Francesca Harn: Welcome to Rolling Solo, where I follow the journey of Francesca,
Francesca Harn: a tiefling bard, as I learn to play D&D one roll at a time.
Francesca Harn: We're following Francesca Di
Francesca Harn: Valcere, who walked away from
Francesca Harn: her noble family to live by her
Francesca Harn: own rules.
Francesca Harn: She dazzles on stage, but in the shadows she schemes using her
Francesca Harn: wit, magic and charm to survive.
Francesca Harn: Last time, Francesca slipped to the south pier of Droslov's Gate
Francesca Harn: and uncovered the truth.
Francesca Harn: The Black Glove Syndicate was
Francesca Harn: unloading chained prisoners
Francesca Harn: under the watch of a red cloaked
Francesca Harn: captain.
Francesca Harn: With a single whispered message, she rallied a tall, defiant
Francesca Harn: prisoner, and then, in the strike of a rapier, she silently
Francesca Harn: cut down a guard.
Francesca Harn: But the spark caught the prisoner's rose.
Francesca Harn: Guards scrambled, and the
Francesca Harn: captain's eyes turned toward
Francesca Harn: her.
Francesca Harn: Now, as steel flashes and chains fly, Francesca stands at the
Francesca Harn: heart of battle.
Francesca Harn: One player, one bard.
Francesca Harn: Endless adventure.
Francesca Harn: This is rolling solo.
Francesca Harn: Episode three The Spark at South Pier.
Francesca Harn: The docks are a storm of iron and cries.
Francesca Harn: Prisoners fight with their chains.
Francesca Harn: The Black Glove enforcers surge
Francesca Harn: under their captain's orders and
Francesca Harn: Francesca stands with rapier
Francesca Harn: bared, her strike having lit the
Francesca Harn: revolt across the chaos, the red
Francesca Harn: cloak captain raises his rune
Francesca Harn: etched blade, eyes burning with
Francesca Harn: recognition as they lock on to
Francesca Harn: yours.
Francesca Harn: The prisoners leader shouts "strike with us Bard! Now or never!"
Francesca Harn: Steel clashes. Torches flare. You
Francesca Harn: have seconds
Francesca Harn: before the captain soldiers crash
Francesca Harn: into your line. It's Francesca's
Francesca Harn: turn.
Francesca Harn: She can charge
Francesca Harn: the enforcers nearest to her. Engage in melee
Francesca Harn: combat. Cast a spell
Francesca Harn: to tilt the fight. Perhaps dissonant whispers
Francesca Harn: or vicious mockery. Inspire the prisoners
Francesca Harn: with bardic inspiration, boosting
Francesca Harn: their courage or
Francesca Harn: target the captain directly. Bold,
Francesca Harn: dangerous but
Francesca Harn: decisive. What does Francesca
Francesca Harn: do as the battle properly begins? I've talked about
Francesca Harn: this before. She's not really
Francesca Harn: an impulsive character, Francesca, so she. I think it's
Francesca Harn: unlikely that she would choose the
Francesca Harn: target, the captain, directly. Not
Francesca Harn: at this
Francesca Harn: point. they don't actually,
Francesca Harn: they recognize that she's
Francesca Harn: played a role in this,
Francesca Harn: but they don't actually recognize her
Francesca Harn: as a person because she
Francesca Harn: has got that double identity. where
Francesca Harn: she's known
Francesca Harn: for being a bard. She's got her
Francesca Harn: face half covered. They can't actually
Francesca Harn: see who she is beneath that and risking kind of close combats,
Francesca Harn: with someone like a captain would be putting that identity at
Francesca Harn: risk. So I'm going
Francesca Harn: to rule that one out early doors. I'm thinking I
Francesca Harn: might just charge the enforcers nearest for a melee combat, because
Francesca Harn: I also feel like the blood is pumping. At the end
Francesca Harn: of the last episode, she had made some a couple of rash decisions, but
Francesca Harn: not ridiculously rash, but more the fact that she
Francesca Harn: kind of like, right, let's just do this thing. Um, so yeah,
Francesca Harn: I'm just going to go with that. That's what feels
Francesca Harn: natural to me. So let's type
Francesca Harn: that in and see where we go. Boots thundered towards
Francesca Harn: you. The two nearest
Francesca Harn: enforcers levelled cudgels, grinning
Francesca Harn: with overconfidence. Just another
Francesca Harn: meddler
Francesca Harn: to crack. But you, Francesco
Francesca Harn: Di Valcere, moved first. You spring forward,
Francesca Harn: rapier flashing in the half light. Make an attack.
Francesca Harn: Roll with your
Francesca Harn: rapier d20 plus five to hit. Roll and tell
Francesca Harn: me the result. Let's see how
Francesca Harn: this first open strike of battle lands. Okay, so we
Francesca Harn: know I had some excellent beyond luck. I don't know
Francesca Harn: what was up last week, but I
Francesca Harn: did some really lucky rolls. Um,
Francesca Harn: since then,
Francesca Harn: the kind of dice goblin has taken over my body and I've bought
Francesca Harn: loads more dice. Ridiculously loads more.
Francesca Harn: I clearly shouldn't
Francesca Harn: be trusted with money, but, what I'm trying to lead up
Francesca Harn: to saying there is. I'm playing with
Francesca Harn: a new dice set. Today I'm going
Francesca Harn: to show you a picture because I. I'm literally in love with
Francesca Harn: them, which is a bit risky considering the other dice that I
Francesca Harn: had. My first ones
Francesca Harn: that I'd ever bought were doing
Francesca Harn: really well for me last
Francesca Harn: week, but the week before that they
Francesca Harn: were doing terribly. So I'm
Francesca Harn: just
Francesca Harn: going to go with my instincts, which is to use my new pretty dice.
Francesca Harn: So without any
Francesca Harn: more rambling away, let's actually
Francesca Harn: roll this thing. Okay. Oh,
Francesca Harn: yeah.
Francesca Harn: It's
Francesca Harn: rubbish. Um,
Francesca Harn: it's it's
Francesca Harn: a two. I got the
Francesca Harn: plus five, but not great. I can't lie
Francesca Harn: to you. So let's type
Francesca Harn: it in and see just how bad this is going to be.
Francesca Harn: Your rapier darts toward the enforcer's chest, but he's
Francesca Harn: quicker than he looks.
Francesca Harn: He jerks his cudgel up just in time, the clang of wood against
Francesca Harn: steel echoing across the pier.
Francesca Harn: He snarls in your face.
Francesca Harn: Not tonight, devil girl.
Francesca Harn: The second enforcer sees the opening and starts to circle
Francesca Harn: wide, trying to hem you in.
Francesca Harn: Prisoners crash against guards.
Francesca Harn: Behind them, the tall leaders chains snapping through the air
Francesca Harn: like a whip.
Francesca Harn: And across the pier the red cloaked captain advances a step
Francesca Harn: closer, rune etched blade catching the torchlight.
Francesca Harn: The battle is fully joined and your toe to toe with two
Francesca Harn: enforcers, Their cudgels raised for brutal counter-strikes.
Francesca Harn: Do you want to press the attack?
Francesca Harn: Stay aggressive.
Francesca Harn: Have another strike.
Francesca Harn: Use a spell.
Francesca Harn: Deploy bardic inspiration or disengage and retreat.
Francesca Harn: What's your next move?
Francesca Harn: Yeah, I'm not disengaging at this point.
Francesca Harn: I'm enjoying having this battle going on.
Francesca Harn: So sorry, Francesca, but you're not going anywhere.
Francesca Harn: Uh, again, I feel like I can get a better roll next.
Francesca Harn: So she's going to carry on with this melee attack.
Francesca Harn: There's no point pausing to do spells when the enforcers are
Francesca Harn: this close to her.
Francesca Harn: That would just be opening
Francesca Harn: ourselves up to taking some
Francesca Harn: hits.
Francesca Harn: So let's not do that.
Francesca Harn: Let's press the attack.
Francesca Harn: Francesca refuses to yield ground.
Francesca Harn: Let's see if Steel and style can turn the tide.
Francesca Harn: You pivot.
Francesca Harn: Golden eyes flashing and lunge again at the first enforcer.
Francesca Harn: He's still reeling from blocking your last strike.
Francesca Harn: Cudgel raised too high.
Francesca Harn: This is your chance to pierce through.
Francesca Harn: Make another rapier attack.
Francesca Harn: Roll d20 plus five to hit.
Francesca Harn: Okay, let's give this a go.
Francesca Harn: Come on, do better this time.
Francesca Harn: That's better.
Francesca Harn: I'll take that one.
Francesca Harn: That's a thirteen.
Francesca Harn: So it's the thirteen plus the five.
Francesca Harn: Let's see.
Francesca Harn: Hopefully that will be better.
Francesca Harn: You faint low.
Francesca Harn: Then drive your rapier up beneath his guard.
Francesca Harn: Steel bites deep into his side.
Francesca Harn: He gasps, staggers back and
Francesca Harn: collapses against the pier
Francesca Harn: railing.
Francesca Harn: The cudgel clatters from his
Francesca Harn: hand before he crumples to the
Francesca Harn: planks.
Francesca Harn: Roll one d8 plus three to see what the damage is.
Francesca Harn: Okay, let's get that ready.
Francesca Harn: Give it a rub for luck.
Francesca Harn: Yeah, that's really rubbish.
Francesca Harn: That is a one.
Francesca Harn: Critical one.
Francesca Harn: Let's put it in.
Francesca Harn: Not good, not good.
Francesca Harn: I mean, I get plus three, but.
Francesca Harn: Yeah.
Francesca Harn: Can't say it's going to do much damage.
Francesca Harn: Your rapier slices across the
Francesca Harn: enforcer's side, tearing through
Francesca Harn: leather and drawing a hot line
Francesca Harn: of blood.
Francesca Harn: He grunts in pain, staggering, but refuses to fall.
Francesca Harn: He takes four piercing damage,
Francesca Harn: but Fury is burning through his
Francesca Harn: grimace.
Francesca Harn: He's badly hurt, one hand pressed to his ribs, but his
Francesca Harn: cudgel hand still swings wide.
Francesca Harn: The second enforcer uses the moment to close in, trying to
Francesca Harn: pin you between them.
Francesca Harn: Behind you, prisoners surge, chains whipping.
Francesca Harn: The tall leader bellows another
Francesca Harn: command, driving back a guard,
Francesca Harn: but the red cloaked captain
Francesca Harn: advances steadily.
Francesca Harn: his rune etched blade humming faintly as it gets closer.
Francesca Harn: The battlefield hangs on a knife's edge.
Francesca Harn: One enforcer, bloodied and weak, a second, fresh and moving in.
Francesca Harn: The captain is coming closer with lethal intent.
Francesca Harn: Does Francesco want to finish the wounded enforcer?
Francesca Harn: Take him out cleanly before turning to the second turn on
Francesca Harn: the fresh strike before he can box you in.
Francesca Harn: Cast a spell to try and tilt the
Francesca Harn: fight or prepare for the
Francesca Harn: captain.
Francesca Harn: What's Francesca's next move?
Francesca Harn: Well. Great question.
Francesca Harn: Francesca's next move is she's
Francesca Harn: going to finish off the wounded
Francesca Harn: enforcer.
Francesca Harn: As the captain gets closer, the odds are very much not becoming
Francesca Harn: in her favor.
Francesca Harn: So let's at least take one person out.
Francesca Harn: or, you know, try to take someone out so that it's going
Francesca Harn: to be more like two against one, rather than three against one.
Francesca Harn: And if we can take out the other person before the captain gets
Francesca Harn: here, even better.
Francesca Harn: But yeah, let's let's try and
Francesca Harn: even those odds out a little
Francesca Harn: bit.
Francesca Harn: The wounded enforcer stumbles back, clutching his side but
Francesca Harn: still baring his teeth.
Francesca Harn: His partner moves to cover him, but you're faster.
Francesca Harn: With a sharp twist, you step past the fresh guard swing and
Francesca Harn: lunge at the bloodied one.
Francesca Harn: Roll your d20.
Francesca Harn: Let's see if Francesca ends this
Francesca Harn: one before the captain closes
Francesca Harn: the gap.
Francesca Harn: Okay, let's get that d20 ready.
Francesca Harn: Rolling.
Francesca Harn: Oh, not terrible.
Francesca Harn: Seven.
Francesca Harn: So with the plus three for the rapier finesse.
Francesca Harn: basically, yes, you have.
Francesca Harn: Let's have a little bit of education in this episode.
Francesca Harn: your character's.
Francesca Harn: It's the same on the game on Baldur's Gate three.
Francesca Harn: Your characters have proficiency
Francesca Harn: in certain weapons and not in
Francesca Harn: others.
Francesca Harn: So because Francesca is proficient with rapiers, she
Francesca Harn: gets like a bonus.
Francesca Harn: Or sometimes you roll with advantage.
Francesca Harn: It depends on factors and things.
Francesca Harn: But yeah, I get that plus three because of that.
Francesca Harn: Um, I realize now that I've been reading that wrong.
Francesca Harn: It's plus five.
Francesca Harn: Yes, the plus three comes in with the damage.
Francesca Harn: But yeah, so I rolled a seven plus the five.
Francesca Harn: See, I'm trying to educate
Francesca Harn: people, but I'm educating myself
Francesca Harn: as well.
Francesca Harn: This is a journey, guys.
Francesca Harn: So, Yeah, let's put that in and let's move on.
Francesca Harn: Your rapier thrust slips past his faltering guard.
Francesca Harn: The steel punches through his shoulder.
Francesca Harn: He screams, staggers, and drops to one knee.
Francesca Harn: Roll your D8 plus three for the damage.
Francesca Harn: If it's high enough, he'll collapse for good.
Francesca Harn: If not, he's still up, clinging on desperately.
Francesca Harn: While this is happening, the
Francesca Harn: fresh enforcer is snarling,
Francesca Harn: stepping in hard cudgel already
Francesca Harn: arcing towards your head, and
Francesca Harn: beyond them, the red cloaked
Francesca Harn: captain is now only a few
Francesca Harn: strides away.
Francesca Harn: Rune blade glowing like an ember in the dark.
Francesca Harn: Roll your damage to see if you deal with this wounded enforcer
Francesca Harn: before the hammer falls.
Francesca Harn: Yes, let's do this because I
Francesca Harn: need to know if I'm dealing with
Francesca Harn: three against one or two against
Francesca Harn: one twelve.
Francesca Harn: Okay, so I know that was because I rolled the d20 instead of d8.
Francesca Harn: No, I was happy with that roll.
Francesca Harn: Okay.
Francesca Harn: So sorry.
Francesca Harn: Wrong.
Francesca Harn: Let's do that.
Francesca Harn: Let's do that one again.
Francesca Harn: As I said, it's a journey I'm learning as I go.
Francesca Harn: And there's a lot of dice.
Francesca Harn: Okay, so d8 is that one.
Francesca Harn: No that's the the something d9.
Francesca Harn: Nine.
Francesca Harn: Um, eight.
Francesca Harn: Yes.
Francesca Harn: There we go.
Francesca Harn: Got it, got it.
Francesca Harn: Okay, let's do that one again.
Francesca Harn: I like to add a little bit extra drama, and I don't want you to
Francesca Harn: think I'm too competent in anything because I'm really not.
Francesca Harn: So.
Francesca Harn: Seven.
Francesca Harn: Yes.
Francesca Harn: It was worth all the fumbling around then.
Francesca Harn: So that's seven plus the three.
Francesca Harn: So I'm going to be taking out that last guy.
Francesca Harn: So I just then have to deal with
Francesca Harn: the full health enforcer and the
Francesca Harn: captain, like I said, just have
Francesca Harn: to deal with this probably is
Francesca Harn: still going to go badly, but
Francesca Harn: I've put that in and let's see
Francesca Harn: what happens.
Francesca Harn: Your rapier drives clean through his chest.
Francesca Harn: His eyes widen, the cudgel slipping from numb fingers as he
Francesca Harn: collapses to the pier.
Francesca Harn: But there's no pause.
Francesca Harn: The fresh enforcer steps into
Francesca Harn: the gap with a snarl cudgel
Francesca Harn: swinging down at your head, and
Francesca Harn: behind him, the red cloaked
Francesca Harn: captain closes in, his rune
Francesca Harn: etched sword, now glowing
Francesca Harn: faintly crimson.
Francesca Harn: The night crackles with violence.
Francesca Harn: Francesca has cut one enemy down, but the battle's true
Francesca Harn: danger is just a few steps away.
Francesca Harn: The fresh enforcer steps into the gap.
Francesca Harn: with his partner, lying dead at your feet.
Francesca Harn: His fury burns hotter than fear.
Francesca Harn: The arc of his cudgel swings down brutally.
Francesca Harn: It cracks against your shoulder.
Francesca Harn: Pain flares.
Francesca Harn: Hot.
Francesca Harn: staggering.
Francesca Harn: You fall back a step.
Francesca Harn: Francesca takes seven.
Francesca Harn: Damage your health down to sixteen.
Francesca Harn: The crowd roars with chaos.
Francesca Harn: Prisoners battering guards with chains.
Francesca Harn: The tall leader rallying them with a whip.
Francesca Harn: Crack of steel.
Francesca Harn: But all of it fades as the red cloak captain finally steps into
Francesca Harn: the circle of firelight.
Francesca Harn: His voice is calm, cutting through the battle like steel.
Francesca Harn: "The Valcere tiefling.
Francesca Harn: You should have stayed forgotten."
Francesca Harn: The rune etched sword hums in his grip.
Francesca Harn: His eyes fix on you with
Francesca Harn: recognition, not just as another
Francesca Harn: meddler, but as Francesca di
Francesca Harn: Valcere.
Francesca Harn: The fight is narrowing.
Francesca Harn: One enforcer before you and the captain advancing.
Francesca Harn: What's your move?
Francesca Harn: The enforcer looms in front of
Francesca Harn: you, cudgels slick with your
Francesca Harn: blood, he snarls, swinging
Francesca Harn: again.
Francesca Harn: But you're faster now.
Francesca Harn: Make her rapier attack!
Francesca Harn: Roll!
Francesca Harn: Let's see if Francesca clears
Francesca Harn: her path to the red cloaked
Francesca Harn: captain.
Francesca Harn: Okay, let's get that d20.
Francesca Harn: I'm going to pick the right dice this time.
Francesca Harn: Yep, that is definitely the d20.
Francesca Harn: Ok, let's give it a roll.
Francesca Harn: Fourteen.
Francesca Harn: Yeah, not bad at all.
Francesca Harn: So it's fourteen plus the five.
Francesca Harn: So let's see what that does.
Francesca Harn: Maybe I can take him out in one go.
Francesca Harn: You twist aside from his cudgel,
Francesca Harn: your rapier flashing up in a
Francesca Harn: clean thrust.
Francesca Harn: It punches through his ribs.
Francesca Harn: His breath catches and he
Francesca Harn: collapses onto the planks,
Francesca Harn: lifeless.
Francesca Harn: Another body falls.
Francesca Harn: The prisoners cheer Raggedly, the tall leader, shouting for
Francesca Harn: them to press the advantage.
Francesca Harn: But the world seems to narrow as the red cloaked captain finally
Francesca Harn: steps into striking distance.
Francesca Harn: His rune etched blade hums,
Francesca Harn: crimson light licking along its
Francesca Harn: edge.
Francesca Harn: His eyes burn with recognition and hatred.
Francesca Harn: "House Valcere always leaves debts unpaid.
Francesca Harn: To night I'll collect."
Francesca Harn: The prisoners are locked in their own struggle.
Francesca Harn: This duel is yours alone.
Francesca Harn: The battle with the captain begins.
Francesca Harn: Do you want Francesca to meet him?
Francesca Harn: Head on.
Francesca Harn: Open with a spell.
Francesca Harn: Use bardic inspiration or probe for information.
Francesca Harn: Perhaps taunt or trick him into
Francesca Harn: revealing more before your fight
Francesca Harn: truly begins.
Francesca Harn: So I actually feel quite strongly about this one.
Francesca Harn: I think that the fact that he knows her identity, he knows
Francesca Harn: things about her family.
Francesca Harn: That he's made that link between
Francesca Harn: her in her disguise where she's
Francesca Harn: not the barred persona, but
Francesca Harn: she's also not the persona she's
Francesca Harn: left behind long ago with her
Francesca Harn: family, that he's made that
Francesca Harn: connection and that he knows who
Francesca Harn: she is.
Francesca Harn: She would just throw caution out
Francesca Harn: the window and think that, he
Francesca Harn: needs to be dealt with right
Francesca Harn: now.
Francesca Harn: He needs to die.
Francesca Harn: Really.
Francesca Harn: He needs to be stopped from spreading that further.
Francesca Harn: No one else can know.
Francesca Harn: She's already messed up a couple of times that night.
Francesca Harn: She's, got the attention of the guy at the bar.
Francesca Harn: She's lost the trust of the orphan children.
Francesca Harn: She can't risk anything else going wrong with her.
Francesca Harn: So I think the blood is pumping, and she's just saying no, let's
Francesca Harn: deal with this man right now.
Francesca Harn: So let's see where that takes us.
Francesca Harn: Okay, so it wants me to do a d20
Francesca Harn: roll to see what happens with
Francesca Harn: the attack.
Francesca Harn: And then it wants me straight away to do the D8 roll to see if
Francesca Harn: that attack lands, what damage I'm dealing with so that we can
Francesca Harn: get this story moving.
Francesca Harn: So I'm going to roll the d20.
Francesca Harn: Okay, nice.
Francesca Harn: That's a fifteen.
Francesca Harn: So when you add the five that's going to give me a dirty twenty.
Francesca Harn: So a natural twenty is when you
Francesca Harn: roll a twenty okay on the d20
Francesca Harn: dice.
Francesca Harn: Whereas when you make a twenty,
Francesca Harn: that's um, what did I just call
Francesca Harn: it?
Francesca Harn: Whatever.
Francesca Harn: The word's gone out of my head already, but it's that, Anyway,
Francesca Harn: let's roll the D8.
Francesca Harn: Nice.
Francesca Harn: Okay.
Francesca Harn: Yeah.
Francesca Harn: So that was a five, which if I
Francesca Harn: add the three to it, that gives
Francesca Harn: me, an eight, which is not bad
Francesca Harn: for damage.
Francesca Harn: So let's see what that means in real money.
Francesca Harn: your rapier meets the captain's
Francesca Harn: rune etched blade in a shower of
Francesca Harn: sparks.
Francesca Harn: His strength is brutal, but you twist, sliding the point past
Francesca Harn: his guard and driving it deep into his side.
Francesca Harn: He grunts, teeth bared, crimson light from the blade flaring as
Francesca Harn: if in response to his pain.
Francesca Harn: Instead of faltering, he shoves
Francesca Harn: you back with a surge of force,
Francesca Harn: planting his feet on the blood
Francesca Harn: slick planks.
Francesca Harn: "The Valcere spark still burns, but it will gutter out to night."
Francesca Harn: His sword hums of a dangerous
Francesca Harn: resonance.
Francesca Harn: Crimson light crawling up the runes as
Francesca Harn: he raises it high for
Francesca Harn: a vicious counterstrike. Francesca has struck the first
Francesca Harn: true blow.
Francesca Harn: The captain is wounded, but far from
Francesca Harn: beaten. What you want her next move to
Francesca Harn: be? Stay on the offensive. Turn to spells.
Francesca Harn: Probe for secrets. Mid-fight.
Francesca Harn: What approach does
Francesca Harn: she take?
Francesca Harn: I feel at this point she's going to take stock a little bit and
Francesca Harn: not rush into a melee battle because she's not her.
Francesca Harn: Her strength doesn't lie in that.
Francesca Harn: She's a bard.
Francesca Harn: she's not a barbarian class or a fighter class or anything.
Francesca Harn: So she's gonna turn to the other side that she can take, which is
Francesca Harn: spells at this point.
Francesca Harn: So my two kind of main attack
Francesca Harn: spells I've got in my arsenal
Francesca Harn: are dissonant whispers and
Francesca Harn: vicious mockery.
Francesca Harn: As usual, I can't remember what exactly those entail, so I have
Francesca Harn: to have a look at my paperwork.
Francesca Harn: Okay, so I'm thinking just on a glance, that dissonant whispers
Francesca Harn: is going to be my best bet.
Francesca Harn: So, uh, you can one creature of your choice that you can see
Francesca Harn: within range hears a discordant melody in its mind.
Francesca Harn: The target makes a wisdom saving throw on a failed save.
Francesca Harn: It takes three d6 psychic damage.
Francesca Harn: Ooh, I like that and must
Francesca Harn: immediately use its reaction, if
Francesca Harn: available, to move as far away
Francesca Harn: from you as it can using the
Francesca Harn: safest route on a successful
Francesca Harn: save.
Francesca Harn: The target takes half as much damage only.
Francesca Harn: See, I like that because not only do you get the three d6
Francesca Harn: damage, which I think if I'm right, let me have a look.
Francesca Harn: Yep, the vicious mockery is only
Francesca Harn: one d6 unless I use a higher
Francesca Harn: level spell slot, but that's
Francesca Harn: just getting too confusing for
Francesca Harn: my mind.
Francesca Harn: So let's stick with the psychic
Francesca Harn: damage from the dissonant
Francesca Harn: whispers.
Francesca Harn: So yeah, it's the three d6,
Francesca Harn: which is great, and I like that
Francesca Harn: even if he makes a successful
Francesca Harn: wisdom save, he would still take
Francesca Harn: half damage.
Francesca Harn: So yeah, that's that's the way this is going to roll.
Francesca Harn: Get it?
Francesca Harn: Anyway, it's going to roll.
Francesca Harn: No bad joke.
Francesca Harn: Sorry.
Francesca Harn: Right.
Francesca Harn: Also because it's three d6 is I get to break out some of my
Francesca Harn: other dice that I bought.
Francesca Harn: So let's get them out of the pouch.
Francesca Harn: And I need three.
Francesca Harn: Let's find some pretty ones.
Francesca Harn: We're going to go for a blue purple green theme.
Francesca Harn: And my current news set that I'm playing the whole game with, by
Francesca Harn: the way, is a red, blue, green and green color, which I'm going
Francesca Harn: to post later.
Francesca Harn: Sorry, I did warn people in the introduction episode.
Francesca Harn: I ramble a lot.
Francesca Harn: I tried to cut out as much as possible, but at the end of the
Francesca Harn: day, it's my podcast, so, you know, listen or leave up to you.
Francesca Harn: I'm going I'm going to actually do the rolling now.
Francesca Harn: Right.
Francesca Harn: So I'm going to do a spell.
Francesca Harn: I'm going to do the three d6 for the damage.
Francesca Harn: Okay.
Francesca Harn: That's a three, a three and a two.
Francesca Harn: So let's put in what I'm going
Francesca Harn: to do and see what actually
Francesca Harn: happens.
Francesca Harn: You lock eyes with the captain as his rune blade hums.
Francesca Harn: Your voice coils like a serpent, words dripping into his mind
Francesca Harn: like poison laced honey.
Francesca Harn: "Your blade hums because it's hungry. But it knows it won't be your enemy's soul. It drinks to night. It will be yours."
Francesca Harn: The captain stiffens, face contorting as your whispered spell
Francesca Harn: bores into him. Captain's
Francesca Harn: wisdom saving throw, 9.
Francesca Harn: Fail. the captain staggers as your words burrow
Francesca Harn: into his mind. Crimson
Francesca Harn: light flaring wild along the
Francesca Harn: runes
Francesca Harn: of his blade. He snarls, clutching his head. And then,
Francesca Harn: against his will, his boots scraped back across the planks,
Francesca Harn: retreating from you with every
Francesca Harn: ounce of his strength turned to flight. Prisoners seize the moment,
Francesca Harn: surging forward with renewed fury. Enforcers falter, the line beginning
Francesca Harn: to break. The
Francesca Harn: tall prisoner shouts. "She's turned him! Drive them back!"
Francesca Harn: The red cloaked captain
Francesca Harn: retreats
Francesca Harn: to the edge of the pier, Crimson
Francesca Harn: blade humming erratically, his
Francesca Harn: face twisted in
Francesca Harn: pain. He splits blood and glares at you, his voice
Francesca Harn: ragged but sharp enough to cut through the din. "You don't know what they've kept from you. Valcere!"
Francesca Harn: Then, with a
Francesca Harn: final snarl, he turns, leaping onto the gangplank of the widow's smile,
Francesca Harn: retreating toward the ship. Francesca stands
Francesca Harn: bloodied but unbowed, victorious over the enforcers, her
Francesca Harn: words driving the captain back.
Francesca Harn: Yet his escape and those
Francesca Harn: final words leave more questions
Francesca Harn: than answers. And with
Francesca Harn: them
Francesca Harn: echoing in her mind.
Francesca Harn: Francesca realizes she may
Francesca Harn: not know her family's sins
Francesca Harn: as well
Francesca Harn: as she thought.
Francesca Harn: In a city of whispers, even the
Francesca Harn: quietest footsteps can echo
Francesca Harn: loudest, Especially when you're
Francesca Harn: rolling solo.