Welcome to Roll 4 Heresy, with Walton playing
Chet, Cliff playing Francisco, Tim playing Swiggs,
and Kevin as the GM. Last time, the group's information
gathering attempt was interrupted by a surprise
attack on the outpost. Having survived the fight
with Vicious Kraz and Beast, they took their
last safe rest before heading deep into the jungle.
We've had minor attacks on the base before, but
never something of this scale. They're getting
more bold. Don't know if you saw but I don't
think they were running here because they were
attacking us looked like they were running from
something That's disturbing Well, there's always
something bigger in the jungle you never just
dealing with the baddest thing in there always
a bigger fish damn it Think of Star Wars now.
Haha suck it nerd Good very well. Well, I guess
Yeah, squigs listen take a few hours stay here
rest up you both to Stop by the mess hall grab
grab some rations and When you're ready, you
know where the exit is I'm glad you're feeling
better. I just won't let you know I told our
buddy here, Francisco, but if you are feeling
weird and you need to maybe have me take you
out back and put one in the back of your head,
you let me know. You know, I appreciate that.
I really do, surprisingly. I'll let you know
if I need you to shoot me. See, Francisco, everybody
doesn't take this kind of thing so personal.
Uh, yeah, OK. Sure. And I just saw him, like,
slump against the wall. You hear coughing in
the background. Boy. Francisco. Immediately throw
the grenade in there. Kobe! In the back of the
tent, you hear Grim calling you, Francisco. I
go over to him. Let me look into your eyes. Yeah,
the jungle steals that didn't since doesn't it
boy I I just sort of shrugged my shoulders and
I like leave the tent I Mean I can go back and
shoot that guy Yeah, so squigs will get up as
this is grim as being weird And put on a set
of the flak armor Kind of adeptly set it Size
it without anybody else's help and poor make
sure his Robes cover it back over again. So he
just looks a little bulkier than before All right
nice You what you have equipped? Black armor
we'll say for now since we're gonna keep playing
I don't know if you If you can just add a knife
to your combat sheet. It looks like you have
one. I already have one. Yeah. Yeah Just drag
that stuff to your yeah character out of there
then For Francisco, we'll get you a more sizable
melee weapon Sounds good. I Mean they have he
can just probably like drag a sword or whatever
to him Yeah, do you want to open up? You just
go to the oh, yeah core rule book the compendium
packs items Equipment yes, I should we should
get this better down weapons Let me just... Here,
here's a sword. Nice. I will drag it to your
character sheet. We'll say for dramatic purposes
after like Grim starts laughing at me I see the
sword on the ground and I just sort of like grab
it but I like just like drag it on the floor
out of the tent. I think you gave me three swords.
Well it's for all three of your hands! I kept
dragging it to your character sheet, and it wasn't
updating, and I was like, what's going on? I
still don't see it. I can delete two of them,
because if I go into combat now, oh, it just
isn't in combat. Oh, it's not equipped. Yes,
it's in your gear section. Quantity one. All
right. There it is. There you go. Unequipped
knife. Yeah. And now I will chop somebody. There
you go. We all need somebody to chop. Whoops.
Okay, I need to do better at sorting. Sword test
failure. You swing at the air and you drop it.
It flies out of your hand and now it's sticking
out of Grim's torso. I always knew you'd kill
me. You killed me, boy. You killed me. Your innocence,
boy. The jungle turns you into a murderer! Alright,
so you take a few hours, you recover, you collect
yourselves, the smell of roasting Kasdan beast
tickles your nostrils. It's kind of acrid because,
like, the venom is being cooked in the fire,
but, like, it's not toxic to breathe, but it
does not smell good. It's just burning fur and
chemical bullshit. Yeah and chemicals Very smoky,
you know the once Everyone's a little more on
edge now The tension like there's a low hanging
like smoky fog. That's like hanging over the
tent the whole camp and You feel like if you
want to you could probably leave now unless there's
anything else you want to do Nope. I grabbed
like a granola bar or something from the mess
hall. Was Tenor killed by any chance? Were we
that lucky? Tenor left. The doors are just locked
on the truck and he's got his feet up reading
space pornography. Completely ignoring the pitched
combat next to it. He wakes up, he goes, what
happened? No, no, he's gone. He's anybody guys
off me left. Yeah Come on Chet it's time for
you to go oh My god you did this he's gonna be
an awkward recurring kid you Chet did this I'm
sorry No, you're not don't lie. I'm not All right
The jungle path is narrow almost swallowed by
the vegetation that encroaches from both sides.
Towering trees form a tangled canopy overhead,
their twisting branches letting only fragmented
beams of sunlight filter through. The air is
thick with moisture, and the ground beneath your
feet is damp and uneven, slick with mud and scattered
with roots that threaten to trip you underway.
Binds dangle like serpents from above, brushing
against you as you pass, and massive leaves rustle
ominously with each faint breeze. The colors
are a ride of greens punctuated by vivid bursts
of flowers in fiery reds, orange, and purples,
yet even their beauty feels treacherous as if
the jungle itself is warning you to stay alert.
The soundscape is alive with constant activity
and almost oppressive cacophony. The ceaseless
drone of insects weave a background hum broken
by the high -pitched calls of birds and the occasional
gutter growl or distant roar of an unseen predator.
Every crack of a branch or rustle of a leaf would
signal the approach of danger, keeping your senses
on edge. Alright, well, I guess I'll start scouting
forward unless y 'all got some other ideas of
what you want me to do. Should we move through
the jungle stealthily? I have a decent stealth
role. Probably not a bad idea like if you head
-to -head Check goes ahead. I can we can just
kind of try to follow without making too much
noise or we make a lot of noise We're not really
on a time limit here, so if we just go slow and
quiet we should be I'm gonna try and roll stealth
and just see what happens. My god. Wow, that's
a lot of stealth die. Prepare to be well. Nice!
Amazing. For you listeners, that was three fails.
Three critical failure rolls. Oh, you can shift.
Can I shift mine? Uh, do what you want with that
complication. You can shift yours. Let's uh,
let me roll it, let's see what it says. I like
this. Past problem. As you're stealthing, as
you're stuck in this jungle, something from your
past creeps into the back of your head. This
feeling, this danger, this ominous threat, this
ever -present entropy of the jungle creeps into
this old wound and flares up. By this distracted
memory And so Chet and Francisco you guys are
doing great you guys are you're moving flawlessly
And then you see you see squigs He starts good,
but then just like as he's going it looks like
his eyes begin to just kind of fade in the background
like he's not paying attention and then he just
kind of begins to step on like twigs and stuff
and like just kind of not being stealthy anymore
hey hey squigs squigs what what damn it oh first
of all you failed the test i already i already
told you if you hear your name in in the jungle
you did not hear your name i said your name there
and you answered i ain't was gonna get you you're
gonna get a well, you said it wasn't your voice
I know what I said, Squigs but, second of all,
you're stepping on twigs, you're making all kinds
of noises you're trying to get his A out here
oh, sorry, sorry, I am I'm sorry gotta tighten
it up, tighten it up it, yeah, okay, alright,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it was, um yeah okay yeah
the uh feels odd out here just a little little
uh doesn't feel normal out here it's the jungle
yeah if it was supposed to feel right it wouldn't
be the jungle i guess i guess that's true i mean
you're the expert it's just yeah okay just feel
like Okay, we're good. I'm good. I'm sorry. I'll
try better. Just watch the twigs and you'll be
fine. Okay, okay. And Chet'll keep moving, ranging
forward. He... Still... Squigs is definitely
still distracted. He's just, you know, kind of
remembering some of his... oddly... remembering
some of his childhood which was on a world nothing
like this one. So he's just kind of like he's
not paying attention. He's going through the
motions of being stealthy but he's not particularly
good at it and he's not paying attention like
the train's guardsman would. Francisco will go
move to behind you so take up the rear just to
kind of keep like prodding you along And having
you just keep moving forward. It's kind of bumps
into like a tree He'll he'll keep trying to be
like watch watch out for that. Just easy there
squid. Oh, thanks. Sorry All right, I need everyone
to give me Awareness tests Awareness? I will
make you a werewolf test. What's the DN, Kevin?
Yes, the DN will be a 3. A DN3, perfect. Not
a good one for me. Boom! So we've got shift passes,
but chat, you have a complication. Whatever it
is suddenly I'm snapped out of my reverie So
Chet You know included in Your packs, you know
our shortwave radios that you all can talk to
each other and Yours just begins to pick up static
for some reason And it begins to make that, like,
popping sound, and it distracts you while you're,
while you're looking around. Aw, shit, shit!
And he's, like, trying to turn off the radio.
Um... I will say, Francisco, you're kind of looking
around, and you don't necessarily see anything
particularly... interesting it's dense it's hard
however Francisco being put I'm sorry not go
however squigs being put on such edge before
just like being in this place it kind of made
you a little hyper vigilant and you see what
appears to be vines moving on their own on the
ground, and Chet is heading straight for them.
Oh! Chet! Vines! They'll just snap up and point
right ahead of you, and uh... Vines! Dead ahead
of you! They look like they're moving. Did you
say Chet's name? Yes, I did. Nope. Nope. That's
the jungle. Nope. Not gonna fall for that. You
ain't gonna get me. Then as you say that, as
Chet is distracted by the radio malfunctioning,
and as he is determined not to fall for the jungle's
trick, a vine... He falls for the jungle's trick.
You see a vine quickly snap around and wrap around,
coil around both his legs, and drag him into
the brush. Oh shit. How'd the jungles got me?
Can I see the vines at all? Can I take a shot
as he's getting dragged off to try to pop the
vines? Yeah. All right. Go ahead, give me a shot,
but it's going to be difficult because the jungle
is thick and you don't really have a good idea
of where he went. Yeah, I was just trying to,
like, you can hear him. I assume you're screaming
or saying something. Yeah, he's just like, damn,
ain't trying to get me up. Just in trouble, just
having problems. That's funny. Alright, what
difficulty do you want? For your shot? Yes. So
we'll say, I'll start it at a DN2, and then I'll
penalize it, because it's got to be an aimed
shot, because you're specifically aiming for
these moving vines, and you're in melee, because
you don't want to shoot Chet. So DN4. Alright,
I will take a DN4. Hopefully I don't fail and
shoot Chet in the face. I feel like that would
be bad. That would reduce some of our rapport
we've started to build. Yes, I would like not
to be shot. You know what? I want to spend a
glory. Give me a sec. I want to try something
with the glory. Oh, you want to spend a glory
to alter the scene. I do want to spend a glory
to alter the scene. So this is something that
you guys should also consider. Which is very
cool. You can spend your glory. I can spend my
ruin to ruin your day. If I set a scene and you
want to make some reasonable change. Ah, so it's
a wrath point. I can spend one of my wrath points,
not a glory. I have two wrath points. I'm gonna
spend a wrath point. What I want to do is...
Looks like there's some... So, yeah. Minor narrative
element. to the current scene. So... Yes, please.
He's getting dragged away and it looks like there's
a dead log suspended by some non -predatory vines.
And I want to shoot the log so that way it would
drop on the vines dragging Jedi away. Awesome.
Do it. Alright, I will say it is DN3 because
it's still difficult but it's not moving and
you're not shooting in the melee. Okay, DN3.
Then I am going to... And I'm going to spend
one glory to increase my dice pool, if you're
alright with that. If everybody's alright with
that. Spend it. Yes! And a critical hit. And
a critical hit. And I will shift one of these...
right back into uh into glory unless unless you
think damage would be appropriate for the effect
i want no no you're gonna shoot the like it's
a it's a vine you'll shoot it and uh it's a critical
so all right yeah beautiful so you see as chet
is you see vines lash out snake around chet's
limbs grab him like a vice start pulling them
away but you were quick thinking you aim your
pistol at where Chet is but you're like I don't
want to shoot Chet and something catches your
eye above you and you see that hanging log you
fire with amazing precision and hit every vine
through the log as each vine explodes into a
plant watery mist from the heat of the laser
piercing through them The log falls and you hear
a distinct squishy wet thud as it sticks into
the mud of the forest and then you hear a thud
as Chet is pulled directly into the the log but
can no longer move and He is now he's now stuck
in the vine, but he's not moving anymore I'll
then run up with my brand -new sword and try
to chop the vines away now that he's not So we'll
say and I just want to get back like 15 feet
Yeah, I'm gonna keep my eyes on the swivel for
more vines come to grab people right So As you
like run up you begin cutting him you being cutting
the vines And you you manage to cut him free
and then as you look up You see a mass of, like,
writhing sinewing vines that almost seem alive.
The tendrils are a deep, glossy green, and they're
dripping with, like, a strange sap. And they
twist and coil with an unsettling purpose. At
the center of this plant is a gaping maw lined
with thorn -like protrusion, pulsing faintly
as if it was breathing. you can smell a sickly
sweet aroma that feels like it would attract
certain prey to this this position and almost
kind of masks the danger of the situation you
know actually we have a down tree right here
I'm just gonna move everyone and we'll say It
actually happened right here because that's kind
of how it worked like that. Makes sense to me.
General, I say Francisco and Chet are there and
then Squigs, you can be somewhere in that vicinity
where that's fine. Yeah, I'm fine with that.
This thing is on the other side of the fallen
tree. Good, good, good, good. All right. And
I'm just going to I'm going to point at that
and be like, that does not look like a normal
plant. You can you can hear like the squelching
and the pulsating wetness of it as it rides around
and as you're cutting it it like it almost looks
like it's in pain if it if it can be and it like
it retracts the vines very quickly and Chet you're
now free Well damn I appreciate that I almost
got eight I don't mind talking about getting
eight Here I am almost being the first one to
get eight. That's the worst case scenario I recall.
That is correct. You did say you getting eight
was the worst part. I'm glad that you chose for
me not to shoot you in the head yesterday. Was
that yesterday? It was, might have sold a few
hours ago. It has been a day. That it has. We
should probably deal with whatever that nightmare
is. Watching it like tendrils whip around and
making wet hungry plant noises Yeah, I suppose
so Did one of you save that grenade maybe I'm
not carrying it. I don't think I took anything
There was a grenade do you want me to use my
grenade? You can throw that grenade. You can
use the grenade or we're all just gonna stand
in the line and shoot it like this is office
space. What does a grenade do in Wrath and Glory?
Is it like designed as an AOE or is it designed
as like a... Yeah. Oh, then I might want to save
it for multiple targets then. Right, so let's
look at a grenade really quick. Frag grenade
yeah, so it's um Specifically it's a blast weapon
and blast as a certain rule set where you can
hit multiple enemies and They have a chance to
like dot they can they have a chance to dodge
out of the way of AOE attacks It's the same thing
with like a shotgun can hit like an arc. You
can actually hit more than one person with a
shotgun or like a flamethrower can hit more than
one person in a line, so there are different
rules for like an AoE attack. Alright, in that
case, yeah, we might just save it for when we
have multiple Vine Monsters. But yeah, if we
want to just take turns shooting it, I'm totally
down for that as well. Pump some laser into it.
We definitely should shoot it. I don't like that
it tried to eat us. Also, then I don't have to
put it on the map as a hazard. Here there be
plants. But I'm not the jungle expert. If we
leave it go, that's not my... I'm here to draw
the map. Yeah. I will say that as you're deciding
what to do with it, its vines are slowly coming
back towards you, but not at a speed that wouldn't
allow you to run away. if you wanted to just
move past it. It clearly is more is meant more
to be a trap than it is a like an ambush threat.
It's an ambush predator plant. Correct. Yeah,
if we can get past it, I would just go around
it. All right, then we should go around it. I'll
make a note of it like angry plant thing here.
OK, I'll just put you guys around it and then.
Yay. All right as you continue your way You pass
multiple Down trees trees stuck in vines you've
crossed little spotties of water teeming with
life everything looks amazing and terrifying
at the same time and then I need and another
awareness test from each of you. Awareness test...
Hey, that's a little bit better. Yeah, there
you go. Pass. Hooray! Am I aware? Am I sentient?
Oh, okay. So... Francisco and Swigs you both
are you know you both are keeping your eyes on
the plant this this crazy plant vine monster
thing you're like I don't want it to like attack
us from the back so you've got your eyes behind
you Chet you've you know you've already you're
seasoned you've already you've already gone beyond
that you don't care about that thing anymore
you know you're past it you've got your eyes
forward And you begin to see leaves, Russell,
in the canopy above you. And you hear a low clicking
sound. Chet raises his rifle and looks like Squicks
is behind him. So they like pat, you know, pat
Squicks on the on his hip. You know, he's short.
and he's like raised his rifle up looking towards
the canopy and see if you can see what it is.
So as you raise your weapon and you look through
the scope to see, you can see the leaves rustling
but you can't really see anything but you think
you're looking in the right spot. Hey, looks
like there's something in the trees up ahead.
I can't see what it is, but there's definitely
something in there. Can I take like a pot shot
at it? Should we hide? Yeah, you can take a pot
shot at it. Let's take a pot shot at it and see
if anything comes out. Sure, I'm not going to
tell you the DN, just roll it and then we'll
see how many successes you get. Okay. Only two
successes. Six? Yeah, two successes. Yeah, four,
five, and six are successes. Yeah. One, two,
and three are not. Wow. So you got the one -six
on your... You got the one -six. The rat die.
It was just the rat die, but no critical because
it's not a success. It wasn't DM -3 anyway, so...
So you look into the canopy, you hear this low
clicking sound. You fire and you see your your
your your shot pierce the canopy and then leaves
that you've shot the branches down begin to fall
and the little pieces of burning Leaf plant matter
kind of like stick to something and They kind
of look like they're floating in air and as you're
looking you can see a faint glimmer a sheen outline
of a creature and it looks like something brushes
these leaves away and then you watch as it the
leaves begin the branches and leaves begin to
shake violently and it and that motion rockets
off into the distance through the canopy I don't
want to sound like I'm being paranoid, but I
think we might be in a predator situation. What
in the hell was that? I don't know. I think the
sign of the Aquila just double wings in front
of my chest like, uh, shit. That is definitely
something I never seen going west. It looks like,
uh, like would I, would I know if it's some kind
of like cloaking ability or would I know anything
about that or would it just be some? You can
reasonably assume that it's got to be some sort
of camouflage or cloaking. Like, you know, you
were looking in the right direction, but you
couldn't see anything. I'm, uh, I don't like
to brag, but I'm a pretty good shot and I usually
hit whatever I'm shooting at, but I don't know
if that thing had some kind of cloak. Camouflage
or what? I know I'm not crazy. You guys saw what
I saw, right? Yeah, but at the same time it didn't
attack us though. I saw something. It ran off
deeper into the jungle. I know that's the way
we're supposed to be going, but if we're gonna
run into whatever that thing is again, we might
need to be better prepared for it. Yeah... What
if we fill the sack full of sand? If we see it,
we'll throw the sand on them? Or flour? Flour
would probably be better. Could I... could I
roll a... roll a scholar check? See if I would
have known anything about that. Sure. Just...
You know, just like, uh, that seems familiar,
or I have never come across a report dealing
with any of this, ever. Because I was thinking,
oh, this is the part of the play where we get
the surprise, Tyranids. This is actually a hive
world. This is a secret hive world. Congratulations.
It's, Nurgle has infected the Tyranids. Congratulations,
Tyranids. No, it's not. You won the lottery.
It's space across the head. It's Slaanesh. Slaanesh.
All the Tyranids look like the car from... It's
the car from Idiocracy. Everyone's got a giant
floppy dildo on their heads. Exactly. Oh my god.
I'm gonna exterminate us this whole segment then.
Welcome to the jungle. Have a lictor. Exactly.
Gross. We got fun in games. Yeah, I'll say for
your scholar tests that that's gonna be no you
you don't you don't you've never heard of anything
That has poking in this region, you know of things
that have poking but not specifically here I'll
say with two successes There have been rumors
of Increase like the increased dangers that like
in the jungle so Maybe the two are connected.
Maybe the jungle is just dangerous. Makes sense.
I've never really heard of anything like that
before, so we've got that going for us, which
is great. And it knows we're here. Well, like
I said, it didn't attack us. The only thing worse
than a lictor is when it's not a lictor. I mean,
I guess we keep going. We gotta go that way.
I mean, whatever we find, we gotta go out and
keep going anyway. We can't turn back and be
like, we saw something scary. Just get executed.
Yeah, I don't want to hear that now. Here, you
guys will get executed, and then you guys send
me back off to count flashbacks. Fair enough.
All right. You guys press on? Uh, yes. Okay,
first? Trying to be a little more aware since
suddenly there's extra weird shit in the jungle.
First, I want an awareness test by everybody.
So, let me see. Alright, so we have... Yeah,
no. Not that. Not that one! I will say You begin
walking and You know Chet and Swigs you You're
you're very aware. You're keeping your eye out
But squigs now your radio is being to pick up
static and start popping and just as that does
it Francisco You say you think yourself like
what the hell is going on with the radios and
all of a sudden you feel on your leg a little
rope and it goes snap and You hear a creaking
in the distance as a giant pointed log begins
to fall down an arc at you and It's coming straight
for you. It's the Ewoks So this will be what
Yet so you and You and Squigs and Chet you pass
but unfortunately Francisco does not see the
little tripwire he trips it and I need an agility
test From you I'm gonna mark off a glory Okay
I'm going to say In general, you know We have
established that Francisco is a little clumsy
back in the mess hall scene He knocked over his
drink and everything when he got off the Greek
chat He not just activates the tripwire. He literally
trips and like falls I don't know if I can do
that, if that helps my agility or something.
I don't know. Roll. Let's see. Alright, what's
the DN? What's the DN then? Thank you. Okay.
Yeah, so... Just roll it against some of the
heavens. No, I mean... We'll say it's a DN of
2. Nice. And you're gonna roll... I have a dice
bowl of 4. ...4 point? I mean, did you add the
glory die? Oh, I don't know. I didn't know that's
how that works. Oh, okay. I just add one die
to it by spending the glory. Yes. Okay, so yeah,
it's up to 5 now. So now you should have 5 die
to pass the DN 2. Nice. Hey, there's a couple...
There you go! Well, it's a good thing you did
that! let's see hey all right so the tree this
like lot this pointed log comes directly at you
you but like you fully tripped and you face plant
the mud and you've got like mud in your eyes
and you're like what the heck and this thing
swings directly behind you and over your head
and you know Chet and Squigs, you guys, you're
far away enough, you jump to the side, nothing
happens. This log slams into a tree and explodes
into splinters and the tree collapses and falls
on your path. Kicking up dust, kicking up mud,
the path is now like completely... Whatever little
path you had, like a little deer trail, is completely
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