WEBVTT 00:00:01.389 --> 00:00:40.100 Thank you. The situation on Cerule has become 00:00:40.100 --> 00:00:44.179 most dire. Our luminaries find themselves in 00:00:44.179 --> 00:00:47.759 grave danger, and yet, here they stand at the 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:51.259 cusp of freedom. The storm, one might say, has 00:00:51.259 --> 00:00:56.159 nearly passed, but, well, who will survive is 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:00.579 yet to be seen. Zebulon has cleared the way to 00:01:00.579 --> 00:01:05.359 the entrance to the Sapphire Conquer Jewel, but... 00:01:05.689 --> 00:01:08.969 As he does so, he looks out yonder and sees a 00:01:08.969 --> 00:01:14.189 legendary figure. A man, a samurai known as Ozen 00:01:14.189 --> 00:01:17.709 Yoshikatsu the Storm Eye. Appearing in a bolt 00:01:17.709 --> 00:01:20.670 of lightning and immediately cutting down his 00:01:20.670 --> 00:01:24.909 fellow luminaries. Meanwhile, Jules the Roach 00:01:24.909 --> 00:01:30.349 is so close to safety. But mistakes were made. 00:01:30.909 --> 00:01:34.430 And after nearly getting trampled, his face was 00:01:34.430 --> 00:01:39.209 revealed. An old enemy returns. And one of the 00:01:39.209 --> 00:01:44.510 Cherry Delight's lives rests on the line. What 00:01:44.510 --> 00:01:48.670 will our luminaries do now? As the dangers close 00:01:48.670 --> 00:01:56.930 in. Alright! Welcome back to Fancy Pants and 00:01:56.930 --> 00:02:01.829 uh... Wait. Hang on. Holy shit! Holy... Hey! 00:02:02.010 --> 00:02:07.280 Guys! Steven! Jeremy! The viewer's back. The 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.699 viewer's back. Look, look. What are you doing 00:02:09.699 --> 00:02:12.919 back here, man? Oh, man, what a crazy fella. 00:02:12.979 --> 00:02:15.719 Come back to see us again. I didn't think, you 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:19.020 know. Welcome back, listener. Very exciting. 00:02:19.259 --> 00:02:21.840 It's very exciting. This is not exciting. Thank 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.539 you, everyone who is listening for joining. You 00:02:24.539 --> 00:02:27.520 guys kick ass. They stopped after that opener. 00:02:27.819 --> 00:02:33.159 But we're alone again. But if listeners are still 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:34.939 there, and I like to believe in my heart that 00:02:34.939 --> 00:02:37.520 they are, they should know something. Shouldn't 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.280 they? Right? Am I right? Because these guys don't 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:44.539 know what we look like. Right? Yeah, that's true. 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.800 It's true. So I have prepared some descriptions 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.379 for our listener so they can feel like they're 00:02:50.379 --> 00:02:53.780 part of it. Right? This is going to be interesting. 00:02:54.379 --> 00:02:59.009 So I am David Monroe, as you know. And I just 00:02:59.009 --> 00:03:00.990 came from work at a restaurant, so basically 00:03:00.990 --> 00:03:04.110 I look like a greasy beard and an even greasier 00:03:04.110 --> 00:03:08.050 baseball cap. I see where this is going. I have 00:03:08.050 --> 00:03:11.210 nice eyes, though. This fellow right next to 00:03:11.210 --> 00:03:13.789 me is Steven Rodriguez. This big pair of thighs 00:03:13.789 --> 00:03:16.389 connected to a big pair of shoulders connected 00:03:16.389 --> 00:03:22.289 to a very, very unfortunate ponytail. Ouch. And 00:03:22.289 --> 00:03:25.550 unfortunately, I can't describe to you what Jeremy 00:03:25.550 --> 00:03:27.490 Wolf looks like because I've never seen his face. 00:03:27.590 --> 00:03:30.949 It's always obscured by the clouds. Jeremy's 00:03:30.949 --> 00:03:34.289 like... Too fucking tall. Jeremy's like the adults 00:03:34.289 --> 00:03:36.710 on those kids' shows, like in Charlie Brown. 00:03:37.009 --> 00:03:39.250 You never see his face on screen. Every time 00:03:39.250 --> 00:03:41.830 he talks, we have to use these headsets to speak 00:03:41.830 --> 00:03:43.250 with him because whenever he talks without them, 00:03:43.330 --> 00:03:46.210 all you hear is... It doesn't travel. It just 00:03:46.210 --> 00:03:48.189 doesn't travel that far. Love you too, David. 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:51.539 I feel like I got off easy. I didn't even mention 00:03:51.539 --> 00:03:56.740 my schnoz. Anything I missed in these descriptions? 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.240 Anything I failed to... Pretty on point. Did 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:05.400 I mention my eyes? Yeah, just a lot. Oh. Stephen. 00:04:06.180 --> 00:04:08.900 The listeners would be surprised to know how 00:04:08.900 --> 00:04:11.280 much you talk about your eyes in regular everyday 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:15.460 conversation. I mean, I deserve it. They're pretty 00:04:15.460 --> 00:04:18.620 good eyes. Jeremy, look at these eyes. You can't. 00:04:18.620 --> 00:04:21.149 You're too high up. Come down here. Nearly far 00:04:21.149 --> 00:04:25.110 down. There we are. No. Jeremy, how tall are 00:04:25.110 --> 00:04:28.529 you? Last time I checked, 6 '4", I think. That 00:04:28.529 --> 00:04:30.730 tracks. I don't believe it. You are at least 00:04:30.730 --> 00:04:33.889 7 '5". He's like always stooping. He doesn't 00:04:33.889 --> 00:04:35.509 even realize anymore because he's been stooping 00:04:35.509 --> 00:04:40.129 for 20 years. Just so he could fit in with us 00:04:40.129 --> 00:04:44.470 mortals. So we released, or at least we recorded, 00:04:44.810 --> 00:04:48.250 episodes one and two last week. How have you 00:04:48.250 --> 00:04:51.970 guys been feeling? How's your week been? I've 00:04:51.970 --> 00:04:55.329 been feeling cool. I'm ready to get this thing 00:04:55.329 --> 00:04:58.689 rolling, start to show people what we do on weekday 00:04:58.689 --> 00:05:01.449 nights. All right. Okay. Okay. Well, I hate you. 00:05:01.569 --> 00:05:04.509 I hate you. I know. I've heard. I think it was 00:05:04.509 --> 00:05:07.509 Friday afternoon, and I pulled in my driveway 00:05:07.509 --> 00:05:11.149 after work. We recorded on Thursday. I got out 00:05:11.149 --> 00:05:16.589 of my car. I walked into my yard and just... 00:05:17.309 --> 00:05:20.029 Stress vomited right into the grass. Stared into 00:05:20.029 --> 00:05:25.069 the blue sky for like 20 minutes. You got down 00:05:25.069 --> 00:05:29.829 on the ground? That was my week. It was a good 00:05:29.829 --> 00:05:32.850 week. Jeremy, how was your week? It was good. 00:05:32.930 --> 00:05:35.370 I've been really concerned about my cherry delights. 00:05:35.589 --> 00:05:40.769 That's all I've been thinking about. I told you 00:05:40.769 --> 00:05:44.360 from the start, they are off limits. Not with 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:46.899 this guy. You betrayed me. Yeah, well, that's 00:05:46.899 --> 00:05:48.540 the thing is I feel like I didn't get something 00:05:48.540 --> 00:05:53.120 clear last session. I mean, I didn't get many 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:54.899 things clear last session, but there's one thing 00:05:54.899 --> 00:05:56.759 I really, really didn't get clear that I need 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:59.360 people to understand. And you guys who have been 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:01.279 in a few of my campaigns before, you know this. 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:05.879 You know this well. I'm an asshole. And I have 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:07.800 not been enough of an asshole in this campaign, 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.360 at least not until the end of episode two. Then 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:12.439 I think I cranked it up. I mean, we're three 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.420 episodes in and we're both just about dead. Yeah. 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.540 Yeah. You're still alive. Clearly I have been 00:06:18.540 --> 00:06:20.420 holding back. Steven, I've been holding back. 00:06:20.579 --> 00:06:23.720 David walks the line between DM and antagonist. 00:06:25.019 --> 00:06:27.620 Every DM walks the line between DM and antagonist. 00:06:27.620 --> 00:06:29.839 I just got to play both parts. You got to play 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:31.720 both parts. You just play the antagonist really, 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:36.870 really well. So. Man, what do you think? Should 00:06:36.870 --> 00:06:40.470 we fire up all episode three? I'm ready to play. 00:06:40.529 --> 00:06:47.670 Let's rock and roll. Okay, okay, okay. So, I 00:06:47.670 --> 00:06:50.509 think we're going to start this session off in 00:06:50.509 --> 00:06:54.769 a bit of a weird way. I want to start us off 00:06:54.769 --> 00:07:00.730 not on Sarul, not on the day of this mighty storm 00:07:00.730 --> 00:07:04.620 that's tearing the city apart. I want to rewind 00:07:04.620 --> 00:07:11.100 the clock a little. Maybe 10 years? Zebulon, 00:07:11.139 --> 00:07:14.959 how old are you right now? Modern time. Modern 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:19.240 time, Zebulon is a young man of 19 years. 19, 00:07:19.339 --> 00:07:23.740 okay. So we're going to back time to a young 00:07:23.740 --> 00:07:27.040 Zebulon standing just behind this massive sort 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:31.139 of crowd. We're on the Radiant Citadel. We're 00:07:31.139 --> 00:07:33.970 in the middle of this... This sprawling town 00:07:33.970 --> 00:07:37.069 or the cityscape made up on this great stone 00:07:37.069 --> 00:07:40.750 fossil. And right now, we are lingering just 00:07:40.750 --> 00:07:45.569 in front of a great massive sort of iron door 00:07:45.569 --> 00:07:48.949 that is up right against the diamond itself. 00:07:50.790 --> 00:07:54.029 Just beyond this door, you know, is the preserve 00:07:54.029 --> 00:07:57.430 of the ancestors, where the incarnates reside 00:07:57.430 --> 00:08:00.589 and where the governance of the Citadel is done. 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:06.000 in secret where your grandmother as you call 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:10.980 her uh often resides but you can't really make 00:08:10.980 --> 00:08:13.120 that out right now because you are staring up 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.139 at about a hundred butts uh you're too small 00:08:16.139 --> 00:08:18.660 to get up there you're probably jumping trying 00:08:18.660 --> 00:08:20.660 to try to get a good view of what's coming up 00:08:20.660 --> 00:08:22.879 because you know that what's what's about to 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:24.620 happen in front of this crowd is it's very exciting 00:08:24.620 --> 00:08:28.100 um and as you're kind of trying to figure this 00:08:28.100 --> 00:08:34.990 out you hear a voice Zeb, you're too fast for 00:08:34.990 --> 00:08:38.649 me. You can't let me catch up. Your big brother, 00:08:38.769 --> 00:08:42.370 19 years old currently, comes walking up behind 00:08:42.370 --> 00:08:44.990 you. All right, let me see. I'm probably going 00:08:44.990 --> 00:08:48.190 to have to cut this. Hi, I'm nine -year -old 00:08:48.190 --> 00:08:51.289 Zebulon. I love it. I'm nine -year -old Zebulon. 00:08:51.309 --> 00:08:54.129 We're not cutting that. That's great. Is this 00:08:54.129 --> 00:08:55.929 what nine -year -old Zebulon sounds like? That 00:08:55.929 --> 00:09:01.679 is absolutely staying in. Hey, watch out! I can't 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:08.600 see anything! Hey! Watch out! Arhalon! Lift me 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:16.480 up, Arhalon! Of course. Aw, so wholesome. Yeah, 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:19.299 so you see this crowd is kind of all surrounding 00:09:19.299 --> 00:09:23.039 this road that leads out from this iron gate. 00:09:24.779 --> 00:09:26.480 Arhalon comes up behind you and you say that. 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:28.159 He just, without even a word, I think, just picks 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.720 you up with one arm. He's 19, but he looks pretty 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:36.100 much as big, as tall and incredible as he does 00:09:36.100 --> 00:09:38.399 in his current form. And right now, to you, to 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:40.980 little Zebulon, he looks like a mountain, I'm 00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:43.659 sure. He looks like the biggest damn hero in 00:09:43.659 --> 00:09:47.799 the world. He's a grown, strong -ass man. So 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:51.519 Arhalon lifts you up just as you start to see 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:58.299 the... these gray iron doors opening. And the 00:09:58.299 --> 00:10:01.080 crowd begins to start cheering. You're lifted 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:04.220 up just above them. So you can make out the parade 00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:08.500 of figures in sort of a two -by -two line moving 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:13.659 out. This honor parade for a luminary who is 00:10:13.659 --> 00:10:18.600 retiring at the front of the parade waving out 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.750 to everybody in his resplendent black armor, 00:10:22.990 --> 00:10:26.769 his sword at his side, and his sheath, his katana, 00:10:26.850 --> 00:10:32.990 you see Ozen Yoshikatsu, the storm eye. Just 00:10:32.990 --> 00:10:36.389 as he is in modern times, same full helmet, same 00:10:36.389 --> 00:10:39.370 lightning bolt coming off of the one closed eye 00:10:39.370 --> 00:10:43.789 on his mask, on his kabuto. Ozen, it's the storm 00:10:43.789 --> 00:10:47.909 eye! Look, it's the storm eye! I see him, I see 00:10:47.909 --> 00:10:56.590 him. Arlon. Size. Looking out. And you see, actually 00:10:56.590 --> 00:10:59.669 right next to Ozen, you do see an old woman. 00:11:00.490 --> 00:11:04.830 She looks human. She's not, you know. You see 00:11:04.830 --> 00:11:07.809 she has gray -striped black hair hanging just 00:11:07.809 --> 00:11:10.490 above the shoulders of her former red and yellow 00:11:10.490 --> 00:11:14.450 dress. Sort of has a floral pattern running down 00:11:14.450 --> 00:11:18.389 it. It's sort of in the design of Ankaren Singar. 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:23.039 You recognize this is, of course, your grandmother, 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:26.340 Sholay. She is at the foremost point of this 00:11:26.340 --> 00:11:28.799 honor parade, standing by the side of the storm 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:32.120 eye. I think when her eyes kind of like scan 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:34.820 the crowd, you feel Arlan sort of duck you out 00:11:34.820 --> 00:11:36.620 of the way, like he doesn't want you to be seen 00:11:36.620 --> 00:11:41.259 here. You weren't really supposed to come, but 00:11:41.259 --> 00:11:44.019 hey. Yeah, I don't know that Zebulon gets the 00:11:44.019 --> 00:11:48.059 minutia. So maybe he's trying to wave. He's trying 00:11:48.059 --> 00:11:50.700 to wave. Arhalon's just like, nope, stop, stop. 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:55.720 And he just barely, as Shoei's eyes sort of zoom 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:57.980 over your spot, you're pulled down behind the 00:11:57.980 --> 00:12:01.179 crowd. His little hand just pops out. And her 00:12:01.179 --> 00:12:05.340 eyes carry on, still waving pleasantly. Then 00:12:05.340 --> 00:12:08.100 you're plopped back up above everybody. Arhalon 00:12:08.100 --> 00:12:09.960 is standing. I mean, he's tall enough that you 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:11.720 can see over the folks in front of him, too. 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.659 And you hear him just like musing to himself 00:12:14.659 --> 00:12:20.519 like, ah, Storm Eye himself. What do you think 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.980 of him, Zeb? Wow, he's so strong. He is, he is. 00:12:24.980 --> 00:12:27.600 He's one of the greatest. He is the greatest, 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:31.200 I would say. One of the first, you know. Wow. 00:12:31.580 --> 00:12:35.720 Yes, yes. He's the one that re -inspired me. 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:37.720 Are you going to be as strong as the Storm Eye 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:42.549 someday? Ha, you know I am. Next week. I start 00:12:42.549 --> 00:12:45.929 with the Shieldbearers. I'll train with them. 00:12:46.149 --> 00:12:49.889 I'll get stronger. I'll gain renown. And one 00:12:49.889 --> 00:12:52.909 day I'll be like him. Wow, my brother's going 00:12:52.909 --> 00:12:55.409 to be like the Storm Eye. Do you know what they 00:12:55.409 --> 00:12:57.669 call him that, Zeb? The Storm Eye? Well, he's 00:12:57.669 --> 00:12:59.210 got a lightning bolt coming right out of his 00:12:59.210 --> 00:13:05.509 mask. That's true. That's very true. But there's 00:13:05.509 --> 00:13:08.049 actually a little more to it than that. What 00:13:08.049 --> 00:13:10.860 they say is... When everything's at its worst, 00:13:10.980 --> 00:13:14.779 when the storm is at its worst, well, that's 00:13:14.779 --> 00:13:17.759 when he appears. And when he appears, a calm 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:23.259 rushes over everything. He brings it. He brings 00:13:23.259 --> 00:13:25.379 the eye of the storm wherever he goes because 00:13:25.379 --> 00:13:30.899 he enforces peace and serenity. He makes people 00:13:30.899 --> 00:13:36.379 feel safe, even in the darkest of times. Now 00:13:36.379 --> 00:13:39.320 that is a luminary. Man, he's going to be yooking 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:42.659 all day, big brother. You know it, Zeb. Your 00:13:42.659 --> 00:13:47.179 big brother will kind of look up at you. Your 00:13:47.179 --> 00:13:49.080 big brother will always be there to protect you. 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:55.299 Always be there to make the storm go away. We're 00:13:55.299 --> 00:14:01.200 sort of phasing out of this flashback. Phasing 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:06.039 back to the current scene. To the battle in the 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:11.710 square. Now, Allow me to recontextualize the 00:14:11.710 --> 00:14:13.610 scene for a moment, just to give you an idea 00:14:13.610 --> 00:14:17.009 of what you're seeing from your point of view, 00:14:17.149 --> 00:14:21.590 Zebulon. Now, the stadium -sized sapphire diamond 00:14:21.590 --> 00:14:24.710 rests sort of behind you. You are in the entranceway. 00:14:24.750 --> 00:14:28.850 You've just slain one of these electric elementals, 00:14:28.850 --> 00:14:31.870 one of these zappies that was trying to... Cause 00:14:31.870 --> 00:14:34.350 chaos to kill people, to hold them off. And as 00:14:34.350 --> 00:14:36.149 you've taken this thing down in this sort of 00:14:36.149 --> 00:14:39.669 15 foot wide by 15 foot tall entranceway at the 00:14:39.669 --> 00:14:43.590 top of this, this long ramp, the crowds that 00:14:43.590 --> 00:14:46.070 were kind of held off are starting to now surge 00:14:46.070 --> 00:14:49.450 once again. But no, not orderly this time. I 00:14:49.450 --> 00:14:53.389 mean, they are piling up, stampeding up towards 00:14:53.389 --> 00:14:56.250 you. And you only have a moment, just a moment 00:14:56.250 --> 00:14:59.149 before your vision is overtaken. Just like in 00:14:59.149 --> 00:15:03.759 that flashback by... Many, many, many crotches. 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:10.460 He's a little taller now. So you're standing 00:15:10.460 --> 00:15:12.799 there in your pile of shit that you took last 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:17.220 time, mixed with the piss from your, was it a 00:15:17.220 --> 00:15:19.600 natural one? I remember a natural one. Yeah, 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:21.080 there was a natural one in there. No, there actually 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:24.440 was a natural one. I think you rolled an 11 on 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.360 a constitution save to see if the pain makes 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:31.610 you. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Can I say we also had 00:15:31.610 --> 00:15:34.029 multiple Nat 20s in that one? Yeah. You did, 00:15:34.110 --> 00:15:37.009 and that Nat 20 was amazing. I mean, you distinguished 00:15:37.009 --> 00:15:39.649 yourself. You know it. There's still a guy out 00:15:39.649 --> 00:15:42.610 there cheering as you're kind of like, you know 00:15:42.610 --> 00:15:45.429 you got caught on camera. Got on the TV. You 00:15:45.429 --> 00:15:49.009 got caught on camera. A crystal camera, a diamond 00:15:49.009 --> 00:15:52.750 camera. But now you stand here. This crowd is 00:15:52.750 --> 00:15:56.429 coming towards you fast, and you see three things. 00:15:57.929 --> 00:16:02.029 You see on the sort of eastern side of your vision, 00:16:02.210 --> 00:16:05.429 there's some kind of commotion taking place. 00:16:05.970 --> 00:16:09.389 And unlike many spots of commotion sort of farther 00:16:09.389 --> 00:16:12.429 out and farther to the fringes of your vision, 00:16:12.549 --> 00:16:15.769 where these zappies are still striking, where 00:16:15.769 --> 00:16:18.549 shield bearers and guards are still trying to 00:16:18.549 --> 00:16:22.649 take them down, trying to clear the path, what 00:16:22.649 --> 00:16:26.029 you see here is a number of wagons carrying, 00:16:26.110 --> 00:16:31.059 like, items and wares and treasures and who knows 00:16:31.059 --> 00:16:33.259 what, trying to force themselves through the 00:16:33.259 --> 00:16:38.080 crowd. You see, well, you see at the head of 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:41.179 this, there's a very regal looking man and woman. 00:16:41.220 --> 00:16:45.470 They do not want to take no for an answer. The 00:16:45.470 --> 00:16:46.950 captain of the shield bearer's sword's still 00:16:46.950 --> 00:16:49.230 out from where he has, like, maybe, like, smoking 00:16:49.230 --> 00:16:51.429 swords, where he just took out one or two of 00:16:51.429 --> 00:16:54.190 these creatures, is shouting at them, basically 00:16:54.190 --> 00:16:56.370 telling them, you can't take this on! We need 00:16:56.370 --> 00:17:02.490 to make room for people! People! Um, Jules, what 00:17:02.490 --> 00:17:06.490 are these, what does he look like? The king and 00:17:06.490 --> 00:17:09.930 queen of Sarul at the head of this, uh, this 00:17:09.930 --> 00:17:16.420 sort of caravan. My stupid father, Samuel. I 00:17:16.420 --> 00:17:21.119 like to call him Sammy because he hates it. He's 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:26.259 got to be the sweatiest dude you've ever seen. 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.519 He's got that little bald head going on there, 00:17:31.539 --> 00:17:34.940 but with the ring of hair around it. He's got 00:17:34.940 --> 00:17:36.680 mutton chops at the boot. Doesn't look good. 00:17:37.259 --> 00:17:39.599 Biggest beer belly you've ever seen. He's a slob. 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:46.450 He is a slob. But my mother, she's beautiful 00:17:46.450 --> 00:17:52.470 in that ice queen way. She's got eyes that just 00:17:52.470 --> 00:17:55.569 shoot icy daggers right through you. You can 00:17:55.569 --> 00:18:00.230 see her malice. It's all in her eyes. You can 00:18:00.230 --> 00:18:05.089 see that malice now just glaring daggers through 00:18:05.089 --> 00:18:09.480 Ariat. You can see the man is trying to reach 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:11.660 out with bags of gold, trying to shove them into 00:18:11.660 --> 00:18:14.240 Ariat's hands. He's throwing them down, scattering 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.440 them across the cobbles and screaming at them. 00:18:18.500 --> 00:18:21.779 And that's all you see before this scene gets 00:18:21.779 --> 00:18:26.519 vanished in the crowd. And then you have what's 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:29.279 happening to your sort of direct north, right 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.559 in front of you at the edge of the plaza, as 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:35.890 we touched on last time. Ozen Yoshikatsu. The 00:18:35.890 --> 00:18:38.289 storm eye. You have that moment where you just 00:18:38.289 --> 00:18:44.029 see him slice this luminary to pieces. I think 00:18:44.029 --> 00:18:47.710 in your mind as you watch this woman cut down, 00:18:47.869 --> 00:18:51.430 a name sort of echoes at you from somewhere in 00:18:51.430 --> 00:18:56.309 your mind, your history. Some special you watched 00:18:56.309 --> 00:19:01.410 in the Crystal Network. Ulka Tipuri of Shankabumi. 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:06.119 You see Demilich and the sort of centurion, Gaius 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:10.079 Argonius, both kind of amp themselves up. I mean, 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:13.099 they see this. They see her go down. They look 00:19:13.099 --> 00:19:16.200 shocked, and they just go to turn to strike at 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:21.599 Ozen, who turns his weapon and swings at them. 00:19:21.700 --> 00:19:26.079 And all you hear is this, like, thunderclap before 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:30.059 the crowd takes your vision. And then there's 00:19:30.059 --> 00:19:34.200 your west. They're inside of your vision. Looking 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.140 out at the plaza. And you see one last thing. 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:42.480 You see something shining in brass. Appearing 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:46.819 from the crowd on that side. You see your brother. 00:19:47.859 --> 00:19:53.660 Eyes fixed on Ozen. On the scene ahead. Greatsword 00:19:53.660 --> 00:19:58.440 unsheathed. Charging towards the luminary he 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:04.809 once admired. And the crowd takes you. I need 00:20:04.809 --> 00:20:07.450 you to roll a dexterity saving throw to avoid 00:20:07.450 --> 00:20:14.670 being trampled. 16 plus 5, we got a 19. 19? That's 00:20:14.670 --> 00:20:17.730 not what that equals. That's not, yeah, what? 00:20:18.390 --> 00:20:22.829 Hold on, stop. No, I'm staying in. Nope. Nope. 00:20:23.609 --> 00:20:25.930 Penis, penis, penis, penis, penis, Coca -Cola, 00:20:25.930 --> 00:20:28.470 Pepsi, Walmart, Amazon. We never said we're kid 00:20:28.470 --> 00:20:30.950 -friendly. You can say penis all you want. It's 00:20:30.950 --> 00:20:32.730 all staying in. I don't think saying brands are 00:20:32.730 --> 00:20:40.069 going to like... It works on the news. Quick, 00:20:40.109 --> 00:20:44.170 just start playing a song. Any song. Start singing 00:20:44.170 --> 00:20:48.950 a Beatles song. It's over. Don't. Don't you dare. 00:20:49.470 --> 00:20:53.569 Anyways. Anyways, with that, you do manage to 00:20:53.569 --> 00:20:55.529 sort of slide out of the way, weaving around 00:20:55.529 --> 00:20:58.869 these legs as they go to crush you. You, I think, 00:20:58.869 --> 00:21:02.049 move off to the side as this crowd is piling 00:21:02.049 --> 00:21:05.849 into the sapphire, which is rapidly beginning 00:21:05.849 --> 00:21:10.190 to fill with civilians. You see that a number 00:21:10.190 --> 00:21:11.769 of shieldbearers are rushing in with them, trying 00:21:11.769 --> 00:21:15.329 to enforce some kind of calm, but it is far too 00:21:15.329 --> 00:21:18.630 late for that. But Zebulon, you are still in 00:21:18.630 --> 00:21:22.500 the sapphire. And you can't see what's happening 00:21:22.500 --> 00:21:26.960 in the plaza. So my question for you is, what 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:34.160 do you want to do? Zebulon wants to move out 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:39.400 of the Sapphire to get to Arhan. Okay. Okay. 00:21:41.259 --> 00:21:43.019 So I'm going to start you off. If you want to 00:21:43.019 --> 00:21:44.339 get through this crowd, I need you to make an 00:21:44.339 --> 00:21:47.319 acrobatics check to, I guess, move your normal 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:51.269 distance. Get out of the way. Get out of the 00:21:51.269 --> 00:21:53.150 way. That's my brother. If you feel this badly, 00:21:53.410 --> 00:21:58.730 it's going to hurt. Thirteen. Eight plus five. 00:21:59.390 --> 00:22:01.970 Okay. It's not too bad. It's not too bad. You're 00:22:01.970 --> 00:22:03.950 not hurt. You're not moving too fast. You're 00:22:03.950 --> 00:22:06.009 just weaving behind your legs and you get a slight 00:22:06.009 --> 00:22:09.069 kick one way. Nothing to cause damage, but slow 00:22:09.069 --> 00:22:14.210 you down. You're forcing your way through. Working 00:22:14.210 --> 00:22:17.730 your way to be halfway towards whatever's happening 00:22:17.730 --> 00:22:21.720 ahead. Where you can hear more thunder claps. 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:28.400 Followed by a loud scream. Yeah, I don't like 00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:33.779 that. Hey, Jules LaRoche. What's going on with 00:22:33.779 --> 00:22:36.460 you, buddy? Now, what happened last time? I can't 00:22:36.460 --> 00:22:41.319 quite remember. Oh, that's right. You're fucked. 00:22:41.980 --> 00:22:46.140 Or at least Jeans is fucked. So here's what's 00:22:46.140 --> 00:22:50.190 going to happen here. On your turns, I'm going 00:22:50.190 --> 00:22:57.049 to be making death saving throws for Jeans. Now, 00:22:57.049 --> 00:23:04.109 I'm not going to tell you what I roll. You'll 00:23:04.109 --> 00:23:07.410 need to make a medicine check to figure out what 00:23:07.410 --> 00:23:09.369 her situation is, but that's going to cost you 00:23:09.369 --> 00:23:12.730 a precious action. Jules, you have healing magic? 00:23:12.970 --> 00:23:19.599 Are you a trained medic? Nope. You might need 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:22.200 to find someone who is. You know, the shield 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.099 bearers might have the necessary equipment to 00:23:25.099 --> 00:23:27.539 help her, but they are so far away, and standing 00:23:27.539 --> 00:23:32.960 before you is one of your most hated adversaries. 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:35.720 He's standing before you with a bloody spear. 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:39.299 What do you do? I'm going to call Roundstuff 00:23:39.299 --> 00:23:43.039 over real quick. Okay. Roundstuff slides up next 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:44.220 to you, and she was already like, you already 00:23:44.220 --> 00:23:46.990 rallied them, so she's right there. Daggers held 00:23:46.990 --> 00:23:49.130 out. All right, I'm going to kind of lean down 00:23:49.130 --> 00:23:52.109 and just say round stuff. Go find someone who 00:23:52.109 --> 00:23:55.009 can help. I don't have any expertise in this, 00:23:55.049 --> 00:23:56.829 but we need somebody to save Gene. Somebody's 00:23:56.829 --> 00:24:00.410 got to help. I'm going to take care of this bastard. 00:24:00.990 --> 00:24:04.450 Okay, okay. And without a word, she vanishes 00:24:04.450 --> 00:24:07.910 into the rushing people around. And when she's 00:24:07.910 --> 00:24:11.190 gone, I'm going to slowly kind of raise up, stand 00:24:11.190 --> 00:24:17.440 up tall, stick my chest out. Ah, Kellig. Looks 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:20.480 like my parents sent their third string gods 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:27.779 again. Tell me, how does it feel to go back empty 00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:34.160 -handed every fucking time? Not this time, Jules. 00:24:34.380 --> 00:24:38.279 Not this time. Yeah, right. I have you right 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:41.579 where I want you, and you know it. You know it. 00:24:41.700 --> 00:24:44.730 You never have me right where you want me. Let 00:24:44.730 --> 00:24:48.509 me ask you something, Jules. Should I just... 00:24:48.509 --> 00:24:51.509 Should I just start killing the orphans around 00:24:51.509 --> 00:24:54.490 you here? Or are you just gonna step forward 00:24:54.490 --> 00:24:58.170 and fight me like a man, huh? No more running. 00:24:58.329 --> 00:25:02.789 No more hiding like a rat. It's you and I. I 00:25:02.789 --> 00:25:06.650 think you're the one who's the rat here. Sucking 00:25:06.650 --> 00:25:10.230 off the teeth of my parents. That's it! And he 00:25:10.230 --> 00:25:14.710 moves in to attack. But... Well, I'll go with 00:25:14.710 --> 00:25:16.450 my turn order. I am going to let you go first 00:25:16.450 --> 00:25:18.990 because this is sort of your actual turn. Okay. 00:25:19.309 --> 00:25:23.549 Yeah. But he's like, you got him mad. You have 00:25:23.549 --> 00:25:27.089 him very mad. Oh, I know. Chester, give me a 00:25:27.089 --> 00:25:29.990 knife. Chose. She's blatant. Kill him quick. 00:25:30.190 --> 00:25:32.150 And he throws the knife right at you. Right to 00:25:32.150 --> 00:25:36.890 you. All right. I'm going to take. Is it pronounced 00:25:36.890 --> 00:25:40.690 rapier? Rapier? I have no idea. Yeah, rapier. 00:25:40.789 --> 00:25:45.930 Rapier? Okay. Perfect. So I'm going to go up 00:25:45.930 --> 00:25:49.190 and attack Jessenthyr with that first. Okay, 00:25:49.230 --> 00:25:52.109 you go into strike. And actually, sorry to cut 00:25:52.109 --> 00:25:54.529 in here, but I'm going to put another zip if 00:25:54.529 --> 00:26:01.750 we got one. Quick pause. I do. Sweet. So one 00:26:01.750 --> 00:26:04.410 thing that I think I didn't bring up last time. 00:26:04.650 --> 00:26:05.930 There's a couple things I didn't bring up last 00:26:05.930 --> 00:26:09.450 time, but this one's a little important. We have 00:26:09.450 --> 00:26:12.480 two players, obviously, in this campaign. and 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:15.319 we have different means to sort of address that 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:18.440 to make this a little more fair. I want to go 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:20.140 all out on these guys. I don't want to have to 00:26:20.140 --> 00:26:23.400 hold back. They know me. I do not want to have 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:27.259 to hold back. So what I want to do to challenge 00:26:27.259 --> 00:26:29.920 myself and to add a little more strategy into 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:32.359 the combat is we're going to use a hero point 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:34.599 system. What I want to do is something where 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:37.140 you're going to start off with three each. You'll 00:26:37.140 --> 00:26:39.099 earn them just like inspiration, and they're 00:26:39.099 --> 00:26:41.039 going to have a cap. The cap probably will just 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:43.960 be three. Maybe we'll talk about five. I haven't 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:47.880 decided quite yet. So here's how this works. 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:53.220 One point works as inspiration. Use it, get advantage 00:26:53.220 --> 00:26:58.299 on a roll, right? Two points works as a disadvantage 00:26:58.299 --> 00:27:01.740 on me. So you can use two points to impose disadvantage 00:27:01.740 --> 00:27:04.319 on one of my attack rolls, on a saving throw 00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:06.880 I have to make to one of your spells, something 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:09.380 like that. It gives you a little more variety 00:27:09.380 --> 00:27:12.559 in what you can do with these points. Now, three 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:18.099 points you can use to roll an automatic nat 20 00:27:18.099 --> 00:27:22.119 on a death saving throw, bringing you back to 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:26.420 life with one HP. Okay. So it is a very good 00:27:26.420 --> 00:27:29.940 option to have, but you're going to need to really 00:27:29.940 --> 00:27:33.480 save for it. Yeah, it's tough. So if you use 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:35.019 a point, do something cool early on, but you 00:27:35.019 --> 00:27:38.000 don't have those three when you need them, It's 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:42.500 going to suck. But hey, that's the game. It's 00:27:42.500 --> 00:27:45.059 a strategy. That's what I want you guys to have 00:27:45.059 --> 00:27:47.859 to really suffer and think about. When to use 00:27:47.859 --> 00:27:50.299 these points. But you each get three. Remember 00:27:50.299 --> 00:27:53.440 that. Because we might save your ass in what's 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:54.880 coming up right now. Yeah, starting with three. 00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:58.220 That's huge. Yeah. I'm not complaining. Except 00:27:58.220 --> 00:27:59.960 if you failed your save earlier and got stampeded, 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:04.339 you would just be lying, dying in the doorway. 00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:06.380 Thanks for waiting until episode three to give 00:28:06.380 --> 00:28:11.500 those to us. Yeah. Well, hey, here's the trade 00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:13.220 -off. We're more than half dead already. Here's 00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:17.339 the trade -off. I 100 % forgot that my creatures 00:28:17.339 --> 00:28:21.079 have death throws, so you should be dead because 00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:22.380 I should have blasted you when you killed that 00:28:22.380 --> 00:28:24.920 one. But hey, hey, hey, you know what? Here we 00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:28.859 are. Canonically, you killed them so cool. You 00:28:28.859 --> 00:28:33.559 know, you crit. You did your basically full shadow 00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:37.069 -touched feet unload. with your invisibility 00:28:37.069 --> 00:28:40.470 into an inflict wounds. Boom. I mean, that's 00:28:40.470 --> 00:28:42.769 a really cool way to kill them. I honestly like 00:28:42.769 --> 00:28:45.789 to think that you just kind of fizzled out there 00:28:45.789 --> 00:28:50.170 death row with these attacks. You know, canonically, 00:28:50.269 --> 00:28:52.609 we'll just go with that. It's cool. We'll call 00:28:52.609 --> 00:28:54.190 it square. We'll roll with that this time. It 00:28:54.190 --> 00:28:55.950 was flashy. It was awesome. It's never going 00:28:55.950 --> 00:28:59.109 to happen again. I want to kill you. Speaking 00:28:59.109 --> 00:29:01.309 of I want to kill you, Jules, you are making 00:29:01.309 --> 00:29:03.930 an attack roll. All right, so it's a plus two 00:29:03.930 --> 00:29:10.380 to hit. All right. That is 17 on the dice, so 00:29:10.380 --> 00:29:15.319 it's 19. 17 is a hit. Thank you. Actually, 19 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:22.880 is a hit. All right, and that's 1d8. That's a 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:27.940 d12. That was a great d8 roll. It was, wasn't 00:29:27.940 --> 00:29:31.559 it? Your weapon breaks. That's for 4 damage. 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:35.329 Okay. And then as a bonus action, I'm going to 00:29:35.329 --> 00:29:37.490 come in with the knife that I just got from Chester, 00:29:37.569 --> 00:29:39.329 and I'm going in for a second attack. All right. 00:29:39.890 --> 00:29:41.890 He's moaning in pain. That first one caught him. 00:29:41.970 --> 00:29:44.210 So I do get my two hit modifiers, just a standard 00:29:44.210 --> 00:29:47.250 D4 for damage. Yes. Correct. That is correct. 00:29:49.809 --> 00:29:53.920 That is an 11. And 11 does not hit. Of course 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:55.619 it doesn't. I think you, like, you stab this 00:29:55.619 --> 00:29:57.559 guy, and he, again, like, right in the shoulder. 00:29:58.039 --> 00:30:02.099 He groans out, and now Wary just sort of jumps 00:30:02.099 --> 00:30:04.779 back, slides a little bit, just dodging right 00:30:04.779 --> 00:30:07.920 out of the way of your dagger thrust. And now 00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:12.079 it's his turn. So, here's what I'm going to do. 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:15.380 I got a spear in one hand. Actually, in two hands. 00:30:16.180 --> 00:30:20.259 I want to use it. Let's get some blood on the 00:30:20.259 --> 00:30:22.740 spear. Let's get a little more blood on the spear. 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:25.079 What do you say, Jules? What do you say to A? 00:30:26.819 --> 00:30:30.720 Well, that's a six on the die. Yeah, no. Wait, 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:34.059 wait, wait. Hang on. That's a nine to hit. Nope. 00:30:34.380 --> 00:30:37.539 Okay, so he misses. I don't have multi -attack. 00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:41.759 That's pretty sad. Okay, so he goes to hit you. 00:30:41.819 --> 00:30:45.880 You manage to weave out of it, and we are flying 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:51.930 all the way. About two fucking blocks. I figured 00:30:51.930 --> 00:30:55.390 it out. That's the word. Two blocks down the 00:30:55.390 --> 00:30:59.750 road across from this sort of plaza to the other 00:30:59.750 --> 00:31:03.670 side of the sapphire where Zebulon is weaving 00:31:03.670 --> 00:31:06.990 through the crowd. Zebulon. If you want to keep 00:31:06.990 --> 00:31:08.869 moving forward, I need another one of those acrobatics 00:31:08.869 --> 00:31:12.109 checks. Acrobatics check. Yeah. Gotta get through 00:31:12.109 --> 00:31:14.670 these people. There's less of them now, but they're 00:31:14.670 --> 00:31:18.900 just rushing towards you. Nope. Didn't happen 00:31:18.900 --> 00:31:27.680 this time. That was a natural one. Okay. Zebulon. 00:31:28.980 --> 00:31:32.460 You are moving through this crowd, and at one 00:31:32.460 --> 00:31:35.819 point, you're just like, you can hear, and you 00:31:35.819 --> 00:31:38.559 hear another voice sort of rising over the din. 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.140 It's Arhalon. You recognize it. It's your brother. 00:31:44.299 --> 00:31:48.160 He's been hit. I think for a moment you're stunned 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:51.099 by this and you get pushed down as someone's 00:31:51.099 --> 00:31:55.259 like running past you. Out of the way. And as 00:31:55.259 --> 00:31:56.859 you kind of fall, as people start to move past 00:31:56.859 --> 00:32:03.220 you, you hear this. The first sort of horse and 00:32:03.220 --> 00:32:06.960 carriage of that caravan you saw currently kind 00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:10.019 of hanging off the back of it. The king and queen 00:32:10.019 --> 00:32:13.759 of Sarul is rushing towards you and they don't 00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:18.289 give a fuck that you're in their way. Unbelievable. 00:32:18.289 --> 00:32:20.309 I'm going to roll some damage. Unbelievable. 00:32:20.450 --> 00:32:23.130 You have three hero points. I'm going to roll 00:32:23.130 --> 00:32:26.130 some damage. But if I roll too high... All right, 00:32:26.349 --> 00:32:28.470 all right. I'll give you disadvantage with two 00:32:28.470 --> 00:32:33.769 of my hero points. Oh. Oh, man. Okay, okay. Disadvantage 00:32:33.769 --> 00:32:36.049 on the damage roll. Interesting. That's totally 00:32:36.049 --> 00:32:39.009 allowed. Well, because, I mean, there's people 00:32:39.009 --> 00:32:41.990 around. I figure somebody can save me, but if... 00:32:42.329 --> 00:32:44.930 If this damage is, I've got two HP. Yeah, if 00:32:44.930 --> 00:32:46.569 it's too much. If this damage is too high and 00:32:46.569 --> 00:32:48.869 I just like die, die, die. I think at this point 00:32:48.869 --> 00:32:50.650 you just got to expend everything to just try 00:32:50.650 --> 00:32:52.089 and survive so that we can have an adventure. 00:32:52.430 --> 00:33:00.490 Right. Wow. I just rolled two instances of the 00:33:00.490 --> 00:33:04.410 same damage. Great. One of them would have been 00:33:04.410 --> 00:33:10.819 maximum damage. Which would have been 12 points 00:33:10.819 --> 00:33:13.019 of damage. Yeah, so I would have been a negative 00:33:13.019 --> 00:33:15.660 10. You would have been, what's your HP? Is it 00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:17.359 10? No, it's eight. You would have been dead. 00:33:17.539 --> 00:33:22.559 Yeah, so. But I rolled disadvantage. Yeah. You 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:25.920 take five points of damage as you hear your brother 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:28.480 and you're just trying so hard to reach him. 00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:33.880 You're kicked, you fall, and then you are run. 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:36.319 over in the middle of this plaza. No one's even 00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:38.000 looking down. No one's paying any attention. 00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:41.359 People are rushing past, and Zebulon is bleeding 00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:44.539 out on the ground. Unconscious and dying, but 00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:49.700 not dead. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Not great. 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:52.259 No, yeah, this isn't great. We'll come back to 00:33:52.259 --> 00:33:56.000 you for those death rolls. Thanks. Yeah. Holy 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:59.059 shit, I'm stressed out, and you don't even see 00:33:59.059 --> 00:34:01.750 what's happening. In the plaza. No one's going 00:34:01.750 --> 00:34:02.990 to see what's happening in the plaza because 00:34:02.990 --> 00:34:06.069 we got two POV characters and they don't know 00:34:06.069 --> 00:34:08.789 what's going on. And we're a little busy. All 00:34:08.789 --> 00:34:10.369 you can hear is another... We're going to wake 00:34:10.369 --> 00:34:12.289 up and this is going to be a dream, right? Yeah, 00:34:12.309 --> 00:34:14.150 exactly. That's how this is going to work? I 00:34:14.150 --> 00:34:17.750 think as your vision and all the sound is sort 00:34:17.750 --> 00:34:22.230 of fading away to silence Ebulon, the last thing 00:34:22.230 --> 00:34:26.670 you hear is another thunderclap followed by another 00:34:26.670 --> 00:34:32.650 wail. Arlon! From your brother's voice. Big brother. 00:34:36.150 --> 00:34:41.690 Jules! How you doing, buddy? No. Battling to 00:34:41.690 --> 00:34:43.949 the death of this guy, the Orc Cherry Delights 00:34:43.949 --> 00:34:45.829 are kind of surrounding you. They want to move 00:34:45.829 --> 00:34:49.329 in, but they're not fighters, Jules. Chester 00:34:49.329 --> 00:34:52.610 may have a chance, but he's holding a bleeding 00:34:52.610 --> 00:34:55.429 jeans in his arms. He doesn't even have his knife 00:34:55.429 --> 00:34:58.329 anymore. Yeah, you have his dagger. Chester, 00:34:58.329 --> 00:35:00.570 Chester, get Jeans out of here. You guys got 00:35:00.570 --> 00:35:05.789 to go now. Run, run. I got this. You run. Damn 00:35:05.789 --> 00:35:10.550 it. And he picks her up over his shoulder. And 00:35:10.550 --> 00:35:14.170 she kind of wails. Kind of starts to fall into 00:35:14.170 --> 00:35:17.869 unconsciousness. And he's, Jeans, shit. Run and 00:35:17.869 --> 00:35:21.130 find someone who can help. Find someone. The 00:35:21.130 --> 00:35:22.809 shield bears. We're going to the shield bears. 00:35:22.929 --> 00:35:25.230 Jules. All right, go, go. Go now. And they're 00:35:25.230 --> 00:35:31.300 all running. You and this guard are alone. So, 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:35.300 it's your round, Jules. What do you do now? You 00:35:35.300 --> 00:35:38.019 said he stepped back and dodged after I got the 00:35:38.019 --> 00:35:42.079 last hit, right? How far did he move back? Flavor 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:46.760 step. I'm not taking an A -O -O from you. No, 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:49.960 no, I'm thinking more of disengaging. Oh, I mean, 00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:51.380 you can disengage, but you'd only be able to 00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:52.699 move one round, so he'd be able to catch right 00:35:52.699 --> 00:35:54.780 up to you. But, like, hey, here's what I'll tell 00:35:54.780 --> 00:35:57.050 you right now. There is still a lot of panic 00:35:57.050 --> 00:35:58.610 around. If you want to move away from him and 00:35:58.610 --> 00:36:00.909 start running, there will be checks for both 00:36:00.909 --> 00:36:04.489 of you to see if he's basically going to stay 00:36:04.489 --> 00:36:06.710 on you or if he's going to get swept away by 00:36:06.710 --> 00:36:10.610 the crowd. Now you have those hero points. I 00:36:10.610 --> 00:36:13.650 do. But if you fail your check, it could get 00:36:13.650 --> 00:36:16.210 bad. Is he potentially dumb enough to where I 00:36:16.210 --> 00:36:20.610 can maybe make a deception check and turn his 00:36:20.610 --> 00:36:23.519 gaze somewhere else while I book it? To give 00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:28.440 him disadvantage? Here's the thing. I'll allow 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:32.599 that as part of your disengage. So it's going 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:34.239 to be part of your action. Okay. You've got to 00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:37.739 pass the check. Okay. And if it succeeds, yeah, 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:41.159 yeah. I think that sounds fun. Play it out. Play 00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:43.860 it out. What do you do? Hey, Justin, I think 00:36:43.860 --> 00:36:46.460 my parents want you over there. Give me a roll. 00:36:50.510 --> 00:36:52.610 It's a three on the die with a plus seven, so 00:36:52.610 --> 00:36:59.050 it's a ten. That was lame. He just smiles like, 00:36:59.250 --> 00:37:02.550 really, Jules? You think it's going to be that 00:37:02.550 --> 00:37:07.349 easy? I mean, I did. You're pretty dumb. He takes 00:37:07.349 --> 00:37:10.170 a hand off his spear and just like, with one 00:37:10.170 --> 00:37:13.369 finger out, kind of beckons you like, come on. 00:37:13.929 --> 00:37:17.829 Come on, you fucking street rat. And I'm just 00:37:17.829 --> 00:37:23.320 going to go, whoop. And I run. You begin to run. 00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:25.260 All right. You just hear from behind you like, 00:37:25.380 --> 00:37:27.739 get back here. I'm going to wipe your fucking 00:37:27.739 --> 00:37:32.059 stain from the family line for good. And he is 00:37:32.059 --> 00:37:34.059 just running after you. Now, I need you both. 00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:35.699 As you're moving through this crowd, you're taking 00:37:35.699 --> 00:37:39.059 your move action here. This is going to be either 00:37:39.059 --> 00:37:41.559 athletics or acrobatics, whatever you're best 00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:44.420 at, to get through the crowd. And he's going 00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:46.519 to roll it too. So what happens here? You have 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:48.480 hero points. If you want advantage, you can use 00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:51.239 advantage. It's your call. Yep. I am going to 00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:53.239 use one hero point. Okay. All right. So give 00:37:53.239 --> 00:38:01.059 me your roll. So that's 14. We don't need to 00:38:01.059 --> 00:38:05.440 know that one. 14. 14 will get you through. So 00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:08.599 you're weaving around, getting past people, just 00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:12.139 moving, moving swiftly through the crowd. I'm 00:38:12.139 --> 00:38:16.659 kind of, I'm trying to loosely keep track of 00:38:16.659 --> 00:38:19.260 the cherry delights. Okay. As I'm going, just 00:38:19.260 --> 00:38:21.670 so I can kind of meet up with them whenever I 00:38:21.670 --> 00:38:24.210 can, at least so I'm in the general vicinity. 00:38:24.670 --> 00:38:28.449 Okay. All right. Now I'm going to roll to see 00:38:28.449 --> 00:38:32.969 if he catches up. He was within five feet of 00:38:32.969 --> 00:38:35.510 you before. If he rolls and succeeds, he's going 00:38:35.510 --> 00:38:38.530 to be right on you again. And then he gets to 00:38:38.530 --> 00:38:40.650 attack. But I'm going to also spend my other 00:38:40.650 --> 00:38:43.829 two hero points for disadvantage. You son of 00:38:43.829 --> 00:38:47.230 a bitch. That's the move right there. Balls to 00:38:47.230 --> 00:38:49.070 the wall. That's the move. You're burning everything. 00:38:49.190 --> 00:38:52.869 No more hero points. No more spells. But victories 00:38:52.869 --> 00:38:56.010 in sight. To be fair, you kind of forced me into 00:38:56.010 --> 00:38:58.710 this position here. Oh, no. You rolled two natural 00:38:58.710 --> 00:39:02.110 ones, my man. Legends are spoken of the terrible 00:39:02.110 --> 00:39:04.030 things that happen when a man rolls two natural 00:39:04.030 --> 00:39:07.090 ones. Oh, look at this guy over here. What a 00:39:07.090 --> 00:39:09.389 sad, sad. I only took one natural one, and here 00:39:09.389 --> 00:39:12.710 I am. Parathise. Dead and dying. Lying around. 00:39:13.659 --> 00:39:15.679 Weeping into the cobble, still covered in shit. 00:39:15.780 --> 00:39:19.099 Did Chester make an athletic saving throw? Or 00:39:19.099 --> 00:39:26.219 sorry, acrobatics check? Yes. All right, guard 00:39:26.219 --> 00:39:27.900 time. So here's what's going to happen here. 00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:37.139 Go this right here. Okay. So he goes to screaming, 00:39:37.300 --> 00:39:40.849 runs. out of my way he's using athletics throwing 00:39:40.849 --> 00:39:43.949 people to the side uh moving towards you and 00:39:43.949 --> 00:39:46.449 i think um this is how i want to resolve this 00:39:46.449 --> 00:39:47.809 hero point because i think this sounds awesome 00:39:47.809 --> 00:39:50.670 uh you're you look back and you see he's like 00:39:50.670 --> 00:39:55.369 pushing his way through he's gaining on you and 00:39:55.369 --> 00:39:59.369 then as like people behind him part you see for 00:39:59.369 --> 00:40:04.050 a moment a small figure with green skin, two 00:40:04.050 --> 00:40:07.530 beater sticks at his sides, comes up right behind 00:40:07.530 --> 00:40:09.690 him. No fucking way. Boom, boom, right into the 00:40:09.690 --> 00:40:13.429 back of his leg. He sort of trips up, kind of 00:40:13.429 --> 00:40:16.889 like half falls. You see he gets buried. As people 00:40:16.889 --> 00:40:22.449 start pushing past him. Miskin saves the day. 00:40:22.449 --> 00:40:25.750 He's getting pulled away by the cop. Miskin weaves 00:40:25.750 --> 00:40:29.679 around, runs, catches up to you, just like. Good 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:36.739 work, Jules. I'm still ten. That's a nice job, 00:40:36.820 --> 00:40:40.219 brother. I know I can always trust you. Thank 00:40:40.219 --> 00:40:45.099 you. He just nods, doesn't even smile. Slides 00:40:45.099 --> 00:40:46.719 his beater sticks away and is like, let's go! 00:40:46.940 --> 00:40:49.199 And just starts darting in through the crowd. 00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:55.119 And you guys are moving Zebulon! I want to see 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:58.800 a death roll from you. Actually, you know what? 00:40:58.840 --> 00:41:00.539 This time you're not a party yet. It can be in 00:41:00.539 --> 00:41:03.239 the open. It can be in the open. Yeah, I'm rolling 00:41:03.239 --> 00:41:09.559 the open. That's a pass. Okay. All right, Zebulon, 00:41:09.579 --> 00:41:12.760 you're hanging on. The last thing you heard was 00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.920 the scream of your brother. You're not going 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:20.619 down yet. Not yet. If only you had three hero 00:41:20.619 --> 00:41:23.960 points. Well, if I didn't use my two hero points, 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:29.400 then I would have been permanently dead. This 00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:38.559 guy, I swear. That's your round for now. Jules, 00:41:38.679 --> 00:41:43.940 you are pushing towards the plaza. It is so close, 00:41:44.019 --> 00:41:47.940 looming above you now. One round away, one block, 00:41:48.139 --> 00:41:50.820 and you're here. Oh, by the way, my hood's back 00:41:50.820 --> 00:41:54.059 on. Oh, yeah, nice, yeah. Object direction, slide 00:41:54.059 --> 00:41:57.480 over your face. Blend right back in. I think 00:41:57.480 --> 00:41:59.639 it's just kind of a natural thing at this point. 00:42:00.420 --> 00:42:03.539 Okay. Let's see. So, you're getting within range. 00:42:03.659 --> 00:42:05.119 You're going to need to move another round to 00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:09.400 get closer. I need you to make... For one thing, 00:42:09.460 --> 00:42:10.539 I need you to do a perception check to see if 00:42:10.539 --> 00:42:12.920 you catch the Cherry Delights. Okay. Let's see 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:18.199 where they're at. It's a nine. Okay. With a nine. 00:42:18.619 --> 00:42:22.320 That's a nine total? Yes. No modifier. So, you 00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:26.760 can't make out any of your... of your crew at 00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:29.599 all. Not with a nine. You have to assume they're 00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:32.519 just making it. They're just moving ahead. I 00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:35.340 trust them. Okay. Now I need to make that acrobatics 00:42:35.340 --> 00:42:38.400 check to get through the crowd. Acrobatics? This 00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:43.860 guy gets to catch up. Oh my god. That is a 21. 00:42:44.579 --> 00:42:49.920 Wow. Okay, so you just boom, you're gaining speed. 00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.139 That was 19, right? Not 16? Yeah, it was a 1 00:42:52.139 --> 00:42:53.940 -9. It was a 1 -9, okay. Okay, yeah, you're gaining 00:42:53.940 --> 00:42:56.920 speed. Miskin's right on you, and you guys are 00:42:56.920 --> 00:42:59.920 just swiftly pushing past people, getting through, 00:43:00.099 --> 00:43:04.840 and whoa, you erupt from the crowd into the open 00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:08.280 expanse of the plaza. You know the entrance to 00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:10.400 the sapphires on the other side of this thing, 00:43:10.500 --> 00:43:14.300 and you still don't see the cherry delights. 00:43:14.539 --> 00:43:17.300 But the shield bearers are here now. You're within 00:43:17.300 --> 00:43:20.280 their range. You should be safe. You should be 00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:23.179 safe. I'm not going in there without my charioted 00:43:23.179 --> 00:43:26.159 lights. Okay. So you're kind of staying at the 00:43:26.159 --> 00:43:27.579 edge of the plaza? Yeah, I'm going to kind of 00:43:27.579 --> 00:43:31.840 actually turn around and just not run into the 00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:33.920 crowd just yet, but just kind of frantically 00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:36.500 pace around. Where are you guys? Where are you 00:43:36.500 --> 00:43:39.460 guys? Come on, come on, come on. You turned around. 00:43:39.539 --> 00:43:41.039 We're going to touch on that in a moment because 00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:43.340 that will give you a little something something. 00:43:44.460 --> 00:43:46.840 First, I want to see Zebulon roll another death 00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:53.019 save. All right, here we go. That's a fail. Holy 00:43:53.019 --> 00:43:57.039 shit. One failure, one success. So, oh my gosh, 00:43:57.059 --> 00:43:58.420 this is really scary because if you're all one 00:43:58.420 --> 00:44:03.840 next round. But there is good news. As you're 00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:07.920 lying there, bleeding on the ground, you do feel 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:13.059 someone lift you up. You're not conscious to 00:44:13.059 --> 00:44:16.119 see, to hear, but you feel hands, strong hands, 00:44:16.300 --> 00:44:19.860 grabbing you, raising you. You feel yourself 00:44:19.860 --> 00:44:23.920 moving swiftly. And we're going to see what happened 00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:28.900 to that last save next round. It's a one. 5 % 00:44:28.900 --> 00:44:32.539 chance. Yep. Permanent death. We lose a character 00:44:32.539 --> 00:44:34.699 before we even start the campaign. For real. 00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:38.900 Well, I'm stressed. Yeah, tell me about it. Holy 00:44:38.900 --> 00:44:42.440 hell. You haven't even met Jules yet. I'm very 00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:45.119 stressed over here. You're about to meet. Our 00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:47.420 stars have not crossed yet. Holy shit, Jules. 00:44:47.420 --> 00:44:52.300 You cannot die. Jules, it's my turn, and I need 00:44:52.300 --> 00:44:56.039 you to roll a perception check. That's a 19. 00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:58.860 Oh, okay. Yeah. Cool. As I say, your passive 00:44:58.860 --> 00:45:01.099 is pretty low, so you would have failed with 00:45:01.099 --> 00:45:06.079 your passive. But with a 19, okay. You do hear 00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:08.260 something as you turn around to look back in 00:45:08.260 --> 00:45:10.380 the crowd. Your eyes are flickering here and 00:45:10.380 --> 00:45:14.880 there, and you see just kind of maybe 30 feet 00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:16.320 away from you where there's kind of an opening 00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:19.340 between two towers. You see a small figure appear 00:45:19.340 --> 00:45:24.340 for a second. You see round stuff. And she screams 00:45:24.340 --> 00:45:27.860 out as, like, another gloved hand grabs her and 00:45:27.860 --> 00:45:32.480 pulls her into the alley. Oh, my God. We can't 00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:34.440 catch a break today, huh? You can't. No. It's 00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:40.159 chaos. It is chaos. Never mind the rogue samurai 00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:44.639 on the loose and the lightning. Yeah. I got to 00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:47.889 run to that. Okay. We can't even fight off house 00:45:47.889 --> 00:45:51.469 guards and horse -drawn carriages. I just want 00:45:51.469 --> 00:45:53.989 to get out. That's all I want to do is just get 00:45:53.989 --> 00:46:00.030 out. Yeah, I saw that. I have to go. Okay, yeah, 00:46:00.130 --> 00:46:02.309 so you just move. And we're moving with the crowd 00:46:02.309 --> 00:46:05.010 now, so I'll say you can make it. You slide them 00:46:05.010 --> 00:46:06.510 out the alley, and then you just kind of see, 00:46:06.530 --> 00:46:10.500 like, round stuff. spiraling falling into like 00:46:10.500 --> 00:46:13.760 the the ground into like a spot of like wet mud 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:16.920 uh where the cobbles have kind of sunk in just 00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:21.300 so the splash as another guard this one lightly 00:46:21.300 --> 00:46:24.500 armored just like hand raised where he just like 00:46:24.500 --> 00:46:28.519 struck her just says why you expect me to help 00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:31.780 you low folk you stay out of there you stay out 00:46:31.780 --> 00:46:35.300 of the plaza we got good people loading up hey 00:46:35.300 --> 00:46:40.760 to my parents You're all low people too. You 00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:44.619 know that. This guy whirls around as he hears 00:46:44.619 --> 00:46:48.599 you. Just, you're bad. You know damn well they 00:46:48.599 --> 00:46:50.980 don't give a shit about anybody but themselves. 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:55.260 You making a persuasion rule here? I could. I'm 00:46:55.260 --> 00:46:58.699 interested. I'm interested. Let's go. Let's call 00:46:58.699 --> 00:47:02.679 this your bonus action. It's not going to work. 00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:06.130 It's an eight. He smiles. You see at some point 00:47:06.130 --> 00:47:10.050 this man at least has no weapon in hand. He lost 00:47:10.050 --> 00:47:11.630 it during the chaos. You're not really sure. 00:47:11.829 --> 00:47:15.909 I mean, he's hiding off in an alley. But he just 00:47:15.909 --> 00:47:19.909 kind of cracks knuckles like, Well, well, well. 00:47:21.550 --> 00:47:26.150 Jules the Roach. They're going to promote me 00:47:26.150 --> 00:47:28.989 when I take you in. And he starts to move in 00:47:28.989 --> 00:47:32.460 your direction. And I'm going to... Ready my 00:47:32.460 --> 00:47:36.039 dagger and my rapier. Say, you really want to 00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:39.920 do this? Holy shit. You still have an action. 00:47:40.260 --> 00:47:42.840 So you get to make the first move here, and then 00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:46.000 he's going to go. All right. It's your funeral. 00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:50.119 He's smiling. He sees a big reward in the future 00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:53.380 for taking you down. And I'm going to hit him. 00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:56.019 It says lighter armor. He's wearing leather armor. 00:47:56.079 --> 00:47:58.880 He's not like one of your parents' main guard. 00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:05.139 That's a 14 to hit. That just hits. Oh, yeah. 00:48:05.579 --> 00:48:08.300 This guy's more like a glorified thug than anything. 00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:14.099 Get him, Jules. That's a five damage. Five damage? 00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:17.820 Okay. So you'd stab him. He gets him right in 00:48:17.820 --> 00:48:23.900 the side, holding a hand to a bleeding wound 00:48:23.900 --> 00:48:26.460 in his leather armor. Then I'm going to come 00:48:26.460 --> 00:48:28.179 in with the dagger. Oh, shit. Here we go. Got 00:48:28.179 --> 00:48:30.440 the dagger. Oh, wait, no. That would be your 00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:33.199 bonus action. Did I already take it? Oh, I did. 00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:36.539 With the persuade. I mean, persuade. I called 00:48:36.539 --> 00:48:39.400 it a bonus action. Really talking is kind of 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:41.179 a free action. Okay, well, it doesn't matter 00:48:41.179 --> 00:48:44.079 anyway because I rolled a five. All right. But 00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:47.659 yeah, so you get one good stab on him. He's hurt. 00:48:49.460 --> 00:48:55.139 Zebulon. Zebulon. All right. I'm going to make 00:48:55.139 --> 00:48:57.559 another one. Okay. I've got one hero point left. 00:48:58.239 --> 00:49:00.480 But I'm not going to use it for this save. I'm 00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:03.320 going to use it for my next one. Okay. For the 00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:10.300 drama. That's a lot of drama. Are you sure? Yeah, 00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:14.719 I'm sure. Okay. Here we go. That's a fail. But 00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:16.599 it's not a one? It's not a one, but it's a fail. 00:49:17.900 --> 00:49:22.059 One more failure, and Zebulon is permanently 00:49:22.059 --> 00:49:27.360 dead. I get to make a roll now. Oh. My anonymous 00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:33.380 benefactor. You feel yourself being moved. Passed 00:49:33.380 --> 00:49:35.440 from hand to hand, you feel something soft underneath 00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:39.280 you suddenly. You feel that is also moving. You 00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:42.900 feel hands touching on you, running across your 00:49:42.900 --> 00:49:46.219 body, running over your wounds, pressing down 00:49:46.219 --> 00:49:51.099 broken bones. You hear like maybe far off, like 00:49:51.099 --> 00:49:54.800 hearing voices through water. I'm going to make 00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:58.010 a medicine check on you. Roll high, David. Roll 00:49:58.010 --> 00:50:00.010 high. I'm putting this in the open. So, ready? 00:50:02.690 --> 00:50:08.909 Oh, my God. All you feel is pain. All you feel 00:50:08.909 --> 00:50:11.289 is pain. They're not doing... There's panic, 00:50:11.630 --> 00:50:14.210 shaking hands. It's a bad roll. It's a bad roll. 00:50:14.929 --> 00:50:17.809 Whoever's doing this is not trained. Maybe someone 00:50:17.809 --> 00:50:20.409 better will come next round, but do you have 00:50:20.409 --> 00:50:22.610 a round, Zebulon? Do you have a round? I am... 00:50:22.610 --> 00:50:26.550 I'm freaking out. yeah yeah me too i'm freaking 00:50:26.550 --> 00:50:29.869 out too but i kept that hero point okay okay 00:50:29.869 --> 00:50:34.809 whoo jewels we're back to you you got one last 00:50:34.809 --> 00:50:36.829 sort of guy in your way round stuff on the ground 00:50:36.829 --> 00:50:42.869 behind him and actually that was my turn so in 00:50:42.869 --> 00:50:45.289 this sort of free form uh semi -combat we're 00:50:45.289 --> 00:50:47.369 doing any of my guys is gonna go on the third 00:50:47.369 --> 00:50:51.630 of the round um so at this point round stuff 00:50:51.630 --> 00:50:54.380 sort of Pulls herself up out of the mud. Reels 00:50:54.380 --> 00:50:56.420 around this guy. She's still got a knife. And 00:50:56.420 --> 00:50:58.320 she's going to slide up behind him. And she's 00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:03.119 going to go for an attack. Go around stuff. She 00:51:03.119 --> 00:51:08.840 does not connect. So slides. I think maybe he 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:12.420 just like hears a wet footstep. So she runs towards 00:51:12.420 --> 00:51:15.579 him. Sort of slides out of the way. Grabs her 00:51:15.579 --> 00:51:18.860 and pushes her to the side. And she kind of connects 00:51:18.860 --> 00:51:21.510 against the wall. Metal hitting stone. as the 00:51:21.510 --> 00:51:24.170 dagger sort of ricochets off the stone behind 00:51:24.170 --> 00:51:28.489 her. And now, it's your turn, Jules. All right, 00:51:28.510 --> 00:51:31.849 I'm going to come at him again. Okay, okay. Oh, 00:51:31.969 --> 00:51:36.730 she's behind him. So this is a house rule we 00:51:36.730 --> 00:51:39.449 have, and it's one I really like. We don't do 00:51:39.449 --> 00:51:41.170 advantage from flanking, but we do do a plus 00:51:41.170 --> 00:51:43.750 two from flanking. Perfect, so that means I just 00:51:43.750 --> 00:51:47.989 hit 16. You hit. I'll take it. Yeah. Thank you, 00:51:47.989 --> 00:51:51.860 round stuff. Yeah. Right place, right time. That's 00:51:51.860 --> 00:51:54.360 a three on the damage. Three on the damage, okay. 00:51:56.840 --> 00:52:01.199 Coming in with the dagger. Holy shit, the dagger. 00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:04.420 Holy shit. Get that plus two. Oh, I do. This 00:52:04.420 --> 00:52:06.179 one actually, yeah. Yeah, there you go. Hell 00:52:06.179 --> 00:52:11.679 yeah. That is a 21. Nice. You definitely hit 00:52:11.679 --> 00:52:15.579 this might. This might kill him. Straight 1d4, 00:52:15.780 --> 00:52:22.880 maybe. We'll see. Holy hell. One. Shucks. That 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:26.300 won't do it. Shucks. Oh, no. He's... It's something, 00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:30.699 but... He's, like, barely shaking. He's slouching 00:52:30.699 --> 00:52:33.300 over, holding on to a bunch of wounds. You have 00:52:33.300 --> 00:52:34.940 enough yet? He's screaming and flailing behind 00:52:34.940 --> 00:52:40.579 him. He's... You lot will never win. It's best 00:52:40.579 --> 00:52:43.539 you come and join us. Have your freedom. Have 00:52:43.539 --> 00:52:45.739 your freedom. Be free from my parents' tyranny. 00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:50.440 It's a lot of fun. Fuck you, Jules. And fuck 00:52:50.440 --> 00:52:54.340 you too. He goes to attack. Bring it on. Oh, 00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:56.559 wait. Before that, though, we have to resolve 00:52:56.559 --> 00:53:00.539 Zebulon. All right. I kept that third hero point. 00:53:00.780 --> 00:53:03.579 Okay. You did. I'm going to use it now. You did. 00:53:03.699 --> 00:53:06.920 So I've got two chances to not fail. I am so 00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:10.059 stressed out. But even if I pass, even if I succeed, 00:53:10.300 --> 00:53:13.420 then I still have another roll. Yeah. Okay. I'm 00:53:13.420 --> 00:53:14.940 just going to do it. Here we go. You know what? 00:53:14.980 --> 00:53:16.699 I've got two d20s. I'm going to roll them both 00:53:16.699 --> 00:53:18.480 at once. Oh, God. Don't do that. I'm going to 00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:20.119 pee. Okay, fine. I'll roll one at a time. No, 00:53:20.119 --> 00:53:21.079 do it. Do them both at once. Okay, I'm going 00:53:21.079 --> 00:53:21.900 to roll them both at the same time. It's funny 00:53:21.900 --> 00:53:25.820 if I pee. Do it. Do it. Don't look. I don't want 00:53:25.820 --> 00:53:31.239 to look. Pass. Nice. Pass. You pass. Zebulon 00:53:31.239 --> 00:53:33.400 still lives. Both die passed, so it was kind 00:53:33.400 --> 00:53:34.900 of a waste of a hero point, but that's all right. 00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:38.440 Here's the luck you have now. Your benefactor 00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:42.460 gains a help assist from somebody else this round. 00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:46.420 I get to roll twice. To stabilize you. Okay, 00:53:46.460 --> 00:53:48.420 great. In the open. Give me one of those d20s. 00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:52.619 Thank you, sir. I cannot see the dice tower. 00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:57.000 You gotta tell me. Oh, you got a 15 in there. 00:53:57.300 --> 00:54:03.619 That's what I needed. Sweet. Okay. Zeb. You feel 00:54:03.619 --> 00:54:08.039 the pain lessen. You feel something like binding 00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:11.159 your wounds. You feel... Maybe you smell some 00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:15.760 strong scent of like a medicinal herb. And then 00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:21.039 even that sensation fades into void and nothing. 00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:24.139 And you are out of this combat. Did somebody 00:54:24.139 --> 00:54:29.019 just euthanize me? That sounded pretty dark, 00:54:29.019 --> 00:54:33.610 huh? Could you imagine? We just get back to it. 00:54:33.630 --> 00:54:34.989 It's like, and Zebulon's dead. And it's just 00:54:34.989 --> 00:54:37.190 like, what? Yeah, I kind of could imagine you 00:54:37.190 --> 00:54:38.389 doing something like that. The whole campaign 00:54:38.389 --> 00:54:41.869 is just, who murdered Zebulon? Who murdered Zebulon 00:54:41.869 --> 00:54:45.489 Brass? Who did it? What monster? Surprise, Jules 00:54:45.489 --> 00:54:48.050 is now Sherlock Holmes. Surprise, Jules is the 00:54:48.050 --> 00:54:50.309 murderer. All right, well, I better go crack 00:54:50.309 --> 00:54:52.269 another beer or something. I don't know. Oh, 00:54:52.289 --> 00:54:56.030 so this is how we meet. Okay. Jules, we're back 00:54:56.030 --> 00:54:58.230 to you. This guy tries one last time to attack. 00:54:58.269 --> 00:54:59.949 Actually, I'm attacking you. I'm going for it. 00:54:59.969 --> 00:55:03.079 Here it comes. Here it comes. Another... I rolled 00:55:03.079 --> 00:55:06.960 so many sixes on so many die. So he goes to strike 00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:09.059 at you with his... Actually, he's trying to punch 00:55:09.059 --> 00:55:11.559 you. He goes like... Swing and a miss. Swing, 00:55:11.559 --> 00:55:13.840 literal swing and a literal miss. And I actually 00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:19.139 say that to him. Ah, swing and a miss. Oh, man. 00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:21.980 And that's you. I'm going to give you one more 00:55:21.980 --> 00:55:27.320 chance here. One more. It's up to you. He's practically 00:55:27.320 --> 00:55:31.260 dead. He swings. He's like, he's barely... I 00:55:31.260 --> 00:55:32.260 think everything's swimming in front of him. 00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:34.539 I think he's like a drunk man punching. Completely 00:55:34.539 --> 00:55:36.460 misses you. You probably have to do the barest 00:55:36.460 --> 00:55:37.900 sort of movement to get out of the way of his 00:55:37.900 --> 00:55:40.219 attack. And he's just like looking at you through 00:55:40.219 --> 00:55:46.659 these blurred eyes. And just, fuck. Fuck you, 00:55:46.679 --> 00:55:49.659 Joe. Fuck you. And he just pushes past you and 00:55:49.659 --> 00:55:53.280 runs. If you want an AOL, you can take one. You 00:55:53.280 --> 00:56:00.780 see a bear open back your call. No. The second 00:56:00.780 --> 00:56:03.599 that I notice that he's running and booking it, 00:56:03.699 --> 00:56:06.619 I'm going for round stuff. Okay. You're letting 00:56:06.619 --> 00:56:08.619 him go. Roll me a perception check real quick. 00:56:11.480 --> 00:56:16.880 Eight. Okay. Don't worry about it. You turn around 00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:22.260 and go back. Round stuff is, I'm okay. Are you 00:56:22.260 --> 00:56:25.239 okay? I'm all right. I'm all right. Come on. 00:56:25.239 --> 00:56:27.300 We got to get everybody together. We got to get 00:56:27.300 --> 00:56:29.880 the fuck. I saw Chester and them. They ran in. 00:56:29.940 --> 00:56:32.159 They got inside the plaza. They're in? Yeah, 00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:33.880 I was talking. I went to the guy, asked for help, 00:56:33.900 --> 00:56:35.840 and he attacked me, but I saw them run past. 00:56:36.019 --> 00:56:37.900 All right, I got you. I got you. Let's go. Okay. 00:56:38.039 --> 00:56:41.300 And I'm going to... She's tiny. Okay, I'm going 00:56:41.300 --> 00:56:42.639 to pick her up. Yeah, you can pick her up. You 00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:44.599 can easily pick her up, and she's very, very, 00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:46.719 very small. You knew where I was going with that. 00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:49.820 Little tiny tiefling wearing a rabbit onesie. 00:56:49.820 --> 00:56:50.760 Very dirty -looking rabbit onesie. I'm going 00:56:50.760 --> 00:56:52.079 to pick her up, throw her over my shoulder, and 00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:53.719 we're booking it. Okay, and you slide out of 00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:58.690 the alley, and you run to the plaza. To safety. 00:56:59.949 --> 00:57:03.510 Congratulations on being safe. No more stress 00:57:03.510 --> 00:57:08.670 poops. Joel, as you get into the plaza now, the 00:57:08.670 --> 00:57:11.389 shield bearers are pushing away. There's still 00:57:11.389 --> 00:57:13.409 some guard here. They're trying to force people 00:57:13.409 --> 00:57:16.989 out. And shield bearer, the blue and white tabards 00:57:16.989 --> 00:57:19.809 are overtaken by the brass armor of the shield 00:57:19.809 --> 00:57:21.329 bearers who are just throwing these guys down, 00:57:21.389 --> 00:57:22.989 pushing them away. Just, what are you doing? 00:57:23.190 --> 00:57:27.099 All lives are equal. And these people are just 00:57:27.099 --> 00:57:30.599 rushing in, rushing in. You manage to round the 00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:34.079 edge of the gemstone. You manage to work your 00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:39.199 way to the ramp leading into the sapphire -conquered 00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:42.380 jewel. And the last thing we see is Jules LaRoche 00:57:42.380 --> 00:57:47.639 vanishing inside. And we're going to end our 00:57:47.639 --> 00:57:52.079 little episode on one final scene. We're going 00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:55.079 to end on Zebulon, somewhere in the darkness 00:57:55.079 --> 00:57:59.420 you feel. A light. You feel a warmth wash over 00:57:59.420 --> 00:58:06.239 you. It's magic. And your eyes snap open. You're 00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:07.940 lying in what looks like sort of a makeshift 00:58:07.940 --> 00:58:12.719 bed. Essentially just a bedroll lying out on 00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:15.679 the middle of the sort of open sort of storage 00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:18.800 platform area of the Concord Jewel. You're surrounded. 00:58:19.039 --> 00:58:21.360 You owe your eyes open to just like gleaming 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:26.760 sapphire ceilings. There's a... a robed woman 00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:30.760 above you, holding like hands, just still sort 00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:33.519 of sparkling with magical energy, still radiating. 00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:36.179 And without even a word, she just like pulls 00:58:36.179 --> 00:58:39.699 her hands away and turns and moves to help someone 00:58:39.699 --> 00:58:46.380 else. What do you do? Well, Zebulon, if he's 00:58:46.380 --> 00:58:53.960 able, sits up and looks around, scanning the 00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:58.610 inside of the gym. the jewel, looking for his 00:58:58.610 --> 00:59:02.849 brother, Arhalon. You get up, you scan the area 00:59:02.849 --> 00:59:06.889 around you, and in the immediate vicinity, you 00:59:06.889 --> 00:59:09.349 don't see Arhalon. But that's not surprising. 00:59:09.389 --> 00:59:12.190 Even here, especially here in the sort of medical 00:59:12.190 --> 00:59:16.449 area of the sapphire, as they're trying to bring 00:59:16.449 --> 00:59:20.369 people in, it's so crowded. There are people 00:59:20.369 --> 00:59:23.190 all around you, loved ones of hurt people standing 00:59:23.190 --> 00:59:29.250 everywhere. Can he see any shield bearers? Wow. 00:59:30.829 --> 00:59:34.070 Sorry, I just rolled something that is sure to 00:59:34.070 --> 00:59:36.349 make Jeremy shit himself when I show it to him 00:59:36.349 --> 00:59:38.929 later. I'm already shitting myself. You see shield 00:59:38.929 --> 00:59:41.889 bearers here and there, dotting around. There's 00:59:41.889 --> 00:59:44.309 definitely some kind of standing around, you 00:59:44.309 --> 00:59:46.329 know, kind of far in the distance on the raised 00:59:46.329 --> 00:59:48.489 platforms or somewhere, you know, a number on 00:59:48.489 --> 00:59:50.090 like the highest points of the bleachers watching 00:59:50.090 --> 00:59:53.599 out. But you do see some close by as well. I 00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:55.239 think something else takes your attention before 00:59:55.239 --> 01:00:00.300 you really focus on them. Because you see, lying 01:00:00.300 --> 01:00:04.260 next to you, still unconscious, now being handled 01:00:04.260 --> 01:00:09.300 by this cleric, is a young woman, young girl, 01:00:09.380 --> 01:00:16.840 in overalls of some strange blue fabric, stained 01:00:16.840 --> 01:00:20.440 with blood. And as the healing magic washes over 01:00:20.440 --> 01:00:26.829 her, her eyes, And your ears are met with the 01:00:26.829 --> 01:00:30.809 raucous cheering of a number of wacky looking 01:00:30.809 --> 01:00:37.590 child figures all around her. And one very scruffy 01:00:37.590 --> 01:00:43.409 looking man with a very scrappy pompadour. And 01:00:43.409 --> 01:01:12.699 we'll call it there. So, so Jeremy, Jeremy, here's 01:01:12.699 --> 01:01:14.199 what I was talking about here. These are the 01:01:14.199 --> 01:01:17.579 death saving throws that I was making. There's 01:01:17.579 --> 01:01:19.539 a number of rounds there. And I decided I had 01:01:19.539 --> 01:01:22.099 to make a number basically based on, you know, 01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:24.900 there was a distance they had to carry her that 01:01:24.900 --> 01:01:26.639 would have been not counted in rounds. So essentially 01:01:26.639 --> 01:01:29.780 it was going to be a coin flip. I rolled an eight, 01:01:29.820 --> 01:01:35.570 a four, a 17, a 10, a 15. Holy shit. Wow. She 01:01:35.570 --> 01:01:39.010 had two fails. And then she rallied. Yeah, I'll 01:01:39.010 --> 01:01:41.550 show you. Look, for the listener, here's the 01:01:41.550 --> 01:01:48.309 proof. Oh, my God. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. My chair 01:01:48.309 --> 01:01:52.590 read the lights. They're strong. And now our 01:01:52.590 --> 01:01:54.269 luminaries are together. That's the end of the 01:01:54.269 --> 01:01:56.489 first arc, essentially. Right there, baby. Where's 01:01:56.489 --> 01:01:59.010 Arhalon? Where's Arhalon? We'll find out next 01:01:59.010 --> 01:02:02.469 time on Fantasy Pants. On Fantasy Pants.