So I'm gonna get completely and stay like violent with this next man. Yeah, no, this is like perfect for it if not bad occurs. So I think last we left off, Tim, you, excuse me, Harbeck. Yes.
We're back, ladies and gentlemen. What up? We rejoin our cast as Harbeck stands inside the West Supply Room, gazing upon discarded alchemical equipment, and six full jars of this violet liquid. Yes.
And we, the screen cross fades into Verna and Ornella with an unconscious master of vesibis, standing at the door, the exit, to of the cult's chambers. Can you turn the big wheel or, I mean, I think it's stronger than me. I'll give it a try. Here I go.
Hold on to him. I'll try and keep him perched onto me. I'll come up against the wall. Roll athletics for me.
Thirteen. Thirteen. So the wheel is like just, it's too tough for you to open by sheer brute force, or at least that part. There's also the side door, right, that has the iron rot, door with the secret entrance on the side of the door.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We could try that. I'm not strong enough to turn this wheel, especially after everything that just happened. Perhaps we can try the secret entrance.
If there's something fancy to it or if there's just like a knob, maybe this pyramid can open it. Has some power in it. Yeah, so you hold the pyramid out in your hands. And immediately, the attention of the cultists is drawn to both groups.
Their heads turn simultaneously as the pyramid is withdrawn from your hand. So yeah, you have these two groups of three. They're on opposite sides of the room. There's one group that's about 20 feet away from you.
The other is about 40 feet away from you, closer to the door where Harbec is. They all turn at you at once. What do you do? I am going to pretend that I am Bethapeth.
I'm going to yell pretending I am him. For them to stand down. I'm just kind of trying to throw my voice. Great.
I want you to roll a deception roll for me. Oh, I don't think I'm going to lie. She can't stop all the throw my body. That's just you now.
Nothing to see here. That was just you now. So a couple of beats of silence pass in this large room. You hear the muffled sounds of Verna pretending to be a man come from the main chamber, Harbec.
You're god. All right. So I sense the plan isn't going well. So I take out the Warhammer and I swing it all six vials of purple gunk.
Awesome. I think so that happened. So you swing and the glass shatters, the liquid goes everywhere. And so you two, you hear this crash come from the room that Harbec's in and the attention of all of the guards turns towards this, or guards.
Cultists turn towards the store. Where Harbec is? Where Harbec is. Yeah.
I think we just throw Vethavus down and go out fighting. I agree. Let's do it. All right.
We just drop him. He's biceps on the floor. He doesn't care. He's already papped out.
So I'll paint the scene. And then we'll roll initiative. So what happens? I think we get this cool action camera shot of a close up of you to a Verna and Ornela exchange glances.
You do the head nod. And then both of you release your grip from Vethavus. As he falls in slow motion, we see both of your hands reach for your weapons. And this does a kill-bill-style split screen where we simultaneously see Harbec kind of shake the liquid off of his Warhammer.
And a big grin comes up across his face. And the split screen splits. And we see both groups of cultists turn. And one goes towards Harbec.
The group of two. The white shot at a Dutch angle. Yeah. And then the group.
The flip-flops starts playing. Yes. Some really just comical, light-hearted fun music. I imagine, Blue Skye by Yellow.
That's right. And the group of three cultists run towards you. So now we'll have you guys roll in. Just got to be in the crowd inside.
Mr. B. I got Wop and Four. I'll just go over there.
Just put it all the way in that bar. Oh, thanks. I'm going to eat some more of these chips tonight. You're on your own.
I eat it all. Well, who's on phone? Good stuff for the lamp or the moon? I'm going to eat some.
Oh, right here. Hey, it's my tip. Momma. Oh, no.
Hello. I'm focused, six and land, and I'm going to eat some chips tonight. This is going to be like the intro music is your chip song. Your chip song?
Hey, my musical improv is showing. Yep. Yep. More of that.
More of that. We should be commercial for things. I'll be able to podcast with Bratio by. And I'm just going to have a commercial.
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Sammy Sweetheart. Fandrasha. OK, so I labeled these groups of cultists as group A and group B. Group B is attacking Harbeck and Group A is attacking Berna and Ronella.
I'm going to roll for initiative now for Group B. Let me get there. Careful she pulled out. Roll in.
Not the shake. That's open. Just a bunch of different stingers. Yeah.
Wow. Rolling forward. We didn't roll in. We didn't roll in.
We didn't roll in. We didn't roll in. We didn't roll in. The shishin roll in.
The shishin roll in. Oh, are they in front of me? Yeah. I got it.
I'll say catfish Craig. Cultist is Craig. But catfish Craig. That's a nickname when he goes out camping on me.
Online, he's Brianna. No. OK, now I'm going to roll for Group A. So we've got cultist bruh.
Bruh. Bruh. Verna. Ornella.
Cultist Carl. Cultist Bob. Cultist Bob. Cultist Craig.
And then hardback at last. Oh, the cultist between me and you. Wait, it was from the B6 cultist? Two groups of three.
Oh, I'm sorry. We need more enemies to kill. Sorry. Maybe you should have a bra and a bra.
Oh, fuck you guys. Hey Paul, you want to make this encounter even worse? Yes, I do. Shit.
So these guys started with the C. So this will be cultist. I was laughing at Tim's. It's all there.
The wheeze. We are. We are. The wheeze.
The wheeze. This episode brought to you by wheeze. Yeah, wheeze. Hey, if you're willing to write a cover of Africa, you should do a cover of our intro song.
First, make it and then cover it. Honestly, if I could probably just annoy Rivers Cuomo on Twitter enough to get him to commit to this. You can try. Cultist.
Cial? Cultist Cuomo would make it. Oh, real good. Just name them all after FBI like lawyers that are accusing.
I know they're hard to kill them. Well, they're on the other side. They have mana for it. Alright, so first up is cultist Roth.
And he runs at Verna and Ornela. Nice. Let me get his stats pulled up here. He's 20 feet away, so he can get to you in one turn and he can still attack.
Let's see. Well, he does. He pulls out a scimitar and he goes to attack you. Ornela.
The Kirk Blades. The Kirk Blades. Pirates. Yep.
What is your armor class? 17. So he misses cultist bro. Takes a swing at you and you parry with your, well, I guess what weapon do you have drawn?
I guess it's in the point. My great axe. Your great axe. So yeah, you just hold the axe up and you just come down and you cling it off.
It is now Verna's turn. I'm just gonna take out my short bow or my short sword this time. And I am gonna try and jump up and just stab him in the throat. Okay, nice.
Then it's back that throat. So I have 20. 20, nice. So that's a hit.
And then it is a seven. Or damage. Seven for damage. Nice.
And that's on cultist bro. Yeah. He is bloodied. Yeah.
I like coming for that throat. Yeah. So you stab him and it's a pretty serious wound. Like you go for the throat.
Maybe you catch him in the meat of the shoulder. All right. It is now ornela's turn. I have my great axe out and I'm just gonna swing at whoever is nearest me.
There's only one guy near you right now because you guys go before the other one. So it's just this guy that is. I'm gonna try to kill him off. Okay.
Roll the hit for me please. With my great axe. That's a great axe. All right.
Nine. So it's under combat. Yes. Fourteen.
Oh. It's a hit. Nice. Damage.
Yep. Which is a D12. So it's not a D6. So it's your 12 sided dive.
So it does a lot of damage. Or you know. Two. Three.
Five. Five damage. It's enough to kill him. Yeah.
We got him. Describe how you kill. Bro. I'm gonna keep it.
I'm gonna keep it simple. And I just right in the chest. Right in the chest. Like baseball bat style.
Right in the chest. It's still beautiful. If you like that sort of thing and you're watching it. It's still pretty epic and beautiful.
There's nothing wrong with finishing on the chest. It's very true. That is my. Some people need to do it.
That is my. That's your turn. Yeah. So your axe sinks all the way to the shaft of the axe.
So it's like just buried into his sternum. And he slumps over dead this yawning gaping wound in his chest from your. You gave him. You really fucked him up or now.
It is. But now it is. Now. So we've got a whole bunch of NPCs turns before it's you guys again.
That's true. So there are two. So, Kyle and Carl are two cultists that immediately sprint towards the sound. Wait it's a style.
Not Kyle. It's not Kyle with a C because that's dumb. But I would expect better from Kyle. It's Carl and Greg and Kyle.
Okay. So these two brandish their cinnatars and charge into the room where Harbec is. Harbec. How are you?
How are you positioned yourself in the room? So describe there's the tables all on the perimeter and there's one table in the center that you bashed all the potions on. I position behind the table and all the broken glass. Okay.
And I worry I'm already. Okay. So they're going to go around both sides of the table and they're going to try to flank you on both sides. Should I have thought of that?
First one is the 17. Does that hit? Yeah. Okay.
Second one is a. Sorry. No, it's okay. I thought your armor boss was 18.
It is 18. It's 18. Okay. That's good because the other guy rolled the 17 also.
So you're able to. Like. By sheer virtue of being a hardy dwarf. The cinnatars just clang off of shoulder pauldrons and deflected by your war hammer.
Yes. So the two cultists, the friends of the guy you killed. They, one of them brandishes a scimitar. The other guy brandishes a, a mace out from his cloak and they both come charging at you.
That's a spiky ball on a chain. Yeah. That's not even a practical weapon guy. Very, very practical.
Yes. It's spiky ball on a chain. The one with the spiky ball is the, and he looks a bit bigger. No, that's a flail.
A mace is a hard staff. Yeah. Sorry. A mace is like a long shaft with a big flail.
Yeah. Yeah. I always be a flail. Yeah.
Yeah. You're not good yourself. Yes. This is a, what now?
A mace. A mace. So the guy with the mace, Bob, we'll call Bob has the mace. Well, it's got the mace, you guys.
And he looks to be a little bit like a kid. No. We fly. The guy with the mace is going to attack Verna though.
And he's, he's a bit bigger. So he rolls a 16. And my heart is a 14. Okay.
So he hits. Oh. Sorry, Renee. I'm still little.
He does five damage to you. How much health do you have, Verna? I believe that I, when I checked it was at eight. So you're damaged to your hip points?
Yeah, your hip points are your hip points is your health. Yeah. So you have three hip points left? I only got the three.
So you bring your short sword up to block the mace, but it's just too heavy of a weapon. And you're unable to hold your guard. And he catches your, your virile, halfling body in the side and sends you crashing into the wall. And, or no, you see this and you want to react.
But the other guy with the scimitar goes to intervene and he attacks you. And he rolls a 19, which I think is your AC 18. Nice 17. Okay.
So he hits with the scimitar. And he does four damage to you. So I'm down five to health. So you're both like, you both take pretty tough wounds to the, and, uh, carbeck, you're you're fending off these two guys.
They didn't do any damage to you the first time. And then you hear the, uh, a mounting scream as an, as another one comes running into the store room, scimitar raised over his head to try to chop your cute little dwarf head off. Like you head. And he misses all such.
So you were just tanking all of these guys just, just tanking all these guys. Nothing new here. Now is your turn, carbeck. So you got three guys that are engaged on you right now.
Yup. I'm going to, um, I got to try to get out of here. I got to try to run for a burn on vanilla. Okay.
Um, you can do that. You can take what's called the disengage action, which means you don't suffer any penalties trying to get away from them. Okay. And then, um, you can go your whole movement, which I think is 25 or more.
Yeah. It's 30 feet. Really? Okay.
Cool. Um, some shorter races have a penalty to their speed, but so you, you go the whole distance 30 feet. So you are, we'll say you're 20 feet outside the chamber, uh, from the store room that you were in, you're 20 feet outside of it. And it's the diameter of this open area is 50 feet.
So you've got about 30 feet before you would be able to, uh, go and help these guys. Okay. Um, then, um, I want to, uh, I don't know the distance is only spelled. I want to try to heal, burn it with a healing word possibly.
Yeah. Let me, I'll look up healing word. I'm pretty sure though, if costs an action. Oh, and I already did that with the disengage.
Okay. Yes. Uh, and is healing word? Is that a first level spell?
Uh, yes. Or a cantorit. Uh, oh, it's twice a day. Okay.
Okay. So I'm gonna go back and look at the first level spell. Um, and oh, you know what? It only costs a bonus action.
So you can actually do it. Great. I want to try and do that then. So a creature of your choice that you can see within range range is 60 feet.
Okay. Regains hit points equal to 1d4 plus your spellcasting ability modifier. Yeah. And so it's going to be a lot.
It's a 2 plus 5 plus 3. I get extra 3-4 disciple of life. Oh, that's right. Oh.
So that's 10, 2 plus 5-3. Well, it's a d4 plus your spellcasting ability mod. So that's spellcasting or, wait, is that my attack bonus here? Yes.
It would be your spellcasting. So it's a d4 plus another 3, so 10. So it's, well, 8 plus a d4. Right?
This is a d4, yeah. Oh, you rolled it already. I'm sorry. Yeah.
I didn't see that. So, yeah. I'm up to 13 because that's what I already had. Yeah, is that your max hit points?
Is this 13? No, my max is not. I guess that's what that means. Is that 9 then?
Yeah. So you can just go up to 9. Okay. You don't go past your max.
Unless something specifically says. So yeah, Verna, you, like, okay. So what does the spell look like? Uh, so it's healing words.
So like, I'm rushing over there and I'm out of breath. Like, the, the, the wall that you were just taking in the side of the knock-through-sideways. Kind of, the light sparkles around the spots and kind of cleans things up in that area. Nice.
Even further we, the, so the camera pans from Harbeck running out, screaming the spell, saying the spell you, that pans over and looks at you, Verna, like, kind of crumpled up against the wall, trying to stand back up, and we get like this X-ray vision of your ribs. And like one of them was completely broken, and it just works. And snaps back and completely heals your backup. It full health.
So now it is. No. It is me, I am. I feel good.
I'm feeling good. I didn't put my short sword away and bring my bow out so that I can just start hitting it people I don't know who the closest one is to people. Okay, so the thing about bringing your bow out so you are currently engaged with an enemy right now So you're fighting me. Yeah, he's still at me.
Yeah, he's still at you. Okay. Well, then I will keep my short sword out Yeah, because you do that and you use a ranged weapon in melee you take a penalty for no I thought I was just by myself on the ground. No, I apologize.
I was just hit Oh, yeah, I couldn't tell what was happening for him either. I'll tell you what I'll do I've got my sword out. I'm gonna go for the throat again. And I'll let that guy like it.
Yeah, do it. Okay 18.5. That is a hit. So roll your damage and then are you attacking the scimitar guy that's fighting Ornella?
Or are you fighting the mace guy that's just watching you? Okay, nice. Okay, and I only have a dive on the damage. So five damage.
All right He is not bloody yet. He's hangin tough, but you do you get a palpable hit on him palpable. Palatable strike. Now it is Ornella's turn So I'm Fighting some bitch.
Yeah, you're fighting the scimitar guy. I'm gonna be a bitch. Definitely a bitch. Definitely And I'm just gonna swing at him.
Okay. Yeah, do your thing. Yeah, I'm just gonna swing swing 15 Good at hitting stuff with your axe. That's a hit.
So now roll damage and with the great access of the six or D12. Oh, it's That's this one. It's this one kind of looks like a little smaller Three plus three six six So he is bloody so this is Bob that you attacked nice He and he's actually on death's door. So one more good hit and he should probably yeah Now it is Carl and Seil's turn.
They turn and give chase to you RBEC And they're able to make they're able to go 30 feet in a turn and then they can attack you So right I'll take it okay a nine which doesn't hit and 17 that does not No, they're just like chasing after you and you're just So weak with armor who's who worship the wrong gods. This is what you get okay So now it's Bob and Bob Bob Takes the short sword to the gut and let's have a little roar at you verna I can see like his eyes are just black pits. There's there's no humanity there. He's he is an animal at this point I mean he rolls a 19 so he hits You take seven damage I can tell you're gonna be Yeah, I think he's just over and over and over and you're doing everything you can to try to parry and stop the The beating that you're taking but he's just too strong and then Bob suffers a serious wound from Ornella and goes to make a Strike on her doesn't hit her So now it's hard to catch what about the Craig oh Craig.
I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry Craig I'm just great He's gonna spend his whole move plus his action to move towards you So we're not going to attack but he's going to get towards you. So next turn he can get there Okay, verna it is your turn top of the turn or no it's my turn. Oh, I'm sorry.
Yes. Sorry. Give it up for Craig Make sure Craig has a turn. Yeah, so you still have those three cultists around you but the only two that are attacking you are Silent Carl right and they just clanged off your armor with their hits.
Yeah, okay It's gonna be tough. I want to as a I'm going to run over to Bob and Bob My I'm actually gonna get to if I can Just close to I'm gonna like put myself between them in the door and Yeah, I said that they were 30 feet away. So you can do that in turn. Okay, and then I'm I want to throw with bonus action.
Can I throw burn of the keys? Yeah, I'm gonna throw you the keys and I'm going to light up the guy with the maze. Okay pass the sacred plane. Okay, so I'm more dwarven I whisper some shit and same as what happened to This is this light just like it's just bursting the flames.
Yeah, it's a beautiful green light fills the sanctum I need a roll of dex save and he is not particularly dexterous. He fails. So do your damage first six and five's 11 nice So Bob is on death's door Good about damage. So and that's your turn Harback.
Yeah now are the top now it's burning and I'm finishing him off I'm not even doing the throat this time. I'm gonna try and get him between the eyes Oh Target between the eyes. Yeah, it's only it's only a nine. So I do miss the eyes.
Okay, I fly some a little I think like burst into flames He's trying to like pat off this this holy fire that he's covered in and maybe in his like panics like oh fire He's just too hard. He's just really evasive. Yeah. Yeah fire makes you more evasive.
It does. It's true back. That's firefighter Or no, your turn. Um, I Want to Attack the one who's attacking?
So the main sky Bob, okay, yeah, you can do that everyone's like in engaged combat now So you can kind of and they can also do the same they can hit whoever they want. Yeah, go ahead and roll You got this Yeah Unless you roll a one I mean I even think with a one you might kill somebody to fill him full stack full stack 12 plus five So 17 damage. Yeah, so you straight up eviscerate this guy. Can you describe how you kill him?
Haha things back adjuster glasses Chop his arm off. Yeah, chop his other arm off Chop him off at the knees And then again We're gonna put the middle crotch to brain classic move. Oh crotch to brain maneuver. Yeah, awesome.
So he is toast You got you for an action Okay, so they pass so it is Carl's turn now wait who just got obliterated Bob the guy that was on fire with the mace He was wrecking shit specifically That shit Verna no so Carl Carl who was attacking harvac chasing me yeah He runs over to the to the just whirling melee that this part of the room has become this like swords and maces and axes He great acts really good. I think this is He sees Verna is most hurt so he is going to try to attack her coward He rolls a seven Even with his modifier Siles turn Siles got tunnel vision. He's going after this door if he's pissed. He has a heavy He crits an a roll to confirm.
I don't confirm, but it is a it'd be like 22. So yeah damage Yeah, that's the higher than my arm you take four damage. Okay, okay Next up is Bub the simitar guy fighting or Nella. He's gonna take another swing at a vanilla 17 hit Yeah, it meets yeah meets the beats so oh shit you take eight damage So what happens when you go do you go to zero or below zero below zero?
Okay, so when you go to below zero eight damage Yeah, I rolled a six plus it's two first. Yeah, I only had five So what happens when you go to the blue when you go to zero you just go unconscious when you go below zero you start bleeding out Additionally if I make attacks to you while you're down. I Once you're down you die when you go to Negative of your Constitution score. So your Constitution scores 15 you have to go to negative 15 in order to outright die.
Okay at this point You're just bleeding out. So I think what we see is maybe he's inspired by like you dissecting his friend and his fellow cultist and brings a overhanded to handed strike against you with a simitar and he catches you right between the pauldron and your Chainmail and There's a lot of blood and you you collapse and fall down and go unconscious So every turn on every time it's your turn you're gonna roll a save versus death If you fail three of those roles you die if you roll a 20 you stand right up with one hit point So but we got some time don't don't worry about it. We'll uh, we're not totally dead Then we'll see don't worry about it. This is what's so fun about the game So that was blub's turn so now it's Craig's turn No No, okay.
Yeah, it is Craig's turn. Yeah, Craig is going to yeah. He doesn't hit hard back. It is your turn.
All right shit Oh Situation here. Yep, so you just say we're now it take a mean shot to the shoulder and she's lying on the ground bleeding heavily This is a real pickle. I met pretty low health myself So are they like they're all like almost all of them have taken damage and like these guys don't have a ton of health So one more will probably kill them. Yeah, I just don't have anything that can do anything in an area or like a Bonus action to attack twice or anything like that.
Yeah Yeah, don't you have um, what is it? Don't you have some magic move? I yeah, don't you know I got into earn something can you use that huh? What the fuck inspiration?
Yeah, so you can give advantage to any role that you make right? Yeah, I don't know what help you now, but I want you can also with inspiration I let at the tables I play out you can give someone your inspiration down And if you're something that you can think about is you don't have a really good strong move here You may want to just pass your inspiration over to or Nella So when she's rolling her save versus death if she rolls something bad she has inspiration to not die So could I cure wounds or healing word or Nella out of that situation or should I make a constitution check? So yeah, so if someone is down and you heal them with magical healing you won't bring them back up to like consciousness But you will stop them from bleeding but also I'm interested how many and we may need to cover this at a later date Sure, I know cure wounds is a first level spell. Yeah, and so is a healing word so Two of those a day.
Okay, so you've used them one. Oh, you just one. Okay, so you have one more first level spell you use Yeah, and that's what I'm thinking is I could decide who to heal here So if you heal or Nella she goes to zero, but she doesn't bleed out. She doesn't need a role to die Okay, she just is unconscious right wasn't something I did a bonus action that Is that spell of bonus action?
Yeah, I think it was healing word was a bonus action right so I went with my action I want to attack and then use my bonus action to do a healing word perfect Yeah, you can do that. So I'm going to cast my cancer if sacred flame on Bob, yeah, okay I'll roll decks to see if he's guys suck at that. So yeah, he fails his deck safe So he'll take the full brunt of your sacred flame Yeah, oh fuck yeah, so he you want to describe how he dies. Yeah, so the pretty spectacular stadium was already kind of messed up Yeah, but then I speak my words again in the light just immediately like dry kindling Just like a plume of flame that closes out around him And he just like just like instantly like drops into a smaller pile.
It's beautiful Yeah, it's a kind of a everyone catches everyone's eye You can the shot the camera shot is the green reflection off of their cornea. Yeah, yeah There's like a lens flare and I just like a shape of the flame falling. Oh, that's awesome Very cool. And then with my my bonus action.
I'm gonna cast a healing word on or Nella. Okay, so just make your role Well, actually I think with your bonuses. It doesn't matter the only so if you were to roll and what are you at negative three? I believe I'm at negative eight.
No negative five negative five So if you were to have less than what she is negative It wouldn't heal her all the way, but if you get above like if you would take her like two for example She would just go to zero and stabilize you see what I'm saying. I think so So you just make your role to heal her for healing word healing word is a d4 plus your spell cast ability, right? But because you are the light domain you get an additional Yeah, so I got a two on the roll and then plus five and then plus three for life domain So that's ten nice. So you you were at zero You were in so we see like this healing aura come over or Nella and the wounds like sort of closes It doesn't close all the way because she's still pretty fucked up But the gushing of blood stops is the arteries man and the veins reconnect and then with a free action.
Can I yell? Yes, yeah, you can always yell and talk during combat. So I do those two things and I yell at burn out like get the door Get the door through you the keys burn out do what you want to do. Yeah, you do whatever you want to do But I'm gonna pressure you that's my character.
I feel like I've got the keys But I've got a fight if you want I'll let you roll a slight of hand roll as a bonus action to see if you can Take a stab. So here's what'll happen I'll let you make an attack action and open the door if you want however if you attack it's going to be a disadvantage And in order to unlock the door you need a successful slide of hand check does that make sense? I'm gonna with that with that free action yell in at her I'm gonna give her my inspiration. Okay to help with one of those roles.
Okay, so you get to roll an extra d20 for one of these roles Okay, so what you might doing first? That is I'm going to unlock the door with my sleight of hand And I want to attack and it's gonna be file because I just keep it's me off. Yeah. Yeah, okay first I'm gonna attack style.
Okay, okay, so I have 17 and five nice. That's a hit and my damage is Nice. Oh, oh, we should be dead. Yeah You want you want shot?
I just I see him and I'm so mad from what's been happening in my friends or her I just stay out repeatedly at fast as I can If you want to be a fast lead really really really fast 20 times He's probably already dead I keep going a few more times just to make sure because I am mad So then I'm going to pull in his corpse back and forth drawing the blade in and out Think of falling out So now I am going to go and unlock the door the side door, okay, so this is with my sleight of hand Yep, and I got 16 nice, so you were successful, so like you're able to do this cool But also I am really good at unlocking doors perfect I don't remember when I just barely touched that other door and it opens I Lost over half their numbers so I'm gonna roll morale for them and see if they break and Carl does not break Greg does not break either Carl is going to attack you Yeah, I mean, Verna break it Oh God rolls it to and then Craig I think Craig's been after hard back all time I'm gonna keep on hard back here, and he rolls a 10 so neither of them hits hard back. It's your turn all right. I'm gonna Can't trick my way out of this. I'm a light up Carl.
Okay. Yeah, okay. Dex say it's a good frame 14 does that beat your spell safety see I don't think so no, I'll check though and It is 13, okay, so he does beat it yeah, so does that mean no damage is done or is half damage here? I have it here sorry Target must succeed on the text there you say throw Target gains no benefit from cover for the saving throw so it looks like no damage is done if he's able to save All right, so this like pillar of flame comes up and he's able to tuck and roll out of the way as the flame just Emulates the space where he was standing.
Nice. You're turn you got the door unlocked and you stab the shit out of this guy Yeah, I'm a full adrenaline right now, so I'm gonna go after Craig because I'm pissed and he's going after her back Yeah, oh But no My inspiration yeah, and you do have the inspiration still so so here's If you roll to confirm then I'm not gonna let you you can't use the inspiration if you use the inspiration I'll let you roll again. What what do the inspiration entail? It lets you roll another d20.
It's basically giving you advantage so you can hold the d20 again And you can take that number instead of the one okay, I'm doing the inspiration now And so it's an eight okay, so not a critical fail, but not a success either now. Oh for my oh, that's right eight plus five Oh my I forget that you have a really really high mod yeah, so I think that's a hit I'm pretty sure that doesn't have leather on her yeah I'm gonna see what my my tears damage is anything I'm like that's right. You're a kid I'm not doing I just like the crosses through one and then slice the grass and through twice and stab right in the chest And that was that was harder Craig that was Craig because he's going after her back and it pissed me Awesome. Awesome Join with my friend.
It's okay, baby. You're unconscious. You missed burn off so much. They would do this to you Not my friends.
That was my first turn. I'm gonna roll a morale again, and it's a very difficult check So he'll have to be very successful in order to and he rolls a seven so he fails So he immediately like he sees you just And he drops his his scimitar and like puts his hands up and goes to his knees and says please please don't hurt me I surrender I surrender all right, so initiative is now over and you guys can take actions as you wish all right I don't think I'm good at decision making right now because of the adrenaline harvak his his sonella all right She's still out. I don't think I have anything to wake her I think we've got to get or no out and we've got to get Vessipiss out so I think we might just think we got to just kill this guy I think it's not even something I want to do To do when in doubt I kill I Grab my holy symbol out of my pouch and I hold it in my hands and I reflect on the battle and I go into my inner space for a moment So do we just stand here for this? It's coral.
I think we just wait Oh, uh, if you let me go I can I can heal your friend if you look promise to let me go I can heal your friend and I wake up to that I say heal her now We can't trust that what he's gonna do with even a heel heal her now I On my if you let me go. I will I will heal your friend. I swear it by the god. I take my witch god I take my handaxe and lay it out his neck, okay So he's gonna make a medicine check like he reaches into his pocket and he pulls out some herbs that you know to be like medicinal herbs I don't know what they are, but they're the medicine kind they're the medicine kind it's not weird Maybe some He rolls a 17 so he's able to bring you to one HP, which makes you conscious What happened a bunch of shit we need to get out of here.
Okay, you're coming with us 50 feet of rope, so yeah, I'm happy everybody knows when you said if I healed your friend you let me go We will let you go not this second You should appreciate a good lie you you healed me He just nods his head. Did he heal me? Yes. Yes.
Let him go. We need this man for information. I think you should let him go I think I just killed a bunch of people. I think it'd be best if I kept him just until we're out of the sewer Carl look upon the face of the woman you've healed.
Yeah, you see the work that you've done. Yes. How do you feel Carl? Afraid why Confused I don't know what I was doing.
Ah Give me your hand And you just like reaches out his hands. I'm all them. Just get my sword up on you at all time Listen Everything that you believe is a lie. I think I see that now you need to leave this area I will I promise I'll be gone.
You'll never see me again before you do that Carl take the potions and Pulsuses and various such items you took from the shop and returned them from where you took them Yes, if you let me go whatever you want. I'll do whatever you want You will come you will come with us you will return to the city and return the things you stole And then you were free to go just please don't I don't just let me go I don't want to be don't turn me in just let I'll help you. I'll bring the stuff with you Just please don't tell them that I was a part of this. Just let me go.
Just please let me go We do still have vesipus. That's what it means. That's what it's vesipus. That's what it is.
That's what it is. That's what it is I think I put a tee in there somewhere. Well, I think that this is a fair deal. I make an insight check to this guy's character Yeah, to see if he's lying.
Yeah, that's a good. That's a good idea It's a 22. Um you can see that he's there's no indication of Sutter future he looks absolutely terrified and like he has been to your will they feel like he's still under the effects of the God or the drug. Um, I think you're all 22, right?
Yeah, I think with that role you can see like the other cultists Their eyes were just black pits. There were no there was no color in their eyes at all They had like this they stared almost through you he looks to be afraid and very much aware of what has happened Carl there is a place a group of people who take people with abilities such as yourself magic users They could use your skills, but you must repent. I'll whatever it takes take me to the take me to the high church And I will repent know this if you try to run the guild is everywhere. They will find you.
No, no running No, I if you promise not to turn me and I'll do whatever you want It'll be hard to not turn you in Carl. You are wearing black robes Listen, I have a change of clothes. I'll let me change and I'll gather the supplies and I'll meet you I'll meet you on the way out of here. You do that So he like pushes himself up you can see like his arm is semi broken and he kind of like hobbles off to one of the side rooms I still want to tie this guy up.
We have to bring someone back. He's alive if we tie him up not Carl I'm talking best I've tied him up. You've tried him up. Yeah.
All right. He was tied up a while ago Well, I wasn't paying attention. I just killed a bunch of people. It's all right We're all you know tired and but it's been a long day.
Let's just get out of these fucking sewers Wait, does Carl know that way out? He probably does Hey Carl. So you heard what's that got? I'm in decent.
He comes like a few moments later He comes out and he's just got like basic trousers some boots and just a white a white shirt He's just buttoning up the top buttons on his shirt And he like he looks totally out of it days and confused Yeah, yes And here and he takes a pack from behind himself and sets it on the ground lifts the pack open and you can see There's a small amount of potions and pulses that are inside the pack. All right good. You carry that out and is there a faster way There's a there's a secret passage in the entrance that you over here We can take that up to the street level you first okay, just follow me he like has the pack on his back I'm gonna just make sure I'm behind him and I do stop my sorry out because I can still pump down a drill Oh for sure like Verna you I wouldn't be surprised if your character like had some issues come up later Yeah, it's a different sign of Verna we've seen I don't like that side of myself So I think we can kind of like montage some of this we see a montage of you all going through There's this passageway through one of the doors that you guys didn't go in in this main chamber here He takes you through the door There's a ladder that runs straight up and you can see at the top is like a bunch of wood like they almost look like cellar doors So and we see the montage of you guys climbing up the cellar doors He like moves a lock bar and pushes them open and climbs out to the surface and he leans over and actually helps each of you out And helps with vesives carrying him out as well you guys get to the surface and he Where would you guys turn people like is there a guild HQ kind of giving you guys free reign to do this part Yeah, and Tim and I have this conversation that the guild is like this is a very bureaucratic organization like almost like Yeah, they definitely have an office the fantasy DMV But instead of like you know licenses for driving it's you know work to catch cultists and goblins and shit so There's probably a office in most towns Possibly just me and by one guy at times, but still an office. I'm picturing a very like Andy Griffith like Yeah, like this teller and like a half wall and in the office.
Yes. Yeah, one dude Yeah, totally so I think we see all that like we come up to and the the scene sort of restarts as we're we're standing outside the the regions of the post is what it's called the they're the ones in charge of the guild that does the things you do and the Cultists Carl turns to you and he says my my free go now Carl would you understand to be free is limited you are free to go in that you will continue to come with us Well, we you will be free car more than you could ever imagine Right they did not talk to me about this. I got myself ready to let you go Well, we and I think at this moment there there's probably like a I imagine there's like a city guard just a couple of guards That are just patrolling the streets here and they see like the shape of you guys and the guy tied up and one of the guards purchases No, it's going on here turning in a work order Do you need anything from the city guard? This man needs training and point to the cultists.
Mm-hmm prisoner of yours Not today And they asked for specific like because they're not just gonna like yeah, this guy's bad What do you say to them for him for them to take this young man shows incredible prowess in the magical arts? He healed our friend down on the sewers during our adventure and would do well with more training He was he was led astray. I love a cult member and by cults a little structure would do this man wonder They I think they take like give them the ones over and then they look at you guys and the two guards not in agreement And they kind of roughly grab this guy by the arms and says come with us But you and he they just kind of disappear into the crowd and I while they're doing I grab the backpack off his yeah He had said it down. Oh, sorry.
I grabbed it there So now you're standing in front of the field officers a guy tied up. I imagine you're probably holding the scroll of Yeah, yeah Great so yeah, I think We don't really need a 15 gold if you please Bertrand. Yeah, I think we see like a montage of okay present the prisoner the guy from the desk with the spectacle stands up investigates him and he signs the writ of The job writ and pays you out 15 gold coins with the face I'm definitely getting more like five gold a person is still pretty good Yeah, the day's wage is probably like one or two gold tops I mean I've got a lot of people for five people hey We all did a lot out there for now. There's no reason to fight over the wages.
We'll divide by three like all of us All right, and I think we the scene the episode sort of this how does the episode end you guys you do the final scene for us A little bit more about them explaining the background of this want to know why it happened. Okay, what do you guys think? Why what we just went through how do you want to explain it after we just went through it? Yeah, well, I think there's any more to the mystery well, I guess what I'm looking for is what how does the scene?
You guys describe like because this is the end of the episode right so describe where do you guys go? What would be a good? Cinematic like end of the back to the peppercut yeah, I'm holding on to we're now like we're both still pretty weak right now And we're just going for a drink. I think we just need that for our nerves We shuffle out of the field office back down to the peppercock tavern.
I got a big pint Yeah, we grab the same spots we started with the beginning of this and I think it does a slow fade out on you three like bandaged and wounded sitting at this table silently drinking ale We end with that fake to black Thank you to all of my players for playing and being such fun people I want to thank very specifically Verna or Nella and hardback for being really awesome characters to play with I you're welcome I'm so impressed by how fun the the group dynamic was it's just like I'm really excited to see where the party goes So really dynamic group of people but I want to give a chance for my players to shout out projects that they're working on So why don't we start with the dwarf sure? What are you doing Tim? Well for every month with shout out and a third Saturday of the month at the basement bar in the Des Moines Social Club we've got a show coming up probably before this comes out. It's the 16th and the next month.
It's a different day So a different third Saturday of the month You can catch me at that catch me at some drunk book club or the twist or many of the other shows that happen here at Moyne The next big thing for us for me and I know charity is also part of this is June 30th mixed up comedy It's gonna be improv sketch and stand up. It's at Java Joe's downtown Des Moines. It's gonna be really good I've written a sketch. It's my first ever so you have to come and support me awesome.
Yeah I'm looking up a day for thing Alright, yeah, well Aaron said we've got mixed up comedy on June 30th here in Des Moines at Java Joe's downtown And then in July on July 27th. I will be doing stand up for Planned Parenthood at a charity function nice Stand with a plan to get everybody listening to the podcast for Planned Parenthood So my name is Paul privateer. I'm a cast member of Chowdown like what Tim said We perform every third Saturday of the month at the basement bar at the lovely Des Moines Social Club I also occasionally get to perform with the very talented individuals of the twist and drunk book club Super fun amazing shows really everyone doing Des Moines improv right now is amazing and fun So I encourage you to go to Facebook and search at the top left of the screen search improv and go to the first thing that's there So yeah, that's everything that we have for today. Thanks everyone for listening and have a good day