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Jul 1, 2019 57 min

Episode 13 | Part (3/4)

from Des Moines and Dragons Hosted by Paul Privitera

The ancient City of Quitir is on fire. Ornella and Orzok, at the request of the newly formed alliance have come to rescue ans many people as possible. This proves difficult when an old foe of Orzok's show up. Luckily Harbeck Thunderfist and the mighty apex predator named Azakir are there to help. Stay tuned to the end- a very special NPC shows up for a reunion of sorts.

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Okay, you're gonna have to all be quiet again. You can't say where it's at. I'll shut up. Okay.

This is a couple of... Sorry, that'll... It's so hard for us. Okay.

So we're back. Part three. Electric Boogaloo. I'm ready.

Right. So to nip it in the bud. I get to the... I walk out to the edge of the...

whatever that is. The balcony. We'll call it the Overlook. Yeah, the railing on the Overlook.

And I stand there and I'm just kind of seething and looking at him. And I'm waiting because I heard him tell him to fire and I'm waiting for these bolts to fly. Because I know how long they take to reload. Ah!

So... You're gonna be judging the distance. Time to get out. And then...

It's hard back in Ronella. Kind of on the... They may not be right next to me, but are they on the... I'm on the railing.

I should have fucking healed when I had a chance. That's fine. You rolled the railing the whole time. Yep.

As we're standing there. I'm with you. And I just say, if I die tonight, I die proud. I love you both.

If you live, you'll still be proud. I'll be a god. You see, and I'm like, you see, like, I'm like... Yes, it's like, it's getting weird.

Yeah, there's like no insethere. The air around you is darker now. Right. We can smell it on you.

Right, this is like... This hunger. Like a wolf. Sort of.

I will. So we see the... In slow motion, we get a close up on the crossbows and further close up on the actual fingers on the levers of the railbows. And they're depressed.

And these coiled metal string release. And these thick... I mean, god, they look like railroad spikes. Less than actual crossbow bolts or arrows.

Slowly corkscrew inside of the housing, getting this wicked spin, shooting actually sparks as they rotate and rifle through the crossbow. And we catch a side shot profile of you guys up on the roof and these bolts heading towards you. And we see Ornella turn to Orzak. And Orzak's demeanor has completely changed.

We actually see the... Like his muscles twitch and... More veins. You think you see something move under his skin.

Ornella, you find yourself sitting in the dungeon of the Sambridge family estate. Yep. Orzak... Well, it wouldn't be the family's dungeon.

It's the queen's dungeon. But near where you are. You hear footsteps come down the stairs. You're covered in like burnt, like ash.

Your hair's a mess. You've got a bloody nose and you've got a bruise on your head. And you hear the jail door open. And you hear your father say...

I'll speak to her. Leave us be. And you hear the door slam. And then you hear the plotting footsteps of your father walk down.

And you hear him as he approaches. And then he comes into view in front of your cell. And he's got his hands folded behind his back. And he leans up against the wall that's opposite your jail cell.

And just looks up. There's a small window way up high and looks up to the sunlight coming in. I've got like a piece of my hair in my fingers and I'm just twisting it. Kind of like shaking my leg a little bit.

Really relaxed for a young girl being in a dungeon. You're a full crop, Ornela. I hope so. You hope so?

Do you understand the damage that you've done? Oh yeah, that was the point, Father. Ornela, you leave no end of frustration in my life. The Shavela family, their crop, it's one of the most important crop that the Queen imports.

It's so important. Do you know why it's important? Do you know why? So they can charge the...

So they can feed people, Ornela. So they can feed people. They're bad people. Everyone is.

That's objectively not true. Oh, come on. Well, what did you call this? You burned everything.

It's all gone. The Queen has to... You... Sit there and laugh.

Nobleborn like yourself in this jail cell tossed around by a guard. You've got a bloody nose. Good for you. There's going to be people that are starving because of what you did.

I know they're already starving. But at least they had a chance to get food. But now there's nothing. There's nothing.

It's going to take weeks before that amount of food supply is going to be important into the city. Well, I hope this taught them a lesson. It taught me a lesson. Father.

Listen, I have done everything I could for you. Uh-huh. Have you. I absolutely have.

I pay for your trainer, I pay for your education, I pay for you to go out on these errands. Now our family's going to have to pay for all of this that you've wrought us. Don't you know how many thousands of coins this is going to cost to be replaced? The queen is going to hold me accountable.

Not you. Me. Then tell her it was my fault. Tell her that I didn't want- I'm not going to let blame fall to my child, Ornela.

As much as it pains me to say, you are my responsibility. They are bad people. And like I said, bad everyone's got a little bit of bad in them. The Chevala family, yeah, they're not...

They upsell to the lowborn. They make sure that only enough grain comes into the city so that it doesn't depreciate the market demand for it. You're right. You're 100% right.

But while being 100% right, you're also wrong in doing this. People are going to starve because of this. Our family, this has cost us so much. I've finally been able to secure- I'm sorry.

I know. I want this to be my fault. You don't have to take care of me. You act like everything I do has to fall on your shoulders.

I want to take responsibility for myself. I want to help people. And if that means burning an entire plot of land, I'm sorry, but at the time it was a genius plan. No doubt.

It's not like we can't- I have to pull your brother out of school. I can't afford the academy anymore. He's going to be thrilled. Well, at least he's got a lot more going for him, you know?

I just want you to know that your decisions, they cost. Every decision you make costs in some way. And this one has cost me, so... Can we just go, please?

We're done here. And you hear the loud jail door open, and a teal guard soldier walks down the steps. It takes out a whole bunch of keys, slides them into the keyhole, turns the heavy tumbler in the lock, and pulls the squeaky door open. And bows his head to Aldridge.

Come on, Renella. Let's go home. I don't want to marry him. I thought if I did something- Well, the good news is you're not going to have to anymore.

What's that supposed to mean? Well, they know that you burned all the crops, and I don't think the Chevalas are very enthused about their son marrying an arsonist. I like that. Don't- you have to say it out loud.

He walks into the cell and extends a hand to pick you up off the ground. I stand up on my own. He smiles at you. As much pain and suffering and financial damage as you rot me, daughter.

I love how much you remind me of your mother. Let's go. He flanks around to your back and takes his arm and puts it around your shoulders and cradles you a little bit and walks you out of the jail cell. You come too.

All of these bolts are flying at you guys. I'm going to say, well, miss, miss, miss, hit, hit, hit, hit. Three hits. Two of them hit, as a cure.

Two bolts nail the B side and it screeches in pain and the remaining bolt hits one, two, three, and then four hits. One hits you, or Nella. You come out of your days and a bolt sticks you right in the shoulder. You take ten damage.

Now, let's roll initiative. How much damage did I take? It took 20 damage. Great.

Wait, wait. That couldn't have been more perfect. Just hold on to those numbers really quick. I don't care yet.

I'll roll the Takari's initiative. You're just going to keep track of what order and then you'll say, hey, you do it. Yeah, I'll keep track of it. That's how we'll do that.

I'm just going to get a little bit. So Paul, maybe I don't know if this is something you could do, but after this episode is live, you might want to just give somebody a little bit of a ten-minute sound bite about how you run a combat like this and how you decide to do what you do because you might be useful to the listeners. Yeah. Maybe there's some DMs that don't really understand how to do these larger scale combat and make them also entertaining and stuff.

So just a thought. Yeah, no, that's a great idea. I actually have been thinking about doing more instead of world building Wednesdays doing some DM stuff. Yeah.

People can hop in and chat and I'll go through a rule set of a game and explain what it does. Yeah, I like that idea a lot actually. So these Dictards are going to spend all day reloading. Needless to say on my initiative for these soldiers backing up the big bad, they're not rolling super hard.

Oh, and I need Gregorri's in-ish. That's big bad. Yep. Yup.

Roll's a nine or sixty-nine. Gregorri, you're heading this field. That's like a thing, right? Like when you design a campaign to have a big bad.

Yeah. I'll often see it abbreviated. Yeah, I've seen that in the forum. Big bad evil guy.

Yup. Or Zuck, what's your initiative? Well, I rolled a critical. I mean, you're going to go for it.

No one else. So allow me some little bit of creative license with how it starts, but just assume when I finally get into it. I'll just say your initiative is 30. Okay.

Or Nella, what's your initiative? Or. Well, you were daydreaming like nightdreaming. You were nightdreaming.

Thinking of those night moves. Hardback. I rolled a nine for myself and I also rolled for Azakir. That's 14.

Okay. Thank you. You guys ever just want to put your dice in your mouth? Oh, mouth?

Okay. Yeah. So before we get going. That's really good.

I have this strange. I have this strange conduction when I lived in Texas that I wanted to drink gasoline a lot. Weird. We had this.

We had our own gas tank on our ranch and I would fill up motorcycles and cars and stuff and it was always very cold there. And I would just look at it. I'm like, I just looked so good. Looked like the most delicious water ever.

It really fucking up. I'm sure it would. Dude, when I was little, I like the. Oh, the smell of gasoline.

Oh, yeah. Right. But like the little half marble things that you'd put in like the bottom of like fish tanks or like I wanted to eat those. Yeah.

So bad. Like I would like scoop them up and like put them in my mouth and I would have to be like, you idiot child. What the fuck? Don't.

Every time until I was like 14. Right. Right. They didn't dream to wear like I'm chewing on pencils and can like feel the wood and like stuff and like I used to destroy.

I used to destroy. Fun time with that. Yeah. He loves drawing.

That would for us. He loves wood and it's. All right. Sorry.

I'm still doing this. I'm still doing the initiative order down. So what? In case you forgot, I rolled a four.

I'm not to you yet. I don't care yet. Wow. Guys, talk about some filler while I write this down.

So filler, hey, Gary con. Right. What is that? It's in November.

Is that right? No, it's in February. Oh, it's March. It's in March.

Really? That's when we went this year. Yeah, we took it not that long ago. It was so fun.

I wanted to do the whole time this next year. Yeah, me too. Me too. Me too.

Me too. And I want to play. I actually want us to host a game. It's so pretty sweet.

I think that I didn't see anything there that was specifically for focus on improv with top role playing games. There definitely was not. And that's a huge skill for this. It's easy to work it out.

That'd be sweet. If we start marketing things that way, maybe get some people to come to the show. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be game.

Well, in the show thing, I think would be... You're so cute. I think it would be kind of crazy idea. But maybe we think that's everything.

Either we don't do the show or we spend more time building up our table rep. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think we'd like to have it where we take two players and there's the us three and Paul's running and we just...

Yeah. We don't even number crunch. It was like, here's what we're going to do. And we just like invite him into making storytelling rather than...

Yeah. You know, brutal blades was awesome because he was great storyteller. The system was very light. It was a...

It got out of the way of the player where the other... One of the other games we did was like everything was just... I mean, that was literally Pathfinder. So you literally read a reading from a book.

Right. And it was level 16 Pathfinder. So when you're listening to this played Pathfinder, we played Pathfinder at level 16 No Knowledge of Characters or anything. Yeah.

It took a long time. I had more abilities than I've ever had in life. I've never played Pathfinder ever before in my life. I don't know.

Yeah, that's pretty hysterical that the first one you play is a extremely high level God tier character. Yeah. It was really... Anyway, all right, let's get down to business to defeat the Huns.

It's good, dirty. Orzak, you go first. So, I'm rattling everybody. So I'm...

And this is why I'm trying to say just hold on to the fact that I'm going to go first at some point. But so I said the bolts fly past me and I'm just staring at him and I'm getting almost like a tunnel vision and I'm seeing his face and I'm recalling when he... He didn't even do it himself. He wasn't even brave enough to do it.

He had a man do it. He called for the... You know, bring the axe down and the axe falls and my father's head rolls off. And I'm still seeing that smug fucking look on his face and he's got it right now.

He's never really faced a challenge. And I'm just sitting there and I'm seething and I'm seething. And there is a level of rage that's building in me that I've never felt before and go to whoever's next. So next up is Wolfen 3.

The Wolfen speed is 50 feet. Each square is... Is it a creature? Yes.

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 30, 40, 40, 40, 40, 50. Oh no. Wait, so how much is each of those squares on the screen? Five feet.

Five feet. Five foot squares. Awesome. So he just turned it off in 5s too.

It is... Asakir's turn. Oh shit. So yeah, Asakir was just struck with the bolts and I hop off Asakir and I tell him fly, go up.

And then he goes straight up, launch and is going to move around and circle around the right flank of this team and get behind them. Stayed left or stayed right? Yeah, the real thing. So Paul is north and heading eastward in their left flank.

It's not literally there, it's just to help. Sure. And he is going to dive bomb. He's going to target one of the soldiers.

Tim, do you want to roll the dice? Yeah. No, no, that's an 11 to hit. No, it does not hit.

So fuck. So, but these guys have been watching him all day, right? Like they've been, well not all day, but they've been tracking Asakir. It's how they found you.

Right. And he's waiting, waiting, waiting for the last second and then tucking rolls out of the way as the Asakir slams into the ground throwing mud and just the goop soup of the ground. Goop soup. Goop soup.

And he has multi-attack so he can make three attacks. He can make one attack with its horn. Oh, he does have multi-attack. Yep, multi-attack.

So he gets to make two claw attacks now. Great. So, what's the next one, dude? Yes.

That's 22 to hit. So that's a hit on number three. And 20 to hit. Okay, they both hit.

So now roll damage, which for Asakir's claw attack is 2d6 plus six and then an additional d4 fire damage on each attack. What fire damage come from? It's just like, it's not literally fire damage. It just had to write something that added extra.

Oh, okay. So the first one's first hit damage for 10. Jesus Christ. Cool.

Oh, plus a d4 fire damage on that. So find a d4. I got it. So another four.

So it was 14 damage to the first target. 14 you said? Yeah. And then 13 plus 15 damage to the second target.

When they're fieholes. Yeah. So the second target will say is... Right next target.

Number two. Yeah. He lands and misses the guy and now he's pissed. Asakir lets out a screech and then just one, two, left right hits both targets next to him.

Yeah. Cool. That was the weirdest noise. Peerjoy.

Morazak, what does your Takari do? It's actually like watching me. Like is it concerned? Not really.

What? Actually, oh. So, so Orzak is standing there and is he staring at this at this individual. He's kind of like as he moves, you see the Takari is lined up behind him and it's like literally doing the same moves and it's like getting, it's, it's almost like a mirror image.

Yeah, like they're locked in their minds. Right. It's a smashing movement like you samurai facing off. And it's like, you know, if it were kind of catlike, but the little things on its back are like kind of rippling and spineing.

Everything's getting more aggressive, the stance and stuff. But it's like, and if anybody were standing next to it, which they're not, but its eyes are kind of like rolled back in its head. It's like shark mode. Yeah.

So it's not ready to move yet. Okay. All right. What did you just do, Paul?

I turned an hourglass that says seven minutes over for reasons that will be explained in about seven minutes. One of the soldiers turn as a bonus action, he's going to reload. These crossbows, the rail well, these rail bows are loaded like a magazine. So all he does is pulls this lever across the body of the railbow and slams another bolt into the slot, takes a step back, aims at the azakir, who is now like ground pounding these dudes and is going to shoot.

Okay. So 16 plus plus four 20, I think that beats it. Yes. Okay.

Yeah. Because he is attacking the front and azakir is different AC from the front and then to the side. Oh, that's what the parentheses is. Okay.

So that hits. Okay. So he takes seven damage. Okay.

That's weird. He's very distinct, but yet quite. And I thought you were putting a dice in your mouth and you're like, Oh, what's the game? It's a gummy bear in the bow.

I'm a mouth. You got it. Shout out to. Oh, yeah.

Oh, we're ripping and we're ripping and tearing. We're going to talk tomorrow, but who cares? We'll be right in time. This is not possible.

This isn't going to be there tomorrow. Sweet. So now it is another turn. What did you do with the paperclip there?

Okay. So soldier five is actually going to move up five, 10, 15, 20, 20, 20, 30. He is now towards the. So paying a picture of this battlefield, the azakir is in the back line wailing away at these two soldiers who are trying to fend him off of long swords.

Azakir took a bolt from another soldier in the midst and one of the soldiers then moves to the front opposite azakir heading towards where the party is now standing at the end of basically the street. Now. So that's his move. And then Harbeck, your turn.

I cast fog cloud in a 20 foot radius fog cloud, dude. So I look to azakir. You know where he is. I don't answer.

I take that as a yes and I cast fog cloud around him around him. 10, 15, 20. Well, this could get interesting. Yeah.

So what does that mean? So with fog cloud, create the cloud cloud. Yeah, cloud fog and last for the duration or until the wind of my greater speed versus it lasts up to an hour. And basically they can't see who heavily obscured.

Basically attacks unless they have some sort of like cane senses or something are going to be made up to disadvantage. So I do that and then I say go for a tharsach and I bless him. Oh, shit. Oh, dude.

You're going to hit like a fucking train. Tell me what that does again. I think it's an extra D four to your rolls. Holy fuck.

Yeah. And like on any roll at any time make an attack roll or saving throw. You just give him the need to give him the card. Oh, sweet.

Thank you. Not to tell you how to live your life. That's a good point. Thank you.

Yep. Moving right along. See we're about halfway through. Where's your gory's turn?

Does the fog cloud stay on him or is it the location that he's centered on that point? Okay. So five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Fight me coward.

And he reaches to his back and pulls out this huge white great sword. I mean, it's like the color of marble without any of like the vein or anything running through it. It's just this big white sword. So he's standing in front of the fog cloud now closer to the circle.

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Tim. He gives himself a leadership guy.

He can give himself that. Yeah. So what does that mean? Basically, he can utter command and give a D4 to any hit roll or saving throw.

He's a boss character. He gets kind of some cheap shit. You both got your D4s. I don't know why that happened.

There's a really kind of a like a dry look. Every time Paul's six is tongue out. I just lock eyes with his tongue and it freaks me out. It's weird.

Do it's right. I don't know. Right. Okay.

So one of the guys that's get fucked up by Asakir is going to attempt to stab it. With a long sword. Can he see the fog cloud? Oh, yeah.

So it's at disadvantage. So no, that's a miss. Both attacks are a miss or Nella, your takari's turn. I have a couple questions.

Yeah. What's it? First of all, I was shot with a bow. Do I need a thing?

Am I marked now? Oh, you know, thank you for being honest. Yeah. Yeah.

What does that mean? Well, you'll find out. Okay. Oh, there's probably some like poison or some shit in it.

You paused the timer. Oh, yeah. Okay. I didn't want it to like.

Okay. That's a good thing is, what happens if I mount the takari? Nothing you can do that. That will take up an actionary.

Right. But now I'm mounted. So does not give me advantage. Yeah.

You attack anyone that is if you attack anyone that is not mounted, yeah, then you can advantage. Are any of these fuckers mounted? No. Cool.

How far can I move on a mounted takari takari's movement? I was trying to look at Jason sheepy. You took it from me. No, takari's movement is 40 feet.

So that 40 plus my movement or just 40. Okay. Cool. It also has the ability to leap an additional 25 feet and glide 30 feet.

So if you run jump and glide, yeah, you could move a lot. That's 95 feet, I think. Yeah. I want to mount my takari.

Oh, yeah. Done. Now I'm going to move towards this guy in front. Okay.

So yeah, you can just end you would. Five, ten. Oh, you can move diagonally. Oh, you don't have to go.

I want to be there. That's fine. Okay. Perfect.

Is that close enough for me to hit him? No, you need to be like in the same square? No, since these are five feet squares to be in melee, you have to be adjacent unless your weapon has reach in which case, depending on the reach, you can be further squares away. So I got to be in a block next door or a diagonal.

Yeah. Okay. I don't want to do that guy though. Okay.

Okay. Great. And then I want to hit that guy with my axe. Okay.

Do that. Do that thing. I was about to say, I don't want to tell you how to role play right. Oh, I'm sorry.

You can't, you, you're action the takari. It's the takari. Oh, okay. You can attack with the takari.

Yeah, I want to do that. Okay. So takari roll a d 24 me. Yep.

And you get plus four with the clause. So 17 beats the armor class. Damaged is a two d six plus four six plus four. Nice.

10. Yeah. There you go. Sixaulend once and then how does that look?

I don't know how to work so they got big like the loss or after front clause, which is what they may use to with its clause. Perfect. Next up, vulphin one. Five, 10, 15 and you see this thing leap onto, as a cure and sync its like it's jaws open Extraordinarily wide and it's long for fangs sink deep into aza cures flesh Holy fucking shit.

It rolls it since it's marked it rolls an advantage to try to grapple double double It's a world double crit fail. All right, so that thing's gonna get oh hey, so like the so I didn't tell you guys this But like when my goddess died a little bit of it went into aza here to give it the flowery stuff So maybe that's what's happening now. I don't know what to do with that So maybe a little bit of the some divine protection I guess yeah Aza here just it tries to latch on to a secures neck and it does get in a little bit But aza here takes its head and flicks it and the thing goes flying over here and hits that building and takes Ford image nice Again We're almost to the bottom which is me I think now one of the guys attacking aza here goes Are you guys still up next to me? Aza here takes For 12 damage okay Now the sorcerer takes two steps back I'm glad that we're all on the same page You know we can play till 3 yes, I'll still be okay at work We'll just we'll just play till it's done.

This will be probably a longer episode, but whatever it's laking gives a shit It's only important to me so you know I guess it's only important to me What are you doing Paul so our DM is drawing some things on our map We're not sure the sorcerer seems to be doing that's really nice when I would like to call Shittery Piece of my hair stuck in your marker. Sorry. Sorry So he has he has wall of he has fought what he has wall of fire When the wall appears each creature within its area must make a dex saving throw so he just died So five feet in front five feet and back So it doesn't hit anyone but it does hit you or now as you need to you need to make a dex save and so does the tikari Tikari does not save I critically fail or now it's gonna die No You take no that should not happen Says Paul Already so low you take 22 damage Um sort yourself out Fucking de gents and then and then you see it you see it swirl it staff and it casts Emulation Those at home Charity is just raising her hands and shaking violently. I didn't heal up.

I'm out of gummy bears I'm got firewall. Yeah, you've you've been firewalled. I literally told Avery. I was gonna come back I mean sorry You're my voice of reason always that's too bad You know my healing smells see what I got I'm like I've got something so Instantly he he takes his staff and spins it around really quick and points it at aza here in cast emulation Flames read one creature you can see within range target must mix it make a dex saving throw It takes 8d6 fire damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one So go ahead and make a dexterity save for me the number you have to be is for a secure is 15 you have to be a 15 easy plus Oh my saving throw so that's 18.

Okay, so you only take half of 8d6 damage. Oh So seven plus 12 is 19 23 and 26 so half of 26 13 13 So I should explain what he did so this sorcerer's sorcerer is have sorcery points They can spend to enhance their spells so normally you can't cast two spells like that at once But he used a sorcery's point to cast quick and spell which turns the spell into a bonus action Okay, so yeah, I was like here takes half of 26 which is 13 It's probably getting to be painfully obvious that that guy needs yeah to go Needs to be taken out no longer welcome at the party Party foul wall party foul wall How is it not my turn We all will go through that at one point or another the bottom yes well go through the bottom Now it is or no it's turn it's your turn So I want to get the fuck away, okay from this yeah, that's happening. Yeah, how do you intend to do that? I can move 40 feet on the scarring just like running or whatever so If you're engaged in melee with someone You can take the disengage action which counts as a mate So I know this is a lot But disengage action just means that you don't provoke an opportunity attack when you move away, but you can't Yeah, so your whole move is just to get the fuck out of that position I have 13 hit points.

I think that's what I need to do and I yeah, so I'm just gonna move I'm gonna disengage. Yeah, okay, and then move Perfect I'd say you could probably move a different way Like this way instead of like a knight and chest just like a bishop oh Angles you were here, so I don't know if that jump right between them Oh, yeah, I don't have to go yeah, horizontally vertical you can go dangle That way they can hopefully not immediately attack you right yeah, cool. That's what I want to do Um and then I have a second wind yep to regain some nice. Oh, yeah bonus action regale HP equal to one D 10 Plus fighter level J.

Oh one D 10 plus six. I know sorry Right here Two plus eight So sorry with vigor So he so one of the other soldiers Basically that what's happening on the battlefield the soldiers are spreading out and looking to concentrate on the aza here while the wolves are harassing Renella and our party members besides Renella are stuck behind a giant 20-foot high wall of fire That is separating the two groups so in true Dictard fashion the Soldier is going to reload the crossbow and shoot at as a cure in a same turn What do you mean? They can reload in this they use a bonus action to reload their crossbows Okay, cool because they have the they have ammo so eventually they'll have to reload the whole magazine But they have several shots before that that happens. He rolled a 18.

No, it would have been 19. So it's a hit And as a cure takes 10 more damage, okay now we are at the top of the turn wow we did So I'll do this like people are staying next to me, but they're not anymore so Fair off like I said fair off because I was my one of my old characters in the D&D campaign Word Like wife shit No, so Orzak is kind of like shaking in like and at the same time the Takari behind him is shaking and moving in the exact same way and What's what starts happening is you start seeing these things so out of Orzak's chest these Plates start kind of like popping out of his skin But the shit plates is in like scaly hardens like right right what looks exactly like the front of a takari So hard back is Danny next to you watching his head out of his shoulders The same things keep going and they are going down his forearms and they grow in front of his arms and out of his His ridge of his nose starts popping forward and spiking up And there's like almost like a crest that goes over the top of his hair and his fingers if you could see it Or like start they don't turn into like it's not like fingernails But like they harden and they lengthen and his feet do the same thing and he like it's all very quiet Which normally when he goes into a rage yell something and he goes and inspires himself And this is just very quiet and he puts one foot in his leg kind of bends like he has more strength than you would think He puts one foot up on like higher than it would go up on top of the balcony and his toes grip it And his other foot kind of puts him up on top and he crouches on it And he's kind of his arms are hanging to his side and he looks down and he just Just jump and just clears those flames and he lands right down right down on that Like writer. Oh, yeah Right by big bad right by big bad and it's like before anything can happen to attacks just it's happening. Okay, holy crap So advantage on attacks from the above yep, how's that 22?

Is that gonna hit? Yep? Okay? I'll just do the other attack real quick to 19 So the first one should hit or the first one hits and the second one should hit But he actually is quite deft with his great sword as well and actually parries I mean this looks like it should hit but he actually manages to parry it.

Okay meaning he has yeah, so Alright Do that damage However that is still Seven damage, okay, you have the the D4 blessing. Yeah, oh wait to hit it. Okay. Well, that's gonna change something So so I have to roll a D4 along with every roll that okay So if you roll a one it's a fail if you roll it two or above it's a success Three so yeah the second one so maybe he does parry it but the blessing you just drive it through yeah All right, so does that affect damage to okay, so to hit all right, so here we go for the second hit That's really good.

Yeah, 16. There we go. 16 damage. Yeah Yeah, do BBEG to BB King Okay, that's your turn or zach so yeah, yes and these plates that are formed they are like they look very similar to the Takari sorry, okay, I love it Wolfin 3 is going to attack you and he gets Pack tactics Wolfin has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one allies within five feet of said creature Trying to keep things fast enough I had whatever So 19 that'll hit okay, even with your extra armor that just grew out of your skin Jesus 19 is pretty solid.

Yeah, you freaked me out you started transforming and I was like if or that's a fucking grab creature I'm gonna flip this table over you would do you take eight damage so you rolled eight? Total okay, so I take four oh yeah, sorry I will always tell you the totals that you do the math right and then you need to make a DC 16 strength roll form or strength safe So I roll crit on that or I roll I just inherently roll a critical. I will advantage on that. I'm sorry Yes, I beat it so this thing tries to lock on to your arm and You take the damage, but you're able to like get the thing off of your off of your arm now Really high DC and they're strong jaws Yep, multi-tack horn clock law good horny clock law.

Mm-hmm. Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it Do so Horns at 11 that is a miss first closet crit. Oh god The second class three or it's what's that yeah, that is a miss but the crit the crit though Who is the crit on guard three or guard to yeah guard three or guard two? I'm calling them guards Legion air three or Legion air two two Okay, he has one single point more of damage.

I knew it So to be six plus six plus three fours, but on a crit you do double damage dice. Oh, you do four d six and then two d four fire damage That's rad. I think you're gonna kill him 19 plus six is 25 damage ready to roll the d fours no you can anyway, yeah I really don't need to but it's fine one four or five. Yeah, so extra five fire damage extra five fire damage friend Yeah, it dies Yeah, the aza here just like attacks with the horn misses attacks with the claw misses and with his last claw attack catches one by and picks him up by his body and just yeah, just explodes and crushes him in his claws or zox takari all right so it's he's up there kind of mimicking my moves and I I Sick him on the caster and he'll he kind of does the same kind of thing he kind of like juts himself Back as far as he can so he caterpillars his board body and then leaps and puts his 70 You got your takari in my suit.

All right, that's a hit takari doesn't extra damage dice on a hit from the leap so 3d6 So 7 plus 5 is well. Thank you plus 4 is 16 damage on the caster. Fuck. Yeah, all right now We're getting somewhere you guys are welcome Thank you.

I mean you took like most of the first salvo and now everyone gets to do cleanup because you took basically all You took a bunch of damage. Yeah, you're a tank. What'd you do? So Gabrielle's filming right like how tank you Thanks for nothing If a guy said that's mean real life, I'd probably punch him in the face good thing It's not real life right now.

Not really not now though. You'd be like really Let me show you what so treads can do No, just trying to relate Married life buried life happy wife happy life Happy People and things and stuff happy Wi-Fi happy with me and don't get too sniffy. I Don't like that So I don't I ran out of counters long coke but two more legionnaires come out from this house of course they do well Look, that's fine, and they have they have crossbows And you know what else is fine combat in fifth edition either It's me the bageler prints of Lord gargantiloff bringer of crab preachers and so are whoa. I'm a demon We do our best at the Moina dragons to have gripping tense drama and vibrant blood-soaked action So coming up is part four of episode 13.

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