Ep 11: "Fallen Star Pt 3"
Let's go.
Let's go, let's go.
Okay,
so obviously being that you guys have
been into so much activity
and the fact that some of
you have been wounded,
mainly Dolion and Melody
have taken the most wounds.
Do you guys want to proceed
to the gate and the
stairwell or would you like
to rest first and go in the morning?
I would like to rest.
My vote.
I'm going to go for resting
so I can heal up some of these wounds.
Makes sense.
Okay.
So you guys have enough
money given to you by Sir
Gideon to go to any of the nearby places.
There's a right next to the
Holy Temple there or the Holy Temple.
is an inn that you guys can stay at.
They want 10 gold pieces a person.
Do I have the money?
We weren't told how much gold we have.
The only person we know is
Black has two gold,
so he's sleeping on the bench.
So Jen got plus 25.
Oh,
you did get plus 25 for helping with
the wyvern.
Right.
And I got plus 25, and so did Black.
If I don't have it,
I'll just go steal it from the villagers.
Or, I mean, we could spot you.
Like, let's see how much money you got.
I don't like owing people stuff.
Well, you're here on a journey with us.
I mean, my pickpocket skills is high,
so... They'll never know.
They're gonna know.
They'll never know.
They're gonna know.
They're never gonna know.
Then when I come back in
covered in blood from killing cops...
He just killed that guard.
Or that poor kid was like.
Guards are just like, hey, man,
you can't steal that.
Throat slash.
They probably looked up to your character,
too.
Dolion, what the hell?
Like, Dolion killed me.
Damn.
I don't like the old people.
Leave me alone.
Now you're wanted.
I don't care.
We're leaving the village anyway.
Let's go.
How much are you looking for
per person at the inn? 10.
So I know between the two, you and Melody,
you have 50 gold pieces.
I wanted to send that to you.
You know from your backstory,
you have other resources
that you can go find.
Most definitely.
Your boy diversifies his balls.
He's invested in lithium.
Roth IRA.
Dogecoin to the moon.
Well,
I actually only have 49 gold because
I spent...
I spent one whole coin on that newspaper.
So I have 49.
But you got, yeah.
What about the,
did you count the 25 you
got from Homeboy?
Yeah.
That's what that 49 is.
Are you going to go potty?
No.
Mara's ramping up over here.
So you get to the tavern slash inn,
the board's head.
And their specialty is
different cuts of ham.
And they say it's going to be about,
you want to sleep inside or outside?
The inn?
Mm-hmm.
And in the end?
Outside, it'd be four gold pieces.
Inside, it'd be 12.
What is outside?
But I thought you said it was 10.
It's 10 earlier when we weren't packed.
We only have two rooms left.
12 gold.
I'll share with Melody.
Good luck, homie.
No, I'm just like, bro,
I'm for the streets, bro.
go back and hang out at the
black uh the blacksmith you
notice that while you guys
are discussing this there's
an enormous man who's bald
standing next to the uh the
barkeep and he's finishing
a large mug of ale he say
you sleep free if you come
sleep with me
nope
Dang, not for the team?
Come on.
He's dirty,
but it's... You see him on the NPC.
You know who it is.
Somebody that's bald?
He's sleeping mighty.
He's eight feet tall.
He's a half giant.
He said, take or leave.
He just walks out.
So basically, he's the one.
Dolion is leaving.
He will leave that offer on the table.
Dolion is leaving that offer on the table.
He just leaves.
Apparently,
you feel like maybe he saw you
earlier hanging around his face.
He doesn't care because they
deal with a lot of the poor.
He might let them come and
sleep in his area because
he's got that big overhang
where he does most of his work.
He probably lets them sleep
under there and doesn't
charge them anything.
You know what I mean?
But he doesn't speak the best English,
and you're guessing his
intelligence level's not very high.
Are you taking him up on the offer?
Do you want to see from the
floor of our room?
Yes.
Okay.
So he'll see from the floor of our room,
Melody.
Is that cool?
Okay.
Where is Machetes saying?
Machetes.
He follows us wherever we go.
Machetes is a little bit enucleated,
passed out somewhere
downstairs in a tavern.
He's sleeping at a table.
Nobody's going to tell him
to get out because they
probably saw him kill
people with his hands.
Leave that giant man alone.
Are you going to wake him up?
You guys get some decent
rest between getting some of your...
equipment off and being able
to look over her wounds you
don't have any serious
wounds yours are mostly
bruises from being blown
the gut the wind took you
off the stage and stuff
nothing's you know but
melody and uh dolion had to
deal with some actual
wounds melody you notice
that the cuts in the back
of your head um they didn't
crack any bone or anything
in your skull but you got
some deep lacerations so it
took some you know help
from your new party members to try to
get some bandages and some .
Stop bleeding.
Now that's the thing you
guys gotta understand about your healing.
Anytime your character is at rest,]
that's where that healing
spot on your character
sheet comes into effect.
So I think you had about 400, Damn, no,
it was you had 475.
Yep.
So just look at your healing
and see how long it would take,
how long you need to rest.
I think you had a little bit more.
You were closer to 500
damage over the course.
So you might need a little more rest.
Oh,
I thought I only had 200 from the axe
to the head.
Oh, 50 per turn.
Yeah, you only had 200.
So you guys will be good by
morning as far as your damage.
But to leave wounds unattended,
that means you'll never completely heal.
So you'll always have a
certain amount of damage.
And then if you don't take care of it,
you could have a negative effect.
150 the whole time and then
in combat you don't realize
oh shit I just took enough
damage to where I'm at 150
but because I didn't know
I'm actually at zero so
just kind of keep track of
that it's good to have
bandages in your backpack
it'll say stops bleeding or
helps with healing you know
so those are all things you
can do you guys have a
pretty good night of rest because
Due to the events of that evening,
the festival kind of closed down here,
so it wasn't loud.
You guys were able to get good rest.
You had plenty of alcohol,
so it kind of helped with
getting the rest off.
As far as damage,
you guys feel fully
rejuvenated as far in the morning.
Your bleeding has all been stopped.
You still may be sore,
but you're pretty good as going on.
Nothing as far as cutting
back on the amount of
actions your character has
or any negatives to hit or
negative actions.
The main thing to think of
in the morning is you guys
are woken up to a slight hangover,
some soreness, and bang on the door.
I'll go and answer it.
Okay.
You crack the door or you
want to open it all the way?
I'll crack it.
Okay.
You crack the door and you
see a man wearing the old alliance armor,
but it's not Gideon.
He's got medium length brown hair.
His armor's a little more
tarnished and old,
and he looks a little bit less well-kept.
Can I help you, sir?
When he says, good morning,
his breath smells so thick of liquor,
you feel like you're getting drunk again.
He's like,
I was told by Gideon that you]
guys were people to come and talk to.
Where do we speak to him at, Gideon?
Gideon's not going to come
out and do this kind of stuff.
Where do we meet him at?
He's going to stay at the keep he sent me.
Where's the keep?
Okay,
you guys might have heard some of the
news.
Where's the guitar lady?
Where do we need to see Gideon at?
Gideon's at the keep.
Where is the keep?
Oh.
He gives you guys a bag of money.
Okay.
You're kind of figuring that
this means Gideon paid for your lodgings.
Okay.
So you're getting a refund,
but you paid 12 gold pieces
and you only get nine back.
Okay.
Gideon paid for you guys.
Huh?
Does he need to speak to us?
No.
Um,
Are you guys helping with
the missing lady?
Possibly.
I keep the keys.
What does that mean?
What does it mean?
Do you have the keys?
We don't need the keys.
We can figure it out ourselves.
We don't need you.
Excellent.
If you do decide you need keys,
I'll be asleep next to the
barrel out front of this cat.
And he just squirts up.
I mean, we should get the keys.
The keys, let's see.
I'll pick the lock, bro.
That's what I'm saying.
You got a dolion with you.
Well, based on how I've been rolling shit,
you may have to get the keys.
It'll be an all day event.
You may need to get the keys, bitch.
I'm rolling 99s out here.
What is it?
It's a plaque.
All right, Pete, and I'll play it.
I'll wake up Dolion and Melody.
Everybody's kind of getting ready.
You only have a wash basin,
so everybody's got to take their turns.
Clean your face.
You're already done.
Dolion doesn't need the washing.
You guys got to do the whole Roshambo.
Who gets to wash their face next?
Dolion's out here for this.
I'm grimy.
Okay.
You got to clean up,
get your gear back on.
Now,
the reason I say that and I want to
emphasize that is because
if you're ever attacked in
the middle of the night,
if we end up and I say, hey,
roll your chance for random encounter,
nobody's wearing all their
shit and weapons.
Okay.
You can't.
I mean, come on.
Let's be realistic.
Now,
there was us when we convoyed in Iraq.
We all kept our shit near us.
Yes.
But you still weren't wearing it.
Right.
Okay.
So.
same idea you guys can't say
like I get up and fight
because you think about it
nobody sleeps with full
armor and swords and all on
okay so just to let you
know you guys get all your
gear on you guys are ready
to go for the date you come
out you got your nine gold
pieces back out of 12. you
get outside machitas is
still unconscious so it's
time to just roll without
him you're kind of doing an
investigative portion
anyway you guys trying to
find out where lydia went
Who these guys are and what happened.
You identified one of the people as who?
As the Phalion Vystar.
Okay, so you guys leave the inn.
It's kind of an overcap today.
The earlier night's events
are somewhat apparent out
through this square here.
It's the Hori Temple
Just a little bit of garbage lying around,
stuff with little lanterns and so forth,
bloodstains.
But they cleared off the dead judge,
the dead wyvern, the dead mercenaries.
The one thing that comes
back to everybody's mind as
you guys are passing
through is the two types of
attackers that came.
You had the mercenaries that
came that were armored and
used bows and swords and
attacked more so towards the duchess.
You had the other individuals who came
and Melody and Machitias spot,
and they ended up taking
that one girl towards that
underground stairwell.
It seems kind of strange
that those two things would
happen at the same time,
and those guys obviously
weren't working together.
Who brought the wyvern?
So there's some questions rolling around,
because you guys got to remember,
just like being a street thug,
If you get into it with a bunch of people,
you're going to have to
remember who they were and
where they came from
because the get-back may be
around the corner.
Right.
Okay?
Now,
we know Dolion took out some of the
mercenaries,
but he didn't really fight the cultists.
You guys took out the
cultists but didn't fight
the mercenaries.
But why are these two groups together?
One group only operates for money.
One is all about their beliefs.
right and who the brought
the wyvern because it's
going to take some skill
think about it to imprison
that wyvern and force it to
do what you want someone
has to have some sort of
ability to be able to talk
to animals huh talk to
animals and be able to
control that thing and
think about it you can't
just put a wyvern on a
leash and be like you do
what I say well that's that
is why the wyvern was being controlled
Because it's unhatched eggs.
But it served its purpose.
You guys got to kind of put
the puzzle pieces together.
Wyvern was a huge distraction.
All the guards went after the Wyvern.
Uh-huh.
Okay?
They were able to take an
attempt on the Duchess' life.
But if that was the main goal,
all the cultists went
after...
Why'd they grab a dancer?
Right.
So...
What does this have to do
with any of the other cases?
Like Melody was smart enough
to buy the list of news going on.
what are those stories seem to
match up closest to this?
The woman being found drained of blood?
There you go, maybe, maybe.
What's so special about her blood?
Exactly,
why did they pick this particular person?
so if you guys look at the main map
that we were using for the square,
I'm trying to share this.
Where do you guys need to go?
We need to go to the staircase.
Okay.
Looking at the area before you,
do you guys have any questions?
Anything that you need?
Let's look at the area.
Okay,
you guys are coming from this tavern.
This is where all the action went down.
It was right here pretty much.
Okay.
Those guys fled this way.
Some of the mercenaries went
this way towards the sewer,
but they ended up not making it.
So the mercenaries were all taken care of,
right?
Dead men tell no tales.
They're not going to be able
to tell you what the fuck
happened or why they came, who paid them.
But at least, you know,
from Doleon that the judge
was involved in the mercenaries.
One, he never got on the stage.
Okay.
That's hint number one.
He knew some shit was going down.
He couldn't stay the fuck away from it.
He felt safer running
towards the mercenaries
than staying with you.
He knew more about what was
going on there.
You guys kind of got little
pieces of this puzzle going on.
Just keep them in your mind.
Who was the players in this event?
Who was important?
You also have the list of the NPCs.
Compare it up to the people
that were described in the scenes.
Where do you guys want to go?
Uh, Melody's turn.
Uh,
I'm saying that we're going towards the
staircase to see if we can
pick that lock to get down to go get, um,
uh, Lelia?
Okay.
Whatever that girl's name was?
The dancer?
Yeah.
Okay.
As you guys pass the Wholly Temple,
or the Whorley Temple,
you're passing the Whorley Temple.
Most of it's closed up and stuff.
You do see traces of what
could have been the
struggle to bring Lelia over there.
mainly because you notice
some reddish brown spots
that are probably
coagulated blood okay it
could be from wounded
individuals but who was the
main person you saw lock
the gate when you went when
they left uh uh phelan okay
what was the last thing
that you saw failing mara
is that he had the duchess
oh he was killed
Okay, so he was hit by that barbarian dude,
right?
Uh-huh.
So do you think that after
that hit and that he should
be walking around and
locking that gate to the stairwell?
Not by a barbarian.
Yeah.
So something weird is going on.
You guys are approaching that stairwell,
and it's basically one of
those iron bar gates.
These stairwells are because
when this was an actual cathedral,
it led down to the
catacombs because a
graveyard can only hold so many bodies.
OK, so a lot of times,
especially with the poor,
they were stacked in the catacombs,
mass buried.
OK, you're close to the steam alley area,
which is all poor.
That's why they have access
to the catacombs here.
OK, his people went directly for here.
Who was the most of the who
were the guys that came here?
The ones in red.
Mm hmm.
That's here with the Mercer.
Were they mercenaries?
No, mercenaries were in gray and blue.
And most of them didn't make it, right?
Right.
You're welcome.
Was the Obsidian Order?
No.
It was me.
You're right.
What were they, though?
Did they have armor?
No.
Were they very skilled?
Remember,
Machetus took them out just
punching them and shit.
Were they good at fighting Machetus?
No.
But they were very loyal.
They did what they were told.
They're cultists.
Very good.
250 experience points, Billy.
Okay, so the cultists left this way.
And who closed the gate behind them?
The priest.
Alright,
now we're starting to get somewhere.
Alright, so you guys get to this gate.
The surprising thing is he closed the gate,
but there is no lock on this gate.
When you get here,
you notice there's a young
woman probably in her
early twenties standing
outside of this gate.
She's holding some kind of parchments,
a couple of loose ones,
not an actual book.
All right.
And she's, she's, uh,
saying like my life to the new life,
eternal my life for the new life, eternal,
like a little prayer kind of thing.
And there's a young man
standing there with a,
a light blue vest over a white tunic.
And he's like, uh, we should leave.
They're not holding any kind of, uh,
sessions today I think we
should go let's go get your
let's go this it's I don't
feel comfortable being here
all right and you guys are
walking up on again
all right melody you're first
uh all right so I'm going to try to uh
Interrogate them to see what the fuck,
why old dude is like, Dejah, we gotta go.
Okay.
Roll.
That's the two tens, right?
Two tens, yep.
The two tens.
Fifteen.
All right.
You guys can immediately
tell that young Trayvon is
very immediately
intimidated by Melody
asking him questions.
Here we go, okay?
He turns immediately looking
at Melody and goes,
he's startled and he says,
I'm just following Gedra.
Gedra comes here to meet
with the New Life Eternal Church.
But nobody was here to greet us today.
What is the New Life Eternal?
The cathedral on the east side.
He's like, I'm actually a creationist.
I believe in
our savior, Seriva, and the creator,
but Gedra told me that she
really wanted me to kind of
experience what Brother
Phelan had to share.
Melody,
what's your religion lore and your
character skills?
What's your percentage?
Because then you can roll
and kind of get a
background on what the... 45.
Oh shit, mine's 55.
It ain't no matter.
So I'll ask the priest,
you believe all life is important.
Were you asking the young man?
Yeah.
He's like,
I read all the teachings of Cerebro,
but I was like, to be honest,
I go to school.
I don't really,
I go to church when my
family says to go to church.
So Cerebro preaches that all
life is important.
Yes.
We too believe that all life is important.
And the life as this female
that was taken is also important.
I saw that last night.
So we go.
So just like Wyvern and the
other people that passed,
we also believe that she is important.
We're going to save her.
Will you aid us?
I'll do what I can.
I've studied stonemasonry.
All right, Gedra's like,
her life is going to be
given on to the great one.
The fuck it is.
Where?
All right, Trevann's like,
I don't know any of this stuff.
I just wanted to hook up with Gedra.
Well played, sir.
Well played.
But I can tell you that this
entrance to the catacombs
is not old as the catacombs.
It's much more stable,
so if you need to find a way in and out,
this one was built after the catacombs.
It's actually pretty good.
All right.
We're going to go this way.
Peace be to Journey.
It's like,
not getting any loving right now.
I'm out.
So he leaves Gendry.
It's like,
Brother Phelan is not going to
be disturbed.
I don't think you should go down there.
Alina will be given over to
the great woman.
Alina?
Alina.
I thought her name was Leila.
She's an Easterner.
She's a foreigner.
She's dirty.
Where would he take her?
I won't tell you.
Please tell me.
I'll use my enthrall.
Oh.
negative 20% to her resist
87 she has no resist she's
like anything you want to
know she's always touching
your face
I'll lean in like
where did he take her
through this stairwell you
head to the left go
straight down you'll see a
large opening and then
An area where the aqueduct runs through.
On the other side of it is a
large chamber.
Used to be part of cistern.
He holds his ceremonies there.
Okay.
I'll give her a kiss and
tell her to go to the brothel.
The Hori temple?
The Hori temple.
Good job.
Trying to pay my way through.
Peace be with you.
I only stripped the thing my
way through law school.
All right.
So she walks away.
And you guys notice, like I said,
there's no lock on this gate.
But this whole structure is newer,
like Trevann said.
The stone looks different
than the stuff around the base.
So they built this to access
the catacombs long after
this cathedral was condemned.
All right.
One thing that that gives
you is this is probably
more of a sound structure
coming in from here.
There may be other entrances
through the graveyard.
Now,
one thing to keep in common is if
people attend their
ceremonies for their cult here,
they probably know multiple
ways in and out.
You're going to be going
into an area that's very dark.
Just looking beyond this gate,
you can tell it's going to
be extremely dark.
Torchlight is probably the
only thing you'll have.
If you have no light,
Night vision is not an option.
Night vision only works if
there's minimal light to go off.
Does anybody have a torch?
200 meters.
200 meters is my night vision.
Your night vision?
Yeah.
200?
Some sort of light.
I can use them.
I have a spell for dim lights.
Melody,
you don't have any things to create
any kind of light?
Can you thrash on your
guitar and make some light?
Light ports.
You know,
the only thing that I can do...
I'm not tenacious-y out here, you know.
I don't need a pick of destiny out here.
No, I don't have the ability to...
Do anything with light.
It's worth an ask.
We don't even know.
Bards can do a bizarre thing.
Can we hit the town before
we go in there and see if
they have any torches or
some kind of light sources?
All I have is dim light.
You can make it darker,
which is something that would not help.
Let's hit the mall in the town.
Let's go to the mall.
Yeah.
today
okay so you guys leave
this little area and you go
I'm going to show you the
area with mostly shops this
is the general store here
as well oh a general store
is that like dollar general
yes it's family dollar
dollar tree we they call it
dollar general but it costs
way more than that like the below
Why are those always next to Trevor?
The people with the least
amount of money paying $9.99 for Coke.
Here's a six pack of Coke for $9.
Oh,
you're talking about actual drinking
Coke.
Okay.
Yeah.
They got that shit on lock
in the trick bar.
They don't go to Dollar General.
They're just like, yo, go.
I thought you guys were
talking like drugs.
He said in the poor
community and then he
started talking about coke.
So I immediately went drugs.
We noticed.
Touche.
Okay, so what is the cost?
I didn't tell you all the backpack.
Did you?
What would you like to find?
I've got the list right here.
I can kind of... I guess I could share it,
but then you wouldn't be
able to see everything.
What did you... I didn't
tell you about the backpack,
but without being a
little... Because I
searched backpack and nothing comes up.
Was it with the NPC list?
Yes.
Yeah, it was one of the documents.
Let us download this thing.
Okay.
So as you see,
there's all sorts of stuff here,
like things that would be
good for Dolian is like the lockpick set.
50 gold pieces.
Things to light your way.
You got a
made this thing back 2010.
Let's see.
I have nothing in my
backpack at the moment.
You have to buy a lantern.
It's a 10 gold piece.
Oh, word.
A lantern is word.
Laser lantern.
25 gold.
Laser lantern.
They never go out.
I want one.
A normal lantern goes out.
25 gold?
How can I steal this?
Can we haggle the price?
You can make all the guards
and kill some more young men.
Are guards in there like that?
Stop killing me.
No.
There's no guards nearby.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Please don't come up here.
I have 65 appraising and bargaining.
I want to bring that price down.
Good idea.
What's that?
I asked about bargaining.
I'm sorry.
I didn't hear it.
I'm sorry.
Good idea.
What's your percentage for bargaining,
Melody?
I don't know.
I'm trying to find out where
my little marker went.
I'm losing shit.
Bargaining.
It's on the first page of
character information towards the bottom.
You know what's hilarious?
Is this guy sells thieving gloves?
Give you plus 10 defense.
What kind of merchant's like, hey,
got thieving gloves on aisle three.
Where is bargaining?
You said the character abilities?
Yep, character abilities, first column,
third from the earth.
It's right there.
Appraising slash bargaining.
I feel like I'm looking at
this and I don't see it.
Appraising slash bargaining.
You don't have that skill.
That's why I don't have it.
Basic skills.
Some of those skills you guys are all.
Well, well, well.
Because he's this skill.
That's what he does.
He steals.
He needs to know what to work.
Allow me to bargain then.
Please, please do.
It's 25 gold.
It's 25 gold?
How low is he willing to go for this?
I'll go to 22 gold.
Nah, you can go lower.
I'm looking to see if you
can give it to a 20 gold.
Roll your percent.
Ooh.
You know what?
We'll roll the QON die.
Roll my 10 side.
I'm tearing these things up.
You know what goes good with Colby?
Don't let me down.
20.
He's like, I could part with it for 20.
All right.
Which one are y'all paying for it?
Because you know your boy
don't have the gold.
Because I ain't kill the dragon.
Mara, do you want to go halfsies?
Yes.
I mean, I can steal it,
but are y'all down to kill some people?
So, hold on.
Before...
I'm stealing this, dog.
How much are those gloves?
Can we talk about what everything is?
Because that lockpick also
sounds like... Oh, yeah.
Tell me what you want,
and we can start bargaining prices.
Okay, well...
Do you have the lockpicking ability?
That's what I'm doing.
I'm gonna die.
What's that take?
Do you have the ability to lockpick?
So you want me to steal?
No.
No, no, no.
I'm asking you,
do you have the ability for it?
I have 78% pick lock, yes.
Okay.
All right.
How much is the lock picking set?
I don't know.
Lock picking set is 50 gold pieces.
Well, I don't want that gold.
But it gives you a plus 15% to lock pick.
I could roll the bargain and
see if we can get it down.
But I don't think we can drop it.
Yeah, I mean,
because... I don't know how
much gold I have.
How much gold does Dolion have?
How much did I start with?
Because I was not awarded.
I think I said it.
Let me check.
Yeah.
You have 10.
Tangle plus what the map of
the keys is from your homie
from the past.
Oh, is it in story?
Do we need the lockpick?
Do we want it?
We don't.
I think 78 should be good.
I haven't rolled a 99 in
about a couple hours, so.
All right.
Is there anything else in
the store that we want to
talk about getting other
than this laser lantern for 20?
Okay,
I sent you the list of all the goods.
It's in an email.
You should be able to open it.
it and see if there's
anything that interests you.
Bud's Gun Shop is selling
AK-47 pistols for $262.
You like that echo?
No.
No?
Oh, I found my marker.
Yay!
There it is.
So happy for you.
All right, randomly, in some odd way,
Kenshiro shows up and says,
when you're down in an area,
you're not going to have a
way to mark the walls.
I'm going to call a duty, where I tell him,
like, man, what the fuck was that?
All right, so we got the laser lantern,
and that's going to be 20.
And then we need some type
of marking here.
Chalk.
Okay.
There you go.
Chalk.
Kinshiro's not an idiot.
How much is the chalk?
One.
Where's my gold at?
You said you sent it?
You have ten gold pieces.
I sent in a secret message.
But you do have a key and a map.
from your homie who passed away.
So true.
Access to a lot more.
I mean, a lot is a thousand of thousands.
I wouldn't go without my wife.
Right?
There's bandages and dressing in here.
Should we get some more of
that since apparently I
bleed like a motherfucker?
Absolutely.
I'm going to buy some socks.
Yeah.
I have the chalk in here.
I have bandages and dressing
and that's going to be 10.
What else do we want?
Lanterns.
Yeah, we have the lantern.
The laser lantern.
Yes.
Where's laser lantern?
I'm looking at the shop list.
You could actually use some rope.
It would be
Oh wait, he's not English.
He's Asian, so he'd be like,
it's our role.
He's like, that's my people.
That's my peeps.
What is a sextant?
That's when they read the stars.
Yeah,
that's how you navigate in the ocean.
Is that like a weird thing?
Yeah, we don't need that right now.
It's like a little
thing and they measure the stars.
So laser lantern,
we're getting that for sure, right?
Yeah, I have a list of things so far,
but where's the rope?
I don't see a rope.
Well, there's large grapples,
medium grapples, and small grapples.
Do we want to use grapples
instead of rope?
I just can't see where the rope is.
Okay.
They work hand in hand.
Kind of like, uh,
I guess the grapples go together.
Play dough.
It works better together.
Play and dough together.
They're played out.
They work.
No.
Oh, Jim, let him live.
What's the difference
between a small grapple,
medium record grapple and a large grapple?
And if we get one of those,
do we also need a grapple gun?
The percentage of the chance to climb.
Okay.
Yeah,
it gives you a higher bonus because
it's got larger little hooks on it.
And then there's woven silk
rope and woven hemp rope.
Okay.
So it's like between your
600-pound life or your
regular pound life.
Yeah,
if you're trying to pull up on
1,000-pound sisters.
You're going to need that bar.
It ain't going to work, girl.
You're going to use that little hook.
The back of their head looks
like a pack of hot dogs.
You're going to need the big grapple.
All right.
Why don't we get the medium grapple?
And that's 15.
Okay.
Yeah, so select everything we want,
and then I will use my- Yeah,
I was about to say, so Dileon, sir.
DeLeon, first of all.
Hey, just to give you guys an idea,
flint and steel-
No, I don't want a barter for you.
You see down here where it
says flint and steel,
65% chance to start a fire.
Metal lighter is kind of like a Zippo.
it's 85 chance to start a
fire but it's limited right
based on the fuel yeah well
I'm guessing the flint is
too because you can only
use that yeah but it's
always good to consider
that if you're in the midst
of an emergency I need
light 65 chance remember if
it's wet I can say you got
a negative 10. or if it's
windy you got negative if
you guys think we well and
then there's candles
torches and flares and
stuff as well uh torches
are only two gold
The light only gives you three radius.
The laser lantern that we were thinking of,
where's that at again?
It's a seven radius.
Does that have a radius or area?
You said the laser lantern
was the seven radius?
It doesn't ever get extinguished.
Yep.
Cool.
So it doesn't go out.
So I think that's a good purchase.
Yeah.
Do you think we need the
thing to create the fire, the flint,
or would you rather go with
the metal lighter?
Or do you think the lantern
is good enough just to give us sight?
I think that the lantern is
good enough because we're
all staying together.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Sorry, one more time.
Two laser lighters.
Iron bomb spears are good
for drones because they're
shielded drone weapons.
No, you said get two of them.
One for the front, one for the back.
Two lanterns.
That's a lot of gold.
I can sport that.
Do you?
What's your 25?
I keep doing my headset thing, man.
You are.
We're letting you live, though.
I'm not balling.
I'm just adding to the game.
Swimming in some gold up in here.
How low do you think I could
bargain this guy down to or
barter him to?
I think that if we buy
multiple things that we can be like, hey,
give us a bigger discount.
Hey, why don't we roll on this?
I'm buying in bulk here, Costco.
Right.
Buy it in bulk.
Show them your member card.
So two laser lanterns, that's already 50.
That's 40 because we put it down to 20.
Well,
I'm just saying just generally the
total of the items that we're getting.
And then we're going to be looking for...
We have a chalk.
The chalk is one dollar.
Yeah, gold, sorry.
The dressing and bandages combined is 10.
What?
I've been given a little pieces of this.
Watch, whenever I look at her,
she immediately goes.
Watch.
Bandage and dressing, five for five, okay.
And then the medium grapple is 15.
So 10, two laser things that are 20,
so 60.
75 is what we're looking at total.
But I say that we're buying all of this.
And with your skill set of negotiating,
we can get it down to 50.
What are you guys looking to
want to get it to?
So when I roll this thing,
I have a going in game.
Well, you know what I'm saying?
I mean,
we go low and see how... How low
are we looking?
Because if we go too low,
this man will be like,
get the fuck out of my store.
So 75, are we looking at 60?
No
because we only got 60 between the
three of us.
I wouldn't go any lower than
25% of what you started.
That way you can kind of
inch up and meet them in between them.
So 25% lower than what the total is?
Mm-hmm.
So if they're 75 times four,
or divided by four,
what are we looking at?
15, maybe?
I'll be right back when he
gets to be an actor.
Because you can kind of meet
him in the middle of that.
Don't want to woe bomb too much,
because that's insulting.
So you kind of meet him in between that.
Somebody do math for me real quick.
Uh...
What's 25% of 75?
It says 18.75.
So take 18 off of 75.
What's that?
57?
57 gold?
Yeah.
California Public School.
Let's go.
Give them 60 of them.
Round up.
Do I want to start at 55 and
then go to 60?
60 be the highest?
I'm like, nah, go to 60.
Don't go beyond 65.
The lowest I offer them is 55 though?
Yeah,
I think that 55 is a good first offer
and then inch up from there.
55 it is, but we go no higher than 65.
All right, EJ.
What's the deal?
So we're going to pick up
two of your laser lanterns.
Right?
Two laser lanterns.
That's 50 gold.
Your medium grapple.
Gravel is 15, so we're at 65.
And then bandages and dressing.
And a chalk.
And chalk.
Bandages and dressing.
Okay.
That's 70.
And chalk is 71 gold.
So I'll give it to you for 68 gold.
How about 60?
Two tens.
You want two tens?
I'm using your... This one
comes through for me.
The QON one.
Hopefully.
We'll see if it keeps going.
34?
All right.
Sounds good.
60 gold.
Okay.
All right, good job.
So you guys got the goods you needed.
And this worked out well.
500 experience points all around.
Good plan.
Nice.
500 points.
Let's go.
Where's my points?
How are we splitting up this gold then?
60, 60, 30 each.
I gave all my, I gave 10.
I had 10 pieces.
I gave 10.
So then you guys get 20 each?
Or no?
25.
25 each.
25 and then he gave 10 so
that's it's everything 60
gold your boys out here
broke black can feel at any
minute and remember always
you always have a chance to
investigate a dead body to
see what they have you can
roll your investigate see
what they're carrying
where's the the judge's
body I left it on the stage
yeah he's out there wait a
minute come here let me see
what you got on you come
here he's all smelly now
Okay.
Come here.
What you got on you?
It's a little general goods store.
Get outside.
You see that guy or the
drunk guy I talked to you
earlier at the door again.
We're looking for that missing dancer.
We're going now.
Is there a problem?
No.
That sounds good.
Why are you so curious?
You notice that the people
that are walking by to go
to the general store kind
of give him a little bit of
a white earth.
And it's not because he smells like booze.
They look at him as if they
know who he is.
And they keep their eye on
what they're looking at his
hands and his sword.
Can I ask what this super
drunk person looks like?
Yeah,
he's got brown hair about down to his
shoulders.
He's not shaven.
He'd say he's probably in his mid-30s.
Um, he's wearing older armor,
but it's from the old lines,
but it's tarnished and stuff.
It's not well kept.
He's got a,
he's got a pretty nice sword on his side.
You'd say that might even be
like a heirloom or a magic item,
but the way people are looking at it,
it kind of,
you got to think back to
Westerns and stuff when
they'd look at a gunslinger
and they'd look at his side.
It's the way they look at
him with his sword.
I'm going to roll my, um,
weapons to armor.
Okay.
got it four percent okay
he's he's wearing the armor
of a surrendering alliance
uh knight but he the damage
and stuff done to it is old
but the damage and stuff
that's done to it looks
like someone who's been in
a lot of combat never taken
a really hard hit does that
make any sense like you can
see the tarnish and the
nicks and stuff nothing
ever lands in the critical area and then
Between his bracers and his
gloves and stuff,
you can tell his fluidity
and skill with his blade is
definitely a used practice.
He does it a lot.
Does he want to come with us?
You don't know.
He's kind of been a little
bit wishy-washy about it.
I'll openly look at his
armor and look at him.
and salute him you see that
he grins a little bit and
he does like a half-hearted
salute he says that you
know the old ways that's
because you've been around
that long if not longer
right I'll never tell I
don't think you would but
let me just assure you that
more than just one of your
kind have ended on this plate
I believe it.
Sir Gideon told me to come here.
Why?
Not everything is always as it seems.
Clearly.
Is that beyond magic?
Let's just say that sometimes a target is
I need to go find her.
It's not who they were looking for.
Who's the target?
Don't take the prey into the\
den of the spider.
That's all I'm saying.
It seems like that you guys
are hell bent on that.
I'm kind of like Doleon here.
I take whoever gives me the
heaviest purse.
Right now it's Gideon,
but I guarantee you Gideon
doesn't have the money of
those that are down that stairwell.
What is she?
You guess it's as good as mine,
but if they can call down
the gods from the
Corellians all the way
through the ancient gray dragon,
he's like, I'm just a simple swordsman.
Put many a man in the ground,
but I've never killed a god.
We need to leave.
Don't go after Layla.
Trust me.
Bro, Layla's not my responsibility.
I told you what I'm here for.
We need to leave now and
take Melody far away from here.
Now.
I mean, is Melody down?
I'm trying to get closer to
where my wife is.
Melody, we need to leave now.
Leila is not a good time to leave.
You want me to come with you, Bard?
No,
I'm going to leave with them and we're
going to start heading towards the eggs.
I have gold.
How much does Gideon pay you?
He's like, I know, I've heard about you,
Dolion.
You're pretty good with that blade.
Let's hope that when the time comes,
someone doesn't decide to
make us cross blades.
I would tell him that I have
no business with you.
My concern is finding my wife.
Good luck to you.
She was an impressive woman.
He just starts to walk.
Now he's on my list.
You got to remember,
she was a sword dancer and very renowned.
she was but you didn't have
to worry like that bro yeah
now I mean the way the
levels go is like you could
be a knight and be a badass
soldier but when it comes
down you go duelist okay
that means that he's like a
gunslinger okay the sword
is his then you go to a
sword dancer they're born
and bred from childhood to
where that thing is like an
extension of their body yeah okay so
His wife was to that level.
So even though he's a
duelist and you can tell he's got bodies,
lots of bodies,
he respects the fact that
she is probably above him
in her skill with a sword.
Yep.
Whether or not she could
beat him in a fight is a different story,
but still he knows that her
skill with a sword is
nothing to play with.
Yep.
Now he survived from the old
days till now as a Cyrenian
alliance knight.
So that means he has skill
and he's seen a lot of battle.
All right.
And the way that people fear him,
it means he's no longer a knight.
That's why he gave you that
half-hearted salute.
He used to be a knight,
but those days are gone
because the alliance fell apart.
Right.
But at the same time... But
he still seems to swear... I mean,
I'm still leaving.
I'm not... Yeah.
All right.
I'm not killing him now, but... Yeah.
But I mean,
he's obviously hurting you too
because he knows he's got
skill with a blade.
So...
Our bags are packed.
I walk up to Melody and I grab her arm.
It's time to leave.
Okay.
And I start walking.
All right.
So you guys want to try to
hedge your way out of
Ballen Forth and head out to...
Come on,
Melody.
Time to go.
The thing still remains.
And I guess Kinshiro comes
out of nowhere again and goes, hey,
the problem still remains.
We have no transportation.
It's a long, long, long walk.
Three weeks by horse or
train because you've got to
take horses to the different trains.
But he's like, walking,
you might as well triple that.
Is there a... Is there a
transportation service?
Or is there anybody
transporting goods in the
same direction that we're going?
Most of the time,
there will be caravans
going through the...
West Pass through the mountains.
Like a gypsy caravan?
They're not as fast as just
straight horses,
but they're faster than walking.
And you don't need to rest
as often because you can
ride on the wagons.
He's like,
if we promise to protect them as
caravan guards,
they'll usually give you free passage.
Are you guys down?
Protect them is a
determination between us.
But he's like, if I give my word,
I must do what I say.
It's not up to me.
I'm done.
Good cover.
OK, alright,
so you guys find your way
towards the the Western
Gates announcement board.
Don't make the whole way, though,
as you're going and the
more you guys feel that anxiety,
we've got to get out of the city.
You guys were everybody will attend 7.
This one, the percentage,
but really the only the 10
digit is most important.
The single digit one?
Double.
The double digit?
Okay.
Oh, shit.
I rolled the wrong one.
I got a seven.
That's fine.
50.
Okay.
Zero.
Roll second digit.
You rolled zero. 17.
okay you you notice
immediately you notice next
then melody notices you
guys are being they're
following you out okay and
it's not the mercenaries
it's the cultists they are
glued to melody okay they
won't even they won't let
her take a breath without
watching which way she
exhales all right you'd say
there's probably a good two
dozen of them watching you
guys from different vantage
points climbing buildings
walking around putting out trash
doing dumb shit, but you're like,
all you guys are wearing
the same clothes.
I mean,
you got a keen eye for it from your past.
You got an eye for it
because you saw him last night.
So me noticing this, I asked Melody,
why are these dudes all
about following you?
How the fuck should I know?
So I was like, the fuck?
They're fans.
They like my music.
Where are we at?
I know she knows something, man.
You guys are heading towards
the western gate of
Balancourt to leave the city.
Are there a lot of rats around?
Surprisingly, no.
What animals are around?
A lot of, what do you call them,
like laboring animals, like oxen,
stuff like that, like bulls.
Cows?
Sheep?
Worms?
Worms!
It's not the ones that they saw.
Jen's not here for the games, look.
I have no eyes.
So cows and what else?
Cows, sheep,
a lot of livestock and laboring animals.
There are lots of herds of them?
No.
Like here and there, sparsely.
Chickens.
Probably chickens are the
largest number because lots
of chickens are sold at the market.
What do you want?
She's like, why are you rolling the things,
I will summon the chickens.
That's how chickens sound back there.
Those are crows.
Don't eat those.
They're battle chickens.
Battle chickens.
Those are ravens.
That chicken's already cooked.
It's black.
All right.
Go roll your two tens.
What about my chickens?
Go ahead.
Some of the chickens are
trying to kill Dolian
because he's one of their
biggest threats.
The chickens?
Yeah.
Oh.
Is this like Zelda when you
mess with the chickens and
they're just like... Whoa!
On to colored things.
So what is the roll that you
just rolled for the chickens?
I don't know.
I'm about to tell you.
I don't know what it is.
What is this?
22?
Bro,
you need to get some glasses for real.
No, it's just hard to see this.
Because I hold it up and I'm just like,
what is this?
I'll get to it.
I'm guessing when better
light is shined right on it.
We'll see.
I still... I got it.
What are you typing in?
Oh, he's sending me a message.
Oh.
I'm trying to watch them,
but I can't hear them,
so I'll just watch them later.
I'm sure they'll just
randomly release it at a random time.
Alright,
so I feel like there is a lot of
weird shit going on.
Because of you, magical guitarist.
Okay,
so I'm going to use my magical
guitar-ness.
And use the melody of
serenity to calm enemies
within a five mile radius.
Five mile?
Goody, you're strong as shit.
Or a five meter radius.
The M is meter.
So about 20 feet around you.
Sound like Bella's Lullaby?
Yes.
Bella's Lullaby.
I'm going to play it for you.
All right.
So do I need to roll my two tens?
I think Eric is in the
process of sending a message.
I know.
I am going to entertain the masses.
Uh-oh.
Or wait, hold on.
There's a wave.
I have a wave of.
Dolion is now mad again.
This is what it sounds like.
The masses.
I also have a wave of
disruption that is a 10-meter radius.
That's a wider radius.
What is that?
Well,
it's followed by...
Somebody messed around and
whispered in my ear.
Is that going to happen?
You see him up ahead of him.
Oh.
Oh, he whispers in my mind.
Is that going to happen?
Can I do that?
You notice that he's got one
of the guards propped against him,
but that dude has been dead for a while.
It's basically just a cover
so he can stand there.
Can I use my Melody of Serenity?
Absolutely.
Nah, don't be trying to calm me down.
No, it's enemies.
I'm calming down the enemies.
Don't tell me to calm down.
Good job.
Let me see.
All right, that was dumb.
How many are there?
I'm going to see how many
there are real quick.
Ten of them.
Ten.
Okay,
all ten of the other cultists start
to wander around like a
bunch of dumbass peaceful dudes.
There you go.
Atta girl.
But the one guy in the mask
up ahead at the gate, he's going nowhere.
I was going to make a big one, but...
Okay,
so then I'll do a wave of disruption
so we can get the fuck out of here.
I thought we were trying to
be all low profile leaving
in this caravan.
Wave of destruction!
Oh, okay.
Mitora!
All right,
you do the wave of disruption
with the music, and as soon as it gets,
like, you release the power,
you notice that the mental
connection ends immediately.
But the guy standing up
there with the mask turns,
the body drops.
He disappears from his current position.
He's now on the wall,
and he releases a bunch of daggers, okay?
18 is double damage.
You guys have negative 10% to dodge.
He's thrown an array.
It's called barrage of blades.
Your guys' turn to defend.
Thanks a lot, Melody.
Negative 10% to your defense.
Melody's first.
Yeah, you roll first, Melody.
What am I... I'm sorry.
You should have got rid of
the 10 soldiers.
I could have got rid of the 10 cultists.
Am I doing the two 10s?
Is that what I'm rolling?
Yeah, the two 10s.
Roll as low as possible.
You don't want to mess this up.
I also have... I can't do my
evasive routine where I...
Evade everything?
Your defensive action?
Do you have a defensive
action that does that?
It says active ability is evasive routine.
Okay.
What does it do?
Read it all so we can know.
It says the EP/MP is 100 to 100 damage.
It says all damage.
The effect is flips, cartwheels, tumbles,
and evade all projectiles 75%.
excellent 200 experience
well done to find your
skills so you use that and
all the daggers are gone
now it's your turn to dodge
and then his turn to dodge
or defend however you can
trust me you do not want to
get hit by them they got
poison use a defensive
skill girl so is that her
damn you tim decker action
Tim Deckard's obsession with,
what is their name again?
What's the music?
What's the band you can't stand?
Nickelback?
Six Feet from the Edge.
Creed?
Creed.
Tim Deckard's obsession with Creed.
He'll throw it out there in
a post and get stuck in it.
If I could fight Creed in the face,
I would.
I know.
Jen hates Creed.
It's like that guy pooped in her Cheerios.
I don't know.
But anyway.
Melody successfully just
dances through the blades
and they hit the ground.
You two got to defend that.
He doesn't help us out?
That doesn't do anything for you,
but Melody's okay.
I don't have anything for you.
I already calmed the fuck
out of all the other enemies, my dude.
Did you?
Because you hyped up the worst enemy.
You calmed the Goombas down,
but then you awoken Giga Bowser.
Okay, that's cool.
Yeah.
Giga Bowser.
let's go with uh machitas
where are you when you need
to go negotiate with this
guy come back but she just
would have just saw a lot of those
I don't have any of those cool things.
Can I roll the dodge?
Yeah.
What's the negative?
So I'm at 76%.
I got to roll over to 76.
Right.
You can't get your two tens?
That's not good.
There goes that 90.
There you go.
92 on that.
Okay.
So
You're hit with four to five daggers.
I rolled an odd, so it's five.
So it's over 1,000 damage versus poison,
negative 15%.
Okay.
It was poison.
Let me see where your poison is.
Appreciate you, Melody.
I can't do anything.
You could have not cast Wave
of Destruction on the way out.
I don't know why I put that.
I'm going to take the venom
thing off there.
Because I know that's
technically the right answer,
but poison does enough for us.
So poison resistance, negative 10%.
So 70%.
You got to roll under 70% five times.
So that's gone.
Use that one.
Hey, but Melody,
you're over there dancing.
No, because I'm not at Melody.
Dancing in the daggers.
She's over there like, what?
Can you see the numbers?
Oh, no.
89.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
Needless to say,
Dolion is taking now like 1,500 damage.
I'm dead.
So he is unconscious.
Now,
The poison situation,
hopefully you can deal with.
Because otherwise,
Dolion's going to expire.
Thanks, Melody.
I want to play my guitar
like fucking Slash as I'm
leaving the thing in this caravan.
He's like...
I live on the edge.
Dodge, dive, dip.
Sometimes it works.
Mara, do something.
Hopefully you roll better than your boy.
Hopefully you have a
defensive thing or something.
You have rolled more 90s
than I've ever seen in a
90s, high 80s.
I'm just like... Just this
one dude attacking us?
He threw like 9 million...
I'm going to cast Sever Arteries.
Oh my gosh.
Does that not stop the...
She still doesn't have to
do a defensive act?
You need a defensive back
first or you're going to
get hit with five.
That's what I'm saying.
If I do, I can just.
I mean, you can still hit him.
Super offense over that.
Yeah.
On the way to hit him.
I mean, I'm not going to stop you.
It's my job is to win.
Just do a magic spell that
just protects you and nobody else.
Because that's what somebody else did.
Hey, if there was a bus, you can get in.
Yeah.
I'm dead.
I'm bleeding out.
I'm the judge.
I'm bleeding out with poison
being replacing my blood.
Blood out, poison in.
That's how much poison there is right now.
I don't know.
Uh-uh.
You have so many choices.
Countdowns begin.
Third.
You got it.
No.
You don't have a spell for that?
Did those two characters work for Bowser?
They're kind of bad guys on their own.
Wario and Waluigi.
Waluigi.
They're like really bad cousins.
They are?
Can I... Can I... Dissolve poison?
Poison daggers.
I mean, you'll still take damage,
but you might be able to
dissolve the poisons where
it doesn't kill Dolian.
Okay,
let me cast the dilute or dissolve
poison.
Okay.
Oh, God.
How many actions does that cast take?
That's my active ability.
Oh.
You can do it four times.
Well played.
Ready?
Well played.
Whoa.
I got 48.
Okay.
All right, dissolve the poison.
So Dolion is technically at like zero,
but he's not going to die
because the poison is not
going to do 150 damage each
dagger over a course of three turns.
So that would be like a
whole bunch of fucking damage.
450 damage times three.
Anyway.
So he's breathing still basically,
but he's at the zero point.
So it's basically being unconscious.
Yeah, incapacitated.
You, on the other hand,
would be half of that damage.
So you have 500 damage.
You're bleeding a lot, but no poison.
You need to do something to
stop him because that was
one barrage of blades.
Can I go into bloodlust?
Yes.
So I'm going to bloodlust.
Do claws and fangs.
Okay.
Okay, and then... Oh,
that's kind of creepy.
I'll do rock flesh.
You see,
that also looks weird in real life,
does he?
What are you doing?
I'll do rock flesh.
Okay.
Oops.
Don't throw stuff.
That's intense.
It is tense.
So it's 3D,
4 times 10 times quarter level.
Okay.
I was going to say that.
yes okay so I did 225 damage
plus 150 negative negative
20 percent hill okay this
could be 475 damage
negative 20 percent hill
for rot flesh okay so he
tried to resist it failed
tried to get out of the way
all right seven percent all
right he throws a smoke
bomb and he's out of there
can I cast crimson bats you
don't know where he went I
mean you can't cast it but
you might hit him he might
still be over there but
Fucking cast it.
I don't care.
Let me see if he's still there.
Jackass.
Good call.
He's still over there.
He's just...
So I have a 50 meter range.
Negative 10% resist.
How much damage does it do?
It does... 2d4.
Hang on.
Let's go. 1...
It's a... That's a... Never mind.
That was the wrong one.
That's my six.
Uh-oh.
I rolled the wrong one.
Let's go.
Uh-oh, Melody.
You better be ready because
your mage has done all she can.
Your assassin is down.
I have a 1d10 times 50.
1d10 times 50?
Yeah.
What'd you roll?
I rolled a 1 on my 6 die.
Oh.
What?
Okay.
What is he trying to do?
All right, 13.
Yeah, 50.
Okay, so 50 extra damage.
Okay.
He's now walking in your guys' direction.
It's a negative 10% resist.
He does vanish.
Did backstab.
I did 13% at 15.
So he just did 400 damage to you.
Backstab.
So that puts you at... Where is she?
I don't think I have any more actions.
I think that's you.
That was my three.
I'm done.
I'm sorry.
It's not your fault.
Okay.
I have my three actions.
I got to check Mara to see if she's awake.
Mara has...
Yeah,
you have less than 150 life force left.
So, Melody, you are... There we go.
All right, cool.
So, now I'm going to go on the offensive.
He looks in your direction.
He's wearing a mask.
Okay, hold on.
I got it.
Yeah.
I'll catch up to your situation.
You're going on the offensive.
Do you have your attacks ready?
What you're going to do?
Yeah.
So I'm going to do my Dueling Crescents,
which is an offensive skill that I have.
That's a good attack.
So the EMP is 100-100.
Damage is plus 2d10 times 10.
So draw two blades upward, flashing strike,
and negative 1d10.
enemy action.
Cool.
Roll a 20-sided die.
Roll as high as possible to hit.
Let's go.
16.
Yeah.
Full damage.
Roll your damage.
What's that?
Oh, which die is it?
Yeah.
First check your sword.
It should show you a certain
amount of damage that the sword does.
Like under what weapon combat information?
Yeah, it should have like a base damage.
Oh, slash?
Okay, that's 100 damage.
Okay,
what does the skill say that it does?
For...
Double Crescent.
Oh, for the Double Crescent?
For the Double Crescent,
the effect is the upward
flashing strike and
negative one enemy action.
Before the effect, there's a spot.
Oh, okay.
It says plus 2d10 times 10.
Okay,
so take your 10-sided down and roll it.
Four.
Okay, so 2d10, that's 8.
That's 2 times 4.
8 times 10 is 80.
Alright, so when your weapon does 100,
it says 180 damage.
And you hit.
Roll his dodge.
Is it 72?
29.
He dodges out of the way.
His counter is a 60.
Damn it, man.
23.
Okay.
He's going to counter with a
crippling strike.
16.
Okay, you can't block a counter.
Okay, what special abilities do you have?
Look at your special abilities.
They take no EPM for the cast.
All right, he doesn't cripple you,
but he cuts you for 200 damage.
I don't know what I'm looking at.
Special abilities.
No pressure on time.
Take a moment, Jen, if you want to look.
Look in the back of your page.
It says passive abilities.
Look at your passive
abilities and your active abilities.
They take nothing to cast.
Those are natural to you.
Yeah.
You can do those without taking an action.
They take no action is what it means.
They take no action.
A skill that might fail you out there.
The only thing I have is the
evasive routine.
Yeah.
Do that.
Oh, wait.
What's that?
You might want to just draw his attention.
Draw his attention.
You have a passive ability
that might help with that.
The distracting sound?
She has a passive ability.
Let her look.
She's got time.
We don't need to hit the pause button.
If it's in a passive ability
or an active ability, it takes no action.
It is a natural thing that
your character can do if it
does not take an action.
Yeah,
so I mean my passive abilities are
either to taunt, assess the opponent,
or distracting sound.
So if he's aiming right at you,
what would you do?
I mean, I would do my evasive routine,
but then I would also
assess my opponent to see
where I can damage him the most.
So I would do a distracting
sound for me to get him to
not look at me.
You can throw that sound.
Oh.
Throw it away from you.
Oh, okay.
Throw a rock away from you.
You know what I mean?
Or that sort of sound.
I thought distractive sound was like...
He's doing something and I'm
distracting him too.
Yeah, that's it.
Okay.
Okay, cool.
All right.
So I'll,
I'll use the distracting sound then.
Use like a,
a sound that sounds like a large animal,
like a cow, like a wyvern or a large,
you know what I mean?
A predator.
Okay.
It's off in the distance
that would catch his
attention away from you,
like a bigger threat.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, like,
do I actually have to try to
make the sound or am I just saying, like,
I'm using the distractor
sound and it'll be like the
wyron that I killed because
I have that skill set of
knowing what it sounds like.
Okay.
Exactly.
See,
I'm going to cast a spell and it's
going to sound like this.
It's gonna sound like so far away.
Okay.
All you need to do is break
his attention away from you.
Okay.
Are you getting messages?
I got one.
No, I didn't get a message.
He's still typing.
He's being a sneaky snake.
With like eight S's.
Nick.
We need more chips.
We're good.
We're good.
Because after this encounter,
I'm going to hit the road.
We got to call it here in a minute.
But I need this guy to go
because he stabbed me.
I'm sorry.
I think Leon has found his first nemesis.
When people look like Ryu
Hayabusha from Ninja Gaiden,
we don't mess with them
until we level up a little bit.
I try to disrupt the whole thing.
I will say you didn't know
this man was there.
You thought you were just
knocking out some cultists.
Right now, the good thing is, Tate,
you guys don't have 10
other dudes jumping around being morons.
I mean, they're not as huge of a threat,
but still,
they could hit you and then
cause... Look at that one guy.
He got lucky and knocked you out.
So the 10 of them not being there,
if the 10 of them were
there helping him... Don't
they want to take care of the minions,
man?
This dude jumped up and went
straight limit break off the rip.
Bro, who leads with their heaviest attack?
Who does that?
Someone doesn't want you
guys to leave the city.
How did he know we were in the caravan?
I thought we had nice little
covered wagons.
Well,
you guys haven't gotten to the
caravan yet.
You're still trying to exit the West Gate.
Once you exit West Gate,
wasn't that the place with
the movie theater over in Arizona?
Yeah.
So when you pass by that little place,
West Gate in Arizona,
and you guys are free,
it's about a fourth area.
Yeah.
Sorry, I'm off now.
Cold Stone, Westgate, all sorts of stuff.
Okay.
That's where the piano bar was at.
Yeah, there you go.
So I'm going to use distracting sound.
Okay.
Which is a passive ability that I have.
Go get it.
And I'm going to make it
sound like a wyron from far away.
So he'll track his attention over there.
Okay, he fails the resistance,
so he definitely turns his attention.
And while he's doing that-
He leaps up on the wall and
he's checking out to the distance,
like he's trying to find
out where that sound came from.
Because remember,
the ride wind just recently happened,
so it's believable to him
that there's still an option for that.
Right.
Good call, good call.
All right, so with recent developments,
Golian is standing up now near you.
Because you chose to go into bloodlust,
the fact that he's bleeding
a lot is drawing your attention.
Roll your two tens.
45.
Okay, you can control yourself.
But it's very tempting.
Okay,
now the three of you are pretty close.
Kinshiro casts a sigil of rejuvenation.
I forgot our boy was doing that.
So green symbols on the ground.
You see the letters around it.
Light comes up.
Rejuvenation.
So you guys are slowly
gaining 250 life force.
Life force per turn?
Per turn.
Okay.
As long as you stay within his circle.
Look, there's Yosh.
Look,
there's... Where are you kids finding
this?
I don't know.
You ever wonder that?
Like,
don't you ever find videos and you're
like... Yes.
What is it?
But it's rare because he's usually like,
what flag is this the country from?
Like, nerd?
I'd wish you'd watch more non-playing.
So who is it?
Because I'm standing up.
Is it me?
Yeah.
All right.
It's your turn.
I will go with my ranged, the dual shot.
Fire two arrows times two arrow damage.
Negative 10% enemy defense.
So actually,
he has more like a negative 15
because Melody's already
distracted him with the sound.
So right now, it's a negative 15%.
You might as well take your shots.
Is that the 20%?
Tens.
Tens?
All right.
No, he's taking shots.
20?
20.
He's shooting his bow.
How many is he doing?
It's up to him.
It's a double shot.
I'll use two actions.
Two of my four actions.
Do you want to roll twice?
He rolled two 20s.
I'll roll twice.
Okay.
He's trying to build up the mojo.
Yeah,
I'm trying to build experience with
my die.
Kind of get down with it.
I mean, Tay's die is two.
First roll.
Oh, my God, a two.
I'm going to break through this.
Break through this.
Next one's a seven.
All right.
What's your bonus to hit?
For the dual shot?
Oh, up there?
It is a four.
And then what's your bow?
The crossbow is for normal
bow or steel bow.
Four plus seven is 11.
It hits at half damage, man.
I mean,
you might as well do it because
it's going to be full
because it's a dual shot.
Right.
And you got still one more action,
so it's up to you.
So I got four actions, right?
That was two?
Yes.
I got two more actions.
Let's do it again.
Let's do it again.
Let's go.
20 die.
Oh my gosh.
Stop looking at my roll.
I think that's what it is.
That's what it is.
Jen's judging it.
Yeah, just stop judging the die, Jen.
So that one was a one.
Yeah, it is a one.
She's not looking.
It's another one.
Oh my God.
His other one.
Okay, you're...
Well, you're one and four.
Tay, you're two and five.
Three and six is congenial.
Hold up, what's happening right now?
You're hitting us.
The one that you fired two
arrows into Melody's back.
Nice.
How much damage do you do?
Do I roll that as well?
I hope it knocks her out.
See, dual shot is what?
Because all this is her fault anyway.
Still shot is plus 100.
The bow?
Yeah.
How much does it do with a normal bolt?
A normal bolt, it does 100% damage.
Or plus 100 damage.
All right.
You just took 400 damage, Melody,
in the back of two crossbow
bolts from my man.
Cool.
Cool.
A part of me wants to say sorry.
I'm so sorry,
but... And I couldn't abuse
my evasive routine that I
had to evade it.
You wouldn't have expected
it because it came from your homeboy.
Yeah, you're right.
If it was any other time in front of you,
yeah.
Okay.
The Imperial guards start to show up.
The things start to fade.
The...
Unknown masked assailant has
dipped into the shadows.
You guys can decide what to do now.
Get the fuck out of town.
Get in that caravan and go.
We got ready.
You guys are in the best shape,
but it seems like Kinshiro
has some healing abilities.
He goes ahead and does what
he can to basically stop
the bleeding and so forth
when you're going to damage it.
There's no way to calm your blood lust.
You're gonna have to roll
two tens to do it yourself.
You have to get another 30%.
Or you might try to eat one
of your friends.
The one who's bleeding?
Nope.
Okay, roll 20, set a die.
Are you odd or even?
Just pick odd or even.
I'll go even.
Roll a point.
18.
Okay.
So while you guys are trying to recover
Melody,
and Conjuro's trying to heal you guys up.
Out of nowhere,
Mara jumps on Dole and
starts trying to eat his blood.
Okay, 18.
This is going great.
So Conjuro turns and does
what seems to be a couple
pressure points.
It's double damage,
so you have half your resistance,
half your physical resistance.
He's trying to knock her out
so she doesn't.
Right.
This dude kind of jacked up the team.
You guys needed a tank.
You needed a damage guy.
The guy who soaks up all the hits.
The guy doing a podcast right now.
Nope, I failed it.
Okay, so Kinshasa knocks her out.
He says, Melody,
is there any way you can
keep her from getting up?
Yes.
I have a
Melody Refuge.
Okay, good call.
All right,
so everybody gets 750 experience
points for running into him.
You're going to need to
learn more about him.
He's not going to give up.
You guys provide this an
escape battle for us,
so another 250 for that, too.
Barely.
Yeah, barely.
Very close.
It should let you know the amount of it.
You're either one on the
right path because you're
pissing the bad guys off or
you're heading right
towards their thing because
they have to have this guy in wait.
Right.
I mean,
you guys were going to leave out
the Westgate and no one's going to,
you guys weren't going to the ocean.
Right.
You know what I mean?
So it doesn't take a genius.
But the thing is,
if you guys are going to
keep heading West and
trying to head towards
Arnia to save his wife,
you can't have dudes like
this popping up on you
because what if you run
into with the salt so
jira's telling you like or
kinshiro I gotta look at
his name sorry um he's
saying if we have a threat
that's gonna be like this
we've got to either deal
with it now or plan for it
when we get to his before
we get to his wife because
if we get there and this
guy's on our back we might
rescue her only to put her
in another situation I
thought old buddy was
rolling with us just to drop the eggs off
He was rolling to save one
of the women that disappeared.
But the one that disappeared
that he's looking for isn't
the one that was taken to
the underground.
So he's still looking for Alina,
which is missing.
Okay.
Because he was all about all lives matter.
He's just like, yeah.
So I thought that was his
main goal is to make sure
we get the egg back.
He's like a temple warrior.
They're kind of like a
temple samurai in Karatora,
which is the Eastern Empire.
So Asoki lives a life of
trying to be like a monk.
But he shouldn't be away from the temple.
So that means there's
probably a reason he's away
from the temple.
And it could deal with whatever Jumanji,
whoever that girl is.
It's a 17.
Look at me.
All this practice.
We got to give Willie the
chance to find some dice
that brings some good juju to that.
Bro, this is going to work, man.
I mean, overall, you got to be good.
You escape, bail, and forth.
It's going to be up to your decision.
It's their first game.
You guys know there's stuff
going on there.
You just aren't enough to
pick up the news so you
know there's issues going on there.
You guys want to try to help them.
But obviously, Dolian's not going to.
He's driven by the fact that
he wants to save a loved one.
So you guys are going to
have to balance that out.
Well, like Kinjiro said,
if you leave this be,
is it something that's
going to follow you while
you try to save his wife?
It's a lot of things to weigh,
but that's stuff you guys
can put together.
You guys got plenty of experience points.
Upgrades can be done.
Levels are important.
Levels give you life force
and more energy to use your
special abilities.
So your EPMD goes up.
Okay.
So when you're low level,
it's kind of important to at least get,
I would say to work towards
at least level 20 before
you start building up your
stats and your skill percentages.
Unless you got a skill
percentage that's just been
screwing you up.
I mean, you know,
like if you got like a 30%
on something and you just suck,
the team's like, damn.
But I mean, actually,
you guys all work well together.
didn't seem like anybody was
really lacking in the
department it would be good
to have one or two tanks
machetes is good tanking
but I need to get him some
weapons and if joe was
available joe's good at
taking damage and doing
singular uh one point yes
yeah yeah he's not fast or
you know what I mean I mean
actually the well-rounded people
um you got your middle
grounds melody is pretty
middle ground melody can
fight up close if she has
to obviously she killed the
wyvern right and she's
decent but I mean distant
wise you're one of the only
distance guys so you guys
either gotta have another
character kind of pick up
something because the only
one can't be the only one
if it's outside especially
if I'm rolling ones and
twos that's not working
yeah you gotta be able to hit him I'm
What was that?
Eighth Ventura?
Cheetahs is probably the worst at rain.
All right.
Well, this was fun.
I can't wait to do another one.
I'm confused.
Five and a half hours.
That was a good time.
Thank you all.
I appreciate it.
Good night, y'all.
Bye.
Have a good one.
Bye.
That was awesome, guys.
Thank you.
