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A harrowing howl echoes through the frigid northern air as the terrifying sea serpent

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devours the rudder, causing the stern to splinter and the sea to seethe.

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The beleaguered vessel beneath your feet begins to take on water, groaning as the ice flows

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raked against the hull. The cries of fearful Jotnar sailors are partly masked by the grim

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retorts of their rifles, but there is no mistaking the panic.

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Welcome to Vikings and Valkyries.

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Okay gang, what's the plan?

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Plan? I suggest panic.

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Okay, so we're all on the boat and is Joe...

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Well I suppose we ought to introduce Joe. What I was trying there was a cold open, as

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they call it in the biz. See, it was a little pun because not only was it cold, it is cold

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because you're in the middle of the Arctic. So that was a scene setter for you. But we

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do need to introduce Joe. Joe is the author of the comic Vikings vs Samurai and he's joining

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us today full of drengr and bushido. And I invited him on because I wanted to show

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everyone how a real Viking takes care of business. So Joe, tell us a little bit about yourself,

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your role playing pedigree and a moment or two on your epic comic.

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Okay, well for background, I've been playing role playing games since I was 12. There was

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a 30 year gap in between, but got back into it. Most recently I played some Mothership,

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I played some Zasarkala, which is like really super grim dark. So grim dark it was ridiculously

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fun and some Dark Heresy. So yeah, I'm back into the thick of it. So I appreciate the

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invite. As far as my character goes, he's a Jotnar. And if I get the name right, it's

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Akrath. So he's big, he's huge, he's a marine, he's a sailor. I'm a battle scarred veteran,

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thick and burly. My arms are huge, like a gorilla, strong like a bull. And I'm the right

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hand man or cabin boy to Captain Daniel. So that is myself. And as far as Vikings versus

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Samurai, the pitch is right there in the title. It's Vikings duking it out with Samurai. If

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you want to learn more, just go to Vikings versus Samurai.com. But enough of that. I'm

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here to play.

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I did think because we've had that cold open, we ought to do a little bit of an icebreaker

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as well before we dive into things. Again, I like to just do this to give you the opportunity

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to earn some inspiration. And you can use those inspiration points to reroll the dice

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and turn a failure into a success a bit later on. So I have here three phrases that are

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related to the current crisis. And I'm going to read them to you in Old Norse. And if you

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can tell me what they mean and the film that they are from, then I will introduce unto

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you an inspiration point. Okay, so the first one is this. Þurfa munu vér skip stærra

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Oh, yeah.

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I used to have one of those.

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Yeah, that was the Romeo and Juliet with DiCaprio in it, I believe.

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Very close. Certainly a love affair of sorts. I thought I heard something and it sounded

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like ship.

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You did. You heard the word skip, which is the Old Norse precursor to ship.

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So love affair involving a ship. That's more the purview of Bill's character, I think.

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The old man in the sea. I don't know. I'm kind of guessing.

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Now, wait, have you translated these from your you're basically giving us a line from

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an existing film that was not in that dialect? Is that right?

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Yes, they didn't make too many films in the Viking Age.

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Yeah, well, I was going to guess 13th Warrior every single time that maybe it would have

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been from that Antonio Banderas, of course, as a Viking.

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I'm going to give it to you.

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You didn't speak Norse in that movie.

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No, you're right.

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I'm going to give you the answer then.

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OK.

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It actually means we're going to need a bigger boat.

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Right.

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From the movie Jaws.

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One down, two more to go.

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This second one, again, appropriate for the setting that you're facing.

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Því eru þat ætíð slǫngr.

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That which does not kill you makes you stronger?

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A little bit too literal, but you were I think you were picking up on the slonger.

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Try and bring it back to what you're currently dealing with.

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The stoor worm.

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Give you a little clue.

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Is it a beach trout?

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I want to talk about the beach trout again.

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You were very close, but I'm still not going to give you any inspiration.

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You always say very close.

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It was.

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Yeah, and we're nowhere near.

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Why does it always have to be snakes from Vagis?

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Oh, I actually was.

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OK.

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And one last one, which is Eigi ero þetta velmennin er leitar þú at.
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A good I know, but I don't.

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I want to give everyone else a chance.

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That's very kind of you.

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I think now would be a good time to specify that all of my research that I've done is

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about Viking invasions in France and England, where they didn't leave anything written behind.

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So Old Norse is not my forte.

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I can do French and Latin, but you study the interesting stuff.

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I study what other people tell us.

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Not a clue.

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Sorry.

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That one is these are not the droids you're looking for.

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My word.

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Wow.

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There's an old word for droid.

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Well, men in his means machine man.

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This being a very old Norse being a very poetic language where they just splice words together.

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And so they they do a lot of those compound words.

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And it is perfectly possible to take those old movie phrases that one from Star Wars,

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obviously, and translate them into Old Norse to be fair, CJ, don't think that I was able

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to do that myself.

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I have the help of an Icelandic professor of medieval literature.

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Was this more of an obviously more of an Icelandic dialect?

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No wonder Bill didn't get it.

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Yeah.

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No, thanks, Steve.

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I didn't want to bring that up.

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It felt petty, but I appreciate your support.

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For Bill's benefit, I'm going to do a quote from the 13th warrior.

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Go hide in a hole if you like.

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You won't live one instant longer.

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Nice.

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Yeah.

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Very good.

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I will translate that to Old Norse in the background.

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All right.

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We will resume with the action.

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Like I said, the harrowing howl has echoed through the frigid northern air.

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There is a thud and the remnants of your former friend, Erik splatter onto the deck.

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Daniel the head man roars as he turns around and he sees the huge store worm rising above

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the boat, dripping with venom and seawater.

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And he cries out, how fucking dare you.

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I'm the king of the bears.

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From hell's heart I stab at you, you damn snake.

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Now we do have a little bit of rolling to do, I'm afraid, because this is a frightening

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beast and it was also quite a traumatic event to see your friend gruesomely snatched from

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the deck and crunched into bones.

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Above the table comment, I feel like we're getting used to this sort of thing now.

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I was thinking exactly that.

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You get used to it after a while.

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Eir and Ljomi are going well, there you go.

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I wouldn't want you to get complacent, but I will require if you please a couple of rolls

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from you and these are our will challenge rolls.

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This huge devilish horned beast with its maw ringed with razor sharp teeth that have just

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devoured your erstwhile colleague is a grim sight.

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I rolled an 18 minus one, so a 17.

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I rolled 13 plus three, which is 16.

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Very good.

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CJ?

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Gigi got a seven plus zero.

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I got a two.

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Okay, so Joe Bakrauf got a two to start off with.

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Minus one.

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So your initial entry into the foray is to be trembling into your boots whilst the various

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denizens of death, the álfar and the dökkálfar are actually relatively fine.

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CJ, in the interest of being a generous games master, I will remind you that your gift of

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nature for being a euphor is to have the steadfast ability you can counter at that trident tree.

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Oh, I get to roll again.

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I will take it.

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Three.

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No better.

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Well, I did try and make a man of you.

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I'm throwing this thing out.

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Yeah, you tried.

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I did try and make a man of you, but unfortunately that was no use whatsoever.

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On the back of that, CJ, this was your esteemed friend and colleague.

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He's never again to see his like.

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That's going to cause you trauma.

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So if you give me yet another will challenge roll, please.

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19.

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You aren't going to take any extra trauma, but for the next three turns, you are frightened.

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That means that when you do anything, you're going to do it with three woes.

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The same applies to you, Joe.

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So whenever you're going to roll a dice 20, you're going to roll three dice six alongside

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it and you're going to take the highest of those numbers.

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You're going to subtract it from your dice 20 roll.

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That's the way the wheels and woes work as a swing of the pendulum.

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Steve and Bill, you have got a kind of steely gaze and a resilient carapace.

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You're used to this.

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Perhaps it's all of those centuries in the afterlife, but you are still a little bit,

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a little bit maudlin about the demise of poor Eric.

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So can you just also give me a will roll for that speech, please?

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A will roll, you say?

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A will roll.

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Yeah, three minus one.

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18.

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Steve is like a man of steel.

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Like he's rock.

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Stone.

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I am, yes, the rock.

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Hearts of stone, exactly.

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Bill, I'm going to give you one trauma.

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Perhaps the various bugs that chitter up and down your body have more of a conscience than

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you do.

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We've heard a little bit from Daniel who has yelled at the beast.

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He turns to you, Gigi, and he says, fucking hell, I choked for your mate, but do me a

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solid and lug it in the cake hole.

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Now I'm frightened, correct?

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You're frightened.

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Now we're going to start combat, which means that you can choose to take a fast turn or

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a slow turn.

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When you take a fast turn, you can either move or use an action.

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When you take a slow turn, you can do both.

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I'd like to go first, if I may.

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Eir is getting ready to cast a spell, you can tell because the metal inlays in his body

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have begun to glow.

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And he's muttering, really, about an evil eye that he can summon, because he's an abomination,

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this is the thing he does.

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And it has the best chance of working if we haven't actually attacked it yet.

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So if he can convince everyone to hold off just a moment while he stands forward and

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gets ready to do something foolish.

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You're effectively acting like a snake charmer on a colossal scale, standing in front of

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this creature with a ring of teeth.

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And you're going to look at it in its many beady eyes and try and use your seidr spells

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to get it to retreat to the icy depths.

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That's what we're describing, is it?

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Yeah.

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You stand in the boat, start muttering the words of a spell and trying to bend it to

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his will.

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It's audacious.

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Thank you.

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And how do you propose relaying this information to Gigi, who is in conversation with Daniel

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and frightened?

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Just stand up face to face, put a hand out and say, I've got this.

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I, you know, me says I've got a bad feeling about it.

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Oh, I don't get me wrong.

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There is only one slight.

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There is one slight flaw with.

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Oh, there's more than that.

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There are seven slight flaws.

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The the scene that I set in the very beginning talks about the grim retorts of the rifles

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from the jotunn whalers.

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Upon seeing the creature, they immediately began a barrage of fire in an attempt to drive

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it off.

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Right.

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So when it says if you or members of your group attack the target, we're talking a very

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loose, very extended, extended concept of group to include people in the boat that we really

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don't like.

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Yes.

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Well, never mind that open fire.

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The stoor worm is is not making the distinction between you and the Jötnar sailors.

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As far as it's concerned, you're all edible morsels.

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Then I think it's a bit classist.

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Also murderous.

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In that case, Gigi will look at Daniel and say, you're the one who said you wanted to

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stab it.

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Go stab it.

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Well, look at me, Guvnor.

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You clearly said you wanted to stab it.

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You should go stab it.

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You got claret all over your clobber, chief.

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Ljomi starts casting weapons song in preparation of charming Gigi's weapon so he can do more

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damage should he decide to fight.

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CJ, Daniel's response to you is to say, do what?

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I'm having a ding dong with Loki's brood and you're giving me grief.

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Would you Adam and Eve it?

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Get in there.

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Lost your bottle av you? give it a wallop.

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Sounds like you're the coward to me.

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Well, fortunately, being lashed by rain, no can see the fact that I pissed myself.

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Encouragement from the captain.

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Do I have any resolve to fire?

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Am I still a coward?

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Well, you're perfectly able to level a shot.

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It's just your hands are somewhat shaky.

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You're fumbling as you as you reach for the rifle and adding in the ammo.

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All right.

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So I'm going to grab one of my crewmates and use them as a shield and fire off around with

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my rifle.

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Give me a sleight roll.

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So I got a 17.

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So plus one.

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Did that make?

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Oh, wait, wait.

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Don't I have to roll my 3D6?

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All right.

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So I got a six.

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That was my high roll.

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So that's been done to like a 12, I guess.

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In which case you fire high and wide.

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The shot misses the creature, although it does fix its row of beady eyes on you, staring

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malevolently in your direction as if you might be its next meal.

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All right.

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Well, the person I'm using as my crewmate that I'm using as a shield, I'm pointing

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to him like...

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You've obviously learned from listening to previous episodes that that is generally what

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these guys do.

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So Bill, you started your song in the hope that CJ would do something.

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The weapons song invigorates the recipient.

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So CJ, were you to fire your own ornate runic pistol at the beast, you would do something

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so with one wheel?

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Lovely.

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Well, in that case, Gigi will lit out a very long sigh and then pull his gun and aim it

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at the beast and fire this pistol.

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Oh, that's not good.

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Oh, that's not good.

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So I got a 15 minus eight.

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So what are the individual D6 scores?

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Four and four.

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Okay.

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So you take the...

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When it's a woe, you take the highest dice.

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So since they're both four, they're equal.

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So you rolled 15 minus four.

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So it's an 11.

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11.

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Yeah.

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Ah, woof.

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Okay.

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Still within the sphere of, oh no.

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Again, this is a massive target, a huge great creature that has emerged from the ice enticed

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by the fresh blood.

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It slithered up the side of the ship and is now munching into the gunwhales, but your shot,

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perhaps fired with a trembling arm, goes wide of the beast.

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Now on its turn, the stoor worm continues to crawl up the side of the Swan Hvitr.

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It's a slithering mass of these tiny eyes, rows of knife-like teeth, and it latches on

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to the rudder.

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It's trying to tear the ship apart.

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And all around you, the terrified crew are firing their guns, but they barely deter the

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creature.

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So we will go to the top of the next round where Daniel takes the fast turn and he yells

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out, fucking hell, don't just stand there Bakrauf looking like a tit in the trance.

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I'm off.

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Into the fisherman's door.

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Let's get out of here.

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He executes a swift dive, clambering to the side of the ship and plunging into the icy

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water before powering away towards shore.

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Look creature, food.

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Go fetch.

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I'm going to, I have six rounds of that same spell, so Ljomi continues to cast the spell

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on CJ's runic pistol, as described.

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You can, whilst singing, do something else.

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What Yomi does is steps up behind the new giant, Bakrauf, and in the same fashion that

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Bakrauf is pointing at the crewman in front of him, I am pointing at Bakrauf in front

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of me, while singing and casting a spell on CJ.

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Got a whole little sort of conga line going, if you will.

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I don't know how to say that in Old Norse.

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And you know how a Serpent works in that it's got this elongated body.

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It could just sequentially munch you off.

322
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Yeah.

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Yeah.

324
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It's nice of you to line up as an amuse-bouche.

325
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Well, we're excited.

326
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What can I say?

327
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Can CJ take a glance around the ship?

328
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What's around the ship?

329
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Are we just out in the middle of clear water?

330
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Is there anything nearby?

331
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Yeah, how far from shore?

332
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You are probably 200 meters.

333
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What's that, 250 yards?

334
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:28,760
Something like that from shore, it would be possible to swim there, but somewhat daunting

335
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in the icy cold arctic waters.

336
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Around you though are these splintering and groaning flows of ice, and it might be possible

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to either jump onto one of them or to scurry down the side of the ship.

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Again, CJ, just in the interests of helping you out with your runic spells, there is at

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least one spell in your repertoire that would enable you to alight with a plumb.

340
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Although you would have to have taken it and perhaps you haven't got the full complement

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of spells.

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In which case, I apologize for giving you false hope.

343
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You were going to the bottom of the sea.

344
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:18,880
Yeah, I don't think I have that.

345
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Davey Jones's icy locker.

346
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Actually speaking of which, yeah, I think that would probably be my action.

347
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Is to climb off the boat and sink.

348
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I assume I sink, I'm made of stone, and then I'll walk calmly to shore.

349
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Yes, you would as a dokkalfar, as a living statue, you would plunge into the icy depths

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and sink as far as the ocean bed.

351
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Now whilst you don't need to breathe, I think that the rigid water would have something

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to say.

353
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I'm not immune to the cold and you might just freeze down there for all eternity.

354
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A new type of cage for you.

355
00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:13,840
So just give that a little thought as to whether you think that's entirely wise.

356
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:18,360
Well, it'll be above freezing.

357
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I'm perfectly happy for you to attempt it.

358
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:29,000
I'm just not sure when, if in all of your several centuries on Midgard, you have ever

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plunged into any icy, arctic depths before.

360
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:40,840
Well he did jump off the troll's tongue that one time, but he probably broke everything

361
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at the time, so I'm not sure if he would have experienced the cold in quite the same way.

362
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Some of the other Jötnar sailors around you are doing exactly what you just suggested

363
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and are either dive bombing or cannonballing into the water, casting aside their rifles

364
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in fear and panic, perhaps discretion being the better part of valor.

365
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:16,600
They are all swimming their way to shore without so much as glancing back at you.

366
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:17,600
What's Ljomi doing?

367
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,640
Is he still standing there trying to helpfully point out other people as targets?

368
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:27,520
Well, and I'm also essentially blessing Gigi's weapon.

369
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,080
Okay.

370
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:36,560
I do have a spell that would do something fairly effective, I think.

371
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:47,320
So Gigi's going to go, ah, I remember now, and cast Sharp Runes on his own pistol.

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And here's what Sharp Runes does.

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Mark the target weapon, or loaded ammunition, so I guess he'll do it to the bullet, and

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cause it to become highly penetrative for the duration.

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Whenever a creature attacks with the weapon, gets a 20 or higher on its attack roll and

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exceeds the target number by five or more, the target of the attack takes 2d6 extra damage.

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Lovely.

378
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:18,720
I worry that this thing has maybe hundreds of hit points, but I guess we don't know.

379
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,080
Roll like the wind, Gigi.

380
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:23,080
Let's find out.

381
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,120
Hey, so do the woes count if I roll a 20?

382
00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:28,640
Be a wind lord.

383
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:33,200
Would that be a critical success?

384
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,200
Different game system, man.

385
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,200
You can't...

386
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,120
I didn't get it, so...

387
00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:43,240
You can invoke the Lords of D&D, Lords of Water.

388
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,880
This is V&V.

389
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:52,000
So unfortunately I rolled a seven with my woes.

390
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,800
Would you like to describe how far wide the shot goes?

391
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,720
Perhaps it ricochets off a nearby iceberg.

392
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,240
He almost hits Daniel.

393
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:08,520
Who's busy free-styling his way to shore.

394
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:13,200
Alright, so Steve, did you decide on your action, what you wanted to do?

395
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,920
No, I'll just sit and wait and see what happens.

396
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,960
An alpha of action.

397
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:27,360
Joe, what is Bakrauf thinking right now as the stoorworm devours the rudder and begins

398
00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:30,480
to gulp down huge chunks of timber?

399
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,000
Alright, you tell me if I can pull this off.

400
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:38,560
What I would like to do is I'm still throttling my crewmate and using him as a shield.

401
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,880
I'd like to fire off a round and then jump off the ship and use my crewmate as a flotation

402
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,880
device.

403
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:45,880
You can certainly attempt that.

404
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:50,240
So you want to fire first?

405
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:51,240
Yes.

406
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,240
Alright, so make your roll.

407
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:55,240
Alright.

408
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,840
Have a taste of my leg.

409
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:04,800
Oh man, I got a five minus one minus, let's see, my woe.

410
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,960
Oh, I'm like a negative one.

411
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:14,320
So whilst the boat doesn't need any more holes, you managed to put another one in the deck.

412
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,400
Now give me a, we're going to make a might attack roll.

413
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:27,160
So this is one that is opposed by your former friend who is not best pleased about being

414
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dragged around like a human shield and tries to both avoid your grapple and grasp and also

415
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,440
struggle back to place you in front of a beast instead.

416
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,320
Alright, do I still have to use my woe roll for this as well?

417
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:43,320
You do.

418
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,240
Fortunately, he's also equally terrified.

419
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,960
Having a beast of myth and legend emerge from the depths is enough to cause anyone to have

420
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:53,960
conniptions.

421
00:27:53,960 --> 00:28:01,160
Alright, well, I'm, fortunately, I am at a four with my woe roll.

422
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,400
So I did three plus four.

423
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:14,560
Your dance partner evades your grasp and with a laugh and a sneer disappears over the side

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of the boat.

425
00:28:16,060 --> 00:28:22,600
The stoor worm itself now begins to constrict the hull much like a serpent would with its

426
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:28,360
foils tightening around the vessel, splintering the wood.

427
00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:37,620
Now you realize that you are the only crew members left on board the Svanhvitr.

428
00:28:37,620 --> 00:28:43,600
Everyone else has had the good sense to dive into the arctic waters and make their way

429
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:44,600
towards shore.

430
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:51,360
Now it's not to say that the beast might not pluck them from the water, but right now it

431
00:28:51,360 --> 00:29:02,160
seems intent on smashing the boat to smithereens, that the hefty mast is ripped to pieces as

432
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,360
if it were a matchstick.

433
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:06,360
Round three.

434
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,800
So it's not attacking us yet.

435
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:17,240
Do you know that scene in Jaws where it kind of takes out the back of the boat and then

436
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:22,040
Robert Shaw's character slides down into the mouth?

437
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:29,880
Doesn't necessarily need to attack you if it can shovel you into its moor using gravity

438
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,960
as a scooper.

439
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,840
Nice.

440
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:41,000
Is there a large piece of ice I could stand on or Gigi could stand on?

441
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,560
There's certainly one that you could attempt to vault on.

442
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,000
Are my rock and tree friends still nearby?

443
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,720
Are they still on the boat?

444
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,560
Yeah, for now.

445
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,920
We're considering options, I would say, at this point.

446
00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:01,440
So she's just going to turn to them and say, you rock man and you tree man, there's ice

447
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,440
there, jump, it's old jump, go.

448
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:12,520
And then I'm going to use my turn to leap off the boat onto this piece of ice that is

449
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:17,680
however large you have not described in the hopes that we can get out this thing.

450
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:25,320
You can spy a fairly substantial piece of ice that would be, let's say, the size of

451
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,980
a garden deck.

452
00:30:27,980 --> 00:30:32,560
So something you could land on quite comfortably.

453
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:39,240
Were you able to make this slight roll, showing off your nimbleness, your dexterity, your

454
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:46,840
poise and grace under fire, if you can give me a slight roll again with those

455
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:47,840
woes, unfortunately.

456
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:54,240
I got a 19 and my first roll was a 1.

457
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,120
Oh darn it, 6.

458
00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:05,680
But even so, 13 is enough, whilst it wasn't quite the Olympian dive that you might have

459
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:12,200
pulled off were you back at the All Asgard Games, it's certainly functional and despite

460
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:18,960
almost losing your footing as you go over the gunwhales, you land on the ice floe and

461
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,520
you may wish to punch the air in triumph.

462
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:23,880
Alright.

463
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,280
Alright.

464
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,840
Ljomi, you next or me?

465
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:28,840
You can go ahead.

466
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:34,000
Don't forget, don't forget, well, Joe, just because Bakrauf is new to the team, you

467
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,280
can't just...

468
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,360
Well he seemed, you know, biggest and most able to survive a giant serpent, so, you know,

469
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:41,360
that's...

470
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,360
Yeah.

471
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,360
Go on, Joe, go for it.

472
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:45,360
Yeah.

473
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:50,640
Joe, you need to give me a slight roll if you are escaping over the side.

474
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,760
Alright, I got a 3.

475
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,360
I'm not having the best of rolls today.

476
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,640
The Norns are not smiling on you today.

477
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:08,080
There's an old Norse phrase, none shall outlive the night when the Norns have spoken and, Joe,

478
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,760
it's not looking great.

479
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:17,960
You splash heavily into the water, perhaps it's a belly flop and you immediately begin

480
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,320
to sink into the icy depths.

481
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:27,720
If you would also give me a might challenge roll, exactly the same thing again, and I

482
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:33,360
tell you what I'm going to do, I'm going to remove the woes at this point because we're

483
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:40,520
going to say that the icy water has done a lot to bring you back to a full alertness.

484
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:46,000
Right into the drink I go and I get a 10.

485
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,520
Which is just enough.

486
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:57,680
You manage to just rest one of your huge muscled gorilla-like arms on the ice floe ready to

487
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,000
pull yourself up next turn.

488
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,440
Alright, Steve and Bill here and Loon.

489
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,040
The last two people on the ship.

490
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,640
Steve sitting there like Rodan's the Thinker.

491
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,680
Yeah, I felt like I was...

492
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,720
I talked myself out of it before, but you know what?

493
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,120
No, I need to actually try this.

494
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,640
We're going to stand up in the boat.

495
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:21,640
This is a slow action, right?

496
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,120
So it's action and then movement.

497
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:29,560
So the action is going to be, yeah screw you giant worm, we're going to try to force it

498
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,800
to my will and what happens happens.

499
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,480
We're going to cast Evil Eye on it.

500
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,160
We're setting new standards for bravery here.

501
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,800
Sure, let's call it bravery.

502
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,960
And so that's a wits attack.

503
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:48,800
I understand I get one woe because we've been fighting it, but at the same time I'm deep

504
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:56,560
minded so I get one wheel so on the face of it, it looks like a flat roll.

505
00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:01,000
It looks like the mathematics might work in your favor.

506
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:07,280
I don't know if I'd say that, but they may not be sharply against me.

507
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:12,240
So you are making a wits attack roll against its will.

508
00:34:12,240 --> 00:34:14,880
Yes, that would be a seven.

509
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,120
That was worth a try.

510
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:29,560
The stoor worm glittering in the winter sun simply continues to hiss and chomp its dead

511
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:34,120
yellow fish eyes staring in your direction.

512
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:41,200
It seems almost to not have noticed your attempt to ensorcel it.

513
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:47,920
Then I will say screw this in a loud clear voice and hop to the nearest ice floe or try

514
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,600
to give me a slight roll.

515
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,880
It's this should be good.

516
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,600
That would be nine.

517
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:01,360
Road 11 minus two narrowly, so narrowly.

518
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,200
I'll take it.

519
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:13,360
So you edge to the side of the vessel, the Swan Hvitr, with your sailor staff in hand

520
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,080
preparing to jump to the nearest ice floe.

521
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:24,720
Instead, you do drop like a proverbial stone plunging into the depths, disappearing beneath

522
00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:29,600
the icy waves before anyone can do anything to grab you.

523
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:35,760
You're in Terminator when he holds his thumb up as he disappears below the surface.

524
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,040
That except really quick.

525
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:47,120
I'm not sure how far down you'll go because I don't know offhand the depths of the continental

526
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,880
shelf off the coast of Heimslit.

527
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:50,880
But I will.

528
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:51,880
You don't?

529
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:56,000
That's the first thing you've ever not known.

530
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,840
I'm making a note here.

531
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:05,040
I'm going to say that there's at least a kilometer of inky darkness before you get to the seabed.

532
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,480
You said we're 200 meters offshore.

533
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,560
That's a hell of a drop.

534
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,600
It's one of those oceanic ravines.

535
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:16,520
Oh, this is going to take a while.

536
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:24,400
Bill, you were last seen pointing at various other people who have now jumped off the boat.

537
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,000
So presumably you are just now following them with your fingers as they disappear to the

538
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,000
horizon.

539
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:36,080
Yes, I'm delicately inching to the edge of the boat and Ljomi leaps for the ice flow,

540
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:42,120
majestically trying to emulate the apparent attempted bravery from yet another fallen

541
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:43,200
comrade.

542
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:50,320
Can I just ask, because you are a father to so many insect children, have you thought

543
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,600
about the children?

544
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,560
Won't you think about the children?

545
00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:02,480
Ljomi's attitude towards this is it is a harsh world and they have to learn some time.

546
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,480
Okay, so you can always get new bugs.

547
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:11,440
I don't like to say it that way, but the story of Job comes to mind.

548
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,720
You get new bugs, everyone's good.

549
00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:18,880
But if all your bugs flap their wings at the same moment, would that help you?

550
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:23,320
I'm not sure your ideas are really standing the test of the moment here, Eir.

551
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,320
Thank you so much.

552
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,760
Plus what I heard from you was, all right, good luck.

553
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:27,760
You're on your own.

554
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,280
Yeah, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble.

555
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:36,600
Okay, give me a slack roll then as we attempt to see where the iron would fling.

556
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,440
This is going to be roll of the evening.

557
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:40,440
Guarantee it.

558
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:41,440
18 plus 2.

559
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,440
Yes.

560
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:43,440
Roll of the evening.

561
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:49,560
I do a double summer salt and land with a twirl.

562
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,320
At least in your mind.

563
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:56,680
I managed to not fall into the water like certain other people.

564
00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:02,880
I'm also going to remind you, we're well into episode 4, and the notion of these inspiration

565
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:09,800
points that can turn failure into success appears to be a rule that you want to ignore.

566
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:15,040
Is it too late for Eir to suddenly have an inspiration before he falls into a kilometer

567
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,560
of icy water?

568
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,240
My character sheet says I don't have any.

569
00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:20,240
Is that not accurate?

570
00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:21,800
The group has some.

571
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,440
You have a group pool of inspiration points.

572
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,520
You don't know how many there are.

573
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:33,600
They are a finite resource you may try and use with them and find out that the collective

574
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:41,360
has no more to spare, but they represent the interference of the gods, the hand of destiny

575
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:42,360
guiding you.

576
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:47,920
Something to reflect on as you continue to descend.

577
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:53,280
What was the name of that submersible that went in search of the Titanic?

578
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,280
What was that called?

579
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:56,280
Eir, obviously.

580
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:57,280
The one that imploded.

581
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:02,280
I had a lack of air by the end.

582
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:10,560
Perhaps there's some flotsam and jetsam, some detritus and some wreckage that is bobbing

583
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,320
somewhere near you and you might want to...

584
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,800
If anything comes within reach, we will try it.

585
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,040
And you want to...

586
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,800
Maybe that's the sort of thing that...

587
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:24,560
Feeling inspired, feeling the hand of the gods upon your shoulder, that might be what

588
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,040
you want to reach out for.

589
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,800
Okay, and how would I do that?

590
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,320
By merely saying the words, I would like to use an inspiration point.

591
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,320
Okay, I would like to use an inspiration point.

592
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:47,640
Again, being a benevolent one-eyed god, I do like to keep you from dying.

593
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,960
But you can use that inspiration point.

594
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:56,360
You may not have many left in the collective tank, but you are able to reach out to a bit

595
00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:04,200
of the mast as it topples into the water, the whole vessel is now tilting, listing at

596
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:11,840
an alarming rate as the store worm crunches through the hull and you're able to grab hold

597
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:17,400
of the mast and at least haul yourself out of the inky depths now.

598
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:28,040
The stoor worm this round slinks back into the sea and may be attracted by the threshing

599
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,400
of your fellow yacht mast sailors.

600
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:40,040
It rears from the water, rises up and then plunges back down engulfing one of the yacht

601
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:49,320
mast sailors and then with a splash submersing itself below the water once more and drifting

602
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:56,080
below the ice flow that Gigi is on and that Bakrauf is clinging to.

603
00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:05,640
You see its huge elongated form shimmy below the ice flow and disappear into the depths

604
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:06,640
itself.

605
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,280
The ship rises temporarily averted.

606
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,400
What would you like to know?

607
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:20,240
Gigi is going to help Backrauf Bach Ralph Bach Ralph Bach Ralph Bach Ralph Bach Ralph

608
00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:26,040
Bach Ralph Bach Ralph Bach Ralph Bach Ralph Bach Ralph Bach Ralph Bach Ralph Bach Ralph

609
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:30,080
he's going to make he's going to retire and make some bosses for us.

610
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:31,920
Let's get him onto the onto the snow.

611
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,480
I'm going to put I'm going to help him out of the water and onto the ice.

612
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:40,280
Or could we use a tree man to swim ashore?

613
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,000
There's enough room on this ice for you.

614
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,400
Let's get you dry first.

615
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,960
All right then.

616
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,240
So what's what's around us?

617
00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:52,320
I mean we're on one piece of ice.

618
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,000
Are there more pieces of ice?

619
00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,640
You're on you're on one piece of ice you could with a hop skip and a jump perhaps make

620
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,280
it all the way to shore.

621
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,840
There are several hopskips and jumps some of those platforms may well be more precarious

622
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:12,280
than others but it's it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

623
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:18,560
There are also plenty of other ships in Daniel's fleet that were out there the whalers that

624
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:24,200
were herding the pod of whales to shore and you're fairly sure that if you raise the

625
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,640
hue and cry and hollered loud enough that someone would come and pick you up from the

626
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,480
ice floe now that the storm threat has abated.

627
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,960
If the captain if Captain Daniel's nearby he would be my top priority I would like to

628
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,600
snatch him and pull him onto the ice floor with us.

629
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,160
And that is very thoughtful.

630
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:47,680
Daniel having leapt into the water is well on his way to shore.

631
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:48,680
Yeah right.

632
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:54,260
And because they're they're hardy, Jötnar souls who are used to these Arctic temperatures

633
00:42:54,260 --> 00:42:59,520
they probably shrug off the effects of the cold.

634
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:07,520
When they are on land you'll notice that they they daub themselves in blubber and fat in

635
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:11,200
order to get warm very quickly.

636
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,280
As you do.

637
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:21,320
So let us shimmer dissolve let us assume that a whaling ship picks you up heralded by Bak

638
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:28,800
rauf who as a kind of first mate can ensure that you all embark safely and are brought

639
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:36,520
to shore and whether you were fleeing to a mast and rescued or whether you were pirouetted

640
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:43,920
gracefully onto the ice floe and stood there looking sublime and Olympian either way you're

641
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:51,300
brought on board the rest of the whaling flotilla and brought to safety where on the shore you

642
00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:57,120
are met by Daniel and Daniel's cohorts.

643
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:01,920
Fucking hell Bakrauf you're a proper diamond geezer eh?

644
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,440
Last man standing.

645
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:05,440
That's right captain.

646
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:11,360
Oh it could have been you being go down with the ship last man and all.

647
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,960
Ah that's as maybe.

648
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,360
We're all killers on land and sea.

649
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,160
Kings and serpents all.

650
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,200
Well where do you are this captain?

651
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:27,760
Well I promised these fine gentlemen a feast that's what's the order of the day.

652
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:34,880
I've been told I've got a great skaldic poem coming to me something that honours me old

653
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:42,280
man in the inner fitting tradition and besides I still want to get my hands on all of that

654
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:53,080
lovely gold under the tundra I want the land deed and you are gonna get it for me.

655
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:59,600
Lovely have you got have you have you taken the intervening week to compose your skaldic

656
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:00,600
verse?

657
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:08,200
Oh for Daniel yes yeah yeah absolutely he thinks.

658
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:13,680
Well that's I have it right here.

659
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:20,280
Yes it's ready to go I mean it is a it is a spell for my class here so I'll just cast

660
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,280
enthralling performance.

661
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,800
Wonderful very very sly.

662
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:33,880
Alright you are led back into the town of Spitborg and you will be relieved to know

663
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:39,840
that Daniel turns to you and says I haven't seen anything quite like it outside the funny

664
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:48,680
farm but you did alright by me I lift the curse the land spirits and their and the peril

665
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,560
that they have caused is undone.

666
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,520
Ah thank you.

667
00:45:55,520 --> 00:46:03,240
Now I can't wait to hear about this poem see to my understanding to produce a mighty book

668
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:11,200
you must choose a mighty theme no great and enduring saga was ever written on a fucking

669
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:12,200
plea.

670
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,080
What have you got?

671
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:20,040
Tell you what give me a few minutes while we've been out getting the blubber pot filled

672
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:26,400
well the rest of the fellas they've been on a bear and and we're gonna have a right old

673
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:32,840
feast right old knees up there's gonna be more than you can possibly eat.

674
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,520
All laid out in front of you what do you say to that?

675
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:40,520
Sounds wonderful set the mood.

676
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:47,120
Well in terms of setting the mood as you are brought into the great mead hall that sits

677
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:54,560
in the center of town you are all announced by these melodious tones of clanging frying

678
00:46:54,560 --> 00:47:01,840
pans bashing kettles and clashing potlids and you are invited to this stupendous meal

679
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:09,240
of whale meat, bear stew and salted blubber.

680
00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:18,440
Now Joe this is obviously a party repast for most people but for you this represents weeks

681
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:26,120
of effort and borderline starvation that your people have suffered threatens to go away

682
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:30,860
now with this with this great and sumptuous meal.

683
00:47:30,860 --> 00:47:34,440
So who is supposed to do the skaldic poetry?

684
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:35,440
Is that Gigi?

685
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:40,120
Do you want Gigi to do to do an actual poem?

686
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:51,400
It was the skaldic poetry so don't be disappointed in the great man you hear.

687
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:57,440
It was the cadence and the tone by which he said it like you you want me to take the dog

688
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:02,160
out for a walk in this.

689
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:06,080
The captain's generosity knows no bleeding boughs it don't.

690
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:10,320
Now by the way by the way.

691
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:11,320
Are you ready?

692
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:18,720
By the way just bear in mind last week Mike playing Erik did his poem thinking that it

693
00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:24,420
would sway the sea serpent and look where that got him.

694
00:48:24,420 --> 00:48:25,420
Top crown.

695
00:48:25,420 --> 00:48:26,420
All right.

696
00:48:26,420 --> 00:48:28,800
This is this is wonderful.

697
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:36,920
Ode to Daniel's father the bear hunter of your tune.

698
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:43,640
This is great in the lands where shadows stretch and shiver where mountains breathe and rivers

699
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:52,400
quiver lived a your tune fierce of name untold with might unmatched and spirit unbowed.

700
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:58,980
They called him the bearsbane terrors called the father of Daniel feared by all a giant

701
00:48:58,980 --> 00:49:07,760
amongst giants strength refined with heart of stone and iron mind to frozen woods he

702
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:14,080
strode alone with sharpened spear and granite bone tracking beasts of tooth and claw who

703
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:19,080
dared to tread where giants saw.

704
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:25,440
The bears would rise with furies raw yet fell like leaves upon the floor his laughter

705
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:31,960
echoed through the night a victor sound of strength and night.

706
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:32,960
Whoa.

707
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:38,880
Crikey Moses me old China.

708
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,160
That's a that's a fucking masterpiece.

709
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:43,560
I'm going to bleed it tears.

710
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:51,280
I can't say it was particularly about me old man considering that he was men folk and never

711
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:53,040
set foot on your nine.

712
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,960
But a little bit of reworking.

713
00:49:55,960 --> 00:50:02,720
I think we can edit it and we'll call it the king of the bears and we'll just change it

714
00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:03,720
around.

715
00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:06,160
So it's about me.

716
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:07,160
Sounds lovely.

717
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:08,160
Wonderful.

718
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:09,160
Here it comes.

719
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:10,160
Drink up.

720
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:11,160
Drink up.

721
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:18,920
I've got the finest ale in all Spikborg here ready for you to consume.

722
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:27,400
It's made little local recipe little touch of fermented whale testicle.

723
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,800
We like to steep it in steel done.

724
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:39,980
Will you invite I'll have some Ljomi says and steps forward and delicately slips part

725
00:50:39,980 --> 00:50:43,880
of a root ball into the tip of the thing.

726
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:52,080
The fat I assume and encourages some of his children to to partake of the delightful nectar

727
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,120
of the gods.

728
00:50:54,120 --> 00:51:01,160
Anybody else having having a hearty quoff of this you can be a quick question.

729
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:06,880
I don't have to drink but what happens if I do usually just wait a minute.

730
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:08,400
Are you still underneath the waters?

731
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,120
Oh that's a good question.

732
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:13,360
Where how far did I get?

733
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,880
I said through the use of the inspiration point that you would grab onto the mast right

734
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:18,600
and be able to haul yourself ashore.

735
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:19,880
So I didn't make it on time.

736
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:20,880
Okay.

737
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:27,200
I'm assuming that you are in this needle with everybody else not just left behind on a sinking

738
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:33,880
ship bobbing up and down going well this is typical.

739
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:39,320
I think he's turning into Marvin the Martian.

740
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:44,760
I think basically what would happen if you tipped the flag and it would just pull down

741
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,440
your ornate stony front.

742
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,080
That's what I figured.

743
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:54,280
You don't have the various pipes and yeah particularly in order to digest this stuff

744
00:51:54,280 --> 00:52:00,120
which is a shame because you're going to be missing out on on whale testicles smoked in

745
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:05,120
the sea.

746
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:13,240
I will shut him aside and take a big gulp.

747
00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:17,560
This puts hair on me already hairy chest it does.

748
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:24,340
I believe Grjotgarth has not quite understood what exactly it is that everyone's drinking

749
00:52:24,340 --> 00:52:29,120
and doesn't recognize it as anything of value.

750
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:38,960
And so kind of crosses his arms recoils a little bit and disgusts and says I think I'll

751
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,880
pass thank you.

752
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:49,920
Well you're right it's certainly not the mead of poetry but Daniel is somewhat offended

753
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:54,080
that you won't take a sup of his local ale.

754
00:52:54,080 --> 00:53:01,280
Joe and Bill I'm going to ask you to make a might challenge roll if you would.

755
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,640
This is strong stuff.

756
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:04,640
18.

757
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:12,000
For Bakrauf this is something that he quarks on a regular basis and so it has no intoxicating

758
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:13,640
effect on him whatsoever.

759
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:20,120
In actual fact you can slam that first one down and reach for another flag and.

760
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,480
I rolled a seven however.

761
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:27,840
And you slide under the table.

762
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,000
The deck is moving once again.

763
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:36,240
So Bakrauf you drinking the beer doesn't cause you any problems as I said the ale keeps

764
00:53:36,240 --> 00:53:38,600
flowing around you.

765
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:46,720
Daniel insists that you match him flagging the flag and so whilst Ljomi is doing a personal

766
00:53:46,720 --> 00:53:55,000
impression of the table by going under the table Gigi's not drinking looking disgusted

767
00:53:55,000 --> 00:54:03,440
air can't drink so it's only Bill that is inebriated.

768
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:07,600
Well actually again after in the spirit of congeniality what I'd like to do is throw

769
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:17,400
an alarm around Gigi and just hoist a beer and toss it down his throat laughing all the

770
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:18,400
while.

771
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:24,920
Are you going to are you going to go along with it CJ are you going to join in the celebrations.

772
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:31,160
There's certainly a lot of tub thumping and hurrahring going on because after all today

773
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:38,040
people were saved from the storm when apart from poor old Eric and you know there is a

774
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:44,720
there are a few conversations going on about how someone ought to make a toast to the fallen.

775
00:54:44,720 --> 00:54:48,480
Ljomi me says another poll.

776
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,080
I drink.

777
00:54:51,080 --> 00:55:03,320
I drink for the dead bear thing the worm bear thing that we use the.

778
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,680
This is any different from your usual thing.

779
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:11,520
Are you doing something?

780
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:17,920
So Gigi taking a look around the room using a little bit of situational awareness realizing

781
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:24,160
hmm probably not the best day to to refuse drink.

782
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:30,200
After all that's happened then accepts the flag and handed to him by.

783
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:31,200
Buckle up.

784
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:32,200
Buckle up.

785
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:33,200
Buckle up.

786
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:34,200
Buckle up.

787
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:47,840
And he he sniffs it and says might as well and he takes his his.

788
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:56,080
His Olympian ability to drink mead opens up and drinks back the al.

789
00:55:56,080 --> 00:56:02,920
Give me a my channel then you are a robust fellow perhaps you can pack it away like everyone

790
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:03,920
else.

791
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:08,480
And I'm not cursed and I don't and not don't have any well right.

792
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:15,160
Correct and so just it will be what it will be your your your health is all restored back

793
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,360
to its maximum.

794
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:18,360
Oh good.

795
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,400
Well maybe not for long.

796
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,880
Thirteen which is fine.

797
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:33,040
See you you neck that first flag and obviously some of it the more dungy part sticks in your

798
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:39,480
claw but otherwise you know it's reasonably palatable.

799
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:50,320
Daniel leans in conspiratorial and says the secret of my paternity lies in a watery grave

800
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:52,840
and I must learn to live with it.

801
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,720
But we've got to put our thinking caps on.

802
00:56:55,720 --> 00:56:59,320
How do we get hold of this land deed.

803
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,520
It's worth a fortune.

804
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:07,520
All of the riches of the Arctic Circle and it's mine all mine.

805
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,880
I'm willing to cut you in.

806
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:16,200
But you see you must understand that I've only met these things recently.

807
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:21,720
This deed that you speak of is not something I'm aware of.

808
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,620
You must speak with the tree man.

809
00:57:24,620 --> 00:57:29,840
He will have your answers but unfortunately he looks quite incapacitated.

810
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:35,600
Perhaps this would be a conversation best resumed tomorrow.

811
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:43,240
I expect that the bear eats a lot.

812
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:48,320
Bears ice.

813
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:49,960
Very very very helpful.

814
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:54,880
He says we're gonna have to put our thinking caps on.

815
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:56,080
Come up with something.

816
00:57:56,080 --> 00:58:00,000
See weren't always like this.

817
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,880
Back on Jotunheim I had a vision.

818
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,840
Great bear rose out to see it did.

819
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:11,040
And I heard voices telling me to arise and devour the flesh.

820
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:12,400
Flesh of the bear.

821
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:18,840
And Daniel I took on the name from the Christian holy scriptures like a nom de guerre.

822
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:25,240
Began to trace my roots and that's how I found out that my dear old papa and his illustrious

823
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:29,840
lineage well they owned this whole land.

824
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:34,200
My mother told me she said I was the king of the bears.

825
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:39,040
And that's exactly what I've styled myself.

826
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:44,960
One of the things that occurs to me is that there's a couple of things that you set out

827
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:45,960
to do.

828
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:50,220
The first is to stop the bear hunt which has obviously gone on because you're now eating

829
00:58:50,220 --> 00:58:52,040
lovely bear steak.

830
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:53,040
I had remembered.

831
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:56,520
Maybe a little fricassee bear steak.

832
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:58,560
And the second thing is to fill the blood.

833
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:04,240
Oi captain did this lot say that someone nicked the deed.

834
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:08,760
That's fucking right they've half inched it someone has.

835
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:11,080
Any idea who?

836
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:16,320
Well I was hoping that they could tell me before the gods have their way.

837
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:20,440
You've seen the red scar in the sky have you not?

838
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,640
I don't know what's coming but be what it will.

839
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:27,520
I'll go to it laughing.

840
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:33,080
Maybe we should put Daniel in touch with Finnbogi Asbjornsson.

841
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,120
They'd have so much to talk about.

842
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,120
I know for what?

843
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:38,120
Wakey wakey.

844
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:41,120
Oh Finnbogi Asbjornsson is.

845
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:45,240
You know him?

846
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:50,360
Oh thanks Ljomi

847
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:55,560
So is the good captain familiar with Finnbogi?

848
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:56,560
That's right.

849
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:58,680
Finnbogi and bears.

850
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:02,280
We're not just hunters down this park.

851
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:08,640
You see we recognise that the bear is a majestic beast.

852
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:10,880
A noble spirit.

853
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,520
We're not just in the business of slaughtering them.

854
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:20,920
The reason why we imbibe the bear is to take on its spirit.

855
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:24,920
To take on its magnificence ourselves.

856
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:29,400
Could you turn into a bear?

857
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:31,800
Are you having a giraffe?

858
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:37,080
Listen most of me and my fellows Backrauf included are devout Ostarrans.

859
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:41,000
The Isbjorn are a symbol of rebirth.

860
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,640
Do you know that bear cubs are born shapeless?

861
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,920
Their mother gives them form, licks them into shape.

862
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:55,160
Just like Christendom reforms and regenerates the sinner like you fuckers.

863
01:00:55,160 --> 01:01:01,200
Well when a Jotun captures a cub it cements his legitimacy as ruler.

864
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:05,440
And that's why we do a little bit of a trade.

865
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,640
You know we capture the bear cubs.

866
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:10,320
The adults are a different matter obviously.

867
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:15,800
But the bear cubs I sold some on to Finnbogi not so long ago.

868
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:21,920
By eating the bears we become closer to the Lord Almighty.

869
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,560
That big fellow upstairs with the beard.

870
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:27,040
I'm trying to put this together in my head.

871
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:29,040
I'm having trouble with it.

872
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:34,280
Little bit of theology too much for you is it?

873
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:37,720
Above the table Steve.

874
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:44,080
So the Alfar back in town, the one running the temple for the bears, he wanted us to

875
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:47,560
get, say the name again Ian sorry?

876
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:49,360
Oldunger.

877
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:54,720
He wanted us to try and get the Jotnar to stop hunting and eating the bears.

878
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:58,640
Then there's the connection back to Finnbogi from these guys.

879
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:04,080
Maybe I don't know if we try and go after Finnbogi and court again.

880
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:05,080
Probably not.

881
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:06,080
I don't know.

882
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:09,080
Yeah I can't see that either.

883
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:10,880
I thought I had a thread there.

884
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:11,880
Yeah I thought I did too.

885
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:12,880
What's Finnbogi's angle?

886
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:18,280
What does he think about these folks down here eating bears?

887
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:20,920
I don't remember if he's upset about it or not.

888
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:29,280
The only one that is upset about the barbarous practices was Oldunger the Alfar priest at

889
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:36,280
the Temple of the Bear who laid a charge upon you to stop this benighted dark practice.

890
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:40,080
That's going to be an uphill climb.

891
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:47,120
There was a lot of them and not a lot of us.

892
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:49,520
Not nearly enough of us.

893
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:55,520
Then there's the deed issue which I'm hoping one of you remembers where it went.

894
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,360
Gigi has no idea.

895
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:03,120
Well again above the table this is the first mention of the deed is when Daniel started

896
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:04,120
yelling about it.

897
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:06,720
It was not something we found.

898
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,280
It wasn't something we saw.

899
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:16,360
So by sort of deduction I think we've reasoned that it was probably on the person of Bjarni

900
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:20,600
Bjarnisson who got flung off a cliff.

901
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:27,800
Even if the story is real I'm still not clear on how Bjarni is the father of Jötnar.

902
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:29,840
Would you care to ask?

903
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:30,840
Go on.

904
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:31,840
Disparentage.

905
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:32,840
How long does the ale last?

906
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:33,840
That's a big drink of.

907
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:38,840
That's why I'm doing all this above the table stuff.

908
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:41,120
You get some Dutch courage in you.

909
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:42,120
You can do it.

910
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:43,120
All right.

911
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:44,120
OK.

912
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:45,120
End scene.

913
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:56,080
Ljomi says to Daniel how is it that Bjarni is your father?

914
01:03:56,080 --> 01:04:00,840
I don't understand.

915
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:02,240
Not man, he's man.

916
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,040
That's another not man.

917
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:05,040
It's very confusing.

918
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:08,320
Don't think too fucking hard.

919
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,000
That's my 11th commandment.

920
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:11,480
And kick when you can.

921
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:12,720
That's my 12th.

922
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:17,680
Anyways I was born Bjarki Bjarneson.

923
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:23,640
My mother she divorced Bjarni shortly after the evacuation of Kongstein.

924
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:30,160
Threw in her lot with the Emancipation Movement and delivered her unborn son to the cause.

925
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:35,280
I became a berserk, fought in the battles around Hnittborg and then when the war was

926
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:44,040
lost we came in, traveled through the greenways, the troll wives they found us away.

927
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:48,560
And yes indeed you have seen it with your own eyes.

928
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:55,840
This is something that is a known quantity or is it a story?

929
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:59,120
Just asking for a friend.

930
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:04,160
Quantity I really like.

931
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:06,400
Have I seen it with my own mince pies?

932
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:13,680
Can't say I've actually touched it myself but all of the fellas tell them Bakrauf we've

933
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:15,240
all heard about it.

934
01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:21,720
We've all heard about how Bjarni Bjarneson has got the steed.

935
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:27,160
Me old mum she told me all about it told me I was a prince in waiting and that when I

936
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:36,320
returned to this land I would claim my birthright blood and soil eh Bakrauf but but before

937
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:40,520
I met the old man you went and done him in.

938
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:44,200
Fucking hell it's enough to make you turn to the bottle innit.

939
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:45,200
Let's get bladdered.

940
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:48,200
Wait captain seems sinful to me.

941
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:53,680
We're going to track down your father's body let him rest in peace and nab your bloody

942
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:54,680
deed.

943
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:58,840
That's some good thinking but here's your problem.

944
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:01,940
The Svanhvitr is at the bottom of the fisherman's door.

945
01:06:01,940 --> 01:06:08,440
We ain't sailing nowhere and these lummoxes chuck the old fella in off the troll's tongue.

946
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:14,040
How are we going to go and get him from down the bottom of the inked debts eh?

947
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:18,680
Wait a minute the metal man we just toss him down he'll key get it.

948
01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:23,720
That's some good thinking like a fucking anchor.

949
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:27,920
We just tie a rope round him and use him to go fishing.

950
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:28,920
Bloody right.

951
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:34,360
I think there's something in that you know the means are perfectly sane.

952
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:39,200
The motive and the object are a bit dodgy mind.

953
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:47,800
Ljomi briefly wakes up and says but what I don't understand is how he is your father.

954
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:56,000
Fucking hell come down to me man they're always looking for a barney ain't you.

955
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,480
Leave it at we got something here let me have a think.

956
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,680
Right drink up before we get.

957
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:02,680
Don't think too hard.

958
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:04,560
It's your eleventh rule.

959
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:08,920
One extra question if you will indulge me.

960
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:13,600
The deed is paper correct?

961
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:15,040
That's right.

962
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:21,000
And now it's underwater correct?

963
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:27,680
Yeah what's your fucking point?

964
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:40,320
She crosses his arms and stares up in the air looking around and says just thinking.

965
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:45,480
It's gonna be pretty hard to retrieve by the way the subtleness of the sea.

966
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:53,360
You saw yourself dreaded creatures gliding under the water hidden below those loveliest

967
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:55,960
tints of azure.

968
01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:58,080
I'll tell you what I need to think.

969
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:04,120
You go and say your amends go and say your prayers over the body of the bear that we're

970
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:05,120
eating.

971
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:09,080
It's important to make sure that he knows you ain't got the ump with him.

972
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:13,120
All right and we can pick this up in the morning.

973
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:14,240
That's right.

974
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:20,640
So the reason he's suggesting this is because and Bakrauf will know this.

975
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:27,120
They treat the isbjorn that they've killed with a kind of with great ritual and ceremony

976
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:34,400
because they need to placate the bear spirit so it won't seek vengeance and the bear spirit

977
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:37,440
will ultimately return to the wild.

978
01:08:37,440 --> 01:08:43,200
And so when they honor it that spirit will tell other bears about its treatment and they'll

979
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:46,600
allow themselves to be hunted in the future.

980
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:49,240
That's at least the theory.

981
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:54,680
So the dead bear bones are outside.

982
01:08:54,680 --> 01:09:03,120
They're tied to a brass ring and some of the jötnar are singing to it in a ceremonial

983
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:12,880
way as if to like a mollify and placate that spirit and you're invited by some of the yotnara

984
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:20,160
priests to contribute to that and to convey your contrition or at least to say just how

985
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:21,800
tasty the bear was.

986
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:26,520
It laid out on this rug just outside the mead hall.

987
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:32,680
Again it's the middle of the Arctic summer so the sun is blazing bright in the sky.

988
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:38,640
You often much warmth but the bears carcass the bones are lying in front of you and the

989
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:43,320
priests expect you to say a few words.

990
01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:50,480
Ljomi bows steps back and gestures towards Gigi.

991
01:09:50,480 --> 01:09:52,800
Nudge him forward with great reverence.

992
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:56,240
When you say when you say bows you mean sways.

993
01:09:56,240 --> 01:09:57,240
Yeah.

994
01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:58,240
Oh yeah.

995
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:00,560
Good one.

996
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:02,800
I should have twigged to that one myself.

997
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:09,000
Oh don't please don't do that.

998
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:14,760
Does anyone want to say a few solemn words to the spirit of the bear?

999
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:20,920
These are kind of shamanistic people and they feel it's appropriate that effectively having

1000
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:26,920
eaten of the bear that you pay respect to its spirit.

1001
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:32,240
I'll encourage everyone to pay attention to the great words that Gigi is about to come

1002
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:35,320
out with.

1003
01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:36,320
I bow and gesture.

1004
01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:38,040
You should have heard the poem.

1005
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:42,480
Derry's got another one in there.

1006
01:10:42,480 --> 01:10:46,240
He is just the best Ljomi has.

1007
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:47,860
All right.

1008
01:10:47,860 --> 01:10:53,200
So Gigi opens his hands.

1009
01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:57,280
And as you do so you hear a voice behind you.

1010
01:10:57,280 --> 01:11:02,240
First you stroke an old woman's groin and offer her bed money.

1011
01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:07,120
Then you're away into the wilderness.

1012
01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:10,000
There is a.

1013
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:11,000
That's your girlfriend.

1014
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:22,000
A wrinkled woman with a lopsided lip and two protruding teeth and one lolling eye standing

1015
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:23,960
immediately behind you.

1016
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:28,080
I cast a spell.

1017
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:33,480
Which spell?

1018
01:11:33,480 --> 01:11:36,080
We're going to start off with.

1019
01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:42,400
Yes, I'm going to cast Helm of Concealment.

1020
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:50,380
The metal strips in my body glowing brightly and then I just hide and use this precious

1021
01:11:50,380 --> 01:11:52,680
precious minute to be somewhere else.

1022
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:58,320
Okay, so you begin to cast a spell and starting to fade from view and the last things that

1023
01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:05,680
you hear from her is I will have you as a plaything and you have a vigorous dangler

1024
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:11,160
that will be far from people between my legs.

1025
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:14,880
And with that you disappear.

1026
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:16,280
All right.

1027
01:12:16,280 --> 01:12:17,280
Anyone else want to?

1028
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:20,280
She's she's she's now hunting.

1029
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:21,280
She's stomping.

1030
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:24,280
She's she's peering behind every corner.

1031
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:27,280
You have forfeited our wedding vows.

1032
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:30,560
Your unsteady fastness.

1033
01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:40,600
Yomi leans into our residence skull and suggests perhaps a love song for the poor creature.

1034
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:42,560
Another admirer.

1035
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:47,280
I was about to suggest just going on with the bear prayer.

1036
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:48,280
Yeah.

1037
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:50,280
I was just as well.

1038
01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:53,280
I didn't charm the snake.

1039
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:58,280
There's going to be a lineup out here.

1040
01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:04,120
Bakrauf does not have the words that JG has, but what he will do is he will throw his armor

1041
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:11,120
on the captain and fill a tankard of the testicle Whale bear and say, is he a dearly departed

1042
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:12,120
dad, captain?

1043
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:15,120
And answer the spell to the mighty Yacht-Night Bears.

1044
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:27,240
And just as you chink glasses, you see Daniel go wide eyed and stare over your shoulder

1045
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:34,920
and past the woman who is scouring the mead hall looking for the errant dökkálf.

1046
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:42,520
As you follow his gaze, you notice beyond the intoxicated jötnar who were lying and belching

1047
01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:51,600
around the mead hall, you see that the bear itself is the bones are kind of clacking,

1048
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:55,960
are jolting, are knitting together.

1049
01:13:55,960 --> 01:14:04,200
And before your very eyes, the skeleton reassembles, doesn't have the muscles, it doesn't have

1050
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:11,420
the sinew, it doesn't have the connective tissue, but the bones are all slowly reforming

1051
01:14:11,420 --> 01:14:18,560
into something that is very recognizable as a polar bear skeleton.

1052
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:26,680
These bones are now moving with their own unholy momentum towards you.

1053
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:36,760
Okay, Ljomi steps over to CJ and begins to cast Biting Charms because then your weapon

1054
01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:40,400
will do full damage against ghostly creatures.

1055
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:49,120
I'm entirely ghostly, it is corporeal, it's skeletal, it does seem to glow with the iridescent

1056
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:53,680
light shimmering from that scar in the sky.

1057
01:14:53,680 --> 01:15:00,880
Before you cast that spell, I would like you to all make yet another will roll in order

1058
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:11,240
to deal with the terrifying sight of this haunt, this undead beast rearing from its ritual grave.

1059
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:16,760
Well, as my first GM used to say, have dice will roll.

1060
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:17,760
16.

1061
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:20,760
Bah, 5.

1062
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:24,880
18 minus 1, 17.

1063
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:28,000
I have a 5 as well.

1064
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:30,160
Not my day for rolls.

1065
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:33,920
There should be a special title for this episode.

1066
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:36,920
Rolls of the Damned.

1067
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:40,320
So, let's deal with those one by one.

1068
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:48,040
Grotgarth, this time you have found yourself made of sterner stuff and you stare down the

1069
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:55,040
empty eye sockets of the skeletal bear, gazing into the void beyond with a chuckle.

1070
01:15:55,040 --> 01:16:00,320
Ljomi, I'm assuming that you're too drunk to care.

1071
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:05,760
I mean, I've seen a lot, you know, I mean even just today there's been a lot.

1072
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:10,360
I kind of like the whale testicle beer and I'd really just like to have more of that.

1073
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:13,800
So this is, it's an annoyance more than a terrifying thing.

1074
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:21,520
Steve, luckily for you the helm of concealment has shrouded you from sight and so whilst

1075
01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:27,080
your, whilst your jötunn lover is searching for you, the beast cannot see you either but

1076
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:32,560
you are, you are nevertheless shaken to the core whilst in your hidden state.

1077
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:35,000
I'm going to ask you to make...

1078
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:36,000
It's not the bear I'm scared of.

1079
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:37,000
Good, good.

1080
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:45,760
I'm going to ask you to make another will roll if you wouldn't mind for trauma purposes.

1081
01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:49,560
For God's sake, Steve.

1082
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:50,560
Big number.

1083
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:51,560
Come on.

1084
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:52,560
Nine.

1085
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:58,160
I'm going to add three trauma to your total.

1086
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:01,160
No, that's not great.

1087
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:02,160
Three more to his total.

1088
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:03,160
Three more to his total.

1089
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:04,160
And it's seven.

1090
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:12,880
You're also, for the next nine rounds you have the frightened state.

1091
01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:15,840
Luckily most of that you will be hidden.

1092
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:22,200
So it depends on what you do from underneath your helm of concealment, one of your, see

1093
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:23,200
the spells.

1094
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,880
Joe, you are also frightened as you can see.

1095
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:28,280
If you get some trauma, give me another will roll.

1096
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:37,240
It is not a usual event for the bears that you hunt to arise in this form and as a good

1097
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:42,640
God fearing Christian you lament the rising of the dead.

1098
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,400
All right, here we go.

1099
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:46,400
Three.

1100
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:47,400
Three.

1101
01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:52,920
I do believe your dice is broken.

1102
01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:58,760
I was going to go for my other D20 but I'm like, oh no, this I can redeem itself.

1103
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:04,200
So I pissed my trousers again and then when nobody's looking, I throw my tankard of ale

1104
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:11,680
on my trousers and like, all right, I spilt my bloody ale again.

1105
01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:21,280
You are not only traumatized taking 3 trauma, you are frightened for six rounds and for

1106
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:23,840
this first round you are stunned.

1107
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:30,920
The appearance of this haunt has meant that you are literally unable to move.

1108
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,080
You are petrified.

1109
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:41,120
Daniel behind you sounds almost ecstatic as he says in this kind of religious fervor.

1110
01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:50,200
He says, fucking hell, the dead will be raised imperishable and we should all be changed.

1111
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:58,520
He then backs away, his eyes still wide murmuring prayers, his hands clasped together and reaching

1112
01:18:58,520 --> 01:19:01,240
for his scepter of office.

1113
01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:06,960
He's clutching it almost as if it were a religious icon.

1114
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:11,240
So unfortunately, Joe is unable to do anything.

1115
01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:16,680
Steve, you are under the aegis of your spell.

1116
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:22,520
My plan is, I think it's entirely appropriate given the frightened state, is to run like

1117
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:23,520
mad.

1118
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:24,520
Good.

1119
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:26,520
Well, in which direction?

1120
01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:32,840
Away from the bear and the scary lopsided woman.

1121
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:37,480
That is the extent of his tactical analysis.

1122
01:19:37,480 --> 01:19:39,080
What's your shame score?

1123
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:43,280
Oh, it cannot be measured.

1124
01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:50,520
It's an interesting point, because acts of such blatant cowardice in this Norse universe

1125
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:56,760
are deserving of shame and may well be so by the end of this episode.

1126
01:19:56,760 --> 01:20:00,960
But he is invisible, so nobody at this point knows he's running away.

1127
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:04,600
The norns are always watching.

1128
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,480
Damn those norns.

1129
01:20:07,480 --> 01:20:11,120
The fact that also by virtue of being invisible and not becoming visible as soon as there's

1130
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:13,400
danger, I think would be problematic.

1131
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:14,400
I see what you're saying.

1132
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:19,560
Okay, Ian, I was going to be casting the biting charms, but it sounded like maybe that doesn't

1133
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:21,520
do anything in this instance.

1134
01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:22,520
Is that right?

1135
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:28,520
It would be impossible to tell until such time as you had used the biting charms and

1136
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:29,920
seeing whether they bit.

1137
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:33,840
Okay, I'm going to do that then still.

1138
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:37,000
On to CJ's runic revolver.

1139
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:43,680
Okay, and will you use that as a fast turn or a slow turn?

1140
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:50,120
And again, just to paint the scene, you have the mead haul to your back with lots of sozzled

1141
01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:52,240
jötnar staggering around.

1142
01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:55,040
Some of them have gone to their rifles.

1143
01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:56,040
It's becoming clear.

1144
01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:58,320
A slow turn seems like a good idea.

1145
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:04,200
So I will do a slow turn, cast the spell and then move behind a mighty yacht gnats.

1146
01:21:04,200 --> 01:21:09,880
So you're going to head back into the mead haul next to the roaring fire that accompanies

1147
01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:12,360
all of these feasts?

1148
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:16,360
Next to the vat of testicle beer, if possible.

1149
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:17,360
Sure.

1150
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:24,320
I like the way you've sandwiched yourself between the flames and the flammable.

1151
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:32,120
As a wooden being, it seems to be kindling yourself.

1152
01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:34,120
Exactly.

1153
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:38,480
You might want to make whimpering noises because you're stunned for this whole round.

1154
01:21:38,480 --> 01:21:43,160
The only thing that you can do is whimper.

1155
01:21:43,160 --> 01:21:52,400
Those were good.

1156
01:21:52,400 --> 01:22:01,120
As a congregant of the Church of the New Gods, would Grotgarth recognize this magical creature

1157
01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:07,200
as anything other than just a resurrected pile of bare bones?

1158
01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:08,200
No.

1159
01:22:08,200 --> 01:22:14,840
In all of your travels across the Niu Heimar, you have never encountered anything quite

1160
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:20,680
so chilling as the dead risen from the grave.

1161
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:26,720
This is not a D&D universe where there are revenants like this.

1162
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:35,640
You have heard tales from the halls of Asgard of barrow fiends, of barrow wights, of draugr

1163
01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:43,600
who return to haunt the living, but you've never heard of a bear knitting its bones back

1164
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:49,640
together and marching towards everyone with evil intent.

1165
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:57,360
So given that it's bones and there's not a lot to hit with my tiny little bullets, I'm

1166
01:22:57,360 --> 01:23:00,520
going to instead draw my ringed sword.

1167
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:06,720
It's a long sword and I'm going to cast sharp runes on it.

1168
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:10,660
That will be your action for this turn.

1169
01:23:10,660 --> 01:23:15,080
You can move as well if you want to take a slow turn.

1170
01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:17,520
How close am I to the bear?

1171
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:26,160
As of the bear emerging from its place of ritual burial, you're probably ten feet away.

1172
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:31,400
You were over the top, looming over the top, giving it your condolences when it rather

1173
01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:36,560
than decided to rear up and rebuke you.

1174
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:38,880
And it's looking right at me, right?

1175
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:39,880
Yes.

1176
01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:44,920
You chose to stare it down as a way of overcoming your fear.

1177
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:52,720
All right, Grjotgarth is going to further this trend and stand his ground and brandish his

1178
01:23:52,720 --> 01:23:54,840
sword at the thing.

1179
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:58,800
And as you mentioned earlier, laugh.

1180
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:07,880
All right, so you do have two spells active on you now.

1181
01:24:07,880 --> 01:24:09,640
Oh, hang on.

1182
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:10,640
You've got the biting charms.

1183
01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:13,040
And then what was it that you were casting?

1184
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:15,840
You were just warring your sharp runes.

1185
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:18,840
Sharp runes on the sword.

1186
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:19,840
Right.

1187
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:24,400
However, you use sharp runes once, so you have to use a victory rune, which is your

1188
01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:25,400
other one, right?

1189
01:24:25,400 --> 01:24:28,120
You've got the Siguruna, the victory runes.

1190
01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:30,320
They can be cast.

1191
01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:35,640
You've used your sharp runes for today's casting.

1192
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:39,000
Ah, yes.

1193
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:40,520
Didn't you mention that we were healed, though?

1194
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:42,560
Did we not get any rest?

1195
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:43,560
You didn't.

1196
01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:45,720
You didn't get any rest.

1197
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:47,120
The curse was lifted.

1198
01:24:47,120 --> 01:24:49,360
And so that psychic pain went away.

1199
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:50,360
Ah, OK.

1200
01:24:50,360 --> 01:24:51,360
All right.

1201
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:52,360
I misunderstood.

1202
01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:53,360
Sure.

1203
01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:54,360
Victory runes on the sword.

1204
01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:55,360
Let's do it.

1205
01:24:55,360 --> 01:25:04,560
Next turn, you've got victory runes and you've got the biting charm active on your sword.

1206
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:14,880
In the meantime, the bone mother, or such as it is called, emerges from the pit clattering,

1207
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:21,520
uphauling itself up on these skeletal claws.

1208
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:32,880
It is lumbering, clearly ungainly on these new limbs, but it does manage to lurch towards

1209
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:34,880
you.

1210
01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:42,880
Bakrauf is closest to it and with one of its claws, it swipes, hitting you for nine

1211
01:25:42,880 --> 01:25:43,880
damage.

1212
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:44,880
OK.

1213
01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:52,880
I still feel safer near the fire and the alcohol.

1214
01:25:52,880 --> 01:26:01,760
However, this beast also comes with this terrible curse of brittle bones.

1215
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:08,320
And I need you to please make another Will Challenge roll because you're frightened

1216
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:10,760
this is going to be with four woes.

1217
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:11,760
OK.

1218
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:15,240
So I'm using a different die this time.

1219
01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:16,240
Good choice.

1220
01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:17,240
All right.

1221
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:21,600
13 minus my one, so that takes it down to 12.

1222
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:23,400
And how many my six-sided am I rolling?

1223
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:27,240
You've got to roll four of those and take away the worst.

1224
01:26:27,240 --> 01:26:28,880
Oh, and they were all one.

1225
01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:30,880
I can tell from here.

1226
01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:34,600
That takes me down to an eight.

1227
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:45,720
You feel this chilling eldritch curse course through your bones, turning your innards cold.

1228
01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:54,400
Your bones creak and groan and you feel that they might snap at any moment.

1229
01:26:54,400 --> 01:27:00,320
Next time you take damage, you will take one by six extra damage.

1230
01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:02,080
Got it.

1231
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:03,440
All right.

1232
01:27:03,440 --> 01:27:07,680
We will go into round two.

1233
01:27:07,680 --> 01:27:15,320
As I've said, Daniel has backed off wide-eyed, murmuring with religious fervour.

1234
01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:19,480
A lot of the Jotnar are very drunk.

1235
01:27:19,480 --> 01:27:25,080
Ljomi, you are standing next to the hearth fire.

1236
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:29,640
And Eir has vanished.

1237
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:38,840
The only trace of the dark elf being the kind of soft impressions in the tundra.

1238
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:43,600
I was hoping no one would notice that.

1239
01:27:43,600 --> 01:27:46,600
So fast hands.

1240
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:49,200
Yell at everybody.

1241
01:27:49,200 --> 01:27:53,840
You can yell at everyone independently of your action.

1242
01:27:53,840 --> 01:27:56,520
Just bellowing at people is absolutely fine.

1243
01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:59,560
This is an honor-centered world, right?

1244
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:03,440
So Gigi is flabbergasted.

1245
01:28:03,440 --> 01:28:05,560
Get up, you cowards!

1246
01:28:05,560 --> 01:28:06,560
Get up!

1247
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:08,320
What are you doing?

1248
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:12,480
Don't leave me alone with that thing!

1249
01:28:12,480 --> 01:28:15,000
Ljomi is going to shoot an arrow.

1250
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:19,440
I'm already back safely beside the fire and the fire.

1251
01:28:19,440 --> 01:28:24,920
You knock your arrow and let it fly.

1252
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:33,160
Roll a slight roll and give me a woe for the inebriation.

1253
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:34,160
Oops.

1254
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:35,160
Slight roll.

1255
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:41,080
I just thought before I did.

1256
01:28:41,080 --> 01:28:42,640
Let's not spoil it for the others.

1257
01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:46,120
I'm going to still roll the woe.

1258
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:49,760
So the woe is a one, which is extremely lucky.

1259
01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:54,520
And my slight is 11, which means I get a plus one.

1260
01:28:54,520 --> 01:29:03,640
So, they cancel each other out, which means my natural roll of one stands as it is.

1261
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:06,520
I believe my bow broke and I fell into the fire.

1262
01:29:06,520 --> 01:29:10,200
That would be my interpretation.

1263
01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:11,200
I think that's reasonable.

1264
01:29:11,200 --> 01:29:13,360
Let's go with that.

1265
01:29:13,360 --> 01:29:22,000
Your bow twangs, the string breaks, and the arrow flies straight up and straight back

1266
01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:27,040
down into the fire next to you where it instantly incinerates.

1267
01:29:27,040 --> 01:29:39,240
What it does do is also set fire to the vat of ale, the seal dung, and it's a kind of

1268
01:29:39,240 --> 01:29:48,520
noxious brew and it erupts instantly into a boiling, boiling fire.

1269
01:29:48,520 --> 01:29:58,240
There is a cloud of vaporized alcohol and then the fire roars out of the cauldron.

1270
01:29:58,240 --> 01:30:08,480
So, fermented whale blubber and seal dung make a vital concoction.

1271
01:30:08,480 --> 01:30:12,440
Gigi raises his shirt to his mouth.

1272
01:30:12,440 --> 01:30:15,640
Oh, God, the smell.

1273
01:30:15,640 --> 01:30:17,640
And what would you like to do, CJ?

1274
01:30:17,640 --> 01:30:20,640
Take your shot or head for the hills?

1275
01:30:20,640 --> 01:30:24,640
Grjotgath just had a tremendous idea.

1276
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:31,640
Right now, he's thinking, wait a minute, aren't we supposed to stop them eating bears?

1277
01:30:31,640 --> 01:30:37,640
And now there's something that is more powerful than them that could potentially be helpful.

1278
01:30:37,640 --> 01:30:41,640
So, he's thinking, maybe let's not hit the bones.

1279
01:30:41,640 --> 01:31:02,640
And let's see if I can't encourage the Jotnar to try and put up a fight and see if that could go our way, potentially, since there's no hope of getting paper deed from the depths of the ocean.

1280
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:08,640
So, I'm going to or sorry, Gigi is going to do a slow turn.

1281
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:10,640
How far is Daniel?

1282
01:31:10,640 --> 01:31:13,640
About 10 yards.

1283
01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:16,640
Can I make it there on a slow turn?

1284
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:18,640
Yep, your move is 10, I believe.

1285
01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:22,640
So, you would run up level with him.

1286
01:31:22,640 --> 01:31:24,640
Yep, run up level with him.

1287
01:31:24,640 --> 01:31:28,640
Grab him at the shoulders and shake him and say, get it together, man.

1288
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:30,640
Fight this thing.

1289
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:35,640
Rouse your troops and I shall sing for you.

1290
01:31:35,640 --> 01:31:49,640
Give me a will attack roll, this will be a social attack roll, to see whether your insistence and your charm overcomes his natural panic at this state of affairs.

1291
01:31:49,640 --> 01:31:54,640
I get really excited because I thought I had a plus on will, but I don't, it's a plus zero. 16.

1292
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:56,640
Still pretty good.

1293
01:31:56,640 --> 01:32:14,640
You have roused him from his kind of torpor and he says, fucking hell, swear of me, path to my purpose is laid with iron girders. My immortal soul is fucking fated to run.

1294
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:17,640
Well, shit.

1295
01:32:17,640 --> 01:32:22,640
Well summarized.

1296
01:32:22,640 --> 01:32:30,640
You might find that Bakrauf is able to lead a charge as the kind of fest mate.

1297
01:32:30,640 --> 01:32:36,640
Well, not in my current state. I am gibbering right now in fear.

1298
01:32:36,640 --> 01:32:39,640
That is true.

1299
01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:51,640
But you do have, it is now, it is your turn if you want to take a fast turn or if you want to move and take an action that will be a slow turn in order to escape because you were close proximity from the

1300
01:32:51,640 --> 01:33:00,640
bone mother, you will need to use the retreat action in order to not take an attack of opportunity.

1301
01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:05,640
Well, let me ask you this because I'm still frightened for another few rounds, this being the second round.

1302
01:33:05,640 --> 01:33:10,640
Am I able to do that or am I just in such a state of fear that I'm rooted to the spot?

1303
01:33:10,640 --> 01:33:15,640
No, you can certainly back away as you retreat.

1304
01:33:15,640 --> 01:33:17,640
I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that.

1305
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:30,640
That gets you a little bit away and you move up to half your speed, but you can do so without getting that attack of opportunity that I mentioned buying you a little bit of time.

1306
01:33:30,640 --> 01:33:35,640
Okay, so we've had, we've had Bill the Alfar archer.

1307
01:33:35,640 --> 01:33:47,640
One of the things about the Viking versus that the Alfar are not the pointy eared elves of Tolkien style who are good at loosing arrows, and you've just demonstrated that.

1308
01:33:47,640 --> 01:33:55,640
Well, well, well done. CJ you're trying to slap Daniel around and what you know he's clearly, he's clearly thinking about it.

1309
01:33:55,640 --> 01:34:06,640
He's in two minds. And so, because you were successful in your role while he is equivocating, you may find that he is stirred into action.

1310
01:34:06,640 --> 01:34:14,640
Next round, Steve, how are those hills that you're high tailing it to? Are they scenic?

1311
01:34:14,640 --> 01:34:21,640
Yeah, I mean, do they have undead bears and enormous lopsided women and how she found us here I can only begin to guess.

1312
01:34:21,640 --> 01:34:26,640
This is where she lives, right? This is the town. Love will find a way.

1313
01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:39,640
No, I thought she, wait, I thought that we, I thought that we charmed her when she came. Oh, she came from here to cast the curse on us so she actually lives here, and we came straight to her hometown.

1314
01:34:39,640 --> 01:34:42,640
So, we are geniuses.

1315
01:34:42,640 --> 01:34:44,640
So, clearly you were looking for her.

1316
01:34:44,640 --> 01:34:53,640
Yeah, as as areas is eating off into the hills pennies are dropping for him. He's having a piece.

1317
01:34:53,640 --> 01:34:59,640
Perhaps you should take up jogging because it's obviously good for your, your, your mental keenness.

1318
01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:17,640
So, we will go to the bone bear, which then charges and unfortunately background you are still the only person in its immediate vicinity that has done you 11 damage.

1319
01:35:17,640 --> 01:35:18,640
Oh, okay.

1320
01:35:18,640 --> 01:35:22,640
Plus I have to roll an additional six.

1321
01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:26,640
So, one.

1322
01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:34,640
Okay, so that takes me up to 12. Oh, that takes me to 21.

1323
01:35:34,640 --> 01:35:38,640
So that brings you so your damage is now equal to your health.

1324
01:35:38,640 --> 01:35:39,640
Yes.

1325
01:35:39,640 --> 01:36:08,640
Now this really is where we determine whether the fates are smiling on you, you are incapacitated and when you are incapacitated, you must make a fate roll to see what happens so the bear barrels towards you, it clatters into again with its claws ripping at your hairy hide, because your brittle bones and the curse that was laid upon you, you succumb to it more than you would have done.

1326
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:24,640
Otherwise, if you roll a d6 for me, and I will tell you what the results of that is to see just whether the norms are smiling and whether you are a favorite of the gods.

1327
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:26,640
I got a roll the two.

1328
01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:40,640
The outcome of that fate roll is that you fall prone and slump into unconsciousness, you will die in

1329
01:36:40,640 --> 01:37:05,640
one round, unless you are healed. It is a mortal blow you are on the brink of death, you are slipping away to, I would say, Valhalla, but as a good Christian Jötnar you will ascend the stairway to heaven, unless someone can heal you in that short space of time.

1330
01:37:05,640 --> 01:37:07,640
Hold on one question.

1331
01:37:07,640 --> 01:37:17,640
Is it possible, before I slip into the inky depths, can I apply an energy burst to myself to heal myself, or is that off the table?

1332
01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:38,640
No, that's fair enough. You can indeed use a triggered action to give you the energy burst. So we will rewind a little bit, and energy burst is a triggered action that enables you to get back one quarter of your health.

1333
01:37:38,640 --> 01:37:42,640
Nice. Great. I will take it.

1334
01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:46,640
So you're back to five, right? The margin is five, something like that.

1335
01:37:46,640 --> 01:37:49,640
Roughly that, yeah. Okay, five, I'll take it.

1336
01:37:49,640 --> 01:37:59,640
So the bear bows towards you, its claws slashing at your chest, but somehow you find inner reserves.

1337
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:17,640
I think that describes it adequately. While it's doing that, I probably fall back and just instinctively use my energy burst to heal myself enough, and I roll away, hopefully, and feigning death. Hopefully the bear will think it killed me.

1338
01:38:17,640 --> 01:38:31,640
You are coursing with adrenaline, which keeps you from death's door. I think we are now moving to the top of the next round, so round three.

1339
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:53,640
Daniel yells out to his various Jotnar, most of whom are not much use, but he says, Lord of Bastard in here! We have to set fire to it! Lock it in the mead hall! Bakrauf! Get back in here!

1340
01:38:53,640 --> 01:39:16,640
Luckily for you, perhaps you can glean the scope of his plan. You are in what is effectively a burning wooden building, and perhaps it will be possible to bring the creature inside and have everything, the flaming debris, topple on top of it and take it out.

1341
01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:29,640
It may well be more effective than the odd arrow. Or do carry on, because it was almost like Alexander the Great was dead.

1342
01:39:29,640 --> 01:39:49,640
It was epic. It was epic. Actually, I have tree sight. Ljomi has tree sight. So that means I can find hidden or invisible. Does that mean that when Eir did his little trick, I actually was able to track him?

1343
01:39:49,640 --> 01:40:09,640
Correct. Correct. Using your tree sight, which is an ability to detect all kinds of chemical disturbances and fluctuations in air pressure, all of those things that a tree might have, yes, you can get a good sense of where air is.

1344
01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:27,640
Furthermore, Your Honor, I posit that, well, can I in fact, can Yomi see anything from his current vantage point outside of the building? Can I see any features roughly in the direction that Eir took off to?

1345
01:40:27,640 --> 01:40:55,640
Eir would be heading out of the whalebone gates that act as the grand entrance to Spikborg. Otherwise, the tundra is flat, lone and level. And so you just, but amidst the smoke, which is now beginning to build up around you from the flaming alcohol infusion, you would see, yes, a stone figure cramping across the tundra.

1346
01:40:55,640 --> 01:41:03,640
Singing then, I begin to cast secret path aiming at the bone gate.

1347
01:41:03,640 --> 01:41:05,640
Okay. How did that grab you?

1348
01:41:05,640 --> 01:41:33,640
Very good. Your secret path entices with your alpha singing, the Alfsongar entices the spirits of the land to show you a path to safety and to hasten your footsteps towards that location. And so you may on your next turn, because you've basically conjured the spirits to create that path for you,

1349
01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:50,640
you may proceed along it with alacrity. Of course, your comrades here, should they wish to, may partake of that now because the spirits are clearly signposting a way to escape.

1350
01:41:50,640 --> 01:41:53,640
Come with me. I can save us all.

1351
01:41:53,640 --> 01:42:03,640
So that's one alternative or the one that Daniel has posited, which is to actually do almost the reverse, which is to bring the bear in.

1352
01:42:03,640 --> 01:42:07,640
Not the Alfar way, as we have demonstrated repeatedly.

1353
01:42:07,640 --> 01:42:23,640
Which is the mead hall, which is, you know, can very easily be ignited and turn the whole place into an inferno, a conflagration by which the bear may well hopefully be a bit more than singed.

1354
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:41,640
Grjotgarth sees this opportunity, sees the intent behind it, and thinks wonderful. We have a way out. Let's lure the bear, pulls his gun and starts firing at it to lure it toward himself and Daniel.

1355
01:42:41,640 --> 01:42:48,640
OK, make your roll.

1356
01:42:48,640 --> 01:42:51,640
Five.

1357
01:42:51,640 --> 01:42:55,640
I thought your mic had died.

1358
01:42:55,640 --> 01:42:57,640
I didn't want to say it.

1359
01:42:57,640 --> 01:43:05,640
This being an audio vehicle, listeners at home wouldn't have seen your eyes just go to the right and then back again.

1360
01:43:05,640 --> 01:43:23,640
During that very pregnant pause, your shot rings out loud, but the bullet whistles between the bones of the bearish skeleton and it continues to lurch forward, scrabbling over the earth.

1361
01:43:23,640 --> 01:43:43,640
It hasn't given up the chase of you, Bakrauf. Whether you are able to rolled safety or scrambled safety is now up to you. Or do you want to do something suitably heroic and bring the bear into the mead hall, since you are its current prey?

1362
01:43:43,640 --> 01:43:56,640
All right, so here's the plan. I'm going to run to the mead hall, lure it in, and hopefully the minute it plunges after me, I'm going to dart right back out of the door. So here we go.

1363
01:43:56,640 --> 01:44:03,640
So I'm going to run past the bear and say, oh mother, sod off you filthy old slag.

1364
01:44:03,640 --> 01:44:15,640
And run into the mead hall and waving my arms for it to follow me. And then as soon as I, like I said, as soon as I get in there, I'm going to duck down the door and hopefully dart out as soon as it enters.

1365
01:44:15,640 --> 01:44:37,640
Almost a foolproof plan. Were you not under the haunting effects of this emergence of this undead beast which has frightened you? So give me a sleight roll to see if you can scramble away, but make it with the woes. We don't want you to trip an inopportune moment.

1366
01:44:37,640 --> 01:44:51,640
Four. I get an eight and then I rolled my woe roll. You know, you are rolling a d20, right? Because I say that because every number that you've said...

1367
01:44:51,640 --> 01:44:55,640
They've all been below six.

1368
01:44:55,640 --> 01:45:11,640
The dice are not ever in my favor today. I'm thinking as a group, we should specialize in warning shots and anything that requires low rolls. I think it's where our strengths seem to lie.

1369
01:45:11,640 --> 01:45:27,640
You feel the chilling embrace Bakrauf as the bear grasps you in a hug. It rolls on top of you, still trying to imitate the behavior that it might once have exhibited.

1370
01:45:27,640 --> 01:45:44,640
Its bones aren't able to completely crush you, but you do feel like you are caged by this creature. It almost hangs on top of you. You are down. That's another five damage.

1371
01:45:44,640 --> 01:45:49,640
All right, that takes me back to 21 again. So I am unconscious or dead.

1372
01:45:49,640 --> 01:45:52,640
Let's make a fate roll again.

1373
01:45:52,640 --> 01:45:57,640
Okay, die six. All right, thank you. Here we go.

1374
01:45:57,640 --> 01:46:18,640
I got yet another two. With the weight of these, this bone yard on top of you, you fall prone and slip into unconsciousness. If not healed within the round, you will take your first steps on the stairway to heaven.

1375
01:46:18,640 --> 01:46:27,640
Okay, instead of following the secret path. Can I apply Yggdrasil's gift to our fallen comrade?

1376
01:46:27,640 --> 01:46:30,640
Just going for everyone. What that means.

1377
01:46:30,640 --> 01:46:47,640
Sure, I can use an action to stabilize a creature. And if the total of my role is 20 or higher, and frankly, I'm the only one tonight who's had much of a shot of doing that. Steve's had a couple of good rolls. Sorry, you heal your damage equal to your healing rate.

1378
01:46:47,640 --> 01:47:01,640
So you're going to rush over to the fallen background. You're going to ignore the alluring call of the spirits. You're going to make a witch challenge roll. You're going to make it with one. Whoa.

1379
01:47:01,640 --> 01:47:03,640
I believe in you, Bill.

1380
01:47:03,640 --> 01:47:17,640
Thank you. So I rolled a 16 plus two, which is 18. And then my my we my whoa was also a two. So 16 is the end result.

1381
01:47:17,640 --> 01:47:39,640
The healing spirits of the alfar flow from your fingers and bring your fallen warrior sputtering back to a semblance of life. So one health. Literally, you can see the choir of angels.

1382
01:47:39,640 --> 01:47:54,640
In this crazy mixed up world where you're not sure whether they're angels or alpha, you know, could have been either. I'm presuming, Steve, Steve, I'm just I'm just presuming that you're getting to be an ever increasingly distant echo.

1383
01:47:54,640 --> 01:47:58,640
Sure, it sounds like a great plan.

1384
01:47:58,640 --> 01:48:14,640
Grjotgarth is going to follow suit and sing a song of praise. And that is, I can use an action to heal damage equal to my healing rate, then choose one creature other than myself that is within short range.

1385
01:48:14,640 --> 01:48:18,640
The target also heals damage equal to its healing rate.

1386
01:48:18,640 --> 01:48:25,640
Just look at the love that's in the air here as we're trying to keep the whole group.

1387
01:48:25,640 --> 01:48:48,640
Keep joking that Joe. So Joe, what he's basically doing is he's he's he's he's extemporizing an edict verse he's exhorting you to stand again and rise empowered by the spirits of your ancestors and full of the vigor of tales of old and you get five more health back.

1388
01:48:48,640 --> 01:48:51,640
So you're back to six. It's a bit like a yo-yo.

1389
01:48:51,640 --> 01:48:59,640
Yeah, the only thing that's concerning me is tactically we are ignoring the threat that cut him down.

1390
01:48:59,640 --> 01:49:01,640
But, you know, details.

1391
01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:10,640
Right. Well, it's easy. We'll end the turn by yelling out, Bakrauf, lead it in here.

1392
01:49:10,640 --> 01:49:14,640
All right, so we're into round four.

1393
01:49:14,640 --> 01:49:19,640
We've never lasted this long before.

1394
01:49:19,640 --> 01:49:23,640
You've normally scarpered by this point.

1395
01:49:23,640 --> 01:49:28,640
Well, we have some people following the traditional plan.

1396
01:49:28,640 --> 01:49:30,640
You've gone very avant-garde.

1397
01:49:30,640 --> 01:49:34,640
Whereas the dokkalfar, they believe in tradition.

1398
01:49:34,640 --> 01:49:38,640
There are the proper ways to respond to any given situation.

1399
01:49:38,640 --> 01:49:43,640
All right, as usual, fast and slow, tell me what you would like to do.

1400
01:49:43,640 --> 01:49:49,640
All right. Am I too close to use my bow because I think I'm really mastering it?

1401
01:49:49,640 --> 01:49:52,640
And I think we said that your string snapped.

1402
01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:58,640
Oh, yeah. OK, I draw my sea axe then and take a swing at it.

1403
01:49:58,640 --> 01:50:02,640
Or I am a mighty tree and a warrior.

1404
01:50:02,640 --> 01:50:06,640
A warrior to guard the young spriglets.

1405
01:50:06,640 --> 01:50:09,640
Yep, got to go for it. We got to bring this thing down.

1406
01:50:09,640 --> 01:50:13,640
Or we lose our chat knife.

1407
01:50:13,640 --> 01:50:22,640
Or the Daniel being the head man of a village who's fought in the Jotun War,

1408
01:50:22,640 --> 01:50:29,640
who has some kind of tactical nouse who laid out a plan for you beyond...

1409
01:50:29,640 --> 01:50:36,640
I mean, literally, literally, it burned the bear or poked the bear a little bit.

1410
01:50:36,640 --> 01:50:40,640
Poking the bear historically doesn't work.

1411
01:50:40,640 --> 01:50:42,640
So, OK, yes.

1412
01:50:42,640 --> 01:50:51,640
But I'll be it from me, Bill, if you want to draw your slightly large knife.

1413
01:50:51,640 --> 01:50:52,640
Give it.

1414
01:50:52,640 --> 01:50:54,640
Yeah, I'm going to try. I'm going to try.

1415
01:50:54,640 --> 01:51:00,640
Sometimes you got to stand and fight no matter how badly it goes.

1416
01:51:00,640 --> 01:51:03,640
OK, I rolled a seven.

1417
01:51:03,640 --> 01:51:08,640
You do manage to effectively parry the air.

1418
01:51:08,640 --> 01:51:11,640
See, getting better.

1419
01:51:11,640 --> 01:51:20,640
The wisps of smoke that are exuding from the fire that is beginning to burn up the side of the mead hall.

1420
01:51:20,640 --> 01:51:25,640
You do move some of those around by creating a variant airflow.

1421
01:51:25,640 --> 01:51:31,640
Well done. I'm having impact. That's the important thing.

1422
01:51:31,640 --> 01:51:37,640
Grjotgarth, seeing this situation unfold.

1423
01:51:37,640 --> 01:51:39,640
Not brave display.

1424
01:51:39,640 --> 01:51:41,640
Might he attempt?

1425
01:51:41,640 --> 01:51:44,640
It's problematic for him.

1426
01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:55,640
So he's going to abandon Daniel's side and rush over and place himself between Ljomi and the bear.

1427
01:51:55,640 --> 01:51:57,640
That's what I'm talking about.

1428
01:51:57,640 --> 01:52:04,640
He's going to say, get back.

1429
01:52:04,640 --> 01:52:07,640
I wish that were that had been a more impactful statement.

1430
01:52:07,640 --> 01:52:24,640
But anyway, and and then use an attack, a swing of a sword to attract the bear, I suppose.

1431
01:52:24,640 --> 01:52:29,640
Like to a plan.

1432
01:52:29,640 --> 01:52:31,640
Stay away from my three friends.

1433
01:52:31,640 --> 01:52:34,640
I need you alive.

1434
01:52:34,640 --> 01:52:38,640
For many reasons that I can't talk to you about yet.

1435
01:52:38,640 --> 01:52:41,640
And then I'm going to I'm going to swipe this thing.

1436
01:52:41,640 --> 01:52:47,640
OK, I'm following over in my chair and falling over in my chair.

1437
01:52:47,640 --> 01:52:50,640
What is it? A mic roll?

1438
01:52:50,640 --> 01:52:56,640
Two plus two. Oh, my God.

1439
01:52:56,640 --> 01:53:00,640
We're like we somehow we should invert this and go to a casino.

1440
01:53:00,640 --> 01:53:07,640
I like I don't know how you do that, but we're really beating on.

1441
01:53:07,640 --> 01:53:13,640
So short version, entire party is dead.

1442
01:53:13,640 --> 01:53:17,640
Except for Eir.

1443
01:53:17,640 --> 01:53:23,640
Yeah, I'm not even going to bother to describe that sort of thrust.

1444
01:53:23,640 --> 01:53:27,640
Joe, what will Bakrauf do?

1445
01:53:27,640 --> 01:53:30,640
I am no longer afraid.

1446
01:53:30,640 --> 01:53:33,640
So what was that apply to me?

1447
01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:36,640
It does not have the full weight of a bear.

1448
01:53:36,640 --> 01:53:39,640
It's still heavy.

1449
01:53:39,640 --> 01:53:43,640
I'm going to try and lumber into the meat hall.

1450
01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:45,640
Once again, with this thing on top of me.

1451
01:53:45,640 --> 01:53:51,640
Give me a Might attack roll and a drum roll.

1452
01:53:51,640 --> 01:53:54,640
20. 20.

1453
01:53:54,640 --> 01:53:56,640
There we go. Very good.

1454
01:53:56,640 --> 01:54:05,640
Favours the brave holding on to the beast, the dear life flinging onto the bones that are wrapped around you.

1455
01:54:05,640 --> 01:54:14,640
You stagger into the meat hall towards the flaming vat of whale beer and seal testicle juice.

1456
01:54:14,640 --> 01:54:20,640
All right. If I can throw the bear off me into it, I will.

1457
01:54:20,640 --> 01:54:25,640
If not, then I will just toss myself and the bear into the flames.

1458
01:54:25,640 --> 01:54:28,640
It will take you another action to throw it.

1459
01:54:28,640 --> 01:54:34,640
If you wanted to just rush into it, it would be a continuation of your movement.

1460
01:54:34,640 --> 01:54:35,640
I think I will do that.

1461
01:54:35,640 --> 01:54:37,640
I will rush into it.

1462
01:54:37,640 --> 01:54:42,640
A brave act of self-sacrifice there, Joe.

1463
01:54:42,640 --> 01:54:46,640
That's the stuff that is worthy of sagas.

1464
01:54:46,640 --> 01:54:50,640
I expect Gigi will adapt the poem he wrote for Daniel's father.

1465
01:54:50,640 --> 01:54:51,640
He changed a few words.

1466
01:54:51,640 --> 01:54:54,640
Sort of his candle in the wind, if you were.

1467
01:54:54,640 --> 01:55:06,640
You crash into the cauldron, holding on to the bone mother, gripping it tightly, and it erupts in flames around you, immolating yourself.

1468
01:55:06,640 --> 01:55:09,640
You go up like a Jotun candle.

1469
01:55:09,640 --> 01:55:15,640
It's like the Fourth of July as you burst into flames.

1470
01:55:15,640 --> 01:55:19,640
You're taking eleven damage.

1471
01:55:19,640 --> 01:55:28,640
All right. Well, that puts me at twenty-six, so...

1472
01:55:28,640 --> 01:55:54,640
You are roaring in pain and rage, but the bone mother, the unnatural aberration from beyond this veil of existence, is also eerily, silently also burning, and the bones start to decay, blacken, and break around you.

1473
01:55:54,640 --> 01:56:09,640
Daniel lets out a howl of anguish as his first mate goes down on his knees, the smell of burnt flesh and bone blanketing the meat hall.

1474
01:56:09,640 --> 01:56:20,640
But that is unfortunately that, and Joe, Bakrauf is no more.

1475
01:56:20,640 --> 01:56:25,640
The hellman starts clapping.

1476
01:56:25,640 --> 01:56:26,640
The homie.

1477
01:56:26,640 --> 01:56:29,640
Bravo!

1478
01:56:29,640 --> 01:56:33,640
Ljomi says, ah, not another one.

1479
01:56:33,640 --> 01:56:36,640
I need a drink.

1480
01:56:36,640 --> 01:56:40,640
I did go out in a blaze of glory.

1481
01:56:40,640 --> 01:56:52,640
You really did, and the sklads will presumably sing your story for ages to come.

1482
01:56:52,640 --> 01:56:55,640
Thank you for contributing in such a heroic manner.

1483
01:56:55,640 --> 01:56:59,640
Now, Steve, what have you got to say for yourself?

1484
01:56:59,640 --> 01:57:03,640
Is there anyone following me?

1485
01:57:03,640 --> 01:57:04,640
No.

1486
01:57:04,640 --> 01:57:05,640
There's about to be.

1487
01:57:05,640 --> 01:57:11,640
But now the helm of concealment is about to wear off.

1488
01:57:11,640 --> 01:57:13,640
Okay.

1489
01:57:13,640 --> 01:57:19,640
I will warily make my way back and see if there's anything horrible waiting for me.

1490
01:57:19,640 --> 01:57:47,640
Your paramour is scouring the hills, searching through the various shacks, leaving no flagstone left unturned, but she has not yet found you. Were you to retreat to your sled dogs, you could mush them and be back along the trails north before she found you, returning to Hjalpmakaar.

1491
01:57:47,640 --> 01:57:51,640
Or you could face the music.

1492
01:57:51,640 --> 01:58:02,640
Yeah, you know, as a friend of mine once said when we were playing a game of Paranoia, who the hell am I kidding?

1493
01:58:02,640 --> 01:58:07,640
I will make my way back towards the meat hall and wait to be discovered.

1494
01:58:07,640 --> 01:58:18,640
It shouldn't be long. I think it is a little time in the wilderness. He's had some time to reflect on the inherent futility of existence, especially this one.

1495
01:58:18,640 --> 01:58:27,640
I sure hope now that I sure hope everything is the party still in full swing back in the meat hall and nothing terrible has happened.

1496
01:58:27,640 --> 01:58:30,640
Yes, exactly. In the brief include while you've been away.

1497
01:58:30,640 --> 01:58:35,640
The whole thing is turned into a big contradiction.

1498
01:58:35,640 --> 01:58:39,640
I've been gone what? 30 seconds tops.

1499
01:58:39,640 --> 01:59:03,640
Well, as you return back to the scene where you have one smoldering corpse, one undead abomination, and the rest of the party is standing around in solemn dismay, thinking about the battle that has just been won and yet another fallen comrade.

1500
01:59:03,640 --> 01:59:08,640
You do hear just whispered in your ear Steve.

1501
01:59:08,640 --> 01:59:12,640
Wedding bells are going to chime.

1502
01:59:12,640 --> 01:59:28,640
I walk over and say atrocity. Let me be the first to offer my congratulations.

1503
01:59:28,640 --> 01:59:35,640
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1504
01:59:35,640 --> 02:00:03,640
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