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Thank you guys and welcome to the Forge and Fable podcast.
Before we get started and get Thunder involved, I thought we'd do something a little bit different this week.
We're going to do a player's round table discussion.
I'm going to ask some of the guys around the table a few questions that as a newer player that we may have.
So, I'm Dustin. I play Kairand.
I'm Alex, or Croker. I'm playing Marin.
I'm Lucas and I play Bishop.
I'm Spencer and I play Emreis.
We're going to do just a little Q&A between us newer players, me and Spencer, to Lucas and Alex.
I wanted to start it off by, how did you guys get into D&D?
I got into D&D, well, I don't know if that's quite the proper phrasing.
My dad got me into D&D when I was in like second grade.
He ran me and one of my good friends at the time through the Keep on the Borderlands and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.
Though it was a bit D&D-like, he wasn't going to make us learn how to calculate Thakka or anything like that.
What edition was that?
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.
Early, huh?
Pretty early, not like the earliest ever edition, but still when things were complicated.
Like becoming a Bard meant you had to have levels in basically every other class before you could multi-class in a Bard.
There's crazy rules.
What about you, Luke?
When I was about eight, me and my brother used to play this game that we made ourselves using paper.
We had a wood floor that was in squares, we used those as tiles.
And we called it the Village Game.
But we played it very similar to the way D&D was played.
And I didn't know anything about D&D.
And then I found out that D&D was actually pretty much the same thing we were doing.
And well, it made that real easy.
Right on, right on.
So I know when we were in WoW and we're talking about playing D&D,
I've never really played D&D.
Like I said, I've maybe played one game, like one session, like 20 years ago.
I know that for a fact.
And then I played maybe like two other sessions that wasn't D&D.
It was just a made up one me and my friends made.
And then getting Super in here.
Super, you've never played D&D before this, have you?
No, I have.
I played probably less than 10 sessions in all.
Yeah, with Croaker for like two different campaigns that I didn't really hang around for.
Right on.
So going into D&D campaigns and stuff, what draws you guys to the campaigns?
What draws you guys to the stories?
The campaign and the story itself, while a really good story is engaging,
I don't think for me are the most important parts.
I just like hanging out with some friends and goofing around.
Having a really good dungeon master helps quite a bit.
But yeah, I'll get into any story so long as, you know, doing it with some buddies.
Have you been in bad groups before?
Yeah, I've been in bad groups.
I mean, you can't play for as long as I have without having the occasional bad group or groups that just fizzle out.
That happens a lot.
I've been the cause of a couple fizzle outs myself.
Don't get me wrong.
But yeah, I mean, it happens.
But so long as everyone's having fun, you know, you muddle through and do what you can.
Right on, right on.
What about you, Lucas?
I think story is very important.
If I may, like something like Bowder's Gate, you know, not quite D&D, but it's D&D lights.
And it probably has some of the best stories in any game.
It is just a game.
So having fun is probably the highest priority, but very shortly after, it's probably a good story, too.
And that's usually that's usually what brings me in is the story and not knowing the story.
So giving everything a shot once, you know.
That's kind of my thing.
Story is good. Don't get me wrong.
But there's no knowing if the story is going to be good until you're playing.
Right.
And Alex, you've been a Dungeon Master before, right?
I have run, yeah, maybe a handful, two handfuls of games over the years.
None for a super long time.
I have a bit of a bad habit of starting stuff, getting a little anxious and then calling it.
But I have run a couple of pretty long running campaigns here and there.
I don't think I'm as great of a GM as DK, but I try when I'm in charge.
I'm mechanically drawn at games and all right on the road.
You can do the voices, huh?
I can do a couple, but they're very limited and hard character swaps are hard for me.
So I can get into one character pretty good by having to play like a bar full of people.
Yeah.
Lucas, have you ever ran a campaign?
No, I find myself a better secondary.
I get too immersed and I end up losing the mechanics sometimes.
So, I mean, I guess if you want to put me and Kroker on top of each other in a French coat,
we can figure it out.
I'll run all the combat.
You run all the roleplay.
That would be a very tall trench coat person.
What are some tips, advice you can give to new players such as myself and Spencer?
Yeah, taking notes.
I think for the mechanic side, always think about your next move.
Don't you got to always be thinking a few steps ahead.
You end up blowing your spell slots early.
Later on the line, you have no spells, things like that.
Also, it helps streamline combat if you're thinking ahead.
It does. Speeds it up a lot, which is very important when you have four or more people.
Because you can turn a three hour fight or you can turn like a one hour fight into a three hour fight.
And then story wise, the only tips I can offer is make sure your character is fun for the party, not just yourself.
If you want to make your character an asshole, if you want to make it blind, if you want to make it mute,
all those things are typically not fun for everyone or murder hobo.
If you're going to make that kind of decision, have a session zero conversation with the rest of the party about it.
Yeah.
Tell us a little bit about session zero. What exactly is session zero?
Session zero is a very good GM tool.
First of all, you get the whole party together for your first session.
But you're not you're not playing the game yet. You're you're building characters.
You're talking with the GM about the tone and the theme of the game that you're about to play.
You're developing character relationships prior to campaign.
You're going to run if so and so knows so and so or what have you.
And just kind of feeling everything out, making your characters.
And how do you guys feel about meta gaming?
That's so fun.
There's a place for it.
But yeah, you don't want to go over the top.
Meta gaming removes chaos.
And usually the most fun comes from chaos.
You'll have your most memorable moments when even if somebody died like we had bingo die, bingo, bingo,
our side campaign, our side campaign with a superhero.
And it's probably one of my favorite deaths I've seen in a long time.
There I'm going to I'm going to come in as the devil's advocate.
And for us, the game is sitting down for a handful of hours every couple of weeks and playing.
But in character, there's a lot more time that passes, right?
Your characters are spending a lot of time together.
And in that time, it can be assumed that your characters are chatting, talking about tactics, training, that kind of stuff.
So in combat, sometimes you might not be as in sync as your characters might be.
So doing a little bit of meta for like, I need you to move here or come over here so I can heal you.
That kind of table talk is, I think, acceptable.
Because, I mean, again, you're not as you're not spending as much time with each other as your characters might be,
especially in high stress combat situations.
All right. I have really like one more topic I wanted to hit, which is how do you build a good team?
Like, how do you come together as a party and build a good team and have fun with this game?
I think it's very hard sometimes when you have new players.
And probably the best stance to take is to let them pick where they want to start.
And then like the more vet players work around that.
Obviously, it's just to cover every weakness that your party has.
RP and combat wise, you're all paladin like, you know, as funny as I could be.
It might not be the most fun or engaging.
Sometimes you want a little strife. Sometimes you want a little a little friendly competition and stuff, things like that.
Twin characters. Yeah.
As a more experienced player, especially with the Fed, I like to kind of squirt what everyone else is doing and then try and fill a spot that might be needed in the party.
It's my wizardliness in this campaign.
And then when it comes to roleplay, sometimes you got to steer away from the but it's what my character would do and lean more into the yes and improv mindset.
Not that I know anything about improv, but you kind of want to go with the flow.
Sometimes a little conflict is good, but if it gets in the way of, you know, progressing story and people's good time, then it's not serving a purpose.
Right on. And Spencer, you got any questions for these guys before we sign off and get to the.
No question, but I do want to add a little bit to the whole picking a party thing, kind of like what helps with that.
Considering I'm relatively new to this, it wasn't hard to kind of identify what we need because of other video games, because like in all those MMOs, there's like the meta healer tank DPS thing.
And I think the only one that was kind of new to this is or new to me anyways is the whole RP section like portion.
I mean, because like bars are great for RP, maybe not the strongest in combat, but the whole tank, somebody with high AC or high health, I can run up there and take a bunch of damage.
Healer get people off the ground, even though I've learned that healers are considerably different in D&D where you're not just trying to throw out heals every turn to Roche's point earlier.
Like you're saving spell slots. If somebody hits the floor and starts taking a dirt nap, that's when you heal them to pull them up.
But yeah, I mean, just in general, though, like you still want to take somebody to absorb damage.
You still want somebody to do all the damage and you do want people to have flexibility in like picking people off the ground when they fall or giving them extra buffs so they don't even hit the ground in the first place.
That's been pretty cool.
Right on. Yeah. And for me, it's, you know,
probably my first real experience with RPGs in general was, you know, Final Fantasy seven and eight back in the day.
I remember begging my dad for those games.
And since then, I've been hooked, you know, and
I think RPGs brings a lot of elements we can bring some of ourselves into it. We can bring some of our fantasies into it.
And when we get a group together, I mean, this is basically just a video game that we're making up on the spot.
Right. So, yeah, here's to having fun with you guys.
You're here. Yeah, buddy. All right. Now that that's done, let's get back to the action.
Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Forge and Fable podcast. Just a group of guys playing some D&D together
with me today at the same crew. We got Super Croaker, Abbo and Roche.
Oh, yes, Super Croaker. Super Croaker. Super Bleeder. He ate the mushroom.
So another thing I wanted to bring up, we had some good gameplay last time.
I know it got a little hairy there in the cave, but I think you guys handled that pretty well.
All things being said, it's kind of coming at you in waves. No pun.
And, you know, because we're not doing any real subterfuge to get in there.
So it's kind of like you guys are just up against the firing squad, you know, and got a little hairy there.
Did you, Emreis and Marin, did you guys think you were going to go down there? More coming back up?
I mean, even Marin, you got close with the death saves there.
I had all the faith in my cleric friend.
I would hold that. Good thing I saw it happen. He would have not got to you right away.
All right. So I haven't put the fear in you guys hard enough yet. I need to pick it up a notch.
I don't know. We've hit this four times.
You guys are hanging in there pretty good. I haven't rolled any. I don't think I've rolled any crits. Did anybody roll a crit?
Yeah. A crit fail. Yeah, there were some fumbles there. There were a couple fumbles.
I'm reading a message from Roche telling me about the music volume lower than the water.
But I think we got that adjusted.
So if you guys could live anywhere in the world for a year, where do you think it'd be? Where would you go?
New Zealand.
New Zealand? Why? What's there?
I spent three weeks there with my wife on our honeymoon. And it's just very, very pleasant. Very nice people.
It's got just about every biome you can think of. And it's not here, which is nice.
Yeah. Definitely be nice to break away, get away. It has all the seasons there. You get the snow, fall, summer, spring, all that.
And if you don't get it on one island, I'm sure you can get it on the other.
So I know nothing about New Zealand.
New Zealand is the North Island and the South Island. Yeah.
OK. So you got two islands there. Oh, cool. Yeah. I'm showcasing my knowledge of geography right now, but it's OK. I don't care.
I'm majoring in the medical field, not geography.
It's funny. You go from exploding people to fixing people.
Well, I don't explode people. I explode mountains right now.
The stone golems and the rock golems have a lot to worry about.
Maybe some groundhogs and squirrels. No, not the groundhogs. The occasional bystanders.
That's what I'm talking about. I don't think we have groundhogs out here.
I don't either. Not anymore. If we did, because I took them all out.
Ava, where would you go? Where would you live? You live anywhere? Does it have to be on the surface?
Because if I had to live anywhere in the world for a year, if I had to pick anywhere to live in the world for a year, I would want to live on the ISS.
For a year? For a year, bro? Hell yeah.
I mean, it'd be cool to talk about afterwards, but I feel like it'd be pretty shitty.
I don't know. You zip around the planet with like eight times a day.
Get to see the sunrise, sunset as much as you want.
Play around, no G, getting to talk with astronauts, getting to learn how to do everything they do because, you know, there's no handouts on the ISS.
So I think it'd be a lot of fun. Yeah, but I'm pretty sure you have to poop into a vacuum.
Yeah, I'm prepared for that.
So my one carry on was a shit ton of laxatives.
Oh no.
You get a case of the BGs, but you start drifting just a little bit too far away from that vacuum. Someone hit the button for me.
I was waiting for the last week to just gum my wall down.
I think sleeping in space would be kind of weird.
Dude, I think it'd be a lot of fun. So little known fact, the ISS actually has 86% of Earth's gravity.
So the freefall of orbiting the planet is what gives you the weightlessness, not the lack of gravity.
I did not know that. Learned something new every day. Space knowledge with Abo.
Welcome to the Tech Talks.
I mean, that's pretty interesting. I didn't see that coming. Roche, where would you live?
You know, I don't think I could have contained myself to a simple sardine can in the sky. So I would pick Mars.
I mean, anywhere in the world. So you have to restrict yourself to our atmosphere, at least.
We have no hotels on Mars right now.
Or our direct orbit. How about that?
Our direct orbit. You know, it's on my bucket list to actually go to some old castles and tour them.
So I suppose the best place for those is in the wild.
I think London has a lot of castles they built around and in. But maybe, I don't know, Scotland, Ireland or something?
Germany has some cool castles.
Germany has 25,000 of them to be exact, according to a quick Google search.
Throw dirt on the map.
Germany is nice.
I would like to do that.
I think we should go see how many castles we can play D&D in.
You got the plane tickets?
Dude, let's go on tour and we're all stopping at castles to play D&D.
That would be so cool.
Well, just real quick, I'm going to steal it from you, Super. I'm going to cut in.
Because I think I'm with Roche and I just looked up because I'm a huge Dracula nerd and we've been playing V-Rising and it's got me all in the vampire mode.
And so I looked up like where is, you know, air quote, Dracula's castle.
And the best one that kicked me down here was the Bron Castle in the Transylvanian Alps in Brosnoff country, central Romania.
I don't think Romania is that great of a place to live, though.
I could be wrong.
I don't know. I used to work with a guy.
I used to work with a guy from Romania and he was he was an interesting character, to say the least.
He worked here and his wife lived there, so he flew back there for like three months out of the year to be with her.
So he didn't want to live there.
He didn't want to live there.
Noted. Okay.
Yeah, let's go, dude. Let's go to Bron Castle.
Yeah, dude, I'm going to say for a year, I'd probably spend some time in a castle.
That'd be pretty, pretty rad.
I'd have to wire in some Wi-Fi or something, you know, get that thing updated a little bit to the modern times.
We've got to keep our Steam gaming hours ticking.
Just a satellite dish sitting on one of your schedules.
Yeah.
You have gargoyle. Gargoyle, gargoyle, satellite dish, gargoyle, gargoyle.
Green torch.
How about you, Super?
I would either. Okay, so there's a caveat here.
If I knew I was going to be safe and making it home safely at the end of the year,
It would either be the Philippines or Colombia
because there's
Beautiful country all around both areas cool culture beautiful women, and I'm not above being a passport, bro
What about what are the dangers associated with that then what keeps you?
Well Colombia like the whole drug cartel and all that stuff and my
Means it's I don't know my uncle's partner is from Colombia, so he goes there about once a year
And he's a pretty average balding white man
We don't want that bald white guy
I'm gonna go ahead and get it. I'm gonna go ahead and get it. I'm gonna go ahead and get it
Alright
Last one this it that's all I can handle our shot. Yep. It's gonna breath. All right, you doing it
I mean, I mean so super super coach me on this
Off-air a moment ago and he gave me some pointers when I'm gonna take a shot
I'm gonna take a shot and then exhale
Right Wow
Now you can be an alcoholic with us
Us that was a
Pretty smooth. I'm gonna lie. Is that is that the second time talking?
Yeah
We got the primer started a little bit
Go for it a
Little recap
Our group of average adventurers
Started out in this city of never winter they were asked by their friend
Gundren
who escort a shipment of goods to the city of Fandalin or
Fandelin
Upon their journey to Fandelin they hit the tribal trail and they were about a half a day away
From making it to the city when they noticed up ahead on the road. There were a couple horses
the horses they
Were able to deduce belonged to
Gundren and Sildar
With all their belongings and stuff scattered on the ground. They saw trails leading off in a direction
but just as they were about to
Head out they were ambushed by a group of goblins
Blows were exchanged some people fell and
After the battle had cleared we
Reestablished our ranks and headed out in the direction of the tracks up a trail
so
Yeah, you guys head up towards head up the trail and you found a cave
There's a cave with a creek flowing out of it. You made your way closer to the cave
Where then you heard a commotion going on in the bushes?
I believe it was Amherst
Casted fog cloud
Yes, and created quite the foggy situation there where we had ourselves a little bit of a standoff. It seemed that the
goblins that were hiding in the bushes weren't too thrilled about running out into the open and
you guys were kind of waiting for the goblins to come out and
That's when Marin made his move and he went in hard
He made Gimli proud pretty bold bold action right there
Nicely well played I think we had we had a little bit of
Shapeshifting going on
Bishop took the form of a goblin
Who I completely forgot by the way that your clothes don't change
So you would have been just in some baggy-ass clothes like standing around
And it would have been much more obvious to the other goblins, but they don't know they're stupid
We'll just play it though. They're the outside crew
Look at my new jobs
Look what I found
You guys handled business there however one did manage to run and make his way
Into the caves and so where we left off was you guys were getting ready to walk into the caves
Was there anything else am I forgetting anything I think that pretty much did um
Retreat and have a short rest but other than that
Yeah, yeah, you guys that's right
You guys did cut off to the forest for a little bit for a short rest and then and then we sent
Then my familiar through the caves on a bit of a scout
So you guys were able to kind of recon the caves make up a little cave map and figure out what is
occupying the cave
All right
Well with all that out of the way, I guess we'll just
Jump back into it. We are not in turns at the moment. However, Amherst
You cross the threshold of the cave and immediately you notice
To your right hand side there
There were you you saw briefly like the side of one from what as you were beginning to walk in but now it's very clear
There are some dogs there
And they see you
Wolves, I'm sorry not dogs. There's a difference
There's some wolves there and they do see you and they're not too happy
Whoa easy there
I'm gonna
I'm gonna kind of pull the the goblin that's directly in front of me back to see if there's anything cool on it
And then afterwards I'm going to try to work some magic on these
Wolves try to calm them down. See if we can get them to a less hostile state
Okay, so you go to reach down
To grab this other goblin and that's when you notice another goblin
Walking behind the wolves and making his way over to the stalagmite and you see him
Reach to the stalagmite
And he detaches one of the wolves as the wolf comes sprinting straight towards you
Oh shit
Roll forward
shit roll for initiative
Oh, here we go, here we go
I need to make an encounter with everybody
Got a 21
Okay, what did you roll marin
Five big five. All right a big five and your owl is going to go on your turn. Yes, sir
All right
All right, kairan oh boy you see
Just briefly emiris reached down for the corpse of this goblin and then as
It's so you see emiris reached down to the goblin
And he begins to grab him to pull him out and then you see a flash of fur just past him
Just very quickly coming to sight
What would you like to do?
Uh, what would you like to do?
Um, could I tell if I have a clear shot to shoot at this
Um, it would be it would be difficult you have both bishop and emiris sort of in your way there
Okay, um
I want to shout to emiris back up. You're about to be swarmed and then I want to fire at the wolf
22 to hit uh, that'll do it. All right
Epic one plus four so five points of damage
All right five points of damage
And then i'm going to take uh five step five foot step back
All righty that ends your turn that brings us to
To emiris you see not the wolf that lunged at you but the other one
um
Here
You see it go into like a frenzy now and it is just
Freaking out barking viciously at you
And it's it's pulling on its chains
Uh, the chain looks to be holding up though
Uh for now, but you can you could tell that
It it where it's at it is yanking hard on the chains
Um that will end his turn and the wolf that is directly next to you
Lunges out at you. This is irritating rolling that dice. Sorry first roll. Well stuck
Hold on you're cutting
Cutting out now. Let's give it a minute
Uh, i'll finish it. So the dog lunges out and he eats your face in your death. No
He went for the goblin. I know he's gonna say that no you are dead. I'm sorry
I'm the i'm the gm now
and
Your land i veto that
Nope meteor lands on marin and kairin you guys are dead and
Bishop becomes a demi god
rocks fall
Everybody dies. Well, see i'm excited because i'm gonna roll this dice has been charging up forever
Oh, dear. I'm gonna get a four
16 to hit
Yep
oof
Oh, it's gonna be minimum damage
Four points of piercing damage
This thing lashes out bites onto your forearm as you're grabbing the goblin
Did you get a plus two to ac for the goblin shield?
That ends his turn and you see the goblin
Standing over there reaches for the other chain
And releases the other wolf that was frantically trying to get to you
It has now been released
And that brings us to emirates
What would you like to do i would like to get the fuck out of here
I would like to get the fuck out of here
Um, nope, no stay a while man bishops got your back
Yeah, well bishop just said I died I don't trust him stay a while be dog food. Yeah, right
Um
Let's see. What do I want to do?
I think i'm gonna
Mack the one actually, you know what if I were to try to run and it provokes an attack of opportunity more than likely
Um, if it lands do I get a move afterwards?
If you survive
Yeah, yeah as long as you're alive you can take a disengage action and not provoke but it will take action
There's such a thing. I didn't know I guess yeah
As a rogue, it's a bonus action, but as anybody else it's a full action
I'm gonna take the disengage action
I'm gonna move back. All right disengage
Run out of the cave
You shove bishop face first down into the water as you run past him
Stirves you right jerk
You're gonna be like, oh my god
I'm gonna be like, oh my god
Stirves you right jerk
All righty we have wolves in there does that end your turn yeah
Um, so
Some things happen you hear some barking and it's rin's turn
Sick. All right. Let's see if I can see into this cave here. Um
The dead goblin it's the only wolf I can see
Uh, so I am going to um step forward and i'm gonna point at the wolf
Uh, and i'm gonna give um
A shout in dorven i'm gonna um shout out uh, kharad-hak
And uh cast mind sliver on it
Um, it needs to make an intelligent saving throw. Oh, I don't like that
Uh, let's see what we got here
Uh wolves not the smartest
Let's say that
Good for us
Come on green dice, let's go
Give me something good
Okay, it's a 14 that is just enough oh
Uh, well, it's a little more than just enough
Uh, well, it's a little more than just 13 is the dc there
um
Which is quite unfortunate
Uh, i'm going to send
Undearn in
He oh can't move through walls, eh?
Darren in here. It's going to uh
From the help action on this wolf
um
and then it's going to fly up and um perch on maybe like a uh,
A stalactite or something like that if possible if not, I can fly out of there with my attack
I'll say there's there's a little nook on that cave ledge. You can you can post him up on that's fine. Cool. And um
I can't like see through any of this here
Even with the owl
Oh, yeah, i'm seeing that too. That's weird
Um, let me adjust his vision. Maybe he doesn't have
Maybe he doesn't have he has night vision
Yeah, yeah, he has he has dark vision
Let's see
Is he range maybe it's the vision range issue. Let's repair that. Oh, that is that work much improved. Yes already
Oh my
Uh, okay
He said oh my
I can see all the way back in there now
uh
Ooki, um, I know that there's much more I can do with my stale cantrip
um
But I will stay here
Uh next person to attack this wolf will have advantage and that'll be it for me
bishop
Um, let's go ahead and check his uh wisdom
All right
wolves
Not very wise
well, it's gonna be
a six
Uh that hits
He has already taken damage
Uh quick question. Yes. Do I roll with advantage?
No, that would be
No, you're rolling damage. Yeah, okay, you're just rolling your damage dice right now
Uh, so that's
Hey
Oh, did you see the skull pop up on him? I did that was so cool. Damn
Um
Yeah, you uh
You
The sound of the bells start to toll in this wolf's head and he just falls
Uh, he did guess he couldn't handle that dog whistle, huh? No, you can't have that whistle
Um
So, I'm gonna step up to here
So you're gonna go about 10 feet 15 feet into the cave. Yeah, i'm going 15 feet into the cave
i'm gonna
I'm against the wall like the entrance
I just like run across and like
Put my back against the doorway
And I uh hand motion for tyran to uh, breach the room
There little seal team six action coming on hell, yeah
All right. The monk has been activated
All right. I want to move up five ten
And let's there'll be crossed so 10 15
Uh, I can see the goblin
Hmm what to do here
Do I do I see like all the uh wolves have been released or no
Um, what you can see is that there's still one on the chain. It's the one
Uh further furthest away from you
The one that's closest to you has seen turned and saw you come into the cave
Okay, that is they're just mad. They're just barking just super angry. I'm going to take a shot at the goblin
All right shot at the goblin
Oh
Not one
Oh not one
Are we doing the dice? We we are doing the damn thing. Let me find it
I should have had this I should have had this brought up. Let's see desktop
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Uh, go ahead and roll a d100 uh 46
Okay, uh you shoot at the goblin your your shot goes wildly off target
And you drop your bow
Wonderful, um into the water and it's starting
To drift away from you, okay. I'm going to use the rest of my move action go
Uh
Go five ten and cut it off
And tell the uh, then I look over at the other two and go two more wolves and a goblin coming prepare yourselves
And
And all in my turn all right nicely done, uh, all right it brings us to
my wolf here
Uh this one freed from his chains seeing bishop run around the corner is going to come out and turn
uh, and run up to bishop he is going to
To lash out and attempt to bite bishop. All right. I don't think that does it eight to hit
That does not do it
Yeah, he he lashes out at you and at the last second you're able to bring yourself away from him and avoid being bitten
Uh that ends his turn
the goblin now
Reaching for that last chain
And it sees an owl fly up into the cave
Uh dinner goes to shoot at the goblin or at the uh owl
Shot himself. Yes
I realize I cut out right there. That's an 11 to hit. Uh, yeah, it's just enough unless I got cover of some sort up there
I think he's just perched up on like a little like a little ledge
It's oh, all right minimum damage three points doesn't matter
Got one hit point this owl poofs out to its original dimension
Oh, that's rough, um, and he is going to
He's gonna shout what?
What where where to go?
Uh that ends his turn
Emras you are up. All right. I'm gonna move back into the cave until I can see the the goblin
And i'm gonna thorn with him i'm gonna reach out my hand in a whipping motion and like that
Let's see what can happen. How do I make this do its spell again?
Okay, cool
So i'm gonna roll for attack
Okay
Oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, that hits
All right, i'm gonna roll for some damage
Ah a one
One damage
All right, i'm gonna pull him uh
Towards me
Is that five or ten foot pole?
It is a ten foot pole
So you pull him right up to you, okay?
Okay
And then i'm going to
I think move up to here still be within range of it, right?
Uh, yeah, you are within his five foot range
What is this one here still alive? Uh, very much so it just it just attempted to bite bishop
Okay
cool
I'll chill here. I'm gonna pass my turn
Okay, you pass your turn
Um, and it is the wolf's turn that is still in the cave and it goes to sprint out of the cave and hits the end
of its chain
And it's just it's just frantically barking um marin it is your turn yeah, um
Where's this goblin that
Got pulled oh, I thought that was the dead one. Uh
Uh
Oh, they're just in the same square, okay
Yeah, they're in the same spot. I can get rid of one of them. I mean I would not have approached goblin. Well
Maybe I would have approached goblin. Um
And i'm gonna i'm gonna take a swing at it with my axe two handed
Taking that swing
Uh 17 to hit oh, yeah, that's gonna hit excellent. I need a d10 here
Oh
Nine points of damage
How do you want to do it buddy
I just want to um, I mean this goblin just got pulled forward by uh
Emras's thorn whip so I assume it's wrapped around his arm or something digging in he's fighting back against it
So I just want to step forward and remove the arm entirely
And then he can uh fall back and bleed out as it were
He lop his arm off. He sees that it's gushing blood out and he faints and falls forward into the water
And short dies very shortly thereafter
All right, and then i'm gonna
Step back on out here, uh
I'm gonna curse a bit under my breath
Uh about the death of my owl well the temporary banishment of my owl same difference
All right
Uh, I can remove him. Let's see. All right bishop
This dog is just this wolf. I'm sorry. I keep saying dog. This wolf is
Angry it's barking. It's lashing out at you trying to bite you
You managed to avoid it once what do you do?
Try and bite me will ya
Go for a home run
All right, roll that
Roll that to hit dice
Does a 19. Ooh, nice. Yeah. Yeah, you you definitely connected with with the ball there with your bat
And five points of damage nice, all right, all right five points of damage
All right, five points of damage
Not too bad
He's still up though
Uh, you imagine you club this dog across his face. It whimpers slightly
Uh and goes back to being angry and barking at you
Uh, that will end my turn
I called it a dog again. You did
All right
Kyron it's your turn
Okay, I want to see if you'll let me do this. Um, I imagine
No
well
In that case
All right. What do you got man? Let me hear it. Um
so I imagine i'm seeing my bow float towards me and I step between the string and the
Uh the wood, uh curve
And let it uh latch onto my leg basically
And then I'll just take um
Palo de Silla like to movement like half speed
And I want to uh, if you'll let me and i'll move up to flank the wolf
Yeah, croaker, I think we determined because I always played it they interact with an object as an action regardless
It's like you dropped your weapon. You want to pick it back up. It was an action. I just I humbrewed that because I felt like
Because it was just a better
More gritty kind of
A rule, um, but there is an actual rule where as part of your movement you can pick your weapon up, right?
Uh, you can draw or stash a weapon. I think picking it up from the ground might be different
I'm trying to trying to look it up right now. There was some I think there's some stupid rule where if you spend
Yeah
But I don't know if retrieving it from the ground
Retrieving it from the ground. I'm not really retrieving it. I'm just latching it onto my leg by stepping
Kick a small stone is listed as interacting with objects around you one of the free actions you can do. Um
So so that would take an action. Yeah, no, it would be one of the things you can do is in tandem with your move action
To kick like opening a door. Yeah
So, but you're trying to pick your bow up right or no, no, i'm not trying to pick it up
I'm just trying to latch like the string and so so you're trying to put your foot through just booking it
I'm just yeah and taking it with me so that way it doesn't roll down the river
So this image I have is you running up the river with this this bow across your ankle
Yeah
That's why I said i'll take like half speed, you know move a half speed. I like it. Go ahead
Okay, you can at least kick the bow at the dog
Okay, I will move a half speed
But it'll still get me there if you're gonna let me do that and I want to flank the dog
What were those things that they had as kids? Uh that like went around your ankle and just run it around dude
the skippets, yeah
That's what you're doing with your bow
So you play you play skip it while playing bop it
Oh, he's easy. He'd be legend. That would be legend
All right, and then uh, i'm gonna do an arm strike against said dog said bring it
Yeah, his back is to you at the moment he's trying to he's still trying to latch on oh I get advantage on this
Since i'm flanking don't I?
Uh, yep
Oh that would be out with them force, you know, I liked your first roll a lot better
So i'm going to um, i'm gonna um kick with my legs smacking it with the bow
All right, pick away with your silly bow across your feet
That's so funny
Minimal damage five makes sense though
All right
He's still up
And then um bonus action and arm strike
Oh 21 to hit that hits and then i'm just going to punch
Or do a drop kick
That's gonna do it so tell me how this drop kick plays out so uh
Uh dragging this bow with me I go to swing upwards and the bow smacks him right in the face as I go to lift my leg
And then I do a like a heel drop kick
right, uh right into his back
Yeah, you you pretty much smash him uh
and like
Break him into a v. He hits the ground. Let's not a little yelp and uh
Just hits the ground there he has he has died shall we move him from the trucker?
Oh, is that in your turn? Yeah, that'll end my turn
All right, you still have the one there right next to you and it's just barking at you
Emras it is your turn
Okay
I think i'm gonna thorn whip it's been doing me pretty well today
Remember he is out at the length of this chain though
Oh, yeah, i'm hoping I can choke him out on that chain
I yank him 10 feet, but he doesn't go anywhere. It just chokes him out
Oh no
Oh, wow, uh, you lash out to whip this thing and you manage to snag kairan's ankle
Oh, no
I'm not gonna pull
You're not gonna pull. All right
Do I roll damage how many piercing damage does kairan take from your thorn whip going around his ankle?
Oh my god
Fortunately
Yeah, but that dog knocked me out now
Do you want me to pull I can pull you out of combat?
I mean no because
It doesn't give an attack does not give those attacks about it guys look I called in I called in seal team six, okay
I what is this?
I'm gonna go run him up with a bow on his foot. This is seal team 5.5 rosh
I mean if it doesn't uh, if it doesn't um
Provoke then yeah
Well, that could be it like I go to lash out with the thorn whip and then the bow is still flailing about
And it intercepts the the whip
And then the pulling of it is what does the damage
Right, but he's already as close as he can get to you from your angle
So you can't pull me I meant pulling on the bow is what did the damage to kairan oh gotcha yeah
All righty
Uh, let's see you have some movement and a bonus action. Would you like to do any of those things?
No, I think i'm good here
Excellent is that in your turn?
It does here when he's passing
All right moving up next in order here is my wolf
Uh, oh I got it right this time. I didn't call it a dog
It's going to attempt to bite kairan
That is a 12
Yes
Uh, i'm going to just set this dice somewhere else because it's not it's not it's not doing it
Oh all of you guys long enough. Apparently all of you guys want to switch up your
This is a lot of one
All right, minimum damage and d1. Yeah, uh, i'm going to come in here i'm gonna say uh
Let bishop and I handle the dog at distance and um going to uh,
Another thrusting gesture toward the dog with my free hand
Um, and i've changed the word since the last time I cast it because i've been going through the door restrictionary
Uh, i'm gonna yell out uh, karate sabrak and it needs to make an intelligence I can throw
Ha it's a wolf
Um, last one made it so you targeted the dog. Oh shoot
Uh, that's okay gotta be right. You rolled a five
That is not gonna do it. Um, I don't like it. I don't like it
I'm gonna take two points of psychic damage, but until the end of my next turn the next saving throw it makes
Uh, we'll have
1d4 subtracted from it
All right. Let me put some kind of marker on it for that
It's a sliver of uh psychic energy thrust into its mind i'm about to use it pretty brave words there
All right
I'll get you yet kairan
Um, don't worry we'll get him for you
Yeah, I'm just surprised
If you want to end your turn or I oh, yeah, sorry, let me hear that here
uh
All right bishop
What are we doing?
You know it
Coming wolf trying to bite. You know the play your seal team six monk
Uh, all right
All right
Bells start to toll it's gonna minus 1d4 on this saving throw
Who rolls the d4 that doesn't say would you like me to roll it? Yeah
Roll low
I did in fact roll a one
Yeah
I appreciate all right because I in fact
Only rolled an eight so it puts me at seven
They don't got a negative int modifier just built in uh, that's a wisdom one and he oh, yeah
He actually has a plus modifier animals are pretty wise creatures got a plus one to that role
Intelligence I have a minus four so
Stupid wolf
Uh, is he damaged already? Yeah, he is
Is you don't know well to roll the dice, right?
I'll never tell
Better figure that out quick
Max damage. Yeah, man. Why don't you just uh, why don't you just tell me how this goes down? Because uh, yeah
I imagine
He hears the bells
he starts barking wildly like a dog whistle and uh
I like wolves so he ran away
Womp womp womp
No, his uh his head exploded all over Kyren. Sorry
Just burst and you see this blood just spray out everywhere in the cave and Kyren's just drenched in wolf blood
Yep
I'm going to
Uh unwrap my bow
From my ankle and uh,
Emissive thorn rip from my bow and uh rinse off in the
dream
I'm gonna look around the room where the wolves were
Okay. Yes
Yes, this is like a just a small dank chamber on the east side of the passage as you guys came into the cave
Uh, you notice that it it narrows to a steep fissure at the far end far east far east end over here
um and
You see that at the bottom of the like the fissure
on the ground there you see just all this like
Packaging and
Like burlap sacks and it looks like you know if there were
shipments or
Food supplies that were being sent that perhaps it had been discarded down the fissure and ended up here on the floor
Oh my favorite chip the agritos
I'm going to uh approach uh said fissure
And I want to look around
See if I can see where this is coming from. Okay. Yeah, so you see it's just a narrow opening
Um on this east wall and it goes up. It's like a natural chimney and it looks like it climbs up about 30 feet
Um, and like I said a second ago that at the base what you're standing in is just rubbish
It's been discarded through this opening above. It looks like things have been just thrown down
Um on this fissure the whole way you can see like just trash
Um
That is
Scattered about on it
I'm gonna look back at um
uh mirren and uh
Don't suppose you can send your bird up there. Yeah
I don't know if you caught it in that last fight, but my bird is dead for it for the moment. I'll need a
10 or so minutes to get it back from the ethereal
interesting
but uh
If I had to take a guess on the previous scouting we did
That's where the uh bug better and his dog lives
How many were up there?
Up there in that room in particular
Just about bearing his wolf, but just outside were another
Four goblins two more wolves
So the we have a question of do we
climb and try to take this bug bear down or
Do we go through the front door?
I'm not so confident in my ability to climb up a 30-foot shaft
Yes, indeed doors are known for their climbing
Well, we do a fair bit of climbing but we usually have
batons and ropes
Nor am I
Very inclined to climb up something. I'm pretty sure a bug bear shits down
I'm
With the door on this one
Yes, so that leaves the front door, yeah
Hi, there's the front door, but there's another uh passage off to the west
That's where the majority of the goblins be a couple bosses and that's where the bound human is
But we go to help the human first
See if we can get him to help us
I I think there's a uh another steep passage, but maybe no so steep as this
Else we have to go around and take a bridge
Well, let's uh look at this steep passage you said it's uh first yeah, all right right off to the west here
So I guess we approach over here and take a look
Okay
As you guys are making your way
Up this stream moving up the slope. It's it slopes upward about 10 ish feet
Um, let's see who's up front higher and roll perception check perception 13
13
Okay, the stream it's it's a little noisy. It's not bad
It's hard to make it out, but you see a figure
Walk out onto the rope bridge ahead of you
And as it steps out it sees you and it shouts out now boys
And the stream you notice the water is
Coming out at a certain speed, but then you see a surge
And you hear this rumbling
And before you know it about a half a second later
The water is coming out at a certain speed and then you see a surge
And before you know it about a half a second later
This wall of water has begun to come straight at you guys as it's starting to cascade towards you
What do you do?
uh turn back, yeah, and tell them run and then i'm going to
I'll just
Chances of beating that
You guys can make it about five feet. So what direction do you take?
Okay
Go ahead amyrus you move to there
Marin you have about five feet of movement. Okay, you
You go to there around the corner
Bishop, where would you do?
This is wall of water just coming straight at you guys and it's coming fast. So i'm just gonna just i'm just gonna try to climb up
the sledge where
Okay, so you make it to where he's at
What are you doing?
kairan
I'm which direction are you moving?
So bishop just moved up to me
Yeah
And the area that you're in is like a it's a passage where you see this cave mouth that climbs steeply upward
Are we able to duck like in a little bit right here? So where the water just passed?
Yeah, there's some room right here
Um where you can come in and it looks like a bunch of rubble like like this ledge
Here has been crumbling
Um and kind of giving way it looks to be somewhat of an unstable ledge
um, but this is about
This is about 10 feet maybe just under 10 feet up so you'd have to kind of
Climb your way up there to get onto that but this is about at the same level that you guys are standing
Just there's a bunch of rubble
Okay, so I would
I would just move right here and grab rosh's hand
Or grab a bishop's hand
Okay, the wall of water comes and it hits everyone
um
Roll a
Dexterity saving throw everybody as this wall of water just
Comes over you
Oh
Wait, did it register the 20?
19 now
Oh, because it knocked bishops two to a 20 so I thought maybe it would have counted
Okay, so emras
kairin
Marin
You guys are all able to keep your footing
Bishop you lose your footing and you you fall
Um roll a strength saving throw to keep your grip your grip on the kairin
Uh, it's a four
Okay, you lose your grip. Can I guidance myself?
Kairin your grip comes loose and as you just watch bishop gets swept out with this water
Or can I reach for him later guys? It's all your problem bishop
You take
Oh you take seven points of bludgeoning damage
As you're just banging against the rocks and against the walls of the cave as you're taking all the way out of the cave
Wait, could I have reached for him as he was going by me right there?
He swept by so fast. It was just hard to even see
You're busy trying to maintain your grip and your footing to keep yourself there
Um, the water seems to die down
However the goblin
um
You can hear them you can hear them like shouting and talking to each other
Uh, and I think emras you could barely make out that he's still standing up on that bridge right there
How much damage did I take?
Seven points of bludgeoning damage
So all I can see is this little part of the bridge right there
It's like a sliver
Yeah, and you can barely see uh, like a silhouette of him
Okay
The water subsides and it goes back to a normal flow of the stream
Um, so you're saying I can see him
Yes
And he is within 30 yards of me
Within 30 yards of me
For 30 feet
Uh, he's 20 feet up
Uh and 30 feet away. So pythagorams we'd have to do a little pythagoram there. But yeah distance-wise. He's 30
Height-wise he's 20
Means he's more than 30. Yeah, but just barely
You're gonna make me do the a squared plus b squared equals c squared nonsense
What can I just move up five and saying i'm now within range?
No, that's fine because as you take your step
He shouts out
Hit it again boys
And you hear this familiar surge and you see the stream pick up again
Well, i'm gonna whip out with my thorn whip then standing exactly where I am to try to yank this guy off the bridge
Okay, so you're gonna try and uh hit the goblin. What are the rest of you doing?
I'm just running out this time
i'm going running out this time
Yeah, i'm gonna take uh
You did notice where you're at kairan that the water
Didn't go up to the ledge above you. I was thinking if I took a five foot step forward the water won't hit me because
I'm up against that wall. So it won't it hits this wall and bounce
Drastically low speed
Well where you were at and the angle the water's coming in it did like a pretty violent little vortex in there
Okay, so I noticed there was a vortex in that spot. Yeah, so you had a very difficult time keeping your footing
Okay. Um
I don't want to risk it. So I want to take a five foot step out
Okay
and then
I want
Right to there
And then i'm going to use blessing of the raven queen and i'm going to teleport out of the cave
Yeah, I want to teleport to right there
All right. So you you run from the nook you can go ahead move yourself
You run from the nook and you just bamf out of there
Yeah, i'm just gonna quickly say in the shadows
We find solace under your watchful gaze oh raven queen and then you just see me disappear
And reappear
All right, emras you see tyrant run out
Uh, you should be able to you have your measurement tool. There we go. Yeah
Tyrant you just see him run out and then bamf from existence
Uh, let's go ahead and resolve your vine wit now in the shadows. I see a goblin and with this whip I pull him down
Funny to hit there you go
So head it again put son of uh, and he goes flying yes
20 feet down but 10 feet towards you roll your
Thorn damage and I will roll his falling damage
Oh
Yes
Five to five damage
Okay
So he takes five points initially from the piercing of the thorns you yank him off the bridge and he hits the ground
It takes five points of bludgeoning damage
And he don't get up
ooh
I was hoping for the the wave to come crashing down and killing him that would uh
Speaking of the wave i'm going to take a five foot step now
Actually, I don't think I can right
No, yeah, you yeah. Uh, yeah, I'll just take your five foot step, but you can have five feet
I'm gonna start into the cave with where the wolves were
Um, so where you're at? Yeah, still gonna get hit
Alrighty, everybody roll me a dexterity saving throw, uh that is in the cave still so we have marin and emeralds
Did you get marin to chance it anyway?
I did
I took five foot step. Yeah
Uh, but I just rolled a 19. Okay, so the wave comes
crashing through here
um and you guys
Steady your feet get a nice
Set planted grab onto the walls the wave hits you
And then subsides on the stream is casually once again. Well on the bright side. I think I got him
Did you get the others?
Nope, just the one the one that was screaming. All right. Well, that's a start
And what happened with kyrant? He was there and then all of a sudden he wasn't
I some sort of fancy dark magic. You know walk over here and uh,
Give bishop a bit of a light kick with the tip of my boot
You'll see me already bending down to help him up. He's still with us boy
I imagine you guys walk up on bishop. He's just prone in the water. I suppose not. I'm face down blurble blurble blurble
I have i've reached down and I have I grab him by the scruff and i'm picking him up out of the water
All right, I think uh, we may need to uh retreat the ways. Eh
I agree. Should I should I check on?
Uh bishop or does somebody else have more skill with medicine than me? I ain't dead. Well, I need to figure that out myself
He just got the fucking ship
I
Assume he picks me up and I just lay back down in the river face down
Are you practicing your water breathing? Get out of there
verbal
Blurble
So he's unconscious then yeah
No
I didn't get up
I give you a I give you a happier kick non-lethal
Ow you take one point of bludgeoning damage non-lethal
right
Non-lethal I was enjoying my bath
Geez now he's unconscious
Um, so yeah, um, you still got enough kick in you to get in there
Uh, i'm about half my strength right now
I don't know about you
um
Are we gonna
He said his head a few times are we gonna are we gonna
I
I'm uh
Sicking my finger my ear getting water out of it. How many do you say is still in there?
At least 10 more goblins three of their boss types and the bug better not to mention the wolves
I think we need to regroup. I don't think we can take too much more of that
Should we take a rest?
short rest
Hi, but I ain't resting in this uh doorway and uh short rest ain't gonna do much for me, but perhaps for you
Yeah, um
Outside game, I think we've already used our short rest so it's not gonna do anything for any of us
Oh the hit dice
You guys you guys did short rest?
I'm not certain if everyone used their hit dice from that though. I'm kind of
Oh mine, I don't know about mine also. I use mine
I don't think I did because I didn't take any damage
If only we recorded these
You hit the short rest button
You should see like select dice to roll if there's any available mine says zero available
Yeah, yeah mine says zero. I have one. All right, there you go
Well, if we continue forth, I can't frontline. I'm not in great shape either, but we got to do what we got to do to save him
All right. Well, um, we're gonna short rest. Are we just gonna short rest here in this ticket?
At least we'll have eyes on. Oh, you're the only one who actually has to rest. I'm gonna take 10 minutes
of the hour to uh resummon darren my familiar
Right on
I'm going to ready
Action bow just in case uh, somebody comes down the river
checking it out
Somebody want to take the other side
While we wait
I'm gonna hang out here after uh
After my summon I can come hang out here with uh
With mine sliver. Yeah, i'm gonna ready an action to thorn whip the first like uh
Threatening it barry. Did I see come out of that?
like entrance
Marin you make your way to the cave entrance and step across the stream you look up and you see that there's a wolf
uh headed down
towards you guys, uh
Hold on. Let me check the range here. Yeah, i'll just mine sliver it right away
Karad sabrak and uh
No, I'm not
Another another thrust of mental energy next to make an intelligence saving throw
That would be a 12
That is not gonna do it. It's gonna take a
My d6 are broken it's gonna take two points for psychic damage. Um, I think all of ours are broken today
My d6 d20s are doing all right. Uh, and it's gonna have a minus four in the next saving throw before the end of my next
roll
Okay, everybody roll for initiative
Can I have my owl back as well, please?
Yeah
I got on 18 on the die, but i'll hit the button for you
There you go. Let me do this. Let me bring this here so I can look at what you guys got. All right kairan got
Bishop got a 16. He's next put that in there
Not bad. Not bad. Amorous rolled an eight. Ooh
Not good. Not good
Um and kairan coming out big with a oh with a 20
All right. Yeah boy
Just waste those high rolls all you want on initiative, bro
Hey initiative if you get the the cut
I'll let them make an action. All right
Let's kick things off here just behind the wolf was a goblin he sees his wolf flinch in pain
and
He's going to come around him step into the water
Bonnie
He can see
Let's see. All he sees right now is an owl
from this perspective
So he's gonna step up again
and now he sees
Marin
So he is going to draw his short bow and take a shot at Marin
14 to hit
Uh that'll hmm
Yeah, that'll do it five points of piercing damage. Yeah, that'll do it
I got you
That ends his turn kairan you're up i'm gonna watch marin fall
Quick we have company
I'm gonna take a five step five foot step out and launch an arrow at this goblin
All right 20 to hit. Uh, right. So yeah, that 20 is definitely gonna hit
20 to hit my goblin with your short bow
nine points of damage
Describe to me your one shot one kill method
I look over at marin. He's falling and I simply just step in the water
Turn launch straight into his face
Headshot
uh
Like the apple being shot he's fucking takes it right between the eyes and falls forward
Do I see the wolf right?
Uh, you do see the wolf
Awesome
Uh, we got a wolf coming and then I want to take a five step five foot step back to uh cover
Okay
Five foot step back to cover nicely done great use of a turn there
Uh marin
Uh, yeah, let me roll some death saves. I suppose it's that time man
Who eight failure
All right, the clock is ticking for marin
And uh the owl will just move so that it's
Out of sight. It's i'm not there to command it. So it acts like a like an owl. I got him
I moved him out of sight for you
Um, let's go to the wolf it is the wolf's turn
After getting hit in the face
With a mind sliver get hit in the face it got hit in the brain
Um, it's going to run out of the cave
Um, that'll provoke my ready to action, right? All righty, let's have a thorn whip it
Hit it so let's see what was the beginning or you could see it right here
It's cool because if you want to re-hit
Uh, yeah, yeah that hits
Yeah, all right if it's a lot of damage
It's a lot of damage. Yep roll low. Yeah, man
All right, and then you pull it 10 feet towards you
Let's see. So from that angle would that be
Would that be this or this? Oh, no, I guess I can't go to the one to the right. So yeah
Get stuck on this wall right here. So it only moves five
Five
The vine I imagine wraps around its abdomen pierces it for a point you pull it an additional 10 feet
It will come back up to where it was coming
It sees kyren
But you're holding a vine whip that has just pierced it. It is aggravated at you
Emras it is going to attempt wait. What if I got it around the muzzle instead with my pull?
Oh
Your vine whip is
Um
And we are gonna roll max damage on 2d4s
Oh, no
10 points of piercing damage. All right
Is bishop awake?
Yeah
Uh, yeah that ends his turn
And I imagine he's bit into like your thigh area
and he has
Gotten into that artery there and he is just ripping and pulling at your leg
So for those at home two people just fell
bishop
You're up. All right
You know what it is
Ah, damn it. All right. All right
All right, and uh, I think he still has mind slivered no that would have ended because it was um rand's turn
Oh, yeah, that's until the end of my turn
Well, I never got a turn though. This is the next turn. Was it the next attack though?
The next saving throw is that what the spell says on the next saving throw? Yeah before the end of my next turn
Oh, okay. Well, that was bishops. This is bishops first attack. I mean I haven't gotten to go yet
So I don't know the mind sliver was like a sneak attack and then he took his turn. So that's gone
That makes sense. Yeah, he he acted in like a surprise round with the sliver
Uh, and then we got to his turn in initiative because he got the jump on the wolf
He saw coming down the tunnel and he decided he was gonna sliver it right then and there
Yeah, that counts for decorations
Okay, what do you think croaker I kind of think that's
It's kind of the rule on the field at that point, right? Because you took a surprise round. Yeah. I mean I had I had my turn
Uh, so what a fated
Yeah, because if he would have had his turn
And been able to have done something with a saving throw. He could have used it right then and there
Um, he had his turn to roll a death save. So yeah, let's just go ahead and um, i'll roll
I'll roll my amazingly high
Amazingly high wisdom saving throw right now
Big plus one
You know, that's not bad
I got a 15
That'll save you
All right this thing
Oh my god still just flashed on
Uh to emiris emiris falls it begins to hear like this
This tone and it lets emiris's leg go and just start shaking its head
And then it just slowly looks up at you bishop. It starts to growl
Sorry, come here puppy. Uh
I'm gonna turn our head. All right
Uh emiris that brings us to you. I'm gonna nap. I rolled death save bro
Yeah
Yeah, all right. There you go team save. All right, we have two clocks ticking
All right, um
And
Seeing the situation kairat's turn. Yeah seeing the situation i'm going to
Um
Stay to uh, say to bishop we're gonna have to get out of here after we finish this one off
And I say in death, we find rebirth guide us oh queen of the veil and i'm going to use my last
um
Blessing of the raven queen
And i'm just going to port five feet in front of it
That will give me um
Half uh, I will get um
Advantage i'll take basically or no it's damage resistance. So i'll take half damage
Until my next turn
Okay, the wolf standing there snarling looks hungry. It's got the drool coming down from its mouth
And then um for my main that's my bonus action for my main action. I'm going to uh do it on arm strike
What you got bro?
Um rin with an update. Thank you rules lawyer. I love having uh croaker
As an additional rules lawyer your uh, your half resistance
Begins at third level. Oh third level. Okay, that didn't show me on
That so that sucks. Okay. I wouldn't I wouldn't have used it then
That wouldn't make sense for me to use it right then then
Because I was only using it for the the damage resistance
I'll allow it
Okay, so i'll just renew here. We're learning
I'll just do a five step five foot step so I don't have to move myself. I'm just gonna place basically place myself
Five foot step plant your feet and you make sure they don't fall in the river
Yep, i'm going to i'm going to uh, that hits your 20 hits your dirty 20
Nice. Holy shit. You still got a five out of that one roll
Not bad punch down at its head
punching its face into the water
The face splashes into the water and then comes back up and it's growling
And then uh, i'll use my bonus action to
Do it again
All right bonus action punch out at it again. That was close
19
19 hits
Oh, there we go eight
All right. Yeah, you punch this thing again downward again and this time
It does not come back up out of the water. The body goes limp and it starts to float slowly downstream
Quickly save these two and let's get to rest
Is that in combat?
Uh, no, we are still in combat
Initiative order
We are at marin. Oh, sorry, marin
Yep
No
nine
Oh fuck
Well now
getting real
If that ends marines turn which I believe it does
That's gonna
Yeah
It's gonna bring us to
bishop
Bishop all you see right now. I believe it's just is emras
and that
The thicket right there would have
Marin sort of blocked from your from your current perspective
I did yell back to save the two. So okay. Yeah
Yeah, no, i'm just saying what he could see because the map is kind of lying right now when I when I clicked on him
Those are very dense thick
Thicker push
What do you mean to
Marin took took the knee first and then emras
It's just us. We need we need to save them
Okay, I will um
Shuffle on over here
Emras is laying there with a with a nasty wound in his leg bleeding out
Marin
Is laying there with an arrow that's sticking out with from what you would think is his chest
But he's he's laying down forward on it. So it's just been broken and it's kind of like you can see it from his shoulder
underneath him
Um
I'm uh, I am going to nudge marin with my boot
Marin with my boot
See if he's still alive
K. Oh
I didn't hear any sounds from him. So it sounds pretty pretty pretty bad. Um, I am going to
Cast that while removing the arrow at the same time
Okay
You reach down and cast spare the dying on marin
Marin you go back to zero hit points and you are unconscious but not dying
great success
Uh, that brings us
To oh you that was a cantrip dozen action or bonus action. That's a cantrip action. That's an action. Yeah
Okay, so in my turn you have a bonus action left. Okay
Just throwing it out there. Okay, uh, I can't really do much for bonus action. So
So emirates will just have to uh,
Deal with the fates
All right, emirates. All right
Got the one save already
All right two saves wow
Hey, you'll even need my help dying aren't I?
He wants to
Um, just in case i'm going to um
Just ready action bow and just keep an eye on downfield
While uh while bishops taking care of these two got the bow drawn
And you're just staring up the cave up ahead
You have a pretty good line of sight
You can see fairly well up the cave
So you feel confident that if anything came around the corner, you'd get a pretty good shot
Feel confident that if anything came around the corner, you'd get a pretty good jump on it
Now be my turn
Marin is still laying there
Um face down unconscious but not dying
And we go to bishop
I
Move over to I turn around and I go to emirates
Also good night's dream with my boot no sounds so it sounds pretty bad
You cover your eyes
So I pass for the dying of him
Okay
Uh, that will bring us out of
our combat order initiatives
And we are back to free play
All right, let's get to a safe area i'll carry the
I'll carry emirates if you want to carry
man
Well retreat for now
Uh
Yeah, you you go ahead and you
Carry emirates. I will uh, i'll handle the dwarf
Unsure of what he means by that, but I will go ahead and pick up emirates, uh military style across my back
shoulder to shoulder
Um one, you know arm leg
Okay, i'm gonna say you could do that. Uh, you're pretty buff, but it's gonna be like half your movement speed
That's fine. And then i'm just gonna start moving towards uh, or like you would just be slow carrying somebody right right
And then i'll start moving us towards this way
um
So I cast your wounds on marin because i'm not carrying a dwarf
ah
What I miss uh
Um
You fell over a rock
and uh, yeah, I uh, I take a second
I close my eyes and I
Commute there and then I read my eyes. Don't bother i'm caught up
Oh
Marin you look down
At your chest and you kind of go to check the wound magically. It's been closed. Um
But you have this huge scar
Uh over where your heart would be
but
Thank you for the assist
We're retreating then are we? Um, yeah, I don't see much more of an option if if you have a better ideal
I'm all yours
No to not
Probably for the best then
Watch the cave. Um
And then
How far can we retreat before I lose contact?
Not very far
I think it's a hundred feet right for you. Yeah
Or you can't communicate with him anymore suppose through like a thick forest a hundred feet is decent
But not super great
Also, he doesn't have to be clear at the entrance. He can be back
Always sure they got good sight. All you have to do is see the entrance and come right back here
Give us an early warning to run if we need to also just want to know if any goblins
Come or go. Well, we're not here. So that arrow coming probably should have cussed you
I think I would have been just eaten by a wolf if I had though. So, you know give and take
Like yeah, don't recommend that route just saying
I would imagine we retreat to where we find somewhere safe to bunker down and uh rest
Do we want to roll like a uh, i'm very bad at it
But do we want to roll like a group stealth to or survival to obscure our tracks?
How do you want to handle that? Uh, well you guys start to make your way
into the forest
um
beaten some of us still unconscious
and
Definitely down on your spells
The group of adventurers heads into the woods and we see their silhouettes slowly
Leave our our field of view
And good job staying alive you guys didn't die and that was close
Yeah, this cage is pretty spicy
We we're only like halfway through this game. We still got a bunch more on the inside
Those water traps are pretty scary
Yeah, it's a pretty cool trap. Oh, that's cool. I like that
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