her Uh so in this case uh Nick I want you to look at Fry's
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character sheet and find any of your power tags and weakness tags uh that
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seem relevant to uh uh working under pressure and making getting ready for
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the lunch rush at the end Okay So I've
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got three uh power tags one under each of the
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uh each of the theme kits for Fry Okay What What are they so one of the theme
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kits for Fry is hardworking Drudge And the power tag is work smarter not harder
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Okay that sounds familiar under the other theme kit Excellent cook discern
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ingredients Okay Yeah that tracks And under
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um witch blood hidden stamina reserves Ooh witch blood Okay that might come up
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later And uh let's see Do you have any weakness tags that feel like you apply here yes Okay Uh under hardworking
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drudge cruel overseer Oh yep Uh yeah your chz is definitely a uh a a count
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against you here Uh anything else can't resist the taste under excellent
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cook Okay Okay See now that one is what I would say would be optional for you to
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apply it If we were playing the full game this would actually be an opportunity to improve yourself by purposely invoking that one That's cool
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Okay Okay And last but not least do you have any relevant tags in your backpack each of you starts with one item tag in
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your backpack It's not everything you carry It's just something important to your character that you think might come up Uh bag of salt and spices That sounds
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good Okay So if my math is correct here you have three positive tags Uh one
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positive tag out of your backpack and two negatives for a total of plus two Does that sound right plus three plus
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one is four minus two is two Cool Okay So roll two six-sided dice and add two
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to the result All right
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So one is 6 + 1 7 + 2 is nine Cool Uh
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yes So that is uh so in this game a 7 to 9 is a success but there is a
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consequence of some kind A 10 plus you fully succeed and get no consequences And on a 6 minus you get no success and
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you just get consequences But um okay So I'm going to say that you do succeed Um
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obviously we we'll do this as a simple role We won't that the the plus two that you ended up with is what this game calls power And there are some roles
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where it's more important where you actually spend your power to get effects Uh in this case we'll just call this a
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simple role We'll say your two succeeds Um you're going to get a temporary status though Uh you are stressed
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obviously Um and yeah that sounds about right Yeah that sounds about right Um not super much because you're used to
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this Uh so it's just a tier one but you have the tier one status stressed but
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you succeed despite the stress Uh you uh manage to tune out uh Chz's more
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annoying insults and you make a uh honestly a pretty fancy lunch for this
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village Like everything looks really good Um and so we'll uh we'll we'll jump
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ahead a little bit in time So the um we'll say the three of
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you now are actually enjoying the lunch that uh uh in the in the tavern in town
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and um you're kind of you know lunch is over
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you're kind of you know you you're kind of full you're relaxing a little bit maybe you're having a drink before you get back on the job Um
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and but you hear in the distance uh from the the the inn is uh kind of on the
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tavern's kind of on the edge of town um adjacent to some fields of barley Uh a
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lot of tall unh harvested barley out that way And you're all finishing up
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your lunch and in the distance out towards the barley fields you hear uh a
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sh a high-pitched blood curdling scream Uh what do you do oh god
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Uh Dunny Go die Go Uh Dunny immediately jumps up
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from where he is and takes off running towards the noise Okay Um are you all going out with him or cuz Dunny is
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booking it now I uh Yeah Lisa is going to run after Denny All right Yeah You
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can't go off alone Who knows who knows what's in our barley fields
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No Fry is going to join right behind like this is unusual and I want to see
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what happens No that's good Um yeah so the three of you get outside and as you reach the edge of the barley field a um
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one of the village children Willow she is about eight or nine years old Um comes like backpedaling out of the tall
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barley and like falls on like stumbles and falls back on the ground And when she sees that there are adults nearby
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she's just like she's speechless She can't you know she can't get anything out and she's
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she's pointing like towards the barley like with a shaky finger Um something in
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there has clearly spooked her Uh Denny goes over to uh the girl
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and kneels down to help her back up and is like trying very calmly Now now I did
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what I didn't bring up earlier Donny is a massive wall of meat He is a gigantic man but he is very softspoken So he's
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just like "It's it's okay What did you see like you're safe now We'll get you we'll get we'll get you get you back
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into into town You know just tell us what you saw." All right Let's have let's have another roll to try We're
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going to have you roll to try and calm her down Give me um any I said any positive and negative tags you think
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would be relevant to calming down a scared child
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Oh let's see Um I you know two of his power tags are
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defend the weak and help those in need Yeah that sounds relevant Okay other
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than that uh I I'm not sure if the weakness tag of
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they didn't ask for help fits on this one So um so in this case you if you
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don't want to include it because you don't think it's relevant that's fine I could invoke it if I thought this was the right situation but this scared
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child is clearly asking for help So I am not going to invoke your ne your negative tag there Um and I'm guessing
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whatever's in your backpack probably doesn't help No it's a thick leather apron Okay Uh in
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this case you are just straight up rolling a 2d6 plus two
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Uh that would be a seven Okay that works Um okay
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seven Okay So yeah I think I think you successfully
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like you you calm her down Um and she kind of points out into
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the uh and you managed to get her to stop shaking long enough to talk to you and she kind of catches her breath and
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she's like "Oh Mr Dunny there's there's something out there It's I I don't know
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It looked like a man but it's not it's not I it's Oh god It's awful
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Um please be careful out there Okay And she's she's going to kind of cling to
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you um as her safety figure right now Um and there they said she's described that
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there's something like a man but awful in the barley Um that that's the most details
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she'll give you Um I think she might add if pressed that it smells bad whatever it is
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Okay Um so so Dunny looks up uh at at at
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the other two and he's just like I I'm going to I'm going to get her back to
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the inn and then I will I will meet you both back here Okay that'll work So uh Dunny is
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escorting Willow back to the inn Her dad is probably uh he's out there He didn't you know run out as fast as Dunny did
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but he's definitely outside waiting for you So while Dunny is taking Willow back over to the end uh Lissa and Fry what
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are you all doing are is there a trail leading into the wheat i have I have no relevant skills
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for tracking but I read a book once so I feel like I have relevant skills I read
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a book once I love it Um so the only tracks leading into the barley are uh
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are um you know Willows back backwards where she stumbled out Um if you want to
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try to just like observe things and see what's maybe see what's going on or if you want to try to Yeah If you want to
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try to figure out whatever's in there where it might have come from any of those kind of details Um give me Yeah
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Give me a roll with uh you know add your add your tags like everybody else and then give me a roll
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Uh yeah I don't have any really good tags for this Um I have one for all in
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my notebook where I record the things I have seen or heard or maybe read Okay Um
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I think that's the closest thing I have I I think it's probably reasonable You
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I'm just looking at your uh at your tags here I think you could make a case maybe for protect our own since you're kind of
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looking after uh you know you're kind of trying to figure out what here threatened a uh villager
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Is there like a help component I can do for uh support role yes there is a way
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you can help each other Uh to help each other you can sorry let me find it Uh so
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there's two ways you can do it One is you can either take an action of your own to try to give an ally a helpful
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status like alert Um I'm not sure how you would do that in this case You can also help during an action by
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contributing one of your tags uh which would add one to Liz's role Um but then
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if there are consequences they will come for both of you That's fine Um I think I'll double dip
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in this one Barley is an ingredient Uh I would say make the argument that Fry can
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also see other spots of the barley field that look not right for barley that
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should be planted as discerning ingredient Okay Um you know it's a stretch but I'll
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give it to you Okay So I yoga stretch that You definitely yoga stretch this one but that's fine Uh so Liz you've got
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plus one from your from Lisa's uh protect our own tag and you can borrow plus one as he is kind of as uh kind of
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like pointing out spots like he's like the barley's like swaying weirdly over there So 2d6 plus two
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2d6 that's a seven which is eight A seven is a success with a
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consequence Okay So I'll say so here's what I here's what I'll give you You
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uh two things happen One um you realize that um you don't see like you didn't
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see like where anything like followed her in or anything but you realize that leading away from the um leading away
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from the barley field you kind of spot them on the other side are a set of what look like bootprints They're really
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weirdly spaced bootprints almost like whatever had them like um was like you've seen like injured people like
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shambling up to the ferry and this is definitely a shambling gate And the other thing is that each of these
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bootprints is weirdly wet It's it's not raining today It
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hasn't rained in a few days actually It's it's overcast It could rain any minute it looks like But uh these
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bootprints are definitely wet as though whatever as though whatever left them was soaking Um but the other one uh you
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are also going to gain um a status you are going to gain the status uh
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nauseiated three as as out of the barley comes uh a
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shambling creature that I can only describe as a mummified waterlogged
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corpse wearing some kind of ancient armor that you all have never seen before Um it's carrying a shield with
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the emblems scratched off and a a sword that looks almost more dangerous from
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rust than from its own points but it is definitely leveling this shield at you
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and or the sword at you as it's comes shambling out of this out of the barley towards towards the two of you And the
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nauseating the nauseated status you're getting is because this thing smells
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awful It smells It smells like you would expect a body to smell rot and like the
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smell of like moist standing water if you're familiar with that But then there's something else here something darker something you couldn't really
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identify if you wanted to Um so you're kind of So while you're kind of you know trying to keep your freshly eaten lunch
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down fry what are you doing when you see all this go down uh I'm so nauseated affects me too right
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because I contributed Uh oh yeah that's true Um yes you are both uh Yes you are
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both you are both nauseated and stressed right now Yeah So I I assume that not
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only am I attempting to keep my lunch down uh so it is shambling at Lisa It is
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it is shambling towards Lissa with a uh with a sword and unknown intent
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Um can I h I want to look around
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for something to get its attention like a rock that I
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can throw at it to Okay Um get it I'll say if you Yeah So so you're next to a
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field I'd say like if you want to find like a rock um that's probably easy to find If you want to find a uh you know
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there's probably like a farming implement of some kind nearby that you could grab There's like a hoe or a
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shovel or something you could use to swing at it if you wanted to get it that way Um whatever however you want to
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handle it Yeah Okay So I'd say Fry looks around sees a
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um Fry will see a rake Okay old wooden
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um with like just a few set of wooden prongs uh held together by like you know
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thin strips of metal Okay And I would like to use I'd like to just
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you know one get in the middle of it and then try just to like fend off whatever
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attack it is is probably not a fighter but at least like being armed is some
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kind of got to be some kind of advantage Uh could be Uh yeah So I'm going to go ahead and say that you can temporarily
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add the uh the rake to your backpack as a positive tag Uh just wooden rake Um
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whenever you're trying to do things with the rake that it's relevant for it will give you a plus one like any other tag
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So um yeah let's add up your let's get your total power to uh take a uh to take
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kind of a distracting I guess swing at this thing with your wooden rake Okay So I would
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say I put under acrobatic agility Okay So and this is one of the ones I wanted
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to ask about the power tag It's they've got like a bold one right where you can just answer a question Okay
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And it's like a what do you get from like what what what's something that you would get naturally or something from
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this theme kit for acrobatic agility And I put just superb dexterity and
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coordination just because you know chopping handling measuring Mhm Food So
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that one Okay Uh I don't think dodge harm here would
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help me because I'm not dodging I'm in the middle of it Would hidden stamina reserves help me
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um yeah I don't see why not Cuz you're in this case I would say yes cuz you're just coming off of a I mean you think
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about the situation You're stressed you're nauseated you just got done working you sat down and had lunch You're probably still pretty tired
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because that's your busiest moment of the day And now you're out here fighting a weird shambling corpse with a rake
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Yeah I think your I think your stamina applies here Okay so that's just two for me Okay Uh
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plus one for the rake will give you a three Uh unfortunately those So the other thing is when you make a roll to
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figure out your power you also subtract the tier of the highest status affecting you which unfortunately is nauseated Oh
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no So you are just running a flat 2d6 to see how this goes All right Big money
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Big money Big money Big money Big money Oh no way What is it it's two sixes I
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swear I I might take a picture and put it in the chat just because I I I swear to God I didn't do it No I I believe you
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Uh yeah so that is a success with uh full a success with full uh uh no
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consequences It's a full success Um even if a 12 wouldn't normally do it two sixes does it is a crit is a critical
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success in this game Um okay Okay And since this is a little more of a threat than usual we are going to uh deal with
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this uh shambling creature uh using the
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uh the the detailed roll Um so when you do a detailed action roll what happens
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is you roll and you see if you succeed or get consequences or not and then you
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spend your power one for one to do certain things to the threat Now luckily
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for you even though your your final power was zero you always get a minimum
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of one to spend So you can do the following things You can uh discover a
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valuable detail or you can add a onepoint status
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to the shambling corpse creature And I will tell you that in
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this game adding statuses to things is how you overcome challenges most of the time
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Okay Yeah that was going to be uh Yeah Uh challenges challenges have what's called limits which you could think of
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like hit points in every other system And in this case you would want to uh overcome the uh limits on uh on this
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thing uh to try and drive it off or destroy it or whatever you would like to do
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Okay So I think I just want to apply the status to it Okay Um yeah it's a onepoint status Tell me
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what you're tell me what you want to call it cuz you're you're clobbering this thing with a rake Yeah
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Um I guess it's already shambling I don't
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know what's what's a degree worse than shambling but maybe I don't know if crippled is the
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right word because it's not alive but kind of like I just I I want it to stop moving
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as fast as it is You're trying to like you're trying to like break a limb or something Yes Uh yeah Chris in the chat
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recommends hobbled I like that one Yeah Okay Hobbled is good So you will give it the hobbled one status And now whenever
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it tries to do anything uh or apply consequences using whenever anyone whenever you guys are trying to make a
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roll against it now because it has this negative status you add that to your power too So this is advantageous to you
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and it's also uh one step towards stopping this thing from moving Um you
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you hit it in the leg I think with your rake You kind of go low You're like maybe sweep its legs out from under it
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um you hit its leg where if this was a normal person it would sweep them off their leg and
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it it doesn't it doesn't like break the bone like you would expect a bone to
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break It's almost like it like has like a wet squelch and then it just like
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splinters Um and this thing is still like it's limping in a way that if it
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was a if it was alive which you can clearly tell it is not at this point it would be in agony Um but it is moving
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much slower now Um I just want to add the small detail that it sounds like I
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broke whatever skin is uh holding this thing together still marginally Yes And
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as that breaks more smell bad smell comes out of it And I just am trying to
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hold in all my lunch because it's like this is the good a good idea and a bad idea at the same time And no that
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actually is perfect because I was actually going to describe that Did you are are you reading my notes um it
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actually like it doesn't it doesn't break with blood or water It is it is
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leaking a weird like pitch black ooze like Yeah it it's it's it's like it's it
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kind of starts to slide down its leg Um and it's you can almost see that that is
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kind of what's holding the leg together at this point which is part of why it's not very agile Ooze doesn't make a good kneebone Uh so Dunny Denny you drop uh
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Willow off with her dad at the inn and you come back around the corner I'm assuming and you see this scene where uh
30:40
Lisa has spotted this weird shambling armored corpse and uh Fry clobers it in
30:47
the leg with a rake and it's still coming Uh what do you do
30:53
well having been told by um the the little girl that um there was
31:00
a something in the barley uh on on
31:05
Dunny's way back he he actually um took a side detour which is why he missed
31:11
this and hit the forge um to to grab his father's sword Uhoh Um and and comes
31:20
back with that Um Dunny's back everyone And he's armed Yeah Now now I should
31:28
should point out Dunny doesn't like he's not a soldier He he has grabbed this
31:33
this sword that his father has kept more or less on the mantle since he can
31:38
remember and has come back with this in his hands like in a very u not uh not
31:47
not trained grip I should say like he knows how to handle a blade as a blacksmith but not as a soldier Okay Um
31:55
but yeah as as the smell hits him as he gets up um he's not exactly looking
32:02
exactly um great Yeah you can see the the the color just drain out of his face
32:10
You at least you at least have a chance to get used to it because you're running into range of it Whereas Alyssa and um
32:16
Fry kind of got hit with it all at once Dunny is kind of like uh he's probably
32:22
following the scent back to this thing But as he comes up um he is trying
32:29
to find a way to get in um in seeing this gross nasty undead looking thing Uh
32:38
on how he could possibly help attack it without hitting anybody else Okay Um
32:45
Okay Give me uh 2d6 plus your power Let's add up all those relevant uh let's add up the tags All right Um so uh I've
32:56
got structural weak points but I don't know if that counts Is is it wearing armor did you say it was wearing armor
33:02
yeah it's wearing like it's wearing peacemeal armor Um that's like you like the tabards or whatever that would be
33:08
over it are like rotted away And so you can clearly see like the the it it's like chain mail armor with a single
33:14
puldron um underneath it And it has a shield but it doesn't really seem to
33:20
it's almost like it doesn't know how to use it And it has a helmet but it's kind of like falling off of its head almost
33:27
It's like cockeyed You're actually not sure how it can see because you know that little piece that's supposed to guard your nose on a helmet it's like
33:33
over one of its eyes Um Oh lovely Yes So uh plus uh your pal FRA did just make a
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structural weak point So yeah if you want to if you want to bring that one in I'm perfectly fine All right Yeah Uh I
33:48
think I've got um I'm just taking a look at my power tags here I've got structural weak points uh test of
33:56
strength help those in need Mhm Um and mastercrafted weapon Yeah because now
34:03
you've got the you've got your dad's sword which it turns out is secretly a very good sword
34:09
Now let me ask you this as our storyteller Um the weakness tag of known far and wide um does that play in here
34:20
huh if this thing were sentient and capable of
34:26
recognizing your sword there's a possibility there could be a negative consequence I don't think it necessarily does here I
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don't know if anyone in the village recogni would recognize your sword necessarily other than your dad or other
34:38
people going "Hey daddy's got his dad's sword out." Gotcha No Uh I think you're just So you
34:44
were talking structural weak points test of strength help those in need master crafted weapon That sounds good Uh and
34:51
and and have their back for Lisa
34:56
I like it Okay Uh yes Um let me just double check There is there are some special rules around fellowship tags I
35:04
think Oh Um oh uh yeah Okay Yeah Yeah Go ahead Yeah I think fellowship tags Let
35:11
make sure No Okay So the relationship tags are just like regular tags So you can use that one in this case So we're
35:17
looking at a whopping plus five to your roll Wow All right Let's see
35:23
Uh 11 11 is fine Yeah you get it with no consequence or no consequences So you
35:28
have five power to spend So I will now read all your options Uh for two power you can add or
35:35
remove a tag from this thing Um it has the tags incidentally shambling and dead
35:41
flesh Um oh actually you have six power cuz I forgot that you also added the hobbled one to it So you remember you
35:47
have six when you're spending this Uh you can add or remove status at one power per tier uh you can discover a
35:53
valuable detail and then after you've spent some power on the main part of your action you can
36:00
also do an an extra feat which can be things like temporarily counting or
36:05
preventing another threat if there was one or finding something above and beyond what your effects paid for or
36:11
things like that U but in this case well tags and statuses probably seem like the most useful thing to do So you got six
36:17
power to spend Yeah I think uh I I I think we're going
36:23
to just aim to take this thing out Okay Um so I know he had the hobbled status
36:30
before Um but my my question to you is uh if if Dunny hit its leg and then went
36:38
for the head Mhm Okay How would that play out so you can either give it a new
36:44
status or you can give it a higher tier of hobbled and whatever the highest tier is uh is the one that counts So if you
36:51
wanted to raise it like hobbled two or hobbled three you could
36:56
um you could give it a new status of your choice You could actually give it a permanent tag like at this point you
37:01
could actually give it the tag beheaded Let's uh let's do that We're going to
37:07
we're going to behead this guy Okay So for So for two of your six power you can give it the tag beheaded What would you
37:13
like to do with the other four uh as it's a a shambling undead
37:20
monstrosity even though it's beheaded um we're we're going to raise that hobbled level as well Okay So uh how much would
37:28
you like to spend you have four You said it was two forever it goes up
37:33
Uh one one power per tier
37:40
Uh we'll take we'll we'll take hobbled up as as far as it'll go Okay so in this case you spend four to give it a hobbled
37:47
four It actually has both four and one If it was actively trying to resist or get rid of statuses it actually makes it
37:52
harder now that it has two of them Um but it's not resisting anything cuz that goes well over its limit for wounded
37:58
which will overcome this challenge Um you hit it you take out its legs it
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starts to fall You do an upswing Maybe it looks a It actually looks a little more skillful than you expected You look
38:10
pretty cool in this moment Um and this thing just falls to the ground Um the
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head kind of rolls away And as you watch it the head and the body both essentially dissolve into more of this
38:22
black ooze that just kind of spreads out um and then just kind of seeps into the
38:29
earth Um there's still some of it there but it the earth drank it up like water
38:35
Um speaking of which this thing is also extremely wet on top of being oozy Um
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it's almost like something that was found in like it had been like water logged before whatever animated it
38:47
animated it So you guys can have a moment to kind of catch your breath and uh describe what
38:53
your characters are doing after this uh uh this little this little scene
39:01
here Fry is doing the thing where he walks off to the side drops the rake puts his hand on his hips and is just
39:06
taking deep breaths to try not to vomit
39:12
That seems fair Yeah I think Lissa Lissa
39:19
does want to go and look at it more closely but she's also like uh not not
39:25
feeling great with this but okay Like it's wearing special it's wearing armor
39:31
that's seems noteworthy I guess the whole walking corpse is noteworthy but the
39:36
armor seems interesting to her Yeah Okay So there's a couple things you could do One you could try to roll and just look
39:43
at it and accept the fact that you have nauseated three so it'll be a minus three Another thing is you could take an
39:49
action first to try to like catch your breath settle your stomach like try to
39:55
work that nauseated status down if you wanted to try and do that
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That's uh that's probably the better idea You know it Yeah Yeah Fry has the
40:05
right idea I need to take a minute here Take a breath Yeah But um actually Yeah
40:11
Actually Fry if you want to go ahead and do that too you can because you all both have that So let's uh let's look at
40:16
Lisa's tags first and see what ones might be relevant to um
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h relevant to this here Uh let's see like none of them
40:30
I'm looking at your character sheet and there are not a lot relevant here Um protect our own
40:37
could be Um I would also say maybe and I'm going to yoga stretch it here like
40:43
Nick did maybe all in your notebook come into play here because you want like you want to get close to this thing so you
40:49
can get you know get some info get some notes down like I need to calm down or this is not going to
40:55
work Um so for you it'll end up being a negative one Go ahead
41:04
and this is going to go great That's an eight Okay Um yeah So
41:13
we'll say you can Yeah you can lower your nauseated three Well actually since nothing is actively uh bothering you
41:19
right now we'll say you can drop it down to a nauseated one Um Fry how about how about you
41:27
uh the roll is Wait I am rolling right yeah I was going to say I'm looking at your tags
41:33
here Maybe your hidden stamina reserves Um do do we want to say maybe a meal
41:40
that can heal since i haven't eaten anything and I can't think about Oh that's true You did
41:47
just eat Alth although seeing the ooze fall into the
41:53
ground gives me an idea for a new uh a new is and now I might not be able to
42:00
resist the taste Oh some kind of jell-o Um I'll also give you one for a bag of salts and spices because you might have
42:06
something that could function almost like to block the smell out in your bag You know how like you could use like uh
42:12
like how people will put like stuff under their like something strong under their nose Um like the whole thing with
42:17
with like you know with uh corpse the doctors with the long noses Plague
42:23
doctors There we go With corpse doctors That's a mortician Um okay So let's
42:30
say yeah discern ingredients hidden stamina reserves in your tag You were just rolling a flat 2d6 to try to
42:36
overcome this All right This is got six six Okay Uh unfortunately it
42:46
does not work And um your nauseated tag is still going to stay at a three
42:51
because you briefly had the idea of tasting the ooze um and then your stomach kind of turned you Oh god But
42:59
listen now that you've lowered your nauseated tag to a much more reasonable one um yeah let's let's let's have you
43:06
look at this thing Um actually I'm not going to make you roll to examine this this armor
43:12
I've kind of I kind of kind of pulled my shirt up over my nose and I'm trying not
43:18
to not to smell this but yeah that's that's perfect for overcoming for overcoming a fairly mild status like
43:25
this Okay Um so yeah this thing is um I said it's it's it definitely was a
43:34
a corpse of some kind Some of it you know some of the more intact bones are actually laying underneath the armor
43:40
um you don't really recognize um as someone who's uh even even as
43:48
someone who's seen outsiders come and go in the village you don't recognize like the the extremely faded like symbols um
43:55
like any um I said the I'm losing the word here like the heraldry or whatever on the shield was scratched out and
44:02
faded over time Um whatever tabard it was wearing over its armor has kind of rotted away Um it looks like it looks
44:10
old is the best thing you can establish from it This armor looks very old Um as
44:16
if it had come from it definitely doesn't look like you know like somebody like Dunny or his dad
44:22
made an armor a male for this You've seen stuff they've made Maybe not armor
44:27
because there's probably not a lot of call for armor in the Dales but you you've seen their metal work since both of you have grown up in the village and
44:34
it looks foreign It looks old Um and it is unfamiliar in a very intriguing way
44:41
to you as someone who is very um into things from outside the village
44:47
I probably don't need to say it but I don't I don't think he was from around here or she I don't it No I don't want
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to think about that It Yeah it's uh what whatever it was it is It uh it's
45:02
definitely I said there doesn't seem to be any corpse now And the um the the one
45:08
thing you notice that's kind of weird as you as you step close to examine it the ooze almost
45:13
like where you've seen it just behaving like water now it's on the ground kind of thick jiggly water Um it almost kind
45:20
of like turns like it's moving towards your foot but it doesn't it doesn't actually make it there It's kind of like
45:28
um but it's it's very slow and it doesn't seem to be doing a lot So you're you don't have to worry about it like
45:34
eating your foot right now But that that's a weird thing Yeah that's a very weird thing I don't
45:40
like it None of the books about adventures I have read mentioned this
45:47
smell and I am not happy about that Oh I forgot about your book of adventures That actually does bring
45:55
something to mine Um actually now I do want you to make a
46:00
role to see if you can recollect where you took this note from Obviously your notebook tag will play into it Um okay I
46:07
don't know if anything else we're say yoga tags here I I not really I'm not
46:15
really a thinky person but it is kind of funny Um like I said I get big Louisa
46:21
Madreal vibes from her So um so I would say maybe protect your own
46:28
since this is in the interest of uh keeping the village safe from whatever this is So I'll give you I give
46:34
you say a two on your roll Uh minus one for your mild nausea So 2d6 plus one
46:40
Uh that is an eight Okay Um yeah that's fine So I'm going to
46:48
say first the consequence The longer you spend around this corpse the worse it gets bump your nauseiated back up to a
46:54
two But you you're flipping through your notes I think maybe that's how it catches you You're like your shirt drops
46:59
while you're flipping back through here and you found a story from a bard who visited the village three or four years
47:06
ago at this point who mentions uh the fallout of a great so long ago in
47:13
this world There was a war between the great thurases uh some of the most powerful magic users in the world And
47:19
some of the fallout of this ancient war included kind of um occasionally they
47:24
would conjure evil from dark places to animate the dead soldiers so that they would fight on Um so even when their
47:31
armies died their armies didn't die And like that's weird Why would this be here
47:37
in our peaceful humble little village but it like you can't shake the image This reminds you almost exactly of that
47:44
bard's tale of evil dating back to the Great War Um Dunny what are you up to i assume you
47:52
said you were examining the armor along with uh along with uh Lissa Um you can
47:58
probably tell a little more about it because you're uh a a metal smith Um
48:03
obviously you don't like like I said uh when Alyssa was examining there's not a lot of call for armor so you guys haven't made a bunch of male suits other
48:10
than for the uh there is kind of a uh a group of guards that kind of patrols all
48:15
the Dales called the Red Wardens Uh some of them there's one or two actually posted uh in the village but they're out
48:21
on patrol right now when this happened Um this armor doesn't look like the ones that the wardens uh bring with them from
48:28
Stormhelm or that the wardens have uh you know maybe they've asked you to fix their armor from time to time This does
48:34
not look like that This looks it looks not only old but it looks foreign like it's definitely for this
48:42
metal work is foreign to you Uh my question to you is one of my power tags
48:48
is recognize branded metal work Okay
48:54
Um yeah I think you can Yeah So it's almost like a like a almost like a a brand tag on armor I think you find
49:01
something in if you want to actually get in and pick at the armor you might be able to find something It would be
49:06
probably on the inside of it So you're looking at pulling this armor out of the ooze And I'm going to I'm going to have
49:12
you roll for this because that is um risky What or I guess the the alternate
49:18
option is uh picking up the severed head and just shaking it out of the helmet Uh
49:24
so most of what you get if you pick up the helmet Yeah Go ahead and roll
49:30
Sure Yep Um I don't think it has any relative
49:35
negative statuses anymore since it's dead So So So it would be 2d6 plus one Um if
49:44
that's unless you have more than one tag that you think is relevant Yes
49:49
M just looking at what I've got here That's probably it Um if that's the case
49:56
it's it's a seven Okay Uh okay So I think what happens is you pick up you
50:01
pick up this helmet and unfortunately a lot of the
50:06
uh the like the actual head that used to be in it had dissolved
50:13
um you manage to flip it up and look on the inside and you see a uh you you spot
50:20
a brand um there's you know like the Metal Smmith brand inside you do not
50:25
recognize this at all It is weirdly well preserved probably because like it it
50:30
didn't rust which was cool Like this is actually a pretty solid helmet Um but
50:36
like this you're like this this is not a mark of any of the Smiths and the Dales I I know the Smiths and the Dales and
50:43
this is none of them Um however you're also going to take the poisoned one status um as a little bit of the black
50:51
ooze uh from that the helmet kind of the head kind of most of the head dissolved into kind of um I described it as
50:58
seeking out Lissa's foot A little bit of it kind of globs out of the helmet and kind of slides onto your hand and you're
51:04
getting ready to like wipe it off and it sinks into your skin It burns
51:10
Denny yells as it burns Um but but it's
51:16
there's a swear there but the swear is not a usual swear It it's it's very much uh Yeah
51:25
Yeah It's it's it's a very fantasy swear Yeah Something something that we can invent and fill in later Um Yeah But
51:33
this is the then you're you're probably used to actual burn burns Being a smithy
51:38
you no doubt like have your share of having you like burned yourself uh on fires uh when you were first learning at
51:45
your dad's forge But this is like this burns on the inside and it kind of your
51:52
your arm up to almost like your forearm is feels like it's on fire on that side now Um it's not it is not pleasant Um
52:02
behind you all as you are kind of investigating the aftermath of this scene Um there is you can hear kind of a
52:10
hub behind you You you've kind of this whole situation um and probably Willow
52:15
and her dad talking about it as well This has all kind of drawn a crowd and there are a number of villagers uh
52:23
probably or 20 20 or 30 of the people of Ravenhome um already assembled at the
52:28
tavern and you can actually see more people coming both to um hear what's
52:35
going on and also um the ones who are already inside like there's a there's a
52:40
hollow ballaloo happening Uh what would you all like to do
52:45
i want to turn and ask someone to go find the red wardens Uh okay
52:52
Um yeah whoever you ask um I think Warden McCree will be back in about an
52:58
hour Um we were going to uh we're going to talk about how to deal with this
53:03
especially since it you know it's not often we see a creature at Twilight which uh is how the people of the Dales
53:09
tend to refer to any strange being Um and this guy's he's like "I guess I can
53:16
go look for the warden if you want to but man I don't know if I want to go in the woods alone right
53:23
now." Fry is just going to sigh Just Okay
53:29
Uh I would tell you and the rest of the farmers to
53:34
maybe travel in pairs and buddy up on the fields Get anyone else that's out in the fields that's still working back
53:41
into town now It's not safe to be out here clearly Oh he kind of nods He's like "Yeah that makes sense Let me go."
53:46
And he he's going to book it out to the fields and tell the other villagers It'll probably be it'll probably take him 20 or 30 minutes since he's on foot
53:53
Um but this news this news will spread through Raven Holm fairly quickly as things tend
53:59
to do in small towns As he runs off by himself I'm just going to yell at one of the other villagers
54:05
Someone go with him please Not by yourselves Yeah Okay Buddy system
54:11
a uh yeah there's kind of a younger farm handle kind of jog and catch up with the guy Okay so you sent those two off to
54:18
get the uh the other villagers and uh that's happening Uh let's say Lisa what
54:24
would you like to do uh wow that was that was not how I
54:32
expected my day to go [Music]
54:39
Um so if someone has to go get the the marshall he'll know what to do Um does
54:47
anyone he'll be back eventually um like I said the the warden the warden for
54:52
Raven Holm is on patrol Um he should be back in about an hour Um there are a few
54:58
people who can actually uh guard the village You actually see them going into the tavern along with everybody else at this time Um this is apparently an
55:04
impromptu town meeting Now uh one of the aldermen is here Um Elanora who is the
55:10
retired red marshal who used to guard Raven Holm uh is here Uh she is kind of
55:15
a uh kind of an older lady at this point and most people haven't seen her armed
55:20
in many years but she has her sword on her side Um and yeah just a a this town
55:27
this town meeting appears to be assembling uh over yonder Do we notice Dunny being very sick
55:33
um uh yeah I believe he shouted a curse I
55:38
don't think that he made any effort to hide it Yeah Well no I mean like yeah it hurts but like any other residual like
55:45
is he how's he looking um so is he turning into a zombie is the
55:51
question Is Dunny zombifying before your eyes no Um he has kind of a nasty
55:56
looking black streak up his arm but it doesn't appear to be spreading any further than say his the middle of his
56:02
forearm I'd say let's go back to the tavern get everyone else inside and let's let's
56:09
let's see if we can treat that arm Okay So you guys get in there and like I
56:17
said there's kind of a general hub up going on Um everybody's everybody is concerned
56:22
about like I said a creature of twilight in the in the village We've never had this before And there's three kind of voices that are standing out to you I
56:29
mentioned I I mentioned the alderman His name is Alderman Beaks Um you know he's kind of a he's kind of a smoothtalking
56:36
guy and his priority is peace and quiet And his his goal is to you can hear him
56:41
kind of trying to assure people there's no danger to the village This was a one-off Uh and we'll deal with this
56:49
matter privately and quietly and sensibly Um Eleanor on the other hand is
56:55
kind of uh she almost seems excited by the prospect of this thing being in the village maybe a little disappointed that
57:02
she didn't get to take it out herself And you can actually hear her kind of jockeying to rally up a little militia
57:09
of villagers arm them with pitchforks and head out to look for others Uh she says "If there's one maybe there's
57:14
more." And the last one that you the last village last villager you uh can hear
57:22
kind of loudly making his points in a almost kind of a panicky voice is
57:28
this kind of a middle-aged uh guy named Mac Um what you know about Mac is that
57:34
Mac is kind of easily alarmed and he's fearing all sorts of like calamities
57:41
like almost like he's been waiting for something to happen Um whether something was ever going to happen or not U Mac
57:47
has severe anxiety I guess Um well unfortunately now a calamity is at hand and he is convinced he has always been
57:53
right Um Mack is pushing for the villagers to flee um Ravenholm which is
57:59
fairly remote and head to the larger town of Barley Town as a refuge from this calamity that's uh falling upon you
58:06
Um and the three this is the scene the three of you enter into What would you like to do
58:12
well this is a little a little crazy Um a scoch Uh you noticed that out of
58:18
the three incidentally the one who seems to be making the most headway with the crowd weirdly enough is Mac Um
58:26
mechanically this uh this whole town meeting it could be considered a challenge Um and this audience uh has
58:35
the tag panicked one as uh the call for calm is not
58:41
really working cuz there was a wet zombie in their fields and no one's as
58:46
excited about the idea of going out with a bunch of pitchforks as Elanora is Um
58:51
mostly everyone is kind of leaning towards Mac's suggestion of just getting
58:57
the heck out of here Um sorry to interrupt I just wanted to kind of put that out there This is so this will be
59:02
considered a challenge which means you guys can roll to apply statuses uh
59:07
remove tags things like that Um so go ahead and Lisa uh what would you like to
59:17
do well there's nothing more dangerous than being out on the road when one of those if any more of those things are
59:23
out there We we only saw one There wasn't sign of more than one It it seems like staying inside is
59:31
the safest bet for everyone by which she is not thinking of herself because she wants to know what's going on
59:38
But other people I I mean I think she would like to speak up and talk about
59:44
it's going to be safer to be inside than to go out on the road if anything is out there
59:51
Okay you're you're making some good arguments Go ahead and uh give me a roll Uh and let's see how well you do at
59:58
convincing people I'm I continue making roles that are completely outside of my skill set Uh
1:00:05
maybe protect our own and friendly and kind could apply to this Yeah I like
1:00:12
those Um I said I'm trying to figure out if we can stretch recognize false answers here cuz I'm guessing for your
1:00:20
that your interpretation here is that you're thinking like spotting lies But
1:00:25
in this case you could think of this as a false answer because this is a bad idea
1:00:32
You are fairly certain this is a bad idea Um and if you wanted to I would
1:00:37
even give you work smarter not harder because it's a lot easier to just maybe barricade yourselves in the home until
1:00:43
the trouble is over and let the people who are qualified deal with it rather than pack all your belongings and you
1:00:49
know head out into the head out into the dales So I would give you four of those tags probably
1:00:55
Four and then minus two because of the nausea Uh yes because of the nausea So you are at a So I plus two Yep You're at
1:01:03
a plus two Uh that was a bad roll This dice is
1:01:10
going away Uh that's a six which is not a success at all Oh no
1:01:16
Uh okay So yeah So what happens is you
1:01:21
you start talking and then you get shouted down uh by of all people Elanora
1:01:28
who is listening to you and she says "That's right This is our home We should defend it." And she She's and she kind
1:01:34
of puts her arms around around you and she's like "This is another one of your strong fellow citizens who's willing to
1:01:40
help me fight these monsters." And the outcome is that Elanora gives the crowd the tag rally one Oh well moving towards
1:01:49
rallying a militia Uh Dunny what would you like to do
1:01:56
so when Dunny steps into the the inn um the first thing he does is find
1:02:03
something to wrap his arm with Um just like a cloth something that he can just
1:02:08
tie around the black lines going up his arm to not startle anybody Yeah Before
1:02:15
he um uh Yeah he he's gonna kind of echo uh
1:02:22
and try and be a voice in in of reason here Okay Um with the you know everybody
1:02:30
everybody just needs to just take a breath and these things whatever this
1:02:36
thing was it was easy to take care of It's better if we don't hunt things down
1:02:42
cuz we don't know anything We should just all relax and try and
1:02:50
figure out what to do Leaving town doesn't sound like a great idea We could
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lock the doors Don't think that thing could get into a door It doesn't seem like it could All
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right I'm going to have you give a give a roll the same as Lisa I'm going to say by the way that you uh can add your relationship tag for Lisa here obviously
1:03:09
since you have her back Yep Um I I don't know if help those in need
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counts on this one either Um he's trying he's trying not to get people to go out
1:03:21
to their deaths I would say maybe defend the weak fits a little better there than this cuz you're
1:03:27
trying to keep these people from putting themselves in danger Um yeah two two
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seems fine I'm looking at your weakness tags I don't think any of these really apply
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Yeah Yeah So it's plus two minus one because of the poison
1:03:47
Correct Uh that's a six Oh no
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We're We're not doing so hot here Yeah Um so good rolls and bad rolls Yeah I
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think Yeah So I think maybe Beaks uh Alderman Beaks kind of gets the gets the crowd here and he kind of takes over
1:04:06
He's like "Yeah this is Dunny is true Look at Dunny He's not panicking at all Let's all just calm
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down Let's Let's take a deep breath people We're reasonable We're not a
1:04:19
panicked mob like you might find in the big city We are Raven Homers and we think our way through things instead of
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doing the first thing to come to mind And he is going to give the crowd the status reassured
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one Uh Fry what would you like to do so while this entire rabble has been
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going on when the three of them entered the tavern Fry booked it to the kitchen
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to try and get as much food and drink prepped as possible Okay Because
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uh I mean Fry knows that when bad things happen a good meal is something that can
1:04:58
really make the difference in decision-m Yeah I think I think Chz is already back there and when he sees you run in rather
1:05:04
than even rather than even try insulting you like he usually does he just kind of nods gruffly to you and the two of you
1:05:09
get to work Yeah So while this while everyone's been making their uh
1:05:15
everyone's been making their arguments to each other Chz and I have been in the back uh putting together something quick
1:05:22
easy but also delicious And um when I I come out with chess we've
1:05:31
just got plates of food We've got like a makeshift soup some sandwiches for everybody and then a
1:05:38
barrel of drink for everybody to partake in And I just want to say like the only
1:05:45
thing I'll say is that like you all can't make a decision like this on an
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empty stomach Please just take a moment to eat and think about this please
1:05:57
Okay And um then go ahead and make me a roll to see how well this works
1:06:03
Okay So I want to add I'll be adding um a meal that can heal Okay
1:06:13
Work smarter not harder Okay Hidden stamina reserves Yeah
1:06:20
the uh bag of salt and spices That works And then would I be able to add both of
1:06:28
my relationship tags from Lisa and Dunny childhood friends and good company
1:06:34
H I don't know that childhood friends applies here necessarily but I will give you good company because you are okay
1:06:40
Yeah you're you're kind of trying to use Dunny's calming presence as well um along with your meal to kind of bring
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things uh in tow Uh let me see if you have any negative tags that I would like to invoke for you Yes please
1:06:55
Um no not really Since I actually described
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CHZ as being not a jerk for once I'm not going to invoke cruel overs here after the fact Um yes Yeah Give me give me a
1:07:08
roll at plus five So then plus five but then I'm still nauseated right uh you
1:07:13
are Okay So minus three it's plus two Okay
1:07:19
that is an eight plus two is a 10 8 plus two is a 10 Okay so that is a full
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success and you have two power to spend So uh so let's kind of decide how you
1:07:32
want to spend that and then I'll tell you what the effect is As a reminder it is two
1:07:39
two power to add or remove a tag and or one power per tier to add a status Um
1:07:46
and as a reminder this crowd currently has the statuses panicked one rally one
1:07:52
reassured one and the tags and statuses The tags alderman be alderman beaks Elanora and Mac The other three speakers
1:08:00
are considered tags So how would you like to spend your two power
1:08:06
i want to use one power to reduce the panicked
1:08:12
status to zero Okay that'll work and
1:08:18
then add a the last one is to add a status and let me know what you think
1:08:23
about this but um I'm thinking something like satiated
1:08:30
which would be like also short in short pacified like people are eating they're
1:08:36
you know feel a little bit better Okay Yeah Um yeah I would actually say if you
1:08:42
wanted to add one to reassured that would work because you know Beaks is trying to calm the crowd and you're
1:08:48
giving them food you're giving them drink you're kind of encouraging them hey instead of getting into a big hub of
1:08:54
you know eat eat this sandwich Okay Yeah Be quiet and eat this
1:09:00
Yeah So you've still got people trying to make arguments but this crowd is calming down Uh you guys could probably
1:09:06
kind of sway them your way if you wanted to And one more thing who Lisa would you like to try something again
1:09:14
um maybe breaking maybe breaking away from Elanora before she hands you a pitchfork and says "Let's go."
1:09:23
I'm kind of wondering what would happen if I did that But uh no I do want to break You're right I want to break away
1:09:28
from Elanora and stick with my friends since we're the only ones who even saw this thing And also I've failed
1:09:36
I think every role I've made It's true Yeah Uh yep So yeah it's you all You all
1:09:44
and Willow were probably and maybe her dad were the ones who saw it in action There are five whole people here who saw this thing moving
1:09:51
Yeah I I I would like to stick with them and stay out of whatever energy the
1:09:57
crowd has because it it feels like it's shifting very quickly which feels kind
1:10:02
of dangerous It really Okay Um so if you want so go ahead and
1:10:09
try to make me a roll I will say that reassured in this case is going to count as a positive status for you So whatever
1:10:14
we end up adding for you you can add two Uh let's see Do you have relationships
1:10:22
for the other two you do Uh since you specifically mentioned
1:10:27
you're trying to stick with them you're trying to hang with your pals for reasons Uh let's go Fry and Dunny give
1:10:33
you another plus two And then whatever then whatever you think your relevant power tags here are I think last time
1:10:40
was protect our own and friendly and kind and recognize Well we won't get I
1:10:46
don't think recognize false but um so let's just say two from your actual tags
1:10:52
So you're looking for the before any statuses
1:10:57
uh six and uh I have a minus two for nausea
1:11:03
I'm actually I actually am going to invoke one of your weakness tags here though for a minus one Okay Uh overlook
1:11:10
danger because you are willing to charge to see something new You Elanora kind of has a bug in your ear now You're kind of
1:11:15
like what if I just go out and like look for more zombies
1:11:20
So subtract another one from that Okay Okay That's definitely on my mind I want
1:11:27
to go out and look for these things but maybe not in a disorganized mob Exactly
1:11:33
You're like I'd love to charge into danger but not like this So I I think that's a total of plus three if I did my
1:11:38
math right 6 - 1 - 2 Yep All right 2d6 plus three
1:11:46
That's an eight I'm I'm doing these like barely makes it rolls No that's good Um
1:11:53
okay So you have three power to spend the same way that Nick did Um and we'll
1:12:00
figure out what happened and then we'll descri I'll describe the consequence after we find out what you did An eight
1:12:05
Uh yes cuz you still get you still get a success It's just success with a consequence So you have your three power
1:12:11
to spend as a reminder Two to add or remove a status One to one per tier to
1:12:16
add or excuse me two to add or remove a tag one per tier to add or remove a
1:12:21
status and one to discover a valuable detail
1:12:29
Um I would like to could I lower my own nauseated status
1:12:34
yeah Uh yeah How far down would you like to take it because you've got to uh I have three so I can take one off
1:12:43
and then do something else Yeah you can do that Uh so you lower your nausea to a one Um this is this is a good and I
1:12:51
would I would like to I would like to learn something Can I Is there anything
1:12:56
I can see by looking at Elnora how she's acting like what is her deal why did she
1:13:02
run it run in here trying to get everyone to run outside with torches and pitchforks uh so Eleanora was the red
1:13:09
marshall who was most frequently assigned to Raven Holm back before Marshall McCree
1:13:14
And as best as you can tell um nothing really happened while she was here but
1:13:22
she didn't sign up for the Red Marshals for a safe boring job And she's kind of feeling like her glory days again She's
1:13:28
like she wants to feel something She wants the exhilaration of battle Um and maybe
1:13:36
something else behind that Maybe something a little a little darker but mostly she just wants to get out there
1:13:43
and feel something by looking for and fighting some zombies Uh she's just very excited about the
1:13:50
prospect of doing something other than you know sitting quietly in her retirement in Ravenholm Hm So yes I'll
1:13:56
have backed I'll have kind of backed out of the crowd and I'm going to assume that maybe out of out of Dunny's food
1:14:02
there's like maybe some ginger tea or something like that that I'm sipping on slowly Yeah Like okay I feel a a little
1:14:09
better A little better That makes sense And did you want to change any of the
1:14:14
crowd statuses um as a reminder they have rally one and
1:14:20
reassured two I I would like reassured I'd like to add a reassured there All righty I can So
1:14:27
we'll bump reassured up to three Um I think Elanora makes like one last attempt to kind of rally the crowd but
1:14:34
like between you Dunny and uh you Dunny Fry and Beak's all talking reason And um
1:14:42
especially Fry feeding the crowd which kind of got everybody on your own side Um everybody's kind of chill at this
1:14:49
point Um in mechanical terms reassured three overcomes the limit of reassured
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for this challenge and it's dealt with Good job everyone Um and you kind
1:15:00
of you you chill this crowd out They you don't see like the like Elanora eventually gives up trying to rally
1:15:06
anybody and then she's at least smart enough to realize she should not go out on her own And so as people start as
1:15:13
farmers start arriving from the outlying fields they mostly just come into like a calm and almost kind of jovial meal
1:15:19
People are kind of joking at this point about why were why were we even that worried I mean look the the blacksmith
1:15:25
the cook and the fairy girl took it out Like Willow is like big up on you
1:15:31
guys She's like putting you over uh you know about how heroic you all were uh from what she could see from the door of
1:15:36
the tavern But all in all I think you guys have uh you've
1:15:43
really calmed this crowd down so you don't really have to worry about the people of Ravenhome doing something
1:15:48
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