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Episode 4, Mine and Yours.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Song Woven, The Black Guards Gallery.
I am of course, as always, Tim Dantran, your narrator.
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Literally, every time an NPC is surrounded by the players, they are looked at from head
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It has been absolutely wonderful, the vast amount of roleplay options that have been
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It really does fit our style very, very well.
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Now with that said, why don't we go ahead and dive into another session of D&D?
Level up, advanced fifth edition D&D.
When I said that earlier, Kendra let out a huge sigh.
Now I have been at the top of every stream, I have been recapping the game the last few
times.
But can I go ahead and you don't have to do this, but can I go ahead and ask for Albert
this time to do it?
I turn my attention to the only person with something in their mouth.
All right.
So we started last session where Zachariah had an interesting experience.
He woke up to find that the two pieces of the compass were glowing.
Wasn't sure what was up with that.
He put them together and it effectively just let off a cannon in the ship.
The ship was just sort of rocked by this burst of energy.
Someone came running to find him barely clothes with this compass finally put together, it
showing off this sort of amazing sort of light show.
And as we brought it upstairs to the deck, it formed into a map.
And with Zachariah's navigation skills, he was able to determine where exactly the compass
was pointing us.
An ancient island called Hon Lusa.
After that, the group needed to dock.
We were already planning on heading to a small town called Aloris to pick up some supplies
for a trip.
Before we got there, there were some shenanigans.
There was a fight between two of the deckhands, Brooke and One-Eyed Jane.
I don't know why they started to fight.
Probably something silly.
But there was some tension, romantic and bloodthirsty.
So who knows what's happening there.
Had some other heart to hearts among the crew before we finally arrived in Aloris.
Now Aloris is a small town currently under construction by the Moonpaw Construction Company,
still in the process of being built.
And curiously, we were let into town with our weapons.
They didn't really put up much of an argument when we tried to bring them in.
The group then split up.
One-Eyed Jane hurrying off to her second love gambling.
Laura and Daphne and Hilgen went off to discuss what was going on.
You know, just possible future plans.
With Hilgen heading off to go hunt with his eagle Kenway, keeping an eye out on the town.
And Zachariah, oh and Humphrey and Clarence went off to collect our supplies.
Zachariah had a date though here in town.
He had been told by the tiny little rat that had been on board our ship for the past year
and six months.
Little Bastard, he spoke to Zach and told him to meet him there.
And so that's what he did.
Following Little Bastard, he made his way to an old tavern called...
I have it.
The Good Dahlia.
But curiously no one was there and as Zach approached there was just some sort of feeling
in his chest as if something was wrong and something that he was very angry about was
there.
Inside we discovered, or at least Zach discovered, that Little Bastard has been similar to the
Kestrel we saw a while ago, was some sort of magical familiar tattoo creature belonging
to Brando Caligaris, who the previous session we had scryed on, the head of the Orhandor
Navy, Leviathan Legion.
We learned that Zach had some sort of incident with Brando.
And Brando tried to talk to him, tried to convince him to...
I don't know, that maybe the crew didn't have his best interests at mind and also that they
needed to destroy a lighthouse for them on the way to the Bandiwala.
But Zach was having none of it.
And after tense exchange, Zach finally took his chance to stab Brando right in the chest.
And that's when Brando pointed to a small ring on his finger and there was a scream
heard up above in the tavern.
Daryl is here.
Somewhere.
And that's about it, I believe.
What that said, we're gonna go ahead and pick up where we left off.
Zachariah, the scream resonates throughout the inn.
You are stunned for a moment as a sudden wave of realization hits you.
That's Daryl.
As you draw your blade for a moment, as Brando's clutching his chest, all of a sudden you see
a shadow eclipse, eclipse a part of one of the windows.
As you see an eagle, Kenway, land right next to the window, glaring right into the room.
Hilgen, you get, you already get a sense while you are traveling, while you're going ahead
and traveling upwards to perform your, to perform your like self duties around town,
you get a sense that something's wrong.
The, the mental message that from Kenway, wanting to inform you about something, telling
you to come to him right now.
You, Hilgen is wandering through the woods bow and arrow out and he is just at the low
ready as he's walking around.
And at one point he has that vision and you see him just stop in complete stillness.
His eyes go glassy for a moment and then in a one single graceful motion, he just sheaths
his bow and arrow as he turns and just dashes toward back to town.
Making sure to tell Kenway to keep an eye on things and trying to use his memory to
remember the location of the village and his location in the woods to make sure that he
can make the most efficient journey back to where he needs to be.
You began dashing, rushing, rushing all the way, rushing all the way back with urgency
in your step.
And with that said, Zachariah, there is urgency in your heart too.
As you, I assume you're going to begin going up the stairs to go.
Yeah, as soon as I hear that, I pause for a second and then I just, I book it up the
stairs.
As you pause for a second, Brando's voice is seemingly speaking to himself, kind of
like disappears into the background, but you do see that he does acknowledge and sees the
eagle and you hear the very small, you hear a very small him going, well, that's a good
sign.
As you head upstairs, immediately, as soon as you hit the top step, one of the doors
to the rooms open and you see a lumbering out of the room, a hand pushing against the
door, Deacon, with a sort of like, like seemingly like white powder spread all over his face.
He seems half-lidded, like almost tired as he kind of like slumps to the ground.
I'm just going to kind of jump over him and as soon as I get in, I shut the door.
As you jump over him into the room and immediately like you see sitting on the room, clutching
his chest at the moment as you slam the door behind you.
Breathing, he was already breathing heavily, like clutching his chest, but as he sees you,
seemingly all that pain is gone as the two of you, long lost, lock eyes once more.
As he sees you, he just goes, Zach?
Think time pauses for a moment for Zach as he sees the treasure he's been looking for,
six months, maybe even longer, who knows?
And it just, time just sort of freezes and then his eyes quickly dart around the room.
What's the layout?
It's a fairly small room.
He's sitting on a bed right next to a window that has the curtains drawn.
You see the sunlight outside.
You can open it, easily fit right through.
Okay.
My eyes go back to him.
I smirk.
And so the dashing thief finds his treasure and Zach's going to rush to the bed, grab
the top cover of the bed and just quickly throw it over Darryl.
You make it halfway across the room.
You're already ready to grab him and carry him out.
He just goes, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
There's that moment where he does lunge for you.
He wants to embrace you.
But you see that he catches himself.
He was always quick in the mind.
He just goes, wait, don't.
Don't step any closer.
If you step any closer, I'm gone.
There's a contingency on me.
You step close to me.
I don't know where I'm going to go.
And outside the door, you hear Brando's voice outside, seemingly speaking to Deacon.
He just goes, goodness gracious, what good are you?
I'm going to spin around.
Is there any furniture, like heavier furniture in the room?
There is a foot chest and a desk and a small drawer.
In front of the door.
Yeah.
You go ahead and just place everything in front of the door.
Darryl gets up.
You see that there is like on the desk, there's a sharp, like looking a rock that has a bit
of like white dust on it.
And I grind it up seemingly like a plant of some sort.
Darryl has taught you like all kinds of plants.
It's a piece of piece foil.
Darryl gets up.
He wants to do something, but he doesn't want to get near you.
Even though that's all that he wants to do in the world right now.
As you begin to, as you just place everything in front of the door.
With like odd strength from that belt.
So I just.
Oh yeah, it's super easy.
Bang.
Darryl just goes, nice.
As you do that, seemingly there's a little bit of silence.
And then Brando just tries the door.
And of course it's locked.
And he just goes, are you okay?
And you hear just a little breath through shit in my eyes.
Listen, you're going to have to walk it off.
We have a couple of guests outside.
Why don't you go ahead and greet them?
We're going to run over to the window just to quickly see.
Yeah.
It's like this is like the seaside.
It's like a good like 15, 20 feet up.
It's nothing dangerous, like nothing you can see.
It's relatively like empty.
This whole town is still in work.
But Brando goes, go ahead buy me some time.
Because I don't take it take too long.
I'm going to fucking kill that brat.
You're not going to do anything.
Go.
And you hear footsteps thunder away.
Zachariah, you didn't jump out of a window, did you?
I am just going to quickly grab out of my bag a potion, a greater.
And I just kind of kind of placed on the bed and kind of take a step back.
Darryl looks at it.
He just kind of like goes ahead.
He just goes, Zach.
I signed to Darryl.
Maybe if we ignore him, he'll go away.
He's nervous.
But he smiles.
Good confidence always rubs off on him.
As he just kind of like he tucks himself in the corner as well, like just ready to do
anything.
He just goes, Zachariah, I'm going to go ahead and tell you that.
I don't want for any of this to happen.
But when you stab someone in the chest, they have to have some contingencies at play.
I'm going to assign to him the ring.
Off.
Take it off.
He does the motion and he just shakes his head.
He just signs.
I'm sorry.
I'm going to find a way to get back to you.
It's the only thing that's been on my mind.
This man, this man's not going to break us.
I promise.
And you hear.
I reckon your crew is going to make a quick exit soon enough.
As I told you before, I said I know your crew pretty well.
That one-eyed Jane person?
Big fan of gambling, I heard.
Which is why we set up a really nice warehouse with the clinky dice and the clink of coins.
Eight fine gunmen are right there, ready to capitalize on her bounty from the Ionarian
Empire.
Did you know about that, by the way?
Just Helgen, Aura, even Daphne, they're thick as thieves.
Of course they're going to stick together.
How off the ground is this window?
How far off the ground is this window?
Not high at all.
You could get there.
It's like at your chest.
No, no, I mean from the ground outside.
From the ground outside.
I'll say like almost 20 feet.
It'll hurt, but you can take that.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not worried about that.
How many sheets are there in here, or can I find any sort of long cords or anything like
that?
Blankets, sheets, in the chest, there's spare clothes.
You could definitely fashion.
I'm starting to tie something.
Daryl sees that, and he just goes, and he starts tying the other end as well.
Brando just goes, now I may seem like a crazy old man.
I might be talking and nothing here, but I'm going to go ahead and inform you that I'm
not the only one with a ring.
We are going to transition over to Helgen.
Helgen, you rush over past, and as you're the one sprinting in great hurry, you enter
into Eloris.
You see Captain Aura and Daphne together walking the streets.
They themselves are searching for Zachariah.
I'm going to say that Helgen is not going to stop.
What he's going to do is he's going to call out in a way that he knows Aura would know,
as it just sort of goes, Aura, Daphne, on me.
And they will probably just see this blur.
No questions, just follow.
Yeah, they've done this before.
Yeah, this is not a new thing.
So they would know that something is amiss.
She summons her sword.
Now in a hurry, we head over to Humphrey, who is with Clarence at the moment.
So you're in good hands, Humphrey.
You have been preusing the general store.
You've been gathering all sorts of food and restocking.
And you've already bought hundreds of golds worth of food.
It's a big ship with a lot of people.
And it's a big fat list you've been going down.
You and Clarence have been diligent in getting everything down and putting everything into
your bag of holding.
Extra toffees, extra whiskey, extra marshmallows.
You've actually been guided to a warehouse because you have to buy stuff in bulk.
So you've been surrounded by good, honest workers and sailors and such, and filling
your bag of holding with things and belongings.
I'll say that there has been a bit of an issue during your time here.
You see people throwing out seemingly fresh produce, like dumping it by the crates into
the sea.
Very blatant sight to you.
Fresh green bananas and berries and fruits.
Taking commands from no one.
People just dumping this stuff into the sea.
And Clarence has been arguing with the person about the prices.
This was six gold pieces down the coast.
How come it's nine here?
He says, you want customers, right?
Sorry, sorry.
I'm not mad at you.
I'm mad at the person who set the price.
That's me.
Well, you should have lied to me.
Well now I'm angry at you.
While it has been going smoothly, there's been a few bumps that have been keeping you
here long.
In the midst of all of this, there is a hand.
A hand is placed on your shoulder specifically.
Hello, partner.
Hello.
You turn to see.
How can I help you?
And then I would turn around.
You turn to see a white.
You turn to see a human man with like sort of scratched up scarred features.
He has like salt and pepper, but more pepper, more salt hair.
Definitely on the older side.
Wearing a hat and a scarf.
Very unusual attire for someone who's here.
A pepper box, a gun in a holster and a belt.
He just goes, haven't I seen you somewhere before?
Well I don't know.
I do have that face, you know, that's very common.
Yeah, you do, mister.
You got a kind face.
Have I ever seen this person before or heard any descriptor?
And he just kind of like, he hasn't smiled, he hasn't anything, he's just been speaking
pretty low.
And he just goes, can I go ahead and give you some advice?
Old man?
Sure.
You shouldn't be here.
Says who?
Sticks his thumb into his pants and he just goes, I didn't have to come out here to tell
you.
But you have a bowing in your head, don't you?
Depends who's asking.
Also, like, put my hand close to my belt, just same as him.
The both of you looked out like very briefly at once, you see both your hands are reaching
this little standoff going on.
Just a good willed citizen.
That's it.
Okay.
I got a bounty on my head too.
Good to know.
Well.
Nothing like treason.
Look, this can go one of two ways.
Either we get in trouble and I'm just trying to get food or we can just both walk away
with our bounties still intact.
You choose.
Also, like, shoot over a look to Clarence to see if, like, he's also maybe talking to
someone or if he's taking notice of the situation.
Clarence has noticed.
And it seems like he's just noticed.
Looking between the both of you.
He's formulating something.
He just goes, tell me real quick, old man, what's the price of absolution?
Gosh, another person with riddles.
I don't know.
You tell me.
And with that, we're going to head on over to One Eyed Jane.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
One Eyed Jane, you are playing with this person in front of you.
Has been very amicable so far.
But he has just taken a hundred gold from you in this game of Blackjack.
You've been going back and forth, but so far, your losses have totaled a hundred gold pieces.
He just goes, he just goes, by this point, you're going to run out of money.
We won't be playing anymore.
Hey, hey, hey, slow down there.
I got more.
Just a lot like just I'm just throwing down coins at the table.
One Eyed Jane has a problem.
Let's just, you know, maybe a couple more times and I'll get back up soon.
Sure, sure, sure, sure.
Yeah.
And he just goes, how much are you putting on the next hand?
Two hundred because.
That's a good number.
Two hundred.
Let's do it.
That's a good number.
You do you do notice as you're just pushing and pushing in the gold and, you know, momentarily
like looking over at Brooke from time to time who has been sitting at the bar, but no no
drink.
She hates alcohol, no drink in her hand.
She has been just like her eyes have been peering from place to place the the entire
time.
And she's just sitting there like like a crow just surveying the area.
By this point, go ahead and give me a D20 roll or two D20s.
I'm going to stick to my strategy of one D20 because surely this time 13 is the number
to beat.
Mm hmm.
That's cool.
When I lose that, I'm just going to like slam a fist into the table.
Really angry.
You're cheating.
This game is rigged, obviously.
He slides the gold over and just goes, I'm sorry, it just looks like the lady luck doesn't
favor you at all.
I would like to speak to this lady luck then.
Is this an I'd like to speak to your manager moment?
Yep.
I like to speak to divine luck.
I'm a goddess of luck.
With a smile, he rakes the gold over and he goes, if you're a woman of divine persuasion,
there is a shrine to Ordelia Jane here.
Really?
Tell me a story.
Actually, no, we're not friends.
I'm not going to tell you a great story about how I lost this and I'll point to my eye patch.
But maybe 200 gold.
He pushes it back.
I'll just kind of play with the coin in my fingers and kind of like sit back, relaxed.
You see Brooke stands.
Her eyes are fixed onto something behind like the bar.
She stands slowly.
I'm going to keep an eye on her while I just play with the coin in my hands.
You know, I was born on the sea in a storm by a lady named Jane or Delia Jane.
He leans in smiling, genuinely interested in the story.
You see Brooke, her eyes, there's a bit of urgency in her eye movements and her head
movement as she just kind of looks around.
She looks at the other people in this game, like playing at the different tables.
And it's at this...
But as she's doing that, he just goes, born at sea.
Yep, that's me.
And I'm going to lean in close to him.
And I size him up.
He's like, let me pull it up.
When you see a creature, you know if it is proficient with more than simple weapons or
has access to combat maneuvers.
And this is battle moxie takes one to know one.
And it's no role.
You just get to do that.
Okay.
I just know.
Combat maneuvers, proficiency with martial weapons.
Takes one to know one.
This man is wearing a fake smile.
He is wearing pretty nice clothes that doesn't fit anyone else in this town.
He looks like he works in a casino.
But this is just a warehouse.
I'm gonna hold up my two coins.
I don't know why I buy us a drink since I'm obviously just throwing away money at this
point because you know, maybe my mom is mad at me.
And I'll tell you the rest of that story.
And before he can even answer, I'm gonna get up and start heading towards the bar near
Brooke.
As you start heading up near to the bar, walking over there, Brooke's eyes suddenly like, you
see there's a realization.
And she looks over towards your direction.
And as she does that, he just goes, you see the man goes, is that your mom that's mad
at you?
And you hear you see you see a hand out place on your shoulder.
A throwing knife is drawn as Brooke throws it.
Before we get to that, Daphne, Hylasin, and Aura making your way over to the Good Dahlia
following Hylasin.
You see it before you the Good Dahlia in.
You see Kenway.
You see Kenway there at the moment.
Currently circling the area before it suddenly returns to you, Hylasin.
As that happens, the sort of like swinging door of the inn is pushed open.
And Daphne, immediately your eyes are drawn and locked onto this person as the two of
you see each other, the heavily armored, tanned skinned man.
It's been a while since you last saw him in person.
He was a lot paler back then, but the sun hasn't been too kind on his skin.
He looks at you at a moment.
There's shock between the both of you.
A big sigh.
His hand brushes past the noose on his waist and he reaches for the large red great axe.
On his back.
And you see fire begin to pour out from beneath his feet.
He's looking at only you, Daphne, as he just goes, there's an empty grave at home with
your name on it.
I don't intend to make you a grave, so if you want one, you should start digging.
Let's fucking go.
He pulls out the axe to his side.
Your sword in your hand.
Nora and Hilsin, this is...you've never seen this person before, but you could go ahead
and already assume with all the talks that you've had.
Yeah, very well aware.
Daphne doesn't pull her sword on anyone like that.
Deacon is a lot more swath and less put together than Daphne.
They are the exact opposite image of each other.
And Daphne is a tiefling, a plain touched deacon to a large human.
As he holds his axe with two hands, you see flames starting to spiral out of his hand.
He just goes, you hear that?
Just a fire.
It's calling for you.
I cast Calculated Retribution on myself.
I think it takes the form of just a blue magical glow.
But she's just instantly ready.
As the air around this area begins to swelter, and it's only the four of you, everyone hears
a gunshot in the distance.
Multiple coming from the warehouse, coming from on the dock.
I'm going to say that Hildin is just going to whisper to Kenway, find the others and
just flies off.
She realizes something and now there was no hesitation.
She was ready to just go fight Deacon.
I think she realizes immediately she's being manipulated.
And she just goes, no, I want to do it on my terms.
She just, we need to find, she says looking at Aura, we need to find everyone.
Aura's face you can't read.
Her eyes have been flitting all around the building looking.
Her eyes again land on Daphne and in her head she'll hear, I'll let you make this move.
And it's already made for you.
As you say, I want to do it on my own terms, he slams his axe in the ground.
You see the embedded gem in the middle of the axe begins to light up and he's seemingly
furious at you Daphne for suggesting anything different.
He just goes too fucking bad and he rends the axe upwards and a wall of fire bursts
through the ground and erupts separating you from Captain Aura as you were speaking to
each other.
This huge wall of fire just bursts upwards and actually collides with some of the residential
houses in the area.
I are very creative Deacon.
Goodness.
He just seems kind of annoyed.
Very creative?
He knows I resisted.
He just popped out of his fucking saber tooth going like ooh shiny.
As that happens, we're gonna go ahead and roll initiative.
Oh boy.
Alrighty, so for my friends, part of, part of Marshall, you guys get to add a expertise
die to your initiative.
Alright, I also have an expertise die on initiative checks against creatures that are part of
my vendetta so I think that applies.
That's okay.
Let me roll initiative.
I rolled a high total.
I'm gonna roll and then I'm gonna start adding all the numbers.
Natural 20 baby.
I actually rolled with strength as my base.
Do I need to change that?
It allows you to use athletics, right?
Yeah it rolled athletics for me instead of just dexterity base.
Is that okay?
Yeah you know what?
Our dex, our expertise is a d6 right guys?
It's a d4 and if you have two it's a d6, three is a d8.
Okay.
Unless you're thinking specifically a d6.
I rolled a 26.
Can I have a dewey nato?
That's how we like it.
How we like it.
I went ahead and pre-rolled initiative for the enemies here so okay.
Who rolled from 30 to 20?
31.
Okay.
26.
Give me a second because I need to add stuff.
You're in that group.
29.
Oh goodness.
The highest number I rolled was a 21 with all these guys.
I got a natural 20 and I only got a 26 compared to these fuckers.
Where am I?
Oh I get inspiration because I rolled a nat 1.
Oh yeah you get inspiration point.
I actually got total, so my total is 30.
Fine I won't go first or second.
That's because I have prophetic instincts so I gave him bonus and initiative rolls and
I cannot be surprised.
Did you say Timmy too we also got inspiration from when the compass lit up?
Yes.
So does it stack if we already had it in this specific case or do we just get one?
What I'm saying is do I still get it?
Yeah you still get it.
I'll allow stacking.
Thank you.
Give me one more moment here.
We're gonna get this thing going.
That's normal inspiration or destiny inspiration?
Destiny.
From the compass.
I think you could use it either way right?
Inspiration points are used to gain advantage.
And that's an inspiration point.
Oh okay.
Wait where am I?
I'm on the map.
Sorry go ahead.
You're not there yet.
For you for now it's gonna be theater of the mind.
Okay okay one more time.
31 to 20.
31.
26.
27.
30.
29 sorry.
You guys can roll below 20s if you want.
No.
I did.
26.
29.
Goodness.
Give me a break.
I just got here.
20 to 15 somehow.
17.
14 to 10.
And 10 below.
Not one but it's an eight.
It's an eight.
Goodness gracious.
Give me a break.
Well that means most of you are going first.
Okay.
So Daphne sadly you are the only one with the one number initiative.
Yeah.
For our viewers out there Jenny always rolls famously.
No matter what my modifier is I roll below 10.
That's just the thing.
I always roll below 10.
Okay.
With that said Humphrey you hear it.
You are much closer to it.
It is another warehouse on the dock.
The man's eyes actually like flip over.
Does he seem surprised by it or is it part of his plan?
What is his expression saying?
He's a pretty hard man to read.
He just looks back at you.
He just goes looks like you've got business to tend to.
Yeah.
Are we good here?
Clarence goes Humphrey you ready?
Come on.
Always.
The man leans back and you run towards the source of the noise.
I'm so sorry to do this.
With my call to arms I can switch my result with an ally.
Jenny do you want my 17?
I'll be fine going second because I have a spell on me right now that will if he damages me it'll charge up my next attack.
It's kind of good that he goes first in a way.
Okay.
Also as I start running towards the noise with Clarence you can see the eyes of Humphrey light up golden.
There's a wind going around him across his arm down to his saber.
I'm going to cast wind up on myself.
Which just gives me for 8 hours the next melee attack is at advantage.
Oh shit.
For the next 8 hours.
Oh awesome.
That's awesome.
Alright great.
Just this kind of air like hovering around him.
Yeah wind spirals around your weapon ready to guide your strike.
Alright.
But that's.
I make my way towards the noise with Clarence.
I'm Humphrey.
Okay.
With that said we are going to go ahead.
Goodness.
One-eyed Jane.
As soon as Brooke throws the dagger it embeds right into Gill's the man who you're playing the game with.
It embeds right into Gill's chest.
He's immediately floored as Brooke turns around and just grabs the bartender by the scruff and headbutts him.
He she as he immediately just falls as you see other people rise from their tables almost as if on cue reaching for weapons.
I say in that moment Brooke pulls on your arm and the two of you vault over the bar taking cover as bullets are flying above you.
Wood splinters as things are flying everywhere glass bottles are shattered as alcohol and and liquid starts like just flying everywhere.
Terrible business.
So which side of the bar we were inside the bar.
Yes sir.
You're inside the circular bar right now taking cover.
Okay.
You have half cover right now.
Okay.
I'm going to free action wink at her say try to keep up and then bonus action rage and then I am just going to throw myself in the battle because that's what I do.
So let me check my movement.
It is my movement speed is 50.
So let me check this out.
Okay, I'm going to go for gunman five.
Yeah.
And
I'm sorry.
The 13 hit.
Sadly, sadly it does it.
You actually cleave the table clean in half and the two have a table like fly off to the side.
He barely dodges you.
And I use my inspiration after I've already rolled.
Yeah, a lot.
Okay, I'm going to spend inspiration to reroll that because I really want to look badass in front of does a 15 hit.
That does it.
All right, rewind.
Slashing slashing slashing downward.
Cleaving right through like the cheap like sort of like leather armor.
I'm going to go blood already like like your greatsword already beckons the appearance of blood, but he's still standing.
All right.
Anything else?
No, I'm going to end my turn there.
You have an extra attack, right?
I'm sorry.
I thought I did too.
Sorry.
This is our first call back.
Yeah, we have to read rules.
Yes, for the dictionary, buddy.
My eyes are literally scanning my sheet and all my beginning at that level.
I have an extra attack.
Thank you.
Okay, so here's the second attack.
Cool.
I in my turn.
I rolled a four.
As he's backing away and you're about to swing again, he shoots wildly at you.
And like you're really close, so it kind of rings your ear a bit and it stuns you for it sends you for just a short moment.
So you'll get the swing the weapon.
Okay.
Funny enough, it's Brooks turn next.
Watching all that happen.
And she just goes, what are you doing?
Fuck.
And she she's going to go ahead.
She she's going to rush over here to Gil who has the knife embedded in him.
You see, he's still like nursing the wound as she rushes over.
She's going to go ahead and just lace lace into him with a few punches.
One second here.
I'm going to go ahead and say real quick that it's Brooks turn now.
Zach, you're on deck.
Let's see where the heck is she?
There you go.
It's time to damage.
He's going to make a con saving throw.
Which exceeds.
Oh, with this advantage.
Because Brooke has an ability when he makes you make a con saving throw for a paralyzation.
She can spend an additional exertion point to make them roll a disadvantage, which is a fail.
Oh, yeah, this might be good.
You see, you see, you see as she's running towards him, Gil is sort of smirking and just goes,
Oh, you brought extra cargo for us.
Just punches him in the chest and she's going to keep keep going with advantage.
Which is a crit that's 16 points of damage.
An additional two D8s.
So good Lord, 22 16.
So the second punch was 38 points of jeez.
She's going to she will flurry of blows just to get this done over with.
The first one hits.
Brooke going ham points damage.
Did she stun him or something?
Because when she advantage, she did paralyzation.
Yes.
So then aren't they all advantage autocrat autocrat?
Yes.
She gets an additional exertion point to make it a paralyzation instead of stun.
Well, Gil was originally supposed to be a boss, but he's surprised as Brooke.
She's paralyzed.
Brooke punches him twice.
Once the one the final punch goes straight into his forehead.
He his eyes closed.
He's unconscious.
And what a woman.
What a woman.
A woman.
Yeah, she's.
You guys got this.
You're fine.
Never mind.
I'm not worried about them.
That's going to be in a terrible situation.
That's in ways like flying around and just goes.
I put you in a terrible situation.
Okay.
With that said, Zachariah, you're Zachariah, you're up.
Okay.
Have we finished tying everything together?
Yeah, I'm going to say yes.
Okay.
Question.
Everything that's going on outside with the fire and all that.
Is that the viewable from the window or remind me other side?
Some of the buildings that caught on fire.
There is a there is a orange and red dancing in the distance.
Okay.
Where on or is it on this map where the window would be?
You're you are over here.
Where they're okay.
Gotcha.
Okay.
All right.
I am going to quickly pull.
I'm going to pull off my belt.
I'm going to pull the revolver that Captain Ora gave me like a while back.
I haven't used it and just slide it over across the floor to Darryl.
Sounds like something I do.
He picks it up so unnatural in his hand.
You got it.
It's just just you know.
Yeah, I don't know.
I said Captain Ora does it all the time and she is.
You'll be fine.
Captain.
Lot to lot to explain.
I look at him for a moment.
Just me or anyone else.
In regards to.
I kind of like point at him and like lean forward and then kind of back up a little bit.
You you lean forward and you see you see a schedule begin to glow for a moment that's shines through like the is his shirt.
He just goes anyone anyone that's not the captain or deacon not the captain.
Sorry, Brando.
I was like, yay.
Wait, so Deacon too.
Brando and Deacon.
Okay.
All right.
I kind of like bundle up the the rope we made tie it to like the bedpost.
And I kind of look at him.
I think it's time for the dashing thief to make his escape with his prize.
I'll give you a sign.
When it's clear.
And then I'm just going to jump out the window.
Where is that again on the map.
I'll go ahead and place you on over here.
You guys probably don't see me.
I'm probably like all the way over there.
Yeah.
Okay.
You descend safely.
Yeah, I ignore the first 40 feet of fall and I don't and I land on my feet.
I wish I could do that.
I got steady footing.
The first 40 feet is a suggestion.
As you three point three point landing.
Gosh, they're all things are really cool.
As you as you as you jump out, we're seeing the wall of the wall of fire in the distance.
Do I see anyone else in the immediate area like over to the west here?
I'm going to say I'm going to say no.
Besides some like panicking people, people without purpose.
They seem to be just confused and trying to get away from the scene.
Okay.
The entrance is like what over here on the south side.
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah, I'm going to quickly rush 510 1520 2530 35.
Do a quick look around.
Make sure it's it's clear for Darrell.
I think he'd see us to right here, right?
You'd see you'd see or and a suggestion of illusion.
He's a bit of him is behind a firewall.
Okay.
Okay, I will quickly turn back to the window.
Give him like a and then I'm going to quickly look over towards or and Helgen and I don't know if they see me.
But I'm going to quickly try and like sign. Do not hurt Deacon.
Would we not hurt him?
Can we be able to see?
Yeah, I'm going to I'm going to go ahead.
Hmm.
Right now.
Okay, you're going to give me movements if I have to give me a charisma check.
There's a big there's a big performance check.
Actually, if you were a performance check.
Okay.
You're going to have you're going to have to you're going to have to get past their passive perception.
Okay.
I don't know if a 13 is what I want there.
You know what?
I'm going to use intrepid to add an expertise to either this.
Absolutely.
Okay, because I feel like I need to give this information out.
1515.
Total.
I'm going to say yeah, especially Hogan, who is a wildly wildly perceptive and or I imagine is very decently perceptive as well.
The two of you see Zachariah of just all of a sudden and this is signing to you don't hurt Deacon.
Immediately telepathy to Daphne's head.
Let's see.
That's going to have to be on your turn.
Yep, I can do that.
I can wait.
Okay.
And then I just turn back and make sure that he gets out the window safely.
Okay.
I will. Yeah, I'll just ready my action to dash wherever I need to go.
Justin, just in case.
Got it.
Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it.
All right.
With that said, it's going to be Deacon's turn.
He he he he has this really toothy like sprawled like grin like sprawling on his face as he takes one heavy step towards you.
Daphne goes, you have no long how you have no idea how long I've been waiting to do this.
And he's going to he's going to go at you.
My entire childhood, not enough.
Yes.
Just well now I finished the job.
And he's going to go ahead.
Give you a bit of a smackeroo.
I want a zero.
Hold on.
What?
That's a correct start.
That doesn't make me.
All right.
Let's reroll it.
I will say mousing over it does say you rolled a three on the die plus 12.
I wrote a three.
Okay.
So 15.
15.
I think it doesn't.
I think it still hits.
Let me look.
No 16 AC.
So.
Okay.
A wide swing.
This guy's slow.
He's slow but mighty.
He's going to take another one.
18.
18 hits.
I will use my reaction to have the damage and gain a retribution charge.
All right.
So you're going to go ahead and take running down six points of damage.
Is that already half.
Yes.
Okay.
And he is going to smite you with fire.
So do I have it twice.
In this case.
This damage cannot be resisted by your racial by your heritage.
Okay.
But it can be resisted by my spell.
Where you spell.
Yes.
Okay.
You take additional 15 round down to seven points of fire damage.
Some of the flames from the wall leap towards his weapon and slams right into your chest.
And he's going to attack a third time.
You see the as your blood actually like is spilled by the axe and some of us spilled onto it.
It just drinks.
Good.
Not good.
21 hits.
All right.
Do you still have these to have damage.
No, it's only for that one attack.
15 points of damage.
Okay.
All right.
He's he's going at it.
The two hits get in and he's already smiling.
He's having a blast with this.
All right.
With that said, it is going it's going to be you next.
What's the illusion?
Sorry.
You were supposed to move.
Okay.
So basically definitely right now is surrounded by fire separated from us.
Correct.
Yes.
And Zach told us not to hurt Deacon.
I don't know if this particular maneuver is and can I use as a bonus action.
So I'm just going to describe what I want to do and I'm going to hope that it's so cool that we're not even going to have to debate it.
Fifth edition everyone advanced IV.
So as Hildrean heard Kenway streak in the distance, his eyes spotted what the message about not hurting Deacon.
And then he hears the charge of Deacon toward Daphne and immediately he looks over to aura.
We need we need to get that out of there.
And as he then puts his hands to the sides and looks up his eyes start to go milky and I cast Druid craft to summon rain cloud in a five feet cube right between where we are and where Daphne is.
So that at least hopefully that water is going to clear at least an area where it lessens the fire so that Daphne has a way for us between her and us.
All right.
Drew craft is a cantrip.
Correct.
Yes.
And from what I believe it says weather effects weather effects.
Yeah.
One of them says like falling snow.
So I'm like, technically speaking, if falling snow is there.
What's the difference of making rainfall, considering that snow is just, you know, frozen water.
It would also be cool if it just snowed on the fire.
I could potentially just make it be like falling snow and then the snow just basically melts and turns to water.
It does say it can extinguish a candle a torch a smoking pipe or a campfire a small campfire.
So if a five if I can extinguish a five foot cube.
Do it first.
This is a fifth.
This is like a 20 foot tall wall of fire.
Oh, big.
Oh, I know that big firewall.
I'm planning on running through it.
Oh, so she can get through anyway.
The problem is that he can we see through it though.
Fire.
He just oh, I don't know if we can see.
Can we see if it's 20 feet?
Can we see through it?
That's a good question.
You you can you cannot get that's not good.
I can't tell.
I can't send tele I can't telepathically communicate with her.
I can't hear.
Then I'm fighting.
No, no, no, no.
You can wait a second.
Wait a second.
The the building that it's to our right is that tall enough for me to be able to look at Daphne if I were to climb it.
I'm going to go ahead and say yes, if you can climb it.
Great, because I actually have the swimming and climbing gloves, which means that allows me to climb without actually spending double my movement so I can use my regular movement to climb my way up just 35 feet.
You always got you always got something Victor.
You always got something.
I'm a resourceful ranger.
What can I say?
Everyone sees like a illusion, accidentally climbing our top, you can see.
Yeah, you can see over the over the wall down into the.
So what Hildrein does is as he says that to order that we need to get her out of there.
You see him look over at this building he runs very gracefully just starts parkour and grabs with a hand, pulls himself up spins gets on the top draws his bow aims it.
And then he just shouts at Daphne Daphne.
We are being told not to her Deacon, I do not know why, but you need to get out of there.
And I am going to use.
I'm going to have covering fire I'm going to use this point to use covering fire to hopefully, which means that if Daphne were to move and give an opportunity attack to Deacon, I am able to use my arrow to avoid the opportunity to eliminate the opportunity attack.
Nice.
I also have covering fire.
Let's go.
I am.
That's very helpful.
Your towers are gonna fall I'm coming for you guys.
All right.
With that said, I'm actually going to split the initiatives between both maps now so comments go there.
So, that's the next step we have we're going to have aura.
Okay, so I can't see Daphne but I did see Hildren yell at her to get out of there.
What is Zachariah doing.
Can I see him.
He probably see him like turning back and looking kind of up at the building.
Okay.
I'm kind of like ready.
She's going to move 25 feet this move damn you 25 feet this way.
She still can't see Daphne but she knows that the message has been communicated.
God I can't see that's the problem.
She'll sign to Zach.
Fill me in.
As much as you can.
Can I respond at least with like one word.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
You know what.
That's a seven.
He's going to try and sign the word ring, but he's going to sign the word like loop.
Okay, loop that.
Why so sign real quick loop.
Just need to know one more thing.
You know the loop.
No, no she asked why why loop.
No, not why the loop but like why why.
Why do we need the what why what's wrong with the loop.
What's up magic shit magic shit magic ship with loop.
Okay.
Oh, and then she'll quickly sign anyone else.
He doesn't know how to sign Brando.
I'm still go through go ABCD.
I'm afraid I'm gonna have to cut.
I'm going to be all of my actions because I can't see.
All right.
So that said,
Daphne and I should have, I should have listened to Darryl.
He was teaching me.
You said me.
Yes.
He insisted on teaching me the Elvis sign language verse.
Should have listened to me.
I see.
Oh, pretty, pretty hurt.
I'm not.
Those two attacks.
And she really wants to stab him back.
But he'll just just interfered and she's going to trust.
So.
She's just going to say.
Next time.
Deacon and she's going to cast banishment on him.
Oh no.
I don't know.
She doesn't know anyways.
It's a charisma saving throw.
Which she's probably good at.
I don't know.
He seems like he's.
It's got a pretty personality.
The children at home.
That was a natural one.
From Deacon the Dick.
Okay.
Yeah.
He later.
Bye.
Shit.
To another plane of existence.
For how long?
For a minute.
Oh yeah.
Let's go.
I believe he's incapacitated as well.
So he would drop any concentration.
Yes.
Yep.
The fire goes down.
Just bleeding.
Next time.
As you reach your hand towards him.
He raises his axe.
He goes.
There's not going to be a next.
Nice.
Okay.
And.
She just looks around.
She doesn't know what.
All is happening here.
And so she's going to go follow.
Aura.
I'm going to shoot her a rallying surge.
Oh wait.
No, it's not my turn.
I can't.
Yet.
But she.
She'll go by aura.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'll say.
Buildings are on fire.
It's chaos.
People are rushing.
Running about right now.
And people are calling.
Get the guards.
All right.
Is it a user?
I should probably take a healing potion.
Yeah.
I don't want to waste it.
I'll take it.
I really need it.
I can also give you one D8 plus nine if you want that.
That would be helpful.
I'll do that.
Okay.
I can't do it right now because I'm my turn, but I will.
Yeah.
Okay.
On my turn.
Goodness.
Before the stream, Jenny read out her spells and I was like, man, I hope I could save against
that.
And the first time he had a plus 10 mod, which he's more likely to succeed than fail.
So that he rolled a one.
Love that for us.
The gods are with us.
TTRPGs are.
Tip a tip tip a two.
Suck.
Very thematic.
Lady luck felt bad.
I hate TTRPGs now.
All right.
Well, damn it.
That was good.
That was a lot less.
Damn it.
Okay.
In that case, we're just going to head on over.
Back against where it did soon.
We're going to head on over to the head over to the to the warehouse where where a rumble
is going down.
One I Jane and Brooke have already taken the have already taken their turns for everyone
watching in the future.
I'm explaining these two encounters into two different initiative orders.
So we'll be dealing with one each at a time.
But gunman the gunman to is going to go ahead and seeing Brooke seeing Brooke take down
the one man.
He's she's is going to shoot over with with a flip lock right over to its broke.
All right.
What's second here?
Seventeen, which doesn't does not hit broke.
Damn adapts.
She just dodged right of a bullet.
One second.
Someone left.
There we go.
It's fixed now.
All right.
Take a extra attack.
Does it also doesn't it?
The other gunman is they're all going to stand in place and take their attacks where they
are.
But people more threatened by Brooke right now.
That does hit.
But Brooks going to roll a 10.
You see you see as as the person fires the fires weapon her Brooke actually throws up
her hand and the bullet she catches the bullet in her hand is collides into her chest still.
It still hurts a good amount as I really punched myself in the chest right there.
Ow.
That is going to be half four points of damage.
All right.
This one's going to go towards you when I Jane 18.
Um, that hits.
You take 10 points.
But because you're raging, it was five.
And these people suck.
All right.
A few more shots towards you.
Well, the first one does the first one does hit.
I believe you take you take nine points of damage have down to four as he tries to fire
again.
Oh, that was a D2.
Sorry.
I'll roll again.
The natural one was at the 24 that time.
All right.
Three points of damage.
Bullets are putting you from behind.
You see you see the blood coming out of you.
But the pain is barely butchering.
It's like a it's like a it's like a pretty bad sting.
And that's it.
The body's in gunman five hit me or no.
I'm not gonna win five.
It's going to be going to five turn.
Okay.
Who actually wants to get away from you.
His name is John.
Mm hmm.
John made five.
He's going to step out of your range.
Okay.
So let me take my opportunity.
All right.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm really sorry.
You just slash out of weight.
You just like like get the back of his shirt like the like the tip of your blade just barely meets him.
And you see actually cuts open the back of his shirt but no visible wound thankfully for him.
But it was razor thin.
All right.
It's going to be end up.
That's going to be resolving resolving that.
I thought you guys would be in way more danger.
No to me I accidentally got the banishment spell wrong.
It's different and level up a five e.
Oh, the concentration.
It is for a duration of one D four plus two rounds that the narrator roles in secret.
Now we're in a rose in secret.
Can I just point it out that Jane your sword doesn't isn't adding your modifier on any of your attacks.
Okay.
How do I fix that.
Look at go to your sheet.
Right.
Math math and then we go down to your your character sheet at the bottom where you have what is your tech bonus say.
Oh, it is not entered.
Okay.
Well, should be strength plus proficiency.
I think I think so.
So that would actually been what like probably an 18 to hit then that attack.
All right.
I'm assuming you have a nine bonus.
Yeah, I have a nine bonus.
That definitely hits.
Sorry, I'm just now figuring out how to do everything.
Listen, I'm pretty sure that there are things.
I'm pretty sure that there are things that I forgot to add to my stuff.
I just literally wrote out my next attack because I finally think this is.
Yeah, I got this.
Don't worry, Tim.
I'm sure that I'll find more things to add to Hill Jen's like continues to be very resourceful.
This is a test.
Okay.
So that works now.
There's more.
All right.
Yep.
Certainly hits.
All right.
It's also not adding your strength to the damage.
Yeah.
Well, you're going to add that as well.
Huh?
Weird.
So if we go back to the sheet, what is your damage say?
Go ahead and pick a sheet.
I'm going to go ahead and add a plus.
Plus and then can you type in plus and then whatever your mod is.
Okay.
Let's try that.
Jane was still love struck.
So catching up.
She's catching up.
Yeah.
She was nervous.
All right.
That is considered damage.
I'm going to go ahead and retroactively.
Add the plus five to the earlier hit to the four earlier though.
That's so does miss with them with Adam modifier.
But yeah.
So sake again, you didn't just cut this guy's shirt.
You cut this guy's also his body.
A large, a large, a large gash in the back.
As he just stumbles forward and he turns towards you and he's going to fire.
You really hurt this man.
You very much harmed him.
20 not natural hits.
And one more 15 is not natural.
The first bullet comes in.
Only four points of damage to you.
But I'll say the second one.
Your body's hardening to this like physical trauma.
The other bullet hits you, but it just spins against your body.
It's these are ball bearings.
It's been against your body and just falls off.
And he just kind of like he kind of looks at it like looking at his gun and then back towards you confused.
All right.
At the very top of this round real quick.
You guys over there on the harbor actually pretty free form right now because the one person trying to attack you is gone.
He does get to make the save again at the end of his turns, but it's minus one to his save every for every round that he spends there.
OK.
With that, he was in you're up first.
You guys can spend this moment to talk to each other and figure out what's going on free form.
Brando here.
We've got to go.
I look I look I look back up at the window.
You look up as you as you're looking up, you see Darrell just don't nods.
But what you see is that as you're looking up through the window, walking through the door through the door.
Walking through the door through the barricade and everything.
I readied my action to dash.
So I mean, our dash the fuck over there.
Everyone sees Zachariah gives a signal and then just like, oh, no shit, like realization and starts running back towards the good Dahlia.
We heard him say Brando.
Yes.
OK.
In that free free time, what I've been able to give Daphne a little heel for a bonus action or do I still have to wait for initiative?
It doesn't have to be like in this sort of like space right now when Deacon's not here.
Yes.
Go ahead.
OK.
So I'm sorry.
Oh, no.
Did I exit out my sheet with my sheet?
I'm nothing.
So one second, I will quickly aura will in Daphne's hedge with.
Sorry, I'm not panicking.
I'm fine.
Rallying surge.
She gets hit points equal to one D8 plus nine.
She'll hear in her head something with magic loops.
Magic Brando is here.
Let's see if we can chat.
Would aura been able to interpret that loop meant ring?
It's up to you.
He did start doing like a gesture.
Yeah, he did.
He did.
Oh, yeah.
So like there's a magic ring, something attached to damaging Deacon, and then she will get
that's 13 points of healing.
They're all in a ring in the vision.
She looks immediately at Daphne and she goes, we need to let everyone know.
And I think that's all they can do.
That's all they can say, right?
They know Brando's in there.
When I see Zachariah run though, that alarms me for what's over there.
So I want to head that way too.
Can I receive different orders?
Has Darryl lost the thing down?
I'm just going to leap and just start climbing up.
Can I go if we're allowed to move a free move, can I go this way?
Yes.
We're sort of free forming it right now, but move your 30 or 60 feet.
Use your actions and bonus actions out of order, whatnot.
Yep.
Yep, I ran out of way.
Hoshin, are you doing anything in particular?
I would like to know if during this time Kenway has spotted any other of our members who
may need assistance.
You get a ping in your head.
Warehouse.
Okay.
And the warehouse is in a different direction?
Yes, I would say it's towards the sort of like eastern direction here.
Okay.
How far would that be from where I'm at?
It's a good distance.
I'm going to have to say it's like if you spend two turns dashing and traveling, you'll
make it over there.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm going to say that Hildren, as Aura and Daphna begin to move, Hildren from a distance
looking at Aura from above will just signal to her to see if like, do you got it?
Are you good?
Hildrein, okay.
Yeah.
And so I signal to the other direction, just probably will also shout, they're calling
out the guards.
We need to find everybody.
We probably need to find a way to leave here.
And he's just going to parkour through the roofs in the direction, just dashing and going
through.
All right.
As you begin to make your way over and everyone else starts coalescing around Zachariah, Zachariah,
you climb to the top of the window, look through, look through your hand on the window sill.
Daryl is gone.
I would say as you were climbing up and Daphna, you see it too, the sudden flash of arcane
energy fills the room.
Can I see a spell being cast though?
Hmm?
Can I see a spell being cast though that I might be able to counter spell?
Oh, in that case.
Yo, that's why I wanted to get into vision.
Here Daphne goes.
Daphne's our caster.
Let's give it a shot.
The number to beat is 17.
Come on.
And it's just an intelligence check, right?
Yeah.
Do you see 17?
30 feet.
Okay, hold on.
Okay.
So let me click this.
Can I add both my inspirations at once?
I can also have you reroll if you need to.
Wait, that's like it.
Wait, it did minus five.
Yeah, it should be plus five.
It should be 15 plus four.
I don't know why it says minus five.
What the hell?
So 19.
You can't do that.
These roll 20 sheets are crazy.
Let me check because I actually do think that there is something with this ability that
Brando has that has something against counter spell, but I'm checking really, really fast.
Fucking Brando, you.
Counter spell assurance.
If I need to spend an extra plus five, I will.
If I need to spend one of my inspirations.
But Daphne said I will go down swinging.
I just remember there's an ability that has something to interact with a counter spell
specifically.
And I'm going to check.
Okay, no, it doesn't.
All right.
So Zachary, you get to the top.
I'm going to go home.
Daryl's there with Brando directly behind him.
He holds up.
He holds.
You see, Brandon was holding up a hand and ready to ready to swirling this arcane energy
around Daryl.
And then they just sort of like falter.
So there are you.
You're next to the window.
I'm just going to like I'm going to like Daryl move.
And as soon as he jumps out, I'm just going to lunge in and try and like tackle Brando.
All right.
Go ahead.
It was sort of like being free, a bit free form right now.
Still, please give me please give me.
Wait a second.
You actually go through Brando.
To the fucking simulacrum again, Jenny.
No, you don't go through simulacrums.
You go through you go through Brando, who seems to be at the moment in corporeal explains
how he went through the door as you as you go as you go through him, you collide with
the furniture for a moment, like holding your hands out.
And he just Brando just goes, says, Remember our meeting place.
As map is still on the bar.
Yes, you need directions.
I just I look at Daryl and like look to the window.
Jump.
Daryl is going out.
Yeah.
I see a half elf.
You've seen before Daphne.
Make his way out of the make his way down the this little makeshift rope.
He starts booking it.
And he brando just looks at you Zachariah.
And it just goes had a fine reunion.
Is that enough?
You see I treated him fine.
The moment he gets more than a few feet away from me, he's going to go back to where I
want him to be so.
Let him go.
Follow us.
I need him.
Just as much as I need you.
I hope the tease has been good enough for you.
And what it'll be like at the at the promised place.
You're gonna do fine.
I got you.
You're gonna do completely fine.
Just be careful.
You see Daryl like looking up backing away from the window.
Daphne and Aura.
As he takes a step back trying to get a good view of what's going on on the inside as you
see as you see Daphne you see Brando Caligaris currently speaking with currently speaking
with Zachariah.
Daryl just goes.
Zach come on let's go.
Do I?
I know this man lies a lot.
Do I think he's lying about the he's going to come back if he gets too far away thing?
To try and fake me out.
You want to give me an insight check?
That's a two one die so I don't think.
Well I mean.
I think I have some I don't know how far you away from me you are.
Can I.
Oh no.
Can I add inspiration.
Oh yeah.
Go ahead.
A number to beat is 22.
Whenever an ally I see fails an insight check I can use my reaction to spend my inspiration
and learn any information that would have been gained by a successful insight check.
You are from a really awkward angle at the moment.
But she can see Zach which is all the ability states.
Daphne sees Zach.
Aura doesn't.
She's hanging out the window.
Oh he's in the nevermind.
Damn it.
I was just looking at the map.
16 16.
Right now it's like a dreadolence pumping through you.
You're trying to figure it out but he's just talking ever so plainly.
You can't decipher it at the moment.
Too many things going through your head.
I.
Does he look like he is more.
Tangible I'll say as time passes at the moment.
Yeah.
He seems like his face his form is wavy.
And he realizes it.
And he just got he just kind of like looks at an imaginary watch for a moment.
You'll stand where they put that thing.
Says.
Well.
Zachariah.
I see you at hang loose.
And he's going to.
And I want to try and grab his hand.
Give me.
Give.
We're going to do contending initiative roles.
That's OK.
Initiative roles.
Yes.
Do I get or as bonus.
Let me see real quick.
One second.
Need to check the language.
So.
When you roll initiative friendly creatures in commanding presence which is I think is
like 30 feet.
You're too far from me.
So then I'm only going to add one.
One expertise die.
And.
14 plus a three plus a five.
All right.
That math 17.
Zachariah you grab his hand.
You can see the difference between the shimmering form and when it becomes physical you grab
his hand and he looks and his eyes like look look about you.
Does the ring move at all.
It the ring is stuck but right now Daphne.
Zachariah is gone.
She.
She was about to yell we need to go Zachariah.
The Deacon will be back and then he disappears and she's like shit.
Is there still the makeshift rope to their.
And I'll say as soon as as soon as Zachariah is gone.
Darrell's gone.
So we see this half of vanish.
Yeah.
She she yells at or across the way she goes.
Brando made Zachariah disappear.
And she's climbing up to try to see.
He's going to sign.
Well hold on.
If Hildren is going to check on one I Jane.
I don't know it's when I Jane but I heard gunshots.
I just don't know what's happening with the other members of the crew.
But Zach vanished.
OK.
I'm going to sprint up.
I'm going to run up and peer up see what's going on.
It's a barricaded room with no one in it.
Still here in your head.
Where do you believe that Deacon will return.
Exactly where he was left.
Would that be the same with Zachariah.
If it's the same spell but they both disappeared it's probably more like some sort of teleportation
something I didn't know Brando could cast spells.
OK.
She messaged Daphne we need to get everyone back on the ship.
OK.
There's no indication that we would have known what spell it was right.
We don't know if it's teleportation.
We don't know.
Did I see the spell be cast.
Would I be familiar with it.
Not the it is it is definitely a variation of a of a teleportation like abjuration spell.
OK.
She she does there's no guarantee they'll return here.
We should make sure everyone else is fine.
We're not leaving without Zach.
No good.
And then she's just going to you see that she has like this scarab bracelet that she
wears normally.
She's going to flick her wrist.
It's going to pop out into a shield.
She unleashes two of her guns and she says let's go.
And she's going to sprint off to where she heard the gunshots before.
As you start as you start sprinting through this spreading fire this this town now clouded
by of ash and fire.
You do see some guards are some guards begin to encroach and they and a barking orders
and seemingly have their eyes set on you.
You see you see that you see what it goes.
Stop right there.
Who Daphne to do to to both of you.
I immediately cock a gun and just click off the safety pointed at him and I go in my head
I go Daphne get to the rest of the crew.
He does what she's told.
These guards with their crossbow and swords like a trio of three now with the gun aimed
at them who guns two guns.
Four more on the.
Four more putting out a fire.
She will see that.
As you're as you're running I will I will say you can probably run to or I.
Yeah she's just I was just trying to intimidate them but I guess it don't work.
Yeah they were standing there like put it down.
Surrender your arms now.
And then she's going to cast telepathy telepathy because they don't know what's coming from
her.
They'll hear a voice in their head going look behind you.
Go ahead and make it go ahead and make it just go ahead and make it just.
This sassy child guns.
Number is 12 deception.
Yes.
My sheet.
A six adding the water fire.
Three plus three.
I try to intimidate I can't decide I can't deceive.
Put it.
Down.
OK.
Fuck this.
I'm going to use authority and I'm going to as I start to move they're going to hear a
voice in their say get the fuck out of my way.
Yeah you're back with the two guns out.
What does the story do.
No I'm saying I'm trying to do it.
I'm going to have a specialty in authority with intimidation so I'm not deceiving anymore
I'm just flat out threatening them.
They're fanning out as your as you're backing away.
You do see more guards like running past.
He goes hey help us with this one over here.
Definitely go.
They're off.
And actually I'm going to fire a shot.
Why not.
Fuck them.
No not Gary's son.
Gary Simpson.
In joke for the people at home.
We have a guard from a gosh.
Just fire one shot just just just just running.
Get up there.
Grabbing his leg as he's just falls to the ground.
I think or is laughing now.
Yeah she's laughing.
It goes the one with the funny hat shot Jeffrey as you're as you're running.
She's she's science to death.
What you can't say that she's got guns in her hands.
She was just Daphne.
Is my hat really funny.
I thought it was cool.
It's very cool captain.
You're lying.
Of course.
I'm going to say that you guys are out of initiative now.
As we head back over to like oh there's still a fight going on.
Yeah.
Humphrey you you you burst through these warehouse you burst through these warehouse stores to
hear gun to hear gunfire.
You watch as Brooke catches a bullet but then gets.
But then five other individuals start unloading on the on both one I Jane and Brooke Clarence
is just clenches just behind you.
Let me go and put you on the map.
Is that you.
That's you.
All the way over there.
OK.
Did the gunman notice me or gunman one or my am I hidden.
Am I stealth.
They are being they're focusing on the other the other two at the moment.
All right then without shouting out I'll try to do what I can do best and what I want to
do.
Can I measuring tool.
Oh I'm going to use my movement and try to.
I can't do it like this.
I have to walk straight to him with my 30 feet and when I get sneak attack would he
notice me or should I show the stealth.
I'm going to go ahead before I'm going to go ahead and say that before you went in.
You can have a regular check.
OK.
Yay.
My favorite checks.
Twenty eight.
Yeah but can you beat this Nat 20.
All right.
Yeah.
You go ahead and sneak on right behind him.
He's still he's like loading his gun.
He seems like he's about to fire at Brooke again.
All right I'll just take my saber and kind of just like without noise just all of a sudden
there's like from behind him you can see like this saber coming out of the front of his
chest and like getting out again and I'll sneak attack.
How much.
Wait wait after we're all to hit first.
Oh God.
It's been a while.
Guys I'm so sorry.
It's OK.
As soon as we get into combat we all were like all right.
This is a saber.
That's a Nat 20 first of all.
Well that's like 12 weapon damage.
Well.
Plus I think 10 d6.
Let's roll five.
Is it double though because it's because it's Nat 20.
Do I roll twice or do I just double the double it.
It's not adding your modifier as well to the damage.
Oh OK.
Just for everyone to face the sheets if you put plus a number then you have to get rid
of the plus sign.
I just put the number I think.
Yikes.
So I just murdered someone.
I'm going to go ahead and say 17 plus nine plus 38.
That's 30.
OK.
You see you see one eye Jane as this person's like about aiming.
You see gunmen.
Oh we're going to find aiming a weapon at you.
You see the other gunmen are ready to aim a weapon at Brooke.
And as you see as he as he's about to fire all of a sudden bursting through his chest
like a like like a chest person from Aliens a saber.
And you're not entirely sure who it came from.
You see as he just kind of like looks down grabbing at the blade he slides forward as
the blade is pulled out from the back.
Humphrey is wider and bigger than this man but he only becomes visible after the man
falls down.
How does he do this every time.
Jeez.
And then I kind of also connect connect take the rifle that the guy was just like freshly
loaded for me like on a silver platter.
It's a it's a flip lock.
All right I'll just take it and hunker down looking at like the rest of the room where
they're standing.
I think that's my turn.
Wait I have crazy bonus action stuff because I'm a rogue.
Let me just double check.
Oh wait.
Yeah.
I can use items as a bonus action.
OK as I take the flintlock I grab into my pouch and I'll pull a card and I'll throw
it into like the middle of the room.
Oh god.
I should have to look this up.
Oh I'm not prepared.
Is it a deck of illusions.
It is the deck of illusions.
At least it's not the deck of many things.
I was like I'm not ready for this.
I have a deck handy actually or I did work.
That's I'm not sure if that's actually like a fuck.
I should have prepared this ahead of time.
I should have put like how would how are we going to get.
Yeah I give you guys time.
You just like you think about it while I'm looking for my items.
I know what it does but it's like send it to you.
It's in that chat in our chat.
Zack is on sabbatical.
Victor says in the chat.
It's okay.
Okay I'll roll.
Oh never mind there is that.
And we have cards.
Okay I have 10.
Okay.
Oh you already have a card in your hand too.
Okay and as I throw the card into around like the middle of the room onto like the circular
table out of the card just like you go there's like all of a sudden a giant fire giant just
bursts into play.
Yu-Gi-Oh now bitch.
It's actually Yu-Gi-Oh it's not copyrighted so we have to.
Oh that's right that's right that's right.
It's level up advanced Yu-Gi-Oh edition.
Goodness gracious.
I don't have a fire giant at the moment but pretend this Bullywog is a fire giant.
And to see through it they have to make a DC 15 check investigation.
Okay kill a person summon a fire giant.
Look at what I've chained you see.
Huffy stabs a person just like flicks a card and just throws it in the middle of the room
and then a big fire giant just begins to erupt and grow in size in the very middle of the
room.
Huffy's amazing.
Clarence comes in this goes oh what the shit.
Everyone let's go.
Okay what I Jane it's your turn.
Okay I am motivated I am bloodthirsty I know what I do I'm doing this turn so I'm gonna
activate one of my battle maneuvers which is.
Knockdown Assault.
It's been a point for that.
And so that just means if my weapon attack hits then they are not prone.
So let me swing the greatsword at this gunman.
And for each first attack I also get a d4 for the first attack with my enrage focus.
So here's my d4 on top of that.
It most certainly hits is it applied to attack roll or damage.
It does do damage.
Yeah.
Okay.
Because it has to do I believe at least eight damage to trigger the knock down.
Oh sorry and I meant to do my bonus action before my action I want to do activate battleborn
so it's double damage of this.
Yeah no problem yeah.
Okay so double that and then I'll take my second attack and it will also be doubled.
Battleborn sounds familiar.
Hmm hmm hmm.
Okay so.
And he's prone so I get advantage on this second.
No next turn sorry.
You slashing down aiming to knock him down.
I'll say with an upward slash he just flies backwards and just smashes against the chair
and lays in a pile of wood.
He's completely unconscious.
And I'll turn to Humphrey in just relieving.
What happened?
I don't know I heard gunshots.
Just assisting.
You guys there's still three gunmen in there.
Yeah.
Yeah that's right.
I'll go ahead and have Clarence.
They have a giant to fight.
I'll say I'll say like Clarence is like looking outside and goes.
Someone caught the guards.
Come on let's make it back.
I'm still on my way yeah.
Yes.
Okay so I will take my movement to.
Let me measure this out.
I have 45 feet of movement left.
So I will go.
Here and end my turn.
All right.
It's Brooke's turn.
She's going to go ahead and start heading back retreating as well.
She looks at the giant but knows that Humphrey summoned it.
But she's going to go ahead you see she just kind of like pulls a knife off her sleeve.
She's going to go ahead and throw it at one of the gunmen.
Very quick.
She she she she then reaches towards her ankle pulls another knife and throws it at another
at the same time.
21 and then she reaches into her waist as a bonus action she's going to use a maneuver
from a biting sepia to throw one more knife.
Goodness gracious.
So let's see that's 27 damage total.
You see she just just just three attackers seemingly coming out of nowhere.
The first one was a crit too.
And she's good.
Yeah.
I'm throwing all the good rolls on it for our allies.
I'll say Tim rolls high for our allies.
I don't I want to move over for the villains.
Okay Deacon had a custom fighting style maneuver set that I designed for him and I couldn't
use it because you banished him.
Another day another day.
That's what you get when you mess with a black card.
If you wanted us to fight him you shouldn't have put that boarding bond on.
I didn't even get to use my charge against him that I used one of my self.
He's like I'm just disappointed.
You can think on your there's consequences for your actions Tim.
No there's not.
Hilden has been basically just an American Ninja Warrior the whole time.
He's just parkour.
That's just been like through the forest through the city up and down.
That's just he's just doing cardio today.
You front flip over a baby carriage.
Yeah.
My cabbages.
Yeah.
Yeah Brooke just throws like just look throws three knives very skillfully right across
the room.
Yeah.
Goodness gracious.
Knowing what Romero could never.
The tower is going to fall Jenny.
Real quick.
It's going to be the government's turns.
They're going to try to roll an investigation check against this giant.
Nope nope.
Funny enough the one with the knives in him is like hey wait a moment.
You see the other two like ducking behind the table.
It just goes we need to bail.
And the third one kind of like with three three knives in like in like a triangle shape
also ducking behind the table for other reasons not because of the giant because some motherfuckers
throwing knives at his chest.
It's not real.
Come on.
But that's what that's pretty real.
Once revealed an illusion becomes translucent.
They just go oh no.
The Giants.
It just goes don't you see the giant.
Yeah.
I'm going to go ahead.
That's that's their turn.
If you guys are spending the next turn leaving then we don't have to put an extra on.
I just want to ask as we're running out is there anything flammable near me.
Yes.
OK.
On our way I just want to set the casino on this warehouse on fire.
Yeah.
There's just some like poor warehouse owner who the Navy his building and you're burning
stuff down.
Can I also take my free action to like just grab my coins from the table that I want.
You do have to run you do have to run back.
I will do that.
I'm like wait a minute.
This was your first after the fire that you set on fire for your money.
Yeah.
I set the fire and then I was like wait my money and then ran back for my money.
What are you doing.
Someone posted a clip of the guy with the margaritas from Jurassic World.
That's what that's Jane.
That's when I did you start gathering money.
It takes whether six seconds you see.
I will say that in this moment like Clarence and how for you guys are waiting at the door
like what are you like like what's saying when I just like.
You see Brooke and there's this fire spreading around Brooke rushes towards hey Jane and
just kind of like pulls on her shoulder like we need to go.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
She's pulling on her.
She just she goes come on she just got she starts grabbing a handful of coins as well.
We make such a good team you and I and then once we get our coins run through the fire
to get out.
I'm going to kill you.
As the as you lot we get through I'll say by this point Hilsen you are definitely on
the dock and you see that there is a warehouse on fire.
Man these Navy people are ruthless it seems.
The building's on fire.
I'm probably seeing I'm somewhere somewhere some architect or somebody who's trying to
build this poor town is just going come on.
Just a single tear just falling down.
So at this point am I seeing the party exiting the warehouse.
You see Clarence and Humphrey at the door and you see Clarence is like one of his hair
is getting wider.
You guys what I did come on using my vantage point because I'm still just like walking.
You know I've been running through like see like rooftops and things and also using Ken
Kenway.
Am I able to see the rest like where Aura and Daphne are in relation to where we are
and am I able to see any guards or any people that might be arriving or approaching our
vicinity.
Guards are coalescing.
You know there's going to be the presence of guards because people are directly calling
for it and with this with this big fire and a smoke stack then they're probably going
to get here pretty soon.
In regards to Aura and Daphne with Kenway sort of like circling the air you do know
that they're they're making their way over.
But that's it.
Okay.
I have a question just for my just for Daphne's brain as they're as they're moving running
would she at this point after seeing Deacon with the ring same kind of ring as Darryl
I couldn't think of the name as Darryl would she recognize those components are to a specific
spell or is that like a check.
We can we can make it we can make it a check and maybe we can.
Yeah.
Go ahead and give me an arcane check as you're running through the streets as we've told
her we can't hurt him magical ring.
Yeah.
So I feel like that's with that help at all.
Right would that be like.
I said I'll give you grounds for the check in the first place.
I mean in the meantime I'm just going to say what Hildren is going to do is he's going
to try to angle himself so he's in a rooftop near the warehouse trying to keep himself
in a position in an angle where he can keep an eye on the warehouse and the people that
are coming out of like the party members and wherever the street through which Aura and
Daphne might be coming through.
And he's just going yeah he's just going to be there with a ready action for when they
arrive and need to make the retreat.
OK.
You're surveying the area and you see like people are scrambling workers are getting
off the docks giving way to giving giving way towards the the enforcement arm of the
the enforcement arm of the local guards to come.
When I joined because of the rescue talk I'm going to say the one person with the knives
in his chest of sees you.
So he goes and then sees Brooke next to you.
He's going to and he is going to aim his gun and fire at Brooke.
He's going to use a bonus action for something that you can't quite see.
And he's going to fire at Brooke.
Brooke straight Brooke straight up like in the middle of catching this one she just throws
she just throws a handful down and she just catches the bullet with her hand.
Her hand moves like like like lightning catches the bullet and pockets it.
He's going to fire again.
Nope.
As you as as she's getting as she's getting fired at she just kind of like looks and she
goes we need to go now.
OK OK fine fine fine and she.
Yeah she's not shoving you towards the direction of the of the entrance.
I look back longingly at the coins that I couldn't make it out and I will push Brooke.
Oh yeah she's leading me so I'll just follow her out.
Go ahead and recuperate.
Go ahead and recuperate 122.
OK everyone so you begin.
I'll say that.
How do you see everyone making the way out of making the way out onto the docks.
And they are about they are about to be crossed out by by a group of by a group of guards
who are confused about the situation just running around and you know getting pails
of waters because it's by a dock.
Daphne you're the first one onto the under the scene as well.
As you see a warehouse on fire but you're close to the you're close to the news the
car.
None of you see the car the pardon.
I wrote a 14 on my check but I will add my inspiration feature to make it 19.
OK.
You're pretty well studied on the arcane a platinum ring is not a platinum is typically
used in spells that are connecting people.
You can surmise it is definitely a spell that has connected the life force of two people
maybe a ceremony or warding bond.
OK.
And the only reason I asked for it in that moment is because she has and I she's formulating
ideas but multitasking right now trying to make sure they find everyone.
Did we see the others running away or did you use OK.
You see Clarence and Humphrey when I Jane and broke funneling out of a of a burning
building.
OK.
So it's everyone except for a hill and who we know is fine.
And then Zachariah of course it was always fun.
OK.
Sorry she music isn't helping to write or is with me.
No behind you like directly behind you.
That's right.
I have little legs.
OK.
Speed slower.
OK.
Well she'll make sure to get everyone else's attention.
She goes we need to get out of here but Brando has Zachariah and Darryl.
You're throwing a lot of names at me that I don't know.
But what do you mean Zachariah Zachariah what happened to you.
They just teleported disappeared.
Deacon should be back by now to there's a Deacon now.
OK.
I think she looks at or she was I think the reason they told us not to attack him is because
Deacon has some sort of connection to Darryl.
I think if it had hurt Deacon it might have hurt him or something along those lines.
But what.
Yep go she does she does.
And this might be a terribly dangerous idea.
But if we want to try to get him to bring Zachariah back do you think attacking Deacon
might lure them back.
Or it goes we're going to take the bet in Daphne's head and then she's going to start
covering for people to get to the pardon.
Yeah.
Yeah so she starts firing at the people actually she'll use a maneuver she has to.
What's the maneuver.
The maneuver is it is called sorry everybody.
Oh that's a good maneuver.
It's called sorry everybody.
And then everybody becomes friends.
It's called missile volley.
So seizing upon the moment I make the sky rain death striking a multitude of creatures
in rapid succession.
I make a range to up against.
I can within 10 feet of a point I can see within my weapons range.
So I can only target a number of pictures equal to my proficiency bonus which I believe
it we're at four now right folks.
I do have to ask are you actively shooting people or you warn doing warning shots.
I'm doing warning shots because I'm trying to get people to get to the pardon.
If you if you want to save that maneuver.
Yeah.
I'm doing it because Hilden is at the ready as soon as Hilden sees the group gathering
and the fact that we are close the moment that he sees the guards and everything approaching
he casts fog cloud right at the edge of the enemy to basically cover the retreat and he
will probably whistle a very common sort of like two note whistle to the party to get
their attention to him who's probably like with his hood up on the sea on a rooftop with
Kenway flying and he's just signaling for them to get to the part.
So out of character real quick guys.
Sorry.
This is just me Emma.
Um, Jenny you're saying that if they can if they can wait to fight Deacon they can maybe
get Zachariah back.
No I was yeah wait to go back by fighting Deacon.
Just making an assumption she thinks it's a risk because she's like okay assuming that
Brando still needs Darryl for whatever reason then he won't want Darryl to get hurt.
So if she attacks Deacon he'll come back.
So I'm going to make I was going to make this very clear.
You only heard will take the risk in your head.
That's it.
It's very risky because it's very likely to hurt Darryl.
It's very likely to caught.
It's very it's very risky.
Also she's out of spells.
That's okay.
So but other than that everyone else knows that we're retreating.
Warning shots.
Okay.
I also drove some bar bearing ball bearings while running just like handful and just.
Which helps I'm going to say it definitely helps.
So in the fog cloud just people.
Okay so.
Oh boy.
So okay so to get everything in mind everyone's going retreating to the pardon.
Yes.
Okay.
Children is keeping an eye on everybody from the rooftops making sure that everybody makes
it.
And with the combination of like warning gunfire in a fog cloud and just an overwhelming overwhelming
like effort of like a confusion on these narrow docks.
I would say that they are being with how being with our current and everyone's going to figure
out like what to do to advance.
But no one's going to be no one's rushing directly into the cloud.
They don't know what's what's in there and what's happening.
So yeah the black the black guards you guys are running through docks through these workers
trying to like undo their ship and trying to get away from the fire and trying to trying
to sail off.
You guys make it to the pardon.
Easy.
There are other guards here too but they're not in the know they don't know to like okay
I need to hunt these guys down.
They're just trying to.
They're trying to get like everyone to safety basically.
Is everyone our or and I staying behind or I was I was going to say I will stay.
I will be staying behind whether you guys know it or not.
Oh he'll just not letting you stay behind without no.
Well you get well only Daphne knows only Daphne knows but there is no way you're told is not
going to see you get into the part and being on the rooftop and with Kenway he's either
either you're on that ship and he's and he is or he's not.
I need everyone back on the end just a car.
I mean so we're standing by our little small boat and you and Daphne aren't there yet right.
Did we go with them at which point I think we are also like we can like we can't.
Okay okay.
Let's go back.
Okay.
Oh my god.
Laura is going to deposit her guns flick her shield off.
Look at Daphne and go in her head to hear we can't have everyone stay behind for fuck's
sake.
If she is if we are near the others see them leaving then then Daphne will say you need
to get back to the new state car.
Laura and I are going to get Zachariah and we'll join you.
This is a captain's order.
Yes.
Understood.
When I change you're the captain remember.
I don't have the hat.
Take it from her she's a little girl.
She's but a child.
Healds is just on the rooftop.
The people from the warehouse that me and Brooke were fighting which way did they flee towards?
They are still in the warehouse it seems but they had an exit on the other side so they
probably went that way.
Okay.
I would like to make my way towards our boat but make a detour to where probably the gunmen
were escaping.
Oh damn it you guys.
One of them.
If possible please.
Light kidnapping.
We're going to get to that in a bit.
Some light kidnapping.
Just you know.
A polite retrieval of your body.
Would you count this as some casual kidnapping my friend?
Alright.
Laura and Daphne what are you doing?
I am looking at Hilden on the fucking roof and Aura is not scared but she is mad and
he's going to hear in his head I cannot leave a crew member behind but I cannot lose anyone.
Please get to the helm Hilden.
Hilden is looking at you also with not necessarily a very happy face.
As you say that you cannot lose a crew member behind and I cannot lose anyone he signals
to you and I cannot lose you.
She points to Daphne and goes I've got the fucking caster.
We'll be fine.
But she knows Daphne is at a spell slots but Hilden doesn't know that.
She just sees you point at her and is like not going to get in the way of their argument
though.
She does go.
I said she wasn't going to get in the way of the argument but then she goes Hilden the
others will need you on the ship.
Give me one second I need to look at something.
Hilden has this little pro con of do I stay or do I go do I care about the people on the
ship I don't know.
I like or the most.
There's like a point system it's like or is 10 points but like like on the bow there's
Roland who's like a minus three.
I'm going to be sick in a great way.
Don't make me roll.
Hilden is going to reach for one of his beads on his hair and is going to pull one.
I'm just going to flick it her direction so she can catch it.
We're going to look at her for a long while and you can see he's not happy about this
but underneath that sort of concern and distress you can see fear and he will then just shout
to the rest of the crew as he just says them to move go and he will just jester for the
rest of the party to make sure that they are moving to the part and he will be the last
one to move in the direction staying still in this rooftop till is necessary in case
he needs to do cover fire or anything.
All right Daphne on your way away.
She catches the beads she looks at Hilden and you see that were before it was pure rage
now it's just relief and joy as she flashes him a big smile pockets the bead and she's
off with Daphne.
We'll know if Deacon sees us.
We'll know very fast.
The guns are back out again.
Guns are back out again.
Someone spilled ball berries all over the floor.
I'm going to say that Hilden watches them leave and he then looks up at Kenway and to
himself and in Elvish he says it while he feels it and communicates it to the Kenway.
Look after them for me.
Kenway gives you the ping of affirmation.
He's about to ask if we're going to see the eagle following us.
Which is good.
This is what we need.
Kenway is our sending stone essentially.
And you will know that whenever this has happened if at any point Hilden is separated from Kenway
like long distances and you need to communicate with Kenway some form whatever they can understand
you'll be able to.
For if we need to get picked up we'll eventually need to get picked up too assuming things
go well so.
We'll get to there when we get to there.
Let's take the risk first.
Take the gamble.
As you make your way back to the location we're going to expedite this a little bit
because we're running a bit into overtime.
When I jane I'll say as you make your way back towards the warehouse something with
the intent on a certain dubious action you see that the warehouse is currently most certainly
on fire.
Someone did that.
Do such a thing.
You don't have to look in because you see Gil who was unceremoniously knocked out by
Brooke like in the alleyway he crawled out.
He has a growing bruise on his face and he's by himself as he's just like there using a
barrel to support himself.
His back is turned to you.
I will just go over and like headlock him like you're coming with me friend and just
choke him out till he passes out not that I need him alive for the kidnapping bit.
Go ahead give me like an athletics check.
18.
All right minimum yeah minimum 20.
Oh gosh so he's really weak already as you just slink your arms around his neck.
He's already like oh no out like a light.
I'm going to throw him over my shoulder and then I'm going to head to the boat.
For Hilsin and Humphrey.
Where's what I Jane?
And as you look you see what I Jane huffing back with an unconscious person that you don't
recognize on her shoulder.
All right you guys heard Captain's orders let's go.
Damn it Clarence seems absolutely frustrated.
He wants to go back too.
But as you guys get on the pardon Hilsin you being the helmsman you begin to kick off kick
off on the dock as the the guards are beginning to spill on to the being to spill in the harbor.
You hoist up the sails and like I said in all this confusion like people don't know
that they're supposed to be chasing like you at the moment and they couldn't track you
through the fog cloud.
So now they're just trying to trying trying to appease the chaos.
Yeah yeah.
I would say that Hildren gets on to the helm and he's just laser focused like he's not
even looking back.
His eyes are locked in the direction of getting to the justicar and his mind is with Kenway
but he's he's doing his job.
Okay as Kenway follows and as the group parts.
Zechariah at a moment your your foot was your feet were was touching solid wood solid wood
ground and now you are standing on grass.
Where were you were inside of a room in the good dolly and now you are in a forest area
on a on a dirt paved road surrounded by six unmarked hooded wagons.
You see a you see a dozen or so men in in dressed in red and irons immediately whirled
and at once like disparate disparate amounts of times each of them start getting prepared
crossbows and swords at their side as you're holding on to Brando's arm.
You see you see a brando kind of like looking at you with with a look that seems to be he's
he's impressed but also he's inconvenienced.
You see Darryl standing off to the side.
Just just can just like utterly confused as well when he sees you a sense of panic washes
over his face and he's immediately descended upon by two of the two of the people who who
moved to grab his arm as he moved as he moved grab his arm he struggles against him.
He goes all right be gentle be gentle.
You shouldn't be here Zach.
You're going to let him go.
Appearing as well coughing up water drenched in drenched in all water.
You see Deacon wherever he landed there's a huge patch of like like a forming puddle.
Brando goes, Raja-Fan.
He gets up suddenly smells like wet dog over here.
He glares at you for a moment Deacon does and you see that he just walks past Brando
and he just he walks towards Darryl and just goes let him go and the two let him go and
as soon as they let him go Deacon sends a punch right towards Darryl's midsection and
you see Darryl like actually like off his feet his back crashes into the wagon.
As that as that as it happens as Darryl crashes against the wagon Brando you see both Brando
and Deacon just like a twinge of pain as you see Brando goes what the hell are you doing
you moron.
And you see Deacon reaching for his axe and Brando goes stop stop I'm telling you to stop.
Deacon looks towards you pointing a finger towards you and just goes you bring her here
you bring her here now.
Give me him you can have her.
I can set up a meeting.
Brando looking towards Deacon getting between the both of you just goes he's not the one
who makes deals here it's going to be me.
Here's what's going to happen Zach.
You're going to go on the dock you're going to go with your little crew.
You're going to leave.
You want him back.
I'll lose this the place I'll give him to you.
I already told you I'm not leaving without him.
Brando why did you say that make a wisdom say throw okay is it a spell it is a spell
okay I believe what do I know what kind of effect it is a charm effect okay I have three
slice them.
I'm going to use indomitable to reroll that because that is a is a wisdom saving throw
wisdom so that would have been a that would have been a seven.
Okay much better.
Twenty the DC was 20.
I got a 14 a five and a plus one on my wisdom.
He goes why did you say that he aims a hand towards you and you feel this influence try
to creep over your mind a dominate person but you best it this immense intense magic
this this need to protect your partner beats his.
What are you doing Brando?
I think you are a little mistaken on what the situation is you need us to get to Han
Lusa and I'm not leaving without him.
You do anything to him you're never getting there.
Make a intimidation check for me.
How many use my other inspiration on this just to be safe.
Do I have any expertise dice on this?
Oh actually I have an expertise die and charisma checks made to influence soldiers guards or
other organized martial forces would that apply here.
Actually there is a strange caveat here where I'm gonna where it's a no.
Okay that's fine.
No no and I used and I'm on a pull.
Okay so I don't think I have any expertise dice.
That is a 17 on the die plus just my charisma so that's a three so that is a 20.
What happens?
What happens if I give them to you Zack?
You can follow us I already told you.
I'll meet you in Han Lusa.
But would you go there?
Or would you run off and frolic with your little prize?
We'll be heading there.
I already promised him that we would.
Oh and take that ring off his finger.
No one else is going to be doing that.
It's my job.
It's Esse's husband.
Brando walks over to Daryl and Daryl looks up at him as Brando kind of like reaches down
gently grabs his hand.
And the ring seems to slide right off.
As it does you see Daryl holding on to his hand and just kind of like breathing a sigh
of relief.
Give me one moment here.
So I look this up real quick.
My hands have been shaking this entire time.
Yeah I don't trust it either.
He has to pick his move carefully.
I'm just need to look at this one more time.
Oh my god.
Daryl dies.
The end.
A moment when the end is like just let me look at this one more time.
Another time I know.
That's the one I want to puke.
I'll just mention you do anything to him you're never getting there.
And neither of any of your men here.
A cube.
A cube of magical energy.
20 feet by 20 feet just immediately encircles and encompasses you of Zachariah.
A force cage.
As that happens as Brando turns to cast his spell to keep you in place you see Daryl immediately
pulls out the gun that you gave him.
No.
My boy.
No.
I don't think this is good.
I don't think this is good guys.
He fires and seemingly Brando doesn't notice.
Striking him from behind.
In the back he bleeds to the chest.
But you see Deacon immediately encroaches on him.
Grabs him by the wrist.
And with the ring off now.
Now the pain is going to be full throttle full force on him.
Question the force cage.
Are there bars?
Can I see through it?
You can see through it.
Borrowing dagger straight at Deacon.
One second here just making sure when he casts his spell to the parts within the area.
As you throw the dagger seemingly this like field of polar energy stops your dagger from
going through.
Deacon you harm a hair on his head and you will never have that match with your sister.
I'm sorry.
Deacon rage.
I know it.
Just hammer blows directly downwards.
Darryl crumbles directly to the ground.
I know.
Is sent into a pile on the ground.
He doesn't scream.
He's conscious.
Brando stands in front of the force cage between you between you and Deacon.
As Brando goes.
Let me lay it out for you.
Meanwhile behind him you hear the sounds of Deacon punching.
Blow after blow.
Just goes.
You're going to do what I say.
If you've done what I said is all would have been is all is what have all gone so well.
You can lighten up a little bit.
You watch Deacon walk behind you.
He's cleaning blood off of his knuckles.
You see Deacon looks at Brando for a moment and Brandon goes.
We need him.
He'll have.
And Deacon goes back.
And then Brando turns towards you cold.
When I grip the compass.
I just kind of open it.
Just hold it in both hands.
You break that.
I kill him right here.
You let him go.
You get what you want.
You're not in a position to make deals right now.
Everything I said in the bar you remember that?
A bit far from the map now you have a good memory right?
It's a Hon Lusa.
You do one more smart thing.
It's going to be the last thing your boyfriend admires of you.
You look me in the eye.
Tell me you understood everything I said.
You you little bitch talking down to him.
Sorry.
That makes me mad.
I didn't hear you.
Lighthouse right?
Frost Harbor.
I didn't want her to come to this.
I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
In half the compass I don't care.
Let him go.
It has to be you.
Now pick it up.
Pick it up.
Good.
Deacon can you put our unconscious friend in the wagon?
You see Deacon pick up Darryl.
I'm just going to try to every single any details I can find the wagons on the men here.
Any marks, any size, all of them up.
I just want as much information as I can.
The thing is whatever this operation is like military military like it was a military option
they move and mark wagons.
They have to show their intent.
But this is Brando.
It's very clear that whatever he wanted to happen remain a secret.
These are unmarked wagons.
I will say you're keeping everything to memory but it frustrates you and it actually just
lets you in that much more into how shady this man is.
You see Darryl is placed in the only the only like wagon that has like an inside that you
sit in.
Deacon shuts the door.
He goes as he about to walk back you see he goes Brando goes wait stay right there.
I'm going to drop the force cage.
And you want to walk you're going to walk away towards your friends.
You're going to walk away towards your friends you're going to get back on the ship.
And you are going to endure and survive and fight your way through the Riverian Ocean
and everything that it holds to get to the treasure that you want.
That's what's going to happen as soon as I drop this force cage understand.
Anything else happens.
Anything goes a bit off course.
But things are going to go differently.
It's very simple.
You got it.
The force cage.
You are beheld with Brando Deacon and 12 or so men with crossbows.
The cart that Darryl was put into.
Was there anyone in it besides him?
Just him.
Deacon standing right next to it though.
How far is Deacon?
Deacon is about I would say from you like 25 feet.
And no standing between the both of you.
I'm going to count to five.
Two.
You skipped a number.
Three.
Turn.
Deacon your sister's still, Darryl match isn't happening.
I'll bury you myself.
And I'll keep walking.
The worst thing you could have done to yourself is be friends with her.
I want you to tell her that.
And you walk away.
Aura and Daphne.
You make your way back into town.
Assuming back to the place where you've lost, where you banished Deacon.
Unless Aura tells me not to.
I have been also, because I know it's been long enough that he would have moved.
I will be yelling out for Deacon.
I think the only order Aura has given this entire time is get everyone back on the ship.
So you're free to do what you're what you feel comfortable with.
He says you sure know how to pick your siblings Daphne.
But also like what a lame thing like you shouldn't be friends with her like wow sick burn like
after fucking psycho Brando like come on Deacon.
I really do think to myself wow his sister is way more clever than he is.
He's saying that because you're friends with him I'm gonna fucking kill you.
He loves sick burns.
He held her arms in fire when she was a kid to see if she'd burn.
He's a he's a he's a jerk as Maximus.
He's always been bad.
On today's episode of are the players well?
We write this shit are we well?
No everyone's shaking their head no.
But you yeah journey through the town and through all the chaos of the fires are being
will tended to at the moment.
You make your way back to the place I'm assuming correct.
Oh yeah we would and Hildren was said that Kenway was giving us ways to get around the
guards that were less populated.
You're following you're following Kenway.
Kenway is awesome.
He's a good boy.
But following Kenway and maneuvering through the streets you make your way back to that
place and it's not completely empty there are guards there who are searching the area
and finding out what's what happened asking the locals.
I would say that two of you are like within the crowd enough to be to be hidden from view
at the moment.
But Deacon's definitely not here.
Because Darryl was in a wagon this morning.
If they're leaving with Zachariah then it's probably in a wagon not a boat.
They might not even be on this side of the world you're saying.
It's true they could have teleported.
I don't know the exact spell.
It's some sort of abjuration teleportation.
They could have gone back to the prison for all I know.
They could have teleported to one side of town.
It really could be or even onto a boat.
It could be anywhere.
All right well is the what was the name of the inn?
The Good Dahlia.
Or says let's not give up just yet.
Besides the crews are already on their way out.
We'll catch up with them.
We should search.
Yeah let's look to see if we can find anything.
Let's make this trip useful.
Okay.
You guys are searching?
What are you searching for specifically?
I would we would probably try to sneak away into the Good Dahlia.
Upstairs was where they know all the commotion was.
Well going in and going through the first floor you see that there is a map.
There is a splash of blood on the lower part of the bar.
On the outside some pushed away chairs.
But there is a spread out map and a small bag.
Which if you open it up it's just more maps.
How often can you scry?
How often can Daphne scry?
I can do it twice if I'm fully rested.
I would need an hour or so to recuperate.
Do we have a vial of sorts we can collect the blood in?
We don't know whose it is but given that we didn't see Zachariah 2 banged up.
Yeah I'll take I'll take a piece of like cloth maybe like a handkerchief or something and
soak it up.
Okay.
We have some blood on the handkerchief.
On the map there is a there's a circle.
There is a circle on a portion of the Unarian Empire in a place called Afros Harbor which
you are aware of.
Dora that's the place where you Humphrey Clarent and Hylgen attacked before you even became
the Black Guards.
Where we got the crown jewels?
No.
Before.
And that's the one and that's the place where you took the pardon.
Your sooner scooter.
You took the scooter.
Okay.
How many rooms are there like in this building that are like open?
Yeah.
That are open.
This building is empty.
Completely like utterly completely empty.
Like open doors there's there's none.
So we'd notice if there was like stuff other stuff left.
Yeah.
Oh God is the map in the blood right?
On the first floor.
On the bar.
On the first floor.
Okay.
All right.
I'll pocket the map because we'll take anything we can get.
And I'll nod to Daphne to the second floor.
Yeah I'll search the second floor.
Oh also also I can cast Detect Magic at will so I do that as well.
Right now you don't sense any magic.
I'll say as you're as you're preparing the area because it stays up for like 10 minutes.
Am I correct?
10 minutes.
Okay.
Yeah.
Although the doors are unlocked and etc. except for one door that when you push against it
probably one of the first ones you try it's both locked and well you can only tell that's
locked right now.
Check the others first.
Yeah.
Another room seemed to be like lived in like for a moment that the blankets are up.
The blankets are up and such but nothing else it seems.
And it's a room directly neighboring the locked room.
But I gather that the locked room is the one that I saw inside of before.
Yes it is.
Okay.
She's not strong enough to break down the door probably.
I take out my gun and I pointed at the keyhole and I just look at her.
She nods.
Bang.
There are guards out.
Boom.
You fire.
What are they gonna do?
Freaking guards.
They suck.
You shoot you shoot the lock the door the door handle flies flies up but the door doesn't
like fly open.
You can see like through the hole you've made like oh someone barricaded the other side.
You'll hear in your head on the count of three.
Okay.
Oh I just think I should have taken the belt.
Fuck it.
All right here we go.
And she'll sign to you one two and then we'll try to both step group check a group check.
Okay.
Both you have to roll athletics which we can add an expertise die to.
I am proficient in athletics at least.
So remember to add an expertise die.
That was a crazy sentence Jenny.
None of your characters are usually proficient athletics.
I know she got it from she got it from like her background.
15.
Not a specialty but I will add a so I rolled a 17 plus a d4 so that's 21.
All right that's a critical success.
The door is pushed the door is pushed open.
Chest scripts against the ground drawer drawer falls off.
We're in this room.
Oh does the craft to leave.
Oh you don't want to go.
Oh no.
Okay.
Don't destroy the place without me.
We'll have your eagle help us.
You know.
Yeah.
Kenway shows up.
Can we spread some blankets.
Kenway heard the gunshot and it's just like.
We got to do we got to do.
Why am I.
These guys are children.
Why am I always stuck with these ones.
All right guys.
Bye Victor.
See you next week.
Can we have a super short break.
Super short.
Super super short.
That would be lovely.
All right the game is going to end in 30 minutes.
Okay.
Do you need to use the restroom or anything.
Yes I do.
Oh go ahead.
Go go go go go.
Same I'm going to do that while you guys are finished or doing the same thing.
Okay.
You knock down the door opening opening the room up for yourself.
There is a things that are noticeable like there's a change of there's like a change
of clothes seemingly get a nice set of clothes in the wooden foot locker and there is on
like a small like on a small table a grounded grounded up like leaf like a plant of some
sort that's white in nature.
It seems to have like extracted like just like a green powder like grinded against the
top of the ground grinded against the top.
It was clear was granted there too because there's scrapes on the top of the table.
I bet Hilschen could identify that.
I'll be very careful and collect the powder with a piece scrap of fabric and put it in
my pocket.
Okay.
The clothes are they the same clothes I saw Darryl in earlier or different.
It's the same set of clothes.
It's identical but he was also wearing the same outfit when you saw him briefly.
I'm going to take them purely also for scrying purposes.
Yeah.
Right now we're just getting scrying stuff actually.
Yeah honestly.
As you're gathering all of this you see Kenway onto the open window sill looking at the two
of you turns around and then looks back at the both of you.
Seemingly you know Kenway pretty well or this means follow me.
She nods and goes ready to jump.
It looks at you just follow that way.
Ready to jump.
Well she signs the also sign it.
Still the makeshift rope hanging out too.
Yeah Kenway does look at you like as soon as she said ready to jump he's like no.
You see that she has a big smile on her face and goes I thought it would be fun.
She signs.
You've never seen an eagle roll their eyes before but he does.
As you take the safe way down.
Just pick up.
Has to be a bit of a covert operation.
You see Daphne go no picks her up brings her away from the window.
Enough.
Child.
Child please.
You make way out towards the front and you begin to follow Kenway flying in the air who
leads you again.
It has to be like it's always a point of interest if Kenway is the one like leading you to something
he sees.
You are led towards the edge of town where you see one lone dejected figure walking on
his own.
In the middle.
Zachariah.
Her eyes flick to Daphne first and she looks around quickly surveying the area around him.
Is it pretty empty?
It's empty.
And are we 30 feet away?
Yes.
Do I detect magic on anything aside from you know the expected?
Nothing that you don't expect.
Okay.
Then very softly, Orra will use telepathy and Zach will hear in his head.
Zachariah.
I'll just sign ship and keep walking.
Zachariah what happened?
We should get on the ship.
The ship is gone, Zach.
Shit.
What happened?
They have him again.
By the way, your brother's an ass.
Yeah.
To put it lightly.
I'm sorry.
I'm gonna kill him first.
I'm just letting you know that.
You can try but.
Guess it's a competition.
Game Orra signs.
Sure.
Yay.
You know he thought it was really funny when he thought I was dead.
I scryed on him when they delivered the news.
He laughed.
He told me to tell you something but honestly it was so stupid I forget what it was.
It makes me want to hear it to be honest.
I think it was like you're dumb or something.
I don't know.
It sounds like him.
It wasn't very clever.
Orra is just like dumb.
That's what he said.
I think so.
His brain can conjure.
He doesn't know big words.
He looks like he's been punched in the face a couple times.
I mean yeah.
Orra will sign the warding bond.
Removed for now I guess.
And he was tied to Deacon.
Not just but.
And someone else.
Brenda.
Is Daryl alive?
They're they.
But he's alive.
Do you know where they are?
They go back they'll kill them.
Well why haven't they killed him already?
They're manipulating you right?
That's what they want him for?
They need him.
Why?
They just kind of hold up the necklace or the the compass.
Zachariah I know okay.
She slows herself down like if she realizes how she's getting.
She just goes.
Brenda wants to go to the bandy wallet.
I figured as much.
I want to do everything I can to help you and Daryl.
And the more I understand about their motives and what they value.
The easier it'll be to not fall into another trap like this.
How did they know we were going to.
Sorry.
Nope.
So it might be difficult but I really.
When we get back I at least.
I really need you to tell me everything you can.
When we're back on the ship at least.
If we can't go after them now it's not feasible.
Then.
I suppose she looks at Kenway.
Kenway can.
Let Hilgen know we need a ride back.
Or will say and Daphne said preferably at a time when the guards have calmed down a
bit.
Yeah.
Though.
Zachariah.
If they need Daryl.
They won't kill him.
That's a little too gross.
You're gonna feel a small hand.
Gently.
Tap the side of your knee.
And in your head you'll hear stars.
That was the answer I gave you just couldn't.
My mouth is full.
I know.
You're very bright Zachariah.
Even in daytime they're still there.
He's still there.
As are we.
I'm going to need you to make sure Hildren doesn't punch my teeth out.
Because.
And she looks at Daphne.
We kind of.
We kind of broke off.
It's more likely you'd get glared at to death.
This time's a bit different.
And she'll sign out loud.
Zachariah.
I do realize this could have been prevented.
We had slight intel that Daryl was going to be used but we didn't want to upset you.
I have.
I need more information.
That's on me.
She says.
As a captain I make the calls here.
I'm so sorry.
It will not happen again.
It will not happen.
Daphne's the pawn right.
It wasn't me.
Right.
Pawn.
What?
She signs.
Of all the pieces on the board.
Other than the queen itself.
The pawn has this wonderful ability that when it reaches the end of the board without looking
back to be crowned queen itself.
It's my favorite piece.
After all.
And she tips her hat.
Fun things come in small packages.
How often in a game of chess does that actually happen though?
She.
I don't know.
Well it depends if you keep beating my ass you might find out one day.
So wait.
What does the queen do?
Sorry.
I don't.
I don't play chess.
We'll play back on the ship.
Until then let's find.
Actually when they come free happy.
Let's grab some supplies while we wait for them to circle back around at a calmer time.
Are you completely certain.
We can't follow them.
Can't.
There's no worth in pursuing them.
He's going to have his eye on the ship I'm sure.
Which brings me to my question.
How did he know we were coming here.
Do you have any indication of how he knew he would be here.
Let's just say that Brando is a bit of a rat.
You see.
The entire or is like she got mad one time but her entire body locks up.
And she signs very quickly to Daphne how long his little bastard been on the ship.
But longer than a year now.
It's only a few months after I came that we started seeing him I felt.
He said he said you called me the pawn that's why I asked.
Because it's my.
She looks at Daphne and.
Stop signing.
She she's trying to piece together.
How did how did Brando.
Teleport you though he had a scroll.
There is there was some spell that was he did a lot of magic stuff.
I don't.
He made a cage and he tried to like do something to my mind and he.
I don't know we went poof.
I don't know any of this magic stuff.
Well he's been keeping that secret.
I oh he well he walked through a door like I fell through him.
I don't know what he can do.
It was just surprise after surprise.
Did he ask anything of you.
He wants us to blow up a lighthouse.
Where.
And she'll actually on she'll unroll a map and point to Afros Harbor here.
Yeah.
Flips the map back up.
You said if we don't.
I won't see Darrell Hamza.
He'll be following us.
Whatever he's doing it's in secret the army or the Navy doesn't know about it.
They're all in marked wagons.
No signs.
He does things knowing that he can.
Cast this level of magic.
I think he can do the same thing that you can is my guess.
That's crying.
Yeah that work.
And he doesn't even have to target one of us if he did see the ship.
We saw all of the ships.
Question.
Have you guys ever seen little bastard on the Pardone.
Have we.
No.
We have to save his place to talk then.
Or we just assume that he's listening at all times.
I just throw my middle finger to the sky just in case.
I think detect magic would detect a scrying sensor.
Yes it would.
So if I'm more if I'm diligent about casting it then I can make sure conversations are
private at least.
I don't have to spend any energy to cast it.
It comes naturally to me.
There was another thing I don't.
I don't know what it was but.
No one could approach Darryl.
If someone got too close Darryl said something would happen.
I don't.
What would happen.
He said he'd be gone.
Gone as in dead or gone as in vanished like you did earlier.
Do I have any idea what he meant by that.
I'm with with concepts probably vanish.
Vanish.
OK.
Does she recognize what these spells are.
I'll try and go into more detail about what the everything looked like and felt like.
Go ahead give me an arcade.
I want her to know what kind of level he's at 16.
Spells that activate on someone when certain conditions are met is an is often a sign of
a very skilled spell caster.
But there's a spell something called contingency.
Which is which you can't really cast on someone else is when you have to cast on yourself.
But that sounds like something very similar to what what's occurring with Darryl.
She she does go.
It sounds like a contingency.
But normally you can only cast that spell on yourself and even then it's incredibly
difficult magic.
It takes a very skilled caster to use.
It's beyond me.
It could be something else that I'm not aware of.
But that's the closest thing I can think of.
Regardless it has to be.
Powerful.
She's getting like more and more like.
Frustrated in some ways.
She's just like.
How does he study magic like this and keep it a secret from the entire Navy for all this
time or assigns.
Clarence once said he manipulated his way to the top.
A personality like that can easily keep secrets.
Question every time I saw him do something.
Did I see him do those weird things that I see like Daphne do where she waves her hands
and says magic words and all that sort of stuff or does he have any sort of like tell
when he's doing that sort of stuff because I saw him do it multiple times.
Funny enough when funny magic Daphne says her funny magic words it's it's she does
all of like the verbal somatic and such.
But when the funny man.
Oh sorry I'm gonna stop that.
The funny man.
When Brando does it every time he does it it's no verbal components.
But it's all been somatic.
Do I see him still like wiggle his hands around and stuff does he like mess with a certain
item.
Does he like twist his rings.
Does he.
At the moment like thinking back on it it does look like just simple hand gestures.
Like he doesn't seem to have a focus.
I'll convey that to Daphne.
But it didn't seem like he was using an item.
Like that he was channeling magic through an item it's possible to use spells through
magical items.
Seem like it.
And he wants us to blow up an Aeneurian lighthouse.
I don't want to do anything he wants us to do.
She said that the lighthouse will rain hellfire on us if we try to sail past it.
Oh so helpful.
What do I know about Afros Harbor?
Very guarded military harbor.
Definitely the lighthouse stuff that's new to you.
But it sounds like something the Aeneurian Empire would do with new technology evolving
all the time.
It's a major port town.
Major.
These are all things we should discuss with the crew once we get on board.
I just kind of like look down as I just kind of like think back on like everything that
just happened.
And I just kind of like look at my chest.
Is there any marks there or anything?
Um, marks?
Like a wound or a scar that I don't remember being there?
Anything like that?
Now there is.
And I wasn't there before.
You didn't get touched at all during the scuffle today.
But now there is.
And how does it wound?
Like a wound or just a scar?
It's a wound.
Oh jeez.
Ah.
Zach?
Are you okay?
Um, ooh.
In the skirmish?
What happened?
Is there someone?
Is there one of those like magical invisible people?
Did someone just cut me?
Hold on.
She's gonna just.
Does it hurt?
Hand them the hanky.
Yeah.
It does not hurt.
Okay.
But you have memories with it.
And those memories hurt.
You know exactly what it means.
Al?
Um.
I'm just gonna hold the handkerchief there.
Um.
I'll uncork a potion while he's doing that.
I mean I feel, I feel fine.
I just feel like I'm gonna die.
Or will fingerspell the Daphne adrenaline?
Yeah.
So.
Hold up the potion.
I don't think they ever touched me.
Pulls the potion slowly back.
What?
It feels like an old wound I guess.
I just, I um.
I'm a little confused.
Uh.
I guess I like poke at it.
You shouldn't.
It doesn't hurt.
I don't understand.
Um.
Is it like, where is it, is it like through his heart?
Yeah, where is it?
It's through his heart and he's still talking and indicating?
Um.
Yes.
And we know he doesn't really sleep well or eat well, but I don't know if they know what
a revenant is.
That um.
Oh jeez.
That doesn't look good.
Do I have to start buttoning my shirt up more?
That's what you're worried about?
How are you alive?
I don't know.
Your brother said he thought he killed me.
Or I was looking at the compass.
I thought he was just um.
Maybe Brando, maybe Brando.
Brando tried to do something to my mind.
Maybe I'm just.
Laura signs the compass doesn't work without Zach.
The compass doesn't work without Zach.
But my brother said he killed you.
He has a hole through his heart.
Do you have another napkin?
It's not, it's not cleaning.
Can I have another?
Have we heard or seen anything like this?
In all that cause or is just signing dead man dude tell tales.
This is like it's getting on my shirt.
There's no way he could be alive right now.
Did Deacon knock me out?
Am I hallucinating all of this?
God I hate magic.
Kenway is also looking at you with like a what the fuck expression.
I know.
I just look.
But.
I just look at the eagle.
Eagle looks at you.
But the eagle also looks at the others and he's about to take flight to go towards um
go to a television.
Bandage or something?
He flies away.
Or we'll um just start ripping up a piece of her shirt.
Thank you.
I don't know how um I'm just gonna.
Here kneel down she'll sign and she'll just start shoving it in and you know applying
pressure and doing a bit of a wrap around.
No pain.
He's got a hole through his fucking heart.
He's bleeding.
There's no pain.
It's an inconvenience.
There's they this is.
I mean it's a little more than an inconvenience.
It like.
Oh sorry this is me Emma.
Oh okay.
This is me sorry.
This is me trying to rationalize what do they know?
What do these characters know?
The only Zack can operate the compass.
This compass that has unforeseen power that.
Is it lethal?
Am I gonna be okay?
Why does it not hurt?
That's what I'd like to know.
Uh.
Maybe it's like an illusion or something?
It's not an illusion I can sense.
As you all are contemplating the wound um I am gonna have to hurry.
Humphrey.
Oh one-eyed Jane.
The two of you are sailing on the pardon right now.
Seemingly having left behind Captain Aura and Daphne and who even knows where Zachariah
is you haven't seen him for a while.
It's obvious on the people on the ship that there is worry and uncertainty.
But Hilsen is the one that's keeping his eyes forward at the moment.
As you're on the inside portion of the ship you see that Clarence and Hilsen are actually
like there's a bit of an argument outside.
How can we just leave if there's you know something of that sort.
One-eyed Jane.
Go ahead.
Sorry.
We know that Aura can walk on water right with the ring.
Yes.
Probably not like we've seen it before.
Okay.
But something begs the question for you Humphrey that um says who is this guy that one-eyed
Jane brought onto the ship.
Oh my god.
Can you direct me to an empty room I just need to have a chat with my friend here.
Yeah sure.
Wait let's come here.
Like look some room that is empty you know just like put like chairs to the side.
So where did you where did you find that guy?
Oh you know um and as I'm talking to you I'm finding rope and I'm like tying him up and
like grabbing a bucket with water and like preparing something obviously.
I was just wandering getting to the boat everybody yelled at me get to the boat one-eyed Jane
and I was like okay and along my way I just happened to find this fella in the streets
and I thought to save him I'm like gagging him as I'm saying this you know the kind soul
that I am I couldn't just leave a fellow statesman behind um I don't even know what that means
and then I take the bucket of water and I splash it on him.
And I crouch down and I look at him and eye level.
Remember me?
You and I are gonna have a nice long talk.
Goodness you and your coat of honor opening the door.
All right everyone how's everyone doing?
Goodness gracious what's going on here?
Making friends.
This doesn't look like making friends it's like this looks like fairly structured torture.
What?
We have a hostage.
Hostage?
Guys this is just me my way of courting someone I it was love at first sight and I just had
to okay you caught me he's a hostage and I take out my longsword and I like stick it
in the ground next to this guy.
Yeah.
I know when you lie.
Oh there it is.
I don't envy you buddy looking at the name.
Clarence goes oh we got a hostage don't we?
Well he says the blackguard tend to do things for good reasons.
Walking up to the man.
What's your name friend?
He just goes give me one moment one eye Jane let me see if I can charm this man for a second
and then I'll let you take over.
Okay sure.
Sure Clarence and I'll back up and just like cross my arms and kind of study this technique
that he's about to practice.
Maybe take notes.
Alright friend I'm gonna let you I'm gonna let you know one thing you're just going to
answer every single question that we're gonna ask.
You want to let just you want to be let go with all your fingers?
So easy.
Terribly easy.
The easiest thing you're gonna do in your life.
He he pulls down the gag for a moment and you see Gil looks at him and just goes who
do you think you are?
I could have been your dad but your mom didn't have change for a silver.
When I change his like actually says like uh that's worse than cutting off a finger
I would say.
You see Humphrey also like chuckling to himself which is rare.
It's not gonna get a good look at you.
You look like you look like someone who's better seen from far away.
Oh my god.
Clarence.
Looking at because he's all bruised up.
He goes well my friend one eyed Jane here do you know why you know you know how she
lost that eye?
She fought five great white sharks in the middle of the ocean.
Wow that story.
Yeah.
Yep.
Crazy.
I think when you're in their terrain they would have the upper hand but I'm just that
good.
She lost that other eye.
She lost the eye again.
The same one.
Mm-hmm.
And then that in a rock slide.
A huge boulder hit her right in the eye.
The same one.
He goes you want to keep your eyes?
You talk to us.
Just fruitfully honestly.
Because we're gonna be as honest as we can get with you.
Well.
Well ey Jane if you if you will.
Yeah.
How do I follow that up?
Jesus okay um and I just like go over.
All right.
Start with something easy.
What's your name?
Silent.
Okay I take up I um take out my crate sword and I put it between his legs next.
Make an intimidation check.
Oh no.
With advantage.
And can I use my stat as strength for this or do you use Krisma?
Yes.
It is strength.
With advantage.
That's a subtle threat yeah.
Do you add expertise on that?
What was how much is it?
I think it added the expertise die.
Oh it did?
Yeah.
Oh okay so 18.
Oh wait no we.
No it didn't for the first one I didn't.
So 22.
Okay.
Yeah.
You hold the same number twice.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.
My name is uh my name's Sean.
Sean.
I'd like to make insight checks so I can get like the the lie out of the way you know so
I know when he tells lies the spot tell.
Okay just make a deception check opposed to my insight.
That's right and then from here on out you just know.
Yeah I just know.
He just fucking knows.
21.
Oh don't worry.
That shouldn't be too hard.
Don't worry.
Dude don't worry that shouldn't be too hard.
Because telling lies like discerning lies is also my specialty.
Oh no.
You got two cocky cams in there.
Wait I have inspiration don't I.
Yes you do you can roll again.
Do you have a thing where you where you can't do you do you have that thing where you can't
roll below something or is that.
No that's that's not a level up.
Okay.
That's that's one eye jane's thing.
Oh my god.
It's the lowest roll I've done all campaign.
Oh sad.
Oh my god no.
Oh no.
It's 17.
Oh my god.
Humphrey's off his A game.
It's both fours.
Oh no.
Oh wait a second.
Wait wait a second.
Wait take back that inspiration point.
Because Clarence has an ability.
Hell yeah Clarence.
Oh no.
Clarence has an ability where if you fail an insight check.
You can succeed.
Oh wait no he has if he's been tyrannized as like me my background they get an automatic
he gets automatic pass.
That's what I was trying to do earlier.
And also he has the expert help action.
So okay.
Yeah.
What does it mean.
Once you can roll with advantage but that's next time.
But you succeed.
All right.
Savant.
That means now you also learn to recognize signs that the target is bluffing and I have
advantage on the next insight checks that I made.
That I make in 24 hours.
Clarence standing next to you with his hand on his chin.
It just goes.
You ever get the feeling that they always lie when they're caught in a corner.
He does the thing with the nose right.
And then he.
And then you take notice as well.
He is speaking in absolute fear and he is saying anything to get out of here.
Okay.
Then.
Okay.
I just I just let let let Jane know there was a lie.
Oh no no no no no no no.
Okay.
Name Sean my name Sean.
Take up the great sword again and I go for the leg.
You do it.
I do it.
Go ahead.
Just a light stabbing.
Just a light stab.
You know you don't have to roll.
Not like it.
Yeah cool.
I'm gonna get back to the ship and just find this board man.
What's your name?
My name's Micah.
Humphrey.
Is it?
Yeah.
Yeah that's true.
Guys.
Micah Micah Micah.
Nice to meet you Micah.
I assume you know who we are.
Go ahead say it.
I want to hear you acknowledge us.
Yeah.
I know who you are.
Raelyn Creston.
I slap him across the face.
Wait wait Humphrey's read that name before right?
Yes.
In the paper documents.
Yes.
Oh my god.
So he would recognize it.
He would recognize it because he knows that's who has my dad right now.
He's blinking.
He's like the hell was that in my conscious when I changed it very strong.
Okay let's move on shall we?
And if you say that name again and I kind of just lean lightly onto the sword that's
in his leg.
You kind of look good with only one leg.
I'm gonna get you like a little pig leg.
I know a guy.
I told you this would be easy we just told the truth.
Pig leg.
Well wait was he lying when he said the name?
He was telling the truth he was looking right at one eye.
And anyways um listen here Micah you're gonna tell us exactly who you work for.
And you're also gonna tell us everything you know or else.
And I'm gonna lean in a little bit close.
Has anyone ever told you you have such beautiful eyes Micah?
Maybe I could borrow.
I don't know how that would work.
Probably could find a way.
He's already intimidated enough you just you automatically.
I uh work for an interested party.
Names Micah names.
I received the tip that someone of a considerable bounty was located in Aloris.
I don't know from who but I know who you are.
I'm not here to discuss me Micah we're here to discuss you.
How were you supposed to collect?
Oh go ahead please.
You weren't the person I was looking for.
And what were you looking for?
Some long time enemy of the Empire.
He's got 80,000 gold on his head.
We call him uh Van Colton.
I look over my shoulder at Humphrey and just feel like giving like a thumbs up and a thumbs
down like.
Never heard of it.
Okay.
But I heard about you.
But it seems like that's a touchy subject right now.
I'm gonna lean in and whisper in his ear.
You know who I am truly and you know what I'm capable of.
So let's focus shall we Micah?
And then I'll lean back.
Now you received a tip.
How did you receive this tip?
You received a tip to our informant.
Which is?
Don't don't make me do this.
Oh Micah.
You know I have to.
How many limbs are you gonna maybe not walk off with?
Roll off?
Hey Humphrey.
Yeah.
We could probably just throw him overboard when we're done with him if he doesn't answer
to our liking right?
His name's Hearn.
What was that?
His name's Hearn.
Oh shit.
Which you know Humphrey.
That's a familiar name to you.
Oh shit.
It is?
Yes.
Hearn Hearn Hearn.
Hearn Lovecrow.
Lovecrow.
He is the merchant that hired Hosein to capture Aura for the first time.
And he's the one who's been on your guys ass for ten years.
But he hasn't been pursuing you guys for a while.
But now it looks like the game's been amplified.
He's part of...
He's deeply in league with the Royal Navy of Anarra.
Yeah.
I was about to say.
Okay.
So they received a tip from someone who's very closely aligned with the Aeneirian Empire
as opposed to Orhandor.
Orhandor?
Or-ha-door.
Orhandor.
Or-ha-door.
I know they're connected, but how are the navies connected?
We'll find out soon.
Um.
I'll kind of stand up and walk over to Humphrey and Clarence.
Do you have any more questions before I deal with him?
Um.
I can't think of anything on the top of my head.
Clarence.
Nothing on my head either.
You are Humphrey, right?
Yes.
That is me.
Yeah.
I was good for you too.
I know.
I met a dude.
It's reason, he said.
You guys shouldn't believe everything you read.
I got something special for you.
We were told not to hurt you.
That's awfully kind.
But very impractical.
Also by hern or someone else.
I think I've said enough.
Clarence goes, no, no.
Just like, wait, wait.
My question before.
I'm sorry, Clarence.
One sec.
Was that Van Colton, was he also on the island before?
The island?
The place we were just at.
We were told he was there.
We got, we've been there for a bit.
Human.
Old.
Scars.
Good chance.
Yeah, I think I've met him.
Seems like a reasonable fella though.
Whoever these people were, they really want us to get you.
You love gambling, looks at you.
What'd I drain?
Said you had a crippling problem with it.
I have a problem.
That's true.
We both know that you rigged that game.
I didn't.
I'm free.
He's telling the truth.
Totally lying.
You should kill him.
I knew it.
The only thing was rigged is that I was gonna try to capture you like a bit, like after
like...
Slap him.
Oh, heaven's sake.
Through his teeth.
Why are you doing this?
I was telling the truth about everything, especially the truth about the game.
I was telling the truth about everything, especially your problem.
Listen, we're not here to discuss me, okay?
You're the one tied up.
You're the hostage in this situation, so shut up unless we ask you a question.
Clarence, I'm free.
Clarence, what was the name that you said earlier before...
Never mind.
Don't worry about it.
I assume you like keeping a mouth full of teeth.
Would we know what is Captain Aura's stance on killing hostages or killing people that
we question?
He doesn't.
And she's also not a big fan of people cutting off limbs and tongues.
It was at least a light stab.
But she's also not there.
And something Humphrey knows is that if you don't tell me, I don't see it.
Clarence is there though.
He's the moral compass.
But Clarence is there.
He's the moral compass.
Yep.
Gentlemen, if you are done with your questions, could I have a moment alone with our friend
Micah here?
Can I speak to you for a moment?
Just a little huddle.
Little huddle over here.
She's like, Micah, I'm going to speak alone with you.
Clarence is like, when I Jane, I'm going to speak alone with you.
I'll go over to the little huddle.
What's up, Clarence?
You're doing a great job.
All right.
I want to put that foot forward first.
The crew recognizes everything that you're doing.
You're doing absolutely wonderful.
All right.
I appreciate that.
Thanks.
Absolutely.
I really needed that today.
You don't have to thank me.
I'm just saying the truth.
Okay.
That's the bare minimum.
Don't kill the guy.
I was never going to kill him.
Okay, fine.
It crossed my mind.
The thought.
Yes, it was there.
That's just an intrusive thought.
We all think about killing people all the time, right?
That's normal.
Those are just intrusive thoughts.
All right.
We need to have a longer talk over some fishing when we get back on the boat.
I just...
Okay.
I break apart from the huddle.
I'm going to just...
I'll release the hostage.
Okay?
I'm going to ask him where he gets his clothes because they're really nice.
It's embarrassing.
It's just a private talk between two fashionable people.
If you wouldn't mind, gentlemen.
Goodness gracious.
All right.
No, not all right.
It's obviously not the truth.
Yeah, I know.
I've heard so much today.
I'm out of this.
You guys got this.
I'm leaving.
I'll check in with Hilgen.
So maybe you can go fishing with him, Clarence, if he sticks around.
Wait, that's the torture.
If you don't talk, we're going to make you fish with Clarence.
I just really think fishing with me is a bad thing.
It's awesome.
Oh, it's because I keep feeding you guys.
That's why.
But you're sore losers.
That's why.
And then I'll just go check up with Hilgen because I think at this point the boat probably
turned around, right?
Or not?
As soon as you open the door, you see Kenway fly.
And you see that Hilgen is turning this boat around.
Okay.
But yeah, Hilgen and Brooke are outside and the two of them were conversing.
Oh, those were the two that were arguing.
No, no, it was it was Hilgen and Clarence.
Oh, it was Hilgen and Clarence.
But now it's now it's Brooke and Clarence.
They haven't been arguing.
They're cool.
They're chill.
Brooke is like, I think when I change Elvyn, Elvyn and Yannis are stupid and it's wrong.
Yes, I also think that they are stupid and wrong.
Is she lying?
No.
But yeah, anything else you want to do when I Jane and Humphrey?
I want to speak to Micah alone for a moment.
Just a quick talk.
I give them space and just like meander around.
Be gentle.
Hey, walks away.
I'll close the door and just like count to 10.
And then I will walk over to Micah and I'll just kind of sit cross legged in front of
him.
Micah Micah.
You see, you put me in a very interesting situation.
As soon as you said that name, you only left me with so little options.
What do you know?
Two houses got a bounty for you.
I imagine you know that one of them set by your dad.
The other.
You remember the guy you were supposed to marry?
I mean, this is your world.
How many people know?
What?
Raelin Creston on the run.
Everyone knows about Raelin Creston.
Well, not too many people know that she's Jane.
Okay, I stand up.
It's been a pleasure Micah and I punch him to knock him out.
And then I'll gag him and blindfold him.
Waterboard him.
Just a little bit.
He looked thirsty.
I don't know.
I guess we'll just be pacing the room figuring out what kind of person when I Jane is until
next time.
And with that, that's what we're going to call it.
Also love the choice that Humphrey doesn't say shit.
Also was trying really hard not to meta the Zach thing, but I mean, he had a fucking hole
in his heart.
Yeah, it's very hard not to.
Why aren't you?
Why are you dead?
I don't know.
Weird magic stuff.
How did we not notice until you looked down?
Hmm.
I'll have a squirt on a shirt.
Humphrey all of a sudden needs help from Jane in the kitchen.
That's for next session.
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord.
We're going to kill Deacon together now.
As friends.
You go up, I'll go down or vice versa.
You know, I'm really flexible.
Same.
Okay.
All right.
Oh my God.
Stopping this conversation.
We have plans.
Okay.
With that said, see you next week.
Bye.
Bye guys.
Bye.