Welcome back, Intrepid Adventurers, to the Forge and Fable D&D podcast.
Last time you got to meet with our heroes as they began their epic tales.
This week we'll be diving right in, skipping the opening banter.
Are you ready to roll for initiative?
Hey everybody, welcome back to the Forge and Fable podcast, where we play Dungeons and
Dragons together.
In our last session, the group was hired on from Gundren Rockseeker for a task to Esquire
to Wagon to the city of Phandalin.
What could go wrong upon traveling down the Tribor Trail?
They met some goblins along the way, they sprung an ambush on them, and things got a
little dicey there for a minute.
I think Khorin went down.
Emreys, I think you took a hit, lost some HP there.
And it seemed to be that you guys had the upper hand.
At one point you turned the table, you were able to defeat some goblins.
However, one did get away and ran off in the north direction.
After a few good checks and checking some stuff out, you guys were able to deduce that
the tracks that you saw around the horses and the tracks and broken branches that were
leading in the same direction as the trail that you saw from the horses.
You put two and two together that wherever this goblin came from initially, he was probably
running back to.
You guys set out to follow him.
You make your way down now through this thickets and this brush, this really dense woodsy area.
You followed a trail, it made it onto a trail.
Emreys, while you were walking, you just about got caught up in a snare trap, but at the
last second you were able to dodge that, so that was pretty cool.
Guys had a better sense of what you were doing than at that point, looking out for traps,
heading up this trail.
And you found a pit trap that you were able to avoid with some pretty cool use of mold
earth there.
Successfully navigated around that pit trap, went up the trail some more.
You started to hear a stream and you found yourselves at this location that you're at
now where you're just at the mouth of the cave entrance.
Yeah, we'll just go ahead and pick up from here now.
So if you guys want, I will open up the map ski and let me read you what we have here.
It says, the Goblin's Trail ends at a cave in a hillside five miles from the scene of
the ambush.
So you guys have been walking for a little bit.
A shallow stream flows from the cave mouth, which is screened by dense briar thickets.
A narrow dry path leads into the cave on the right side of the stream.
It has stopped raining.
The birds are out.
The sun is starting to peek through and it's shaping up to be a nice day, or what's left
of it rather.
I guess if I had to say, we're probably approaching evening.
Maybe it's late afternoon, working its way into the evening now.
So it's still like sunny outside.
We can still see pretty clearly.
Yeah.
I think the Goblin tracks led us here.
I'm beyond your guard, yeah?
Yeah.
All right.
So as you guys approach, what's our order here?
We got anyone being a front man?
Yeah, I will.
I want to stealthily approach the cave.
Okay.
All right.
I'm going to be ahead of the other two, but behind Corrin.
Okay, so everybody's wanting to just kind of move at a slower stealthier pace.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's roll some stealth checks.
Do not be my forte.
Nope.
Definitely not my forte.
Oh, I did better than Bishop though, I suppose.
I rolled a two.
I imagine Bishop is sneaking with the cans they put at the back of cards when they're
just married.
I got a four.
I want to turn around and tell him to stop, stop, stop.
He's ready to get shot by another arrow.
You guys are being...
Oh, my screen just shot over to Rin.
Oh yeah, that was awkward.
That was awkward.
So we got...
Oh, when you type, I see.
That's cool.
So for you guys listening, we're still learning Foundry.
We're playing on Foundry.
Yeah.
And so we're going to have these aha moments pop up quite a bit here where we're just lost
in our own game here at the table.
And some funny stuff happens.
For instance, we just found out that when you type, when the characters type it, it takes
a few, even my view, which is a little irritating at times.
And it brings it over to the character that the talk.
Oh, joking.
I'm sure there's a way to undo that and figure it out one of these days.
So we have one pass and we had three fails.
So as far as group checks goes, it's not the best.
Tyran, you are sneaking ahead and Emris, you're kind of along with Kyren.
Bishop and Rin, you guys are sort of towards the back.
And because of sliver, I'm going to cast Vigilant Blessing on you.
Okay.
You all seem to be finding like the noisiest places to walk.
Like we just came out of this dense thicket.
Yeah, you're creeping along just fine.
You're on the edge of the thicket brush line there.
Emris, you're walking along and you step on a branch.
And at the same time as you stepping on a branch, Bishop sneezes and bumps into Rin,
catches him off guard and startles him.
And he kind of does one of those, what?
I'm going to put my hand on my mask and just like turn around and be like, you're trying
to get us killed.
Just hold tight.
Let me see what's ahead.
Yeah.
Yeah, you can go first.
An arrow sails past you, Kyren, in the direction of Emris, but it doesn't seem to hit anyone.
It seems to have coming out of the bushes from this direction here.
Everyone roll for initiative.
Initiative.
I'm going to roll with advantage because Bishop cast his Vigilant Blessing upon me.
Oh, you guys did Vigilant Blessing?
Yes.
Which, I mean, I still only have a big 10, so.
Okay.
Let's see.
Yeah.
It put us in alphabetical order instead of...
Bonus order for me.
1771?
Bonus order.
Oh, well, you two are...
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Let's see.
Update combatant.
And you rolled a 10, you said?
10.
Yes, sir.
All right.
Emris, let's start us off.
I'm going to look around and see if I see anything.
You do not.
Roll perception.
Okay.
Judging from the direction that you can put together from where the arrow, as it went
past you, you would gather that it came from over in this direction.
East over the water?
Yeah, to the east over the water.
Thank you.
Okay.
And these bushes that were just south of, what type of bushes are they?
Can we like...
Yeah.
Can we see through them or...
So looking over in that area, you notice that this seems to be like a very thick, thicket
of brush and that it doesn't seem to be like easy at all to get through.
It's very thick.
And that's the same about the... on the other side of the river too.
Correct.
Yeah.
From right off to the east.
Okay.
Yeah.
So on the east side of the stream, it flows from the cave mouth.
There's a small area of these briar thickets and it looks incredibly thick.
However, you can just barely start to make out from your perception roll.
There seems to be some wooden planks that flatten the briars and provide room to maybe
let something go through and you notice that to be like over here.
Okay.
I'm going to...
Let's see.
What spells do I have?
And over here, I mean to the east, just south of the cave entrance, southeast.
I think I'm going to cast Fog Cloud to...
I don't like it.
Kind of obscure us to...
Consume a spell slot.
Yep.
Oh yeah.
This is pretty good.
20 foot radius.
It's huge.
Yeah.
Do you guys want to get covered?
I don't know how best to use this, whether to drop it on them or drop it on us.
I would drop it in an area that we're going to go to.
Like here?
Like bam or something.
Jeez, it's huge.
It is this big.
Yeah.
It's enormous.
Okay.
Then that's what I'll do.
I'm going to kind of cast it so the edge of it is not quite over the right.
Like here?
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
You got it.
Someone else got it.
Oh, that sick as F.
You can say fuck, buddy.
It's all good.
I'm not cursing for moral reasons.
That's why.
Oh gosh.
I'm not worried about any future monetization.
I'll go there.
Yeah.
For those listening, what I exclaimed about is this is my first time casting fog cloud
and it left a pretty cool fog cloud covering the template.
That's just awesome.
So in Foundry, it has animation and everything.
So it literally is.
It's really cool how it's moving.
All right.
So we got some fog cloud laid down.
Does that complete your turn?
Would you like to know?
No, I'm going to move up in my fog cloud a little bit to remember that's a concentration.
Yes.
I basically don't want to get smacked.
I guess I'll move to about here.
Okay.
I just creeping into the thick fog.
I just got some other Foundry stuff going on right now and it's pretty cool.
Yeah.
What did it give you?
This makes the area heavily obscured.
No, I hear the river.
Spoilers.
I'm sorry.
Will you ask?
I guess you're right.
All right, buddy.
Is that in your turn?
Yep.
Oh shit.
Awesome.
I mean, oh fuck.
Oh, F. Oh, F.
All right.
Moving along.
I'm almost slipping back in to saying, Kyren, it's Corrin.
I've got this.
You're up.
All right.
I want to run over to the water, staying in obscurity, and I'm going to draw my bow and
hold my action until I be...
Actually, I'm going to go over here.
I don't want to be quite that close.
You're not on the edge.
You might not be able to see out.
Is it...
Let me see out of the clouds.
Is that what you're saying?
Areas heavily obscured.
A creature effectively suffers the blinded condition when trying to see something in
that area.
Maybe if you're on the edge, you can see out.
I don't know.
It's up to TK.
We'll see something in the area.
Am I going to be seeing anything then?
You are in fact blinded within this because you are, quote, heavily obscured.
But maybe on the edge, you can see out, but things will have a hard time seeing in.
You just go back over there.
One of those double edged blades, you know what I mean?
Right.
But when people are shooting at you with arrows, you know, can't...
Don't have blind fighting.
Yeah, I'm just going to ready action bow and arrow for if I see a goblin or anything else
scary.
All right, ready in an action until you see a goblin or anything else scary.
Sounds good.
All right.
You can pull up cover on 5e tools also.
It's got the same thing.
Yeah, that link you sent me, it wasn't working.
So really?
Yeah.
Well, if you just type it in that search bar top right, quick reference will pop up.
Yeah, I typed cover and then it brought me the thing, but then I click it and nothing
happens.
Weird.
So I don't know what's going on there, but I know the rules.
Basically total cover can't be targeted direct by an attacker spell.
Although some spells can reach such target, including area of effect.
Target has total cover if it's completely concealed by an obstacle.
Three quarter cover is the one that gives plus five to AC and deck saves.
And it has three quarter cover if it's covered by an obstacle.
Yeah, so I think you guys are pretty well obscured in that.
Yeah.
So basically on my turn, I ran straight until I ran into water and I stopped and ready to
do an attack if I am able to sense or find anything to attack.
Okay.
Sounds good.
So that brings us to one of my individual's turns.
Roll a perception check.
Corund.
Okay, 15.
You hear.
What the hell is that?
I don't know, dude.
I don't know.
It's like smoke or something.
Can you see him?
No, I don't see shit.
You can hear some talking going on in this brush over in this direction.
Let's go ahead and that'll end my turn.
Bishop, your turn.
Okay, I'm just going to walk next to Emres in the fog.
Well, you'd hope so.
You'd have no idea what's going on there.
So let's say you walk into the fog and next thing you know, you're standing next to Emres.
Hey, whoa.
Can't see me.
He doesn't blind you the moment, like turn the whole screen back the moment you walk
in.
Oh, that'd be wild, dude.
Or like just all you see is your little five foot gray square and parts of the square squares
next to you.
That'd be amazing.
I think they have something for that.
I'll look into it in our downtime.
You walk off the cliff because you can't see.
Great.
TPK by fog.
All right, Bishop, we kind of cut into your turn there.
What are you doing?
I am, I guess, already a melee attack.
Does any enemies come within my direction that are not my travelers?
OK, ready in some melee.
Noted.
You know, end of my turn.
All right, Marin, you're up.
Yep.
I'm also going to walk blindly into the fog.
And then I'm going to mutter a couple arcane phrases and trace out a rune in the Aaron
Cass blade ward on myself.
I don't like it.
That'll do it for me.
And you still have major armor active because that's an eight hours, eight hours.
And I would say you guys didn't spend nowhere near that getting up here.
I'd say five miles at a walking pace.
You probably made it.
Let's see.
Maybe an hour.
Yeah, I'd say I probably could kill about an hour and a half.
That's fair.
So you still have major armor.
Are you able to link this spell you just cast?
May bladeward?
Yeah, I don't know.
Probably into the end of the VT Tisle.
Yeah.
So if you open up your character sheet, it doesn't look to be synced again.
You see spells.
OK, so you stand one action self one round.
Extend your hand to signal.
We're in the air to the end of your next turn.
You have resistance against bludgeoning, piercing and slashing.
Yeah.
Dealt by weapon attacks.
Pretty pretty sweet.
I don't like it, but it's pretty sweet.
All right.
Does that end your turn?
Yes, sir.
Cool.
It brings us to my turn to do what to do.
What would we do?
We're staring at a fog cloud with some scary things.
Someone just took damage.
Hmm.
Did you just take damage?
No.
OK, I thought I saw four.
I thought I heard some voices.
Yeah, you don't see anything.
You're in fog and blinded.
He's fine.
He'll be fine.
You take you take four points of psychic damage.
OK.
Hey, you go tell the others what's going on out here.
There's something funny going on.
Ends his turn.
We're going to get to this turn here.
He's going to reconnect to the BTT.
One second.
OK.
30, 40, 45, 50, 60.
OK, so one of them.
I don't think any of you saw it.
What happened just now?
My kind of edge of the fog or no?
I think you're on the edge, but your vision was probably obscured.
You might have made you might have been able to see something dart into the cave.
Yeah, it's hard to say because that fog comes out to almost the almost the I mean, I see
halfway where my mouth is, I can see, I mean, like, yeah, I was scared.
I should say.
Yeah, it's the fog, though, that I'm I know you can see without the fog.
I can see what you're seeing.
And you definitely saw something dart into that cave.
But with the fog and you standing in the fog where you're at, because you're still in the
circle.
Yeah, because you're you're on the edge here.
But I think the fog covers up to here.
Like, yeah, I put it a little like right here.
So drawing the line like you're going through part of the fog.
Yeah.
Just trying to play it out fair and use the fog because you definitely would want the
fog if it benefited you to help you out like that.
So I'm trying to play it fair and honest here.
I don't think anyone really saw what happened, but something definitely went down because
Emreis, it's your turn.
OK.
I think I'm going to just ready an action to hit something with my scimitar if I actually
let me see.
And then I can't cast a spell when I'm already channeling a spell, right?
You can.
Well, I just want to cast another concentration.
Yeah.
OK.
Yeah, that's all.
OK, then I'm going to get to the edge of the fog and ready an action to Thorn Whip, the
first goblin or enemy I see.
And that will be the end of my turn.
Corrin.
I'm going to take a few steps ahead of following the water, like because it's pretty much the
only edge I know, and that's what I've seen prior to this fog.
Trying to know, trying to know I heard something.
I'm trying to see if I can hear that anymore.
I heard the goblins.
Well, you first of all, you notice that when you're walking this stream that it seems to
be a pretty mellow, just two foot deep stream doesn't seem like it'd be difficult to traverse
in or across.
You do notice that the thickets that are across the bank from you look extremely dense and
you don't think you'd have much luck trying to get through them.
It might be possible, but it would take you a while to chop and slash through those.
You make your way along the edge that you know, the edge of the stream there and make
your way up and you are listening out, but you do not hear anything.
I'm going to try not to like yell per se.
Where are you?
But Bishop, are you there?
What do you want?
Maybe you should do that thing you did back at the prison that one time to get me out.
Maybe you can talk to these folks.
I'll think about it.
And then I'm just going to ready action again.
I don't see nothing.
Okay.
Ready in action.
Which action are you ready?
Just so we be cleared up.
The bow.
Okay.
The bow.
Sounds good.
My turn.
Ready.
Bishop, you're up.
All right.
I am.
Let's see here.
I am going to.
I am a shape changer.
So I can change the way I look and I am going to change myself into one of the goblins from
the ambush.
Okay.
As my action.
I'm going to go 15 feet outside of the fog.
Do I see anything from here?
You step out of the fog and immediately when you break the plane, an arrow comes out of
the bushes at you.
He had readied an action to shoot anything that came out of that fog.
Wait, do I have to thorn whip Roche now that he, I mean Bishop now that he looks like a
goblin?
I readied an action.
That was too cool.
All right.
Let's see.
Roll it on the table here.
That was fun.
All right.
It missed.
It would, it sales past you.
He shouts out, ah, sorry.
I thought it, I thought it was, what's going on?
What are you doing?
Why are you shooting at me?
What are you hanging out in that fog for?
I was running back in there.
I was running through the fog.
Well, you didn't see those other dudes.
I didn't see anything.
It's all foggy.
What do you think?
Shit, I could have killed you, man.
Get over here.
That's my max movement.
Okay.
There's all kinds of crazy things in there.
I was hearing all kinds of noises.
It's like, uh, growls and like ogres and stuff in there, man.
You come around the corner of the briar, um, the thickets here and you see that these wooden
planks have been laid and flatten the briars to provide enough room for these guards to
lie down hidden and watch the area.
And you would imagine that there could fit about several of these goblins here.
However, right now you're looking at two.
One of them appears to be like a normal one that you saw from the ambush and the other
one seems to be a bit more armored.
And he seems to be a bit more, um, I guess I say older, maybe a little bit.
And the younger one says to you, he says, good thing you made it over here.
Come on, take cover.
We, there's, there's, there's fucking dudes out there in the fog.
I can't believe you didn't see that.
Um, I'm talking to the armored one.
Hey boss, I think, I think you need to go in there.
It's too scary.
I ain't going out there.
You're crazy.
No way.
What'd you just hunker down over here?
Yeah.
So I think, I think your movement would keep you here if you had 30 feet.
Yeah.
Um, he say, why the hell would I go in there?
I'm perfectly fine right here.
Plus there ain't no creepos in here.
They're out there in the fog.
I think you should just stay here.
Stay put, stay safe.
We sent for help.
Sure thing boss.
Worst case scenario, we'll take a run back in the cave.
That's why they gave you the shiny trinkets.
Well, you know, clog won't be too happy if we let these bozos come up in our cave and
we didn't at least try and stop them.
Um, okay.
So I think you've used an action and your movement.
If you have a bonus action or any other conversation you'd like to make, um, you may do so.
Uh, no, just, just, uh, do what he says.
They don't, they don't seem to be wanting to walk out into the fog.
Right.
Unfortunately.
I don't think it would be something that even they would could be talked into at the moment.
Um, seeing, yeah, seeing the intruders, seeing the fog, I don't think they'd just go run
right out into it.
Uh, Marin.
Yeah.
Um, you're up, dude.
Okay.
Let me see here.
Uh, come up here.
Oh my God.
Water got real loud.
Um, Oh, I'm going to come up here to the edge of the fog and at least poke my head out.
Um, I can see a dog up there.
Is there a dog up there?
There is a dog up there.
You look up into the cave and you can barely make out what appears to be like the head
of a canine.
And it seems to be laying down right now.
Hmm.
Not a big fan of that.
Um, I've used almost all of my movement, though, just to get here to the edge.
So I'm going to once again, uh, trace a bit of a rune in the air and cast blade ward on
myself.
Um, and I'm going to have my, my owl just kind of perch up here on the cliff edge.
Um, and have it, uh, let out a couple of hoots if it sees anything coming out of the cave.
Uh, and that'll, that'll do it for me.
Okay.
Damn.
I still got to work on getting you that owl buddy.
I will have you your owl soon though.
Um, could slow us down to a halt right now and look for it.
Oh, I wouldn't worry about it right this minute.
Yeah.
We'll worry about it this second.
Um, so your all goes up there and he posts up ready to hoot.
Alrighty.
If that ends your turn.
Okay.
We'll go to, um, the older one speaks to you, Bishop.
He says, uh, so you didn't see anything when you was out there.
Nah, it's all foggy.
Right.
I know.
Yeah.
I see that we could, we could see it.
Uh, if I saw something, I'd tell you, but it was all foggy in there.
I couldn't see anything.
I just ran through it.
Well, I'm going to stance here and I'm going to have a look.
And if anything steps out of that fog, I'm going to let them have it.
Uh, ends his turn.
The other one says, yeah, boss, that's a good idea, dude.
I'm all right.
I'm readying it up too.
I'm with you.
Amaris, it's your turn.
I think I'm just going to chill, ready my action to line with anything.
Nobody wants to make a move to die.
We got an old fashioned fog stand up.
I'm going to do this trick that I call end turn.
That brings us to Corrin.
Waiting for the first person to put their hand on that.
Who's going to be the one to pull the pin out of the grenade?
It's not about who pulls the pin out of the grenade.
It's who's near the grenade when it goes off.
I hope it's the goblin.
Right.
Um, I'm going to, uh, reach into my bag of, uh, ball bearings.
Bag of tricks.
Yeah.
And I'm going to, well, let's say I'll take an hour step forward into the fog a little
bit.
I'm going to, um, throw some, a handful of marbles at the cave wall right where my mouse
is.
Okay.
Uh, what are you trying to accomplish there?
I'm trying to, uh, maybe draw one of them out and draw some attention over there.
Yeah.
And I, cause I'm skirting the edge of the fog, I was peeking out and not seeing anything.
I know Bishop, um, we had that conversation, so I imagine he went forth and that's kind
of what maybe kind of the noises I've been hearing.
Um, and I don't see any of my friends yet.
Um, I can kind of tell that somebody's standing beside me.
So I'm going to, uh, see if I can't draw the enemy out by making a distraction.
Okay.
Um, this whole time that you've been explaining this to me, I've been trying to draw, uh,
and my fucking draw tool isn't working for some reason.
So that's very frustrating.
Um, but you, you throw some shit up against the wall and, um, you hear coming from in
here in the bushes, you hear, and it was that, I don't know.
Do you see anything?
No, I don't, I don't see nothing.
And then, um, after not hearing, I'm rest.
Is that you?
Hmm.
I do be me.
Oh, no.
Marin, did you say something?
We need a plan.
I think the plan to be going there and kill goblins.
Do you know, I think Bishop went in after, I don't know if we should, we wait for him
to do something.
Maybe he'll give us a signal.
This is great because Corrin can't see Bishop where he's standing.
I just looked at his character.
Oh, I can.
Oh, he's out there.
Well, you can't see either.
You're blind from the fit from the fog.
Unless I poke my little door, fed out.
Yeah, I think, I think the play is to wait for Bishop to give us a signal to attack.
So at this point, yeah, I'm going to just hold it action bow.
Hopefully Bishop gives us a signal or we go into a more in depth counter.
All right.
Ready the bow again.
Coming on if that ends your turn.
Yeah, let me end my turn.
I still don't see nothing.
It's like, I think they threw some rocks at the wall over there or something.
But other than that, I don't see nothing.
What about you?
He looks to you, Bishop.
Is it my turn?
No, but he's talking to you.
I'll go check it out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you do that.
Bishop, it's your turn.
OK, so I'm going to walk over here, pick up some marbles, come back.
Hold on, wait, Kyren.
What did you say?
You're ready, trigger us.
Goblin, do I see him?
Oh, but you guys can't see.
So yeah, all right.
I was going to have fun with that, but you guys can't see.
So never mind.
You're blind.
OK, go ahead, Bishop.
He doesn't shoot you this time.
You know, just to be clear, he didn't let me have fun earlier, so he doesn't get to
have fun right now.
That's what he's saying.
So I go grab some of the marbles and I come back and I'm like, oh, dude, look at this
little shiny thingies on the ground over there.
They are shiny things coming out of this fog.
Shiny things coming out of the fog.
Look at it.
And I show him a handful of marbles.
I mean, I mean, there is some shiny things over there.
How much you think these are worth?
I don't know.
But I don't want to let anyone else find out.
Go grab them.
No.
I'll split some with you.
Split?
I went over there and got them.
I'm going to buy my own cave.
Buy your own cave?
I want to buy my cave too.
Hey, hey, come here.
Let me tell you something.
You know, you see you see over there?
Yeah.
Over there, there's a whole box of shiny stuff that the boss don't want us to know.
But I'll tell you what, you let me go pick those shinies up.
I'll let you have the box over there.
It's pretty much an even split.
I think I think the boss is going to find out.
You're right.
He's probably he's pretty smart.
He gets the big trinkets, you know.
What if we what if we take him out and then he won't know and we'll blame it on the fog?
Are you crazy?
I mean, do you want your own cave?
I mean, yeah, but I don't even think the two of us could take him out.
All he does is he sits over here and tells us what to do.
That's what bosses are for.
You've been breathing too much of that fog, man.
Well, I bet if you I bet there's more in there and it's either the boss gets all of it or
we do something.
We either got to go get it or we got to get it before the boss does.
So what do you say?
You're trying you're trying to get me to leave my post here next to the boss.
I don't know, man.
I'll run out there and grab those shinies, but I ain't splitting them with you if I go
get them.
I already got enough to buy two caves.
Two caves?
Yeah, look at them.
This was green, I think.
What color is green again?
You know, you you take blue and a little yellow.
Oh, you're so smart with the colors, huh?
Something like that.
Just don't ask me to count.
Well, I got to see.
I got one, eight, eleven, four.
I got that many just from walking over there.
Four is a lot.
That's like, yeah, that's at least two caves.
At least.
OK.
It's your turn still.
You can.
I'm just going to stand right here, so I'm not blocking anything.
And that's it.
OK, we are up to Marin.
Saw that, though, I'm going in, sitting there huddled in the smoke
and butter under myself.
Eventually I go, oh, this is stupid.
Fuck it.
And I pull a little flask off my belt and I take a shot
casting False Life.
So I get five temporary HP.
So
and Blade Ward is still active until the end of my turn.
So stepping out and headed this way.
OK.
Now, you you you recast Blade Ward
at the beginning of the I cast it on my last turn
and it lasts one round.
It lasts until the end of your next turn.
So it's still active.
Oh, OK.
I like it. OK.
So you pop out of the fog.
And immediately these two goblins fire at you.
This one here, let's see.
This one uses a javelin.
For a 15 to hit.
Yeah, it looks like it's well on course to strike me.
But I I shout out some more arcane words and I throw up my hand.
I cast shield.
Oh, nice.
My armor class is 18.
Yeah, the start of my next.
OK. So you cast shield.
Yeah, just blown all my spell slots to get this.
OK.
So the other one now is going to.
Fire and that is going to be a 21.
That will hit. OK.
You have resistance to piercing now, right?
I do, in fact. Nice.
For five points of piercing damage.
So have to reduce to two.
Yeah. So it comes in and strikes me.
But it looks like it's deflected and it leaves
a bit of a small cut on me, which immediately heals over
as the temporary hit points from false life take effect.
Yeah, that's fucking cool.
OK. And you have the rest of your turn now to move about.
Yeah. I mean, I have like 15 more feet.
Yeah, that's just triggered when you when you came out of the cloud.
So I'm going to barrel in here.
I've used my action, used my reaction even.
Oh, I told you it's creepy shit out there.
I shot him.
I barrel in
battle acts in hand, but I cannot attack this turn.
I'm going to have my owl
dive in at this one and just perform the help action so that
next person who attacks it will have advantage.
For which one?
It'll form the help action on this one.
OK. Fly up and flap and feathers in its face.
Distracted a little bit. So the next.
OK, so to the one standing right to the west of you right next to you.
All righty. You got it.
So I barrel into the stick it and that'll do it for me.
OK, that'll do it.
And as your turn, that brings us to this one here.
You run into the to the patch with these guys and.
He.
Drops his javelin that he had.
He had one more.
He drops it.
He brandishes a scimitar.
And he goes to hit you.
Oh, baby, 23 to hit.
That will do it.
That's some of them rocks right there.
That's going to be.
Five points of slashing damage.
OK, and it's through the rest of my temporary hit points
and hurts me a bit.
OK, it's you have resistance to it still.
No, it ended at the end of my turn.
And he comes around with another swing with the scimitar.
Multi attack. Maybe.
But this is only an 11 to hit.
That will not do it.
OK, glances off my still hovering magical shield.
It bounces off this magic shield, this major armor.
And he is going to end his turn.
Now we're at this one here.
He looks to Bishop's carry, he's like, swing, don't swing.
And he drops his shortbow, brandishes the scimitar.
13 to hit.
No, that will not do it.
OK, does not do it.
That will end his turn.
Emre's, it's your turn.
OK, after having hit heard the dwarf where and then some clinks,
not knowing that it was the flask and then heard movement heading out,
I'm going to venture out also.
To.
About here first, and then I see the dwarf.
So I know where he went and here and from here I can see the goblin.
So I will.
Thorn with the goblin, I can see right there.
All right. Let me let me select my target.
And I'm going to roll to attack.
I rolled a 15, 15.
15 hits.
Yes.
And I'm going to roll.
Yeah, go ahead.
Go ahead. I was just going to say damage.
You're good. Roll away.
OK.
Oh.
Flops with the one.
So you roll minimum damage and we have the.
The game set up the foundry where he put a special effect on his dice
when he rolled it and it made a sound effect.
It was like, oh, oh, oh, it was just it was pretty funny.
OK, so one point of damage.
And all right, I'm going for a ride here, right or no?
You are going for a ride.
All right.
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All right, well, it sucks to be you guys.
Yeah.
In that case, does that end your turn?
That is the end of my turn.
Corrend, the crazy dwarf, and I want to run out.
Oh, yeah, I immediately see a goblin.
And I really have a target, so
I am going to
I'm never curious.
Stay right here.
I drop my bow. It's in the water. It's gone.
You would indeed have to drop it unless you want to spend an action to see that,
because you said you had your bow out.
Right.
Free action, draw action to sheath, free action to drop.
Or free action to drop free action.
Now, I draw because I have unarmed attack.
Would it be safe to say if I don't draw the bow,
I can swing with my fist with a bow in the other hand?
Hmm. I mean, I'm not pulling on the string
to go take a shot. I would have a free hand.
I mean, I could I could punch something while holding a bow.
So I don't see why you couldn't.
I don't know if the rules.
I think I would just lose my bonus action
because I'd be my offhand holding the bow or.
Or you can sheathe it with your
action and then bonus action hit.
But I want to get the bonus action if I'm attacking.
That would be the cleaner way.
Yeah, because then you'd have your fists out if you needed to swing again.
The stowing or drawing a weapon is a free action that you can do
as part of your movement, so long as it's only one.
Since you're an unarmed fighter, I think stowing your weapon while you move
and then punching is all fine.
You wouldn't have to drop it.
So as I walked out of the fog and see a goblin immediately
stowing the bow as I'm approaching.
I believe that should be out or.
You're fine. You can stow it or
you can draw or stow a single weapon for free per round
as part of an action or movement.
So you would have to use your movement.
To do that, so you wouldn't as part of your movement,
you would still get your movement.
OK, so as I moved the five feet, would I be still be able to
still my bow as I moved forward them?
Yeah, that's weird how they have that written,
because I always thought it was an action to stow a weapon.
If you if you want to stow a weapon and draw a different weapon
that would take up your action,
but you could like unarmed drop and draw a weapon without doing it.
But since you're not trying to draw any other weapon.
Stow my weapons on my left and my right.
So up to you, Thunder.
I don't know, I've always played it as stowing weapons as an action.
Maybe that's wrong.
I'm trying to pull up my D&D
beyond basic rules for this.
Judgment call for right now is you're being prone's judgment call right now.
It's more fun to hit shit, so go ahead and hit, but we're going to
we're going to look it up that way.
We got this down for next time because you're an unarmed dude
and I have a feeling you're OK.
Well, just let me know if I want to be able to do bonus action,
because I imagine even with a bow in my hand,
I'd be able to do at least one unarmed strike.
So just let me know if I can do bonus action.
I'll go ahead and.
Are you and swing away?
18 to hit.
Oh, yeah, that hits. Five.
Yeah. OK.
You clock this thing, he's still up, but he's not looking good.
So it's up to you on the bonus action part.
All right, yeah, just go ahead and take it right now.
We're going to figure it out later,
but we'll just have a little fun.
Yeah.
Both still in the hands of.
Yeah, this.
I'm still fingering around with the bow, I guess.
OK, I think he ducks just under your blow with an eight
and that does not hit him.
Where did that crazy dwarf run off to?
He's right around the corner.
I would like to say that that was an excellent use of spells
and your character, and I want to award the first bottle cap
of the game to Marin.
So go ahead and just mark that down,
either notes or just market is like the inspiration
on your character sheet.
Thank you.
It should have been much better, though, frankly, I cast the wrong spell.
It was it was still really good, though, and you guys
you guys are all doing a great job.
There's a lot of great role play going on.
It's fun. It's a fun time at the table.
But that was just overall, that was it was a really good display
of and use of your things to get this started.
So yeah, I think it should be rewarded.
That brings me to my dude's turn here.
He's going to freak out and he's going to
after being beaten down to a one
bonus action, disengage.
Should I have a turn before them?
They both attacked me after I went.
Feel like I should be.
Yeah, no, they attacked you.
Oh, they attacked me with the reactions.
That's right. Yeah, I got the wrong one here.
No, I got the wrong one.
What happened is I went out of turn with the other guy
who's still on the combat tracker for some reason.
So you're right. So actually, it would be.
This show. Yep.
See that, guys, you see that?
Yeah. Let's get on my turn.
No, I just get my own turn.
He just keeps any of your turn last session.
Now he's just going to be all together.
Who do I attack?
What do I do?
I am going to tell the dead this guy,
the boss man.
OK, 13. I don't like it.
Oh, I don't like it.
Let's see if he has any.
Fuck, no, he don't. All right.
14. Let's go.
Had to roll high.
What would you roll? I rolled a 14.
So, OK, then you beat my 13.
Indeed.
I will duck and block this guy and
throw shinies of mine.
And then that's it.
OK, it is Marin's turn.
I'm going to. God, this guy's going to kill me.
Oh, well, I'm going to send Darren, my owl in,
for my help action.
Slap around this guy's face.
And then I'm going to take a swing at him with my battle axe.
Two handed.
18 to hit. OK.
Couple of things are going to happen here.
So an 18 hits, but he's going to use his reaction
to perform what's called the redirect attack.
Now, I think this works
because Bishop is currently a goblin.
It says when a creature, the goblin can see.
Oh, I'm sorry, that's the wrong one there.
When a creature, the goblin can see targets it with an attack,
the goblin chooses another goblin within five feet of it.
The two goblins swap places and the chosen goblin
becomes the target instead.
Oh, Roche is a change.
I mean, Bishop is is not a goblin.
He's a changeling, but he because he's a changeling,
he's technically also a goblin right now.
Is he technically also a goblin, though?
This is where I also sort of implies cooperation
with the goblin that you're changing places with.
Well, I don't know if it implies cooperation
because he could just grab another goblin of his own
and yank him into the way.
It's kind of a selfish act thing. Right.
And the whole thing is like goblins are
it would be like because the goblins are the same size and are small.
I mean, you just would force them over.
Catch them off guard, basically.
I guess we need to know, do changelings, I mean,
for all intents and purposes, you're the same size, same shape.
You your parents is I would
I would say it's it's not a air quote disguise.
I think changeling is actually changing themselves like purely.
So I would be technically would be a goblin, I suppose.
It's a very nuanced.
I know. I just had the idea like came on my head.
When you came up close to me, I was like the gathering.
There's changelings and magic, the gathering and the changeling
has all creature types.
Yeah, but that's a different game.
Yeah, but I'm just trying to do this.
I would. So I'm technically fake.
So I guess you need to make a decision
if I'm fake in all my forms or if my form dictates my race.
That's yours.
I mean, as it's written, though, it just says goblin.
True. So that's what I'm going off of.
It doesn't say like.
Hmm. I don't know.
What do you think, Croaker?
Um, I don't think I would allow it
if I were running, but you're the boss here.
I feel like he would reach out to try and swap places with changeling Roche.
But unlike the other survival goblins he works with,
there would be resistance.
I wouldn't resistance or I would resist.
If that's the case, he finds out his true nature.
Yeah.
Which I mean, it's been a stretch anyway,
because Roche is still wearing bishops clothes as a goblin.
Mm hmm.
They never asked.
Had they asked, they would have found you probably would just played it off
like he alluded to it.
He found it.
So I don't know.
All right. Roll your damage.
OK, I need this one here.
I for one, if I'm for it, so it's really up here.
The fibers six.
OK, six points of slashing.
All righty. Damage taken.
OK, I'm just going to cleave my way out of here.
That's it for me.
You said that ends your turn?
Yes, that is for me.
Moving on, it is his turn now.
He didn't like that.
He went to yank at the other goblin.
We're going to say it didn't work.
We're going to say he's kind of raising a
raising an eyebrow and giving you the hairy eyes.
What's going on here? What's going on here?
He's going to swing at Marin.
I'm going to use that.
Bottle cap you just gave me and give him disadvantage. OK.
Shit. Twelve.
That's not going to do it.
All right. And he's going to swing again.
Oh, for seven.
That is also not going to do it. OK.
I think a small creature could get past you guys, but I don't know.
I don't believe so.
Yeah, I don't think so. We're both on the smaller side, so
it's not like you can run through our legs or anything weird like that. Yeah.
All right. All right.
So he's stuck.
Amherst. All right.
I'm going to take a swing, I believe.
Let me check my spells real quick, see if I've got anything helpful.
Oh, yeah, I think real quick before you go that goblin to take his turn.
Truth. It's fine.
It's OK. He'll get it on the next round.
I acted as the wrong goblin on the last time.
Do you want to switch them for the last round? It's fine.
OK. OK. When I when I attacked
Marin with the two goblins,
one of the goblins was the one that went in the cave
on the combat tracker.
So that was my bad.
Gotcha. OK.
Then I'm going to take a swing with my scimitar at him. OK.
I'm going to do one of these fancy fancy dancey scimitar swings.
Yeah, that was cool.
Going to attack. OK.
Before you tell me the outcome, I'm going to use a lucky.
All right. Got to keep doing this character selection thing usability.
So basically getting advantage.
Well, that didn't help much.
I'd say.
For like a try.
You love it. Lucky.
Love it again. That's a lucky.
And I guess that's it.
That was my turn.
Can I take bonus action?
That's about it.
So I'm going to end my turn here. OK.
That brings us to Korin.
All right. I'm going to strike at this one.
Striking out at the same one Amris was going for.
21 to hit. Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, yeah. Sorry. That's a 21 to hit.
And it's going to hit. He's like, I don't even need to roll this.
I can dodge and move in and just get clocked.
Yeah, that's definitely going to take him out.
How do you want to do that one?
I imagine that that Amris swung high.
So I just do an uppercut and he kind of just he just
because he goes to duck, he just ducks right into my fist.
Yeah, you clock this goblin and he just falls backwards
onto the little sandy bank there.
And he is the good old alley.
And then I'm going to take my move action
and step on his corpse.
Yeah, step over.
I step on top of his corpse.
He bag him and I can I can tell which one's Bishop
because of his armor. Right.
Yeah, he's wearing he's he's the goblin in super baggy clothes.
I take it that she is it just the one left.
Yeah, I'm going to move an hour, five feet.
Let's see.
And I'm going to just like try to look into the cave without like this.
I just want to look down the cave, basically.
See what I see. All right.
You see what looks to be like the stream
running over like some rocks right there,
kind of getting a little bit of whitewash in it.
You can see a tunnel leading off just to the left.
Looks like it has some crumbled rock, like some some rubble and rock
that had crumbled off the side of the wall there.
And it lays on the ground.
All right. Yeah, that's oh, and I guess, yeah, to your right, you see
there is a looks to be a wolf
that is laying down and hasn't
at this moment quite seem to notice you yet.
Looking in there, you can see also that there is a large.
Stalagmite, and it seems that this wolf is chained
to that stalagmite.
OK, so I'm thinking it's relatively safe right now.
At the moment, yeah.
It you don't see anything other than that wolf.
All right. I'm just going to back up so the wolf doesn't notice me.
And I want to look back over to Bishop and Marin.
Marin, use the rock and smash that goblin.
Let's get going. And then I'll just do my turn.
All righty. That brings us to Bishop.
What you going to do?
So I can move around them, right?
Oh, hey. Oh, yeah.
And then I'm going to quickly run around them
and then I'm going to a late attack.
Sorry, I didn't target him.
Oh, nice.
Twenty three.
And yeah, that hits. Nice.
We're doing awesome at this.
Good damage for the wind.
That's like one for the road.
Dory will kill him in 10 days.
That's why a thousand cuts
because a kill, it's the salt.
I can't do anything else.
So I will end my turn.
OK, you end your turn and it is Marin's turn.
I'm also going to sidestep here
and we're doing we're doing flanking.
Yeah, you get flanking.
Well, I'm going to swing with my battle with advantage.
I'm going to miss.
I got like a six.
Oh, yeah. Six is not it. Nice.
OK, well, here's hoping we do not die right about now.
I think that'll that'll do it for me.
Not much else I can manage. OK.
You swing at him.
He looks at you and he's going to swing back at you.
Twenty two. That'll hit. OK.
Let's come on with this neon green D6 six points of slashing.
Yeah, that'll do me.
All right.
I am unconscious.
Oh, sir. He turns to look at you, Bishop.
And he says to you, I don't think I've ever seen you here.
What's going on here?
I think.
I think something's going on here.
And Goblin's smart.
Got clonked in the back of the head by his friend.
Yeah, he's going to run.
Something weird's going on. Something strange is going on.
He's going to provoke.
Sure.
What do I roll for that attack?
Melee attack melee. Yeah.
See, we got another 23 in you.
Oh, 20. 20 will do.
I'm in there.
Hey, a little high. All right.
All righty.
You club him while he's running away yet again.
Oh, God.
And he will continue running by.
That was five.
Ten, 15, 20.
He's going to disengage.
25.
30.
He attacked, right?
Yeah, he attacked.
Right. Yep.
He sure did.
Goblin's get a nimble escape.
He can bonus action disengage.
Should have done down here.
I was betting on Bishop missing and Kyren hasn't missed in a while.
So he has been missing.
So I just thought the dice would be better that way.
I mean, disengage is for the rest of your turn.
Your attacks don't your your movement doesn't provoke.
So he would have avoided both.
But, you know, the more, you know.
I thought it was just the current combat.
Yeah, I thought so, too.
I thought it would be just, yeah.
For the rest of the turn.
Wow. Yeah, I'll go.
Oh, nice. That linked in here.
Oh, it's just power.
So I didn't find too much info on the changeling thing,
but I did see one post that I linked in chatting.
OK, I'll check it out.
All right. So let's see.
That's going to be it, I think, for his movement.
He's going to make it right there.
Moves us along to Amherst.
All right. As I see this goblin running by
I'm and running past us, I'm going to
whip out my thorn whip again and see if I can yank him back.
You turning into a scorpion.
Get over here.
Oh, that'll be rolling pretty good with those, too.
My cemetery sucks, but the whip is doing great.
And just for fun, because I don't have a thorn whip.
Which?
All right. Rolling damage.
Oof. Another minimum.
Yeah. Three with no bonuses.
And I'm going to yank him back towards Kyren.
Oh, snap.
All right. So he takes three
and he gets yanked back 10 feet.
So it's five, ten.
Oh, he comes fucking flying back.
All right. I think you have bonus action left.
Yeah, I do, but I don't really have anything I can do that I'm aware of.
OK. Corrin. All right.
I'm going to punch him. Hopefully.
15. When I re-listen to this, these recordings,
I'm going to play a drinking game with myself.
How many times have I mispronounced your name?
I'm pretty sure you'd be sloshed by now.
A 15 does not hit.
Oh,
bonus action, same thing.
Bonus action. Same thing.
No, Jesus Christ.
Oh, so close to 20.
I know. I know.
One more roll.
One more turn of the dice.
OK, so unfortunately, an eight does not hit.
That's not cool.
I don't like where this is going.
I'll sidestep and in my turn.
All right, sidestep and your turn.
That brings us to Bishop.
I'm going to step past the downed Ren.
And I am going to target him first.
Give him the old toll of the dead.
Ugh.
You make me roll this again.
All right, here we go.
OK, so my turn.
Oh, OK, so my dice is cracked, meaning
it wasn't on a number.
It was up against the wall there.
So I'm going to reroll,
which is good because it was on a 19 if if I did count it.
So all right, I rolled a nine. OK,
I'm going to give him the old.
Reversible damage.
Oh, boy. Eight.
All right.
Eight's going to do it.
How does how does this goblin die?
I imagine he's getting flunk around
by the thorn web,
landing in the water, splashing around all over the place.
Karen gives me old one to chicken nugget combo with
sidesteps real quick.
And then I step over the
the ran here and then he hears
the sound of the bells
the below and they get louder and louder.
And his head starts to shake a little bit.
Let's try to cover his ears to get blood coming out of it.
Yeah, he's got blood coming out of his nose and his eyes
fits out some blood and he just
falls right into the water face down.
And this is why he stepped to the side.
Emmeriss, you see this red water just streaming past you
as this goblin has fallen face first into the water.
Oh, yeah.
That ends combat for all intents and purposes,
as far as enemy combatants, we still have a guy down
who would be in death saves.
I accidentally closed the combat tracker like a noob
or we would be in turn order still, but you still have a bonus action, right?
I imagine.
I just can't remember it is the action or bonus action.
But if we're rolling out of combat, I would just cast spare the dying on
even a critical fail.
He's not going to die.
Yeah, it's just two failures.
I'll make it till next round.
Yeah.
Yep. Yep. All right.
So that resolves that
a little a little entryway combat right there.
How long does fog cloud last?
Is that gone now?
Like an hour.
OK, you know, it's still there.
It's hanging out.
And we got a retreat into the woods.
Short rest.
We got the Cheech the Cheech and Chong of goblins
hanging out over there, just
puffing that fog cloud out.
All right. So Marin has been spared of dying.
I don't know if we can push forward like this right now.
Let's go.
Let's go hide past the fog.
Yeah.
And give this guy a little rest while it's still up.
I'll pick up.
I'll pick up the dwarf and pull them to the fog.
And I imagine I mean, I suppose I'm unconscious.
I can't really help.
Yeah, I imagine we're going to short rest.
And then the fog will end probably about halfway through that or something.
And I mean, I don't know if I would short rest this close to the cave.
You're dead.
I know.
I agree.
And I can stay in guard.
Uh, can you miss them?
The clouds not going to last much longer.
We should probably evacuate the area.
Yeah, I imagine we get out of a shot of the cave.
OK, so you guys make your way out,
carrying Marin and get out and away from the cave
back into the thicker
brushy area of where the trail opened up into this clearing
and find a spot to take a rest.
That was fun, yeah.
This, I guess.
Did you find any information?
I'm going to turn back to myself.
Not really. There's more goblins inside.
I saw some wolves inside
chained to some of the slag mites and slag tits inside.
I don't know if I trust that to hold down the dogs, though.
So you're saying Marin rolls over and escape, muttering about how stalagmites
are mighty and grow out of the ground.
Stalactites hold on tight to the ceiling.
Dwarven dreams, you know, you're feeling the ground.
Dreaming of Rock and Stone.
Did I hear Rock and Stone, brother?
Rock and Stone to the bone.
I don't get me started on that.
It's a good game.
Oh. All right.
We're rolling some H Pizzles would be great.
I don't have any one.
These ass.
Rolled a big two plus one from my con.
All right, that's half my hit points, three.
And I am also going to use my arcane
recovery feature to recover a spell slot.
Yes, I'm going to use my arcane recovery feature to that he has.
I'm going to borrow that for a second.
Don't mind, do you?
Hey, man, I need to borrow your arcane recovery.
Oh, well, so would I be at three hit points or would I be at four hit points?
Because after an hour, you wake up with one hit point
and then the hit that gives me another three.
I think he'd be at home.
Then I should be at nine and sick.
Are we just resting for an hour?
I think he's a bit short rest.
Yeah, short rest.
OK. How do I mark my hit?
I is used.
It did it on its own for me when I click the short.
I mean, you have to like roll the die that pops up on that screen.
Oh, I see.
Take short rest, confirm.
And you're probably going to have to
readjust the three health that you rolled. Yeah. Relevant ability.
OK, it looks fine.
Didn't actually increase my hit point.
I assume it used my hit die.
Who knows?
All right, yeah, I totally should have used a different spell in that combat.
I used I didn't read my spell all the way through before we became this game,
but I used false life.
I should have just used Arm of Agathys.
And then I would put five damage on those two goblins when they hit me.
And I would have had the same amount of temporary hit points.
I thought I could use like later on, I could use Arm of Agathys and then
a false life to keep it going for longer and make me not die.
But Arm of Agathys' damage only lasts while the temporary hit points from
Arm of Agathys are around.
So that's a bit of a drag.
But once I have my abjurer stuff, it'll be it'll be good.
Anyway,
if if you still got your used car lot TK after this session,
I'm probably going to swap that spell out for something that's actually useful.
You don't mind.
Yeah. So for those of you listening at home and don't know,
the TK used car lot.
Early game, I allow players to kind of go back
and maybe change something they don't like, because, you know,
we play this game to have fun, and if you're not having fun,
that sucks. So
up until a certain point in the game, usually like level three ish,
somewhere in there, we kind of say like, all right, you know what?
No more trade ins.
This is this is what you got. This is what you're going to play.
So hopefully by then you guys have it figured out.
But yeah, absolutely, man.
Appreciate it.
We should swap that one out.
Yeah, and I should have figured out.
And for those listening at home wondering how I have Arm of Agathys as a wizard,
Mark of Wardingdorf.
Pretty freaking cool. Very nice. Very nice.
Very nice. Pretty, pretty cool.
How do I get?
Why can't I click that fog?
I can't click that fog.
Can you click that fog?
And I can't click that fog.
Can I click that fog?
Anyone?
No, I can't.
Super, you can turn off your concentration, though.
Super, get your fog off my screen.
I knew how.
Right click your portrait and then top right, science status effects.
And Drew doesn't know how to control his fog.
There you go.
It didn't do it.
Fog's still there.
Oh, that I can't help you with.
You should be able to target the effect and then delete it.
I don't see anything on the ground.
Yeah.
I can't.
That's forever fog now, dude.
It's stuck there.
It's forever fog.
The fog of foreverness.
Check the weather report.
It's foggy.
It's going to be foggy.
Drew doesn't know his own strength.
Dude, call me the weather master.
I can create mist.
Oh, who got rid of it?
I am God and I made the fog disappear.
Hey, get out of here with this shit.
And now we learned a lesson on pure chaos.
I think it worked out pretty good.
The first death wasn't until we actually got up there.
And nobody died.
Nobody died.
I probably shouldn't have gone for that attack on that other round.
I should have blade warded.
Mm hmm.
Well, you dropped me.
You maybe wouldn't have died.
You would have ran in.
I know.
Sure. Well, I mean, I didn't hit him on that last day, but yeah.
True. Right.
You never know.
True.
Looks like your giant marbles are still up there, too.
Yeah. Well.
Your boulder marble.
I threw a handful, so.
Well, they're mine now.
He's going to go by with it.
Yeah. The shinies.
I know how to distract Roche.
What smells?
Oh, they'll never know.
Sad face.
All right.
So we need a plan.
Yeah, we're going to go in that cave.
We got to get rock seeker.
Rock seeker and the other one, the tall one.
Was that all the goblins that was over there when you went in?
Or was there any others that that was on?
Yes.
Yeah, he talked about
more goblins inside the cave, though, where they alerted.
Yes, he said he had friends coming.
Maybe we it's our turn to put up an ambush. Yeah.
Could anyone tell if the one that ran off
down by the horses where we first set off on this path
was one of the ones we killed?
I couldn't tell you didn't ask questions.
You can ask them now, though.
But they're not much for the talking type.
Yeah.
You imagine we go.
Hopefully, the bodies are undiscovered.
Maybe you can dress up as one of the ones we killed and lure
more out into our own trap rather than falling for theirs constantly.
Oh, yeah, we should have dealt with the bodies before coming down.
We had more pressing matters. Yeah.
I think we still had time.
Well, I guess.
Welcome back.
I am going to go scout ahead and see if any have come.
And if not, I want to move the bodies.
Amrish, do you want to keep an eye on my back?
I sneak around like a pile of rocks.
Just keep your distance and you'll be fine.
I'm going to kind of walk along the edge of the plants.
I want to walk like 20 feet at 20, 25 feet ahead of him, at least.
All right. OK, we're sneaking up that way, right?
All right, let's get some stealth checks.
Be sneaky.
Oh, I knocked yours into a 16.
Too bad it doesn't count.
Yeah, that would be cool.
But I got an 18 and I'm just going to slowly make my way.
All righty.
Up any sign of bodies are still there.
No, it doesn't.
It doesn't look like anybody.
Is around you look in the cave, you can still see that wolf there.
It still doesn't seem to notice you.
It's kind of just it's awake now, but it's not turned down and grab the
leg or an arm of this
both the goblins and I want to drag them back this way.
OK, yeah, so you grab one of the arms of the one there
and you manage to get a hold of this one, too.
Let's marry them back with you.
The water should wash away all tracks or all traces of tampering.
We need to be that crazy.
We can throw them in a bush.
Let's not pollute the water if we can there.
If there's anything useful, I'm going to go cross the side
and see if there's anything on the other side.
OK, well, I'm going to search the goblins and then
fertilize the plants with them.
And then I'm going to just search this area.
Why don't you just mold some earth, put them into it, put the earth back on them.
I was going to do that, but I don't think I could make the plants or the grass.
Oh, yeah. Look the same.
That's why we're on it.
Yeah, I just can leave a fairy ring of mushrooms.
So, yeah, I want to search this area for anything.
All right. So go ahead and roll me an investigation check.
And then, Emreis, you're looking through these goblins things.
You just find that there is one goblin.
He's wearing a change shirt.
He also has a really worn down looking shield
and a beat up looking scimitar.
The other one has a really rusted,
just really bad looking scimitar, pretty dull.
And he doesn't seem to have anything special on him.
So other than that, he's wearing leather armor.
Is the quality of the leather OK enough to sell?
The leather armor, yeah, looks like it'd be OK.
And so does the chain mail, the change shirt.
Who wants to be our loot note taker?
What is a loot note taker?
Someone who tracks loot.
I wrote him down, but I would imagine whoever's looting it would keep track of that.
If it's a group loot doing them,
who gets it?
We should just post it in this cord.
So that way it's there.
So, yeah, I'm just going to take the arm, the leather armor in the chain
and I'm going to throw the corpses in the bushes.
So you remove the change shirt, you see he had also a like a belt pouch,
but it was sort of concealed by the shirt at the time.
And it contains 16 silver pieces.
Rolling your 15 and looking around over there,
Corrin, you don't seem to find anything of special interest.
Just looks like a bunch of boards and planks that were laid down to mat down
all that thick briar.
And you see like some bones,
maybe some scraps of stuff they'd been eating just littered about.
Doesn't look like anything useful over here, yeah.
Is a check where that goblin said there was trinkets?
Is there anything there?
Nothing. He's pulling my tail.
No, there's nothing.
He was just he was bluffing.
You can look over that spot and you realize, man,
good thing I didn't like him.
So what's the plan now?
We're going in the cave or we setting traps and bringing them out here.
We also have those dogs that they're awake now.
I don't know much about setting traps,
so I imagine we. Head in unless someone has better ideas.
The only thing else I can think of is
that dirt you moved earlier, could you do that and block off that path to the dogs?
Potentially, but I can go see what the temperament of the dogs is.
Maybe it's not even an issue.
It's beyond me.
Go and take one of those dead bodies with you and find out.
They're they're already in the bushes.
Would I be able to reach one of the corpses from outside without too much issue?
Knowing where they're stashed.
OK. All right. Yeah.
Can we hear any activity inside,
like any goblin activity or stuff we need to be worried about?
Getting closer to the cave, you hear the sounds of the stream getting louder
and louder, and it's getting more and more difficult to make out any other sounds
further down the tunnel. Perception check.
OK, so one before that one before. OK.
Oh, I.
I'm not sure.
I how high are the ceilings in the cave?
I feel like I'm going to take a better look deeper in.
Sounds like a plan.
Any information we can gather before just rushing in would probably help us.
Yeah, so the ceilings are 20 to 30 feet.
All right.
I'll need you to guard me while I look through his eyes.
I'm going to settle down and
channel my senses into my familiar. OK.
And I'm going to send them
flying along the cave.
Darren has a 120 foot dark vision,
keen eyes,
and it's stealthy, some stealthy flying.
Would you like me to roll a stealth for him?
You are flying your way in and.
He's an owl. Yeah, you can.
You think you're going to fly more stealthy.
I only got a nine on my stealth, though, so maybe not.
It's like a stealth fighter flying in.
OK, so you head into the cave and you see on the right hand side
immediately there, there's an area just inside the cave mouth.
A few uneven stone steps to send to a small, dank chamber
on the east side of this passage.
The cave narrows to a steep fissure at the far end
and is filled with the stench of animals.
Three chained wolves snarl and rattle their chains as you fly by.
Each wolf's chain leads to an iron rod driven into the base
of the stalagmite that's in the room.
You see that on the east side here, moving along further.
Let me see.
Where is that? Yeah.
And I narrate this out loud
as I fly through.
So the chamber has three wolves in it,
some sort of cave and in the back possibly.
OK, so the main passage
of the cave mouth climbs steeply upwards.
The stream plunging and splashing down its west side.
In the shadows, a side passage leads west across to the other side of the stream.
So that would be now you're about this area here.
And you could see that
up ahead of you in the shadows of the ceiling to the north,
you can make out the dim shape of a rope bridge
crossing over the passage ahead of you.
Another passage, 20 feet,
above the floor appears to intersect this one.
So kind of now flying in to where the bridge is.
Actually, let me you're flying up quite a bit higher.
You are at the ceiling height roughly.
So you can see now the intersecting path that goes across the bridge.
Yeah, follow along the main passage still.
OK, so flying along,
you see the stream continues beyond another set of uneven steps ahead.
And bending to the east, a waterfall burbles in a large cavern
that's somewhere on your right.
And as you go around this corner here,
you now can see that in the back
of the room over here, there's a waterfall that's pouring down
and creating the stream.
My seeing these goblins, these dogs.
So.
Yeah, you are seeing all those.
The area that you're in now, the cavern is is half filled
with two large pools of water.
A narrow waterfall high in the eastern wall feeds the pools,
which drain out into the western end of the chamber to form a stream.
So you can see that the stream is now
flowing into the western end of the chamber to form a stream
that flows from the cave mouth below.
Low field stone walls serve as dams holding the water in
and a wide exit stands to the south,
while two smaller passages lead west.
The sound of the waterfall echoes through the cavern,
making it very difficult to hear in this area.
In this area, you also see there's three goblins and two wolves.
And you can see that there's an area to your south.
You go and approach towards this way,
but realize that the ceiling is a little low,
so maybe you don't fully fly into that area.
Yeah.
So perching up onto the stalagmite, you can see into that area
and you see that sacks and crates of looted provisions are piled
in the south end of the large cave.
To the west, the floor seems to slope towards a narrow opening
that descends into darkness,
and a larger opening leads north down a set of natural stone steps,
and the roar of the falling water echoes from beyond,
so where you're at.
In the middle of the cavern,
there's the coals of a large fire smoldering.
Around the fire, you see that there's a bugbear,
and you see there's two goblins in there,
and also you see walking around, there's a wolf as well.
So I've seen six goblins, one bugbear, five wolves, six wolves.
Okay.
I'm going to head back down towards the main hallway
where that bridge was crossing over,
and maybe fly off this direction.
Alrighty.
You make your way in that direction.
As you do, you can see now that the cave ceiling is only about 10 feet.
As it gets to this narrow corridor,
you've reached the upper level, so to speak.
You're flying and you fly over a goblin who's in the hall,
and you come into another area and you see a large cave,
and it's divided in half by a 10-foot high escarpment.
A steep natural staircase leads from the lower portion to the upper ledge,
and the air seems hazy with the smoke of a cooking fire
and the pungent smell of a poorly cured hides and unwashed goblins.
You see in here there's five goblins,
and then you also see two of the older-looking goblins that have the jablins with them.
And then flying in a little bit more, you can see to the south,
there's a human, and he's bound, and he's seated there
next to one of those older goblins that I've described.
Okay. As soon as I have a big picture of the area,
I'm just going to dismiss Darren.
So he just winks out of existence,
and I can use an action to summon him back up right next to us.
So that way he doesn't have to fly out himself.
There's a lot in that cave, lads.
One bugbear, three of the elder goblins, 12 regular, six wolves.
I saw a bound human and a large number of looted goods,
just no rockseeker.
I don't suppose this bound human is how wintered are you?
That would be my guess, but I'm not familiar with the man.
Why would they split him up, then?
Who knows? Goblins are goblins.
I hesitate to say it, but it's possible the rockseeker is dead.
You don't think they...
There's no way of knowing until we get in there.
There were cooking fires,
but I didn't recognize any of the things they were cooking.
Any goblins near the entrance here?
No goblins near the entrance, just the three wolves.
You have to get much deeper in,
past the rope bridge before you start running into goblins.
Were the other wolves tied up like these ones were?
No, the other wolves were walking about free.
Okay.
They have pools of water and a very loud waterfall up at the top of the game.
Makes it hard to hear.
It's possible we could sneak in, but I'm not a big fan of the odds.
We definitely need a plan.
We do.
How far ahead is this waterfall?
Oh, I don't know. I didn't really get the distance.
100, 120 feet?
More?
Maybe we can make a dam and drown them.
Where are the first dogs?
Off to the right there.
Three dogs in that room, attached to the stalagmites.
Further in you have to get to the pool chamber before you run into the other dogs.
I can't see shit. Where are the dogs?
They're here. I will fix this.
One of our party members of blind to darkness.
Hmm. You're a dream.
That was a good guess.
That was 105.
There's a dog in there with the dog.
Wolf, I suppose we should probably stop calling them dogs.
Wolf, is it just a overgrown dog here?
Oh, I suppose that's so.
Ambrose, you can't see in the dark then, is it?
What about the rest of you?
I can now.
Well, I can't now, but I can now.
I think Thunder has to change.
Yeah, Bishop casts a spell, but I think Thunder needs to change what my character sees.
Oh, there it is. Cool.
Oh, I see him. I almost walked right into him.
Be careful.
And that's why you bring me around.
So you you pass the threshold of this cave and you head in.
Nice.
And that's what we finally made it back up to the cave entrance.
Well, yeah, I'm dragging the body with me.
Can you put the dead body next to me?
No.
So you remember next time?
Yeah, because I can't see it from where I'm at right now.
Thank you.
So we're in a kind of a peculiar situation where we got a bunch of baddies in the front
of us in a cave.
Orange, you glad you spent all of your spell slots already.
Now you got to fight 20 guys.
Excuse me.
I still have one spell slot.
You hear what?
What?
So you went over the door.
Yeah, I used arcane recovery on that last arcane recovery.
That means I have half of my maximum amount of spell slots of two.
You know, take that.
Technically a third, but yeah.
What do you mean a third?
One is half of two.
Two arcane recoveries, three.
You're down to a third of your spell slots.
No, I only have two maximum.
OK, well, you're down to a third of potentially cast spells between longer.
I see the programmer, you have to fully qualify it.
I think I think me and Emmer up next for going down.
That's why you two are in front.
Mm hmm.
Don't bring that evil on me, Bishop.
You're volunteering.
That's cool.
You're in front of me.
So by math, I'm going to say you're next.
And of course, we shall see.
Oh, speaking of one thing we didn't talk about last last session was knocked out.
Scars.
We had another person knocked out this time.
All my scars are emotional.
Oh, yeah.
So with that, I just make scars go away.
I'm always beautiful.
He says I wasn't over his eyes.
Oh, yeah.
I imagine you have like a gnarly scar under your collarbone from the arrow that you took.
And then I would think that Marin probably has like a scar across his bicep or chest area where he took a huge blow.
Right on.
From that scimitar.
All right.
Well, that's going to that's going to do it for everyone here at Forge and Fable.
So we're going to have to check in next time when we survive.
Get into this cave and see if our party can.
Yeah.
So a spoiler.
Come out alive.
Will they rescue Sildar?
Will they make it out alive?
What is what is everyone doing with that dead body?
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