WEBVTT 00:00:39.659 --> 00:00:43.079 Well, howdy, y 'all. I reckon you're wondering 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:45.259 what happened last time on Fantasy Pants, huh? 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:49.219 Well, you've come to the right place. You see, 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.939 we were introduced to a world, a world of many 00:00:52.939 --> 00:00:55.179 worlds, you might say, all connected through 00:00:55.179 --> 00:00:59.500 one locale, a great shining diamond in the deep 00:00:59.500 --> 00:01:03.159 ethereal known as the Radiant Citadel. We met 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:06.159 a couple of goofballs, a couple of novice adventurers, 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:10.000 mayhaps, living there. Everyday lives, peaceful 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:13.700 like. That is until a storm hits on the world 00:01:13.700 --> 00:01:16.760 of Tythos in the city of towers known as Cerule. 00:01:18.540 --> 00:01:23.120 We see Zebulon brought here by the shield bearers 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:27.159 in an effort to rescue as many as he can. We 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:30.780 see Jules Laroche and his band of orphans known 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:34.659 as the Cherry Delights rushing to escape the 00:01:34.659 --> 00:01:39.379 devastation. And as they move away, as they move 00:01:39.379 --> 00:01:43.760 towards safety, well, then the lightning begins 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:48.439 to strike. And with it, a new danger arrives. 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:57.719 Jules, you are moving towards this. You're working 00:01:57.719 --> 00:01:58.920 your way out of the low city. I think you're 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:01.560 reaching just around the border of the high city. 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:04.579 And as you get there, you see like... In the 00:02:04.579 --> 00:02:06.560 road ahead, and you're staying kind of far off 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:10.199 to the side, right? Yes. You can see in the road, 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:11.879 maybe they don't really quite clock you yet, 00:02:11.939 --> 00:02:13.199 but they're seeing all the other people kind 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:15.219 of funneling in behind you. Not just your group, 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:16.919 but people from all over the low city are moving 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:20.400 towards the plaza. You see the Roach guards. 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:26.319 Do you have a sigil, like the Roach family colors? 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:29.879 Blue and white. Blue and white, yes. In the blue 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:31.780 and white taverns, you see these guards kind 00:02:31.780 --> 00:02:33.979 of standing in the gleaming silver armor, just 00:02:33.979 --> 00:02:39.460 standing in a line at the edge of the first tall 00:02:39.460 --> 00:02:42.180 towers of the high city. Ah, shit. Right in the 00:02:42.180 --> 00:02:44.620 middle of the main road. As you kind of see these 00:02:44.620 --> 00:02:47.439 people moving, they stare out towards these low 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:53.240 folk with just open animosity. Is there a back 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:56.270 alley we can duck out of? Yeah, there's other 00:02:56.270 --> 00:02:58.569 ways you could try to work in. So you're going 00:02:58.569 --> 00:03:01.430 to work on a back alley? Yeah. Okay. I don't 00:03:01.430 --> 00:03:03.590 want them to see me at all. All right, so you 00:03:03.590 --> 00:03:05.830 take your group and move around. But how many 00:03:05.830 --> 00:03:07.689 are you going to take with you? Whoever's going 00:03:07.689 --> 00:03:10.949 to follow. Okay. I mean, I'm bringing the Cherry 00:03:10.949 --> 00:03:13.129 Delights. All right, so you guys start to move 00:03:13.129 --> 00:03:15.590 out of the way. You wave the Cherry Delights 00:03:15.590 --> 00:03:17.710 into an alley. And as you kind of move out of 00:03:17.710 --> 00:03:20.050 there, you can hear the first of the guards like, 00:03:20.210 --> 00:03:23.819 Halt! Go no further! By the roach orders, you 00:03:23.819 --> 00:03:28.060 are to stay put. We are bringing high city folk 00:03:28.060 --> 00:03:32.759 to the plaza right now. We are going to let you 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.759 pass. We are. But right now, it is flooded with 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:38.740 our folk. We cannot let you in. We are trying 00:03:38.740 --> 00:03:40.460 to keep a reason. And people are just like, oh, 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.539 what are you doing? You can't do this to us. 00:03:43.539 --> 00:03:46.400 Screaming. Banging against shields. Stay back! 00:03:48.810 --> 00:03:50.770 As you move into this alley, you're moving away 00:03:50.770 --> 00:03:52.750 from the sights of this, from the chaos behind 00:03:52.750 --> 00:04:00.870 you. But you hear lightning striking down amongst 00:04:00.870 --> 00:04:04.750 this crowd. You hear, like, explosions. You hear 00:04:04.750 --> 00:04:08.590 screaming. And you just can't let it out. It's 00:04:08.590 --> 00:04:15.289 humming creatures. Now, you've moved away from 00:04:15.289 --> 00:04:20.699 this hell behind you. But right now, you are 00:04:20.699 --> 00:04:24.740 about to enter the high city. You are, I will 00:04:24.740 --> 00:04:28.220 say, four blocks from the plaza. I want you both 00:04:28.220 --> 00:04:31.660 to roll for initiative. All right. First roll 00:04:31.660 --> 00:04:39.300 of the game. Here we go. Oh. First roll. Nice. 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.980 That was the first session. Nat 20. That is amazing. 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.920 Mine was a 10. You will never get another one. 00:04:47.019 --> 00:04:50.339 Plus 313. Nice. All right. Here's how this is 00:04:50.339 --> 00:04:52.339 going to work. Let me break this down for you. 00:04:52.420 --> 00:04:55.740 All right. If you guys attempt to move here, 00:04:55.899 --> 00:04:57.899 you're going to be moving through difficult terrain. 00:04:57.980 --> 00:05:00.040 You'll be making checks based on various things 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:03.860 each round. For one, if you're going through 00:05:03.860 --> 00:05:06.699 more of the chaos of the streets, there are points 00:05:06.699 --> 00:05:08.930 where you have to. You're going to need to roll 00:05:08.930 --> 00:05:11.649 or at least find a way to keep your folk with 00:05:11.649 --> 00:05:13.509 you. Keep the chariot of lights with you. Keep 00:05:13.509 --> 00:05:15.930 an eye on their location because it's going to 00:05:15.930 --> 00:05:18.490 be easy to lose them in the hell. I'm going to 00:05:18.490 --> 00:05:20.790 conundrum knock because now when I hear what's 00:05:20.790 --> 00:05:24.389 happening with the people behind me, I don't 00:05:24.389 --> 00:05:25.829 know if I want to leave them. A lot of low folk 00:05:25.829 --> 00:05:29.730 are in trouble. But at the same time, maybe whatever's 00:05:29.730 --> 00:05:31.949 happening could give you the chaos, but it can 00:05:31.949 --> 00:05:33.389 give you an opening to get past those guards. 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.980 Each round, depending on where you move, there 00:05:36.980 --> 00:05:39.420 may be difficult terrain. If you're going into 00:05:39.420 --> 00:05:40.959 a crowd, it's going to be some slow movement. 00:05:41.579 --> 00:05:43.600 We're going to do theater of the mind for this 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.980 bit here. I'll help you get an idea of how far 00:05:46.980 --> 00:05:51.339 you can go each round. Zebulon, same story for 00:05:51.339 --> 00:05:54.199 you. You're standing in this gem. You're looking 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:56.579 out at the hell outside. You want to hang out 00:05:56.579 --> 00:05:59.459 and sit back? That's fine. Those luminaries are 00:05:59.459 --> 00:06:05.430 getting to work. Here in the crystal, looking 00:06:05.430 --> 00:06:11.550 around, is there a chance that the shield bearers, 00:06:11.589 --> 00:06:16.370 not expecting a fight, might have left some gear 00:06:16.370 --> 00:06:23.889 lying around? I think rather than the shield 00:06:23.889 --> 00:06:25.930 bearers having gear, you had a little time as 00:06:25.930 --> 00:06:27.990 Arhalon was in your apartment as he got this 00:06:27.990 --> 00:06:31.110 message for this, as he was preparing. He would 00:06:31.110 --> 00:06:35.139 have some older... Like leather training armor 00:06:35.139 --> 00:06:38.660 you could throw on. It's going to look ridiculous 00:06:38.660 --> 00:06:40.160 on you. Like right now, you look like you're 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.199 wearing a full -on battle skirt. Because, you 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.100 know. Nice. You'll have a belt tied around where 00:06:46.100 --> 00:06:47.660 your waist is, but that's where Arholon's chest 00:06:47.660 --> 00:06:54.220 was in this leather sort of. Yeah. It's a little 00:06:54.220 --> 00:06:57.800 goofy, but it's effective. It's cool. I love 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:00.439 it. Mechanics -wise, what are we calling that 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.939 item? Let's call it. Let's call it studded leather 00:07:03.939 --> 00:07:06.899 because I want you to live. And Arhalon probably 00:07:06.899 --> 00:07:08.879 has some pretty good gear. He's got connections. 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.480 You guys ready? No, not yet. Let me change that 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:17.240 up. Jules is always ready. I hope you're ready 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:19.500 for this. As long as you don't kill me, I'm fine. 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.360 I'm good. Oh, boy. Depends what you do. So I'm 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:25.740 going to roll die as well to determine how I'm 00:07:25.740 --> 00:07:27.860 going to have these creatures react. You're not 00:07:27.860 --> 00:07:30.769 in any, like... You're not exactly engaging in 00:07:30.769 --> 00:07:33.069 combat with anyone right yet. Right. But should 00:07:33.069 --> 00:07:35.189 you, things are going to make a very different 00:07:35.189 --> 00:07:39.370 turn. All right. I think, like, during this moment, 00:07:39.610 --> 00:07:42.110 the sounds of the screaming and the chaos sort 00:07:42.110 --> 00:07:45.350 of phase away. You both maybe hone in to the 00:07:45.350 --> 00:07:49.410 sounds of these creatures before you. Their movements 00:07:49.410 --> 00:07:52.870 seem to... With the wind swirling around them. 00:07:53.949 --> 00:07:57.670 What... There's some scheming going on at the 00:07:57.670 --> 00:08:00.959 table. This is secrets kept from the DM. Secrets? 00:08:01.180 --> 00:08:03.980 This is not for the DM's eyes. Well, I hate it. 00:08:04.220 --> 00:08:05.920 I bet you do. Jules, you're up first. What do 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:08.199 you want to do? Shit. Your crew is going to follow 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:10.139 what you do. This is going to be a bit of a loose 00:08:10.139 --> 00:08:14.019 fight in this first session. I really don't want 00:08:14.019 --> 00:08:17.740 to leave what's happening on the street. You 00:08:17.740 --> 00:08:19.160 don't even fully know what's happening on the 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:20.420 street. I think you're a little ways into the 00:08:20.420 --> 00:08:23.120 alley, maybe ten feet in. I don't think there's 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:25.269 anything I can do there, though. It's your call. 00:08:25.350 --> 00:08:27.370 This alley snakes forward about 20 more feet, 00:08:27.430 --> 00:08:30.089 then takes a turn, moves closer to the high city 00:08:30.089 --> 00:08:32.330 there. I can't show myself, but more importantly, 00:08:32.429 --> 00:08:35.409 even if I did, we can't take on whatever the 00:08:35.409 --> 00:08:38.429 hell is going on here. The guards and these creatures. 00:08:38.730 --> 00:08:40.450 Okay. So we're going to keep going through the 00:08:40.450 --> 00:08:43.389 alley. Okay. It's not difficult terrain. You 00:08:43.389 --> 00:08:47.009 can move. You can double move if you want to 00:08:47.009 --> 00:08:50.009 in this round. Yeah, let's double move. So 20 00:08:50.009 --> 00:08:51.330 feet to the end of the alley. Let's get as far 00:08:51.330 --> 00:08:55.850 as I can. My movement is... Like 30? 30 feet. 00:08:56.090 --> 00:08:58.190 Okay, so you go 60 feet here. So what you're 00:08:58.190 --> 00:09:00.129 going to do is you move 20 feet and you kind 00:09:00.129 --> 00:09:01.950 of reach a point where the alley splits off three 00:09:01.950 --> 00:09:05.590 different ways. You take a hard left here and 00:09:05.590 --> 00:09:09.009 push your way down another sort of long alley 00:09:09.009 --> 00:09:11.549 that's about 40 feet. So you kind of reach the 00:09:11.549 --> 00:09:13.450 end of that and as it is going to turn ends, 00:09:13.450 --> 00:09:16.929 you break out right at the rim of the towers 00:09:16.929 --> 00:09:19.950 of the high city. There's a sort of a wide open 00:09:19.950 --> 00:09:22.590 space where the high city ends and the low city 00:09:22.590 --> 00:09:25.330 begins. Um, and you can see that there probably 00:09:25.330 --> 00:09:28.929 were guards stationed, like, in some, uh, some 00:09:28.929 --> 00:09:32.610 hundred feet apart or so, um, where the main 00:09:32.610 --> 00:09:35.610 roads weren't exactly, like, lined up. Uh, you 00:09:35.610 --> 00:09:38.789 see that the guards are now spread out as they're, 00:09:38.830 --> 00:09:41.509 like, running towards these various fights that 00:09:41.509 --> 00:09:43.389 have broken out. And you can see these creatures 00:09:43.389 --> 00:09:47.610 are all over the place. Jeez. But in front of 00:09:47.610 --> 00:09:52.649 you, there seems to be only one. Uh, it's about... 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:58.259 50 feet ahead of you, kind of like on the tower 00:09:58.259 --> 00:10:01.980 side of this large expanse. And as you guys kind 00:10:01.980 --> 00:10:04.500 of rush out of the alley, this creature with 00:10:04.500 --> 00:10:12.100 this sort of buzzing hum turns around and its 00:10:12.100 --> 00:10:15.139 eyeless face seems to clock you. You know it's 00:10:15.139 --> 00:10:18.440 coming your way. Yep. Nebulon, what did you roll? 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.639 I rolled a 13. Okay. Sorry, go ahead. No, I was 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.259 just going to say, as we kind of see this thing 00:10:27.259 --> 00:10:29.620 locking onto us, we know it. I'm just going to 00:10:29.620 --> 00:10:32.139 kind of step out in front of the group and just 00:10:32.139 --> 00:10:37.700 say, Cherry Delights, form ranks. And they're 00:10:37.700 --> 00:10:39.039 all going to come in, and we're going to just 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:41.960 form one solid line. Hell yeah. In the alley. 00:10:43.419 --> 00:10:45.240 All right, so you're just spreading out, kind 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:47.919 of holding the whole place. Yep. You can hear 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:51.149 like a crash as you guys... Round stuff smashes 00:10:51.149 --> 00:10:53.190 a bottle against I think at the end of the alley 00:10:53.190 --> 00:11:00.889 to come at me come at me come on Paul is just 00:11:00.889 --> 00:11:08.789 staring forward like Storm Chester's like shaking 00:11:08.789 --> 00:11:11.129 right your side. He's got like a little dagger. 00:11:11.190 --> 00:11:16.370 He pulls out his pocket. Just like Jules Can 00:11:16.370 --> 00:11:19.460 this thing be stabbed? We're about to find out. 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:27.200 Ah, hell. Ah, jeez. So, um, okay. My turn. You 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:28.559 did your movement. You did your double movement. 00:11:28.740 --> 00:11:32.879 Now I get to go. But I can only move with this 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:34.759 thing, because I'm 50 feet away as established, 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:38.679 so this thing just... It's flying off the ground 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:41.480 as it, like, blasts towards you. You can see, 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:43.460 like, tendrils of lightning are, like, raking 00:11:43.460 --> 00:11:46.039 at the cobbles below, and they're kind of like... 00:11:47.309 --> 00:11:51.629 breaking, crumbling. Dust is bursting out from 00:11:51.629 --> 00:11:54.889 everywhere this thing hits. And it flies across 00:11:54.889 --> 00:11:58.909 and comes right towards you. Gets right up in 00:11:58.909 --> 00:12:03.090 your face and just like raises a claw as it's 00:12:03.090 --> 00:12:09.710 preparing to strike. Zebulon, where you stand, 00:12:09.789 --> 00:12:13.009 these things are also going. So, you kind of 00:12:13.009 --> 00:12:17.070 watch as Two of these creatures just, like, move. 00:12:17.169 --> 00:12:21.669 I think one turns towards the gemstone. Begins 00:12:21.669 --> 00:12:24.950 moving towards you, but not fast. You see the 00:12:24.950 --> 00:12:26.970 one just kind of, like, zaps off into the crowd 00:12:26.970 --> 00:12:29.490 somewhere and starts attacking. People are screaming. 00:12:29.889 --> 00:12:35.009 Stop! Hey! Stop! This thing just kind of moves 00:12:35.009 --> 00:12:36.970 up, like, towards you again, just, like, getting 00:12:36.970 --> 00:12:40.649 ready to strike, and it's your move. The doorway 00:12:40.649 --> 00:12:43.730 is now blocked by one of these creatures. Yawned. 00:12:44.139 --> 00:12:46.559 absolute chaos is broken out. You don't see your 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:50.659 brother. Where is he? Where's Arhalon? Let's 00:12:50.659 --> 00:12:53.600 talk gear for a second. And I don't know, we 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:55.860 can cut this out if you want. No, let's talk 00:12:55.860 --> 00:13:00.200 some gear. Gear's fine. So since we're two players 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:06.200 in a larger campaign, one of the boons that you 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:10.220 gave us was picking a feat at level one. Yes. 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:13.220 The feat I picked for Zebulon was dual wielder. 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:17.460 I'm just having a hard time reconciling that 00:13:17.460 --> 00:13:20.980 here and now he would be carrying two blades. 00:13:22.620 --> 00:13:24.539 I mean, I don't think that's out of the question. 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.639 You knew something was happening. Okay. Maybe 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:29.179 they're like, I mean, they're probably, you know, 00:13:29.220 --> 00:13:32.480 like trading blades. Maybe they're sharpened. 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:33.919 Maybe you sharpened them. I mean, there's something 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:36.919 that you probably personally keep to practice 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:40.080 with. Yeah, I'm almost kind of seeing that as 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:43.529 like you're always ready to. to shine. This is 00:13:43.529 --> 00:13:45.350 your moment. You know it. You heard the sirens. 00:13:45.389 --> 00:13:47.210 You knew it was happening. Arhalon was strapping 00:13:47.210 --> 00:13:50.309 his gear on. He grabbed his greatsword. Polio 00:13:50.309 --> 00:13:52.889 slung his greatsword straight over his back. 00:13:52.889 --> 00:13:56.110 And Zebulon went into the gear room after him 00:13:56.110 --> 00:13:58.429 and just picked up, like, hand -me -downs. Yeah, 00:13:58.429 --> 00:14:04.190 there's some gear. All right, so... I picture 00:14:04.190 --> 00:14:07.669 him having, like, these two sort of curved, semi 00:14:07.669 --> 00:14:11.320 -curved sabers. Maybe they're more like dress 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:13.580 swords, like they're not actually meant for battle, 00:14:13.659 --> 00:14:17.740 but he picked them up off of maybe some of Arhan's 00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:23.919 old formal military wear. So he sees this thing 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:27.639 in the door, and they're killing people. I'm 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:33.840 sorry, brother. And he draws his swords and moves, 00:14:34.019 --> 00:14:40.419 runs towards this. lightning being. Yeah, this 00:14:40.419 --> 00:14:43.100 is like this creature made of lightning, this 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:48.240 weird humanoid thing. It's electric shape. Can 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:50.879 I get close enough to make an attack? You absolutely 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:53.440 can. I'll say it's 10 feet away from you as it 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:55.460 stands. Perfect. Just kind of moving into strike. 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:58.820 You're kind of far out of the action, so I think 00:14:58.820 --> 00:15:00.259 it got to the doorway, and you were probably 00:15:00.259 --> 00:15:03.120 a little ways off the doorway, so yeah, I think 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:06.039 that makes sense to me. Give me one second. Let 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:10.250 me just read this. Feet real fast. Read the feet, 00:15:10.309 --> 00:15:14.470 baby. Get ready for defeat. Not funny, David. 00:15:15.029 --> 00:15:23.669 No one laughs. Get ready for defeat. All right, 00:15:23.690 --> 00:15:27.190 I'm going to make my first strike here. That's 00:15:27.190 --> 00:15:30.730 not great, but it's a 6 plus 5, 11. 11 against 00:15:30.730 --> 00:15:35.570 this creature is a miss. All right. Because of 00:15:35.570 --> 00:15:38.360 the dual wielder, I got another strike. It is 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:41.539 also a miss. That is a 3 plus 5, an 8. Oh, boy. 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.059 So you just swing twice, and this thing's movements 00:15:44.059 --> 00:15:48.679 are just all over the place. And now you're right 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:51.000 in its face, and it's getting ready to attack. 00:15:51.860 --> 00:15:54.860 And you get the feeling it's going to hurt. Yeah, 00:15:54.980 --> 00:15:59.059 I don't think I have any other moves. Well, end 00:15:59.059 --> 00:16:00.940 of the round. I have one more turn I'm going 00:16:00.940 --> 00:16:05.299 to go for here. Beyond this creature, you can 00:16:05.299 --> 00:16:09.870 hear, like... I mean, it's not like some some 00:16:09.870 --> 00:16:12.929 sort of like Stone breaking you can hear like 00:16:12.929 --> 00:16:17.190 some magic cast whispered word or shouted Scott's 00:16:17.190 --> 00:16:21.990 get up and an explosion Somewhere in the crowd 00:16:21.990 --> 00:16:24.470 and as this thing reaches out to attack you just 00:16:24.470 --> 00:16:28.289 kind of suddenly see the tip of a spear Bursts 00:16:28.289 --> 00:16:30.830 out from its chest and the creature an explosion 00:16:30.830 --> 00:16:35.330 of static Uh, breaks. Although, actually, I have 00:16:35.330 --> 00:16:37.049 to tell you, this is going to be a, uh, I need 00:16:37.049 --> 00:16:39.789 you to take a dexterity saving throw. As this 00:16:39.789 --> 00:16:44.629 thing dies. Okay. I started doing this, and then 00:16:44.629 --> 00:16:47.730 I remembered that, uh, this is not the most helpful 00:16:47.730 --> 00:16:50.549 thing. Wow, we're rolling real bad. That's a 00:16:50.549 --> 00:16:54.870 natural two, plus five is seven. Okay. Um, on 00:16:54.870 --> 00:16:57.490 the bright side, you are a brass dragon, correct? 00:16:58.450 --> 00:17:01.350 Yes, so if we're talking about electricity damage, 00:17:01.570 --> 00:17:03.100 or... lightning damage, I don't know, whatever. 00:17:03.179 --> 00:17:05.460 It's going to be halved. I get resistance, yeah. 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:06.900 I got a pretty bad roll, so you actually only 00:17:06.900 --> 00:17:09.940 take three points of damage from this death burst. 00:17:10.019 --> 00:17:13.539 This thing just explodes into this static discharge. 00:17:14.299 --> 00:17:16.960 The figure behind it, as it kind of vanishes, 00:17:17.019 --> 00:17:19.900 seems to have taken almost no damage. You see 00:17:19.900 --> 00:17:24.440 that spear -wielding centurion. At level one, 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:29.059 three hit points is more than a third of my health. 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:31.519 It's not great. He looks at you and he's just 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:36.400 like, I'm sorry, I did not realize. Stay back. 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:41.059 Leave this to the luminaries. He swirls a spear 00:17:41.059 --> 00:17:45.539 out of the air, you know, props it up high, gives 00:17:45.539 --> 00:17:48.019 you a nod, and then turns and runs back out into 00:17:48.019 --> 00:17:52.960 the crowd. The way is clear now for you. And 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:56.359 that is the end of round one. Jules Roche, you 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:00.049 are up. This thing is right in front of you. 00:18:00.049 --> 00:18:02.130 You have your crew all around you at the mouth 00:18:02.130 --> 00:18:04.650 of this alley. Up ahead, you see the star of 00:18:04.650 --> 00:18:07.390 the towers. The high city district. Behind you, 00:18:07.430 --> 00:18:11.650 you hear screaming. You hear volts of electricity 00:18:11.650 --> 00:18:15.369 being cast out towards innocent people. Guards. 00:18:15.369 --> 00:18:17.789 You don't know. You just know that people are 00:18:17.789 --> 00:18:20.509 dying. But you know that freedom for you and 00:18:20.509 --> 00:18:24.329 for your gang lies just ahead. Wherever you want 00:18:24.329 --> 00:18:27.680 to go. You got a very big, very electric problem 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:33.099 right in front of you. What do you do? I'm going 00:18:33.099 --> 00:18:36.319 to cast Invisibility on myself. Oh, shit. Okay. 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.819 Okay. And I'm going to move behind it. All right. 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:44.799 I believe that's what I can do at this point 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:48.460 in time. Very specific ability Jules has, given 00:18:48.460 --> 00:18:51.940 that he's a variant human, has a couple of feats, 00:18:51.940 --> 00:18:54.140 and I think he's trained himself in some pretty... 00:18:54.990 --> 00:18:57.690 Pretty powerful magic in this one regard. At 00:18:57.690 --> 00:19:00.609 least you go invisible. And you're staying in 00:19:00.609 --> 00:19:01.930 its range, so you're going to move around behind 00:19:01.930 --> 00:19:04.849 it. Sounds good. I think that's all I can do. 00:19:04.970 --> 00:19:08.970 I just cast it. I'm pretty sure it's an action. 00:19:10.329 --> 00:19:12.250 I'll just double check. Yeah, it's an action. 00:19:13.170 --> 00:19:21.049 This is tricky. It's turn. You've vanished. But 00:19:21.049 --> 00:19:24.670 your allies are still right there. Maybe not 00:19:24.670 --> 00:19:26.829 entirely in its range. Maybe like, you know, 00:19:26.829 --> 00:19:28.250 they're kind of close by. But I think you were 00:19:28.250 --> 00:19:29.890 the one five feet away from it. I'll say it's 00:19:29.890 --> 00:19:32.049 ten feet away from the nearest one of you it 00:19:32.049 --> 00:19:36.329 can reach. So, what will happen is it kind of 00:19:36.329 --> 00:19:42.430 turns. Jolting. Turns towards Chester, who's 00:19:42.430 --> 00:19:46.390 like holding his knife forward. Jules? Jules, 00:19:46.450 --> 00:19:49.690 where'd you go? Oh, man. Oh, no. And this thing 00:19:49.690 --> 00:19:54.119 moves forward to attack. But steps out of your 00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:59.680 range. You get to take an AOO here. I do. So... 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:02.140 You're invisible. You get advantage on this attack. 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:07.420 Is there anything that I can deduce that would 00:20:07.420 --> 00:20:10.380 allow me to know whether or not I'm able to touch 00:20:10.380 --> 00:20:16.160 this thing? Roll me an Arcana check as you're 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:18.819 taking a look at this guy. Actually, Arcana... 00:20:18.819 --> 00:20:22.420 Do Arcana and do Perception. Okay. I'll let you 00:20:22.420 --> 00:20:25.160 do both. For different reasons. So Arcana's 11. 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:31.400 Okay. And Perception... 9. Okay, so Perception 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:33.059 you don't really catch on to much, but with your 00:20:33.059 --> 00:20:35.920 Arcana check, you realize this is at least some 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:39.700 form of elemental being. And given that, you 00:20:39.700 --> 00:20:42.000 think you can make physical contact with it. 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:47.019 Okay. It seems like incorporeal in the fact that 00:20:47.019 --> 00:20:49.279 it's just made of energy, but there is a body 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:51.480 to that energy. There is a method to all that 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:58.079 madness. Okay. So I am also going to cast Inflict 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:01.819 Wounds. Oh, shit. I'm going to just reach out 00:21:01.819 --> 00:21:06.539 and touch its back. Okay. Holy shit. All right. 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:10.160 Oh, you know what? This is an AOO. I'm going 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:14.220 to allow it in this chaos. Okay. Yeah. Because 00:21:14.220 --> 00:21:15.779 it's cool. I won't stop you from allowing it. 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.519 This is cool. All right. It's plus five to hit. 00:21:20.109 --> 00:21:23.069 This is a looser combat than our usual, very 00:21:23.069 --> 00:21:26.390 structured. Oh, no. This is a great start. That 00:21:26.390 --> 00:21:29.089 is a natural one. I did give you advantage because 00:21:29.089 --> 00:21:32.569 of your invisibility. So, very fortunate because 00:21:32.569 --> 00:21:34.450 otherwise I would have had you inflict wounds 00:21:34.450 --> 00:21:39.970 on Chester. Not really. So that's 14 plus 5, 00:21:40.049 --> 00:21:43.170 19 to hit. That will hit. Can you imagine if 00:21:43.170 --> 00:21:45.730 Chester just exploded? This thing dodges and 00:21:45.730 --> 00:21:49.920 your spell hits him. Chester's my man. He's my 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:53.180 man, my right -hand man. Alright, so the damage 00:21:53.180 --> 00:21:58.240 is 3d10. That's pretty significant. That's a 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:02.099 lot, actually. That is a good amount of damage. 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:05.740 Huh. Let's see what we get. Alright. Not bad. 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:09.500 10. 10 damage? Eh, it's not the best, not the 00:22:09.500 --> 00:22:16.279 worst. 10 is exactly... What you needed. So you 00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:18.359 reach out with a hand. What does it look like 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:20.900 when you cast Inflict Wounds on this lightning 00:22:20.900 --> 00:22:27.619 monstrosity? With this thing, I think I'm going 00:22:27.619 --> 00:22:30.339 to reach out and just lightly put my hand on 00:22:30.339 --> 00:22:34.720 its back. And kind of like, what are those? Like 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:36.990 the Tesla coils? Is that what they're called? 00:22:37.329 --> 00:22:38.910 Yeah, I know you're talking about the stuff that 00:22:38.910 --> 00:22:42.150 they have. Yeah, I think those glass globes are 00:22:42.150 --> 00:22:48.250 just going to just shoot out all sides. Yeah, 00:22:48.250 --> 00:22:52.690 it's leaking from 18 different spots. Lightning 00:22:52.690 --> 00:22:54.930 all over and then just with the metal vanishes. 00:22:55.190 --> 00:22:58.250 He just disappears into the cosmos. Fucking love 00:22:58.250 --> 00:23:00.230 it. I can't wait to hear how Jules got these 00:23:00.230 --> 00:23:01.970 abilities someday. Oh, we're going to get into 00:23:01.970 --> 00:23:05.809 that. I can't wait either. We're going to have 00:23:05.809 --> 00:23:06.990 some cool, I mean, hell, you probably had some 00:23:06.990 --> 00:23:09.670 crazy training in your younger days, given who 00:23:09.670 --> 00:23:14.150 you are, actually, Mr. Jules LaRoche. But yeah, 00:23:14.269 --> 00:23:16.750 you reach out, Chester's holding his knife, he's 00:23:16.750 --> 00:23:18.589 going to fight this thing off, this thing raises 00:23:18.589 --> 00:23:23.089 a claw, and then just, Tesla coil explodes in 00:23:23.089 --> 00:23:26.430 front of him. Chester just, and I think, with 00:23:26.430 --> 00:23:28.269 invisibility, no, you stay invisible after attack, 00:23:28.309 --> 00:23:31.950 right? No, attack. You appear? Stops it, yeah. 00:23:31.950 --> 00:23:33.390 So you suddenly just appear in front of Chester, 00:23:33.450 --> 00:23:38.940 he's like. Oh, holy shit. Holy shit, Jules. What 00:23:38.940 --> 00:23:43.000 the? I always got you guys. Oh, man. You know 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:46.119 that. Man, I was seeing the Reaper. We got to 00:23:46.119 --> 00:23:49.880 go. Let's go. All right. And you still have movement. 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:52.319 Do you guys want to start moving this turn? Actually, 00:23:52.339 --> 00:23:57.079 no. That was my turn. I think. What's that? Oh. 00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:02.119 Steven is instructing me to open additional beverage. 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:06.579 But yeah, so that was my turn. So we're actually 00:24:06.579 --> 00:24:11.539 gonna cut from that. Oh, Zebulon. The way is 00:24:11.539 --> 00:24:13.319 clear. You're looking out. Again, just chaos. 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:16.319 No Arhalon. The luminaries you saw before have 00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:18.059 kind of vanished into the crowd of screaming 00:24:18.059 --> 00:24:21.200 people. The line that formed is now like a mass 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:23.259 of people. And there's some of these creatures 00:24:23.259 --> 00:24:25.460 kind of pretty close by. So I think people are 00:24:25.460 --> 00:24:26.940 trying to scramble into the building. People 00:24:26.940 --> 00:24:28.579 are also scared. They're starting to scatter 00:24:28.579 --> 00:24:32.220 away from safety. It's chaos. You see like... 00:24:32.990 --> 00:24:35.289 You see a few folks kind of, like, looking, taking 00:24:35.289 --> 00:24:37.609 all this in from kind of the fringe of the crowd. 00:24:37.869 --> 00:24:41.029 They've got these, like, diamonds held up to 00:24:41.029 --> 00:24:43.650 their eyes, almost like spy glasses. And they're 00:24:43.650 --> 00:24:45.430 just watching all this. They're, like, speaking. 00:24:45.549 --> 00:24:46.650 You can't really hear what they're saying, but 00:24:46.650 --> 00:24:47.849 it's like they're talking. They're like, blah, 00:24:47.849 --> 00:24:49.569 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And 00:24:49.569 --> 00:24:50.829 you couldn't believe the blah, blah, blah. And 00:24:50.829 --> 00:24:53.029 they're, like, talking into something, to nothing. 00:24:53.130 --> 00:24:55.390 You're not sure. But they seem to be observing 00:24:55.390 --> 00:24:58.250 everything through these strange diamonds. Okay. 00:24:59.390 --> 00:25:04.380 So. With this adrenaline rush and the disappointment 00:25:04.380 --> 00:25:09.200 that everything went so poorly for him, with 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:13.519 this combatant, Zebulon's going to drop his two 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:20.460 sabers and draw his short bow. Oh, okay. How 00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:25.339 close is the nearest combatant to me? Let's see. 00:25:25.500 --> 00:25:27.960 The nearest one of these guys is about 30 feet 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:30.779 ahead of you now. Okay. Short ways off the base 00:25:30.779 --> 00:25:32.539 of the steps. So you're probably 10 feet in at 00:25:32.539 --> 00:25:35.180 the base of the sort of sapphire gemstone you're 00:25:35.180 --> 00:25:37.839 standing in. 20 feet out from there, one of these 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:40.200 creatures is like swinging out trying to stop 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:42.940 people. Okay. So he's swinging at people? He 00:25:42.940 --> 00:25:44.859 is swinging at people. He's attacking. So that 00:25:44.859 --> 00:25:47.420 means he's within five feet of an enemy. I'm 00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:52.089 going to reveal Zebulon's class now. He is a 00:25:52.089 --> 00:25:55.410 rogue, and this situation gives him sneak attack 00:25:55.410 --> 00:25:58.849 damage. You son of a gun. All right, I'm going 00:25:58.849 --> 00:26:03.690 to roll to attack. Same plus five. What do we 00:26:03.690 --> 00:26:08.809 got? Nine plus five, 14. 14 hits. Nice. All right. 00:26:10.150 --> 00:26:13.230 So the damage is 1d6 plus three, so I'm going 00:26:13.230 --> 00:26:16.049 to roll 2d6 and add three for my sneak attack 00:26:16.049 --> 00:26:18.670 damage. Can you kill this thing? You know the 00:26:18.670 --> 00:26:24.250 HP now. It's a player. Two ones. Zebulon. Add 00:26:24.250 --> 00:26:28.230 the three. It's 11. It's 11. Yeah. Add the three, 00:26:28.250 --> 00:26:32.470 gets five. Man, been bad rolls tonight for Zebulon. 00:26:32.589 --> 00:26:34.869 See, this bolt launches out, and you see as it 00:26:34.869 --> 00:26:37.950 catches into it. No, it's an arrow, so you shoot 00:26:37.950 --> 00:26:40.670 this arrow at this thing. It catches into, I 00:26:40.670 --> 00:26:43.950 guess it's... quote -unquote, shoulder, and almost 00:26:43.950 --> 00:26:46.329 like a magnet, just like it holds the metal tip 00:26:46.329 --> 00:26:51.170 in place. You see a spark fire up as this thing 00:26:51.170 --> 00:26:55.769 hits, and it kind of spins around to look at 00:26:55.769 --> 00:26:59.589 you, just humming with this malign energy. All 00:26:59.589 --> 00:27:02.529 right, and as he draws another arrow, that's 00:27:02.529 --> 00:27:05.990 the end of my turn. Okay, all right. So next 00:27:05.990 --> 00:27:12.309 thing that happens, you would not see. Roll a 00:27:12.309 --> 00:27:16.970 few dice. Okay. I never like it when the DM rolls 00:27:16.970 --> 00:27:20.769 secret die. Jules, we're back to you. The path 00:27:20.769 --> 00:27:25.309 is clear. Mm -hmm. And we're running. We're running. 00:27:25.630 --> 00:27:29.170 A double move will get you to the base of the 00:27:29.170 --> 00:27:32.069 towers, and then you only have about a few blocks 00:27:32.069 --> 00:27:34.529 to go. Okay. Each round is going to be about 00:27:34.529 --> 00:27:37.829 a block, so you know you're closing in on safety. 00:27:38.150 --> 00:27:41.059 Let's just keep going. Okay, okay. As you push 00:27:41.059 --> 00:27:42.900 away across to, like, the high city, you start 00:27:42.900 --> 00:27:46.180 to see people running away from the plaza. And 00:27:46.180 --> 00:27:48.700 you start, like, reaching. You're pushing into 00:27:48.700 --> 00:27:51.140 a crowd. And I think as you go into the next 00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:54.380 round, we're going to deal with maybe some complications 00:27:54.380 --> 00:27:59.319 based on all the panic surrounding you at every 00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:03.500 angle. All righty. All right. I'm going to go. 00:28:03.579 --> 00:28:06.039 Currently, there's no enemies near you, Jules. 00:28:06.259 --> 00:28:08.130 Okay. You're clear. There's only one you guys 00:28:08.130 --> 00:28:11.049 see right now, and this one doesn't really like 00:28:11.049 --> 00:28:18.269 you, Zebulon Brass. So here it comes. You see 00:28:18.269 --> 00:28:20.890 this thing launch towards you. It's at 30 feet. 00:28:20.990 --> 00:28:23.769 They can move 30 feet. It flies up at you, goes 00:28:23.769 --> 00:28:27.630 to swing, and completely misses with a natural 00:28:27.630 --> 00:28:30.890 three on the die. Awesome. You just easily weave 00:28:30.890 --> 00:28:33.789 to the side. This thing goes to strike. That's 00:28:33.789 --> 00:28:36.299 all it's going to do. But you felt this electric 00:28:36.299 --> 00:28:39.259 hum come close to your face. You know that this 00:28:39.259 --> 00:28:46.180 thing is nasty. It's your turn. All right. I 00:28:46.180 --> 00:28:49.640 think that if I were to try to... I'm not going 00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:51.900 to swap weapons again. Even if I can do it by 00:28:51.900 --> 00:28:55.859 the rules, I think it's kind of cheese. So he's 00:28:55.859 --> 00:29:00.099 just going to take another shot with his bow 00:29:00.099 --> 00:29:04.200 and arrow. At this point... I don't think I get 00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:06.859 the sneak attack. If you shoot him when he's 00:29:06.859 --> 00:29:09.420 right in your range, it's going to be disadvantage. 00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:13.880 Right. You can swap weapons. That's fine. All 00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:17.279 right. Yeah. Object interactions are free. Yeah. 00:29:17.460 --> 00:29:20.400 I'll just flavor it and say that as this guy 00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:23.299 was coming towards Zebulon to make the attack, 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:26.099 he could kind of see it coming and picked his 00:29:26.099 --> 00:29:27.380 swords back up. If it makes you feel better, 00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:29.759 you can even just use your bonus action to only 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:32.519 get one attack this round. All right, it doesn't 00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:33.819 make me feel better, but I'll do it anyways. 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:35.720 Let's do that. I feel like that's a little more 00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:37.359 honest. All right, yes, you swing your bow back, 00:29:37.380 --> 00:29:39.119 use your bonus action to scoop up your blades, 00:29:39.259 --> 00:29:41.359 but you only get time enough to strike him with 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:45.380 your main hand. As this thing moves in, it misses. 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:50.920 Natural one. I don't know what's going on. This 00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:52.339 is four or five. I don't know what's going on. 00:29:52.339 --> 00:29:55.279 This is Zebulon, baby. This is Zebulon. It really 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:56.900 is a one. I was kind of hoping I'd pick it up 00:29:56.900 --> 00:30:01.079 and it'd be a seven. This is... Zebulon. He's 00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:02.720 never been in combat before. In all his glory. 00:30:02.779 --> 00:30:05.700 I think maybe you need to use a different set 00:30:05.700 --> 00:30:07.819 of dice. I know. I do need to. I need to get 00:30:07.819 --> 00:30:09.079 a different set of dice. You need to use my dice 00:30:09.079 --> 00:30:11.299 tower. You guys both have nice dice. I have. 00:30:11.619 --> 00:30:14.180 You should get nice dice. I have like, yeah. 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.279 What is it? Get nice die? Nice dice? I never 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:19.720 know. If you don't spend money on your die, you're 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:23.200 not respecting the game. I have like Fisher Price 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:28.460 die. Die. Dice. Dices. The Tonka truck of dice. 00:30:28.660 --> 00:30:31.049 Yeah. Hey, Tonka Trucks are nice. Yeah, they 00:30:31.049 --> 00:30:32.750 are. Tonka Trucks are nicer than these dice. 00:30:33.029 --> 00:30:36.650 I respect the game with my turquoise Norse foundry 00:30:36.650 --> 00:30:39.710 die. Please sponsor us. Wink. Anyway. Or at least 00:30:39.710 --> 00:30:44.130 replace the D4 that David broke day one. Hey, 00:30:44.150 --> 00:30:49.549 no, stop. That didn't happen. They're good. Buy 00:30:49.549 --> 00:30:52.230 them. Well, you rolled it out of the box, so 00:30:52.230 --> 00:30:56.630 that's what did it, I think. I probably did. 00:30:56.750 --> 00:31:02.579 I don't know. That's the sad end to a sad turn. 00:31:02.900 --> 00:31:05.720 Okay, well, very, very sad. We're all crying 00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:10.579 for you. Okay, we're back to you, Jeremy, Jules. 00:31:11.619 --> 00:31:13.279 You're moving into this crowd, so here's how 00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:15.220 this is going to work. As you're dealing with 00:31:15.220 --> 00:31:17.539 all this panic, you're keeping your folk with 00:31:17.539 --> 00:31:21.740 you. If you want to keep everyone together, I'm 00:31:21.740 --> 00:31:23.619 going to need you to make an athletics check 00:31:23.619 --> 00:31:25.680 to sort of push your way through people, kind 00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:28.099 of knock them out to the side. It sucks. But 00:31:28.099 --> 00:31:30.720 if you want to open a way for your smaller folk 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.720 to get through, it's going to happen. All right. 00:31:34.099 --> 00:31:35.839 So give us a try. I don't want this to start. 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:40.799 18. All right. Yeah, Jules, you get in there, 00:31:40.859 --> 00:31:43.039 and then you're just wrestling people to the 00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:46.700 side, pushing them over. I think the Cherry Delights 00:31:46.700 --> 00:31:48.960 catch on and begin kind of helping you as well, 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.200 kind of working through the crowd. People are 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:54.539 scared, but you know where you're going. You 00:31:54.539 --> 00:31:58.680 know. The safety lies ahead, not behind. Absolutely. 00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:00.400 The city is being destroyed. You need to get 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:03.500 out. All right? And you guys push through the 00:32:03.500 --> 00:32:06.079 crowd. Because you rolled so well, I'm going 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:08.019 to let you move normal movement. You get, like, 00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:11.740 one block into the city. You're behind you. That 00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:15.000 great sort of open expanse falls behind, and 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.200 you've moved down through a number of these large 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:20.720 towers that just zoom up into the sky above you 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:24.279 into these malevolent black clouds. All right. 00:32:25.259 --> 00:32:28.900 I think as we're moving, I'm just going to kind 00:32:28.900 --> 00:32:30.480 of put the burlap sack over me a little bit. 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:32.559 Because I don't know who's looking down at us. 00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:34.180 That's a good point. I don't know who's looking 00:32:34.180 --> 00:32:36.779 down. So the burlap sack's going over me. I do 00:32:36.779 --> 00:32:38.640 not want to be seen by anybody in those towers. 00:32:39.099 --> 00:32:41.259 You see, like, amongst the chaos and pantheon, 00:32:41.319 --> 00:32:46.440 you see another person. Like, a half -orc woman 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:49.180 has, like, one of those diamonds at her eye as 00:32:49.180 --> 00:32:51.079 well. And I think it just barely kind of swoops 00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:54.549 over you. And maybe... Just as you're putting 00:32:54.549 --> 00:32:59.029 the sack on, it kind of like goes back. It seems 00:32:59.029 --> 00:33:00.490 to focus on you for just a moment. A little bit 00:33:00.490 --> 00:33:02.369 of a double take. Yeah, a little bit of a double 00:33:02.369 --> 00:33:04.549 take. You realize you're being viewed through 00:33:04.549 --> 00:33:07.910 this thing. But you push forward. Get a ways 00:33:07.910 --> 00:33:11.069 in. And now, I'm making an attack on you, old 00:33:11.069 --> 00:33:14.730 Zebulon. Bring it on. I got big brother's studded 00:33:14.730 --> 00:33:18.210 leather armor on. Stay strong, Zeb. Stay strong. 00:33:19.089 --> 00:33:23.779 That is... It's going to hit, my man. Ouch. It's 00:33:23.779 --> 00:33:28.740 going to hit. What's your roll? 24. It was a 00:33:28.740 --> 00:33:31.180 very, very, very, very good roll. Yep, that hits. 00:33:31.460 --> 00:33:38.680 Yeah, but luckily. By a lot. Very small. Okay, 00:33:38.859 --> 00:33:41.200 that's only me one. So I only do three points 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:43.640 of damage to you as his claws break into you. 00:33:43.660 --> 00:33:45.119 I think it just pierces you a little bit. You 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:50.140 can't take some damage. The falling current electricity 00:33:50.140 --> 00:33:53.460 that kind of jolts into you doesn't do anything, 00:33:53.700 --> 00:33:56.839 really. Just one point of damage extra as your 00:33:56.839 --> 00:34:00.619 brass scales seem to inhibit it, tingling as 00:34:00.619 --> 00:34:03.880 they run with that electricity down you, down 00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:08.400 into the ground. Yeah, that hurts. Zebulon's 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:13.239 only at 2 HP now. You're hurt. Yeah. You're real 00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:15.719 hurt. It's not looking good. But it's your move. 00:34:15.980 --> 00:34:19.159 All right. You get two attacks this round, but 00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:20.900 can you stop this thing before it gets another 00:34:20.900 --> 00:34:26.519 hit on you? I love the vision of last round where 00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:33.099 Zebulon reached down last moment as this electricity 00:34:33.099 --> 00:34:37.039 being is attacking him, and he only gets the 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:40.460 time to do one sort of backhanded and just totally 00:34:40.460 --> 00:34:42.960 biffs it, totally misses, but now he's up. He's 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:46.280 on two feet. He's got his stance, and he's going 00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:50.880 to make... Two attacks. Do it. Do it. Let's call 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:56.219 them, uh... Zackies. Nat 20, baby. Holy shit! 00:34:57.460 --> 00:35:00.940 Oh, man. Okay. Now we're rolling dice. Okay. 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:05.179 I mean, you were due for it, man. You were really 00:35:05.179 --> 00:35:07.719 due. Yeah, I'm finally gonna roll damage. Oh, 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:11.340 man. There isn't a... Wait, that was just your 00:35:11.340 --> 00:35:13.960 main hand, wasn't it? Uh, yes. Alright, I'll 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.340 do that. Second attack first, and then we'll 00:35:16.340 --> 00:35:17.920 roll damage after. Let's see what's up. Sounds 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:21.840 good. Oh, that's a 17 on the die. I bet that's 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.440 going to hit. Just crisscross attack this guy. 00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:26.579 Nice. Move your blades out forward. Roll me all 00:35:26.579 --> 00:35:31.579 the damage. All right. So a hit is 1d8 plus 3. 00:35:32.380 --> 00:35:37.880 So I'm doing 2d8 plus 3 for the crit, and then 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:42.380 another d8 plus 3. So 3d8 plus 6. Holy shit. 00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:55.280 Okay. One. Eight. And seven. So 16 plus six. 00:35:55.519 --> 00:36:02.099 That's a 22. Had five HP left. It is so dead. 00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:06.579 What does it look like when you kill this thing? 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:10.739 Just like you said, it was just the crisscross. 00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:16.039 right hand up to down, left hand up to down, 00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:20.820 and that's classic X pattern. And maybe you could 00:36:20.820 --> 00:36:24.719 even see the leftover lines in the electricity, 00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:27.539 like they didn't close up. So there's just this 00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:31.260 big blue X down the center of this being's chest 00:36:31.260 --> 00:36:34.920 as he fizzles away. Fizzles away, and you can 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:37.280 hear like a whoop, like a hollering whoop from 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:40.860 the other side of this sort of plaza, and you 00:36:40.860 --> 00:36:43.420 can see that that man you saw earlier holding 00:36:43.420 --> 00:36:47.559 the gem is now focused entirely on you. A fist 00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:50.760 goes into the air, holy, holy, screaming out 00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:53.300 like he just saw the most exciting thing in the 00:36:53.300 --> 00:37:02.780 world. And Zebulon takes a deep bow. Oh, yes. 00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:07.150 He is soaking that moment in. Yeah. I think a 00:37:07.150 --> 00:37:08.610 few other people even look your way and they're 00:37:08.610 --> 00:37:10.369 kind of like some nods or something like that. 00:37:11.610 --> 00:37:13.969 That's one of the brass, isn't it? That's one 00:37:13.969 --> 00:37:17.349 of the shoelace. He's hurting. He's taking a 00:37:17.349 --> 00:37:21.090 lot of damage, but he is trying his darndest 00:37:21.090 --> 00:37:26.230 not to let it show. I'll even roll. Yeah, roll 00:37:26.230 --> 00:37:28.510 me a con. A con save throw. Con save. To see 00:37:28.510 --> 00:37:30.809 how cool he can play it. Con save. Yeah, let's 00:37:30.809 --> 00:37:32.150 see. You just did a lot of damage. Let's see 00:37:32.150 --> 00:37:35.989 how cool you are. He doesn't have a modifier. 00:37:36.289 --> 00:37:40.070 I want you to tank this so badly. Right down 00:37:40.070 --> 00:37:42.690 the middle. Ten. All right. You're pretty cool. 00:37:42.809 --> 00:37:45.309 I think you're like half. You're slouching one 00:37:45.309 --> 00:37:46.909 side. You're kind of trying to keep a casual 00:37:46.909 --> 00:37:48.909 pose, but your legs are giving it away, shaking 00:37:48.909 --> 00:37:52.570 a little bit. But it's like your top half is 00:37:52.570 --> 00:37:56.190 real cool. Your bottom half is not cool. Knees 00:37:56.190 --> 00:37:58.329 are a little shaky. All right. I'll take it. 00:37:58.409 --> 00:38:00.489 You're halfway there. Yeah. You pee yourself. 00:38:01.050 --> 00:38:11.199 Ow. That'd be a nat one. That's the end of my 00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:16.000 turn. You just rolled out your pants. I thought 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:18.380 you said pee yourself, not shit yourself. It 00:38:18.380 --> 00:38:20.940 keeps getting worse. It keeps getting worse. 00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:23.940 Poor Zebulon. That bottom half. Can't trust it. 00:38:24.500 --> 00:38:29.360 Okay, so shaky bow. We'll stick with that. You 00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:33.610 made it. You did it. Yeah. And that's all I got. 00:38:33.789 --> 00:38:37.590 All right. Sounds good. Great. Jules, we're back 00:38:37.590 --> 00:38:39.670 to you. You're closing in on what you are trying 00:38:39.670 --> 00:38:44.090 to find right now. Well, the way is you've worked 00:38:44.090 --> 00:38:46.650 through a lot of the panic crowd. There's still 00:38:46.650 --> 00:38:48.269 a lot of scattered folk around, but you can move 00:38:48.269 --> 00:38:49.769 through them. It's difficult terrain. It's kind 00:38:49.769 --> 00:38:55.210 of slow going. I'll let you roll. Let's see here. 00:38:55.250 --> 00:38:58.570 I'll let you roll. Perception check here. to 00:38:58.570 --> 00:39:01.110 see if you can wing around people, find a sort 00:39:01.110 --> 00:39:03.030 of easier way through. There's a lot of folk 00:39:03.030 --> 00:39:07.230 running. You don't want to dodge. You're leading 00:39:07.230 --> 00:39:14.949 your cherry delights. Oh, boy. Of course, we 00:39:14.949 --> 00:39:19.050 start these adventures like this. We got... Natural 00:39:19.050 --> 00:39:22.590 one. Okay. Roll me a dexterity saving throw. 00:39:22.630 --> 00:39:25.340 You see, like... Son of a bitch. There were, 00:39:25.420 --> 00:39:26.739 like, some horses in the middle of the square, 00:39:26.900 --> 00:39:28.539 and as you kind of move, like, out of one crowd, 00:39:28.579 --> 00:39:30.039 you kind of suddenly see, you don't know how 00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:32.119 you missed them. The whinnying of these horses 00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:34.260 as this, like, these horses pulling this carriage, 00:39:34.340 --> 00:39:39.300 like, running down almost over you. There's no 00:39:39.300 --> 00:39:43.119 way I'm going to take damage from horses. With 00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:44.699 a natural one, you probably are. There's no way. 00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:50.639 What is that? Get out of town. Is that a one 00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:53.039 again? That's another. It's a fucking one. Natural 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:57.579 one. All right. I get a plus two, so it's three. 00:39:57.699 --> 00:40:01.260 No, nat one's a nat one, baby. I know. I actually 00:40:01.260 --> 00:40:04.739 rolled 2d6 of bludgeoning damage. It's going 00:40:04.739 --> 00:40:08.280 to be very bad. Oh, no. We're level one. You 00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:10.840 only took three. Whoa. I mean, a horse can kill 00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:13.940 a man. Yeah, absolutely. So I think you managed 00:40:13.940 --> 00:40:17.000 to at least nullify the damage enough. Maybe 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:19.199 they strike you, but it kind of blows you backwards. 00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:21.219 And rather than getting trampled, maybe you just 00:40:21.219 --> 00:40:23.679 like... Jesus. Get tackled pretty hard and fall 00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:26.019 out of the way, rolling into the cobbles. A couple 00:40:26.019 --> 00:40:28.699 people, like, step on you as they run over you. 00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:30.980 And the Cherry Delights are suddenly just all 00:40:30.980 --> 00:40:32.860 around you, like, Jules, come on, you all right? 00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:35.599 Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. Keep moving, 00:40:35.739 --> 00:40:38.059 keep moving. We gotta go. Let's go. Keep moving. 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:42.280 Oh, look, it's just like, we forgot the rolls. 00:40:42.460 --> 00:40:46.269 The rolls. Fuck the rolls, Mulligan. We'll get 00:40:46.269 --> 00:40:49.030 rolls when we get there, okay? Damn it, Mulligan. 00:40:49.030 --> 00:40:50.750 There'll be plenty of food on the other side. 00:40:50.769 --> 00:40:54.869 We gotta go now. You promise? Let's go. Miskin's 00:40:54.869 --> 00:40:57.530 like, we need to move. Those horses almost killed 00:40:57.530 --> 00:41:01.750 you. I know Jules has, like, hoof prints on his 00:41:01.750 --> 00:41:05.030 face. And Mulligan's talking about the rolls. 00:41:05.050 --> 00:41:07.329 I like to think Miskin came behind and, like, 00:41:07.349 --> 00:41:09.730 just, like, poked at one of the horses. Dad, 00:41:09.869 --> 00:41:13.340 get out of here! Uh, there's definitely, uh, 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:15.599 there's some blood on, on, uh, on round stuff's 00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:17.079 bottle. You have no idea where that came from. 00:41:17.500 --> 00:41:19.780 It's a little, it's a little problematic. Oh, 00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:27.340 God. Shit. You guys are moving on? Yeah, we're 00:41:27.340 --> 00:41:28.800 moving on. Alright. We're keeping going. Uh, 00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:31.880 you are, as you, as you kind of weave around, 00:41:32.059 --> 00:41:34.219 uh, away from this, you kind of move, uh, across 00:41:34.219 --> 00:41:36.460 the street, weave around one of these towers, 00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:40.570 and down the way, this, this... Sheen of blue. 00:41:40.809 --> 00:41:43.949 It meets your eyes as you see the conquered jewel, 00:41:44.070 --> 00:41:49.389 the great sapphire ahead. Maybe two rounds and 00:41:49.389 --> 00:41:55.090 you'd reach it. Okay. You are closing in. Zebulon. 00:41:55.869 --> 00:41:58.429 There are no more of these lightning creatures, 00:41:58.670 --> 00:42:01.610 these zappies. Zappies? Are we going with zappies? 00:42:01.730 --> 00:42:03.949 Do we like zappies? I'm fine with zappies. Zappies 00:42:03.949 --> 00:42:06.409 works. No, zappies works. Work with me here. 00:42:06.449 --> 00:42:08.699 What do you got? Give me something. We just did. 00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:10.760 We said Zappies works. Yeah, but I don't like 00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:13.860 Zappies. I fucking hate Zappies. Zappies sucks. 00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:17.199 Lightning guys. Zingers. All right, fuck it, 00:42:17.219 --> 00:42:20.539 Zappies. So you see Zappies. No more Zappies 00:42:20.539 --> 00:42:24.619 near you. You're staring out, and things seem 00:42:24.619 --> 00:42:28.159 to be kind of calming in this plaza, at least, 00:42:28.300 --> 00:42:30.619 as these things have been dealt with. Shieldbearers 00:42:30.619 --> 00:42:32.360 have taken out a few other ones, and they're... 00:42:33.039 --> 00:42:35.000 breathing heavy around. People are starting to 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:37.460 reform. The shoe bars are calling them back in 00:42:37.460 --> 00:42:40.380 and everyone's moving in to once again create 00:42:40.380 --> 00:42:43.219 a line to get to where you stand now at the gate 00:42:43.219 --> 00:42:46.719 of this sapphire jewel. Down ahead of you, you 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:48.599 can see that the three luminaries have lined 00:42:48.599 --> 00:42:51.940 up on one side of the plaza and they're doing 00:42:51.940 --> 00:42:55.280 some high fives and getting ready to turn out 00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:58.000 and move deeper into the city to help more people. 00:42:58.739 --> 00:43:03.460 And then... The sky opens up one more time with 00:43:03.460 --> 00:43:08.179 this crack of lightning so much louder than the 00:43:08.179 --> 00:43:14.079 last. It breaks down, explodes against the stone 00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:18.699 of the plaza, explodes right behind the three 00:43:18.699 --> 00:43:20.639 luminaries who had turned to look deeper into 00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:23.280 the city. And this flash is so bright. You're 00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:25.300 looking at this, and I think you're blinded for 00:43:25.300 --> 00:43:27.780 a second. You kind of cover your eyes. Everyone 00:43:27.780 --> 00:43:30.920 around you, the screens get cut off. People stumble 00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:34.139 over as it's almost like a flashbang went off 00:43:34.139 --> 00:43:36.579 in their faces. Their ears, your ears are ringing. 00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.019 You know that everyone in this plaza, you can't 00:43:39.019 --> 00:43:43.519 hear anything but the... As it kind of fades 00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:50.039 out, and you see a figure standing. where there 00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:52.260 was no figure before, where the lightning just 00:43:52.260 --> 00:44:00.340 struck. You see this man clad in this black samurai 00:44:00.340 --> 00:44:05.420 armor. Ominous. Shining black armor. It's got 00:44:05.420 --> 00:44:08.679 this mix of gray and dark blue bindings and kind 00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:12.400 of like down like the armor skirt. You see those 00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:16.119 bits of glowing gold adorning the plate. different 00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:18.539 ornate patterns around the helm. You see the 00:44:18.539 --> 00:44:22.159 same glowing gold kind of sticks out from the 00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:24.179 helm as like a horn. You see like on the actual 00:44:24.179 --> 00:44:27.340 face of this, what do they call that? A kabuto, 00:44:27.539 --> 00:44:30.840 I believe. Yeah, I wouldn't know. It's like the 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:33.079 sort of open samurai helm with the horns on it. 00:44:33.420 --> 00:44:35.800 This one has like a mask covering most of the 00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:39.659 face. So cool. One eye is kind of open. There's 00:44:39.659 --> 00:44:41.400 a hole in front of it. You can just vaguely make 00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:45.699 out like maybe an actual human eye. Staring out 00:44:45.699 --> 00:44:48.199 of that, the other one is totally closed off. 00:44:48.500 --> 00:44:50.840 And you can see that one of these, so there's 00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:54.280 like a gold sort of horn coming out of it, sticking 00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:56.860 out from the eye and rising up in a curve above 00:44:56.860 --> 00:45:00.639 the helm in the jagged shape of a stylized lightning 00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:06.139 bolt. You can see there's a silver, long silver 00:45:06.139 --> 00:45:10.320 beard kind of loose and wild running down under 00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:14.519 the mask and down this being's chest. in similar 00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:18.659 mane of long hair, down his back. You can see 00:45:18.659 --> 00:45:22.400 this deadly -looking katana at his belt, which 00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:28.199 he just slides out and just, like, snaps into 00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:30.380 an attack position as he stares down these three 00:45:30.380 --> 00:45:34.360 luminaries behind you. I want you to roll. This 00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:38.500 won't be a hard one. Roll me a history check 00:45:38.500 --> 00:45:42.909 on this figure. Roll me an advantage, because 00:45:42.909 --> 00:45:47.489 you are a fan of luminaries in general. First 00:45:47.489 --> 00:45:51.929 roll was an eight. Second roll's a nat 20. Ooh, 00:45:52.030 --> 00:45:56.429 holy shit. Yeah, you know who this man is. You 00:45:56.429 --> 00:46:02.710 know well. The samurai from Yiannido, known as 00:46:02.710 --> 00:46:06.630 Ozen Yoshiketsu. You're gonna have to spell that 00:46:06.630 --> 00:46:11.460 for me after the session. I will. This was one 00:46:11.460 --> 00:46:14.760 of the original luminaries, one of the first, 00:46:14.820 --> 00:46:20.219 those 56 years ago, to join the ranks of these 00:46:20.219 --> 00:46:24.119 heroes in the spotlight, these traveling adventurers. 00:46:24.699 --> 00:46:28.739 You know that he is a very old man. He'd spent 00:46:28.739 --> 00:46:34.000 a lifetime traveling, fighting, winning glory 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:36.960 after glory, and he was one who really fanned 00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:40.769 the flames of the movement. actions, the tales 00:46:40.769 --> 00:46:44.929 about him were incredible. And, you know, he 00:46:44.929 --> 00:46:47.510 retired probably about, was it 10 years ago now? 00:46:47.730 --> 00:46:51.769 He became the keeper of the Shrine of Storms, 00:46:51.769 --> 00:46:56.010 last you heard, a place in Hianito, a very significant 00:46:56.010 --> 00:47:00.329 religious place. You know that he is generally 00:47:00.329 --> 00:47:03.809 referred to as the Storm Eye, you know, for obvious 00:47:03.809 --> 00:47:08.590 reasons, given his armors and his helm. But you 00:47:08.590 --> 00:47:15.510 know this guy. Yeah. That's so badass. Yeah, 00:47:15.510 --> 00:47:21.050 it's pretty badass. He looks badass. You're looking 00:47:21.050 --> 00:47:22.789 at this guy, and I think Zebulon's first thought 00:47:22.789 --> 00:47:28.369 is, oh, thank goodness. We're fine. Everyone's 00:47:28.369 --> 00:47:31.690 fine. Jules is on his way. This isn't your thought, 00:47:31.730 --> 00:47:33.289 but Jules, you're moving towards all this, and 00:47:33.289 --> 00:47:35.130 you can't quite make any of it. I think actually 00:47:35.130 --> 00:47:37.429 maybe in the... For this part of your vision, 00:47:37.469 --> 00:47:39.710 you could vaguely see part of this, but you're 00:47:39.710 --> 00:47:42.690 still so far off. This isn't really something 00:47:42.690 --> 00:47:45.230 you're privy to. The lightning bolt, hell yeah, 00:47:45.269 --> 00:47:48.250 you felt that. You felt that in the sole of your 00:47:48.250 --> 00:47:51.369 shoes. But Zebulon, you're staring out and you 00:47:51.369 --> 00:47:53.889 see this figure appear and you have that moment 00:47:53.889 --> 00:47:58.010 of good. Things are more under control. We have 00:47:58.010 --> 00:48:00.230 not just three luminaries that are well known, 00:48:00.309 --> 00:48:03.849 but one of the most famous, incredible luminaries 00:48:03.849 --> 00:48:07.480 to ever exist. travel the world's ever step on 00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:11.380 the fossil of the Radiant Citadel. And as you 00:48:11.380 --> 00:48:14.280 think that, maybe a slight smile touches your 00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:21.019 lips. You see this man pull his sword from his 00:48:21.019 --> 00:48:25.280 sheath and a flurry of movement so fast you could 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:30.559 barely comprehend them. The mage in that group, 00:48:30.579 --> 00:48:34.869 dressed in the green and orange robes. is sliced 00:48:34.869 --> 00:48:40.510 to bloody ribbons. Oh, Jesus. And now, Jules. 00:48:41.610 --> 00:48:44.829 Let's talk about what just happened back there, 00:48:44.869 --> 00:48:46.710 Jules. I don't want to talk about it. It was 00:48:46.710 --> 00:48:49.230 embarrassing. It was embarrassing. I think we 00:48:49.230 --> 00:48:52.409 glossed over something of such incredible import. 00:48:53.610 --> 00:48:57.769 Most likely. You rolled two natural ones. Shut 00:48:57.769 --> 00:49:00.820 up. I mean... Getting trampled by some horses, 00:49:00.900 --> 00:49:03.239 that's bad. But is that two natural ones bad? 00:49:03.340 --> 00:49:05.900 Steven, is that two natural ones bad? I did think 00:49:05.900 --> 00:49:08.199 you got off a little easy. Yeah. God damn it. 00:49:08.300 --> 00:49:11.179 It seemed a little easy, didn't it? No, no, it 00:49:11.179 --> 00:49:14.460 didn't. Don't worry. We're going to rectify that 00:49:14.460 --> 00:49:18.460 right now. All right, I'll take my comeuppance. 00:49:18.659 --> 00:49:22.219 You see the sapphire in the distance. Like I 00:49:22.219 --> 00:49:25.599 said, about two rounds, about two city blocks 00:49:25.599 --> 00:49:30.389 away from you. End. You see safety. You're moving 00:49:30.389 --> 00:49:33.349 towards it. And then that lightning bolt strikes. 00:49:33.750 --> 00:49:39.070 A flash so blinding. A sound that just rocks 00:49:39.070 --> 00:49:42.530 like a wave over the crowds in front of you. 00:49:42.690 --> 00:49:45.690 Panic resurges. People screaming. You can see 00:49:45.690 --> 00:49:48.989 the bodies of people trampled by the horse and 00:49:48.989 --> 00:49:50.889 carriage all around you. That thing moved just 00:49:50.889 --> 00:49:55.219 from this direction. The situation is... It's 00:49:55.219 --> 00:49:57.539 bad. You can hear the screaming of the low city 00:49:57.539 --> 00:50:00.880 folk far behind you, where you had to leave them 00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:06.820 to survive, to keep yours safe. Jean, or Jeans, 00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:09.119 I should say, she just looks at all of this, 00:50:09.139 --> 00:50:11.760 sees these people moaning in the streets, sees 00:50:11.760 --> 00:50:13.860 the bodies, hears the screaming from behind, 00:50:13.940 --> 00:50:17.039 and just turns around, whirls to Chester, and 00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:20.440 just says, those poor people. This is... this 00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:23.340 is terrible and just wraps her arms around him 00:50:23.340 --> 00:50:26.840 buries her her face in his in his shoulders and 00:50:26.840 --> 00:50:30.599 chester's arms are flailing he's ah he doesn't 00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:34.500 know what to do this is uh this is new um you 00:50:34.500 --> 00:50:36.679 look the other way you see that round stuff is 00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:39.239 is chattering excitedly to a very vacant looking 00:50:39.239 --> 00:50:42.920 paul still just staring up at the sky uh you 00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:46.139 see that her bloody bottle is now gone She has 00:50:46.139 --> 00:50:47.739 a butcher's knife now. You don't know how she 00:50:47.739 --> 00:50:49.719 got it. That's mildly terrifying. Yeah, it's 00:50:49.719 --> 00:50:50.679 a little bit terrifying. She's just waving it 00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:54.239 around. Very excitedly waving it towards the 00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:57.980 sky. You don't see Miskin. You assume he's scouting 00:50:57.980 --> 00:50:59.800 around, checking things out. I know he's there. 00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:02.820 Working ahead. You know he's always there. You 00:51:02.820 --> 00:51:05.239 hear some... uh from the other direction maybe 00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:07.059 like off to your right you hear like a no no 00:51:07.059 --> 00:51:10.420 no no no no no uh fibrosis you spin in that direction 00:51:10.420 --> 00:51:12.360 you could see that there's a number of uh these 00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:15.280 dirty looking sort of torn old parchments that 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:17.699 are just scattered all over the uh the middle 00:51:17.699 --> 00:51:19.460 of the row people stepping on them as they run 00:51:19.460 --> 00:51:23.639 by screaming um you can see that there's like 00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:26.380 a broken strap on a leather bag he always carries 00:51:26.380 --> 00:51:30.559 and these are you know His notes on magic and 00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:33.519 spells. His one passion. And they're everywhere. 00:51:33.699 --> 00:51:37.119 He's been collecting these for years. Stealing 00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:40.400 them. Finding them in abandoned buildings and 00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:43.780 garbage heaps. He's been working on this forever. 00:51:43.940 --> 00:51:45.880 And he's running around like, no, no, no, no. 00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:47.699 He's not paying attention. People are going to 00:51:47.699 --> 00:51:50.599 run him over. You see Mulligans trying to help, 00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:53.519 trying to hold him back. But Jules, what do you 00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:56.900 do? Cherry delights. Huddle up. Group up. Now, 00:51:57.139 --> 00:51:59.710 now. And Fibro, you can see, is still just, he's 00:51:59.710 --> 00:52:02.210 so honed in on this. He's not listening at all. 00:52:02.269 --> 00:52:04.670 He's trying to gather money pages up. Oh, we're 00:52:04.670 --> 00:52:06.409 going to help him when we're grouped up. Okay. 00:52:06.409 --> 00:52:08.630 I'm just calling him in right now. Okay, so you 00:52:08.630 --> 00:52:11.809 kind of call to everybody. Yep. They're going 00:52:11.809 --> 00:52:13.630 to kind of come on, come on, rushing in. All 00:52:13.630 --> 00:52:15.489 right, guys. Guys, let's help Fibro get his shit 00:52:15.489 --> 00:52:17.329 together. Then we got to go. We got to move now. 00:52:18.469 --> 00:52:24.710 You see, you see Roundstuff, Paul, Mulligan all 00:52:24.710 --> 00:52:27.809 run towards you. All of them kind of. hovering 00:52:27.809 --> 00:52:32.809 off to your right there. And you're surprised 00:52:32.809 --> 00:52:35.769 that Chester wasn't the first one to... And then 00:52:35.769 --> 00:52:40.809 you hear him scream. Jules! Jules! Chester, where 00:52:40.809 --> 00:52:44.869 are you? You turn your head and you see that 00:52:44.869 --> 00:52:48.610 he's kneeling now. You see there's blood all 00:52:48.610 --> 00:52:53.829 down the front of his jacket. But it takes you 00:52:53.829 --> 00:52:58.219 a moment to realize it's not his. He's holding 00:52:58.219 --> 00:53:02.239 a mortally wounded jeans. Who's staring up at 00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:05.300 him in shock. Her mouth moving but no words coming 00:53:05.300 --> 00:53:09.340 out. Blood is pumping out. And spurts from a 00:53:09.340 --> 00:53:13.199 wound in her stomach. Staining her maybe jeans 00:53:13.199 --> 00:53:16.880 overalls. And you see just behind them and above 00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:20.599 them. An armored man in a blue and white tabard. 00:53:20.840 --> 00:53:25.300 A crooked smile on his... Scarred lips, his wild, 00:53:25.420 --> 00:53:31.000 bright green eyes are fixed on you, Jules. You 00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:36.480 know this man. Sir Jessenth Kellig. One of your 00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:40.400 parents' most loyal investigators. A man who's 00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:43.360 been obsessed with finding you for years. And 00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:45.980 that's when you realize your mistake. That's 00:53:45.980 --> 00:53:50.900 when you realize that when you fell, when the 00:53:50.900 --> 00:53:55.389 horses... trampled you, nearly killed you. Your 00:53:55.389 --> 00:54:05.050 hood fell off. God. Jessen smiles. I knew it. 00:54:05.550 --> 00:54:10.610 I just knew you'd be here. I was left in charge 00:54:10.610 --> 00:54:14.070 of keeping the low city scum away from the plaza 00:54:14.070 --> 00:54:16.849 so long as the shield bearers don't see you rot. 00:54:17.110 --> 00:54:19.690 They'll be content with loading the high city 00:54:19.690 --> 00:54:25.360 folk first. But I knew, I knew you'd come running, 00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:28.820 Jules, like a rat washed away in a storm. I knew 00:54:28.820 --> 00:54:32.079 you'd come running to safety and I waited here. 00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:38.239 And now, Jules LaRoche, now you finally die. 00:54:40.059 --> 00:54:44.059 And we'll call it there. Oh my God, kill this 00:54:44.059 --> 00:54:44.360 man.