In our last episode, the party entered the portal at the center of the forest. I met numerous unexpected creatures, including a very friendly, absent-minded beholder, a lich, and a Medusa named Psyche, who took them on a quest to free the city of its troublesome plague of rats. Our adventurers today are Keerin, who plays Whalen the Barbarian, Max, who plays Blaister the Monk. It's nice to help people, duh.
Theron, who plays Day the Druid, nobody wants to cuddle with a big frog, Arizona, who plays Psyche, the Medusa. I look like I've petrified my shoulders. And our DM Hazel. Felicia's waiting for the magic.
What are you two doing? Welcome, fellow travelers, to Legends of Chow. But it looks just like a normal rat. I just put it back down without making any noise.
I think I probably head up to where they tend to come out. I just fucking crouch and wait. I'm fucking, I'm ready. I turn to the others and I do some kind of complicated- Sarmling- Like series of hand gestures with my free hand, but none of them make any sense to you.
I'm just like making fucking- It's going straight, over-dops. They're for gestures and you're just like, what? And I finally go, they tend to come out of here and I point to wherever they come out of, I guess, a hole in the wall or something. Well, okay, so you're there and Psyche is waiting at a hole in the wall where the rats normally come out of.
Okay. And I would like everyone to make perception checks. 17? 22.
14. 18. We all did good. You all did good.
So Psyche is looking at this hole where the rats normally come out of. And then you hear a scratching sound from a different direction. So you all turn about, so you see this giant rat appear. I say appear, it kind of claws a big hole in the wall and just kind of bursts through kind of like the Kool-Aid man.
Yeah. Holy yeah. What is it about? Yeah, it's like- And everyone will need to roll initiative.
Yay. 11. Three. I rolled an eight on nine initiative.
I got six. If everyone rolls badly, then the other one is really good. One left at the top. Y'all.
We're still just kind of still kind of taking a back by it's literally just rat. Okay, it's also like, oh fuck. They're back. So Psyche, there's a giant rat over there.
I'm going to try and petrifying gaze this fucker. I look at this rat. It's probably just like looking at all this, right? I can see its eyes and I can see mine.
Okay. So when a creature can see the Medusa's eyes start, it starts its turn within 30 feet of the Medusa can force it to make a DC 14 con saving throw. If the rat fails by five or more, it's instantly petrified. Otherwise it begins to turn the stone and is restrained.
So I look to look at it and the giant rat needs to make a DC 14 con sedusa saving thing. DC 14 con. If it succeeds, I believe the effect does not happen. Okay.
So it rolled a two as instantly turned to stone. No, a two succeeds. Oh, wait, I still what? So it's an ADD style.
Oh, I mean, I don't know anything about AD and D, but I do understand the word inverted, I guess. I know what AD and D you had to roll under the armor class to hit them. Does anything happen if they succeed or is it just? I think it just it shakes off the yet.
Okay, just making sure. Okay, cool. Can you or do you want to do anything else on your turn? I think I'm going to duck back about 15 feet.
I try to. Okay, so what happens is I like, I look at this thing and my eyes kind of like flash for a moment and then it just looks like it like tilts his head like, what are you trying to do, bitch? I'm a giant rat. What are you going to do to me?
And I just kind of go. Okay. And I step back and I think that's end of my turn. Sorry guys.
That's all right. So that brings us to police. I'm going to I'm going to kick it. I'm going to run up and kick it.
Just kick it. Yeah. I'm going to punt it. So I get well, first I should move and make sure that I actually have movement.
I can probably move like 45. Yeah, I'm up to like 45 now. I think 21 21 does not. Yeah, upside down.
Oh, no, I've forgotten how many it's been so long. I've now forgotten what I do. You got extra attack to attack, right? Yeah, with your action.
Yeah. And then as a bonus action, you can shake one or two if you send a key point that they're right or close. I was just trying to remember. I remember the bonus action part.
I just can't remember how many I had as actions. All right. Okay, the kick misses the foot the momentum carries the foot up and around and it turns into a stomp a natural 20. Oh, no.
God damn it. You bring upside down is probably a natural one. It is. I fucking pull a hamstring, right?
You bring your foot down onto the rat and it's a lot more resilient than you thought. You just kind of like push yourself down onto the floor. So you're now prone. Oh, how much of my movement did I use?
I use like 35 or 45. Oh, good. Okay. So I have 10 feet left of movement.
I expend five of it to back up. Am I allowed to do that on the stern or one more time bonus action? I am going to attempt. I'm trying to think how to flavor this basically.
I'm going to try to pile drive with my elbow. Another natural 20. Geez. Oh, my God.
Which actually is what is what's playing in the rat's head because the rat is now doing the hand in front of his face. You can't see me. Stuck uses in the back and went, why did I think this would work? She doesn't say that, but she's only thinking like, God damn it.
I have never I have a 21 and two natural points. I have never done that well in any combat of any game that I have ever played. All 20 consents that we flipped the rules and it's like, okay, here's the natural 20s. You're doing well.
Fuck you. Okay. So yeah, you get up, you try to attack the rat again and then you just trip right over it again and fall back down. Oh, God.
I use my last five feet of, I think it was, yeah, my last five feet of movement to pop back up again because tipsy sway and that's, I've literally done everything I can on the stern. Okay. That brings us to days turn. I am going to take out my seven weeks beer and say bon zai and try to hit the rat with it.
Okay. A 16. Okay. That's, that's typical.
So that's fine. And then I guess that's it for now. Okay. Waylon stern.
Waylon who has the highest attack bonus of anybody here. Oh, look. Yeah. Is it a well?
I'm going to have four. I'm going to have one. Probably. Yeah, natural one.
I have a plus eight. I have a plus eight. Come on. Come on.
No. Fuck. 16. Second attack 24.
Jesus. God damn it. Two swings and two misses. Yeah.
I'm afraid of raging case resistance turns into vulnerability. Oh, an advantage. It is now the rat's turn. Waylon and Polastra are right next to it.
Polastra just fell down a bunch. So it's probably going to attack Waylon. What's your AC? I want to say it's 15.
Yeah, 15. So it just misses. Yeah. Nice.
Right. Misses and it is Sagi's turn again. If I want to move here, I'll ping it. If I were to move here, would it still be what I still have line of sight on the giant right?
I'm going to go ahead and move my full movement. You know what? I'm going to give it one more shot. And if this fucking thing doesn't freeze up, it's getting fucking poisoned.
So I do catch up on gays again and the rat needs to make a DC 14. God damn it. They got it too again. Fuck you know.
I like it's a high of a save. Well, I did my movement and I don't have any boter sections or other actions. So I guess it's my turn. No.
Okay. Polastra's turn again. I am going to spend an action to use my spectral ram from my ring of the ram. Does a nine hit?
A nine does hit. Yeah. Force damage unless that's reverse to somehow and the rat is pushed five feet away from us or for me. Oh, how's I doing damage?
Yeah. Does that bring it to 11? Like that's what I was assuming. Like you do one damage that brings you down to one hit point.
That's what was scaring me. Oh, no. That seems complicated. It's mostly it's mostly just hard to hit.
Okay. Okay. So the 11 force damage does transfer. It only has seven hit points.
So you kill it. Great. Okay. Why was that so hard?
Is it? I told you. She's like, yeah, I told you is if you can hit rats in your world, great. But here, what just happened?
Yeah, that's pretty strange. I'm just pissed off this thing and didn't get fucking petrified. I imagine we're still kind of in combat. So I'm not going to act yet.
I don't think we're still in combat. No, you can move about freely. Okay. So the rat burst through that and like a new hole in the wall, right?
Yeah, there's a new hole in the wall around there. I would like to just just perception check to see if I can hear any other like what the hell else like are there more coming? Okay, go ahead and make a perception check. Oh, fucking really good a perception, which means I'm going to be bad at it.
12. Okay, you're listening. It doesn't sound like anything else is coming this way, but that there are more rats back there. Okay.
But they have not been drawn towards you as of yet. Mm-hmm. And can I perception check the room to see if there's anything that we could fucking slide in front of this, just cut off one of their entrances and then like prepare some kind of spell to just like flush them out? Because if this gang has spells and like I have that one spell, but like I turned to the other three and I go, do any of you have like, I point to the hole and I go, there's more in there, but they seem to be dormant.
Do any of you have any kind of like fire abilities or some way to just like flush these fuckers out so we don't have to keep fighting them one on one? I don't know if that's a good idea. I just have a big say. I also, I wonder if we're going about this the wrong way.
So these rats are a new thing, right? Pretty recent, but they've been around for, Hazel, how long have these rats been around for? The rats have been a problem for a while, which is necessary because... How long is a while?
A few hundred years, probably. Probably a few thousand years really. They've been getting worse and worse. So they've been more stuff moving out.
Is that right? So I have a shot. Oh, close enough. They keep moving up and up through the city and forcing people out.
Like the really lower levels are just packed and the higher levels where they are, there are fewer of them. So it's easier to... So what I'm starting to wonder here is, you know, since it seems like it doesn't seem like, oh, there's always been a bunch of rats and now they're attacking. It seems like, oh, all of a sudden there's more rats than there ever used to be and they're being forced up to the population.
So is there a source? Is there like... Because everything's flipped here where like, smaller is stronger. What if there is some big creature that's producing the rats and we can fight that and put a stop to the rats from the source and it's something where we have a better chance of hitting it, maybe?
I think... I had... You know what? Like he says, I had the exact same thought but the problem is like, every time we go into clear specific area, like, I usually end up either as the only one or one of two that survive.
So even if we... I don't want to discourage you because again, that's a great strategy. I just don't know how far we can get... We can try.
I have a skill that might be useful. I could just like conjure eight cats right now. Wait a second. Hold on.
Speaking of useful skills that Day has... I stepped back from the floor before we do Octomons. Tom and Jerry, Day, why don't you talk to the rats? You can talk to animals, right?
I can, yeah. What if you ask the rats if like, something's driving them to do this? And if maybe they can... Maybe we can like kind of part the rat seas and walk down to if there is some kind of bigger source to whatever that is.
Okay, so I'm not rat Moses but I can try talking to you but it's a good idea. It's like he says I haven't tried that. I mean, she steps back and all of these like I mean go for it. She still has some short sword out and still ready to get to see things.
If we have an entire city full of rats, it doesn't matter how small they are, how few hit points they are, it is going to take us like three lifetimes assuming that we are successful in every encounter with the rats to clear all of them. So there has to be some kind of... Or I mean there doesn't have to be but hopefully for us there's some kind of source. I don't know if any of that really is terribly out of character for Polacer to say but...
I think the idea of Polacer wanting to find one big thing to fight is perfectly reasonable. That's true. Okay, so yeah, I will go over to look in the hole and in like my beast speech I'll say hello, what's going on in there? Okay, I did not make this clear because I'm bad at things but there is another room through the hole.
Okay, oh, like it's a door. It's a door now. The adjoining room is accessible through it. Wait a second, wait a second, I just have a phone.
What if? Okay, I was very quiet. When I came in here I was talking to you people and knocking stuff over on accident. What if we ate one of them to come out but see where it goes?
Or like, no, not where it goes but damn it. I thought I had a brilliant idea in it. Talk yourself out of it. Yeah, I know.
Well, because if we follow where it went then that wouldn't help because it would probably just go up to one of the higher levels and flood the city. Should we watch ourselves come in front? If we can't talk to this thing? Well, maybe we should let day talk to them.
Let's let day talk first. I can talk to it but you guys have to understand that talking to animals has very rarely helped us out. They have very small lives. So I'm going to talk to a rat and it's going to tell me about the room that it's been living in for the past few days.
But I can certainly try to talk to them. Through the nothing. So is there a door into this room with a rat like that all along this wall in this room? There is not a door.
There is just this hole. Okay, so I'm just going to crouch at the hole, look in there and say hello. Just a bunch of rats just come around the corner down into this room and they look at you and go food. I might have something.
I look in my pocket. Can we say that I still have a good berry from this morning? Yeah. Okay, so I'll toss them a good berry and they're like I'm sorry we don't have much food.
Food? More food. I can bring you more food if you answer a question. Food?
I turned everyone and say they really just they're hungry. That's all I'm getting. That doesn't solve the problem of them. Can you ask them if they'll let us pass?
I think that might be too complicated. The rats start approaching you? I'm ready my shorts are you going to let them come closer? How aggressive do they look?
They look like they want to eat me. They are moving fairly slowly but it looks like they are intending to move into your space. I might want to pull out some fire. I'm going to roll on it.
Even Zon's going to stay. Uh oh. No, I'm going to back up. Okay, let's roll initiative.
Five. Twelve. Four. Nine.
Oh my God. If the rat rolls higher than 91 fucked. It's the rats day, playster, psyche and then wailin. Also, I don't care if you fuck these rats.
I don't know. Okay, so Hazel, okay, while we're breaking Hazel. Okay. So here's the deal.
I'm like, oh, that's a fun challenge. And now I'm just like seething. Okay, I'm done. Go ahead.
It's okay. I'm sorry that everybody is so angry at me. I'm not so angry at you now. No, I'm more determined now to tell you that.
I was like, all right, okay, we're going to get it. We're going to figure it out. It feels almost more like I'm trying to punch a puzzle which is why I was like, hang on, let's wait before we do anything else. I feel like the puzzle solution is pretty obvious.
I just don't think that I would think of it in character. We need like a really low level poison. Oh, oh, yeah. So the rats move up today and then they will attack day.
Oh, don't I get an act of opportunity because I cost me? Yeah. I come out of the thing. I'll hit with my short sword.
But that one, well, you know, naturally. I fucking miss you. It'll be a long fight. This is, this is, I hate real 20 so much.
The one day we want to roll well. I'm shocked. They didn't, I'm just so shocked. They didn't come for me first that I'm just like, I'm like, oh, oh, I'm sorry.
I'm just like, I'm like, oh fuck. Yeah, you're kind of panicking. I've been rushing past you and you just kind of swing at them and drop your sword. Come on.
All right. Well, so. If working is my armor class, so I believe that's a guess. Well, normally, yeah.
I want to be known because normally if it matched then it would, now it wouldn't. It is normally, yes. And I did not come up for a rule for it, but I think that they do not hit. Great.
Whoo. Which moves us on to. To me. Yes.
Okay. And then I say to everybody, they did just say food again, by the way. And then I think that I just want to, I'm going to, oh, that's such a high fucking modifier. I'm just going to try and slap them off of me.
Okay. So I got a 13. 13. Okay.
Cool. Okay. That's me. They're like crawling on me, right?
They're not on the ground. My ankles. Yeah. I'm not going to be able to get away.
So I'll just say here. Okay. Police are starting there. I'm actually going to try and throw it in wraps.
What kind of like rations? I know I have rations. Like what is actually in like a rations pack anyway? Rations.
Nice. Usually like hard tack dried meat, maybe some, some of the cravings or something. All right. I throw, I throw little a salami and some cravings onto the ground nearby.
And I say, look food. Get it rats. Get the food. Make an animal handling check.
Oh, wait. An animal handling check. Right? I have a shot then.
11. I don't know. I don't know how this is going to work out for me. Okay.
I'm just glad that you're also confused by your rules. Yeah. It's a complex thing to work out. Yeah.
I'm struggling a little bit. I thought it was cool. So half the rats leave day and go after the rations, but there are still a few on day. Okay.
Throwing the rations. That kind of is like an action or a bonus action or. I think using a skill is technically an action. Okay.
So I guess I will. Oh, man. I don't want to hurt day. Just do it.
Just to smack some rats off. Sure. Should I do an unarmed attacker or because I'm trying to remove rats? If you like some kind of something special.
Yeah. Do do it in an armed attack. All right. Here we go.
25. Yeah. I figured. I guess as long as I don't actually smack day.
If you'd credit me. Oh, God. Smack day. What the hell?
Okay. Well, then it is like he's trying. Oh, yeah. It is.
You know, I kind of had the same idea. I don't really have an unarmed strike, but I'm going to. Can I just try like athletics check, like just try to pull these rats off? Would that be next check or would that be a strength check?
Just to try and like. Yeah, I'd be fine with either. You want to hold on? Yeah.
I'll just make it just a flat strength check. I can't. Fuck. God, I was like, this is the last day of here.
You do. You regen to grab some rats and you just smack day right across the cheek and try to grab one and it's getting out of the way. I'm sorry. I think that's, where's the other half of the rats?
They're on the little Acellami. They're on the map. Can someone mark it for me? They're on the hand.
They're just where the hand is. Since we're not using the hand right now. Because if I move away from day, they're probably going to get an attack of opportunity. Would they?
I don't think swarms work like that. Yeah, they're occupied. They're occupied with day. They're swarming on day.
So you'd be fine. Okay. I'm going to. Yeah.
I mean, I guess I like to do is really movement. So I'm going to. Okay. So I moved 5 feet to get to there here, here and here.
Okay. Circle around day. Yeah. So I apologize today.
I'm just ready to f***ing patch if I want to. A single round. And that's the end of my turn. Alright.
It's just one. At this point, I would be. Okay. Alright.
Weylin's going to come over to the ones on the ground and he's just going to put away the site and just start trying to stomp on them. Cause I mean, I know that that's still like only a one last bonus because I'm just going to roll with the hand out cause you still get proficiency. Yeah. 21 to hit.
Does not hit. Oh my God. Another 21. Same roll.
Same roll. This is frustrating. Yeah. I'm telling you, man, roll 20 can sense it.
Yeah, roll 20. Oh my God. Me and roll 20. Me and roll 20, man.
Roll 20 hits players just in general, I think. Oh yeah. Okay. So the rats are going to bite me now.
Yes. Okay. Cool. That hits me.
5 will hit and that is 6 piercing damage. Okay. And then the other ones. Oh, do they want to swarm on psyche or do they want to swarm on Weylin?
I mean, if they're coming up hungry, Weylin is bigger. I mean, if we're going by that, I'm bigger than Weylin. You're further away though. I'm just supposed to get me.
You melted them out. I'm trying to start like we're both arguing like, No, it's what they swerve me. No, I just forgot that the other half of the rats were over there and I thought we were talking about the rats on day and I was like, I'm right here. Even psyche odd.
Okay. What does that? Oh no. Cool.
Okay. Like that. Do you want me to draw a circle so I can actually see it or are we good with maybe? Maybe I put the hand on there, but it went under.
I'd appreciate it. It's like another rats arm. Cool. It's from where?
Raddy color. This one is going to be on the psyche and it's going to bite psyche. I don't like any of this. It's not.
It has only one damage. That's actually not. Not bad. One point of damage.
That's actually not terrible. Okay. So that hurts the rats turn. Okay.
Now bring us back today. All right. I am going to. Yeah.
I'm not having a great day. I understand. I'm going to. I'm going to cast conjure animals and all around me.
At present is going to be on Playster's head and a couple of them are going to be right at my feet and then the rest are going to be surrounding me. I'm going to conjure 8 cats and all the cats are going to attack the rats that are on me. Thank you for listening. Legends of Chell isn't Orksone production made possible through the support of our wonderful patrons.
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