Welcome once again adventurers to the Forge and Fable D&D podcast. Death nearly claimed
our valiant heroes last time thanks to the Goblins' clever traps and relentless attacks.
Once again, we dive straight into the action. Join our heroes as they regroup. Are you ready
to roll for initiative?
Oh dude, let's go on tour and we're only stopping at castles to play D&D. That would be so cool.
Alright let's recap it up. Last episode we started out. The boys were just past the threshold
of the cave. There were some angry wolves, not dogs, wolves to their right on the east
side of the cave just as you got inside. It was like a kennel area that had been like
a nook in the cave they'd used as a kennel area. These wolves were chained down to a
stalagmite that was there. Stupor kind of came in and noticed as soon as he came about
another five feet towards these wolves that there was a goblin that was in there. It might
have been tipped off that something was going on and this guy came out, came over rather
to the stalagmite and freed one of these wolves from its restraints. Combat ensued. We had
some more shenanigans taking place, more wolves being let go. Ultimately the party came out
on top. It wasn't until they took a slight step back out of the cave to take a break,
regain some hit points, a little short rest action and Marin noticed there was a wolf
coming down the tunnel, set out a mind sliver at it and then we jumped back into combat.
There was a goblin just behind the wolf, came around and released an arrow which found purchase
right in Marin's chest. Marin fell, the wolf came out, bit into Emreys who then fell but
Bishop and Kyren were able to take it down and get the party somewhat back on their feet.
Some couple spare the dying casts from Bishop and a little heal on Marin. They were able
to carry Emreys back into the woods where they were able to set up a camp leaving Marin's
familiar to watch the cave or any intruders that might be sneaking up on them. You guys
now find yourself in the middle of the woods. It is night time. We're going to say that
as you were walking to find a good campsite, the sun had set and the moon had come up and
you makeshift a little fire to stay warm, temps dropping a little bit. There's a nice
creek right at the edge of your camp and I imagine you guys have some fabrics and stuff
from your bags that you're able to set up some makeshift tents for the evening if you
wish to get some sleep.
One note on setting up the tents, I want to set it up in a way that blocks most if not
all the light from the direction of the cave.
Okay, cool. On our map we could just say maybe that's the cave direction. I was just going
to theater in mind the camp but I found this cool map.
Yeah, it looks pretty cool.
Figured I'd use it.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, well I'm going to hand the steering wheel over to you guys. You're hanging out
here at camp. Amaris is still laying there across the bench unconscious.
So we're going to take a long rest here?
Yeah, I will take first watch. You guys can rest assured. I just want to make sure Amaris
is going to be all right.
Oh, you were worried about him the whole time?
He still hasn't waken up. So yeah.
I mean that's, I mean, I just wanted you to carry him.
So what are you saying?
I just, I didn't want to carry him. So I like thought maybe you should do it. Well, give
him a little heel here and he'll wake right up.
You could have done this earlier.
Yeah, well, you know, I could have, but he probably needed a nap.
Amaris, your eyes open.
Oh, my fricking leg.
Yeah, you've come back. How many points did you get?
Four.
There it is. Okay, now I have the chat. I have my windows back open. Get a couple shots
of me. Here we go off the rails.
Great. Somebody take the keys away from him.
Oh, that was rough. Was it the dog? Did you guys get the dog finally?
I had where the dog.
You're safe for now.
Okay, but all right. Well, fuck it. We made it. That's what's important.
A wolf howls in the background somewhere.
Hope the porous and wagon are not being assaulted.
How are you doing over there, Marin?
Surviving. The administrations of our friend Bishop here have kept me heart-beaten at the
very least.
Oh, good. Okay. Anyone need a heel? Looks like we're going to be resting here.
I think if we just take a night's rest, we can begin again in the morning.
Yeah.
Yeah. Sounds like plan.
They'll probably be prepared for us. We better be prepared for them.
Indeed.
I'm going to healing word myself.
I can take first watch or I can take last watch.
I'll be having last watch if it's all the same totar SD.
Very well. I'll take first watch then.
All right. Well, go ahead and wake me up when you're done.
Imagine they head to bed and I'm going to stay awake for the first watch.
Okay. All right. First watch comes and goes by. Nothing seems to catch your attention
besides the fact that sleep is slowly starting to seem more and more appealing to you.
You're feeling the exhaustion of your efforts. But other than that, no excitement, nothing
springing out at you guys. You don't hear anything.
I go to wake Amaris for second watch.
Man, it feels like I just went to sleep. Is it already my turn?
You get hit like that. You feel like that. Yeah.
Tell me about it.
So you packing up to go to bed?
I will meditate. Yes.
I've been meaning to ask you what's up with your mask. I know you wear it all the time.
Just wondering if there's more to it.
Yes indeed. Have you heard of the Shadar Kai?
Any those elves that nobody's really seen for 20 years?
Yeah. So should I say the tragedy that fell the followers of the raving queen during the
first era.
Oh, they were all Shadar Kai?
Not at first. No. Long ago, there was a powerful Eldran witch. She was so powerful, but second
only to her beauty. One day, while she was off exploring and feverishly expanding her
vast knowledge of the arcane and ancient blood arts, a demon unleashed his army on the Eldran
Empire. They knew with her gone, there was little the Eldran could do to stop their onslaught.
Upon returning to the Eldran Empire, she bore witness to the wake of such chaos and a fit
of pure rage and madness she purged the Elk back to whence they came. However, everyone
she loved had perished. He was so distraught that she begged the gods of all for them to
take her powers in exchange for their lives to be restored. Answered in silence, never
before had the gods been so destitute.
Eventually, the Eldran Empire was restored. Many gave thanks to our ladies as our savior
and began to worship her even. Vengeance and sorrow weighed heavy on her heart.
Never again, she cried. Never again shall our people, the immortal caretakers, be left
unheard by the gods. Over the next century, she grew immensely more powerful and obsessed
with death. Her devotees now in the thousand, blocked her every step adorning her every
word. Finally, the time upon them was to overthrow the god of death, Neru. After an intense battle,
however, fate was not yet on her side. She and her followers had to flee back to the
Empire, not willing to risk losing against the weakened but powerful witch. Her own people
banished her and her followers to the Shadowfell, knowing that this would save them from the
crossfire between her and the god of death. Our lady understood the position. With no
ill will, they left. The Shadowfell, however, was not kind to the elves. It's a strange
plane caught between life and death. The Eldran elves began to slip between the shadows.
The eternal twilight ashened their skin and blackened their eyes. The wandering souls
of the plane plagued their minds as their hair lost all pigment. They say in the Shadowfell,
you shift between your soul out of your body and the spirit in your body. While they faded
in and out of themselves, dark spirits started to possess. Many resorted to self-mutilation
to ensure they were in their own bodies. I look at my runes, they're patched in my skin.
This draught our lady made a pact with the Shadow for power and safety for the now Shadarkai
elves. Power is never free. She overthrew N'erul only to forfeit her own life to the
Shadow. Just as the Shadow came to possess the Shadarkai, our lady of the Raven of Death
was reborn at god finality. The curse then bond to our pure lady. To stave off the madness
in this plane, we wear this mask, as does our lady, and to honor her sacrifice. This
curse also, well, maybe more another time perhaps. Let's just say my mission in this
plane is one of utter importance to our way of life.
Huh. That's interesting.
Yes. I need to commune with the spirits.
And I will go off to a rock on the stream and just set up a meditation.
Kyren, you're able to make your way out there. The stream is not, there's no heavy current
or anything so make your way out to a rock and set up.
Uh, Emress is on watch. We can hear a snoring dwarf. We see Bishop fast asleep. Emress,
you make it about halfway through your watch. And there's a noise that comes from the bushes.
Kind of catches your attention. So you wait and you watch. Doing a little behind the screen
roll. Nothing. You don't hear anything. There's no more sound.
The night passes and the sun rises. You guys can all take the long rest. And you find yourselves
at the campsite waking up. The sun is coming out. It seems to be a beautiful day. There's
no clouds, no overcast. Beautiful sunrise taking place right now. We see Kyren in meditation
on one of the stones in the pot on the, on the stream there.
In the morning, Bryn will be nose down in his bell book, which is fairly usual. Occasionally
turning to the side to take notes in another smaller book or a hammer away at a chisel
on a small tablet of rock, something or other. It all goes back into his bags as we get started
in the morning though.
Bishop is just shoving water in his mouth and rubbing his teeth to brush his teeth into
the stream, spitting water back into the stream.
Aaron, what are you doing?
I'm going to stand up and just start doing my morning stretches and going through some
of the ways of the monk martial arts to loosen up. Whenever you guys are ready.
I think we should make our approach.
Let's get back there. Check in with Dairn. Has there been any movement in or out of the
cave over the evening?
Throughout the course of the evening, he hasn't noticed anything. His attention did get slightly
broken for a moment on a mouse that he saw scurrying by. Maybe the instinct of wanting
to eat but not needing to. Just that curiosity of wanting to hunt. But he didn't break attention
from the cave. I'm not saying that in a sense that he took his attention off and didn't
see anything. It's just flavoring the owl a little bit. He's keen to the rodents of
the night. That was the only excitement he had, was getting to eye a mouse scurrying
by. But he stayed vigilant and didn't notice anything.
There has been no movement over the evening.
That's good.
Should remain much as we left it.
That means they didn't get reinforcements.
Aye.
We should probably keep our eyes and ears open. I heard some rustling in the bushes
near, but nothing ever poked out. I didn't see anything of note, but figured I'd mention
it just in case. This happened before you guys woke up.
I also do wonder how long it takes them to refill them water traps there. Perhaps it
would be for the best if we make a bit of a rush towards that western cavern.
Sounds like a plan. Not a great plan, but it's a plan.
Aye.
I think that camp will be safe as is at the moment. We don't need to pack up for now.
I'm going to kick some dirt into the campfire. Whatever's left of it.
What's left of it, yeah. It had pretty much died out earlier in the morning, but you're
able to just snuff it out.
I'm going to hop back over.
Shall we then?
Indeed.
You guys make your way from your camp back through the woods, following a familiar path
you had taken to get to your camp. You come to the edge of the clearing, the forest, and
you see the familiar cave in front of you once again. What do you do?
First off, I want to point out that I hit spacebar to pause the game.
You hit it?
Yeah, I hit spacebar. Just instinctively hit spacebar to unpause the game.
Give me permission.
What's your owl tell you, Marin? Speak to me, dwarf.
I close my eyes for a moment, pass my vision into the owl as it flies up to the entrance
of the cavern, and assuming the map can be trusted. Nothing at the entrance. Let me send
a minute a little deeper, check that bridge. I don't see any of them. Seems like the bridge
and the kennel room are clear.
Perhaps they think the water washed off their friend of the bridge.
I think perhaps.
This may turn to our favor, yeah?
Hard to say.
But better question is, how are they controlling the water?
Let us get a little closer so that I can get my eyes deeper into the cavern. I just wanted
to get close enough to see this pool area. Have these walls been reconstructed, these
pools refilled?
It looks like they had put the stones back. They seem to be filling up, however, they're
not quite full.
Okay. Then I'll retreat the owl on silent wings. It seems like we should be in the clear.
I didn't even look to see how many goblins there were while I was in there.
How do you think that bridge was?
20? 20 feet? But we have the passage to the west. You had a look at it, how treacherous
is it?
It's climbable, yeah, but it's not solid footing.
With our friend Imris here, could we mold it so that we can ascend it easier?
Yeah.
But how loud is that going to be? Is it going to attract us unwanted attention?
If we're careful, I don't know if it makes that much noise. It doesn't really say anything
about how loud it is.
Even if it is a mite bit loud, there's the noise of the stream and the water flowing.
It's just the ones going to be flooded again.
I do not think they can flood us. Not yet, anyway.
Very good. So, can you make us a stairway?
Maybe, if I could see. Can't see shit.
Oh, I forget you're human.
Bishop, is there anything you can do with his eyes?
I can handle that. Come on, look at me. Look at me. As soon as I find it.
Eyes of the Night. I shall use this ability. It is on three-wheeling creatures.
Oh, wow.
So all you guys can have it.
Nice.
How much range does that give?
300.
300. Holy shit.
Enjoy seeing the world as I see. Live vicariously through me.
That decovers his eyes.
I still can't see shit.
I see right through it. It's no big deal.
Alright, everybody has been blessed.
I also would like to cast Guidance for self. Are we good to do that?
I would also like to bless Emres with Vigilant Blessing.
So he gets advantage on initiative.
Okay. Emres, make sure you remember that.
Already forgotten.
Alright.
So Marin, did your bird see anything? How far can we go without encountering any goblins?
We should be in the clear to make it to the passageway. Don't know about the top.
I can see light coming from up here.
I can see all the way through the crack to here.
Yeah, the elevation is a bit rough.
Okay.
TK, I can see light spilling down from here.
Yeah, and you would remember that's the area that you saw that had several goblins.
And there was also a human with another goblin up there. So you remember that area.
Yeah.
I would expect six or more goblins up there once we get up.
Most of them are down below on a lower ledge.
So hopefully by coming up this way, we have a bit of a numbers advantage as they scrambled to make it to us.
And that is where the human was up on the ledge.
If we free him and maybe get them a weapon, they could be evaded.
Can we do stealth from this point?
Yeah, you guys can go ahead and roll me a stealth check.
And if you are watching the chat, you will notice that you guys rolled over from last episode and the great job you guys did at surviving and the good role play that we're having now.
I've awarded everybody a bottle cap.
Oh yeah.
Except you couldn't award it to Bishop because he's so stealthy you couldn't find his character.
And Marin, are you living vicariously through the owl or are you going to...
Oh no, I was trying to go in but you paused it.
That's fine. I just, yeah, I know. I was just letting you guys talk it out and act it out rather than dragging your tokens around like what you want to do and then we'll just resolve it.
Yeah, no, I'm coming up, bringing up the rear.
Okay.
I want to be like right behind where the owl is right now where I could easily teleport up to the bridge or up to the top of this ledge if I had to.
Right here. So you move about 15 feet up and you're hugging the wall of the cave.
Across from you is that ledge that looks like it had been crumbling away with the rubble down there and you previously kind of took cover in that area during the floods that came there directly across the cave from you right now.
You step over the dead goblin body.
But you're on the way over.
First thing you guys notice coming back into the cave is the smell of all these these dead bodies.
Starting to...
When they washed out honestly?
No, because a lot of them were not in the water. They're literally right where you guys are standing. I just kind of...
I mean that goblin who was pulled down when the water came through.
Yeah, well he landed right where he was so he's mostly on the ground there.
Okay, okay.
So the water stopped right there with him, basically.
Yeah.
Okay.
You know, you're probably right. He might be... we'll put him there. You didn't smell him on the way in.
I'm going to just real quickly drag this goblin in here with these other ones.
Okay, you drag his body in there. Maybe the other one too. Guys just making a pile of corpses.
Mishiv, what are you doing?
Making a hand gesture to come in this way.
Or am I kicking on the left?
Okay, I love that I can click you guys and see what you're seeing. That is probably my favorite thing so far with Foundry, besides the beautiful maps.
I'm going to get in the position of hand for foot.
And I'm just gonna wave at the wall and create a ladder.
Okay, sure.
I want to ready my bow just in case some some goblin gets curious if we make too much noise.
Okay, and this is an area where it looks like the passage is choked up with rubble and it's blocked by steep slopes.
So there's like two little slopes here that you can see while standing down there.
Okay.
And we can't really see past it?
No, but Marin was able to see up that way from his owl who's a little bit higher of a perspective in the cave than you guys.
Okay.
So I'm assuming I'm still in stealth, right? I'm taking his makeshift druid ladder.
You step a foot onto the ledge. And just as you do, this giant snake comes out and it strikes at you.
Do I see that from down here?
I had ready my bow.
Um, yeah, I'd say you see it.
You definitely see it.
So I guess you got it.
Yeah, you could take a shot at it if you like.
17 to hit.
That hits.
Seven damage.
Okay.
You hit this thing from downtown and it sticks into like the middle of its body.
It's still up.
It lashes out to bite at Bishop for a 19 to hit.
It does four points of piercing damage.
And when it releases from you, you look at the wound and you notice that like there's this fluid, this yellowish fluid in your wounds.
Roll a constitution saving throw.
Uh, okay.
Oh, oh.
That is a not one for a total of two.
I want to help them.
You take eight points of poison damage.
Oh, damn.
And the same hisses roll for initiative.
And I need to add.
Where's Marin?
I think I got it.
Oh, wait, I get a roll advantage.
You're telling me this snake out stealth me, bro.
I'm not going to net 20.
Well, you stepped on it.
I mean, you could be as sneaky as you want, but if you step on the snake.
Did it take damage from the stuff?
Yeah.
One damage.
I'll give you that.
I assume I'm dead.
So what does that like 13 damage?
You're not like from a dead.
Oh, yeah.
You're unconscious.
This is that this is before combat even started.
That's okay.
Marin got the 11.
Rough already.
Yeah.
So this encounter is just kind of weird.
Is this if you guys are actively searching for it and you roll perceptions.
Great.
If not, step on it.
Hey, hey, hey, snakes got a snake.
If you guys were looking around, keeping an eye out, then yeah, you probably would have saw it.
This is what happens when you keep your hand over your eyes.
I also gave you do advantage.
Super.
I rolled a 17 or 16 might be lower.
I tried to roll again, too.
With advantage.
You always take the higher.
You could be higher.
I know.
But you just do it.
Another normal.
That's not letting me do it.
Roll a d20.
Just tell me one.
One of your real guys.
Keep that one.
Let's go keep the 17.
You don't have any any initiative bonus.
It's plus one, I think.
So I'll keep the 17 over the 15.
Okay.
All right, Kiron.
Beginning of combat.
Yeah, I want to take another shot.
All right, man.
Let me have it.
I'll take it out before I killed him.
There it is.
24 to hit.
That's a big hit.
Oh, that is a big number.
Why didn't you do that?
You really see arrow and it hits it in the head and pins it to the wall behind Roche.
It is dead.
I guess.
Yeah.
I'm going to.
Okay.
Major armor.
All right.
Can I help Roche stabilize?
I mean, Bishop.
Forget what I had on you for major armor.
What was the cool one?
Was it this one?
If you use if you use any heal like shiny.
There it is.
If you use any heal, it'll stabilize me or you can use medicine or I don't know if you got any other feeling.
I have a plus three to medicine.
Chuck.
Same.
I have the same medicine.
No proficiency.
But I can just heal you.
I've got the spell slots.
It's just not much healing.
I have a question on that, though.
Are you going to repoison me?
Cure poison.
Reap.
Is my unconscious body poison or is it just poison damage?
No, it was just poison damage.
Okay.
Sweet.
Yeah.
Just like a shirt.
Wake up.
Get back down.
Yeah.
You can wake him up and he can heal himself back up to full if you want.
So odd question here.
If I were a cannibal, would I be able to purify food on him to get rid of poison?
Had he had it by eating him?
Are you saying you're going to feed me dead body?
No, you are the food.
I'm just asking a hypothetical here.
He's a changeling.
He's not another human, so he doesn't qualify for cannibalism.
Oh, you're right.
It depends on what shape he goes down.
Would it cure poison if I considered it him food?
When I do purify food and drink?
No.
Lame.
Not unless you cut him up.
And like grill him or something.
All right.
Well, he'll Roche five.
I mean, Bishop.
Pretty good.
Free me from my bonds.
Once again, ready my action.
All right, so I'm going to I'm going to carefully climb over or climb up the ladder looking for any critters or traps or anything.
I can find that stands out as harmful.
So you're up on the ledge.
Both of you are on the ledge and you are moving on the ledge.
Roll a dexterity check because the ground you're standing on is really loose.
And it's like piled rubble right here on this ledge like it like the rocks are moving under your feet.
I would like to use mold earth to smooth it out and make it better terrain.
OK, so you see this starting to happen and you cast mold earth and you make a ledge, a stable ledge of earth below your feet.
I would give you a bottle cap had I not already given.
Good job, good job. Great use of a spell.
I want to take a step forward and keep my action ready.
OK, all right. I've unpause it. Go ahead.
So from where you're at right now, Super, you are about 10 feet up in elevation now.
And you can barely see what you see like light coming from the tunnel, the cave in front of you.
OK, I know you can see more than that, but. Yeah, you definitely see like light now.
OK, and the the legend front of you looks like the same loose rubble from that was alleged behind you.
I'm going to kind of turn back. So if you have any thing you want to do for that,
if not, you're going to have to climb a climb check to get up the rest of the way.
So it is still higher than where we currently are. Yeah, it's another 10 feet up.
OK, and then the the ground up here.
Is that level with that ledge? Yes. OK.
Then I will make it into some sort of terrain that's easily climbed on or walked on.
And then I'm going to turn back and kind of like put my finger over my lips and say like real quietly.
I come out of my brief trance. I went into hanging out in this corner.
I pull up the rear. I want to I want to like whisper over to Mirren.
Does that go around? I go around.
Can I flank from that side? I should be able to.
OK, I'm going to teleport on top of the bridge and make my way around the corner.
I'm going to. You got to watch for bird snakes.
Yeah, I'll keep an eye out.
These guys are fighting through chain armor and everything.
Don't even don't even risk it, man. The dagger like fangs.
Can you give me elevation so I can sneak around the corner?
I mean, I guess so. Yeah.
OK, let's resolve some things real quick.
So no, no, no, you stop.
So you're on the rope bridge. It's an overpass.
You see the stream continues beyond another set of uneven steps ahead where you were bamfing through.
And you can hear that a waterfall was burbling in a larger cavern somewhere that was just behind you as you headed towards the tunnel.
Now, it's about 20 feet high, which I think we've already narrated.
And you've just started walking into a cavern that is roughly 10 feet high by about as tight as five and as wide as maybe eight to almost 10 feet in some areas.
That night crawler.
It's some areas. And yeah, so I'll give you give you a back.
I just had to stop you there for you didn't think crazy.
Yeah, no worries. I had rolled a 21 on myself earlier.
So just to let you know, I'm just going to move to where I can have a line of sight for when they come up.
OK, I think if you get yeah, right about there, you'd be in a great spot.
And I'm just ready my bow. OK, what's everybody else want to do?
I'm going to do some druid crafting real quick. What are you crafting, bro?
I'm going to make the sound of a fart right here.
A nice loud one. I'm also going to use druid craft to make the smell of a skunk kind of come out from that same area.
And then I'm going to snuff out the farthest campfire using druid craft also just to draw their attention away.
I also would like to use Thaumaturgy and make a tremble for the fart.
You guys like looking at each other like OK, one, two, three.
Would you call it thunderous instead of just casting three spells?
We could all just you can Thaumaturgy for the noise.
I can press the digitation for the smell and you can do a craft for the for the fire and go off same time.
See, I knew there was a reason I gave you guys a bottle cap.
You're crushing it this episode.
We're good. I want to. So you said the one in the back, the fire camp in the back?
Yeah, this campfire right here. I'm snuffing it.
I want to turn this one bright green.
I'm trying to get them to look away is the point so we can sneak up.
Oh, they're going to be sneaked or they'll be scared shitless. One of the two.
OK, so we're turning fires green. We're farting, making sound and vibrating and making smell.
Can you can you simultaneously make the fire green while you vibrate the ground?
I think it was that occurring slightly after.
Just for theater and everything else.
I think it would take two casts to get two effects.
I think I can have up to three of them in a one minute time.
That said, I would do tremor and then bring fire.
OK, so shake that bag. Yeah.
Shake the cake.
Bring your body.
All right. All right.
Can we have the skunk like you said, it's going to smell.
Yeah. OK. All right.
OK, you guys, just to clarify, you want this to go off in the.
So there's I know you guys can't see or listening into us.
There's there's two campfires in this cave.
These guys are adventurers.
The party have made a makeshift stairway or climbable ground that's that's not going to collapse under their feet.
And I imagine the three of them are up to this ledge with like just their eyes peeking over so they can see like the camp and see what's going on in there.
And from their perspective, what they see is six goblins.
One of them is like one of the ones that was outside.
He looks like he has a little bit better armament on.
And he seems to have more of authority over the other ones.
They give him space. He has more space apart from him than the others.
The others are just your normal run of the mill goblins we've seen up to this point.
There's three around each campfire.
And from the party, there's a fire and then a fire beyond.
So they're kind of looking if they were looking at it in a straight line, there'd be one closer to them, one further from them.
And what they're planning on doing is to make a fart, make a skunk smell and then make the fire closest to them turn green.
So we don't have to say that in so many words.
We're peeking over the edge and Emmerich just goes Operation Brown Noise.
We all just nod knowingly.
You forgot the tremor. That's something we've done before.
That's very important with the fart. It's got a tremor.
Yeah.
Okay. So we paused for a moment and we hear Mryn say...
No, Emmerich. This was Emmerich's idea.
Oh, Emmerich is making the command. Emmerich says, Operation Brown Note.
I nod.
And as soon as you hear this, Dave just shakes a little bit.
And the smell emanates.
And the goblins, the goblins all there are surprised and they look towards the back campfire, all of them.
And the one in the very back says, what, it wasn't me?
And the other one says, yeah, right, dude. I smell. Oh, God. Oh, God, man.
Wait a minute.
It kind of smells good.
And the other one's like, yeah, dude, how come your farts smell like skunks?
Then you have the attention from the other ones there who are kind of...
They're all turned towards the one and their fire lights green.
And now they've gone from checking out the fart and admiring the smell
to all of their focus has now shifted to this green flame that's erupted out of the campfire.
You see two of them, the three of them that are around the campfire take a step back.
This guy steps back that way. This guy steps back this way.
And I believe a ready to action occurs from Kyren.
I want to shoot the one closest to me.
16 to hit.
16 hits.
Nice. Six points of damage.
All right. Six points of damage.
You shoot him right in the back in between his shoulders.
Just, what? Guys. Guys. Something ain't right.
Everyone roll for initiative.
Wait, Bishop, did you have the vigilant blessing on me again?
Yes.
Yeah, you had that. I mean, you forgot.
Not this time. And I remembered the last time.
You did.
Yeah, it was just late. It was after I had rolled.
What the fuck is going on?
Did you roll twice?
Yeah.
Super. Oh, yeah, you did.
I just rolled poorly on both.
Let's see. I need to roll for him and I need to put Marin's roll in.
What do we roll, Marin?
19.
There it is. 19.
Nice roll, bro.
Considering I have no bonuses to initiative.
That's what I said. Nice roll.
All right. Let's fucking do it.
Let's go start my turn.
A voice in the cavern. Shouts out.
Get ready, dudes. Set up. Be ready for anything.
And we're going to have 10, 15. He's going to come this way.
He sees you.
He sees me in turn one stealth? Oh, whatever. I shot fired.
You're right in the opening there. He could just look down the cave and see you.
And he is going to take a shot.
Yeah, not like World of Warcraft. You don't have vanish.
But I do.
Clean up my dice tray here.
I've got all these dice. Oh, God, they're everywhere.
I dipped into engineering, by the way, so I'm going to throw a bomb.
I'm going to roll on a different dice, by the way.
I'm going to roll the frosty blues tonight.
That's what I want to roll.
I want to throw my goblin grenade down there.
Frosty blue action.
It only hits goblins.
You're right.
Oh, God, I don't know if I should be rolling frosty blues when they're only rolling me a 13 to hit.
Oh, that was going to miss.
All right. Those are going to the dice jail.
You can keep them. It's good.
No, no, no, they're beautiful.
They should be good.
We shall be punished.
You think I was kidding? I'm really a nerd and I have a dice jail.
See it? Nice, nice.
Supers not on camera.
This is my dice jail super.
I think you've shown it before.
It's fantastic.
What type of blood do they have?
Away they went.
It reminds me of the rising where we stick to prisoners.
They would be creature 2 percent.
Not worthy of the prison.
All right. That's going to end his turn.
And Marin, you're up.
I don't really want to move in ahead of everybody else.
That would be a might bit foolish.
I think.
What could go wrong?
I reach down to my side and I pull up a flask of water and I pour some into my hand.
I toss it in the air above me and I say, Barack filter.
And I cast armor of agathis on myself.
You see the water I toss into the air crystallize and cover me in spectral frost.
And that'll be it for me this round.
Just prep your algorithm.
No, it'll just get shot.
Once we're all in there messing about, it might get involved.
Right now it's keeping an eye over the bridge to make sure reinforcements don't come.
All righty.
That ends your turn. You can.
Oh, yeah. Press the button.
All right. This guy.
This fucking guy will step up.
Watch out, dudes. Get out of the way.
And he kind of takes a step up here.
And he's going to throw a javelin at you, Kyron.
Bullshit. Oh, tend to hit.
Yes. Dodging and weaving, bro. Dodging and weaving.
Dodging and weaving. The javelin flies and it hits the wall behind you and hits the ground.
And he curses to himself and goblin.
And I curse to myself and human in my mind.
This goblin is going to run up.
Ten, fifteen, twenty.
He's hugging the wall to fit in.
Twenty five right here. He's going to come here.
And he looks down and he sees three of you.
All right there.
It's like, what do we have here?
It's a visitors.
And he will.
He's going to walk down and he's going to stand beside you, Emreis.
And he's going to attempt to hit with his scimitar.
All right. I'm going to try a different set of dice.
One of these dice is going to work.
Twelve.
Twelve did not hit.
That works for us.
Yeah. I like these dice.
I'm glad you guys are having a good time.
Kyron, it's your turn.
All right.
I'm going to start by trying to finish off the one.
Yeah. I'm going to try to finish off the one I started on.
The look behind the beefcake looking goblin.
Yeah.
All righty.
Oh.
Not twenty.
We're going to just go ahead and say he's dead. Yeah.
Yeah. But we want to do something fun. Right.
So let's see.
Weapon damage.
You are doing a piercing. Right.
Yes.
Do twenty.
Yeah.
Great hit.
Roll your damage dice twice and add them together.
So you're going to roll your crit dice.
Then you're going to roll your crit dice again and add them all up.
So you're already rolling double dice.
So you're essentially rolling quadruple dice.
Emreis, you should attack the beefcake one.
You know, you don't expect it though.
Yeah.
Two more on top of that. Yeah.
Damn.
All right. One second.
Oh, sixteen plus.
Yeah. Yeah, that does it.
Plus my weapon damage.
I think it was like twenty points of damage.
How do you want to do it, buddy?
I wish I could pin him to the other goblin or just straight through them into the other goblin is what I want to do.
But yeah, he flies into the other goblin.
I'm going to say that was a great hit and he manages to knock that goblin prone.
They saw each other and they hit the ground.
Right.
But and then I'm going to take a step back so I'm not in direct fire.
Oh, the game's paused. I can't move.
Thunder's in his rave zone right now with the song.
Sorry.
OK.
Is that on your turn?
I want to take a step away from direct line of sight.
Yeah.
And not like I just did.
I don't. I don't mind if one comes at me.
I just don't want to be in a complete fire.
I forgot I had to pause my bad.
I'm still getting used to that.
Actually, I'll take ten feet back.
Coming from Roll20 to this, it's like it's such a leap and bound in quality.
But there's these little things you have to get used to.
And in Roll20, I couldn't pause things.
So I forget things are paused, even though there's this big ass sign on my screen that says game pause.
But.
OK.
That was my turn.
Um, all right.
Some things happen.
And Amaris, it's your turn.
OK.
I'm going to.
You have this goblin right in front of you who swung a scimitar at you, swung wildly and hit the cave next to you.
You managed to back like dodge out of the way just in time.
But he's there.
I'm going to return.
Oh, shit, I just drug that off.
Dang it.
How do I can I control Z things?
Oh, it's control Z in the wrong stuff.
OK, never mind.
I drug a spell off that I wish I had to hack the game, bro.
I wanted to get the scimitar swing.
Everybody knows Alt F4 is how you level up.
Oh, yeah.
What are you trying to do?
I'm just going to make a regular scimitar swing at this goblin right here.
All right.
Bring it.
Fifteen to hit.
Get out of here.
That business that definitely hits.
Woo.
It's just some damage.
No.
I rolled another one.
Did you roll more than one?
The sound makes it so good.
It's like the.
Sound effect.
And it cracks me up.
All right, man.
I took that two points of slashing damage.
Nice.
You gave me a paper cut.
What the hell?
Yeah, well, at least I hit loser.
Hey, why I oughta.
Anything else you'd like to do with your turn?
No, I'm sorry.
All righty.
No worries.
Brings it to Goblin number five.
Five.
What's going on?
There's one down the down the tunnel here.
Come on.
Moves to their Bishop.
You know, it's coming.
I took.
Last time I checked, goblins aren't so wise.
Oh, no, they're not.
No, they're not.
I want to bring out neon green for this.
I threw it wildly into the dice tray without rolling it, and I'm just going to play it to 12.
That hits.
Passes.
No, it tails.
All right.
See Crooker shaking his head and I got all depressed.
God damn it.
He's so right.
And I'm so wrong.
Oh, he died.
That's nine points.
Tell me how his head explodes.
I'll show you a paper cut.
Dong.
Make it stop.
Brain explodes.
Oh, that was sick.
Did you see the bell?
Yep.
Oh, that was so cool.
And all this blood just flies all over Emerson's face.
I had your bathing in the blood of my enemy.
All righty.
You've got movement and a bonus action.
I tap Emerson's shoulder and I was like, we got to move out there.
There are at least another couple in there.
I couldn't really see much, but there are four and then five, the big guy that walked by that I saw.
Can I step up here?
Yeah, it's not difficult terrain at all.
He's made that completely traversable.
So I'm going to step up here and I'm going to yell push in.
And that will end my turn.
All right.
Brings me to Goblin number six.
Direct line of sight with you.
Draws his short bow and fires.
Who's you?
On Bishop.
Twenty one to hit.
Nice, that hits.
Yep.
Seven points of piercing damage.
Okay.
As he releases the arrow and it sticks in your thigh.
Ends his turn.
Brings us to this guy.
Make quick work of them dudes.
We got stuff to do here.
This guy who's prone, he's going to stand up, takes half his movement, comes up next to you, Bishop.
And he will fling with his scimitar.
Sixteen to hit.
Does not hit.
Oh.
Right on.
Oh.
I thought I had you.
All right.
He swings wildly and it hits the side of the cave.
Chainsending sparks off into the cave.
Oh, you're quick, huh?
Wren, you're up.
Yeah.
I'm underneath Emres now.
I'm lost forever.
You disappear under Emres.
Yeah, I need to get you elevated here.
Are you trying to come up?
Yeah.
I want to come to here to start.
Just so I can see what's going on up here.
I don't think I can see the local area.
I don't think I can sneak past, like squeeze past these goblins.
Can't move through their squirts.
Now, see, they're a small creature.
You're medium.
I think you guys can occupy the same space.
I'm not trying to grind us to a hollow.
Yeah, I'm not trying to grind us to a hole.
These aren't a large creature.
I would think that something that's large in a space,
you would have a hard time getting through.
They're small in a five foot space.
You're medium.
I'd say you could probably pass through.
However, you're just going to have to watch out for any kind of
provoking of attacks.
And I think there might be a rule for occupying the same space.
Let's not do that.
We can look it all up later, but we don't have to grind it to a hole.
Sure.
I'm just going to take a big two handed chop at this one who just
tried to stab Bishop.
OK, so where you're at, I'm going to say you're standing up on the
ledge next to Bishop.
It's kind of a weird diagonal little spot there.
Yeah, we're just we're going to give it to you.
Oh, there you go.
Oh, that work for you.
Yeah, I'm like in a wall.
You're like on the ledge right there.
So go ahead and take a two hand chop.
Twenty one.
Oh, dude, that is charging up these dice for the last month.
Which dice he's rolling to hit with my these golden golden ones.
I like your I like your cherry blossom dice a lot like I've been
rolling my these boxes on those and they haven't been doing good.
I'm rolling my 10 with my purple dragon scales.
Nice.
OK, sorry.
Back to the game.
Five on the day, six damage total on the two handed chop.
All right.
That rocks him hard.
He's still up, but he's staggering.
And then what's the movement on?
Damn coughs up blood all over bishops.
Good.
Not my club.
Darren is going to do a quick fly by.
OK, I come down here.
I am just I kept on colliding with the wall.
He's going to fly by help on actually he's going to fly by help on this
big fucker.
And then he's going to go back to watching the bridge.
So how does that work?
How would you narrate that?
He then comes flying around the corner and he screeches and flaps his wings
and flashes his talons at the creature distracting him before he flies back
up on the hall.
OK.
What's that?
Ah, he's kind of like he's kind of spooked for a second.
Yeah.
So next creature to attack this fella here will have advantage.
And that'll be it for me.
All right.
Comes up to this big boy's turn with the arrival of someone right behind him.
He turns around and says, what the you.
He's going to swing scimitar once for nine to hit.
No hit at Bishop.
OK.
Swings it again.
And that one.
That's a that one.
Look at his face.
Oh, and he's named.
Yes.
Yeah.
The table.
Yeah.
What's that fumble?
Let's do it.
There's a reason he's named.
All right.
Here we go.
Roll it.
Because they are distracted.
Yep.
And 11, which means slip up.
You lose your footing.
Roll dexterity slash acrobatics check or fall prone.
Your turn is ended and melee attacks have advantage against you, assuming that I land prone.
Here we go.
I need to be to D.C. 15 boys.
I get a plus two to Dex.
That's a fail.
I rolled a fucking seven.
All right.
So Eric falls prone.
His turn ends and melee attacks against him have advantage.
He's got double advantage against them right now.
I know that does.
It's just advantage.
All right, Kyron.
All right.
It's his turn.
Five, ten.
I heard Bishop and them fighting, so I knew that they advanced.
So it's my turn to advance.
Come around the corner.
What's going on?
What do I see?
What you see is you see one of the goblins is looking in your direction and he seems alert and ready.
The other goblin had turned.
He was you just rounded the corner as he took a swing at Bishop.
As he did, he over swung and you saw him slip and fall and land flat on his back.
You could see Bishop and you could see Marin.
You also see another goblin kind of between Bishop and Marin.
Bleeding all over Bishop's cloak.
Yeah. And he coughed.
Well, you didn't see that, but there's blood all over Bishop's cloak.
You got to get to do any of them look injured at the moment.
The two in front of me.
No, those two don't.
OK, I'm going to make my way at our five.
So that's 15 feet.
I'm going to he's on the ground prone.
So I'm going to melee attack the guy on the ground.
All right.
With advantage.
With the damage I fucking suck it rolling.
So an arm strike.
Not 20.
Yeah.
That's slashing.
That's no, it's blunt.
That's an arm bludgeoning bludgeoning.
Well, D20 buddy.
You're rolling crits, bro.
Wow.
Hey, this this one's the one I want to roll a one on.
OK.
I love this.
Oh, yeah.
I love this.
You roll a crit.
You call that a crit.
Roll damage is normal.
Oh, no.
So it removes my do I still get the crit damage or no?
Roll damage is normal.
If you call it 20, it's pretty fucking spectacular.
So yeah.
At least I didn't roll a one while I'm attacking.
That's the important part here.
That was literally what it's called.
You call that a crit.
Roll damage is normal.
I'm going to do it my second attack.
Since I went and rolled bad, that's going to be my other unarmed attack.
I was going to do it.
I can really roll it if you want.
Yeah.
I hit the wrong button.
I'm like, wait, what happened?
Where's the damage?
Here's the damage.
Oh, my god, bro.
All right.
I took that eight.
Fuck.
You need me to roll that other one again?
Well, you get advantage on it.
So you get to roll another time.
OK, yeah.
22 to hit.
You don't roll anything under 15 right now, do you?
Jesus.
That hits.
OK, so then I'll roll another damage dice to make sure the damage is all.
This is great, dude.
You're rolling great.
Oh.
Another seven.
So I come around the corner, assess the battlefield real fast as I'm running around the corner.
And I'm going to punt him right in the gut.
And when he's lifting off the ground, I'm going to just slam him back down into the ground.
Like a Dragon Ball Z fight.
Like you hit him up, then you hit him down.
Yeah.
Oh, he spits out blood, too.
One of his kidneys surely punctured in the lung as well.
And he spits out of the wall.
And then I'm just going to look at the other one like what you got.
Yeah.
Like, do you want to test me kind of deal?
And it all in my turn.
All right.
Emmeriss, it's your turn.
All right.
I'm going to move up here.
OK, so I see two living ones right now.
Do I see him as being alive or dead?
You can see him.
He's alive.
He's laying on his back.
He just got jacked up.
This guy's alive.
And there's one underneath Marin dead.
In that case, if I assume the guy laying on the ground might be dead,
I'd like to scimitar swing at this guy.
At the guy standing between Marin and Bishop, you're going to swing that scimitar.
All right.
Bring it.
Nice.
Oh, yeah, that is.
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
I saw it.
That was cool.
Hey, not a one.
For four damage.
How do you want to do it?
That takes him out.
I figure he's like at the maximum reach of my range.
So I just want to slash downward at him.
I don't like do a sideways swing and cut either Bishop or Marin.
I'm just doing a straight down slash and I catch him through the face
and open up his chest and stomach.
Yeah, you open up his chest and stomach.
You see his intestines just fall out onto the ground.
He looks at him and he fucking falls to his knees,
falls flat on his face in between Bishop and Marin and right in front of you.
All righty.
You have your bonus action and movement left.
Can I do like a medicine check to see if I can tell if this dude's alive?
I can't ping him.
Oops.
Wow.
I'm on the wrong.
You just cut Bishop.
I'm dead.
Roll medicine check.
You're talking about the guy flat on his back.
Yeah.
I just want to see if people are alive or what it took in my care.
Yeah, you don't need to roll a check.
He's moving.
He's moving?
Yeah.
OK.
You can see him squirming around.
He just got his ass kicked by Kyren.
Well, then I'm going to move to here.
All right.
With my bonus action, flip off the dude laying on the ground.
All right.
That brings us to the Goblin standing next to Kyren.
You asked him what he's going to do.
He raises his scimitar.
He's going to swing it at you, bro.
He's bringing it.
13 to hit.
He's scared shitless.
He missed.
He is.
He's taken in his Goblin boots.
I don't seem to have a dice that rolls nice for me tonight.
All right.
Let me see what I can do here.
Bonus action, disengage, and 15, 20, 25, 30.
Come back to here.
That'll end his turn.
I'm out of here.
Quick question.
Quick answer.
Crone targets, do they get to attack of opportunity?
Yes.
Can they attack when you cast spells?
No.
It doesn't work like that.
So if you cast a spell in melee on a target, it's with disadvantage.
What about myself?
You can cast it on yourself.
OK.
So if I attack, it's going to be...
Yeah, if you're trying to hit him with a spell, it's with disadvantage in melee.
OK.
In melee, right?
It's with disadvantage.
It doesn't provoke any...
No.
OK.
There is a feat for Mage Slayer, which allows you to attack somebody casting a spell with
a melee.
Right.
This guy's still prone?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Very much.
It has a disadvantage on attack rolls while it's prone.
It's working on it.
Yep.
You have advantage on any melee attacks against it.
Coup de grace.
But I also only have two or three.
You have a stat yet.
You know what?
Let's roll it, bro.
Let's do it.
Let's do it, dude.
I mean, don't do it, dude.
Don't do it.
Hey, we can work this out.
Shit.
Mace can work it out really well.
That hits nice and...
16?
Yeah.
Does not hit.
Oh, wow.
He's not a regular gob.
OK.
That's all it can do.
He raises his shield while laying on his back and he blocks your attack.
OK.
I am going to end turn.
All right.
He's got two targets.
I'm going to roll a D4.
One to two is Emreys.
Three to four is Marin.
It was a one.
Ooh.
I'm sorry, Emreys.
Here we go.
He's shooting a short bow at you.
I'm using some different fucking dice.
Come on.
Let's get a hit.
Let's get a fucking hit.
It's been a while.
Can I get one hit?
It's not a bitch.
13?
Does not hit.
Wow.
Right on.
Yeah.
All right.
Woo.
Emreys.
He shoots it misses.
Son of a bitch, dude.
What the hell?
I can't hit nothing tonight.
Besides that dwarf.
I'm going to get a hit.
It's a hit.
It's aosterous.
Like I said, the wall brings us to the next guy.
You didn't hit me.
Oh, you hit the chainsling.
We're all dwarfs, son.
Uh huh.
You looks like a dwarf right now.
I imagine you're not a goblin or are you still a goblin?
No, I'm me.
Okay.
This guy comes up here and he's dragging the human cemataur around his throat.
The humans bound.
Um, let's see.
Marin can't see him.
Emreous you can see.
Bishop.
I can just see him.
Oh, I can't see the human.
Bishop, you can barely, yeah you can't see the human.
Bishop, you can barely see the human.
And Kyren, you can see the goblin and the human.
And he has drug him to the ledge, which is about 10 feet up.
He shouts out, he says, you better stop or this one dies.
Marin, it's your turn.
Um, I am, let me do something simple here.
I'm going to just walk here.
As I walk I'm going to make a warding gesture with my hand and say, barracar, and cast
blade ward on myself.
Just get up next to these two goblins.
This fire's out, right?
We put it out.
No, the fires are still lit.
So be careful about standing in them.
We planned on putting that one out, but it didn't RP out.
So it's still going.
Oh, that was the plan?
Yeah.
It works.
Smell, rumble, and out.
Yeah.
Okay.
That one is out.
Okay.
Uh, yeah, that'll be it for me.
Blade ward is up.
Armor agifist is up.
Mage armor is up.
Here I am.
I can't deny a good RP fire snuffin'.
And yeah, the owl will just continue to watch the hall.
This guy's already prone.
He already got advantage on him.
All right.
Oh, I suppose until he stands up.
Is that in your chair?
Yeah, well, yes.
The guy laying on his back is up and he says, screw you.
And he swings out.
I've got three targets.
I'm going to D6 it.
It's going to be one to two, Amorous, three to four, Bishop, five to six, Kyra.
It was a one.
I didn't even do anything to this guy.
You flipped him off.
You did flip him off.
That's very true.
Yeah.
And he said, screw you.
It was perfect.
It worked out great.
All right.
He swings a scimitar at your ankles.
Oh my God.
Can we, can we just wrap it up tonight and we'll just pick it up next time?
Because it was a one.
I rolled a nine.
All right.
Yeah.
So he swings wildly and it clangs against the ground.
Like it's not even worthy of the cave walls.
It just hits the ground.
He's hurt.
He's on his back.
He's disoriented.
He stands up.
Provoking.
I don't think that's a thing.
It does not.
Oh.
I think 5e used to play it.
It used to.
I think 5e rules is written.
As it's just not a thing now.
Which, come on wizards.
Come on.
All right.
So he's going to use a bonus action and he's going to disengage.
He used half his movement to stand up, didn't he?
He did.
You're right.
You're using that.
And then the push through us.
He disengaged.
That doesn't mean he can move through your square without him.
He just doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity.
So he's slowed again.
Yeah.
He's going to come right here.
Which is far enough.
I got him out of the shit for a minute.
Tyrant.
Got him with the scary monk for a moment.
I'm looking at the one up on the ledge.
Is he injured at all?
He is not.
No.
And he has threatened to stop it or this one's going to die.
And I know it looks like they're standing side by side.
But he has Sildar, the human.
And he kind of has his scimitar around his neck.
And he's like standing behind him like this.
You know what I mean?
Is that like a 10 foot ledge right there?
That is a 10 foot ledge.
OK.
So I'm going to.
I hope nothing goes wrong, guys.
Yeah.
We're up to a really great start for this turn.
I want to move five feet forward.
Well, this is why I say I hope nothing goes wrong.
I want to use.
Oh no.
Go ahead.
Sorry.
I want to use blessing of the Raven Queen.
For the teleport.
Yeah.
By your grace.
Two things, right?
Let's just talk about that for a minute.
Why don't you tell everybody what that does?
So as a bonus action, you can teleport.
Yeah.
So third level, I'll get this second thing.
As a bonus action, you can teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space.
You can see I can use that two times per long rest.
I've already used it once to get up on the bridge and flank.
It's like two, three Misty Steps.
Yeah.
It's Misty Step, basically.
But at third level, I'll also get resistance to damage.
So they'll half damage I take for a round, basically, until my next turn.
During that time, I appear ghostly and translucent.
So basically, in flavor sense, since Shadark-Kai are literally the Raven Queen's elves, and
we'll get more into that hopefully later in the series about what they really are.
But I basically call to my ancestors.
They take me from this plane, I presume, to the Shadowfell and put me where I want to
be.
And that's why I still have a ghostly image once I reappear, which would give me half
resistance at third level.
So you ask your parents to pick you up and drop you off somewhere?
Pretty much.
I'm the mom, I'm the alright, I'm the mom.
Which also ties into more flavor.
Shadark-Kai are really flavored into the Blood Queen.
The one thing, when I do the meditation during long rest, I get this ability called Trance,
where I can change two of my proficiencies every time I do a long rest.
It's calling onto the spirits to give me guidance, basically.
So I'm going to teleport right behind him, and I'm going to do the same thing.
I'm going to put my bow right to the back of his head with an arrow drawn right at the
back of his head.
And I'm going to say, do you want to die?
Release him, and maybe we can talk.
I want to.
Roll an intimidation check.
Intimidation check.
Of course I'm going to give you a roll, bro.
That's fucking cool as shit.
19.
Alright, alright.
Alright, listen.
Maybe we can work something out, alright?
Look, I don't really like clogs anyway.
Alright, maybe we can work a deal.
What do you say?
First, tell your men and yourself, drop your weapons.
And then we'll talk.
You have my word.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I need some kind of show of faith here.
Your show of faith is drop the weapons before I'm unable to keep a hold of this bow.
Well, I know you want this guy here, so if I drop him over the ledge, he's going to die.
You have little understanding of why we're here.
Make your choice wisely.
I can't hold this string forever.
But rest assured, we will talk.
Just drop your weapons.
Alright, alright.
Everybody be cool.
Okay, once they drop their weapons, I'm going to just have them all line up against the
wall and we'll-
Hey, Nick, what are you doing?
I said be cool.
Just have them all line up against the wall so we can talk.
Where we can all see them.
I'm fine talking right here.
You look now, you see Sildar is beaten badly.
He's bound by his hands and feet.
He's stripped down to just his undergarments.
His armor and weapons are nowhere to be found.
And his eyes are so- like his face is so badly beaten that his eyes are swollen shut.
Like he's on death's door.
Bishop, I don't think our friend is doing too well.
What is your name, Goblin?
Your name's Yimik.
Yimik.
What's your name?
I am Kalund Thulekar of the Raven Queen Order.
And these are my friends.
I would have thought that was pronounced Kyren.
Many do.
Now tell me.
You got one of those little circles over your head, don't you?
Yes.
I get it.
Alright.
Yeah, yes.
Ah.
So, tell me.
You said you don't like the person leading you right now.
Oh man.
Why what is wrong with him?
It's always us goblins getting pushed around by someone else, right?
This time it's a bugbear.
He thinks he's hot shit.
Well, he really is hot shit.
I mean, none of us could take him.
For some reason, Klaar gets all the loot, all the royalty.
But surely you guys outnumber him, yes?
Yeah, but with no match for him.
Plus, everybody gets the eeby jeebies, you know?
They don't want to go up against him.
Nobody else really wants to be in charge, either.
I'd love to be in charge.
I could run this place way better than him.
And what would you do different?
Well first of all, I'd get all the loot.
Not him.
Why does he deserve everything?
Interesting.
And why did he come across your cave?
Well, that's because he was sent here to run this area from the spider.
Spider?
What spider?
I don't know much else.
Come, let's go sit by the fire while my friend takes care of our friend.
How do I know I can trust you?
I put my bow away, have I not?
Alright boys, let's give him a moment here.
We need to talk.
Marin, would you join us by the fire?
You have officially ended combat with diplomacy.
I am very proud of you, Kyron.
We are growing as players at the table.
I'm gonna help Bishop.
I see it as a boon if we can get him to help us fight.
I want to sit around the fire with him and be a little bit more possible.
How are you?
I'm fucked up.
He just pukes blood onto the floor.
I'm not feeling so good, dude.
That one there, he fucking booted the shit out of me.
And while I was on my way up, he hit me down.
You look all fucked up, bro.
I'm not gonna lie.
Why don't you go try and sleep it off or something?
I don't know if sleeping it off is gonna help you, but I'll give it a shot.
We might be able to procure some healing if talks go well.
No.
He just goes to the corner and lays down in the field of position.
Can't sleep it off.
Very well.
Marin, do you have an idea of what we can do with these goblins?
Do?
Yes.
Are there goblins?
And I feel like they want this cave.
They can fight for it.
This cave?
You.
Your name is what?
Name's Yimik.
What's your name?
I am Mren Yimik.
Mren or Laramundin.
I don't think I can say that.
But nice to meet you.
I would prefer it not solid bite our tongue in any case.
You Yimik.
If we kill this Clark sent by the spider, you and yours will leave this cave.
Leave?
We cannot have you selling the road.
Oh, let's cut up to Emreis and Bishop with Sildar.
We will come right back to that.
Emreis and Bishop, you guys are standing over Sildar and his hands are bound in these metal
shackles.
His feet are bound and he's slumped forward in the seated position and he's just sitting
there but he's breathing.
That's all he's doing.
Does he look like he's going to die?
Is he in the death rose?
He looks like he's a breath away from death.
Like if you fucking sneeze on this guy, he's going to die.
I don't really want to do this, Helum.
You're not going to spare the dying?
Save the slot?
He probably has 1 HP and he's going to spare the dying only if you're unconscious.
That dying.
Oh, meta rush, jeez.
Even so, it's a cantrip so you can cast it and then notice it.
I imagine he didn't drag over an unconscious body.
Somebody roll me a medicine check.
I'm helping Roche, I mean Bishop with the medicine check.
I'll do that with guidance about that.
You get advantage since he's helping you too.
Does that help?
Oh yeah, I could.
Can you see him now?
Yeah.
Oh wow.
He's definitely at 1 HP.
But you know, I'm not a fan of giving NPCs my spell slots, but he is an objective so
I guess I'll be that person.
I'll bind wounds until he's 50%.
Oh damn.
How about that?
Wow.
I could use that on myself.
Oh wow.
He's got a ton of spells.
So he just got healed for 10 and he's not even at half health and most of us are sitting
at around 10 HP max.
Bro probably has like 24 HP maybe, maybe 25, 26.
Now you'll remember the tales you guys all know.
Sildar Howlwinter is a renowned warrior.
This guy is known throughout the lands for being like a badass.
I mean stuff happens dude.
You get caught slipping sometimes.
You know what I mean?
And that just happened.
He just got caught and he's in a rough spot.
I guess we can end the techno music.
I don't want to.
I'm going to request Emerus to like, you know, un-gag him or whatever.
If there's any of that stuff going on and I want to snap and snap it towards the goblins
and ask for the key to the shackles.
How do you snap?
I snap my hands.
I snap my finger.
Oh like a finger snap?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not an emotional snap.
Give me those keys.
I'm just going to, you know, finger snap, hand out and I'll say keys.
Yimik looks to Irk, says, hold on, I think I gotta go get him.
Goes and grabs the keys from Yimik, who's still just occasionally coughing up blood.
Comes back and hands the keys to Emerus.
Alright, I'm going to unlock the shackles.
Okay, now we're going to go back down to, yeah, you unlock his shackles.
We go back down to the conversation.
And pick back up again, Croker.
I was saying, we cannot have you and yours haunting the road between Neverwinter and
Fondalen.
Look, it's Clog that wanted all that shit, alright?
He's got it in his head that he's some kind of king or something.
I mean, don't get me wrong, us goblins, we love loot, right?
But you're a dwarf, you know.
We're captivated by seashells and shit.
We all need the most shiniest stuff in the world.
But I like the steel.
You got me, alright?
Color me red, then, right?
Right, this is very like...
But I want to work a team.
I don't want to die.
Those guys is coming in here, you're wiping us all out.
I'm no idiot.
What kind of deal can we work?
You want the road clear?
I won't touch the road.
I want Clog gone.
You can gather up the rest of your kind.
You can leave this cave, and me and my companions will slay this Clog.
They're never going to do that, bro.
They're so scared of him, they're just never going to do it.
Can you, at the very least, get your kind to stand down while we slay this Clog?
And then once he is dead, you may go.
I really want to say yeah.
I really do.
Those of us that are here in this room, that's about it.
You can't go get them and bring them back here, say you're going to have a feast.
And we go take care of that, and then you can explain to them after he's dead.
Look, two of them that are in there with him, those is Onagos.
Alright?
Now I'm talking about those two.
Then he has his dog, and yeah, I said dog, I call that thing a mutt.
He calls it Ripper.
For a reason.
Because if we get out of hand, he six it on us.
Alright?
I've had cousins.
My own brother was ripped apart by that fucking dog.
Look, you and, well, probably just you can accompany us.
We can relieve your dead Urk friend over there of his weapons and give them to our friend
here.
And I think then the six of us together should be able to manage what needs managing.
He gestures at you like he wants you to lean in close, like he needs to whisper something
to you.
I can hear you from here.
He's like looking around.
I'm here.
He leans in to whisper something to you.
I'm going to ready an action, a thorn whip for if he takes an aggressive move towards
Brynn.
Okay.
I am I am currently glowing with mage armor and I have this this coalesced ice kind of
gathered upon my armor as well because armor of agathys is also still active.
And he has no weapons.
He's dropped his weapons.
I just think he smells so I don't want to get any closer.
He leans in.
And I lean in and he backs up and stands up straight.
See how unfortunate that I lean in and I gesture him back.
If you don't trust them, maybe they don't wake up.
I'm already told that like 12 feet away from me.
Keep it down a little bit.
I would move.
I'm just kidding.
I am whispering right now.
I'm whispering guys.
Yeah.
So he leans in.
I don't trust these other ones.
We're going to cut back up to the ledge to Emmeriss and Bishop.
You've just been handed the keys, Emmeriss.
Yep.
I'm unlocking the shackles.
Binding soulguard.
Thank you.
Seemed to have gotten the best of there.
You.
He looks up to Bishop.
Thank you.
He stands up.
I'm feeling better.
Do you know where your equipment is?
No.
I think they took it.
It's a good chance it was taken by the leader of the cave here.
The bugbear.
I think they took it.
I don't.
I don't think he's here.
And now you're looking at Sildar Howe Winter.
He's a human of nearly 50 years old.
He has like some salt and pepper hair.
He's been stripped of his tabard.
He has pants boots, a white wife beater tank top, and his scabbard is missing along with
his sword.
I don't think any of it's here.
I think they took it when they took Gundren.
Well, we can ask the goblins.
They seem amenable to talking.
This one here.
And he points on the hemic.
This one seems to be the second in charge.
Right under Clark, all the other ones seem to listen to him.
But they all fear the bugbear.
We're just gonna have to kill him then.
If we can.
So Gundren's not here.
Do you know where they took him?
I have an idea.
But I can't be certain yet.
I know that Gundren had a map.
This map showed a secret location.
To a cave.
A cave that he and his brothers had discovered recently.
That was the big thing they were onto when they came here.
The Wave Echo Cave.
When we were captured, the goblins, they seemed to know what they were looking for.
They took it when they captured him.
I think that Clark sent the map and the dwarf, Gundren, to the leader of the Kragmas, off
to a place that I've heard muttered in here as the Kragma castle.
I don't know where that is.
Honestly, I don't think any of these know either.
They seem to know this cave.
It's like this cave and the local area and the trail is their life.
They take orders from somewhere else, but I think this is all they've known.
Well, we're going to have to find out where that is in some way or another.
If these guys don't know, then maybe we can get it from the bugbear.
We'll go back down now to Mren and Korin.
He had just finished telling us that he doesn't trust these other ones.
I'll say, I see.
A little gesture for him to step to the side.
Right.
And he moves aside.
I just take a step forward.
I take a big old swing with my axe.
And I stab down with my spear at the other one over here.
Oh, good.
All right.
You have advantage on the one that's laying down.
All right.
So we're going to resolve this.
Mren, you're going to go first on the goblin here.
Sure.
Got a 13.
Okay.
He at the last second sees it coming.
Whoa.
And he ducks out of the way.
And your attack goes wild and misses.
Now we're going to go to Korin.
Nice.
A one and a two.
Oh, no.
He's out of juice.
You swing at him and at the last second he looks up and he moves out of the way and your
attack misses.
Roll for initiative.
Does we still get our ready actions?
What kind of, what do you mean ready action?
Well, Emerson, Freddy Dex and Thorn Whip for any hostile actions.
That was, I would say that was me focusing on.
Oh yeah.
During the moment on.
Yeah.
I wasn't really watching for the other people.
That's fair.
I appreciate that.
I agree.
Lots of ones.
Jesus.
Let's see.
Mren, what we get?
12.
Okay.
That would have like to step up there after the attack, but up to you.
Go ahead.
Okay.
The one you swung at swings out at you.
17 to hit.
I'm going to cast shield.
So no.
Okay.
He swings and he hits and it hits this shield.
You, you give me, give me a shield flavor.
What happens when you cash?
I turn and I hold out my hand in front of the incoming attack and I shot the word and
a big glowing translucent, slightly blue shield appears before between me and it.
And as he finishes his attack, I swing it to between me and the other goblins.
Yeah.
And this attack hits the shield.
By the way, can we say that we just pause for a second?
Barack was one of my favorite Mortal Kombat two characters.
I don't know if you guys ever played that growing up, but the dude with the blades that
comes out of his fucking arms, man.
All right.
You said, and I was like, probably back in the Dwarven dictionary, it's backbone strength
shield.
All right.
It's pretty cool.
Um, okay.
So that ends his turn.
Bishop you're up.
We got something popping off down here at the campsite.
You notice the commotion.
You saw Marin and Kyren take attacks and you see the goblins fire back.
What do you do?
I grabbed Sildar's shoulder and I shake my head at him.
No.
Um, and then I will cast, you know it, you love it.
I don't like it.
Who are you casting that?
On the prone boy that's already hurt.
On the prone boy.
All right.
Let's see what he gets here.
That's wisdom, right?
Yeah.
15 bro.
Hey, that's good.
That's my first good roll of the night.
That's good for you.
That guy is avoiding death.
He don't want to die.
That will end my turn.
You could have pulled me earlier though.
Right.
All right.
My turn.
Kyren, you're up.
Skip over me.
Uh, yeah.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I mean, it's cool.
I'm not doing a lot.
I'm just going to, um.
I just imagine you in the middle of this area with like this arrow sticking out of your
thigh still.
I have no arrow sticking out of me.
It's sticking out of Bishop.
I'm not, I'm the one who got shot.
Yeah.
Oh, you are the one.
I have two.
Oh, nevermind then.
And don't, don't you still have armor agathys on?
I have armor agathys and made drama.
Yeah.
You're just a bad ass dwarf.
It's what we do.
Um, do I, do I just.
Speaking of which.
Uh.
Yeah.
I'm going to, um, swing down at this prone boy since I get advantage.
Picking on the prone boy.
You guys.
Yeah.
I can't hit nothing though.
My dice have betrayed me.
It's past their bedtime.
Um.
It is getting late.
Yeah.
Uh.
And I'm just going to stand here.
Uh, amongst them.
Um.
That'll be it for me.
A lot of.
A lot of intimidation you're doing over there.
Hmm.
It's a lot of intimidation.
You're doing it over there.
Hmm.
It's all right.
They'll take damage when they do actually hit me.
Let's try this one more time against him.
All right, Corin.
Nice.
Hey.
Two sevens.
What the.
An arm strike.
This guy's on the ground and he's just like rolling left.
Rolling right.
Rolling left.
Rolling right.
And you guys feel like hitting all around him.
He's like coughing blood.
He's like, no, no.
How about two sevens.
That's crazy.
That definitely is.
Okay.
So he keeps dodging.
So I'm just going to kick him as he.
I imagine I, uh, he, um.
He dodged me, rolled towards the wall.
He dodges Marin rolls back towards me.
Er.
Yeah.
And then I go to stab.
By stab towards the wall, like towards the other side.
He has to roll towards me a little bit more and I ended up kicking him right square in
the face.
All that damage.
He had six hit points left.
You earned yourself your first soccer kick death.
As you boot this goblin in the face and his lies back.
It makes sense.
That's how I hit him real hard earlier too.
All right.
That ends your turn.
Or do you want to use movement?
I'm sorry.
No, no.
End your turn.
Yeah.
No, you're fine.
Use movement or bonus action.
It's up to you.
I did use bonus action.
Or bonus action.
Yeah.
You have your movements still.
Yeah.
All right.
Uh, that brings us to Yimic.
Um, he has no weapons.
Yeah.
And I imagine we didn't put them anywhere where he could get to him.
He just dropped it up by Amaris's feet.
Um, he steps up.
He looks at the dwarf and he says, I'm done with this life.
This is my show of good faith.
And he is going to swing on the goblin next to him.
None of these goblins have weapons right now.
Uh, let's see.
He is going to swing.
It's going to hit for a 17 on arm strike.
Ooh, four points.
Nice.
As he punches this goblin for four.
And he's going to swing again.
Why can I hit my things, but I can't hit you guys?
And it's max damage.
Two times in a row on unarmed strikes for another four.
He fucking, he punches this dude, right?
He catches him with a, with a left jab, breaks his nose, comes in, falls through with the
right hook and just spins this goblin's head around cracking his neck.
Oh, he did.
He did.
I hope now you see, I means what I says.
I'm just going to turn.
He's looking at Marin.
How could you?
He's going to swing it.
All right.
For 21 to hit.
That'll hit one point of bludgeoning damage as he punches you in the face.
He swings and punches me in the face.
And it's intercepted by the frost that's been floating around me as it coalesces.
And then it starts to spread down his arm and he takes five points of cold damage.
I am unfazed because he only took temporary hit points.
Oh my God.
So he like connects with your face and he's feeling good about landing a blow on this
dwarf.
He's like, and he like hits you and he watches as like this frost comes down his arm up to
his elbow and it like freezes his arm like liquid nitrogen.
And he just watches his arm snaps off.
He looks up at you wide eyed like.
I can imagine Rin actually moved his face into the punch.
Just so they could see.
Like head butted it.
All right.
Well, you have a one armed goblin in front of your dwarf Rin.
I'm going to try to grab onto the other arm with a thorn whip.
Hey, I don't know.
Twenty three.
Twenty three to hit.
All right.
Let's see some damage.
Nice.
Hey, five.
Nice.
Flavor me how you execute this guy with your thorn whip.
I'm going to grab onto the other arm and just rip it off and just he's going to bleed to
death.
And yeah, you you grab his other arm and you rip it off and he's just standing there for
a second looking down at where his hands used to be.
And he looks up at Marin just terror like horrified.
And he just like one arm is like pulsing out blood and the other arm is like frozen at
the end that the nub and like there's no blood coming out.
It's just like a like a like a frozen limb and he pulses blood pulses blood.
And you see his eyes like starting to cross and he pulses blood again and then he just
falls backwards onto his back.
It's so metal.
I like I like to add you guys couldn't hit a barn in front of you guys and then you guys
know completely destroy that last guy.
I don't know what you're talking about, dude.
I don't think I've missed a single whip tonight.
I did pretty good, too.
Yeah, dude.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah, dude.
Let's go back up to Emerson Bishop and Sildar.
All right.
Well, whatever we're doing, we should probably get a move on unless there's anything else
we need to know before trudging forward.
Seems you've struck an accord with that one there.
Could be beneficial, but I don't think the rest of the goblins in this cave will listen
to him.
They fear the bugbear too much.
Well, it sounds like we just need to scare him.
What if we just drag the corpses of all their buddies with us?
Show him we mean business.
I don't think that's going to intimidate him.
He's ignorant.
No, the other goblins.
Even them.
I think they fear him too much.
Then we just kill him.
I'm afraid crashing the gates, as they say, may be our only choice.
Do you have a weapon?
I will help.
I hand him my great club.
How about this?
And he picks up Yimik's scimitar.
This will do.
All right.
As you desire.
Have you encountered any of those other goblins?
What do you mean by other goblins?
We've encountered a few, but...
You see, normal goblins, I can handle quite a bit of them at one time.
It's really like training for me, and I don't mean to brag.
I'm not that kind of person.
How was this other one?
Its skull was long, and it had this green energy around it.
Was it here?
Have you seen it?
I don't think so.
It was in the band that took over Gundren and I.
I had the upper hand.
This thing came out of nowhere.
It knocked me to the ground with ease.
I have a bad feeling about these types of goblins.
I overheard the rest talking, and it does not seem they are from their clan.
I also overheard.
This is the Kragmaw clan.
They don't seem to know the creature either.
Strangest thing, though, once they had me bound, it came up to me, and it whispered
right in my ear.
You are not what Ruksithid wants.
It's an out-of-character note.
Can you spell Ruksithid?
That's R-U-X-I-T-H-I-D. Ruksithid.
Now if we finish here, I do intend to continue to Phandalin.
It is the nearest settlement, and well, if you all can help me get there, I will pay
fifty gold pieces.
I understand adventuring isn't cheap, and we all must make a living in this world.
I am blessed with income.
We're not too far from there, and then we also need more information on where we need
to go to find the dwarf.
Ruxicr.
We have much more to catch up on.
Right now isn't the best of times.
Let us deal with this cave.
When we are in Phandalin, we can get rest and catch up.
I also know there are people there who could use our aid as well.
And I am searching for someone also.
Okay.
So, uh, I don't mean to break up this precious moment or nothing, but, uh, you guys know
I'm cool now, right?
I mean, you've seen what I did.
Look, look, I know you're dwarves, alright?
You don't like me.
I get it.
I don't really like you either, and I mean that in the nicest way, but I don't like being
here.
My offering still stands as it was.
We will kill this bugbear, and you will go on your way.
But you must help us.
There's no way I'm going to go against the honor guard and clog unarmed.
Not happening.
Your friend Urkvar is dead.
Take his weapons.
Deal.
Wait.
Ah.
And he looks up to Sildar.
I kinda like that one.
You mind trading me?
Sildar just spits on the ground in front of him.
That's fair.
I get it.
He goes and he picks up the scimitar from Urk.
So look, the ways I see it, there's about three of us.
Wait, you guys came in through the kennel, right?
Aye.
If my scouting is to be believed, there are two goblins, two wolves, and clog left in
this place.
Do those numbers make sense to you?
I mean, they're close.
They're close, but they're a little off.
Elaborate.
There should be three.
There should be three of us by the waterfall.
At any time.
That's how we rotate shifts.
One of us gets to go in, get a drink, take a break.
One of us comes out.
We come here to sleep.
The one that takes a break to sleep, then he goes out front.
One of us tends to the wolves, those fucking mutts down there.
We kind of have a rotation here.
But there's always three by the tide pools.
Why don't you go relieve one for nap time?
He comes over here.
We take care of him.
One less to worry about.
I like that.
That could work.
Preferably if there's any more like you or Urk here.
Relieve them.
There's really not.
Wonderful.
But there's two honor guard.
Those are clogs, two right-hand men.
They never leave his side.
Along with his mutt, Ripper.
One problem at a time.
Are you saying there are three goblins and a wolf by the water and then clog, Ripper
and two more goblins in his room?
That's right.
I see.
And the honor guard.
They are...
I don't know why he thinks that's so great.
I could fucking take him.
I mean...
I just had an idea.
Why don't you go relieve one for nap time?
We take care of him.
We send our friend Bishop in disguised as one of these on the ground to go get another
one to come here.
Then that leaves one by the waterfall and then the two honor guard.
The wolf and the bugbear.
I'm trusting the two Zols ain't gonna kill me.
We have a word.
As long as everything goes unhitched, I don't see why we can't honor each other's deal.
I really don't want to live this life anymore.
I don't want to be here.
I'm forced into this.
I want out.
Good.
Good to hear that.
That means you can keep your word.
And we have not slain you thus far, so I imagine you can trust us a wee bit.
Alright.
I'm gonna head down this cave.
I'm gonna see what I can do.
The next one that comes back through this cave is likely gonna be Sprague.
Alright?
He's a smooth talker.
Don't believe him.
You can't trust that guy.
Trust me.
He'll stab you in the back the first second he gets.
He's a trickster.
I'm planning to let him talk.
Hold on a second.
I'm gonna walk over to Bishop and I'm gonna let him in on this deal.
Listen, Bishop.
We want to send in...he's saying there's a rotation of guard.
We want to send in somebody to do this rotation.
But the way he talks...not that I don't trust him after what he showed, but I don't trust
him.
I think you should go first and him second, just to make sure there's no funny business.
Is this a rock right above me?
So I'm gonna lean against the rock.
Yeah, it's like a stalagmite.
So I'm gonna lean against the stalagmite.
I'm gonna snap the arrow off my shoulder.
That was in your leg.
Or my leg.
This is definitely...yeah.
My leg.
Yeah.
Holy crap, I'm gonna fucking go down there instead.
If I could turn my face like you do, I would.
If he tells you what to say, I'm sure there should be no problem, yes?
I can be close by, just in case.
Up on the bridge.
If everything goes smoothly, we can fall back to here, take him out, and then send in our
new friend Yi.
Then send in another one for the slaughter.
I kinda like that.
You called me Yi.
It's an emotion for my friend to come over.
Why is this guy following us?
No, no, I'm cool, dude.
It's alright.
Why don't you send your owl down there?
Keep an eye on what's going on.
And you can let us know if the ambush is gonna pull off or not.
I can have a look.
I turn to you and say, stay.
I turn to the other side, my people, and I settle down so that I can channel my video.
What's your idea, Yizi?
Hey, I like that.
Look at me, alright?
We get hurt all the time when we ambush these caravans.
If you're not feeling so hot, I might overheard that you can change the way you look.
Maybe look like one of us.
That's a possibility.
I could carry you like you're holding me.
I take you under the arm, and I'm helping you walk over to the water.
I could escort you over there.
It's totally viable.
Two of us come in, two of us rotate out.
It wouldn't be the first time one of us was hurt while we're ambushing caravans.
It happens all the time.
Alright, let's do it.
Look, hold on.
You see this guy right here?
The dude's face down, he grabs him by the hair and lifts his face up.
This is who you want.
This was Splik.
Splik.
Alright.
And as he's holding his head up by the hair, I'm looking across the room at him.
My facial features and everything slowly start to change.
So while he's talking, I'm slowly shifting as he's saying, this is the guy you want or
whatever.
I'm gonna say Splik in Godlike, Splik.
Those clothes ain't gonna work though.
You're gonna need to change.
He starts taking the clothes off Splik.
Throws them up on the ledge to you.
Can I give Sildar my armor?
Is that a allowable action?
I appreciate that.
I should be okay unless one of those green ones comes again.
I just nod at him.
And then I guess I will transfer into the goblin armor, my old armor in my bag.
Alright so real quick, Marin, what were you doing with your bird?
You were gonna go scout?
Yeah, I settle down, settle into the Owl's Vision and fly it up as quiet as can be.
This way and maybe perch it up in this little alcove up here.
Just to have a look, just to confirm that there are three and one.
See Clark out there in the background, but mostly just a little area here.
Yeah, you see the three there at the watering hole.
Like you said, you see the one wolf that is with them.
You definitely see Clark.
You can make out just barely the two figures that stand between you and Clark on the sides
of him, which you would imagine to be his honor guard.
You don't see Ripper, but Yeezy has mentioned that he would be in there.
And we see Yimik and Bishop in the form of Splik, now dressed to look like a goblin.
Splik with his hand over the neck and shoulder of Yimik and they're walking now.
And he says, he's like, we can't go across the bridge.
Well no, if we come from that way, we've got to go down the ramp the way you guys came.
And we've got to walk up by the river so that they think we came in from the entrance.
And we see the two of them start to make their descent.
Like I mentioned earlier, I want to be over just barely seeing outside the bridge just
to make sure he's got cover in case something goes wrong.
Like I want to be just peeking out without being seen so I can make sure that they're
OK.
That's probably a good spot.
You make your way to the edge right before you start to cross the bridge.
We see Yimik and Bishop in the form of Splik.
We see them start to make their way down the ramp and their heads disappear beyond our
perspective and our point of view.
And we fade to black.
And we'll pick back up there next time.
We're almost there guys.
We went a little long on that one, but I feel like there wasn't any really good place to
end it.
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