Hello and welcome to episode 206 of the Rustical Gaming Podcast. I'm your host, G.M. Alex. And you're with me today. I have... Betty Meredith. Brendan Ryan. Lydia Nicholas. And Helen Gould. And who are you playing? Zoe Smith. Hammett's letter in Alta Han. Saul Sip Adam. And Azu. And Tesla's dead. Yes. Tesla is face down, on a bed, in front of Azu and Wilde.
Very, very dead. All right. Very, very quick recap. You all returned back to the one that got away in London, and you were all having a lovely grand old time, and Tesla's dead. So I'm going to pick up exactly where we left off, which is Wild and Azu have discovered a very evidently dead Tesla. And by very evidently dead, I mean that he is face down in his bed, his back is awash with blood, and you can see enough of the inside of Tesla to know that that's not someone who's alive. Ooh. Sticky. Azu...
turns to Wild and says, you need to, we need to go and get the, we need to tell the, go, the others, the others, the others now. I'm going to see how long he's been dead. Yes. Wild just runs off and starts fetching people. Okay. I'd like to roll a heal check. I think that's a really good idea. Yes. Thank you. All right. Here we go. If I roll badly, I'm just like, well, he's dead. I'm going to be very upset. I did in fact roll quite badly, but I upped my heal. So that is actually a 21. 21. Okay. You've hit a DC. So thank you. Thanks. Information that you now know. He's dead.
Two, he's been dead for probably a few hours, less than a day, more than instant. His body is cool. And in terms of the method of killing, this is someone who was attacked from behind while they were in bed. And it's a very odd wound pattern. It seems to be like...
An animal attack, but with some stabs as well. Do I know what kind of animal? Because the attack of a dog is very different to the attack of a horse. A squid. It would be something with a significant body mass, much larger than a dog. Like a bear? Like a bear? It looks like there was a kill bite on the back of the skull, which was the point of kill. Okay, I think that's a bear thing. And it appears that there are also, though, stab wounds in the back, not just animal wounds. Oh no! Oh no! What if it was Sir McNeil? What if it was Barrett pretending that it was Sir McNeil?
Oh, God. Oh, no, and he's perceptive enough to be able to figure out that... But we saw Summit Neal and she was fine. No, you did. Some of us did. We have seen Summit Neal. Summit Neal you spoke to, like, five minutes ago. You knocked on Summit Neal's door prior to Tesla's and just got a, hello. I mean, also, Barrett might have been a werewolf all along.
No one's checked him for lycopathy. Have you seen him at night? Is he a druid? Does he have powers from the squizzards? Yeah. Maybe Barret was actually originally a bear that got bit by a human and caught human. Maybe Barret. Or he just used a beast-shaped potion. Welcome to a world where there's a million answers to every question, and none of them are helpful. All right. I am going to cut to probably Zulf and Cell would be the first people that Wilde would run into, where Wilde immediately just points to Tesla's door. Tesla's been murdered, as he's in there right now. I'm getting everyone else.
And then Wild just runs off towards the lab. Quickly and silently power walk over to Tesla's room. Yeah. You see a similar situation? I would say it doesn't look like there was a struggle. So you're not looking at like sprays of blood up the wall, disturbances all over the room. The room's not been trashed. The takeaway is it looks like a crime of passion upon someone who was asleep. So you're looking at household covers, but that's about it. I'm also going to do a heel check and like Zolf is proper silent.
I mean, I guess quite rude. I guess nobody's going to care in this sort of situation, but like hyper-focused and it's like, right, yeah, you know. So question, Focused Scrutiny is a spell that gives heightened sensitivity to the man's reaction and body language of one creature that you can perceive. It does not specify that the creature, the target creature is alive. Yes, it does in Pathfinder. It's got a wonderful thing where if you're alive, you're a creature. If you're dead, you're an object. Oh, okay.
but your spirit obviously like for spirit magic you still count as a creature but like your mortal remains are an object I see okay that's a shame could have perceived so much apologies yeah you can't I mean I'd let you use it to read the body language of the corpse as that of a corpse but that's as far as I'll let you go well I could potentially read whether he was able to defend himself Don't open up these doors. Tell you what, give me the heel check, Ben, and then I'll return to you. It was rubbish and I get no new information. He's dead. Okay, all right, okay, yeah. Yeah, focus scrutiny is not the friend you want it to be in this situation. But speaking of friends in this situation, Wilde is banging on the lab door. Well, I think you've forgotten, Alex, that Hammond and Skrark were dealing with their own entirely separate crisis, so they'll have been doing something in the meantime. You know what? I will cut to Hammond and Skrark, in fact, with the knowledge that Wilde is going to be banging on the door real soon. Oh, Skrark, you stay here. Watch, make sure no one... I'm going to go and get everyone else. They need to know about this. But first... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm going to very quickly cast heroism on Skrark, just for the daily, you know, upping of his survivability, which takes three seconds. And then I'm going to start running up the stairs out of the lab and probably barrel into wild coming down. Ada is still with Skrark at this point, basically going, how did you know there was a door that went out? You run past, you basically run into the lab door, throw open the big metal door to a wild-looking panicked going, there's something important I've got to tell you! Oscar, there's an entrance! There's a corpse! What? Who's dead? Tesla! Oh my god, what? Okay, leave someone to guard the door and then we need to reconvene at the bedroom.
Okay, Scott, yeah, okay. I'll lead you back towards Tesla's bedroom. Okay, okay, in the bedroom, Alex, let's pass on focus scrutiny. I suggest I roll knowledge nature to check what animal it was. Yeah, perfect. Sounds good to me. Cool. I rolled a nine, so that's only 31.
Very large bite pattern. It appears to have no natural form that leaps to mind of yours. It's not like clearly a bear or clearly a wolf. You think that it was probably bear-sized, but there is a morphic pattern to the bite, so the shape of the teeth were changing as they bit. It is a werewolf. I tell everyone this, or Sel does it in a very Sel... For free, though, you do also confirm that those...
Possible stab wounds are definitely stab wounds, not animal attack wounds. Animals don't have claws that are perfectly straight and or serrated. It doesn't work like that. No. Well, I mean, some of them do, but let's just assume that we can tell the difference here. I'm tempted to erase all of those animals from this campaign world, so I'm right. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, there will be no scavengers here. Sel explains all of this. I would like you to imagine this with the now improved goggles, like zooming in and out. So it's very much one of those remakes of Sherlock Holmes in a sort of steampunk magic universe of which there are dozens. In my mind, they kind of look like those glasses where you've got like a spring in each lens and they're popping, they're sort of boinging. No! No liberty here, Helen. This is a serious remake. Sorry. This is one that has, like, this is not a Bernie Dak combi bump one. This is like, you know, a serious actor.
And, like, it's noir and dark. I'm so upset, Helen. I now can't delete the image of Sel going around with bouncy eyes. I'm going to work real hard to, but you've inserted that. You've totally incepted that image. I can't believe it. We're in Endgame now, and the two of you are joking. I know. I am so sorry. At a time like this. I am so sorry. A man is dead. A man has died. Okay, so I am going to go ahead and say that the party, excluding Skrark, because Skrark's doing guard duty at the tunnel, convene at Tesla's bedroom.
Okay, well, Barrett is missing and we have a dead body, so I think probably Barrett did this. Cell relates all the details that they gained from the check. The creature was bear-sized and was transforming at the point it was biting. Me and Skrark, we found a secret tunnel in the lab, but Ada didn't know about it. Maybe he did, and that's how he... Is everyone else okay? Do we know where everyone else is? Good point. Wild runs off to go and says, I'm going to go find the others. Augusta and the Professor. And Summit Neal?
So Summit Neal's door is directly opposite from Tesla's. Like, right next to you. They come in. Summit Neal is sort of opening the door slowly and looking quite confused at everyone. Tesla's dead. What? And I'm going to watch their face very hard. Yeah. Everyone give me a sense motive. Yes. 19. Ooh. 29. 22. 17. For everyone apart from Azu...
That's a very blank face. That's a very blank face. Something else quite good at being blank, I'd say that for Azu, there's an ambivalence there, but a very strong one, and it's being controlled. You don't know whether it's a happy sad, an angry shock, but there is a big old mix of emotions that's being put behind a wall right now. Okay. Right. Sel slowly says, it appears that he was killed by a bite wound. That does seem to clock a shock reaction. An unnatural death.
Yes, yes, not in his, well, in his sleep, yes. He was murdered. Unnaturally in his sleep, stabbed and bitten and, well, as he gestures to the bed. Summit Neal looks and then collapses. She doesn't completely faint, but she does just drop, just slumps down against the door frame. Can I make a reflex save to try and catch them? Yes. Yes, you can. Okay, it's not good. I hope I don't, I hope I don't do badly on this because I'd like to catch them. That's a 21.
21. Yeah, you can catch them as they just slump against the doorway. Okay. You don't need a sense motive. You just pointed to someone who was viciously murdered to someone who has an extended history with this person and has very conflicted emotions and was struggling with being back in proximity to them. Like... Yeah. For free, your sense motive is this is either an exceptional act or that may have been a mistake to point them out there. That's absolutely what I was thinking. Oh, right. Yes. Okay, whoops. Right, looks like it was Barrett then. Okay, let's go to the secret entrance. We need to catch up with him as soon as we can. Yes. We need to make sure that Ada's protected. If he took out...
Nicola, then maybe he'll go after her next too. All right, you stay here, we'll go. Wilde sort of comes running back round the corridor with Augusta in tow. Augusta is decked with weaponry and armour. Ooh. Like, proper, fully decked in very impressive medium armour, a pair of different broadswords strapped across her back, and she's ready for a fight. Wilde looks panicked next to her. We can't find her, Einstein.
Oh. He was heading to the toilets. We checked. There's no sign of him. Einstein can teleport. Not here. But he can't teleport out of here. Okay, I know. Look, Einstein is not important right now. We need to find Barrett. We need to find...
What if Barrett was hiding in the toilets and used Einstein to teleport somewhere? And he knew something about teleporting out of here that we don't. Then we need to find Barrett. Zolf's right. Zolf's right. We need to at least get this place in shutdown and we have an open door right now. Augusta, make sure the non-combatants don't die. We're all going and we're following Barrett down that hole. Yes. Okay. At which point, all of the lights start to dim within the building. Oh, silence these. What is happening? So, in terms of the lighting, this has been a sort of Magitek lighting situation. I'm basically kind of fudging gas lamps combined with sort of magic crystals as a kind of look. They all start to dim.
and dim, and then very quickly, we're talking in a matter of, say, like, less than six seconds, drop the entire place into pitch black. Azu swears really loudly. Hamid uses his six seconds as one combat round. Hamid uses his move action to put on the night goggles that you gave us before the Spellbard mission, and uses his standard action to cast mage armor on himself. Nice. Dude knows the rules. Yes, he does. What a power! I'm going to count. I think that Cell is always wearing the goggles because there's just always layers of goggles going on. Headbands and goggles.
altogether. Is anything happening? The lights have just died. We should go Ada and Skryker down there and they are the most vulnerable. Yes, let's go now. I go. Augusta pipes up. The lab has a separate power supply to the rest of the complex so it should still be fine. As he strides away.
Cool. Yeah, you don't have any objections as that's happening, so you all start heading down. Obviously, it's a little bit slower. I'm going to assume as well that people are moving cautiously. No, I have dark vision. Yeah, we've all got dark vision. Yeah. Okay, fine. So you all are bombing it through the complex. Yes, because if Ada's being actively murdered, I don't care if somebody tries to stab me by surprise. Understood. Please, everyone give me a perception check. We do. 28. 16. 19. 24.
Hamid, you can hear, as everyone's clattering by, clattering by, clattering by, you stop just for a second, think you see something, but as you stop and just fall ever so slightly behind, you hear a faint sound seems to be permeating the complex. You can't place what it is. It's like a static or a hiss or something. You're able to run and catch up with the rest of the group very easily. It's just you had a moment's reprieve to hear a very low sort of sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Hammond is trying to get his wings to come out again, but he hasn't quite mastered it yet, so it's not really happening, but he's at the back now, so no one else will notice. He's just running down with one wing out, going, ah! They sort of grow and retract, and he can't quite get them to... But by the time anyone notices, they're gone again, because he didn't accomplish it properly. I was going to say teething problems, more like winging problems. You all make it to the front door of the lab to find it locked. The big metal door is closed, locked, and apparently sealed. Scrack, it's us! Back on the door, Ada! You hear a sort of movement from the other side, and then you hear a...
Hello? Is that who? It's everyone. Open a bloody door. Open the door. Open the door right now. Tesla, maybe swear I wouldn't if something like this happened. Tesla's dead. Do you want to get murdered in that lab or do you want us to protect you? There's another entrance now, Ada. We found it, remember? Can I get a fort save from everyone, please? Yeah. 11. 21. 16. 22. Wild gets... Oh, what a champ. What a champ. Well, that means he did badly. See, that could mean anything. That means he did badly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just like, oh, that is the death I needed. Or he gets to live another day.
How could we have been doing this for six years and not know what the reactions are? Love it. Everyone, apart from Azu and Zulf, collapsed. Seemingly unconscious. Nap time. Azu sweat again, extremely loudly. Right, what's that? Whoever's closest to me, I'm going to do a heal check just to make sure they're not dead. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. I got a 22 on my heal check on whoever was closest. It seems that they've been poisoned. Balls.
Isn't cell immune to poison? I'm immune to poison. Oh, and also I should have got plus two. Oh, Zulf, you're fine. You're not classed. But the interesting thing here is, ooh, cell's immune to poison. You levelled and you're immune to poison. I forgot. You're fine. You're hunky-dory. Okay. The universe glitches momentarily, shudders, and then cell momentarily T-poses and then reappears.
Okay, Cell will do a... In the same immediate reaction... Let's assume that, as he says, oh, they've been poisoned, Cell will do a craft alchemy? Yeah, that's fine. Cool. Give me a craft alchemy. Let's see where that goes. 31. There is an inhalation poison in the air. You recognise the slight tingling in the nostrils that accompanies that. Someone seems to have released an inhalation poison into the atmosphere, and it's been hitting people very hard. What was the exact score again? 31. 31. You believe... Actually, you just know. There's an obscure...
drug which is used in the americas quite a lot it can be purchased in europe and so on but it is an illicit substance that is normally not allowed it's called sweet dream uh how sweet dream works very simple it will send you to sleep if you're a fairly robust type it'll send you to sleep for a minute or two if you're not it can knock you out for hours and hours during the time of which you will have the most blissful and wonderful dreams the reason it's an illicit substance is not because it is a physically addictive substance but people uh have a tendency to basically reshape their lives around it because it's so wonderful an experience. You know that when the people are asleep, they can be woken, but if they're not taken away from the source of it, they're just going to fall straight back asleep again. Okay. Cell explains this and essentially explains that it's... So the effects seem to be sleep for one minute and forget events of 1d4 rounds prior. That is not enough time, even if we get up to four for them to forget the murder. You are correct. And sleep for 1d4 hours. But it doesn't say it's a magical sleep, so they should be able to wake up if we just shake them. But they will immediately then...
still be subject to the thing that's making them sleep unless you remove them from the situation or change the situation. Can you stop it? I can't. It's in the air. They're continuing to breathe it in. Yeah, if we can get them away from the source. No, I mean, we just need... What's going on? What's going on? You need to let us in. No, no, stop. Because that'll let the air in, actually, if Ada's still fine. Is Skrark in there with you? Yeah, yeah, he's keeping an eye on the tunnel. He says that there's a locked gate a little bit further down. Right. Right.
We just get them in and then we lock the door behind us. It'll dissipate in the air. How confident are you? So it won't be enough if we're quick. It won't be enough to contaminate it. I am rolling a knowledge alchemy check. You won't need it. I'll give it to you from the last one. Can you state what your assertion was again? I can just tell you whether that's accurate or tweak it. That if we got in quickly and brought a tiny bit of air with us, it would be dissipated enough not to affect people. You know that it's a very, very potent one. Ada and Skrark would need to retreat to the tunnel. But in principle, yes. If you can drag everyone in and then close the door and wait, say, 60 seconds, it will be dissipated if it has a separate air supply.
Right, yeah, explains that. Stressing the extra air supply bit. How many bodies are there here, Alex? So, currently unconscious is Augusta, Wilde, and Hammond. Fine, we can move them all around. Yeah, because you can carry two. Yeah, we can take them. Right. Go as far into the tunnel as you can, and breathe as far in there as possible, and we'll get them in, and we'll shut the doors super quick, and the new air supply will, you know, Cell goes into too many details when Cell is agitated. I do not need to road play forever. I just need to explain it. Cell, get the door open, because Zolf is having none of the over-explaining. He's just do it, do it, do it.
Ada's like, I can open the door on my side so that you can... I can unlock the door on my side and then if I go to the other end of the... Do it, go. Yes, do that, do that. Unlock it, we'll be in in two seconds. Right, Azu, Hammond and Wild, and I'll grab Augusta. So Ada unlocks the door from the other side and you can hear the retreat and footsteps to the far side of the room. I'll deal with the door. Everyone ready? Thank you. Everyone give me a reflex save. Okay. Oh, roll well, Azu, roll well. Not bad. 17? 22. 27. Hammond obviously is an auto-fail.
He's being dragged. Wild is an auto-fail. Oh, we counted the wrong number of bodies. Summit Neal is also unconscious. Oh, Christ. No, I can probably still do two, actually. You are a very strengthy lot. It will be trivial. Hamid is very light. Plus four and plus five is fine. I think Summit Neal, as frail as their physical form is, combined with Hamid, still doesn't constitute like a hefty, medium-sized creature. You're fine. Don't worry about it. I just pick Hamid up by the top of his neck like a cat. So as a result, as the door opens, you know, and starts pulling aside and you all grab people and start dragging in, I'm going to say...
Azu, you take a quick look over your shoulder as you do so and see a large humanoid figure briefly outlined in silhouette from the lights coming through the door. And then everything goes white for everyone. We'll be back in a couple of minutes. Okay, so, looking back down the corridor that you've come from, there's that creepy figure before everything went white, yes? Yeah.
Cool. In that case, then... That sounds like so many dice. That sounds like a lot of damage. It is a lot of dice. You're assuming damage. Maybe it's how many NPCs die. No. Might be non-lethal when Alex is trying to knock us all out by hook or by crook. Oh, yeah. It could just be summoning a load of corgis. Like, that could just be how many corgis I'm summoning. 10 to 6 corgis. Yeah. Oh, that would be more corgis. Okay, okay. I'm checking one thing very quickly. It means how many health potions we'll get. Azu. Yes. Oh, s***. I shouldn't swear. Alex. Alex.
No! No! Helen, it's fine. You've got loads of hit points. I know, but he's laughing so much! Alex! More of a mysterious giggle. Sorry. Azu, you take 10, 20, 31, 42.
44 lightning damage. Nice. Oh, and Zulf's freaking resistant to it, isn't he? Everyone else who did not hit the DC of 19 also takes the same damage. Zulf, you take 22 damage. Hamid takes 44 damage. Sel takes 22 damage. Azu takes the full 44. Wilds takes the full 44. Sumit Neal takes the full 44. And Augusta takes the full 44. That's why you had so much fun saying they auto-failed. I understand now.
Alex. Alex. Yeah. And it was all by legitimate roles. I'm so happy. I'm so happy right now. Bryn, how many hit points do you have? Left. How many hit points do you have to start with? That's more useful for me to know. 62. Okay, you're still alive. It's fine. Okay.
Everything goes white as lightning damage just slams into Azu, crackling through your bones and between your teeth, then leaps to everyone else in the group. At which point, the shadowy figure leaps forward incredibly quickly and powers towards the group. Zolf, you have darkvision, correct? Yes, I also have attacks for opportunity in a ten-foot reach. Yeah, that's fine. Azu? Yes, I also have darkvision. You have darkvision. And Sel, you have darkvision currently, don't you? Yeah, perfect. Cool. So the creature charges forward and...
Oh, God. At which point, two weird sort of... Have you ever seen, like, a straightened slinky? I mean, that's a wire, Alex. That's such a bit of a wire. No, no, no, no. A badly straightened slinky, so you've still got the weird twists and kicks. Do you mean a stretched-out slinky? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a coil kind of thing. Two coils. Yeah, that's the word I was looking for. Stretched-out slinky is a very elongated way of saying coil. Thank you. Two coils of matter extricate themselves from the shoulders of this creature, hover in the air, then dash forward, both of which for Zolf. They do not trigger attacks of opportunity. Okay. Is that written in there?
She? Yes, explicitly. Fair enough. At which point, they then sort of, distorting wildly, stab outwards towards Zulf's face. Okay. Are they evil? Zulf does not know, but I would say you can make an educated guess of yes. What's your AC? 22. I believe it's 22, because that's all the number you've given me all day. It's 22, and I don't know why or how.
Okay, they are evil. You are taking damage reduction. Cool. Because of the way it pans out, one of them manages to stab through to your face, dealing eight damage. Specifically, it is slashing. Okay, is that before or after the damage reduction? That is before damage reduction. Grand. And they then hover in front of your face, spiking wildly. It's sort of like looking at, you know, like audio visualisers in a circle. Yeah. At which point, I think everyone should probably roll the initiative. Probably. Oh, that's a natural one. Oh. I assume I don't need to, Alex. Anyone who is unconscious will be taking a zero. Yep. Natural 20. 21. Six.
Well, it was a natural 20, so that's 24 in total. Yep. Can you roll for Skrark, Bryn, please? 12. Excellent. And I've rolled everyone else's up for them. Fabulous. In which case then, da-da-da, Sel, you are up. To describe the scene, you are in the...
Technically, you're going to be in the mini-workshop, because the mini-workshop leads into the lab, yeah. So, you are in the... Well, everyone is in the sort of mini-workshop. You're at the entrance to the main lab with the big metal door, etc. That door is now ajar. At the entrance to the mini-lab, stood, silhouetted in the corridor by the light of the now-open door. That creature was stood there and then moved forward. The big creature is now ten foot from you, and the small creatures are basically sharing a square with Zolf.
Oh, that's annoying because a bomb would then hit him. Bomb's going to hit everyone, unless you throw to the far side. Yeah, yeah. Try to place it behind Big Boy. Yeah, but if it hits Big Boy, they only have five foot splash, so it... Oh, then everyone will be alright. Yeah, so I will... So I will be unloading bombs into large, lad. Understood. Go for it. Okay, let's do some rolling. Okay, 26. That is a miss. Oh, no.
Does it still take splash damage? So you've raised a good question regarding what happens when you miss and still want to use a splash damage, so I've looked it up. And I'm going to come out and say, that's a stupid rule. I don't often say this. That is a bad rule. So I am not doing that rule. I refuse. That is ludicrous. So what I'm going to be doing instead is if you miss by a certain factor of the AC, I will call for basically, I'll just make a roll that's effectively just determining whether it's likely to hit anyone or not. Or if you completely fumble, I will automatically assume that the fumble is going to be hurting someone that you don't want it to hurt. By fumble, I mean a nat one. Okay.
Cool. To be clear, on this situation, you've missed, and you've missed in such a way that it just flies over, it doesn't splash the creature or anyone that you care about. Okay, if that is a big miss, there's no way that Cell can hit this creature, because that was Cell rolling high with their highest attack bonus. To give you a description, by the way, you threw it, you seem to throw ever so slightly wide, but the thing moved ludicrously quickly. Just sort of, think bullet dodging in the Matrix, just sort of turned a shoulder and it flew over, it didn't really even seem particularly phased. Yeah, okay, so that is not worth wasting bombs on. There is a...
negligible chance of rolling higher than that so that is the first of four attacks you know what let's do one more let's do one more and then But no, they rolled a three, so... No, that's wildly off, unfortunately. Having seen those two things happen, so it's going to save their bombs, and that having been their main action, I assume they do not have time to grab at the nearest unconscious person and begin to drag them away. But if they do have that time, then they will begin doing that. I'll be generous and allow you to grab the nearest unconscious person, but I wouldn't allow you to then drag them away. You're using your movement to grab them. I'm kind of fudging it a bit, but that seems okay to me. Okay, I mean, yeah, it's like using a standard act rather than a full round thing. I think they would get the two attacks anyway, because they're not, like...
It's fine. You've grabbed a person but you've not been able to run through the door. Cool. Who did you grab? Everyone's within reach. Everyone's within reach. Hamid is the lightest and the one that Sel knows the most will grab Hamid off the ground. Cool. I can't hit that. In which case then, due to weird shenanigans, it is now Slinky number one. Slinky number one takes another stab for Zolf's face. Succeeds but I think is only going to be doing... Basically goes, stabs at your face and your face says no.
Got a sturdy face. It's that beard defence. And then it's moving through the group and then through the doorway to the other side without provoking any attacks of opportunity. At which point, as you, you're up. Right. I detect evil automatically, I think, don't I? Yeah, you can detect evil at will, as are you. And would you like to know whether it's evil and how evil? Yes. Oh!
This might be the most evil thing. I mean, this is right up there. Like, this is proper ludicrous evil. This is nonsense levels of evil. This thing is as if you tried to concentrate evil and then removed the bits so it's just the pure, squeezed, fresh evil. It's nonsense evil. It's the Vantablack of evil. Absolutely. 100% yes. Are the two little things still in front of me or have they gone past me? They are. One of them is past you. The other one is still up in Zolf's face. I would like to use Holy Whisper.
Ooh, cheeky. That is a range of 30 foot. Is that going to hit the big thing and the little thing? Helen, I have an offer. Oh. Because given the numbers that are occurring, we're going to have to be very, we're going to have to tackle your work together in a sort of gamey way instead of a narrative way, I think. Yes. That's fair and I will allow you to do so. You're a well-oiled fighting machine. You've got the thing where you can give everybody, including yourself, some of my evil, right? I do have that.
To answer your question, by the way, the small one, everything would be, is within 30 feet. The small one that went through the door is actually, like, the 30-foot square away, if you see what I mean. You'd hit everything with anything that's got a range of 30-foot, so everyone knows. I mean, it's a cone, so I might not. Ah. Okay, so, holy whispers. Walk me through it, Helen. I'll read you what it says. You whisper a single word in the primordial language of good that is a letter back to the minions of evil and strengthens the resolve of good creatures. Evil creatures within the burst, it is a 30-foot cone-shaped burst. Yep. They must make a fortitude saving throw, which in my case is a DC-16.
Or they become sickened for one round per level, which in my case is 11 rounds. Evil outsiders with the evil subtype, evil aligned dragons and undead also take 2d8 points of damage if they fail the DC 16. Good aligned creatures will gain plus two sacred bonus on attack and damage rolls for one round. I think that might... Because you said you were hammering on the door when this fight kicked off.
which means that I'm probably standing between you and the creature, which means you'd probably hit me with that cone, right? That's what I thought. Hell yeah. I think you will hit everything except the one tiny enemy that already made it through the door. That is correct. That's correct. It's a very, very optimal play. I normally wouldn't let you do this kind of high level, but I've thrown something super, super interesting. You opened with a surprise round chain lightning, so... Yeah, exactly. I opened with surprise round chain lightning in the dark with poison whilst also summoning minions. So yeah, I'm going to allow you to confer. Thank you. Cool, yeah, so...
In that case, then, I will first give a fort save. Please be bad. Please be bad. That's a real bad roll. Okay, remind me of the effect on the enemy. On the enemy? Is it an outsider?
It is automatically now sickened for 11 rounds. 11 rounds? If it's outside with the evil subtype, it also takes 2d8 points of damage. 11 rounds? That's a lot of six. Yikes! Wow! Okay. Yeah, so this thing clearly hits the big scary like a ton of bricks. Good. Just it actively reacts. It's almost been impassive. It's moved and then stopped, and then moved and then stopped. But that one gives a... And it resets itself. The thing that's up in Zulf's grill appears completely unaffected. Okay. Does it take damage? So, in terms of the damage...
it was that it deals damage and extra if they're an evil outsider, correct? Only if they're an evil outsider or a dragon or a dead. So, you want the interesting stuff. The face doctor's really going to throw you. It's not an outsider. Nope. Oh, it's because it's a transformed Barret and he's not an outsider. That's, well, that is my thought. I don't know, but that would explain the visceral horrible attacks as well. So, nonetheless, you've done an enormous, you've done an enormous against me and I will say this because I think you need a little bit of comfort, Helen.
Real well played. That was very, very well played. I'm really glad because that was teamwork. You pulled a bit of a blinder there. Yeah, it turns out that Reggie Cray is apparently really pleased with you. That's really well played. Yeah, thank you very much. You know what, on that, I am going to end the episode there, like you say, in a tactical mindset, ready for whatever comes. Oh, it'd be a terrible shame if something were to happen to this monster, wouldn't it, eh? Terrible shame.
any stenders are we literally underneath well we've basically been mugged by this monster at this point albert square yeah i mean i'm pretty sure the monster gets to act next so i might well be saying goodbye for the final time here you guys so uh no Rusty Quill Gaming is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International License. Today's episode was directed by Alexander J. Newell and produced by Hannah Preisinger. To subscribe, buy merchandise or join our Patreon, visit RustyQuill.com. Rate and review us online, tweet us at TheRustyQuill, visit us on Facebook or email us via mail at RustyQuill.com. Join our community on the Discord or via Reddit at r slash RustyQuill. Thanks for listening.
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