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Dec 2, 2019 1 hr 1 min

Last Life: Superchief: Part (2/5)

from Des Moines and Dragons Hosted by Paul Privitera

We have arrived. The final Last Life of 2019. Join me and the entire ban Superchief as we ride flying V guitars into oblivion. This months episode features: Haldor Von Hammer, Jason Monroe, James Segovia, Ryan Marcum, and Casey Doser as they work together to travel as far north as any adventurer has this season. With all the drama, love, hooves, and sexuality you've come to expect from this raucous gaggle of rockers. Strap in. It's going to get hairy. Who Is Superchief? "After 11 years of playing music together, Superchief is a well-oiled machine. We play music that we enjoy making and listening to. We do it because it's a shared passion of ours. It's been an added bonus that our music has been enjoyed by you guys; our friends and family. Drawing comparisons to Black Sabbath, Dixie Witch, Scissorfight, and Clutch among others, the riffs run rampant. As long as we're still having fun and enjoying the process, we ain't stopping anytime soon!" Where can I get the Album? https://superchief.bandcamp.com/album/moontower-2 Where can I get sweet merch? https://superchief.bandcamp.com/merch

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So we come back on welcome back to part two of the super chief last life episode which may end up being a multi multi-sesh show we'll see how it goes we'll play it fast and loose exactly the same way it's been so far we were down two days left of force travel next morning arises the sound of a bedded deer getting up and doing the walk of shame out of camp and a lot dear daily walking a shame slut deer writing that down because in four weeks or whatever when I look at this notebook again and just see slut deer at the top of the page left someone else make an encounter roll for me please another D 100 yeah where is here I will give you here you go take those Ryan don't fuck it up yeah you'll roll both and the 10s digit would be 35 35 all right so walking along the the forest again same pine thick fine thick pine forest and you hear a voice come from a tree and we'll just see I'll roll a D6 to see who hears it all right all right so ufane walking along you hear sound of someone's voice hey hey you hey yeah yeah what you look around and you don't see anyone the sound appears to be coming from one of the trees which I can talk to trees and talk to plants so I'm pretty used to this perfect so so you know right away which pine tree it is it's just like to your immediate right and you see one of the gnarled where a branch was is actually vaguely reminiscent of a human face just made out of bark and whatnot hey let's not get many people up this far north you want some sage some mushrooms yeah absolutely you got anything to barter with my friend and you all as you've been walking along you know that well Spain has stopped and is conversating to a tree you can hear the tree talk as well I'm just speaking in common to yeah it's fun to pretend that we don't understand I have pockets full of potatoes potatoes okay okay I can work with that you'll get potatoes as our north interesting interesting I'll give you a how about a few grams of mushrooms and a leaf pouch of sage hmm about some cocaine sorry I got mushrooms and sage is what I got sorry it's like the sparklers and snakes of the forest I would be happy to trade some potatoes for those oh most excellent and the tree limbs bend and chain shape to more resemble arms and hands and the tree there's a knot in its what would be the trees abdomen a knot yeah a knot opens up and one of the hands reaches inside and rustles around and pulls out a small folded leaf pouch and a few white and gray mushrooms for the potatoes can you tell me the the powers that these mushrooms may give me the tree nods sort of like that Jack Nicholson gift yeah the mushrooms they'll help you see your way and the sage well if you burn it you'll feel really good I don't know I felt the second the sage has me concerned a bit the way that it's good sage it's really good sage make sure it's not oregano I I'm I can promise you that this is of the most utmost quality sage you know as I'm used to communicating but the way that this was presented had me a little bit concerned so I I'm not too sure about the the powers of the sage the mushrooms I'm completely down with the sage has me concerned so wait wait are you a cop you have to tell me I am not a cop because you have to tell me I am part of the guild okay before I before I take these though I would like to visit a little bit with my oh I live in sure sure and he takes the his hand back and tucks it into his his hole I I kind of turn to what has become our team leader in in Farath brave lander and ask him what he thinks I'm standing there ignoring this entire conversation to smelling this work blood blade I was like oh yes yes oh my friend yeah I've been presented mushrooms with wonderful powers but the sage has me a bit concerned about what its abilities and what it may bring into the foray for our group and I wanted to get a second opinion on this he and I kind of stop and I put the the blade in back in its like temporary holding pouch and I look at this tree and it's this tall kind of gnarled tree kind of bent off to one side and clearly been following the Sun for years trying to grow and grab what it can he is clearly an old man of the forest I take the sage back and so he put it back in his hole to reach into his whole I reach in and I take it back and so you reach in and the whole immediately constricts on your hands like potatoes first please I detect poison inside the sage okay so you so you cast that detect poison you do not detect any poison in the sage the sage is clean spirits fuck yeah I'm in sage sleep on the tree okay let me just see what that's but I just want to sometimes sleep so can I just roll for peer pressure puts four hit dice of creatures into magical slumber so peer pressure I take the sage I see the look my my colleagues we want to get on others are interested in the tree just slums and his face goes slack and the whole just releases on your hand and the tree the face of the tree passes out my friend grab it all grab grab it all this is pure this is pure sage you know the street value of this is regret I am just I am very on edge about everything I've been wrong I don't I'm not comfortable sounds like I need some so I'm gonna reach you anymore so I'm gonna reach in and take the sage for him for the group and then you're absolved of any issues with it so you can add to your character sheet five pouches of sage and 15 doses of mushrooms and a green emerald amulet so you pull all of this out and once the amulet passes outside the hole the tree suddenly morphs and changes shape and just becomes a naked pale human and slumps to this into the slumps to the ground asleep I'm glad that's on your hands now I touch the human gently brush his hair he continues to sleep magical slumber you know you want to go back on the cheek I this at this I look at everyone I go well gentlemen I believe that's our we understand this gonna start walking we know I am not a rapist so I just give a pack on the cheek I like that your character just says that you know who says that rapist I'm not a rapist I give him a pack on the cheek and I let him sleep I covered him with some leaves like a gentleman in the forest okay and then you guys leave with Robin Blight great I prefer to see it as that we were freeing him we're the best people we are liberators we are so unless anyone has anything else I think we we jump forward to the rest of the day's travel and maybe maybe there's a small scene that'll happen here around the camp fire this evening what's what's the interaction amongst the party like at the campfire this evening you got that siege I've got that sage sparkle that ball I use my dragon fire to light the sage on fire and at this point there's a little rift between Romeo and my character because I did a little bit of the bartering I tried to utilize these guys to vouch me and he's reaping all the rewards of what I assume we got a sugar get off the pot and there's just a bit of a rift you gotta always be closing you weren't closing the deal I would say that we let's perhaps put a bit of that in the in the fire we commune together Ogden's a little bit annoyed because everybody's gonna pass out in the smell of sage is gonna walk through the forest I will attract others so the the a fantasy version of white rabbit plays it's like loots and sitar plays and we see the the colors shift and change as the camera does that like 70s film era like this is when they're on drugs and everything's all wavy we Ogden so you're not necessarily partaking is that correct yes is anyone else not partaking I am not partaking I'm a bit old Spain is not I'm partaking the fuck out of it we're going for it going hard going ham once again encouraging great but you're not partaking I'm a classic enabler so the evening passes and the the sitar and the loot of white rabbit fades and we know that night passes the camera shifts up and looks to the sky and we see a quick fast forward of the stars and the moon move that we know time has passed it's very very late and let's see I'll roll it well I suppose the most perceptive one would probably be ool Spain ool Spain what do you do you well I guess would you go to bed or you want to watch late at night are you out like a light yeah I'm I'm out okay so I guess then it would just be a ferroth that is awake how do you pass the time while everyone sleeps during camp you do I mean this happens all the time because you don't need sleep right so normally I would kind of you know read over scriptures which are these kind of poorly written not poorly written they're they're ill conceived kind of scrolls that exist but they're it's like their commasutra kind of scrolls that you can flip through and you can see these different like people engaging in sexual positions and there's like ritual murder it's like if any human any being on earth found this on somebody they would really question that person but normally I would roll that would scroll through those and enrich myself but tonight I'm just sitting there kind of looking at that blade with the works blood on it and kind of smelling it and and rejoicing in the fact that somebody offered a gift unto me through my patron god but you know I'm always kind of paying attention I guess you know to what's going on but I'm engaged in that okay so we we hear the a feminine voice a disembodied feminine voice call from the forest air on I'm sniffing it maybe a little engaged engorged engorged gaged ferroth who is that that knows the name that my mother gave me why is I your goddess my lady and I kind of back up and do a pronounced extended bow arm raised and I stand there and then I go to O'Nee there out you do not know this yet but I have servants that are working on my behalf in the temple that you are headed to but these servants are most incompetent unlike yourself who is proven most useful in these parts my lady I know that your reach is far and wide however I do not know that you held sway in such a remote area while my servants are few they do exist out this far my word to you this evening is this I ask that you do indeed murder those that defile the temple but wait until they have completely unearthed the giant's heart more instructions will be made clear as you venture forth oh my lady make sure to not tell those who do not follow my ways however it would displease me if they know you don't know you just you're Ashton when asleep his front tail is at full mass my lady these individuals can be rugged and yet some of them incompetent however they serve you while unwilling but yet exquisitely that is yet to be seen there will be many challenges before you meet the temple they will be tested best of luck there are in your mind you get hard for some reason your nipples get hard for some reason yeah totally obviously and you feel the presence that was surrounding you suddenly vanish you're left alone again with your knife in your hand and I said that there sit there and couple contemplate the directive that I've been given so the scene unless anyone else had unless you have anything else the scene fades to black and come away I kill everybody account that would be a really great way to end the game I shared my sage with you I said much so the next morning comes and arrives and is is here we need someone to roll our last forest encounter dice you have to detents Casey and pass those to him please I will do double-duce all right I don't I probably wouldn't have a gentleman don't hold good choice friend so what morning comes and you're all stretching awake the second day stupid of the sage and full effect on your brains and your role you're dousing dowsing the fire getting a breakfast rations prepared bed rolls are being rolled and put away when suddenly you all feel the earth begin to quietly shake underneath your feet and rhythmic stomping no tuba yet just not quite yet loud ponderous footsteps tell me everyone else is feeling this right now Ogden eyes the wolf pup who looks back and motions to him to go see what's going on or give us some idea of where it's coming from I'm on it boss the wolf pup turns and and bounds into the woods disappearing from sight what do the rest of you do while the wolf pup is gone I actually joined the wolf up I transform into my wolf yeah sweet I do reconnaissance with the wolf pup great I'll get to those two the rest of you what are you doing while the wolf pup and a wolf stain are headed out into the forest so the way I kind of envision this is regardless of our our standard what is viewed as our standard operating procedure there's some really good stuff happening and so I kind of just at this point take up the slack from what they gave up from preparing their you know their daily stuff and start helping kind of clean up their bed rolls and stuff and you know kind of put that together in a place that they will be able to know where it is and stuff and then when that's done I'll just kind of stand and get my act my weapon ready great yeah I'm gonna pull my great sword out and stand just feverishly looking around to see where the danger is coming from okay I use detect magic okay so you what does this look like when you cast it how I guess how do you cast the spell I I reach back and I grab my back tail okay stroke it three times and then I look up to the heavens and I spit at the heavens and then I look down blow a kiss too below and go don't follow detect the magic abounding no best do it to her I work yeah I mean that is that's pretty sweet it's all the magic I like to think that your character like does that work I honestly think we all right I'm now he knows why he's the front man so you you don't detect any magical energies look pretty fucking sweet so nothing nothing yeah look cool but I feel like that's half the battle of loss that's good shit I'd give him experience just for that you get you get a hundred experience yes so we that does a cross cut scene and we're now it's almost like a GoPro cam on the back of of oopsbane and ahead of him we see savage as they're like pounding through the undergrowth and running in between trees and overwrits and we we see a couple times savage turns his head back to make sure that will Spain is following him and continuing along your enhanced senses you smell a smell of of rotted carcass of decay of death and it draws closer as you run towards the sounds of these incoming footsteps for you hit a clearing and see that there is a enormous herd of mammoth that stand 35 feet Paul several of them look pretty injured with blood leaking out of them their spears sticking out from the sides of some of the mammoths a lot of them look really fucked up and they are just charging through the undergrowth in a direct line towards camp there's at least 12 of them but if you stay around to watch them there may be more but you see 12 lined up coming right towards you and savage and savage looks over you well that's a lot of mammoths I look right back at savage and I say immediately we need to start running back and change course you're dark to the wheel and yeah savage like puts his paws out and does a little stop and flips around in his sprinting back towards camp and you follow then with Spain actually yeah absolutely I actually end up taking the lead I'm a little bigger and lead the way back I start to kind of really push the tempo to get word back to the fellas yeah so like near a moment's pass and old Spain comes in wolf farm comes charging into the camp behind him is is savage bringing up the rear and they both come into camp malle's open panting tongues hanging out guys we just saw 30 plus mammoths that are coming this way and they smell like death and they look like death and they're charging at an incredible pace and we ran as quick as we could to get back to tell you guys we get the heck what do we have to do to get out of the path we have to shift course we have to move about three kilometers to the west start grabbing our ship will start moving out of the way I guess I need everyone to roll a d20 and add their move and I need to know the lowest number so once you get it I'll go around and ask what your total is Romeo what you get 15 15 plus your move 6 plus my move is 15 15 15 for wolfsbane far off what did you get I rolled 13 13 11 11 11 25 great it's not damn it so you guys are hauling ass like just to get out of the way of this barreling formation of mammoths heading I guess westerly to get out of the way on Ogden you trip over a exposed route and fall to the ground savage turns and looks behind the group running away and runs back to help you up I cast tree shape great what is that what does that look like when you cast describe to us what we see so I trip over the route and as I look up you see me like grow to 10 feet tall and the root consumes my body and becomes the shape of a tree as mammoths run by good idea boss and the wolf continues to follow the rest of the party out of the way I'm fair off you are not going to make it you see 25 yards away a mammoth barreling down on your position everyone else appears to be free and clear but you're the only one you look like you're about to get trampled what do you do okay well there's one heading right towards him but this formation of mammoth mammoth I are staggered and if he ducks out of the way of one there's a chance that maybe one behind will still hit him so I have a turn to kind of make a decision yep you got it I am thinking and somebody give me some thinking music please all right I've got it knowing that I can't make it it sucks that I won't be able to do this again and it will be better than this so anyway go ahead so as I'm as I kind of am reserved my fate I turn to where I can be as far to one side in hopes that the second one wouldn't hit me and I look up and I run my hand along the blade that was given to me by the work to give me the power from my goddess and I as the blood kind of comes up in my hand I hold it up and I cast blindness and this like cone of light shoots out and I say be blind he then fool slave but whole fool sex pot I don't even know what I'm saying great so the mammoth takes the full brunt of the blindness and waves its tusks but does not divert course and charges you I seen that my friend is in danger I use feather fall on the mammoth heading straight towards him can you read what the spell says for just for the subject falls slowly until landing so the man pushes pushes down with one who and suddenly becomes very light and in a like matrix style like we see a close up of Ferros face and this enormous callous disgusting yellowed nailed hoof just past inches above his head as the mammoth tumbles weightless head over heels whoa and slams with its full momentum into a tree causing the tree to collapse and the other man that's now divert around it and begin running into other trees causing bit of a pandemonium but I've just got to have a prayer in the hand of thai okay did I take any damage no no holy shit you're welcome well I didn't I'm just I did this thing and I'm fully convinced my goddess did all that so of course you did so yeah the mammoth and the mammoth all run past and there's this perfect circle of not mammoth tracks around your position and then skewered on a tree is a mammoth that's breathe late with labored breathing and making guttural pained animal sounds as you see a gnarled oak has lodged itself through its abdomen and is poking out the other side fountains of blood are coming out of the side of the mammoth as it slowly dies amongst the tree I'm gonna hold that blade underneath the blood as it's pouring forth to warm that thing warm that thing what are the rest of you so seeing that rock hard right now let's uh let's collect some food we don't know how long we're gonna be gone and of course I think we forgot to take food with us no they provided I was just thinking did you get out of the way then as the tree because I was gonna go run to make sure you were okay so the wolf pup is next to a particular tree like growling and guarding it clearly so yeah you you were not affected by the the mammoth I thought I was the oak at first oh fuck yeah retcon no no this is way cooler rock hard you were impaled and the wolf pup is just growling at this oak as the mammoth like slowly dies I'm way out of way out of harm's way I'm still I am still you know well out of all the action that's going down to looking at the pool I'm not even aware at the point that this was happening just playing a mad cool on the other side of like I'm playing long game because I know that more perils lay ahead so I am just happy to keep my distance from the the mammoths I did my part the way I saw it I went up I mean all these fuckers would be dead if it weren't for me from the pup so we we did enough we are sitting and resting yeah so I'll go to the man I think use my great sword to put it out of its misery yeah and with a mighty swing of your great sword the rest of its blood pours out of the wound in its neck and the thing slowly dies I would love to score fresh meat so just to recap what everyone's doing so Romeo executes the dying mammoth oops bane is sitting quite a distance away ignoring the the folly of those two slow to get another bluff watching yeah fuck yeah well fair is standing around looking like wow that I'm okay Ogden you can't really see when you're in tree form you just sense right you get this pre-natural sense of the forest and you can feel this weight and cool liquid running across your oak into body without the visual knowledge of what exactly happened to you now you can hear the sound of your their feel the vibrations of your pup growling at your field field of operations and Ashton you're you're having sex with the dead man feel it yeah with my front tail are you actually fucking it yeah it's not love it's not love but it ain't here you are the you are definitely you're in listen us two brings we got we have needs and sometimes the needs they are met by a dead man you have a little bit of a no characters evolving depends on how horny he is like James McEnroy from supposed to be crazy so like I am taking on the like all right they're all over the place they have different accents they're making love to different animals and people just but nothing in the rule books is making love to people and animals you know I'll play about the rules listen this game allows people to live out their fantasies okay let's not judge held or yeah it's a judge of things it's a same thing I really want to see so argan what how long do you stay in tree like what do you do now I want to start with you that's like a an odd slow like creeping back into you know dwarven form but it takes a while yeah like it's it's not like immediate right and you can hear like the tree limbs kind of like they would creak in the wind yeah like creaking back into you know yes and we so we the audience are watching this all happen is the tree slowly shrinks into the mammoth and eventually the mammoths wait whatever part of the tree was holding it up retracts and the mammoth slumps over fully on its side and we hear a loud squish often you revert to dwarf form and you are inside a mammoth you're inside its you're not the only one so the man the mammoths abd Jesus I wanted this you asked for it so what's that so so yeah you're on it while the hooves are knocking there's a protrusion from the abdomen of the mammoth and you finally see after a few you see that the great-ax blade emerge from the abdomen of the mammoth and slice out you don't grab my front tailing going out so we see octon emerged covered in blood covered in blood and a bit out of sorts and he looks back with disgust at what Ashton come hog is doing behind him don't judge me don't judge me so you don't know me I can directly in front of you you see Romeo who has just you know executed the mammoth and then a few yards away far off his turn around and now we're all sort of you're all back together at this point and the pup immediately goes up and starts licking the blood off of your shoes licks the blood off of me I look at everybody turn back to the mammoth and say I guess we you will tonight gentlemen and I go down from my bluff finally and come down and just start eating the mammoth raw in my wolf form is there still a come hog in it buddy I just want to throw a special shout out to my mom who will be listening love you love you mom very special lady are you proud of me I'm all proud I just want to you know my kids you know thank you for listening you're already five Tommy and uh grown up so fast right now you do I'm gonna go up to the the mammoth and grab one of the one of the tests and use my strength to rip off the end of it and give it toog and throw in crusher as an honorable kill trophy nice you my friend get a bottle cap which signifies that you can spend that bottle cap to roll double d20 is to roll at advantage on anything I don't know what he's observing as well I got your fucking sage to bitch I know that Romeo with respect that's gonna play with my mates so as that happens there's blood just pouring out yeah it's cool right so the blood is like steaming off the ground I just turn and I look at these individuals that are kind of reveling in this not you right because your character is questioning everything yeah he's eating it oh that's actually that is what's happening and I took you while to come back to and I take the blade and I run it through the blade though the blood on the ground and I hold it up and I say lady hypotheia your acolytes are ready to do your bidding and I kind of like open my arms to the group and I look at everybody and I nod and seeing what I soft voice in your ear says I didn't think it would be this soon and yeah so what you guys spend the rest of pack up what meat you can and yeah great bloody bloody meat and we drink and we eat and we have a good time so we didn't establish if it was another three teaspoons or oh this time it was a full on tiefling org as he's recovered it was it was at least a gallon I feel like it was more of a mist like it was like like the mist like setting like garden hose like you don't know if it's rain or the tiefling come it's like a geyser it's like spraying a hose or a fucking like a like a storm window back in the port where I'm from it's like it's like we used to call me old faithful as they knew it was gonna be coming out like oh faithful oh best Christmas episode ever happy holidays hey that's not a lump of calling your kids since we're here a lump of Ashton I didn't want to say I'm thankful for all of this huh thanksgiving everything this is really good point James all right I'm very good bring it back I love you mom I'm just gonna keep saying that randomly and it's gonna help it is it helps it helps it helps us it buys his mom right all right so quick montage for the rest of the days hike how many days have we found the road and how many days left we had a three three seven bad don't worry the snow part is less it's easy well it's just different so we we end the day of mammoth murder and hiking again quick montage everyone makes camps settles down unless anyone does anything the night passes uneventfully I do have one thing yes so I've become in like enthralled in this green this emerald amulet I don't know what it is I don't understand it but I'm like in love with it now it's my thing so you it's my I'm a big so so so I see that and I Romeo come with me really this may change what you do okay apologies Ashton you detected magic and I was I was not I I missed a very obvious yeah source of magic energy the amulet that Romeo possesses gives off a quite strong magical energy how would you get distracted with everything it was so obvious yeah it was right there for you get dungeon master work guys I'm just gonna take over from now so buckle up there's a lot more coming hey Paul I remember my first beer too it's just water so that's the magical object we got the orc blade is there any magic attached to that no there's not then I go up and offer to my friend to use arcane mark on the blade which is a non-magical object to turn it into a magical object oh that's really nice to you what does that look like when you do it going to be extremely indebted when I do it I take the blade with the blood on it I wave it in the sky I go reach my hand down and say dog Lord give me your hand as we imbue this blade with the hellfire and the curse of death and then I go stick it in the ground my hands up feel your hooves my feel I feel it's causing through my hooves and I take this magic and I touch that I touch the handle and fill it with that fiery damnation pull it out and hand it to him and go it has been imbued made so you well I can feel the vibrations I feel it I feel the vibrations I feel the vibration I feel it I feel it I'm not a fluid on that you're talking all the mammoth come I have no idea I can make that things come over is crushing it I I just as he has as he hands up to me I say I can this blade will claim many in the name of hyphenia may you go and motor in the name of your God and I sheath it you know actually wrap it in a cloth and I put it in a sacred place and I look over and I've never seen Farrah smile so big in his life that's good so fade to black on a close-up of the blade going into the sheath come back up early the next day and you're now close enough to the edge of this frostland so that there's a lot more snow snowflakes are heavier and bigger and you begin your trek northward so this part is a bunch of dice rolls all at the same time and each dice roll adds or subtracts bad things to what happened to you over the trip so I need everyone to roll at just a straight d20 for me and we'll just take the number that you roll so first I need Romeo 13 all right well Spain eight all right Farrah 19 nice okay Ogden 10 all right this is where you build you say $1 14 01 $1 this is Bob Barker yeah and hey I may have to mention but I know those cities are hot have your pets made a new dad I've got spade a new dad unlike me I've got so many old gentlemen children in California out of your new did you say I got a 14 I am I'm sure what I got it I almost went down a rabbit hole I didn't need to go down so glad he bought into the other every Friday night for me oh honestly those show of hands what is better Plinko or the yodeling oh yeah I mean I'm happy if either of them Alpine climber right I also always want to punch those like paper punch hole things and region that's good I was kind of on a punch room raider wait so I know not everybody's like a big we're good it's staying on topic that's there it there's an episode you can YouTube it of the prices right and because they're the ultimate like marketers kiss is on the price of a price is right and they do the Yodel game but it's like a little jeans and it's like I'm not even kidding I'm not even surprised it might be just Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons but they're in like full makeup prices right oh no rain is in we're back so no this is this is exactly what I would I signed up yeah definitely knew exactly what this would be you knew what this would I am so we we uh the first the first two days of the journey northward pass by so the terrain changes pretty quickly and pretty drastically the the pine trees become less and less concentrated and become more sparse, the grasses turn to dead, dry, yellowed grasses with mounds of snow. The snow goes from up to like just the top of your boot heel to up to your ankles and then eventually goes up to your knees for medium sized people. Anyone that's smaller or the pups or the pup have to like bound in the snow in order to make the journey. So as we journey further into the snow, Og and Thruncrusher puts a saddle on his wolf pup and the gnome climbs aboard.

And this will be his position for the journey. Okay, very good. Completely happy with that. And it gets much, much colder.

So before it was like this semi, like a like a brisk 33 degree day up till this point. And now it's dropping below freezing. And after the second day of travel, the fully work on the show is top notch. Fully work.

There's stopping. Those are hooves knocking. Stop making mom. Yeah, there.

So the- Lovey mom. First two days is really just the cold. And by the on the third day you wake up from your frost camp and it is a full blown blizzard near whiteout conditions. You can you actually can't see the person leading if you're at the octon.

You can't really see Ashton from where you are. All you see is the wag of the tail and everything else disappears in white just from the sheer volume of snow and violence of the wind blowing. So Ogden has taken some of the mammoth's pelt prefer and you see him keep trudging forward and tuck it further around his neck. Yeah, his chest.

Great, great instinct. So do the rest of you take mammoth fur? What do you have for cold weather gear that we see as you kind of wrap yourself tighter and whatever you have to venture for it? So as the snow gets deeper, I actually show my morph into a bear because it gets too deep.

The ride becomes a little too bouncy because he's having a bound over and eventually it just becomes a losing game. So I just become a bear like you do. Yeah. And great fur.

I mean, I'm actually about 20 meters behind squatting and squirming trying to turn into a bear. It looks so easy. How's you doing? I was being honest because it looked very easy.

Listen to the whole village of the dark. Yeah. So I'm wearing the. I appreciate that.

So the Duke gave us winter clothes as well, especially looking at me because I don't wear clothes and I'm wearing it's a big fur, you know, fully and somewhat armored fur, but I'm actually struggling with it because I'm not used to being restricted by clothing. That's probably frustrating. It's actually frustrating me and it's making me more angry than it's. It's craps have craps now.

It's also got lice in it's great. Yeah. I'm the firm from Lucille, which was her name and I wrap it on my body and then I use clairvoyance so that I can see ahead. Oh, I thought that was going to a different place, but that makes sense.

That's the first thing you said. Literally nothing you said has made sense. Is there something up there that you're going to take advantage of? I've never seen on your soul.

I would you know points. So, so what is fine? So Ashton's demonic eyes flicker and his pupils change to this milky white texture and the harsh snow and wind that's obscuring everything. Don't you like because I'm backed up.

It's been hard a few days. You can't whip it out. He's colder. It'll fall right off.

I totally set you up for that. He never stops. You never stop. You never stop.

You never stop. You never stop. It's not you. It's not you.

It's not you. It's not your fault. Okay. We actually have a lot of chips in the band and we are going to pay for some counseling for you.

That's a great call. So is everybody struck? Well, actually, sorry. And I just lastly, so your eyes go milky white from holding yourself back and the magic that's coming forth is like frustrated sex magic that really powers your clairvoyance and the wind and the volume of snow sort of just vanishes in front of you and the you feel the snow in the wind hitting your face, but you're now able to see several miles ahead and you just see rolling snow drifts and tundra for miles ahead of you.

Faroth, what were you about to say? That was really cool. So it's gotten increasingly more and more difficult where we're at the point where we're actually struggling, right? So I take the blade that's been imbued, the one that we've all kind of passed around at this point and done various things to it.

Don't know where it's been, but I trust it. I kind of like dig it into the ground and I do a prayer and I just very quietly I say to say, Lady Hypathea, you've asked me to cleanse this temple, but our mortal flesh is weak and the winds blow deep and the cold runs hard. We must find our way. We can do our your bidding while we are there, but we must find our way.

Lead us safely to this passage and I will claim what you have asked for. So you normally at the very least expect to have some sort of sensation when you commune with your god and instead the wind blows suddenly harder at you and it feels like it is pointed like these ice crystals and the snow form these jagged micro missiles that are hitting now your exposed face and the biting cold hurts even more and a booming voice comes from over the blizzard snowstorm. You dare invoke her name on my lands. I am your tenander, the snow god and no deceiver of hers will enter into my lands.

And the snow and the blizzard becomes violently painful and all of you feel the effects of the biting, pin-pricking snow as the wind picks up and the volume of snow hitting your face becomes near overwhelming. I need everyone to make an athletic swirl for me. Before that happens I just go. Oops.

And I also kind of as a bear jump in and try and start protecting. Especially as a wind break as a wind break and I also take Ogden's runcrusher on my back. He gave up his pop for me. He's a short person.

I feel his struggles. So I take him on my back. What are we rolling again? So you're rolling athletics.

Now if you're not a smashy fucker you don't have the athletics ability so you roll a d20 and take you don't add your move. But if you are a smashy fucker you get to add your move to this dice roll. You're hardier so you by default have a better chance of succeeding. So the subterfuge is just the rolling.

Right. Yeah the subterfuge ability just means that your class is better at those rolls. So you're just rolling a d20 and leaving it as is. 31.

Fuck. Did you roll a natural 20? 19. Okay yeah anyone rolls a natural 20 or a natural one.

So what do I add to mine? Nothing because you're not a smashy fucker. Okay so you just take a straight whatever the distance. Oh okay.

Nice. 8. 4. 12.

Aren't you a smashy fucker though? Yeah I added on it. She's my 31 makes up. Hopefully.

So you lose in order to keep yourselves warm you lose three days of rations to counteract the amount of basically the amount of damage and food you need as a plant for the harsh cold since three of you failed. We're going to subtract three rations from your total. So you had enough rations for all of you to make the 10 day trek. So now we're just taking three rations out of that.

So we don't know well out of character we don't know what howl door is character did. So we don't know if we understand we don't I'm just saying what it what it held or see the clairvoyance of the saw path. Yes. So no and he I mean you can you know where you're going but now that that trek is just now made harder.

But what if I use invisibility on everybody? I mean you can do that but they're they're they're physical bodies. It's not like their bodies are in corporeal they're still physically there they're just not able to be seen by eyes so you would still take the god of the area would still see us. Right.

Or not. Yes. Yep. Yep.

Fair question. So I'm just going to subtract three rations. Sorry guys. So Paul mechanics wise.

What about the spell magic? You could try that. You could definitely do that. Just know that if you're trying to dispel the magic of a god in his like yeah domain it would be a very challenging.

What was the worst that can happen? I mean they could get mad but I mean he's already pretty pissed. So let's fucking try it. Yeah let's do it bud.

Right. So to spell magic let me just read what that says real quick. So yeah because what I did was prayer and I was just trying to pray to and he lit up like a. Oh yeah I mean you're essentially in his domain.

Yeah Frostlord. It would be nice for that warning. Thanks. I paid the.

So I'll have to make a lower check which is a d20 and then you add your lower well which would be your move. Okay so I'm at nine to what I'm doing here. Yep. All right.

Hold on before okay I'm not looking at the role I'm just going to tell you the difficulty is above a 26 because you're trying to dispel godly magic. Fucking hell. Seven. Good job.

Good job. So you you project out your gods hellfire magic to try and cancel out this bitter frost cold and it's like the dragon ball Z where there's two Kamehameha and it's just like overwhelms your magic and pushes you back canceling your dispel spell and we move. We fade to black on our adventurers disappearing in the white out as they as they move further north trying to get out of this magical blizzard. Don't go anywhere because part three the last part of the last life super chief Christmas special is coming up next.

Don't go anywhere. Later.

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