Last time on the Empire Initiative. Concern about
Dart's condition is cut short because the orc
outpost the team discovered needed to be dealt
with. Utilizing her powerful but unpredictable
wand of beans, Rain began sowing chaos around
the camp. As giant pink toads in a boulette burst
onto the scene, Dart and Zavari took advantage
of the chaos, eliminating as many orcs as possible.
In the disarray, Rain managed to plant one more
bean. What pandemonium would result from it?
Stay tuned, this is episode 1499! another minion
runs out and looks at Zavari's duplicate and
then fires at the pink frog. Doesn't seem to
think anything of the dupe. I love this fun little
ability combo. It's nice. The frogs are duking
it out with the drakes. They're swallowing each
other. Killing each other. Oh my god. On the
front yard. And poofing. Turn end. And there
are orcs over there fighting them. It is, all
hell is just broken loose completely. That is
that guy's turn. Now it is the orc. that you
guys that has been fighting the bullet it's his
turn damn um let's see here oh there we go a
little too fiery was that a sound from your phone
that's not the clue would be there so i think
he is going to so he he has um he pulls out like
a so it's basically like a hollowed out like
buffalo horn um and it has like a bronze cap
over the top of it the cap has like these indents
with little like holes drilled into it and he
you know holds the horn up to his mouth and he
blows through it he's kind of like using the
little holes to play it and kind of like lifting
the cap in combination to kind of like play a
melody um he is using a power chord um and it
sounds like a It kind of sounds like a like a
like a like a low tone like ocarina kind of And
he is attacking the bullet with his Sound with
his music. Is it like a spell? Yes, I Would like
to try do uh that spell okay sure um so you would
roll to counter spell it the dc for this is 11
you can do it okay well i got nine plus even
if it was my bard stuff it would be plus six
so um Okay, so you So like you You hear the sound
like kind of playing and plus nine right as like
the sound begins a crescendo and like release
the power it just mutes and like Gives you direction
right as the cart the songs about the climax
And and becomes like a feather on the wind and
it blows into your direction You just breathe
it up into your lungs and you can feel It is
called power cord It is a melee or ranged spell
attack one creature It's 4d6 plus four thunder
damage or the pleasure modifier Basically, so
you now have that in your mouth. It's taste like
Mountain Dew It's either a good thing or a bad
Depending on how you feel about Mountain Dew.
Yeah. Or like, Surge, or just like, this like,
maybe like, Moss or Energy Drink. Ugh. Like something
like... What does Surge taste like? High caffeinated,
surby, sugar rush drink. Energy drink. Yucky.
Surge tastes like if Mountain Dew was made by
frogs. That's the best way I could describe it.
It's earthy. It's earthy, too. See, I like that.
It's if you mix all the Mountain Dews together.
I don't like most of the Mountain Dews. After
the Bard orc goes and he's like, he's fucking
pissed. right now and he's like looking at his
weapon like you know he's like looking at looking
at his uh his horn like what the fuck's wrong
with it and um and he's like and so he starts
to retreat sort of like being under here like
he's like going towards the door that's under
there um but he doesn't quite make it But so
just he's under I don't have a good way of representing
that but And then is it like you is it a sound
so he would hear the sound Yeah, it's under damage.
So it's like a yeah, I think a chord Big power
for you, but it's a it's like a bit instrument
sort of thing Yeah, it might come out of your
mouth as like a you know singing. I don't know
how you how you wanna I'll think about it whenever
I see it. Yeah, what you think flavor -wise it
would be. But yeah, so he starts backing up away
from the boulette because his fucking horn is
Oregon's shit. There are more minions that are
fighting with the frogs. And then it is Drift's
turn. Drift is going to use his little cat claws
to climb his way up to dark and he's gonna give
dark fire arrows again oh boy is that okay yeah
what could possibly go wrong it's raining out
that just means things won't catch on fire i'm
over here thinking about plants it's magic fire
so it's not like you know it'll still be the
damage um so It is... Okay, yeah, so 1d6 fighter
damage for up to 12 arrows. So, he's like, lay
him up. And then he'll scramble down, skat, skat,
skat. And run, use the rest of his movement to
start making his way. I guess he'll climb down
here. He's gonna kind of go towards Rey. But
he had to climb up and down so he doesn't have
enough room to really get there. But yeah, he's
going to back him up, basically. Now that he's
got the fire arrows going. So, Zivari, you see
that at the top of the initiative, I don't know,
like, why, but sometimes it takes a few turns
to manage. There he is. So, over here, right
here, there is a ladder. Climbing up the ladder
and getting up right behind Rain. Sorry, it's
going to hurt your toe -lish. I'm going to bring
her away before he's done it. Okay. Wait, god
damn it. He's a creep. A big circle creep. So
you see him coming up this ladder here. From
where you are. Yeah, you can kind of see down
like you can see the movement and you see he's
going towards rain. It is not his turn initiative
yet. It is your turn, but it's like, you know,
like, no, he is he is added into it. How far
away from the edges here? So what do you mean?
And I am the last time off this hill. If you.
So if you like hit him from here, he would get
pushed like into this. Um, I think this is like
somewhat elevated. Okay. Um, so you would, he
would have to be pushed like off in this direction
basically to get pushed off. Or like, or like
this way from where Rain is, you know what I
mean? Cause he's like climbing onto this part
of the roof where Rain is. So if he moves that
way and goes off this way. Is that possible for
me to move or is that part like to dilapidate
it? Um, so there's like, there's, you know, there's
an opening here, like a big opening in the ceiling
here, but all of this is like walkable. Okay.
Um, but you know, you will definitely alert anybody
else who might be in here. If you climb over
there, can you be shot in like instead of hitting
him, breaking the, I mean, that might break.
You never mind. I'm right there. Yeah. I was
like, I don't want to. I'm not a bear, I am.
You just have to curve the bullet. And I don't
think you would be able to see him from your
duplicate yet because he's not all the way up.
He's like on the edge. You know what I mean?
Like he's injured initiative as he's climbing
up. That makes sense. He actually goes after
rain. But you wouldn't know that. No, I wouldn't.
Whoops. DM tip, don't give your players a game.
We need to come up with a signal. For us when
we're like somewhat like distanced, but yeah
You're in danger. I'm still working on figuring
out the don't give your players magic items that
allow them to bypass the very next thing you
have planned I am Maybe I think I think I know
what I'm gonna do. I just need to read the spell
description really quick. Okay Okay, okay, I'm
fucking cooking. I'm fucking cooking. I'm just
gonna eat your letter cookie. I'm going to cast
from my actual self bonus action. I'm gonna cast
hex on him. Okay, and I'm gonna make that effect.
his uh strength saving throw um not strength
saving but uh any strength ability checks he
will have disadvantage and then he needs to make
a intelligence 17 saved okay god what are you
fucking kidding 19 plus 3. Well, he takes half
as much damage. Alright, what's your thing with
succeeding? Oh, it's just with being frightened?
He takes half of 18 psychic damage. Okay. So
9. Oh, and the hex damage plus an extra 6 necrotic.
That one wouldn't be halfed though. That was
from hex. You said? Nine and six, uh, yeah, okay
He feels the fucking a warm fucking tingle down
his spine And a pain a searing pain in his chest
there is a place I can glance a weakness and
his arms as you're hexing him and then three,
you know Lance just He just he steals his mind
against it make actually making a Injection 1818
you get the sense like it's kind of like okay,
so when you're shooting like a psychic It is
like a psionic sort of spell or something like
that. Even though psychic lands isn't actually
psionics, is it? I mean, it does do psychic damage.
I'm not sure. Anyway, but you briefly like make
contact with like the creature via your mind.
So you can always kind of feel it like piercing.
You know, that's how you know how effective it
was. And you can feel like that he has strengthened
his mind's defenses as if he has dealt with,
like, a damage before. It's weird. I don't know,
but it's still hurting, obviously, but, like,
you know, you kind of, like, does that make sense?
Like, you're kind of like, he's been abused.
Okay. Exactly. Exactly. He knows a narcissist.
Oh, fine. So... Uh, but yeah, I mean, you, you
hit, and he's like, and, and, and he does like,
he does kind of like grunt in pain. And so like,
Ray, you hear it and you immediately know exactly
where he is. Nice. Noted. And you hear it. Um,
so if you like kind of glance back, you see like,
what is your like psychic ability you like look
like? Is it like your eye glow or is there like
a, is there any visual manifestation? Um, yeah.
I imagine like her forehead like there's a peak
in her forehead that glows and she just like
plucks it out and it's this fucking lance and
she's like pulling out of her forehead of like
purple psionic energy and she just Explodes that
thing. So then... Remarkably close to what I
was imagining. What you see when you turn around,
you see that glow that you've seen before fading
away. It's like as if the spell she had just
been casting, it was resolving. I'd say it was
my priorities. Yeah, because like, we're in location
-wise. Yeah, exactly. That's just like kind of...
It almost looks classic in texture. Glow purple.
Yeah. Yeah. Purple is definitely, yeah, definitely
what I would imagine too. Oh, it just is. It
feels anonic. Yeah. That is, because I've already
turned, do you have anything else you would like
to do? I know you did your bonus action, your
action. Yeah, because I don't want to move my...
Duplicate because nobody suspects anything. Would
they suspect that you're not moving or not doing
anything? I can't move my duplicate over here.
10, 15, 20, 25. What do you like doing in front
of that guy? Yeah, kind of over by people. Okay,
so there are minions who, after Zavari is done,
there are minions who are fighting amongst robs.
One of the orcs people are taking over at Zavari
is Zeke Orkish, and he's like, dude, why are
you doing anything? And Orkish is like, Zavari
doesn't speak Orkish. This isn't it. I never
heard that. I was like that one time. I'm just
drunk, sorry. That's universal. Yeah, exactly.
You just kind of shrug. Alright, I've taught
Zavari a very small amount of orcish, but it's
only other orc slurs. I was gonna say it's all
slurs. So he turns to one of the other orcs and
she's like, SUH TUSK FACE! Like a real farty!
And then points at the frogs and then calls them
what? What's another slur? Ogre droppings. Ogre
droppings! It's like, I don't want to step on
over... It would have been funnier if I said
green skins. But they're pink. Yeah. So, yeah.
I like overdrew things. Well, my plan earlier
was to jump out of the bushes and yell all three
of them, like, you green skin, tusk face, ogre
droppings, and then start droppin' carolers.
Thank you, Dart, for teaching me slurs. And after
length, which? Gogglers. Or ultimately, we got
racists. Oh jeez, there's an infernal. So there's
still six frogs alive somewhere. Bean was worth
it too. Um, same. That's great. I can't wait
to see what the next bean is in like nine rounds.
Oh yeah. We're gonna forget all about it. I need
you to keep track of that for me. Okay, I think
it's been, the next brain will be two. I think
so. Yeah, because it was your last turn. I need
a bean counter. Oh my god. I want to use each
person's turn because each person's turn is six
seconds. So it wouldn't be ten rounds, it'd be
ten turns. Anybody? I said it wouldn't be ten
rounds, it'd be ten turns, because each turn
is six seconds. No, it's ten rounds because each
turn is six seconds, but it's not the same thing.
Sorry, I forgot. D &D time is weird. So yeah,
so this other big guy over here, he is fighting
with the roulette. Think it should have just
come up and killed this minion here. Um, yeah,
they're fucking struggling to deal with this
thing. It's five. Damn. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's
getting hurt, but like, You know? It is what
it is. It has a certain show somewhere in here.
It has a 17 AC. Yeah, it has a certain show somewhere
in here, but it's really, you know, sturdy motherfucker.
It's a good bean. Good bean. That's all you said.
It's a good bean. I'm glad we had beans in our
gumbo tonight. It's a bean episode. It's a bean
episode. Since your wand of beans can recharge,
I don't imagine you ever using any of the other
wands we have. It's like the wand of frostbite
that I have. Someone else wanted? I have... on
my person, I have the wand of enlarge and reduce.
But... in my, like, inventory of stuff we have...
At the castle, I assume. I have two wands, a
frostbite, a wand of witch bolts, conducting,
mine sliver, four fire bolts, a wand of smiles,
and a wand of magic missiles. A wand of smiles.
That's right, a wand of smiles. It's just fond
of psychs. Oh my god. So, um, there is a new,
um... What are her sister? Wanda styles fun fact
if you expend the last charge on a wand of smiles
And then roll a one It turns into a wand of scowls.
Oh That's adorable Would you have to roll a nat
one after using the last charge? Otherwise it
just goes away goes away and then you are a wand
of scowls something like that. Okay So this is
another a new or sort of like spellcaster looking
dude. He's got like black robes on and he's wielding
like a scythe. He is Coming out he's exchanging
words with the guys that are like out there And
they're telling him, you know, there's someone
on the roof. So it's like kind of running over
here and trying to get like eyes on the Roof
it seems like there are drakes handling the frog
behind him. So he's going to shoot at rain A
death bolt What's your AC right now? 21. So 15
does not hit. And so you can kind of see like,
so he's got like a sight and he like holds his
sight up like this, like almost as if he's like
pointing up like a wand or something. And yeah,
and there's this like, sort of like necrotic,
like purple black energy that shoots at you.
And it just, you dodge it and you see it coming.
Yeah, okay. Can't fucking hit you for shit. So
that is the Deathgaller's turn. Dark, it is your
turn. And then it is Rain and then it is the
guy that is crawling up behind you. The thing
that just got shot at Jane was that like thing
fired from a magical weapon? Uh, yeah. Well,
kind of. You don't know if it's fire from the
magical, I would per se, but the scythe was at
least used to cast from. So it could be a spellcasting
focus. It doesn't necessarily mean it is magical.
Um, in the same way, like a wizard might use
a wand. But, or it could be a magic scythe. You
don't know. Okay. Uh... That's the one who just
shot it, right? I'm gonna... I'm gonna sharpshooter
at him. Yeah, you're up there, you got the flame
arrows, you got the sharpshooter. Oh my god.
Dirty 28. Fuck yeah. Yeah, that definitely hits.
Oh, I forgot to cast Divine Intervention first.
That would have been a good idea, a divine favor,
I mean. And a bonus action if it is. Go ahead.
I'm fine with that. Okay. It's a bonus action.
So that means that attack is 1d8 plus 5 plus
1d6 plus 2d4. Oh my god. Huzzah! I'm gonna use
piercer to re -roll my 1d8. That's much better.
Okay, so... Um... Let's go. Let's see... 24.
24 damage? Yeah. Geez. On my first attack. Yeah,
you... Wow. Yeah. You hit him with the arrow
and like the flames... thin jam and burn, you
know, burn. They cause the arrow to like dig
deeper. And it's just like... I'm gonna fire
my second arrow at that guy. Okay. Same deal.
Oh No, nine. Nine. That's not good. Nine. Damn.
I'm so upset slash proud of you. It's complex.
That's all right. That's all right. that's cool
i'll uh i'll just stop i'll stop doing things
now i did my my bonus action and my two attacks
so i'm good i'll stay continuing to fire as much
off the uh ruined tower okay ready it's your
turn you've got a guy who's just climbed up behind
you he just got hit by zavari He's hexed. A bolt
is zooming past you. What does hex mean? Can
you remind me? Basically, he has disadvantage
on any like strength ability checks. It's so
rare that it ever comes up. Yeah, it mostly does
extra damage when she hits you. Yeah. So, be
good. Be good, man. Well I have Mountain Dew
in my mouth. It's an action. So what I am going
to do is I am mad at this guy that he just attacked
me and Dart just attacked him so I see that.
I don't know what this shit does but I am gonna
sing it at him and somehow instead of it being
like a liquid in my mouth I open and I like sing
what he was playing like a try is like whatever
the like low bass ocarina or whatever you're
saying um and it then like tingles in my mouth
like it is live it's live wire that's really
what it feels like to shoot five gun oh my god
it is a spell of dark Oh, so you will roll. This
is my monk shit. Spell attack using your monk
shit. Oh, nine plus nine. 18. 18 hits. So you
are going to do 46 plus four. 46 plus four thunder
damage. 15 thunder damage. Okay, so you do 15th
year up. And then like once it like crescendos
that's when like it just goes it just like it's
like hitting him with like a base um he's got
to make a deck save so he doesn't actually fall
off like he doesn't get pushed back no i hit
him oh you hit him oh sorry i thought you were
i thought you were getting him no that's fine
but either way he's still um he does make the
safe so he doesn't get pushed back by feet that's
the that was the other effect okay um but yes
he gets hit And it was 15 damage. Let me put
on that guy. He is starting to look rough. He
is bloody. And then, so that was my action for
my, okay. Okay, okay, okay. For my bonus action,
I would like. to use an energy point because
it's after an attack action, I can expend an
energy point to do two unarmed strikes as a bonus
action. So I like to do that. I turn and look
at the guy and the ladder is attached to the
roof. Yeah. uh it's like leaning it's not like
attach attach does that make sense it's like
leaning up against the yeah there we go here's
the player view of the initiative it's cool but
i can't i gotta put it over there but i don't
know how yet that's cool so jen that one guy's
bloodied so it's leaning up against it and who's
hurt i would like to use i would like to try
to hit him but then like can i like hit him with
one and then the other one is like pushing i
would like just i want him to like so you just
shove i would like to shove so shove is opposing
athletics checks yes because of the hex yes that's
what i was thinking it's really funny eventually
so that's what i'm saying i was like how can
i like So, opposing athletics shirt season, and
I'm personally an athleticist. I said athleticist.
What? Zaris is like, hell yeah. He's like, hell
shit. Zaris is like, hell yeah. He shouldn't
know. I got six Alexia. I got seven. within that
one. I don't have inspiration, so I don't think
I have anything else. But that was my first one.
I have two. So I'd like to shove again. Oh, that
time ago you gave me the chainmail that gives
me advantage on shoves. I've never used this.
17 plus 6. He got an 18. I got a 23. So the first
time I went to grab the um the ladder to shove
and he hit my hand away and then the second time
instead I grabbed him and just shoved him back
and he the ladder went with him yeah and he falls
backwards um so he fell he's falling 10 feet
what's a ladder on top of him so I say 3d6 but
normally 1d6 per five feet I think or something
like that So, we'll say 3d6. Fall damage. Uh,
12. 12. I mean, that's not nothing. He's back,
he's on his ass. Um, and Hex just does disadvantage
and doesn't do extra damage? Only when I hit
him. Okay. So, yeah. It was clean cars. The door.
Dwarven Slayer. And then my shove, does that
do anything? Shove. Or no? No, because you're
shoving instead of hitting. Okay, sound. Good.
That was my bonus action, my action movement.
I would like to stay where I'm at because, yeah,
she's now on the ground, right? Yeah, I'm gonna
move in. There I'm going to maybe now my friends
are back here. I know it I'm gonna kind of Turn
my back to them But use my peripheral vision
to keep an eye on the guy that just fell on the
ground and then the other guys on my right While
understanding that there's another there's there's
people everywhere basically, so she is in prepared
like preparation Examining everyone around her
in that in certain face part defense or like
a trap barred fist down when I've answered hoot
and I no longer have the taste of life forever
so um yes so he is going to um he's fucking pissed
the hell off he falls backwards This is going
to grab the ladder and kind of like throw it
up onto the, like against this wall here and
climb up it. That's going to take like his action
because it takes, you know, cause he's, cause
he's doing all that. Oh damn. I should have done
the, spend the extra energy points to do ulters
and nerve gravity. Anyways, continue next time.
Yeah, so he throws he throws the ladder on the
side and climbs up the car and it's like two
it's like two grabs are wrong and You know just
like two large Leaps up the ladder and he's on
top of the roof and he was outside of you and
he looks fucking pissed And this just so happens
to be Zogar the Fierce He is a green skinned,
tall, workish man with a big nose. And he has
like a long, like he's got like a long mohawk
and it's like braided all the way down his back.
He's got like a big war apps, a large like crossbow
strapped. to his like his side with like a big
bolt of quivers or a big quiver of bolts and
and he has got like a fierce sort of a fierce
sort of look in his eyes he's he carries himself
like and it seems to be like much stronger than
a lot of the other works that you've seen and
then one Make a perception check, everybody.
27. 12. 19. So, Dara, you can see with your 27,
you look around, you notice a couple of things.
One, you notice that they're... don't seem to
be more like even though the drakes are like
fighting invisibly um some of them are becoming
visible as they're dying and stuff like that
there doesn't seem to be more and burning the
fray um i think it's reasonable to assume that
the drake like there are there are no more drakes
that are like still waiting to like come out
and start fighting if that makes sense um and
they are fully occupied with the toads and the
boulette um The other thing that you notice there
is that Zogar is wearing like a navy silk scarf
under his armor. He's got like a full plate sort
of armor situation that is mostly intact. There's
like one of the shoulder plates is Clearly like
something that's been added on and to repair
his armor And you see that he's got a you guys
have like a silk boy with scarf like tucked under
His armor and it kind of shimmers in a way that
doesn't seem a mundane But yeah in addition to
that like As you look around, you notice like,
you know, he, so Zogar has, you know, he has
green skin and like sort of a pigish nose. Some
of the other works have like gray skin. Some
of them have like blue skin. Some of them have
a darker, like sort of brown skin. They, and
they have like different like hairstyles and
clothing styles. I'm nervous. Which I think would
be really obvious to dark because you probably
know a lot about orc culture and like it's just
kind of like typically With just like with any
other like race that has you know Or I should
say species that has like multiple races within
it like they're you know, they tend to be in
societies, right? So like typically like, you
know green orcs are in tribes with green orcs
They're usually semi -semi -related. I mean,
it's not unheard of for tribes to get together,
but it's kind of like You know, this... Blood
harvester Vren is the great uniter. This is uh...
So yeah, that's what uh... He claims. Dart notices.
So yeah, so, so Zelgar's gonna throw himself
back up there, he's gonna look at Vren, um, and
he is going to use... one of his villain actions.
The villain action is like, it's kind of like
a legendary action. It happens at the end of
their turn. They have, like, typically creatures
have like a couple of them and they can only
do each one once. Okay. So he's like, that's
it. I'll do it myself. And he lunges forward
at Rain and he is making five War Mace attacks
on you. Oh my god. oh with advantage oh wait
i okay rights have an inspiration can i impose
disadvantage i would say with your inspiration
you can impose disadvantage on one of the five
attacks not cancel it out but disadvantage you
distract them with your tinnies no i don't know
i like you distracted we'll take it because you
guys with advantage is insane No, I was thinking
maybe because like the psychic. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I start chanting. Yeah. It's like I could never
get a girl like that. Wait, I need to concentrate.
You're right. You could never get a girl like
that. So first attack with disadvantage. Uh,
19. No. Second attack with advantage. 14. Third
attack with advantage. 23. Yes. Fourth attack
with advantage, 21. Yes. Fifth attack with advantage,
2 nat 20. So he hits you twice and then crits
you once. So... There are around tons of temporary
hit points right about there. I need to add a
couple of teeth first. Just like two. D4. Oh
god. So first mace attack is um 11 damage, second
attack 9 damage, and then the crit is 17 damage.
You're still uh, you've been worse? Way worse.
Okay. Okay. We can work with that. I'm 53. and
i was scared that i was gonna be like the guy
so i was like oh i create what you be a bitch
you see that okay i'm gonna like above chance
i have my household person on the next if i can
get that shit off you can beat the shit out of
her because all your shit will create if i can
get that off fingers crossed you guys can you
worry about them about him hitting me or whatever
I can worry about him okay like okay if they
all stay pretty close together I can probably
I was thinking of doing lightning bolt on like
if they stay within a relative line that one
of the things that I was with the um the title
I chose it's going to be good like at initiative
I can select one of them to see if I can get
uh like a read on them right right so that doing
that for the main motherfucker is for one or
the henchmen is what i'm going to have to do
moving forward so like to get insight yeah so
i'm going to have to play the role of going straight
for either taking out the right hand person or
the main person main guy baddie um well yeah
you guys well you guys focus on everything else
that's like gonna have to be our our kind of
our tactic like allowing flexibility but then
dart being able to talk shit to the main baddie
while i take out their like right his their right
hand you know is some strategies of fighting
us as a team so yeah trends into you. It's kind
of like one, two, miss, miss, and then a hit
and that staggers you into another hit. That
staggers you into another hit. Just like double
hands. And then you are also dazed. Mostly. Hold
that up. So it is an MCDN thing. And basically,
so your next turn you can either do an action
or move. And that's it. Don't limit your bonus
actions and reactions for your next turn. Okay.
Next turn, that's it? Yeah, after the end of
your next turn, you're no longer a daze. Okay.
But yeah, it's just the sheer impact of his attacks
and the effect from his axe dazes you. Now that
was Zogar's turn. So it is the Bard's turn. Now
that there are other, you know, there's another
guy engaging in the boulette. He's going to like
kind of run up, run back up to the boulette and
kind of like start fighting with it again. So
he's like occupied, getting hurt. More frogs
are dying off. I can't believe you still have
so many fucking frogs. Or toads, sorry. Keep
taking frogs. Let's go. So let's see, that was
the godcaller, the fourth -caller minion. Oh,
he's dead. And this lady is shooting a frog.
The lady that's here. She's sitting, she's shooting
at toads. She looks over at Zavari's duplicate
and is like, what the fuck are you doing? These
little, these caster minions, one of them dies.
Crying to the frogs, the toads, they're swallowing
people up over there. Climbing your windows or
something your people Wow earlier, honestly,
it's 2012. Yeah. Yeah, we're old in this house
like the most of us So then it is drifts turn
Drifting we A lot of concentration cells Yeah,
me too. Like 80 % of them. He is going to...
I'm glad nothing was happening. I'm sorry. He's
gonna go to the blooper reel. That's good. At
least there's no face cam. So fun for a face
cam, but also not selective face cam. So, Director,
you're gonna go... And run over by rain with
his like little fast fast kitty. Yes He's going
to Thunderwave at This man down the guy Those
are the fears. So with the Thunderwave, he's
got to make a save Oh, you got to so he is taking
Ten thunder damage, and he pushed ten feet away.
So he gets pushed off the roof again. Taking
an additional 2d6 damage. So, that's 16 blind
visual. And he's on the fucking ground again.
On the ground again. Oh, he's so pissed. This
is so embarrassing for him. In his own house.
Oh, right. This is fucking awful. He runs up
and he goes, no, you don't. And he kind of lunges
forward and he like makes his like hand kind
of wide like a like a paw and slaps the ground.
And he's like, slap! And it's just like a...
Does the cat thunder paw. Yeah, he does the thunder
paw. Like, you know, when cats like slap stuff,
it's like weirdly loud. It's like that. And he's
like, oh shit, and he's just like crashing through,
but like, there's like, you know, there's broken
boards, like, you know, crumbling, but even like,
like a destroying shit down there. The chef calls
out, are you okay? No! But there's like... Now
it is... So that was Drift. Oh, there's two dead
minions after a drift and now I think Safari's
turned again. Hallelujah, praise. Um, I'm gonna
run, like, just move and turn around. And I want
to cast lightning bolts on all those guys. Okay,
I think it has to, like, originate from you.
It has to originate? Yeah, so I think you'll
have to move, like... Take here. Well, then they
still look at my news. Yeah, then I'll do that
then. Okay, so it's four decades, right? Yeah,
17 I really get you make it look like you're
running for this. Yeah But then it's like swerve
like So this last person's the only one that
fails, but they just dies though. Yeah So they
there's 10d6 damage Jesus 30 damage So actually
the let me see here with 30 damage the guy right
in front of Zavari dies This guy the spellcaster.
Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. Their spellcaster at the end
is bloodied. Uh -huh. And then he's hurt pretty
she's hurt pretty bad Like, just because she's
been taking, you know, damage and stuff. Yeah.
I've just been, like, doing a flat amount of
damage to them each round because they're fighting
over there. I figured it was easier than, like,
actually tracking, like, all the fighting by
hand. So, yeah, so you fucking just line them
up. And the death collar, the one with the sides,
just burns to a fucking crisp in front of you.
Yeah. Anything else? Yeah. Um... Anything else
in your order? Anything else I can get for good
money? And then... Um... I... The big boss man,
he fell down a kicker, right? Big boss man, fall
down. I'm kidding. Um... Love it when your players
trivialize your encounter. I just want to...
The fire. It's so silly. The boulette, the toads,
just so I can just ruin everything for me? This
woulda got y 'all. This woulda got y 'all. And
this one's been fuckin' terrible. Um, now, I
am satisfied with my charge. Wait, I get temporary
HP. How many people did I just kill? Two. Two.
Two? No, wait, one. Well, two. Yeah, that's right,
because I'm a minion. You're right. This would've
been a great combat for PipsqueakleFig. That's
all I'm gonna say about that. And the other minion
that I killed, I have... a lot of tempi to elevate
and that's what we're seeing over in control
now and how do you know because of that it's
just it starts turning everybody between zavari
and dart besides the bullet addition um you can
see if i can fall down guy he's he got big alley
he's standing up uh i was gonna ask is he not
bloody but Because I have ID here. All right,
I'm gonna... I'm not sure. I don't really do...
I'm not going to get... I am not interested in
continuing to pursue him if you're interested
in shooting him or doing whatever. Oh, I was
going to keep shooting those guys. That would
be wise. If you felt like you had it. I think
I have. All right, I'm going to shoot this purple
man. OK. He's hurt pretty bad. With sharpshooter,
that is a 17. That is? Armor class of 16? That's
right. So fire arrows, careful strikes, and divine
favor. 22. It says. Okay, how do you kill them?
Wait, am I counting that right? I'm sorry, I
am not counting that right. Let me, let me, let
me count that again. Make sure I have this correct.
Okay. Um, so that's, I'm plus 10. Okay. Right?
Isn't Charger plus 10 to my damage for the minus
five? That works. Okay. So that's. 29. Oh, yeah.
Extra dead. Dead as hell. That was shot number
one. Uh huh. That's what we asked. So how do
you feel then? Do you like, where do you shoot
him? Um. Alright, just leave it on videos right
here. Yeah, I imagine due to like the upward
nature shot and the fact that there's like a
building or part of a building here. It was like
one of those moments where like you're in a video
game and the character keeps like moving to where
their head is like just sticking out from something
and you're just like wait for it wait for it
wait for it wait for it wow that head sticks
out just a little bit you're like got him yes
you're like did i got you So, fucking annihilated.
And that was your first shot. Yeah. This one's
Mr. On -The -Brow work. The thingies. The other
dude to turn and look where his friend just fell,
and at that moment, I'm also going to take a
shot at him. She turns, she turns, she's like,
oh no, it's me. She goes brusque. I'll say that's
not sharp shootering. I'll just say that's regular
shootering. And it's a 16. 16 hits. Never would
not have hit the charge shooter. Seventeen. Seventeen.
She's like, holding her chest, it's like bleeding.
She sort of like stumbles backwards. Yeah, that
works for me. I'm trying not to lose any of my
slots because I feel like we're going to have
more serious combat. So if I can avoid it, I'm
going to. It was a very difficult decision for
me. I flopped a few times. I'm still not sure
if I'm making the right call. But I decided to
settle with the Omen. For your organization title?
Mm -hmm. I sure did. Because of something you
said, Rachel. The frogs have returned. Is it
open? Oh my gosh, that's so true. And he got
to joke three years in to make it sense. But
effectively, I can make a loud croak as a bonus
action before I do my first weapon attack. And
it bumps it up by 1d8 radiant or necrotic damage.
And if I do it again on the next turn, it bumps
it up to 2d8. And if I do it again on the next
turn, it bumps it up to 3d8 with advantage. I'll
attack rose until the start of my next turn.
Sorry. Damn. That's x -ray really good. It's
been a tough call, so I really wanted to choose
high priest so I could be throwing those temporary
hit points out right and left. There's always
other ways to get healing. I think it's really
cool. When the chance to be the oracle in a universe,
you be the oracle in a universe. Also, you re
-brand something so you're not a no at all. You
make me sound like an oracle. Also, I painted
an oracle. Anyways, I couldn't resist it. I couldn't.
I had to. So you gain proficiency in the history
and nature skills. Additionally, as a reaction,
when you roll initiative, you can make an intelligence
nature check to identify the weak points of one
creature you can see. The DC for this check is
equal to 10 plus half the creatures challenge
rating rounded down on a success You gain a bonus
to attack rolls against that creature equal to
your proficiency bonus, which lasts for one minute
So if I do it in conjunction of colossal stance,
then that's like plus six at the moment forever
of just Colossal stance and this and then it
would be Also, I'm already proficient, right,
with like punching. Yeah, so then I would add
another plus four and then plus four. So like
it's, it's, it'd be... It's a lot. It's a lot
for my punches. That's awesome. So you're hitting
hard. I'm hitting hard for one minute. This is
all you need. Somebody's living that long after
getting punched by Rain, I'm scared. I know,
you're so scared. It hasn't happened yet. Not
once. Let Rain get her hands on her. That's it.
Now push through his body and he just died. I
was just trying to get that fuzz off his shoulder
and he just died. Honestly level one Rain. My
organization title is The Bewitcher. I'm probably
going to change that. Just can't decide what
yet. Oh, since Ryan didn't do High Priest, I
might, I might all be High Priestess because
that's our thing in the church anyway. Keep it
nice and simple. Bullseye! Um, yeah. Yeah. That'd
be cool. Um, it says that I can, uh, have advantage
on a Christmas skill. I decided to just stick
with having advantage. And, um, let me see. I'm
gonna be. I'm always fucking lying. I think I'm
gonna do advantage and deception because I'm
always fucking lying. That may be the truth.
But that might be subject to change. We'll see.
Yeah, I mean everybody can tweak it if they want
to later. It also says at the end of a long rest
I can choose one enchantment or illusion spell
that I can cast that requires concentration.
This spell does not require concentration until
the end of my next long rest. I think I'm probably
going to use that on Hex most because good damage
for no concentration feels really good. So that's
why I picked. Uh, rain. So rain dazed from getting
walloped. She looks at Drift and's like, you
know, Drift, you got him? Yeah, I'm still here
by your side, but I wanna see something. And
she, I'll hold him back at least. Yeah, that's
all I need. She goes to the edge of the stained
glass. like at the top of, I guess, the section.
And she has, she can't do a bonus action or reaction.
And so she's going to take her magical hands
with her diamond encrusted knuckles and just
hit the ground right where she's at. Cause you
said that below her is magical, right? Cause
there's like some sort of like magic projection
on this room. Yeah. Like she's gonna try to break
the magical wall protection situation. She wants
to try to break through it. At least try. In
her dazed and confused state, she wants to try
to break through this magical stuff. Okay. Go
ahead. Make it a bet. The first try. was not
great. It is a so it's 30 plus four. 12. Okay,
I mean, yeah, you can get the ground. And I would
say that like, basically, you can feel that you're
hitting a barrier. The barrier does sort of like
very ever so slightly give way it's kind of like
as if you know like punch a tree you know you
can kind of feel it giving way a little bit to
your to your fist but it doesn't it doesn't damage
it and um but that does cause the glass to crack
underneath it underneath the barrier but it doesn't
feel like you damage the barrier the glass is
kind of cracking like one like like you can see
that like um that whole pain because it's like
stained glass or there's like separated pains
you know that whole pain is kind of like shattered
it hasn't it hasn't like fallen through but it's
fairly damaged from it from like it's like the
reverberation she has one more attack and harder
to decide if she wants to jump down and attack
him and save it for after we've killed everything
let's see so she is going to turn really you
know what This is something but it can wait and
just jumps and lands on the dude. Raindrop. Raindrop.
She makes it rain. And just same energy like
face to face with her diamond encrusted knuckles.
Go ahead and roll. It's the same. It's a 12.
12 I don't know but do I land on him or near
him and does it how is the weight like will it
does it support the weight of us I'd say with
a 12 he probably dodged you okay and he's on
the ground and so you just like oh he's on the
ground okay yeah you just hit it so you do you
just get like a Like, a bunch of debris and stuff.
This is something that a normal person would
probably take fall damage from, but you, with
your, you know, you have your Moon Glide on,
so, right? Yeah. Yeah, you with your Moon Glide,
especially, yeah, you're really fine. But, yeah,
you end up kind of heading next though, because
you sort of sidestep things, like, looking at
you, like, angrily. Okay. Let's do this. I mean,
it is his turn. Yeah. Let's get it! He attacks
me again, oh my god. I thought I was healing
myself. Oh wow, that's deep. That's okay. He's
just going to go ahead and make three good ol'
fact and wariness attacks on you. Right. That's
how I see over there. No, that's him here. That's
the other guy. That's what the bar is for. Myth.
Oh dang. Myth 44. Hit. So you are taking nine
bludgeoning damage. Because you were only hit
once, you were not dazed. Because only if you
get hit twice you were dazed. Until the end of
your next turn. So yeah, he goes, you're my friend!
Incommon at you. Well, thank you. They usually
just call them bitches. She's like, oh, that's
a much preferred B word, thank you. Let's talk
about it. Um, so that is Zogar's charm. Oh my
god. I'm wearing the tank. It has to be. Um,
I filled up area that's needed. Now it is...
So it is her turn here. Um, but she's like, she
kind of like stumbled backwards from like being
hit. like and we'll say that's part of her movement
from being hit by dart um and then after her
some of the frogs go so she like when she like
stumbles backwards she's going to shoot at i
mean like she even realistically shoot at maybe
the ball reach or she could probably try shooting
a dart but it would be a disadvantage from this
just she's gonna shoot a dart with her like crossbow
The first attack was a 16, and the second attack
with disadvantage was still a 20. Damn! The second
attack. Okay, so you're 110. Wait a minute. Wait
a minute. I could, I think I can take, I think
I can use Featherfield. Oh, you could if you
wanted to, yeah. Technically speaking. It's gonna
hit you for six damage. I mean, it's really not
- Not shit. But I could flat out block it entirely.
I open my AC by five points. Oh yeah. I'd definitely
do it. But I also have to use a first level spell.
It's targeted by a ranged attack on my magic
weapon. Also. So, I'm gonna say. I'll just take
the six damage. I'm gonna say it's just ranged
attacks, and I meant to change that actually.
Okay, yeah, so you take the six damage. And then
the frog behind, or the toad behind her is going
to, is going to attempt to swallow her. And this
time, it rolls. And she bailed the same. She's
inside the belly of the toad. You may have changed
that, because I didn't write it down. on the
street, but when I look it up online, that's
what it is. Yeah, I did change it. But yeah,
so she gets swallowed up. We'll say that, you
know, a couple more of these. Froggy's guy, this
guy over here fighting, these two guys fighting
over here with a bullet are looking really fucking
rough. The bullet is looking rough. everything
over here is, you know, everything out here is
starting to really degrade rapidly. Thanks to
my bean army. Jorrit is going to kind of, I think
he's going to kind of run over here and kind
of get on the sidewall here with his like superior
feline agility. and he is going to cast a thorn
whip and so he like reaches down and tries to
grab Uzo's or somebody misses. He's trying not
to get brain and he kind of just whips it. That
is Drift's turn and we're back at the top of
initiatives, Amari. You're rooting to shoot me?
So this guy's the only one out there dealing
with the bullet. There's actually another guy
on the other side. You can't see him. I apologize.
I'll move him in. Oh, oh shit. I was surprised.
I thought he was on screen. I didn't realize
he wasn't. But they're both looking rough. Yes,
they are. And the bullet is looking rough. Yes.
They're both in the, you know, they're both well
over flight. Nobody here is friendly. Are there
any nitrates left? Doesn't seem like it. Doesn't
seem like there were any before. They were just
completely occupied by the boulette and the toes
and they were swallowed up. Which the toes probably
have like five rounds left, I'd say. I'm gonna
just hit the boulette because I don't want to
fucking deal with it. I don't want to fucking
deal with it. I don't want to fucking deal with
it. I don't want to fucking deal with it. I don't
want to fucking deal with it. I don't want to
fucking deal with it. I don't want to fucking
deal with it. I don't want to fucking deal with
it. I don't want to fucking deal with it. I don't
want to fucking deal with it. I don't want to
fucking deal with it. I don't want to fucking
deal with it. I don't want to fucking deal with
it. I don't want to fucking deal with it. I don't
want to fucking deal with it. I don't want to
fucking deal with it. I don't want to fucking
deal with it. I don't want to fucking deal with
it. I don't want to fucking deal with it. I don't
want to fucking deal with it. I don't want to
fucking deal with it. I don't want to Boom boom.
Shake the room, say what? 15 on the first attack.
No good. You got it. 16 on the second attack.
16 hits. Okay. That is 12 damage on this one.
Okay. And you're knocking back? Uh, yeah. So
yeah, you get a couple blasts in backwards. Here's
a roll. Turn over. That would be my turn. That
brings us back actually around to dark. I'm so
tempted to like pull out my sword and dive bomb
into the fucking room with you two. Can you see
that guy inside? Not as far as I know. He's doing
a bad job at trying to hide. Super bad. If you
like looked in there trying to look for someone,
you would be obvious. But if you're not looking
in there, then you brought those there. Um...
I guess I'll take another shot at whoever's there
in front of the duplicate. I don't think they
were a bard. Yes. I'll shoot at him. 14. Not
enough. I'll try again. Yes! Dirty 20. There
you go. Roll damage. Flaming arrows. So that's...
22 damage. He's dead. Hell yeah. You got him
right in the head. Fucking divine favor plus
strike full strikes. Plus flaming arrows. Flaming
arrow hotman. I'm doing regular damage. fire
damage, psychic damage, and radiant damage with
each character. I do that all the time. Right.
Well, you got Zogar. I'm not great about you.
You're not days. I do feel I need to do a little
bit of damage control by curing. I need to cure
one of my wounds. At least I have a gash that's
bleeding. Maybe like under my chin, near my neck
that's bleeding pretty bad. So I need to touch
my neck and try to cure that a little bit. Healing
it up, healing it up, healing it up. Four, ooh,
full damage, eight plus nine. So 17 bucks, yeah.
here we go so i'm back up to like three quarters
health that was couldn't it's an after an attack
action i can use my fury of blows which is not
what i was thinking before i did that but that
is okay so i'm going to i think you can still
bonasaur shower and shrike Oh yeah, I can bonus
action arm strike. You're right, I'm gonna do
that. Would you join the knuckles? Yes. 12, again,
this one keeps turning 4. I believe in you and
I love you, darling, but you might switch it
up. I'm gonna try it with, um, that was my bonus
action. Um, yeah, that's a bad thing. But I healed
myself, so that's great. So gone. So he like
dodges your, you heal yourself and dodges your
punch and he sees, you know, that drifts above
him, danger in front of him. He knows there's
more assailants on the roof. He's trying to assess
the situation. And I think what he is going to
do is he's going to look at Rain and say, why
don't we stop this fighting? Neither of us want
to die here. Yeah, this is true. But we're here
on frog business. That's not something that's
for me to decide. He decides. And I just point
to the dark up above me with his crown and his
silhouette. So, oh yeah, so he looks back and
he sees the moonlight behind him in the dark.
And then like it's a dark silhouette with like
the crown. Oh my god, that's so cool. Like Batman.
Yeah, exactly. They're a lightning strike. Strike.
Lighting up for a second. Yeah, because the rain
is like still going. and he looks behind, you
know, and it's kind of like widened, but he is
calling for, he's calling for surrender. So it's
kind of, you said it's up to Dart, it's up to
Dart. Having mixed emotions right now. Cause
on the other one, unlike the one hand, like they're
orcs and you know, it's all bad news for frogs.
But on the other hand, I told Edmund to forgive
the people that killed his family, or at least
to have mercy on them. I love the fallback. I
love it. I eat it up. And there was like the
orcs that I allowed to like live last time. Didn't
I let some orcs live? They're helping with the
trial. Against Saxon. Right. Can we have some
that were the Castle Dragon? Yeah, there's three
of them. Gross. But like, those weren't the Frog
Eaters. These are the Frog Eaters. I think. There's
like a very big temptation by me to jump off
this tower and like superhero land with my sword
and just chop this dude like entirely in half
and chop the bundle in. And that's what I think
of your orc piece bullshit. That would be fucking
cool. I'd allow it. This is the opportunity for
a peaceful end or a cinematic end to this combat.
You guys have the best of them. We're questioning
one of them for information. It's also something
Reign is interested with, this leader person.
I'm gonna put my bow on my back into my special
quiver that holds a ridiculous number of things.
then I'm gonna take out my sword and I'm going
to run to the edge of the tower and leap off
sword in hand and I'm gonna go flying down aerial
agility style and slam my sword down into the
ground right next to him he does like lift his
like arm to like block not to like hit you but
to block your attack but then you land right
next to him I'm gonna like, splinter all the
wooden floorboards and it like, explodes and
- and - and - and - and - and - and - and - and
- and - and - and - and - and - and - and uh
we should probably tour you here we we may want
to talk like probably 50 feet away from here
huh kiss me roses eyes just in case just in case
like Let's go to the other side of this area.
All of us? All of us. Are you included? No, you
should put him directly on top of the spot where
you planted the bean and be like, you have exactly
this amount of time to tell us what we want to
know. 30 seconds. 30 seconds? Um, so he'd basically
say, um, what are you going to take me over there
and tell me why I'm just coming here? I mean,
you can stay here if you want to, but I don't
know what's going to pop up over here. Great.
Maybe another one of those things could be a
fucking pyramid for my for my understanding.
Fucking Lucario. So it's fine. Let's go. I found
this wand. What? I was like, who's that? It's
like you guys walk, you guys run away. And roll
beans. This is a message brought to you by yes
So this whole area is wrecked Yeah, so you hear
like a rumble And the, like, the chapel starts
to, like, collapse in on itself. Everything in
that strangely magical protective room gets destroyed
as this, like, pyramid jumps out of the base
of the chapel. And you find that one's in their
bed. We're just, like, destroying trees and,
you know. I told you we needed to move. And he's
just like, fuck. Aren't you glad we moved? Everybody
there is probably dead now. Yeah, it's like a
big... It's like one of those pyramids that has
like the like topper to it, you know what I mean?
Like it has like a gold topper with like silver
inlay on it. It's a very like... White brick.
Yeah, it's like white brick. It is very like...
Very nice. Perfectly intact. Sorry, Dart. Behold,
the pyramid of rain. It's ours now. You see a
bullet just rolling out of it? No, Rain. You
take all the credit for this one. No, it can
be our outpost. Let's see what's inside it. Oh,
God. Did you read the description? I know exactly
what's inside it. There's a mummy, right? Yeah,
there's a mummy lord in there. But you guys wouldn't
know like you know, but yeah, and so he's just
like He's like kind of flabbergasted he's like
kind of powered you what kind of power you hold
All kinds We could take a mommy Lord I'm not
saying it would be hard. We're probably not Oh
but well now that you said that i'm guessing
i don't i don't even know what is the cr it says
this challenge is 15 yeah you guys are probably
okay you guys killed the cr 14 purple worm at
like lovely it's armor plus 17 hit points about
100 wait that's this one though of course i could
make it stronger right let's not forget that
they have both legendary actions and lair actions
and the pyramid is this lair um but there's a
treasure okay and we get an outpost here in the
matter yeah sure well no well that's something
to consider uh after you speak to zogar he's
like yeah well how are you old a lot You feel
the power of Sylvanas coming from dark the power
of Asmodeus coming from the ever -present of
our Beans coming from you It's a magical Oh my
god Hello, we're no longer the hand crusaders.
You're the bean crusaders. Hand of Beans. Oh
That's yeah. Hand of Beans. That's to be the
fireside chat. Yeah, that's yeah Yeah, so it's
just like So what? What do you want? Or can I
go home to my family now? We want to know about
the debilitating noise that brings orcs and frogs
to their knees. And we want to know about the
frogs. The frogs! Close frog business. Um...
Tell me what I want to know or I'll make my friends
psycho -flex up another pyramid on you. I will
just throw you in this one. You can do intimidation
with advantage or persuasion. They're both plus
10s for me. So either way, up to you which one
you want to choose. But if you do intimidation,
you have advantage because we just saw you guys
mad at that fucking pyramid. 21. See, if I tell
you, you might as well just kill me. What are
you going to do? Protect me? My family? Sure.
Why do you do this? Maybe I let you go. Maybe
I'll kill you fast. Maybe I'll kill you really
slowly. It kind of depends on the answers you
give me. We can see you're not going to like
him. And he kind of like just goes there and
kind of scowls. Tell me about the noise. Tell
me about the noise that makes him. Certain people.
Yeah, what do you know about the noise? Again,
if I talk about that, you might as well kill
me because I'll be dead. Do you want us to kill
you afterwards? No. I'm just saying I'll be dead,
right? I'm trying to explain that I will be killed.
Can you not actually talk about it? I think I
can talk about it. What do you mean? If I talk
about it, I'll be killed. That's what I'm trying
to say. Well, you'll be killed either way, so
might as well talk about it. If you don't talk,
I'm going to fucking kill you. She's like trying
to intimidate this guy because she's getting
so annoyed. Fucking grunts angrily. What are
you going to do? If I tell you this information,
are you going to protect me? Are you going to
protect my family? Can you answer me one question?
Maybe. Why do you do what you do? What do you
mean? Why do you do the frog thing? Where do
you do the stuff that you do every day? What's
your motivation? What's your drive? Providing
for my family. Survival. Dart has those things
in common. So if you and us can be chill, we
can talk about what that future holds. He sort
of holds his eyes at you when you say that. Good.
And she's like, oh honey. Mine? Yes. No, I don't.
But all I understand right now is... Well, I'm
willing to make a bet that this family lives
close by, probably in this village or near this
outpost. He might have a chance to get them out
if he tells me what I need to know because my
interest is in blood harvester grin. So that's...
Okay. So now... Roll persuasion within the edge.
Using my battle dice? Uh, 26. 26. And then, you
know, Zavari being all creepy and intimidating
in the background and everything, and he's just
kind of like... He's like, that one's a pyramid.
Like the onion. Yeah, he's just kind of looking
around. Drips in the background and do, like,
the squidgy cat thing. And he's like... Officer
in the Pyramid winks. Oh. And Sarah winks. Oh
my god. He kind of wrote it, you gotta just like...
That sound you heard. It's from a mudra. From
a mudra? Yeah. M -U -D -R -A. That's not a person,
it's an instrument. It's an instrument. An instrument.
Um, rain. They're like, roll a barn. See if...
Yeah. This is something that Zara's taught me.
Yeah. And my parent, my family, were musicians.
Esoteric knowledge. I got a 16 plus 6, so that's
22. It is a singing bowl. Oh. It's a type of
singing bowl, guys. I don't mind. It'll tell
you what Harvester Vrede uses it to change. Is
that uh... But not everyone. Is that the orcs
with the red paint? No. That's actually something
Lokara does. Oh. It's... Local. Disturbing. So
you've heard Lokara being mentioned a few times.
Yeah. I keep mentioning her. She's supposed to
be here. She's not here. They said she's in the
city. Somebody else mentioned that Lokara makes
the... red the blood mark on them um so yeah
and he is corroborating that he's saying that's
lagara what do you mean the sound changes people
i wish i could tell you exactly what it is i
don't uh exactly know but does it use it on the
frogs it can be used on anyone that hates him
It's starting to work on me. Yeah, unless you
can forgive. He will say that, like, if you're
able to... Sorry. So, I can't talk in the voice
forever, but people say that if you're able to
resist consistently, you do eventually become
immune to the effect, but, like, it... It's been
working my ass. You've, so far, you've, you know...
It succumbed. Yeah, so just the hate. Yeah. And
the hatred is like it's it is like growing. It's
like it's it's always been inside. It's been
inside you for a long time. And like, and now
it is like grabbing hold is like growing thorns.
It's growing. It is becoming more intense, more
powerful, more painful. So it's like I would
say it's probably, you know, you would have you
would role play this. It's probably like really
hard like to even imagine letting go of that
hate right now. Like as you know. Yeah, I was
just thinking that I was gonna tell this guy
to take his family and leave because only orc
death will follow. Orc didn't. No, but I row
at the prison. Uh, you shouldn't have taken us
to the gallows. Right. But yeah, so he's... Well,
I don't know exactly what it does, but I do know
that Blood Arfist of Ren is different than he
used to be. Very different. Was there a time
before that he had the bowl? Yes. Is that when
it started being different? Yes. Do you know
who gave him the bowl? Man. Man? A man? Or just
man in general? I don't know if it was a human
or a human. It was a man who worked for the Emperor.
Probably. An Emperor, I swear. Every time. The
same person who gave you guys these night drinks?
Yes. Yeah. There's some shady, shady dudes here.
I'm telling. Granny does something with some
of our kind. People go missing and they never
come back. I don't know what it is. But I think
it has something to do with everything. Do you
have issues with Orx Bleeding Acid? It's horrible.
Do you know how that happens? Look, I'll do something
to... I don't know. It's hurtful. She didn't
allow us to view it. It is a punishment. We've
come across a few. Those with the blood mark
are doomed. They will die. They cast out? No.
They are used as weapons. Reign has flashes.
Of home. So he'll basically tell you like anybody
who has the blood mark on them, they will like
eventually like they like they can't sustain
like containing the like arcane he doesn't know
this but basically eventually they can't sustain
containing like the the acid the arcane acid
eventually it bubbles up and just like bursts
out of them regardless of whether or not they
like die um but before anytime before that if
they died and they like and then they basically
explode like an acid like bomb so like they basically
like condemn people to death by putting it on
them That's what the card does. Yeah. It's horrible.
She only started doing it recently. Send you
a rain lore drop for future for new people listening.
It's just going to go to the - When you said
recently, like around the same time as the bowl
thing recently? More recently. About a year.
It doesn't say a year though. Orcs will say a
full turn. But he needs a year. I wanna tell
him that we're not stopping and if he wants to
save his family should take them and go and tell
any other orc he sees that the king of the frogs
is here. The king of the frogs is here. I'll
get my family through the woke. That's not my
problem. He looks um... He looks kind of angry
but he's like trying to hold his like, um, considering
the weak spot that he's in. It's what you do
every day is protect your family. Now it's just
another day, right? Yeah, whatever. Well, you'll
go hard. You know you'll die. Right. You can't
stop it. No one can stop it. It's too harsh.
Go ahead. No, it's too harsh. Okay. If I would
say it, Rain wouldn't say it. Rain would think
that Rain would never say it. We've faced worse.
Nice. I got it. This guy's giving me all the
reasons to not let him go, you know what I'm
saying? Rain's on his way. Gotta take my leave.
He told us about the noise. Where, where, where
in the woods are they? Yeah, say, where's the
city? Where are the frogs? You still haven't
told me about the frogs. The city is around the
tower. Vryn's tower is called the Eternal Citadel.
And the frogs? Kassaroth the Nuke is what it's
called. The Eternal Citadel. Which I can copy
and paste. Nah, sounds very creepy. But yeah,
so he'll basically tell you the bowl is in the
Eternal Citadel. The city is sort of beneath
the Citadel. There is an ancient human city that
they have sort of built like a city on top of
essentially. And it's kind of like, you know,
I mean, it's not like, it's like wooden, you
know, structures, tents. huts and then also like
repurposing buildings that were still standing
and whatnot and so basically like the Citadel
is kind of on there like basically there's like
a he'll explain that there's like a rocky outcropping
and the Citadel is like on top of that and the
city is like below and it's like covered under
the canopy of like all the trees if that makes
sense so if you're standing like on the platform
where the Citadel is, you can barely see the
city between, like, in the canopy of the trees,
if that makes sense. So it's kind of like a big,
you know, statement. Piece, I guess, jutting
out of the top of the city. And then there are
small, like, there are, like, three small sort
of farming villages, like, outside of, like,
the main city area, which is literally, like
I said, a repurposed ancient city. So it has,
like, some, like, some walls, some sort of, like,
they fortification but it's it's all very like
dilapidated and stuff so it's you know but he'll
tell you that he'll tell you that um they're
the frog uh he said he'll say that there are
frog farms in the city But I know they're there.
You know, if you need a place to go, you can
always go to Gravesford. Are you reading your
letter? Oh my god. So Rain was considering telling
Zobar that he could go to Gravesford with his
family? Like if that's part of the barrier of
trying to find somewhere that you don't have
anywhere to go. As long as you... Like, are trying
to fight for your family. I feel Gravesford might
be a place where your family could go, even temporarily,
if Dart feels so inclined, but he is the lord
of that land. Uh, I don't want to do that, I
don't think. That's fine, he'll move on. I just...
I feel like the decision I make about what to
do with the orcs is going to have long lasting
repercussions. It's true. And it's whatever you
think Dart would do. I worry that the orcs are
twisted under some bad leadership. If I don't
hold all orcs responsible for the actions of
just a few, then maybe they'll all die when we
need to fight the Emperor. There'll be some people
who are, you know, happy to not live under blood
harvester friends. But of course, if we take
their frog food supply away, will I A, be able
to replace it, and B, be able to forgive them?
Which I think a lot of frogs will not be able
to do. Must aren't be able to do. Yeah. On the
other hand if I just like decide to kill every
orc here. If it sends a bad message to my people
back home that I told I was gonna be like a home
for everybody. And that like the whole Edmund
thing, forgiveness and whatnot. Am I here murdering
the shit out of everybody who upsets me? It's
a tough call. Yeah, yeah, I had one already.
So I kind of want to tell him that like I don't
want to yet Give him the impression that there's
like a place for him in my kingdom or our kingdom
until we've sort of like Got a better scope of
just how evil this place is I feel like right
now we don't fully know. That's true. Reign just
being like, just you, somehow. Somehow. Just
trying to work on the trust thing, but his trust
in Reign works. Like I want to tell him, essentially,
he doesn't have to like, he doesn't have to flee
this place necessarily, but I don't want like
to have to deal with him a second time. It's
like I want you to just... go home and stay out
of the fight and we're gonna suggest a new line
of work somewhere else yeah or something like
that you know like I don't I want to scare him
enough that he won't want to continue to be involved
and he won't like wait for me to be gone and
then pick his axe back up and be chasing after
us he saw us do that fucking pyramid thing yeah
that's why I was kind of happy Attempting to
intimidate him and half attempting to persuade
him to be like like you don't want to fuck with
us Just take your family fuck off and we're gonna
go finish this Okay, sounds good. Yeah, so they'll
move on they'll move on and like so the chapel
is destroyed You have a pyramid behind you can't
believe you wrote fucking pyramid We talked about
it Should I tell a story? Should we like breast?
Yeah. Yes, please. Um, yeah, I mean, it's because
it's nighttime. You can, like, find a place to
rest. Um, because I've already gotten a letter.
Yeah, uh, Dart, you get a letter? In the middle
of the night, because it's late at this point.
Um, Rain, you get letters from Saurus, but I
didn't send you anything. It's all right. Because
you're, like, you're right now. so i'll that
you can read it then you're right now being like
sorry this is like fun time emotional some more
so like there's not a lot advancing in that too
um but you're just asking about their day um
about some of the wins they had today whether
no matter how small they were and um Telling
them about the frog or the toads and the the
bullet bullet bullet bullet bullet bullet bullet
bullet bullet bullet Brenda's like, yeah, I'm
getting it now. I've actually never had creme
brulee. I've always just heard it said, but I
think that it would be really cute to like see
a creme boulette, boulette, whatever it's called.
I think it would be so like, oh, maybe like you
could do like the, the sugar crystal like plating.
Yeah, that'd be kind of fire. Like I think it's
possible. You know, we have a really, really
good pastry chef. I think that maybe it'd be
a fun competition prompt of like monsters and
pastry, you know? Not for the jubilee. Yeah,
maybe next year just like for like a fun competition.
It's like too late, I have all of them. Everything's
been perfect. But I'll have a lot of ideas for
you so you can always just like write them down.
I have a lot of ideas for you too. Oh, I bet
you do. Okay, I'm done. I got it on my butt,
I'm screaming at it. Check out, check out Zollie's
letter. Oh no, I'm gonna have to bring this letter
from a child, okay. Vari. Oh my god. Belton.
Slime. Oh my god. I'm gonna call you Vari from
now on, you know that right? And then it says
what the hell is going on. I was like, depending
on how old you think Zalia is, this is crazy.
She's 13, right? Yeah, she's 13. Oh, Jesus Christ,
there's something else. You're talking to so
many people right now, Zamari. I love instant
messaging. Zamari would have loved Fucking Messenger
and Instagram. Oh yeah. So I would just say over
the course of like the morning and stuff like
that, the next day you get some of these other
ones. Oh, this one's not shareable. Let me just
look at that one. Make all your access. Annoying.
This one's from Zara says it's not stressful
this time. Let's see. Everything else is stressful
enough. Yeah, thank you. Need one message that
isn't stressful. Oh, okay. Then I messaged my
dad. Okay, but I messaged him. This is like him
returning my message I asked him if I can be
in like council meetings when I'm home and You
know just do more and he said he fully agrees
And he said he will update my security clearance
So like I'm getting in there I'm getting in the
right space. So she's trying to break a new mold.
And I am a high priestess. My dad can't know
about that. No. No. My dad doesn't really do
the religion thing. So remove that if I can walk.
Dart, you are now officially a lord. Like, officially
officially. Therefore, your organization titles
have kicked in. Yay! He received a letter. You
just got a letter. I don't know if he wants to
talk about it. He looks stressed. Uh... Well,
Edmund wrote me letting me know that... The Trial
is commencing soon, any hopes that we'll be able
to be back in time to participate in that? Well,
in Dalrath. They also sent me the official document
that makes me Lord of Gravesford, like a Lord
of Betagar, which comes with all your standard
stipulations in terms of like... being the lord
of a place that you have to like care for it
and protect it and be a steward and awesome there's
just like a small portion in there that's like
basically says that i am now like a representative
of the empire and i have to do the emperor's
bidding Uh, so, Ryan, by the way, so he... Edmund
mentioned... So if you read the letter, he says
that the trial for Saxon will begin soon. Okay.
Then after he says, I'll keep you updated with
the proceedings. Also, I assume... Oh, yeah.
Sorry. Uh, I miss - I misspoke there. He hopes
that I will attend the trial, uh, soon, and if
I am assuming, or if I am attending the trial
with Zavari, uh, that I should be very careful
because Dull Wrath is more dangerous than it
seems. And so now, yeah, just to be clear, Saxton's
trial is happening in Betagar. Okay, okay. Then
when? Um, in a few days. at this point. Saxton's
trial is happening in Betagar. Edmund says in
his letter that he like, we're good, like Saxton's
trial, we're good with it. It's going to go well.
I'm, you know, we're, I'll let you know what's
going on. And he said, also, I assume you're
going to the, to that trial with Zavari. Be careful
in dollars. That trial with Zavari, I'm sure
they're unhappy, but I just do the worst. Do
Verne. So do Verne, and then we'll be at the
trial of Saxton. Is that why so or is the bar
need to so just as we go to? Don't know in general.
I need to What is all yours? What is all yours?
Oh fucking what? Are you uh, do you want me to
read it read it? Yeah, somebody can I read it
this just I imagine would be like, you know,
she's 13. She might become a little bit Brad
and she's on that precipice of trying to figure
out who she is. Zari, what the hell is going
on? Do you know what's wrong with Papa and Zari?
They've been... The hair being so weird and secretive.
Don't ask me how I know this, but Papa and Zari
now wear these rings all the time. That makes
it where no one can read their minds. I know
Zari had one of those before, but this one is
different. I don't think that they take it off.
I saw Zari getting their nails done, and you
know they always have bellagard? Yeah. clean
their rings when they do that. I saw that Zari
was still wearing their brain block ring thing.
They think I don't notice this stuff, but I do.
I can't even talk to mom about it. She's... just
going along with everything and I don't know
Zari. I just feel like something is wrong. My
studies are fine, but I am feeling restless.
I am glad that I am breaking or I'm getting a
break soon, but Jubilee is also a lot of work.
I don't even get to really join the adults yet,
even though I'm more mature than Zari. Honestly,
it's hard to focus on math and stuff, especially
when real important stuff is happening with my
family and I'm left completely out of it all.
It's so unfair! I know you would tell me things,
Vari, wouldn't you? I miss you so much. Are you
going to the trial in Dalarath? Mama and Papa
said I can't go. I'm a little worried about it,
but Papa and Zari said that it would be fine
and it's mostly just a formality. What do you
think? Yes, let's play soon. I might even be
as good as you now, big sis. Love, Zalia. They're
a little heart in red ink. And Astor, can you
play the harp together again when I'm back? So,
again, Saxton's trial is happening in Medigal.
Edmund and Zalio are implying that there is a
trial in Dalrath. What the fuck? And for some
reason, they're anticipating that you are going,
Zavari. Okay. The Kenway Twiner, the Kenway Twiner,
you're good. No, no, no. The Kenways could be
put on trial because their traitors and the Emperor
knows this. And that's why they have some magic
item. And that's why they needed you to be...
Stop it, Polar! Everybody's kind of assuming
that you would know about this. And so it's not
clear what the trial exactly is about. But Zalia
said she's nervous about it. Why would Zalia
be nervous about it? Why would they have rings
of protection on? Well, Zara's already had...
It's a ring that makes it so nobody can read
your mind. Zara's already had one, but they would
take it off. No, they're not. And now Dad's wearing
it. He isn't taking it off. And Zalia said it
was a different ring. You know who's at the scene
of a fucking crime like every fucking time? It's
the emperor. And it rained a little history to
see if Zaris was wearing it the night that they
were at the hotel and they came over. Yeah. And
I have my title rights, I'm proficient. Dirty
20. Yes, they were. They did not take it off.
All the other rings were taken off. Yes, they
usually take their rings off for, you know, cuddles.
I can or cannot confirm that they are wearing
said ring and that they didn't take it off when
they normally would have. You didn't recognize
the ring, but you really didn't think anything
of it. Yeah, I didn't really think anything of
it. It wasn't like, I mean, I'm like... I've
seen your brother a handful of times. But yeah,
so you guys are pouring over your new information.
There are a bunch of letters. I had to end up
having to dump them all on you because you were
writing out a lot of stuff to other people. At
least most of it. Oh, Michelle. Oh my God. I'll
have to write a letter back to Edmund at some
point. I'm writing a letter back to Zalia tonight.
But yeah, you guys are in camp, right? Mm -hmm.
Yeah, so you guys are in camp. Um, Drift, um,
is, uh, they think it is, like, a wharf of light
and shadow or whatever. Um, are you guys chillin'
in it? Yeah. Can it be near a tree this time
for animals to be in that tree? Sure. At least
a couple trees, we all have our own tree. dark
you so like you guys basically you guys went
into like 11 and um a lot of like you know a
lot of these letters had gotten to you like when
you were busy and then like a couple of them
just like just arrived and sort of in the middle
of the night as alias was in the middle then
i zara said or listening zara says always writes
his messages in the middle that i um Yeah, Edmund
Z's been sitting in the pocket for a minute.
So you guys, you know, are camping and do you
hear like a rustling sound, something kind of
coming near the camp? It's kind of like a little
sticky sound. Alarming. Are we bait again? We're
in the thing of shadow. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead,
Bessie. Sure. We're stuffed. to investigate i
can investigate okay 10 natural 2028 you see
you it's like so there is it's almost like seamlessly
blended into like the dark shadow under like
a big like leafy plant next to the tree you see
like a slight glimmer of light as if there's
like something under that in that like dark spot
that is reflecting light like something like
damp do you get closer yes as you get closer
you see two big bulbous yellow eyes open up from
the shadow and crawling forth and then standing
up is an all -black frog. Oh my god. And he goes,
are you the king? And he's holding like he's
got like a dagger on his waist, but he's not
wearing any clothes. He's just got like he's
got like equipment strapped to him and like a
backpack and stuff, but he's not wearing any
from those. Are you the king? Who's asking? Oh
my god. I have his name on it. I'm sorry. Um...
Rey is freaking out that there's a second fucking
frond. Zora's like, shit. We're like matching
energies, Rey. Oh, just... Are you saying that
shit? This isn't another stress delusion, right?
Uh, and she, Rey pinches herself and she's like,
Rey, will you get my phone? Um, yes. Oh shit.
Yes, good, good to go. um so he and he is like
so dart you would know by looking at him oh he's
a little bit smaller than dart um he's he's like
a similar sort of species as you um but not necessarily
within your family um but you you can tell that
he is like younger than you you know like you're
like you're like an adult little This frog is
probably no more than four -year -old. I don't
give these to anybody. I'm talking about the
gun with the crown. He's probably like, what
the hell is that thing? And he said, who's asking,
right? He grins and he says, I call myself Boulder.
Boulder? Like, is he Boulder? I guess so, yeah.
with a very deep voice and he's like all black.
Think if that makes sense, like there's no um
there's no like different like his belly is in
a different color he has no it's almost like
like a reverse like albinism in a sense like
it's almost like it doesn't like it looks a little
unnatural it's a little weird. It's hyperpigmentation.
Yeah it's hyperpigmentation that's the word.
Yeah I'm the king. Yeah he's he's very cool to
get very um but yeah um let's say yeah uh I call
myself Boulder. I am the leader of the Leap Syndicate.
The Leap Syndicate. I gotta get this guy to autograph
my favorite rock. And that's where we'll call
it. The Leap Syndicate. That's adorable. Thank
you for listening to Roll Forth. This has been
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friends. that would be really cool we don't have
time we gotta come back that's fine but like
two trials to be in a jubilee to go to we gotta
get back to a vampire lady who's hanging out
at our castle the jubilee's not for a few months
there's all kinds of stuff it's like getting
closer and closer to a month because it's been
weeks yeah that's right yeah so It's like the
end of June. The Emperor was just gonna have
the bitch. The usurper bitch just killed him
anyway, but that didn't work. So now it's time
to take them out with the Justices, though. You're
a part of them. They're gonna might end up trying
to use you. That's why you have to be careful.
That's why they haven't warned you. That's what
my dad doesn't say. Because they don't. It's
expected for you to come. but i don't need you
to come and also i haven't even made my public
appearance at holy yet so that's some shit for
me to make my first public appearance in a long
time at your husband's shrine ex -husband's shrine
oh would not be scandalous