Songwoven presents The Lanaya Expedition, a level-up, advanced 5th edition, actual play
campaign.
Episode 24.
Hunted.
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Hello everyone!
And welcome to Songwoven!
The Lanaya Expedition!
I felt that one.
Iron, I can taste it in my nose.
Hello everyone and welcome back to Songwoven, the Lanaya Expedition!
I can taste it in my nose!
I don't want to know.
Blood baby!
I don't know.
I think my mouth...
I'm just super pumped.
I'm super pumped because we're playing D&D and I missed you guys.
I missed everything.
So like, yeah, it's D&D time and I sound a little bit different because that's a new
thing I'm trying.
It's called insomnia.
It's not new.
Anyways, I am Tim.
T-I-M.
That's very easy to spell.
I'm much like the character from Very Odd Parents.
Tim DonTran, I am your lore-h-ever for this session.
For all the sessions basically.
I don't know why I said this session.
Spoilers, I guess, of things to come.
I have no plans to pass this on unless somebody makes me.
Yeah, I'm joined today by three of some of my favorite people in the entire world.
Can we please just introduce...
Just anyone, free for all.
Go ahead, introduce yourself.
I'm Jenny Sherard and I play Cecilia and oh my wife says I get 10% off all potion purchases
made during this game session.
That was last stream, oh my why, you don't get to give any discounts anymore.
I think it's acceptable still.
I think we're gonna need it.
You know what?
It's valid.
I'm gonna say it's valid.
I fund this group too in general.
With Delmyra's money, but it's generational wealth in a way.
No!
I'm over Moscow.
Sugar mama pro-claimer.
Sugar mama pro-claimer, Jenny's over Sugar mama.
And I am over Moscow.
I play Jean Claude Boucheron.
And like, I mean honestly though, if you do think of it...
The Eidolons are full on funding this expedition.
So like, I think Sugar mama is an absolutely acceptable title.
Someone's gonna make fun of Jean Claude to be like wait, did that kid just pay for you?
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know what Almar's gonna do later this episode.
I'm completely financially literate, clearly.
And I am JT playing Dalmar, once again joining...
It's been 12 months since I actually started being part of the stream officially.
Yay!
We did an affiliate a year ago.
The anniversary passed yesterday.
JT is the best mod ever.
Also...
Best mod ever.
Without prompting.
I get to thank someone.
Emma Romasko sent me a very lovely present.
I have merch.
The only existing song woven merch at this moment in time is mine.
Because JT was our only and first subscriber for so long.
That means it's an exclusive item.
It's an exclusive item.
That's your lottery ticket from when we become ladies.
I have paid for this shirt multiple times over.
Exactly, you've paid for your shirt and fault.
Everyone, if you subscribe to us for over a year...
For a year?
Let's not make that promise.
Or...
But you also have to moderate for...
You also have to mod on the side.
Send 900 bucks to TimmyTransVoiceOver at gmail.com.
Wow, okay.
As you get your situation.
You know how companies are just like,
here's the pizza to reward you guys for...
Except that we don't pay at all.
We would like to one day, maybe.
We do pay.
We pay scraps.
Little, little...
Someone goes, hey guys, there's pizza in the staff room.
There's no pizza.
There is no staff room.
There's no pizza, but hey, the coach is going to give a pretty cool speech in there.
The power of words and friendship, question mark?
Yeah, there you go.
Free trauma.
We can traumatize you for free.
Free trauma!
Yeah.
I like how Emma got annoyed at me using a corporate voice for a game.
And then y'all do this.
Listen, it's all coming together.
It's all coming together, baby.
Anyway, fuck.
They'll pass.
Water, Tim.
OhmyWise says, you can create us a staff room since you're the DM.
Oh!
Is that going to be our next one-shot?
As if we...
Us trying to run this as a business?
Let's do it, yeah.
Here's TimmyTransVoiceOver.com.
Here's JT's staff room.
The TV is really old and maybe doesn't work all the time.
The pizza...
I've worked in a warehouse.
I've seen those staff rooms before.
The pizza has laxative in it because it's the only one we could afford.
The microwave doesn't work.
There's rats in the fridge.
Hey.
Oh no, that's happened.
Hey, JT.
It's a blurb.
I'm the CEO of the company and I do nothing.
Can you...
The Mickey Mouse TV in my room is all fucked up.
Someone put a magnet up to it.
You want to help me out a little bit?
Have you put in a tech support ticket?
Yeah.
They laughed at me because I had a Mickey Mouse TV.
It's going to be the office of Songwofen.
Have you tried to talk them back on again?
What about jiggling the wire?
Oh, damn.
All right.
I'm going to go ahead and do that.
I'm going to jiggling the wire.
Oh, damn.
All right.
This is why I pay you the big bucks.
I make minimum wage.
I've made minimum wage.
No, I pay him the whole minimum wage.
Actually, we pay under the table.
Here, we pay under the table here.
I've done that as well.
I won't say where, but I have.
This is why we give you the big tips.
That's a one shot to look forward to, folks.
Songwofen Corporation.
We're going to punish JT by making him work corporate in his off time.
Let's go.
He worked corporate already, guys.
Makes JT play an accountant.
Isn't there a TTRPG called Suits?
All right.
There's a skeleton here that we can work with.
Is it based on the TV show?
Is it?
Is there a TTRPG called Suits?
I think.
That's a TV show.
We'll see.
If there's a TTRPG based on Succession, then we can base a campaign based on JT just fucking
completely destroying us.
There's a video game, RPG maker game.
Called Suits.
Hi, Dragmire.
Maybe that's what I was thinking about.
Hello, Dragmire Drawers.
Hello.
We are talking about...
We're not focusing on the plot.
They're talking about punishing me with an office in one shot.
Yes, we're delaying the inevitable because this is going to be rough.
It's going to be so good.
Donna is not a villain in that show.
Why did you make her a villain in the game?
I've never seen Suits, so I do not know.
I have.
I have a confession.
I've never seen Suits either.
No.
I'm sorry.
Why?
Oh my.
Why?
The trauma.
Again, the trauma.
Let's lighten up, guys.
We got a huge, huge nice thing in front of us.
It's going to be so fun.
It's so awesome and so great.
We have a robot that shoots ballista bolts at people in front of us.
Doesn't that sound awesome?
A robot shot me with one.
If you were like 12 years old, that would be awesome.
Not if it shot me.
Well, yeah.
Recap time.
I punched myself in the fucking nose.
He pointed to himself.
No, I touched my nose.
Because he wants to do it.
Why would you do that?
If I did a recap, I'd just read what Jenny posted.
That's all I do.
I do not remember what happened last time.
Okay.
There's a recap.
But I'm covering it with my hand.
We got to do it that way.
All right.
I will read the recap.
Okay.
The trio ventures into Frexan where they have multiple encounters with different automatons.
Automatons?
Automatons.
Automittens.
Chased through the streets.
They eventually encounter a dwarven woman attempting to calm her baby, which draws the
ire of a watchman, which apparently, side note, we were not supposed to fight, but we
did anyway.
After an intense encounter, the watchman is defeated.
But then the trio is ambushed by the Venator, a mysterious automaton of a completely different
make who is seemingly interested in Sylvie, John Claude confronts it at the clock tower,
which he shouldn't and we should.
Automatons.
Anything?
Note to the director, Marko Robbie's.
I'm trying to wonder what else, guys, from that...
There was a carousel.
There was a carousel?
Oh, wait.
We learned, didn't Dalmar say something to Cecilia about like, don't cast stuff on me
or something?
Yeah, he was like, don't use magic near me.
Don't cast magic near me.
Without warning.
Near you.
Don't touch me, I'm sterile.
And Cecilia was like, that's a problem because that's all I am.
He's very magic sensitive is the non-spoilery way of saying what's wrong with him.
He's basically gluten intolerant, so magic intolerant.
There was also a coffee shop robot that was going to try to kill us, but we talked it
out of that.
Yeah, yeah, the coffee shop robot was supposed to cut us into pieces to feed us to the babies.
A lot of existential crisis has happened in the last episode.
It's pretty great.
And there's 14 watchmen left.
And I can't remember if it was set on stream, but the, the ultimate in the hunter one has
memories of Sylvie because it is a strong lead.
It is, it is currently so as with all the automatons they are currently drawing from
the strong emotions around them right now.
Everything's scrolling around them because that's, that's how they, that's how they
gained their sentience in the first place.
The Venator is operating on hunting, the literal word of hunting.
And who is hunting more than anyone who has the strongest urge to hunt in the entirety
of, of Rexxon right now?
Jean-Claude.
And the Archmage is still alive.
Barely.
He is in the arcane ambit.
Yes.
But he told me like, he was like, don't try to save me.
And I didn't tell Dalmar how bad it was.
You did not tell Dalmar that part of it.
No, he just said he was alive.
Oh, also, this is a big thing too.
We found out that the moon shards might be located.
Did he, was it confirmed?
They are there.
That they are there.
So Cecily was like, yo, like we gotta go get over there.
But the issue was that we were worried about running into the Watchmen, right?
Yeah, because that's where they're centralized.
Because the rest of them are there.
Yeah, all of them are there.
And he told us to be careful of the Venator too.
That's when he warned us.
So basically we fuck.
Oh, and we're supposed to, aren't we, at the end, our original goal is we're supposed to
get to the theater, right?
We're supposed to get to the theater.
The Alder Tree Playhouse.
We're supposed to get to the Ottomitans, Ottonomes, Ottomers.
I'm reading the chat.
Yeah, we're supposed to get to the theater to meet up with Kevar.
Kevar.
K4.
Because he, or they, are protecting some children, apparently.
And that was our rescue mission.
Yes, the theater.
We have to go to the theater.
So, just to throw in little injections here and there just to get everyone's, this is
also for me, memories all up to speed.
Arcane Ambit is the central part of Rexon.
It is where Dalmar, with the Archmage, that's where they met up and did all their things.
That's where the Moonshard is located that is supposedly theorized to be the cause of
all of this.
And if Cecilia were to get there, what do you mean there's an ad break?
No, snooze.
What?
Why did we get an ad break?
We should have pre-roll on.
We might need to fix that.
What is that?
Oh, right.
Because we don't want to get interrupted.
Excuse me.
What is that?
Why is that there?
They just added some new ad settings, so that might be what that is.
And it automatically sets it to...
I thought I checked and it didn't, I thought.
Okay, well let me pop on real quick.
Yeah, it is new.
It's switched on.
Hold on, everyone.
But it is theorized that if Cecilia were to get to the Moonshards that and possibly put
in proximity with the other ones that things could become stabilized, but that in itself
is a rather long shot.
Where is the add button right there?
Oh yeah, all our viewers are subbed anyway, so we're probably fine.
We're rocking and rolling, baby.
I'm still going to do that because that's the way we had it.
Yeah, we should still fix it, but at least it shouldn't interfere, hopefully.
Oh, my wife says, could you imagine if we did a live version of the stream at TwitchCon?
No, I can't.
Oh gosh.
It would be a goddamn mess.
I've never thought about what it would be like to play in front of an audience, but
in person.
I would probably cry.
I'd probably throw things.
Timmy gets so energized though when he decides to...
When he's performing and thinking, just automatically turns on when there's a crowd or things happening,
so I think he'd be energized crazy.
It'd be fine.
All right, fine.
Let's do it.
Let's do it, baby.
TwitchCon, here we come.
Everyone.
TwitchCon just happened, didn't it?
Don't it said Paxies or whatever.
Paxies, baby.
Pax is still going.
It's in a few weeks.
Didn't it close?
No, it's the first week of December.
Pax West did, I think.
Pax East is December 2nd to 4th or whatever.
Sweet.
Where is that?
We're just going to break in and take a conference room.
Okay.
The current goal is to...
This conversation is all broken up.
The current goal is to head on over, shimmy on over to the arcane ambit, which is currently
swarmed at the moment, so maybe we'll deal with that.
But for now, we are pursuing something that's related to Jean-Claude.
After confronting the Venator and after a brief but emotionally charged conversation,
the two parties begin to collide.
Two forces, I should say, because that guy's a party of one.
I have the power of friendship, bitch.
No.
Anyways, arrows.
With that said, everyone, let's go for initiative.
Jean-Claude has advantage.
I do?
Yeah, because you have my blessing thing.
Or team.
And I can take yours if I want, if I don't want to go on turn four.
You probably will.
I always roll bad admissions.
Oh, goodness.
Why is the camera doing this right now?
I got a 19 with an advantage.
For some reason, some of our cameras got real elongated at the bottom.
Pax unplugged is December.
Did you move where you put the screen thing?
No.
The Discord one?
Give me one second, y'all.
I gotcha.
What's the difference between Pax East and Pax Unplugged?
There is no difference.
Pax Unplugged is less video game themed, I think.
Like, that's why I like games.
Ah, shoot, I shouldn't have tried to move this.
Board games, got it.
Thank you.
Oh, so we went to Pax Unplugged.
OK, got it.
Yeah, we went to Pax Unplugged.
We have some pretty nifty stories from that.
Roar.
Oh, gosh.
Yeah, I had...
Maybe it was not.
There was a dude who thought I was a high schooler.
I wasn't.
And flirted with me anyways.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, oh god, why?
I'm sorry, JT's face.
Was there the...
I was there.
I need JT's face clip.
The face he made, I need that clip.
I don't know what face I made either.
Alright.
19, 19, that's what I got.
Everyone, one moment here.
I got a 19.
You got a 19?
That's right.
Because I'm going on hers.
And Tim, since you rolled it pre-stream, how about you tell everyone what the Venata rolled
for initiative.
I rolled a 24.
But what if it didn't?
Right, what if the hype is not up yet?
What if the hour's not up yet because we went early and he's just got to stand there until
the hour goes by?
Oh, he's just got to wait.
Yeah, that's what he said.
Oh yeah, he's got to stick to his program.
The hunt begins in an hour, it's not been an hour.
Alright, the entire fight is going to be him running away for an entire hour before he
can fight.
I'm going to rules lawyer the Venata.
Alright, everyone, before we do this, as we get to the Venata's turn, can everyone please
read me their current hit points.
44.
That's low, isn't it Jenny?
That's my max.
51.
80.
At the top of this round, Jean-Claude, Cecilia Dalmar, as you grip the weapons in your hand,
and as you all begin to shift into the notes of combat, Cecilia, you feel this sense of
dread.
And you see the Venata looks towards you, its eyes peering down at you with glowing
red eyes, and it makes a terrible sound.
Oh no, I don't like this.
You are the object of its focus right now.
Cool.
No, and you have the lowest HP.
No, no, no, no.
I'm the only one who's at max health too.
It's doing my D&D tactics.
I always target the lowest things first.
Hunter.
You see, don't cast your rebarbs on me.
You see, I'm scared.
You see, unlike the other automaton, you see its hands move, glide, it glides with smooth
ease as it reaches down.
It pulls, it holds up an arrow where you see it has multiple endpoints.
It aims back, it's going to use its bonus action to steady aim for advantage, and it's
going to fire in between all of you.
So everyone, please consider this when I roll this attack.
I need you to tell me if this hits you.
Roll a one.
Roll a goddamn one.
28?
Oh yeah.
Yeah, of course it does.
No.
All right.
Yeah.
Timmy.
This is going to be the damage.
Oh, I forgot to say he uses his action to spend three exertion points for a double arrow
as well.
So it's going to be this plus another...
One second here.
Another D12.
Okay.
And it's going to use trained accuracy.
Let me go ahead and see if that's the name of it.
Trained accuracy.
It's going to roll an additional 5d6 points of damage.
What the fuck is this?
Ranger.
That's Ranger.
That's freaking Ranger.
So 40 points of damage total to everyone who was hit.
Oh my God.
Question.
Yes?
Since I get 10% off potions, can that also apply to damage?
No.
Can I get 10% off damage?
I'm sorry.
Okay, I'm at six hit points then.
Okay.
From full.
From full to six.
So you're the lowest one.
So it's going to go ahead and take its extra attack.
No.
Aiming down directly at you with a precise arrow.
Thankfully this attack is going to be normal.
Okay.
22?
Yeah, 22 hits.
Okay.
The 14 from before wouldn't have, but 22 does.
All right.
This will be one second here.
Don't you do it, Tim.
Don't you do it already.
I have to.
Come on.
No, you don't.
I mean, just use the...
You don't have to do anything.
So this is why we're going to run is because Cecilia is going to go down and then everyone's
going to be like, we're out.
Yep.
I'm unconscious.
Yeah.
Okay.
Nope.
We're done.
And since you went, since you reduced to zero hit points, it gets to have another, it gets
to have a direct action it's put on by taking down its prey.
A whole action, not just another attack, a whole action?
A whole action.
So between the both of you...
What did you design?
Between Dalmar and Jean-Claude, please everyone read out your hit points for me.
40.
11.
Awesome.
In that case, it looks towards you, Jean-Claude, and a terrible sound plays again.
Do I have a reaction?
Do I have something?
Can I do anything?
Do I have a reaction?
Can I do something?
So everyone dies.
It's going to take a...
It's going to aim at you.
It's going to fire.
Do I have a reaction?
Do I have anything?
Manoeuvres.
12.
13.
Not a natural.
That's normal.
That's a normal hit.
Scary.
And then it's going to take one more shot.
Directly down.
Please.
24 to hit.
That hits.
15 points of piercing damage.
I'm down.
I'm all time.
Please tell me you can't do it a third time, Tim.
Timmy.
Once a turn.
I did put once a turn.
So literally what you guys see...
Hi.
They get bloodied.
Everyone gets bloodied.
Everyone gets a chicken dab.
Celia's down.
John Clunton.
And Delmar's just standing there.
Delmar, you're the only one standing.
It looks towards you.
Why?
No.
Timmy.
Why?
And that's the end of its turn.
Oh my god.
So, John Clunton and Celia both give me death saving throws.
I should have taken the later initiative.
Oh my god.
This sucks so bad.
What was that?
Let me...
All right.
Come on.
Normal d20.
Oh, I have advantage on death saves.
That's a fail.
Or do I just get...
I forget if I have advantage or if I have expertise on them.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
This is a thing I didn't think would come up.
I should have thought it would, though.
Where is it?
Saloon's Blessing.
No, not that one.
Honest Soul.
Not that one.
Principle of Devotion.
That's what it is.
When you...
Okay, I have advantage, but I already succeeded.
But I guess I could roll a 20.
Okay, one success.
14 and a 15.
All right.
John Clunton, sorry, that's a failure.
That is a fail at a whopping nine, folks.
Okay, I'm going to roll a 20.
I'm going to roll a 20.
Okay, down more.
How far into the city are we?
You're deep.
You're deep in there.
From the gates.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
If you're thinking about getting them out, then it's going to be a far walk away, run
away.
But you know how to hide in these places if you're thinking about running while carrying
two people.
He's strong enough he can do it.
It's a question of can he get out in time?
You just see as soon as this moment starts, an arrow smashes the middle between you all,
transmogrifying into multiple arrows, slamming out into all of you, hitting you all directly
and different sort of vital points, the air robbed from your chest.
And then it came one after the other after the other.
As you see before you, Jean-Claude and Cecilia fall.
And you're the only one standing like always.
No, that's awful.
That's awful.
That's the backstory trauma.
I was going to say that's awful.
I'm awake now.
Oh, yeah, he's a.
For just illustrative purposes, picks up Jean-Claude first across the shoulders, throws Cecilia
on top of Jean-Claude because she's so much smaller and bolts.
All right.
So doesn't even turn to look to see if it follows him.
Here's what I'm going to allow.
Fuck rules is written.
Don't come at me on Twitter.
If you rage, I'll let you move with your entire movement.
I'll do that.
OK.
I've still got some.
I'll do that.
Oh, my movement's still only 40.
Oh, God.
OK.
Can we at least get out the door?
The door is down here where I'm clicking.
No, no, you can't.
You can get there.
You pick them both up, but you are going to have to.
I don't know.
At the top, you got to talk about this, buddy.
At the top of the top of the turn, you see the Venata to look at you.
It's red eyes glaring and it goes, go ahead, run.
You will only die tired.
It's going to take this moment to make its way around, get a better shot at.
Timmy's like, this will be a TPK if I do this.
That's what Timmy's thinking right now.
It better be what Timmy's thinking.
All right.
This is going to be real with this advantage.
Why?
What is being done?
Oh, my God.
23 with disadvantage.
Cecilia, does it hit you?
Yeah.
No, no, no, no, no.
One failed death save.
Because I'm on top.
It doesn't count as two.
It's melee for two.
Melee for two.
This is one.
Or a crit.
Okay.
That's good.
Melee.
Jean-Claude, does a 21 hit you?
Yeah, that's a, that's two out of three death saves.
Two fails.
Okay.
All right.
Here we go, guys.
Here we go.
Emma, do you have a point of inspiration just in case?
I do have one just in case, but I'm scared to use it.
On your death save, though, if you have a death save that fails.
Oh, right.
But I've already, but that wasn't it.
That wasn't a death save, though.
That was just a hit.
Yeah.
I have to roll another one.
Okay.
I can see.
All right.
I do have Revivify if I get back up.
Yeah, but you're down.
Jean-Claude, Cecilia.
Death save.
Oh my God.
Death saves, please.
Okay.
I don't want to.
I have advantage, so I get the 13 and not the three.
Oh my God.
Okay.
From my blessing.
Come on, Emma.
I'm scared.
In my skin, I'm scared.
I'm scared.
In my skin, in my seven years, in my seven to eight years of DMing, I've never had a
player character die.
And today's not going to be the first time.
Nope.
No, it's not.
I have inspiration.
Remember that, guys.
Eight.
I would like to use my inspiration.
Please, please, please, please.
I would like to use my inspiration.
Please.
Denied.
I'm just kidding.
Go ahead.
Okay, so I'm going to use my inspiration to make that eight a success.
So one success, two fails.
There we go.
You roll again.
I have to roll again.
That's what it is.
It's not a super luck like our other game.
It's an inspiration.
It's a reroll.
You just have to roll twice.
No, no, no, no.
Okay, okay, okay.
It's just a reroll.
Unless you have a different thing.
But I don't.
I know.
Nope.
Okay.
Oh my God.
Oh gosh.
I'm going to cry.
I'm going to go with the
So that is a success.
So we're not ready.
Tell me this ends when I get outside the building.
I'm fucking ready to have a player character die.
Please tell me this ends when I get out of the building carrying them.
Wait, what is what is direct?
Where it says add has her deemed flash of genius.
I'm going to go with the
check you will fail but I can get you in that 20 in return I get in that 20 I
get in that I get in that 20 I get to use on you and when your guest spot is
done that carries over to these two the heck how's that basically saying if
there's nothing that you can use it on me it carries to them yeah so he will
likely let it carry over to them what would the check be that I would fail it
will be it will be a it will be a con saving throw but this is 30 yeah that's
not even possible 20 I oughta not 20s we oughta not 20s here I give them to I
have an alternative what if a fierce just like comes out I got this shit baby
yeah now now is he's just time to shine and or Augustus where he had Augustus
isn't here no cuz also they come back let's be honest him if he were to reach
into a bag of holding he would still probably get a very large magical effect
from that to the point where it would exhaust him there's a direct contact
with heavy magic but it would be very nice to have a friend up Jenny I'm sorry
I just want to clarify you said that we had greater healing on us which I think
I chugged and a lesser one right on me yeah I was pretty sure I passed out
lesser healing potions before but I could be wrong oh my what is wants my
death I'm having to think and I don't like it so is there a lesser on John
Claude that you could give to Cecilia um if I don't know if you've used it before
I thought we passed them out before I don't think I used my lesser I think I
used my greater yeah cuz I have three greater healing potions in the bag and
one lesser in the bag you might have maybe I'm pretty sure I gave you the
superior I don't remember I don't remember what I gave you but I thought
we passed out stuff
don't we have swamp stuff too we used I used it all to heal you guys up but you
had temporary hit points from that thing you guys know the chat we don't rush
this stuff along we give them all the time they need to think it's completely
fine this is a stressful situation you guys you do whatever you want JTA even
if it's I'm just trying to think of different things so that he doesn't have
to make weird ass deals if you should just pass this stuff out of the bag in
my opinion I mean this point I'm down to two of the three options
that there's I'm sorry Tim but I've known you long enough and been part of
your games long enough I'm not making a deal that's gonna come back to bite
someone who no warlocks ever so it's down to Dalmar basically takes another
wild magic charge or Dalmar runs runs far far far away and then passes out
basically we just need to get Cecilia up if I'm a bike and heal or if John Clon's
up he can reach into the bag it's gonna have time before it knocks someone down
again I'll let you know this it was up in the state it was up on the stairs on
the map it's probably gonna take like a second turn for it to properly come out
and start giving her then he's going to shove his prosthetic arm into the bag of
holding on Cecilia's waist and try to grab out a potion for her before we do
that fuzz the feeling of static numbness your voice in your head familiar but not
welcome right now the memories memories are not welcome right now how you doing
chap as you reach directly into the bag
we're gonna do a magic while search oh god what if it's a fireball you would die
you would die right there oh thank you for the subs by the way thank you
Santa it was an anonymous gift hey thank you this is a really good time
down more roller rope here's what we're gonna do down more your number one
Cecilia number two John Clodron number three go ahead and roll a d3 for me
what does that mean it means whatever effect he rolled is gonna affect
whoever it rolls
did you roll a d3 that is a to Cecilia Cecilia doesn't feel it right now but the
poison coursing through her body oh no to congeal it begins to spread it begins
to course throughout the entirety of her body and she is poisoned for Cecilia
can you please roll a d4 okay if I get up I can fix or poison for four hours
but but not taking damage from you're not taking damage the poison status
effect oh okay don't take damage so you have disadvantage on attack rolls and
ability checks but no damage we like that no damage well that makes the who
do I get up question harder no no no actually no because she doesn't take
damage right you pull out the potion she does not take damage she has disadvantage
on attack rolls ability checks for four hours but not healing because healing is
a healing healing is healing okay yeah yeah he's gonna get a potion and
basically shuffle down Cecilia's throat Cecilia fatigue you feel worse this is
the worst you've ever felt slow your your blood hurts it's on fire but you're
awake she tries to gather her senses but it's just feeling really out of it and
is that any your turn dama anything else I can do that's your action and your
rage is gonna fall moment return ends you can use your I don't believe you
used your bonus action or movement the movement was to move outside and you
created some good distance because you're moving at 40 feet you can use a
bonus action to maintain your age if you want yeah okay so that's the end of your
turn the Venata's turn you don't see him
there's on Claude no wait yes Cecilia you're up first okay um just like like
what happened I'm like literally over Jean Claude and he looks out
I don't look too good to fails if I notice that she doesn't warn down more
because she doesn't think to she's so out of it she casts cure wounds on Jean
Claude 11 this is at a third level no first level first level okay oh but I get
to roll a d100 it's my last first level spell so um but I lose it I lose the
spell slot okay I roll the 43 your death rolls your death failures are reset
that's the big thing if we go down again you're not one away from dying
we like that we're good we're good yeah and if
yeah I guess if she feels like she can she will not be on Dalmar and we'll be
following him hmm all right I'm going to assume you're all you all
dumb are you guys know from just down worse look that you guys are just
running oh we're gonna be moving the same way Jean Claude you can also you
see Lee as you had I'm gonna assume you're using your movement to move fully
away and being within everyone yeah if she understands that that's what's going
on then yeah Jean Claude your turn got your action got everything everything
sucks just pain it's just so much pain I forget if I used all of did we get to
be long rest before this no we didn't didn't know nope okay we were able to
yep we're booking it baby okay Dalmar anything you're doing
so if we just keep running out in the open it's going to see us and hunt you
there's going to be a time when like just you're basically your next little
bit of movement you're going to get to like the rows of stores you're going to
get to the the district with all the buildings you can enter would it help if
we scattered like if we know it would not even if it would know just no not
happening no also do you think do you think they would do you think Jean Claude
would do that no it's trying to meta real hard would we be able to hide in
between the rows of shops and it not keep tracking us it would be beneficial
you can go inside the shops as well just anything to anything that was able to
just to basically destroy a shop with a ballista ball before I don't know if
that was the parade but but there's no anything like an underground tunnel
system or something that they would be able to hide and move through it's all
over ground it's all over ground some of the some of the buildings as you as you
seen a little bit with the coffee shop they are they are interconnected so
maybe you can maneuver along the Venator isn't a creature is it no wait what do
you okay actually because you did use calm emotions on the other automatons I
actually I think what are you trying to do
irresistible dance potentially it's close enough as I like last resort dance
because I have that scroll choose one creature that you can see um actually
processing this because we did use calm emotions and it did work and you know
enchantment magic is a little bit crazy right now it does work if I would have
to get within 30 feet though so it's very much a last resort because that
thing's not gonna get close to us I'm thinking unless it had to
the shopping district we hide in the buildings we move in between we try to
avoid being detected as much as possible if we can get maybe outside of the city's
influence it'll stop following us that's our only hope we had we have to
abandon what we planned on doing here I'm sorry but your lives are more
important than the lives we don't know of at this point it is my responsibility
to get you two out of here yeah we need to get out right now all right that's
gonna have to be decided next turn
the door to the bell tower slowly is pulled open
I used to do that all the time and just calls just randomly and everyone loses their mind every time
anyways of another makes his way out um keep catching sight catching sight on
that the three of you again who is a checkpoint check 40 I'm guessing I got greater healing potions so that's what
the 40 for plus 4 but max is 12 of 44 plus no no no 60 20 20 hit points 20
points total yeah so I have 20 don't call you have 11 yeah I do I don't know
where else to heal myself cuz I'm low on spell slots it's locked on you just leave
me just leave my body you can revive me later use its action to dash you like
it uses actually the dash already to get to get out of the place so it doesn't
have its turn to shoot at you guys yet so it's gonna become three of your turns
you guys can move as you will I have a wild idea so I can only use as part of
my furball character to vanish after I take damage like slash my hand so that I
can go invisible the thing is about that is that yeah I'll let you do I'll let
you punch yourself take one point of damage on your previous turn the thing
is though it's it's it's still like it's still it's still see me but still
fucking see me yeah it's still it's leering it right at you still even
though you're invisible how far away is it never mind it is currently about
because you guys have made you guys have made distance you guys are about let me
say you guys are about about 70 feet away
if I was a little bit closer I could do it though
can I have bonus action jump to gain some distance
falters game I just need it to be within 30 feet though I don't want it to be I
know but if we can't get away from it anyways and it's range then
irresistible dance legitimately might be the best thing here's what you can
here's a thing because like if you if you had the mind's eye of your
surrounding at the moment you know this could be beneficial you are a you're
near some you know the boutiques and such right now that would be outside of
the Venator's vision and if I would have to come around and try to like try to
try to like come around towards the front of the store to come see you if
you if you wanted to come towards you okay we don't do we have a different
plan though I have I has idea but I need clarification on how something works
yes if we were to go into a shop and close the door behind us would using in
large reduce on something to have extra weight blocking the door be beneficial
or would it just shoot through the window anyways it would definitely I'm
gonna look at the spell to see what official wordings are yeah my tummy
hurts most of its description describes what it would do to a creature but not
an object this song is always playing it like the worst sessions
this is going to the theater and done this in the theater so that he would
miss for those you know this song played it in black guards gallery when the
vet we were facing up against the vanishing and that was a very stressful
session oh god that's what this is from it's like why do I feel sick oh yeah
the duration to see this changes with it any job job and once doubles of all
dimension weight multiplied by eight advantage on strange checks and strength
saving throws in case the wardrobe wants to go have a go at the Venator okay so
basically just asking if I can create an unmovable wall so okay here's what
here's what's gonna be because there's no official like there's no there's no
official like legalese on like its constitution or if it's durability goes
up I'm gonna go ahead and say that you would have an idea yes it would make it
more durable indestructible no but can probably take a few more hits than I'm
just a normal an object yeah and I have it as a cantrip so it's worth doing in
my opinion anything that buys us with a slight bit more time I was gonna say
anything that gets us time I can see through invisibility if we hide if we
hide like that way that's what am I that kind of stomach using magic oh crap it
wasn't that it's coming from you though yeah but true he's fine with it when
it's his wild magic you're fine you'd be fine yeah okay sorry Jenny you were
saying yeah if we're gonna try to barricade in a place I can do it was
saying we run oh I'm just saying you said to block the door to buy us more
time but we would be able to leave there and run you think from there the shots
are interconnected we can keep moving through them okay I didn't catch that
oh they're in our okay that makes it that changes things a lot the back doors
and shit just like the coffee shop they have adjoining doors okay this is
terrifying I just didn't catch that at all in the coffee shop I thought it was
like this place seller thing okay well yeah then yeah let's do that because I
was gonna say if we have to barricade somewhere then I could cast a
irresistible dance on it but the second I go down that goes away so we got we
got just you book it and it can still attack with disadvantage even if it has
that on so it's so yeah we should just run yeah yeah through the shops okay
everyone as you I'm gonna say that all I think in tandem at once as you are
running to the shops down are you are you have entered into a you have entered
into a like a fashion like sort of boutique store there are these like large
like there are these mannequins there's there's this iron there's this iron
shelf with like butch like sewing material and such under that are for
sale
what's it's your turn last what are you doing so he'll use in large reduce on
the largest piece of furniture he can see in the shop having it place right up
against the door that they came in through making it as big as he can
basically trying to keep that door shut hmm as you as you pick up a as you pick
up a shelf laying you laying it horizontally against the door the magic
he zooms from your body this magic that you never asked for and it just you see
that it slowly begins to enlarge like someone took the enlarge tool on on
Photoshop it just dragged it up as it as you see as it begins to take up the
front of the store you see that through like the little hold like the because
the shelves are like made out of like a sort of like solid material with like
little holes in it you see little glimmers of moonlight shining through
all right you're all within the safety of this you suggest we keep moving it is
the van Adders turn as you hear footsteps drawing closer to the door
the red light momentarily shining sweeping looking around through the holes
on the shelf it's peering it's trying to find any of you but at the top of this
round everyone you hear something in the distance a watchman oh my god as the
ground as the ground shakes you hear a familiar roar in the distance and you
are within these buildings so far right now undetected are we gonna get ganged
up on by a watchman and this thing but the but the Venator doesn't like the
other robots has been killing other robots too wait so that made the
Venator will go after the watchman if we just keep fucking hidden and move do we
know where the sound came from it's coming towards the sort of like central
part of that it's coming towards from with a part where basically the
Venator took the first shots at you you see that you see the red site the red
light coming through the wind coming through the window snap away at this
moment and you hear footsteps running away hey sorry I don't I don't want to
I I don't you know I know there's a sigh relief going on I know but you're still
in the deep of this right now so you so we got another direction then right you
guys can go along the stores there's open windows right there the Venator is
where the direction you have to go to go towards the gate you have to travel the
same direction the Venator is going to fight the watchman okay you just it's
distracted but you have to be stealthy oh god okay Jenny Jenny Sean Claude it's
gonna turn to you point to their fucking armor and it goes we gotta take it off I
don't know if that's a good idea it's fucking out oh yeah a long time to take
it off too oh fuck the fuck you hear in your bag
yes you mean quiet let me out I guess do you have anything to help us stay hidden
fine if you're asking please now pull me out grip him out of the bag yeah well
live like this it's going aphiis being pulled out is going to cast you see he
begins to like come on munches out draw because what's magic here so familiar I
feel bits of me coming back oh yeah it's going to and he's going to cast pass
without trace and we're still gonna fail good to know for the future I knew I
still had it in me you probably push it back because he's like he gets really
boastful he gets really happy so since I don't know what does pass without trace
do that's a plus 10 to stealth checks chocolate goes okay let's go all right
everyone hey before we start he's not good that banana is not going to make
active checks because he's currently in dueling right now and because he
probably has his advantage because he's caught up in the moment he has
disadvantage on his passive means it's a minus five so the number to beat right
now the number to beat is a 19 is really high perception and he could see through
invisibility fuck me here we go all your stuff checks as would add a plus 10 5
plus 10 is 15 I have inspiration I have to use it yeah no normal no no did it
work I rolled a three so no I fail I just I fail fuck no wait no that's a
savings or thing I'm pretty sure no when when you make an ability check attack
roll or saving throw you can choose to get an expertise die on that roll that
only gets me up to seven though so 17 wouldn't be enough either
am I 22 for you John Claude 28 and can I can I give are we can I give mine to
Celia I'm sorry
all right well as everyone begins to keep themselves keep themselves to the
keep them keep themselves on the down low as you can be in the move in through
the boutiques you begin to move through a toy shop figure figurines and
seemingly figures of just majors from a comic book series and figures from House
of Waffles lore dot the shelves Cecilia as you move a cough seizes you it has to
come and you all see outside the Venator on the rooftops firing down at this at
the watchman as the watchman slams on buildings shattering causing roofs to
collapse as soon as you cough
and you see the red light points towards you spotlights on you Cecilia but it's
I'm gonna say it has its turn already dealing dealing with the watchman
Cecilia's on Jean Claude Delmar you have you have a turn to do something how far
away is it it is it is incredibly it's incredibly far it's all the way across
I would say like 120 feet what if I did something crazy and the someone else has
an idea first hit the deck and cover oh my god guys I had parapet of wound
closure oh oh so you should have stabilized goodness I'm sorry so you
wouldn't you wouldn't have died right away but you would have you would have
still he would have still hit you when you were down okay but still but you
weren't that close to dying yeah okay I forgot that way give it to you too yeah
I forgot all my shit but now we know okay something that we can do in the
meantime other than run and hide
sorry I'm just looking at a crazy idea yeah do you want to say your idea why
you won't like it what is great like it if it involves you running off on your
own then yes I don't like it sure to do what anything it's totally random
because when I use the moon shards it's random oh that could be a not be good
or it could be bad it could be well there's the good or bad to begin with
and then there's what effect does it have on Dalmar all of it yeah it's all
bad and what effect does it have because it's amplified and then I'll be down
two points for exhaustion too but I already have negative on my checks so
it's not a big difference but um I guess I would say for my turn right now I'm
gonna keep moving full movement trying to get somewhere if I can get somewhere
where it looks like there was cover that would be ideal definitely there's
every but I'm going to use my action I'm gonna hold my action I pull out the
moon shards and if it feels like if they're gonna if I think that I'm in
danger of dying and I need a last-ditch thing I'm going to use them to wild
search that's my held action okay I'm not ranged this sucks so bad I'm
melee I'll go ahead and say as you take cover you hold your action right okay
yeah you can't stealth nope I'm not gonna try to stealth again okay okay if
if I Thaumaturgy'd something how far away can Thaumaturgy go um it's really far
there's nothing in range of any of my spells so
yeah sorry I'm looking at there my Trigy would you put the session is going well
in our announcement section to me just now yes for him oh it's not so hold on
so hold on it it was able to no no I'm track Cecilia because she coughed right
just from the sound basically just from so long away it yeah it managed to so
could I make could I replicate the sound of her cough like in a different part of
the room I'll allow it give me a performance check
Jean Claude is quite the performer Jean Claude if you could do anything right
in your goddamn life bar days come on it was bar days on the drums where are we
just talking about giving Jean Claude performance proficiency like the other
couple weeks ago come on Jean Claude come on come on or the band 18 I'm going
to roll an insight check 12 fuck yeah hmm that's not a fuck yeah you still go
out and I still stay here to help you I'm trying to keep you up I know you
hear so you're casting the cough near your location yeah okay or just I don't
know just away from her away from far away from us as possible yeah you can
go far away why is your first thought to do it on your own location sacrifice
because you met me because I want to fucking leave I want to be my wife no Warlocks no patrons no Jack
can be your patron alright that turns for that moment you got your distraction
go fuck you go all right down was I think Thaumaturgy for being a random ass
cantrip moving as far through the shops as possible okay I will let you guys
know Cecilia is holding still within that trap holding an action yeah when it
gets to my next turn I'm not I'm not gonna use it if it doesn't seem like
okay we're gonna be threatened so everyone move everyone moves the next
strike Cecilia at the moment a little bit a little bit behind you see as soon
as the cough happens the head snaps it pulls out a large book it pulls out like
the back opens up and this large collapsible a ballista is basically pulled
all the way out of its back and this huge was a spiral towards where the
coffins and is completely decimates the store front piercing right through the
building hmm the as soon as that happens it tilts his head and it's forced to
dodge the watchman as the watchman slams down directly on its location again
still chasing after so chasing after it all right everyone I need renewed self
checks oh god
32 actually 23 John Claude so tired of this 25 okay John Claude are you
invisible moment I didn't make it matter did it I know I can't I'm only done for
one round anyway oh okay because it has plus five to its passive perception if
you're invisible that's good that little bitch or if you're invisible that makes
so much sense Tim Ranger I just played an a5e Ranger not
okay thank goodness you're not visible because that would be to your detriment
fuck me up everyone you begin to maneuver again towards a two different
source this one's a seemingly a painting store you see the depictions of
different families it seemed like a studio where a person would paint a
person would paint like people walking into the store as the fight continues as
the fight continues on you see that you see the Venator is like current like
currently musing it's basically dancing circles around this around this watchman
as it can as it jumps from it's just flits from roof to roof it's going to
make a it's going to make a survival check when the washman goes down more
fucked
DC guys the DC for this 20 I'm setting the DC for this 20 okay
15 you see it's like looking at the stores really trying to like find any
path to anything any sign of any of you you managed to duck a message just
plant yourself on the ground as the the red vision sweeps over the seeps over
the window and thankfully the watchman is there to like abruptly cut it all
right I'm gonna see you subjects are maintained if it's exceeded I would have
to ask for new stuff checks on the next round you guys continue and you're
about two more stores down before you reach the end of the way but you feel as
if you've you've successfully managed to dodge the site of this of the Venator
for now but things can change
hmm all right what if it follows us back to camp though we just have to get out
still we just we can we won't I think it's just get out of the city we're not
we're in the outback right now yeah the bell in the ring this the bell rings in
the distance all right and hmm so Cecilia Jean Claude you're the first
thing initiative as you that as a three of you entrance in the next door this
one seemingly like a pastry shop of some kind that's what the setup that's what
the layout is but there's no there's no food in here whatsoever you see Don's
bakery all of a sudden you see a light come on as a head turns towards you as
you don't fuck as this leg as this automaton with with no legs looks up at
the wires torn out from from underneath it looks up to you with its one glowing
yellow eye hmm and it and it goes intruder no emotions no I was gonna smash
it smash it you guys have to turn it see it has a it hasn't chef knife in its
hand it looks like it's just ready to kill Jenny I got it I got a smash this
motherfucker you can do it but if it doesn't work I'm casting calm emotions
okay it's like a two attacks I was trying to get it quiet okay does a 14
hit advantage advantage advantage advantage advantage why do I have
advantage again because it's prone it's on the ground it's prone nope nope nope
well thanks thankfully you wrote a 14 that hits okay so I just want to get out
of here 11 slashing for the first attack okay still still operating still okay
hold on hold on one more attack come on you motherfucker that 20 or not not 20
dirty 20 just go down but you have advantage all right go ahead go ahead you
motherfucker just die please just die I'm sorry but we have to live all right
that's gonna be 24 all right 24 the head smashes wiring goes everywhere you
broke it he's turned to the ceiling goes no just go he says if I ever come up
with another idea again to say no my ideas don't work no matter what we were
doing it was gonna be bad he's gonna gently push her in front of him so that
he can see her that she's in front as they move on all right so okay we're
going to have the that I roll a survival check because you it's interested in
heavily in you guys right now however the C has increased it's very hard to
be 25 it's gonna roll a crit it's gonna roll a 20
watchmen do its job protect watchmen but before we do that congratulations to JT
for being 12 months at least there's gonna be one less watchman that's true
that's true 22 okay it continues and it seems like it's just gonna it just
focuses the fight on the watchman more annoyed than anything it begins to fire
arrows down at the watchman as the two begin to battle you have one more shop
to get through oh my god
all right and then you can exit out the exit out the boutique exit out the the
side of the shop and get deeper into varied terrain that's better better
veil in a better position than you were running out of the clocktower
one shot more one shot no before my miss is like our just our musical for this
game I just before we go into the next shop you guys notice that there wasn't
that was in it there was an automaton and the one you just did and I almost got
almost that was scary here's what's gonna happen
what's everyone's passive perceptions oh my god good good I can't be surprised if
what you're asking 22 yeah oh shit I just wrote 21 so here's what's gonna
happen Cecilia you get towards you get towards the other door you hear stirring
movement from from inside immediately
I'm sorry Dragmire posted shop 24601
and I'm Venator do not forget my name
I'm regretting so many of my choices that have led me to this moment right now
yes you know it's funny you're in the bakery all the breads gone
this year the scary sounds in the in the neck in the final shop out okay here
sounds in the shop do we have to go through there oh yeah cuz we're in like
that thing you can exit out the front I will smash whatever the fuck needs to be
smashed what are you saying to me you can exit out the front would put you
will put you at risk I've been detected but the Venator so entwined with the
watchman at the moment but also consider but going through this there were
probably something else another thing or turn hostile immediately if you think
you can beat the dams check in time and if he two things then I'm just gonna go
really before I stop everyone before they go in I'm gonna go really close to
the door and then I am going to cast calm emotions so that it's within
hopefully within the radius 100 just so that hopefully nothing like
screens and I keep the spell I keep a second level spell which is good cuz
I'm down to one third level and one second level all my first levels are
gone it will make you both make the wisdom saving throws 14 fails by one
fuck yeah that's me I'm a depressed too so that's 14 oh so double for you both
fail let's fucking go they both fail by one I'm gonna puke I am NOT enjoying this
the door the door opens to see Lee as is calming as this calming emotion begins
to permeate throughout the atmosphere you see these two these two automatons
one with a fire poker this this seems to be like a nice this seems like a
masonry one with a fire poker another one with just just a brick in its hand
because to it and just kind of lol I watch out for the banana it's really
scary okay bye go through because it's only the last a minute and you and you
all are allowed to just rush to rest the hostile attitude of these of these
automatons are just completely drawn completely down I think this is the most
stressed out JT and JC and Cecilia and JT
yeah though almost drown episode one was very scary that was scary that was but
this is like like I knew it wasn't gonna get drowned in the episode one so like
this is scary yeah I will say it is much worse being part of the game instead of
just reacting
like a 3d movie you're part of it you're part of it I'm gonna go back to being a
mod no I'm gonna immediately start brainstorming the villain Tim wants me
to have in the game after this the three of you sensing your opportunity it's not
gonna make one more so I would check the DC's 30 okay you all make your way out
of the store calmly slowly quietly quietly quietly eyes on the venator as it as you
see the battle it looks towards the boutiques little sigh even though doesn't
breathe it sighs as it just focuses as you see as the watch continues on top of
just like a like a absolute brute like like a large like King Kong just
smashing on top of the the rooftops and tending to get the water and didn't get
the batter the battle takes the battle takes the two of them outside of your
field of vision and you move going towards the gates as you move towards
the gates slight droplets of rain begin to pitter-patter down mar it has not
rained the entire time it's just been dark as you lead the two others towards
relative safety towards the towards the safety of the gate just a chance to
recuperate just a chance to regroup you pass you pass the familiar territory you
pass the the growing piles of the growing piles of a automaton like robotic
bodies and before you know it a little bit of relief hits you as you step into
what you know is safe territory you see the house of waffles a now can I have a
sigh of relief please yeah please oh thank god oh I've had so much stress
coiled in my body this entire time
I'm trying not to let the main characters die Lee isn't here at the
moment you can surmise that they've probably already made their way back to
camp yeah he told Lee if I'm not here by a certain time go without me well wait
until we turn up and tell them our adventures you God the three of you begin
to make your way towards the Jagmeier the three of you begin to make your way
towards the gate
down bar no something feels off no what walking down this familiar street you've
always walked down this place of safety automaton bodies that were not there
before they were not there before did they kill Kefau and rushing towards the
gate you see it from the far distance the gates shut you hear shouting from
the other side as you approach a battle's taking place here you can you
can tell that there are places where watchmen have have brought down have
slammed their fists and you hear and you hear this we have to go just because now
we have to get this we have to get this gate open it's slamming against the gate
it's it's this very large gate it's opened by a mechanism that's found at
the very top of that's fun at the top of the wall I have a potion of flying
great you do we can if that's what needs to happen here let's up up and away and
you do are you here from the other side real quick because um because I'm gonna
give you the give you the information real quick yes because there's anyone
out there we don't want to be careful just they just they chase us out there's
more
Cecilia you pick up the scent of being the feeling of being watched oh Jesus
come on okay as you all as all of you look around as the darkness of the night
begins to truly envelope around you begin to see it in the darkness red eyes
red flow flowing glowing orbs begin to open in the in the in the distance
watchmen automatons a bunch of them okay not great so can we open the okay can I
just open the gate I say well it's over the gate or I've got two potions of
flying and I have two potions of climbing who you're not climbing you to
fly well what's your decks whose I'm sorry Del Mar's technically no lost to
Dex saving throws but my ex itself is a 16 climbing is mostly at mostly
athletics though and plus the climbing you'll just be able to climb right it's
climbing athletic I have plus six you will be yeah climbing what's that here I
have expertise when it comes to climbing if it's athletics or acrobatics anyways
you have advantage you getting climbing speed equal to your walking speed
anyways that is a required check yeah but down mark because it is raining you
are going to have to make some checks to make sure you don't fall off the wall
while you're climbing it yeah okay I'll give you the potion of climbing unless
we want two people to climb and to save one of the flying potions yeah fuck it
John Claude will climb enough like it's a lot I'm gonna say this is a lot less
risky to fly I know but I you two need to get out safe er I I but that's not
my character thing can I carry someone flying yeah wait could we both grab
Del Mar's arm if we both have flying potion and lift it I'll say it will be
an athletics check but they see wouldn't be that bad you want to do that Jenny
sure well I have this advantage remember why do you disadvantage poison fucker I
have but I do have I don't I only have plus three athletics but I can gain
expertise in it so I can add another plus two and for doing that I have
stuff wait down our John yeah why don't you get down with down more and John
Claude my only thing is I'm trying to avoid him flying in the first place but
if he has to he will right drag where I have powerful build so I can carry oh let
me see one second
because large size for carrying and lifting for meeting creatures lifting
carry max is 30 times strength score with powerful but it's 60 times let's
see what's your strength score John Claude my strength score is currently 15
times 69 hundred carry up to 900 pounds that should be yeah I can do both of you
we got your little I'm not huge I am I'm armored but I don't think any I think
you both equal nine hundred yeah you're saying just because I'm short doesn't
mean I don't wait he is still a dwarf I know but can I just fucking grab these two
grab us and fly over the wall potion fine come on guys
the ground up on the ground up on the ground up I'm Peter panning my way here
here's the thing the wall is like 200 feet up what oh that's higher than I
thought so you're going up it's gonna take a little bit to get it's gonna
take a little bit to get there it's okay guys I have this ended and as two turns
in if anybody is looking down you see the automatons walking out blood
splattered like drawn on their faces you you see one of them has a like a
severed hand that it's holding as a as it's holding by the bone as a club they
look up they look up to you and as as as the 12 seconds pass a terrible a
terrible sound
a watchman no no no no also no you also have the least hit points among us
John Graham heal me baby yeah Cecilia and Dalmar as the both of you are
traveling up you see a watchman take take roost on top of a top of a roof it
has just straight up a corpse of a human being just hanging around it you see
just it from its back a javelin a stasis javelin the one that slowed you all down
before it begins to reach for it and the two of you only the two of you can see
a junk cloud you're currently focused on flying at the moment you guys have a
moment to act anything anything at all what's the range um I'm going to say
that it's about going at like a triangular motion it's like about I would
say like 60 feet away how far are we from the top if if the pickaxe of
lightning hit would it be enough to stun the watchman and prevent it attacking
that would be the hope then that's he's gonna do he's got his daily charge of it
okay gonna do it mm-hmm I'll make a deck save it's a DC 13 my friend is
unfortunately a very low I prepared a siege fight where you guys would survive
a few rounds but I always this has happened before I get at this health we
would not survive a single round it'll be very interesting is what I'm saying
we would die Tim there's some interesting stuff we're gonna get out of
this 13 that's what you gotta be we're half of there give me one second here
because I can pull the watchman's sheets on my phone Wow it has a minus one low
low low fuck you okay so it's 40 six lightning damage
21 points of lightning that's pretty good for 46 that's almost max damage
even um that's much better than the first time I used it as I'm John cloud
you're just kind of thunder years as a streak of lightning just
strikes across the the rain filled the rainfall streets of um of Rex and and
slams directly into the says it's a wreckly into the the watchman the
watchman taking double damage from lightning damage is suddenly suddenly
seizes up and drops the javelin that it was holding okay keep going okay what
the fuck guys his hair is all static down more you reach your hand up and the
pickaxe you catch it as I'm gonna go ahead and loud John cloud you just go
all the way up as you had all the way as you had all the way up over the wall
you hear cries of the scent of anger coming from below as the automatons
rain their discontent at your escape you look down as you go over the wall and
as you head down where this is so far up this is the highest you've ever been
he's screaming you as you head down you see that there are already you see Lee
is already pightens out he's already climbing the wall he sees the three of
you coming down yes you guys you guys good he's coming in his reinforcements
probably to open the gate yeah he would be opening the gate as you as you make
your way down you meeting the group that had run in in the first place Lee
makes his way down landing three-point landing he goes and kind of like looks
at the three of you but you guys are already like going right there's no
pause he said run and it's go go back to cap keep back to cap and
all of you escaped briefly turn and look who did we lose
lots of you
just the watchman they they move outside they had to differently
things are changing let's regroup get ourselves figured out the and yeah you
did you want to say something Tomar he's just gonna start running all right how
long does flying potion look I don't know I don't have it on my sheet for
realsies I just have the name of it as everyone is it lasts for an hour as
everyone escapes with the city of Rex and at their backs the venn having
narrowly escaped the Venator you all run for the first time in what feels like
forever towards safety
and that is where we'll pick up next time next time next time next time I
have a heart I can't take anymore yeah I'm keeping an eye on everyone I think
everyone's pretty tuckered out from that thanks thanks I know I wasn't promised
like happy fun times joining for this you didn't say it would get that
stressful man oh gosh you know I want to applaud Tim for giving me cardiac arrest
because that was very well crafted that was very honestly other than black
guards even black guards I feel like it didn't you know what I mean we handled
everything pretty well in black guards we were always pretty well prepared this
was more well-rounded characters in black we also had more people to big
group yeah and higher level this was close this was this was real risk this was this
was something
we're even gonna be able to get the Archmage out or anyone else well I was
literally just thinking I was like it not in like a sad what a depressing way
but I was like what can we do yeah I don't even know what we do now and we
deal with it like we have sort of the moon shards but like yeah we've got one
flying but but like they're everywhere maybe another town go to another town
find a way to buy dimension door scrolls and dimension door to the moon shard
eventually and then out there's got to be a way to go that's not a good plan
there's got to be a way to like send someone in or someone who can get it
that like I don't know what that said everyone we peer in on the rain over
hanging on the forest we see the dim lights of torches being wilted away by
the rain under the canvas of under the canvas under the canvas of posts at camp
we zero in on the man Dan the man who had the man who you had assisted by
helping his seemingly his his lord who was interested in the magical academy
who had come down with some sort of strange moon strange affliction from the
moon as he sits as he sits there holding the holding the hand of the young woman
who Cecilia had used a great deal of magic to assist lightning crashes in a
distance not from the sky but from the city as the moon flares at that moment
we see the two as the man hulk continues holding her hand seemingly almost
sleeping holding on to it we catch a close-up of the young woman's face
before her eyes flash open that's where we're going to end it okay but what can
she do though what can he do can she help us can she can she can she go she
rogue she goes sneaky spells there's some spells for us come on girlfriend
so the Venator is acting on the strongest impulse it feels right Tim yes
so if we remove that strong simple little stop hunting so if we want to
kill a drunk I was just gonna say we don't let him go back in oh boy would
that work we can't even do that we don't have a means of taking I didn't take I
didn't even like have any notes yeah I wrote down two things just to write
things down give me one second here just to give you guys an update on that
person because they weren't that important when you met them I was like
random woman who why are you here the man his name is Dan LaRon yeah he's an
old he's an older he's an he's an older like you can smell like upper 20s 30s
you know you're old and he was traveling with this is the woman was a Kari von
von Merevan I thought you could say von Fussler fun bus car car Yvonne Merevan who who
who Dan LaRon has told you she was traveling from she was traveling from
another place traveled very far to come to this place just this is just to give
you guys like a reminder yeah like yeah these characters you were you would the
characters remember them wait any to refresh your memories a little bit yeah
I was gonna bring them up when you were talking about what how could it be I was
like I was about to say maybe they could help and then you did the cutscene maybe
like if she if she was supposed to be maybe she does like a prophecy or
something maybe or maybe she's secretly a madam withers and she foresaw it no
Timmy no drag Meyer no right now he's being a mod he's modern me what if I
send him to the adventurers guild at loondes acre and ask since they since
the government didn't send anyone to help maybe the adventurers guild will
send people that's a good distance away though that's like it is but but this
has been going on for a bit yeah I'm feeling like we're not just gonna wake
up tomorrow and fix it if you're like the only way to stop at those to get the
moon shards right yeah that's the only way we're gonna be able to so if we had
will I hear maybe everything would be fine no don't get will it killed well it
could turn into a mouse sneak into the city and then like grab the moon shards
she walks in and she just goes forget wait oh you need me to do is just get a
moon shard and then she gets shot and then she throws a fist at the moon it
sends a shard down to it because she broke it and she just goes here you go
the kids from soccer practice says about the dad material he has chiseled he has
like a five o'clock shadow drag drag needs it so Dan the ran is the dad guy
got it he is you know I imagine him like a really
chiseled looking like what's his face who's the voice actor for mark from
invincible he's Glenn from walking dead just imagine a buffer taller Steven you
all right well that was stressful oh gosh I hope no one watches the asshole it
was just for me too that fucking sucked I'm dead serious that sucked but yeah
that was stressful I hope no one sees the runtime and at the very beginning
and assume that you've all been killed horribly it's gonna be a chill episode
since you know shorter episodes tend to be chill or just combat yeah oh look a
shopping episode no it's weird the shopping was a starts with the five
minutes into his playing yeah I think like that's probably in terms of combat
not of RP but like in terms of combat that's the most stressed I've been
oh yeah absolutely the most stressed I've ever been in a great way in a
wonderful way who thinks I'm gonna make a ranger and it's gonna be really scary
and then like pulls it off how does that work I mean D&D Rangers get shit on all the time so for
a5e for them to be fucking medicine so we'll talk about this a bit more and then
we're gonna call it all the night so the siege fight it would have been helped
because the other party on the other side is what was going to try and lift
up the gate and they were going to like roll potions underneath like you guys
had a moment to set up and get things ready there's like barricades get set up
and you guys have to find off hordes of these but I didn't spend like two turns
with with a watchman and then you could leave because we had Lee going up the
wall ready to help you guys but thankfully someone was like potion of
flying completely worked that's great that is wonderful if the thaumaturgy
hadn't worked and I had done the wild magic search yeah let's do that see what
I would have rolled five D100 five D100 so a 36 and 82 a 12 and 89 and then 97
okay 36 roll a d10 your age changes by a number of years equal to the role if
the role is odd you get younger if the role is even you get older I would I've
get I've become my sister's age um we do have we do have a thing implemented with
these things that if you don't if it's harmful to you doesn't have to happen if
you consider that harmful 82 you can become still mirror's age that's it 82
you can take one additional action immediately number 12
roll a d10 3 your height changes by a number of inches equal to the role if
the role is odd you shrink if there was even you grow
cosmetic yeah 89 you become invisible for the next minute during that time
other creatures can't hear you the invisibly ends of the attacker cast a spell no
no that would have been bad because also the passive goes up with five if you're
invisible but then what does he perceive because he he can't hear her this is
what he would perceive any seven you are surrounded by faint a theory of music
for the next minute that would have killed us so what if I do the additional
action to use the moon shards one more time okay Jenny Jenny point out Jenny
I know I would have gone unconscious had you actually used them for all intents
and purposes he would go if so I have a special Google Doc that I have open if
the moon shards were used down mark would have rolled a d100 and kept a
number to his chest shout out to Thaumaturgy the cantrip baby thank you
Thaumaturgy the quick thinking by Emma Romasko everyone that was awesome
I let us into this death trap that's it no we were everything we were gonna do
was gonna be bad yeah had we gone to the elder tree playhouse we still would have
dealt with this on the way out it Cecilia wanted to just go straight to the moon
shard so no that wasn't a good idea either would have been worse I don't know
guys I don't know how to solve this at all we're gonna use our new friendly NPC
friend we're gonna have to figure that out next time on the song that takes
years off my life span I have gray hair okay we are done
did you want to sign us up no all right then I guess all right everyone we'll
see you next week good night see ya